Ghostrunners - 72- Tonight is Glow Night

Episode Date: September 21, 2020

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Jake, how are we doing? I'm doing okay. I just had something happen to me that I think is really going to irk you. Hey. Not to start the podcast off with some vulgar language. But we've talked about it before in the pod. When businesses close before they say they close, it just happened to me. I went to Pi 5, said they close at 8.

7.58, which I know that's cutting it close. It's cutting it close, but it's not 8. It's not. It's not 8. It's not even a minute away. it's twice that long away so i'm like knocking on the window five it takes them five minutes to make your pizza oh there's a remainder of three i should have thought about that yeah i am knocking on the door and what you all knocking on the door like you're like ah this isn't gonna be that guy yeah they're just gonna come and say hey we're close and that's the thing even do i want a guy who wants to be done so bad

making my pizza it's like making someone mad who's like about to give you a haircut i don't know if i want to make you mad yeah like someone about to like cook me food right but anyway and i'm going to throw out the pepperoni but we can get out of the trash for you if you want oh yeah okay yeah dumpster roni i mean pepperoni no we got some of, but we can get it out of the trash for you if you want us to. Oh, you want us to? Yeah. Yeah, okay. Yeah, dumpster-oni. I mean, pepperoni. No, we got some of that. No, we got plenty. Yeah, we call the Joe Exotic.

Come on up. Oh, I ended up going to Panda Express instead. And I got a fortune, Brad, which I thought I would read to you now. Okay. It says, you will find new ways to say thank you this week. Thank you. We already found ways. Episode 69 or whatever it was.

Talk Skalduha. Talk Skalduha. Hey. What other ways should we say thank you this week? I think we should say thank you with actions, not just words, Jake. Thank you. Isn't it like you can really offend somebody if you do it the wrong way? Sign language.

I think this is bad. On YouTube right now. You see it. Yeah. On Spotify. We're doing something with our chins. We wrong way, sign language. I think this is bad. On YouTube right now. You see it. Yeah. On Spotify. We're doing something with our chins. We're doing some sign language. If the deaf people are watching us on YouTube right now,

they're so offended. I'm so sorry. Oh my God. Hey, no, no, I am. No,

seriously. I am so sorry. Now it is offensive. Yeah. Now we're hurting people's feelings. I'm sorry. Okay. What other ways to say,

uh, I'm sorry. Or what is it? Thank you. Is're hurting people's feelings. I'm sorry. Okay. What other ways to say, I'm sorry. Or what is it? Thank you. Is it? Thank you and I'm sorry are kind of one in the same. Good tidings. Good tidings. I appreciate your contributions.

I hear you. Oh, like Avatar. I see you. Oh, I've never seen that. And then it's like, no, it's not see. It's I see into you. Oh. That's how they say it.

That's what you should say. Instead of like the Pi 5 guy gets done with your dumpsteroni and you just look at him with your hand. I see into you. Okay. You know what? We're going to go ahead and lock up now. This guy's freaking me out.

This is why we always have at least two people working. This guy's seeing inside of me. I don't like it. Oh, man. Jingle time. Got a little Billy. Oh, man. Billy sees into you, baby.

Billy sees into you. I've touched these kids, and I'm pretty sure they've touched me, too. Here we go. Oh, I think that this type beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts on why I meet Chick-fil-A. Two Midwest best friends eating fast food, fast food on repeat. So come on, let's have some fun and go ahead, get, get on your feet. Cause it's the Ghost Runners podcast every Monday morning with Jake and Brad, eh? Jake and Brad. This is the Ghost Runners podcast every Monday morning with Jake and Brad, yeah Is this a Ghost Runners pod Hey!

Hey, we'll take it! Hey! I always thought Billy was a guy's name How about that, huh? It's short for William, but... Not for her, I guess. No, no, no. Yeah.

One, two, three, hey. Five, six, seven. I know this song super well. Hey. How long is this thing? Just slow snapping now, I guess. One, two, three, four, five, six. Oh.

Yeah. Okay. Okay, great. Great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great great great great all right brad how was your week dude oh man week has been nice yeah in what ways um that's a good question i just said that because i was still flustered about the song um that gap is so long yeah because i didn't want to miss it because i have i have nightmares about missing uh wake, wake me up. They have an essence, bring me to life. I screwed that one up so bad. And so I was like, I'm not going to do that again. I'm not going to do that again. And just did it again. So, um, my week's been good, man. I've just been really busy with, I hate saying that, but that's true. I've been busy with work stuff. Um, and, uh, life update for everybody, kind of not really that mediocre

of a life update. I decided not to, I I'm stepping down from my worship leading position at church. Um, Jake knew that already. So he's not reacting as, as crazy as everyone out there. I'm sure it is, but like, you know, I'm not freaking out like you guys are. I'm not freaking out. You're freaking out. Uh, no. So yesterday was actually my last Sunday leading worship there, which was a bittersweet for sure. But we're excited about, you know, having a little more free time and yeah, folks and more and other things. So anyway, that's, that's a, that's a big week thing.

And a lot of people were saying, at least I saw this on Twitter about your leave, um, that you're doing it so you can get to the trending, right? Yeah. Are we trending? Are we Knoxoxville did we do it um i saw that uh you're potentially leaving or like the rumors were saying that you left because like you wanted to get to noon football games faster like you did right before football season yeah oh it's 100 calculated okay i thought oh yeah i was like this is the chiefs play on thursday this week so i can i can leave this sunday this sunday yeah yeah they were like maybe, maybe last Sunday should have been my last one, but I was like,

no, I'll do one more. I'll do one more. Yeah. But next week I'm like out of here. Hey, there was a guy, there was a guy, uh, uh, growing up in my church. He was an older, like he's my dad's age guy, maybe older than my dad. Sorry, dad. Don't be offended. Uh, his name's Keith Johnson. Keith okay johnson had a uh alarm that went off on his foot or watch every single sunday at noon and like didn't ever turn it off really like so it was just like his way of i feel like passive aggressively being like wrap it up supposed to be over yeah we don't need to do the third verse okay first second and fourth let's get out of here no one's even singing along i know we surrender all Let's get out of here. No one's even singing along. I know we surrender all.

Let's get out of here. You know? So Keith Johnson and Keith Johnson was also known for breathing really heavily or like basically sighing during a sermon. So he'd be like in the congregation. Like in a affirming way or just like a heavy breather way? Like, like I'm sure it was just like a subconscious thing that he would do, but it's very much sounded like this passive aggressive, like this is so boring.

Like he'd just be like, and Jesus said to the, sorry, Keith, it was so loud. Oh, there's some stories about him. But anyway, uh, those are two of them. So yes, I can't wait to be watching every Sunday. Yeah. I was going to say to shout out Keith. I don't know if he listens to the pot. Do you think he listens to the pot?

I a hundred percent do not think he does. Is he still alive? Yeah. Oh, okay. So there's still alive yeah okay so there's a chance yeah there's a chance there's a chance i mean everyone we're going worldwide so yeah we are i used to be kind of like i don't know more humble about advertising our podcast when people ask like i heard you have a podcast i'm like yeah you know it just in my friend and, we just talk or whatever. And now like the last two weeks, I'm like, yeah, I have a podcast. Like it's called ghost runners. Like it's really funny. Yeah. Like you should listen to it. I've been saying a lot more confidently, which makes you feel weird. It's not natural, but I've been trying it. It is weird to be like, Hey, uh, I'm doing something that I'm proud of. And I think you

would like it. Like, because then it's like, okay, I guess I have to like it or else I'm going to lie to this guy. You know, no, one's going to be like, because then it's like, okay, I guess I have to like it or else I'm going to lie to this guy. You know, no one's going to be like, Hey, it's not that funny. Like, I don't like it very much, you know? And one thing that's nice is like so many people these days have some sort of side hustle, side business, whatever. And most ways you could support your friends cost money. This is like an easy way to support them for free.

Just turn it on and let it, let it go in the background. Let it sit. Let it sit for a while. Yeah. Last night we were playing pickleball and I saw a guy that I knew from K state and a, yeah, Andy. And he's like, I hear you have podcasts. And I was like, yeah, I didn't know. I don't remember how he knew about it, but I said, oh yeah, that's right. Hashtag, um, LPC exit, uh, for ghostwriters.

I don't know. Um, and, uh, but I said something like, yeah, you'll laugh so much until you cry. And Jake's like, is that how you've been advertising this to people? That's a little extreme. Because I'm more the awkward, like what you were saying the first time. There was a woman that came up to me at church

because our friend Kathy McDonald posted our Chiefs in the Super Bowl song. Yeah. Shout out Nathan. Shout out. Nathan Cooley. Cooley? Collie?

Cooley. Cellulite. Cellulite. Yeah. He made an awesome music video to that song for the Chiefs opener. It was great. We did a bonus episode. We said, like, this is, you know, whatever, five months ago.

No, longer. Whatever. If the Chiefs make it to the Super Bowl, we will do a bonus episode episode that also came with a bonus full song and yeah he put together like chiefs highlights to brad's song it was awesome so anyway kathy mcdonald posted that video other people from church saw it and they were like that video was so cool i had no idea you did a podcast and then other people in the background are like you do a podcast you do a podcast and i'm like like they just see me on sunday mornings be like this very like normal, you know, collared shirt. Yeah. Oh yeah. That's my, that's my one time a week. I'm like in the golf polo, you know? And, and I'm just like, yeah, I do a podcast,

but it's like really goofy. Like, I don't, I don't ever like try to like make it sound like they shouldn't listen, but I'm just like, just know it's like, we're, we're goofballs. Do you let them know that we say the I word every now and then? I do. I do say it's, it's a little, it's a little in a probe um for those for for the kids um actually yesterday i was like it's it's clean like like but i kind of had to like question it like it's pretty clean like i think we're clean but we definitely have some have some jokes that are a little bit you know crude i think for adult men, we're doing a pretty good job. That's fair.

That's fair. As far as parental guidance. You're right. Things go. You're right. Thanks. Gosh, you're right. Mom, mom, we're good.

We're fine. But yeah. Anyway, I had something else to say, but I forget what it is now. Oh, uh, oh, about the pot. One more podcast. Fun thing. Promoting it. Whatever.

I was at the Chick-fil-A drive-thru. I already told you this a little bit, but i want to shout it out on the pod so the chick-fil-a lenexa drive-thru the other day with hattie and i paid for it and this girl's like getting my iced coffee and this other girl came up to me she's like i really like your podcast oh let's go and i was like yes because i talked about last week like i don't really ever like i've gotten recognized like maybe once ever in public like high- five and Hattie. You hear that? Hattie!

We did it. She knows. Gonna win state. But I don't, I don't, I didn't see the girl's name. I'm sorry. But she was told about it from her sister. So shout out to her sister. Really shout out anybody out there that's ever told anybody about our podcast.

That is so cool. Like so fun to me. Yeah. And if you have sisters, that's also so cool. Shout out to me yeah and if you have sisters that's also so cool people who have siblings and or parents out there this episode is for you this is for you this one right here episode 72 is for you 72 is para tu parados uh speaking of sisters yeah i hung out with mine this week yeah uh texted her i was like or i called her for her birthday we're kind of chatting like sorry you know we couldn't do anything i was like but let's

let's do something fun this weekend then i texted her and i was like you want to go to sky zone she said yeah yeah i do really want to go to sky zone and just no shame just two adults just um going to sky zone i mean the only people not middle schoolers there, which is kind of weird. End up taking a couple of friends. Isaac was one of them. And we get to. So first of all, we walk into Sky Zone and it's like, if you guys don't know, it's like a trampoline park. Yeah. Kind of surprised they're open.

Like masks are pretty chill there. The foam pit's still open. The foam pit was like always filled with COVID. You're going to catch way more than uh coronavirus go to that phone pit the cove pit yeah and so it's it's glow it's black light night it's sky zone it's like oh yeah cosmic isaac is the first one to like go up and pay and um i just hear him like barely within earshot i go i have to glow and i was like what's up and so they make you this is the like skeeviest policy like oh you can't jump unless you glow uh we do sell glow t-shirts so if you'd like

what come on what is it what is what constitutes glowing i know i was wondering that too like is there like a like if you have a white shirt are you good you were measuring this by yeah how how glowy do i have to be here yeah because then also we saw some little children there not glowing yeah it was stupid sorry silly it was silly it was silly hattie hey justin edit out that part so first of all we have to glow which is ridiculous we all have to buy freaking t-shirts you all had to all t-shirts have to buy. We did. And then it's guys on. You have to wear their socks. You have to buy their socks. I knew that.

Then we say we'd like 30 minutes, just 30 minutes of jump time. That's plenty to get the BPMs enough. Yeah. Like we're like, I'm sweaty. I'm good. They say, oh, on glow nights, we only do two hours at a time. That is bull. That is like, yeah.

Hey, let's, let's just like, like they make their money back on glow night like they're they've been in the red all month but it's like guys i know we've been struggling we're getting it back tonight is glow night you hear me we're getting it back like he's like doing like a big like he's got the patriotic like the american flag behind him they will remember the nights that they came to glow. I don't know. Came to sky zone. Oh,

it was so funny. Cause Isaac was kind of the Guinea pig too. Like I'm like, we glow all night. I don't know. Sorry. I don't want them to wear another black t-shirt. Another shirt.

So yeah, Isaac is, um, you know, getting rung upung up yeah and his total comes up to 38 dollars 38 dude is that crazy oh i would have walked out i would have walked out so hard like i'm laughing so many chipotle burritos oh Oh my gosh. And I felt bad because I've like asked all these people to come. It's your idea.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm like inviting people. Like our friend Dottie came. She was like, what's Sky Zone? I'm like, oh, it's this trampoline park. And she didn't know what it is. Next thing you know, she's forking over $30.

I like, I'm trying to do something nicer. My sister like took her out to dinner beforehand. Already paid for a dinner. Yeah. I'm like, yeah, you've already like done your dues. Yeah. Because I really thought it was like, well, now I feel bad.

This is like kind of my idea. And she's like in grad school and like trying to like work multiple like side jobs. And now, I mean, she could pay hourly. And I just, you know, it's like. Right. That's a lot of hours. She can easily equate how much work that is.

Yeah. Oh my gosh. And so, and Isaac's just like, we're still laughing, but Isaac's like, is that the minimum I can pay? You're sure. Can we just get one big shirt

and I'll just huddle into it? No, I'll be right next to him all night. You'll see both of us. We'll be like the Siamese twins, like Matt Damon and whoever else the other guy was in the movie.

Oh yeah. What was that movie? I never saw it. I don't know. Twins? No. Sister, sister,

I think. Sister, sister. Sister, sister. Sister sister sister sister sister sister sister yeah yeah t and tamara um you were like we'll do the t and tamara discount is there a t and tamara discount the t and t dynamite t and close yeah so all five of us spent 38 a piece please tell me you used every single minute of that.

Oh yeah. We didn't, it was, uh, I would have 1103 when they kicked us out. Finally. Oh, I would have like,

they have dodgeball there. I would have like, like just been like, you want to make me stay for two hours. I'm going to obliterate every single middle schooler here in Dodge and the employees get out here. I'm going to make it not fun for anybody. Like I want to pay you back for this. This one middle schooler kept like,

he just kept going after Isaac for some reason. He's like, Hey, this this one middle schooler kept like he just kept going after isaac for some reason he's like hey 1v1 me and dodgeball and just like wouldn't leave us alone like isaac like i'm not gonna like 1v1 this middle school kid but he wouldn't leave us alone oh i would have just this dude's scared to 1v1 me a dodgeball 1v1 i like that which i don't know if you're allowed to just kick everyone off for this personal vengeance you have but he was going for it we never did that though oh man um they had a balance beam uh my sister did her level five gymnastics beam routine for us that was kind of fun what does a level five gymnastics mean how many levels are we talking like is that like high up is that like close to a black belt of of the beam like level 10 is the olympics level

10 is sean johnson or whoever yes okay sean johnson east biles simone biles sure that too okay um level five is like you're starting to get pretty into it oh really like you're doing like some pretty cool like tumbling stuff like she she's still in high school she did a uh no she only went up to like sixth grade and then it was like i want to play like school sports and quit to do like volleyball okay you know stop all that she can still do a cartwheel on the beam though she's pretty cool. That's amazing. Yeah. Which is surprising.

Like at any age, how much money would you pay me to try to do a cartwheel on a beam? I would give you a full two hour session at Skyzone. So you have this whole time to try and do a cartwheel on the beam. I would just imagine me trying to do it. I would literally like hit, hit, like get concussed immediately trying to cartwheel and just fall off.

And just like the process of getting better at that. Every time you lose, you're in a foam pit, which is miserable to get out of, get back on the beam, trying to cartwheel. Yeah. You probably try on the ground with like a piece of tape or something, maybe. Yeah, right.

That's the way to do it. But, but yeah, I don't know. I would just fail miserably at that. Yeah. But that was, that was the best. Oh, so you have to glow. You have to glow. Oh man.

That, that is such a racket. I'm so glad I wasn't there because knowing if I was there, if I were there with you and Isaac, I would have put up a stink. Like you guys give me the courage to be like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's talk about this guy. Hey, look, Hey, I see into you. I see into you. I see into you.

But I see into my wallet. And I know that you're trying to help us have a good time, but listen we're not gonna do this yeah look hey listen just say all those words listen i mean think about it come on think about it work with me yeah oh man i should you could have like pulled out like the influencer card never hashtag ad for sky zone or hashtag boycott sky zone and shawnee cancel culture ever heard of cancel culture tom from sky zone it's probably your how old was this guy that was dealing with you i would say she was 16 oh she oh my gosh i would have ripped into it i would have just listen tina I don't know. I'd be surprised.

Yeah. Speaking of ripped, Spencer did ask to have his shirt pre-ripped. So this little high school girl is ripping the sleeves off the shirt. He's like, thanks. They loved him though. He went to go, I was giving Spencer a hard time because there was no, they had like a leaderboard for like fastest time on the Ninja Warrior course. And I was like, spencer there's that first you know slot is open you know like no one has it and so he's like i'm gonna go ask for a

marker and he was just gonna go write his own name and he asked for a marker comes back with an icy he's like they just gave me this i asked for a marker they gave me an icy that's classic like like you're so excited about a free icy when you just paid $38. Awesome. They give me flavored ice. I used to always, it's not bad after all. I used to always joke like, uh, at parents day at Canacook, um, like they would always, well, yeah, no, this is a little bit farther down the joke ladder than I season snow cones. Uh, but they would always have like, uh, like one staff member was like a guy that dressed up as a parent and like sat in the stands, like in the parent stands and like would just complain about like camp and how stupid it was.

And like, and eventually like they get like thrown out and like all the kids would go crazy stuff. And so it was usually like the programs guy. So it was, it was always me. I've never heard about this. Oh, it was so great. It was so great. Like I'll just heckle him for like the first five minutes and be like, Oh, I would just like make fun of all their like terrible jokes. And like, who is this guy? Like I would like look and like, I have a mustache and like this awesome wig. And that sounds so funny. Oh, I was like this super like preppy, like had like an ascot looking thing on. And, uh, but anyway, like there was always this Devo rap that we did every summer, like to teach kids about like the memory verses and stuff. Um, and we would do the Devo rap at the beginning

and, uh, the kids would all be into it. And, uh, like the camp director would be like, you know, and that's free on our website. That's free for you guys to take home. And I'll be like free more like $2,000. And everyone loved it. Like all the, all the parents just thought it was the best joke. Like there's no way that's free. We're paying all this money to bring our kids here. Oh, it's thank you for a free song, you know? Yeah, it's like paying admission to a carnival or a theme park. I'm like, but the water's free once you get in. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's like, well. You can ride the roller coasters as many times as you want. Well, yeah, because I paid all this money for it. I have a ticket now. Like, look at, free icy. Free nickel icy, you know? Oh, man. This place is awesome. Sky Zone, though. You know, like, oh, man. This place is awesome.

Skyzone, though. Skyzone, dude. So Skyzone must have changed a lot in the last couple of years. So I haven't been there. It's right down the street from my house. And they have a Ninja Warrior course. Dude, yeah. The thing that's sick there, don't worry about the Ninja Warrior course.

Most of the stuff hurts your hands. Oh, yeah. And you're like too big for it. It's like, oh, yeah. You know. Like City Museum in St. Louis. Shout out St. Louis. Shout out St. Louis. Cool thing, but very small. Yes. Yeah. hands oh and you're like too big for it it's like oh yeah you know um city museum in st louis shout out st louis cool thing but very small yes yeah tiny orifices yes yeah uh but so cool yeah um they have this thing i think it's called like the wipeout or something basically it looks like

something would be on wipeout oh sinner um oscillating device two foam poles coming out of it one low one high love it and that thing swings around and you reach on your individual trampoline trying to jump over and then duck under but not only is that already pretty fun it's like manually controlled like a mechanical bull so he can kind of like stutter it like you get up in the air and then he brings it back yeah oh he can you can go back and forth you can go back and forth he can like move it like super fast like every now and he just whip it whip it. Oh, yeah. It was awesome. Some kids got smoked.

I would get so nailed in that. Oh, man. It was bad. I mean, it's unpredictable movements. Okay, so you got your $38 worth. It was fun. It was sweaty, but I mean, yeah, it was also $38 for jumping around for a couple hours. Oh, my gosh. And it was the night

before. So this is from nine to 11 PM. Uh, just getting swamp sweaty, jumping around. I'm kind of an old man. Like it's a long time for your knees to just like sustain your weight. No, every time I've ever gone to sky zone in any time of life,

I've always been sore the next day. And then the very next day at 8 AM, Isaac and I have a pickleball tournament, which was not the wisest thing for our knees. Um, you showed up. Or your calves. I remember my calves were always the sore. Oh, really? Calves are great.

You're good on the calves. Calves are nice. Knees, not so much. Yeah. Your calves are strong like bulls. Yes. That line from Step Brothers, she's had the old bull, now she wants the young calf. Whatever. That's so funny. But Brad, you came to the pickleball tournament.

Thanks for supporting with Patty. Yeah, that was fun. You just checked our location and showed up because we did not even tell you that we were playing in one. No, you did. You told me. Oh, I told you. I knew. I knew that you were playing in one.

I knew you were playing in multiple. And so I was like, which one's this? And maybe Isaac told me. But yeah, I knew you guys were playing. Gotcha. But I didn't know what time. And so I had to like do a little bit of research. But yeah, Catherine has like, like I've been so busy.

And so Catherine's just been like with the kids almost nonstop this week. And so I was like, let me just like take Hattie for as long as I can, you know. Do something. Yeah, do whatever. And so I was like, you want to go watch Pickleball? She was like, yeah. So I actually made a video for the Patreon that I never like posted because it wasn't very good.

Because once we got there, she was like not about not about pickle. Yeah, she wasn't she was like Wanting to like play on the playground How do you got freakin kid? I'm like, come on. Watch watch their technique. This is gonna be you someday like you and me We're gonna do the father-daughter tournament. Yeah, you know pickle and their offspring. I don't know so but anyway So one fun thing about that uh tournament yeah is oh i cannot wait for this bread to do this i've been saving it up so there was these guys that we

played against um really nice guys father son duo okay uh robert and ray chang i found out their first names after yeah the chang duo yeah which they're definitely more fun to call Daddy Chang and Young Chang Oh, yeah, that's what Isaac I recall as you're playing him mini Chang. Yeah To Chang's to change their name. Yeah, dang. They should be called to change. They just team Chang That was yeah, I think just team Chang which is more powerful But you know maybe it could look like the Great Wall because they were hard to get the ball past the Great Wall the Great Wall of Changa. A lot of good.

If they listen, you're welcome. Yeah, you're good, Changs. Also, if you listen, you're going to really like this part. So the older man. I mean, this guy is probably, his son is 37. So, and he looked, I mean, he's at least in his 60s. Yeah. Maybe older. Maybe not, though.

I would say, yeah. Confident at least 60. Yeah. So he wants to play with Isaac and I more. So he gets my phone number. He's the classic old man joke. Like, there is my assistant. Get it from her.

It's his wife. OK, so here's what we know. His wife got my phone number. His wife does not have an iPhone. OK, but about eight hours later that night, I a text from an iphone and i it it might be him um because of what he texted me but it's also not an iphone okay so brad i'm gonna text you right now what he sent me i just want your like reaction to it so keep in mind this is a 60 year old man i'm pretty sure um okay who texted. Oh, it's going so slow.

Oh, my freaking Wi-Fi. Just let it go. It'll get there. Wow, the anticipation. Okay, okay. It delivered, I think. That's all it said? That's it.

Can we show YouTube? Yeah, turn it around. Oh, my gosh. It's just a Chinese dude kissing an egg roll it's just that's it just a gif of a chinese man kissing an egg roll i'm like is this from a 60 year old man that i met playing pickleball like he does not like he was kind of joking around yeah but it's also like i met an old man playing pickleball. Is this how he like introduces himself? An egg roll gif. And so I didn't know. It's kind of like jokingly seductive.

Yeah. He's like kissing it. Yeah. It's like, could this be him? I don't know what to say. So Brad, now I'm texting you what I said to him. Cause I didn't know. I didn't know what to say.

Oh yeah. Ralph Macchio. Yeah. Okay. So this is the karate kid waving. I figured that, you know, put me in a position. That's good. Mr. Miyagi.

Oh, exactly. Yeah. I didn't even connect that at first. That's very good. It's like a white kid waving to an Asian man. Yeah, sure. Figured that'd be great. Oh yeah.

He texted. So he doesn't respond to that for two days. Doesn't respond to, uh, yeah. I love how you just, you didn't say any words. You just said the wave back. I didn't want to like ruin the joke. I'm like, we have a good thing going. Yeah. I think, I don't know who this is. Also the area code San Diego. So who knows? Yeah. Who knows? Yeah. Um, then today he texts me, got any plans for the end of January. So now I'm like, is this, this guy, who is this?

Oh my gosh. I'm not going to ask who it is. Like, I just, I? Who is this? Oh my gosh. But I'm not going to ask who it is. Like, I just, I want to find out that it's him. You want to figure it out. Naturally. So I said, not really. What'd you have in mind? And he has a text me back.

Oh. But maybe he'll text me back while we're recording. Well, that'd be nice. But man, it was, I mean, the best gift I've ever received. I would, I would tell me, you don't have have to do this but can you send like maybe a couple question marks of a text right now so we can accelerate this thing while the podcast is going 10 30 at night this dude's for sure asleep it's 10 30 gosh it does not feel that late to me good uh yeah i feel good um okay darn um send a couple question marks i i really want to get to the end of the bottom of this thing.

Right. What'd you have? Yeah. Chang's man. I love that gif. Yeah. So it just says, what'd you have in mind? Cause if it's pickleball related, then it's Chang.

If it's just like, yeah. Had a free weekend and wanted to hang. Then like, this is probably not Chang. Yeah. Cause he wouldn't have just said hang. He would have said wanted to Chang. Wanted to Chang. Yeah.

And then that makes me want to Chang my mind about hanging out with him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Climate Chang. You don't even say it in sentence yeah climate uh you want to go to uh sky zone and uh climate change get your tires chang yeah i don't get it um uh okay uh cool that's that's fun one oh so this is something that we could

maybe try to get a response by the end of the podcast. Okay. Brad, this is something could be kind of fun. I need your help with it. So every so often people try and set me up with like maybe one of their friends or someone in their family or whatever. I get tagged in an Instagram comment yesterday. They just like, see what you're missing out on Jake. And I just assumed that like, this is probably someone's profile who they've messaged me about before.

Okay. And so I go back and look at the commenters DM, and we've never deemed before so my gosh She's never tried to set me up with anyone who is this so now I go back and look at whose profile it is I'm like oh, she's half a million followers kind of a Lauren Daigle situation Oh, they try to save me up with her like you don't know either of these two people However this person's profile that she's trying to set me up with is Candace Cameron's daughter. Oh from full house oh okay yeah she on full is she a fuller house member i think so i think so like the girl like the young girl yes okay so her name is natasha i also found out after some digging and

from the mutual friends we had that natasha was a CannaCut camper. Oh. So how old is she then? I think she's like 22, 23. Okay, legal. Just trying to figure out how weird it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I figure we got one shot at this, Brad. I'm going to DM her.

She's got a half a million followers. I think it's time. So we got to do something really good to get her attention. Okay. So I have some things written out, but it needs some spicing up. Okay. So this have some things written out, but it needs some like spicing up. Okay. So this is where you come in.

I'm going to DM Natasha, Candace Cameron's daughter. And I mean, hopefully she replies by the end of this podcast because that would be. That would be nice. Yeah. Okay. She probably lives in California. So it's only a time there. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, San Diego. Chang. Oh, Chang it. We've moved on. Chang. Chang it. We've moved on. Okay. So here's the idea I'm going with is like an accidental DM.

So what I'm thinking is the destination drive is running out of, oh, sorry. This is not a message. Okay. It's good. It's good. It's got another. Low on disk storage. Okay.

Hold on. Let me delete some stuff. I got to delete a lot of stuff. A lot of stuff. You haven't backed up some stuff i gotta delete a lot of stuff a lot you haven't backed up your iphone yeah a lot of stuff i gotta erase a lot of stuff a lot of stuff okay oh man trash as you're doing that shout out to the oral history of the office for like the 20th time because it's so good guys have you been listening still yeah oh i oh i get so excited like never i was gonna say i'm gonna say it because you can't just not say stuff like that like i listening still? Yeah. Oh, I, Oh, I get so excited. Like nevermind. I was going to say,

I will say it. Cause you can't just not say stuff like that. Like, I know that people get really excited on Monday mornings to listen to us. And that's how I feel about this podcast. And I never really understood why people were so excited to listen to a podcast. You weren't a podcast guy. I'm not a podcast guy, but I am now a podcast guy. I love that podcast. I know podcast guy. I know podcast guy in Japan, in America. Yeah. Uh, okay. So here's what I'm thinking to DM her. Okay. That's really nice of you to offer, but it's not about getting the recognition.

You can name the children's hospital after someone else, please. I insist. Oh yeah. I like this. That's it so far. And then the followup message would be like, Oh God. Oh, Oh, that was not supposed to go to you. Oh my goodness.

I am so sorry. I'm embarrassed. That was supposed to go to you. Oh my goodness. I am so sorry. Whoa. I'm embarrassed. That was supposed to go to the New York times or the Pentagon or something. I have no idea. Yeah. Okay. So anything you would spice it,

do I need more like a meat in the original message of like the children's hospital? I think you, I think you like, this is a joke. I don't know if this is really good advice or not, but I think you like tripled down on that idea. Okay. you send that one and i think you send like three more like with very specific things that you've done okay so we gotta type all these out right now um so you said what did you say about the children's hospital that's really nice of you to offer but it's not

about getting the recognition you can name the children's hospital after someone else yes please i insist um if anything name it after uh one of those 15 kids I burned or I, I pulled from the wreckage. Those people are the real heroes. Okay. Okay. Okay. This is good.

If I was just talking to, or I was just having my daily chats with them this past week, um, this past week, daily chats. Darn it. Uh, it's hard guys.

Okay. I changed my mind. it uh it's hard guys okay change my mind uh something about like i was just talking to lavandrius this week and i don't know um and and he just like i don't know i don't know what what what what sorry yeah um if anything name after one of the 15 kids that I pulled from the wreckage last week, God bless their souls. They, some, one of those in there. God. Yeah.

God, I see you. No. Um, the, the cool, honestly, the coolest thing about all this is that I've been taking them to church with me. I don't know. Something like that to like, I don't know, like show that you're Christian and yeah. Yeah. That you're missional and just discipling. Yeah. And I'm know, like show that you're Christian and yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Missional discipling. Yeah. And I'm good with kids and you're great with kids. Not too good. Not too good. Like I don't know their exact ages. Like you don't know what to say to them on the playground yet. No,

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Okay. Let me type that up. Um, Brad, give me an update. What's something happening this week? Okay. Uh, let's see. I quit my job. I got chatted out of Chick-fil-A.

I went to Jake's tournament. Those are the three things I have. Oh, um, as you're typing this up. Well, I don't, I don't know. I want you to talk about, or okay. Here's, I was at home Depot today getting up some wood and, uh, there's like a little like a garage, not a garage, but like overpass thing where the lumber is, where people can park. Can you kind of imagine like right by the entrance, there's these parking spaces. Anyway, it's for like loading and unloading of lumber and stuff. And so I was loading up some

wood and there was this guy that was trying to get out. Um, and I, my, my wood cart was basically in the lane. So I was like trying to move it. And he like honked at me a few times and he was like making some hand motions. And I was like, I don't really understand. He's like making them again. I don't really, I'm not fluent in ASL. It's just a podcast.

I don't know. Yeah. Uh, I don't even know. Thank you. And finally, like I moved out of the way, uh, again, cause I was trying to move out of the way and he rolled down his window. He, he, I'm trying to remember the exact words, but he was like, uh, I know you're hardworking studly.

So I'm just, I'm just trying to get out of your way. And I'm, I was gonna, I was gonna back out and go some other way. And I was, I kind of laughed. And then I thought about it later as he drove by. I was like, what? Like, did he use like studly as my name? Like, did I catch a pet name? That guy kind of hit on me a little bit.

It was like this, like 45. I mean, it was like, never would this guy really be hitting up. It was a weird sentiment and statement. Like, I know you're hardworking Studley. And so I'm just trying to get out of your way. And I was like, yeah, you should start doing that. Just subtly hitting on dudes at Home Depot. Oh, excuse me, babe.

Yeah. You're having a good day. Sorry, handsome. Yeah. Can you just get around? i'm just trying to get around to get some two by four by eights yeah um i don't know yeah it was just it was just a really weird thing i don't know maybe he's just trying to be overly nice because he had like a you know one of those business decals on his truck he's like trying to get some business man yeah i want to it was he's a decking guy so i need i need my deck built by that guy. Oh, be careful.

Yeah. You know who's got a good deck? Bob. He called me studly the other day. Bob. Just the word deck. Yeah, deck. You got to be careful how you use it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I do like that. Yeah, just flirting with dudes in a hardwood store. A lot you could do. Yeah. I'm looking for some stain, pretty. Or sorry, some pretty stain. I need some pretty stain.

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Is it? It is a hundred percent. Yeah. What am I looking at? So these are, this seems like a really bad Facebook marketplace ad for like selling a bathtub. It's like, you could have cleaned it out first.

Okay. So, so this, this new trend that's going to like go around is like, I think Catherine calls it, I think it's like stripping your clothes. Okay. Don't, don't make that. No, it's an easy joke. A little hanging fruit. Don't, don't make that joke either. Um, Bob's deck. Okay. Uh, but it's like, it's like deep cleaning, like all this stuff that's like in your clothes. So this is like right when they put them in this,

or maybe like 10 minutes after they were put in. Yeah. Describe the picture. Uh, so it's just, it's just a bathtub filled with, I don't know, whatever Catherine put in there in there and my like all my dry fit shirts it's like rubber banded targeted like there's none of her shirts in here like they're all mine like she's like no your shirts are way nastier than mine okay so this is after i don't know i don't remember let me see if she says on there um so that first picture was right at the start. The second picture is one hour in. Oh, Brad. Okay. Okay. Watch this.

Oh, and they're just sitting there and the color is changing that much. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So this is, what's this called? Stripping clothes. Stripping your clothes.

This is three and a half hours in. That's disgusting, dude. Oh, you got to get into a bathtub. Yeah, I know. It's so dark. You got to strip your tub now and this is like what it looked like at the finale what she took all the clothes finale that's what she called it the finale oh dude oh yeah dude dude dude dude it's so dark

so actually though oh she literally was like oh we should get jake's clothes over here i just bought new clothes so all my clothes are like pretty fresh. That's what you think. And let's put them in there. I don't, I don't know what that is. Like, I don't know how it works, but it's like a trend going. I don't know if it's like going around to all girls, but it's definitely going around to the moms of the world where they're like, like she like went and like got these specific things to do this with. And she was like, so excited. And like and like it's like so satisfied to her like specific things like there's like powder in the water whatever it's like oxy clean or something

like that okay so they're not just sitting there no yeah they're not no yeah they're not just in water oh no no there's like something that's like extracting whatever out of it still i mean that's a lot i mean guys i should have explained that sorry like yeah trying to imagine this like imagine the water that you see an alligator like swimming around in. It's that color water. Maybe even more brown than that. Or imagine like when you have really bad digestion issues and you go to the bathroom. That's what it looks like.

And you repaint the porcelain throne a new color. Yeah. Imagine the scene in Dumb and Dumber where Harry is just struggling in the bathroom. I'm just shaving. Yeah. It's really. That's kind of exciting, though. know yeah yeah i i'm always like so skeptical of everything so i'm like obviously you see stuff there but it's like okay is that just like it's made to like yeah yeah yeah yeah because i want

to do it maybe this is what we do we take those exact same clothes and do it again and then what's gonna happen re-strip them. Yeah. Strip them twice. Yeah. So anyway, that was, yeah. Something like literally she was like ringing them out as I was going over here.

I was like, will you please send me some pictures of this so I could talk about all the podcasts? Cause she was, she really wants to do some of your clothes. Really? I don't know. I don't know what that says about how she feels about you,

but that's fine. I mean, yeah, I've bought, do I spend so much money the last 24 hours? First of all, the flowers I told you about, which we don't need what that says about how she feels about you, but that's fine. I mean, yeah, I've bought, do I spend so much money the last 24 hours? First of all, the flowers I told you about, which we don't need to talk about that. Flowers are expensive. So if you ever get flowers, be very appreciative of them.

Holy cow. Flowers are expensive. You know what makes them more expensive when they don't get delivered when they're supposed to on their birthday. That's when you get your money back right there. Hopefully. Yeah. And I'll go to sky zone with that a couple of times.

Sky zone money. I spent a hundred dollars on a new pair of shoes today oh wow because i've been wearing these boys for two years those are birthday shoes which birthday shoes hey uh what do you mean by birthday shoes i gotta wear them with anything else hello get out of the shower there's shower shoes uh i thought you got it for your birthday is that inaccurate you got some shoes recently for your birthday one of the last couple birthdays yeah i don't it's funny that you can remember better than i can because i should be able to remember this and i can't the ones um i bought these a couple years ago in los angeles and they have

holes in them and i'm just like jake you can afford shoes and you've had them for two years yeah just buy new shoes yes and justify it by calculating it divided by 24 months. Right. They're not that expensive. Yeah. 720 days or whatever. Oh, I thought he was like, so 720 divided by 24 months. They're Yeezys.

I need Yeezys. Yes. That's, I've been giving Isaac such a hard time because Isaac has bought a really expensive CNC machine and a really expensive table saw, but he literally like, doesn't have a broom in his shop to like, like, and so he used it and he doesn't even have like a, like, there's like little small, like brush brooms. He takes his, um, window scraper and it has like a little brush attachment, but it's like super hard bristles. I'm like, do you not have a broom? He's like, Oh yeah, I have this. I'm like,

you're spending seven, $8,000 on these like tools, but you won't pay $ dollars for a broom uh so that's yeah that's kind of where i was at i was like i'm starting to spend a lot of money on a lot of money but just i'm starting to buy new clothes new wardrobe and it's all holes in my shoes that's silly yeah yeah and the shoes people notice the shoes almost more than anything they're the lips of a man people's right from whitman that's why you get lifts in them sometime. Yeah, you like inject some hyacinth to them. Make them plumper. Yeah. Plumper. Okay, I'm going to finish this message to Candice's daughter.

Okay. Yeah. Please, I insist. If anything, name it after one of the 15 kids that I pulled from the wreckage last week. Honestly, the coolest part of everything is how willing they've been to come to church with me. Yeah. Think that's good? That's a message right there?

Yeah, that's perfect. Okay. So we're going to copy, paste paste and then we got to be quick just in case we don't have the foot fetish thing again and your your wi-fi has been going back and forth yeah i'm gonna hit it quick with the oh god but i'm still gonna capitalize god so she knows where my priorities are maybe that's maybe you should say gosh capital gosh lowercase Lowercase gosh. No other goshes before him. Yeah. Oh, gosh.

I'm embarrassed. Next message. Wrong person? Yeah. Wrong influential person that I'm interested in dating. The mayor was supposed to see this. Wrong person. Wrong person. Two exclamation points. I'm interested in dating. The mayor was supposed to see this. Wrong person. Wrong person.

Two exclamation points. I'm so sorry. While I have you. Not that I have you. Yeah. While I have you. All right. Boom.

Five messages sent in 15 seconds. But you're not going to ask any questions of her? Nope. Nope. Nope. That's just. So you're just like serving the ball, but it's going out of bounce. i think i'm closing my eyes while i'm serving it so it might be a strike okay it might not a strike we're going back and forth on the analogies i'm just trying to get a

touchdown okay perfect um i yeah just trying to get her attention okay let's do it oh okay so we'll wait on that so oh speaking of just uh funny conversations i don't even know how to like really talk about this because it's like too many conversations i've had with this guy but i've had too many interactions with this guy not to bring it up on the podcast uh he's a guy who's one of my down the street neighbors who i connected with because he saw me working outside and he's his his name's Henry, Henry, the neighbor, uh,

Chicago guy and lives in Kansas city obviously now. Um, but wanted me to build some stuff for him out of this wood that he'd harvested from trees on his property, whatever. Uh, but the dude calls and talks to me so much. He's the guy that I,

uh, whenever we recorded the, um, Patreon, uh, bonus episode with Isaac, you can get it for $5 a month if you want to. That's the guy that I, uh, whenever we recorded the, um, Patreon, uh, bonus episode with Isaac, you can get it for $5 a month if you want to. That's like nothing. Oh, it's like one latte a day. One seventh of a sky zone visit. Yeah. Um, but he's the guy that like, I was like, I don't really know how to end conversations with like people that are just continuing to talk. Like he'll call me and it's like easily a textable or, uh, you know, whatever,

like conversation. And we'll just talk for, I mean, it's like easily a textable or, uh, you know, whatever, like conversation. And we'll just talk for, I mean, it's not like super long, but today we talked for 16 minutes on the phone. That's too long for a neighbor. Too long for neighbor. What does he even need? He, okay. So today he was like, so he's got this awesome accent, which I'm going to try to, uh, here

we go. Emulate a little bit. Hey Brad. And it's like, it's like this, uh, like so far I haven't heard a big difference. No, no, no. I mean, maybe it's not that much of an accent. It's just the way he talks. Like, it's like, it's like, he's like, like, okay. About like kind of just being really direct with you. Like it's kind of European Eastern, whatever, like North, Northeastern. He's like still kissing on the cheek, but it's over the phone. He's like, he's like, no, no, I'm,

I'm thinking about, uh, maybe cutting down my cedar tree. I'm thinking about cutting down my cedar. What do you think about that? What do you think? Because I mean, that would look pretty, he literally said this. He's like, I mean, if you etch a razor back in that thing, cause I was like making stuff out of CNC stuff for him. If you etch a razor back in that thing, that would look pretty sexy.

Right. Oh wow. And he's like this, he's probably 60 years old, like mustache guy. It's like, what do you think studly? He's like this he's probably 60 years old like mustache guy it's like what do you think studley he's like twice in one week he's like i'm thinking i'm thinking i'm probably gonna have a guy down in uh southern missouri uh make a make a front door for me you could finish that for me couldn't you you could finish that now what's that really gonna cost me brad like he loves like using my first name uh his son's a baseball player uh university

arkansas he's a pitcher there okay he's telling me all about that uh he's like you know he throws 98 miles an hour and he's like kind of looking at me like that there was 98 miles an hour that's pretty good i don't know if you know about speed but he's like he's like and they got he they got different i don't know if you know about the scouts but they got different uh numbers for uh i don't know if they he talks quite that much but like numbers for uh you know they're different pitches and he had a slider that was about how about a one maybe a two brad he went down to florida this summer he was telling he was telling me he's got that slide up to a four what is the scale yeah i don't know i don't know baseball my whole life i think yeah it's some scouting thing because he's his roommate is dayton moore's son like cool uh royals gm uh but he's got it up

to a four and then he kind of just like waits for my reaction so i'm like really you ever had apples how about them apples yeah yeah uh four brad i just don't have a speech impediment come on brad we're gonna take down the world mazoi four with brian turnbull Four, Brad. I just sold him a speech impediment. Come on, Brad. We're going to take down the world, Missouri. Four. With Brian Turnbull. Oh, man. It was just like, Henry's just this great, I mean, he's just like, the other day he's like, you know, hey, Brad, you going to get done with those cutting boards soon?

I'm just curious because my wife's going out of town in Chicago. You know, it's her father, or no, it's her uncle's 100th birthday. 100 years, Brad. 100 years. That's pretty uncommon. That's pretty uncommon. Somebody turns 100, you gotta go.

He's like- I like the way he talks. Yeah, oh, it's awesome. I mean, he's great. It's just sometimes I want to get work done and I'm like, you know, Henry, we can't talk forever. Now, what do you think about that? He'll always be like, now what do you think?

25 times the score on my son's four pitch. 100. 100. A hundred years old. She's got to go. But I said, I said, you know, we could wait till Christmas on these gifts. We don't have to get it done right now. We don't have to get these done.

So, so you know what? He said some words I shouldn't say, but he's like, don't bust your butt. Don't bust your butt trying to get this done. Okay. Okay. Just don't bust your butt. Just if it your butt trying to get this done. Okay. Okay. Just don't bust your butt. Just if it gets done, it gets done. I'm like, Henry, it's going to get done.

If you stop talking to me. Henry sounds like he's used that same like threat, but like as a part of the Italian mob, like if you don't get the money to me, I'm gonna have to bust someone's butt. Okay. I hope it's not yours. I hope it's not your family's, but it's going to be someone's. I'll be honest, Jake. I'll be honest.

I've broken kneecaps before. Normally I just break two. but last week, I went down to Florida. I broke four. Four, Jake. Last spring, I was doing one, maybe two. Yeah. Four. And you don't want to make me bring out the slider. I'll bring out the slider. I'll knock your knees right at you. You ever heard of

Tonya Harding? That's nothing. That's nothing. Yeah. I mean, 100 years old, I don't care i'll whack him i'll whack him brad okay i'll whack i will i'll do it okay you have a good day though okay but you have a good day brad nice talking to you and that's the other thing it's like it's like we have these long conversations and then they just abruptly end every time he's like anyway okay i'll talk to you later brad bye oh it's like don't get any words in yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so uh anyway henry henry's the man like i made tons of stuff for him he wants me to make lots more so i really sexy yeah and he he

picked up all his cutting boards the other day he's like oh look at the look at the way this shimmers brad look at the way i mean that's just a natural shimmer you know he's like he's like moving the moving the cutting board back and forth. Like, look at that. Look at that. And I'm like, yeah, I made them. I've looked at them probably more than you have, you know, because of the whole process of me making them.

Oh, hot dog. I'm going to Chicago. I don't know if I told you. Got an aunt, 100-year-old. I think I'm going to get a hot dog up there. I'm thinking Lou Malnati's probably for the Italian beef, but I don't know. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see.

I'll call you. Yeah. You know Nathan's hot dogs? That's a scam, Brad. That's a scam. That's not real hot dogs. Hot dogs. You know, you go to Sky Zone on a Friday, you got a glow?

They make me glow. They made me glow, Brad. $38. I said, no, this is another thing. Like he literally was complaining about he's like yeah I usually buy all my trucks down at Shawnee Mission Ford

I don't buy from them anymore they've really gone downhill he's like I got my tires changed there the other day they said he's like he's like

their lug nuts they said my lug nuts were so tight that they had to burn them off and he had like this big this big like they had to burn them off

he's like so I got $240 more of new lug nuts on there he did he had like that big it's big like they had to burn them off like so i got 240 more new of new luck that's on there he did he did like i love the old man pause wait for you to have some insane reaction like what am i supposed to do now why i don't need to burn those off henry you're kidding yeah you had to burn them off you know how do you like your how do you like your truck brad you like it I'm thinking about getting a new one but those guys down there you know they had

different owners I bought he like literally told me the whole thing I bought all I bought my old truck I usually buy from this one guy

he left for a while he came back he came back they always do huh you know what I mean anyway I gotta go I'll see you Brad bye bye

okay Brad just let me know just let me know and once again don't bust your butt if you know what i mean now seriously don't bust your butt on this okay okay because i'm going down to fayetteville to watch my son play you know he's got four slider now he's got four oh man great guy so i just i don't know maybe that's great like he just stops by he just calls me like and and I'm just always like, like I'll be on my phone,

like at my house and I'll be, I'll like show Catherine, like he's calling me again. It's like all the time. And like, it's probably business, but it's going to be after 15 minutes worth. That's the hardest.

Yeah. I have to answer every single phone call. Cause it's like, I can't say no. Yeah. I wish you had the nerve and the confidence to do that to a friend. I would just like call a friend. I haven't talked to in a while and just give him 15

minutes worth of the weirdest updates. Like, dude, so I was like, I saw you went on tour. It's like, dude, I went to Pie Five the other day. They closed at eight. Just complain about the most like, you know, trivial stuff. Yeah. They didn't have pepperoni. You believe that?

Dumpsteroni. We called my cousin. Yeah. Oh, man. Dude, that's good giordanos anyway uh brad i went to my first like public event kind of thing since corona or whatever i went to a wedding the wedding yeah you know it's like my first uh-huh what am i trying to say what is that word i don't know outing yeah i guess there were people yeah it was an outing. I did it. Yeah. I came out and at the wedding, it was awesome. I came out and people applauded.

Yeah. Yeah. Nevermind. I was trying to say something. Yeah. I was like, some of the jokes. It was so fun just to see just old friends, new friends. Well, not, you don't see new friends.

You make new friends. I guess. Ben Rector came back old friends. Little line, but meaningful meaningful it's you know that that hit me in the feels it's so simple i sent that song to scott like immediately i was like this this resonates with me with you man like i mean the whole song is is pretty well written about like i know what your backyard looks like and i know the backyard thing yeah got me it's like i don't care how good of friends you are with someone now yeah you won't like okay yeah their parents back yeah yeah you get it then you know what you're doing you can't make old friends yeah um but you can't make new ones and you teach new tricks uh i'm trying to think where to start a lot happened at this wedding um first of all you know i've

went back and forth i want a girlfriend that was after i saw aladdin i wanted my jasmine yeah then i said i don't want a girlfriend anymore now that that I've seen, you know, just two people form a covenant bond, I want a girlfriend. I'm back. I'm team girlfriend slash wife. Oh, man. Bring them to me. I can just see the girls right now getting on their Instagram DMs. Carpe DMs, ladies.

Carpe DMs. Send them to Ghostwriters so that I can vet them all. Yeah. Yeah. You won't know if Jake or Brad are responding. Yeah, we'll keep it pretty neutral. If Natasha doesn't respond, then we'll go for that um i thought i had uh like i said a lot of wedding thoughts one of them being uh wedding pamphlets i don't know if everyone's like this

but i've got that sucker oh yeah wedding program pamphlets this wedding brochure for a timeshare in orlando i'm thinking about it i mean this is a pretty good like buy one get one free at mr goodson's later. That sounds pretty good to me. What do you think? You're more of a subway guy. Okay, that's fine. Okay, that's fine.

Okay. Wedding program. Yeah. You know, you get there early for a wedding or you should. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, you should. You should.

You should. I don't know what else to do before weddings. And so I have that sucker memorized. I would love someone to quiz me on a wedding program. Like when the reception's over, like that thing is so like, and I love following along with it too. Like every wedding is the same. I don't know why I'm like this must, what do we have here?

Oh, yep. It's a scripture reading. Yeah. Okay. Well, I mean, that makes sense. So next is probably the, uh, sure. Unity candle. Okay.

Oh yeah. Unity candle. Oh, they're skipping that. Oh, they're doing the same thing. Oh, they're doing the same thing. That's good. The same thing. Yeah. Okay. Oh yeah. Oh, they're skipping that. Oh, they're doing the same thing. That's good. The same thing. Yeah. Yeah. Or take the father's love for us while doing the same. Good. Good choice. That's good. That's good. What verse they're going with? Oh, love is patient. Love is kind. Okay. Okay. Now let's see. Uh, they're singing. Oh,

one of the singers is also a bridesmaid. Oh, interesting connection. Okay. Save some money. Probably a matron of honor. She's already married. Okay. Okay. So don't look at her. Yeah. I'm too far away to see the ring. So I got to rely on that.

I feel like I'm reading them like a menu sometimes too. You know, just like, oh, the, I mean, the scripture readings here are to die for. You gotta get a scripture reading here. Yeah. They go ESV and it's nice. It is nice. It is nice. Smooth.

Oh, very nice. Oh yeah.. Smooth. Oh, very nice. Oh, yeah. Accurate. Oh. Edgy. You gotta have a scripture reading here. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

At the barn door. Yeah. They went for a while. They tried out the message and it just wasn't the same. So they came back. Yeah. They got a new chef. They got a new Bible.

Yeah. And it's just, you know, they got a owner you know and uh this place it's going back uphill i'll tell you what brad that's a good place right there that's a nice wedding you know two kids just getting married there they had two and then they have four you know me and my wife got married once yeah and that just tells you the whole story i'll tell you what back when we got married brad it was 500 maybe 600 tops for everything we had a cake we had some flowers now it's like 500 just for the flowers i'll just look at you huh tell me something that you think about that brad your turn to talk you put the list or the impediment on every time your turn your turn to talk i love it yeah no he

went to boston he's He was there for a bit. One cool thing. Well, I almost said people at the wedding listen to the pod, but that's not entirely accurate. People who went to the wedding know people who listen to the pod. That happened three different times. Someone was like, hey, so I just want to introduce myself. I don't know you and I don't listen to your podcast, but my friend does. That happened.

And I think two times someone introduced themselves to me. And the other one was, you know,ah lewis yeah oh sarah sarah lewis is that i talked about that oh yeah maybe you have it's lewis yeah she's got a crazy last name no i don't know how to pronounce it she's married she made turn of honor good for you sir um good for you but she was like uh i don't totally listen to your podcast but some of my my friends, I'm actually staying with them. They love your podcast. I'm trying to think of it. Joy? Joy.

Joy is her name, I think. She got it. Joy and her husband. Joy and her heart. Joy, Joy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So shout out Joy. This is the pod.

What up, Joy? Girl Allie said her sister Alyssa listens. Shout out to Liss. Oh, sure, Lissy. Lissy. Yeah. I don't know why you got a B, Grant. Thanks for listening to the ghost runners podcast

uh and it was cool i saw so many patrons at the wedding i wish i didn't do that so go yeah go ahead um i'll say i saw so many of our 15 patrons at the wedding really it was crazy oh wow yeah um anna winters was there you know her i don't know her but i know her name because of yeah no no you're right we are friends with everybody yeah that watches the yeah she's the one she's got the the freckle oh yeah but we all love it we call her freck yeah oh frecky frecky winters yeah allison allison gray was there you know she got the last name that's hard to pronounce oh yeah it's like it's like is it a cheese is it like a side dish is it like just a last name yeah um oh hope eason was there i tell you that hope was there hope no she wasn't yes i looked right i said hope floats she said float me all the way here baby you're like take it eason

yeah yeah so she's the one that has that crazy dance move yes and she did it at the very end of the night the worm yeah the worm but it was sideways and on roller skates oh i'll tell you guys good dance moves um aaron brown was there no teach me how to dougie came on and a brown got down a brown got down no she didn't yes whatever um hard to know e brown or a brown it had a hat e brown oh e brown so it's a girl she had a hat on too which which I thought was weird for wedding, but it was, she kept it very gender neutral. He knows her to tell.

Right. Good for her. The bun was talked. I don't know. She wore like a Pharrell hat. Um, Emily Berry was dancing. Berry licious.

My gosh. It was good to see you. Very, very much. Very, very much. Yeah. Um,

I can barely, uh, believe my excitement that you're here. Um, tell you who else is there. It's fun to see her. Katie Scanlon. Scans? Yeah. Scansy Pants. Oh, yeah? Scansy Pants was there. No.

Yeah, and she, oh my, we just caught up. She brought her dog, which is cool. What? I thought there was going to be one more joke to that. Sorry. She brought her dog? Yeah. Rover? Yeah. It's such a classic dog name but oh my god but it's like that's why you do it that's why you do it that's a classic name because it's a classic dog

yeah yeah i'm trying to think who else was there oh i saw lindsey sir lindsey was there lindsey saria yes and you're like oh seriously you made it all the way here lindsey yes you shouldn't have she curled her hair which looks so good She looks so much better with curled hair. Yeah. Did she have the bang still or did she cut them off? She cut them off. Good for her. She cut them off herself.

She cut them off, but she got the ombre curls, right? It's like blonde and brown. Brown to blonde. Brown roots. Right. And you're like, maybe it's Maybelline. You're like, no, no, it's Saria. Saria.

Yeah. Oh, very good. Dude, it was crazy how many patrons were there. And so many women too, which is crazy. Nicole patrons were there. And so many women, too, which is crazy. Nicole Turner was dancing. No. Yes. Well, she's usually the one orchestrating the band, the wedding band.

So I'm surprised that she was on the floor. No, she was. Yeah, she was like the hokey pokey. Yeah. Put your right foot in, right foot out, turn it all about. Yeah. Turner. Turner all about. Yeah, Turner, hardly know her. Yeah. everyone is cracking those jokes and it's funny she she was really good

back in the day i actually went to high school with her and she was really good at um swimming she was just she was just an amazing freestyler and so uh people were like oh she's really good at freestyling bring her on up because she's like the wedding band version and uh they they brought her up and it was like she failed miserably and it was like one of the most embarrassing moments of her life oh my gosh like guys no it's freestyle like stroke like i'm a stroke uh and they're like oh you want us to play the stroke oh and there was that drunk guy in the court he's like show us the breaststroke oh we had to kick him out dude that same guy yeah was there no it was been searching yeah no he was there he was not drunk though he was not he's kind of turned

his life around turn her life around good good for you ben yeah he's not yelling about the breast stroke anymore he's a butterfly guy yeah alcohol is a has-been has yeah i feel like there was one more that we saw there please tell me it was oh our friend yes yeah abby brooks happy brooks yes abby brooks i knew i well like she was like a maybe for a long time. Yes. She was like, I think I can make it. I was checking her location to see if she was coming. Well, she had a book reading out on the West Coast.

Oh yeah. And so I was like, I mean, but quarantine, I think kind of, you know, it hurt everybody, not just Abby Brooks, but definitely her. And so she came back and I was like, Hey, not too shabby. Yeah. She brought a Brooks with her. Yeah. So yeah. A Brooke greeting, yeah. Oh, wow.

It was cool to see all those people there and just crazy that they support us financially every month and that they went to the same wedding as me. Oh, that was really fun. So that was nuts. Yeah, I wasn't planning on doing that. I just had that idea and pulled up Patreon real quick. For anybody who didn't get the joke until right now,

none of those people were there oh right yeah yeah okay okay wait well seriously uh one other thing about weddings in general i was catching up with my um one of my good friends megan megan what dance would she do uh megan pavelka not a patron but a listener you'll get there megan you'll get there yeah keep saving and she uh was talking this is like unrelated to like wedding that i went to one but she was like telling me she's like i've had this idea she's like someday i want to open uh like some sort of like bar uh restaurant something i guess like a a bar place and it's called the reception and it's all like wedding themed and it's supposed to be like

a wedding reception is happening it's like you have like you have paid actors be the bride and groom every night like there's an actual bride and groom there's like toast there's like champagne there's a cake cutting like it's not the full thing but like it's like that's really fun like a wedding reception wouldn't that be so

sweet yes and like the price of admission gets you cake like yeah you don't have to like worry about all that yeah like you'll get cake maybe at least one glass of champagne like on the house oh and you have to like like like they have to dismiss you to go to the buffet line like table seven it's your turn you're like yes they play the shoe game and you're like oh we've seen this before what's the shoe game oh you don't know oh man it's one of my least favorite things at weddings is it i i know the one where it's like if you've been married you know oh that is less favorable two hours get off the dance floor and everyone laughs and then you find out who the oldest people are and then they talk and then it's like we're gonna give them a chance to say what they've learned about their marriage and then

you can't hear them because they're just crazy old and everyone's talking. People don't know how to use a microphone. Like they'll always be like, yeah, so we just really like, they're just like so far away from it. And like, how can you not hear your voice not being loud? Because they're old. They're so old. Yeah. Always. They're always old. People who've been married so long are always so old. Yeah. It's weird. That is weird. Like how winky dink that is. I'm going to get Hattie married early, like maybe 10, 12 years old. Oh, it's weird. That is weird. How winky dink that is. I'm going to get Hattie married early, like maybe 10, 12 years old. Oh, that way, if that is still a trend 60 years from now,

people will be able to hear her. That's the only reason why I'm going to do that. Yeah. That'll be worth it, though. It will be. The shoe game is bride and groom sit back to back. They each take their shoes off. Who's the messiest?

And then the bridal's at the groom and the groom's at the bride and everyone laughs because they sit opposite. They do that at the weddings i've seen that like showers i've never filmed a couple really which it's just you know i'm sure it's fun for you yeah but it's not for most people just because i kind of like those things you know i'm cheesy though like that i don't know but like yeah but i understand why like if you're not if you don't know them very personally like it was i've only watched it actually at one showers thomas and abby my friend thomas cole who got me a tuxedo too late um but it's the same guy doing the flower

delivery yeah probably but i thought it was kind of fun to watch him but see i just think there's only i guess now that i've seen it twice i'm like oh there's only one like whatever like there's only one way this goes is that like we, we just wait to hear their answers. And then we laugh whenever they say opposing things. Like, that's the entire game is waiting for them to say opposite things. And then we chuckle. There's not there. There's a very low ceiling.

Like, it's like, it just seems so simple. Best case scenario. Yeah. They they disagree. And we laugh. And we laugh. Yeah. And then worst case scenario, they keep agreeing that the husband is the worst. And we laugh and we laugh yeah and then worst case scenario they keep

agreeing that the husband is the worst and we laugh at that you know it's just right it will not be at my wedding reception mine's gonna be so oh it's gonna be nuts oh you guys have to come it's gonna have to come i hope abby brooks comes oh she will she'll bring her she'll make it yeah just make sure it's not you know during pul during Pulitzer season. Because she's an author. Nobel Peace Prize. What's a book? Blue Ribbon. No, metal. Oh, yeah.

What was that? Calicot. Ooh. That one? Maybe. Yeah, something. You know, like the... Yeah, it was like a golden stamp that was on the good books.

Yeah, Bud Not Buddy. Remember that one? No. Watson's Go to Birmingham? No. The Giver? Yeah. Holes. Yeah Birmingham. No. Uh, the giver. Yeah. Holes.

Yeah. Holes got on for sure. Walk to moons. Never heard that. That was a weird stamp. That one didn't get placed. That one was, Oh,

that was walk to moons. Throws the breaststroke. You ever see, what's his name? He's like an old YouTuber, old school youtuber he's he's the guy who does the uh look at that you look at it oh yeah bass master he has that video just called have you seen that video where he just goes up to people he'll just go up to a guy

and just like shake his head at him and that's all it's crazy how riled up he can get people only saying it's awesome it's a great video because it's just like this assumption of like whatever whatever your biggest insecurity about yourself is like this guy's like bringing it out of him like walk up to a guy shake his head keep walking like five more feet turn around shake his head again it's so simple so good now that would be a wedding reception game okay just kidding um but yeah the reception. Shout out Megan for the idea. I'm sorry if you were going to actually do that. And I just told a lot of people and you better work fast. That's a great idea.

I think more than one person can do that because that's a great idea. You think so? Oh yeah. One in every city. It's the new sky zone. I think this is pretty well known, but I mean, I love Chili's. I go there once a week, at least. I get Chili's to go.

And it's the same thing every time. I call when I'm about nine minutes away. I've learned how long it takes to make it. You know, you just got to maximize. Hurry, get it. Hurry, get home while it's still hot. Yes. Whatever.

I'm a firm believer in that. Yeah, I kind of learned that from you. I'm like, hey, prioritize this. This is important. You can eat inside, but if you want a to-go order, you can't go inside to like pick it up. You have to stay in your car.

Yeah. Curbside. That's the only option to go. OK. And it's been that way. You can maybe see where you're going. It's been that way for a long time. You probably do.

Yeah. I had Tina. That's her actual name was Tina was the Sky Zone girl, too. You know, she's she's double double trouble. Yeah. Yeah. Good for her. There's always about three seconds of fill time in every one of these orders where they

give me the thing, like the bill, the sign. Yes. And I'm writing it down. And it's just like, you know, it takes me out to fill out tip, total sign. And every time I'm just like, how's your day going? How's it? You know, whatever. Just fill the sign.

It's not just gonna sit there while I watch me. And so just like always brings me my food, brings me my bill so i'm like hey how's it going she's like well you know it's going all right except for these people who don't want to tip me oh as i've already put down zero but it made me feel like at first it was like why would you do that but then i was like should i be tipping no no okay i don't think so i and i just get a big 20 restaurant tip of course across the board bad service still 15 why because they do something for you. They provide a service. They are serving me. And you literally said they can't, they, you can't go up. Like you would love to just go get the food yourself. Yeah. But I would, that's always an option or like, that's

always like what I prefer. Right? No, no. I, I think that we're going to get, there's going to be some controversy about this out there, but no, I don't think I see any reason that you should tip them. I didn't think so either. I generally was like, well, maybe I should be, cause I don't want to be that guy. That's like, Oh, everyone else does this. No, I don't think so. I would be interested to know exactly how that works for her because my sister used to work at Chili's and she was a waitress there. And the waitresses always have to give a portion, like the percentage of their tips like their total tips uh out to the the bus boys and like the hostesses and stuff like that who aren't getting tips and so i would assume that that girl would fall into that same category she's getting

restaurant tips yeah so yeah i don't know that's just unprofessional no matter what to be like yeah i'm frustrated and you're like oh yeah that's terrible zero yeah yeah i'd already written zero i was like well did she see that or she just Zero. Yeah, yeah. I'd already written zero. I was like, well, did she see that? Or did she just say this to everyone? Either way, didn't like it. Like one of the most popular barbecue places in Kansas City, Joe's. They always have a line for tip, but you literally just go through a line and then they give you your food.

I'm like, what am I tipping? Why? I like, if you want more money for your food, just charge more and I'll pay it. Charge more money. But I don't really understand why I would tip anything. What? Anyway, you know, you could probably get away with as a business, which I think is illegal probably.

Okay. But just charging a 20% sales tax. That's the thing I never look at. Oh yeah. You know, just like it's an extra whatever, you know, 11% every bill. Is that illegal? Or is it like. Charge whatever you want.

To call it tax, I guess. Cause I don't, I don't know. Maybe I shouldn't talk about this, but I don't really know like what the? Or is it like. Charge whatever you want. To call it tax, I guess. Because I don't. I don't know. Maybe I shouldn't talk about this. But I don't really know like what the standard tax is on things. So whenever I tax, I just kind of tax 9.2%. Because I've seen other people do that. Oh, I thought you were like, it just felt good.

I was almost born in 92. So that's cool. Like the place I buy a lot of my wood from is 9.2% tax. So I'm like, I'll do that. If they're. Yeah. Same state. But it's not like.

No, it's not. It's in Missouri. Oh, that's different. So I don't't know i don't know what i'm doing huh but i don't know um i do not tip that person ever okay maybe honestly ask for a little bit of money back you know like she asked me how's it going good i mean i had to pay full price for this meal good i mean you're not giving me chips for free but besides that i'm all right um i don't know i'm curious though like if if you have any experience with this especially during these times like i don't want to just short somebody that's like that's where they're making i'm supposed to but like that girl gets the short end of the stick for sure if that's the only way she's supposed to get tipped and paid because

she's not doing that much i'm gonna be honest you're not doing that much i parked in the closest spot to the door they So close. So close. Yeah. Don't, I don't, don't feel guilty, Jake. Okay.

No matter what anybody says. Okay. And I'm a nice guy. You're a nice guy. I'm not saying like, like I'm not, I'm too stingy. Like I am stingy,

but I'm not that stingy. Like if you deserve a tip, I'll give you one. Yes. I don't get it. Why you would get that. I don't get it. I don't get it.

Yo, yo, yo, poppies. Oh, Jake and Brad. This is caleb i like oklahoma city a big fan of the podcast and i just wanted to bring to your attention some huge news um as of this fall chicken and pickle is bringing a location to oklahoma city oh yeah oh yeah I'd like to challenge either Jake or Brad when they're in Oklahoma City to pickleball. I also had a question for you.

If you could pick your own name when you were born or right now, what would you choose? Because growing up, I know I always wanted to change my name to something cool, like Rufus. You know what I'm saying? But yeah. That's your token rule.

Have a great day. Keep up the incredible work. On your feet. Bye-bye. Like that guy, he's so cool. Like Zane's such a good skateboarder. Like, I don't know, like Drake can rap really well. Who did he bring with him though?

Who is that? Like, oh, that new guy, Rufus. Holy cow. You see his AIM1 shirts? The jeans on him. The jeans. Growing up, it was Kobe. Kobe.

Kobe was a cool name. Yeah, I wanted to be Kobe. I've been teaching Hattie every time she throws something in a basket, say Kobe. That's a sweet thing to teach your child. And now it's like a verb. She's like, I want a Kobe. I want a Kobe. That'll work.

Yeah. That'll do. I was throwing her uh dirty like i was changing her into her pajamas the other night and i was putting it into dirty clothes and she's like oh let me kobe it that's awesome okay get that wrist strong yeah get it strong follow through with these two fingers strong oh yeah strong number one um now that would be sylvester i think sylvesterester Ellis and they could call me Les L-E-S kind of like Les Les Les Les

you got like Legolas Les Les Les Les Les Les

Les Les Les Les Les L-S please someone

say I don't really know how that song goes that's early Rihanna yeah right probably that's probably my name

I would choose Rihanna oh what's up Rihanna triplet what's up or just Rihanna just right oh probably that's probably my name I would choose Rihanna oh what's up Rihanna triplet what's up just Rihanna just take out everything else yeah no I don't know my dad had a bunch of nicknames for me like old Rihanna over there like idiot or like waste of space it's like cool stuff like I don't know that could be fun dumpster roni dumpster roni yeah um I think what my what would I actually choose? What would my name be? Maybe like donkey. Cause I think everyone would say it in like a cool way.

Donkey. Donkey. Yeah. Like, no, but it has to be donkey. It's not donkey. It's not donkey.

It's D O N K E H. Donkey. K E H. Yeah. Yeah. Or you like, and people be like, you mean donkey?

No, no, no. You're sorry. You're saying it wrong. It's donkey. Donkey. Donkey. That'll do donkey. Yeah. Yeah. Or you'd like, and people would be like, you mean donkey? No, no, no. You're sorry. You're saying it wrong. It's donkey. Donkey. Donkey. That'll do donkey. Yeah. Yeah. That'd be my name. Oh, that's good. Donkey triplet. Hey, it's me donkey. Donkey. Yeah, man. Do you think if I would've thought of that beforehand,

I would have a better name? No, no, no, no, no. This is great. Donkey. Donkey. Thank you, Caleb. Hey, Jake and Brad. This is Mackenzie from Atlanta, no. This is great. Donkey. Donkey. Thank you, Caleb. Hey, Jake and Brad. This is Mackenzie from Atlanta, Georgia. Long time listener, second time caller. And I just wanted to share some habits I've picked up from you guys. So the first one, Brad, I think a while back you mentioned how you thought people merged too early onto freeways. And ever since you said that, I've been waiting longer to merge. And I have to say I agree.

I think it causes less traffic waiting to merge. Thank and so I'm liking that so far a lot less stressful than trying to get over right away the second one is I'm no longer hanging up on phone calls I'm just so not bad my second thing is for Jake so I'm about to get on my first flight since Corona happened. And I know that you've been traveling a decent amount. So I was wondering if you have any Corona traveling trips, tips, or if you just have any funny stories from traveling during Corona. All right. Bye bye.

This would be perfect for last week. Definitely book American Airlines and check your bag and have all your deodorant in there. Yeah, you've had a lot more travel than you wanted to. Yeah, yeah. Spend a night in Phoenix. Hang out with some random people from Instagram you never met. Make sure they're Mormon. Corona travel tips. I don't know. Make sure you have a comfortable

mask because you're going to be wearing that sucker for a long time. Especially if you've got a layover. I mean, that's legitimately like, you know, if you follow the rules. I mean, that could be like seven hours straight of wearing a mask, which I know nurses that's legitimately like, you know, if you follow the rules, I mean, I could be like seven hours straight of wearing a mask, which I know nurses have to do that for 12 hours. That's crazy.

But if you're a weak little boy like me, I got a weak front face. That was one of my dad's other nicknames for me. Come here, you're a WFF. Hey, front face. No, it was weak thin face

and you just call it WTF. Come on, weak thin face. I was like, weak thin? No, no, no, no. Weak thin. Weak thin face. You get it. You a good boy he's a good boy uh so have a comfortable mask he's in gifted class i mean anytime you're traveling by air i'd always recommend like some planes are super warm some are super cold you want to have a good temp on an airplane and you don't have much control over it you go like a sweatshirt tied around the waist sure yeah yeah uh do something

have like a hoodie ready yeah potentially um how's the security any different like is it taking any longer to get through stuff yeah things are going faster and you get there earlier than you need to um security's going pretty fast i think what else is changing i mean it's pretty easy to travel right now flights are cheap i think americans like filling their flights but like delta and southwest are still making them half full which is nice that is nice oh it's nice especially when it's like a ga seating like a southwest is where you don't really know where you're gonna sit yeah oh it's awesome yeah i'd love to do i'll do c c4 boarding because i'll just be in the back by myself that's awesome that's great yeah um any other tips i probably i don't know um don't be a goofus don't be a goofus don't be a

goofus don't bring anything illegal with you on the plane don't shout bomb yeah even if you're doing a bath bomb still don't say it still not worth it and why are you doing bath bombs in the airport also yeah just wait just have the ship to where you're going uh that's cool that you're such an influencer though on, on McKinsey. Yeah. The merging and the hanging up. The merging thing is like something I'm passionate about. Every time I'm driving and I see people, like there's traffic and it's like, this is so

unnecessary that this traffic. Zipper, guys. Seriously. Zipper. Just do it. Just do it. And like, there needs to be no stigma about it. Just like, like not tipping the curbside person.

There's no stigma about it. Like, I think people are just worried that they're offending people by doing it. Just like not tipping the curbside person, there needs to be no stigma about it. I think people are just worried that they're offending people by doing it. You're not. You're not. You shouldn't be. You're not. You're smart. Yo, Jake and Brad, how's it going?

It's your favorite person from Traverse City, Michigan, Levi Prohl. Here we go. I'm kind of like the I'm Down Boys roadie. I was there when they signed their first uh first voice memo and uh yeah ever since they left it you guys have just been talking about traverse city and the i'm down boys like a whole lot so i thought it'd be fun if uh you guys go on google and type down traverse city michigan and i want you guys to kind of look around and see look for some stuff and restaurants or whatever and i want you to plan out a trip.

Maybe just a short little weekend trip or something up here. You don't have to do it. Just be a little fun thing to do. Meanwhile, while you're at it, go ahead and tell us some stuff that's amazing about Kansas City if we ever go there. Thanks for all that you guys do.

Have a great one. I love the liberal usage of the word stuff google traverse city look for some stuff see what stuff you like feel free to talk about your own stuff just it's such a catch-all word love it yeah oh man i mean you gotta go to clinch park when you're there right well i mean sure that's what everyone's like hey that's where they filmed that scene in uh you've got mail with meg That's what everyone's like. Hey, that's where they filmed that scene in You've Got Mail with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. That's right. That's where they got the mail. Yeah, that's right.

Famous post office. Oh, and then of course you're going to Left Foot Charlie if you're any kind of a wine person. Left Foot Charlie. And you're a connoisseur of wine. Yeah. What's your favorite wine? Red.

Red? Left. Red left. It's like Twister. Left hand red. You go there, you play a little Twister, you get a little drunk, see what happens. That sounds nice.

That sounds nice. This thing you know, Tom Hanks is giving you mail. Oh, we got the City Opera. Car, hand ready. You want to hear a joke? Oh, wow. There's lots of wineries here. They have an opera house.

City Opera House. Oh. I've been to the Sydney one. Oh, it's right on the water. I bet it looked exactly the same. Sydney. City Opera House. Yeah. oh i've been to the sydney one oh it's right on the water i bet it looked exactly the same sid sydney sydney opera house yeah there's a uh there's an auto zone that is pretty nice but let me tell you they said i have to burn off my lug nuts 4.5 stars though i mean the burn them off brad you can't burn off lug nuts you don't need to do that but i'm really glad that they

did it because if i had a flat tire on the side of the road, there's no way I've taken those lug nuts off myself, Brad. You ever try to take off lug nuts? My son did one time. Then he went down to Florida. They got volleyball beach right there on Lake. Why am I Googling like this? Traverse City Pickleball, please. What lake is that?

Michigan. Michigan. I really had to zoom out. He's got some big old legs. He just kept zooming out and zooming out. Dude, Traverse City's cool. Okay. Whoa, look at this town name.

Careful. Peshobston. Peshobstown. Peshobston. Peshobston. That's cool. All right. Well, they have some where it's called pickleball outfitters.

Whoa. We could be like those weird people who play with a glove on. Like, what could that possibly help? Dude, that's so funny because I've thought about buying a glove. Why? Because my hands get so sweaty that I lose grip. I feel like it's just like a batting glove, right? Or is it like grippy?

It's got to be grippy. Sure that it's grippy. That's my, yeah, it's definitely not for like the shock of the paddle paddle i feel like i saw like one old woman playing with it one time and she just had like a franklin batting glove on i was just like there's no way that's how is that yeah for the shock absorption of a pickleball like plastic it's got to be the it's got to be the the grip it's got to be the shoes pickleball outfitters is cool though check out check out uh oh crap where'd it go grace mcdonald, if you're ever interested in some pickleball in Traverse City. Oh, okay.

It's off of Arbitus Lake Road. Okay. That makes sense. Right by that huge lake. What was it called? Lake. Dude, you have to zoom out so much. Oh, Michigan.

Before it tells you what lake it is. This is a huge bay right here. What is that thing? What is that thing up north? Oh, the Hudson Bay. Okay. You guys would have been in my shoes on Google Maps. You would have done the same thing.

It was just funny. Really zoomed in. That's a pretty big lake up there. That lake is big, and it's right next to Michigan. What's going on? That one's even bigger. What's that one? Lake Superior.

Oh, Superior. Yeah, it's even bigger and better. Okay, let's do one more voice memo. Oh, this is from our girl, Mando Ocon. Mando Ocon. Hey, guys. Mando Ocon again. Just wanted to let you know that you have jinxed family video.

They just announced that they are closing 17 of their 24 stores, including mine here in Freeport, Illinois. There's only 24 stores? I went today and I just bought an obscene amount of movies that I do not need at all. Anyway, I have a improv game for you guys. Oh boy. It's something I played in high school speech class. Oh boy.

And it is you are telling a story. You go line by line telling it back and forth between you two. I'm so bad at this. The catch is that you have to use the letters of the alphabet to start each line. Oh gosh. Starting with the letter A. And you also only have 10 seconds to say your line or else

you lose. So have fun with that one, guys. Bye-bye. We're going to do two seconds. Yeah, yeah. Instant. We need like a setting. Okay, what's the who are we and what's the setting? We are... We're at a pizza shop. I'm a customer. You're working. Okay.

Oh, I'm working. So I'm working so i'm first probably yeah sure aloha what do you have here like what do you want bacon cheese maybe some pepperoni cheese what kind of cheese you want doubt i'll have any mozzarella you have anything else and not really i we have uh we have some Gouda in the fridge. For real? Heck yeah. Sorry, I have alphabet. American alphabet. Okay, go, go, go. I didn't know you had Gouda.

Oh, I said, I went in the wrong order. I didn't know you had Gouda. Oh, just got it yesterday. Yeah, it's really good stuff. Kidding. Lying, but not. Lying, I am not. Man, well, I might have to have some Gouda then. No problem. We can get the Gouda for you.

Hey. Hey. Timmy. The kid wants the Gouda. Gouda on right. Oh, I do not have my wallet. Take it. Probably a good thing you need a wallet because of your credit card.

So go get your wallet. Quick, let me go get it. Real fast, because I got people behind you in line. Sammy? He can wait. No, Timmy. He's in a hurry. He's playing basketball for the Spurs later. Utah? Or no, wait, San Antonio. Very correct with San Antonio.

Well, um, just wait and let me go get my wallet real quick. Xylophone practice. Timmy, you're working here, okay? Work here. Get the gouda for this kid. He's gonna get his wallet and come right back, okay? Yo, I'm back. I'm back. Did you save my spot? Zippity-doo-dah, you know I did. Okay, let's pay for this thing. Let's get

out of here, huh? Whew. Oh, that was good. i should have googled alphabet before i i can't do it that quick while going through the alphabet that's okay oh man that was fun though also funny that there's been we took a little hiatus there but there was a point where ghost runners were like kind of jinxing people left and right with like three episodes in a row where we would like mention people. I remember there was a John Chris thing and then there was like something right after that. There was also like we talked about it and it was like a nationwide thing that happened. I don't know what it was. Yeah.

We were like something. No, not that. But I don't know. Whatever. Yeah. I think you're right. Like stuff that we like just happenstance talked about and all of a sudden it's coming up yeah um okay we'll save some for next week but feel free to send some other voicemails in because these are great it gives us stuff to talk about we love them guys are awesome

get to your voice um let's get to review of the week brad would you like to go first or would you like to go second uh i'm gonna go second because i need to pull it up but i want to do a youtube comment for mine okay uh here we go this is from jake and brad's minion interesting name really uh the title says this podcast will save you money the body says i love this podcast and i typically try to implement their strategies in my everyday life my wife and i were on a date night the other night and we swung through the andy's frozen custard drive-thru when i came to the window and the young gentleman told me the total i asked him if there was any way I could get the good guy discount. I love that he tried this.

Telling him I was a good guy and he was a good guy. After looking confused, he told me, how about I take half off the price? This podcast has helped me continuously stay on a tight budget. Get on your feet. Let's go. Andy's, Springfield, Missouri. Let's go. 417.

You're welcome. Yes. Bass Pro, Andy's, Brad Pitt in high school. You're welcome for all of it. Silver Dollar City. Kinda. Oh, not really? Branson. That's 417. Oh, welcome. Yes, awesome. Bass Pro, Andy's, Brad Pitt in high school. You're welcome for all of it. Solar Dollar City. Kinda. Oh, not really? Branson.

That's 417. Oh, I was saying Springfield. You're right. Chinese food. Cashew chicken, American version. That's all I know. That's it. Justice Jewelers.

Went there to get my diamond appraised before I proposed to Catherine. Good. Okay. That's right. Battlefield Mall. Yeah. James River. Big to Catherine. Good. Uh, okay. That's right. Uh, battlefield mall. Yeah. James river.

Big church. Assembly. Yeah. Technically Ozark. Close. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.

Close enough. Okay. My, uh, YouTube comment of the week is coming from McCade Williamson. Oh, this one was awesome. This was great.

This was awesome. Been binging this podcast after hearing about on do less. God bless. Shout out. And the combination of Jake and Brad is exceptional. So effortless and enjoyable to listen to that. I'm sure I will listen to all 71 episodes in just a few weeks. I build a wooden garage doors for a living.

So I feel like Brad and I are connecting on a personal level when he throws out terms like ingrain and crotch, love the podcast. You have the good work. Thank you, McCade. I'm so I get pumped whenever people like don't really know who we are and like our podcast a lot.

That's hard to do. Yeah. It's just so cool. So thank you for giving us a chance and listening to us and leaving this awesome comment. And leave us a five star review once you tell your friends about it. Yes, please. And let us know how the review process went. All right.

So we've got a little jingle for you guys this week, and it is going to be an interesting one. This is kind of my fault or my blessing i said that we should do more more hood rat jingles yeah the word you used was ratchet i believe ratchet yeah get the ratchet straps uh who wrote this one for us jenny rutan cool donkey jenny donkey jenny jenny rutton jenny rootin tootin rootin tootin good time um i don't even want to tell you what song it is i just just know that brad and i both have a part to it and it's gonna are you ready yeah i said yeah good i got it okay

yeah oh man hey episode 72 Oh, man. Episode 72. You know what to do. This is eighth grade middle school dance right here. Let's go.

Grab your honey. Let's dance. Say three, six, nine with your Enneagram sign. Can I get your number with these pickup lines? Ghost runners. Ghost runners. Ghost runners. Ghost runners.

Ghost runners. Ghost runners. Hey, board window, middle aisle, middle aisle I was stuck in the shower for a while Man, this pot'll make you smile Let's go, kid, it's the cheese Go, Patrick Mahomes Say, Ghost Runners are the cheese Get up on your feet, Jake

Pick a ball, got catch it, no sink Can she play that be a call? Winky dink in the next I'm in line, I've been this To play about 50 million times How can I get just a little more time? Chipotle owner say I need to calm down Starting to shrink, sounds good to me now

My guffer weight not a quote Challenge me now You know I own it Save it, just be working Jake can't even read me, I don't get it A guffawait, not a quote. Challenge me now. Let's custom create. You know I own it. Please save it, Tennessee. Be working. Jay Kenny read me. I don't get it.

Kansas City, please don't disrespect it. I throw, throw a swirl out like this. Gotta throw it till it lands in the D-I-H. Sexiest podcast in the city. And you know my jingle game gonna be witty. Dr. Pepper, bring it here, yo. I call 911 to get a Cinnabon. Now take it to the Lord, to the Lord And if your mind don't act Then you're screwed, done Just like that, say 369 What's your inner side?

Can I get your number with these pickup lines? Ghost Runners Ghost Runners, Ghost Runners, Ghost Runners Say, say, fordwindow middle,, the American island sucks. Ghost Runners will make this smile. Yo, we're stuck in the shower for a while. Let's go. Kansas City Chiefs. Chiefs. Hey, go.

Patrick Mahomes. Ghost Runners are the Chiefs. Chiefs. Chiefs. Hey, hang it up on your feet. Hey, let me see you Ghost Runners. Ghost Runners. Ghost Runners.

Tell your sisters and your brothers. Ghost Runners. Ghost. Tell your grandmother and mother. Hey, Ghost Runners. Hey, Ghost Runners. Ghost Runners. Tell your sisters and your brothers, Ghost Runners, Ghost Runners. Tell your mother, mother, hey, Ghost Runners, hey, Ghost Runners, hey. Hey, hey, every Monday morning with Jake. Jake, hey, bad now. Every Monday morning with Jake. With Jake and Brian.

You scared, you scared. Oh, yeah. You look so cool, Jake. I don't think I do look that cool. I think the hat's a little crooked. No, no, no. It's nice. That's the point.

That's what the kids are doing these days. So cool. Oh, I got nervous. I went to go scroll all the way down because we've sent a lot of bathtub pictures to each other. I was like, when's this chorus in? And then I wasn't looking at the lyrics when I started. And I got so nervous.

I got there just in talk to say pickleball. I was just playing catch up the whole time. You did great though. You did great. Thanks man. It's been cool. We've gotten a lot of like people writing us jingles now. So if yours doesn't get chosen,

it's not, it's not necessarily cause we didn't like it. It's just, we had like six to choose from. So we'll get to it eventually. Yeah. We'll try to get to all of them. Yeah,

for sure. That is fine. I like when you guys give me parts. Yes rap parts especially would you say yeah don't have me sing yeah you heard mulan you remember you know the thing you know how that went you got down to business uh yeah i did man it is fun to dance that song holy cow danced to it three nights ago got to do it again gosh that is a good song yeehaw okay so updates chang is not texting me back natasha is not dming back um but all in all a good so I would say episode 72 um what do we want to say at the end we should probably start it's about that time october is coming around we're

gonna figure out some sort of ghost runners 5k we talked about that last year something needs to happen um if you don't know then just we'll tell you in a bit if you don't know then you'll know then you'll know i hate that still i hate i get so frustrated every time if you know you know it's like but if you don't and you want to know i can't how will i know oh it bothers me yeah i keep doing you you do you you do you what's that you say but what did i say that on the podcast surely we've talked about it my sister what's that like instead of saying you do you what's that thing you used to say brad you you go do yourself is that it was that it yeah that's what i'm always saying that makes sense yeah yeah okay go go do yourself wtf go do yourself weak thin face

okay well if you'd like to support us uh on patreon.com you can do that uh maybe i'll see you at a wedding reception no that'd be awesome really appreciate it just receptions the bar oh at the bar thanks megan just receptions oh gosh um yeah all the tears all the patrons matter where you're at appreciate it yeah um check us out on instagram you guys have a good week see you next week all right love you guys. All right. Bye now. Bye now. Bye now.