Ghostrunners - 8 - Elvis's Cameo

Episode Date: July 1, 2019

Jake gets checked for a UTI, Brad drops a bomb on everyone about the city of Gotham, and don't you dare try to put peanut butter and jelly in the same jar. Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's another great episode here of the Ghost Runners podcast. We got some electric energy. We got some real exciting times ahead and we're just going to go ahead and get into it now. So my name is Brad. I'm an electrician on the side. Love me some high voltage, some good amperage. And this is my buddy Jake. He's my assistant electrician. He does lots of amperage. And this is my buddy Jake. He's my assistant electrician. He does lots of amperage as well. He really dabbles with the amperage. I say, hey, Jake, what do we need more of?

He says, of course, Brad, we need more amperage. So here we are, ready to get amped up. Thank you, Brad Ellis. I am also an electrician who speaks in my normal voice but i love knowing that that's how an electrician in your mind i just think i think they're coming and they're they're looking at your outlets and they're like yeah you know you can uh you could run a 240 with this but if you want the 450 you're going to need some more amperage i just love the word amperage and i love imagining you you know, a New Yorker from the 80s coming and telling me about it.

I was kind of imagining someone from Home Alone. I'm thinking like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, maybe. Okay. Yeah, maybe it's not New York. Maybe it is more Chicago-esque, which is where Home Alone is. Oh, is it? I don't know. Oh, I was thinking Lost in New York.

That's where he's from. Oh, sure, sure, sure. He's just lost there. Yeah, you don't get lost in your home city. Or maybe you do. I've never been. Not in that instance. Is Gotham in Chicago or is that New York?

Gotham is supposed to be Pittsburgh, I believe. Shut up. You remember, yeah, I remember in the one with Bane, Dark Knight Rises, they go and they have a football game and Hines Ward's like running away. Yeah. But I don't know if that means Pittsburgh. They were like some made-up team that happened to be yellow and black. I'm pretty sure it's Gotham.

Or Pittsburgh. I'm pretty sure Gotham is Gotham. I've never heard that before. Are you saying this just because of Hines Ward? No, no, no. No, no. No, I'm not. I know geography.

I'm a great geographical-er. Let's see. Gotham google this city i've never heard based on period like new york city you're kidding i was gonna say i think it's one of those two cities and i couldn't remember throwing out pittsburgh oh batman for dc he always thought of chicago the person who illustrated Batman back in the 70s. Huh. But... Well, I'm glad I asked. You're kidding. I'm going to purposely find the right answer of Pittsburgh.

I'm going to say, I've never heard anyone... I'm going to look up based on Pittsburgh and see what happens. Yeah, good luck. Nope. Even when I searched Gotham fictional city based on Pittsburgh, New York City came up. It's like, yeah, good try, but it's New York City. Nice try, buddy, but get your amperage up and get some good, better search results, huh? Speaking of search results, I think we glazed over.

Is glazed the right? Glazed over? Is that how you say that? Yeah, yeah. We glazed over? Glazed? Yeah, you said it. It's not glanced over. We glazed over this last episode. Yeah, I think that sounds right. i'm allergic to red meat now my mom was like hey i was googling it what you're allergic to uh that whatever that meat is is also in pop tarts and lucky charms too so you should

probably stop eating that i was like what i was like let me this. I've never seen something have less search results in my life than Googling meat and Pop-Tarts tick allergy. I don't know what. I swear moms have extra access to the internet that we don't have access to. Once you're a mother, you get the dark web where you can see things that we can't. No, that's not what it is. What it is is that they use the same website that they've used the last 15 years that we've never heard of. She wasn't Googling it. She was looking it up on. She like this website that she just was looking she lost she signed into aol.com looked in her interest groups and you

know found this thing it was something like Martha Stewart's like recommended writing from back in the day totally emerald emerald says we can't do this anymore and BAM boom pop-tarts got me pop-Tarts. What's Emeril up to nowadays? You don't want to know. I'm just kidding. Do not Google that. I'm just kidding. But yeah, I still to this day have not found. And I told my mom that.

I was like, I don't know what you're researching. I was like, there is nothing on the internet about meat being in Pop-Tarts and that I can't eat it. But then again, I trust her. I haven't eaten a Pop-Tart in two weeks. Good for you. Thank you. What hurts more? Uh,

not being able to have cheeseburgers and not being able to have pop tarts, the burgers. Yeah, that's the right answer. But I was hoping, you know, maybe pop tarts are killing me. Maybe in your personality that you would say, Oh no,

dude, I can't like cinnamon sugar. Pop tarts are so good. Yeah, they're great. And pop tarts in general are just a good, like almost any time of the day you can have it. It kind of like cereal in that way. It's like's not like a uh a time-based snack like oreos

i'm not having that when it's daylight out you're not waking up and eating an oreo you got to be a pretty low spot in life you wake up and you have a pop tart people aren't gonna give you any kind of looks no they'll give you great looks they'll be like dude nice dude sick pop tart i uh discovered this coffee shop when i was living down in leawood they make their homemade pop tarts yeah i was going to this coffee shop just for their pop tarts it cost about 12 i think but i've been to those places and i'm like man you didn't have their wild berry homemade pot i didn't i didn't i didn't i don't know what uh coffee shop you're even talking about but i've been to one i'd rather not say i don't want to

give i don't want to flood them with business right you know we got a lot of listeners like unless they're unless they're gonna sponsor us and pay oh and that too yeah we're not gonna no free brand deals no absolutely absolutely not i should not have this logo on my shirt in case this goes viral yeah but i would just yeah i'm i'm just old school like i don't need you to make your own toast bread for me like i'm okay I'm okay getting my own bread at home I'm okay getting my own pop tarts I don't know there's certain things I'll go out and get at restaurants and certain things

I just refuse it doesn't have to even be food related but something you'll pay like a like a luxury price for for like I don't know a luxury service or good I'll start for me it's Oreos can't go off I don't know, a luxury service or good. I'll start. For me, it's Oreos.

Can't go off-brand with Oreos. I've tried. Oh, okay. First day of my life. Oh, I do have answers for off-brand versus non-off-brand. Okay, yeah, sure. Let's go. Oh, yeah. Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

There is not even a, you know, somewhat close off-brand of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Oh, big discrepancy or disparity i'm a huge ctc guy um you know memorized the rap in high school there's a cinnamon toast goodness gracious and c-i-n-n-a-m-n-o oh gosh now you just look at it edit please editor take that c-i-n-n-a-m-o-n-T-O-A-S-T-C-R-U-N-C-H. We're going straight to your face. Oh, nice. That was quick. I was ready to get into it. So that's one of the only off-brand that...

Let me come on the other end of this. In the realm of off-brand cereal, tip for everyone out there, frosted mini-wheats. You're going to want to go off-brand for that one because I think the off-brand, they don't get scrutinized as much with how healthy it is. So they're throwing sugar left and right on those i mean they're frosting them good oh yeah so that's the one off-brand cereal i will have because you're gonna get more frost oh i think almost every off-brand cereal is almost as good except for cinnamon toast ctc and like some of the more you know specialized but like aldi has some great honey bunches of oats really honey

honey oat nut clusters or whatever they call them. What was the rap to that, to their cereal? I don't remember that. H-O-N-E-N-U-T-C-L-U-S-T-E-R-S. Boom. In your face. We're going straight to your face.

Gosh. With the amperage. I never saw the Cinnamon Toast. Was it a commercial? I never heard of that. No, it was, it was back,

it was back when YouTube.com, um, was popular, you know? 2008? Uh, yeahcom um was popular you know 2008 uh yeah it was probably 2007 2008 and i think i actually figured out how to download it from youtube.com onto my ipod my video ipod at the time whoa i didn't know you were rich i have dabbled in being wealthy i've tried it out it wasn't for Yeah. I went back to middle class. I've listened to a lot of Dave Ramsey. So I didn't want to live like no one else now, like in that way.

Yeah. Huh. Any other things that you're willing to pay like more for if it's like custom or. Well, I mean, first of all, of course, furniture, there's no, um, there's no comparison, you know, going to Ikea or Nebraska furniture market. You can't even find the right size or right color. You know, it's not really fitting in your space correctly. And just to be able to talk to a human, you know, who gets me? Oh my gosh.

Um, you know, that's just a no brainer. And, and to have a story behind it, that is just truly, you know, born and bred in Kansas city. You're not just buying a table. You're, you're buying table you're you're buying you're supporting my daughter's mortgage that she has that sure that you know a roof over her head um and you're yeah you're you're having a deeper connection with your kids through this table um yeah cinnamon toast crunch is very good as well if this is your first episode, Brad may or may not own business making custom tables,

but it's not the sponsor of this episode. No, no, no. Ellis Custom Creations is not the sponsor. We're going to make that very clear. You know, our Facebook page that you can find us on, we do not endorse that publicly on this podcast. Ellis Custom Creations. Could not be more upfront about how little this is sponsored by them. Ellis Custom Creations. Could not be more upfront about how little this is sponsored by them. Oh my gosh. Ellis Custom Creations, yeah,

they've never once said we want to sponsor this episode, so we are not going to talk about Ellis Custom Creations. It would be inappropriate. It would be a conflict of interest to promote one of our businesses. I mean, that's just not cool. Oh, no, it's downright egregious, to be honest, which egregious starts with an E, and so does Ellis Custom Creations. So maybe we shouldn't even use the word egregious because it's too similar to Ellis Custom Creations.

But we're also, I mean, also don't go on Instagram unless you want to find Ellis Custom Creations on there as well. No spaces, Ellis custom creations on there as well. Um, no spaces, Ellis custom creations. Um, and, and please don't, don't send us a message to start your order because it would be, it would probably just be too easy for you. Next thing you know, you'd feel way too genuinely cared for it. And you think, wow, this is not supposed to happen with a, in some, unless you're sponsored. Um, so, so we're not going to, we're not going to do that. Well, that's good to get that out of the way. It's always good to be upfront about what, you know, just where exchanges of money come from. It's clear to say

no money has been taken. Oh my gosh. No, Ellis custom creations has not given us a dollar for this. And so we are not going to talk about them. I mean, yeah. Also it would make sense for them not to sponsor us. Cause I think most of our listeners are not in the market for tables no no most people just eat on the floor i don't think anybody has ever used a coffee table um most people i see them not to have any kind of aesthetics um in their house um a lot of people think that fixer upper is this show that's like really off-putting um not you know that's not really big and so no no no absolutely not i think you're totally right it's it's just not in the market it's not the market for us so um yeah you're right it'd be a big week for you brad oh my gosh i hope it was worth it hey uh we've got a new segment for you guys this is actually brad's idea

okay it's called what's trending uh but this is not like what's trending in the news or what's trending in the world. Brad, tell them, tell them what this new segment means. First of all, can we call it currently trending? Dang. I went back and forth in my head. I was like, I thought it was currently trending. And then last second I switched it. I was just thinking, I've done this for a little bit with some friends where I send out like hashtag currently trending. It doesn't matter. Whatever. Do you want to start it over again or do you want to just.

No, let's keep it that they need to see the flaws, baby. We're not perfect. Sometimes I say the wrong word. So currently trending is essentially just, yeah. What is trending in our lives? What is currently trending? What are the things that we see that we're like, oh, wow. Like I'm, I'm doing that a lot more than normal or I'm enjoying that a lot.

There's been a spike in this activity. Right. So for instance, in the past, and honestly, it's kind of trending downward for me is Dave Ramsey. You know, I've been, I was listening to Dave Ramsey. Can we just go one episode without Dave? I can't. Maybe, maybe eventually, maybe it'll just trend all the way down.

But that was something that was something that was trending for me. Do people ever call him Discount Dave? I don't think so. Okay, I don't know. I've never listened to a single thing he said. I was just, from what I kind of know. I don't know if he's really a big discount guy. He doesn't use coupes?

I don't think that's, he doesn't talk about them. Yeah, see, I know. I'm sure he would appreciate them. Okay, I'll email him. All right, Brad, what do you got? What's currently trending in your life? Okay, so a few different things. First of all, showing off Kansas City is currently trending in my life.

That's new for you? Right. Well, no, I'm very, very, very proud of Kansas City in so many ways, but I'm not always showing it off. You're showing it off in person, like tour guide? Yeah, I had a friend a friend bart in town last week um he was on bart bart his his name is um oh my gosh what's this oh brad's blanking on his friend's name michael his real name is michael michael bart leidecker and he chose to go by

bart his dad's name is also michael so i think i think he was forced to be a Bart. Bart Ball is what I call him actually. Okay. Why? Well, because he is, is a little bit of a shorter guy, but also just very strong in stature. So he's like a bowling ball, Bart Ball. Bart Ball. I think other people also call him that. I think I know him from Canna Cook and he would always do cannonballs and people would say, Bart Ball! Man, I can't believe I missed out on this. That's deeper creativity right there. Holy cow.

So anyway, Bart Ball was in town last week and I showed him around, took him to Q39 BBQ, who is also not the sponsor of this show. Great macaroni. Yeah, I believe it. Everything is good there. Can we not bring up meat around me, please? Blasphemous, but I think that a lot of people are saying that Q39 is the best barbecue in Kansas City. I disagree. I went this just today, went out to lunch with my friend Alan, who was in town.

Also, Bart Ball's brother-in-law. And he was in town doing some business stuff. We went to Oklahoma Joe's, Joe's KC, whatever you want to call it. And that is the best barbecue in Kansas city. Also had red meat there, which I apologize about. Yeah. I just refused to partake in this conversation. I don't want to have an allergic reaction. Their fries are so good. Okay. Let's, let's talk about those. You know, those, I think they're the best fries in the world. I can't really get into food like this. So I sorry i'm not really contributing it just like yeah it's food you just

don't get excited about it i mean the macaroni is good you don't get excited about oklahoma joe's over all other barbecue i can't really like talk about food that much okay obviously i can talk and eat food plenty yeah i mean like i'll defend food if someone tries to tell me pizza rolls aren't good i can i can say some things about it you say yeah they are yeah that's what i'll say that'll boom okay that's fine anyway but i also just took them around kansas gave them little tours you know just i'm always very proud of kansas city but recently i've been showing it off to friends from out of town which is really enjoyable um because people always think like oh there's not much going on in kansas city um or if they're not from the midwest at all they i mean they just i

think they uh associate with the state of kansas right and they're just like oh like i don't know like tumbleweeds they're pleasantly surprised at how much stuff is going on what's you know what's what what there is to do. Yeah. Like, no, we have a minor league baseball team. Oh, the T-Bones? Let's go, Bones. Give me those Bones. That's not your bone. Give me that bone back.

Love the Bones. So that's one thing. Do you want me to do all mine, or do you want to go back and forth? Let's go knick-knack patty-whack. Great. Give a dog a Bart Bone.ick-knack paddywhack. Great. Give a dog a... Bart bone. T-bone. Oh, shoot.

I screwed it up. Which we shouldn't talk about meat anyway, so go ahead. Okay, yeah, man. For me, something that's trending is the word geez. J. No. Oh, stupid. G-E-E-Z.

Right. That's been trending in my life lately. Someone says something a little inappropriate. Oh, geez. That's just my response. I don't know where it came from. I mean, obviously it's not a new word, but for me, like just this past like week or two, that's been my response.

It's just like. Oh, that's great. Yeah. And he just like threw up everywhere. Oh, geez. I have a friend also from Canada, Kyle Cook. We call him Cookie. Okay.

He's from Chicago. Okay. And his catchphrase for everything. He's got a catchphrase? I mean, his common phrase is, ah, jeez, guys. He says that all the time. Ah, jeez. Like, Cookie, Cookie, your shorts are on backwards.

He's kind of a funny guy like that anyway. Ah, jeez. Ah, jeez. I knew my mom put him in the dryer the wrong, I don't know, whatever. This guy's like a full-on character. He talks like that anyway ah geez ah geez i knew my mom put him in the dryer the wrong i don't know whatever this guy's like a full-on character he talks like that oh my gosh he like might have his shorts on backwards if you only knew he's he's wonderful he's one of my favorite people in the world so loving but just has some very fun make funnable moments huh um so anyway ah geez he says it all the time yeah well that's that's just something real quick and easy we can go back to you now but jesus is trending for me

okay another one for me is raspberry jam is trending whoa i've been really not really into but probably i don't know four out of the last eight nine breakfasts in my life i've had toast with butter and raspberry jam holy crap and it's so holy freaking crap there's a there's a story we can tell another time um raspberry jam is great do you toast is warm you put butter on it let the butter melt then jam it up yeah okay cool exactly yeah that should be the order yeah i love just making sure but really just delicious raspberry jam that my wife got i believe from aldi um probably off brand but you know i don't didn't notice the difference that's great so toast is good wonderful hot take but i like toast hattie loves toast really oh my gosh yeah peanut butter toast all the time Do you ever have

Toasted peanut butter sandwiches Or like toast the bread Then peanut butter it Oh no my mom used to make Grilled cheese but instead of grilled cheese It was grilled peanut butter jelly What's up? She would grill the jelly

She would put the peanut butter and jelly together And then grill it like a grilled cheese would be I'm having a hard time imagining what happens to the jelly during this process uh i mean is it seeping through the no i mean bread is uh what's that word when it's got holes in it it's that porous porous great word that's exactly what i was thinking bread is porous a lot of porous a lot of porous ah geez what is all that por pores doing in there? Oh, jeez. It's not seeping through. To be honest, I was not watching her very intently because it was when I was younger. But yeah, it worked well.

That's cool. I don't think that jelly is a super thin material, though. You know what I mean? So it's not like water. Water is going to go through those pores. Jelly ain't water. You know, jelly is gelatinous. Here's a question for you. Did you ever, uh, get into, obviously this wouldn't have been when you dabbled in luxury

and being rich, but maybe a time when you dabbled in not being rich. Um, did you ever get the jar of combo peanut butter and jelly? You know what I'm talking about? It was in one jar. Oh, that is not something you do when you are not rich that is that is absolutely a rich person thing to do really no oh absolutely there's no way that a combo peanut butter jelly is not cheaper per or is not more expensive per ounce than having individual peanut butter and jelly okay that's not such a rich thing

to do jake that's like that's like anustable Like Uncrustables are for richies Really? Are you kidding? I don't know I would put on my pants the same way you did, Brad And I would put on my sandwich I would What's an Uncrustable?

You know an Uncrustable But I didn't know they were a rich thing I just think that I don't know't know they were a rich thing. I just think that, I don't know if they're truly a rich thing. I think I just. Let's go back to the question. Do you, have you ever had the combo jar peanut butter and jelly? No, uh-uh. Me neither.

It seems gross. Oh, it's absolutely gross. I don't want them getting to know each other in the jar. They want to, they should get to know each other when they get to my bread. You can't mingle before the party. I want you guys to do, do your own thing. Right. It's a blind date.

Come to the party and get to know each other. It's a blind date. Yeah. And then. You shouldn't be texting leading up. Hit it off. It's speed dating. Yes. And all of a sudden, hey, let's go down the throat and really get to know each other

down the stomach. Inappropriate, Brad. Inappropriate. That is not inappropriate. That is just literally what you do with peanut butter and jelly. Oh, right. But yeah, I'm very... I was out of town this weekend. My friend Trey goes to the store. Oh, right. But yeah, I'm very, I was out of town this weekend. My friend Trey goes to the store, quick grocery run,

comes back, combo peanut butter and jelly. You know he's doing all right if he's doing that. I'm just saying. That backs up your claim a little bit. He uncrustable too, didn't he? He did not.

He did. He totally did. I bet he got some nice bread though. Other things that rich people do. And by saying rich, I really just mean like my mom is so frugal and I love it about her. Yeah.

Like we didn't grow up eating Gushers. That's not necessarily a rich thing. Okay. But you're like you're willing to get some Gushers. What about Lunchables? Oh, yeah. Oh, my gosh. My mom was like, why would I buy these Lunchables that are way more expensive when I can just give you some crackers and –

Oh, well, I'll tell you why. She never had the pizza one. That's why she said that. Oh, I said I wanted the pizza one that's why she said that oh i said i wanted the pizza one and what'd she say i think she literally like made like a version of that herself she's like i got some pita bread so like i love my like she's so creative and like awesome like that so yeah i mean she's toasted peanut butter and jelly sandwiches right that's something i never heard of i guarantee you other people have heard of that. I would be surprised if they didn't at least.

We didn't grow up with an oven, so it's just hard for me to imagine what that's like. I believed you for like half a second right then. I really did. I was like, wait a second. That can't be right. Wow. Where did we get from here? Raspberry Jam, baby.

Oh, Raspberry Jam. Goodness gracious. Currently trending. Takes a while. I know. This is great. Something that's currently trending in my life, honking at people. Really?

In my car. Yeah, I live kind of in the city now, and I'm in the hustle and bustle. It's not as weird to honk anymore. In fact, I'm starting to know the streets. I know which ones are two-way stops, which are the four-way. Oh, yeah. But you get people who don't know the streets as well. They don't know the streets.

They don't know how to come up like I do. Yo, these are the street rules. They don't know the streets. They don't know the come up like I do. He's the street rules. And so I'll throw out a little honk. But I'm pretty nice about it. Are you a quick staccato honker? I was like, I don't know what that word means. Honestly, it sounds like a... What's that type of like...

Like your wall can be like a... Stucco. Stucco. No, it's not stucco no it's not stucco it's staccato like that that that that karen a filipini yeah it's been 20 minutes we haven't said the office probably filipina um no staccato is like yeah quick because like if you're if you're laying on that horn like that's not like sweet caroline a little bit if you're like give me an example okay give me an example of music of staccato

oh it's like staccato is what happens a lot of times with humorous scenes in in movies and oh so it's like i don't know like like kind of more joyful jovial times have what word you just say jovial jovial excuse me yeah like jovial like you're it's just a joyful um you know it's a it's a part of the word joy no no instead of joyful joy feel it's i've never heard no no no jovial j-o-v-i-a-l okay yeah it's just like i'm it's it's just a positive thing i'm gonna use that all that's about to be trending for me next week jovial yeah jovial hey welcome to the dogs how you doing no just joyville you no no there's no y in it jovi jovial jovi v v like it's a guy's name jo v all jovial hey what's up uh it it's me jovial you can call me mr veal but jovial is my full name here to work on that uh power circuit got going. We're back to the construction.

Okay, so not Joy-Ville. That's what I was saying wrong. No, Jo-Ville. Jo-Ville. Jo-Ville. Man, it's been a long time since I learned a new word. Whoa, that's two. Staccatio and Joy-Ville.

Jo-Ville. Jeez. And it's... It's 1.15 a.m. Staccato. All right, I don't know. Staccato. Staccato.

No, yeah. What did I say? You said staccatio. Oh, that sounds sick, though. Yeah, put it on the staccatio and let's yeah what did i say no you said staccatio oh that sounds sick though yeah put it on the staccatio and let's get this party started huh so it sounds like it's like a yeah it's like some kind of um you know old like 80s uh something to play music that like slightly missed us generationally hey hey al you hear this new uh this new? No? Put it on staccatio and let's go. Let's open up a cold one and get crazy up in here, huh?

I don't know. Staccatio's jammed again. Roger. Roger, a staccatio's jammed. I always tell them, don't get that staccatio again. He said, it's a good deal. I said, at what cost? I don't know um anyway my honking is a staccato

style of honk staccato yeah um good i'm real nice about it beep beep and then you maybe wave a little bit like hey no problem no problem no i'm not in a hurry i just wanted you to know i always wait if someone honks at me i always give them a quick wave like i'm so sorry i always wave with just my middle finger at him like hey i yeah i put both hands up and then take all fingers down except for the middle ones this is a fun fact brad i've never flipped anyone off really if it feels feels wrong i don't know what age it'll feel right but right now it feels wrong randomly in high school this is probably something i shouldn't admit i don't know it's a weird thing okay uh my friends and i like jokingly did it to each other all the time because we were all like

Christian goody goodies. And so it was like, oh, check this out. I'm not saying a curse word, but my finger is. Right. No, but my favorite thing to do instead of flipping someone off, and I've talked about this with people before. It's just saying F you to their face. It's just looking at them and just, yeah, no, no, is just driving past him with one thumb,

just completely down. Oh, so patronizing. And just, you know, shaking the head. Eye contact. I don't approve. You almost cut me off. Like that. That is like, I think that is hurt more hurtful. Like if you get flipped off, it's like, Oh no, you want to go like, let's go. But you get thumbs down. You're like, Oh my gosh, he's disappointed in me i just oh i i didn't do good enough for him i need to go rethink my life a little bit after this so you've actually given people a thumbs down while driving i bet a hundred times i've given them i'll drive past him and just go like this down oh it's demoralizing i guarantee you it crushes them their whole day's thrown off. There's no open interpretation for that. They know exactly.

You know what you've done. This guy gets into the office. Hey, Jerry, how's your weekend? Your wife's birthday party fun? Yeah, yeah, it was fine. You okay? Everything all right? Yeah, just this guy this morning.

This is going to sound weird, but I wasn't really paying attention. I went to merge on the highway and i kind of cut this guy off and he gave me a thumbs down oh geez he gave me the he gave me the downward thumb and it was just at first i thought his middle finger obviously but then it was just he was just staring at me too which is almost dangerous but he was just staring at me give me the thumbs down he followed me here thumbs down the whole way that's a great it really works i'm dead serious i i think i don't think it was an original thought i think one of my you know somebody maybe you pastor girl i don't think i was the first person to

give a thumbs down i'm pretty sure other people have in their lives uh no imagine thinking you were the first person now everyone knows how to give a thumbs up, but check this out. What if you turn it upside down? Cuban? Turn that thumb. Upside down. Anyway. Anyway, I'm honking now. It's out there. Beep, beep.

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Ever heard of them? What do you think? No. People don't listen to new music anymore. Okay. I know we talked about that. And I don't, I do think that that is somewhat true. I still stand by my statement.

Although no one got back to me about that. So that didn't, I don't know. I. If you missed last week's episode, Brad kind of said he has this theory that once you get past the age 25 26 whatever you're out of college a little bit you kind of don't care about finding new music as much anymore i just don't think you seek it out i think if you hear a new song you're not going to be like oh i'm not listening to this but i don't think you're going to be like you're not scouring i just need to find this this band that no one has heard of or yeah you know whatever so anyway isaac played this song for me i was like oh i like

this a lot it's good summer vibes um so i've been listening to them a lot they're kind of like you don't pick me as a guy who uses the word vibes a lot oh it's uh it's currently trending for me oh sorry i skipped ahead to number three um anyway just good vibes like kind of reggae pop but just really fun summer good bass i don't know they are they sponsor the show they sure could be services if you're listening if this somehow got to you i think they're kind of big i mean according to spotify they have over a million monthly listeners oh that's big time so i bet a lot of people are like oh my gosh yeah hot take dude. Another person I've heard of lately is Kanye West. Oh, my gosh.

This guy just spits the rhymes. Do you think Kanye West, genius or crazy? It's exclusive? Yeah, I know. As soon as I asked that, I was like, it's going to be both. But I guess, what's your stance on Kanye? Oh, man. I hate to love him.

I love to hate him. No, I think he's awesome. on Kanye? Oh man. I like hate him, but I hate to love him where I love to hate him. No, I just, I think he's awesome. I'm a little lost. I'm a, I just think he's awesome. Obviously I don't agree with everything he does and what he says and his lifestyle,

but I love his beats and I think they're very catchy and very good. I don't, I'm not a, I'm not a words guy in music. I could not care less about the words. Really? No, I did not know that. I know, which is so funny. Cause I, I mean, I, I a, I'm not a words guy in music. I could not care less about the words. Really? No. I did not know that.

I know, which is so funny. Cause I, I mean, I, I mean, one, you're a musician and I lead worship. No, I care about the, the, and you're like an intelligent guy. You've made $1,500 on writing jokes. So like, yeah, like growing up, like my mom was so cool. I always shout out my mom in this. Apparently my mom was so cool. And so she was like, want to know what I'm listening to you.

And obviously I'm like going to tell her not, you're you're like no it's the weird owl version it's not actually m&m mom no lose yourself like let's say for instance i was into ben rector in high school and so my mom would listen to it she'd be like oh i love that song where he's talking about you know his childhood crush you're gonna need to tell me the title of it and i'm like oh i didn't i've never i didn't realize that's i think And maybe it's a little bit easier to interpret in country songs and, you know, pop songs like that. But a lot of times, like rap songs, I don't care. But then I listen to them with other people and I'm like, oh, my gosh, this is not appropriate. Once you start to watch a movie in front of your parents, you're like, oh, I forgot about that scene.

Oh, boy. Oh, gosh. Yeah. Right. Totally. That was me with New Girl, the TV show. I was like, mom, this show is so funny. And then we watched like half an episode.

My mom was like, this is terrible. Turns out we were watching Nude Girl. Whole different video. Hello. Whoa. Anyway. That surprised me so much because I'm like, well, not necessarily the opposite, but most of the time I have no idea what a pop song is really about.

I'm like, oh, catchy, you know, or anything else. But like rap has to be clever for me to enjoy it. No, it's all about, that's why I like Kanye. And I don't think that Kanye is not clever, but Kanye started out as a producer and then decided, oh, I'm going to actually make money off this beyond just producing beats. And so his beats were always so good and so catchy

that I'm just like, heck yeah. Yeah. And I mean, yeah, it's not like completely one way or the other, but I think this is deeper about like, heck yeah. And I mean, yeah, it's not like completely one way or the other, but I think this is deeper about music, I guess, but I think that a lot of rap these days, and this is such a hot take that might offend people, but I think it sucks musically.

Like I listen to some of the, like sometimes I'll go on Spotify and just go top 100 and listen to them. And I like will fast forward to like, see like maybe the beat hook is like, no, there is, there is no hook or there's no, it's all just a milli by little white. It's the same thing for three and a half minutes. So it's insufferable. Like I, and, but people, I asked him like, what do you like about Kendrick Lamar so much? What do you like about whatever X, Y, Z?

And they're like, oh man, it's just really cool. Uh, lyrics meaning behind it or whatever and i'm like oh i don't care about that too much it's the shift in culture though totally and i think it's i don't think it's bad that you care about that stuff i just that's not why i'm listening to my music i'm listening to it to groove i don't have a great pulse on the rap industry but any of my like favorite rappers anyone i like listening to like has to like make me think a little like oh that was oh i see why i said that like double meaning with this like yeah chadish campino right like little dicky little wayne back in the day right was pretty smart so

i appreciate wisdom like that but then pop music could not be more shallow yeah give me kesha baby right give give give me marshmallow know, stuff like that. There you go. Just make my hips move and I'm happy. Well, that's why when I lived in Spain, that's why I liked the EDM, you know, club, whatever, trance. Dunce, dunce, dunce. That, that, that. Like sometimes it was like this is boring and the same thing over and over again.

But sometimes it was like, oh, that was a sweet, you know, hook. And there was no, like sometimes there's no music in the entire song. Like we go to like clubs in Spain. No music? I. Like, we go to, like, clubs in Spain. No music? I'm sorry, no lyrics. Oh, sick. We go to clubs in Spain. You were in a library. And there'd be, like, 15 minutes of this Avicii song that has no words. Hey, on that note, Avicii,

rest in peace. Yeah, he's dead. But also, putting out a lot of music lately. I don't understand that. Oh, really? He's probably got three songs. Wouldn't know, haven't sought it out. Because I'm 26, 28. Avicii has probably three songs haven't sought it out because i'm 26 28 uh avicii has probably three songs on like spotify's top 50 like hits right now really which i don't know i just feel like it looks to me it's like someone is like money grabbing here someone's trying to capitalize on this a little bit which maybe that happens a lot i have no idea their

intentions but to me it's like we're gonna slap his name on some stuff and people are more likely to give this attention because he is dead i don't know man i think that happened that happens a decent amount i mean tupac will come up with stuff like what i'm pretty sure i'm not positive i can't think of a specific because this at least is like oh he might have been working on it but it's like no i think it's like oh we found this thing that tupac recorded you know on a b-side way long ago that's what i would say if i was like a greedy person like no no this isn't mine no way i found this also tupac's still alive so it doesn't matter yeah i hung out with him a couple weekends ago have you heard the uh um nice guy uh conspiracy theory about how elvis is in the background of a home alone scene what the scene where they are at the, where Mrs. McAllister, Kate,

is at the airport in Scranton, actually. And she's like, I've been to Milwaukee. I've been to Dallas, to this, to this. She's starting to get angry. And she's like, where am I now? Like, Scranton. And then they meet John Candy, and John Candy takes her to...

They get in the truck. In the background, supposedly, supposedly is elvis and like waiting in line really and i love that conspiracy theory i'm sure it's obviously got to be false but like just the thought of like funny like that's how he's trying to tell us he's alive home alone too and you see it and you're like that does look like elvis i mean that's definitely him yeah can't deny it he lives man that's up there with Stevie Wonder not being blind oh one of my favorite conspiracy theories now that one's great because he catches that microphone he catches the yeah how do you know what is it Paul McCartney knocks over the microphone he just catches it

YouTube that if you have it I mean it's a real short clip but like Stevie's up there singing clapping smiling doing his thing and then yeah Paul McCartney knocks over this microphone stand it Stevie's there, lunges toward it and grabs it. Like, it doesn't look good for him being a blind person. Boy. But also I've seen other clips of, like, TMZ being like, Stevie, Stevie, people are saying you're blind. What do you have to say? Or aren't blind.

He's like, y'all want to see me drive this car right now? I'll get in this car. You want to get in? You want to get in this car? You want to ride in this car with me right now? I'll show you that I'm blind. That's good. That's funny.

Anyway, we don't have to talk much more about this but i think kanye moron okay i do not think he has much genius in him even like musically yeah or sorry no yeah he can make some music yeah but for the most part i guess i have a problem with people who glorify him so much i don't even know that much about kanye west it's not like i've been building up when i finally have the platform i'm going to talk about i really don't follow him much but people like idolize him so much as this like masterful genius and everything he does is part of this plan and i'm like well he's just a normal dude he knows music well but i think he is very lost on like where he's going and like

well wouldn't you say that about anybody that glorifies and idolizes people like too much like or at all you know like yeah it's funny like beyonce is the same way i don't i think beyonce is fine but like people just freak out and act like she is some she's on another level next level god almost like they yeah they're idolizing her i had this thought actually today and like i saw someone i think it was like a status or something it's like oh my gosh i met i can't remember who it was they met some celebrity and like this saw someone i think it was like a status or something it's like oh my gosh i met i can't remember who it was they met some celebrity and like this is the highlight of my life um and not only is that like dang that's too bad that's the highlight but also like i think meeting a celebrity in general at the end of the day you met a person yeah like that

i don't think that's like a i don't know and that's not just coming from my personal stance of like i'm the same way like if someone asked me humans who would you want to meet more than anybody in the world and like would you be nervous about meeting them i genuinely don't know if i'd be nervous about meeting anybody oh i you would i don't know because i don't think i think i just yeah realize what you just said about them we're on the same level yeah like if i met lebron james would i be excited of course but i would not be like yeah that changed my life meeting LeBron. Yeah. Because I think about this quite a bit, just like this day and age.

Like, I'm very fortunate that, like, my skill set can translate to making videos. And I'm able to make a living that way. Because even five years ago, this would not have been something that my skill set could have made a living on. And just like anyone who's ever made a living singing in the last 50 years that's something that for the past thousand of years could not have been a profession you know so like we're all talented in so many different things that it's like okay these people are famous because they were gifted in athleticism or singing but we're all talented at stuff like they should not be more glorified than anyone else it's like some people are great listeners and it's not as like sexy but it's like we're all good at stuff i just think um

i don't know this is like the anti-celebrity episode love celebrities uh met ryan seacrest um who's the guy uh how i met your mother you know patrick harris yeah those are my two a listers that i've met nph people, but didn't change my life. Good for you, though. When did you meet him? Central Park, about a year ago. Really? Yeah.

That's cool. It was nice. Where are we at? Currently training. Is it your turn? My turn? I think it's your turn. I just talked about Surfaces, the band.

Great. My last one is photography. Okay. I've just been doing it a lot lately. Really? Took a bunch of pictures last night. I have a photo shoot on Sunday. Uh, I was stuttering there because I was like, oh, the podcast comes out on Monday.

Don't say Sunday. It'll be confusing. And I was like, no, it's not. It's not confusing. Whatever. Um, with like a fashion brand. Okay. Just getting hired to take pictures.

How'd they find you? Upwork.com. Just found that two days ago and already been hired for multiple stuff. Let's, uh, turns out way more efficient. Let's bleep out that name. If you don't mind. Not a sponsor and you're not in any way related to LS Custom Creations. So we should not be talking about them.

Yeah. It turns out way better than the Craigslist gig section. It's just a website for freelancers, basically. That's cool. Anyway, so photography. And also, I'm kind of careful who I say this around, but I don't know our audience, can't see them, so I'll say it now. Photography is so much easier than videos.

Oh, of course. Incredibly. The editing, too? Editing, especially. But even in the moment, it's like not having to worry about what song is this going to go to? Okay, what part of the song does this go to? You don't have to worry about camera movement, you know, because it's like not having to worry about what song is this going to go to okay what part of the song does this go to you don't have to worry about camera movement you know because it's also still you don't have to worry about frame rate most photographers probably don't even know what

that means like a frame rate because that's just a video thing you're shooting well shoot this 120 frames per second so i can slow it down later so many things you're not unless you're doing a boomerang right like you do boomerang sometimes in photography. I see people do that all the time on Instagram.com. Oh, well, yeah. Now the people doing boomerangs on Instagram definitely do take in mind frames for a second,

right? You're right. Yeah. They definitely on their camera. What frame rate is that? I don't know if you know this about me. Um, I don't know why we would ever talk about it,

but I'm trying to go my whole life without capturing a boomerang. Just a random little thing. I've set my mind to, I won't. People have tried to get me to it. I'm like, I will not take a boomerang. Just a random little thing I've set my mind to. I won't. People have tried to get me to do it. I'm like, I will not take a boomerang. I don't know why.

I don't know why. Good for you, man. I'm just like, Nope, I'm against it. Stay strong. Uh,

anyway, so just photography. Been a good time. Love it. Yeah. Okay. My last one. And we've talked about this a little bit.

Um, currently trending for me is not washing my hair. Uh, we, Jake is one of the believers in this as well as our friend gunner yeah um like i think somebody asked gunner one time that's how i first heard about it like like your hair is so great and he's like you want to know what the secret is just don't wash it very often i know i'm like sometimes i'm nervous to tell people like what kind of product you use in your hair I'm like I don't I use natural natural grease yeah um yeah I probably have not legitimately washed it in like a month whoa Catherine asked me the other day she's like now what kind of what shampoo are you using in the shower because I want to get rid of some of these bottles

I'm like oh you can go and I knew this you'd be like like yeah you could totally judge people off this but I mean I still put water in my hair and like quote unquote wash it with my hands you know i run my hands through it right but i just don't i don't put anything wearing a shower cap like i can't get it wet nope not today not today i got bedhead going to church like whatever it doesn't matter um but got my hair cut today who knows if it's going to be anything different because of it. I, I got my haircut today. I called for bill and I was going to record him saying, Hey Brad, how are you buddy? Yeah.

And bill was on vacation. Oh, so I had to go to Larry. Also good, but no joke. So I go to this like super old school, like, Hey Brad, how are you? Hey Brad. No, he, how are you buddy? He's awesome except for larry genuinely he's probably 70 years old and he has the palsy oh no which you do not want in your

barber yeah but he does a good job except for the ears like around the ears is just freelance i mean imagine imagine someone you know he's carving a design and you're saying, now do we want a lightning bolt? Well, you know, like everything else is like you got to, you know, number two, number three, like all these different things. Like you can't just like. But that's like freestyle. Is that kind of what you mean? Sure. Freelance, I'm imagining.

Oh, I'm going to bring in my ears guy. I get this guy. Okay. Yeah. You know what I'm talking about, though. It's just freestyle. You know, there's no guard on the. goes yeah and so spring break baby if you if you get a notch up there it's it's there yeah whereas everywhere else you got a little bit of more

uh insurance there good news though hey you're married who cares that's what i'm saying chances i don't yeah i i bagged my dough don't't wash the hair. Go to Larry. Right. Well, hey, that was currently trending. That was a good time. I think we might have to do that a little more. Oh, yeah. I like that we're kind of having some different structures like that. Just throwing crap at the wall. See what sticks.

So just try, you know, new segment idea every episode or something. Anyway, so if people follow me on Instagram.com, you know that I had a lot of trouble trying to find a doctor a couple of weeks ago for the old red meat thing. Almost positive. I had this allergy. All my symptoms are exactly like what the internet says, but you know, I got health insurance. I've been paying for this for years.

Let's use it. I finally have a reason to use it. Um, everyone, a lot of people on Instagram, very helpful. Give me all these suggestions. One of them was like, you can just go to urgent care like at least you'll see someone whatever I was like okay checked in online didn't have to wait bada bing bada boom love that because you were having a hard time checking in online yeah that was the biggest thing it's just like even talking to someone or getting a face-to-face appointment yeah we're there um go to this woman and she's

like hey okay what are you in for and I was well, I'm pretty sure I know what I have. And obviously, you're the expert. I'm just a guy who's read a few articles on the internet. You know, and I explained the whole situation. And maybe I came at it too humbly. Because I always feel weird, like, trying to tell someone who's went to college for however long, you know, what I think I have, you know, whatever. So I come at it from that stance.

And she just straight up, like, kind of doesn't believe me. Like, looking at me very, know, whatever. So I come at it from that stance and she just straight up like kind of doesn't believe me. Like looking at me very like questionable. She's like, now hold up. What now? You have an allergy to, wait, this tick gave you an allergy to meat? And so I'm like starting to question like, yeah, that is crazy. I don't know. But I was like, I was like, yeah. And I mean, these are like the symptoms I'm having. She's like, yeah. And I mean, these are like the symptoms I'm having. She's like, no. Okay. Tell me that again.

And so I'm already like, then I'm like annoyed a little bit. I'm like, what? You think I just come in here just to making stuff up? Just, you know, I wanted to see you. You call me a liar? I'm like, why would I come in here and just make something up? So I have to tell her again what's happening. And she's like, I just don't.

I've never heard of anything like that. Even allergies, in general, they should not make you sick. Like that's all on the outside. I mean, that's, that's, you know, itchiness, that's hives or whatever. And I'm like, okay, well, whatever it is, it's something reacting. Don't call an allergy then. Yeah. I'm like, I think I've, it's like, well, I don't know what to call it.

Maybe allergy is not the right word. I was like, I'm not just reading some mom and pop blog here I was like this is the Center for Disease Control gov and this is the Mayo Clinic like I've looked at multiple websites she's like okay okay I'm not saying it's not true I've just and so yeah got not necessarily animated but like more confrontational towards a doctor and I probably should have yeah it was annoying so then well because it's not just this one meeting it's like I have tried so hard to get here you don't know what I've been

through dr. Andrews listen here lady grab it was yeah I grab her by the collar you're gonna give me you're gonna take my blood and you're gonna test it shove that syringe right into my thigh and we're gonna do this you understand I don't care where you stick me you're gonna get my blood all right and you're going to test it. You're going to shove that syringe right into my thigh and we're going to do this. Do you understand? I don't care where you stick me. You're going to get my blood, alright? And you're going to take it in there. You're going to spin it in some machine and you're going to tell me that I have this, you know, allergy that I already know I have. It's not an allergy.

You don't talk to me like that. You watch your mouth when you're talking to me. I want you to go in there and you put it in this stacchiato machine, alright? You spin it. Ah, no, not the stacchiato machine. All right? You spin it. Oh, no. Not the Stacchiato. Remember this? It's REO Speedwagon.

Anyway, so she's like, all right, well, let me go look it up. And I guarantee you she Googled what I told her and it took her to the exact same websites I saw. Because she was like, oh, it does say this tick is present in the Midwest. I was like, yeah. That's what I said. That's what I said earlier. She's like, and you were right. It said nausea. And I was like, yeah, that's what I said. That's what I said earlier. She's like, and you were right. It said nausea. And I'm like, yeah, it's not the Center for Disease Control. They know this stuff, you know? And I mean, I didn't say that, but I was like, yeah,

I mean, it's all there, huh? I was like, so I'm just looking. Oh, and that was another, well, we don't have to get into that. She was trying to give me some tick medicine. And I was like, well, I don't, there's another time I was like, well, I don't want to tell you how this works. But I was like, there's no cure for this. It says it's just going to go away, maybe after a year or two. I'm just looking to get some blood work done so you can confirm that I have this. I'm just, and she was like, anyway. So she's like, and you were right.

Yeah, there's no cure for it. And so she just confirmed everything. Oh, and she's like, I'm sorry. If I'm going to be honest with you, I mainly deal with UTIs. I was like, who am I talking to here? And I was like, well, can I get one of those? Can you test me for something here? Yeah.

At least put something in me or on me, around me. Oh, my gosh. I don't know. Mainly, like, that's interesting demographic. Yeah. Like, why are all these people going there specifically for, you know, like, that's really the one thing that's urgent. Is this what they brand themselves as? Yeah.

I don't know. That was verbatim what she said. You know, to be honest, I mainly deal with UTIs. And so I was like, well, can I get a refund then? And she's like, yeah, I'll give you one. Really? Got me a refund, baby. For free?

Currently trending. Jake's being confrontational now i love it yeah you would have been proud of me actually but um well i think you still are proud of me oh for other things oh my gosh every day every way you wake up and i just yeah anyway so i didn't have to pay for urgent care and got a good story out of it kind of it was more annoying i left there annoyed bummer like that was just a waste of an hour i wish you could have said like do you have someone i could have could go to like do you have any suggestion and that's i you know maybe that's the next step is like i literally brought that up really i was like can you refer me to an allergist she's like we don't need a referral to go to an allergist i was like i'm looking for your personal opinion just tell me someone you you would recommend. Yeah. She's like, I have someone who could, you know, UTI.

If you have an allergy. Oh, boy. That's too bad, man. Well, hopefully you can get it figured out. If there's anybody out there that has some insight into, like, what Jake needs to do about this to get a solution. I think I'm going to see an allergist tomorrow. I got a pretty free day on my hands. Really? Yeah. I'm going to call and this to get a solution. I think I'm going to see anologist tomorrow. I got a pretty free day on my hands.

Yeah. I'm going to call and try to get in there. Okay. Get in there. Yeah. Yeah. Are we doing UTI stuff again? Yeah.

I almost went that route too. Oh boy. Edit. Going after dark on that one. Do you have any final thoughts for the people? Ghost Runners episode. Oh my gosh. Oh. Question mark. Is it seven? Okay. Okay. Yeah. Do I have any final thoughts for the people? Ghost Runners episode... Oh my gosh. Oh.

Question mark? Is it seven? Absolutely it is. Okay, yeah. Do I have any other thoughts? Final thoughts. No, man. I don't know.

Not too much. Maybe send us off on a jingle. Sure. Sure. Ghost Runners. We got the ghosts for you and the running too. Nice. Yeah.

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