Ghostrunners - 23 - The Ex-Boyfriend's Little Friend

Episode Date: October 14, 2019

Our prices have never been lower... also our trust has never been lower because we got scammed at the Chiefs game last week. Other than that, things are great. We reference The Office more in this episode than probably ever before. Deep tracks only. We also got to the bottom of the age old debate: what is the difference between a rhombus and a trapezoid? Enjoy! Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here's what's going to happen. I'm going to have to fix you, manage you two on a more personal scale, a more micro form of management. Jim, what is that called? Microgiment. Boom. Yes. Now, Jim is going to be the client. Dwight, you're going to have to sell him without being aggressive, hostile, or difficult. Let's go. All right, fine. Hello. Hello, this is Dwight Schrute from the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. Well, that's great, because I need paper. Excellent, then you are in luck, because we are having a limited time offer only on everything. Wow, this is my lucky day.

Ask him his name. What is your name, sir? I'm Bill Buttlicker. Really? That's your real name? How dare you! My family built this country, by the way. Be respectful, Dwight. Yes, Michael. Would you hold on one second? That's my other line. What? No, but I... Hello? No, I'm just on the phone with this stupid salesman. Silly salesman. He's so dumb. Probably just going to keep him on the line forever and not buy anything. Yeah. Okay. It's up to you to change his mind. Sorry, that was a family emergency.

Oh no, what's wrong? You know what? That's private. Boundaries, Dwight. Come on. Sorry, that was a family emergency. Oh, no. What's wrong? You know what? That's private. Boundaries, Dwight. Come on. Sorry, Mr. Buttlicker. As I was saying, we were having a limited time. Sorry, you're going to have to speak a little bit louder. I'm hard of hearing.

He's an old man. Let's go. Okay, as I was saying, right now we're having a- You have to talk louder. Okay, our prices have never been- Son, you have to talk louder. Never been lower. Louder, son!

Buttlicker, our prices have never been lower. Stop it! Stop it! He he that is totally inappropriate you never yell at the client you never do that now you listen to me sir the three words i would describe you as is aggressive hostile and definitely difficult give me the phone please mr i am irate right now give me the phone please give me another chance mr butler give me the phone give me the phone i Please, give me another chance, Mr. Buttlicker. Give me the phone. Give me the phone. I have to put you on with my boss.

Well, I should hope so. Who is this? Hello, this is Michael Scott, regional manager. Well, this is William M. Buttlicker. Hello, Mr. Buttlicker. How may we help you? Michael, I like the sound of your voice. You know what I'm going to do?

I'm going to buy $1 million worth of paper products today. Yeah. See how it's done? Thank you very much, sir. I don't think you'll regret it. See what I'm going to do? I'm going to buy $1 million worth of paper products today. Yeah. See how it's done? Thank you very much, sir. I don't think you'll regret it. See what I did? You are the master. There is one condition, Michael.

Yes. You have to fire the salesman that treated me so terribly. Don't do it, Michael. It's a million dollar sale. Welcome back to the Ghost Runners podcast, baby. We back, baby. Episode uh the jordan episode the jordan episode um the lebron james episode not the anthony davis episode no no new team new number he's on number three now correct for now uh we have so many things to talk about um

first and foremost i think we get right to something that happened to us this afternoon, Brad. I don't know if you want to start with this. No, I think, I think you go ahead and I'll, I'll, I'll add it in the color.

No, no, no. I want you to take the lead. Oh, great. Okay. Here's what happened.

I'll set it up. Take the lead. Let me go. Let me be in front while I take you. Watch me take the lead. Brad texts me. It is like, Hey, before we podcast today, do you want to help me with

the delivery? All right, I'm done. Okay. So yeah, I had a delivery. How did I do? You did great. I had a delivery and yeah, every once in a while you just need an extra hand because I'm not the Hulk, contrary to popular belief.

And I use both my hands for the record. Yes. Yes. So you need an extra two hands. Thank you. So I delivered this, uh, it was a bay window top, a bench top and a tabletop to a customer, which we never decided on what shape that is. Is there a difference in a rhombus and a trapezoid? I definitely am very confident. It was a trapezoid. I don't know about a rhombus.

I don't know what the rhombus means. Can we have our fact checker back in the back? Oh, we've got a, yeah, we've got our Jamie. If you're a listener of the Joe Rogan podcast, Jamie's here. Or Vanna White, if you are a Christian. Oh. I'm just kidding. I don't know. I don't know.

I'm just kidding. I don't listen to Joe. I don't listen to anything that has an E next to it. So. Okay, gotcha. Only The Office. You know, that's, I'm just kidding. I love Pat Sajak's podcast, by the way.

It's so great. Him and Vanna are still working together. Well, yeah. Alex Trebek used to have a good one until it just kind of went off the rails. And he didn't have a, he didn't have a co-host. So he's just asking question after question and no one is answering it. Yeah. He definitely needs other people with him.

He said, what is life? And no one answered. What is a rhombus? Still nothing. Okay. Sorry. I'm not going to interrupt. So was delivering a bay window top, bench top, table top.

Big order. Yeah, it was a good order. Literally, it was big. Like the bay window was big. So anyway, delivered them all, got them all set up. Long story short, was getting ready to go, was just kind of talking to these clients. And I had just gotten this order like a week and a half ago. Like it was really quick. You made all that like a week and a half ago. Like it was

really quick. You made all that in a week and a half. Yeah. I know. That's probably why you've been texting me at 2am. I've been, yeah, I've been staying up late working on it. Uh, cause we're going to New York next week. Side note. Um, but anyway, told this, you know, woman, thank you so much. By the way, uh, how'd you, how'd you guys hear about me? Um, and they kind of like looked at each other and laughed. They're like, you really want to know. Yeah, I really want. And I thought it was going to be like a, Oh yeah, we saw this, you know, we were at a dinner party with our friends, uh, that, you know, from church. Uh, and they showed us this goofy video of you on a mission trip. And then later on in the discussion, we were saying, you know, we really need a new table. Oh,

actually that goofy guy in the video makes, I don't know. It was something like that. I was like, Oh, it's going to be pretty embarrassing, but whatever. That would not have been that good of a story. No, we would not have told that on the Ghost Writers Podcast, Michael Jordan edition. So they – and I didn't tell it very well to Catherine earlier, but I did. I immediately told Catherine the story. But the woman basically said, yeah, were um at dinner with our kids and um this other girl that was with us uh we were explaining that we were looking for these uh different pieces uh you

know in our room and trying to figure out you know if like who we should have build it um and this girl says well my ex-boyfriend does that oh Oh, baby. And then just stares at us. Drops a bomb. I was loving it. Oh, I didn't know what to think. I was so shocked. I was like, you're kidding. What?

You know, like just couldn't believe it. It was awesome. And immediately I knew who they were talking about. I have had multiple ex-girlfriends in my life. However. Hey, congrats. Thanks, man. Thanks.

For sure. Didn't think they were talking about my seventh grade, you know, crush, ex-girlfriend of, you know, two and a half days. It's kind of weird that she still refers to you as that. My old fling. This guy I kind of talked to in seventh grade, I think is doing that now. He had a pool pass and he had an extra guest pass. So I said, yeah, I'll be your girlfriend, you know, for a couple days in the summer.

He was really good at making those cootie catchers. And so that was what really attracted me. The way he could write those S's like Superman. He had the aqua blue gel pen and I just really wanted to borrow it from him. So I was like, yes, I'll be your girlfriend. And now he makes furniture and you guys should check him out. This was like a somewhat, or no, this was a legit girlfriend. Yeah.

Like we dated like two years. Nice. Pretty legit. Voted most likely to get married in high school. Whoa. To get married in general? somewhat or no this was a legit girlfriend yeah like we dated like two years um nice pretty legit voted most likely to get married in high school whoa to get married in general to get married to each other uh we were a very um monogamous high school so it was just getting married in general no to get married to each other our high school was voted most monogamous in aletha it's monogamy for my hog and me is that for the office i don't know something else monogamy yeah don't say that again anyway uh maybe that's from a different tv show it's from something monogamy i won't say it again um anyway i just could not believe yes Yes. I was like, oh my God. And they're like, yeah.

Oh, the girl's name. We'll call her Stephanie. Yeah. Stephanie is dating our son. It's awesome. Which that's, that's even, that's doubling down on the awkwardness. I was like, you know, it would be one thing if it was like, yeah, she's friends with our daughter. No, no, no, no.

She's, she's intimately close with our son. I'm going to keep seeing your ex-girlfriend. Yeah. And probably bring you up to her every time I think about the table when she's sitting around and eating dinner here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was like, you know, apparently they had met in school and everything. How's she doing? Oh, she's doing great.

You want to see a picture of her? Yeah, that was where it got bad. They started pulling out pictures left and right. They had trouble finding the pictures. We were there for another like 10 minutes. I was like, yep, there she is. That's, that's her face. Can confirm. Um, it's probably what she looks like now. It was great. I, it was, it was great. And, uh, I was joking that Brad needs to put on his website, which by the way,

where can they find your website, Brad? Uh, you can find it on anywhere that internets are sold. But then once you get on that one, like phones, tablets, they all have the website, but then you go to www.ellis, as in island, custom, as in unique and not store factory made, creations, as in seven days. Days mean days. Elliscustomcre days. Genesis. Days mean days. LSCustomerCreations.com. Anyway, I was joking that Brad on his website needs to now put in his like,

you know, part of his website, like, how did you hear about me? Facebook, word of mouth, ex-girlfriend. That's part of the dropdown box now on his website. And then you said that to the client and, to the client and they were like, Oh yeah. I mean, how many more ex-girlfriends do you have? And you need to have a button for it or something. So I said like three, since I've been around Becky, all right. I'm just kidding. My joke rate was high today. I said like three sentences and they all landed. Oh, it was strong. It was strong. I didn't open my mouth much. Cause also it's kind of an interesting thing.

Like you want to try and make it seem like it's not just a one-man business so you're always using possessive pronouns we so yeah we've been how'd you hear about us how'd you hear about me working in my detached garage by myself every day like every part on you is like yeah we've been we were thinking like whether we should go black walnut or yada yada and i'm like they're definitely assume it's me like please do not ask me a question about any of this now which one which one's your favorite wood species well we're wood types we've been we recently decided to go wood type but and i actually would not like to answer any more questions about it uh but yeah i said like three sentences and they were all they were all gold yeah what else did you say oh you said he was like we were moving too heavy yeah we like attached the bay window in their garage and we

were about to leave and they're like actually do you guys mind like you know can we actually have it come in and you know get it installed in their house we're like sure no problem so we're lifting it and they're like is it heavy is it heavy jake's like no it's not that bad oh and then line yeah uh i just canceled my gym membership so i need this nailed it he loved it he loved it he's like he said he just canceled his gym membership becky jake say it again Becky Come in here Got a comedian on our front lawn The ex-boyfriend's little friend got a joke

It was great The ex-boyfriend's little friend That's not bad Yeah That's a good name for me So you've been working hard this week What else has been going on? Prepping for the big trip into the big city.

Big city, baby. What do you think is your favorite song that mentions New York? Oh. Let me think. Okay. Do you have a thought? Catherine is cracking up. And also, where are we at on the rhombus thing?

Did we find anything about the rhombus? Say it loud. Oh, my God. We're funny, apparently. I know. A rhombus is a parallelogram. Oh. Oh.

A trapezoid is not. It has two parallel sides. Two that are not. And two that are not. Applicant's head is shaped like a trapezoid. Remember that? What did you say? Whenever Andy and Dwight are interviewing each other

or like doing the Cornell application. I didn't even, what did you say at the beginning? I don't even think I heard it. Applicant's head is shaped like a trapezoid. I thought you went back to New York. I thought you said Big Apple. And so that's why I was confused. I was like, are we in New York?

Are we shapes? Got it. Okay. Thank you, Catherine. That was good. It's like, are we New York? Are we Shapes? Got it. Okay. I mean. Thank you, Catherine. That was good. The initial reactions are either Little Wayne's Hello Brooklyn, which is not New York. That's not initial reactions for most people. Initial reactions for me.

Yeah, sure, sure, sure. Or of course, Alicia Keys' Empire State of Mind. Yeah. With Jay-Z? Oh yeah, of course. Okay. Sean Carter's got to be in there. He, yeah.

For the people who don't know what it sounds like, but don't include the Jay-Z part where he says, life begins when the church ends. How dare you have that be your favorite song? So like I was saying, Lil Wayne, Hello Brooklyn, and nothing else. Lil Wayne, now that's a guy I can stand behind. Good morals, good character.

Thank you. She love me like a lollipop. Is that him? Yeah, him and 50 Cent were very passionate about candy. The candy shop, lollipops. They, a lot of people think they're metaphors, but no, no, no. Yeah, I was going to say. They just had a sweet tooth.

Yep. Probably had a cavity two and a half years ago. Never got it filled. Oh, or some bushy eyebrows. Do you want me to sing that song? You don't have to anymore. I think we know it. Moment has passed.

Okay. Sorry, Catherine. She really wanted to hear it. Hey, stick around. Maybe you'll sing later. So getting ready for the big trip so getting ready for the big trip getting ready for the big trip um helped a friend move this week uh who Rob guy oh cool name um yeah great guy um and great Rob he it wasn't I didn't like fully like move him out of his house or out of his apartment but i went and helped him pick up a washer and dryer from his um from this apartment that he bought off of facebook marketplace and you know whenever you

have a truck it's like kind of obligated you're the guy for the guy hey does anybody does anybody like want to help me move and i say yes a couple of other friends say yes um but that was the night of the chief's game that he was wanting to move. It was just Sunday, obviously. And, and now, and then we're like, Oh no, we're not going to do it right before the Chiefs game, just in case something goes horribly wrong. Sure. And so I was like, let's just do it on Monday instead. Monday rolls around. I get to the apartment expecting, you know, multiple of our friends that had already often are already offered,

offered to help us out as well. Um, and none of them are to be found. Where were they? Rob? I don't know. Uh, we can talk about them later. Well, let's say their full names and talk about them later. See if they respond. We'll call them Stephanie. Um, and so yeah, it was just me and Rob. We had these straps. Have you seen those? Like you, you like put it on like a, and then you go underneath the thing, underneath the appliance, and then it's supposed to help you lift up the moving apparatus. Yeah, it was cool in concept, but still, there's no way that things aren't heavy. If something's heavy, it's going to be heavy no matter how you lift it.

So we moved the dryer just fine. Moved the washer, not so fine. I'm still feeling it in my shoulders from moving that. But long story short, he said it was going to take, you know, hey, 45 minutes to an hour tops. Took about two and a half hours to get it all said and done. Rob, nice guy, but do not have him estimate time for you. That's my takeaway. Yes.

So that was fine. Those strap things were just hilarious looking though. sky but do not have a mess to make time for you that's my takeaway yes so that was fine those strap things were just hilarious looking though yeah and like if one of us like was a little too tight like and the other one wanted to loosen like imagine like having like no slack on a line you can't loosen that line until you get a little slack and so one of the people had to like lean their body up into the washer dryer while the other person was like able to loosen their size a little bit seem efficient it was just like yeah it was just it was humorous but the crazier thing about this is that we go to this woman's apartment to move out this washer

dryer you know we're having small talk to this woman oh yeah i'm just moving farther down south i moved uh hospitals that i'm working at i I was like, oh, interesting. Cool. Turns out that woman. Was your ex-girlfriend. Oh, no. Dang it. Who I had never met this woman. And turns out she was a woodworking client of something that I was building for this week.

Oh, that's kind of wild. And she came and picked up something from my house the other night. And I was like, wait a second. Like you're the woman from that apartment. I moved your washer and dryer. Wow. That's kind of wild. And she came and picked up something from my house the other night. And I was like, wait a second. Like you're, you're the woman from that apartment. I moved your washer and dryer. Wow. Ever since then, I've been like, you know, ever since like the last day and a half, um, I've just realized like, I need to be professional to every single person.

Cause what if, you know, that happens again? Cause I was kind of goofy around them, like moving, trying to like lighten, you know, the, uh, atmosphere of like the moving mood. Yeah. Lighten the mood because I'm like, this is awkward. This thing's really heavy. We're kind of struggling with this. Oh yeah. We're fine. You know, I've got like straps tethered to my back. Like I could have said some, I don't know, whatever, not anything inappropriate, but just goofy things. I did say goofy things, but anyway, it worked out fine. But it was just a funny coincidence of small world. First of all that, and then this ex-girlfriend thing. It's just funny stuff.

You got clients popping up in your personal life left and right. Right. Which is crazy. They're starting to circle in, you know? Sure. The world's getting smaller, Jake. Okay. Internet.

So that's, I don't know. that's what i got to say right now what do you have going on i've just been working a lot for the most part no that's great uh i feel like once again so much has happened this week um we went to a chief's game which we'll talk about yes that was another thing we uh i've been to vermont New Hampshire and back. Maybe I'll start there. Sure. Um, Trey and I wanted to invest into our girls in the fall video and more Trey wanted to invest in his investment was we're going to go to Vermont where it's beautiful. So we did that. So, and then I was like, Hey, if we're going to go up there, let's make a song too. So we wrote a song on Monday, flew there on Tuesday and filmed them both those videos

by Wednesday. Wow. And that was a lot of fun. We ended up staying the, um, uh, the first hotel we stayed in, in New Hampshire was on the campus of Dartmouth. Cornell Dartmouth slaughter. I know it's Cornell Hofstra. That's okay. Uh, he's going to the vastly superior Dartmouth. That's what he says. Ever heard of it. And I think there's also an office thing too, like Robert Dunder or one of them went to Dartmouth, I think.

Yeah, there's something in there like that. Anyway. Let's fact check that, Vanna. It happened to be their 250th anniversary the week we're there. And it was homecoming week.

Wow. So it was hopping. 250 is crazy for anything in the United States. Yeah. I think that's really old. If you're celebrating something on the 250th,

you're probably Native American. Really? I don't know. They've been around longer than the whites have. The Northeastern part of the United States has a lot of old stuff like that. But if you go to Europe and it's 250 years old, it's like, yeah, what's that modern thing doing over there?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why is that castle have a bathroom in it? It must be new. Like, yeah, yeah. That's where we throw our trash. So yeah, New Hampshire was cool. Then we we also stayed our next hotel was in another office tidbit coming nashua nashua never thought of that city until i was in it right yeah yeah so all the i guess all the branches are in like northeastern smaller cities scranton uhica, burn Utica to the ground, Nashua.

Did you see some of those? Utica? No, I'm just naming other branches. Oh yeah, Stanford. Upstate New York, I think.

That's right, Utica, New York. But yeah, it was awesome. The videos turned out great. Girls in the Fall is already up and already raking in the views, which is fun,

makes it worth it. And then editing the music video now, which is going to be great too. First impressions of like, anything unique aboutont or like anything like oh the people there were blank or i know one thing you said to me was that you didn't really ever feel like you were in a big city like it was never like there were no large towns yeah everything was tiny and it felt like we went back in time everything was just like there, which is cool. Whatever you're imagining, Vermont in the fall, that's probably what it looks like. Large, old homes, and all the leaves are orange and yellow.

Lots of foliage. Foliage was crazy. Foliage. What do you think of that? It's our safe word. My fan pretends not to hear me. That was one of the jokes in the video that I just came up with on the spot. I was like, we got to do something with foliage.

That's just like a good word. Foliage would have been good. I didn't think of that. Oh, you didn't think of foliage? What did you think of? I said, you know, nature gives me like a, I feel it like in a spiritual way. I call it holiage. Oh, nice.

Okay. It's still good. Was that, did that make the video? I think so. I don't know. I don't really remember actually. Last thing I'll say about vermont uh one of the jokes i wrote has been made into a t-shirt which is coming out if you buy it

i get a percentage of it no way so that's exciting i've never had merch oh that's really before like this so it's a venn diagram of humpty dumpty and then me and in the middle that oh yeah it says having a great fall oh yeah i saw it he wore it in the shirt in the video, it says having a great fall. Oh, yeah. I saw it. He wore it in the video. Right. Yeah. You made that? Or you made the joke? No, it was more like I wrote the joke and then it got turned into a t-shirt and whatever.

Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. What about this? I'm not a meme guy or like a person that knows how to do this. Okay. But maybe you could, like we're talking about t-shirts. Maybe it's a t-shirt idea too. Have a joking t-shirt that says, like has like pumpkin spice latte and like leaves

falling and cardigan sweaters and then on the bottom just say Legends of the Fall. Oh, nice. What do you think? Would you buy it, Kath? Yeah. Not with my money you won't. I'm just kidding. Wrong answer. Too expensive. Maybe with Jake's proceeds

we can... Legends of the Fall. Speaking of proceeds, still looking for our first podcast sponsor. If you're out there. Nike, Adidas. Someone big. LA Gear. One of you three. We'd be willing to work with.

Maybe the Shaq shoe brand. Really just any shoes. Doc Martens. Yeah. Maybe the Shaq shoe brand. Really just any shoes. Doc Martens. So yeah, that's all exciting stuff. I got a new phone today, Brad. Oh, I know. I saw it. It's awesome.

Yeah. For like an hour, I kind of screwed up transferring and activating, and I wasn't home. For like an hour, I was straight up off the grid, which is kind of a weird feeling, but kind of cool. Can I tell you, you literally were off the grid because I have find my friends on oh you couldn't find me and I and I like yeah, I needed you to help me move or I was wanting you to help me move and I was asking like 30 minutes before you were supposed to help me basically Yeah, and so I was like, I don't even know where he is

So I like looked on find my friends was gone nowhere to be found that scare you. Yeah, I went to your house and no No, it didn't scare me because I thought maybe with Sprint, since you can't text and talk, maybe it was like one of those things where you could not also be located and while talking surf or something. Yeah. Yeah. I was just like straight up unreachable for like an hour. It's kind of cool. So were you just at the Sprint store hanging out?

It was like on my drive home, getting a little food, kind of just taking my sweet time. Oh, why were you just at the sprint store hanging out it was like on my drive home getting a little food kind of just taking my sweet time oh why were you what do you mean like you like i left the sprint store i thought the new one was activated oh it wasn't so i had zero phones activated i thought it was the opposite i thought since you didn't do activation no no no i guess like since you didn't do enough background or like uh backing back. I guess like since you didn't do enough background or like backing up. Backing up, yeah. Then they had to like do that and so you were off the grid because of that. No, it was all good.

At the Sprint store. So you got all the way home before you realized you didn't have, your phone was working? No, I realized it, but I was like, I'm kind of enjoying this. I'm going to take my time a little bit. I like that about you, Jake. And also, last thing I'll say about my phone, battery is awesome. Take a stab, Brad, at what my battery life is my phone, uh, battery is awesome. Take, take a stab right at what my battery life is like right now. I'm going to guess crazy. Guess crazy.

92 99. What? Isn't that crazy? I mean, granted I charged it driving. Oh, Jake, don't do that. What? Don't do that. I'm at 99%. I know. But what, what was it at when you started charging it? I don't know. Probably high. Don't do it, man. Why not? I don't know. I don't know. Steve Jobs will tell you if he was here, hey, don't do that. Has he ever been here before?

Have you made a table for him? Not that I know of. We've only lived in this house for two and a half years, though. But if he lived in the Kansas City area, I have no doubt you would bump into him. Or you probably would date his daughter or something. Not anymore, Catherine. You would have past tense. Oh, boy. Whoops kath whoopsie welcome to the podcast um okay should we just get into the chiefs game let's just let's get it over with like where do you

want to start that's the thing everyone out there like give them the background know that we could talk about this for 30 minutes easily like without having to force it we could talk about this for 30 minutes i'm going to try to keep let's try to keep it to 10 okay i know brad's gonna get fired up and that's gonna extend some time a little bit uh okay i'll give the background um chiefs are one of the best teams in the nfl this is the best we've looked ever as a team the best chances to win the super bowl we've ever had. So me, Brad, a couple of friends. Catherine's got the timer for the chief story. Okay. There's no way it's going to be under 10 minutes. There's no way. Okay. We're going to try though. We're like, it's a Sunday night

football game. Primetime. If we're going to go to a game this year, let's go to this one. And this is the warmest it's going to be. It's only going to get colder. And I work, you know, on a Sunday. Oh yeah. Almost always. So I can never, if it's a home game, it's usually at noon. You can't go to those. I can't. Never. The stars are, dare I say it, aligning. And you know me, I love horoscopes. Huge astrology guy. If I see a girl on Instagram that I'm interested in posting about her astrology sign.

Oh my gosh. I love it. If she's a seven in a Virgo, she's mine. That sounds like a Trey Kennedy joke right there. Like, uh, like it would have to rhyme with Virgo or something. Yeah. Yeah. If, uh, What would it be?

Like seven. She's a seven and a Sagittarius. I'm going to be Marianess. Yeah. I'm going to say, boom, let's go Marianess. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

We can keep doing that. But no, the time is clicking. Or the time is. Ticking. Ticking. Shoot. Our time is never been lower. Okay.

So the stars are aligning to go to this chiefs game we're not even in the stadium yet gosh one minute ahead you know i'm gonna even move past the things i was gonna say about gunner because that whatever oh yes okay we gotta talk about gunner too okay okay so one of our friends uh his last name is duckworth we call him discount duckworth because he's just he's uh doesn't spend his money that often even though he has more money than all of us probably i don't know definitely me anyways he doesn't spend his money that often, even though he has more money than all of us, probably. I don't know. Definitely me. Because he doesn't spend his money.

That's why he has so much money. Yeah, it's smart on his part. We jokingly give him a hard time. But discount Duckworth. It's really hard for us to convince him throughout the week. Like, Brad is sending novels of text. I mean, we're all trying to convince him, but no one's trying to, like Brad. Like, he's...

I didn't think I had to. And then he was like... No, it was Saturday night. He's still unconvinced. He was like, I think I didn't think I had to. And then he was like, like Saturday, no, it was Saturday night. Like he's still unconvinced. He was like, uh, I think I just need convincing. And I said, first of all, I didn't try it first. I just said, you remember what I said? What'd you say?

I said, don't be a weenie. Is what I said. Just go. And I was, I haven't used that word in a long time, but I might bring it back. I was sticking to like weenies and high fives. That could be your thing. Yeah. Give me five.

Not the same time. Oh yeah. Give me five, you little weenies and high fives that could be your thing yeah give me not the same time oh yeah give me five little weenie thanks bud uh yeah i was trying to convince them just like gunner you know imagine getting to tell your grandkids that you got to see the chiefs you know in prime time the year they won the super bowl whatever yeah but then brad comes in with some novels all making really good points but really like strong and to the point so yeah because i was so frustrated at that point i was like stop like you're being ridiculous so we got him we can drop a hundred bucks ladies and gentlemen we got him and then isaac is even in on it because he's like gunner i've made some poor decisions i've spent 600 on an espresso machine and i still think this is a good idea to do this

because like i don't know if that helped yeah i was gonna say if i'm doing it you're doing it it's like well whoa isaac don't don't say anymore um so we I was going to say, if I'm doing it, you're doing it. It's like, well. Whoa, Isaac, don't say anymore. So we convinced Gunner to go. The four of us are going to go to the Chiefs game. Yes. Do you want me to keep going or do you want to take it? No, you're great. Okay.

I like just listening to you. Okay. So we go to the game and we buy our parking pass ahead of time, but we decide we're going to scalp tickets just because it's kind of fun to work the system. And when you're checking the online market, those prices can go down. These people will have tickets and aren't going. It gets closer to the kickoff.

They get nervous. They get desperate. Yeah, and they're like, they're going to drop their prices. You know, it's just basic economy. Economics. Microdigamics. Econodraments. Econodraments.

Echomodicents. Fiscalese responsibles. Adway umpe, impe, impe. Smoked a few mac and noodles. Okay, our time has never been lower. Okay, so, yeah. I don't want to. We show up to the stadium, and it really is so fun.

Like, we get there. So early. Five, six hours early. Like, we've got an entire parking lot to ourselves. We're playing catch. It's so fun. Gunner and I even made the comment, like this is worth it right now. Playing catch was so fun.

We're all in Chiefs jerseys outside of our head. We felt like we were eight years old. We brought a TV. We brought a TV. With an antenna. So we were like watching TV. When you and Gunner left, it was a hot commode, by the way. People were gathering around.

Yeah. It was great. I was in your chair too, the whole time. It were gathering around. It was great. I was in your chair, too, the whole time. Okay. No chair talk. No chair talk. No table talk. No chair talk.

Not during Monopoly. So we're already having so much fun. We decided to settle down, fire up the grill a little bit. But it's time to get some tickets brad take it away so gunner and i go and go all over the stadium trying to find tickets which they're pretty um strict on scalping tickets like because it's technically illegal to do on campus or on property on property um and so we literally like walk i bet we walk how far do you think that is to the out like we walk from one side of the parking

lot all the way out to the other side three quarters of a mile yeah pretty far like you called me 30 minutes afterwards and i was like where are you like i'm on the other side of the stadium yeah yeah maybe i miss her we're at the subway yeah um because like the uh parking people said like yeah they don't really the pps yeah the p squared say hey there's nobody here um but sometimes there's a sketchy gas station across the street where people are selling them. And it was, it felt like we were like trying to buy drugs or something. It's like, they might be selling like, we like walked by, we kind of made eye contact and then like walked kind of slow and said, you guys selling tickets,

you know, like, and he was like, how many you need, man? It was like, all right, right guy. Right. Yeah. So we, we find this guy long story short, which I could go on for a while. We got even the good part leon from outside was uh not one to sell us ticket he was one to sell us tickets for 200 each discount duckworth says no we want four for 200 we want them for 50 bucks man get out of here man he didn't leon did not like that so we went back to the stadium we're gonna go to the uh actual ticket office and see if we can just get face value for tickets because i had heard i really do i was like go check what might as well check there's rumors floating around yeah go check the

box off so as we're going there like literally feet away from the ticket agent people uh this guy walks out really like well-dressed uh northeastern looking like kind of guido looking dude not super tan but uh right five nine stocky, sandy brown hair. Yes. What? That's what he looked like. I don't know. The pause after sandy.

It just felt like you were trying to refrain from saying something inappropriate. No. Sandy brown hair. I don't know. So we noticed that. Gunnar overhears him say something like, what am I going to do with these extra tickets? Or something like that. Oh, I didn't even know that part. I think that's what he told me the other day. Um, and so

we were like, Hey man, you got extra tickets. Yeah. I got, uh, I got lowers, you know, lower level tickets, lower bowls. Um, we're looking for four. There are, man, I'll give you four long story short. We, we talked him down, um, talked him down to $110 per ticket for lowers Face value was $150, I think, for those? Yeah So excited about them Because we were going to The prices on StubHub were going to be like $105 for upper deckers Yeah

So it was like a couple extra bucks to be LB Oh, we were so excited Lower bowl? Not my bowl Spin me around in that bowl, baby Give me that bowl! So we went and we were so excited, got back to the tailgate,

cleaned it all up, went to the stadium, you know, doing the Tomahawk chop along with everybody watching the horse, you know, the horse mascot, the secretariat or paint or, or sea,

sea biscuit, terrier, um, and, uh, I don't know if I can name any more horses. Uh, yeah,

there's that one it's fine move on move on we said Seabass it's okay so we get we get to the front of the ticket place

go through the metal detector scan our tickets Gunner gets through Gunner gets through just fine and I turn around to Brad and make a comment like I was a little nervous

about these tickets because we were jokingly like what if we get like fraudulent tickets and I'm like okay Gunner's through now I fine. And I turn around to Brad and make a comment like, I was a little nervous about these tickets. Because we were jokingly like, what if we get fraudulent tickets? And I'm like, okay, Gunner's through. Now I feel better. And whenever you said, what if we get fraudulent tickets? I said, I would be amazed if we got fraudulent tickets

because that'd be the biggest scam of all because this guy looked like he did not need to sell us fraudulent tickets. Yeah, because I was pretty nervous about it. Even the night before, I was like something. I was like, I've had friends buy fake tickets. It was on my mind. But I was just like, no, we're not that stupid.

We're not going to do that. I have a business degree from Kansas State. I'm pretty smart. Ever heard of it? The Harvard of the Midwest? West of Lawrence. So we go to scan our tickets. You go to scan yours.

And I can still remember this lady's face when she kind of smiled and just looked like she felt so bad for us. And then she just shook her head. It's not scanning. No. I've never seen that. And so you and Isaac both, yours did not scan. Mine scanned okay. Funny how that works out.

You and Gunnar get the tickets that work just fine. Yeah. Maybe you just sent us money and Gunnar and I were like, watch this. Because you didn't see us. I had no clue. Luckily, Arrowhead does a good job. There's like a separate tent for people who have issues with their tickets,

which is great because it could have been very stressful. It was like, just go over there and handle it. And the guy was so cool at that place. He's like, yeah, I've never seen this before. Great mustache. Sandy, great black mustache. He did have a mustache though.

Okay, keep going. Yeah, brown like a turtle. I don't know. uh said it was said we were good just go to your seats he did say he's like i've never seen this before he's like i don't totally know what's going on he's like i don't like their fake tickets i've just never seen this yeah he's like you're free to go in the stadium which is very surprising which is weird they're just like i don't know what this is but go he's like but there might be people in your seats he's like i doubt that i've never seen this before. So like, all right, that could have been way worse.

All right, here we go. Mood is still high. Oh, yeah. We were so excited. And the seats were awesome. We go down to our seats. And in fact, two of the seats that were void, bad tickets, were in fact taken. Father-son duo.

However, there were. Hard to compete with. Oh, yeah. You can't compete. Hey, 12-year-old kid, it's your first game. Sorry, buddy. Yeah. So, but there were other seats next to it there were five seats total next to them so we're like all

right let's just see if we can just stadium starting to fill up so maybe maybe there's no seats turns out we were in the families of the players section yeah which was the coolest place to be that would be the coolest spot to sit because like anytime a player would do something awesome you'd just be like. Oh, that's his. Oh, the timer just went off. Okay. There's 10 minutes.

Okay. We're fine. We're fine. So that's the Chiefs game. It was really fun. All right. No. You can imagine how it ended. It was awesome though.

Like he was like, oh, that's the long snapper's dad. It's got to be. Because who else is wearing a Winchester jersey? Yeah. Like DuVernay Tarnif when he got it announced. No way LDT has anybody except for those two people that look very

French over there French Canadian so yeah we're sitting amongst the players family and it's awesome I was chopping it up with the rookie

safeties girlfriend Thorn Hills yeah not like that Kevin just like Tom Hockchop so we get to see the national anthem

and the player intros and then it's basically kickoff time and it is getting a little crowded. Yeah. We're looking over our shoulder the whole time. Turns out people did come and need our seats that we were trying to. Turns out people wanted to see the undefeated Chiefs at home on Sunday night. In a lower level. And it was sold out.

Who would have guessed? Especially like the moms and dads of the players that care about them more than anybody else. That was wild. So we left our seats and went up to like the main concourse area by like the concession stands. TVs aplenty. Before the game, though, we saw the guy that sold us our tickets. Sandy Brown. Yes.

And Gunner, being the confrontational man that he is, like went and talked to him. He was like, dude, our tickets aren't working. And he couldn't believe it uh gave us his phone number and said like call me if you know if you have any issues so what do we do we call him call pick him up pick him up we arranged to meet him outside his section go to meet him and have quite the conversation i would say 10 minute conversation at least it was a long time we didn't have a timer on it but it was a while katherine wasn't there with her phone but and and all the while we're like we're not really getting to watch the game like i'm scouring seat geek and

stuff i'm trying to find okay if these tickets are being sold that means they're theoretically still available yeah or if they're for sale yes if they're for sale still then maybe no one's there so i'm going up and down aisles trying to find seats like i'm just not getting to watch the game none of us are um which is so frustrating yeah to spend because we we we like wait you know every week for those three hours where we get to watch the chiefs together this is the only tv i watch you know if it's on tv and i've the most i've ever spent on any kind of ticket was a mclemore concert for 40 dollars like i don't spend money oh i didn't know that. I've never spent money like this before. Like a hundred dollars for like an experience. Yeah. Like this is like hard for me to do. Well, now I feel even worse about it. Oh,

I'm sorry, Brad. It's not your fault. Hey, it's not your fault. I know we haven't seen goodwill hunting, but you should. Cause it's not your fault. Um, will you guys go leave us a five-star review and tell Brad to watch goodwill hunting? It's it's so good. And he hasn't seen it. Will you leave Jake a five-star review and tell Brad to watch Good Will Hunting? It's so good, and he hasn't seen it. Will you leave Jake a five-star review and tell him to watch all these other shows I try to tell him, and all these other movies? October Sky, Parks and Recreation, Superstore. I love October Sky. Don't put that on me.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Hey, okay. Back to the point. All right. October Sky? Catherine's trying to say that October Sky is on a good movie leave a five-star review and say catherine you're wrong i've seen it either way it doesn't matter her name okay so uh we're not gonna watch the game but we arranged this meeting at the end of the first quarter

and at this point i would say brad and gunner are the most fired up going into this meeting with this guy just because yeah i'm not the most confrontational person but we get there and uh yeah gunner and i just kind of let him know everything that was on our mind i think i said two words the whole time yeah which is fine because four on one would have been a little much but like we're listening to him and hearing him out but yeah gunner and i are being very like just direct with him yeah because he would say things like i don't know i remember him being like look you know you guys uh you guys, uh, you guys got a deal. These are $150 tickets. You got it for a hundred dollars. And I was like, we didn't get

a deal. Cause look where we're at right now. We're in the tunnels talking to you instead of watching the game. We didn't get a deal. Or he also said, you guys bought tickets illegally. What'd you expect? And I'm like, you sold them illegally. You're just as guilty then. So his logic was a little flawed, which that's where I come in the analytical brain. Like I'm trying to like catch them in these like logical flaws. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which I think might have, I don't know if it hurt us, but I don't know if it helped either. Either way, that's my strategy.

But it felt good. Yeah. Oh yeah, it felt good. Hey, we're right about this. I felt like I was making headway because the points I was making were good. And Gunnar's being very firm and just like, this guy's offering like, well, I'll give you your money back once I walk you out of the stadium. And that's where it didn't make sense to me.

It was like, why do you care? Oh yeah, you were fired up about that why do you care if we watch the game or not yeah just give us a refund he's like i will i will grab my security guard and we will walk out of the stadium and once we're safely outside of the game my security guard i will give you your money back and i was like the your experience does not change whether or not we are in the stadium or not either you give us the refund and you lose that money but the fact that where we are after the fact why do you care he never really had an answer for that oh man i was like why do you care where and so we never got a refund he felt like he would be taken advantage of at that point which if we're gonna get all moral on it then don't sell illegal

tickets like this is where i draw the line it would not be in good faith for me to let you watch this game here oh man so it was super frustrating we spent a whole second quarter still scrambling to find seats and eventually we split up brad and i watched the third quarter no the end of the second quarter oh yeah i guess second quarter by ourselves gunner and isaac are by themselves just because there's no seats it's sunday night football so it just wasn't ideal and the chiefs played their worst game in like two seasons laid an egg it It was so bad. And so.

Yeah. And the second half was the one that we did get all watched together. We're like. Every minute. And the Chiefs sucked. They had four minutes time of possession out of 30. Crazy. It was so bad.

Just remarkable. I could not. And whenever you go to a sports game and you lose, especially like around here where there's two of the best home field advantages, like KU basketball is crazy home field, home court advantage. And then Arrowhead. Arrowhead. Anytime that you're at one of those games and they lose, you take it like it's a personal loss to you. I probably could have been louder on third down. I didn't yell that one time. Yeah, I could have done better. It was third and three. I didn't

think it was a big deal. I wish that would have gone better. Um, you know, it was just like, gosh, like what have I done? Um, so it was just a frustrating. So then as you somewhat know, I, we had, we all had Mike's number. Oh gosh. I said his name. I said his first name is, oh gosh, everyone's going to know what I'm talking about now. It's Mike, um, Sandy Brown, Mike. Yeah. I know him. Yeah. Don't Google, don't Google Sandy Brown, Mike, or you will find this guy. Um, we had Mike's number. And so I took a different tactic and basically just was very kind to him, but very like, uh, kind of did the pathos argument, if you will. Um, remind me who he is. Oh, pathos, ethos, pathos, uh, logos. It's like three different types of persuasive, uh, Ratchak, Meshach, and pathos. Is that who it is? Ratch persuasive uh radshak meshak and pathos is that who it is radshak meshak and a pathos galapagos galapagos yeah um so kind of the sympathy card

of like hey man like just letting like i would just really love it if you could really reconsider giving us our money back for these two tickets. Because of these tickets, we were not able to watch the first half of the game. And I don't think that you did it on purpose, but the fact is that we still were not able to watch the first half of the game. Yeah, because that's the thing is none of us- And we were told that, like we went to the ticket agent at one point after that.

Oh, the only touchdown. We were down in the freaking tunnels. Yes. Oh my gosh. The ticket agent people said, no, it looks like those two tickets got refunded back to Ticketmaster and then they got resold. So it was an error on Ticketmaster's fault.

And we knew that. We weren't accusing Dirty Mike and the boys of scamming us. It was more just like, but make it right. Yeah. So I was just like, please, would you? We're just four best friends that just wanted to hang out and go to a game. One of the guys is seriously irresponsible. You would not believe how much money he spent on an espresso machine.

I mean, like this guy, he needs the money. hang out and go to a game. One of the guys is seriously irresponsible. You would not believe how much money he spent on an espresso machine. I mean, like this guy, he needs the money. The other guy, you would not believe how much he spent on a Macklemore ticket. But he got back to me and said, I have two calls in, which is classic business speak. I have two calls into Ticketmaster and I'll let you know. Text him again yesterday. Okay, I didn't know all this. Hey, Mike, any update? And he said, should know by tomorrow. Hasn't texted me today.

Haven't pushed it too much. This is exciting, but I'm going to continue to push, you know, make our money back and then take it to the casino and double that. And so we can all get our total money back. Now we're talking. Um, so, uh, but do we, do we disclose the third? This is the kind of the funny part is like by the next morning, I have completely forgotten about this whole thing. That's just how my mind is anyway. I just like move on from everything, good, bad, whatever. Oh, no way. Because Brad texts me a screenshot. He has found this dude with only a first name and a phone number.

Brad has somehow found exactly what this guy does for a living, this article written up about him, like his career move that he had done. So Brad sends us in our group text, and I just question it. I'm so confused what this means. Cause I sent you an article about, yeah. And he had his picture and I still don't even know what you're talking about. Like what? Because it was football related. Yeah. Do we need to stay that ambiguous about it? Yeah. Cause he stayed. Yeah. Yeah. It's fine. I guess he's an NFL agent. He's an agent to NFL, like hot, like people that, one of the, one of the receivers that you might have on your fantasy team. We'll just put it that way. Yeah. He's one of the top 10 receivers, five receivers. He's a big dog. Um, yeah. Uh, Mississippi state bulldog. Oh, oh, uh, that's a chief's reference.

If you know, anyway, um, he's an agent to a couple big chiefs, big Colts people. Um, and so I'm like, this guy's not going to try to scam us for $200 when he's making 10% of these guys' contracts. Yeah, he's fine. But I did in my text message. I sent him a separate text message or a second one that said, P.S. I love Mississippi State Bulldog defensive lineman that's really good for the Chiefs,

and I can't wait until he gets his big contract. Basically, like very passive, aggressively saying, hey, I know who you are. And if you don't do something about it, I might get a little feisty. I might get a little crazy. I might show off, you know, the fact that this guy,

this million dollar agent is scamming little boys. Oh, I thought you were going to go a different route. Like maybe the Sandman needs to enter. Like it might get a little physical. Uh-oh! Oh no! Here comes the random belt sander oh mike would not like that i hope he doesn't listen to the podcast you think he does uh not yet he might eventually i would say in your in your i'm gonna become friends with them yeah i'd say tomorrow

tell them check it out monday yeah we're putting them on blast uh anyway so yeah it was it was a crazy time i don't know if that was enjoyable for you guys as a listener but i think it was healthy for brad and i to just talk about it it was like a cathartic cathartic how is it cacific it's something cathartic indian cathartic what does he say on the office it's a cathartic cathartic experience for us yeah um it was just so frustrating to like spend money on something and then not go your way yeah in hindsight it would have been so fun just play catch watch some tv in the parking lot go home you know share some chili we would have been fine oh i love sharing share some chili and a nice throw blanket and just watch the game at home.

But we did not do that. We didn't. It's okay. We had fun. We had a lot of fun. We still had fun, and it was a memory. That's what I kept saying the whole night. I was like, guys, it's okay.

It's part of the adventure. You were so positive, Jake, and I really, really appreciated it because I'm almost always really positive, but I was so frustrated. You didn't feel positive that night. I think part of it was like I always take the burden of other people and so I felt the burden of gunner not saying that you did a little bit yeah yeah but I'm just saying like we really coaxed him into this like I convinced him it was gonna be great and gunner gunner gets frustrated when he has to add two dollars for guacamole at Chipotle there's no way he's not gonna get frustrated he's out a hundred and ten

he's gonna be like okay 55 dollars yeah 55 dollars uh here for the first half that i'm losing you know every quarter he's like oh there's 20 what is it 27 50 nice yeah there's 27 50 down the drain you know so that's what i was really frustrated about i was like oh gosh like i feel responsible for getting him here and now this is happening to us but it was still fun. And I hope, I really, really hope that we're going to get our money back. That'd be awesome. I'm optimistic, probably a little bit unrealistic.

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Okay. Anyway, you sign up for a dollar at BenVerified.com. Yeah. And saw like, you know, four or five different phone numbers that are names for this phone number that it could be. And I remembered I saw his last name on there. I was like, oh know, four or five different phone numbers that are names for this phone number that it could be. And I remembered I saw his last name on there. I was like, oh, no, it's him. So I Google image his name.

Fifth one that came up was his Twitter account. Went from there. Nice. So he was like, like the thing that I sent you, he left Drew Rosenhaus's agency, which Drew Rosenhaus is like, if you know any agent in the NFL, Drew Rosenhaus is the agent. Yeah. He's like, yeah. He's like the most popular by far. Yeah.

So it's crazy that, you know. We rubbed shoulders with him. We rubbed words. We rubbed that dirty brown hair. Sandy. Sandy. I'm going to screw him up. Sandy brown hair.

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Yeah, hey, you're called. You're totally your thing. You're the music guy of the group. You're the party guy. Sweet. Let's go. Let's start with Babe of the Week. Brad, hit it.

Oh, Babe of the Week. No, no, no.'s start with Babe of the Week. Brad, hit it. Oh, Babe of the Week. Um. No, no, no. The song. Babe of the Week. Babe of the Week. Babe of the Week. You want me to keep going?

Babe of the Week. Gotta hit that babe. Gotta hit that babe, babe, babe. Babe of the Week. Gotta hit that. I love about that babe. About that babe. Nope.

Gentleman. Nice. Uh, my Babe of the week goes out to lady gaga um i was watching on my youtube home page last night james corden did a new carpool karaoke with chance the rapper watch that it's great suggested next lady gaga don't mind if i do then it just let me down this trail of like wow I forgot how much I love Lady Gaga especially fell in love with her the day I was on Ellen Lady Gaga was also there that helps a little bit

but mainly a star is born humble brag the day I made it on one of the biggest talk shows ever Lady Gaga was also there hey Brad when you get on Ellen

feel free to throw it in any conversation you want I'm gonna sneeze no I'm just kidding hey sneeze away baby five six seven I lost it I lost it

okay okay okay it's gone Stars Bar I love that so I just to sneeze no i'm just kidding hey sneeze away baby five six seven i lost it okay okay okay it's gone uh i star is where i love that so i just i start watching i watched probably eight lady gaga youtube videos in a row last night and just went to sleep last night with such an appreciation for her just like raw voice i feel like a lot of musicians are scared to sing without like you know compression on their voice or without a little auto tune they're scared to sing live or like for a radio like i saw everyone after this is over or maybe i'll just put it at the end of the song go youtube lady gaga singing to the like the foster children in mexico i know it's a little random a little specific with my keywords there but i found i guarantee you'll find out the first search not a lot of other videos with those words in it. It was awesome. So she just

got such a powerful voice, such a good raw voice. And she's just my babe this week. Just been thinking about her the last like 12 hours. That's so funny. Lady Gaga was such a big deal, like late high school, early college. Like so many people loved her. I never have like been like, like, I think she's fine, but. And when she first came out, I was pretty weirded out by her. Because I was like, this music is different. And she seems kind of just like... When she first came out, her music wasn't that different, was it? I don't know.

Just dance. Rah, rah, rah, rah, rah. That was kind of like, whoa. Rah, ma, rah, ma, ma. Kind of the growling in a way. Kind of the Nicki Minaj growl. Different types of growls, but still a growl. Anyway, here's my hot take on gaga uh haha take on gaga um i think she's gonna everyone kind of

sees beyonce is the queen right now i think if lady gaga keeps putting out music she's gonna be seen as the queen it's a bold prediction you think that she's gonna surpass beyonce i think so i think if she can keep putting out music. I don't think it's a musical thing with Beyonce, though. Well, I'm saying music will keep Gaga relevant. I don't know, man. It's bold prediction. That's a hot take. You're right.

I disagree with it. Lady Gaga. Beyonce is just too iconic. And I'm not saying there's not, you know, two thrones out there. Like, I'm not saying Lady Gaga might not be fully revered someday. But I don't think she's going to ever overpass. It reminds me of Oscar's quote where he's talking about, you know, he's talking about famous things with two.

Like, yeah, the two presidents. Where would Catholicism be without the popes? Two thrones. Same thing. Yeah, yeah. Because Beyonce's got Jay-Z. That helps a lot. Yeah.

Unless Lady Gaga gets Prince. It's going Jay-Z. That helps a lot. Yeah. Unless Lady Gaga gets Prince. It's going to be tough. Which might be hard, yeah. You mentioned a dead celebrity about once every other episode, I've noticed. Really? Yeah. Maybe that's a joke I like to do. But sometimes you don't really know if they're dead.

No, I know. Really? Whitney Houston, I had to tell you she was dead. Oh, I forgot about that one. Anyway, Brad, who is your babe of the week? My babe of the week goes out to, um, a special woman, uh, that I've just been, I've also watched a lot of YouTube videos of her singing foster children in Mexico. Um, really? Yeah. Uh, well, in a way, um, but not really. Uh, she has mothered a two and a half year old so far. Um, every day she's getting

a little bit older. Uh, both, both of them are really, and, uh, just overall, just really good looking for being a mom, you know, like as far as moms go best looking mom I've ever seen, uh, loves, loves this girl that I know and that I love as well. And just overall, just babe. So, uh, her name's Catherine Ellis. Oh, that's awesome. Um, doing a little more research into YouTube at like the seventh or eighth YouTube video I watched. Turns out she's my wife. No way. Yeah. Um, so I was like, Oh my gosh, as I'm watching this YouTube video to the snoring woman next to me, I'm like, wait, that's her. Who is next?

That's her. That's my BOTW. Yeah, that's my botwa. My botwa's right there. She doesn't snore, but that's my babe of the week, Catherine Grace Ellis. Catherine Hanson Ellis now. Yeah, I was going to say, legally. She's a southern girl, so she takes her last name and puts it in, or her maiden name and

puts it in the middle. Did she ever do the debutante thing? She didn't. She wasn't from a big Texas city, like a big city. I think that's more of like a large, like Dallas, Houston thing. Yeah, I don't know. No, a lot of her friends did though. Okay, gotcha.

Which I didn't learn about that until I started dating her. Congrats. Thanks, dude. On the dating. Brad, what's our next blank of the week? Take it away. Uh, the next blank of the week, we'll go ahead. Poultry. Um, yeah, let's do it. You said you have some poultry. I do have some poultry guys. I'll think of something. Um, and you, I think you'll be able to resonate with this. You kind

of touched on this. I love resonating. Uh, indirectly last week with your drive-through experiences. Oh yeah. Um. My poultry of the week is a restaurant store hours. And I don't mean like, um, or maybe just store hours in general. I don't mean, Hey, they closed too early. I mean, they say they're open till nine. So I went to Panera the other day, picking up something for Catherine. She wasn't feeling great or something. I was like, you know, I'll go get you something. Let's go to Panera. It's good for us. It's healthy. Get there at 8.55, 8.55, five minutes before it's supposed to close,

which I understand not the greatest move on my part, but that's five minutes before it's supposed to close. And I opened the doors and this woman kind of looks at me like really funny. And she's like, oh, we're closed. I was like, I look at my phone to see if you can understand this tone in the podcast. But it's kind of like a pleading tone. But I just showed her my phone and goes, it's 855.

Aren't you guys? You guys are open till nine. It's 855. You get the tone? 855. It seems very sweet of you. It's 855. You know, like it was very very uh sweet of you it's 8 55 you know like like it was very like passively like i don't understand why you're close it's 8 55 please

man i have some more please mister give me some more bread give me give me some soup in a little bread bowl yeah um so they're like oh yeah i guess you're right um okay what do you want you know like very frustrated with me. Oh, nice. And I was like, okay. She's like, okay, a lot of our breads. We don't have a lot of our breads. You know, like we don't have this bread. So I order a sandwich.

No, we don't have that. Okay, can I get this? She kind of looks around. Yeah, you're going to have to get blah, blah, blah, ciabatta. Oh, okay, fine. I'll take blah, blah, blah, ciabatta. I don't care. But I was just like, and then these like workers, like she ordered it.

And then these other people were starting to make it for us. And they just gave me like the worst look. And I'm like, if you say you're open till nine, be open till, I understand if I come in at nine Oh two, nine Oh one, even I don't, I don't like, I understand the principle of that is fine. But if you're open at, let's say, the principle of that is fine but if you're open at let's say let's do the reverse and say you're open at seven o'clock if someone comes in at 701 you're not gonna be like hey hey we're close we're closed it's like we're kind of open but

not really open takes about kind of wake up so when you come in at 7 15 right you don't just expect people to i don't know it was just like it irked me. I'm sorry. Oh my gosh. Hey, let's bleep it out. Let's bleep that out. Oh my gosh. It irked me. And I think I forget. I think I had another experience like that. Maybe at Home Depot or something like that where I don't, I don't remember, but it's just like, why are we doing this? Like why it's poultry. That's my poultry. I don't, I don't like it. So I've been there before. That's a, it's a common thing. I feel like with like those size businesses, like pi five has done that to me a number of times getting there like you know 10 to 0 minutes before they close and like the door is

just locked like one time i plead my case you remember we went to a wendy's drive-thru and it was 15 minutes it was 10 45 they closed at 11 15 minutes before they closed there we we were like driving around to like get to the drive-thru order place, and they turned off the backlight to the drive-thru. I saw that. Do you remember what I did? I drove up to the window and just, I don't know if I knocked, but I definitely was like, hey, we're here.

I'm hungry. It's 1045. So that gets me. That's my poultry. Yeah, that's fair. In that time, I did not think of a poultry. Okay, I have another one for you. For me?

Or do you? Yeah, I think it's probably not for you. Okay, what am I upset about? You're upset about women. Not really. This is my poultry. Okay, got it. You can agree or disagree.

Okay. You probably will have no opinion because you are living by yourself. Okay. Summertime comes around. Catherine wants it to be 66 degrees in our house. What are we, living in Iceland? You know? Winter comes around.

Catherine wants it to be 73 degrees outside. What is this? What are we, living in iceland death valley oh shoot um i don't understand why we have to change why can't we just have it at like one constant like i'm comfortable at 71 no matter what the seasons are it's the same temperature inside i'm a money conscious person and so we've had the fireplace going all day today because it's been chilly outside. Yes. But I still understand why,

you know, the AC, I don't know. That just bothered me. I recently thought to myself, and I'm the big person. You're a big sporkle, baby.

I'm the big sporkle. I'm the big guy. I should be more affected by at least the heat than her than she is. Yeah. I'm sorry, dude. Yeah, it's okay.

I just, we, it's like one of those things where I'm like, I'm not going to, uh, to worry about this and have too much of an argument with you, but I'll definitely bring it up on the podcast later, but I'm going to passively aggressively tell, you know, a lot of people, I mean, for advertising, a lot of people that listen to this every week. Uh, uh, no, I'm with you. Cause yeah, as it's gotten colder, I've recently had to make the decision like, all right, Jake, what's your,, no, I'm with you. Cause yeah, as it's gotten colder, I've recently had to make the decision like, all right, Jake, what's your, you know, I have autonomous control over my thermostat. I live by myself. So I'm like, what's my, what's my winter temp going to be?

Oh, if it were me by myself, I would keep it so cold and just layer up, baby. I love me a good throw pillow. I love me a good hoodie. Uh, I love, I've always loved putting my hood up, love being a hood up guy. Oh, I'm a big putting my hood up. Love being a hood up guy. Oh, I'm a big on the hood. Especially if I had a fireplace, which I know you don't. It's okay.

I would just go for it all the time, but you're not, man, you're going to get married. So enjoy it while you, while you can. Hoods? Just life.

I'm just kidding. Just, yeah, just your autonomous control of the thermostat. I think I disagree with you though. the more I've been thinking about it. Because in the summertime, there's humidity in the air. That is science. That is a fact.

So 75... There's not humidity in the air in the wintertime? There's less. Okay. So that would be the argument I make, is that the temperature is different. Because the thermostat is not saying the heat index. It's saying just the temperature. Yeah, that's probably, that's probably fair,

except I don't know how much of the humidity, does humidity really affect the outside humidity affect your inside? I think it does a bit. I'm sure it does a bit, but I don't know if it affects it that extremely. I don't know. I'm not too passionate about this. You don't have that much poultry with it. No, not a ton of poultry.

I have like a nugget, like a little chicken nugget um i have the opposite of poultry though uh big announcement that i can finally say blessing of the week uh can i do you don't like announcement announcement of the week i don't know go ahead uh i'd like to call it announcement announcement, but if you're – do we need to have a conversation off the podcast? Hey, cut. Can Pam say it? Cut, cut. Go ahead, Jake. Announcement of the week.

Announcement of the week. This is something that has been a long time coming, and I would say a couple weeks ago I talked about how I am just so happy and content with what I'm doing. Like, I'm doing my dream job. One of those things I can say now. Another one of those things I cannot say now. But Trey and I are becoming little comedians. Hello. A little bit. Going on tour.

I mean, obviously, you've known about this for months and months. But thank you for trying to actually be like, whoa. You're kidding. Oh, Trey. No way. You're going to be hilarious. I appreciate that. I want you to do that in the front row, too.

This guy is good, guys. Get a load of him. He's just the opener. Buy that Humpty Dumpty shirt. And the Legends of the Fall one's even better. His podcast is funny, too. This guy seems like the kind of guy that's multifaceted in his humor. Get him on the podcast.

Am I right, ladies? So yeah, this is something that Trey has been working on for a long time. And I've been helping him kind of develop his set for like a big show and a big tour that's coming. And more recently, Trey asked me like if I would want to open for him as a stand-up comedian in a way. So I wouldn't necessarily say I have a ton of material or any practice recently doing it. Like it's not like I've been going to open mic nights secretly. Like I haven't at all, but still it's going to be great. And I just love the – sorry.

I love the idea of you going to secret – like secretly going to open mic nights like in a disguise. Like not secretly from the public, but truly secretly from everyone. No one can know I'm here. Hello. My name is Bruce Dickinson. And, uh, um, yeah, all my jokes are like about a lifestyle. I don't live like, uh, I just had my sixth kid. Oh yeah.

Um, alimony. Am I right? I went to the, uh, and everything i'm going to say is inappropriate so never mind the punchline is like my ex-wife um but anyway so she's my wife uh the plan is to go on a big like nationwide tour hopefully in the spring and that's really where we've been putting a lot of effort towards but for now we're doing a quick little mini tour kind of gauge demand and also get the kinks out at the show sure and that is november this is where i should have the kinks are also opening for you guys um no there's there's kind of a kinky side to the show

isaac's making us a consensual dog kennel that's going to be part of it um if you're a new listener and haven't listened go to the episode called consensual dog kennel go to the 20 minute mark and just like five like five minutes. Or just judge the heck out of us for that joke. Or just make us some assumptions on what we just said. But there will be some kinks. Yeah, but it's just so exciting. We're going to Madison, Wisconsin, Des Moines, Iowa, Omaha, Nebraska,

and then Kansas City, Missouri. It gets to be one of the stops. Let's go. It's like November 5th through the 4th through the 7th, something like that. I definitely should have looked it up, but I'll announce it. Trey will announce it this week. So going on tour get to be a stand-up comedian um which is so cool that i just like that's crazy yeah like just truly fell into it was given this opportunity by trey so i'm

very thankful and hopefully you don't screw it up maybe you should post sometime your uh original stand-up comedy routine at sbu? I don't think I will. I liked it. I watched it. Really? Yeah, because it's on the internet somewhere. I should probably delete that. What?

Why? Anything I've done that's over a year ago just seems so cringy to me. Oh, really? Yeah. It's really hard for me to enjoy. But it's cool to be like, look where I've been or look where I came from. Kind of. It's more just like, oh, that's embarrassing where I came from.

I mean, it's like your Rivals video versus your SEC highlight film. Like, of course. Wait, what? Like, it's like your high school highlight video. Oh, gotcha. Like, of course you're not like the same, you know, three-point shooter you were when you were eighth grader. Yeah, I guess.

You know what I mean? Like, yeah, you couldn't dunk then. Like, now you have. Now I'm dunking, baby. Now you got those size 12 Fila's. Yeah, I don't know. It's hard for me just to like to see my stuff age poorly. I'm like, yikes, get that off the internet.

Like I have probably 45 YouTube videos that are privatized and maybe 10 that are like still live on my YouTube channel. Highest bidder gets to choose one of those. He has a numbered list, one through 45. Biggest podcast advertiser gets to unveil one. Your choice. Bet. That's fun. Whatever.

Yeah, we'll take what we can get. I love it. Anyway, excited to announce that and then hopefully in a couple weeks get to announce some other stuff that we've been working on. But yeah, just know there's always so much going on

behind the scenes that's so fun and that sometimes you just can't announce. So yeah, basically for the... Well, yeah, whatever. Move on from that. It's really exciting. I'm pumped to be scenes that's so fun and that sometimes just can't announce but uh so yeah basically for the well yeah whatever move on from that it's really exciting i'm pumped to be a little joke teller oh brie saw the movie joker i guess we don't really need to talk about it but it's good

yeah we enjoyed it a lot i know it's controversial to enjoy that movie but i thought it was really good i think it's going to be someday viewed as a cinematic masterpiece. Whoa. Throwing out the C word. That's awesome. It's like the Lady Gaga of movies. Oh, yes. Second in command. Like, appreciate it now, but someday it will really just reign.

Someday it's going to be singing to some Mexican foster kids. Just you wait. Yeah, no, it was a good movie. It was really well done. Rah, rah, joke, oh, gah. Very poetic. It was a good prequel. We're not big movie guys, though, it was a good movie. It was really well done. Rah, rah, joke, oh, God. Very poetic. It was a good prequel. We're not big movie guys, though, so I feel like...

Yeah, that's about as deep as we get. Well, I could talk more, but I just feel like it's not my space. The frame rate, incredible. Not the right word. I don't know, whatever. The frames were cool. I feel like every scene, it was like, wow, that's really... You could take a picture of that scene.

Yeah, I did. It was very... That's as deep as I get. Okay. In like the cinematography aspect of it. Should we get to a review of the week? Sure, man. How do we choose just one?

Why do you say it like that? Oh, because there's so many. We got a starting lineup of baseball team. Truly. With a DH and a coach. That makes 11. Really? We got 11? Yeah, I think we have 11 reviews since last week, which is crazy. Although we had nine. Really? We got 11?

Yeah, I think we have 11 reviews since last week, which is crazy. I thought we had nine. Well, we got two more, I think, since I texted you that. What? Also, maybe I'm a liar. Think about that. I don't know, dude. We went from a baseball team to a football team real quick.

Why did I not think football? Why did I throw in DH and Coach? A soccer team. That's stupid. American football, yeah. Yeah, I really don't know how to choose one because I haven't really looked at these in this sense. Just shout them out. Just rapid fire quick.

Well, you know I'm not great at reading. I made a little mistake earlier. Brad made fun of me. We got Nectar Girl, 22. Love it. MJ Jessica. Oh, will you tell that story? Oh, go ahead. Sorry. No, that's actually how I'm reading it.j jessica yeah no i made a mistake earlier so there's a review hold on let me keep going uh

b amaya oh what up uh i actually skyped into her classroom this week to talk about a podcast that's cool thank you for the review uh brandon bagwell what upChick101, you think she's from Pittsburgh? A.K.A. Gotham. Shout out like episode two. Or is she a klepto? Oh, well, S-T-E-E. Oh, sorry. The people aren't reading the transcript. They don't know. Honestly, Hillary.

Nickel Turner. She gave a good one. Big fan of Brad. Nickel Turner. Nickel Turner. What'd she say? The P.S. P.S. Brad, I think you're funnier than...

Oh! I don't want to say it. Wow. rock i don't know about that okay leave a five star review and then let's not start a race war okay so uh cupcake 77 and then the last one i so there's let me preface this by saying there's a band that i really like i've seen them in concert and they're coming can't say in like two weeks they've been on my mind they're called ajr i really like them and've seen them in concert and they're coming to Kansas City in like two weeks. They've been on my mind. They're called AJR. I really like them. And so we got a review from the username. I read it as AJR Igi. And Brad just starts laughing. I'm like, what? He's like, it just blows my mind that you would read that AJR Igi and not AJ Rigi. I was like, yeah. And I actually keeled over laughing. I was like, oh wow. I'm so dumb.

Yeah. Like so dumb. We got, we got one got we got one from cupcake 77 no no i think that's c upcake 77 c upcake we have uh n i cal t uner uh h o nestle hillary we got c we got saint eeler chick over here uh but no the reviews as we've said over and over again like forget like algorithm stuff or like they're just fun to read like that's the only place we get feedback you know other than like our friends texting us so it's just fun to like or check those our instagram you know ellis custom creations or ellis custom creations.com if you want to fill out a contact form um but sorry i was gonna let you keep going if you have more to say or you know facebook you know you'd always direct message and they'll respond very quickly um um yeah you can on there reach me as well although quick milestone no no i'm not gonna say it um reviews uh

we feel like i feel like you just like are almost more braggadocious if you're like i'm about to brag uh no i'm too humble i'm too humble about it so i'm not gonna self-conscious it's uh it's like quick milestone ah no i can going to say this. Just imagine all the milestones I had. You probably can't even. You know I'm self-conch already, Brad. Self-conch. I have a shell for an ear. Yeah, I was going to say, what's a pun there? Like blowing your self-conch shell.

That would be like, I shouldn't have said your, I regret how I worded that. But you know what I mean? Like you blow into a conch shell. That's what makes the like, what? What is so funny now? I know, you blow into a conch shell. That's what makes the like, uh, like what, what is so funny now? I know I phrased it wrong the first time. The conch shell is what you make the noise out of.

Those are the type of shells that you like, you know, it's like news team, anchorman, like news team. I'm not going to say anything until we're not recording. Oh, I'm not realizing something. This always happens to me.

I'm always around people and they're like, that's what she said. And I'm like, what? And like, do you not hear what you said?'m like no i guess not sorry um so fine you too brad you too i don't even i still don't even know what i said but we talk about it later all that to say no move on no no mustard no mustard phyllis really thanks for the reviews

um all right we we could probably end it there this is episode 23 the jordan episode yes um No mustard, Phyllis. Really? Thanks for the reviews. All right. We could probably end it there. This is episode 23, the Jordan episode. Yes. Thank you all so much for listening. We'll be back next Monday. Brad will have some stories from New York City, maybe. Oh, no, actually, he probably won't.

We're going to record before that. We got to record before New York City. We're recording a quick one, so we'll figure out what we're going to do. JK, we'll have other stuff to talk about, but we'll see you guys next Monday. Brad, before we go hit them with a jingle. Right? Yes.

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Nobody does it like the ghostrunners like we do. Nobody does it every Monday like I do. Nobody listens like chicken bread like I do. Nobody does it like chicken bread like I do. Nobody does it like the ghostrun boom like i do nobody does it like chicken bread like i do i thought it was starting like the kelly clarkson song out friends then we listen to the ghost runner podcast yeah yeah with jake and brad i never wanna jake and brad but every monday morning they come out on my stereo the ghost on his bike nice to the left to the left

that's a hard song to sing good for you do you remember those Ellen episodes back in the day where she would like put that song on the audience and you know but people wouldn't know

that they were mic'd and so they would just be singing along to it because it's like I mean that's already not a great place to be to be accidentally mic'd but then it's such a hard song

to sing that people would just sound terrible really I mean yeah like it's just so rough so i love um so i obviously lead worship at church obviously by that performance you guys are all gonna probably assume yeah uh who's the one with the conch who's the conch shell yeah holder now tell me no uh no but i just remember my dad can hold the tune fine but it's so funny and i bet you a lot of people can relate to this uh like you'll start singing a song and then you have to go to the octave lower like halfway through so be like he's like oh i started and then you're like i can breathe for the first. You know, I could always remember my dad being like, amazing grace. How sweet.

You know, like going back and forth. And he was always doing the right notes. Anyway, we can add that part out. No, zoom. Remember those commercials? Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom. Zoom, zoom. Zoom, zoom. Zoom, zoom, zoom. What is that other song that does that? Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom. It's like from Pitch Perfect.

That was Since You've Been Gone. Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom. No, it's not. It's a... It's a... No, it's not. Oh, gosh. Can I look it up real fast? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Of course, of course. Oh, no, you're right. Gosh dang it. I nailed it, dude. There's another one, though. No, I nailed it. I know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course, of course. Oh, no, you're right. Gosh, Dan. I nailed it, dude. There's another one, though. No, I nailed it. I know you did. Let me be right.

First this, then wait. Oh, wait. Did you just... Why did I see Lady Gaga on your screen? What are you Googling over there? What? That's Lady Gaga, is it not? No. That's the fat girl from Pitch Perfect.

Oh, sorry. Okay, so from my angle, this looks... Yes, she's going to be a queen, baby. Hold on, hold on. From my angle, this looks... Yes, she's going to be a queen, baby! Hold on, hold on. From my angle, it looks like the exact framing, because I watched this video last night of Lady Gaga and Bradley Wilson at the... Bradley who? Bradley Wilson is a cousin of mine.

Bradley Cooper at the Oscars, and it looks like that exact scene. Like, she's sitting at the piano, and he's sitting there. Just watch it. I'll show you the video. Same exact frame rate as, you know, whatever. All right. This episode is over. Thanks, Michael Jordan.

Love you, mom. Oh. I'm on the right track, baby. I was born this way. Ooh, there ain't no other way, baby. I was born this way. Baby, I went from this way, from this way. There ain't no other way, baby, I was born.

I'm all right, just baby, I was born this way. Here's what's going to happen. Start over. All right, all right. I don't know. Now I'm imagining you really worried about how you're going to say this first line. For some reason, I just didn't have the next sentence ready.