Ghostrunners - 277 - Phony Phrases

Episode Date: November 8, 2023

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Happy Wednesday, Ghosties! Brad and I are going to play a game to start off this episode. This is something that we did on our bonus episode that came out last week, which was a lot of fun. It's also something that I do when I find myself in that long car ride with the Coop family. Yes. It's a lot of fun. We're going to say a word on three.

They're going to be different words, but we're going to try to meet in the middle until we say the same word. Okay. Ready? Yes. Three, two, one. Trophy. How fun. Baseball

and trophy to start it off? Wow. I was right, Tymon. You have one? Okay. Three, two, one. World Series. Ah! That was better. That was better. First. First.

First. First trophy. No, first place trophy first baseman what was the first for number one first and world series first world series

okay Brad's nonverbal so hard to you know I'm trying to like read him like last week we did this on the bonus episode brad timon did it and brad just nodded timon like we're thinking the same thing just say what i'm gonna say first world series all right um i don't know what i'm gonna say well think about it. Okay, okay. That's not good. All right. Ready? Three, two, one.

Rookie. Oh, because he just got in the league. It's his first one series. All right, we have base and rookie. We're getting further away from baseball. Base. Rookie, base. Okay, okay, I got something.

You do? Yeah. Come on, Brad. Hey, I got something. You do? Yeah. Come on, Brad. Do what I do. Just meet me in the middle. No, I don't want to say this. I have something, but I don't think it's not even going to be close to what you're going to say.

That's going to screw us up. That's okay, too. All right, go. Three, two, one. Cadet. I almost said cadet. I almost said cadet. Oh, I was between the two of them. Which one's the right one? For like a rookie.

Yeah, basic training. That's even better than saying it the same. Oh, I'm so close to saying cadet. Cadet Kelly. I don't even know. All right, so we have private and cadet. Now this may take a while from here. No, it doesn't.

Three, two, one. Army. General, dang it! General? We just advanced that quickly? I don't know! Alright, go! Alright, hold on. No, no, no. General, army. Army and general.

Okay. Three, two, one. Custer! Go! All right, hold on. No, no, no. General Army. Army and General. Okay. Three, two, one. Custer! Go! Sorry, sorry. I should have thought of a specific general. That's a good point. Okay.

So we have Custer and Barracks. Okay, okay, okay. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Hey. Baseball. Yeah, yeah. Hey. Baseball. Got us here. Go. You going?

Yeah. Three, two, one. War. Infantry. Okay. Same ballpark. Baseball. Infantry and war.

Infantry and war. What's the infantry? This is the army? No, we're for army? I think. That's what I was going up. Infantry is the marching. Calvary is the riding, I think. Fun i think that's what i was going up three is the marching calvary is the writing i think fun but this was this is like i don't know that's what you learned i just read tree is marching just read right war rifles for weighty okay don't look at me

that way it's gonna be so serious okay marching marching marching war marching in the inventory Okay. Marching. Marching. Marching war. Marching in the infantry for war. Okay. Okay. You ready? I guess. Three, two, one. Revolutionary.

Oh. Marching. Okay. I forgot. Yeah, the word was. Revolutionary. I almost said that. Really?

Yeah. I thought about it. I don't know. Just that type of warfare. Marching revolutionary. Marching and revolutionary. Okay. We took some time with baseball. We took some time with war. I feel like we're on our way out from war as well.

Marching revolutionary. Okay. Okay. Okay. Three, two, one. Drumline. Oh! Dang it! Dang it! Oh, man!

I thought we were on the same, like, Nick Cannon thing. I know. Yes! Exactly! Yes! Brad said drumline. I said drummer. Which is pretty good.

Pretty good, but not it. Okay. I feel like I'm going to let Brad down here. All right. Three, two, one. Drumsticks. Tymon. Tymon.

Ruling. Tymon. Tymon. Tymon. He said drumsticks. I thought he said sticks. Man, I... Spell sticks.

Okay. S-T-I-C-K-S. Yeah, that's the same one I was thinking of. You thought maybe I was thinking of the band sticks. S-T-Y-X. I'm sailing away. Not that. Drumsticks.

Drumsticks, final answer. Three, two, one. Drumsticks, final answer. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Happy Wednesday. Yeah, two, one. Drumsticks. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Happy Wednesday. Uh-oh. Ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down. With some random thoughts and white meat too.

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That's right. Hope you guys enjoyed it. It was fun for us. That was great. Let's see. Last Wednesday's episode, I think you were like, dude, Nate Borgatti's going to be on SNL.

Yeah. And he was, and it was awesome. I haven't watched it all yet, but I've watched, talk about revolutionary. Yeah. And he was and it was awesome. I haven't watched it all yet but I've watched talk about revolutionary. Yeah. I watched the two things that people told me to watch. I was like I don't need

to watch all of it. Yeah. But the George Washington sketch and the his stand-up monologue. Yeah. So good. Yeah.

The yeah. It's nothing better than one comedian telling another comedian's jokes but it was funny when he's talking about the future is just your shower floor being wet he's like that's the future just

it's just the whole thing's wet it's like the wall's getting shorter and shorter talking about how he knows so little about history that every like documentary is on the edge of his seat pearl harbor i was just as surprised as they were it's so funny dude i saw i saw it i was like i heard you guys talking about it i looked him up and i saw that it was it was i was like laughing out loud yeah multiple times he's so good i don't usually and i don't i'm not a laugh out loud guy yeah i'm like watching something but i was like but i got you cracking up he's very impressive i i laughed out loud when you talk he was talking about the uh donkeys going off the high dive yeah jumpinging off the high dive. That was the part that got me going. I forgot about that.

The imagery of that. Because he's just so like, he just grew up in such a white trash, just a hillbilly kind of area. And so he's had some funny stories about that. Yeah. It's such a lesson to comedy as well. Not everything has to be such a typical

set up punchline. Sometimes just the sentence you say can be funny. Donkeys jumping off the high dive. It's just funny. You just build your own sentence that's funny. I've been kind of diagnosing or scientifically watching comedy a little bit recently because Catherine was gone last week.

A lot of comedy is inappropriate. It's like she doesn't want to watch it. But I don't care. I don't have morals. Just watching them, so many people would it, but I don't care. I don't have morals. No, but yeah, just watching them. I'm like, like that. So many people would say that and it wasn't funny, but the way that he said that joke was funny. Like with Nate, with like, I watched Shane Gillis.

Yeah. He's the only one that like, it's so much about his delivery. He's just like, he's just doing the thing. And then he just laughs about it. Like, I don't care. Okay. Like, it's like, not everyone can deliver it that way. And therefore the words aren't that funny. It's the way you say it it's so good yeah so

it's the best it's awesome yeah yeah the the george washington thing was great too because he was so yeah he was so dry in it which is what he's so funny with you know yeah so he's like what about black people you asked about temperature i did not yeah that was great and just hearing i watched someone do it seeing george washington with that accent just like yeah it's just like yeah like drawl yeah not trying to be didn't even try to be a character at all it's just nate bargetti looking like george washington yeah do you feel like because you you do a pretty dry stand-up as well. I would agree. You don't laugh at your own jokes.

No way. Is it ever hard not to laugh when people are laughing hard? I would say the first time I'm telling a joke, when I did that show in Kansas City, and that week I was trying to figure out Rachel's ring size. I was like, why don't I just do a bit about this? And as I'm telling the story, I am kind of laughing. But I think it's because it was the first time I'm telling it,

and other people are laughing. I'm like, good, okay, this is funny. Like that time, yes, I will sometimes chuckle at what I'm saying. But then after that, it's like, no, this is a performance. I don't want to laugh to make them laugh. I want the joke to be funny enough for them to laugh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I've always been curious about that. Because I feel like when you first started, you weren't as dry.

True. Yeah, totally. I think probably any comedian would say like, yeah, when you first started, you weren't as dry. True. Yeah, totally. I think probably any comedian would say, when you first started, you don't know what you're doing. You're just trying to... Totally. You're freaking out, making sure you have it memorized. You haven't found your voice.

And most comedians would probably say, Jake, you've only been doing it three years? Oh, yeah, you're just starting. Right. So, yeah, who knows? You're going to evolve more and more. Yeah, but for the most part, I think I just mimic the type of comedy that I enjoy,

which is more dry and sarcastic. I'm just telling you kind of how it happened. I don't know why that's funny necessarily, I think I just mimic the type of comedy that I enjoy, which is more dry and sarcastic. I'm just telling you kind of how it happened. I don't know why that's funny necessarily, but that's just – Like laugh if you freaking want to. I don't care. That's what happened. So yeah, I guess if you find that funny. Yeah, I love it.

But yeah, I watched a few other sketches from them, and they were fine. Yeah. SNL, though, is just – it's not what it used to be. Yeah. It's one of those things where it's like, oh, SNL. Like, I would love to be on SNL someday. Yeah, huge deal. At the same time, it's like, I don't know.

I mean, you watch it, and you're always like, it's one of those things, maybe like sports sometimes, where it's just like, I know that the Royals are bad, but just this once, I just thought maybe they wouldn't be. Maybe. You know? Yeah. Like, I know that SNL's been bad for like five years now,

but maybe they just figured it. Maybe. You know? Yeah. I know the SNL's been bad for like five years now, but maybe they just figured it out all of a sudden. And then you watch it and you're like, not quite. Not this game. No home runs. I don't know. Do you guys know if all the sketches were clean? I don't.

Okay. Because the George Washington one was clean. It was perfect. It was great. And it was hilarious. Yeah. So, anyway. Good stuff. Yeah.

This past week on thursday night uh probably about a week and a half before this garrett gibson texted me he's like hey yeah getting uh think about getting a crew together thursday night's uh what dime night or nickel night or something like that at uptown this like barcade like a tokens only cost 10 cents I think we get a crew of boys we go there and everyone gets to like pick your own game and it's like a gauntlet like you have to play everyone's games okay it's like a combine see who like the

winner is right I was like dude this sounds so my alley that's a great idea yeah like I'm in he was like feel free to text any of the bachelor party guys haven't seen them in a while I texted a group. You were thinking about it, not able to come. And,

uh, but I'm like, whatever I'm showing up, it's going to be awesome. I show up there at seven. I don't, I'm not like seeing any of like Garrett's friends there, but I'm like, I don't know.

It's just maybe they're running a little late. Yep. Garrett shows up about seven 15. And, uh, I was like, Oh, what's up,

dude? Good to see you. And he's like, and you're, you're, your boy is able to come. And I was like, uh, what's up, dude? Good to see you. And he's like, your boy is able to come? I was like, no, no, they weren't. Brad was thinking about it, but he's not. And I was like, what about your guy? He's like, no. So the gauntlet was a little shorter than normal.

That's fun, though. I started busting up laughing. I was like, dude, it's just us? He's like, yeah, I guess so. And it was probably not very busy. Good news. Oh, good. We got another scam call. Got a telemarketer

calling me. 314 number. Hey, how's it going? St. Louis. Wow, what was that? I thought I heard a trumpet. Oh, sorry. Hey, yes, how's it going? Yeah, hi, sir. Thank you.

This is Abby with Farmers Insurance. Dude, this is the same old man. We just called to let you know we dropped our rates for about 20% on home and auto. And we wanted to give a quote just to review and compare the savings so you don't have to make any changes right now. Sir, you're the homeowner at 7317 East Clearwater Lane, right?

I'll tell you what. I will do this deal, but I need you to answer a question for me. What answer? Israel or Palestine? Why do you need to ask? Why is it true? Why do you need to ask? Why is it true? Why do you ask it? Just kind of want to know what your thoughts are.

I would say Israel. But for... Same. So, you're the homework. I appreciate you answering that question that's really that's great actually I was gonna

encourage her I was gonna tell her she's great and she hung up on me she took a stance on Israel Palestine and then hung up on me I don't know how to feel oh my goodness Jake I can't believe she answered feel. Oh my goodness, Jay. I can't believe she answered the question.

She did it so like, like she tried so hard for it to just like not be picked up. But you know, they were like, we'll call it on the recorded line. Like she wanted so badly to be like, I didn't say that. You can't prove that. She's like,

I say Israel. I say Israel. prove that she's like uh i say israel i say israel try to choose on me let's see israel oh excuse me excuse me unreal dude she hung up uh at first i don't think it was but at first it sounded just like the woman that got mad at you for being rude it did yeah yeah But that woman was not a farmer's insurance woman. I think, I don't know. They're all probably out there. Did we on the other one? You just said Jacob's dead. Yeah, you're right. Could have been. Um, interesting. Do you have farmers? No, I think Geico is the old car. I think I'm progressive now. Bundle home and auto. Okay. Good for you. Thanks.

Because of the president from 24. What's up? The president from 24, the show. Jack Bauer. The president? Yeah. He was like the guy from progressive for a while. Oh, okay.

I've never seen 24. What? I thought that was like your show. Oh, Prison Break. Yeah, yeah. Those are like one and the same to me. Oh. I take it back.

I take back that like random tidbit of like dropping. That's my bad. That's my bad. No, it's not. Should have picked it up. Should have picked it up. I was trying to follow. Anyway, so Garrett and I just did UpDown just mano y mano.

That's right. I mean, we got, we're there like two hours and 15 minutes or something i mean it was like the entire thursday night football game basically we were there for a long time had a blast did you had a blast i've never uh like outlasted like an hour at up down i'm always like i'm ready to go two hours 15 what was like the games of choice uh we always did a little nba jam little nfl blitz a little ski ball a little pop a shot a little NFL blitz, a little ski ball, a little pop a shot. We both love the – there's a track and field game where it's like the faster you can hit these buttons, it's like his left leg and right leg. So you're like trying to do a 100-meter dash. We're trying all these different tactics on like what's the fastest.

You got to do the hurdles. It's like jump, jump, jump. You got to do the javelin, whatever. But our favorite one, it's called like ice cold beer or something like that let me see if i can describe it you're looking at like a two-dimensional interface old-fashioned you got it's it's a wooden board with all these holes in it okay okay what you're given to operate is like a hydraulic system that has a bar on it that holds a marble. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It can go left or right,

depending, you know, if the right side of the bar is up, then the marble's obviously going to go left. So it's all about angles. And it'll, like, highlight a hole. It's like, you need to get the marble in that hole. Yeah. But none of the other holes. And so basically, there's only two buttons.

It's like up or down left, up or down right. And so you're just back and forthing this marble. I think it's meant to be a one-person game, just like you're just going and trying to get it there. But we did it two-person. Okay. So I'm only controlling the right, he's only controlling the left.

Got obsessed with that. Just trying to see how far we could get. Is it electronic or is it like not? It's slightly electronic, but it's pretty simple. Yeah, it's not a screen. You're just watching a real-life marble. It like showing you what hold yeah yeah by a light or something yeah that's pretty fun so we got really into that i could get into that kind of game did you guys play the uh pac-man game that was always my favorite no that's a hot kamad is it yeah a lot

of people around that one a lot of people on thursday um after a while yeah but yeah dude five bucks on dime night can get you the whole time we never refilled i know five dollars i feel like every time i've gone there i've always like left tokens yeah i was like i have a way i don't know how i got all these tokens but go ahead i feel like the bartender is a little disappointed because i'm sure they definitely make their money off the alcohol and you know he's like do i want to tab for you he's like just the five dollar tokens guys stay focused guys like all right take a water yeah yeah i'll take a celsius you have anything that can like help me focus you have an adderall that's really funny that it's just you and so just me

and garrett good as a blast he's doing well doing great yeah um yeah he uh he actually texted me yesterday he was like dude i uh i was the one who kind of showed you breakthrough it's time i show you a new one and he sent me a link to something i was like i don't even need to click on the link i'm in whatever it is yeah some new type type of escape room thing. I'm there, brother. I love it. Garrett is a physical therapist, and he does stuff with people who

can't leave their house, basically. They're just physically unable to leave their house. Yeah, what's that called? Outpatient? Maybe. Yeah, maybe there's more to it than that. If they're like openly gay. He's been outed. No, but

I think, Garrett, this might be right up your alley. I experienced something at Gunner's house the other day. It's so funny that of course Gunner has this. So first of all, Gunner invited us over to watch the World Series game. Maybe that same... No, it was Friday night. Doesn't matter. Went over there. We were watching it outside for a while. It was like 40 degrees. And we're all finally like, no, it was Friday night. It doesn't matter. And went over there.

We were watching it outside for a while. It was like 40 degrees. And we were all finally like, hey, are you guys cold? Let's go inside. And so we went down into Gunner's basement. Have you been down there? Like downward? No, not really.

He's got like a living room set up down there. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Kind of looks like the set of Stranger Things a little bit. Like dangly colored lights. Right, like, yeah, like a great like Midwest looks like the set of Stranger Things a little bit. Yeah. Like dangly colored lights. Right. Yeah, like a great Midwest unfinished basement that he just finished up. Got a TV in the corner with a couch and a chair. And this chair that he has was Emily's grandfather.

He passed away a couple months ago. And this chair is one of those chairs that probably Garrett has seen before because it can literally lift you up. It'll recline you back. It's like on a, it's electronic, but it can also lift you up to the point where it can stand you up all the way. So you can just like sit there while it just stands you up. And I loved it. It's like, this is incredible. That's funny. Have you seen that? Yeah, I saw that. I, he also has that thing down there where you can like lay on it and you can like strap yourself in you go all the way upside down oh the inversion table yeah it looks like they train astronauts on it or something but yeah great basement great

basement good time yeah i just was enthralled by this chair that was just like okay i guess i guess i don't have to do anything anymore i could live in this thing completely relying on that um yeah gunner's such a great host, dude. He's so good because he's thoughtful enough, but also just confident enough and like, yeah, this is what's going on. I don't feel bad if you're not having fun. It's fun for me.

You know? I brought over good ranchers. I brought over good ranchers, brats, and we grilled brats. He had buns and ketchup and mustard and a bag of Lay's potato chips. And he's like, yep, that's it. Some Kewlcliffs. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, some Silver Bullets, some Coors Lights. From the cadets. And, yeah, that was about it. Nice. And he wasn't like, he didn't feel bad that we were cold or anything. Like, not in like a mean way, but just in this like a, yeah, I mean, it's cold outside. I mean, we've got blankets. What do you expect?

Yeah. And then eventually he's like, okay, we can go downstairs if you want to but um yeah just make i don't know there's like a certain quality of like somebody who hosts well but not like overly like hey everybody okay you know yeah like not able to also be a part of the yeah conversation the party and stuff so um anyway it was fun. I miss playoff baseball. It was fun watching it the other night. Must be nice if your team's good. Yeah. It was crazy how much Harrison and this other guy,

Zach, knew about the Rangers. I was like, I have no idea who any of these guys are. Rafael Palmeiro, Andres Galarraga. Gunner and I were making jokes like that all night. Oh yeah, Luis Castillo. There was some Latin American black guy up to bat. And Gunner's like, is that Edgar and Aria?

It's making like very dated references. So that's a good vibe. Yeah. You, Gunner, Harrison, some bloke named Zach. Zach. And yeah, one of Gunner's friends named Austin, who said he knew you. Austin Withers. Just throwing out full names on

the podcast um he like he said I think he has like a lot of random connections the dude's either the most interesting person I've ever met in my life or just a great pathological liar like he was just throwing out information that I like he lives in New York but he was in South Dakota or something and he's a photographer and was doing stuff in Boulder, Colorado and he got in a fight. He's gotten three fights, fist fights since he's been in New York and like I'm just like dude, this is how you live. He's like one to be a rodeo guy and so

leave New York and I'm just like wow dude, I've been Facebook friends them since June of 2016. We have 94 mutual friends. I think he did a link year back in the day. Maybe it feels like he did some mechanic adjacent to me and he was a big camper. And I think maybe he worked at K seven for like a minute or two.

Yeah. Like people would want him to blob them. Yes. So anyway, big camper. Cool. Yeah, that's fun.

It was fun time. Good, good times. Uh, I think we should get into our phony phrases, but first talk about mainstream Roasters just real quick. If you missed last week, Main Street Roasters has a bunch of new holiday

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Visit amex.ca slash business platinum. All right. So I'm excited. We're going to do a new segment here. It's called phony Phrases. Sorry, let me try it again. Phony Phrases. That felt better.

Soil oil. Soil oil. So we're just going back and forth saying just kind of some made up sayings and what they mean. Okay. So my first phony phrase is, you don't hear noises in the daytime. Okay. And this means like at night,

if you're in a house by yourself, you hear all these creaks and groans and you can convince yourself that someone's in the house, someone's trying to murder me. But those same noises happen in the daytime, you just don't hear them. That's good. So it means you're like a product of your environment. Like don't let nighttime spook you. Right. Don't let the wrong city spook you. You know what it's mind over

matter is what it means. Or don't get your, put yourself in the darkness. Don't put yourself in the dark. It means a lot of things. You don't hear, you don't, you don't hear noise in the daytime. Hey, you don't guys, you don't hear noise in the daytime. Guys, you don't hear noise in the daytime. It might never matter. That's good. My first one is, hey, people collect rocks for a reason. Okay? Meaning like, hey, to some people out there, rocks might seem insignificant, but there's a reason. There's value in certain things that you don't always realize on the surface.

99% of people don't have a use for this rock, can't identify the rock. But there are people out there who understand it. And look, some rocks create gold. That's another thing. Which rocks are those? The ones that have gold inside them. Gold nuggets.

Yeah. Gold nugget rocks. People collect rocks for a reason. Next one. There's no coattails on pajamas. Nice. You're like, some people like to complain like,

oh yeah, they're riding my coattails. But guess what? If you are lazy and you just spend all day at home in your pajamas, you don't even get to create the coattails. It's a blessing to have coattails to be ridden. Wow, that's good. So sometimes having coattails, it's not the worst thing. At least you're successful. Yeah. There's no coattails on pajamas. Okay. Uh, lukewarm coffee gets thrown out.

In other words, yeah. Take advantage of a situation while it's still hot. That's good. Lukewarm coffee gets thrown out. Cause you might be more likely to like refrigerate ice coffee, but once the coffee loses, you don't want to reheat coffee. No, you don't want to reheat coffee. You need to either use the coffee you have that you made, that you've harvested, or it's going to get thrown out. So take advantage of the situation while you still can. I like that.

Yeah. All right. I've got shushing. I got shushing still makes noise. So this is like, be aware of your actions and don't contribute to the problem around you. People are like, hey, shh. That's just as loud as what you're trying to escape from.

Often louder. Sometimes louder. Yeah. So be aware of your environment. If there is a problem, don't add to the problem. Add to the solution okay shushing still makes noise in other words just be self-aware have a good wear with all uh fall favorite here not all pumpkins need carving

that's beautiful you know pick your battles pick your arguments you know yeah some some things just need to look some pumpkins just need to sit there on the front porch until they get eaten by the squirrels yeah some are nice plump symmetrical look great i want to carve that pumpkin i want to carve that pumpkin but some stumpy handle yep maybe we just just just looks good there for a little bit and then right into the uh old trash raccoons will get it uh yeah not all pumpkins need carving that's good so in other words if you're ugly, you have no hope. I'm just kidding. I think.

Well, I mean, if that's what you think, Tymon. It's about privilege. If you're like a surface level, you know, beauty is only skin deep kind of guy, then yeah, sure. You're just like, that could go so many, just like go the completely wrong way. Yeah. Just like, oh.

Being pretty is not for everybody. Yeah. Okay, that's basically what it means. Well, I mean, I can see why. Yeah. Just like, being pretty is not for everybody. Yeah. Okay, that's basically what it means. Well, I mean, I can see why, yeah,

we're good in that. My next one is, Mother Teresa had diarrhea. This one means just like, hey, nobody's that great. Okay. You know,

nobody, we don't need to put celebrities on a pedestal. Mother Teresa, the Pope, you know, the Obama twins. Everybody's stuff stinks.

Everybody's stuff stinks. Everybody's stuff stinks. Everybody's gone through it. You know, just keep that in mind. And I think about it too. Mother Teresa has had diarrhea. Successful people still go through tough, runny times. Yep. Yep. Okay. This is just like a, you know, just business expression, grow out the beard. In other words, like let investments grow, even when it may seem sketchy along the way, you know? Yeah. Grow out the beard. Don't be afraid. Yeah. I like that. I got, um, don't take a bite if you don't like raisins, you know, you can't complain about this decision you made when you knew,

Hey, these are ominous. These are vague looking cookies. They could be raisins. Yeah. If you're going to complain about it, don't take the bite. Right. If you're going to complain about, ah, I have work, but then I have these kids and then I have this side hustle. You took a bite of each one of those things. You knew what you're getting yourself into. Or you already have those three things. Let me, let me do one more thing. No, don't do that. If you aren't prepared for the pre-percussions, if you don't like raisins, don't take a bite. I like that. Um, Hey, some hats are snapbacks and others are fitted. Right. Right. Right. Don't assume every situation's the same. You're not going to be able to, you're not going to be able to adjust and fit into every

situation. Good. Not all hats created equal. Yeah. Some can morph. Yeah. Some, some can morph. Some can't, some are fitted. Some hats are snapbacks. Some are fitted. That's good. Backboard still scores points. Love it. You know, no one's trying to bank in a three-pointer. Yeah.

No one's excited, you know, from the top of the key. They just slam it off the backboard. It goes in. But guess what? Scoreboard still knows about it. All the same. Still stat sheet, box score. No one's going to remember.

Love that. That you banked that they're gonna remember you scored points yes backboard still scores points if it's ugly that's fine still got the job done people collect rocks for reasons yep yeah um beware the highlighted blondes okay okay look out for people in your life who aren't genuine hey i think that that person might be a highlighted blonde not literally like she's a brunette but yeah go look at her roots yeah exactly it's good yep um don't smoke cigarettes in a tanning bed this is just this should be obvious okay just like we know both these things are so bad for you

this one's a little more literal just like clear obviously don't smoke cigarettes entertaining oh this is just straight up yeah just like don't do that don't do it it's like dangerous it's so dangerous to do both those things so definitely don't know what the same ventilation yeah yeah both of them are giving you cancer exactly yeah okay yeah don't smoke cigarettes entertaining bed not worth it um pianos have 88 keys just it's a fact but it's also an analogy uh pianos have 88 keys it takes a lot of different people to make something beautiful right pianos have 88 strings you're not you're not just chilling on middle c the whole time you know you might be but that's an augustana song it's not like you know but but the charlie poofs of the world they know the pianos have 88 keys beautiful use them use them yeah hey pianos

have 88 keys send my colon use them use them float it float it um what else let's see don't don't sell your four-wheel drive in florida okay okay like you know know your market yeah you've got a great four-wheel drive car you're looking to get rid of it don't sell that in florida they have no use for it right go to idaho go to colorado okay that's where you sell your four-wheel drive i love that know your customer know your target know who you're talking to that's good somebody else is gonna be like well technically in the swamps we have before you're not driving hey no no one drives in the swamps um cross-country practice often occurs on roads. Is that a paradox? Yeah, it is.

You have to go out of your comfort zone in order to prepare for what's most important. Right. Cross-country. You see these people that, for their meets, they're running on... Through the woods. They're running through the woods.

Where are they running in their practice? They're running on the road. Down Main Street. Cross-country practice often occurs on roads. Buzz Lightyear didn't know he couldn't fly until he tried it that one i mean that was just obvious yeah okay that was just like hey um sometimes you think you can do something and you go around you tell other people what you can do but in the end you don't know unless you do it and it's scary and you might come out on the other, but at the end, you don't know unless you do it. And it's scary. And you might come out on the other end, but at least you know your value on the other side.

Yeah. Got to try it. Stop signs have eight sides, but yield signs only have three. Keep going with caution until you're confident you need to quit. Okay. Give me a full dialogue of two um, just dialogue of like two people talking. And then when that would come up, be like, man, I don't know. I think I need to, I need to shut down this business. I need to quit it. It's just, it's not as profitable as I thought. And it seems like it might be losing money. Eventually it's like, Hey, come on. Stop signs of eight sides, but yield signs only have three. You're like, okay, so I should, I should maybe scale back a little bit, take down the hours of the business, but still keep going until I know it's obvious. I need to stop. It's like, exactly.

You don't know yet that that thing is a, is an absolute full stop. Shut it down. Eight cider. Yeah. It's just a, just a three cider at this point. Got it. Yeah. Thank you. We'll run down. And the, the business is apple cider. So it's a three cider apple cider. I've got one about driving in the streets as well. Thank you. Don't have to look both ways at a roundabout. You know, sometimes you grow up and you hear these things like always, you know, always say thank you, always whatever, always look both ways, but not always.

You don't always have to look both ways. You don't have to look both ways in a roundabout. You only have to look left if you're in America. Okay. So point being, just because you grew up with it, just because it felt like an absolute truth to you, maybe rethink it. Yeah. Maybe there's a little wiggle room. Maybe there's a little gray area.

You don't have to look both ways. Very good. Light bulbs need electricity. Just an easy one. You need others in order to properly shine and fulfill your purpose best. Right. Could you fill in the blank for anything needs electricity, anything that is electrical?

Yeah, but light bulbs shine. Oh, I see. They illuminate. They bring light to the situation. But in order to bring light, you still need electricity. You can't do it on your own. Right. It's not a bulb.

Not just a bulb. Not just a bulb, brother. Yep. This is my last one. I thought i had so many and then you've been cranking them out so holy cow um your house has pink insulation this is when someone is all just high and mighty talking about their things their life their job their career at the end of the day your house you stay warm from what looks like cotton candy yeah

that's hilarious. No one's stuff is that nice. No one's house is that perfect. Your house has pink insulation. Humble yourself a little bit. Humble yourself. Yes. Humble yourself. I like that.

That's good. This is just something I feel passionate about. Receipts aren't necessary. Just in general. I just wrote that down as a thing. No second meaning. Just email the receipt to me. Even that.

Even that just for business purposes. Sometimes you need them, but I'll just follow up with that one. I don't need pennies. Yeah. Okay. It's also just literal. Just like,

what are we doing with pennies? Let's just get rid of pennies. Okay. Inflation. I mean, this thing's worth nothing. A few more. I have a fill the U-Haul and then,

you know, Hey, fill the U-Haul when leaving the situation, make sure you remember what you learned in the past. So you don't repeat it. Maximize your efficiency. Don't get too big of a U-Haul and spend too much on it. Make sure the U-Haul gets filled,

filled U-Haul as you're, as you're leaving, as you're getting away from that. Don't, don't just be like, ah, I'll just keep all that. I'll keep all that stuff here.

I don't need it. It's like, no, you need that still. That's, that's part of your, what you've learned from the past, you know,

fill it, fill the U-Haul, um, but the ball to advance the runner, just sacrifice short term, longterm. Yeah. Um,

vinyl floors look like hardwood. Sometimes it can be worth it to find a, uh, a cheaper, smaller, yeah. Cheaper alternative. Um,

the floor, it's need the stock is a broccoli. Oh, okay. Okay. Um, no one. The florets need the stock. This is a broccoli analogy. Oh, okay. No one gets excited about the base of the broccoli, but without it, you wouldn't have the part people enjoy. Yeah, can't have branches without a trunk. Exactly.

The exact same thing. Yes. Aesop said that. Yeah. 100s weigh the same as fives. Oh, that's good. Yeah. Some things are more valuable than others,

even when they appear to be similar. Two more here. A towel still has to be washed. Okay. Just because you're in a healthy situation doesn't mean you don't need regular refinement. That is good because you think, I've had this thought before,

like, theoretically, do I ever need to wash my shower towel? The only time I'm ever using it is when I'm at my cleanest. Right. I'm at my very cleanest, yet we still consider these things dirty over time. Ding, ding, ding.

I guess so. Shower towel still needs wash. Don't forget the horse and buggy, the very last one. Don't forget the horse and buggy. Remember where it came from. Yeah, yeah, the Wright brothers. Yep, exactly. So those are phony phrases.

Time and have fun making clips out of that. Yeah, 15-minute long clip. That's fun. Good. Job well done. Job well done. Job well done. Good job, boys.

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Look good. Play better. Vulcan Pickleball, baby. We had somebody from the Florida trip, Ghostie Florida trip, just talking about how the Vulcan paddle is one of their favorite things they got from the Florida goodie bag because they've been playing a lot more pickleball recently. So shout out to Michaela. Well,

nice Michaela. Well, that's nice. Well, that is just so sweet. I think only have one thing, uh, written down left to talk about.

Uh, and then we can get into some voice moments potentially, but I talked probably like a month or so ago. I told that story. Like Rachel was like, can I borrow your iPod or your AirPods? Like, can I have one of them? I was like, no, you have some. And it pretended like it was the best song in the world on the airplane and walking to the airport. Like I was just having so much fun. Yeah. So Rachel, I drove separate to that pickleball tournament last week.

And when we drove home, we got next to each other at a stoplight and it was really cold. So our windows were still up. But I feel like I looked at Rachel and then just started pretending like I was listening to the best song ever in the stoplight, and then she's dancing even harder, and the light turns green, so we speed up, and so I drive past Rachel, and I'm just going nuts, and then she comes up and pulls past me, and then she is

going even harder. I was laughing out loud so hard in my car by myself. I don't know if I've ever laughed that hard. That's amazing. Fun little story, Fun little gimmick. Fun little joke. It's just pretending like if someone else can't hear your music, pretend like it is the best thing you've ever heard. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Oh, my gosh. This is groundbreaking sound. In reality, you're not even listening to anything. You're just on noise canceling. Good for Rachel for going along with the bit and doing it back. You know what I mean? It's so funny.

Yeah, she speeds ahead. Matching your energy. Just headbanging. That was so funny. She speeds ahead. Matching your energy. That's so good. I would have loved to watch that. You're far behind. Watching you guys be so goofy. That's amazing. Fun times. I don't really have...

I did write down... We talked about Gulf Shores just then in the Vulcan pickleball ad. We talked about the vacation. We do have some spots opening up for the vacation. A few people had to bow out for various reasons. So if you're a single male, there is a spot in both sessions for you, if you're interested, or one in each. We have a single female spot for session two.

We have a four-person room still available in session two and a two-person room available in session two. Cool. Brad, I just started listening to this podcast. What are you talking about? Yeah, we're going on vacation with our fans to Gulf Shores, Alabama. I'm a little nervous to do that because this is the first I'm hearing of this and you've never done this before.

Well, we did it last year once and it was amazing. People cried when they left in a good way. Let me just say this. Yeah, let me just say this. Lifelong friendships were made. Yeah, everyone walked home with a certificate and they cried. I feel like I'm genuine friends with all those people. Yeah, it is a different bond. Yeah. Let me just say this. Lifelong friendships were made. Yeah. Everyone walked home with a certificate and they cried. I feel like I'm genuine friends with all those people. Yeah. It is a different bond. Yeah. Cassidy Miles. I want her in my wedding.

Unfortunately I had it. Um, but when you renew your vows though, Cassidy will be there. Yeah. That's amazing. Uh, no, it is fun though. I let Michaela styles like babysit my kids. Oh, a hundred percent. Yeah. You Yeah. I'd babysit her kids. Yeah. Knowing her, I trust that she's a good enough mom that I could babysit her kids and not destruct them. Courtney Miller is going to be a little weird to admit, but I think about her from time to time.

And this is why. I mean, this is like three months ago or something. I think it was a comment somewhere. It was a DM, something minimal. But she was like, I'm sorry, but I tried the diva smell and I just can't get behind it. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong. It smells like an old man. I despise

this smell. And so every now and then if I'm doing laundry, I go in my closet and get a big whiff of it. I'm like, I got to show Courtney this somehow. I don't think I fly her to Kansas City and show her, but I think next Ghostwriters getaway, I want to do her laundry. I think next Ghost Runners getaway, I want to like, I want to do her laundry. I want to, I want to be like, give me your dirty clothes.

Let me do what I do. Yeah. You're going to love this. Or what? I mean, did you, have you ever thought this? Like, wow. The whole time I was in Florida with Courtney, she thought I was so smelly, like bad. Yeah.

That's another, all of the options I've thought of to like alleviate this are weird. Cause one of them is like, usually when people give me a hug they're like oh my gosh you smell amazing so sometimes i'm like i just want to give courtney a hug i just want to i just want to like hug her like consistently until she admits until she like submits to me uh yeah but instead i think uh i'll just you know ship her my clothes that's probably the least creepy thing. Let's do a Gulf Shores merch shirt for the people going and let's pre-wash it. It's pre-washed it.

That's a fun idea. Let's wash the... Yeah. That's fun. Oh, that's genius. Anyway, yeah, come on vacation with us. It was like the coolest thing we've done since we started Ghost Runners. I feel like I love getting to tell other people who don't understand what Ghost Runners is or what the podcast is.

It's different than most podcasts. For instance, we took people on vacation with us and loved telling about that. I was just talking to TJ about it the other day because TJ, his wife, Brooke, just did something called Moms on Maui, which is where they basically did the reverse where they're like,

we live in a place where people take vacations, so just come to us. Come to mama. And I was like, there's not... It it's such a cool and like, quote unquote, easy idea in so many ways to do something like this, but you can't do it unless you fully trust your fans to be awesome. Yeah. And so that's why I don't think more people are doing it. And so that's why we can do is because we are like, no, our, our fans are fun and great. So it's going to be great. We're going to Gulf Shores end of April into early May.

Check it out on our website, ghostrunners.life slash travel if you're interested. Have to be 21 or older. So yeah, join us. It's going to be so, so fun. Yes. So memorable. We're asking for a deposit down right now, one deposit per room, and then we'll take the rest of the money in february

i believe so you don't have to put it all in there right now you know yeah so anyway um yeah let's do some some vms voice memos yeah great uh here we go i like this the title this one says a minute is so much shorter than it sounds from kaylee that's that's good hi jake and brad and timon this is kaylee yoder calling in from South Carolina. I've tried to record this so many times, it's so much harder than I thought. But I've been a ghostie for almost a year now. And a couple months ago,

I started listening from the very first episode, trying to make my way through. And I'm only at episode 50, so I've got a long way to go yet. And I'm also keeping updated with the new episodes of course so it's taking a while um but i got to meet jake in greenville which was so much fun and i'm hoping that when i move to kansas city in january moving there for five months that i will be able to run into brad sometime and have met both parts of the ghost runnersners. My question for you guys is if you would ever get a tattoo,

what would it be? Where would you put it? And what would it take for you to actually get a tattoo? Thanks so much. Love you guys. Love the podcast. Kaylee, I remember meeting you now. Yeah, it was so fun. I'm actually moving to Kansas City. Oh my gosh. For five months? Yeah. What's a

five-month Kansas City stint? Cadet. Oh, yeah. I have no idea. Cadet Kaylee. Okay. Brad, what would it take for you to get a tattoo? Oh, man. It would take money.

It would take a lot of money. I don't want a tattoo. I don't have any interest in a tattoo. It would be somewhere concealed. I'd probably have to go on a nationwide tour. Not a tour, or not a tour, but just like a journey with my friends. And at the end of it,

they would give me a stipend for something and I'd be like, I don't want to spend it on a dinner. I'll just do a tattoo on my thigh instead. Good answer. Definitely wasn't what I was going to say. That's great. That should be a half baked idea like when someone has to like give a speech or give it present on a school project or

whatever like you go right before them and say exactly what they were gonna say that is a fun like service wait no yeah like do trace jokes before him just like what is he gonna do he's just going what can you even do like tries to do your jokes i guess yeah kaylee surprise i have a tattoo after the the like 80 day long limo trip uh we got on the on show she gave us money we spent on matching tattoos and no one ever sees it it's on my thigh would you ever get another one i mean never say never guess, but it's not like I, cause people were like, dude, once you get one hard to stop, it's pretty normal. It's pretty easy to stop. I did just fine stopping. So yeah, no, I don't have any eagerness to get more tattoos, but I don't know. I could be

convinced of almost anything. I just don't feel a, I don't feel cool enough. I feel like people with tattoos are like, Oh, you look cool with that thing. I would look silly. Yeah. I would look so silly. I mean, my body, I mean, it looks just like Elmer's glue, you know, it's just, it's just hasty and not a lot of definition to it. What are we gonna do with a tattoo? Yeah. I would look silly. And I don't think there's anything like, I mean, whatever, there's things that I will hopefully have convictions and believe for the rest of my life, but I don't feel like I need to put it on my body in order to prove that. Yep. You know what I mean? Like I'm not gonna put Catherine's name on my body. I'm not gonna, I don't, I don't feel the need to represent my religious beliefs through a, you know, bicep tat. Yeah. I don't think, I

don't, I don't have any judgment for people who do most of the time. I don't think, I mean, it depends on what the tattoo is, I guess, but you don't put a bumper sticker most of the time i don't think i mean it depends on what the tattoo is i guess but you don't put a bumper sticker on a ferrari you don't put a tattoo on brad ellis that's exactly it yeah that's what i say so um i don't know what about you timing you got any thoughts on tattoos i don't think i'll ever get one yeah but like again like i who knows sure but i feel like there's not a large chance at all. Would you get one that's hidden, like a joke tattoo with your friends or something? Probably not. Really? Yeah.

Do you ever just take a picture of the limo and send it to the boys? I have yet to do that. That's kind of fun, though. How did it feel? That's one of the things I'm like, I don't really want to go through that pain. How bad is it?

It was obviously a very small tattoo, so it didn't take that long. But they did say, because it pain? That's, that's one of the things I'm like, I don't really want to go through that pain. How bad is it? It was obviously a very small tattoo. So it didn't take that long, but they did say like, because his tattoo is so small, we have to use a smaller needle. And so it is more painful than like something that would be bigger, you know, brushstrokes equivalent, but it was still fine.

But it's like, it's just not fun. I mean, a guy is like jamming a needle into your like epidermis over and over and over again. So it's about what you would expect it to be. It's just like getting a bunch of shots all at once it's like ah really yeah you say out every time it goes in oh man yeah it's fine i wouldn't get it on like your ribs i would do it on like the top of your foot no like meaty thigh that's okay no problem honestly yeah thigh has got to be like one of the least

it doesn't get meatier than that I just don't want a tattoo okay hey Kaylee can't hurt you anymore we'll go on to the next one she's just in the computer red hey boys this is Jack from Quebec all this talk about scary animals had me thinking of my first pet experience when i was 13 i bought a corn snake and uh fast forward eight months later

i walk over to its cage look inside no it's gone no my mom who wasn't all together uh for my purchase of a snake wasn't all that happy about it was a bit of a tumultuous time in our house you know two months go by and you uh think you know that snake's gone or dead no we find the snake six months later bigger than it was before went from four to five feet. We found it underneath our fridge. No, no, no, no! Horned snakes are escape artists. Anyway, we lost them like four times. Shoot it!

Get it out of there! It's been a really bright spot in my life. God bless. Shoot it. I'd put a hole in my kitchen floor. I'd shoot it right there. I'd turn into Clint Eastwood pretty quick. Dude, I've had the thought recently.

I was like, I don't have a gun. I wouldn't mind getting a gun just to shoot animals. Just an animal gun. You go into a gun store. I'll take your best animal gun. Yep. I know you guys got guns to shoot vegetables with those pea shooters or whatever.

I'll take the animal shooter. I don't. Oh, snakes. I get so mad thinking about the animal shooter. I don't... Snakes are... I get so mad thinking about animals, dude. I don't like it. Yeah, we lost like four more times. Four more times! It's like my friend Greg Peterson

getting sick and throwing up from Buffalo Wild Wings three times. That was a fluke. Let's do it again. Three times. Like the second time. After the second time, don't ever go back to Buffalo Wild Wings.

After the third time that snake gets out, it time for you to i don't know what get from four to five feet gross yeah stupid stupid animal dude no way non-venomous though does that change your mind doesn't change mine that changes zero percent of my yeah i hate it you ever had snake time i haven't i know my dad had like a some kind of maybe i think it might have been like some kind was it a python some kind of like jeez yeah and it was like huge and he's some i think he told me one time he like wore it as around his waist like a belt into a restaurant one time just like whoa your dad's a weirdo that's crazy it's great it's like it's so the funny thing is it's like that is so not the dad that i know yeah yeah yeah like like he was a different person before he was dead yeah

absolutely yeah it's so funny holy cow just imagine yeah Okay, smoking or not? Oh my gosh. You know, back in the day. Holy cow. I'm just thinking, why do they make a snake enclosure that is at all possible for a snake to escape from? How hard can that be? Why do they make a snake? Just period. Why do they have snakes? Yeah, like how does that thing get out?

Yeah. How badly made does this enclosure have to be? It's made to keep a snake in. How strong is that snake like pushing up on that thing? And how much more could it freaking kill you? Half-baked business idea. We market it as like a guaranteed keep your snake in or whatever. Basically what it is.

Huh? Sorry. This is a snake enclosure that's slowly gonna kill your snake and you get this for someone who you don't want them to have a snake so it's like hey my my son is obsessed he wants a snake yeah yeah it sounds like yeah the mom would have loved this yeah yeah releasing poisonous gas yeah yeah whatever way you want to take them down but yeah it does kill the snake and problem solved. But make it look natural.

Oh yeah, it's very slow. It's very gradual. He's not eating as much. It's too slow and the mom's like, what the heck's going on? The mice are eating him now. This is hard to watch. This is weird.

Oh man, Canada man. I would not mind having a snake. Yes, you would. No, I wouldn't though. Tymon, if you ever bring that snake in here, I'll shoot you having a snake. I wouldn't, though. Timon, if you ever bring that snake in here, I'll shoot you in the snake. I won't aim very hard. I'll just be like, get out of here. No way, dude.

I just don't see the benefit of a snake at all. I won't. Give me best case scenario, Timon, with that snake. What's your best moment you have with that snake? It's cool. That's not a moment give me a moment when you feed it put the mouse in there it's cool to watch

it's also a little sad for the mouse but also it's a mouse so who cares and it's kind of fun to watch that snake kind of hunt the mouse fair enough it's kind of like just like in the wild experience, but you're watching it in a cage. Good answer. Okay. That's fair. Still, still like not worth

it for me, but that is a good best case scenario is like getting to watch. I could do that on YouTube right now if I wanted to though. I think also you'd like only feed them like every two months depending on the snake. So it's like, I guess six, six times out of the year you have a fun experience with your snake. The rest of the time, you're like, did it get out last night? Dude, I'm looking up. Like, I just Googled mouse for snakes. Like, what is this industry like?

These mice that you're buying, are they live? Looks like there's a big frozen mouse industry. What? The company's called Arctic Mice. So you're buying, I assume, dead frozen mice. Why? You're assuming they're dead? That's got to be way less fun for the snake.

I would think. And fun to walk frozen. Yeah, there's no cat and mouse, if you will. No snake and mouse. Just say, here's some frozen meat. I mean, is that a commentary on our lives right now, guys? Like, we are not hunting our own. Even within the confinement of our cage,

we don't even have to hunt our meals. Chipotle is our frozen. We need to all have our own animal guns and be shooting our food. Those pioneers back in the day, they were way manlier than we are, and it's because they were hunting their own food. Dude, if those pioneers had a Chipotle

a mile away from their house, they would stop hunting ASAP. You think? Unless there was a Chipotle animal I don't know about i'd be open to that maybe if an animal had all the things yeah a chipotle burrito and they could serve it up that's fair dang there's also a company called mice direct happy healthy and fresh mice but why they got to make the mouse look so cute on it that looks like the cutest mouse i've ever seen it's stewart they got to make the mouse look so cute on it? It looks like the cutest mouse I've ever seen. It's Stuart Little. Got to feed that to Spanky. What's the company called? Mice Direct.

Mice Direct. We're calling your snake Spanky? Oh. Okay. I feel like Spanky's, snakes have like old author's names. Like, come here, Cornelius. Tolkien.

Come on, Tolkien. Yeah. Come on, Rold. Dull. Silverstein. Yeah, Shell. Silverstein could. Come on, Tolkien. Yeah. Come on, Rold. Silverstein. Yeah, Shell. Silverstein could be a good snake name. Yeah. Okay.

Let's go to the next one. Keep her moving. Jake Brandon Tymon. I'm a longtime pod listener, but a first-time voice memo sender. So very excited to be recording this for you guys because I have requests. I need some recording this for you guys because I request, I need some help. Love you guys. You guys have been so fun on Mondays and I've been enjoying

hearing on Wednesdays and also have been loving timing. So here's what I need. I need some pens from y'all. So I, in my PhD program at school, I'm studying psychology. And so basically whenever someone completes their comprehensive exam successfully, when they are defended, we create a poster for them that has a theme on it. And so the theme for this girl that's coming up is Taylor Swift. And so I need to submit a pun that has something to do with her completing her comprehensive exams in psychology and defending them successfully. So the theme is this person has successfully, is in their successfully defended comprehensive exams era. So do you have any Taylor Swift puns for that? I really need them. Thank you. Love you. Psych. Okay. Yeah. Well, you were, you were listening off earlier, but just off the pod.

So this is for someone, kind of a lot of information there who like successfully defended their psychology comprehensive exam comprehensive exam a taylor swift pun um i just looked up taylor swift songs psychology i mean first thought is something with freud right that's like the famous psychologist how do we get that involved? That's all you got is Freud? That's all I want to do. I just want to work that into it, and then I'll be done.

I'll be like, all right, we accomplished the goal here. Let's see. I'm looking at songs here. I'm not seeing any Freud songs. That's a tough question off the top of the dome here. And I think our standards are pretty high for a good pun. Like, I mean, you could do like, look what you made me do the last nine months. You know, you could do something like that,

but I'm like, we could do better than that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look what you made me do the last six years or however long she's been in school I mean right off the dome no psychology or Taylor Swift involved but comprehensive exam you could just say

comp graduations right there you go that's that's it let me just look up psychology terms real quick. Okay. Abnormal, behaviorism, cognitive, neuroscience, cognition, bipolar. These are fun words. Any of these hitting anything?

Does she have a song that says bi in it? Surely. Surely. does she have a song that says bye in it um surely surely i don't know this is hard this is great this is she has a song called bye bye baby bipolar baby bipolar baby she's not called by the way put that put that on a sign bipolar baby you're in your bipolar baby era. This is why we can't have... Looks like evolutionary psychology is a big thing. Era, erolutionary psychology. Yep.

That's about as good as it's going to get, I think, on this one. Ghosties, let us know what you think. Let us know if you enjoyed that segment of brad and jake thinking i noticed the time was pretty quiet the whole time too yeah didn't get a ton from timing anti-social anti-hero okay but it's like almost two yeah just you just replace one for the other it's not cool yeah it's not unique uh It's me, psych. You're the problem. It's your upbringing.

Yeah. Oedipus complex. Yeah, I met Travis's mom. Okay, yeah, sure. Something like that. Something with Travis. Do we have any other voice memos or is that... Please, please move on. We lost that one. Okay, hey, we'll get the next one back. Travis. Do we have any other voice memos or is that... Please.

We lost that one. We'll get the next one back. Every Monday morning with Jacob Brown. Hot start. The theme song gets stuck in my head all the time. And I think it would be great to have a couple extra verses. Maybe one

extra verse. Maybe two extra verses. one extra verse maybe two extra maybe 2000 um an idea i've had for a while is ghosties kind of creating well not kind of ghosties actually creating a another verse and then make it kind of a competition so then ghosties will then vote on which verse they like the best and And whoever gets the most votes wins. I don't know. Just an idea for you. I never did introduce myself, and I got some seconds left. So I'm Joshua, and I've listened to, I'd say, 30 episodes on each end.

So 30 episodes of Modern Day Jake and Brad, 30 episodes of Back in the Day Jake and Brad. I love it all. I'm a huge fan of what you guys do. So thanks for putting out what you do. I like that. It's like a Willy Wonka. Johnny Depp.

Oh yeah, does he do that? The fact that Tom or Tymon thinks Willy Wonka is Johnny Depp hurt my feelings right now. No, no, no. I was specifying which version. I knew the Gene Wilder version. Okay, good, good, good, good. Both creepy. I like that so many

reviews these days and voice posts these days seem to come from people who were new to the podcast within the last six months, last year. Good turnover, I think they'd call that if this was a business. Still getting a lot of new customers in. I think that's a good sign.

Healthy pod. So thanks, Joshua. It's funny you listen to the new ones and the old ones. Let's do a little verse writing competition. I love that.

I think that's really fun. It's kind of fun. It's kind of like, you know, the Friends theme song back in the day. Like it was only like made for Friends

and then it got so popular. Let's do a whole song. They're like, well, we got to write a second verse. And so, you know, the very first line of the Friends theme song is, so no one told you life was going to be this way.

And then the second verse, they're like, your mama told you there'd be days like these. It's like, wait a second. Was it no one or was my mom there the whole time? So it's kind of a fun fact that it was like written later. So maybe we'll do a verse, a second verse competition, but it's like the goal would fact that it was written later. So maybe we'll do a second verse competition, but the goal would be to contradict the first verse.

Like with a bunch of ground beef, bacon, instead of white meat, instead of two best friends. No, I like the idea of doing a comp. I think somewhere on some computer we can find the instrumental version of the song to put out there, and you guys can overdub it or do whatever you want with it, have your way with it. But it'll be fun. It's always enjoyable to see other people get in on the action.

That's one of the things I strive for most is like, how do we do more voice memos? How do we get them involved with voting on the schmores or getting in the Facebook group or whatever? Get in on the ash. It's just more fun when the community is there. So all about the idea of, I mean, the Ghostrunners theme song beat

was from a ghostie. That's right. And I wrote the words in 15 minutes and the melody in five, I think. And the logo that people are dressing, shout out Lindsay, that are dressing up for Halloween as was designed by a ghostie.

Shout out Brayden. Just texted him yesterday. All right, so thanks, Joshua. Next one, this is from Matt. Hey, what's up, Jake and Brad? My name is Matt from Illinois. I'm a huge fan of the pod and I had a funny story I wanted to share with you.

So the other day, my daughter came home from school with a worksheet about families and one of the questions was, what is your favorite family recipe? I was talking with my wife, who's not a ghostie, and I was like, it's weird we don't have any specific family recipes. I mean, you know, Brad's wife, Catherine, has those cheeseburger meatballs. We got to get something like that. That's funny. Now it's become a running joke for my wife to say, geez, sorry, I'm not a Catherine.

Catherine approved dinner. Also, here's the kicker. At a recent Chicago Bears watch party, yes, I'm a Bears fan, unfortunately. You're welcome for the easy win a few weeks ago. My friend's wife texted my wife and asked if I could make my famous chicken wings and bring them. When my wife told me, all I did was look at her and say

my favorite Captain Phillips quote, I am the Catherine now. Thanks for the laughs. Have a great day. That's amazing that Catherine's like the standard. I love that. She is a great wife. I'm going to say right now, Matt, you need to come on the Go-To-Hers. Have a great day. That's amazing that Catherine's like the standard. I love that. She's a great wife. I'm going to say right now, Matt, you need to come on the Ghost Hunters Getaway with us.

You seem like a good time. You have a good sense of humor. And it'd be a great way to get your wife into the podcast. She would get to meet Catherine. Depending what term she goes. So yeah, Matt, that's awesome. That was a great voicemail. Yeah, absolutely.

Did he have a question or just a story just a fun story i like the funny thing is like katherine's cheeseburger meatballs are good but i mean they're really good but it's not like one of her best things that she makes not top five i mean maybe but she has so many good ones it's one of the best it's one of those things where it's like, it's rare when it's not really good. You know what I mean? It's like, yeah, this one was fine,

you know? And I'm never going to like say it was bad. Cause I'm like, I thank you for making anything for me. Keep it coming. Um, but man, she makes some King ranch chicken.

She makes these great enchiladas. She makes a poppy seed chicken. I don't know, man. She makes these, Oh, this pasta. I don't even know what it is but it's like stuffed

shells or something lots of good stuff she's just all around really really good at what she does so and the funny thing is what's his name Matt Matt Matt uh just the other day Catherine very like innocently jokingly was like yeah you've made a few comments in our marriage about how your mom you know makes this or that better than me or something. I was like, I don't mean to do that ever. But just to let you know, I mean, there's always going to be somebody higher up, you know, that there's going to be insecurity no matter what. So Matt's wife, just know that you are a Catherine. You are your own Catherine.

But you're not Brad's mom. But you're not my mom. No one can be my – you're not my dad is it? You're not my dad or my boss. Yeah. Is that what he said back in the day? You're not my, yeah, you're not God.

You're not my father or my boss. Or my boss. You ever see that video, Tymon? I don't think so. Short King just complaining about bagels. Yeah. Weird video.

That's fun though. Thanks for all the voice memos. Always fun to get to hear from you guys. Yeah. You want to wrap up with our win of the week sponsored by Roebuck yeah

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actually just had a friend Kylie Dolan she was just an old friend from camp texted me this morning hey what's the Ghost Runners Roebuck discount code 7am

let's go GRKC20 fun so they just came out with fleeces you see that fleeces dude everything they make i just want it so yeah go get it roback they got the best stuff the softest hoodies grkc 20 is a promo code and they're bringing us the wins of the week this week um my win of the week is just going to be a few different little kids singing our theme song on the Facebook group. Um, Oh, you want to send me the link and I'll play them through the, yeah, I guess I can do that. That's through the computer. Um, but yeah, we had page Q goes little girl. Let's see. Copy link to Jacob. You're still at four one seven.

Just kidding. You're still at, yeah. And you're still, your address. Just kidding. You're still at it. Yeah. And your address is still this one. Her little girl's got, she's from Michigan, but she's got a little accent to her when she sings that Ghost Runners podcast. And I love it. It goes like this. Ghost Runners podcast.

It goes like this. Ghost Runners podcast. Ghost Runners podcast. Cast. Ghost River Podcast. Ghost River Podcast. Cast. Ghost River Podcast. I want to hear the very beginning again. It goes like this. It goes like this.

It goes like... It's like... Maybe that's what she's thinking it says whenever we do that. It goes like this. It goes like this. And then... This one's from Tori Phillips, little two-year-old girl. I hear it in there.

She's like, she's a little two-year-old. She's just belting it out, dude. Like she's got like some like emotion behind it. So those, I mean, it's just fun to see. I mean, it's just a theme song,

heavy episode, I guess today, but just fun to see them getting in on it. It's fun to hear that people are listening to it with their kids around. That's, that's always sweet. So that's cool. My way of the week comes from Joshua Roten.

He's in our guillotine league, still made it through. He's still in guillotine league. Still made it through. He's still in it. Guillotine face football. But he sent us a little message. He said, hey, guys, this month I'm starting a thing where each day I take just a few moments of my time and say thank you to someone who's meant a lot to me. Thanksgiving is probably my favorite time of year. And so often that is the only day we even think to give gratitude.

So I'll start off the month with you all. He sent this on November 1st. Thanks for the time and effort you guys spend each week just to bring joy in others' lives. I know you probably hear this a lot, but it really makes a difference. Countless work days have gone by faster for me because of the smile and entertainment you all provide.

I appreciate your all stance on Christianity as well as encourage you all to keep trusting in God. I know everyone has busy lives. In fact, you all take a few hours of each week to make time for others is awesome. I also have a small business myself, so it's encouraging to hear your all's input on how to run a business and

balance family and personal time. I'm thankful for you guys and praying for you. Keep up the good work. Joshua wrote. That's sweet, man. Really kind. Really nice guy. Happy to do it, dude. Glad that we could be that kind of distraction for your work. Provide a little entertainment,

laugh, a little smile and best of luck with the small biz, dude. That's so exciting. Bet on yourself, baby. Absolutely. Um, mine's coming from Megan C3. She is a, that was my win of the week. Is this your comment of the week? That was your win of the week.

Yeah. I'm so sorry. Well, I just, I just wanted to, for you to be able to clarify because you already gave your win of the week. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry,

sorry. Yes. So comment of the week. Um, mine is from Megan C three. It's a comment. Um, so therefore it's my comment.

I'm a new listener to ghost runners podcast slash video, and I'm loving it. I've been friends of Brad and Jake for years, but never listened to the podcast for some reason. My bad. I love Jean shorts and all the stuff with Trey. I listen to correct opinionsinions every Wednesday. Love all your content, guys.

Hello from Overland Park. Based on your videos, I used to be your neighbor. Fun things. How does she know? Who is this? Megan C3. C3. Megan C3.

Thank you. It's always, like Jake said, it's always fun to find some new listeners. We got new people coming in the down line line so that's right tell your friends my comment of the week is going to come from everyone who added on to the movie cliches yeah andy johnson said uh one cliche i've always hated is there's only one way to find out i think that one's really good um david said uh for some reason the first one i thought of was waiting until someone had turned around and was walking away just to say their name,

have him turn back around and tell them, thank you. Thanks for everything. That is great. Just the walk away, say their name, and then there's a good

three-second pause. Oh, and Jake. And then you just see Jake from the front. You turn around. Thanks, man. Ryan Guy, great commenter. He said,

the bad guy gets punched in the face and the lip starts bleeding. They touch or taste it, and they lick the blood and smile. I love, if they didn't see blood, would they not be excited? Yeah, they're shocked. Oh, blood on this thing.

Yeah. Someone left a comment somewhere, too. What was the was the time it was like where are you going i'm going home yeah or like getting like a taxi where to home i'm going home uh trying to think of anything else any other good comments i think there's one. Oh, when the protagonist stops a counting down clock right before some bomb's about to go off or something. They have fractions to spare. Yeah. And they just barely made it in.

Yeah. Little Jill said, girl drops her books in a busy hallway and starts to pick them up and suddenly her hand touches someone else's hand and they stop and look into each other's eyes. It's her crush. So love when you guys get in on the action. Yeah. Feel free to do it with made up phrases or half-baked ideas.

Just keep it coming. We're all one podcast basically. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. I have one more shout out. My friend, Zach Bullock, a CannaCut guy that I hadn't talked to in a long time, uh, messaged me out of the blue and it was like, just want to let you know I've just found your podcast and you freaking cracked me up. Listened to several episodes. Anytime I'm in the car and can't get enough, just wanted to know that I think it's awesome. Keep it up. It's just fun. And he got recommended because he

listens to Dadville and it was like a recommended thing underneath Dadville, which is cool as well. Sweet. So, shout out to Dadville. Dadville ecosystem. That's pretty fun for him too. He's just listening to Dadville podcast. Like ecosystem. Yeah. That's pretty fun for him, too. He's just listening to, wait, Dadville podcast. Like,

wait, is that my friend Brad from Canicuck? He said, I was like, Brad has a podcast? So, it's just fun. Fun to hear when people are listening to you.

So, thanks for all your affirming words. And, that's just a great encouragement to affirm others that are not your podcast friends. It's November. Yeah. Show thanks. Show thanks. I'll do it. Give thanks. Thanks podcast friends. It's November. Yeah. Show. Thanks.

Show. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks showing. I tell a lot. Uh, cool. Fun little episode.

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