Ghostrunners - 298 - Running Late to the Stage

Episode Date: January 22, 2024

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Welcome back, Ghosties. It's another Monday, and it's a Monday without my mustache. Shaved it off this morning. Manic Monday. Mustacheless Monday. I was liking it again. You know, it was the second go-around with the stache. Rachel's very encouraging the whole way. Like, yeah, why not? However, other people can't really say the same thing. People make... I'm not gonna say... It's not negative, it's not positive. Just feedback. Just consistent feedback for the mustache. I'm not gonna say it's not negative it's not positive just just feedback just

consistent feedback for the mustache passive-aggressive almost just just commentary just like whoa sometimes it's just that sometimes just whoa yeah they're people haven't seen in a while people are very quick having a mustache is the most indirect way for people to tell you, you look worse than you did before. The way people talk about it. I mean, to my face, they go, oh, wow. Rachel out of town? And I say, yeah. Has Rachel seen that yet? Yeah. What does Rachel think of that? I mean, seriously, there's so many people who ask that. Even once Rachel joined up with the tour this past weekend, Rachel had people pull her aside or at least like wait till she was alone and ask her like, so what do you think of Jake's mustache?

Yeah, it's like they're worried about her being taken advantage of by you or something. Do you feel like you can't say something? Are you safe? Just so you know, come over here over to the side. We can get you help. It doesn't need to be a big deal. I know a guy

with the sharpest razor in town. He could come off in seconds. I know it's hard to know what to say or how to be a big deal. I know a guy with the sharpest razor in town could come off in seconds, okay? I know it's hard to know what to say or how to do with this, but I dealt with this when we were just dating. Right. Me and my husband dealt with this. My husband, yeah.

We've gone through it. We've overcome it. You can overcome it. There are ways out. I should give you Dr. Chaudry's number. He can help out. Yeah, it's just so funny. The more I thought about it,

I was like, wow, the mustache really sparks up conversation. But then, yeah more I thought about it, I was like, you know, I was like, wow, you know, the mustache really sparks up conversation. But then, yeah, the more I thought I was like, people really are, it's kind of mean they're, they're just like, cause if I looked better, no, no one would say something like this. They would say, oh, cool haircut. Yeah. But if you, when you look worse, this is the type of feedback you get. Oh, wow. What's, what's Rachel's rachel think well first of all how many girls or how many guys are the ones saying like the thing to rachel about it because i feel like guys respect other guys mustaches but how many girls are like oh that guy's way way more attractive with that mustache i feel like i was i was getting it from both sides it's like nobody

was like loving it and yeah just like if you like i don't. And yeah, just like if you like, I don't know. Yeah. It's just like if you had gotten better, you would get different feedback. No one is like, whoa, dude, you lost 30 pounds. Yeah, Catherine, come here. What's Rachel think though? Are you okay with Brad like not eating all that crap and looking better? Yeah, of course.

Yeah, whatever. Yeah. What else? Hey, Rachel, come here hey is it is it cool with you that jake took that promotion yeah oh rachel ah i heard i heard jake's a reader now are you okay with him taking time to like be more intellectually sound okay are you okay with that katherine hey while brad's in the bathroom i saw he's got Duolingo on his phone. Yeah, he's just trying- Are you okay with him learning a second language?

Yeah, he's trying to have a heart for the nations. And that's, you're okay with him- Okay. Going overseas right now? That's what people say. Oh, hey, Catherine. Oh, come here, come here, come here, come here. I'm not trying to like

check out your husband or whatever, but I've noticed Brad recently got a Yeah, he did! Now with some random thoughts and white meat too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along, let's have some fun and go ahead. Get on your feet because it's the Ghost Runners Podcast. Every Monday morning we're taking ground. Ghost Runners Podcast. Ghost Runners Podcast.

All right. Hey, welcome back. Ghost Runners Podcast. Monday morning. Welcome back to the friendliest podcast community in the world. Okay. I like it. Sorry. No, I see, because we're all nice people.

Yeah. Hey, welcome. If it's your first time. Yeah. So welcome. Not even welcome back. Yeah. Sorry. Welcome to the first time. So I haven't been intentionally like, oh, I'm trying to grow like this manly beard because I know myself well enough to know, like it's not happening, buddy. Asian hair, Asian hair all over. And I mean all over.

Um, but I had like, yeah, grown out my facial hair more than probably in a long time at least. And, uh, decided to like take my beard trimmer. I usually have like a one, three or a five setting that you can, you know, trim it up with. Usually just go with the three. Yesterday I was like, I'm going to go with the one. I'm just going to, cause my, my mustache specifically was like every once in a while, like, like almost getting in my lip. So specifically I was like, I want to get that. I want to, I want to just cut that off, but I don't really know

what I'm doing. So I was like, I'm just going to do a one. And I did a one on the mustache. I was like, I'm just going to do a one everywhere. So yesterday at the gym, get done with my shower, using my electric razor, I start going. All of a sudden, like it dies like halfway through. My razor does. And so like – but it was one of those things where it dies, but it's a rechargeable thing.

So like it kind of died. And you know how if you wait like three seconds, you can turn it on for another like four seconds and it'll die. And then you wait another five seconds, you turn it on. It's like two seconds at a time. And so I was like, whatever. It doesn't look that bad. And then I was driving.

I was driving McLean's actually after I'm done with this. And I look and it looks like I have a Hitler mustache. Oh, you just shaved the outer. Well, and I didn't realize how ridiculous. And it wasn't like terrible, terrible. But I thought like, okay, it kind of shaved a decent amount of all of it. But then I looked in the mirror in the sun, and it was like, no, there's still a decent amount in the middle. And on the sides, I got it pretty low.

And so I was like, whatever. It's fine. No one's going to notice. And then I also looked and like the right side of my neck was definitely shorter than the left, but who cares? Dude, this is from a guy who almost exclusively shaves in the car without access to a charger. I worry about this all the time.

Yeah. And I'm having to make decisions of like, if it dies now, I need to only shave like the middle of something. Or like one stroke left, one stroke right. You know, like it has to be very even. Do it do it yeah and i thought like i had gotten away with it because i was like yeah and i probably shaved like five more times with the little bursts you know but i don't think it was shaving as as deep yeah whatever um but i was like i'm going to mclean's it's negative five degrees outside no one's gonna see me i me. I'm going to see you. Yeah. No problem.

Dude, whatever. I haven't been recognized or run into in like five weeks probably. Two people at McLean's, including Tymon's friend, Elizabeth. Yeah. And then – Tymon's friends are everywhere. Tymon's friends are always recognizing me. Yeah. They're all over the place.

Tymon has really bolstered our podcast. Yeah. If we had like an affiliate program timon would be number one um but uh timon's friend and then star peterson was there oh wow girl from her church and so timon's friend comes up to me talks to me you know are you kind of covering your mouth like oh my gosh good as you i was like ah she i just hope she doesn't notice whatever just anything can i get a picture i was like sure why not um let's do like a funny like fake mustache thing let's uh let me i do this thing i'm like peacing out like yeah or like i i'll take a picture but i just don't want to like ai to recognize like my whole face like with like the ai feature thing so can i just put my hand on my face hey what side of the store are we on

west side oh i'm doing this thing like Like January is like Auschwitz appreciation. I don't know. I tried. Um, anyway, but that was fine. And then star sees me talking to Elizabeth star and her friend stars laughing. Like,

Oh, this is so funny. Look at Brad getting recognized. Mr. Famous guy, whatever. And so like, I played it up as this Elizabeth girls leave leaving. I kind of rolled my eyes like,

paparazzi everywhere kind of thing. And so then she explains to the girl she's with, oh yeah, Brad has this podcast. It's called Ghost Runners. This girl goes, my mom loves that podcast. And I was like, what? What are the odds? And she's like, yeah, my mom came to Grande Boo. She came up and talked to me about it. My mom came to the event in August, Grande Boo. Chris Gerbrandt. Do you recognize that name? She's posted on the Facebook group 30 times.

Really? So many times. And so she's like, can I please get a picture for my mom? And I was like, sure, but let me just preface this whole thing by, I wasn't expecting to see all these people. And I mean, it probably wouldn't have been noticeable to anybody else but in my head I it felt like I hadn't showered

for five days one of those kind of like feelings when you're taking pictures so multiple people that I took pictures with this weekend I did I'd been beaten down by the commentary on the mustache so it got to the point where I was apologizing to people afterwards like you know I so like people not even I met after the show, but like run into someone

a pure habit since we run into each other. Oh my gosh, I'm a huge fan. I'm going to see you tonight. Let's take a photo. Oh, of course. And then afterwards, like, sorry that I had a mustache for this. Oh, I think it's like a unicorn. Like not very many people have seen Jake.

I mean, people have seen you videos with mustaches, but you've never, this is your first tour that you've ever gone on with mustache. That is true. So it's like, it's like a game worn Jersey. Like, like if someone got Patrick Mahomes helmet from this past week with the chip on it, like no one else will ever have a helmet like that. You know, like you have a picture with, you have a mustache Jake picture. They only made 10 of those. Those are rare. You have an autograph Griffey, like bat card, you know, like those things back in the day.

So, but I feel like I was the one that kind of encouraged you to keep it. You were. So I'm sorry if you felt like I led you astray. I thought it was, I thought it was a great idea. The thing is, I didn't feel any less confident in it, but I was just like, man, this is a lot. People are really wanting to know Rachel's thoughts on it. You look great.

It's fine. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think no, no woman just goes googly eyes for mustaches, right? None that I've met yet. Not that I'm not out there. Fireman's wives are crazy about him, but like 90s police officers, wives, but I think Rachel loved it. I mean, as far as like as much as you can to my face, she's always encouraged it. I don't know what she as like as much as you can to my face, she's always encouraged it. I don't know what she's saying behind closed doors,

but to my face, I know mom, it's like a phase. Don't worry. He's just, he'll get over in a little bit. Yeah. Um,

but yeah, it was, uh, used it, wore it for some shows. That was kind of fun. I think it's, it's like a biannual thing.

Yeah, I think so. Twice a year, you go about just a five day stretch with it. When Isaac gets married, bachelor party, mustache time, mustache, go about just a five-day stretch with it. When Isaac gets married, bachelor party. Mustache time. Mustache bachelor party. That's going to be really fun. Yeah, it's going to be awesome. Do it all over again.

You think he'll do it with the same crew, like my dad, my uncle, and my dad's friend? Dude, honestly, I would. Why not? You know, we're doing this pheasant hunt thing, and I was like, I just wanted to be just like the bachelor party. Should I invite Steve? And I was like, well, then I'd have like the bachelor party. Like, should I invite Steve? And I was like, well, then I'd have to invite my dad.

And my dad, like, that'd be fun, but it'd be different. So I feel really bad, like, being like, yeah, I invited Jake's dad. My dad would be like, cool. Yeah, that might hurt his feelings. Not that I wouldn't want you, dad, but. We want you, Dean. We want you. Yeah, so we're more shaven than we were.

Yeah. You know, it's funny. So when you talked about, like, being shaven unevenly, like, I shaved this morning my mustache in the shower, like, with a razor, like, where they get after it. And I was trying to, like, feel myself in the shower, and I was like, I think I'm fine everywhere else. And I got out of the shower, and I was like, Rachel, do I need to shave anything else? she's like yeah it looks really weird because apparently you know I was just going

by feel I was like there's not much there and yeah I had like sideburns a half beard yes neck gross yeah and I about podcasted with like a very clean shaven mustache and then just four days of grossness on my neck and luckily Rachel's like yeah, yeah, you should probably do something about that. Yeah, well, that's what I was thinking. I'll just make the mustache shorter, and the rest of it will look good. And I did it, and I was like, that's a bad idea. It looks like I don't even know what it looked like. But yeah, 100%.

So how was the weekend? It was fun. It was good. So this past week, we did Springfield, Missouri, Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Oklahoma city, Oklahoma, Oklahoma. Yeah. Yep. Did three shows and it was fun. It, it definitely did not feel like that first Thursday show did not feel like I had a show that night. Like I woke up on my own bed. Uh, I went over to Trey's house. We podcasted that morning. Then we got in a rental car and drove down to Springfield and just felt like we were on a little road trip.

It didn't feel like I was going to see my grandparents that night and perform comedy. Trey driving? Who's driving that? Trey driving. I'm shotgun. Kiddo's in the back. Isaac and Derek.

Long legs in the back. The longest legs in the back, yeah. So it was fun. And then, let's see. Looking through my notes here. It was a great day. It was a great day. It was a great day. Before the show, got dinner with just my mom.

How often does that happen? That's sweet. Yeah. Yeah. My dad was out running around, grabbing his parents and getting them and loading them up and coming to the show. And so, yeah, it was just dinner with me and my mom for a little bit. Where'd y'all go? Big Whiskey's. It's right next to the show and so yeah it was just dinner with me and my mom for a little bit where'd y'all go big whiskeys it's right next to the galois so it was like extremely convenient big

whiskeys that's fun yeah it was something what'd you get a big whiskeys i got a salmon i got a bourbon glazed salmon okay not good no no big whiskeys isn't the best salmon spot in springfield missouri it's not a good seafood. That was not good. I'm sorry to hear it. But I'm sure it was a great time with your mom. Yes, and she was like, all right, I need to go. So we're kind of getting up to leave. She's going to go get her mom to bring her to the show.

And then my college roommates, Ethan Farr, Simply Fit Paige, they walk in. I wasn't roommates with Paige, but shared a wall. Practically. Next door to our apartment neighbors. And. They walk. I wasn't roommates with Paige, but shared a wall. Practically. Next door are apartment neighbors. And they walk in. It's like, oh my gosh, big whiskeys. And so then they just take my mom's place. And they're even eating some of my mom's

food, I think. The waitress was confused. She's like, are you leaving? Or like, no, no, no. That's a revolving door. So then I got another like 30 minute dinner with them. Yeah. It's so funny. Like I really stress people out on show days. Like Grant Hudeberg on Saturday was so stressed at different times. The Fars were very stressed because it's like 640 and I'm still like at dinner.

Right. I think you should go. I don't want you to be here anymore. Yeah. And how's Rachel feel about the mustache? Yeah. And also just get out of here. How's Rachel feel about your punctuality?

Yeah. Is she okay with you running this late? And that is interesting that you're just like very comfortable. Like what is like, well, I guess you know that it's not going to start

right at seven. Is that accurate? Yeah, typically. Yeah, if it's like a large theater, you know, midsize theater like what we've been doing. What do you,

what minimum minutes before a show would you be okay with? I think get there at 6.50 would be the latest I'd do it. If it started right at 7? Ooh, that's pushing it. Okay.

That would be like, it'll probably get pushed back a little bit. So you're saying like maybe 20, 25 minutes or so is your number? Yeah, probably. And this is thinking like,

I'm out to dinner and I'm not dressed yet. Like I gotta go and like get dressed and I might need to steam the shirt. Very last minute. You bring the steamer? Oh yeah.

Everybody's borrowing the steamer. Everybody loves Jake's steamer. It's a hit in the green room. Is that, what's the word, bulky? No. They make them tiny now. They do tiny steams. They do tiny little steamers.

Okay. So, yeah. Shoot, what else was I going to say? Oh, yeah. So, it's funny you bring up my punctuality because something happened at the springfield show that has never ever happened to me before i was late getting on the stage it was bad how long okay so oh like seven seconds is a long time all right all right

so yeah i will say i should have left dinner with the Fars. Big whiskeys will get you earlier. Every time. I hadn't seen these people in forever. I was having fun. We were catching up like crazy. It was so fun. Everybody was big. Everybody was whiskey.

Salmon, bourbon glaze, bourbon in my drink. No, water. And anyway, yeah, it was just fun. I should have allotted more time because one, this is my first show in like three weeks. My first show in America in two months. Yeah. Would have been good to like mentally prepare maybe. Also, that night I was planning on doing

like multiple new bits. Like I was doing jokes about my grandmas. I was doing jokes about Bucky's that I had wrote like, I don't know, 30 minutes beforehand, you know, before dinner. And so I was like, I should probably go over that. What am I doing? And so I'm going, and I'm trying to memorize.

I'm cramming for a final. And Paige and Ethan told you, and still you're just like, we're having fun. We're having fun. How hard is Springfield? I got a mustache for chilling. Everyone's going to laugh no matter what. Brad said it'd make me funnier.

The stache brings it out of people. It'll be fun. So yeah, I'm cramming for this final, and I'm just going over my notes, trying to remember everything. All right, look at it. Okay, put it down. All right, try to do it in your head.

Yeah, I think I got it. All right, what's the transition of that? All right, you remember this? You weren't doing the show kind of story. I remember you got to do the show again now. Oh my gosh, I'm still not even dressed. Okay, steam the shirt. Steam, steam, steam, steam, steam.

Unbulky steam. Here's the problem. When I perform, I take off the Apple Watch, and I put on not even dressed. Okay, steam this shirt. Steam, steam, steam, steam, steam. Unbulky steam. Here's the problem. When I perform, I take off the Apple Watch and I put on a nice AirWatch. A little movement. Movement watch. Yeah, the wedding watch. Wedding watch.

Good for you knowing all that. And anyway, analog clock. Sure, I can read them. But it's not like a quick look down. Totally, dude. 100%. I do the same thing. Cause I'm always with the time X,

but then how do you call it? My special occasion watch. Also my wedding present from my wife two years ago. And yeah, it's like, it's like, I'll look down and be like, Oh,

I'll just look at my phone real quick. Yeah. Like, I think that's on like Australian. That might be, I don't know. I don't even know if that's right, but it looks cool.

Yeah, it does. It's like, okay, I i could i know how to read a clock oh yeah gun to my head no problem but gun to my head like take a second real quick okay buddy before you pull the trigger okay the shorthand's on the 953 i guess you know wait the shorth, the short end was before it. 8.53. It was so close to the nine. Sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gun to my head, give me 60 seconds. And so I think that was part of the problem. And I just lose track of time. And I get to my, so I decided like,

let's see how close we're getting. And I had been told earlier, and I knew this, this show was starting at 7.10. So I knew that. I knew, you know, I had around that time. And when I go to check my phone, it says seven Oh nine. And I see a text from Tom that says Jake, all caps, exclamation points, just because I wasn't up there yet. You don't know me. I'm up there. How far go ahead. Go ahead. So I'm like, Oh,

geez, guess I'm done studying. Here we go. And so I start going. You know, my dressing room was on kind of, we are about two stories below the stage. And my dressing room is on the side of one of the staircases. So I'm like, holy cow, I gotta go. Wow, I'm almost late. I run up two flights of stairs and I get up to side stage

and there's nothing there. Like there's no microphones, there's not Tom, there's not Trey. And I'm like, I'll just go around back of the screen but this stage is so tiny that was the back there is no place to run like around back and so in like a two second time i'm like what do i do what do i do like travis is like starting his introduction who's ready for a good like he's done playing music i'm like it oh man what do i do in hindsight you yell anything to him no okay in hindsight made the wrong decision here's what i

did i'm like well gotta go across somehow i go down two flights of stairs i sprint across the length of the stage underneath it back down the dressing room when i was alan could verify this because alan was right there with me when I was halfway done with my run is when he finished saying Jake triplet and I I know that I'm

two stories below them could you hear it yeah yeah I heard it yeah I knew how late I was so then I'm like whipping around this up two flights of stairs

Tom's just right there you know I take the hand off and I sprint onto the stage and dude I was out of breath you got dude, I was out of breath. I was out of breath. I was like, whoa. This is the trick.

This is the one time where it's acceptable to ask them how they're doing twice. Springfield, how we doing? I'm doing better now. You're doing better. I said, big whiskey Springfield, how we doing? The home of Bass Pro, Andy's Frozen Custard, Brad Pitt, how we doing? Orange chicken in the house.

Cashew chicken. Sorry, I was thinking. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry, I was thinking. Sorry. Sorry. Woo. I did. I think I let out a little like, got a little lost back there. Because I was like, I think it's obvious that I'm pretty late.

I should address this. So I go, oh, got a little lost back there. How are we doing, Springfield? So how long do you think? Five seconds? Like, do you think? Five seconds? Did the cheers die before you got to the stage? Yeah, it was quiet.

It was quiet. I know that. I want someone who was there to give me your signing. Can we get some voice memos of some Springfield correspondent? I know we had a lot of ghosties there. I talked to my friends afterwards, and they said they didn't necessarily notice anything. Yeah, but they're also not dip dog in your mustache. My dad, on the other hand,

who's been to a couple of shows now was like, I was wondering, I was like, wow, Jake is really milking it for the hometown show. You're going to have to get louder than that. He's not coming out until you get on your feet. And yeah, so my dad was like, what were you doing at the beginning? And I was like, I was on the wrong side of the stage. So in hindsight, definitely should have just walked across with no microphone and had Tom throw it to me. Yes. I really froze. I made the wrong decision. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Because if nothing else, he would have just come out. You could have just been, yeah, whatever. I don't have a mic. Hey, how we doing? Yeah. Yeah.

I don't have a mic. Hold on. Yeah. Right. That's funny, man. So, yeah right that's funny man so yeah it's funny you bring up punctuality first time ever just like i would say at least six to seven seconds late could have been closer to 10 so you know it's one of those things like you get so used to and so comfortable i mean you're just hanging out with friends beforehand and then like all of a

sudden it just takes one time and now you're gonna be like like the next show you're just hanging out with friends beforehand. And then like, all of a sudden it just takes one time. And now you're going to be like, like the next show, you're going to be like, I can't even have dinner with anybody. Like I'm not going to look at my, you know, whatever fable show. I'm sitting, sitting side stage six 45. Right. Just in case we go earlier. Yeah. That's what, uh, yeah. Just, just in case it says seven o'clock, but like, I don't know what if my movement watches, you know, 20 minutes fast. What if Travis's disc jock dies? I think that's the device they plan. What if that dies? He needs someone to save him.

I'm ready now. I can go out there. That happened to me one time leading worship in college. Yeah, forever. We always had two services in college. And so the first service, we had three services. Wow. Good job.

Yeah, thank you. So the first service I would sit in on, and the second two I would go out and do work or whatever. And when the sermon's over, somebody was like, Brad, he's finishing up or whatever. And there was one time where he gets done praying and he goes, normally, Brad's up here leading worship. I don't know where he is. And somebody sprinted and he's like, you're up, you're up. And it is the worst like feeling ever. Like watching, like, cause I had to come in from the back of the sanctuary.

Like, so everyone's like cheering, like sarcastically for me and everything. There he is finally. Oh yeah. So. I remember the worst experience of ever being late for something. I will tell you after we talk about so strong food.com. So strong. So strong. That was the end of thecom. So strong. I'm so strong.

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code. Mile. Your mile mile. I don't remember. Yeah. Timon. I said, maybe cause I'm like,

I'm sure I have it accidentally or something. Remember, Tymon has a very slow moped that he's running this mile on. People are like watching him. Yeah, that's why he's not getting an Apple Watch because it'll figure out. He's like, well, you're not pumping. He's like, I just have to take my phone. Phone's the only way I do it on my slow moped. Nice try, Tymon.

Well, if Tymon's a cheater, how should he nourish himself? I would say with the cheat day cookie. That's right. If you're going to cheat, cheat right. Cheat in your mouth. Yeah. Yeah, baby.

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eat these because I had two of them this past week. Okay. So no. She came. I'm going to try to reenact how she reacted when she saw this. Great. She goes, Oh my gosh.

Thank you so much. Is that what I think they are? I was like, I think so. She's like, I have been craving those. So excited for mom on a mission bar i wonder if they put something in there that specifically like targets mothers something about like once you've dude i

don't know done a couple things once yeah what i need a couple things cheat days yeah lack uh go ahead go lack for short yeah once you've lacked what is the word now once you've lactated yeah is that right okay just say lacked once you now? Once you've lactated. Yeah. Is that right? Okay. Just say lacked. Once you've lacked, once you've something, a chemical like fires off your body, it affects your tongue where you have a different set of buds. People talk about, yeah, the hormones. Women have a lot of hormones and that's one of them is for mom on a mission bars. Mom on a mission bars. Yeah. So, I mean, she's so pumped. They have three different flavors. They got cocoa, cherry and original, which is kind of like this oat honey kind of flavor. They're so pumped. They have three different flavors. They got cocoa, cherry, and original, which is kind of like this oat honey kind of flavor.

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The time was college. The time period was college. And I was, I think I was a senior in some sort of business class. And I feel like every semester I was in at least two classes, you know, once I was like a junior and senior, whereas a group project and you had to like. You were in two classes. I was in two classes. I took, I had a rigorous course load, like six, seven hours a semester.

I swear I was in at least two classes every semester. College was awful time and don't do it. Oh yeah. But there were so many classes. I mean, the SPU education was so funny, but it was nothing but group projects. It was pretty much the same group project every time. It was like make a new product and figure out how to market it, you know, kind of thing.

And I was starting a business at the time when I was a senior. And so I was like, hey, gang, my little group, let's just use everything I'm doing for this business. We'll do it for here. I've already got a business plan. I've already got a SWOT analysis. We'll just use that. They were like, great, let's do it. They know next to nothing about it. I know everything. I'm doing a...

I did the whole PowerPoint. I mean, the ball's in my court. It's the day to present. I can still remember the exact layout of the classroom i know exactly where it was and uh i slept in slept in bad how bad like not only had class started but like my group which is like the third to present had started presenting oh i was getting phone calls from my group while in front of the class, Jake coming. And I eventually did wake up and this is like, you know, you're supposed to dress up right. Um, when you're presenting. So like, what do I, do I present or do I dress up or do I just

get out the door? Do I run across the stage? Do I go underneath? I think I did not dress up, sprinted over to the Taylorlor building and you know while i'm running i'm like thinking like how am i gonna recover and i get there and it was so embarrassing i think they had just been like uh so campus fear is like a you know just like trying to like mill about for five minutes i get there and i was like i think i remember saying something like uh my my late arrival signifies Campus Fears' entrance into the market, into the textbook market.

It's a sign. Don't you guys get it? You're going to want to invest early. Don't be late. Sorry. How miserable were those last five minutes? That's what the textbook industry has been like for the last five years yeah you don't want to be behind oh it's so funny you're sick dying

the textbook industry is asleep at the wheel so i'm pages are out textbook electronically are in write that down pull up the slide, I have the slides on my computer. Crap, I don't have my computer with me. Everybody hang tight. I'll be right back. That was miserable. I felt so bad. So everyone else is in like khakis or a suit or something.

Oh, yeah. You're in like your Stratford Indian like maroon sweatpants coming in there. Yeah, and District Champs t-shirts. At least you had to like, you know, rub it in to all those Fairgrove people. We were District-shirts at least you had to like you know rub it in to all those fair growth people we were district champs yeah fair growth fair play no fair grove you know dude you know what's funny uh i talked about fair grove on stage for the springfield show because i was talking um i think the night before uh i was telling some friends about um some story about my dad and i like where he grew up like so i don't know if i ever told this on about some story about my dad and where he grew up. So I don't know if I ever told this on the podcast,

but when my dad was in high school, he had to take a career clusters type test. At least that's what they called it in Stratford. Like you take a test, kind of, and it's supposed to tell you what you should be doing. Like here's your top career for your skill set. I remember taking something like that. I don't remember what what it said when my dad grew up in fairgrove and took this as a high school senior the results he got said rodeo clown that's right is that unreal the fact that that's even

in the rolodex of career it's an option and like what was second and and were there any other rodeo clowns yeah so yeah who else is getting rc you know in there yeah so i was like that's kind of funny i'll mention that on stage while my dad's in the audience that'll like freak him out a little bit like this is something i've never said about my dad you know and anyway uh i asked my dad after the show because that was fun i got done with the show i get off stage and my dad is just right there. He was like side stage. He's like, oh, fun. He's like, yeah, I didn't get to hang out here beforehand.

He's like, I've seen Trey's plenty of time. Let's go hang out. So we just talked the whole time. And anyway, I was like, that's a true story, right? I'm not remembering wrong, because I was like positive he told me that. And then, so now I don't know who's memory to trust, because my dad was like, no, it wasn't Rodeo Clown. It was Dog Groomer.

I was like, well, that's not any better. But I swear you told me Rodeo Clown. It's not any better, but it's not the same thing at all. Yeah, it is very different. So it was one of the two. I swear he told me Rodeo Clown, but yeah, when my dad was in high school at Fairgrove was told he is best suited to be either a Dog Groomer or a Rodeo Clown.

Or a Rodeo Clown. I mean, I went to Dixie Stampede and Skeeter. I mean, you could do worse than Skeeter. My dad would do so much better than Skeeter. Yeah. But I'm saying like as a career, like I'd be proud of you if you were Skeeter. Thank you. Yeah. Branson. Branson Clown's pretty good. Yeah.

But yeah, it's just fun to know that like my dad's not a clown, but he has the skill set of one. He could at any point. He could be. Yeah. He got injured in college. Clowns make people laugh. He's a funny guy.

He cultivated a clown. He was my clown. Yeah, your jester. My jester. Man, that's fun. Anyway, what were we talking about? Oh, just being late. Just being late.

Dude, have I shared? I don't even know how to, like, remember it all, but my story of being late to the train to go home from Spain. I don't know. It kind of sounds familiar, but I don't remember the details. Yeah, without getting into every single thing. Yeah, like I had to take a train from Sevilla to Madrid where I was flying internationally home

and, like, had never been late the entire semester. And the one day that I have to be, very on time, I'm late to the point where I missed my train. And, but I had no money because I had like spent all my like euros. So I had no money. I ended up staying like a week later than I had anticipated because my parents came and visited. And so the credit card or my debit card or whatever, I had like called him and been like, Oh, like I, I'm going to be in Spain from this time to this time. So like, okay, great. We'll adjust it to make it work internationally. And so then my parents came and never used my debit card. My parents were here. And so all of a sudden I couldn't use my debit card nightmare. And so I'm literally like begging people on the street,

like, or in the, in the train station, like, can I please borrow your phone? Because I didn't have access to Wi-Fi or anything. Stranded. You go through that at age 21, that'll grow you up a little bit. It really did. It was like, I'm desperate for this. And then literally had to sprint, long story short, through the Madrid airport. You know, you're supposed to get to an international flight. However, I think I got there like 10 minutes before my flight left and made it. And then I blogged about it. So if you want to read my blog. Okay.

Flying International. Kind of nice though. Because they didn't have 9-11. So I feel like in Australia anyway, it's awesome. Everyone has TSA pre-checked on there. Oh, really? Or at least like our equivalent of it. No shoes are coming off.

No laptops out of bag. It's very chill. Yeah. I don't remember any of that necessarily. I just remember like. You mainly remember the asking strangers for necessarily. I just remember like... You mainly remember the asking strangers for money. I remember asking that, and I remember I like literally just cut everybody in line.

Like I was just... Wow. I just said like, I'm so sorry. I need... I'm leaving in Spanish, you know, broken Spanish. I'm like, I'm leaving in 10 minutes. Lo siento, lo siento. Lo siento, lo siento.

I don't know. Mira, mira, mira. And like showing them my ticket. It's like leaving in five minutes. Good. So, yeah, anyway. Cinco minutos. It's like leaving in five minutes. Good. So yeah, anyway. Cinco minutos. It's no fun.

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Sure. I want to talk about it. No, I want you to be back here for it. Oh, what a friend. Tymon, question for you. Yeah. Let's see. Can a song... for you. Yeah. Let's see. Can a song – let's talk music while Jake's gone.

Let's do it. We all know Jake's not much of a music guy. Oh, hey, Jake. Can a song be great if it can't be infinitely played? Like a loop? Like can a song be great? Even if you'll like get tired of it eventually. Correct.

Like, like Phil Collins in the air tonight, one of my favorite songs. But if I listened to that thing every day, I don't think I would be, I would get tired of it real quick. I think a song can absolutely be great. Okay.

Yeah. Cause there can be a song that's like, that greed is like an old, like classic, just like even like a classical music piece it's just like yeah oh like always known as being great it's like 10 minutes long you don't want to listen to that all the time yeah true but like it's a great song yeah there's like certain ones are like i'm in the right mood this is great other times i'm like no like we're not listening to

surfaces sunday best to wind down the day yeah Yeah. Not when it's snowing outside. And I'm never always in the mood, even for my favorite song. Yeah, like, it always takes the mood to be, I think. Yeah, okay. You know, I don't know what movie you're thinking of this exactly, but, like, TV shows, movies have, like, twists and turns. I would like songs to have that.

Ooh! To make the first time you heard it that special. Because, like, a movie, it's so much harder to watch like a good movie twice because like it's like, well, I know that he doesn't watch it and he's blind the whole time. So now it kind of takes away that feeling

of like when it was revealed. Right. Or like a movie like Get Out or something. Like, you know. So what if you could recreate that with music? The first time you heard the song, it was- Dude, I think you can.

Let's do it. There's songs like that. Yeah. Dude, I mean, In the Air Tonight, you know that song, right? Yeah. I mean, that's not exactly that, but it's like crazy buildup. There's no drums the whole time, and then all of a sudden, just bangs into it. That's true, I guess.

I want like massive genre switch. Whoa. Yeah. Listen to With the Love in My Heart by Jacob Collier. Ooh. Fun. Okay, play it at the end of the episode, Kyman. Yeah. Yeah to With the Love in My Heart by Jacob Collier. Ooh. Fun. Okay, play it at the end of the episode, Kyman. Yeah.

Is that a minute song? Yeah, sure. Will do. Everyone listen so it doesn't hurt our metrics. Retention, guys. Yeah. That would be fun. Or even like, no one would ever be willing to do this,

but like, there's a surprise guest. Like, they're not credited anywhere in the song. You're listening to a song for the first time. You had no idea that Dolly Parton was in this song with Drake until you got to the end of it. Like, that's awesome. Yeah, they sampled Dolly. That's so cool.

Well, I mean, yeah. Three, four times this morning to prepare for the jingle today, I listened to Good Morning. And I didn't have the same feeling, but very similar to like, oh, Toby Mac hasn't been introduced in the song yet. What a surprise it's going to be when Toby comes Mr. Mac to the mic. You know, like, because there's like, you know, near the end when he's,

when she's singing good morning, he's kind of saying stuff in the background. Morning, middle of the sunshine. You know, whatever. But the beginning, he's not doing that. I was like, oh, it's because Toby hasn't been introduced yet. They don't know how Mr. Mac did that. Can you imagine like the first time

she's ever doing that song live? I have a new song. And then she just goes, Mr. Mac to the mic. That's what you're talking about. All right. So it does exist. Okay. So yeah. And let us know other, I think it'd be fun. I, I, I am not to the, I'm, I'm to the point in life where I'm not seeking out music nearly as much as I used to. But when people tell me about music, I'm like, I'll listen to that. And it's like so good. So often. So like, let us know if there's a song like that, that Jake and I need to listen to in time besides when time is in. Um, okay. I've been thinking about music more lately because my new truck has a very nice sound system. Uh, 18 speakers. It seems like too many. Is it too many? Interesting, dude. No, I think the more the better. Dude, there are four speakers in the headrests.

There's two speakers in each of my headrests and the passenger headrests. And so it has like this- The bell of the ball. Surround sound like weird. Like it's like- Dude, you know what's gonna happen. Like even I feel like my first truck ever

had two speakers and it would fool me sometimes certain songs have a little siren in them you think you're being pulled over or like katie perry's uh what is that the song about the the jeep with snoop dogg she was california girls oh yeah um there's like always a little honk i always thought people was honking at me back today imagine 18 speakers behind your ear oh if there's a siren at all. Fireman, Lil Wayne. Uh-oh, pull over. It's like, yeah, what's... A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton has a little siren in it. Does it?

Good for us, doing all these siren songs. Yes. What else has sirens? Bad Boys. Oh. Shake Your Tail Feather. Woof, woof. Bop, bop, bop, bop.

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So I've just been enjoying like listening, especially for whatever reason. Classic rock. I've been listening to a lot of classic rock. You would love my our Rachel and I's taxi ride to the airport. Yeah, maybe so. Four in the morning. Yeah. Just like one the Fox.

It's as interesting, like it's not super loud. Like it's like this, it's a good sound system, but it's not super like overpowering me. Like, you know, in high school it was like, oh, let's see how loud I could get it. Yeah, it just sounds- Crisp. Good loud.

Yeah, I don't know. It just sounds like it's supposed to be. That's like getting a sound bar for your TV. Yeah. Like it just sounds just really nice all the time. Exactly. Whereas like Catherine often will like listen to like podcasts on her phone in the kitchen on full blast and it sounds so loud for some reason.

But if she had like Alexa or something, it'd be just fine. You know what I mean? Like a speaker. Anyway, but yeah, the truck speaker. Yeah. Anyway. Um, but yeah, the truck's awesome. Uh, it's been very,

very nice to have in this cold weather because it has a remote start on it. Uh, it's a good time to get it. Very cold. Um, yeah, I don't know. What is,

what does she want to know about? I was talking to Hattie last night about it, you know, cause she got dropped off in the truck and yeah, Hattie last night came over, uh, had a little Prince of Egypt watch party. Catherine dropped her off. It was just me, Rachel, and Hattie. Rachel blew up this huge, like, giant air mattress and gave Hattie an electric blanket,

made it all cozy. Oh, she loved it. And then made her snacks. We popped her popcorn, peanut butter-filled pretzels, and a few chocolate chips, made like a snack bowl, hot apple cider, good vibes, watched the movie. It the movie it was awesome did you guys have like a little table for the snacks or something yeah i had like a tv tray yeah she thought that was cool really yeah she like told me all about everything she's like this bed they like put this bed out there i was like i was like an air mattress like i didn't pay that much attention to how it was aired up or whatever

that's so great. She had so much fun. Yeah. But I think before that, I was just like, you know, what do you think in the new truck? She's real big on the heated seats.

Yeah. She's fired up that even the back seats have heated. They do. Yeah. Which is funny because like she sits in a booster seat. So she doesn't even like, she sits on, like we took like a ride around the neighborhood,

you know, going 10 miles an hour and she was on the heated seats, but like, she's not going to enjoy those for another couple of years probably. But yeah, she was like, uh, I like this truck a little more than your old truck.

Yeah. I was like a little, I couldn't get her to really talk that highly of it. I was like, this one's way cleaner though. I was like, yeah, she's big on car cleanliness. I found out. Cause first of all, I was like, this one's way cleaner though. Yeah. I was like, yeah, she's big on car cleanliness.

I found out. Cause first of all, I was like, is this, is this truck way bigger than the last one? She's like, I don't know if it's bigger. And I was like,

well, you have like more room. I mean, I haven't even seen your truck. I'm like, surely you have more room in there. And he's like, I maybe a little bit,

it's just way less messy. I was like, that's like the only difference. It is way less. It's just way less messy. That's like the only difference. It is way less. It's probably like if it's so messy, you don't notice anything else about a truck. You just notice like this is filthy. So yeah, it's way more room.

But at the same time, the other night, I took all three of the kids like with me. And so Rosie was like crawling all over Hattie. So maybe Hattie was just like, I'm suffocated. I don't know. This truck is crowded. Catherine texted Rachel and I last night once Hattie got back home.

Some of her quotes. Okay. And we have, it was the best, all caps. This was the greatest night of my life. They had an electric blanket. Miss Rachel made the most fun snacks. And then the last one says, I got to ride in Mr. Jake's car,

and it was kind of messy. Yeah, that's what she told me, too. I was like, oh, it was. I was like, where'd you... She was like, I got to ride in the front seat. Miss Rachel was in the back. And I was like, fun? Is that right?

Not accurate at all. Oh, no, maybe were they both in the back? They were both in the back, yeah, yeah. And she's like, yeah, it was kind of messy back there i was like oh what did it have she's like it had a shirt like all the way in the back and i was like what what do you mean by that i don't know what that means i just had like golf polo back there and she was sitting on it and after she's like uh i think i was sitting on that the whole time like worried like she like messed it up or something it's like michael crumbling up the dollar bill and now it's worthless um but yeah i was like man how do you get a new truck and her standards just go way up for you know vehicular transportation

she's she always loved that old truck though like like it was like we bought this awesome van because i mean like the van that we got had features that not every van had. It has a TV. It has all these cool things. And she's still like, I think maybe I like your truck more. I'm like, why? How? I love about this.

Yeah. And Bo's the same way. Bo always wanted to drive in the truck with me over Catherine. I was like, you could watch unlimited I Love Lucy's. Andy Griffith for days, or you could go in my rusty truck where, you know, yeah, you can't even touch the ground because it's so much mess on there. That's cool. That truck is going to be a really interesting memory for Bo. Cause it's going to be when he first started to form memories was with the truck. It's going to be a very nostalgic thing in childhood. Yeah. It's, it's fun. It's also

fun to think about how many cars I've had since starting the podcast, because I'm not the kind of guy that is like a personality, like I got to get a new truck every three years. Bigger and better, upgrade. But at the same time, it just kind of has happened in my life. I think I've had like, I don't know, seven cars since we've started the podcast.

Have you really? Infinity, green truck, blue truck, Chrysler 300, and then the black truck, and then this truck, this past truck, and then the new truck. Oh, wow. That's seven. That I was driving, not even the Catherine was driving. You got a lot of trucks.

Wow. Yeah, one of them got totaled, and so then I got another one, and it didn't work out very well. So then I bought the new, nicer one, sold that one because we made money off of it to buy the van, basically. Yeah. So then I got the old truck again, got a new truck.

So anyway, it's fun. Truck guy. It's nice. It's got all the cool technology and bells and whistles. Bells and whist. And I do like the bells and whistles. Bells and whistles. And I do like the bells and whistles. I'm not trying to act like I don't. Well, thanks for lending us Hattie last night.

It was fun. Once that movie got going, she was locked in. There was no more conversation. There was no reaction out of her. When our favorite song came on, Through Heaven's Eyes, I was leaping. I was dancing all around and just no reaction. Just watching the movie.

I mean, I did a lap around the living room dancing to the song. She's watching. She's used to her dad being like that as well. Yeah. Like, she's just like, okay,

I get this at home. Like there's been so many times where I'm just like, you're going to, you're going to miss this someday. You're going to realize how good you had it with this fun dad. Yeah, dude. Because she doesn't get that much time where she watches shows and stuff,

she really is locked in. Yeah. Way more than Bo is. For whatever reason, I can say something to Bo and he'll hear me every time. With Hattie, I have to be like, Hattie, Hattie.

I can walk in from being gone for a week and if a show's on, hey, hey, Hattie. She just looks at the screen. It's amazing. So,

uh, yeah, I mean, fun times, fun times with the kids. She was really specifically looking forward to you being there. Like, like it's like,

I, let's call a spade a spade. The kids love Rachel more than you. Yeah. But I don't know. Hattie has a special soft spot in her heart for Mr. Jake and Prince of Egypt. Prince of Egypt. Like, because last night, whatever, the schedules got changed.

You were originally going to watch it tonight. Instead, you watched it last night. And one of the things was, like, Miss Rachel had her volleyball practice canceled so she can watch it tonight. And Hattie's like, well, but is Mr. Jake going to be there? Like she wasn't as worried about Rachel. Okay. I don't,

I didn't ask about her volleyball practice. Did I put, put that down on a list of things I don't care about. So yeah, she's, she's a fun girl. And yeah, it's just fun.

Like her being a little bit older so she can do fun things like that later at night. Yeah, it is awesome you know i always try to emphasize like she's she has a hard time sometimes being the oldest and like having the responsibility of like helping out with her siblings and stuff so i always point out like hattie isn't it really fun that you got to stay up late and read prince caspian tonight with mom for like three chapters and it's only because you're older yeah it's because you're

the oldest and so you get you get fun things like that, too. Isn't that fun that you got to go watch that with Mr. Jake and Miss Rachel? Yeah, she... That is fun. She had a blast, man. So thanks for doing it. Of course, of course.

I want to wrap up a couple things from the Springfield show, and then we can get on to some other stuff. And I think I'll talk about Fayetteville, Oklahoma City on the Wednesday episode. Cool. Just so people know. But yeah, Springfield. So I did...

It was just great. I got to see friends beforehand. I got to... I had so much family there. So many people from Stratford there. I did a couple... Like I said, I did a joke about my grandma. It wasn't really too much of a joke. I talked about how my grandma's first job was at that theater

and talked about... And this is the grandma that always hangs out with my dad and my uncle, and they go to the slot machines together. And so I said like, so, you know, she's able to be here tonight. So if you see her in the lobby, you know, make sure to say hi.

Or if you see her at Downstream Casino later tonight, and you know, kind of a funny joke. I went back and watched the video and you can hear my uncle John like, yeah, I didn't notice at all at the time. But back and watched the video and you can hear my uncle john like yeah i didn't notice at all at the time but looking back at the video i was like you could definitely hear john there ride the ponies yeah you can hear him screaming and then i did a whole like bucky's bit so i was like this is never more topical than right now really one of my favorite

jokes i think i've ever written i i saw this i did it was so was so good. Yeah, I think I only posted it to my personal Facebook because I was like, this is so niche. Like, I don't think it's a good joke, but like you have to be from the Springfield, Missouri area to get this. And so basically it was a joke about how, and maybe I've mentioned this on the podcast, just like Bucky's was supposed to be in Stratford.

Springfield rezoned the city line. So now they get it, you know, doing this joke. Like, can they just take our land like that? That's not fair. Maybe that's why we're called the Stratford Indians. Yeah. And that was really fun. And like a joke I just wrote that day to get like an applause break was

awesome. So earlier in the night I had done my like Kennedy joke. Someone yells too soon. Ha ha. I do a couple of jokes, right? When I do the Indians joke, I hear someone else yell too soon and everyone's kind of cheering and

applauding. So I wasn't going to address it, but I remember thinking like, that is kind of funny to say, like, I said Indians are like, too soon. Come to find out afterwards. That was my Aunt Angie. She was the one who yelled too soon. John and Angie are rowdy, baby.

Yeah, they were loving it. Yeah. It was great. Good contributions to the show. Got to see them immediately afterwards, which was so fun. They loved it. Loved the downstream part. Bucky's joke hit.

And then afterwards got dinner with other college roommates and friends who got to be there. One of them is my friend Louis. I lived with him my junior year. He's the man. Lives in the Springfield area now. And

he's good friends with Dimchek as well. We're all still tight. And I guess a couple months ago, Dimchek told Lewis, like, hey, Jake and I were thinking about franchising this Acaibo business. And Lewis made some comment like, I don't know, it seems like kind of a fad or something like that or whatever.

So Alex has really attached himself to that. So when it came time for Alex and I to establish an LLC for Bonnet Bulls, the name of it is Lewis LLC. So that's our, so I got to tell him that like, hey, just FY, we named our company after you. I like, I like, I like

getting a few people that don't believe in you. It fuels the heck out of you. There was a guy that met early and with great intentions, one of my friend's dads met me and he's like, you're not going to be able to make enough money on a woodworking business to make it a business. Yeah. And I was like, he's like, he's like, just, just let you know that's, that's not going to be able to make enough money on a woodworking business to make it a business yeah and i was like he's like he's like just just let you know that's it's not going to be able to happen like oh just you wait that is awesome yeah so um so yeah it's

fun i i think obviously he still does believe in us but it'll be kind of a fun reminder every time we like look at it or see it in print like oh yeah the the roots of this are that people might think it's not gonna work or if it doesn't doesn't work, you're just like, you just keep looking at Louis. Like, I should have listened to him. Dang, he was right. We should, like, not name our next business after him. We should just do our next business with him because he's the smartest one. He knows how this works.

Oh, man. Yeah, what's, like, next steps with Bondi stuff? Next steps is figure out how to get trike in the store. Right? I mean, that's just... Can you imagine? It's protein iced coffee. Yeah.

Who wouldn't love it? A chai. What do you think of that? People always wonder, how do I... It's Brazilian. How do I pronounce it? A chai. A chai.

I'll take some of the chai. Do you have some of the triple espresso achai? ilikeachai.com? And I'll say, yes, we do. We do have the triple espresso. What? What? That's not...

What? How does this do that? Why not? There's no way. There's no way you can do that. This actually launches tomorrow, but Ghostrunners, ghosties,

have access, special access to the flavor early today. I love that we get that. I know. They always do that for us. It's so fun. Yeah, you could potentially be the very first, if you're listening to this early Monday morning,

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I couldn't think of what else to say with a voicemail. Extra punch, extra kick. Kick is good. Extra lift. Lift is good. Extra lift. Lift is good. Timon, think of one. Extra propulsion.

Propulsion? Extra grit. Grit. I don't know. Have you said it? Extra pump. Extra pump. Yeah. Working out. It would be pump. Yeah. Working out.

It would be nice. Yeah, nice pump. Before or after. It comes out to 225 milligrams of caffeine, if you're curious. Dang. That's how you can get it. That's a lot of caffeine, man. I like trike.com slash ghostrunners,

or you can just use the promo code ghostrunners to get 15% off. Ghostrunners. Yeah. I mean, everything else is also 15% off, but right now it's like triple express. Yeah, dude. Get it while you can. Get it while nobody else can. I'll be honest.

Sometimes, if I need it, I'm feeling kind of chiked up right now, honestly. If I need it, I'll double up chike protein. Like, I'll just double up my – I don't need to do that anymore with the triple express. No, it'll do it for you. Or maybe I'll just double up my... I don't need to do that anymore with the Triple Espresso. No, it'll do it for you. Or maybe I'll just double the triple and get wild. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see.

So, ilikechike.com slash ghostrunners. How it sounds. How it spells how it sounds. I chai-y. Oh, you want some I chai-y? You got this, ghosties. From Bandai-y? you want some achai? You got this ghosties. From Bandai? Or I like chai?

Uh, should we do some, some segments? You want to talk? Yeah, sure. Let's do it. Yeah.

Uh, talk about the segments we're going to do. We're going to do some segments. Let me remind myself of what we're doing. Oh, the podcast moving forward is going to have more segments. Yeah. I think,

I think it'd just be nice to get back to some segments that we did more of back in the day and now we're just more free-flowing, you know, timing's just blah, blah, blah. And... No, so yeah, let's do some Currently Trending.

You want to do some Currently Trending? Currently Trending! A little voice memos, maybe a little something else. We'll see. So... Currently Trending. You guys voice memos, maybe a little something else. We'll see. So Currently Trending. You guys got anything? I'll start if not. Oh, yeah. I got stuff.

Okay. Go ahead. Okay. Currently Trending. Probably like four days ago, Gunner sent me a game pigeon text. Oh, yeah. You know, the games within iMessage, and it was for chess. Okay. I was like, wow. Didn't know Gunnar played chess.

Didn't know I played chess. What made him think to send me a chess message? I don't know. And we can't stop playing chess. We're obsessed with it. Chess obsessed. And how do you think, so right now we've finished, we're on our fourth game right now.

We've played three games. What do you think the score is right now? I think if you're asking and you're talking about it it's two to one jake at one point it was two oh gunner no way yeah really uh the thing is we both suck so it's just like who's gonna make the biggest blunder first okay you know we just make a movie go oh oh he could take my queen how did i not see that i didn't see it until literally i pressed submit and then it became obvious um but yeah we're loving it that's how i felt with uh connect four on the game picture back in the How did I not see that? I didn't see it until literally I pressed submit, and then it became obvious. But yeah, we're loving it. That's how I felt with Connect Four on the game pitch back in the day.

You do it, and you're like, oh my gosh, if he sees it, he's going to win. Now it's obvious. And then you wait six hours for him to win, and it's like, dang it. How often do you guys get in a little bit of a streak or a little bit of a rhythm where sometimes sometimes it's like boom boom boom boom other times it's like a day long 100 is gutter is so up to date with my life now because of like hey man sorry i got a podcast next couple hours it's gonna be a while he's like dang it man you know gutter sent me a text last night like hey i know we have a good thing going in the evenings but i'm gonna be busy tonight you know and i was like it's all good hattie's coming over to watch prince of egypt you know so like we're very up to date, it's all good. Hattie's coming over to watch Prince of Egypt. We're very up to date.

So it's fun. But yeah, every now and then you get those sessions where it's like, oh, we're just going back and forth for an hour. It's so fun. So currently trending, I'm really starting to get into chess. Okay.

Mainly with Gunnar. Love it. Have you tried any other of the game pigeon like things between you guys or just chess? So at first we just played one game of chess and I said, all right, this is the best of seven. Loser gets to pick the next game. So we kept going back and forth.

So we played, I mean, I played all of them at certain points. Quarantine, if I was playing, it was like crazy. They have billiards, like pool? Yeah, pool is fun, and chess is fun. Those are the really fun ones. I like all the word ones. Gunner does not. Gunner might be the worst speller of anybody I've ever met.

But yeah, so we played Cup Pong. We played the Penguin Slider one. Cup Pong is such a frustrating game. Cup Pong is frustrating. Is there any way to master it? I don't think so. It's called being an athlete. Precision control right here.

So yeah, we played a couple of them, but we're really just back to chess. We just love chess the most. That's awesome. So that's currently trending. What about you? Currently trending for me uh thanks to scott peck scott sell uh he encouraged or like we talked about the other night the chiefs came doing cold showers and i've started started doing a minute of cold showering at the end of my shower

and i am into it i i don't hate it. I had tried it before. Unreal. Well, try it sometime if you want. But I tried it before and I'd always put the water on my head and it always gave me like a headache because of how cold it made my head. And he's like, oh, yeah, don't put it on your head. He's like, you can put it on your face. But he's like, usually Scott went through the whole on your face, but like, he's like, I used to usually Scott with like the whole, you know, gamut of what he does,

like while Catherine's right there, what I do is this. And Catherine jokingly was like, should I, should I leave for this? Uh, cause Scott's like, I'm like a rotisserie chicken in there. So I'm like 30 seconds here, 30 seconds here. Then I turn around. Um, but anyway, I've been enjoying it. And it's like the last thing you do – before I would try to do it at the very beginning of my shower, which is a bad idea. But if you do it at the end of your shower, then you don't go back to like warmth.

You're just good. You turn off the shower and then you're not cold when you're getting out of the shower. You're warm because it's warmer. Maybe it just seems not fun. It's kind of like a – it's a really easy win every day. It's kind of like, not exactly the same thing as running a mile, but it's like, Hey, I did something that is, I don't really want to do.

It's not that hard, but at the same time, like I did it. And now I feel better about like the rest of my day. Yeah. Um, but my, my funny look quirk with with it i guess is that whenever it turns to cold or whenever i turn my body around like 30 seconds in i like is it it's called shadow punching like i just like shadow boxing yeah i just like like that's like my way of like combating it like if somebody saw me like i'm just like for like the first like five seconds every time. So that's my like, I'm sure Catherine's like thinking like, what is going on in there? So that's funny.

Okay. Good to know. Yeah. I mean, what's currently training in your life? I have not listened to very much music at all because anytime I'm on Spotify, it's old Ghostrunners episodes. Okay. So yeah, I'm on episode 32.

What are you learning about us? No, I just finished 32. I'm on 33. Thank you for clarifying. Yeah, you're welcome. I'm learning, well, I need to watch The Office. Okay. I think that's a big thing.

Yeah. And also, yeah, I don't know. The last thing that I listened to is Jake talking about being in Mexico and not being able to speak Spanish. Oh, man. During the gas, gas pump. Yeah. Or with the police one. Oh yeah. And my car was gone. Uh, maybe I haven't gotten there yet. I don't know. I was going to say, but speed bump on the highway. We talked about that.

You were about to, when I pulled in. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's funny. I remember all that. Yeah. That was, I remember we recorded that episode in my living room. Yeah. Christmas lights were up. That was sweet. That was a sweet moment. My family was gone for whatever reason. So like, yeah, we brought in the desk inside the house. And yeah, that was nice. I remember the Chiefs played the Broncos in the snow when I was in Tulum. And that was when Patrick was like, I think I'm a snow guy. Snow game guy.

Yeah. Okay. That's fun. Yeah. Cool. Currently trending for me is Rachel and I. Oh, hey. Right as I talk about her, she's fun. Yeah. Cool. Currently trending for me is Rachel and I. Oh, hi. Right as I talk about her, she's in here.

Can I move your van, Tymon? Oh, Tymon parked in the way. Sorry. Sorry about that. I didn't think about it as well. Where are you headed? To Sculpt. Sculpt it up.

And then right inside. And Brookside. There you go. Brookside. Rachel still doesn't know the place. I always get raised with college. What? Brookridge.

She calls it anything but the right name on accident. So, what was I saying? Oh, currently trending. Rachel and I have been watching Ted Lasso. Okay. Finally gave it a try. Everyone's been talking about it for three years, four years. Give it a rating out of 10.

It's, okay, rating out of 10. 7.8. 7.8? It's not knocking my socks off. Yeah. But it does just enough to keep me coming back. Okay. They do a good job with the characters.

Because it's not that funny, and it's not super interesting. I wish that there were more sports. Do you wish that? Yeah, they skip over almost anything related to the game itself. Like, they don't actually watch them execute at the game. Yeah. From what I remember. And I think it's because they got actors instead of soccer players.

Fair. But yeah, so it's, I don't know. I'm like half, almost done with season one. So I don't know what other people think. After the first episode, I was kind of like, this is what people love so much. But I get it. I think it's just kind of heartwarming and endearing. But I'm also getting a, there's some episodes where I of like, this is what people love so much. But I get it. I think it's just kind of heartwarming and endearing.

But I'm also getting a... There's some episodes where I'm like, wow, Ted Lasso, pretty cool guy. That's fun. I like the way... And other times I'm like, dude, give it a break with the catchphrases. I'm so sick of the catchphrases. Have you watched it? Do you know?

Yeah, I watched the whole season when I had COVID in 2020 in like a day and a half. So I don't remember it very well. I haven't seen it since season one. You just watched season So I don't remember it very well. I haven't seen it since season one. You just watched season one, but I remember enjoying it fine. Like you're saying, like it's, it's interesting because it, it is like so anti the rest of TV shows. Like the main character is just a really good guy and a really clean guy. Like there's not like this just looming, like he has this secret past or whatever 100 yeah it's a little different so i think that's what is so refreshing and people like about it

maybe um and it's always just fun to see all the little kc references and stuff yeah it is fun he's always like wearing kent city hats kent city shirts talking about barbecue but yeah so we're still making our way through it yeah but it's it's not anything super spectacular, I'd say. It didn't blow me away. Yeah. Yeah. But no, it's good. Cool.

It's fun. Currently trending probably in all of our lives is cold weather. Dude, let's talk about that. Okay. Can we cancel it? Cancel cold weather. Can we fast forward past this part? Yeah.

Yeah. What do you want to talk about? What do you want to say about? I wrote down in my notes pipes freezing question mark everyone's always talking about the pipes freezing yeah your pipes are gonna burst oh look out before i left for four days i forgot to do anything to help my house out um the one thing i did do was drop the thermostat down i hurt my house okay um. I learned about the covers you could put over your spouts. Yep. I just heard all these stories about pipes freezing,

you know, dripping your faucets. And I'm realizing I didn't do any of them. The only thing I did do was make my house colder. Get back to the house. It's fine. Just fine. And the house was built in 1804. If the house ain't freezing, how are other people's freezing?

Yeah, yours is like, other people's freezing? Yeah. Yours is like, maybe that's part of it. It's like, they don't make them like they used to. These pipes are made of gold. This installation is not legal anymore. But that's the thing though,

is I have an unfinished basement, which is freezing cold. There is no like door. There's no separation between the unfinished basement and the garage. The stairs go up. Right. So my garage is even colder than the basement. Yeah.

Our house is freezing. No pipes frozen. Yeah. I'm trying to happen. I'm trying to think of, cause I think the main culprit for pipes freezing is if they're like on the out exterior part of the house, which your kitchen sink would be right.

Like if it's like up against the wall, you know what I mean? It's colder. I don't know. I don't know enough about it. Um, the only thing I've heard is pipes freezing through your outdoor spout and then it travels down. Up against the wall. You know what I mean? It's colder. I don't know. I don't know enough about it. The only thing I've heard is pipes freezing through your outdoor spout, and then it travels down.

Yeah, that makes sense too. Do you have any hoses on? You're supposed to always take off the hoses. I don't even own a hose. Really? Not even one? I don't think so. Why would I need a hose?

What do you use a hose for? Watering plants. Someday. Fill up a bucket. How hard can it be? Hey, Rachel's back. Rachel, do we have a hose? Yeah, we do.

Oh, sorry, Jilly Bean. I forgot about the hose you got us. We love it. There's some hose in this house. We love the hose. We use it all the time. It's what I shower with. I've got it hanging up in this house. We love the hose. We use it all the time. It's what I shower with. I've got it hanging up in the shower. I hung out with my friend Andrew Cordasco

the other day. He's in town. His Airbnb, their pipes froze. I'm not doubting it happens. I'm just wondering, if it didn't happen here, how is it happening to other people? Dude, there's something. There's a hedge of protection over Shawnee, Kansas. That's what it is. I don't know, but Catherine's parents, there's a, there's a hedge of protection over Shawnee, Kansas. I'm telling you. That's what it is.

I don't know. But Catherine's parents, their pipes froze in that crazy Texas storm last year, two years ago, whenever that was. And it was, it looked awful. Like, I mean, or like Kirstie Swick, the Swick's house. Did you ever see like the pipe that like. Well, I know their house caught on fire. I saw that.

That was crazy. No, they've had a couple of crazy things happen. This was like either like last year, two years ago, whenever like their whole living room, like ceiling collapsed. Yeah. Yeah. I do remember seeing that. Jeez. They have had a rough. I know not a hedge of protection. We'll pray for that. It paid their debt off though. That's right. Another thing with the cold, well, sorry, back to the pipes freezing is, uh, you know, while we were gone, you know, all anyone wants to talk about is either my mustache or pipes freezing. That's all, that's all the small talk I've had for a week straight.

And so I'm, I'm starting to get worried about it. I'm like, that's all anyone talks about is our pipes freezing back home. And so I was like, Hey, beauty of not ever finishing our basement. Who cares if it freezes? And Rachel is like, you know, just eternal optimist. Like that's actually good that we never put carpet down there. Um, Rachel's like, well, all of your sister's stuff is down there. I was like, Oh yeah yeah, that's right. They did put – Well, it's her fault for having it down there. That's what I said. I was like, well, I mean, the stuff she really likes is in her apartment. Right.

So, I mean, this stuff, yeah, it can get a little wet. Yeah, yeah. I mean, recliner can't get wet. That's true. Yeah, was the cold weather a big issue? Because you were in the quote-unquote south. I always get a weird thing with northwest Arkansas and Oklahoma City, like whatever they are, but you were not in the Midwest, aka they're not as used to snow. How did they handle it? Yeah, we'll call it mid-south. Yeah,

I guess we can talk about that on Wednesday. You want to talk about it now? Let's talk about it later. Okay. Let's talk about more cold weather stuff. Okay. My bed is different since we've been back. Is your bed different well expand expound i was just gonna see if maybe you had some weird bed things going uh well i mean our bed is up against the window and so it's frigid af like it's crazy like it's always frigid always frigid after yeah after fahrenheit always always frigid yeah it's quiet always quiet it's quiet thank you the name is frigid oh that's funny yeah so that's different I guess but our bed is so we have it's not like some crazy Tempur-Pedic I bought bought it online. Just give me the run of the mill nectar mattress, whatever.

And it feels a little like memory foam-ish. I don't know if we have any special technology in there. It is rock solid. And like our thermostat still says like it is the right temperature in this house that it's supposed to be. But something's up here because it doesn't feel as warm as it normally is in here. It is cold today. Yeah.

It's always so hot in here. And I think, so I have theories. I mean, I live my whole life just having theories. Me too. I love it, dude. I'm a theory guy. Dude, you know what? You're actually more of a theory guy than I am.

I almost did. Just you wait till you have kids. That's when the theories start flowing, baby. I almost did some of my grande boule roast about you and your theories. Okay. I'm trying to think, what were they going to be gonna be dang it because there were a couple that you had done like the weeks leading up to it so i started like writing them down somewhere about like brad's weird

theories oh dude i love theories i remember the only one i could think of this one is not that funny there were a couple that i could get some humor out of but um the one that i remember was you were at top golf and there was some theory based off of like if we use a real t versus their t your ball going straighter versus like curving okay you had a theory i'm like well when i use the real t the ball's going straight i think that's yeah something's up with this t dude yeah that's funny can we get you get one of your t's out my i don't remember. My ball just goes straighter. Yeah. Whatever. I just think like the air is the temperature it's supposed to be,

but the floor is nowhere near the temperature it's supposed to be. I think basement, like it is freezing to walk around in this house. And I think it is ice cubing my bed. Interesting. Even though it's the same temperature, it says it's the same temperature as it always is. It's stiff, though. Our bed is rock solid. It's so weird getting in a bed.

Really? Yeah. No, I haven't felt that at all with ours. We do have a heated blanket on ours. With climate zones. Ooh, like you could say, I want Pacific Northwest. Yeah, I'm like, I just want a little Willamette River over here. I want 1974, like pre-global

warming South Chile. It does. It has different years as well. Catherine's more of an Albany, New York. Really? Last time I talked to her, she said ancient Mesopotamia.

No, not anymore. That was before. She's been enlightened. Climate zones. No, yeah. Not bad. So I always heat mine up. You can do a preheat function.

So it preheats for like 30 minutes where it's like full blast, and then I go to one all night long. Whereas Catherine's like she full blasts it for like two hours before bed and then turns it off right when she gets in bed. Okay. Hey, hey, it's your, it's your climate zone. I don't care. It's your fertile crescent.

Yeah. So, uh, I haven't, I haven't found that, but, um, my thing with the cold, sorry. No, you're going to touch that. No, I just think I have a huge or strong theory, at least at this stage in life, that kids are not going to recognize weather very well unless you point it out to them. Okay. In other words, like, so the other day,

like the kids really wanted to go out and play in the snow. And I'm like, it is literally negative five degrees outside. But I was like, if we don't complain about it, if we don't say, no, you can't, like I bet they'll play out there for a while. So me and the kids, I was thinking like, they're going to complain after five minutes. They're going to notice we stayed out there for 30 minutes, dude, dude. No, the theory of mine. Yeah. I'm into this. Talk to me. Don't look at

data that gives you a certain way to like feel. Okay. So like, don't look at your watch to see if it's time to eat. Okay. You know? Yeah just eat, you want lunch, go get lunch, dude. I don't know if any dieticians are recommending this, but that's how you want to talk about like, uh, yeah. Like Jeff Bethke, you know, his whole thing is like rhythms and like ancient rhythms. You used to work when the sun was up and you go to bed when the sun goes down. I'm all about this. Now it's like, what time is it? Oh, I need to go to work. What time is it? Oh, I need to be done working. Oh, I need to be tired now. It's like, no, you're tired because it's dark outside. And so there's no light. And so your body's telling you to be tired. Whereas these days it's like,

no, we can manufacture it to look like it's daytime anytime. You know what I mean? So I, I, I'm into it. I'm all about listening to your body. Like, Hey, I know I need to like, write some standup comedy right now, but I feel like my brain right now just feels like I need to do more like an analytical. I need to respond to emails. Like even though that's not as important, I will be much more productive doing that.

But then, hey, 10.30 at night rolls around, I'm feeling juiced and jazzed. I know I shouldn't work because it's like, you know, it's not during the daytime, but my body feels so ready

to be funny right now. Go do it. Just take advantage. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, going outside in the snow, don't body feels so ready to be funny right now. Go do it. Just take advantage. Yeah. Hey, going outside in the snow? Don't even look at the temperature. Go to the Chiefs game? Don't even look. That is the other thing that Catherine is so just, she loves the

feels like. Loves. I like the feels like too. And I'm always like, just don't look at that. Just go outside and see what it feels like. What if it doesn't feel like that to you right go outside and see what it feels like. Like what if it doesn't feel like that to you right now? Um, but no, she's, she's been a trooper about the whole day, but yeah, the kids and I, we had played baseball like three weeks ago, maybe in the yard. And so we had the bases out and they had been buried by the snow. And so we had like a treasure

hunt to find all the bases. And so we were like digging up the snow and finding it. And that was really fun. And so, yeah yeah I was proud of the kids for getting outside. Bo the other night wanted to come see me in the shop I don't think Catherine was watching out wasn't watching him and he walked outside barefoot so that's next level like

okay Bo you gotta do something and he realized it real quick like that was a bad idea go back inside I like watched him like cause he was like saying something And he realized it real quick. Like, that was a bad idea. Go back inside. I watched him like, because he was like saying something to me. And I was like, I'll be there in a second, just a second. And then I see him come back out at his bare feet. And he took two steps and looked down like, oh, I don't have any shoes on.

Like, it was so funny. Oh, that would be so cold. But yeah. Holy cow, that's cold. So it's currently trending as the cold. Everyone's talking about it. It truly is very cold outside. But I also have the theory that like, I mean, as long as you're not in the weather

and in the elements for very long, it's not that big of a deal. Thoughts? I'm all about the wind. If it's not windy, I can do anything. Yeah. I can do all things without wind. I can do all things through Christ who gives me no wind.

Yeah. Let's hear Tymon's next currently trending after we talk about... What is that for? That is for goodranchers.com. They are a website that they pay us to promote. That's the easiest way I can describe it. Yep, that's all it is. It's an e-commerce business platform

where they butcher meat and then they sell it to you for a premium. You choose it and you add it to your cart. So this is like Web.0 type stuff. Not eBay, not Napster. Nope. Add it to your shopping cart on Good Ranchers. Yep, it'll add it to your cart. So this is like Web.0 type stuff. Not eBay, not Napster. Nope. Add it to your shopping cart on Good Ranchers. Yep.

It'll say add to cart. And so that's not a real cart. They don't physically have a cart there. They call it your D cart. It's your digital cart. Digital cart. Hey, sheep, ore, and wheat, D cart. That's a seller's joke for you.

You're welcome. That was great. I saw a twinkle in your eye. I was excited to see where you're going. Yep. Cheap hard wheat. I don't remember when we did this. I'll get a D-card.

I'll get a D-card. And if you get enough in your D-card, you can get a very strong army. Knight. Ah. Oh, yeah. Tommy Coop loves D-cards. Does he?

Yeah. Does he win very often? Because you should not. Anyway, goodrers.com. Okay, okay. Here's another full transparency ad for you. The other day, we ran out of Good Ranchers chicken. Catherine went and bought some other chicken really quickly,

made something called chicken piccata. Nice, nice recipe. Tastes great. But as we were eating it, she looked at me and she goes, you can tell a difference, can't you? And I didn't even know beforehand, but I was like, yeah, it's not Good Rancher's chicken. I can tell.

So just letting you know, I'm a human like anybody else. I've faltered. I've gone away from Good Rancher's before, and there is a difference, and it is noticeable. Their chicken, their steak, their beef is better. Good Rancher's is over here. You're is better. Good Ranchers is over here. You're on the other side. You're over here.

You need a bridge to get to Good Ranchers. Is there a ramp I could use? Can I have a big enough ramp to get to the other side? No, no, no, no. Really? You need a- What, can I levitate across or something? Only a bridge.

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GR. Ghost runners. Always frigid. All right. Tyvon, what's your, you have any more currently trending? Procrastinating my mile to the last minute and regretting it.

Because specifically in the negative 10 degree, there was one. Good for you for still doing that, dude. That's impressive. I'm not going to quit. Wow. It was Saturday. Good. I for still doing that, dude. That's impressive. I'm not going to quit. Wow. It was Saturday. Good.

I was texting my mom. We were going to go to Fort Scott for a little bit to hang out with some people there. Big whiskeys. Come back home the same night. I was texting my mom. You and your mom going to Big Whiskey in Fort Scott. I was texting my mom. I was like, I don't know when I'm going to get my mile in.

We'll be back. I mean, maybe just pretty late. She's like, oh, it's okay. I was like, I don't know when I'm going to get my mile in. Like, we'll be back. Like, I mean, maybe just like pretty late. She's like, oh, just it's, it's okay. I pulled the text. She's like, just, it's fine. You can, you can also learn like common sense as well. She's an enabler. And then I'm like, that just motivated me all the more. I'm like, I'm going to get my mile in.

Yeah. And so we got back at like 1140 p.m and i went out there was probably negative 10 degrees wow dude dude did you think about just running two real quick and just getting two in like for yesterday and the next day started 11 53 i had not probably put put on enough layers and i was ready to get inside right when it hit one mile. Really? Yeah. Wow. That's amazing, dude. Also, my phone, I use my phone to track it. My phone has been like, if I started at 50%, it is like dead by the end.

Because I think it's because of how cold it is. Wow. It's just like can't handle the freezing below zero. Yeah. Wow. Are you starting a, how does it work on a phone? What are you doing to tell it you're running? You go on Strava.

You just like push. Oh, you're logging it in there. Yeah. And then just start it there. You're running it. Like, is it in your hand? Typically. Yeah. But yeah, my last run yesterday, I actually ran on, uh, our pond just like on top of the ice. Seriously? Yeah. I, I just like kind of ran around, rounded a few times and like across whatever. And then it just, you went until I hit a mile. Like on the solid ice. That seems. I did. There was a bunch of snow on it.

So it wasn't like super slippery. Okay, dude. But yeah. Okay. I was going to say, it seems like just like way worse on like your knees and feet. Like run on like really soft, like six inches of ice. But for snow. I just thought it'd be kind of fun.

That's cool. Kind of fun to say. I ran on my pond. Yeah. That is a cool thing to say. I ran on the stage. So look at us. Yeah. I was going to say. I ran on my pond. Yeah, that is a cool thing to say. I ran on the stage. So look at us. Yeah, I was going to say, like, I remember.

Where did you run? I have not been running. I did walk. I've been walking a few miles, but I haven't been logging them very well. I need to do that better. It's probably much harder to walk in this weather than run. You just don't get warm enough. Oh, I haven't been in the weather, though.

I've been inside. Oh, it must be nice. I remember growing up, my dad was a big runner. Like, he ran, I don't know, three, four, five miles a day with a couple of buddies of his. But every once in a while when it was too cold, we have a circular finished basement. It connects kind of like my house does. And every once in a while, my dad would just run downstairs. But it's like this tiny little basement.

I mean, it would take six seconds to run a lap around it. And so my mom would just film him. Like when I was in college, there's my dad, just like every once in a while, you see him like running by kind of like that video of you on the stage. Oh yeah. We're just running by a little quick. There's my dad. Just like, I mean, my dad runs about as fast as like a really, really fast Walker. Like, you know what I mean? Like he's not, he's not sprinting around, but he's got a motor on him and good for him for doing it, you know? But I would love to hear what, uh, what kind of like lengths people are going to go.

These are going to do this. Like are they, yeah. Are they running around the house? Are they, uh, you know, whatever. Yeah. I, I checked out the venue and fable before, and cause I wanted to run, I went to run outside, run outside got i took me 15 minutes i finally get bundled up and then like all the roads are frozen um and so i was scouting the venue i was like there's a pretty big arena performing arts center i was like maybe there's like a loop around it but there are stairs and there were doors yeah and there's like people working and like vacuuming i was like i don't think i want to run through them you're're like that CrossFit guy. Yeah. I gotta get it.

Jim Hardo. Yeah. Running like sprints upstairs while people are trying to vacuum up popcorn and stuff. Um, so yeah, I was just like, I'm not going to do that. So I just ran,

I don't know, 90 laps around the stage or something. So I love, you just did the stage. Yeah. Yeah. Just stage. Not even like,

I can't picture it. It was like maybe just like around the back or whatever, but yeah. Oh yeah. I was thinking like, yo on't picture it was like maybe just like around the back or whatever but yeah oh yeah i was thinking the video on the story i like the composition was perfectly centered i was like this is this is just great wow i don't even know if i knew it was centered that worked out well that was great just fun time um i got one more currently trending uh and it's like um i don't know i i mentioned this one time of like, or earlier today, one time before we recorded, like, it'd be fun to see like what's on my algorithm versus your algorithms. Yeah.

So we could do that another time. But this one specific thing has been on my algorithm. I don't know if you guys are seeing it or not, but it is, I am getting all these videos and I am mesmerized by them of like these dangerous videos in the sea. Rachel. And yeah. In Australia. Yeah.

She's big on what's it called? Like North Sea TikTok. Yes. And so really currently trending is North Sea TikTok slash the song that goes. Have you heard this? It's like hoist. Yeah. Because it's like the it's either the Drake or the flake or something like that. Drake or Lake. You seen this? It's like, hoist the... Yeah. Because it's like the...

It's either the Drake or the Flake or something like that. Drake or Lake. You seen this? No. Like, there's... Ah, shoot. I'm butchering it. So there's like...

It's this really treacherous pass of the... I don't know. Oh, that's what it's called? And like, if it's a good day, it's called the this. But if it's a rough day, then, oh, you got the this. Oh, okay. But I'm butchering all of it. Yeah.

It's something like that. I'm seeing videos of, like, these massive ships just, like, nosediving into these waves or, like, this. Well, you could get paid a million and a half dollars to be, like, working at this lighthouse, but, like, it could be hit with all these. And it's, like, every time, you. And I love it, dude.

Every single time I watch them. And I'm just mesmerized by the sea. The sea freaks me out because of that. I don't want to ever go on a cruise ship like that. I don't know. What if? Anyway. Yeah, it's called the Drake Passage.

Okay. Where is it? North Sea. Where is the North Sea? I don't even know where that is. It's up north. Yeah. Like Russia or like Serbia?

It's a 600-mile-wide waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Oh, so it's got to be like South America. Let's see. It's neighboring by the southernmost point of South America. Okay. It lies about 100 miles north of the Antarctic Peninsula. So what would that be? What cape is that?

Cadaveral? Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut. That's where they send up all those spaceships. It's on the southernmost point of South America. Yo-ho. Blast off. I don't know. Anyway, I just love that song.

I think that's probably half of what makes those videos so good is how ominous that song is. Anyway, if you haven't ever seen it, you don't know what I'm talking about. But if you've seen it, it's awesome. It has not come across my feed. I haven't earned it. But Rachel, while we were in Australia,

she was big on North Sea TikTok. Yeah, my algorithm is mainly sports stuff it's really figure out that i really like sports good lots of sports interviews and now randomly these these ships seas so that's fun yep my last currently trending is just uh i obviously i'm running every day i don't know how much i've talked about it though i'm only drinking water yeah and i'm not eating sweets yeah And it's been going pretty well. I had ice cream on Rachel's birthday, January 2nd. And I believe that's the only like dessert or sweet or anything I've had all January so far. That's awesome. I have only drank water. That's awesome. And I feel exactly

the same. So hopefully this pays off like a month or two from now. Cause you really do. You don't, I bet you feel better i've always felt pretty good this is a problem i've had when people are like they try to convince me like well i mean it'd be nice if the fog was lifted right like i don't know if i've ever had well i bet you've you've like noticed it you know i was like i don't know i just i've always felt good i think maybe like so i've been trying to limit sweets too so i had a cheat day cookie i've had a few mom on admission bars which which are sweet enough, but not crazy. And that's about it. Um, and I just, I've started not being as like, I'm not craving them as much. Like, like before it was like,

so tempting, like, man, I could go for some chocolate chips, peanut butter pretzels. Sugar is an addiction, dude. Oh yeah. It's so bad. Um, but for me, I've been drinking a lot more coffee, black coffee. And I think that helps a lot for me. It's so bad. But for me, I've been drinking a lot more coffee, black coffee, and I think that helps a lot for me. That's the next step. In water. I've been drinking a lot of water. So that's pretty much, that's like, coffee has been my, like, treat, though.

Yeah. And so sometimes, like, at, like, 4.30 in the afternoon, I have, like, coffee. Oh, should I? I'm like, ah! It's crazy. That's fun, though. Yeah. I'm starting to turn the corner on water, too.

I don't... Get yourself a water bottle instead of the plastic stuff. Yes. I've been filling this one up with water. Okay. Tommy, do you have one last currently training? Let me see. Our house has been really cold.

58, 59 degrees. What? Yeah. On the inside? Yeah. By choice? No. The thermostat can't keep up.

Because it's a big house or because it's an old thermostat? Maybe a mix of, I don't know. But yeah, I think it's starting to catch up now, but it just couldn't get there. It was below 60. It was like walking into my room upstairs, the floor is just freezing cold just to step on it. That's so cold, dude.

So you guys just walk around in blankets and coats and everything yeah geez getting out of bed's got to be miserable you guys have carpet at all yeah okay that's like my room floor is all carpet and it's freezing cold really because i would think like carpet would help because like your hardwoods everywhere yeah that's not helping anything no um our house is tough because it's it's not a big house but at all but it has like an addition onto it they like add it on in like the 70s and so we have two heaters and so like if one heater gets that part of the house too hot then it'll send that heat to the thermostat over on the other side and it'll make it think like oh we're good it's not that uh cold over here so we don't have to turn it down. So it's like, so sometimes like our room will be warm enough,

but the kids will be icicles and vice versa. First world problems, two heaters, you know, the two heats. Anyway, well that's a currently trending. I think we can postpone. We can do voice memos on Wednesday. Maybe. What do you think? Cool. That sounds great. I mean, it feels like we've been talking for- Hour and a half. Days. My gosh. Cool. Let's end this with a, wait, what's the order?

How do we do this? We do a review. Shoot, we do. You're right. We'll do our reviews of the week. For the first time ever on this podcast, reviews of the week. Just kidding. We do them every episode. This is a five-star review. It podcast, Reviews of the Week. Just kidding. We do them every episode.

This is a five-star review. It says, Best night of my life. Just saw Jake in OKC and it was truly incredible. I am blown away at how talented he is. Of course, as a longtime ghostie,

I already knew he was hilarious, but this truly was one of the best nights of my life. Ghostrunners podcast has gotten me through so many tough things with how positive, lighthearted, and wholesome it is. And meeting Jake in person did not disappoint. Rachel was also there, but was engrossed in conversation with ghosties and the And meeting Jake in person did not disappoint. Rachel was also there, but was engrossed in conversation with ghosties

and the people pleaser in me could not interrupt. Absolutely starstruck by two beautiful people. Truly the only celebrity I have any desire to get a photo with. And I've achieved that goal, smiling bigger than I did after the birth of my first kid. And Brad, just in case Jake didn't relay my message,

because obviously neither of you have your own full lives, it could bring you from mentioning a goofy comment from a random person after a night of comedy in a city you're not from from an unknown number of nights between seeing one another. Wish you were there. Oh, thank you, man. It's a lady.

Oh, Danny? Danae. So sorry. Thought it said Danny. Thanks, Danae. It does say Danny, but she signed it denay okay okay okay i think that trumps it love you guys so much and so thankful for all the laughs keep being awesome and i hope to be at the next kansas city get together signed danny no thanks

sis uh yeah i i remember meeting you denay you were awesome i think i've told you told your person i was like this is awesome you're. It was just a really splendid interaction. That's cool. Yeah. It's nice to meet you. Thanks for all those kind words. That's really, really special. Cool. Sydney Anderson, 33, gave us a five-star emoji. These emojis were absolutely necessary. Dang near a day one ghosty here, and this review

is long overdue. Wait, Sydney Anderson? Yeah. From Minnesota. Minneapolis or wherever. Yeah. Cool. Yeah. There's so much I could say about my admiration of Jake and Brad and all they've done with this podcast. The joy they bring to so many just by sharing their lives and their friendship with us has more impact than

they realize. The most recent episode, number 295, reminded me of all the reasons I listened to this podcast. It brought so much comfort to my day and it felt as it often does like I was just hanging out with two pals. Hearing little Hattie and Bo's voices was the sweetest surprise to start the episode and the church sitcom bit had me laughing out loud even later on into the day. That's always fun when you like think about it again and you're laughing. As a Christian and also a huge Office fan, I could totally picture the whole series and personally

feel like it would be a major hit. Not to forget another major gem of the episode, Tymon's role as Chad. One of my faves for sure. I need to re-listen to that part specifically. I've had the privilege of meeting Jake and Brad in person at Grande Boo and can attest to their kind, genuine, and loving personalities. These two are downright fun and good guys.

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Ask. Hey, would you like to end this up with a jingle? Yes, thanks to Emily Linhart, we're going to end it together, brother. Ba-da-bing, ba-da-boom. Maybe a little timing in there too. Maybe. If he's feeling it.

Yeah. I hope I found the right instrumental. Oh my gosh. I haven't even checked on instrumentals, so I hope you did too. I hope that this is the only one that looks like it could be an instrumental. Let's see what happens. This is from Emily Lynn Hart.

Sounds close enough. Ready? Ready? You have no idea that Toy Mac's coming in. Wave away my Sunday Cause I'm leaving it behind me Hello Monday Come what may A new podcast is what I see

I hear this theme song playing New jokes bad, bad, and bringing Get up, get up, hey Cause it's the Ghost Runners Wake up to a brand new talk show Live updates And some ads already underway It's a good podcast

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you can send it to us via email text message do whatever just get it to us jingles are back good job singing good job everybody good job rapping Mr. Jake to the mic Jake I didn't know you could rap

just keep listening brother just keep listening to Ghostrunners. You'll know. That's telling right there, the fact that he doesn't know. No, I just finished the episode where it's like, I didn't know you could rap. It's like, oh, that's... It's just talking.

Yeah. Okay. Egg on your face. Joke me. Oh, that's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. Okay.

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support us. Or just listen, okay? You don't have to pay to be a part of the community. Just listen. Listen to this Jacob Collier song with the sudden twist. Oh, yeah. I love gonna fly. Boy, I've never felt so unabombed He said, I need somebody that understands my soul

Somebody to tell me where to go And I don't wanna be travelling on my own She said I'll be the one if you come along He said do you wanna dance with me, do you wanna dance I've been sitting here too long My bones feel old but my feet still young He said I've never met a girl I could hold so strong I'm never gonna do you wrong

Now put your hands on me where they belong I'll boogie with me all night long I'll boogie with you all night long You can call my name Maybe I'll be sent my soul She said, I need somebody who can move my feet Someone to make my heart beat I don't want to talk to you soft and sweet She said, I'll be the one with the complete

She said, do you you wanna sing with me? Do you wanna sing? I've been talking into blood How could you fall in love with a boy so young? She said Jessica has got a merry-go-round He'll never make you sound Put your hands on me, baby, touch the ground And give it to me up and down

No wings to fly me, no sun to see me No hand to hold me, no star to guide me No breeze to blow me, no tears to cry me No fire to burn me, no sea to sail me No sky above me, no hell below me No wind behind me, no part before me No place to hide me, no bus to find me No chains around me, no wind behind me, no pop before me, no place to hide me, no lust to find me, no chains around me, no fear within me. No wings to fly, no song to sing, no hand to hold, no star to guide, no breeze to blow,

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I can tell these words are all I know I can tell these words are all I know And it's all I know I can tell these words are all I know I can tell these words are all I know I'm out of here. He's gonna need somebody, make me lose control Keep in motion Stay unspoken And if I'm broken Keep me open

Keep in motion, Keep me in motion Stay unspoken And if I'm broken Keep me open