Ghostrunners - 43 - Are Dragons Real?

Episode Date: March 2, 2020

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Brad, hello. Hi. I have noticed recently at coffee shops and certain bakeries, it's happening more and more, but I'm always too nervous to really say anything or be funny. But I want to use this opportunity to do that. Love it. Have you noticed sometimes instead of asking, you know, after you order, instead of saying like, and now what's your name?

What name can I put down for the order? They will say, and this happens pretty commonly, what's a good name to call out? What's a name I can yell when your order is done? And I always want to like take advantage of that somehow. A good name. Reagan? Gandhi? I could yell out Gandhi. That's a good name. Yeah. Mama T or Mother Teresa? Yeah. You can yell out Mother Teresa. Bono. Oh, Bono's good. You know, Shelf Silverstein really affected my life as a child, you know, reading those books, The Giving Tree. So you can just yell out Mother Tree. Bono. Ooh, Bono's good. You know, Shelf Silverstein really affected my life as a child, reading those books, The Giving Tree.

So you can just yell out Silverstein. Yeah, if that helps you, that would be, yeah, my name. That's a good name to call out. One for Karma Macchiato for Bono. I got my Macchiato Bono right here waiting for you. Uh-oh, ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down 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 Brothers Podcast. Every morning, morning, we're taking back Ghost Brothers Podcast. Ghost Brothers Podcast. Welcome back everyone to the Ghost Runners podcast. This is episode 43. Yeah, baby. Does that number have any significance to you? No.

It was the Nickelodeon channel on my set of TVs when I grew up. Really? That's really the only thing that comes to mind. It's a prime number. Is it? Seems like it should be. That's fun that you thing that comes to mind. It's a prime number. Is it? Seems like it should be. That's fun that you know that off the top of your, you're right, I think it is, but I would have never thought that so quickly.

If it's an odd number, you're way more likely anyway. Especially at three. Yeah. There, it's fire already, baby. This is a good topic. You know what, gonna double down on it. Do you know how to tell if things are like divisible by three?

Add the like integers. Yeah, yeah. So four and three. Yeah. Seven's not divisible by three, therefore. It doesn't work. Can't go three into it. Okay, so 93 is divisible by three.

Because 31. Oh, sure. 31. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Do you have, can we just go on a quick segment of other math tricks that you have? This is the most mathematical podcast in Kansas.

Because you do have lots of them. Yeah. Seriously, you do. Like the fractions, the decimals or whatever. Isn't there something with that? Yeah, there's a lot of stuff. I know you memorized them, but. Knowing your nines is super easy.

Four divided by nine. That's 0.4444. Six divided by nine is. 0.6666 by nine. That's 0.4444. Six divided by nine is six. Yes. That was very easy. Okay. Did I talk about on the podcast when I was excited to tell my math teacher what I discovered in the shower? I can't remember who I've said that to before. No, you said something about your teacher calling you Jake break one time. Oh, okay. I was probably too embarrassed to, but now you're giving me a platform to talk about my weird math things. One day probably in the shower when I had my shower crayons,

I discovered, I was like, oh, you know, so like, yeah, certain fractions are really easy to memorize. Like the nines or like eights are like very simple and very like mathematical in the way they're like distanced apart from each other. But the 11s, tricky. Oh, not anymore. Let's say three divided by 11. What is that? No one knows. Here's the trick. You take that number, uh, the three times it by nine,

you get 27, right? That is the repeating decimal for three divided by 11. So it's 0.27272727. Every time. Yes. So I just over 11 is 0. six No, oh six times nine. Yeah five four Yeah, so I just discovered this obviously it's not anything groundbreaking but to like teach yourself something in math never happens That's probably the only time I've ever like discovered something on my own was so excited to tell my teacher I figured out the 11th. There's a really good feeling 8 Eight divided by 11. Yeah. It's 0.727272. Wow. How fun. And the teacher did not care at all. Because we're like, no one ever divides something into 11 pieces. You don't need to know this. That's great. But yeah, sorry for the really exciting start, you guys. But it's a new week here in Kansas for Brad and I. You know what?

It's a new month by the time they're listening to this. Is it really? It's March. Huh. When do we leap? When is that? What is today? Oh, tomorrow we leap.

Tomorrow we leap, which is good because I have been struggling with my vertical jump for a while now. It's good to have an extra little bit of leaping. Yeah, it's trampoline. There's trampolines everywhere on leap day. Yeah. You just, you trampoline into your bed. Sometimes it's hard to get up there.

Trampoline into the shower. I always wanted to rewrite, you know, I rewrote a lot of songs at CannaCuck back in the day, mainly about breakfast food. But I also thought, hey, some of these other activities could be spiced up too. Wanted to rewrite uh the song gasolina to trampolina never got around to it but i still think of that when i hear we're trampolines sometimes like i don't know what it is trampolina yeah that was like the first reggaeton song I ever heard. Boom.

Yeah. And then I heard every single other one and it was the exact same song. Oh, this is the same. This must be a cover of that first reggaeton song I heard. Oh, and this one must be a cover of that one. They must know the same producers. They must be the same guy who made all these. I think that's so funny that there's a genre of music that is identified by sounding the same.

Yeah. Or I guess that was stupid. It sounds exactly the same. Yeah. Obviously, genres of music are categorized by height. I think it's crazy how like rock, you have to have guitar. As soon as I was saying that, I was like, this is so stupid. No, I knew what you were talking about.

But reggaeton, it's like, oh, this is identified because it has the same beat. Yeah, yeah to Dua Lipa like her. Yeah like her a lot Yeah, not a single other person from last week's episode was like yeah like her too or anything So it's just you thank you for checking her out and being like wow, I'm impressed. Yeah. Yeah I maybe because I'm the only person that has not ever heard of her already. Maybe. Maybe last week it was like, yeah, I heard about this guy named Drake. He's a really good rapper.

You guys should check him out. It's like, okay. Yeah. I've not heard of this guy. They're a little behind. Okay. This girl has 1.4 billion listens on one of her songs. I think a lot of people already know about her, but yeah, I had not really heard of her

and liked her. Like her a lot. And I looked into, I was like, maybe she is a Latina and that's why she's so popular. No, it's like, what is it, like Bulgarian or Armenian or something? Neither one of those two are right, but I know it's something like that. This suit is from Italy? No, Bulgaria. It's like Lebanese.

It's something like that where you're like, wow. Eastern European. Yeah, I think so. Which, dude, yeah, people in europe love that kind of music which is why i enjoy it probably because it kind of takes me back to that time of life to your like ancestors to my yeah back to when we were we were immigrating over from scotland she might be scottish dualipa no no it's it's eastern i know it's eastern you know what i'm gonna look it up real quick because i know neither of the countries I said are right.

Let me guess. Yeah, I want you to have, you get three more guesses. Okay. Lebanon. Lebanese. Well, I don't want you to say that one because I'm pretty sure the three countries I said are not it. Bulgaria, Lebanon, or Armenia. Yeah, I said Lebanese.

And I don't think that's it. Okay. Then she's definitely from Bosnia. Okay, then she's definitely from Bosnia. Okay, we have one guest from Bosnia. Do you have any more? I haven't found it. Oh, okay, I found it. It's not Bosnian.

It's not. Ukraine? No, but warmer. Russia? No, too cold. Too, too, really cold. Albanian. Okay. Right between Ukraine and Russia, too cold. Too, too, really cold. Albanian. Okay.

Right between Ukraine and Russia. Man. Maybe not geographically, but in my mind of like how they talk and act. That was a fun little game we played right there. That was fun. And you know what? It's freaking true. It's so freaking true.

Anyway, really liked her. Yeah, she's nice. What do you have going on this week? Either this past week, this upcoming week? This past week has been very defined by a home renovation project. Yeah. Catherine and I are basically doing a, putting lipstick on our basement. Not literally.

It's a phrase. Do you prime it first? We did. With lip gloss? Yes. Some lip gloss. Yeah. Basically, we just did a painting and we added some stuff to our ceiling, like beadboard.

You probably don't know what that is. No. Just right now, our ceiling was looking like what it is in here. And we added just like paneling to it, basically, to make it more solid. Compare it to sand. Okay. So like, you know, when sand becomes rocks and then rocks become really like thin sheets of beadboard. That's what it is.

Anyway, but like literally like, I mean, Catherine and I have worked night and day since like Monday through Friday or today. You know, like we're working all the time. And I am running on fumes right now. I'm just not getting very much sleep. And Catherine's been an all-star. Like we got into a little tiff the first day. And after that, it's been great. Isaac, shout out to Isaac. He came and helped us with the beadboard. Alleviated some tiff.

Yes. Seriously. Like doing house projects with your wife is hard, dude. And doing it with somebody else there, it makes it a lot easier because then you're, you're less likely to get mad at somebody else. You're more likely to get mad at your spouse or like get short with them. So is it, how is it doing like a project that you're not getting paid for? Is that weird or different or less fun? Yes. Uh, it feels obviously expensive. Like, like, like, like you go and buy stuff at home Depot or wherever for a table. You're like, I'm getting this all back. Yeah. Who cares?

Who cares if I just spent a hundred dollars on this because I'm going to make $500 on this. Yeah. Or whatever. Now it's like, golly, $75 for paint. That's all negative. What is this? Yeah.

Which, yeah, in the long run, hopefully it'll, you know, help the equity of the house or whatever. I mean, lipstick will do that. Yes. Right. To a lot of things. Man, Ulta Beauty, really expensive is where we got all the All the lipstick for this basement. So Sephora I'd recommend Sephora Sephora is good to Sephora's good Ulta has a good rewards program though

That's your heart to compete with that. It's called the ultimate rewards program About lipstick on women. I think it's not that attractive, to be honest. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Especially the bright red is, it's going to sound a little mean, but the word that came to mind was like unnatural.

Just because it's like, you're not like making your normal lip color seem a little more prominent. It's like you're changing it to something kind of vibrant and wacky. Yeah. Yeah. I'm trying to think about what you would it to but yeah absolutely i try sand okay so like i don't know anything about sand what am i supposed to do with sand for some reason in my head i was just thinking there are like kind of different types of beaches like some are like white sand and some are like there's a lot of seashells yeah like what's this so i was thinking you could compare the ceiling to like how smooth or rough it is i have no idea white sand yes food uh no i don't know if it's like it's like guys with hats or something where it's like it's not necessarily

more attractive to a woman to for a guy to wear a hat but like maybe other guys would be like hey dude sweet hat could be like i've learned uh through through marriage that Catherine thinks more about dressing up for girls than she does dressing up for guys. Oh yeah. I've learned that too. They dress for other women. Yeah. And so even if it's like, Hey, that might not be the favorite thing that the guys want to see. Who cares? The girls like it. Girls like this. Yeah. Hot pink lipstick on me. And we might be the minority. Maybe a lot of guys do like the bright red lipstick. I just think it looks fine, but I would prefer more of a natural color. That's me in general. Like, I don't like it when you can tell girls, hair's not real looking. I don't know what the right word is. Catherine, like never, like never colors her hair. And I like that. I like

that her hair purebred. Yeah. Purebred. Yesred. Yes, that is what the Ulta... That's what the Ulta consultants, consulta call it. Consultants. And I think from my experience, women love being referred to as dog types and breeds of purebred, mutt. You could probably guess what Brad just said. No, I didn't Mom! Oh, that surprised me That's funny

Golly This is a kid's podcast Yeah, you're right You're right Oh, man We had a good life Okay What do you think about the idea of dragons?

Do you think they're real? I learned this week that there's a debate that dragons are real Like Like dragons were a thing. And I'm like, no, they weren't. Hmm. I don't know if I've, well, my answer is no. Because this is now my first time ever considering them being real. So I guess that means I've never thought that was possible. Well, you know, there's studies out there. There's fossils that kind of look like skeletons that could be dragons. And I'm like, okay, I believe that there are dinosaurs out there. Even that, we can barely prove that there's dinosaurs. Even proof is a little bit of a loose term for proving that dinosaurs, you know, like any dinosaur, like, what's that called?

Like a... Species. Sculpt, not sculpture, but like, you know, when they put all the dinosaur bones together, like a display of one of them in a museum. Yeah, I don't know what that's called. What is that word? A, a, a... Archetype. Like, you know, when they put all the dinosaur bones together, like a display of one of them in a museum. Yeah. I don't know what that's called. What is that word? Uh, uh, um, archetype. I think that's what it's called.

A dinosaur display in a museum. Yeah. Double D. There's not a single one that has more than 5% of its bones in that particular dinosaur. What? Like they're able to piece what a dinosaur probably looked like. But, but they're all, there are a lot of different ones that they. Yeah.

So you've got like a, we got a femur from Afghanistan and we got like a jawbone from Albania. Mr. Lipa probably discovered it. Right, right, right. You know, and that's how he had the money to fund do his career. Yeah. But yeah, there's not one dinosaur that's ever more than 5% has been found of. Interesting.

So that's why I'm saying like, yeah, it's hard enough to kind of really prove that dinosaurs even existed. So now we're going to take it a step further and be like, maybe Santa Claus rode around on a dragon and that's how he delivered the presents when the tooth fairy wasn't there. And there's proof that that, yeah, I don't know. Like just the idea that they have fire. Like how can you prove that? How can you prove that? When we, we got a rib cage of a dragon, we're like, I bet there is fire in these lungs. I bet there was a way. And other people are like, well, you know, there's no proof that there's fire, but I mean, it still kind of looks like the skeleton of a dragon.

And I was like, well, that's what a dinosaur is, is a skeleton of a dragon, but doesn't breathe fire. Kinda. New theory, T-Rexes could breathe fire. That's more fun. That would be nuts. That would be nuts. You go to a rainforest cafe and it's just, I don't know if they have them at rainforest cafes, but something like

that. And the T-Rex just, you go to rainforest cafe and they've started to install dinosaurs. They have fire. Yeah. Oh yeah. Where did you see that? I had no idea that was like a new thing happening. My friend, Emily Duckworth said No. Hey, Brad, do you think dragons are real? And she's funny. Like, like she has lots of sci-fi fantasy interests, I think. I didn't know that about her. Nah, maybe that's too extreme to say that. But she likes superhero.

She liked I Am Legend. That's all I'm saying. She likes superhero movies, which I know is that's not necessarily like one in one. I think if I would guess, I think she's probably also a Lord of the Rings person. Okay. So I'm not saying like that equates to everything. From Junior Tolkien. But she's like, do you believe in – I don't think that she said that she absolutely believes in dragons.

But she – She's thinking about it. She knows that there's a possibility that they're out there apparently. Do you believe in anything that's kind of weird? True love. Unconditional marriage. that they're out there apparently do you believe in anything that's kind of weird um true love uh unconditional marriage um i don't know i not not that i can think of do you i don't really think so i'm sure that there's something i kind of like the idea of you know quote unquote aliens existing in like some other really really far universe in a different you know solar system

galaxy that like has their own bible and save your story and everything like that's kind of cool yeah but you don't believe it i don't think so you just want to believe and why would i want to be true believe something that yeah has no proof or meaning or anything true story this is random and not true like Like not, not. Is it true or not true? It's true story that I used to believe in this. I used to kind of have this like conspiracy in my head that my family were all aliens and they would all morph into humans every time I came in the room. Interesting. And so every once in a while, when I was a little kid, I don't think I've ever told anybody this story. This is awesome. I don't,

my, my mom does not know this. But every once in a while when I was like seven, eight years old, I would kind of hurry into the room just in case, just in case I see their green skin for a second or something. You thought they were kind of reverse toy storing you a little bit. Exactly. I think they're doing things out of the room. Maybe that was why, maybe you just figured it out because toy story came out around that time in our lives. What if kind of Kevin Malone? Yeah. Like, I'm sorry, why are we discounting Kevin's Toy Story theory? Anyway. So you thought they were, I'm not ready to move on from this.

You thought they were just like men in black kind of stuff? Like they are aliens? I never saw that, but I think so, yes. In human bodies? Yeah, like they would morph really quickly afterwards. I also thought that Captain Hook for a while lived in my shower. And every time I would look up, he would go down really fast. And so I couldn't see him cause I was looking up and every time I looked down, he would

fly up to the ceiling. I was a weird, I was a pretty weird kid. I didn't do this. I would do stuff like this more with like, I remember it's like now become kind of a meme and a thing on Twitter of like the light in the refrigerator or whatever. But I would always try to check that when I was a kid, open that thing real quick and see if the light was on. Is it always on? How does that work? And where's Captain Hook?

Yeah. Around the ketchup packets over here? That's so funny that you would rush into the living room to see if your parents... You see if you can catch them blinking sideways and their tongue slips back into their mouth. What was that? How do you do that? What do you do with your tongue? You breathe

fire? Who knew knew what kind of archetype are we dealing with i don't want to make too much fun of this in case we have some listeners who do but it's so funny to me how many people out there believe in ghosts or at least believe in the type of ghost who are only concerned with somewhat creeping you out you know what i mean like like they're not really going to harm you but they're going to live in the house that ghosts who are only concerned with somewhat creeping you out. You know what I mean? Like, like they're not really going to harm you, but they're going to live in the house that you live in for some reason. Yeah. Like this ghost only agenda is at 3am in the high school hallways to open a locker that he knows will be in the security cam just to freak you out. If there

are invisible spirits moving around that are like what old bodies reincarnated or whatever the theory is, they're not opening lockers. They're doing more than that. They got better things to do. Yeah. Like go fix a basketball game or something. Yeah. I think that's so funny that that's our proof. Go get in the spirit of like all the, you know, monsters and like beat Michael Jordan. Get in Charles Barkley. Dude, the broom fell over. There's ghosts. I don't think the ghost is knocking over the broom to show you his presence. The lunar tides though with the broom.

Did you see that? Mercury retrograde. Yeah, that was great. Did you know what I'm talking about? Nope. It was like a thing on Twitter. Oh, the hoax. Yeah. It was like this one day the moon lines up. So your broom can,

you know, stand up straight. I was really excited before I learned it was a hoax. Me and Isaac and Leach had this idea where it was like, this is going to go viral on Tik TOK. We were going to like set up every broom that Walmart had in their aisle and like do this whole big thing. And they're like, Oh, this is a hoax or like this can happen every single day of the year. So still would have been cool. I'm not going to do this. Yeah. this yeah uh okay back on the story of ghosts for just a second this is not obviously a ghost thing but earlier this week no yes right yeah we gotta talk about ghosts that's that's what half the people here are coming to listen to yes um earlier this week i was down in my basement painting and i had sprayed a bunch of paint like we've done here yes and because it's really

effective and uh i think so i think there were like particles in the air whatever it doesn't And I had sprayed a bunch of paint like we've done here. Yes. And because it's really effective. And I think, so I think there were like particles in the air or whatever. It doesn't matter. But I was like touching up some stuff and it was like, I don't know if it was just random timing or what, but like right when I started painting and like touching up this one little piece of the wall, the light bulb behind me exploded. Exploded? Exploded. And like, like hit my neck a little bit like the glass like yes yes and

so i looked it up i was like because i was like this is concerning like and this couldn't this couldn't be captain hook right because he lives in the shower yeah hooks and neverland at this point maybe inside the crocodile but i could see how his hook could break a glass right so i'm gonna read on so but one of the things they said was uh you know back in the day we would have thought that this was maybe a ghost but you guys know better than that now or something like that fun article so yeah that was how it that was that was the uh you know ice breaking opening you know attention grabbing device sure uh but anyway it ended up being just if you have too much like oil or whatever in the air

and it gets on the light bulb it can explode these like old like there's like a really old halogen light bulb because of science uh yeah i think so did it say that in the article it said yeah this happens because of science is all the explanation was huh and then and then at the end with an asterisk it's a god thing there. There was a comedian this week who I listened to at open mic night who started off with a really funny joke. I don't know where he went with this. I can't remember. But he was like, I think it's funny that you can like donate your body to science. And he's like, why can't I donate my body to any other subject in school?

He talked about like donating it to civics. Yeah. Donating it to mathematics or something. It's funny. No, he's got civics. Yeah. Donating it to mathematics or something. It's funny. Now he's got 10 fingers. Yeah. All right. Take away two.

Okay. And that's going to chemistry. Yeah, that's good. That's funny. Dude, yesterday I went to Target. You'll get a kick out of the story. And oh, I made that video recently. The video is three months old, but I edited it this week and posted it.

And it reminded me that, oh, I do have Target gift cards in my car. I should go use them. Yeah. So we bought some stuff yesterday and was going to use one of those gift cards, which is self-checkout because I only am getting two things. Go real fast. So I can swipe this gift card. She says, no. The woman came over.

Oh, I got to help you do that. OK, no worries. Got to put the pin in or whatever. Yeah. So on the back of the gift card, she needs to see the numbers. You got to scratch off that like lottery ticket, kind of the silver stuff. I don't know what to call it. And so she's like, do you have anything that scratches off?

And I'm like, oh, I don't. I don't. You know, I'm looking for like a coin or something. Like maybe my keys. She's like, oh, it's fine. I got a pin. And. She used her finger.

Sorry. Yeah. She used a pin, which I thought was a little weird at the time. I was like, she's the one who probably does this multiple times a day. So she would know. So she starts like using the pen and like the cap is off. Starts using the pen to scratch it. The sharp side of the pen?

The like ink side of the pen. That's not a good idea. It's not really working to get the silver stuff off. So I was like, here, let me try. I use my car keys and that's going great. It's marking off. Silver stuff is gone. However, now we cannot see the numbers because she has scribbled over them try i use my car keys and that's going great it's marking off silver stuff is gone however

now we cannot see the numbers because she has scribbled over them in pen and so she's like i can't i can't see these numbers now i'm like well i know it whose fault is that i think it's because you and i always say i think i think it's because right like so passive you like because of your pen she's like oh let's see it's like pulling out my phone flashlight trying to like shine it on and then see like indentions of the numbers so she starts guessing numbers okay looks like maybe it's just seven seven three yeah and i'm just kind of looking around like is there anyone else who works here can maybe step in like this is not gonna go anywhere and eventually she was like yeah yeah, I don't know. What? Yeah. She just

scribbled all over my gift card. And then it was like, I don't know. And I was like, I guess I could just use my credit card. She's like, yeah, sorry. And then walked off. What? Just marked on my gift card. I'm like, maybe she doesn't work there. Maybe she's in a red polo. Right? Yeah. I didn't look that hard. You're struggling over there there let me fix that for you what i was so surprised such weird behavior she missed the mark she works at target but she missed the mark no bullseye for her no bull crap for her um so now i got a gift card that okay here's what you do you and this is what i would have done at the time maybe you already tried it put a little uh tongue on your thumb. Tongue to thumb. Yes.

And just try to scrape it off. Like try to wipe it off. Can you do that? I was thinking, I was like, I'll just come back again and just go to an actual checkout line where maybe they could swipe it. But they're still going to ask for the pin. You think so? Yeah. I've used a gift card.

I feel like that was more for like an online purchase. Like you put in the numbers and the pin. I mean, maybe not every place, but definitely like home Depot, most of the places they have to scratch it off, but they don't use a pin. That's unbelievable to me.

Do you have an idea of what, how much it is on there? Uh, $10. Okay. So I feel like if you tell somebody that they're going to just eventually, the managers would be like, okay,

10 bucks. It's not that big of a deal. If you were like, yeah, there's $150 on there. They'd be like okay 10 bucks it's not that big of a deal if you were like yeah there's 150 on there they'd be like are you sure yeah you think so you know like you're not gonna make up 10 if you're gonna make up a number you at least go 20 you know yeah yeah it's way too believable that's hilarious that she used a pen i almost didn't even it was like too late after it happened i was like why did i let her do this that was so dumb why did i let her write in pen over the important numbers we need because even if she does scratch it off eventually once she scratches off unless she's like scratches off perfectly she's still it's gonna become pen yeah oh that's hilarious yeah i want to see this what a funny thing

yeah so that was yesterday what do you think about the idea so So, so last week I implored, I think is the right word. Some people to, if you've already left a five-star review to have other friends leave five-star reviews. A lot of people, first of all, we had some great one, one specific person that did great with that. Yes. We'll talk about that later. But second of all, people often talk about how they are listening at work and how other people

like think that they're weird because they're laughing at us during work. Yeah. What if we start making that the thing? Like, hey, get other people involved with this at work. And instead of calling them their co-workers, we call them their go, G-H-O, workers. Their go workers. Their go workers. Hashtag go workers.

Once they start listening, they become your go worker. Yeah. And then you guys could tag us in the stories or whatever. Hey, hashtag go workers. Yeah. You could recreate that scene from the office in your office. Go, go, go, go, go, go workers. Yeah.

Go workers. Yeah. What do you think? That's a good one. It's a trend. It's a cultural trend. It's coming. It. Go workers. Yeah. What do you think? That's a good one. It's a trend. It's a cultural trend. It's coming. It's a trend.

And that's a, that's a trend trick. That's a hat trend. Yeah. I like that. Let's do that. Okay. Cool. Speaking of trends, I have a currently trending for you.

I don't know if you have currently trending things. Of course. One of the things I've been trying really hard since a small thing, but in the mornings, so you don't have face ID on your phone. No, which is so bold of you. No password for you. Yeah.

Thanks. Swipe Jake's phone. You can find out anything you want to anything. I do have face ID. And in the morning, my goal, every time I opened my phone for the first time is to get recognized by face ID. It's like, as you,

you wake up in the morning and you're like three, you know, half, half your eyes open and like, like the phone never recognizes you. And so who is this every morning? I'm like, I wake up and I like bug out my eyes a little bit and I'm just like holding it up there to see if I could get it the first time. You're like grabbing it by like the metaphorical collar. Remember me. It's me, Johnny. I know, you know who I am. Unlock yourself. But I'm probably like 50% right now. I was before I was 10%. I was just like, you know, barely awake because it's amazing how quickly or how, how well those face ideas work. But in the mornings they do not work ever for me. And so I've just tried

so hard to be like, I don't know, just making it work. I think I tweeted something like this one time, like probably two or three years ago when it first came out. I think something like 21st century rock bottom is something like that. Like, you know, not being recognized by your own face or like waking up and not being recognized by your own face. You're something like that. Yeah. You don't look enough like yourself. I always thought that was on a similar note. This whenever I had like an iPhone five,

right when the thumbprint came out, I noticed like right when I would get out of the shower, you know, sometimes the thumb wouldn't work. Oh yeah. And I just thought that was funny. Like the joke being, it doesn't recognize me clean.

You know, it only knows like the dirty grimy version of me. It's like, Oh, I know that you don't have any oil on your. Clean thumb. I don't know who this is. That's good.

Yeah. That would be even worse. Like you get out of the shower, like you, you like do your hair and then it gets unlocked. It's like, who is this? Why do you have a lipstick on? I know hat Brad. Yeah. I know messy hair Brad.

I don't know this. I don't know. Hair gel Brad. Speaking of hair gel, I got to take some pictures for Old Spice today. Finally. Okay. They didn't say yes to Spice today, finally. Okay. They didn't say yes to the different hair color one. Okay.

But it's also, it's just as easy to take pictures. Actually, it's way easier. I don't have to find three different types of lighting to make my hair look different. They just wanted, hey, instead of red versus brown versus blonde, let's just do flat versus voluminous. Oh, sure. That's no problem. You can do both those things easily. Pretty easily.

Yeah. Flat versus voluminous. Are you going to use the word voluminous in your post? Do they say like, hey, please use these certain words? I know you have to use a certain hashtag, don't you? Thick. With like a bunch of Cs? A bunch of Cs.

Do they specify how many Cs? Are you going to copy and paste? Probably. I'm probably supposed to use however many they used which i think is like seven or eight okay so i'll probably do that yeah i don't know it just it'll be pretty simple i guess just take a couple pictures somewhere looking voluminous yeah looking flat yeah so that'd be fun i uh oh currently training for me would be this isn't even that fun just a lot of really good phone conversations this week okay luke

crinshaw called me he lost his fantasy football league this year and so tomorrow he has to run a half marathon however he has to do it dressed as a wizard with a broomstick on a scooter so he has to scoot a half marathon in a wizard's costume what so he was calling me and asking me about that like i don't know it's funny what he was asking me and that's awesome this is probably kind of funny hopefully he doesn't mind that we're sharing this on the podcast he like just texted me and uh he was like you'll get a kick out of this he's like this is a dialogue i had with myself while trying on my wizard wardrobe last night that my wife so graciously recorded and then sent to all our friends these are like things luke said as he was trying on my wizard wardrobe last night that my wife so graciously recorded and then sent to all

our friends these are like things luke said as he was trying on his wizard costume okay uh i'm gonna be so itchy oh my gosh do you think at first glance that people will think this is real i kind of look like duck dynasty yeah but i could be a cool wizard i don't feel embarrassed now uh but soon let's be honest i feel like i'll be one of the better looking wizards there Yeah, but I could be a cool wizard. I don't feel embarrassed now. But soon. Let's be honest. I feel like I'll be one of the better looking wizards there. Gosh, this hair.

Wizards have tough lives. You got to admit, this looks pretty tight. This is all names for football players fault. They're the reason I'm doing this. Will it be humbling? Yes. That's funny. There's like 20 more that i love this you recorded all yeah like wrote down every single thing he said that's amazing so yeah anyway 30 minute phone call with luke this week yesterday went back to back to back i went kyle brown from the limo trip learning about his life so like fired up for him he's like having like some success in like comedy and like doing improv and stand-up as well.

So really fun to talk to him. Talked to one of my best friends from high school. High school prom date. One of my good friends. And then my dad, three in a row yesterday. Can you imagine what that girl is regretting right now? Like, golly. I could have had the Ghostrunner.

One half of the Ghostrunners podcast. Maybe. I don't know if that came up or not and yes it's been a week of really good uh phone calls yeah yeah and like catching up with people what did your dad what did your dad say what uh we actually hadn't talked in a long time we talk almost uh every week once a week on the phone just to catch up and talk and we hadn't talked in a while hey jake it's your dad steve triplet no we haven't talked in a while bud so uh just seeing how you were doing i love you your mom your mom still wants you to get married

adios i don't know i'm sure he's a big bilingual guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Definitely. Or a boar boy. Anyway. Yeah, so we've been talking. It's been fun to catch up. A lot of good conversations this week. And then this weekend, going to Branson to see other good friends who are randomly going to be in Branson who don't live there normally. So a good week of seeing good friends and talking to them and catching up.

Good week with good friends and good food. Ellis Custom Creations. I don't know classic slogan yep i'm thinking maybe we get into voice memos now because i know yeah i want to transition let's let's just edit right there from or whatever i want to talk about my something that my dad did real okay cool and we can talk about that yeah um speaking of dads sunday morning 11 o'clock aka prime time for me working at church my dad calls me on the phone and that's always a little bit alarming because you're like he knows that i'm this has to be important yes and he right and uh i i didn't answer it but i text him right away like hey i'm in church. What's going on?

What's up? Do I need to call you? And he doesn't respond until like for an hour. And so I'm like, okay, I think he's okay. Like I think that to me makes me think, oh, he's fine. Interesting. He's one of the only people I know that still butt dials. Like I don't know how he does it.

I think he just doesn't lock his phone maybe and then puts it in his pocket. Okay. But it got me thinking that I think there needs to be some kind of etiquette or something whenever you text somebody like hey call me that freaks me out like if somebody's just like hey hey call me hey give me a call it's like like like you need to be like hey give me a call nothing nothing uh bad is happening like like give me a call your dad's fine you know like whatever give me a call. Your dad's fine. You know, like whatever. Give me a call. Like your dog's not dead. You know, like whatever. Like there's just a few things out right away. Yeah. Like it's just too generic sometimes. Like, hey, call me when you can. It's like,

this could be anything. You're my racist, all the worst things. Oh gosh, I knew it. That spot was not benign. You know, whatever. Something maybe you should start doing. So Kyle did this to me yesterday, which I was like, that's a funny joke because you know whatever something maybe you should start doing so kyle did this to me yesterday which i was like that's a funny joke because you know we haven't talked to him forever so the fact that he was calling me was kind of out of the blue right so he calls me i'm like dude what's up and he's like hey man um everything's fine um you know i'm fine everything's okay um i just wanted to say like, how's it going, dude? Kind of freaks you out for like five seconds. Yeah, like, oh, something's coming. You know, we never wanted it to be like this. You know, we never expect our lives to be like this.

This could change things. You know, just want to see what you're up to for lunch today. Yeah. I was like, that's funny, dude. But yeah, no, I hate that. I think we talked about it maybe like a month or so ago like i got a text i was like oh i got one of those texts like yeah hey can we can we get together and talk meet up and talk gosh dang it like no i don't it's not gonna be good news right yeah any any form of that isaac has actually done that to me a couple times since we've been roommates and it's always been amazing

news it's always like when are you getting's always like, when are you getting home? And like, maybe in like 30 minutes, like why? What's up? Or something. He's like, great news. Da da da happened or something. Or like, how quickly can you be here? Are you okay?

Or like, are you underneath the table? Is there a saw coming at your leg? I have about 15 seconds. Yeah. Like, why? What's up? And he's like, oh, we got some new mail. I think even if it is a bad news, whatever, just be a little more specific in text, in my opinion. Like, hey, can we talk?

I've just been having a little bit of an issue with the way that you've been treating me lately. Like, great. Let's like, at least then I can like be like, okay, I'm gonna have my guard up a little bit. I'm gonna have, you know, a little bit more of a, you know, preparation going into it. You kind of probably already know somewhat what that person's going to say. Give me a call as soon as you can. Your dad's in trouble. Okay.

Oh, that's a big one. Yeah. He's been getting a run in with the mob ever since he retired. That's normal. Yeah. I think the older I get, the more I see a need to over communicate and stuff like that, especially over text and stuff. And yeah, I think it older I get, the more I see a need to over-communicate and stuff like that, especially over text and stuff. And yeah, I think it's good quality.

Yeah. Just to overstate why we're meeting, what we're going to be doing there. I don't necessarily love people reiterating things over and over again, but I love being very communicative, like very well detailed in your communication. I don't want you to tell me 15 times, but. Tell me once really well though. Yeah. Yeah.

For real. So anyway, just a random thought i had when you said your dad called you my dad called me too and it was it was one of those times i was like dad you should be in church right now why are you calling me you know he was he was probably like moving in those pews and yeah he's putting his hands up for the stand you know arms high and arms high and hard. I like that song. Me too. Good song.

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Yes. That's our catchphrase. It's like freaking true. All right. Hello, Jake and Brad. My name is Madison. You probably don't remember me, but I was your first voice memo way back in episode 26. but I was your first voice memo way back in episode 26 and I just had to call in this week

because I am a lefty and if I'm listening to this correctly Brad you are also left-handed in which case I'm even more impressed that you do woodwork. My question would be what is your biggest pet peeve about being left-handed? For me, it would probably be not being able to use a can opener, having butter on both sides of the knife when I eat with my family, and not being able to cut a straight line to save my life. But anyway, have a great week. You guys are the best. What if she just shares things that don't have anything to do with being left-handed?

Okay, so for me, yeah, I can't. like when i write with ink pens it gets over my hand keyboard mouses and like not being able to look my mother in the eyes like i hate being left-handed the answer for me that you just said actually is the ink thing yeah why we were learning back in the day leonardo da vinci taught himself how to mirror write which is one of the more impressive things ever you would basically start in the middle and then write outwards with both hands. That's like there was a mirror in the middle and he taught himself how to do that because he's sick of getting ink on his left hand. Cause the old school, like type pens, super inky, way more inky. And then you could probably not even read them. They weren't even

no way to read your gift cards. If you try to scratch it off one of those pens, seriously, though, like, uh, in English, you know, the the the days where we have to do like tests and the last page of it was like a you know two-page essay or something by the time you're done you look back at the bottom of your hand and it is like gray like yeah you have you have silver on your hand like you have you have basically like the stuff that you would have on a gift card you have just now on your hand scratch that off yourself does not work to just put pin all over it though let me tell you that right now i'm gonna want a penny yeah that's the worst thing she also mentioned not being able to cut well scissors are yeah completely made for right-handed people really i never thought about that i heard some stat i don't know if this is exactly true or what what

validates it but that left-handed people have a lower life expectancy because they use things their whole life that are made for right-handed people. Huh. And she said the thing about woodworking. That is so true. Like woodworking stuff is also, everything is just catered to right-handed people because. Ooh, those desks in college. Yes. With the right arm. There's usually like one to two in each room that's a lefty.

And I always chose those. Good. Yeah. Representation. Right. For the minorities. Yeah. That's a good question though.

Thanks for asking. Have you ever heard that uh it's like an old old old jerry seinfeld bit about like comparing left versus right and he's like you know the right handers have it way easier it's like think about um everything that's left you know you got left out got left behind uh stuff like that he's like you never see a crook named righty you You know, it's always lefty. He's like, right. It's great. You know, everything's all right. He gives a bunch of examples. Right on. You know, you want to go to the party? I'll be there right now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right away. Where'd they go at the party? Oh, they left. That's good. It's great. Yeah, he's good. Fun fact that I've heard is that 50% of people are born. No, that's not true. I think 30% maybe are born left-handed, but their parents tell them to use their right hand. And so then they learn how to be right-handed. Yeah, I saw it firsthand. And one of my childhood friends, Zach Yarberry,

was definitely probably born left-handed, but grew up in a super sporty home. So his dad had a bat and a ball in his hand when he was three years old and was always putting the ball in his right hand. So he grew up being pretty super sporty home so his dad like had a bat and a ball in his hand so when he was three years old and was always putting the ball in his right hand so he grew up being pretty ambidextrous probably could have been a way better athlete had he just been left-handed right but he was kind of in this middle ground where like in a basketball game he would drive left and pull up and shoot a left-handed jump shot and drive right and shoot a right-handed

jump shot like he could do i think either can Isaac do that? Yeah, decently well. Yeah. Yeah. Which Isaac's lefty, but he's kind of ambidextrous too. So yeah, I would believe that. Another fun fact is that 50, this is the one I was thinking of, 50% of all architects are left-handed, even though the only like 15 or 10% of the world is left-handed.

So it's like, it just shows you that left-handed people are more that minded, whatever that is. Whatever that is. Yeah. Yeah. Like spatially and. I guess. I don't know.

Visually smart. Yeah. A lot of presidents are left-handed. I know. It's not me. It's not you. Here we go. Hey Brad.

Hey Jay. My name's Donald. And if you were to take my place as president, what would you do? And my real name is actually emory i'm a child and jake and brad 2020 for president yeah two presidents that's how the world works emory let's go emory yeah but two popes i love it where would we be without the popes two and just the netflix documentary the popes called two popes oh really or maybe it's not documentaries to show something i've

seen it on the home page oh that song i got two popes yeah one for the vat and one for the rome um nice em. Thanks for the... There's a question. She said, if you were to take my place, what would you do? She's for sure a girl. Yeah, Emery's a girl's name. Okay. You never know these days, dude.

Well... And it's a little kid, so like pre-puberty. They all sound the same. Emery, love you no matter what. If I... What was the question? If we were to take Donald's place, what would we do? Oh, sure.

I would definitely just put a basketball court right smack dab in the middle of the White House and in Congress. And then we'd play basketball all the time. We do shirts versus skins. And of course, I would be a skin. I don't know. Obama played quite a bit of basketball. Yeah, he did.

He's left-handed. He played it left-handed. Emery, thank you for the voice memo. Yeah. I've never really thought about what I would do if I was president. I think I would not want to do it at all. You know, technically, statistically speaking, it's the most dangerous job in the world. You know, because whatever, four of 43 45 have died pretty high percentage office yeah that's crazy

higher than you know deep sea fishermen or construction workers sure you know that's interesting because of percentages yeah because it's not necessarily like i mean you're you're more protected than any other position too but but there's not very many other people that have done what you've done so therefore if even a few of you have died then you're more protected than any other position too, but there's not very many other people that have done what you've done. So therefore, if even a few of you have died, then you're more likely to die. Yes. Interesting.

But maybe in the last 20 years, it's a very safe job. You could argue, right? You could. You know, safest job last 20 years. Safer than fishers. Hey, Jake. Hey, Brad. This is Gloria.

Coming to you from Fort Worth, Texas. A beautiful town you forgot to mention. How convenient. Anyway, the point of this message is to say I am a left-hander. Which means that I am in my right mind. Now, Brad, comma, I don't know about you, but I never actually understood what that meant.

Does that mean I'm smarter than everybody? Does that mean I have better ideas? Because I have problems with this. I'd love to get your opinions on it. Also, I have a poultry of the week. You ready? People who use terms like OMG or LOL in regular conversations. Like, why not just laugh?

Fair. Okay. First of all, thanks for the voice, ma'am. As always. I didn't shout out Gloria. From Gloria. Oh, oh, oh. of all thanks for the voice ma'am as always uh i didn't shout out gloria from glory oh fort worth gloria yes in whatever chelsea's day oh she i i didn't shout out uh fort worth because the girl was from south

texas and in my opinion, who are you talking about? What? Last week, somebody lost last week. Somebody had a voice memo said coming to you from South Texas. And so I shouted out a few random towns in South Texas, McAllen,

Corpus Christi, South Padre, whatever. And Fort Worth is not South at all. A hundred percent. It is. It is North. It is absolutely North.

And so that's why I didn't shout you out. Gloria, Vic, Gloria, Gloria. Hey, I like Fort Worth though. Gloria liked a lot more than Dallas.

Agreed. Agreed. For sure. Stockyards. Shout out. Stockyards. Shout out. Shout out.

Billy Bob's. Shout out. Joe T. Garcia's baby. You ever go there? No. Oh, you would love it.

Okay. It's awesome. Sounds like a place. Oh my gosh. It's, it's on because of the voice memos. That's hard to do. That's baby. You ever go there? No. Oh, you would love it. Okay. It's awesome. Sounds like a place. Oh my gosh. It's on because of the voice memos. That's hard to do. That's hard. All right. Um, did you, Oh, poultry. I agree with the LOL OMG thing. It seems like an immature thing to do. Yeah. You're not doing that in a corporate, you know, board meeting. Sometimes I'll do it to like be funny. Like how the office made that joke asap as possible yes i've said before like uh to be tbh like i just don't want to do that tonight yeah yeah it's something like that but that is just a joke yeah my friend would always he would always say wth what the heck bro yeah that's funny yeah jk kidding but to actually like if the chief scored

a touchdown and i said om OMG, I would expect, please slap me across the face. Don't let me hang out with you anymore. Right. I don't. I wouldn't. I won't. Hi, Jake.

Hi, Brad. I'm Annie and I thought I would leave a voice memo since I am left-handed. So I have a few would you rathers. So the first one I've actually asked already on your Instagram and Brad answered, but I thought I made it a little too easy. So the first one is would you rather never eat fast food again or you can never watch a football game again? So like you can look at the scores all you want, but you can't actually watch the game and then the second one is would you rather always smell of like really overpowering cologne that's really bad or would you rather always have like a bad body odor thanks guys love your podcast thank you annie second one's easy

always cologne yes i mean just it's a good because at least people think you're trying you're trying too hard but you're trying bad body odor is like geez this guy smells bad every single time you can't enjoy being around somebody who smells really bad no opinion yeah that one's easy the other one is tough though no fast food or no like watching a game itself, only seeing scores. Loophole, Chipotle is not fast food, right? Yeah. Are we arguing that? Maybe if she would, let's cater it or let's switch it around to say no restaurants or no football.

Like you have to eat at home? Yeah. Oh man. That would be. I like both of those a lot. There's a lot more alternatives to football than there are for no restaurants. Because like what happens if you go. Like socially, you're out with people.

Or you're on tour. Not eating. I got to meal prep a lot. Or you got to go to Walmart and buy a loaf of bread. Or someone just says, hey, you want to do a lunch meeting? I say, yeah, in your kitchen? I can do that. Yeah, let me put on the broiler.

Meet on a park bench. I'll bring my food. Yeah, bring your brown bag. You'd have to go no football. Just like not entering a restaurant. It would just like mess with your schedule too much. It would get in the way too much. Yeah, especially us.

Because obviously we love the food, but we also love the social aspect of it. And convenience. And the convenience of it. Yeah, for we also love the social aspect of it. And convenience. And the convenience of it. Yeah, for sure. And football is more just entertainment. It's easier to live without. Football is only how many months of the year?

Four or five? Yeah. You know, we got baseball and basketball still. And maybe I get into something else. You know? Bocce? Rugby. Maybe bocce.

I might be a boccino. So rugby is a close cousin. I could see that. Those are tough though yeah yeah the smelling one obviously you don't want either but you definitely don't want to smell bad can you imagine can you imagine ever smelling bad no no i smell great terrible hey ghost runners it's alex from minnesota and my question for you guys is if you were stuck overnight with each other in a store

and you could do anything you wanted you would complete free reign of the place and you could break anything you could eat anything and there would be no punishment or repercussions what store would you get stuck overnight in and what kind of things would you do oh and texas yeah frank forward joe t garcias those voiceovers came in funny funny order alex my guy man katherine right now is livid. That's your friend.

You're a good friend from camp, right? I don't know who you're talking about. Okay. Yeah, absolutely. He's, he's a buddy of mine.

Um, he figured out how to put a bleep in a voice memo. Yeah. Did you do that? No, no, that was him. That's really impressive.

Cause you have to, I thought you just like record, like press record and it's just right there. So maybe he like, I'm sure another device like added the bleep that he timed well yeah that was awesome that's hilarious when i was in high school i always wanted to try and stay in the mall overnight and then once i turned 18 i was like all right i kind of missed my window to do that and like it's not going to be a slap on the wrist anymore so i kind of let that dream go but yeah i had like ideas of like you know just hiding under like one of the beds and like macy's

or something like that or like in the middle of a clothing rack because you can easily hide here and stay here overnight i don't know if that's my store of choice it was just like that's the easiest right did you ever read corduroy as a kid no it's a bear corduroy is a bear oh yeah and he gets like he's yeah by himself in a department store it's kind of what you're wanting to corduroy you want to quarter it up i think i would maybe choose like a a sporting goods store my first thought was uh like a bass pro or uh something like that or maybe somewhere that's more yeah like you're saying like maybe that has the bass pro aspects but also has more sporting goods stuff as well because i think it'd be really fun to like take a kayak down the escalator and run it into a bear yes that would be sweet have the bear

in the kayak a bunch of stuff like yeah just like go like do target practice across a you know across the store yeah that would be fun too i mean yeah they're both gonna be a lot of fun like sporting goods you set up a basketball hoop right who knows where you know across the thing and you're trying to make stuff and all your friends are there. Well, that's that. Did he ask a question where it was just the two of us? Cause I, yeah, my first thought was like laser tag in any kind of store like that sounds amazing to me or paintball, but I'm not as I'd rather not get hurt lasers. I would much rather, but like make sure they're really good guns to where you can like, yeah. Snipe somebody from, somebody from, yeah, from the bear exhibit all the way down to, you know, the swimwear. So I think you found our answer.

The store we stay in is just a laser tag store. Yes. We just stay around the laser tag place. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The laser tag place. Seriously, that would be so fun. Yeah. Because laser tag is fun, but it gets expensive, you know, to do more than once.

Yeah. Or twice. He says that we can break whatever we want. So we can like set up our own maps. And they always say no running. We could be running. Oh, we would be sprinting. Yeah, that would be so I really want to play some laser tag now.

Like we could we could sprint, but we could also have like areas set up that have like mattresses or pillows or something. Yeah. And so like like that's the place where you like jump and shoot. Yeah. As you fall. Oh, that'd be dope. Dude. I'm excited. I'm going to Branson this weekend. Home of laser tag. Basically laser tag there. Oh yeah. Dude. Laser tag is, I hope that like, you know, we see trends like the trampoline parks or whatever. I hope that laser tag really becomes like a thing again. I don't know why it went away, but it's good. It needs to come back and somebody needs to like, I mean, I know that there's still options, but not nearly as many as

there used to be. I still have never talked about this 30 episodes ago, have never taken a girl on a chick for laser tag date. And that's, that's accounts receivable for me. That's going to happen. Yeah. You're waiting for the right, the right girl, the right laser girl. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Laser tag is fun. The right laser lady. Laser laid my gosh laser tag is fun the right laser lady laser laid yeah um yeah that would be what we do no matter where we are that was a good answer like thank you for like showing me the light i'm like it could be better than dick's sporting goods it could even be better than bass bro it could be laser tag and branson i yeah but i'm also imagining like going down the escalator in the kayak, you know,

dual wielding two laser guns. You put like a little sensor in the bear's mouth that like gets you extra points for your home base. That's like the portal. Yeah. But you talk to a ghost and he becomes a bear. So the bear can come alive. Do you believe in bears?

I believe in bears. Okay. I've seen enough proof like in like security footage and stuff to believe in them security footage yeah that's it you know like that bear going up to the walmart parking lot security footage uh you ever seen a bear in real life no i don't i maybe like outside of a zoo no i saw my first one on the fourth of july this. Pretty American would have preferred a bald eagle or maybe a golden retriever. But it was a black bear. But we were up in Crested Butte. Grant Huber was there. Awesome.

Carter. And we were we made like this homemade like kind of potato gun out of PVC pipe. And one of the guys there with us is an engineer. So you had to do all this. Yeah, classic. But we didn't have potatoes. So we were shooting lemons and limes out of pvc pipe and one of the guys there with us is an engineer so you know how to do all this yeah classic but we didn't have potatoes so we were shooting lemons and limes out of it and i guess bear likey the the sprite combo so we leave bears are big citrus uh fans well known well no you'll see that on security footage if you pay close attention we leave to go hiking and

come back and a bear is ravaging our lemons and limes like he just smelled them and we google it like bears can smell stuff from like miles away. That's crazy. Don't have food out if you're in the mountains. Seriously? Yeah, that's scary. Yeah, you're like- We show up to our house and there's a bear there.

That's wild. Yeah. At your house? At Grant's place. Oh, wow. Like in the driveway. I missed this vacation with my family, but like my whole extended family one time was on vacation.

And it was like when they had all the fires in the, like the Rockies. You remember that? Yeah. It was two summers ago. Cause yeah, we couldn't get up to Glacier National Park because of the fires. It was different. It was different than that. It was like maybe five or six, seven years ago. It was a while back, but they were supposed to stay in this one really nice place. And instead the fires were too dangerous there. So they had to stay at YMCA of the Rockies, which sounds awesome to me. I like that kind of thing. But some of them, you know, some of the family members were really looking forward to like

this kind of cush. The log cabin. Really nice floors. Yeah. Airbnb, whatever you want to call it. And instead they're staying at like this rustic cabins. And the guys one night are all playing cards or whatever. And they don't have air conditioning even like in this place.

So they just have the windows open and they just look over and there's a bear just like putting their putting its face right into the window and uh one of my cousins was like uh bear and that's all he said and everyone just freaked out and like my dad's like i've never seen uncle adele run that fast in his whole life you know that's crazy yeah that would be nuts oh i would almost guarantee they had sprite somewhere in their kitchen that night for sure maybe maybe dr pepper with lime could be could have been some lacroix pretending to be sprite right yeah but anyway but then my aunt was like you know because they had different cabins like all around this one little area my aunt's like liddell you need to come back i i need you i'm scared and he's like Liddell you need to come back I need you I'm scared and he's like I am not going

out there right now I'm scared of bears too I have a fear too honestly I'm also one of those weird people who don't like being close to bears so you'll have to understand if I don't want to get that near them they send you a text now Brad everything's okay there's no dragons here okay but call me as soon as you can like oh okay I'm getting attacked by a bear let me know yeah how soon can you be here? Bear's got my leg. Probably not going to stick to just the leg for very long. Oh, man.

Hey, thanks for the voice memo, Alex. Is that Alex? From Minnesota. Okay. Minnesota, nice. What's up, fellow Midwesterners? My name is Mikayla. I sent in a voice memo a while back, but I'm left-handed, so I am now contractually obligated

to send in another one. It's true. I've often lamented to my husband about the discrimination I have faced being a lefty when it comes to products and stuff of that sort. So Brad, being a fellow lefty, I was wondering if you have any funny stories or experiences in regards to being a left-handed person and not being able to do traditional things because only right-handers are thought of with stuff like that. So this topic irks me. Sorry to be so explicit. She doesn't have to blame me.

Thanks. Bye. Okay. So I would say probably like essays, like if you write a lot, like you get on your hand scissors, uh, woodworking is pretty hard. Actually. Uh, I've kind of learned how to be ambidextrous there. Uh, Jake actually has some friends who learned how to shoot both ways because you're actually born one way. You learn how to go right.

Yeah. That stinks for Michaela. Like it looks like she repeated if she, she might've sent in her voice memo first. Yeah. The voice memos are not public, you know, before this, you don't know what's been sent in before set sticks that she has to say question. Yeah. Sorry. It does.

It's like, um, in the office where, what is it? Dwight? Oh, Jim knows what Dwight's about to ask off for. And so Jim beats him to the punch.

He's like, Hey, can I take a client out to lunch? Like we never do this. Yeah. Out for dinner. It was like, Oh yeah.

Out for dinner. Seriously. You'll never do this. Yeah. I wish I had a better story. I think honestly, and I know we're kind of beating this dead horse, but I think you just get so used to it that you don't think about the things that you're having to do left-handed that, that are inconvenient. You're just kind of used to it. But I remember when I first, like, I think in a computer lab in fifth grade, whoa, it gets you emotional. It was like theacklemore song

i remember in the in the third grade i was using the computer mouse um but yeah thinking like oh this is uh on my right hand and i like this a lot and that's too bad for people who don't feel as comfortable with their right hand as i do yeah i don't know i don't know how that all works because i think you just get used to certain things uh Uh, but back on the, uh, not one upping someone, what would you call it? Just like beating someone to the punch. One time in a speech class in high school, one of my friends, I learned what they are giving a speech about. And so I wrote a speech for myself to do, but I also came prepared with a speech about his topic, just in case I found out the order and found out I went first. So I went first and gave a speech on his topic right before he went.

It was awesome. So he's probably an improv, you know. Yes. He's like, OK, well, that was pretty much everything I was going to say. But yeah, it's Salamaners are like super cool. I don't know what it was about, but something already pretty boring. Michaela, thanks for the voice memo. Keep keep calling back. You know, maybe do it a little bit earlier next time. Yeah. Hurry up with what you say. Michaela, thanks for the voice memo. Keep calling back.

You know, maybe do it a little bit earlier next time. Yeah. Hurry up with what you say, Michaela. Nice. Yo, this is Brayden from Austin, Texas. Not to be confused with the other Brayden that has been featured on this show. Really love y'all's podcast. Excited to leave a voice memo for you guys.

So I've got two questions uh the first is i couldn't help but notice as i've been listening to your show that most of your voice memos and reviews that you guys feature are from women and so i just wanted to know did you guys always intend to start a women's lifestyle podcast or did it just happen organically and you've just run with it? Just just curious. Second question is, if you guys did not have the option to root for the Kansas City Chiefs, if they didn't exist, which NFL franchise would you be a fan of? Those are my questions. Love the podcast, guys. Keep up the good work.

Great, great questions. You redeem you redeem the Brayden name. The Brayden namesakes back. Love the podcast, guys. Keep up the good work. Great, great questions. You redeemed the Braden name. The Braden namesake is back. Yeah, it is weird. I think like looking at our stats, 60% of our listeners are women, but all of our feedback is from women for some reason. So I don't know. But yes, I didn't just talk a lot more. I did intend to start a women's lifestyle blog from one of our smart goals is like, hey, we should get people to listen to our podcast. And you're like, nope, not smart enough. Let's get specific.

Okay, we should get humans. And you're like, nope. Getting closer. Okay, women. Yeah. 34 to 48. Whatever. Yeah.

Two X chromes. That's what I want. That's right. Double X. Yeah. I don't know. That's just a random thing that happens to us, I guess, is that girls give more feedback. I think that's probably just in general on social media and whatnot, but, um, we're, we're here for all the, you know, all the advice that women might need about life. I mean, we are Ulta consultants. So, uh, and the question about the NFL, you have an answer.

I, I think I want to root for whatever team Ryan Fitzpatrick is on. Okay. So you, yeah, you have a new team every year. Yeah. I just choose a quarterback. And you're going to have that team for 20 more years. Cause he's going to, he's going to last. Yeah. He's got time on his hands. Yeah. Yeah. I really think so. I think he's a fun guy to root for Harvard guy. Super old. super old seems funny has a lot of swagger super old is he super old or is he just have a beard he might just have a beard yeah um one of my friends michael sloan is from oklahoma tulsa and they don't have sports teams in tulsa

and so he just chose a different city every year and would just cheer on all their teams so he'd be like i'm a baltimore fan this year i'm a cleveland fan this year i'm a tampa fan whatever i don't think you should get to choose year by year well he always chose i think there was some kind of stipulation of like they have to be their third or fourth place or lower like you can't just be like oh i'm a patriots fan this year i'm a chiefs fan well i think what makes it so much fun as a fan to cheer on sports is like i've seen them in their ups and downs and i like i've stuck with them like when the royals won or like when the Chiefs won. True.

It's way cooler when you know, like, wow, I watched every game this season. The Chiefs went 2-14. Yeah. I watched every single game that year. That sucked. Yeah. And now we win the Super Bowl. So we just changed every year.

Ryan Fitzpatrick's changing every year. Yeah, but it's not my actual team. That's my team from a voicemail question. That's my fake team, yeah. I had a friend do something like that. I think, yeah, he was from somewhere that didn't have any sport. You know, he's not my actual team. That's my team from a voice memo question. That's my fake team, yeah. I had a friend do something like that. I think, yeah, he was from somewhere that didn't have any sport. He's from Wyoming or something. And so he's like, I'm just going to choose a city,

and that's going to be my teams for everything. So I think he chose Cleveland like 10 years ago or something. So he's still a Cavs fan, Browns fan, and Indians fan, which they've all kind of had some success. If it were me, I think I would choose the Vikings. I don't know. I just have,

I've always, I always loved the Vikings growing up because Randy Moss, Chris Carter, Randall Cunningham, Dr. Culpepper, Robert Smith, whatever.

And they, they have enough success to where it's like they're likable franchise or good franchise, but they haven't been so successful that it's like, Oh, you're just a bandwagon Vikings fan. Yeah. I don't think it was going to call you out for that.

Good. Good fan base too. Yes. Really good. They, they don't think anyone's going to call you out for that. Good fan base, too. Yes, really good. They were so many people when they came to Kansas City this year. Skull. Yeah. There's like several Vikings bars in Kansas City, which I think is weird, too. Really?

Multiple. Huh. I mean, it's not really that far away. Minnesota is only like six hours, I think. Oh, really? So it's closer than Chicago or Denver? Yeah. Yeah. Huh.

It might be one of the closest sports teams to us. I did not realize that. Yeah. Just straight up 35, baby. To the Twin Cities. To Alex Teen. Hey, Jake and Brad. This is Kelly. He called me out. I am left-handed.

That's freaking true. I have a point of poultry of sorts. a POP, I guess. Jake, I heard your Chipotle order. Your burrito did not include beans, which brings up a major question for me, and that is how do you define a burrito? I personally distinguish it from other wraps by including rice and beans, but you let me know what makes a burrito a burrito i'm really curious okay i've never thought about this question before oh it was

like such a big deal at our uh at kina cook breakfast tacos versus breakfast burritos apparently in texas they call the things that we would call breakfast burritos breakfast tacos and so people got so up in arms i like the whole hot dog thing is a hot dog a sandwich i don't care about any of this stuff bothers like why is that a point of conversation is water wet yes stop asking me it's wet there's like a very well there's like a specific type of person who asked those questions we don't have to get into it too much. We'll call them Connors.

No, I feel like I've seen it a lot in like group dynamics where like you're having a good conversation. And then there's a person who like wants to give the impression of their depth as well. And like, so, you know, do you guys, what do you guys think? Like is our hot dogs a sandwich or whatever? And like wants to like have this fun conversation. And to me, it's so stupid and it doesn't mean anything. Silly, silly. And it's so, it just lacks any kind of meaning or depth, but there's certain types of guys

out there who love pretending that they like have interesting things to say by asking these questions that the internet has already made popular. Huh've seen this over and over again like certain types of people yeah yeah it's paternal i need to get out more because i don't see that as often as you do but i think i kind of see what you're saying like yeah like the people that are like hey let me ask this really thought-provoking but very relatable question like yeah like anybody can weigh in on a hot dog but then we're going to really dive into this. It's just not real conversation. I don't want to like, yeah. I mean, I guess most of what we talk about on the podcast is not important or anything. I was like, maybe we do that every week.

Yeah. Whatever. Anyway. Um, burritos. That's a good question. Do the beans make it a burrito? No, but if you don't have rice in there, then that's not, doesn't feel as much. I feel like, well, I feel like it has to be enclosed, right? Like you can't have an open face burrito. No, open concept burrito is just a taco. No, like, yeah, we're going to knock down that wall. Then you're not, you're not going to have a burrito anymore. Knock down the wall though, you got yourself a taco.

That's right. Exactly. But I think rice, rice and or beans. I don't think it has to have. You need one of them. I think rice needs to be in there. If you just have beans and chicken in a. That's weird. That's just a bundle. A bean chicken Bundy. So can we agree on you need a meat and rice and at least two more ingredients and you've got yourself a burrito?

That sounds good to me. I don't know if you have to have meat really because they have vegetarian options at chipotle but what do you put in there you put like beans and rice and uh guacamole you get guacamole instead of meat for that price hmm it's not but i would still call it a burrito but yeah i i think on the same page as you as far as yeah give me some poultry give me some yeah rice yeah salsa whatever have you had the new chipotle queso yet i haven't are you gonna do it today uh not today probably but soon i need to yeah text me your thoughts i um yeah that's a new thing that just happened yeah we've been talking a lot about it via text so we don't need to go over it again

but yeah you let me know when you have it maybe I'll have Qdoba when I go to Branson and can like remind myself what that tastes like and compare it more right

yeah I'm curious to see what it's like Catherine was always a fan of the old old texture and the old queso I don't know if she was a fan of the texture

but she was a fan of the queso overall gotcha FYI for you guys as of a few days ago Chipotle has come out with a new recipe for queso blanco queso blanco yeah and so uh yeah we're really excited about it i was really yeah i was really looking forward to it because like white queso is always so good but i was just not that impressed kind of lacks some flavor for me yeah i thought it was funny. So Connor was the other person

in this group text with this. And Connor's one of the ones that contends that Qdoba is better than Chipotle. Then all of a sudden he's like, oh, this puts Chipotle over the edge. And I'm like, I was like, oh, wow.

You're just looking for an excuse to backtrack on the fact that your terrible take as far as Chipotle is worse than Qdoba. He said that. And then I got even more excited. So I had Chipotle like an hour later.

And then I was like, I wanted to love it so bad, but it was just like, oh, this is the same taste, maybe worse. Granted, it was like the first day of them changing the recipe. So maybe it's going to get better or something. But didn't love it. I'm going to try to have an open mind. You know, not, not, but right now I'm kind of negative towards it because of you.

Yeah. I'm going to try not to. Yeah. Let me know. Hey guys, Jared here from Raleigh, North Carolina. Love the show. I have a quick answer for one of your questions regarding farting. I think farting became unacceptable as soon as humans could smell because who wants to

smell a fart? But here's the real question. And I've had a debate about it with several friends who have different opinions. And that is, did Jesus ever have diarrhea? I know it sounds crazy, but if you think about it, it's a result of bad things going on in your stomach. And so without sin, would that happen? You know, pain during childbirth is a result of sin. So let me know your answers.

I'm super pumped to hear what you guys think. Hashtag, what would Jesus do? So I thought that I had never considered the bean and burrito thing. I've really never considered this. You go ahead, man. with what i think yeah okay well i don't have i'm forming them as i'm saying them right now i think that uh jesus did not have diarrhea we do i don't think it happened that much in general back in the day because people were eating better and different things of the earth right yeah i guess i don't know enough about the human body to really know like cause and effect and like did people get sick pretty often back in the day because you couldn't really cure anything so i think people

once you're sick you're done yeah yeah you have one bad burrito you're done yeah i don't know so i don't know i want to give a you know and as intelligent of an answer as i came here because i know you guys really care about what i think about this made-up scenario but yeah i don't think he he diaried no he didn't he decreed um but he did not diary that's that's somewhere why are you talking so quiet i don't know sorry am i i don't i don't this this feels crunchy to me to talk about this for some reason i don't know yeah but i i don't know i don't care too much about that i i don't think i don't think that's the point of uh his life so anyway it's a funny what would jesus

poo that was funny yeah what would jesus poo ghost runners what is up jake and brad it's your left-handed boy grayson inman coming at you live on the ghost runners podcast podcast. Hey, listen up, guys. I've got a random suggestion. Maybe it can turn into an Roushley Strong Opinions. Who knows? But if you had to pick tomorrow a random sports franchise that you do not currently cheer for, if you had to pick a random franchise tomorrow to start then all in cheering for, who would it be and why? Now, here's my pitch for Memphis Grizzlies. They are young.

They are agile. They are fun. They are winning. They have John Morant. They have Dylan Brooks. They have Jaron Jackson Jr. They have Brandon Clark. And they have me as a fan.

So pick them. Y'all be blessed. Have a good one. Peace. I like that he introduced himself as, it's your left-handed boy. Yeah. Like this is all my the prodigal son returns that was a hot voice i knew i had a left-handed son out there somewhere

wow there's a left-handed boy oh the rendezvous ribs memphis rendezvous ribs and the grit grind grizz they grit and they grind in the what words are you saying right now rendezvous ribs is that a restaurant and yeah barbecue place okay and then the memphis grizzlies they say grit and grind so grit grind grizz that's memphis i still don't totally you're saying a restaurant and the slogan for the grizzlies or is it he's both restaurants that's memphis tennessee no uh rendezvous is the restaurant's name okay they have famous ribs oh okay but also the memphis Grizzlies say grit and grind. Yes. Sorry. I should have deciphered all of that. Yeah. Okay. Out of no context at all. Got it. Got it. Got it. The only NBA game I've ever seen was Memphis Grizzlies back when they played in the pyramid. So that's

cool. I also liked that he described his NBA team as agile. If your professional sports team is not agile, you're probably not in great shape. Hey, Luka Doncic though, not very agile, dominating right now. I bet if you were guarding him, he would look pretty agile. Oh yeah. Compared to an average Joe, you're very agile, but that's a great original question that we haven't heard in five minutes or so. Yeah, no, we'll do something other than football since we already got a football question. So baseball or basketball? I do think John Moran is the truth. He's going to be very good in the nba yeah i think it'd be fun to cheer for any team that has a young star john moran zion trey young someone like that would be fun to zion's leaving though i think i don't think he's gonna stay in new orleans very long

i'll tell you like he was like he's one and done like he's gonna go from the nba to zion's going g league next nfl yeah yeah he's one and done twice uh why don't you think he'll stay there i just think that he's gonna go to a big market i think NFL. Yeah. He's won and done twice. Why don't you think he'll stay there? I just think that he's going to go to a big market. I think that's like the new thing in the NBA is like, hey, find, you know, where you can go to win with big teams. What is big market? Like why?

I don't really understand why that needs to be a thing, though. Like why does he get paid more outside of sports in a big market do like endorsements and sponsorships and stuff yeah like lebron went to la and people are like oh part of the reason he's going to la is because of hollywood and making space jam 2 and all this stuff not that he couldn't do that yeah but it seems like kind of just like this this phrase that gets thrown around a lot and when i really think about i'm, does it matter how big the market is for the sports team you play on? I don't know.

I don't know if they get royalties on their jersey sales, stuff like that. And so you would want more consumers and more like... Right, in New York, they're going to buy more jerseys than Kansas City.

Well, the Knicks are proving them wrong. Well, we'll see. Let's see how bad we can get. Mahomes gets a lot of jersey sales though. That's a great question. The Warriors. Just kidding. I don't know.

I like the answer for the Grizzlies. Sure. I've always enjoyed Memphis. I have a lot of good friends from Memphis. Yeah, really sweet uniforms. Those throwback ones? Current and, yeah, throwbacks are awesome. Yeah.

Those and the Raptors throwbacks are just next level um and they they're memphis just feels very similar to kansas city in so many ways like it feels like this humble yet prideful place like they they have pride in where they're from and what they stand for and they haven't had that much success but when it comes it's going to be so sweet and we're like the top two barbecue cities. Right. In America. Yeah, don't tell that to Fort Worth. Gloria?

Yeah, don't tell that to Gloria. Settle down, Gloria. Or the guy from Raleigh, North Carolina, thinks they got good barbecue up there. Oh, really? Down there, whatever. I'm sure it's fine. Yeah. I'm sure it's good.

Man, I loved the beginning of that. I genuinely thought it was Trey for a second. Yeah, it did kind of sound like it. I was like, did Trey, like, like did you know this that trey called in for us or whatever um i did not what's your answer i think memphis grizzlies let's do it perfect let's hop on let's hop on well that's the thing like we don't have an nba team no and you never want to choose one because then it's just like oh you're just a fair weather fan like whenever oklahoma city came around i was kind of into oklahoma city but then there were people that got so into it. And I was like, I can't halfway be into Oklahoma City Thunder.

And so I kind of got out. Because it was like, they were so good. And they were so fun. And I was like, yeah, I like watching them play. But my favorite teams, probably the Bulls in the 90s. Cleveland in the heat for like some of their 2000s. And then the Warriors more recently. They've been awesome.

So thanks for taking my voice memo, guys. Once again, my name is Brayden go patriots okay thank you guys for all the voice memos uh brad real quick i needed to give you another update from open mic night of course yes uh very surprised this is my first time going to the same place twice so seeing the same comedians several of them did the exact same jokes they did last week which i kind of get like they're trying to perfecting it i guess but they would to me i was like nothing of this is changing i think you're just like wanting to like i don't feel this uh dopamine again i'm just like they laughed last time i want to feel it again yeah so that was a large amount of them did the same exact jokes and one of them in particular which i forgot to mention last week, and I know we have certain

listeners out there who love the movie Liar Liar. This guy just goes up there and his punchline is a quote from Liar Liar. And I was like, is no one going to call him out on this? And he did it this week too, two weeks in a row. What was the punchline? It was something like, I forget the setup exactly. He was just like, yeah, kids have been mean to me lately. The other day I said, what's up?

And they said, you're cholesterol fatty. That is directly from Liar Liar. How are you okay with saying this on a stage? Maybe he didn't remember watching Liar Liar and just thought, oh, that's a really funny joke that I just made up. But in reality, no, not at all. I don't think in the realm of comedy, you can give him that benefit of doubt. One of the biggest comedy movies in the nineties. Maybe he forgot that exact punchline word for word and now thinks it's his. No, he definitely stole it. And I was like, this is so crazy that two weeks the biggest comedy movies in the 90s yeah yeah he forgot that exact punchline word for word and now thinks it's his no he definitely stole it and i was like this is so crazy that two weeks in a row

no one's gonna like i've i would never heckle anyone but i feel like shouldn't someone do this shouldn't someone say stop stealing jokes um favorite bit of the night was uh this guy said i'm gonna do an impression for you guys now this is goofy having a stroke and it was a very uncomfortable 60 seconds probably 60 seconds i think he was trying to be funny by going for a long time like once you think it's over he kept going but he never got a laugh it was bad very very bad he was just like no if i do this long enough people are going to think this is ridiculously bad and therefore it's funny yeah but it just didn't ever come to fruition i was kind of on the side i wasn't actually in the audience and because i went to the restroom and so i could see the audience and i saw like people with where the head heads down

like you know fingers on their forehead looking down like i can't believe this is in front of me it was amazing the confidence go to one of these that's nuts yeah it's crazy what people are willing to do yeah in front of people and it's to me i think i would struggle not laughing out of obligation every once in a while yeah i i've done a few right to give them something and that's typically when i'm like oh that was kind of funny and no one laughed that's surprising i thought that was decent so i'll make some noise that's interesting breathe real loud yeah goofy yeah that's a really uh risky joke to to to say hey i'm going to just do it really long and that's going to be the funny part of this joke yeah which i guess open mic night would be the place to do it. But still, I don't think I'm going to try that anywhere.

Man. I texted one of my friends, I was like, how'd open mic night go? And I was like, well, I got to see Goofy doing a stroke. And he just texted back, gorsh. I said, oh, my gorsh is right. That's nuts, dude. So how many more are you going to go to another one, you think, before the tour? Or is that the last one?

Yeah, I'll probably go next week sometime again again i don't know if i want to do brand new stuff again or if i want to try to like culminate a few stuff that you know i'll do right you know kind of a dress rehearsal i don't know what i'll do yet um yeah i'll probably go to one more might as well one more practice uh yeah still trying to figure out what i'm going to do and still you know writing stuff for it like still thinking of things that could be funny. I was just thinking last night before bed, I have our note down on my phone from 3 57 AM. Cause that's what time I've been going to bed this week about the Corona virus. Cause I'm like, this is, well, first of all, it's getting a little scary. Like, no, not scared. You're not scared of the CDC issuing warnings like we've never seen in

our lifetime before. Nope. Okay. That's cool that's cool so anyway either way regardless of your amount of fear you have with it which i wouldn't really say i'm scared of it but it's like it's very relevant right now yeah the relevancy is high so i'm like i should do something with that and i don't think i'm going to do something with this but i just had this funny i yeah let me let me set up i'm not going to do this joke and i want to be very sensitive and say that, well, no, nevermind. I'm not going to like bring it up. It's too like, it's too sensitive. I think. Can you just tell me right now real fast? It was going to be something to do with the Me Too movement. Oh, okay. Because I do think that movement has been amazing and it's been very empowering and I think it's been a huge step in the right direction. It's so, yeah, I don't want

to do anything to take away from it, but I was just like, I think it'd be funny to do a play on words or it's like, Oh yeah. Instead of me too. Like there were some girls after I started working for Trey, they were my DMS and, you know, wasn't worried about getting me too. They were like saying like me tonight or me finally, me tomorrow, something like that. I ran it by one of my friends and he was just like, it's probably not worth it. Especially cause I was going to be be one of my opening bits probably not worth maybe alienating people from the get-go or just being like okay this guy's kind of a jerk or yeah it's just not worth it even if that is kind of funny or whatever yeah not worth it uh i have a question about you uh in comedy tell me like like you're saying like you're still writing jokes you're still thinking

about stuff like for you how hard is it like once you write a joke to then memorize it and or deliver it? Like do you need days, hours, minutes? Like what's the process like? I'm just curious. Yeah. And I'm sure it's not, you know, the same for every single thing. But like to you, do you want to make sure that you have every single joke written by 10 days out so you can memorize it? Or do you know the more or less the general idea of the joke and you just like, OK, this joke is the one about whatever slippers in the morning or whatever.

And I can just riff off slippers or whatever. Yeah, I've been trying to take it more seriously. And with that comes like memorizing it more word for word, trying to. But I've been kind of frustrated myself, not because open mic nights aren't't necessarily going well but just like I know I could be doing so much better if I put more time into it and put more time into memorizing it even for open mics yeah so yeah just kind of been frustrated myself and also trying to give myself some grace because it's like okay well my full-time job is writing jokes for Trey and doing that multiple times a week and then also I'm trying to do my own comedy

videos on Instagram and then I'm putting up stories, you know, multiple times a week. And then I am, you know, we have a 90 minute podcast every week and then, you know, then I'm trying to write jokes for a standup as well. So there's a lot of humor trying to go out, but to answer your question. Yeah. I would like to memorize it pretty close to word for word if I could. Okay. And I would need several days to do that. Gotcha. Yeah. Cause that's, that's the interesting thing for me is I feel like I wonder how many comics are word for word pretty, but, but they look so natural doing it. And I wonder how many are just like bullet point. Yeah. You know, because then you can find some comics out there that are like, okay, this person's a little too polished and

it makes it a little bit less funny than if you seem like they're just genuinely talking to you. Yeah. But you know, that, that takes a skill too. Cause you don't want it to be like, you're fumbling over your words and it's not funny because you're struggling. Yeah. So yeah, I just think my theories and I don't know anything about standup comedy, very much learning and new to it. But I think once you know exactly what you've said, like, because it's memorized, that's where you can like get better because like okay well maybe i can change this word rather than like what did i say exactly like yeah you could pinpoint maybe why something was so funny or why it wasn't funny if you know exactly what you said right that's how it makes sense to me gotcha i've said this from the beginning i'm such a logical thinker i can't leave people think i'm creative everything

about like my process how i do anything is so like paternal and analytical and logical really so yeah yeah that's just how i go about it one last thing about open mic night this um I process how I do anything. It's still like patternal and analytical and logical. Really? So, yeah. Yeah. That's just how I go about it. One last thing about open mic night. This one guy had a joke. He came up there with a cane and he was saying that he has multiple sclerosis. So he came up there with like several kind of funny jokes right off the bat about MS and everything.

And so it was like building up, building up. And then he goes, you know, oh, he's talking about his upsides. You know, it's handicapped parking and, you know, yada, yada. And he's like, MS does have its downsides though. I can't remember the last time I've been to a casino. I still don't know. I don't get it. I don't know if he said the wrong word, like everything else made sense. And what is really funny up to that point in the room was just silent. I was like, huh, what does that mean and the room was just silent i was like huh what does that mean maybe there's just yeah like like is there supposed to be knowledge there of like hey if you have ms you can't have secondhand smoke around you or something yeah i was just

trying to grasp it like okay what could the issue be they seem cane friendly yeah at a casino you can sit down a lot yeah you're sitting down the whole time uh i don't know it's so but yeah almost now reminds me of that first voicemail from the left-handed person like ms stinks right like you uh your kids don't love you that would have been funny yeah uh but yeah you should go sometime just to like you'll come away with a lot every night man uh yeah i would love to love to sometime do you think that this one place is better than the other like because you've definitely yeah yeah better skill in the comics yeah and there's just people in the audience who aren't comedians so just there's people who come just to elena oh

elena yeah talk about that real quick uh alana from last week uh she dm me and was like thanks so much for uh you know harassing me on the podcast um she was a good sport about it. No, she was kidding. And yeah, turned out her name was Elena. Ran into her. She was there at this open mic night again. And she stayed and got to hear me perform. She stayed the whole time and didn't do that great. Wish she would have been there last week.

So you would say Elena was sustained to see you be an entertainer. And I felt a little shame after I went. This could have gone better. Yeah. Well, I went there thinking I had a three-minute set, and then they were like, hey, we're actually going to do five minutes tonight. So I was like, oh, okay.

I should do something. Okay. Yeah, you got to take advantage. Yeah, but I didn't have anything. So I said something that happened to me that day on stage, just completely just riffing. Oh, man. So don't something that happened to me that day on stage. Just completely just riffing. Oh, man. So don't know how well that went over.

But either way. Either way. It's still fun. See Alana, Helena, whoever you are out there. What's your name? Should we ponder on over into review of the week? Oh, yeah. Let's talk about them.

We got a lot. Yeah. So last week I kind of said like, Hey, if you already left a review, find a friend and review one on their phone. Um, because we appreciate those as well. And there was one person that went above and beyond. Holy cow. I don't know who it is. That's the other fun thing is kind of a mystery. Um, we got 13 reviews this week and I think she was five of them seriously definitely a mother's review a brother's review a best friend's review and we had a cousin's review yeah and a sister's review

so like you have five other people's phones that she stole to give us a five-star review this week fan of the week whoever you are right there seriously uh the usernames are different every time because it's someone else's itunes account right So you don't really know who it is. And then there was someone who had a great pun. Can I do my? Yeah. Well, my ultimate review of the week is going to be the jingle at the end. The song. Spoiler alerts.

But this one was also great from Heather Lee A. Oh, yeah. Heather Lee's great. Yeah. She had a really funny pun. Yeah. Read the whole thing. It was great.

So it's milk puns. I hope about Shel Silverstein being a good name to call out. Call it Heatherly from now on. I hope you'll be able to understand. Yeah, the word play puns. Yeah, when I just read it here. But although I have already reviewed this podcast previously, I was recently was able to skim over it and realize I could do better too.

Oh, also the title is Five Milky Way Stars. I want to review to make it into the top 2%. And so I have decided to change the whole thing up. You may have heard about this Dairy Amazing podcast already and how it will cause you to die laughing every episode. And that's the freaking truth. They didn't say freaky. Utter podcast, all pale in comparison.

I could go on and on until the cows come home, but I realize I'm starting to milk it with the puns. Thanks for all the laughs, guys. This podcast is very amusing. That's a lot. There are so many $5 jokes in here that I could write that I'm going to save this. I'm going to screenshot it.

But that was amazing, Heather Leah. Yeah, we appreciate it. Yeah. That was, I think, my review of the week. I mean, it's definitely the Nickelback cover that was sent to us that Brad will get to. But another one, honorable mention, was someone, I don't know who it is, but they say they knew me from high school, but they didn't go to my high school. They went to a different school. So I don't even know who this is. And it says two things. One, for some reason, Jake asked me a question back in the high

school days, and I have no idea why I still remember it, but it went something like, why do you squeeze your eyes super tight when you get soap in your eyes in the shower? Still don't have an answer for you, Jake. Did you figure that that out i think that's so strange that you remember that wait it's also kind of funny that i guess that's always kind of in my personality like asking like why do we do this like for everything that's always how it's been like is that not the equivalent of the hot dog guy hey well no it's different yeah okay i had to think about it for a second i was like no that's like noticing a pattern in human behavior. It's like an observation and being like, what's up with this?

Not asking, yeah, is a hot dog a sandwich and wanting the girls in the room to think you're a deep thinker. Is soap really cleaning us? Yeah. Because in that Christina Aguilera music video, she was getting dirty and clean at the same time. So how does that work? Dirty. That's good. Thanks. So you don't know who this person is i have one theory i can remember one poultry vegetarian or vegetarian poultry veterinarian yeah it's kind of crazy so that's cool yeah i had a couple friends who uh

went to that school he said he you know what i forgot how he worded he's like i didn't go to strafford i was part of the fight in Irish. So I know which school that is. Yeah, we all know. And I had some friends there. So, but I don't, I don't know who the username just says,

uh, Oh, I lost. I scrolled down. Chicken doctor 55. Oh yeah. Chicken doctor. So that doesn't help.

55. My help narrowed down a little bit. Graduating class. Maybe he was the center on his football team. Could be. Yeah. Why not linebacker? It could be,

could be both. Okay. You know, it's, it's a small school, you know, gotta, gotta go both ways. True. Yeah. Why not linebacker? Could be. Could be both. Okay. You know, it's a small school, you know, got to go both ways. True. Okay. Time to sing, Brad.

All right. Let's, uh, this is the end? No, the review. Oh, I was going to do it for the jingle at the end. Oh, I see. Well, sure. Let's do it. Okay.

I think it's at the very bottom. So give me a second. Okay. I'll just talk about something while you're scrolling yeah plug plug something um i thought guys i found out this week that uh tiktok like tiktok the account and on the app tiktok follows me and so i'm getting mad followers just because they only follow 500 people in the world wow and i'm one of them and i've posted well since that notice i've posted two more times i'm like i should probably try to capitalize on this. Yeah. But I really don't want to make

videos for TikTok. I just scroll through my phone. I'm like, what do I have on here that I could post? And none of it really does that well, because it's not vertical and it's not made for TikTok, but yeah, kind of cool. One of the only non-verified accounts out of the 500 they follow. So someone there must know who I am or like me or something so interesting it's kind of cool it's something i should definitely capitalize on oh they also fall in tray like yeah so it's like maybe like oh they see that you guys are connected so therefore in cahoots how much longer till you get verified like what's that gonna take on instagram yeah oh i'm sure it would take a lot really you kind of need to know someone and like even it's like one of the

guys from the basement yard like big deal i think 200k on instagram still not verified and he's like a very big deal like like i don't know how much of it is like you have to go out and be offensive in this versus hey we want to verify you you know i the way every person i know who is verified it just like has a person either your agent can go out and do it for you or your agent knows someone at instagram or you have a connection at facebook who knows someone instagram like yeah hey if you know how to get verified let us know in a five-star review how's that well i know how you just need to know someone if you know someone who knows how to get verified if you know someone who works at instagram yeah leave us a five-star review there you go

cool all right is it over are we ready to sing yeah hit us with the-star review there you go cool all right is it over are we ready to sing yeah hit us with the jingle the end all right so this one is from K 80 miler this is to the tune of photograph by Nickelback and this is a review just to be clear listen to Jake and Brad every time I do it makes me laugh how did Jake's hair get so red? And will there ever be earmuffs on our head? Is there wood in that new truck? I think the present owner custom fixed it up At Chick-fil-A we're always eating out

McDonald's caffeine machine can't be out. How did Catherine get so great? Ice cream after pickleball isn't too late. McDonald's machine's been broken more than twice. A Burger King pie would be just as nice. Ghost runners. Every morning neighbors walking close to my door. Waking Hattie up, I can't take this anymore. It's hard to say, time to say it

Ghostrunners, Ghostrunners Every office reference off the top of our heads I think it's time for you to bring your best It's hard to say, it's time to say it Ghostrunners, Ghost Runners. I started way too high. You did so good. Thanks.

You did really good. Even just knowing the melody photograph is pretty impressive. That's awesome. Thanks, man. That was great. Thanks for the review. The lyrics were really good too. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you to whoever sent those in. Catherine. Catherine Mylerler i think is her name

awesome look her up on spotify one more thing i saw my notes i forgot to bring up we a new country they were in the charts for bulgaria kind of the swedes oh yeah sweden first they were sweden they were sour yep and but right now they're great awesome so thanks swedes thanks happy to be at the top of your comedy charts thanks sweethearts yeah pretty cool sweet charts that really is crazy that you knew how to sing photographs so well really yeah i'm still thinking about that i mean i've heard the song a few times me too but sometimes it's kind of hard to just like read lyrics and like is this the time is this when i start the chorus she she uh put in their chorus oh yeah that helped never mind okay that's really helpful thank you katherine okay well thank you

guys for listening oh what kind of person should leave a voice memo this week fred oh yeah um let's say someone who played um now that's alienating uh you're gonna say like a high school sport that's like one gender yes i was're going to say like a high school sport. That's like one gender. Yes, I was. I was going to say first baseman or something like that. Um, Oh no, that's baseball and softball. Okay. Um, okay.

Let's say anyway, like if you played high school volleyball, it's like, well, there's, there's no guys. Sure. No normal people, normal guys, at least. I'm just kidding. Uh, St. Louis has a men's volleyball in high school. Exactly.

Just kidding. Okay. just kidding first baseman if you ever played first base you have to leave us a voice memo this week can't wait to hear them and try to ask us all kind of the same questions about first base alright so it's obviously some problems with first base I don't know Brad what do you think about being first baseman

like if you've ever had a product that doesn't work very well at first base because you're on first base yeah just teasing michaela and whoever else can't remember if you ever made it to first base even like as a batter as a batter if you've ever made it to first base leave somebody before i think that's how it works what does kelly say like so when michael says he made it to second base with you like is that closing a sale i'm closing a deal okay thank thank you guys come hang out with us on Instagram this week Ghost Hunters podcast clips fun facts quotes and comments and likes that's also a part of the the application Instagram so thank you guys and we will see you next

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