Ghostrunners - 50 - Economically Stimulate Me

Episode Date: April 20, 2020

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Episode 50, Roman numeral L. But Brad, I took a big W this week. You already know about it, but they don't. We together visited Chick-fil-A Lenexa. Oh, yeah. A new store. And the owner, who I've been making videos with, we are friends with, he said, Jake, what's your order going to be?

And I said, I don't know. And he said, well, you need to decide because we're putting in a triplet button and you need to know what your order is going to be for the rest of time. Yeah. Triplet button. Triplet button. What else can it do? Yeah. You press the button and all of a sudden, yeah. A genie appears. A genie appears that gets out of bed way too late. I'm not going to tell you guys what time of day it is because that's embarrassing, but I will say I woke up 15 minutes ago and it's pretty embarrassing. No, no, no, no, no. But yeah, triplet button, Chick-fil-A, Lenexa.

I'm so excited. This is like a lifetime achievement for me. Yes. Oh, yeah. You're going to get an award to put on your fireplace mantle for this. Oh, I can't wait. Let's roll the intro music. Uh-oh.

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Ghost Brothers Podcast Yeah, like I said, episode 50. Here we are. Thanks for listening to us even during a national lockdown. Yeah. Good times. Brad, how are you? I'm doing great, man. It's Sunday afternoon. Beautiful day. Been hanging out with you a lot this week, so that's always fun. Yeah, we played pickleball twice yesterday, which shows the level of, I don't know, boredom or just interest in pickleball that we have. Yeah. I wouldn't call it, I wouldn't say I'm bored right now, but I would say I am trying to find any way I can to play pickleball. You answered that question correctly. I actually haven't felt bored yet still.

Really? I wouldn't think so. I think, what are we on week five? I haven't felt bored yet. Week five. That's kind of crazy week four maybe it's like it's like the days go by slow but week five sounds like like it in one way it feels like it's been a year another way it feels like just yesterday that we were talking about if isaac's gonna get stuck in arkansas whenever he went down to visit his lady you know that remember that we're like maybe he's gonna get stuck down there yeah like we didn't know like if it was a possibility that people were like gonna shut down borders to things and stuff. That doesn't seem like that long ago to me.

I was supposed to go to Arkansas and I was afraid I could get stuck. No one knew what was possible or what the rules were. Doesn't that seem like it wasn't that long ago? I mean, yes and no, right? Yes, yeah. Right. The days are slow, but the weeks are fast. That's right.

That's parenting for you right there. Let me tell you that right now. Yeah. What have you been up to this week? Let's see. Pickleball. Pickleball. Monday, pickleball Tuesday, pickleball Wednesday.

Ooh, can we talk about pickleball Saturday? Because this happened right after we recorded last week. We go, it's Gunnar's birthday. They were celebrating. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. What about Saturday? Yeah, yeah, yeah.'s birthday. They were celebrating. Okay. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. What about Saturday? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Um, I show up late per use. And so I'm walking on the court, uh, while people are already playing, like our friends are already playing. And I walk onto the court almost with this older woman and people are kind of encouraged to like, um, come to the park if you want to see Gunnar for his birthday, hang out with him 10 feet apart, you know, whatever.

So I'm like, this could be Gunnar's grandma's grandma no it was not brad take it away yeah so this woman just came up first of all it's kind of weird like you're in an enclosed area so no one accidentally just like meanders enclosed that's gonna come back later in the story oh man good point uh but we're in this fenced in area fenced in and so it's just like no one just accidentally just kind of like is walking around the tennis courts yes and so it was like very intentional this woman came and i was like what is this girl this lady doing uh turns out she was a resident of the house across the street from where we were playing pickleball not kin to gunner um and just yeah no no kin and just was like upset with how were playing pickleball, not Ken to gunner. Um, and just, yeah, no, no Ken. And

just was like upset with how loud the pickleball was, how loud you play pickleball. She's like, uh, technically the rules or the laws say that you're not supposed to play pickleball within 500 feet of a residence. Uh, but they don't care about that at this park. And so I'm just coming to tell you that if you want to use or want to play pickleball, there is a better ball that's not as loud that you can buy on the internet. There's also a park down that way. There's a park over here at Fairway. I know.

I was, I just, I think we had different reactions to it. I think you were more like in disbelief and shock. I couldn't. Yeah, that's true. Shock is a great word. I kind of understand. I was more sympathetic to her, but at the same time i was like i would my personality is like i understand where you're coming from but my personality is also like i would never come say something to somebody about that i would just be

frustrated in my house about it i think yeah because to me it seems like a battle that for one she's choosing to really fight and two that she's never going to win because let's say okay we stop playing pickleball someone else will be there the next hour. Someone's going to be there the next day and the next day and the next day. So I think, why would you focus your time and effort on getting people to stop going to a park when you could just like, I don't know, change the way you turn the TV up louder. Right. Like we, we live on a busy street, Catherine and I do. And for whatever reason, there's a lot of motorcycles in our neighborhood and it's frustrating to me. I do not like it, but I'm not going to like go outside and tell somebody every time a motorcycle is driving by and be like, Hey,

please, please stop. You know, like, so I'm like sympathetic to the idea of like annoying noises outside your house. But I was just like, and it was funny that you say like, somebody's going to be playing the next hour because about an hour and a half later, she came up to us. Hold on. Hold on. Okay. Okay. Okay.

So you see him in the head. Sorry. So we're at act one. Oh, okay. Act two is that a police officer also doesn't just happen to meander his way through this area. He walks with a purpose to us. Right.

And says, Hey, can everyone hear me? And oh boy. And basically he tells us that um he was pretty cool actually now that i think about it yeah he's pretty chill about it but he's just like who are you here with how many do we have in here you know what these are the rules i'm not going to tell you what you have to do but these are the rules so and the rules were like we shouldn't have that many people playing together at the same time yeah we had six people playing pickle playing pickleball, four people playing, two people on the sidelines. But then there were also four people playing tennis over on the other court.

So technically there's more than 10 or there's 10 people total is what he was saying. And so he was like, I'm not saying what you have to do. I'm just saying that if we continue getting calls about disturbances, then we're going to have to shut this down. So first of all all this lady definitely called the cops on us and was like hey there's guys out there not social distancing it would appear that way yes and so he goes and talks to all all the wives that are there i don't know what was said i don't know what happened but then he comes back to us and decides he is going to enforce the rules all the wives are like hanging out like kumbaya in a circle on a one picnic. Oh yeah. Like they were way closer.

I saw, yeah, they were doing a massage train. Exactly. So officer comes back and says, Hey, you know what? Actually, one of you is going to have to leave this chain link fence area because we all know that the Corona virus cannot pass through a chain link fence. Nope. And so Brad has to walk out of the fence and then he goes and stands right next to where he was standing like he is three inches yeah different than where he was but now his face

is just pressed up against the fence like what are you guys doing in there hey what's going on guys is it fun is it cold in there remember phyllis yeah it's cold in there um it was uh an amazing visual of brad just like not allowed to play with us. He was the boy in striped pajamas. It was hilarious. Yeah, exactly. I felt imprisoned. I haven't seen the movie, but I know what it's about.

I know what it's about too. Yeah. We get the premise. That's why we're good test takers, I think. Yeah. Because we don't know that much, but we know enough about the stuff. Yeah. We know enough about the stuff.

That's why we'd be great on Jeopardy. I told you that. Yes. James Holzhauer or whatever. That's how we got so good is that he went to the children's section of the library and just read up like, and just got like the basic ideas from everything. So he's like the children's section on Shakespeare and just get like, okay, they're not going to ask like a breadth of knowledge on Shakespeare. They're going to ask, you know, these 10 plays or whatever, King Lear and Macbeth and blah, blah, blah. And you just memorize that stuff.

I will say I crush at Teen Jeopardy on Netflix. It makes you feel real smart. Oh yeah. College week is a little bit tough for me. And then the adult one, I can do the first round of Jeopardy, the second round, the double Jeopardy. I get like three out of, you know, the 30 that are on there or whatever. Yeah. I'm good for like one to two columns per round, you know, the 30 that are on there or whatever. Yeah. I'm good for like one to two columns per round, you know, cause most of the rest of them are just like, you know, Mediterranean,

uh, you know, some like culinary thing. Like I'm not going to know Greek food. I don't know that ancient history. I'm not good at ancient history stuff. Uh, did you watch the tournament of champions? No, it was like three of the most successful people that my goal in that was to get one question, right. That none of them knew. And there was one, I forget what it was now, but sports probably, I don't know. No, they were pretty, I mean, they're that that's the interesting thing is that these people are so smart, but they had like pop culture knowledge. Like, like they were pretty good. It's I mean, obviously they're the best. So anyway, act three is Brad is now standing outside the fence. We're all still hanging out. It's been like two hours.

And I wasn't, that made me sound like I was outside the fence for so long. Once the game got over, I went inside the fence. We were rotating into that. But this woman comes back out and we're like, oh no, it's going to happen again. What does she want this time? She comes up to all of us and she said, have I already talked to you guys before? Which means that she does this all day long. Yeah. I imagine. Yeah. Have I already talked to you guys before which means that she does this all day long yeah i imagine yeah have i already talked to you guys before and uh we were like yeah she's like

oh you guys are still playing pickleball and i didn't know what to say i just said it's a nice day it was it was a perfect day that's all i said and then she turned around and walked away and didn't say anything else i know so it's kind's kind of sad. I was like, yeah, there's, there's gotta be something that you could occupy your time with. That would be more fulfilling to you then. Yeah. Like I feel bad for her.

I feel like she could also, I mean, if she really cares as much about it, she could provide these like softer pickle balls that she keeps talking about. Yeah. Which I don't know if those really exist. I don't know. Anyway,

it was a, it was a fun time. Fun time. Pickleball on Saturday. That, know. Anyway, it was a fun time. Fun time, pick a ball on Saturday. Yeah, it was just wild that this lady was like that. Because now we play at a park that's like in a neighborhood, like surrounded by houses

until 11 o'clock at night and no one. People are like, yeah, we live by this park that's open till 11. So I think it's kind of understood that we can play that way. Yeah, and we love playing. Yeah. One other thing I was going to say that last Saturday,

this kind of shows how quarantine and everything is going for me. I don't know if you were there. I was talking to Gunnar and Kevin, I think. But so everyone's wives came and they're just sitting over there on the blanket. And it was a weird moment where I felt excuse me i felt like a like a little kid on the playground again i was so excited that just like girls were around i was like i don't think i've been around girls for three weeks i was so like this like subconscious just like oh that's cool yeah you girls are over there step over there yeah girls do they see me they're on the other side of the fence yeah and they're all too. It's not like there was anything. It was just like, wow, that's awesome.

There were like two single girls over there. Yeah. Girls are around. So that's how like stuff's going for me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's like a micro whatever.

Seriously. Yeah. That's not even like an exaggeration or meant to be funny. Like I was saying that to my friends. I'm like, I'm legitimately excited because girls are like within 50 feet of me. It's like the office when they have cafe disco. They're like, there are girls in there. Girls?

Yeah, girls in there. Girls in there? Yeah, girls. What did I say? Brad, something before I forget. I think it was the last episode, maybe two episodes ago. I talked about that. I was pretty sure I had been on a cow before.

And you said, Trish, let's see that picture. She delivered delivered baby. I cannot believe that one, I was, I remembered correctly. This has happened, but two, we have a picture of this. This happened and my mom found it. I, all of these things are amazing. Oh man. I saw this and I had the idea, but I was going to like, maybe I should ask Jake before I do this. I was going to screenshot the picture. So your mom sent us this Instagram message, right? Oh, she sent it to you. Yeah. Oh, okay. She texted it to me. I didn't know you'd already seen it. I was going to airdrop it to you. Oh, I love it. It's amazing. So here's, here's my idea. Cause like whenever somebody sends us a message for the first time on Instagram and we're not following them,

it'll say like, uh, whoever wants to send you a message, do you accept? And if they send you a picture or a video, it'll be like, image is blurred for your protection. Please tap to view. And so I was going to screenshot the pic, like the thing that said, here you go, you, you asked, and here it comes or whatever, uh, Jake on a cow. And then the image was going to be blurred. And I was going to put on our story and say, Venmo is $1 to see the picture. And we were going to go out to dinner on the profits. Is that too profiteering on your small Jake-ness? I don't know. Probably, I could see you probably loving it, but I could also see you be like,

why'd you do that, Brad? So I was going to run it by you before I did it. No, that's fine. I'm looking at the picture now to make sure people won't be disappointed. And I don't think they will be. It's a wonderful picture. I'll hype it up. It's a wonderful picture.

I'll hype it up. It's the best picture you've seen all week of a little boy on a cow. I guarantee you that. All quarantine. Best picture you've seen of a little boy on a cow. All teen. Yeah. Best of all teen.

It is a good picture. I could not believe that my mom even tracked that down. Oh, I love it. Where do you even go to look for a picture of your son on a cow 24 years ago. That's pretty impressive. Do you think that was one of your grandpa's cows? Yes. Oh yeah. Okay. I don't know. I don't, I'm sorry. I didn't know if it was from a fair or something. No, that was one of his. And that was my grandpa in the picture too. Oh, okay. Okay.

Gives a little more context to it. I love it, dude. Brad, you got your stimulus check, right? Got it. That's not fair because I haven't. I'm really surprised. I thought they ignorantly thought they would send them all out at the same time. I would think so too, especially because we both did our taxes on TurboTax. Right. Yeah. That was one of the theories is like, oh, well, TurboTax people just haven't gotten theirs yet. I don't know how it

all works and why I've got it. I did file my 2019 taxes early after I had that little scare with my taxes. I was like, I better just do all of this. Yeah. And so I'd filed those in whatever it was early March. And so you didn't file yours until recently or have you still haven't you, you did an extension. Uh, I hope. Well, no, the government gave everyone an extension. Oh, so you took the government extension. Yes. Okay. Yeah. You don't have to file for it that's right i forgot about that um have you uh how are you going to spend your stimulus money how do you stimulate yourself i think i'm going to spend it on the process of having a baby um but essential things yeah i did have a i was telling you this earlier i did have a small version of isaac moment the other day oh baby uh and just kind of bit the bullet very like

as i'm sitting in bed, you know, right before bed, which I'm pretty sure is when Isaac bought his, it was a nice soft bullet. Yeah. Bullet felt good going down bullet. Uh, Catherine texted me and said, this is like half off this. It's an espresso machine. I bought it. And so I bought it and it felt, it was like the day after I got the stimulus check and I kind of felt bad using it for that. But I also felt a little bit stimulus check and I kind of felt bad using it for that, but I also felt a little bit less bad than I would normally. So I went for it and I thought, you know, we're going to have a new baby and we're not going to get much sleep. So

espresso is going to be great. And Hey, if that helps you, even just aside from caffeine and espresso, just like, even just like a little morale, but it was like, this is fun. Yeah. This is something to help look forward to waking up at 3.30 AM to like, you know, go see the baby. Cause like, well, I do have vanilla, vanilla cream. And I also bought a variety pack, four different styles of syrups. So it's going to be like, which one do I want to go with today at 2.45 in the morning? See, you're going to have fun with that.

Hazelnut vanilla. Oh, I'm going to love it. Two hazelnut, one dark roast. Right. We're going to, you're going to love it. Two hazelnut, one dark roast. Right. We're going to, we're going to figure it all out. Uh, so anyway, but it's been interesting actually since the stimulus checks have gone out, I've seen an increase in interest for Ellis custom creations. Dude. Yeah. That makes you really happy, which is exciting. Goodness. Yeah, I know. I seriously, I cannot tell you. No, it's been good. From the Scorpio's mouth himself, career matters have never been better. That's right. Um, so anyway, that's, that's exciting.

Um, I had a guy order a table on Friday that he needs done by Tuesday, which I'm just going to let you know, it, it's not a, not a good idea to do that to somebody. Uh, but I was like, why do you ever, I'm worried about a guy who needs a table by a certain time. It was his anniversary is on Tuesday. Yeah. So it's his wife's like, he's like giving it to his wife as a surprise one. So last minute. Uh, and two, I think she would understand. He said, and he was like reasonable to an extent. He's like, if you can only get like a bench or a chair done, just like have, just like have some kind of a material thing. And I can say the rest is coming. Uh, I think I'm going to be

able to probably get it done. We'll see. But, uh, anyway, but I wasn't going to say no. I was like, I haven't gotten much lately, so I'm going to, I'm going to say yes to whatever I could do. So anyway, it's busy, busy time right now for me, but how should I, let's say I do get stimulated. How should I spend it? That's a great question. Um, probably like just a new hobby, like figure out a new hobby that you want to do that you can do right now. Like pickleball? No new, new hobby.

Okay. Well, I think I found one already. Okay. Then, then really upgrade your pickleball. Maybe get like the nicest, quietest balls you can. That don't penetrate the ears of the 60 and older. Honestly, like I think you were probably similar in the same boat. I don't really have very many things I truly like want.

No. And there's things I'm interested in. Like I wouldn't mind buying a drone, but I don't think I really care that much about having a drone. Like, I think you're kind of the same way. Like you could buy a, or put it towards a new car or something, but you don't need a new car. Your car works. Yeah. Even when I was a kid, I'd get Christmas money, birthday money, and I would just save it. I just wait until I needed something. I was like, I really, I kind of want this thing, but I don't really want it. So I'm just going to

wait. Yeah. I just don't have very many things I truly want. So my answer, my answer to you is just, um, move home, home movie, home, home theater. Whoa. Yeah. Okay. Have Isaac build you like some stair steps and then just get like a really sweet sound system and big TV. Wow. I mean, that'd be kind of cool. That would be cool. Pretty much the only time I watch our TV is after all my roommates are asleep and it's just me so it would be fun to really uh amp up the sound quality or maybe a new podcast studio uh right now we have uh plywood up and we could we could really use some drywall you know twenty three hundred dollars with the drywall we could use it on like equipment stuff yeah maybe only yours only your stimulus though not mine

or i'll just buy me a new microphone yours you're gonna sound so velvety smooth it's gonna be like yeah me talking from a tin can over here that's actually something i might look into maybe just yeah i don't know maybe it will i was thinking because the stimulus how i understand it is supposed to be like hey if you're not working like use this to pay your bills right if you are working then you're also supposed to spend it right to like kind of boost the economy yeah that's the way I understand it. I don't know. Yeah. I had a quick, quick conversation via text with my girl, Kirstie Swick. Oh, let's go. Just about like the idea of, yeah, having the stimulus check if you don't like need it or not. Like, because like so many people I know are still working their normal jobs right now.

Yeah. And still, so it's like. March was the biggest month Trey and I have ever had, which is kind of. That's crazy. Backwards. Wow. Yeah. But like, but it's just like, but you didn't have any option to elect to take it or not.

Like they're just giving it to you. It's not like I applied for it. Yeah. They're like, just take it, just take the money. And like, I wish that I, obviously it's way more complicated to do it that way for the government, but I wish there was a way for people to elect not to take it if they didn't need it. Cause now it's going to like hurt the, I don't know that much about the economics, but I feel like it's going to inflate the cost of it. Right. So this is what I was worried about,

which I shared with you. I was like, I feel like $6 trillion is just being printed. There's no way a McDonald's Coke is still gonna be a dollar. There's no way. That was like the last beautiful thing about America. Well, there was, there was like a dollar menu. There's like barely any dollar menus out there. Inflation. Yeah. $5 foot long is probably like $7 now. Oh my gosh. JD from New York would say it's about $10 for one of those. You know what I mean?

Give me $11. Yeah. I'll take 11. Who you, a wise guy or something? I'm walking here. Yeah, I'm walking here. When we were in New York City, that's all we said. Even while we were driving, driving with the windows down. Hey, I'm walking here. We thought it was so funny every time.

But yeah, the fact that McDonald's drinks are a dollar is truly amazing and beautiful because no one else does it. Burger King, $2.45 for a drink that size. Panda Express, same price. Panera Bread, same price. Chipotle, same price. Wendy's, all of these things are like 250% the cost of the same item. Nowhere else can you find something like that. We already kind of mentioned this, but you were asleep just a few, maybe like an hour ago and I was getting Chipotle. But I knew, I looked at Chipotle's app and it was like $2 for a small drink. And so I was like, bunk that. I'm going to McDonald's while I wait for my Chipotle.

Yeah. So I saved 95 cents or whatever and went to McDonald's to buy my $1 drink. It's bigger. And they're just making so much money off people being like, Hey, dollar drinks at McDonald's. You know what? Well, I do it all the time. I get apple pies all the time. Yeah. Oh, it's just the upsell because I'm already there. Right. They don't even have to sell me. I'm just like, well, I, yeah, I could eat. Yeah. I mean, I don't want to just get a drink. I'll get a McFlurry. I'll get a McFlurry. Yeah. It's like Southwest kind of does the same thing by, um, letting two check bags go for free. They get so much more business

that way because it's so convenient for people. Have we talked about this? That's like a thing, like, and it's more efficient for them to do that, do it that way. Really? To like check your bags. Like it's way more efficient for the airlines because so often whenever you're flying, you know, the last 10% of the people have to check their bags anyway. And so that takes more time. And so Southwest prides themselves on just being efficient and just making it to where they can have more flights and cheaper flights and everything. And so I think, yeah, Southwest is awesome. It's a great company.

But anyway. One last idea. Stimulus money to go into. How do we feel starting an ice cream truck business? A hundred percent. Thoughts. Yeah. I want to have a business that I'm passionate about the product.

And I am passionate about ice cream. Let me tell you that right now. This all started, this thought started last Saturday. Okay. Before I knew there was a woman that existed in this world who could possibly be mad at guys who are playing in a park. Yeah. But the ice cream truck drove by my house. Have I talked about this on the podcast? No. They're essential. There's no way that that is like allowed to operate. I was so shocked. Like their entire business model is getting within six feet of someone and handing them food. Right. There's no way this is allowed. They've driven

by. But they're like a restaurant, but they're moving, I guess. Is that why it's different? It's kind of like they're a food service. I guess so. It's just surprising. I feel like this guy's just operating. It does seem counterintuitive until you think about like, well, that's what Uber Eats does. And they're still working. Yeah. They're doing fine. Yeah. So it's just surprising. surprising so i got me and my friends were talking about it and um well one i was joking and this could be like a key and peel

sketch or something but i was saying like oh yeah i'm gonna start actually a weed truck in california instead of the rinky dink circus music it's just gonna be like snoop dogg and bob marley yeah when this comes to the neighborhood, like, novelty ice cream. Like you can store it in a fridge much easier because it's like pre-packaged and it's small. But then what? You make a dollar 25 a pop. Yeah. I'm trying to make six dollars. Oh yeah. I'm thinking here's the idea. Custom ice cream sandwiches. Choose your own cookie. Choose your own ice cream. I'll smoosh them together and give it to you. Dude, I told you about that place in UCLA that I went in Los Angeles near UCLA. I went out to California. Oh, cool. UCLA. No, mainly Santa Monica. Okay. Okay. Okay. But it was called Diddy Reese's and I don't know,

I'm sure they're more expensive now because of the stimulus check and inflation. But back when my sister lived there, I was in eighth grade. I went and visited her and they had, yeah, you get two different cookies and an ice cream, like vanilla ice cream in the middle of it. $1. And it was always, the line was out the door. Crap. No, no, no. But it was, it was one of those things where they had enough business going. You could do more. Okay. I think that the key is to have the right kind of music because the music right now that ice cream trucks do is, yeah, it's traditional, but it's also like, okay, this it's kind of, yeah, it's kind of like this ominous, like, I don't know about this. And I think it could be fun too i'm just like what is that noise what is that what's that fun music who's playing bon jovi down the street oh my gosh that's some sort of i've never seen

anything like that that's some sort of moving custom creation ice cream sandwich truck they're saying they're halfway there we are living on a prayer. It's COVID time, baby. COVID time. Anyway, Peter and I, not Peter and I, Peter mostly, our friend Peter, has this idea of basically having four jobs a year. He wants seasonal jobs. He wants one job. I didn't know that. That's awesome.

Well, it kind of started. Did you ever hear me talk about the fireworks stand idea? I was like so passionate about this idea for a while. I've managed a fireworks tent in my day. What do you need to know? How to, how to run one dude. Yeah, I've done it. I did it for three summers. Okay, great. We're starting that too. So we're going to have multiple seasonal jobs. That's going to get in the, I'm, I'm summer. I'm a summer boy though with ice cream. I know you're right. We could rotate.

We'll talk more about later. But basically my thought with the fireworks is like the people that run those things don't seem like they're that smart. I'm pretty smart. Okay. So how hard can it be to learn how to do that? And it feels like fireworks stands make so much money. Oh, the, uh, what's it called?

The margins are crazy. Crazy. You're selling gunpowder for hundreds of dollars. Yes. Why don't we do it? What's stopping us? Just doing it. That's the only thing.

So much of the fireworks business is location. Like literally where your tent is. So I think a lot of money is spent on like getting the right spot. Okay. So we can get a spot we feel good about. Yeah. You can make some decent money. Let's find our spot. Let's find our body. Anyway. So Peter has like this idea to have four different or three different,

yeah. Four different jobs, like one for each season, basically. That's pretty cool. Yeah. Just because that's his personality. Anyway, it's to like kind one for each season, basically. That's pretty cool. Yeah. Just because that's his personality anyway, is to like kind of hop, you know, I'm kind of bored with this. I'm going to go to this. So anyway, firework stand, ice cream truck. We're going to sell textbooks to college students two times a year. Perfect.

August to January. Perfect. In the winter, espresso, no, latte and cereal bar. Perfect. We've had, we have talked about the cereal bar before. Yeah, I know. It's my only regret of college. It's not starting that.

Oh man. Anyway. So yeah, ice cream truck. It's either going to go in or my stimulus money is either starting an ice cream truck business, buying new microphones or, uh, one awesome denim jacket. Oh, that's a nice denim jacket. Oh, it would be raw denim. Maybe.

Yeah. Can't wash it. You can't move around in it. It's pretty cool. Can't raise your arms. I only got ice cream out of an ice cream truck once in my life, probably because I was too slow to catch it, to be honest,

but it was on the other side of the fence. I was, I was, I was always, wait up you guys. Wait guys, I just got over here because of COVID. Wait up, you guys. Wait, guys. I just got over here. Because of COVID. But yeah, I remember one time hustling to get that thing.

Finally got there, got a bomb pop or something and left. But anyway, I'm sure you didn't get the ice cream truck around your parts because you were out in the country a little bit, right? Yeah. No, only time I've got an ice cream truck was like before we moved to Stratford. Definitely. And even then, I don't even know if we ever got it i just oh that's the ice cream truck you're right i don't know how often we ordered it so that's a that's a good uh prerequisite to

starting a business for something is just having very little experience with it ourselves i've been a customer of it maybe once but i think i'm ready to start my own but i think i get it it's pretty pretty simple idea it would be fun to market a, uh, well, anything. I think, uh, I remember learning in college, like 90% of businesses in America are service-based. So I think having a product based business is fun. Yeah. You watch the documentary about Apple or Steve jobs, stuff like that, you know, and it's like, this will be cool to be so proud of your product. And you'll be able to sell it to people people it's so much easier to sell a product than a service i think yes you know probably i'm like how i can help you how can be essential to you or yeah you don't have to be nearly as creative

you can be like this is what we're trying to give you uh-huh this is what it does and here's how i'm marketing it to you in a way yeah i had a new idea this week i roommate greg i went on a walk oh that's something we could talk about more i've been walking yeah now walk it out and he said uh i came home and he's like how is it outside how's the temperature and i said hands are cold legs are warm and i had a thought there should be an app out there that tells you the weather like that because in an instant you know yeah like because 58 degrees can be pretty different. Right. You know, it's like shade 58, sunny 58, windy 58. Right. Like you can wear a cardigan, but go cropped on the leggings.

Capris. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I think it'd be fun for an app to get like weirdly specific on like, yeah, how you should dress for the weather. Yeah. Kind of fun. Just instead of like, I don't want to know the temperature.

Just tell me what I need to wear. Yeah. By the hour, like nine, 10, five and midnight instead of like i don't want to know the temperature just tell me what i need to wear yeah by the hour like nine ten five and midnight right i don't know what i need to wear cap at midnight because you're in bed stocking cap three-quarter sleeve shirt uh yeah baseball shirt baseball tee and green pants okay that's what they said. I'll do that. That's funny. Hattie, Hattie, Hattie this week has been very into like going and getting DVDs and having me read the back of them. Weird. Yeah. She's like, we don't, we don't watch that many movies, but I think she just loves like the idea of like potentially like thinking about watching them or something.

But it kind of made me feel, it made me a realize that DVDs are 100, not 100%, 95% like irrelevant these days. Like it's crazy to me. We've talked about this before. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. I don't, I don't ever want to buy a new DVD in my life. Um, but it just made me feel so old. Cause I remember when DVDs were like the new thing. Oh, absolutely. And now it's like, we're already, we're already too old to use dvds they had a very short lifespan like the newspaper had a long time where it was king the radio came in after that had a long time tv had its time uh you know tv channels you know from an antenna which obviously still all these things are still a thing but the dvd it went in and out so

fast yeah it's not going to remain a thing and then blu-ray kind of came along and was like no we're better than dvds it's like you guys both suck yeah i was like why it was like well no one knows why but it just it is better it's more expensive but it's like five dollars more expensive so buy it uh the the sound is so much better oh okay so if i keep the same speakers the sound gets automatically better well you're gonna need something that really reads the Blu-ray player. You're going to need a blue attachment. Yeah. You're going to need a manta ray just to create the whole, you know, ray family.

Listen to Ray Charles on it. Oh, yeah. He sounds good. You think it sounds good on the vinyls? Play it on this. I bet. Georgia. Georgia. Georgia.

Georgia. You ever hear that ludicrous song where he sampled that back in the day? We on the grind in Georgia. Oh, I know a Lil Wayne song that did it. Okay, how's it go? Georgia, and you go, bush. Oh, yeah, I have heard that. That's like my only Lil Wayne song I think I know.

No, that's not true. I don't know very much of him at all. The only Lil Wayne song. I'm sure I can think of another like if you say like what about this song i'd be like yeah okay i've heard that but i'm very non-versed in lil wayne it is getting a little ridiculous a little ridiculous pun intended because so many rappers are saying lil lil even now who's the first one you ever remember ready one two you have one yeah one two three lil bow wow oh they were both around back yeah yeah because i thought it was kind of a trend like there used to be young jock and young jeezy lil wayne lil john and i was like oh that

was kind of like the 2000s gone yeah and that's going to be yeah little by gone gone and then now but like everyone is still doing lil and i think it's kind of like corny to me i'm surprised that these like hardcore thug rappers are wanting to be known as lil anything right because it's so old i'm little boy yeah essentially once i throw a little in front of it i am a little boy is that what makes us all so old is that we remember like two different iterations of lils. Seriously. Yeah. It was more like those guys are way gone. Yeah. Like Lil Kim. Remember like Lil Romeo? Like Romeo's probably a grandpa by now. Old, old Romeo. Yeah. Old Romeo. So Romeo, you know, if, if once the

young start coming back, then we're in trouble. Yeah. Then we're real old. Have I told the story in the podcast one of my friends at college sweet girl whitney shout out if you're listening come on the pod um her only little wayne song that she'd ever heard was how to love which was like i know that yeah okay um kind of an acoustic song but still on his like super raspy voice i didn't actually think it was that good but it was like his the only like radio hit little wayne has basically ever had and so that's how she heard it she's like i, I kind of like Lil Wayne, you know? And so she gets on, her mom's in the car and she's like, I want to play somewhere Lil Wayne,

somewhere like acoustic, you know, nice. Yeah. And she was in for a treat when Amelie hit. Yeah. And yeah. Oh, that's him too? Okay. I know that one.

Yeah. Amelie. Also, we got that podcast review a couple weeks ago about, it was like Wisconsin. Lil Wayne rhymed it with mansion. Do you remember that song? Can't believe it. No, I don't think so. Oh, actually.

Oh, now that I'm thinking about it, I think it was T-Pain. Maybe they said Lil Wayne. Whatever. Lil Wayne's in the song. Enough rap talk. Let's talk about TikTok. This has been rap talk with the Ghost Runners. Rap talk with the TikToks.

We can talk about TikTok later, actually. But first, we have an advertisement oh baby way ho this is very exciting this one is a pretty fun um don't know this person at all but it it is fun because it's like you know just a random listener of the podcast emailed me so you don't really know what the company even is i was just like yeah we'll do a sponsorship. Let me look into it. Is Knick Knicks Boutique, Brad. And they're an online clothing shop from Texas that was opened to give women a place to shop for boutique style clothes at affordable prices. Oh, yes.

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and a large selection of everyday everyday jewelry name a day of the week friday they've got jewelry for it thursday yes tuesday i could see that happening yes monday yes they're very much a real possibility wednesday uh-huh okay all of the days is um that's to the left isn't it what's uh wednesday i remember it's something like that yeah i remember it's kind of off the beaten path as far as spanish words go um they got quite the url i'm impressed with it's nicknicks boutique but the url is just nicknicks.com okay for you for snagging nicks n-i-k-n-i-k-s okay nicknicks.com uh the website actually i emailed her back i was like yo your website is sick.

It's awesome. I was very impressed. So go check it out. It's very cool. I'm seeing right now on the homepage, they got rompers. I don't know if I've gone on record on the podcast and said, but I like rompers. I like how a girl looks in a romper. I don't know anything about fashion or clothing or for the most part anything in general, but I know that I like rompers

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That's a lot of percentage. A lot of percentages off. Love it. I'm not good at math, but I think that's free almost. Practically. It's going to feel like it. For the value that you're going to have over time. Yeah.

It's going to be worth it. 100%. Good way to consider that. I can't wait to open up my weather app tomorrow. And it says, buy a cardigan and some crop leggings from Knick Knicks. For your wife. And wear them out. Yeah.

Oh yeah. For the woman in your life. No, I'm telling that to Catherine. Yeah. Yeah. So knickknicks.com are, their website will be in our description. Check them out. The, even if you're just a fan of cool websites, I think you'll appreciate it. It's, it's very well designed and good photos, which stuff like that is more what I see in the clothing. I'm like,

Oh, good lighting. Yeah. Nice white balance there. Yeah. I love that WB. I mean, they're from Texas. I feel like things around here, like get, get here like two years later after they've already been popular in the South. So if you're worried about your fashion, just go to Nick Nick's and it sounds like you're going to know exactly what you need to wear. Edge. Yeah. Oh yeah.

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I, my highest viewed one has like 500 views. It's really blowing up. That's good though. That means it got on some people's for you page. Yeah. Somebody commented, why is this on my FYP? I don't know. I didn't put it there. But I had my, my, my most popular one is me recording my pastor doing like a call to worship at our church that has nobody in it. And it's like that song, and I just scroll over to the empty pews and it just puts the real pews. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Genius. But I've been saying that song, singing that song nonstop lately and to the point where Hattie knows. I'll go, hold up. Wait a minute.

She'll go, it's a chopper. It's really cute. So I think it's funny when, I guess in the same way that Bible verses can get easily used out of context all the time. Jeremiah 29, 11, you know, you just have this little idea of what you think it means. Yeah.

In the same way that like music in general does it but especially on tiktok just like that song is super popular and no one has any idea what it's about and even like what does that mean hold up wait a minute it's a chopper like a helicopter that's what i interpreted as or like a chopper like the motorcycle like i don't know like yeah it's a chopper or is it a gun because it's pew pew pew yeah exactly like no because later on he goes hold up wait a minute it's a 22 yeah so like a gun a rifle yeah that doesn't seem like the type of rifle that most rappers are rapping about yeah i don't know that's a great question uh i have a theory oh it's a 12 gauge oh hold Wait a minute. It's a Cougar Magna.

It's a plasma rifle. I have a theory that, well, I don't know if it's a theory, but it's my own feelings is that I love watching people's dances on there to the point, and I really want to do my own, but it's also like, ah, it's so uncomfortable. I don't want to do it. But like, I want to try them all out. You should. I know I should. Maybe we should do one together. That'd be fun. Collaborative Tik TOK. I'll tag you. You tag me.

Okay. Yeah. That'd be fair. Yeah. And then we comment on each other's right away so that it helps boost everything. Um, no doubt, no doubt. Yeah. I was talking to Trey the other day before this is a hundred percent true before quarantine. I think that I believe that for the most part, every girl is a good dancer. Just because you would see girls post on their Instagram stories, their TikToks, it's like, wow, they can dance or, you know, whatever. They can move to the music of that TikTok dance. And now people are getting bored. Everyone's hopping on TikTok. And there's a lot of girls who are not good at dancers, not good at dancing, I should say. Which is funny, just

because I think at first it was like, yeah who's anyone who's good at dancing is the only people who are dancing but now i'm like there's people like so robotic and when they're hitting the woe it looks like they're doing a taekwondo move like like their fingers are like uh outstretched taekwondo uh and it's funny and so did you see trey's tiktok that we made for that yeah that was great he was kind of like trying to mimic the like supers. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. It was awesome. Yeah, it was great.

People loved it. It's amazing how many times I've watched that same video of people, like whoever, like I can't remember one of them, what they're called, but anyway. Classy, bougie, nasty. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But then there's other ones like, or these people like running in place and then they do something. I don't know what it's called.

The weekend song, Bouncing Lights, Flashing Lights. Yes in place and then they do something. I don't know what it's called. The weekend song, bouncing lights, flashing lights. Yes. Flashing lights challenge. Yes. Uh, love that one. And I love, I've watched at least 20 different people do that. And I'm sure so many people have watched a hundred of them. You know what I'm saying? Like they're fun. They're fun to watch. It's such a silly app that makes no sense at all, which is probably makes me sound like an old person, but it doesn't make any sense, but it's fun to watch. So. Yeah, this has been TikTok time. This has been TikTok time with the Ghost Runners. TikTok, TikTok time. Anyway.

Let's see. What else have I done this week? Oh yeah. I've gone on more walks. I've done it. Yeah. Go for you. Kind of a cool thing. Here's the equation. More walks equal more comedy. I've realized that because typically I would go and write in a coffee shop or whatever i get out of my house i can't write very well in my own house right um so i've been trying to go on more walks and it works out because trey uh actually had a cool conversation with me uh this week and he was like hey the more i've been thinking about it i think it makes more sense to like you know i don't want to have this like third guy who's like our opener like no one knows who he is thanks trey that means a lot i think it'd be more

fun you know for people who are coming to these shows to just feel like they know everyone and they get it and which i that makes total sense too and so he's like if you want to try to like build up your like material i would love for you to get to like 30 minutes wow by the fall and then you would do 30 minutes i would do my hour and that's the whole show heck yeah i was like dude that's awesome thank you um so yeah going on and going to try, although it is tough to write jokes when like the real world doesn't exist. Yeah. Cause that's where you get your experience or your jokes from. Like the podcasts work. Cause this is being listened to this week when everyone is experiencing the same thing. Yeah. But it's like, well, I got to write jokes for the real

world, but I don't really, I don't know. It's hard to draw inspiration from anything. Yeah. I feel like you just have to drive around and look at different businesses and try to put yourself in their shoes or. That's not a bad idea. Like, oh, where I was in the Red Lobster the other day. You weren't, but you can imagine what it's like. I can, you know. Yeah.

I've been in a restaurant. I can imagine it. But yeah. That's awesome, man. Pretty exciting. So yeah, I'm going to try to get to hopefully Corona stuff can get under control. We can open back up for a lot of reasons, but one can start going back to open mics. And how long were you doing before at the comedy? I did like 12 to 15. Okay. So, well, quite a bit more, but yeah, but not like five minutes where

you're like, Holy cow, I can't do 30 minutes. Yeah, no, I think it would be good. I'm excited. And it's cool just to think from like two Januaries ago, when Trey first had the conversation with me, like, I think I want to go on tour. That conversation was like, you could be like the DJ to open up, like to get the crowd moving. Like you were like gonna be like the MC kind of thing.

Like you're gonna have some banter back and forth. Yeah, then it went to like, maybe you could be on the side and doing certain bits. Like, yeah, we could, you could be like the podium guy and like Conan or something like that. And then it went to like, maybe you could be on the side and during certain bits, like, yeah, we could, you could be like the podium guy and like Conan or something like that. And then it went to like, maybe you could,

yeah. You went from being like the ninth man on a basketball team to being like, I think you might be our all American dude. You might start for us. Just, just get the ball inside to him and let him go to work. That's me. That's awesome.

Yeah. That's your game. Yeah. Let me inside. Let me work. Wow. That's exciting. Yeah. I. Yeah, that's your game. Yeah. Let me inside. Let me work. Wow. That's exciting. That was exciting.

Not at this time. Yeah, I'm pumped. It should be fun. We can't wait to get back on tour. We performed digitally for SBU Friday, and it was fine. I mean, just performing for no one. It was just like a podcast, basically. Right.

So you can't see anyone. Right. And you can't hear them laugh or anything. Yeah. So we just talked for an hour. That's how it is when I do church, like worship. Oh, man There's like five people out there and they're kind of all doing like logistic stuff. So I'm literally just like playing to an empty room. Oh, that's even weirder probably. Then again, I guess you're not used to like receiving audible feedback. No. You kind of do

your thing. It's not that weird unless I think about it. And then I'm like, oh, it is kind of funny because people are watching me. I have no idea if they're actually listening or if they're, you know, eating their Cheetos, you know, like what are they doing over there? I was giving Isaac a hard time yesterday, which I know I should, because as soon as I said, I was like, I have no room to talk. I have the worst diet, but he ordered, not ordered. He made himself chicken in the oven. And then on his plate, he had ketchup and then Cheetos that's the weirdest looking plate i've maybe ever seen he's like you're eating pizza rolls right now he's like i know i know it's just the combination it's like the cheetos and ketchup yeah cheetos and chicken together

were just so funny to me i was like it's like if i was eating pizza rolls and grapes right now like they're both good yeah it's just like i would have never put these two together right now at the same time cheetos and chicken oh like he's he's he's starting to cook more which i'm uh proud of him for yes but um anyway good job isaac i don't know maybe next week by the next week maybe i'll have a baby jake that's kind of crazy yeah like uh it's just any day now i feel like it could happen uh geez obviously we're we're our due date's may 2nd but yeah it's just any day now I feel like it could happen. Uh, obviously we're, we're our due dates May 2nd, but yeah, it's coming, man. And this is a first for us. Like this is our second baby, but the first baby Catherine was in the hospital for three weeks

leading up to it. And so we don't really know this is like such unprecedented times for us. Like we don't know how this works to like know when to go to the hospital or anything like that. Yeah. Uh, but anyway, Catherine and I had the idea the other day. Well, first of all, a long time ago, you and I had talked about how we should record a podcast while Catherine's in labor in the hospital. Oh, yeah. Forgot about that.

And Catherine thought it was a hilarious idea, but obviously it was just a goofy idea. We're not going to really do that. And with quarantine or COVID, I don't think you can be in there anyway. They definitely would not let this equipment in there. Okay, fine, fine. Okay. I won't come in the room while Catherine's giving a baby. I just think it'd be the greatest thing ever. Like, you know, here's Jake, just single man bachelor, just like in there, like, oh my gosh, I did not know that could

do that. It's like a form of torture. It's what, like, I would just have trouble, like probably looking at Catherine the same again right i mean maybe like i like katherine a lot but you love katherine i do yes and you have to love her 100 yeah i i remember that every day i have to love you i just don't know if how i would feel i don't think i would have to i would not feel like i have to love her anymore uh no so uh we had this idea of instead of instead of doing that we would just have a ghost runners nation uh helping us out by uh contributing to this playlist that we're going to start on spotify hell uh collaborative playlist if you will i think is what they call them on

the spotify.coms um and anybody that wants to can just add some songs and you know whenever catherine's going through it you know we could just add some songs and, you know, whenever Catherine's going through it, you know, we could just play some, ah, just push it. You know, whatever. Something like that for them. Push it real good. So maybe you know a song that has a really good key change. Maybe you have a worship song that really, you know, gets you there. Maybe you have just the most vulgar song ever.

Just throw it on there. Whatever you think Catherine would like. I want this to be the melting pot of birthing playlists. Um, anyway, I think you could, I'll, I'll post a link or something, but I think my Spotify username was like B Ellis. Ellis is in Ellis Custard Creations. B Ellis three zero, I think is what it is. So I love that. Anyway. Yeah. Catherine was talking the other day. She's like, you know, I have my like really calm birthing playlist.

I have my worship birthing playlist and I have one that's kind of like fun birthing playlist. During the fun parts. And like, she was like telling me all this and I'm way more of like the sentimental, you know, cheesy guy than she is. But for whatever reason,

I was in a goofy mood. So every time, like, like she said, her worship playlist, I was like, yeah, I'm just going to be standing there in front of you with my hands up. Like, you know, just like praising, you know, come on church, get on your feet, you know, like whatever. And she was like, this, this is serious. Like, this is going to be nice and sweet. You have Katy Perry on your fun burning playlist. And so I was like, I think we should make one for the ghostwriters, you know, she was all about it. So please don't let me down. Please have some great songs on there.

Oh, people are going to have some fun. Yeah. Funny stuff. BLS 30. Ghost birthers is what we'll call it. Ghost birthers. Yeah. So anyway. That's great. Should we get on to some voice memos? Let's get on. We have a lot. Let's do it.

Okay. Our first voice memo actually came via Instagram DM, but Brad and I recorded these episodes on our phones, so we can't access it. But here is the summary. Avery Mack said, yo, I've been doing some weird stuff during quarantine. What have you guys been up to? Brad, what's she been doing?

What have I been doing? Or what was like summarizing her message? She says she's doing puzzles. She's playing games in the driveway with her family. And she's watching Hannah Montana on FaceTime with her friend. And she's listening to our podcast during puzzle time. Podcast and puzzle time. Can I just rant quickly? And I think you're going to disagree with this. I don't get puzzles. Why, why are those fun for people? Just jigsaw puzzles. I don't like them. I like puzzles. Tell me why. I think it's a sense of accomplishment. Yeah. And for me, I like it because it seems like like puzzles. Tell me why. I think it's a sense of accomplishment.

Yeah. And for me, I like it because it seems like such a step back in time. Okay. It's just like this very like analog type game that I can play with myself or with other people. Yeah. I don't think I would ever do a puzzle strictly by myself. No, I don't think so.

You like it as like a kind of, Hey, we're doing this together, but we can also talk while we're doing it kind of thing. Yes. Okay. That is why I like it. Because Catherine will do them by herself and I don't think so. You like it as like a kind of, hey, we're doing this together, but we can also talk while we're doing it kind of thing. Yes. Okay. That is why I like it. Because Catherine will do them by herself and I don't get it. That doesn't seem that fun to me

because I know like I will accomplish this. It's just a matter of time when. It's more fun to do things like, I don't know if I'll achieve this or not. That's my point with the puzzle thing is like, I don't think it's hard. I think it could take me more time because I'm not as experienced,

but I guarantee you I could do it. You know what I mean? And so it's like, there's no chance that I'm not going to get this done. And so therefore it's not very fun to me. Like if it's like a competition, if it's like, hey, we have three hours to do this puzzle, that sounds fun to me.

So you would have loved growing up with a triplet family because we made everything a competition. Oh really? And we did that with puzzles. But how would you compete? So we got four different, like 250 piece puzzles. Oh, I love this. You each had your own puzzle. Okay. And then you just like race to see who get it done first. That's that is my kind of puzzling. Yeah. It was awesome. Extreme puzzling. Yeah. Okay. And

grew up to be a camp counselor. Makes sense. Yeah. There you go. I like that. Yeah. I don't, I don't get the leisure puzzle. That's not fun to me. I'd rather play a board game or something. Yeah. So I would agree. Um. Anyway, what have I been doing? What have you been doing, Drake? Let's see. You know what? I'm going to see. I've been Googling some weird things.

I had the thought yesterday. My last three Google searches, maybe not last three, but some of my most recent ones are. Oh, well, one, I was trying to find the GIF or at least like an image of Michael in the office saying like, what is wrong with me today? So I Googled what is wrong with me today? And then now I'm getting all these like antidepressant like ads, like, do you need Xanax? Like, no, it's the office. So I Googled what is wrong with me today. I Googled squirrels good or bad the other day on one of my walks. I was just looking at squirrels. I was are they good or bad sure should we have them are they serve a purpose yeah um senior citizens although slow and dangerous by the wheels could still serve a purpose um and then last night

uh I don't know where this came from I googled Helen Keller conspiracy oh and there's none okay I was just she was blind and deaf she really faked it well if she wasn't. I just was, you know, I'm sure we've all in our time seen all these amazing Helen Keller quotes and it's kind of like, did she say that? Did she? How? And like, how did she have such a great grasp on the world? Like I know her mind was sharp, but it's just shocking. And so I don't really know what I was looking for, but it was like, I'm just going to Google Helen Keller conspiracy. See what's out there. I think that's a great time, time, save time waster.

Whoa. Time, whatever it is, time spender. It's a fun thing to do to just Google conspiracies. I think that's a fun, fun thing to learn about. A little dangerous. I think some people get a little too into them. Yeah. I can kind of read them and then just be like, that was fun that was light fictional reading onto the next that's

fair i i don't i don't think i've ever actually done that but it just sounds fun to me because apparently this is kind of embarrassing i didn't know this but apparently there's a big conspiracy about paul uh mccartney have you heard about this about how he's dead he's been dead forever or like for a long time oh yes same with like av like Avril Lavigne. Avril Lavigne's not dead. She's alive. My friend does her makeup. She's a celebrity makeup artist. Yeah. I don't. Yeah. But people, people like so convinced that Paul McCartney died and they have this lookalike that just kind of showed up and knew how to play the bass left-handed and just saying the same as Paul McCartney. And I'm like, like, I would like to watch, you know, videos about that because yeah, I don't

believe it at all, but anyone can make you believe something for a little bit. I don't know, dude, it's just flat earth. I believed in that for five minutes. It's like, Holy cow, guys, wake up out there. It's a disc. Paul McCartney was in on the Stevie wonder conspiracy too. And Stevie wonder knocks over the, uh, he knocks over the mic stand and see wonder. Oh, that was Paul McCartney. Yeah. Yeah. They're in cahoots together. So maybe the real Paul McCartney knocks over the mic stand and Stevie Wonder. Oh, that was Paul McCartney with him? Yeah. Yeah. They were in cahoots together. So maybe the real Paul McCartney would not have hit that over because he had better spatial recognition.

Yeah. And he's trying to like clue people in like, Hey, something's up here with me and with Stevie. Check this out. Oh man. Avery, I have such a lane. I don't have any answers. I don't know what I've done, which makes me kind of contemplate like maybe I should be

doing more. Uh, but as I've stated before, Catherine has been pretty, uh, restful lately because of pregnancy complications and stuff. So all my things I'm going to tell you are things that I've done with Hattie recently. We have gone fishing, which I said, you know, the other day with pretzels, we have played with bubbles a lot. She's really getting into bubbles. Um, we have kicked the ball around the yard quite a bit. I do this thing where I hit it really high in the air and she goes high in the sky. That's cool.

We have been reading a lot of fancy Nancy books and about Disney princesses. Did you know there was one called Tiana? Because I didn't. I learned that when I was at Disney World and I was like, who is this? Who is that? That's not Moesha.

That's Tiana. I thought it was in Cinderella line. Yes. Yeah, you'd think. They're in the same line. So I don't have great answers for you besides pickleball. Pickleball is like my... No, those were great answers.

I know, okay? I'm a dad. I'm a dad. Pickleball is my one thing that I do pretty much. That's my one thing per day that I get to have fun. Oh, that makes me sound like it's not fun to be with Hattie. One thing that's not father or husband. Yeah. Wise that I do. Yeah. Pickleball has been great for all of us. I think it's a big hobby. Yeah. I've mainly besides Googling things. I mean, I'm still doing quite

a bit. Trey and I are posting more than we ever have before. I think Trey's posting another video today, which will make three this week. We shot a music video yesterday, so we're pretty busy. But I did decide yesterday that I'm gonna do a better job during quarantine and like use this time wisely. I wanna do something. I don't know if it's necessarily

an ice cream truck business, but like maybe start a business or maybe like, I don't know, I wanna do something like, and feel like, yeah, I wanna use this time wisely. I don't know what it looks like, but I wanna, yeah, be a better allocator of my time, I think, and do something like, and feel like, yeah, I want to use this time wisely. Yeah. I don't know what it looks like, but I want to, yeah, be a better allocator of my time, I think, and do something more productive. It's kind of funny. It's like one of those things where it's like, you hear that it's almost over potentially. Like, I mean, there's, there's, you know, conflicting theories

left and right. Like some people are like, it's only going to be a few more weeks. Other people are like, no, we're not going to play the NFL for five more years, whatever. And it's like, okay. But like, whenever you hear that it might almost be over, you're like, oh man. Like I, you know, you kind of complain in the moment, but then like whenever you hear it's almost over, it's like, oh, bummer. I've kind of gotten used to this. It's kind of nice. You know, winter breaks over.

I have to go back to school. Or like, yeah, you kind of regret it. Like, oh wow. I've already missed all my time that I was going to do stuff. So grasp, grasp what you can do today. Do it. I hope I will. Yeah. I hope I do. Do it. Um, thanks for the voice memo, Avery though. Um, Ryan Young, if you are listening, your, your audio doesn't work on the, um, voice memo. So try to, try to call back again sorry ryan hello jim ross george speaking of um first of all

you guys did catch me this week with a white t-shirt so i'm coming in with this voice memo uh jake i've been following you since 31k in 31 days and i did win one of the competitions not to brag or anything um a few questions for you brad what is your favorite wood project you've ever made and jake what is your favorite video you've ever made um also do the recorder guys like what the heck and brad thank you for the song recommendation i'm loving that new song and it's on my daily playlist long distance all the way i thought at first he said i'm in a wet t-shirt and i was like why is he telling us that yeah we don't even know that I thought at first he said, I'm in a wet t-shirt. And I was like,

why is he telling us that? Yeah, we don't even know that. I forgot last week he said, if you're in a white t-shirt, send us a voice memo. Let me get dressed real fast and then I'll answer your voice memo. That's what he said. Not really.

Favorite wood project. Favorite wood project. I am not going to think about this too long, so I'm just going to answer. I built these two tables that could be pushed into one, and it could house basically either separately. They could house like eight people each,

or together they could house more like 16 people or whatever. House, I don't know why I'm using that word. Yeah, that's kind of threw me off. It could seat that many people. It was cool because it was- It housed their butts. Yes, their bottoms could be housed. It was cool, one, because it was their butts. Yes. Their, their bottoms could be housed. Uh, it was cool.

One, because it was just a fun project. I got to use walnut, which is my favorite kind of wood, but also because it was built for people. It was like a associate pastor of a church. And so not only are they using it for their big family gatherings, but also they get to have, uh, Bible studies and stuff there too. And it was my most expensive, my most lucrative sale ever too. So that was also very fun. So, um, all around great. Nice. Yeah. Favorite video I've ever done.

I'm, that's a good question. I'm surprised that I don't get this more. I don't even know what the answer is. Probably something from Ellen. We bought a limo. Those were really fun. Although I will say the Castaway video that Trey and I made is one of my favorites probably mainly because it wasn't supposed to be split screen. Like we filmed it. So yeah, there's kind of a lot of fun lore around this video. So Trey's never seen Castaway and I didn't rewatch it. So we just did it by my memory. I thought he watched it. He didn't ever end up watching it before. No, he never did. Oh, wow. So, and he looked up some clips on YouTube to like know what we were doing, but for the most part, yeah, it was just shot by like me remembering which scenes would be good to do. And then we shot it and we're like, this is really

spot on. We should just like split screen it with the movie. And like so many scenes matched up perfectly. Sometimes even on accident. Yeah. Like Trey ducking under the garage and like Tom Hanks is like under the plane. Like that was an accident. That wasn't supposed to look so similar. Yeah. So it was kind of fun. Just like, wow wow we like kind of fell into this one and lucked into it yeah so yeah the castaway video was fun that was a really good and it was just so different and original yeah it's fun to do something a little a little different that was i was telling juice man chad i was talking to him the other day and i was telling him about you and he's like who's this trey guy and i was like i think you really enjoy this uh castaway video i was like that was the one i

told him to watch. Nice. Yeah. Thanks, dude. Anyway, thanks for the voice memos, George. Sorry about the audio, man. Hey, guys. This is Harrison from Utah.

And I was wondering, so we've been feeling some earthquakes recently. And I was wondering if you guys have ever felt some earthquakes like in Kansas or anywhere else. My guy, Harrison. Earthquakes in Utah. That's a thing? Who knows stimulus check anything's possible yeah right never felt one apparently there's been a few since i've been in kansas really uh like decent ones you know whatever um my sister lived in oklahoma city for a while and she felt some there so i don't know why oklahoma city's doing things that that way but uh no and earthquakes freak me out i don't know why Oklahoma City's doing things that way. But no, and earthquakes freak me out. I don't know.

Like compared to tornadoes, like they just, maybe it's just because they're the unknown and they're not common where we are. But for some reason, earthquakes sound so much scarier to me than tornadoes. Really? Yeah. I think you have way more to be afraid of. I know. Exactly.

If an earthquake happened right now, we just kind of shake a little bit and then we're done. And we would never have a bad earthquake in Kansas, like in Kansas City. We will never have. Yeah, yeah, exactly. If an earthquake happened right now, we just kind of shake a little bit and then we're done. And we would never have a bad earthquake in Kansas, like in Kansas City. We will never have. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not scared in Kansas. I'm not like walking around being like scared of earthquakes. But just the idea of like, hey, would you rather be an earthquake right now or a tornado?

Yeah, maybe I would choose tornado now that I think about it. I don't get this at all. I'm just saying like in general, I don't know. I don't know. Go ahead. So I have felt an earthquake before, I don't know. I don't know. Go ahead. So I have felt an earthquake before and it was in Oklahoma. There you go. I don't remember why. This is like an article I read probably seven years ago or something,

but like there was a stat like at a thousand percent increase in earthquakes in Oklahoma. And so I think it was probably a sign of like some, what's that called? Like one of the lines. Tectonic plates? Yeah. But one of the fault lines, I think one of the fault lines was like moving and shaking and you know maybe a big one's coming whatever but yeah oklahoma gets a ton of them i felt one once i thought it was we were in an apartment and so i thought the like apartment below us like started a washing machine or something that's what it felt like okay like a slow uh pretty quiet like muffled rumble he didn't even shake there's no predicting him right like no there's

no pattern no you cannot besides maybe like the fault line stuff like you know one one's maybe on its way you can like predict a tsunami by an earthquake but you can't predict earthquakes maybe that's why i'm a little worried about it that justifies me no because of earth because it's just unpredictable it's like i mean you don't know when tornadoes are gonna happen well but kind of i mean you at least get like a few hours notice. Yeah. You could be in California on the 22nd floor of a building. The tornado you're falling right away.

What are you, what are you doing? I mean, if it's a really, really bad earthquake. Yeah, I know. We were talking this week. I want to go storm chasing. If anyone, seriously, if anyone listens, like is a storm chaser, I want to go with you. I think that sounds so fun just to do it once. Ghost runners are the tornado chasers. Tornado chasing ghost runners.

Yes. Yeah. What? We're going to chase the storms. Tornado chasers. Okay. Yeah. Oh yeah. It's like the same type of like sentence structure, like a noun and then like a verb about running. Ghost running, tornado chasing, earthquake feeling. You know the occupation that we have. All right. Thank you, Harrison. Hey, Jake and Brad. It's Natalie from Memphis, Tennessee. Medium time listener. Two things. First thing is I have a agreement with my friend that, asterisk if and when we ever get married, that our wedding presents to each other will be

something from Ellis Custom Creations. And two, set scene for the question, you're in a horror film and there's someone chasing you with super ill-intent family-friendly show. And all you have as your accomplice is the last person you texted that is not like your bank texting you or something automated. And the weapon you have is whatever is closest to your left hand. Would you survive your horror film? Love listening to the show. Thanks guys. I would not survive. I texted my grandma and there's nothing on the left side of my computer.

There's stool. So probably a bar stool. Okay. Bar stool and a grandma still not surviving. Still struggling. Yeah. I don't think I would survive even if John Cena was with me. The last person I texted was somebody who was potentially interested in a table from me. Do they seem like a fighter? Her name is Melissa.

No. Melissa. Let's be honest. Melissa is having a tough time during quarantine. I bet. Hasn't been able to get her hair done in a while. It's starting to go back to Brown. Yeah. It's kind of the, the roots are the roots. And the thing to my left is a Chick-fil-A cup, um, which does have a straw,

which could puncture some eyes. So not a plastic one. I mean, it would hurt. It would annoy me. I don't want you to open up your eyes. I don't want you to put me in the eye with a straw. Yeah, you're right. Uh, there's a parks and rec quote, I quote i think and maybe it's the office but i think it's parks and rec where they're like anything is a weapon to me or something like that

that that straw in your hand is more dangerous or that straw in my hand is more dangerous than a gun in yours something like that oh i don't know if he doesn't use those two things but ron swanson he's a beast no we would not would not survive. I don't think so. That's a fun question though. And I'm cool that your wedding gift will, uh, involve Brad. Yeah, seriously. That would be so fun and awesome. Thanks for calling in Natalie. I love the accents. Love, love the Tennessee accent. Hey, what's up Jake and Brad. This is Braden from Atlanta, Georgia. Yeah. All right. All right. We're going to go ahead and go to the next one.

I'm just kidding. Braden, leave in another voice message. Hopefully this one goes slightly better. Anyway, Brad, let's just let bygones be bygones, water under the bridge, all that, because with these next questions, I don't want them to be cast aside just because they're coming from me. So answer them as if it was somebody else asking these questions.

So first question is, the recorder, when are you guys going to learn the recorder? We got promised 30, 40, maybe even more episodes back that you guys were going to learn it. Prime time to pick up any hobbies right now. So just when are you guys going to start delivering on that promise also trey kennedy as we know on his podcast has a segment called crazy white baby names what would be the craziest name that you'd ever be willing to name your future children um anyway yeah that's all i have for today thanks for doing the podcast see you thanks brayden yeah back when we uh back when we did Promise, that recorder thing,

the Patriots were pretty good at football. It was such a long time ago. Yeah, Tom Brady was still on the Patriots, and the Chiefs hadn't won a Super Bowl yet. So things have changed, to say the least. Things have changed. A new king is here. Let's just say it that way.

It's like in Lion King where they thrust Simba up in the Pride Rock. Patrick Mahomes is our Simba, and he's there, baby. And guess what? Simba doesn't have a recorder in his mouth. No, he does not. He's the sweet nectar of any future enemies in his mouth. Oh, my gosh. Chiefs are going to win so many Super Bowls, too.

I'm calling five. 20 of 22 starters coming back. That's unheard of. Let's go. It is unheard of, and it's going to be amazing. Oh, my gosh. I'm calling five Super Bowls, 10 years. Oh, my gosh. Yes, I am. That's very ambitious. I got right on Derek Henry thing.

So I'm feeling good about all my other predictions in life. Okay. Five and 10. Who's going to stop them? Nobody. Maybe the 49ers. Maybe some sort of airborne virus, but that's it. That's literally it. And Mahomes is fine. Um, thanks for it. Thanks for that recorder question. And what was the second one? Oh, what was my craziest name? I probably, the craziest names I would name my kids would probably be just, uh, just really meaningful people in my life. Um, that just had to have weird names like Tyreek, um, Kelsey, but I spelled K L K E L C E, uh. Tyron. Rashad. Rashad. Yeah, just all those guys. You know, Naughty. N-N-A-D-I, though.

Tyreek. Funny. Tyreek Ellis reporting for first day of lacrosse camp. I don't know. Yeah, probably things like that. Maybe I would do Reed, R-E-I-D, B-N-M be enemy and you know uh whoever else thornhill sure so yeah just people like that that are in my homes you know that's a good one too so that are important to you but maybe weird to most people yeah definitely important to me not important to somebody that's just gonna hop on the bandwagon late though like if you if you were not

a fan of like if you don't even know who bashad is then don't be a chiefs fan or if you don't like your kid from the get-go don't start liking them now no of course not so hey thanks for the uh voice memo i don't remember his name thank you hello it's michaela again wow so many hot takes from episode 49 first of all i've had two home births both completely safe with a certified nurse midwife who is trained within hospitals and has access to the hospital so uh yeah it's not as dangerous as you might think second grew up listening to Adventures in Odyssey and Salty both love them so much third when it comes to the Midwest, I'm from Ohio and consider myself a part of the Midwest. And I think it goes over towards Tornado Alley.

So I'm curious what your opinions are of Ohio. Is it the Midwest? And I'm wondering if you have anything good to say about it. Bye. Yes. Thanks, Michaela. Congrats on your two successful home births. I've had a few different people reach out to me and be like, yes, home births, midwives are awesome. I have nothing against them. Congrats. I just, I'm just a cautious person, I think. And not that you're not.

But anyway, what did she say? Oh, Tornado Alley,west ohio uh what do we think i've been to ohio i think it's great i've spent some time in cleveland before i spent some time in uh i was in a park in cincinnati for an hour and that was actually really fun a great park yeah yeah have you been there too yeah the one with the slide and the two swings you're describing a park uh-huh this one's kind of a sidewalk or two there is uh there's like some fun stuff it's like a it's like an activity center at the at the park too mckayla will know it's right on the river it's like barely in ohio i guess that's where

cincinnati is anyway but there's like this huge thing you can get in where you can get inside this pig but it has wings and you can make the wings move you can also like talk in one part of this thing and then it like goes to a different part of the park. It was cool. We were in the limo then. So we didn't know what we were doing. Rumor has it that pig is there because there was a woman across the street from the park

that used to live there before it was a park. And she's like, I'm not going to let that park happen. Pickleball is way too loud there. I'm only going to let that park happen when pigs fly. And they're like, oh, watch this. And they built this park with the pig and the wings. And guess what they call it now? Piggleball. Piggleiggle ball just to shove it in her face like oi karen that's awesome i i have uh my dad was born in ohio so i have some family that uh lived there

norwalk ohio i believe um king's island you've been there it's a great little amusement little big amusement park little yo what up it's yo what up it's a little amusement park on the track turn my headphones up little king island so uh it's so funny ohio i do think of as the midwest absolutely but middle east now for me fun fact it is i think 100 in the eastern time zone it would make sense because Indiana is split. Yes. So Ohio would be East. But so I'm telling you, it's the most ambiguous thing.

People, there were people from Minnesota that were very frustrated that I did not say they're from the Midwest. Really? Yes. So is no one from the North? I don't think so. I think. That's so silly. Use the compass rose.

Why can we not use the words on it? Yeah. I don't know. We're using all the other ones. We use West, East and South. Why is it, why does no one not want to be the North?

Genuinely? I'm just, I don't know. I don't, I don't get that. Maybe Montana's the North. So there is a North, but it's not,

it's not directly North. Cause what's Montana if it's not the North, you know, the Northwest, I guess. Yeah. I don't know. But the Northwest feels to me like, you know,

Oregon, Washington, Portland. Pacific Northwest. Non-Pacific Northwest. Yeah. I'm really trying to, I'm just, the main thing, I want to push for the Middle East to happen. I want Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio. They are the Middle East.

I think that would be awesome. Yes. Peace in the Middle East. It's referring to the feud between Rick Barnes and John Calipari. Anyway, thanks, Michaela. What's up, guys? How are you guys doing? This is Tyler from Pennsylvania.

Oh, no, Mom. Mom, I'm recording something. It's for a podcast. It doesn't matter. No, can I have peanut butter and joe with the cost card off? Okay, I'll see you in a minute. What's up, guys? This is Tyler from Pennsylvania.

Just calling in to ask you guys a question about quarantine. What's something that you've missed that you didn't think that you would miss? Something a little bit bizarre, maybe. Anyway, keep up the good work, and I'll see you later. Okay, I'm going to hit stop record. And, okay. No, Mom, I said with the cost cut off off the cost crud off i think that was on accident uh something bizarre that we missed from quarantine um any thoughts brad

no i can't think of anything bizarre my first answers are like hanging out with friends and going to the woodworkers guild but those are those't, those aren't bizarre. Those are things I do every day, you know, or every week at least, you know. Something I didn't expect to miss that I kind of do is just like going to coffee shops to get work done. Like I don't really go for the coffee, but I, like I was saying, I need to get out of the house. Yeah. And just like, I'm more productive oftentimes in public. And so I'm fighting that now. And so I kind of miss just like the other day I had like 15 emails to respond to. And that's like the perfect time. I would love to go to a coffee shop, just post up for two hours, knock all that admin work out. I can't do it. So that's

kind of random just because I wouldn't, I know for most people it's like, yeah, that's my number one answer, of course. But for me, I was surprised that I missed going to coffee shops. Yeah. I bought an espresso machine just so I could have a little coffee shop in my life. Yeah. No, I missed the library, going to library and, you know, I was going to start doing that on that. Uh, I wish I had a better answer. I honestly, I've, I've really enjoyed my life in the quarantine. Like for the most part, I don't think I've really missed that much because I get to see my main friends still when we play pickleball and I don't see girls, but that's fine. I've got the rest of my life to see girls and Jake and I both like we like, our lives were at home anyway.

So it's not really that different for us. No. So. I had some trips canceled and some shows canceled, but. Yeah, your life was, yeah, affected for sure. But not nearly as bad or as, yeah, tragic as most people's have been. So for the most part, yeah, not missing too much. Just looking on the bright side of things and just making the most of our time. but not nearly as bad or as tragic as most people's have been. So for the most part, yeah, not missing too much.

Just looking on the bright side of things and just making the most of our time. Nice. This probably wasn't a funny answer to that question, but that's the real answer, though. We're being real. That's our thing. This next one is from Trevor from the Middle East. Oh, perfect. Here we go. It's starting.

Hey, fellas. It's Trevor from the Middle East, I guess. Weird concept, but according to last week's episode, that's where I'm at. Jake, how are you going to call out McGuffin and not mention his sleeve tat? I think he's got your beat there. Does that scare you? I mean, he is from Idaho, so maybe that cancels it out, but also check out my boy's calves in his Instagram posts. I think he's got you beat there. Maybe those are scary as well.

Question for you. Ultimate fast food mashup meal. Jake, hitting up all your CHs, CHI restaurants, Chipotle, Chick-fil-A, Chili's, Chi-Chi's, whatever else. What are you putting together for your ultimate fast food matchup meal? Uh, enjoy the podcast. Bye-bye. That's great. Trevor. Love it. That's funny. I guess he, he's also, uh, wandered down to Tyson McGuffin's Instagram. Yeah. I talked about this with you after we recorded it. I was like, dude, he is not nearly as much of like a, uh, you know, struggling athletic looking guy as I thought he was going to be. And I didn't say he struggled athletically. You said he was pretty normal or something like that. Yeah. He just of like a, you know, struggling athletic looking guy as I thought he was going to be.

And I didn't say he struggled athletically. You said he was pretty normal or something like that. Yeah, he just looks like a tennis player. Yeah. In my eyes. I was like, I was expecting him to look like Ken Bone. And instead he looked like, yeah,

a pretty fit guy. You know, he's not like jacked or anything, but he looks like he's just fine. I didn't look at his calves, but apparently those are nice. Nice, nice calves. Yeah. Trevor from the Middle East. We've actually gotten this question before on a voice memo a long time ago, and I don't remember my answer. So we'll try again. We'll get another one. We're evolving.

I mean, gotta go. Oh, I said gotta go. And then I don't know what I'm going to say. We'll go the noodles from the chicken Cajun pasta that I get at Chili's. We'll go the noodles from uh the chicken cajun pasta that i get at chili's we'll go the dr pepper from mcdonald's we'll go uh two chicken strips from chick-fil-a with honey roasted barbecue sauce then we'll go back to chili's and go um five uh wings from the loaded boneless wings that i get yo and then if i'm still feeling froggy then we will hit up a uh maybe a wendy's frosty to top it off and you'll notice chipotle was not in there because it's tough to like um get just part of it like the whole burrito or no burrito i don't want to just eat like part of a burrito because then that's wasteful that's good so that'd be my answer

okay now i'm trying to just be a contrarian and think about something that I can include Chipotle with. Um, gotta have, gotta start out with a Chick-fil-A spicy chicken sandwich, but I would take out the bread, chop up the spicy chicken, put it in my Chipotle burrito bowl. That's a good idea. And you know what? I would get a vegetarian Chipotle burrito bowl. So then I have guacamole as well. Yes. Then I would go, I would go, yeah, I go fries from McDonald's along with the Dr. Pepper and a Coke. I'm a big, big drink guy. So I want to refill probably 70, 30 on both.

And then I would go a little bit south of the border to get a Baja Chalupa from Taco Bell and come back up north to the Middle East where it's very popular to eat at Raising Cane's. I would have a couple of chicken strips from there and wash it all down with some milkshake from Steak and Shake, chocolate milkshake from Steak and Shake. Chocolate milkshake. So the Dr. Pepper and Coke are not washing down your food. They wash down the beginning parts. Oh, okay.

We need a re-washing. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Wash it down with milk. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Thanks, Trev Dogg.

Thanks for embracing the Middle East. It's going to happen. He didn't say where he's from in the Middle East. I was curious. But hey, leave us a five-star review. Let us know, Trevor. Hey, Jake and Brad. My name's Levi coming at you from Traverse City, Michigan.

And let me tell you, I irk and love your guys' podcast. I listen to it whenever I walk these bratty dogs through my neighborhood. And I always get a big smile on my face. I'm kind of starting to get weird looks from my neighbors. So thank you for that. And anyways, Jake, my question for you is a couple podcasts ago, you told a story about how someone wanted to set you up on a date with Lauren Daigle. So my question is, if you got that date, where would you go? What would you do? What would you wear to kind of, what would you say to reel her in and try and get her to want that second date, to kind of woo her, as the cool people are saying.

And Brad, you did an amazing job on the intro music. I just wanted to know, if you were a rapper, what would your rap name be? And speaking of rap, Froggy Fresh is a great guy, great rapper, you should check out his stuff. Anyways, thank you guys, bye bye. Froggy Fresh. That was a great voice memo, that made me laugh.

Yeah, Froggy Fresh, I know about Froggy Fresh, aka Krispy Kreme. check out his stuff. Anyways, thank you guys. Bye-bye. That was a great voice memo. That made me laugh. Yeah, Froggy Fresh. I know about Froggy Fresh, a.k.a. Krispy Kreme. I know both of his names. Do you know who that guy is? Yeah, he's interesting. Okay, I'll check him out on the way home. Yeah, you should. Let me know what you think. Brad, what would your rap name be? I've always wanted to be called Big Vanilla,

but in the rap game, you gotta go Lil, so I go Lil Nilla. Lil Nilla lil nilla or just lila probably lila keep shortening yeah lil lil nil lila lil nil lil nil sounds cool or young nil you could go it'd be like a um for those people out there who love rap music and the game of spades you could go blind nail that could be your rap name yeah i like that blind nail you're like yeah because the haters can't see me and i can't see them because you go you only white out is that a comment on your race brad and the rap uh culture currently uh yo rap games look a little dark time for some white out huh get your blinders out because blind nil's coming isaac was sharing with me that um i won't say how necessarily the connection but like the one of the biggest whiteboard companies is in harrison arkansas

and i was cracking jokes like that makes sense the the where the kkk started also founded the whiteboard oh what else they make white out yeah yeah um probably white meat uh okay anyway what do you oh lauren daigle gosh that would be so exciting i don't follow lauren daigle on instagram but i was looking at hers the other day just you know just to just to look at girls just to spice it up and i was like, she's nice. I think, I don't know what I would do. I would probably, I mean, just like what I, here's the thing. A lot of times in my life, I go a little too hard on the first date. And it doesn't, not that it's a bad thing, but I've used things that probably most people would propose with for the first date.

And then it's like, it's not like where I go from here, but it's like, wow, I use that. Now I can't use that anymore. I've written a girl, a choose your own adventure book. Nice. A girl I took on the FaceTime date where I postmated, you know, things to her door and hang me, you know, I've always done like creative things. So, um, all right, here's what we do. I'm just going to think of something right now. Okay. A lot of guys probably are going to try to really wine and dine Lauren Daigle, take her to the nicest spot. I'm going to go the opposite way. We're going to go pretty chill. Yeah.

Not quite Chick-fil-A's your tag. I'll save that. But we're going to go to Taco Bell. Then again, she's going to get recognized if we go to like, we can't go to Chili's. We go to some restaurant. Chili's big Christian influence there. I will choose a restaurant get recognized if we go to like, we can't go to Chili's. We go to some restaurant. Chili's big Christian influence there. I will choose a restaurant later where we go. While we are there, someone switches out my car with a tandem bike.

Yo. And then, so when we leave the restaurant, now we're on a tandem bike together. And then we bike to go get ice cream. And then we go home. That's cream. And then we go home. That's it. I leave her wanting more. I love it. Leave her wanting more.

I go home and that's it. Love it. That's all I could think of on the spot. Tandem bikes. Have you ever been on one? Yes. They're harder than they look. They're kind of hard to steer.

Yeah. So it'd be a good test of like, maybe are we compatible? That is, that's a great test to see if your personalities are compatible. Yeah. I figured we could go get ice cream if it works out. If not, then maybe we'll just get stuck somewhere because we can't make it. I'll call you an Uber. Yeah.

Yeah. I would do something like that. I like the idea of just like, Hey, we all know you're a celebrity. So, and a lot of people are going to be trying way too hard. I'm just going to just impress you with how much I care about you and getting to know you. Yeah. Don't worry too much about the creativity aspect of it.

Oh, see, I was trying to still do something creative with the tandem bike. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm sorry. Tandem bike. That's very creative.

I'm just saying not too laser tag. You know, that is like top shelf. Yeah. Nothing too crazy. Just give her a little dosage. Yeah. Okay. More, more where this came from. Just slipper, slipper, a little something. Yeah. Yeah. her a little dosage yeah okay more more where this came from just slip her slip her a little something yeah yeah just a little dose of something a little

something in her drink which is not looking right and then we go bike how did we get here anyway hey dig and brad this is natalie from michigan i sent you a voicemail a few weeks ago but i had to send another one because you called called Michigan out on your last podcast when it comes to being in the Midwest. So I would agree that we probably consider ourselves the Midwest more for the culture reasons because we can relate to like the small towns and farms and things like that. But if there was a northern region, that would definitely be us, because especially the Upper Peninsula, which is where I'm from, I live as north as you possibly can go. Otherwise, you're running into Lake Superior. And then the next thing is Canada.

So a lot of people think we're from Canada because of how we talk. So if there was a north region, that would definitely be us. Natalie. Now we're going somewhere. Thank goodness. She's, but at the same time, she's like, if there was a North region, why can't there be just make it, just have it be North Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, North. You got it. Montana. I want Montana in there. I'm not budging on Montana. That's cool, though. Thank you, Natalie. I've been to the UP before.

It's nice. I've edited a video on, what did you say, Superior? Whatever lake that is up there at the coast of that lake. Well, there's a lot of lakes. So maybe it was Superior. Are they good lakes? They're great lakes. Nice.

Yo, what up? It's Lil Nilla coming out with you with some funny jokes. Yo, it's Brad and Jake. We got some great lakes. We not fake. Just a dosage. Just a sample quick. Did she ask a question? No.

Okay. Thanks, Natalie. Hey, guys. This is Kristen, like the girl last week. Also hate the sound of my own voice. I never thought I would leave one of these, but it's quarantine. Got to mix things up. Dared myself to leave one if whatever you said applied to me, looked down, wearing a white shirt, so here we are.

Found you guys from listening to Correct Opinions. I liked the episodes. Jake was on the best, started only listening to those ones. Eventually was like, why am I not just listening to his podcast? Turns out, best podcast ever. You got Jake, you got Brad. Both hilarious, both seem like genuinely nice people. Plenty of office references. Talk about Chipotle and Chick-fil-A. Guest appearances from Catherine and Hattie. Both adorable. Learn new things like you should eat an orange in the shower. I also like to build things. So you get some woodworking tips from Brad. EllisCustomCreations.com. EllisCustomCreations on Instagram. And I'm part Asian. Can't confirm that Brad has Asian hair. All right. You guys are awesome. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

Bye-bye. Kristen, it's basically just a five-star review there. Appreciate all the kind words. That was awesome. Do you think she had some stuff written down or was she just spouting it off? Because that was impressive if she was just spouting. She could be spouting. Yeah.

Were you spouting? A spouter. Hey, Kristen, are you a spouter? Let us know. Five-star review. That was awesome. I love, whatever. Pridefully, I would love that she was like, I listen to correct opinions, but then I only listen to the jakes you a spouter let us know five star review that was awesome i love whatever pridefully i would love that she was like i listened to correct opinions but then i only listened to jakes and

then i'm just like why not just listen to this one so that's funny um cool anything else to say about that just a very kind i like that she digged the orange in the shower someone dm'd us on instagram that there's an entire subreddit now about shower orange. Like maybe I started that too. Oh, for sure you started. Well, I mean, I know that I didn't start that, but maybe I was at the forefront of it happening. Yeah. Cool. Thanks, Kristen. Hey, Jake and Brad. My name is Lydia from Virginia. My brothers, Malik and Isaiah have like voice memos on the podcast before. Today I'm wearing a white shirt, so it's my turn now. I was on a zip line and I fell and broke my shoulder. So my question today is, if you have ever had a broken bone, how did it happen? Thanks, guys.

Have a nice day. Lit dog. Ho, ho. Thanks for the voice memo. I broke my ankle. I fractured it. Playing football in my backyard. Eh, Ethan Johnson's backyard, excuse me.

Is fracture a break? I think it is, right? It's like a very small break. Oh, it is. Because break doesn't seem like a medical term. Like it seems like, well, we say break,

but it means fracture. Maybe so. Maybe I'm wrong. Either way. I think that it was it was not a very bad, very bad break. OK.

So I fractured something. But I had to wear a boot for a while. OK. So like a high ankle fracture or whatever. That's what you call it. Ankle sprain. Is that what it was?

I don't know if they have high ankle fractures. I don't remember much. I was like seventh grade. It was kind of rainy outside. Ethan kind of came behind me and tried to pull me down and just kind of got awkwardly, you know, awkward on the foot and broke it up. That's kind of, so I've never broken a bone, but the probably the worst injury I've had is like a similar scenario, senior year of football, but it was muddy out and I got

tackled from the side and like my right foot got stuck in the mud as I'm getting tackled. And so, you know, there's like freaky injuries where like someone's knee bends the wrong way, like that happened to me. So yeah, popped the MCL. Yeah, dude, it's not like five games. That's the worst. Yeah. I messed up my knee as well. No fun, but that's my one break. Yeah, I haven't broke anything. I don't think. I mean, I know there's a lot of people who like have broken noses and just live with them. Like you can break your pinky toe pretty easily too, I think.

I've had some really sore toes before and I'm like, I feel like these are broken. Oh, I've had some sore toes before. I have. I remember thinking like this hurts so bad, but I hear that you can't do anything for them. So I was like, I'll just live with this. I heard if you get your big toe amputated, you have to learn how to walk again. Really? Like it's such a, like use it for balance way more than you would ever think. You'd like walk a completely different way if you lose your big toe. So be careful, Brad, for me and for the kids. Oh yeah. For me especially. Okay. Stop stubbing it. Stop stubbing the toe. You deserve better. Thanks Lydia. I love their whole family's getting in

on the voice memo. Yeah, that's great. It's great. Hey Jake and Brad, this is Haley from Winfield, Kansas. First off, I want to say congratulations on episode 50. Brad, just got to say the jingles you come up with gets stuck in my head. I've caught myself singing them. Also, it's been a while since Isaac's espresso machine has been brought up. Think the next time that I'm in Kansas City I could get one of those lattes. Also, guys, I hope Catherine is doing well on bed rest. I gotta go because this voice memo is sponsored by Ellis Custom Creations. Find us on Facebook at Ellis Custom Creations or Instagram

at Ellis Custom Creations. That was kind of funny. How she like specifically. Well, I guess that's what I do every time. So I'm about to make fun of her for being like, yeah, that's my name. Ellis Custom Creations on Instagram.

Anyway, I love the birds in the background, man. That was sweet. That's just beautiful Winfield, Kansas, baby. I couldn't tell if that was coming from the computer or like a window was open in the house. I was like, whoa. That's just nice.

Oh, yeah. You can just imagine being out on the prairie. What was his name? Haley? Yep. Okay. I thought so. Maybe.

Maybe you could get a Tay from Isaac. We really want to start. I think we talked about this pre-quarantine. So post-quarantine, I want to make it happen. Like a tradition where it's like Saturdays. We're like, we, every Saturday we tell you like where to meet up,

like not at our house, but like at a public spot. And we're like, we'll like bring some, some lattes to people. I like that. It'd be so fun. Saturdays.

Saturdays. With Isaac and Jay. Saturdays with Isaac and Jay. Yeah. That's nice. So yeah, make it happen. We're going to have a truck by then, probably.

Ice cream truck and a latte truck. Yeah, we'll bring it to you. It'll be no problem. Yeah. Thanks for the sponsorship, by the way. Or thanks for using my name. That was very nice. Did she ask you any questions?

Winfield, Kansas, by the way, has a bluegrass festival, and it's really dope from what I hear. That's cool. So Haley, if you play the dulcimer, congrats. That's awesome. I just went to the website to look at our reviews to do a review of the week. And I saw that we have a new country that we're trending in.

We're number four right now in Pakistan. Oh my gosh. Talk about Middle East. Yeah. It makes sense. Honestly, dude. It makes sense. They're like, what are they saying about us?

They're trying to make sure that we're not in trouble they're doing too much yeah oh man but we got a ton of reviews this week we got um 17 which is the highest it's been in really like since january so i don't know what we did this week to earn uh or deserve 17 reviews but thank you guys and there's so many good ones someone else out there is memorizing license plates which is hilarious glad that someone else has my same said that she does that too really yeah fun fact i wonder if it's the same type of person like knows the song lyrics the things like maybe there's only two types of people and we keep thinking everyone's so different but it's like you know you're not a lyric guy or a license plate guy but maybe you do all the other

things you should be type a type b it's like license plate yes license plate no yes yes yes this is going to rewrite psychology textbooks oh man um other good reviews we got um oh gosh i don't even know well one actually i know what my favorite review is because oh yeah i i know which one i would say if i were you. Okay. So we got a review on April 15th, not tax day for me. And it said, I've been listening to this podcast for months now. I'm getting close to finishing the backlog of previous episodes. I realize this is not a record, but I listened to you both talk for nine out. What? This is the wrong review.

Well, I read the wrong one. I don't like this one. Shout out to a girl from Indiana. Cause yours got actually read. You're a nurse. Hey, thank you for doing what you do. She's moved to Kansas for us. Oh, that's right. Cause she wants to be our friend.

So honorable mention on accident. Okay. This is the review. I love this podcast and listen every Monday at work. I did get into an argument. If Jake was a good looking guy with my girlfriend and she thought that Jake is just okay looking. Well, obviously Jake is the epitome of looks. You both are wonderful and relatable.

Why did he include that? Why do you have to say that? Just leave the five star review. Just throwing, hey, and by the way, verdict's out on whether or not you're attractive. I mean, I as a heterosexual male thought you were very good looking Jake, but my wife who has actually attracted to men, uh, just thought you were just okay. I don't know what does it for you, but the heterosexual male, you know,

flattering comments don't exactly, you know, I wish I looked like you. So therefore butter me up. Oh man. There was a time in my life. Maybe you remember this when all my Tinder stuff went viral on Reddit, there was this whole conversation. I have screenshot it. It's like, I never want to forget this because people were like, okay, this is funny, but how is this guy getting so many matches? And then someone was like, well, maybe he's an attractive guy. Someone else replies, ah, looked him up on Twitter. Was it for me? So then this, I'm not kidding. An entire like thread within these Tinder comments is, or yeah, Tinder pictures in the comments is going over whether or not I'm an attractive guy. I mean like 20, 30, 40 comments going back and forth. I'm an attractive girl. So it's kind of different. It's relative, you know, whatever. I don't find

them that attractive. And so it's kind of funny. So this is not the first time where people publicly debated my looks, I guess, which is a weird thing. Yeah. But confidence is still intact. I put it on my story just for a brief second and then decided to take it down. But in that time, someone else, I'm assuming a friend of mine, Sagittarius42069 said, my boyfriend and I got into a fight

because he was so intimidated by Jake's good looks. And when I said I thought he was extremely attractive, my boyfriend got really insecure and jealous. We worked it out. It both came to a mutual agreement that Jake is just a very attractive person. that's funny thanks for doing that yeah that's yeah just people love talking about your looks apparently i guess so here's a piece of meat which is funny because you're not supposed to eat very much of that yeah piece of chicken maybe guys

yeah piece of poultry um mine is going to be from k quick 92 because it was the first time that i think we've ever gotten this as a review she sent in a recipe on a review you see this i did uh she said if you're into grapefruit try this and it was a broiled grapefruit with cinnamon recipe and i just thought that was awesome that we we never before have we gotten a recipe in a review before um so we got we had quite a few different like firsts and recipes today, this week. So in reviews. Yes. In reviews.

Yeah. We, this was honestly such a great week for reviews. So thank you guys. Someone wrote us a novel. They're from Olathe. Yes. Love. Yeah.

I don't want to just discriminate with Olathe people, but I was very tempted to do that. Had somebody that said they knew the midwife that. Oh, I forgot about that. Yeah. A guy I know from K West, uh, Devin. Yeah. He knows that midwife I was talking. Oh, had somebody else say something about how they did like a, like a family history on the triplets. Did you see that? Yes. And how they, how they migrated to Missouri. So it's like, so I might've met your, you know, third cousin. Yeah. That's pretty cool. There's so many great ones out there. Yeah. There, gosh, go look at that one. It's so long. You you've always have hope is the username and it's awesome. So thank you guys. Sorry. I'm just kind of reading while I'm talking. There's so many great reviews. We love them every week. We love

them. We read them all and they, they just just they butter our biscuits guys so keep believing them we appreciate them brad let's end this week with a jingle what do you got for me baby ghost runners ghost runners ghost runners Jake and Brad every Monday Jake and Brad Jake and Brad Jake and Brad Jake and Brad Jake and Brad Cut.

Nice. That was Salt-N-Pepa, Ghostrunners Remix, Feet, Brad Ellis. Believe it or not, that was the 13th time we did that jk lol uh bls30 don't forget that share a song with us uh and please guys make sure to check out nick nicknicks.com link is in our description to check them out get some rompers for your your quarantine body you deserve it you need it that's. You've been economically stimulated and it's time to stimulate me. Uh,

uh, just kidding. Okay. I've touched your kids. I'm pretty sure your kids have touched me. Whatever he said. Yeah. Thanks guys.

But yeah, thanks for listening. Only two more episodes, one more episode until our year anniversary. We're so excited. We've got a special thing planned. Come hang out with us on Instagram at Ghost Runners Podcast. We got tons of funny clips and quotes on there.

And we will see you guys next week. Bye now. Bye-bye. Georgia. Georgia. Georgia. Georgia. Georgia Georgia We on the grindin' Georgia All the time, it ain't nothin' on my mind, but

Georgia We ain't playin' with ya We on the grindin' Georgia All the time, it ain't nothin' on my mind, but Georgia We ain't playin' with ya