1 - How Much Would You Sell Your Dog For?

Here we go. Welcome everybody to our podcast, Jake and Brad. Here we are live. Brad, what's it called? We are calling this the Ghostrunners podcast. We feel official. We're in Brad's basement. It's a little cold. He's got a little blanket wrapped around him. The mics aren't quite tall enough to fit or to get up to our voices. So we're using these shelves. Yeah, they're like the adjustable shelves from we bought this house from a 92 year old woman and she had all these Santas on her shelf. And now they're holding podcasts, mics. That's what we're doing here. Podcasts and baby, we don't know what we're doing. We've never done this before, but it's gonna be fun. Yeah. This is my friend Brad. If you came here from my Instagram. Say hi, Brad. Hi. Thanks for doing this with me, Jake. We are best friends, excited to do this. BFFs. Yeah. I already had my wedding. So Jake was not a groom'sman in it, but I really hope that you bring it up though. Some day. If you do get married, Jake, that I would probably be your best man. I don't know. Or if you get married again. Yes. Right. If I renew my vows and/or decide to take a different woman as my partner in life, yes. Yes. You will. This is fun. We're talking about your second marriage. Yeah. And it's in our first podcast. Good stuff. This is actually, well, yeah. We don't have talk about it. We don't have talk about it anymore. Yeah. Okay. How was your day, dude? My day's been fine. Let me stop you right there. Dude, my armpits lately. Something's wrong with them in a good way or a bad way. In a bad way. Okay. Deodorant has not changed. Nothing about what I think would affect my armpits has changed. But I would say over the course of the last three or four weeks, waterfalls. Not sweat. Like it's not like it smells. I'm like, oh, I'm embarrassed. Oh, I'm just going down the side. Yeah, it's just like very wet. Yes. Most of the time. Not most of the time. That's exaggeration. Do you think you're more nervous? Is it like, oh, I'm just like. I'm coming up on just an anxious season of life. Maybe. I mean, it's stress-induced. Yeah, stress-induced trickle. I have heard of that. You never think it's going to happen to you, though. I don't know. Have you ever had that? Like, it's weird. It's not sweat. It's just like, it's neutral. It's just water. I've been overweight since I was like third grade. I've had plenty of things like that having me in my armpits. It's new to me, dude. I've embarrassed. I layer up every time I go outside. Well, you have been working out a lot more lately. Do you think that could affect it? I mean, maybe. I mean, there's a correlation. Probably. Working out is definitely good for you. That's something I've noticed. I don't know if people are talking about that as much as this should. But I've noticed. Like, I feel better and look better after working out, which is crazy. I don't know why. You work out really late at night, which I think is really funny. Like, really late, right? Like midnight. Between like 11 and midnight, typically. Between 10 and midnight. Because I've always heard, I'm not a workout kind of sewer myself as the aforementioned overweight since third grade. Sure. It's good to get that out there just for a night, though. But I've heard that like after you work out, you're often not tired. So I think working out really late at night. Like, it energizes you. Like, working out does. It's working out late at night. It seems like it would make you have a hard time falling asleep. Yeah, I googled it because I was like, I wonder if this is bad. Like, I wonder if you build muscle more in the morning or something. You know, I don't know. Yeah. And the only negatives were like, yeah, you're probably going to have trouble falling asleep afterwards. But you don't always go. I mean, you. I'm not going right to bed necessarily. And when you're running out about five and a half hours sleep anyway, like, you can get to bed pretty much whenever you want to. Yeah. But I've been fine. Dude, the, so before we start this podcast, we should have started this podcast as soon as I started working out because I've had some, I think one week I checked in with Brad said I've been using the bench press the wrong direction. That was a bummer. That was probably the motivation to start the podcast was we got to talk to somebody like. The people I hear the stuff going on. And then last week I told Brad that I went, I paid for the black card. As you know, I get all sorts of extra access. Free cell massage beds. The typical things that you offer that you want in a gym. Want to come in free cell salt there and massage. Yeah, dude. But they had the opportunity booths. And it didn't give me. Yeah, dude. Freaking bronze. Maybe that's why you're sweating. You know. I was, I was water falling before I started getting. Okay. But thank you for continuing to try and find your own answers. I'm going to find it. Yeah. No, but yeah, last week I went taming for the first time and it didn't give me eye protection is what I was telling Brad last week and you got to get to. So I've just always doing something wrong at the gym. This time I asked for eye protection and they give me temporary. Just stickers. You just peel off and put them on your eyes. I'm not kidding. Were they designed like do they have like smiley faces on them? Yes, they have no way. Yes, and you put them over your eyes and they're sticky. Oh my gosh. I don't maybe that's normal. I just don't know. I had never used. I'm just imagining you in. I'm assuming you're underwear only. Correct. Going in there with these things on your eyes that have smiley face on them. I don't know. I can't see a thing. That's hilarious. They're just like stuck. So you put them on like your eyelids. Yeah, but you know, they're not just a mile. They're kind of oversized. They're kind of sticking my cheek and my nose. Oh, they're lashes. Oh, they're tears. No, okay. I see. Well, you know, I don't have great dexterity once one eyes already. You know, blind. Gosh. Well, anyway, so more updates to come for you guys as the podcast, you know, grows and grows. And as my muscles grow and grow. I'm sure we'll have better stories. Dude, you should start going to the gym just for like, I mean, it's like I do like I dove into like a new subculture of society. Well, I did, I guess. Yeah, just people who work out. Yeah. It's crazy. Here, let me ask you this. Do you how often do you look at yourself in the mirror? Oh, I mean, every time I go to the bathroom, you go to the bathroom looking in a mirror. I have to go to the bathroom and sink. Okay. Afterwards, I wash my hands and I look at myself in the mirror. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. So I'm not during like that's fine. Like I don't like lean over while I'm going to the bathroom. Yeah, it's okay. Yeah, we're doing good. No, but I'm a one's car pattern wash hand washer. Good for you. And so every single time I go to the bathroom regardless or anytime I go into any restaurant, I always wash my hands at the beginning. You look yourself in the mirror. Absolutely. Yeah. See my thing, I don't know if there's something I need to address with myself personally. I don't really like looking myself in the eyes in the mirror. Really? Like for extended periods of time. And where I'm going with this is people in the gym. Yeah, they have mirrors everywhere. Yeah, they're looking themselves non stop. I think it's so strange. A guy two weeks ago asked me to move out of the way so you could look at himself in the mirror, which I thought was a don't move. Yeah, and like you I don't get your gym is like a subculture of a subculture because you're going to plant a fitness. Yeah, you know the judgment zone. Yeah, like judgment free. Don't like no bodybuilders allowed. But at the same time you're still getting guys that are want to look at themselves. I just think it's so funny. I'm like I'm going to be able to look at myself like brush my teeth. And these guys just eye themselves down while they're lifting. Oh, yeah, I can't do this. Also, I wish you could feel my right armpit right now. I just had a trickle down. I'm serious like it's happening. My best guess is like switching temperatures because it is kind of cold down here. Yeah, I think for some reason it's the change in temp is only affecting my armpits. Yeah, that's interesting. We have any medical professionals out there listening, which who we couldn't I think everyone listening shares a last name with us right now this first episode. But if anyone knows I'd say life is going pretty well from here right now except for the armpit thing. Yeah, so that'd be great to have some clarity. Good. So that's me. I work out my armpits sweat. Brad, you want to talk about you? What are you going on? That's why your body. Yeah, body functions. No, we're not going to go there. But we have to go about body functions. Yeah, thanks. I need to help introduce our audience to each other. Yeah, just to get to know me a little bit. So I am a husband and a father. I'm your first thing that you are not. Yeah, this is on your first marriage. Yes, first marriage. Yeah, first husband, first fatherhood. Good experience. I have a wife who is named Catherine. That's correct. A daughter named hadi who's two years old and I'm a woodworker. I have a full time woodworking business. And I also lead worship at my church that I've been going to attended for the last three years. So have a part time worship job and a full time woodworking job. And yeah, so I just like Jake, we have the similarity of being able to have a flexible hours, flexible, you know, work life balance. We don't if we don't work, we're not going to make money. Yeah, it's motivating. I was going to say we met as next door neighbors. Yes, we met as next door. Amers when my wife was working for K life, which is where I was working alongside of Jake. Yeah, like we bonded quickly over humor. Yes, which one thing is going to bring up is your first night we met. We went to Home Depot. No, I don't remember. I remember we went. We were coming back from a small group leader thing. Sure. And it was like Sunday night and for whatever reason on Sunday nights, they do like 90s on this one radio station. And we listen to 90s music and we roll down the windows and like randomly like talk to people to know them. I didn't know that. And I didn't know. Yeah, I mean, hey, Jerry, Jerry over here. It's me. You know how to get to the four five? Like say it all five things to him. And you cut on quickly and was like, oh, this is a good time. Yeah, like this is this must be what Brad does all time and turns out 30% of time, which is not bad. 30% of time every time. Yeah, fast forward to now. Brad night still cracking jokes. We should tell about the Craigslist thing how we made a little money. Yes, month. Cracking jokes professionally. Right. So you just recently moved to Kansas City. Yes. And I've been looking for jobs here and there and all do anything once. Yeah, you're trying to figure out. Yeah, right. What you're trying to do. And so you're on Craigslist, right? You're straight perusing. Yeah, like, oh, real quick. I'm going to wrap you found one just before I came over here. Because I'm honestly always perusing. It said, need a dwarf to come party with us. Oh my god. Clicked on it. Because this is pretty sure. You know, exciting. They just wanted a little person to come to the lake of the yoghurt's arcs with them and just hang out there. Like we'll pay you to come party with us. What is this? Why is this in creative gigs? You see a lot of I'm sure you've seen more things. Yeah, but sorry, anyway, you found one creative gig. Yeah, it was basically saying, hey, we are a company that needs jokes for little kids. Joke jokes. And they don't have to be advanced humor. They can't be inappropriate. They can't be political or religious. Just sinister jokes. And it was like basically like $5 a joke, I think. Like it was like $50 or $50 for $250. Yeah. And it was like, it was a slow month for me. And it was you were trying to figure out, you know, what you're doing. So you're like, why not do this? This seems easy enough. And so we've been splitting these jokes and been doing pretty well with these like making money off of them. I mean, we're essentially, we don't know what it's going towards necessarily. But it's basically like we're writing Lafay Taffy jokes. Exactly. Like give them some examples. I remember like literally I would just come up with them while I'm driving. So like I saw an Apple B's one time and I thought of Apple B's Bumblebee. And I was like, what's, you know, what do you call a clumsy insect, a stumblebee? You know, like stumblebee, they like just I don't know, like what is a farmer used to write? He uses a pig pin, you know, like come on, like just give him to me. Where's the model like to eat food? Sheaks filet. Dang it. I guess it, you know, that's good. So there's yeah. And there's so many. It's unlimited. It really is as long as you have a very low ceiling for how funny it can be and how much it needs to make sense. Like you can just personify anything and be like, you know, what's the doors favorite color? I don't know. I don't know what the answer is. But you can imagine as long as doors have feelings and can talk than anything could be a joke. You were heavy. You went down the animal route a lot. Yeah, like, it's very analyzing, which maybe is due to a two year old daughter. You're hearing animal sounds, read animal books a lot. Genuinely, just looking around the room. Why did the zookeeper get fired? I'm looking up some of these. Why did the zookeeper get fired because he was always lying down on the job. I went the more, hey, I want these be laffy tapy jokes, but maybe a rapper could use these in a lyrics someday. I'm trying to think what's the right word. How does Bill Gates like his toilet paper? Microsoft. See, that's like, that's like next level. Like mine are just bad. And that would say you're pumping them out though. Like that's like a juicy J lyrics somewhere. Thank you did. But you know, if you guys want it, no, never mind. I'll say of juicy J for another episode. Perfect. Yeah, but this thing I found it. I was like, I don't know if there's anything more up my alley than a way to make money off of just writing cheesy jokes. And then I got Brad involved. I was like, oh, I'm out of my league now. I had like 10 done and you're like, oh, I drove home and wrote my 50. I'm telling you, if you drive, it makes it so much easier because you're a basement. You're literally just trying to think of random things that you can make jokes about. And you can't like, or you can, but it's not as easy as if you're just driving down the road and you see a billboard for insect, you know, pest control thing. Let's try to do this right now. Okay. Okay. One of us says a word. And then the other just first person to think of a joke. Okay. With that somewhere in there shoe box. Oh, sorry. Is that too hard? I think you say word. And then we both go for it. Great. So you say word without pre thinking of a joke. Oh, shoe box is that I don't have. I don't have one. I don't want to go with shoe box. Okay. So I don't know if you can make it easy to watch. Lamp. Is that good? Okay. Why is it always. Go ahead. Mine's mine's not like why? Why is it always bright at canica camps? Because the lampy. That's a very specific joke, but hey, for the time frame, and for the third audience. It makes sense. Pillow. Where does a pharmacist sleep on his pill? I was going to go someone who jokes because he swallowed a pillow. Pillow. Yeah. I was going to go. Yeah, that was good. If anyone out there needs jokes written on the spot that are mediocre. I'd say where your guys, which there's probably somebody out there on Craigslist that does need that. So. Yeah, who cares. Yeah, that's a. Yeah, anyway. In other news, that's our lives. You know, seeing what the other day. What is the point of car alarms? Just initially, what do you think? To keep the bad guys the intruder. Yeah, yeah, but anytime you ever hear them, you're like, ah, someone accidentally clicked something. Yeah, like, oh, whatever. They'll just they'll unlock it and be fine. Yeah. And even let's say I'm trying to get in your car. The alarm goes off. You don't know that that's not like the passer by doesn't know that that's not my car. Act naturally. Yeah, just chill. And keep trying to get in your car. And maybe, yeah, maybe if you have a man, hit the thing again. If you have some keys, like, just press some buttons and be like, gosh, why is this thing working like? Yeah, because Catherine, like, messes up sometimes and does like not not just push the alarm button, but actually, I think sometimes she unlocks the car from the inside of her car while she's still. Oh, yeah, if you sit in there for a little bit, yeah, you've left the car and then it like freaks freaks out. And she has not a fix it. And she would be completely innocent. And then somebody else could totally. And she'd get that accuse her. This is not on the same vein exactly, but I remember one time in college speaking of people not caring when the alarms go off really. There was a huge like thunder storm in this one like one instance of thunder literally was so huge that it put it like set off like every single car alarm in the parking lot. And so it was like, yeah, how does this silence in that car? You think it's more the lightning or more the thunder that sets off car alarms? I think it's probably the thunder like the motion of it like a strong. Yeah, right. It was such a strong motion that it just. I don't know. But I'll tell you one thing. No one was worried about. No, it's more about the car gets. Yeah, somebody's somebody's out there stealing cars. No, like, that's not your first reaction. So. Let me ask you this. Do you know what to do if your car gets struck by lightning? I think you're okay, right? Like you can't. If your car gets struck by lightning doesn't it just hit the tires and you're okay? Yes. I don't know. I've never been struck by lightning car. I remember my fifth grade gifted teacher. Mrs. Robinette told me this one time. I'm a brother. You were in gifted. I this whole podcast is for me to just at some point say that I was in the gifted program and we've already reached it. So there may not be an episode to. She said, yeah, so the rubber on the road is good news. If you're somehow airborne, probably not good news. Rub on the road is good. You're supposed to keep driving around like 20, 30 minutes, let the charge kind of die out a little bit. And then this is the part that she apparently made sound pretty important. You want to whenever you leave your car, you like kind of jump out and land on two feet at the same time. What? That's what I heard. So you're not just like safe. If you're in the car and you get struck by lightning, I don't think I would feel safe. Your hair is priceless and a little bit song probably started going in reverse. You got stickers on your eyes still. Yeah, yeah, I didn't get to dig her up. I'm not tanning. It's still a little sunburn. Oh, I just I've always heard like, hey, the wheels, you know, the tires are going to make it so it's okay. But I can ask Mrs. Robinette what she meant by that. We're not in touch anymore. Probably listening to this. Yeah, she probably is. She's supportive. Interesting. Okay. No, I did not know that. Yeah, a little tidbit jump out with both people might leave this podcast. We like they weren't that funny, but about three years later, I did get struck by lightning and a car. And I was super helpful that I listened to their first episode. But by jumping out, do they mean like not just stepping out like because I I don't need I drive a car. You know, it's kind of ground. And I'm like I said, overweight since they're great jumping. I have a very easy time just yeah, launching myself out of my car. And I don't think it needs to be a triple salca or anything, but I think just some way to get both feet off the car and on the ground at the same time. Okay. Great. Triple salca would help though. I don't know what that is, but it sounds really. Okay, here's something about the other day. This is so random and not about triple salca as at all. That's okay. But you and I both really enjoy the art of fast food. Sure. And I had Wendy's right before this just dissecting that fast food. Oh, yeah, I have a story just last night. Okay, you go first. So I was asking Catherine about this and she didn't know she wasn't in gifted. But I was saying so like let's say you have a I love soft drinks. So that's that's right. That's where my mind is. Your wheelhouse. So let's say you have a soft drink of Dr. Pepper that's halfway filled up with a good amount of ice. And so it has 150 calories and that soft drink at the time. Okay. And then obviously it tastes wonderful. I've no idea where you're going with this. We got calories involved now. What have we ever talked about calories? Right. We are talking about calories. That's the entire basis of this question. Oh, yes. So it tastes great. It tastes like a normal Dr. Pepper has carbonation. It's half filled with ice. It's like a word problem that I don't get to see. This is tough. Okay. Sorry. I was just just know that there is enough ice that there's a strong amount of ice. Which by the way, ice is the ultimate stabilizer. If you don't want your stuff to spill, just put enough ice in there and sign a spill. What are you talking about? I don't know. Like if you if you have don't like stuff to spill. Like if you don't want to know. No, if you don't want your water to spill. Oh, I see your saying. If you have water in a cup that's all the way full and you barely move that thing. It's lotion. Yeah. If you have ice in there, it's not going anywhere. It's the ultimate stabilizer. I see your saying. Right. Like within the realm of like within the habitat of the cup, it stabilizes like the water. Yes. I'm sorry. Not like in general. Like not in the world. I don't know what to think. Sorry. Go on with the word. Okay. Dr. Pepper halfway full. Doesn't matter how it how how full it is, how much ice in there. But let's say two, three days later, you come back to that same cup. It is now the milk that ice is obviously melted. It's no longer carbonated. It tastes terrible. Yikes. Does it have that same 150 calories in there still? Do you think? I know very little about calories and I apologize. Right. But I know that water doesn't have any. I don't think frozen water would have any. Right. The question is carbonation and like I'm just saying like can calories yeah like go out of something if it gets. Here's something I remember from 9th grade science. There are physical reactions and there are chemical reactions. I would guess that for calories to be lost or gained to some sort of chemical reaction has to happen. Okay. And I think just like slowly melting is a physical well. I don't know. That's a transfer of heat because like yeah. I know you can definitely gain calories like like bananas get sweeter like the like they start out green and they become. Yeah. Yellow. Actually, yeah. I don't know what the heck I'm talking about. I don't either. I'm just pulling out terms from 9th grade science. Just the random thought I had was are you trying to consume more or less calories right now? I mean always less. You know, it's always a good idea to consume less. That's what they say. But yeah. But yeah, I don't know because it's like oh man. I was like I'll sacrifice 150 calories for this delicious doctor pepper. But I cannot imagine like that same sacrifice being used on this awful lukewarm water like sure water diluted like surely that's not the same amount of calories. Like I shouldn't have to like that if you get you know 10,000 calories every whatever. I don't even know how long I'll expand that would take. Is that a week? I think it's 2000 calories a day for a diet is what all the okay. So that could be a week. So goal if you're yeah skinny. Yeah. Whatever. You're saying I don't have to use 150 of these on yeah, I don't know whatever. I just don't it doesn't it doesn't taste like 150 calories worth of the sacrifice. I don't know. It's just a rate of thing. Anyway, this is a story speaking of fast food from last night. I go to McDonald's because I'm 30 boy. I order a large sweet tea. Yeah, he says we have unsweetened tea. Which I was like oh yeah, you know, it's like well, that's not what I want. But maybe she's you know, maybe she's going to be in polite. I could go well, we have we have sprite. It's like okay. Yeah. I mean, that's you know, we have barks. Yeah. I don't even know what to think. You know snap a decision. So I just said it again. I was like maybe she didn't totally understand. I don't know how I was like. Yeah. What do you have any you're any sweet tea. She responds again. We have unsweetened tea. I was like okay, what's going on at this point? What kind of game is this? Like something's going on. I don't want to lose whatever game this is. So I go back. I step up to the plate at third time. And I say three. I'm by myself too. It's not like I'm doing this pretty much enjoyment. I say. And also I like emphasize it just in case there was language. I said I'll take a sweet and tea. And she once again, I'm not kidding you. But it wasn't like a joke. And it made me think it's why pulled out. I lost the game. I didn't step up to the late for time. I said I'll take a power. I just wasn't feeling so the last night. I had a lot. But yeah, anyway, as I was driving away, I was like I wonder if McDonald's has some policy where it's like you can't say no without offering a solution or something like that. Like you can't just tell someone you don't have it. I'm trying to get the benefit of the doubt. Yeah, just like don't you know we're just like yeah, hey, it's not the end of the world. Like we still have tea. It's just not what exactly what you want. It's going to taste nothing like what you're wanting. I get you 15 cups of sugar to just put in there. That's what we do. I can do it for you. It's a problem. I don't know man. Yeah, it's in the realm of fast food. That's that's been on my mind all day. They've been kind of rough day. Just wondering what McDonald's new policy is on suggesting solutions. Can I tell you something I've been thinking about with more than anything? We just make this a food podcast because our maybe drinks because it drinks specifically. I think I've already talked about this. I think about this the other day and I think I truly believe this for myself. And I think if other people thought about it, they would also if they were very honest to themselves. Also believe this is that I think I 100% of the time prefer iced cold drinks over hot drinks. No matter what the liquid is. Yeah, I think so. And I think no matter what the liquid and honestly, if I'm being like real. Unless it's like unless I'm going to be very cold outside for a long time. It's not even about the temperature. I think like the climate that I'm in. If it's not weather dependent, you're just you always want a cold drink. Yeah, like maybe if it's 32 degrees outside or whatever. It's going to be outside for three hours. Yes, it would be nice to have a warm drink. But if it's 32 degrees, I'm walking from my house to my car. And I'm going to be cold in my car for four minutes while the car warms up like that's okay. You'll suck it up and take that cold drink. Yes, I think that other people. I don't think that warm drinks are good. They're not like they're not as enjoyable as cold drinks ever. See, I I don't even think you know this about me. So it's funny bringing it up. My parents always used to make fun of me because how often I would drink warm soda. You like we have? Yeah, looks like Luke warm or I would say room temperature. Okay, I'm not going to heat up soda. Not psycho. But does that what Catherine you are going to have a marriage dude. Why does she heat up soda? Dr. Pepper inputs lemon in it. No, it's honestly not terrible. But it's not as nice. No, no, it's not okay. It's not better. It's not better. But heated up. Dr. Pepper. Yeah, like she is like when she's sick or something. No, it's just when she's in a good mood. Her family like she doesn't do it here. But whenever we go down to her family's house in Texas, they do it. So legal here. Yeah, she doesn't. But yeah, so we would have sodas in the pantry. Yeah. And yeah, my parents are still like I'd come in from like playing. I'm 10 years old or wherever I come in. I just grab like a soda. No, it's like start drinking it. They're like, Jake, do you want any ice? No, I'm good. Oh, man, because sometimes I think ice much like a one steak sauce can take away from the flavor of the steak. I think ice can take away from the natural flavor. Certainly. I think that's part of maybe why I like it more though. You like this diluted? Yeah, well, I like I like really sweet things a lot. Like I like Dr. Pepper. My strawberry lemonade kind of punching the face. So you weren't really ready for that. Right. And imagine if that was not ice, that would be. I think good. Seriously though. Like yeah, you do you taste the sugar a lot more when it's warm. Yeah. Like coffee is so much easier to drink when it's ice like the good. That's another thing. I think that people I think that people don't really like coffee that much. They just act like they do. Do you think it's a fad? No. No, unless there's something else that is I think it's a drug like sure. Like I honestly like I drink it for the effect more than I do the taste most of the time. So I'm kind of the opposite. Really? I don't I've been basically shooting caffeine in my bloodstream since high school. So like that doesn't affect me at any point. But I've got a coffee a week more is like a thing to do almost just like yeah, I'll say the coffee shop and yeah, sip on a little like white girl latte. Yeah, well, I get some work done. I don't. Yeah, I don't do it for the effect. Try nice white girl latte at Chick-fil-A. I get ice coffees and it's real good. Okay, they're throwing mad sugar in it though. So that's why I like it. I just think if you're on with yourself, you like ice more. That's a pretty blanket statement. I know I know I know you're standby. It's all I'm going to try to it's a strong statement that I'm sure people disagree with until they really analyze themselves and then they realize. Well, there's no way to comment on podcasts, but if you ever see us in person, let us know. Let us know. Let us allize drink thing. What you think? Speaking of speaking of food, that just keep it rolling. Let's roll. I got a question for you. Okay. How do you feel about devil eggs? In the last couple three, four years, I've grown to like them, but growing up, I never even tried them because I thought they looked disgusting. I didn't like grow mustard growing up. Didn't really like eggs growing up. Is there mayonnaise in there too? Like mayonnaise is not like those three things were not good to be grown up. And now I'm not individually. So you like devil eggs. Thanks, David Diner. You'll take one off the tray. Yeah, there's some people in my family like I come from a big family and some people love devil eggs in my extended family. And so like, yeah, I get one maybe if it if there's enough room on the plate, but it's not like I have to have one. I would say I'm a solid five and a half out of 10 fan. Okay. What are you 11 out of 20? I'm going to guess real quick that you are very low on the total pool of devil eggs. Yeah. I think they're terrible. I heard of this thing one time that they say like every seven years your taste buds change. Yeah, so about every seven years. I'll try double day just in case. I'll try a lot of things just in case that's interesting. I don't know if this series true. I don't even know where I heard that, but I like it. It's cool to take every taste for different things recently, but I've always hated eggs. Any kind of egg smell of them. Taste of them. Oh, man. I can remember like gagging trying to like swallow scrambled eggs just like the texture of them. Oh, wow. Eggs just smell so bad. Didn't like the taste anyway. Always hated eggs. Never gotten over that. Okay. But then yeah, like you're saying you throw in some mayonnaise and some like whatever the heck is on in the double day again. It's just like I cannot think of anything worse than this. That's funny. And my dad knew this. We're at Easter launch two weekends ago whenever was. Yeah. And kind of nowhere. Oh, well, my mom was like Jake, do you want more devil eggs? And I was like, are you serious? She's like, yeah, she's oh, wait, never mind. I forgot. I was asking. Yeah, I haven't had one, you know, five, 10 years or whatever. And that's my thing. I don't like devil. Do not think don't bring it up. It's going to be a rough Easter if you keep bringing up devil eggs around me. But then my dad wrapped that was like, Jake, I'll give you everything I have in my back pocket right now. If you did devil, dig. What? I don't know how much money I have in there. He's like, you might be taking a risk. Oh, I love it. Which is always a fun game growing up. You used to do this thing. And I think I'll tell you about this. But he would say I got to do chores and whatnot. He's like, all right, Jake, you could take out the trash or you can mow the lawn. We lived on a lot of property. Mow and a lot is like a half day. Yeah, like, oh, I'll take off the trash. Right. Right. And then like, okay, good. I already mowed the lawn anyway. Dang it. Oh, man. And then I could never choose the right one. I always got me to say this is one of those things again. And then next time he would be like, you could take out the trash or mow the lawn. I'm going to get him. I know you mowed the lawn already. You want to go out the trash. Yeah, give me again. He always knew or vice versa. Oh, you say a closet like psychologist or something. He figured me out. Anyway, so what happened to this? So I was like, this is one of the situations. I don't know. Am I going to get two bucks out of this? And I almost wanted to prove it to myself. I was like, you know, maybe the taste tastes buds have re-lined. It's time I try one again. So first thing I'll say still got awful. We hated it. Okay. I mean, I can't. I asked everyone at the table. I said, how do you eat these things every year? My sister had like 18 of them. I don't understand. But I made 80 bucks out of his back pockets. It was a good day. Wow. Then story gets better. Grandmothersides. Hey, I want to give you $20 too. I was like, oh, grandma, you don't have to give me money. I was like, oh, grandma, you don't have to give me money for a double day. And she's like, oh, no, I forgot to give you something for Valentine's Day. So I was like, oh, okay. Yeah, well, that's sure. I mean, no, I don't have to bring it up. So yeah, I made like $103. No, Easter. Preeding a double day. Wow. That's hilarious. It was awesome. So, okay, that makes me think of that time. We talked about this a little bit, but for all those commenters out there on our podcast. Yeah. Comment down below on Spotify. We had a discussion one time that I think is really funny about dogs and love dogs. Neither of us have dogs currently. No. But one of our friends asked us how much money? Like if someone came to your doorstep right now. Oh, this is a great conversation and said, hey, here's $100,000. But I'll give it to you right now. No, no strings attached. The only thing you have to do is just give me your dog and you'll never see the dog again. Your dog will be completely taken care of. Like nothing bad will happen to the dog. It'll live a long happy life. It's just not your dog. Do not get to interact with it though. Yeah, there's no, there's no more you in this dog. Would you take it? And instantly, instantly. Oh, yeah, go ahead. In a scenario, am I just am I me and my single Jake? Do I have kids who are attached to this dog? Do I have family? How old is the dog? Oh, that's another thing. We said like the dog is like a solid grid dog, but it's not like the perfect like like it's a solid seven and a half at 10. The dog is old enough into its life that it's trained, but like probably in the prime of his life knows where the electric fence is. Right. But like like has plenty of years left. It's not like it's it's on its last leg or anything. And like instantly I was like 100% I take that money and get rid of my dog and 100,000. Yeah, that's that's in a hundred thousand dog. I mean, I love dogs. But in my wife, a cat, there was like no way like because we have a daughter, she'd be like, you know, how do you would love this dog? You know, and that's that's part of the scenario too is that yes, everyone in your family likes the dog. It's not like this tension thing or anything. You know what I'm like, but you can buy another dog. There's always gonna be more dogs like that dog. I can either make a hundred thousand dollars today and lose that dog today or I could make zero dollars today and lose that dog in seven to 10 years. I'm losing that dog right now. And I don't know. It's not a person and I know that that's gonna offend everyone probably. But that's a thing is like, I mean, I love dogs. Yeah, love them a lot. So do I walk in room when I'm trying to win the dog over before anyone else like it's just such a cool feeling. But I think you have to look at it logically too. Like, right. It I you know, it feels like I have a special connection to this animal because of the time we spent together. Yeah, but that time is like replaceable. I can get a new dog and spend time with that dog and teach it the same tricks. Right. So I have similar memories. Yeah. But once you bring that kid into it, then you don't think so logically. Okay. Then you start thinking a little emotionally. Yeah. I just I think maybe it's just me because like we kind of pulled my my wife and you know all of these all of our friends wives and stuff and the women were a lot more 50 50 not even 50 50. The women were like, no, keep the dog. Yeah. But I think maybe just the man and like the fact that I feel pressure to provide because like yeah, logically. Yeah, I'm actually even like, yeah, I could save up for how he's college with this money. You know, for this dog money. Blood money. Yeah, my dog money. Really matured in that. You know, check the dog fund. But really though, you know, there's just it just seems like the smart move anyway. Yeah, I remember. Yeah, we were all kind of went around. I don't remember. This was so long ago, but kind of went around and said our price like gunner, her friend discount. Duckworth. He was like 100 bucks. I do for 100 bucks right now. Well, he also doesn't like dogs. So that's right. He's kind of a moot point. But yeah, Peter and I both I think we said like 13,000 dollars we would do for really. And our yeah, other people think that's like ridiculous. I would probably even do it for less than that. You would probably maybe I don't know. Then again, I mean, I don't have a dog. I never raised a dog myself. So I don't know what it feels like to, you know, yeah, spend money in time, clean it up. Something's crap. Just to give it away for like, you know, five grand or something. You invested in that dog. I don't know. But five to 10 grand, but definitely I think I would I'd make moves on that. Yeah, I'm like a three year old Australian shepherd. Yeah. Right. That's what I'm saying. Maybe sad. Don't don't think I wouldn't be sad. But I wouldn't be sad on the jet ski. I bought with that. Right. I like super happy. The jet ski that you bought. And then you had extra money to do XYZ as well. Get a new dog. Send him to the trainer. Now he's even better trained the first one. So I was money. Daniel Tosh has his bit where he's like, you know, they say money can't buy happiness. But it can't buy a jet ski. You're trying to be sad on a jet ski. You just can't. You can't do it. So smiling, man. That's really funny. Here's a question for you. Great. Super random. I'm just looking at your TV down here. What do you remember back in the day when the TVs were all the rage? I don't know what time of the year. That was. I don't know why to say that time of the year. But I know what I'm saying. Here's what I'm trying to say. Okay. Plasma TVs. I'm right. That was like a buzzword. I was like, oh, you're going to get a flat screen. You're going to get plasma LCD. Yeah. 1080. What is plasma? Like in TVs or in general and not in blood familiar with selling plasma. I don't know plasma TVs. I've no idea what that word means. I think of it. I don't know to be honest. I think of it as like. I think of Halo whenever you shoot plasma ray. Yeah. Yeah. But beyond that. So I think it's like this bright blue stuff that you put in a TV that makes it look really nice. That's probably what it is. Well, I think of it in my head. But I'm sure that's 100% accurate. I don't know either. I feel like you don't hear it as much. So it's something like was real trendy for a while. Like blue rays. Oh, they're both blue too. There you go. Coral. Right. They must have just figured out how everything looks almost the same to the naked eye. So stop advertising one over the other and just. Now it's like the features of a smart TV are good like or features of a TV like it's a smart TV. It can have Wi-Fi it can Connected Netflix and all that stuff. You ever checked out those curved TVs and like Best Buy or something. Yeah somebody I know has one I kind of look at them. It's like it's cool Yeah, but I'm also like this is no. This is not a different viewing experience for me. Yeah, it it I Don't know but I haven't seen it from like a living room perspective. I've seen it from like Best Buy you know Floor It didn't yeah I don't know. I'm not a Supercritical TV watcher as long as I can tell what's going on TV. It's fine with me So as long as it's not like fuzzy or anything What do you think is the quality you care most about in like a TV watching experience like volume angle ambiance seating arrangement if I can only choose one I think I would choose Angle probably the angle of the TV Or yeah, where I'm sitting in correlation to the TV. Yeah because if I'm sitting too close or too far to the side like that's just uncomfortable to watch a lot I'm also kind of losing my hearing I think because of woodworking. Oh, no a little bit and so I don't think Yeah volumes. I don't know depends on what I'm watching but speed illusion hearing I have this theory I don't have ever shared this with you. My theory is that at a young age I had very poor hearing because I Maybe I'm a little ahead of myself. Maybe this is a very natural thing. But I Subconsciously always look at people's mouths when they're talking I have to force myself to look at their eyes That's like very unnatural to me. Oh, my theory is that when I was younger I had to read lips to hear or at least like maybe somewhat was reading lips. Yeah Because yeah, that's what I look at like even when I'm talking to someone most of the time. I'm looking at their mouth And I guess I don't know how normal it is. Maybe that's like oh, yeah 50% of the population does that but I don't know I mean I feel like I'm looking at your eyes, but I'm also seeing your mouth move Enough because like I work context. So if I don't have my contacts in I look at you I can't it's so much harder to hear because I am like trying to also look at you and Read what your like face is saying, you know like do you think that's similar to like the Turn the radio down because I need to like see what's ahead or whatever Yeah, you need to concentrate so you turn down the radio Yeah, it's like all I needed was to look at something but I turn down the radio. There's a different senses right but if you're saying you Can hear better when you see kind of a inverse relationship. I think I think you're using both Like I think if you I think you're thinking of smelling taste. No, I was a correlation. I think if you Did everything but make noise right now, but like moved your face and like had your had your face go up and down So I think I would be able to pick up potentially what you're saying. Hmm I think I'll you know like so I don't know fun experiment someday Yeah, I'll paint a mind with my from the neck up and you try to guess what I'll be great podcast because yeah, no, yeah, they can't see us. Yeah, yeah Yeah, I really do. I don't know It's hard for me to see and here apparently I'm just gonna be really bad at being old What's your like number one fear of being old not unlike it like I got like on a surface level Um like maybe you look at your grandparents. You looked at you look up the DNA Genealogy tree. What's coming for you? Well, uh I don't know That's the thing is like all my grandfather's have been dead for a really long time. So I really I guess my fear is dying young Uh I don't know. I think I'd just be part of this podcast. I think I'm worried about not being able to hear when I'm old Yeah, that's gonna be that'd be hard like you it's so hard to be in Conversation obviously if you have such a hard time hearing yeah like even now I'll go to a place that has like Loud like murmur kind of like loud like ambient noise kind of stuff. It's harder for me to hear than most people I'm worried like that's obviously not gonna get any better. You're not gonna. Yeah, I improve your hearing Yeah, that's too bad. What would you say could be worse now? I think maybe just slowing down mentally in general Just like yeah, not being like I rely on my quickness a lot and once that goes it's gonna be so sad Yeah, it's like not being able to keep up mentally with what's going on. I wonder if you're gonna be able to be tailgripling It's so gradual that hopefully yeah, you guys like I'm sure that I'm not the exact same aptitude as I was when I was 18 years old in certain things sure But I don't think I really recognize it as much as I probably am that's true since I don't feel old Not that I am old I'm 28 years old but sometimes I think about a thousand NFL running back I'm like oh man. I'm kind of towards the end of my yeah career a little bit. That's crazy. I need to get going I need to start a podcast. I need to something. I gotta figure out something else. I gotta podcast the answer. I gotta get on Craigslist again and find something. It's crazy Oh, anyway, we got a wild world Yeah Yeah It's funny how that all works. I wonder what I bet I bet women Oh, maybe I shouldn't go down this road in a podcast. I don't know I've just observed in my marriage that Women seem to be a lot more self-conscious about them getting old before men do like they seem to be self-conscious Once they hit 30 they're like oh my gosh, I'm so old wrinkle crink Well, yeah, whatever it is. I don't know. I think maybe just the I think the the number thing like whereas men like Like some men are 50 years old and still think they're 16, you know like Paul Rudd. He looks good. See you just turn 50 Yeah, I'm not even talking about physically. Maybe a little but still he looks great. How he starts turn 50. Yeah It would like it was a Twitter moment like Paul Rudd turns 50 and still looks amazing or whatever. That is kind of wild Anyway, I don't know. I'm just not worried like that doesn't bother me at all getting the idea of like getting older like that does not bother me Yeah, I would say I think about it too much But every now and then I'll watch the notebook. Maybe I call man. Oh Man, I've never actually seen the notebook all the way through really. Nope Do you know kind of what it's about? Yeah, I know that's really sad the end and Yeah, that's what it's about. It's about things out at the end. Yeah No, it's the dementia. Yes kind of what it's about. You can't remember his wife or she vice versa. Yeah, she can't remember. Yes, no, but out He gets you going. Yeah, have you have you ever cried in a movie? Uh the little princess you ever seen that one First movie we're cried in Sad dude, at least when I was 10 it was you cry when you were 10. I don't remember exactly for you But oh, yeah, I was very much on the emotional spectrum back in the day, which is crazy because I don't know if I've ever I've maybe I've seen you cry once or twice but like I'm pretty pretty steady. Yeah emotionally most of the time, but when you get wrapped up in a movie. Yeah That's that's one of the only things I remember Yeah, the little princess. I don't even know how I watched that movie. I'm gonna blame it on my little sister Caitlin. Surely that's why I was watching it Um I remember one time leaving home. It was our first time like going away after getting a new dog Buddy was home alone and then I watched the Emperor's new groove and it was that scene where Kusko is in the rainforest and it's raining And then maybe think of buddy being all alone like oh he's outside this whole weekend. What if it's raining on him cried hard really. I was like in a room with like my cousins and stuff so I had to like kind of cry to myself And then no joke the notebook first time I saw it made me cry did it. Well, I've heard that's like a common thing. Thank you I just I think I've only cried and it wasn't even like a like a real cry. It was like but I think I had A tear in my eye or something. I watched it's a wonderful life for the first time this past Christmas I've never seen that all my through really. I mean obviously it's not it's classic. I recommend it. Okay Dirt your tears. Yeah, and maybe it's because I'm getting older and you know, I can't give it to auto Yeah, but really though like seriously makes a difference you internalize things a lot differently But do you externalize things differently? I don't even know what that means. I don't either probably though. Sure. I think it's it just changes everything by your life probably so it's a wonderful life. Yeah Um, that's the only movie ever cried in. Sorry. Is that what you say? I think so like Well, and that's the other thing is I don't I don't intentionally watch like sad movies. Yeah, that's not with horror movies Like if I'm gonna pay for an emotion. I'm gonna pay for happiness. Right. Like give me comedy. Yeah, give me romance. Don't give me Sadness like everyone's talking about like oh, you have to see a star is more. It's such a good movie That's me saying that a lot. Yeah, everyone says that and not like it's such a good movie. It's so sad I'm like see yeah, I hate that people say that to you because I say goes to your stars more. It's an amazing. Yeah And don't tell people the emotion they're going to feel right because then it puts an expectation on you like I'm supposed to feel sad Is this the sad part the whole time you're waiting for like Yeah, this is good right here, but it's it's about to get real bad. I know it So I'm just I'm not excited about that. So I'd rather be like hey ghosties movie it's hilarious. Oh, yeah, great I want to feel hilarious. I want to feel hilarious. I want to feel a little second. The hilarious hilarity hilarious emotions I think we all want to feel hilarious though. I'm at our core Probably so man Probably so I don't know anyway the stars born not on the radar also like Man, I'm probably just defending people. Everyone that's listening to this, you know with the dog. I mean literally dozens of people with yeah tuning in I don't understand the Avengers hype at all that I'm with you on really so so yeah The last two things that are like huge right now are Game of Thrones and Avengers and I'm on social media Obviously looking at stuff and I feel like half the things are about those two things and I don't Understand any of them because I haven't watched any of them a lot of people cried at the new Avengers movie Which is fine. I just got done talking about crying movies But I think everything I know about like action movies and movies made of yeah mainly CGI It's hard for me to imagine getting that invested into like an artificial character That's why I don't like super here movies unless it's kuzko unless it's like yeah No like The superhero movie is in a real world like Like Spider-Man like I like Spider-Man. Okay, because it's like he's in New York City and that could happen Sure, I mean yeah, I mean we not no no not not like that but like versus Superman is in Krypton or whatever like he just wrote another planet sure Doesn't doesn't interest me at all Guardians of the galaxy actually saw Guardians of the galaxy But that's not my kind of movie yeah I don't know and I'm not really hating on it like I think if I just had the time I would love to give all the Avengers or all the Marvel movies a chance. There's so many of them. I like hard to catch up now And people were spending 15,000 on these movie premiere tickets. No, that makes sense I'm like wait two days and you'll spend 15 actual dollars max or just sell your dog and then that's how you get the movie ticket Everything about that. Yes. There's our first podcast callback. How was that guys? Pretty funny, huh But yeah, no, I'm sure the movies are great anything like that. I'm like there's a reason it's good There's a reason it's shattering records like it. It must be amazing. You just put it on the outside looking in like what's going on in there Everybody talking about why they all smiling right you guys talking about me. What's happening? Good not just thinking about high school, but still the movies what's going on? Yeah, I don't know. I just don't don't understand Either those things too much Brad without looking well, you can't see anyway. How long do you think we've been talking right now? 37 minutes. Oh, you're so dumb 51 minutes seriously in that crazy. We did it man. I thought this would be like a 30-minute thing Yeah, it wasn't easy quick conversation Give us something to end on one last topic. What do we talk about? I Well, but I want to hear about all I'll set up my thing and then I'll hear about yours as well I want to hear about an embarrassing moment in your childhood if you have one that you can think of first or anything think of um I was thinking about this the other day. I was watching office episode where Dwight was like I misspelled during my spilling. I misspelled in front of the entire school the word failure and I Literally when I was in spelling in the spelling bee I misspelled. Sorry. I wanted to say it with under Yeah, I was one of two people left. I was like the finalist who we up against I don't remember his name, but he was a sixth grader and I was a fourth grader. So it was like Cinderella story Oh my god. Yeah, what if I told you yeah, um and It was like, you know, you have to get it exactly perfect letters obviously like and they write down your line of spelling content Well, but like you can't like be like I didn't mean that. Are you going to the mall and so and so the woman Like the lady leading the small the spelling bee goes. Okay Oh shoot now I can't move the oh longitude. Okay, she goes longitude and I go longitude M What yeah, I just froze Fourth grade Brad fourth grade like in front of the entire school like everyone was rooting for the you miced up right now Yes, don't down an M me versus another person is M dropping a douche and then I spelled longitude correctly after that But it didn't matter because you can't be like it like you can't go back. Do you know what has reminds you of what we do last night Plamentopoly when I got the M currency. What is that that's probably what you're thinking of maybe M150 M longitude yeah But I could not believe it and I ended up losing and never made it back to that deep in the round of the swelling B So I mean honestly what why do you think you said M? I have no idea. I have no idea Because like I must have answered ten plus words correctly. You're on a roll. So I was doing fine Um, I don't know. Maybe it was like the maybe it's something like Conspiracy or something there maybe some kid in the audience like a whole nut like a yeah There's a guy saying hey, I'll give you $100,000 if you you took a dive. Yeah misspell this word dude So sick and now you get to keep your dog I'm just gonna keep bringing that up any time honey's mentioned yes. I misspelled Incapable once which is kind of like Dwight. It's pretty ironic. That's what I spelled wrong. I misspelled. Yeah But I misspelled in capable in their regionals. Oh wait. What's up me? Yeah Fourth grade moved from Springfield to Stratford spelling bee comes pretty early in the year at least on a zary like we're talking September probably yeah Here hey spelling bee this Friday. Oh Cool whatever like oh hey Kristen Baker wins every year. Oh does she yeah, okay? Okay? Well I don't know if you guys heard about the gifted program okay? Also the speech program. I can't say my arse But hey I could spell letter by letter. I could pronounce those just fine. We can talk about speech class in another episode but Um, so yeah, Kristen Baker's one every year kindergarten first second third grade. She's raining champ wow four time. Yeah um Dynasty seriously. Yeah Bell check braiding baker. That's what you the three bears beaker baker spelling bee anyway, so uh Much like your Cinderella story we got the new kid been and been an old strapper for a month I'm in the final two up against Kristen Baker and we're going through the alphabet like we went through all the A's in the list the bees we're in the ease now wow and we've been going like in order It's very easy to know where we're at today alphabet and the word is addition Kristen fires off not an M not quite like you but a dd it i o n addition Err wrong. I I could you know I still remember the audible gas from the entire school No one had ever heard Kristen Baker be wrong, right? Yeah, and uh and I started as such a funny This is like must have been a big moment of my childhood because I remember it so clearly But I'm a reverse split second being like that's how you spell it yeah what in the world How we wish and then yeah, I just thought about it for a little bit longer. It's like oh you more Yeah, right Kristen we're in the ease You're down E D I T I O N and I was a champ you all they yeah I think I just felt one word after that too and They threw me on their shoulders and chanted Rudy and the rest of his history. I heard they made a movie about it Yeah, they did they just changed a few of the details to make it look like a football movie Some of them yeah, the janitor was bell check though But yeah, no, yeah, I didn't got to reach it was spelled incapable wrong. So you know Well, I'm glad that you're better. I mean, it's that spelling. Yeah, thanks for bringing up that story So you can say that I want that actually about that worked in my favorite big time. You're a great childhood with your intelligence Gifted dominating Kristen Baker emotional it movies. Yeah, kusco could not say my ours though really We really we really for wheel Speech was kind of nice though. Yeah, you just got to get out of class one of my good friends is in speech He couldn't say his elves allegedly. Oh, pretty sure we could say his elves. Yeah, I wanted free candy every every Thursday, but Well, yeah, good times Well, I think that's it. That's good. We're included close to an hour Which is crazy so easy to do this Yeah, I mean, this is what we do every week anyway. Yeah, putting microphones for our faces This might be the only time we record this not endemic Donald's We'll see right now. I have kind of a unspoken standing appointment of a Donald's every Thursday night. Yeah, we played basketball and we go to McDonald's and just hang there and no one else is in there So I think we could easily get away with doing this just bringing two laptops to microphones. Oh, this is a film on it. Yeah, bring a camera to try put on there too Uh That's it. I don't know how should we sign up like podcasts. I listened to they're like Follow me on Instagram, but it's like anyone already here. Yeah already knows who we are. Uh, it's like we're like reaching a new audience You know, you have some sign off. Yeah Final joke Yeah, do you want to sing them something? No, don't we just shut up. I can do that. We can we can free us out next time Okay, we'll see you on the flip-flop see on the flip-flop this has been Ghost Riders. Oh