Welcome back to another episode of in no hurry. I'm your host cold Douglas Claiborne. I hope you guys all had a great Thanksgiving and happy to have you guys back for episode 3 of the podcast. I guess this week is Jake triplet. If you guys don't know who Jake triple it is if you've ever watched a trade Kennedy video then you know who Jake triple it is because Jake is the one that She shoots and edits right sometimes even stars in Trey. Kennedy is hilarious videos that you see on YouTube and Instagram Jake is just a hilarious person himself and even his own Instagram and his own podcast ghost Runners, which we'll talk about is hilarious. So this show is chock full of plenty of humor. If you guys know anything about Jake he has unabashedly single and we sort of made fun of that a little bit and have some fun with that and with me being married. I kind of saw him out for some marriage advice and there was kind of a funny conversation and we talked about both of our worst first dates and just some Christian dating trends that we've seen so a lot of funny stuff on here, but he does have a lot of really good things to say about creativity and taking risks and that sort of thing last summer Jake and his friends flew out to Maine and they bought a limo and they drove it across the country so that they can show up on the Ellen Degeneres Show and along the way that it acts of kindness and made some awesome videos and and he's just taking a lot of risks to get to where he's at create creatively and professionally and he talks a lot about the faith that it takes to do that and kind of what led him to those decisions. So if you're in that season of life right now where you're trying to figure out what you want to do next and you're not really sure if it's the right move Well, he kind of talks about you know, what his thought process was and how he walked himself through that. So this conversation is just full of humor and wisdom and I really think that you guys are going to enjoy it the music as always. It's from my friend Ryan always If you have not checked out his Christmas album Indiana Christmas. Well, I don't know what you're waiting for because it's officially Christmas season the all it is time to get the crystals use it going Indiana Christmas by Ryan all were is a great soundtrack for the season. Make sure you check it out and support him and also go back and listen to the first two episodes if you have not listened to those so far with Ryan and my buddy Phil Heller, but anyway, thank you guys for tuning in and I hope you enjoy this conversation with Jake triplet. Well, Jake triplet, welcome to the show man. So happy to have you on here fresh off of your first ever stand-up comedy tour. You and Trey Kennedy got to go to a few cities and Midwest. You got to try your stand-up routine for the first time. I'm excited to talk to you about this. Just what was it like, you know, obviously, we're all big fans of Trey Kennedy and you could just shoot his videos that we see in the internet but this was a little new new of a thing for you. You got to go out and do some comedy with him. What was it like being on tour? Then for four straight days. Yeah trays awesome. I think one of the biggest things that always surprises people when they meet train real life is he's decently introverted and just keeps to himself quite a bit. You know, he plays he's very eccentric characters on the internet and can be very, you know, flamboyant and charismatic but when he's off camera, I mean, he's just a very normal children just kind of bro of a guy and it really fun to kick it with so we had a great time lugging around the The the Midwest and minivan all last week for cities and for days and yeah, it's a good time man. We really had a good time together on stage and off stage and it was it was awesome. We can't wait to go back in and hit the road again. Yeah, that's awesome. You talked a little bit about this on your own podcast, but what are some crazy stories from your time on tour in terms of like encounters or instances with fans that you had either before? During or maybe even after a show. Oh boy. Let's see. Like I'm not really used to having fans. First of all, so almost any interaction felt weird to me just because people knew my name and what my face look like they were multiple like middle-aged women who try to set me up with her daughters and not just like, oh, I have a daughter back home. She would love to you know, visit Kansas City and see you but like they were there with their daughter and it just made an all-around an uncomfortable experience for everyone. Because the daughter is like Mom, please don't do this and I'm also like please don't do this and there's also other people around also saying please don't do this. So it just the moms are pretty ruthless in the midwest. So those were most of the I mean all of them are fine. It wasn't like anything. No one was like try to grope me or kiss me or anything. It was fine. Although I might have welcomed that it's been a little bit of a dry season right now. No, nothing like that weird happened. It was just like Well, you're really going for it. But it was fine. It was it was fun. I think one of my favorite stories is he talked about this on your podcast, but somebody walked up and they said can we take a picture poopsie and if you like that and I'm sure you got other weird nicknames, but I mean what are some weird things that fan said to you like that whenever they were maybe coming through a meet-and-greet line. Well, I made the mistake. Well, not really mistake. I guess but part of I'd say at least like half of my set when I was performing stand-up is it About being single and about to psych, you know, just funny stories of ex-girlfriend's and you know online dating apps and you know, whatever. I'm just telling jokes about dating and relationships and I guess when you do that on a stage that just opens up everyone to be like, well, he said he's single and I'll shoot my shot. So there were just a healthy amount of like the DMs I guess is where it got weird or just like I know it was just surprised you girls are so Ford these days I tell you what, you know not like the good old days. Where you know? Yeah, you just gave him a piece of your property and then they were yours now. Yeah, so a lot of Ever After every show maybe like some more just innocent like so heard you're single or so you want to you know, you want to uninstall tender and just hang out with me or whatever. It was more like a quantity thing more than a quality thing or just like wow. I feel like half the audience just DM to me about wanting to enter in a relationship with me. So that was like, okay, let's Alert, they're they're really really Ford up here in Madison, Wisconsin. Yeah. That was my next question was what's the weirdest DM you've gotten from a fan it and I ought like you're getting popular now, so I wonder you probably get a ton of DM's as it is. I mean how many of these do you even get a chance to read but the ones that you have read what's maybe the weirdest are several weirdest that you've gotten from fans. So the weirdest one I've ever gotten happen to be last week on tour. So this is good timing for this question. It was something actually I've got it screenshotted. I don't want to let me look at my phone real quick. I don't want to screw this up. I want this you deserve the best. I don't want this to be just you know, trying to guess what it said. I want this to be verbatim. Okay, so let me try to find this. It was something dang. I went. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay real real short sweet real simple from a female named Leah. I am not taken and I will spank you bad boy. Oh my God, like there's no like no beating around the bush there. She's saying who she is and she's saying what she wants and so I mean that's still not even that bad. But just I'm not used to any of this. I I'm very much a normal guy. I just happen to be friends with Trey Kennedy and I kind of been put on you know in the spotlight a little bit by him. So to get a message like that. I'm like you like yeah, I clearly have speeches. I don't even know what to say to that. That's hilarious. That was a weird one. Do you even respond to some of these are you just read them and move on? I think I think that one I said, thank you. But yeah, so most of them have been something kind of weirder or something like thirstier. I typically won't but I mean generally like if I see it and it's someone saying anything, you know, at least in general. Yeah, I will respond to it. I will try to anyway, I don't know how how often you've gone back and read these but I went back and you have a Highlight on your Instagram where you have saved some of your favorite Tinder conversations that you had with people and I yes, it's the funniest responses because people are not expecting you to say what you say and I almost feel like when somebody says something to you like I want to thank you bad boy. You say something like, you know, that would hurt or something like that. I mean you're in to read your tender responses have been hilarious and you know, did you have her this is A lot of people know this actually met my wife through tender. We had lunch and you decide look back and I'm like man if I had done something stupid on Tinder is whenever I matched with her I may not have I may not have actually met my future wife. Do you ever regret responding some of that to some of those girls that way or you know, I'm gonna be I'm gonna be whoever I supposed to meet whenever I meet them, but I guess you ever look back and regret responding that way to some. Wow, what a question really really making me feel like Missed out on a potential love of my life dude, I guess you know when you put it like that. Yeah, who knows if I would have taken tender more seriously, you know Little Miss triplet be right by my side right now. No, I don't know. I guess I really haven't thought about it too much and most of those screenshots are actually from like probably 2014 like kind of right went into first came out is when I was like, oh this is funny, you know like this. Yeah, I mean we all know what Tinder is, you know, this this application this website generally based around the idea of meaningless short conversations that lead to a hookup, you know, typically obviously not in your case congrats again, by the way, but so I just saw it and I did not want to do it at all. I was so anti tender and my brother who is about 8 years older than me was like cool you really ought to try it his friend Carson who was his age. He was a Carson just met his fiancee on Tinder and I was like, okay fine. I'll give it a try. I had no idea and I had no expectations. It was not going in there for a hookup. And so I was you know, like a good Christian boy. I feel that my bio and I said, you know, I have some kind of a Bible verse or something about Jesus in my bio and I was expected to do this. I'm not going to just try to meet some random person and thankfully Emily. My wife was the same way and we ended up matching and somehow, you know, it's blossomed into this wonderful. Marriage, but yeah, yeah, that's awesome. Did I tell people that story and they're like, oh my gosh Claiborne you were on Tinder and I'm like dude. It wasn't like that. I wasn't trying to hook up. I wasn't like that at all. So it's always embarrassing when I saw people but I'm like, you know what we're happily married and it's all good. But yeah, they sure owning it dude. Yeah, that's the way to do it. And you know, you kept your standard time from the beginning so Props to you what people think it's any better if it was christianmingle.com. I mean, but that make people feel like it's more wholesome. I mean either way it's a dating app and I'm kind of an introvert sometimes and so meeting people is not always the easiest and so when there's an app that curates it for you. It's like know what let's go. Let's go ahead and try it and it worked out. So exactly that is a good question. Like what is more like? Yeah. What are you more hesitant to tell people you met on like Christian Mingle tender like LinkedIn or like some like I don't know like what's yeah, where do you rank the most embarrassing websites to meet someone like Words With Friends chat? That would be a pretty cool story where we just bonded over our use of vowels and use of the cues and x's and all the letters that gave you more points. We just need a we had a matching vocabulary. So exactly yeah quixotic X on the triple letter. Who is this girl? I got to get to know this girl and next thing, you know, she's making me quixotic six months later. Here. We are. This is the kind of stuff you get from Jacob jake' strip load on his podcast right here, and if you can't tell I'm Trying to meet a woman on Words With Friends. So that's why I'm here on this podcast. Just trying to put my name out there. If you want to download it just kidding actually play that game in a couple years, but used to be solid if you meet your wife on Words With Friends, you would think that you wouldn't have any trouble coming up with your wedding hashtag at that point. Which for a lot of Millennials is the hardest thing about planning the wedding as it is I have this vision and maybe this is more just my sense of humor for years. Now. I've always thought like I love the idea of my wedding hashtag someday just being like hashtag love your hashtag wedding just like something you can't Search just like everyone's supposed just get completely lost. I can't find anyone to pictures on Instagram. It's such a little like simple meaningful meaningless joke, but I love the idea of that. If you guys want to eat a post along with us today and share your you know, your perspective use hashtag love. We can't wait to see it guys share away. I think Emily and I more so Emily than me. But I mean it was to the point where she she was pulling people on social media as to what our hashtag should be. And it was like how many people are actually going to take a picture and post it with that hashtag. I don't think that I have maybe whenever this was like first a thing did I ever post a picture on Instagram or somewhere and use the actual hashtag? Other than that? Like I don't I don't typically do that because they're typically so corny that I don't even want them in my caption. Anyway. Yeah, like this is bad for my brand to put this hashtag on associated with my name. No, thanks, and it's always like happily ever whatever the last name is. Like that's probably e % of the ones that I see like that is happily ever triple it that could be yours right there. But it's like if you're going to come up with one it's got to be hilarious or it's got to be clever. Other than that, they usually just Uber corny and they don't really do the do the trick and I think I've got to be so good that people want they want this like sentence to be in their caption. So bad that they're willing to post a picture, you know, it's not even about you anymore. It's about the hashtag. Like I want that to my caption. That's hilarious. Exactly. I can't I can't even think of one off the top of my head. That was actually good. They're all so bad. Yeah tip. Yeah, I and I was like, you know, I've been like a wedding photographer and wedding videographer before and like from that side of things. It's so annoying when like wedding like patrons have their cell phone out recording things or taking pictures. It's like look the bride spent several thousand dollars on me to film this like you don't need to record a vertical video on your phone of this. Trust me. Like I got this gather way. Oh this is that is one of my biggest pet peeves and I really and I honestly wanted to do this at our wedding. I I wanted to put a sign up and I know that this is super pretentious and super arrogant, but I wanted to put a sign up that basically said like we are paying people to record this with photos and video. We are paying thousands of dollars, but it was going to say it nicer than this but basically like something, you know more wholesome like please just be in the moment and put your phone away, but really it's like put your phone away because we don't want your stupid phone in our picture and not only that but vertical video is my biggest That P like like your eyes go sideways. The TV is sideways. Your phone should be sideways desktop recording vertical video. I'm not going to go back and watch your vertical video and people are like, well, they're recording it for themselves and it's like well, they can watch the video that this professional puts together. They don't need to go back and watch their de Rainey iPhone 6 video that's going to be on their phone and I'm not going to watch it. I'm not going to look at their photos. I'm going to look at the professional photos that we paid for so I can only imagine as a videographer when you're working at if you get a really good shot then somebody's leaning over. / and they've got their phone in the shot. That's got to be the most frustrating thing. Oh, yeah, it's always grandma with some like cell phone. I've never even seen before either. Like what is this a toaster oven? Where do you even recording on it's even hotter Sandra? Yeah exactly. I'm like, I don't even know if you know what's going on, but you're in the aisle so move. Hey guys, just ended up in this podcast and tell you about anchor if you've not heard about anchor it is the easiest way to make a podcast. 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So what are the things that you got to do last year was you and some friends flew out to Maine and you bought a limousine and drove it across the entire country so that you could appear on The Ellen Degeneres Show which people people like to talk about what the American dream is that to me. Sounds like the true American dream. That's the the privilege Millennial dream. How did how did you get this idea and only that but you guys it wasn't just a self-serving trip. I mean you guys did acts of kindness along the way which obviously is something that Ellen loves and it's something that anybody can get behind but that was going back and watching some of those videos was really cool. And you know, you're obviously known for being a funny guy and there were some funny moments of that trip, but in the end, I mean I think that for you must have been an awesome experience and then you know, what was it like to not only make the trip with your friends but then too Be able to enrich people's lives along the way. Yeah, great great questions. And that's really cool that you went back and watch some of the episodes fan. That's awesome. I'm still really proud of those. So love it when people watch him so initially the idea came from I mean, you would probably have a lot to say about this like I think any guy probably any person has dreamed with their buddies about like going on an epic road trip. So anyway just came from that dream of just like yeah, we want to go on a big road trip. And also I was a videographer so it's like if I'm going to do this, I want to do it in like epic proportions and I want to film The Thing and just like take people along the road trip with me and so me and my friend tied to sat down one night start brainstorming one thing led to another and just kept getting bigger and bigger and it's like, okay. Well the car should be exciting. Okay. Well the route should be exciting and then like if this is going to be on the internet to for this is gonna be like a Channel or like a show like it should be branded properly as well. So came up with the name Ellen. We bought a limo, you know already just in those few words in that sentence of the show you already or like intrigues, you know, like what Ellen Degeneres and we got a limo involved. I'm into It so anyway to kind of summarize it now. Yeah, me and two friends. Like you said fluid main bottle limousine off Craigslist drove it through all the lower 48 states and it took us 80 days. I think we filmed like thirty seven episodes on Facebook watch along the way we set up a GoFundMe that our viewers could donate to and then we would give out a hundred percent of those proceeds to people in need along the way which is really cool. I mean only to get help people out there just like our viewers didn't even know what there are donating to. They're just like we're going to give these kids some money and just hope that they you know spend it wisely which is kind of a lot to ask and but a lot of people donated I think we raised like $10,000 on our GoFundMe and then we did a whole episode of story on this guy who was wrongly convicted from prison and had just gotten out and so we used our GoFundMe money to get him a car and then set up a new GoFundMe for him. And so it was just a lot of fun. It was a it was a cool way to get our viewers involved other than just liking and commenting on stuff. So yeah, man, it was awesome. So you guys were like, it looks like you were put into some kind of like a side room when you were at the show be did you guys I know that you were going to be on the show because if not, you did a really good job of acting like acting surprised. If you guys know when you got there that you were going to actually be on the broadcast. We did not we actually got an email from Ellen's team about halfway into the trip and we didn't tell anyone, you know, wanted to keep this psych far-fetched dream alive, but getting on the Ellen Degeneres Show, even though it was mainly like a branding thing like none of us are really that big of like Ellen fans, but whatever still obviously very exciting she emails us and like, you know, August we do a couple Skype. Sessions with some of her producers things are going well then just like radio silent for a month. Like okay. We're in Seattle still haven't heard from you. Okay. We're in San Francisco get closer. All right, we were in Los Angeles and you're still not responding this sucks. And so our last-ditch effort earlier last day their ties brother was about to have a kid. So he's like I have to go back to Oklahoma tomorrow is my last day and so we're like, let's just wake up early. We're going to protest protest being used lightly are signs that he said like we love you Ellen, but we posted up right outside of Warner Brothers Studio and just try to get people to Shane and it worked and anyway to answer your question. No, we had no clue. One of The Producers came out and was like, this is hilarious guys. We're going to try to get you in the audience today. We're like, oh how fun like we'll take what we can get. That's great. And then she comes back out and it's like, okay we're actually sold out today, but there is like an overflow room that you guys can like sit in and watch it on TV. You'll be like right next to Ellen so I great we don't care and anyway got in there and within about 10 minutes they ask is like, hey you three guys. Can you actually go sit over there? R and we're like what is up is where he stood out like crazy. It's a bunch of middle-aged moms. And then like three homeless-looking guys have been sleeping in a car for the last 80 Days. Everyone's looking at us this camera crew like post up right in front of us. And so it is like what is going on? No one's telling us anything. Where is Sarah what's happening? And then the next thing you know Ellen's and over opening monologue. She sits down in the chair and just like speaking of current events. There are three guys in the riffraff room right now and then like boom lights come on camera starts rolling on us and we're all the Screen right behind Allen and it was awesome. So yeah, those are genuine reactions because we did not know what was happening. No one told us anything and then weirdest on the freakin Ellen show his grated. Yeah, and if you're listening to this and you have not seen the video search Ellen, we bought a limo on YouTube and find the music video. It's hilarious. I like just that the the writing of it and obviously the directing of the music video you get to see Jake do a front flip over somebody on this on the beach is it's hilarious like just the thinking of it and the creativity behind it is hilarious. Oh, thank you man. At least you guys were not disappointed driving all that way and not ending up on the show. I mean, obviously it would have been a good memories with your with your friends regardless, but the fact that you were able to get on there I think probably made it all worth it in the end. It does make a little a little sweeter. Obviously, we had regardless of that. It was still the best 80 days of my life. But then again, Huge huge cherry on top getting to end it there their last day on The Ellen Show was pretty cool. So that alone is kind of a microcosm. I think of what you and I were talking about before we record it basically, you know to do something like that. It does take quite a bit of faith and getting past some fear of doing something that you might want to do creatively, you know, there's a lot of people that have creative desires, but you are May be fearful of leaving the situation that they have in their life or you know, maybe it's a money thing. I guess whenever you have done anything where you've taken a risk creatively that has gotten you to where you're at in your career right now. What advice do you have for people that are maybe struggling with that step of you know, I don't necessarily want to take this risk because I'm afraid of what might happen or I'm afraid of failure. You know, I'm sure those are all the Motions that you have felt at certain times. What advice do you? For people that might be feeling that that's a great question. I've taken a few I guess decent risk in my life would like, you know career moves everything and typically what it comes down to is just asking myself like okay hypothetically 10 years 20 years from now. What do I want to not regret doing? Basically? Okay when I'm 45 when I got kids and my life is not nearly as much fun anymore. If I don't do this is this going to be a pretty major regret of mine. Am I gonna like drive myself crazy thinking? About what if I had gone for this thing, and so that's really all it takes and granted, you know, some of the biggest risk I've taken in my life have been when I'm a single guy in his 20s, you know, it's very easy to do that at this stage in life. But yeah to give a little perspective. So it was yeah, I guess just about a year and a half ago. I was a full time YouTuber life was awesome. I was making a living just off, you know youtube.com. Just making videos Monday Wednesdays and And had like a hundred and seventy-five thousand subscribers and but had this dream right? I had this dream that I couldn't get out of my head of driving around the country in a limo with my best friends. And so I just you know, it took a lot of thought and talking with friends in processing, but I just I did it. I quit the YouTube thing cold turkey. I left the channel and when pursued this dream of mine and a sec I'll figure it out. So And it boiled down to when I'm 45 with my wife that I might have met on Tinder will see in my a couple of kids. Like I don't want to have to ever wonder like what if I would have you know done that epic road trip. I always talked about what if I would have bought a limousine off Craigslist and that's such a silly example, but I think for everyone at listening just like what is that pipe dream you might have big or small. What is that one thing that you've kind of always wanted to do and you might regret it if you never try it because I can tell you getting on The Ellen Show. After all that work, like everyone deserves to feel that feeling of having a dream that your wrist something for be accomplished. It was awesome, right? Yeah. I think that's it. My life's here. That's kind of what what has led me to where I'm at. You know when I started this idea of wanting to write a book. I mean it came out of a very tragic incident in my life where I lost somebody that I was really close to and it shook my faith to the core where it was the first time in my life that I had really questioned that I guess questioned doubted all those kind of feelings that a lot of people go through at some time in their life if they have a faith in God where they really wonder like why do I believe what I believe and ultimately what came out of it was you know, I knew that I had a skill to write and I didn't want to let that go to waste and so I kept having this nagging feeling kind of like you did where I would wake up every single day and it was like, I really want to write this book. I really want to write this book and I've had a lot of fleeting desires before and they've kind of gone away. And so I sat on the for a while and I wanted to make sure it wasn't just something that I was feeling for a season and it was like it was like a year later and every day I was waking up and I still was like man, I really feel like I need to do this and so obviously it's been a lot of time in prayer about but for me it was getting past that fear where I realized, you know at the time I think I was 27 when I first had this idea and for me it was like I don't want to look back when I'm 40 and realize that I didn't do this, you know, even if I write a book, even if I write a book and Nobody reads it nobody buys it heck even if like an agent or nobody wants to represent it. At least I would feel like I hey I at least did this thing that I felt like God was putting on my heart and for me it was like, you know, I if I woke up every single day and I felt like what I was doing was keeping me from doing something that I really wanted to do. That's how I knew this desire was true. And so I think anybody that's listening to this I kind of have to realize you know, if your I guess they kind of have to look inside themselves. Say hey, if I'm really thinking about doing something whatever that might be and they wake up every day and like they can't imagine their day not doing that. I think it's a pretty good sign of I need to follow what that passion is. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. It's really well-worded. I've heard several entrepreneurs talk about just like, you know, you want to start this business you have this dream, whatever maybe like there's a hundred things that it's going to take to accomplish it or get to where you want to be but several. Yeah heard a lot of people talk about like the hardest thing is from 0 to 1 just like getting the ball rolling. It's for some reason. Just like psychology the hardest thing to do. So just once you get started, it just gets easier and easier and more fun and more fun. So taking that initial eat like even just telling yourself. Yeah, I am going to do this right is the hardest part. So how did you get in contact with Trey Kennedy? I mean, how did you meet him? How did you get to the point where you're at now where you're shooting all of his videos that get hundreds of thousands of likes. You know, how did you meet up with them in to the point? Where now you're working with them? I was actually kind of a cool story and I don't think I've ever like spoken about this on a video or podcast or anything. So exclusive access Cole Claiborne anyway, so I met so I used to live in Kansas City and clearly the week. I was moving away from kids city is like the week that tray moved here and we met through mutual friends super randomly and like a brewery one night. Basically just shook his hand and we introduced ourselves and that was the end of it and then I moved to Dallas and I was you know tubing It for like the next a little over a year, but at some point in that time Trey follow me on Instagram. So it's like okay, he knows who I am. You know, he's like somewhat familiar with like the stuff. I'm putting on Instagram not that was much at all. But at least you knew who I was and then about six months after that. We got put in a group text together about some different things that are going on back in Kansas City with our mutual friends. And so when I was thinking about leaving YouTube thinking about buying a limousine, you know, my life is all up in the air. I took a chance initially not because I didn't even know which number was traced as far as like, okay, I think he's from Oklahoma. I think he's got this area code, you know, whatever and so I just called this random number and the group text. It happened to betray he picked up on the first, you know ring. So, this is Trey and I just like basically pitched myself to him where I was just like, hey man, you know, my name is Jake triplet. I you know, this is kind of where I'm at and what I'm doing, but this is what I think I could do for you. I would love to move back to Kansas City. And I think I could do this this and this I think I could add value in these ways and it took about three more phone calls over the course of like another few weeks, but eventually he was like, yeah, man, let's let's do it. So when I got done sleeping in a car for 80 days, I moved back to Kansas City and just kind of started what it is now. So it was he kind of resistant not necessarily resistant I guess but was he hesitant at first, I mean, why did it take three or four calls to convince him to finally say I actually could provide that. See I get maybe I should ask him about that. I think it was you know, the first phone call was obviously a lot at once. He's probably just like chilling, you know at home eat some Chipotle and then I'm like hey hire me, you know, but I think he just needed time to process it and then I guess I don't even totally know what he was going through but I've talked to him more about it since then and I guess it was just great timing it was because I called him right around the time where he was like, you know ever since Vine. It's just been him in a tripod for four years, you know, he's built everything. He's built. All alone no videographer. No editor No Rider just just him which is really impressive. But yeah, so I came in and just yeah, I guess eventually after four phone calls said the said the magic words and he was like, all right, fine. And so yeah that started last October. I started with him primarily just like a filmer and would edit about half of his stuff. You know, I work probably just like five hours a week. It was just getting my foot in the door with this awesome guy and back to kids. Me and then as of this past August so, you know fast forward 10 months later. And now I'm basically full time with trait which is really cool. So I'm writing for him and you know appearing in his videos and on his podcast and still filming still editing and opening for him and on tour and so it's become a full-fledged thing and I'm just so incredibly like happy and thankful with where I'm at. And yeah, just making that phone call to Springs ago. And now you got your own podcast ghost. Runners you can search for it here. If you want to find it. It's Ghost Hunters on any of the podcast platforms it to me. It's it's such a it's such an awesome concept because it's I think it's so relatable to people because for like for me and my best friend, it's basically like when he and I are just hanging out and talking and I think that's carrot. It's resonated with so many people it and I hate to say this it took me like two episodes before I finally realized why you used Ghost Riders and for whatever reason they Donna me like. Oh he's talking about when we played youth baseball or not. Yes baseball and I was yes, why did that not automatically register with me because obviously I played baseball in my backyard or we all used Ghost Hunters and every you only had four people that you were playing with. Yeah, exactly. I forget I think it was set up a so, we're you refer to and it was like wow, that's that that was so obvious that I didn't even notice on this one that used it. So you've got this awesome podcast now and thank you and you and you and your buddy brat you and your buddy Brad or just hanging out talking. You know, I guess how did you come up with the concept for that? And did you did you see that evolving into what it is now? Well in a word, no, not at all. Not that it's really anything yet. But even the fact that like we're talking right now and you were a stranger from the internet who lets his my podcast. I just want to never thought like you had your heart if you have a fan that's hilarious. Yeah, I would have never thought that just because Okay, so to answer your first question, like how did I come about like, you know, I've started YouTube channels. I've started parody Instagrams, you know funny Twitter accounts Facebook watch shows like for the most part everything I've ever started has had a vision as had a plan the podcast was strictly. This is my best friend Brad. He's funny. We like to talk to each other and I'm a white Millennial. So I think I have to start a podcast. Those are the rules these days in 2019. So I was like, I mean, seriously, I cannot emphasize enough how like humbly we came in. This how there was no plan at all. We just sat down and talked for an hour. There's no editing or anything that first episode and so we've been doing it for six months and it's not like we're topping the charts and saying look out Joe Rogan or anything, but we're about to start monetizing it and yeah, it just seems like it's growing and growing every week which is really fun. And yeah, it seems to be just accidentally this highly relatable thing. So we're very pumped about it. Well, you are the number one improv comedy show in Taiwan. Apparently, it's go baby. The Taiwanese we love you out there. That's a market that everybody is striving for I mean if you're if you're not at the top of Taiwan and you're not really doing anything so we have cornered it is oh come on. Yeah, it's ours now. So you've talked about this on your podcast and we hit on a little bit earlier, but you are obviously a dating expert you have a lot of advice for people. Well, I think I think you're just remaining single because you want to be able to provide this service for people that you're just You're just a dating expert, you know, I think it wouldn't be fair to the other people for me to go out and get a girlfriend. So, you know when these are this is this is hilarious to I think I told you earlier about how my wife is becoming a fan of the podcast and this morning. We're watching TV and she she wrapped a blanket around her neck and she goes. Hey, look I'm Jake triplet because the video where your for your sake. Oh, yeah, that's funny. I think it was like you're talking about like fall Trends or something like that. Yeah, I have to As for the fall you put you put a blanket around your neck and you're like this is basically what a scarf is like for the win for the for the fall you just hear you were like when oxygen level is low fashion is high and I think that's what she was trying trying to recreate. So that's because she's becoming a fan of the podcast your this morning. She asked me if I was going to be her babe of the week this week ago. We were at lunch the other day and she asked me what my poultry of the week is what you're going to get into it a little bit but it's basically raises just up like that. It's It's you got it. You got a fan base here in Kentucky about a fan base in Taiwan. I don't know what more yeah, I often associate Taiwan and Kentucky culture as one of the same. So that makes sense to me. It might be shocking to other people but not me. It's pretty close. Yeah. Yeah. So since you're such a dating expert, you know, and this is hilarious because my wife is a marriage counselor, but nobody it's always go to her for advice. And so I figured I would I would present some instances that have come up in our House and get your expert advice. So I love this last last week sometime. We were sitting on the couch watching TV and we have a couple of lamps in the living room. And I personally did not turn these lamps on so we go to bed. Actually she went to bed ahead of me and I stayed up to watch TV. I went to bed. I didn't turn the lamps on so she woke up the next morning and she said Cole did you leave the lamps? Last night and I was like, well, you gotta remember turning them off and she said well, can you please not do that? And my response was well, I didn't turn them on so I don't know that I didn't I didn't ask for them to be on so why would I turn them off and she said it just waste electricity. Why would why didn't you turn them off you were the last in the room? My stance was I didn't turn them on therefore. I shouldn't turn them off who was right who was right in this instance. Okay. So this is a this is a pretty common issue with me. So you came to the right spot big big lamp guy first off gotta say love your dedication to the TV show, you know, nothing's gonna get in the way of you watching the show like wife go to bed. All right, fine get out of my face. I got to show to watch is also on the same token love her just you know, fiscal responsibility, you know that at the same time. Time a lamp and a light bulb you leave that sucker on four for four years and that would cost you 40 cents so I get but okay you ready for my verdict? Yes. I think your wife was right. It's the principle of it. It's the principle of it is your home. The lights were on you are the master of your domain called. This is your house you look out for the electricity and the just the the principles of how you shut down a house. Night, you turn off the lamps. Okay, let's move on to the next one. So she has things. Well, you know, I was I was fearful of that verdict, but I've got to take it like a man. Here. She is she loves using Siri for texting or searching on the internet. Whereas I hate it because it's it's like whenever I call an automated phone system. I don't want to talk to robot. I don't like today I had to Call about my health insurance and I kept getting I kept getting this press 3 for whatever. What do you know all this stuff? And it's like I just want to talk to somebody please. I just want to talk to you about person. Well, she will sit here and repeat the same thing four times to Syria before just typing it in there. My stance is forget Siri just use the good old-fashioned keyboard here and just search for it yourself. You're going to get a faster. There's no error, but she will sit here and talk into the phone and tell her This blue before and it even if it's Syria saying I'm sorry. I didn't catch that or whatever the case is. She will sit there and ask Siri anything rather than type it out. Am I right here and saying that Siri is trash we should just type our stuff in and forget Siri. Great question. What's your wife's name? Emily Emily? Shut up to Siri all say it. All right get those thumbs moving right series. I'm gonna save you any time. I use Siri like Like very very rarely and it's always when I am like, okay. I'm I just got a shower. My phone is not near me and I'm in the process of thinking how many clothes I'm going to put on today. So I asked Siri. What is the weather that is like the only time if your thumbs are like to wet your phone is too far away. You are allowed to use Siri. But any other time no not helpful and A disruption to the people around you. Thank you, and I'll have to tie when I call her and I get it whenever she's driving but sometimes when I call her she'll be at home and she will set me on speakerphone and I'm like just get are pods and put them in so I can hear you better because it's like she's shouting from a mile away and I have a really hard time hearing as it is and so whenever she's on speakerphone, I can't ever hear it. I'm like you sound like you're shouting from inside of a cave. I cannot hear you. So she loves Siri was speakerphone. I would rather just talk. Get on the phone and use my thumb's like a good old-fashioned American used to you know, we didn't we didn't get you know are we didn't get our ethics of hard work by talking in a stereo? Okay, we got it. We got to put in the work and just type in the search on Google with our thumbs. That's right on that and I preach on baby. You think God gave us opposable thumbs just for just for back massages. No, no, not at all. I like what you said about the speakerphone thing too, because I don't think I've ever realized it. But yeah, that really perturbs me when people don't need to use speakerphone but to use it anyway because it's like okay you are now listening the sound quality on my end and you're shouting and I just it's not a this is not how people talk just talk to me normal to take this even further. I also don't understand why people still use Loud Ringtones when you could easily just put your phone on vibrate and not disrupt everybody. Else now, my wife does not do this but there's too many people that in a public setting their phone will go off. So for instance. Okay, I'm a High School tennis coach and I was watching the state finals a few weeks ago and Tennis. It's a sport where you got to kind of be quiet until the point is over and an older gentleman was sitting next to me and at least three times during this match his phone went off with a loud ringtone and and he would answer it and talked quietly then put his phone back in his pocket and it's like It happens once and you forget about it. Okay, I get it. But at that point turn your phone on vibrate. So that future callers don't disrupt what's going on. And so the nascent old man. Yeah. It's so like at least two or three more times his phone rings and it's and it's like the old rotary phone or like what you would have had at your house and the knowledge. He's right. It's like so so shrill. Yeah and it's not even a clever it give it was a song I could at least kind of, you know dance to it a little bit but it's Big Girls Don't Cry by her. He may be exactly. Yeah, or Fergalicious something like that that I can at least down to but if it's just a standard ringtone like you got to just put it on vibrate and that's just that that that's a very miniscule thing but it really bothers me. Get real. Yeah. It really does. I'm well, I'm glad Emily doesn't do that because I was gonna be pretty upset if that was one-two combo of Siri user and keeps her phone on loud. But yeah, just like two weeks ago Trey and I were on set shooting this show and like the sound guy was like, okay everyone phones on vibrate. That's like I mean over to Travis like my phone has been on vibrate since 2007. Yeah, I don't I don't even have to check. I don't know that I've ever used an actual ring tone. I did used to have a ring back tone. It was Forever by Chris Brown for like a year and a half when that was cool. I had a ring back tone, but I have never used a ringtone because it annoys me. I can't imagine how much it annoys other people it annoys me to have a ring tone on my own. So I think it's the same Principle as like the sound for your alarm in the morning. You just you get so used to hearing it that you just get so annoyed. So I would never want to put a song I like as my ringtone exactly. So moving on to carry on with this. Okay, there's a lot of trends that Millennials take part in that have just become really annoying and for me, I'm going to go ahead and start this. Okay. Love it. I see I see I see a lot of millennial females are bringing back the 90s. Mom jeans. Oh that guy. They're not even like there. I guess they're trendy now and a lot of 90 styles are coming back. But a lot of these clothes are so expensive. Like if you go to Urban Outfitters, basically, you can find my closet from when I was like 8 9 and 10 years old in the 90s. You're going to find the Reeboks that I wore you're going to find the old Snapback Chicago Bulls hat that I had you're going to find some old Space Jam shirt, but it's going to be loved it. It's gonna be like $50 for a shirt. The Reeboks are like $150. I don't understand why these things are coming back in style unless it's just for the Nostalgia aspect, but the fact that people are paying a lot of money for this stuff. For instance. If there's a girl in my hometown who will go to I'm not kidding you this is actually happens. She'll go to Goodwill or some thrift store. She will buy like the 90s type of clothing and then she'll put it on sale on Instagram. You know how the girls will do like the Instagram stories where the like model their clothes and it's like sure sure sure whatever. Well, she'll sell these things for like $100. I'm way you bought that for like $3. And then the smaller the stores are now selling these kind of clothing for fifty to a hundred dollars. I don't understand it. I don't understand this trend. So that is my the lineal Trend annoying thing of the week to me. The only acceptable 90s clothes in my opinion are the old NBA starter jackets like the old retro starter jackets. Oh, yes, like the like the purple and teal Charlotte Hornets won the red and black Chicago. As one dude, he has keep talking. I'm gonna hold on keep talking. Yeah, like those are those are the it's not it but this is basically it right here because I was worried today exactly beautiful. So you've got it looks like a white purple and teal like squishy starter jacket though. So swishy those are acceptable and I also could go as far as to say the old-school snap back in behaves those those work, but I just don't understand why all these 90s trains are coming back. So that is that is my Annoying Millennial Trent, what are some things that Millennials do that have been with you? I don't even know where to start because we're all pretty annoying. Luckily. I don't know enough about fashion to really get upset by it. So that knocks out like I'll be pretty big realm of potential annoyances. I think let's see what I want to go with. There's so many things on Instagram that kind of bugged me on a daily basis. I think one thing recently that I've seen that I think is kind of interesting is like Girls when they will get asked to be a bridesmaid, they will always like answer by putting it on their Instagram story, which I think is a little strange for a couple reasons one. It worries me that they didn't tell the girl. Yes, like in person or like call her and like the girl is finding out who are bridesmaids are by who's putting them on Instagram. That's weird. Don't do that but to in more so like I think it just such a like. I don't know like spitting on her other friends like haha. I'm one of her eight closest. You're not Stephanie. It's like oh, I guess I'm not I guess I didn't get asked which they're going to find out either way, but I think it comes across as such a like a uh, uh bridesmaid thing but I think and I'm not actually like judging anyone sick motives behind this, but I think you can also be like a thing like look at me. I'm one of her best friends ha ha so what you are Aren't ya so thankfully dudes. Don't do that. And that has to be given to the Bridesmaids and it's always and it's like some kind of creative way of asking it but it's like here's a bottle of Rose like Jose be there on my special day something like oh, that's good. Really clever and cheesy like that and that's always how it goes. So that's yeah that things really that bad blood annoyed. But yeah, I probably could have thought of something better, but that that happened like an hour ago. I saw an Instagram and I was happy you're doing this too much. I've seen this way, too often. Yeah. All right. So what if one of the things we were talking about before we reported to you that I really have been looking forward to this conversation because I have a really good story for this but to go back to your dating life. You're dating expertise. Thank goodness. Obviously all of the success. You've had Indian baby. I'm curious. What is the worst first date you have ever had so, how'd it go pretty short here? Because I really haven't had that many bad for States, but there is one that sticks out summarize it and just a few words. She brought her brother, which was a little bit of a shock to me and her I think to I don't know. It was just such a weird thing. I feel like I was very clear that this was a date and Guess her brother wanted a free dinner. Also, I don't know. It was just very strange and we did not go on a second one because I was afraid which family member might show up to that one. So that was four years ago, and I'm better because of it, you know, so don't worry about me. I'm okay, but yeah, nothing too crazy, but it's definitely interesting. So I had one and that reminds me of of a second bad first date. So the first one is anybody who knows me knows that my name routine. Only gets butchered like it's unbelievable. How many people think my first name is clay and my first name, I think my my name is Clay Colborne or like laid I get this all the time and it is always bothered the heck out of me. And so anytime that happens. It's bad enough and that's why I like on Facebook. I have my middle name so that I hope that it kind of stuff put it up real shit. Yeah, but I've had that for like 12 years or however long I've had Facebook and That is not that is not helped. And so there's this girl, this is before this is the summer before I met Emily and I had met this girl through some mutual friends and she was a tennis player. We had played tennis a few times that summer and you know, I was kind of kind of into her and her friend was trying to help set us up and I was supposed to go on a double date with this girl and the girl who set us up and her boyfriend and so you're supposed to go to the drive-in movie theater. I was going to be a great time. I thought we were going to be Owing to dinner and then go to the movie and what happens is the day of the mutual friend and her boyfriend end up having some sort of conflict where they can't end up going out with us tonight. And so I'm wonderful about lamps on probably. Yeah, so I'm exactly so so I'm freaking out because I'm like, yeah, I'm really shy. I don't want to I was kind of hoping this first date would be kind of a double date thing be kind of low-key because I wasn't really sure that this other girl liked me at this point like we had kind of texted a few times like We play tennis and I didn't know like at all where she stood in terms of liking and that way it helps having the other people there. Yeah, and so this girl's brother was coming into town. And so what happened was they decide to have like a little bonfire party at their house and this girl was like, hey, you can just come over if you want to come over to the party and I'm like, oh boy. Okay, that's fine. So I go over there and I don't know a single person other than this girl and I don't even really know this girl that well, so I feel a little awkward. You know, I'm like, I don't know what to do. So I get there and I pull up, you know, I she's helping her brother like unload some stuff for the party out of there out of the trunk of their car and I will walk over to her and she's introducing me to her brother and she goes hey, this is clay and I was like, oh my case Not only but I just want to make sure that basically along the lines of like this is just a friend's thing. I don't want my brother his friends thinking that work together and I'm like, wow, that's really awkward that you felt the need to just say that out loud here. But okay. I how do I respond to that? Like, all right. Sure. That's cool. Whatever. So this point I'm like, I really don't want to go and then her friend was like no you really should go and just hang out with her like I'd be fun. So I'm going to this is why I felt awkward. I fully forgot about that part of it. So I'm driving to the house. I feel really awkward and I show up and then I get introduced as clay to her brother and I'm like that only only was I friend zoned as hard as you possibly could be but this girl doesn't even know my name. And yeah, do you like corrector and like make her look like an idiot in front of her brother or like what do you do there? I don't remember what I did. I normally always I think I think she corrected herself. If not, I definitely corrected her because I always correct people because it bothered me so much. She felt she felt awkward. She may have apologized. I don't know but at that point, I really just wanted to leave and so I texted a friend of mine at the time and this was like later on that night and I was like only clay and she was like what I'm like cause this girl do that is a friend of mine who knew that I was kind of crush on this girl and I was like, she called me clay and I was here I was like, I just want to leave and her and this girl was like you need to just stay there and keep drinking man, and I was like, I'm leaving right now getting out of here. So you'll send me and that girl did not work out. I was going to ask. Yes, you guys are not together anymore together. It was not a sad story. So that's that was one of the biggest friends I've ever been but then this other one this was in college. So I was involved in a campus ministry in college and you know, I met this girl who I thought was pretty cool. I asked her if she wanted to get lunch. And so we agreed to go to kind of like the campus cafe or Ever to get lunch that day. Yeah, you know we show up and I'm thinking first of all, it's not even a fancy place. It's just like a big cafeteria. It's like a there's like pizza over here salad over here a sandwich plate or whatever, you know kind of pick and choose and it's like all-you-can-eat. It's not really a fancy place. So we show up there. Well this girl kind of like you said whenever this girl showed up with her brother this girl brings one of her friends, and I'm amazed and safety net or something. Yeah, I guess like a safety net or whatever, I guess to make it very clear. That it was just going to be a friend's thing. And so my gosh dang. Okay, I guess I'll go through this and just kind of act like I'm not feeling awkward even though I'm feeling incredibly awkward. I'm like, how do I approach this conversation? Like I don't even really want to do this now like it's really awkward. So we have the lunch and then you go home a couple days pass and I think I'd message her something like even though I did not really have a good time. I said like hey had a great time we loved with would love to would love to do it again like something really It's great getting to know both of you. Yeah, like something like that. Well, she responds back to me and says something like just blunt just two straight in my face. Like hey Cole. Thank you for for the offer at this point. I really think it's better that we just stay as Brothers and Sisters in Christ. Like that was man is there was a Jesus bomb hold the Jesus card on me and I think I had to I think I tried to play it off like oh, no, I wasn't I wasn't And asking you on another date. I was just asking you to hang out again as friends. I was trying to get your friend's number. Yeah, trying to make some friends but I got I got I got a name I got mispronounced on my name and then I got the Cheese's car thrown at me when I asked I got the brother in Christ thrown at me whenever I asked for another another hang out sesh. So that was probably oh the OB I see I hate that. That's too bad. You'll be I see that that was the worst. I mean that was just like and then On top of that. I had to keep seeing her at the you know, the student Ministry things the rest of the year. What a great sister in Christ. Yeah, it was great. It was great to have that friendship. You know, we're just yeah, I don't I think she's dating a barely even buried now, so she found somebody who could be more than just a brother in Christ, but that was no I mean like that that really hit my self-esteem hard. I was like man, I don't really know how really know what to do after that. Like do I even tried a day for a while or I just take The L and like hang out with my dukes for a while. Yeah, maybe I just find a couple of hobbies and try to distract myself for a while. Yeah, I think it's such an interesting thing and not even just with Christians just with like dating in general. Like I think no one is talking about this. But here we go. Today's we're talking about a baby when people are like so yeah guys and girls to so concerned about like, I just don't know I just it would I don't want this to, you know, affect our friendship. I don't know if I want this to look I'm not exactly besties with Girl, I've been on dates with you for like why are we so protective of these friendships like someday down the road? We're all going to be married. I'm not exactly going to have a ton of girlfriends when I'm a married man. Like I just think we protect these way too much. It's such a scapegoat for relationships. Just tell me why you don't like me. This is my breath. Yeah. It's like if you ever watched our tank they come up with some of the lamest excuses to not invest in a product which is fine. Like it's their money. They don't want to invest in it, but it's hilarious whenever they'll say stuff like like, you know, I just I don't have a doll. Ugh, so I just don't know that I really can invest in this dog food company. So that's a really good point. Yeah, it's good. It's like well like I don't really have a good reason. I'm just going to make something up and try to let you down easy, but really like just not interested in you like they just don't want to say it. I love that. That's a great bit right there. I'm gonna go watch some episodes of Shark Tank and just pick one line out of it and then use that to break up with a girl someday. That's perfect. Yeah, and you gotta say it. Like Mark Cuban when he always ends it with so for those Reasons, I'm out. Yes, I love doing that. Yeah for yeah, just like hate so Bethany the last I mean as you know, the last few months have been awesome together, but one thing just like I don't know. I just don't have a dog. And for that reason I'm out. What do you mean you're out, you know, you know what it means. All right. I'm out. I'm out Bethenny. I don't have a dog. I can't do this. I don't have a dog. I can't understand you when I don't have a dog. No, I just said be too much too much to learn about. I just I don't know the grooming tricks. I don't know. I didn't know how to pet a dog. I just don't even know like I just I just can't do this Bethany. I'm sorry. There are two types of people in this world those who can like look themselves in the mirror knowing they picked up poop and had it in her hand that day and people who don't ever want to do that and I don't ever want to have someone something else's poop in my hand. All right, we're not gonna work out. It's not gonna happen. Yeah. So for those Reasons, I'm out. I'm out. My favorite or whatever they just don't you just talk about Shark Tank. Sometimes they'll come out there and they just know from the get-go that an idea is so dumb that before the person even really gets to the pitch. So like now not for me. Sorry. Yeah, like such a cold one like that old man who? Yeah, they're just treating it like the the TV Guide next. I've already seen this one is a rerun what else is on give me something else. Yeah speaking of TV Disney plus is out. I saw that they got 10 million subscribers on day one. So that's pretty huge. I also saw that officer internal website. They're almost to the level of the Ghost Hunters podcast. Maybe they'll be hit maybe a little bit. Yeah. I'm a little nervous. They're going to take over Taiwan and Kentucky. But yeah, it's pretty cool. I am kind of in a in a season of not consuming a ton of media. So it's like exciting for my architect perspective because I love Tech and I read up about a lot but from a consumer side. Things like I don't pay for Hulu or Netflix or anything right now. So I'm sure someday I will and I will review my options, you know, treat it like my own shark tank. But as of right now, I'm more like this is cool. I think years from now not even years for I think maybe one year from now. It's going to turn back in a cable. Again. We're different companies are going to bundle. Okay for $60 a month will give you ESPN HBO Go and Disney plus and it's like okay. This is just DirecTV again. I've got these 30 Channels to choose from all right. Sorry. It's a really long answer your question. I'll just say yeah, it's cool. What do you think about? Yeah, it's cool. My wife is begging me to get to for us to get it now because she found out that Lizzie McGuire is apparently going to be back on there along with a lot of the Disney Channel original movie so Emily so she's like $7.99 a month. That's that's like a latte. That's all you we can forego a latte and we can get Disney Plus for the month and I'm like, okay like it does include like there's a bundle you can get like Hulu and ESPN play. And Disney +4 like 1299. I'm like we're already paying for who live. I don't know if we need to pay for that bundle. Like I don't I will re-evaluate my options and I will let her know if I'm willing to invest in it but I like the idea of being able to go back and watch you know, like I think Boy Meets World maybe is on there and some of those old shows like that's kind of cool. I think I'm most concerned. It's just yeah, what's Emily putting in her lattes? $7.99 there's a quality of life and Kentucky must be going pretty well milk, and I don't decaf stuff. I don't even know if she's an oat milk girl. All right, she turned me on to oat milk. I think I'm mostly an almond milk person, but I have tried oat milk. It's okay. I do have dairy issues so I can speaking of Melinda annoying Millennial trans. I have some food allergy to Dairy so I can't always have regular milk. Otherwise, it's it hurts the old stomach little Rumba. Get a free Starbucks drink today. So I went there and I forgot about my birth my free birthday turning which is called let's go and that was about a month ago. But I walk, you know, I went to the drive-through and I had some money on my Starbucks card, which I was going to use but then I realized that I had enough stars for a free drink and I was like, hey, I never got my birthday drink. It's saying on here that I have a free drink like can I use this here? And so I got a vintage ring for freeze little little wind little wind of a day. Yeah, a little busy office in a cup for you today exactly what this costs about. This is like gosh I've been tea drink at Starbucks is like seven dollars. I don't know why I do this to myself. I don't know why I get these they're not even good and they made me feel like crap and I still like yeah sure here seven dollars, I'd rather. Yeah, I don't know why you do that to yourself. But you know more power to you man. I'd rather just give my seven dollars to Disney. Plus that would make me feel good make me feel like I'm living in the 90s again. So maybe I should read Should re-evaluate my bikes and Disney could use it to you know, I think as a company they're just they're struggling, you know, they've never really had much go for them. So they could use the money. Yeah, I think a lot of people just start they're not going to their Parks anymore. People don't seem to like their characters anymore. Nobody likes their movies. So yeah, I think if I give him my $7.99 a month, I think it'll really help that company out there. Just a hard-working gritty company that yeah. It's basically a donation you write that off probably right? I mean, they're pretty much a non-profit so pretty much. Yeah. Kim my donation. Yeah. All right. So one of my favorite things of your show, correct me if I'm wrong. So you are are you allergic to beef is this how you got the term poultry of the week There's this? Yeah. I got bit by a tick this summer and then it made me allergic to red meat so can't have any beef or pork anymore. It's annoying. Wow. Okay, I didn't know sudden realize that was the reason for it. That's yeah, that kind of sucks. Actually. Hey, it could be worse but it's also just like yeah, I just bake it is so good. And now I Have it. Well, it's gonna help your diet. I bet because I probably way too much red meat, but that's what people tell me who can still eat red meat. Everyone says that by going to be good for you. I know that you and Brad called poultry of the week and it's basically like your beef of the week things that annoy you I had her I have several things that have bothered me this week. But what are some things that have bothered you I guess. Yes, and they'll last few day is what are some what what is your poultry of the week? So far my poultry of the week besides people talking on speakerphone because you really lit a fire inside of me. I just never realized how much I don't like that. But so it's actually last week when Sherry and I were on tour and this is such a like first world like pretentious problem. Just no II realize the irony and saying this I'm still gonna go for it every day on tour. We got a per diem in cash to spend on food. Well, I want to spend this money and I'll just have it in my wallet just accumulating every day. So I'm spending you know paper money every day, which I'm not really used to doing and start accumulating change after changing after change. It's like a Barack Obama campaign in 2008. All right, I can't get enough of it. And I hate it. I hate how it feels I hate how it makes my hands smell afterwards. I hate heights. Yeah. Yeah next thing. I know my pants are down around my ankles because I got so much. And then you know, I'm trying to be efficient about it. Okay, I got all this change next time. I have to pay I'm going to try to whatever just I couldn't get it to go away and I just just take the change I want paper. I've bills are still fine love bills, but I'm just tired of change. That's my poultry. I'm just I was tired of touching it every hotel room. I just left it there and start over with a new day. I'm the same way and I actually I'm so glad he said that because I will do everything that I can to never have any cash on me. I forget where it was. I don't even want cash. No, I'd rather just have it in my bank account. Like I'd rather just have my car like I'd rather just no wow, like I don't even want I don't want any cash. Like I don't want anything about pocket because I'll lose it or if I buy something I had to have coins and I cannot stand coins. Like I'll Kill Ya borders if it's less than 1/4. I just put it in the tip jar like like just if you give me all times and it's like a dollars worth of diamonds. I'll put it on the tip jar. I'm not yeah, this means nothing to me. This is garbage like like 50 cents and dimes is nothing, but if I get Two quarters like yeah. Sure. I'll keep that but I mix my dad my dad made fun of us because I forget where we were at but there was something where I was trying to pay with a card and I and they needed cash for something at my dad. I think I vented about this on Facebook and my dad comments. It just cash is King and like like we always make fun for that now and I kill carry all kinds of cash on him and I hate it. I can't stand the coins. So I'm right with I'm right there with you on that cash is King. Thanks, Dad speaking of money my first full day of the week. So So Emily and I went to Brown County Indiana earlier this month and it was it's like a nice fall getaway area beautiful this time of year. Exactly. The foliage is great. You know, actually it wasn't this great this time. It was kind of already. We kind of missed the peak season, but we go to this restaurant we went there last year. This is our second year we go into this place and this is not just this restaurant, but it's any time that I go out to eat. Okay, and it took a while. While we waited like 30 or 40 minutes for a table, so we already had to wait for the table and I get that they're trying to get people through the liner or whatever. Well, we waited for our food like we ordered way too like 20 minutes for our food. Okay, the waiter brings our food over. We just start reading the next trip back to the table. She leaves the check there and says no rush and I'm like you just gave us our food like now, I feel Rush not now. I can't even see here. No rush. No rush. Like you just gave me my food five minutes ago. Here's your check, like what if I wanted to get into their? What if I wanted to order something else now? I feel like I can't because you've already given me much. Yeah, that's a really good point and it's desert isn't happening. I guess deserts are happening and it's like they're always like well if you want to add something we can always do that later. I'm like well now you just turn it off a receipt that's unnecessary. You just killed a tree. Thank you so that I don't know that just like no rush and it's like now now I feel rushed I can't help it. I feel Russia now. Oh big time Big Time Rush. Yeah, so that that really bothered me. We went back to the restaurant the next day on Sunday and had great service. Did not feel rushed. It was great. But that the first time I went there it was it was it was not great. I felt rachid. You should have gone back the next day. They find that waitress in the middle of her like busting around working her job and just stand right next to her and say Hey, I want to table no rush. Just call her around. Hey, no rush. Seriously, no rush whenever there's a table. Seriously, no rush now follow around for 10 minutes. When you go out to eat pay attention to see if there's ever do that because it's like, I know you waited 25 minutes for your food and I just gave it to you. But here's your check. No rush. No rush. Just paid us whenever you're ready. And as I well, I it's gonna it's gonna see here for another 20 minutes cause I'm going to eat first. I'm not going to give you my jacket on been eating. So the nerve and the nerve. Yeah, this is another okay. So I've got a few more of these because I just I get I get hurt sorry to say ho bothered and so we have a Rumba don't know if you have a Roomba anybody out there. Maybe they'd use a Roomba. Okay our Roomba and this is ironic because I'm complaining about about a piece of equipment that is obviously well-engineered. It's smart enough to know how to vacuum your house or whatever but ours like I don't know if it's just like off its marble or whatever but it like it goes off in the same spot for like an hour. Like it'll just zigzag across the room there seems to be no plan from it like where it has a rhythm. It's like let's go to this corner, then let's go all the way back around the room to this other Corner then we're going to go back over here and it's like it'll hit the same spot like five times and all randomly. Just stop. And I'm like, okay, I don't understand. So then I press the button to dock it and it didn't go back to the dock. And so I'm sitting here I'm like trying to work at the house and it's like this room is going off banking into stuff seems to have no mind of its own to what to do and it's like I don't have an idiot is do this. So if anybody out there like owns a Roomba knows how to work these things. Let me know because I have no idea and it just keeps zigzagging in the same spots doing the same thing over and over again. I don't understand it. So dude, that makes me nervous because I've never had a Rumba, but I'm about to move into a new place. Ace I was definitely thinking about a room but it seems so convenient but now you're saying a lot of big lava zag not a lot of pick up the trash so I don't know a lot of Zig Zag. Sometimes it's got a lack. I don't know. Yeah, you might as well just go ahead by a rag. Put the trash in a bag. I don't know something like that, you know, but that that bothers me because I'm trying to get ready. I'm trying to work at the house whatever and I have to just shut it off sometimes because it just keeps going so yeah speaking of things around the house. Okay, so we just moved into a new house like a month or so ago. It's kind of an older home, but we got a water heater in the basement and about a few weeks ago. Some plumbers came to fix that because we weren't getting any hot water in the in the shower which was kind of a problem of taking cold showers. So the founders came and fixed it a couple weeks later. I start noticing that every time I shower there's a big huge leak coming from the water heater and are based on thankfully. We have like Concrete in our there's nothing really in our basement to this going to get ruined but I'm like, why is this leaky? So we cauliflowers out and they come out here and we got some snow the other day and the plumbers came they walked in the house trampled around got there snowy boots everywhere on the Is that Emily worked? So boots so no Booth so then they they realize what the issue is they come out and I'm like scraping the cars off. You know, I'm trying to be a good husband a scraping Emily's car off of scraping my car off so they come outside to like hey, we know that we know the part that we need to get. We gotta go back and get it with back like five or ten minutes. I'm like, okay, that's fine. They come back and they walk in there. We walk into the house and said, hey guys, if you don't mind like just take your shoes off before you get income as like my wife just cleaning the house. Like kinda want to keep it clean like Bianca just cleaned it because the Rumba doesn't work ribbit. She just cleaned it. And so, you know, I was like it if you don't mind just you know, take your shoes off and one of the guys the first time did take his boots off the other guy did not so when I said that the guy who did not take the boots on the first time ends up just sitting in the truck. So the time this time that it took me to scrape off my car and Emily's car was like 20 minutes. That's about how long this guy who went into the house. To fix whatever the leak was and are in our water heater. And so he hands me the bill and I look at it and the part itself is like $20. The labor was $95. Hell this guy made $95 for 20 minutes of work and it says on there technician one then helper one that wrote down the helpers name. So I was like, I was like, yeah, I don't I don't think God really did anything. I don't say this, but I'm like this guy didn't do anything at all and he's making $95 just to sit here in the car for the time that it took me to scrape off these cars this guy sitting in the car. So this guy made $95 for basically doing nothing so that those three things those are my poultries of the week and dude that sucks. So it you had to pay it helped our boy made some money. Yes. I'm like, you know, I was a teacher for three years. And I'm like this guy's making ninety five dollars an hour for 20 minutes of work. I don't even know how much the guy that was helping made but he sat in the car for 20 minutes and basically made more money than I will ever make in an hour, which is stupid. But yeah, I'm gonna get an HVAC. That's awesome. Yeah. I mean that's why I was like, I need to change careers and get into some kind of a service thing because like I don't understand why this guys getting 95 To sit in his truck for exactly I can leave my shoes on my cute little snowy boots on I can do that. It's in the heat. All right, so I guess that's all I did poultry. Delete what else Emily is in here. She's charging my Mac because it's about to die. So shout out to Emily probably gotta talk to Siri it say Hey Siri charge my Mac. Yeah. I see recharge my back for me, please. I just said it's Eerie just came on and said hello. I'm listening. So I have a British Siri and she it's great. I you know, maybe I need to talk to my Serie more because she's got a great accent. She's always chipper and I just I never use my series quite like Emily does so hey shouts don't hey stand your ground stand your ground Cole. But would you like to give her a title maybe like something, you know that she's earned because she's doing this like I know something of the we I think Emily has got to be my babe of the week. He'll charge the his MacBook if you know what I'm saying? Oh, yeah. She's really puts the electricity into my into my MacBook. I can't even think of a good a good pun here easy. Yes. Yeah. Do not reject improperly. Hi-yah. Who is who's your baby the week this week Jake? Oh, wow. Let's see. Okay. I thought it won yesterday. I was at Chick-fil-A and this female employee came up to me and said hey, this is Janine. She is just are working here. I'm actually training her and I'm just taking around showing her how to do things and I figured she should get to know you since you're here a lot. So my baby the week is that Chick-fil-A employee. Who thought I was just as integral to her job training as working the cash register and that meeting Jake and his Booth was part of her training made me feel great did not do anything negatively for my self-esteem at all. And yeah just really boosted me with confidence. So girl at Chick-fil-A you are my baby the week. This must be a thing at Chick-fil-A because back in the spring I took I coached boys and girls High School tennis and we were at a tournament and Indianapolis and we took our team to Chick-fil-A after one of our matches and they were some younger guy that was working at the at the cash register and several of my girls players were talking about how cute they thought he was not and one of the one of the other parents who is with us. I'm like I went up there to order a coffee for the road because you're about to be back on the road and this mother walks up and I forget this guy's name, but she says hey coach I think some of the girls would like to know so-and-so Chop guy this guy just straight up with dead on confidence. He's like, okay. Yeah, here it is. It's like he's been asked so many times that he was like up this again. So he literally walks over to the girls and he's like, hey, did you guys really want my Snapchat or Instagram or whatever? It was? He's like, all right, here it is guys, like just like no shyness at all was just like yeah, this happens all the time like a basic set with that kind of cognitions gasps. Come on top of business cards for like his different like social handles like here we go again. So all the girls start adding them and on the bus ride home. They're like, oh my gosh. She goes on mission trips, like look at this picture with him and these kids. Wow, this is so awesome. I like this guy just straight up. I don't know if it was honorable or if it was cocky, but he just straight up walk over it was like, all right. So who wants my Instagram just like yeah see all girls want it. I love it working in. The register at Chick-fil-A is like the southerners tender, you know, it's like this is the best way to probably meet women just put my face in front of him. This guy was not even embarrassed. All he just was like yep happens all the time here. It is good for him man confidence. How many times a week? Do you think you go to Chick-fil-A on average usually probably too but this week is actually this is kind of embarrassing to ask me right now. I've went three days in a row this week that has never happened before I went Monday Tuesday and Wednesday. I'm not proud of it. I'm genuinely kind of embarrassed about it, but just some circumstances led to that and I'll do better next week. I think it's safe to say is it's true. Follow your favorite fast food or do you have another place that would replace Chick-fil-A for you? I mean, I love fast food but no one's top and Chick-fil-A. It's just so good The Taste the customer service the dr. Pepper. It's amazing and cheese. Oh the ice the lemonade I did take your guys's advice. I did try the spicy chicken sandwich. The last time that I went to Chick-fil-A. Oh nice. It was it was I get the I usually get the buffalo sauce. I'm not a big Chick-fil-A sauce guy truthfully. I had not Actually had Chick-fil-A sauce until last week for the first time because well, so we live here in Bowling Green Kentucky the wife and I are Western Kentucky University grads. And so I go to a lot of the sports games and I went to one of their best ball games last week. They just put a Chick-fil-A in the arena and so nice at halftime. I've walked around the entire Arena before I think I walked every single spot of this Arena until I finally found this Chick-fil-A and I guess in my mind it was going to be more like a full-service Chick-fil-A. We're really it was like a regular concession stand. It did have a Chick-fil-A neon sign a top of it, but it had basically just had like the bags that they carry those around and so they just was like Chick-fil-A that they have catered in there and they didn't even have they didn't have fries. I just had like chips and then the only sauce they had was Chick-fil-A sauce. And so I was like, okay, I'll try it. It was good. It was good. I'm just I'm typically a buffalo sauce guy when I go. Chick-fil-A, so I tried the spicy chicken with buffalo sauce and I got to say it's pretty good. I didn't notice a ton of difference but I did notice a little bit of kick and I think that made all the difference nice. Yeah, they they do it. Right man. The the concession stand one still kind of stink. They're like pre-made they just put them in little baggies. They're always soggy. Yeah my favorite. Yeah, and I don't like pickles either and like these can't be made with pickles on it and I'm like some like incredibly grossed out by pickles that like whenever I get a meal with pickles on it like Emily loves pickles. I will literally not I even touch them and I'm like you have to take this off my plate. So like the fact that I have to also pick the pickle off of the sandwich makes me not really want to get Chick-fil-A at the stadium again because I just can't have it if I can't Chick-fil-A the way that I want it. I don't want it all that's my take on that. Hey, that's fair to that. That's totally fair. All right. Well Jake thank you so much for joining me here. This has been great. If you have not checked out Jake's podcast. You guys have got to go download it now subscribe ghost runners. Up on Instagram. Where can they find you Jake? What is your what are your social media channels? I am at triplet Jake everywhere my last name and my first name 1 p 2 tees one. J18 no skating on Jake. Yeah to tease one Jake. That's me, baby. No, I appreciate it. Thanks so much for having me on the pot dude. I'm honored one of your first first few episodes ever. Yeah. I'm really honored. So, thank you man. Isn't he just hilarious? I mean, I'm just such a big fan of his podcast and the videos that he produces because they're just so funny and I'm so glad to have him on and I hope you guys enjoyed the show. Hope you enjoyed the conversation and I really do appreciate what he did have to say about creativity and taking a risk and just kind of knowing to trust your own gut I guess is a better way to put it to know when To take that risk and go for it in life. And he's just got such a great outlook on life and bring such humor to what he does. So thank you guys for tuning into this episode. We will be back next week with Western Kentucky football coach. Tyson Helton in my opinion Conference USA, Coach the year, but come back for that conversation. He's a great coach. He's a man of faith and you'll get to hear all about his coaching career and how his faith affects. What he does is a coach And as a parent and as a husband, so that's another great conversation. I'm excited to have him on. Hey, if you need me at all, I'm Cole Claiborne on pretty much every social media platform. Please reach out. Let me know what you think of the show. If you have any guests that you'd like to suggest that I have on please. Let me know. I'll do my best to try to get them on. But thank you guys for listening. If you haven't already. Please make sure you subscribe on whatever podcast platform you prefer to listen to it on. But please tell your friends share the word. Really appreciate everybody who's listening so far and giving me feedback. It really means a lot. So thank you guys and we'll see you next week.
Jake Triplett is one of the funniest guys on the Internet. If you’ve ever watched a Trey Kennedy video and laughed, then you’ve laughed at Jake’s work. Jake shoots, edits, writes, and sometimes stars in Trey’s hilarious videos, and he’s pretty funny himself. He’s had an eventful career as a videographer and has gotten to do a ton of really cool things, and a lot of these involved having faith and taking a risk. Last year, he and two of his friends flew out to Maine and bought a limo to drive it across all of the lower 48 states doing acts of kindness with the ultimate goal of getting on the Ellen DeGeneres show. He talks about that and how he got connected with Trey Kennedy and what that’s done for his career. He also talks about the struggles of being perpetually single, his obsession with Chick-fil-A, and if you’ve ever listened to his podcast Ghostrunners, we did a couple of popular bits from his show. He’s got a great outlook on life and brings a ton of humor to everything he does. Check out the Ellen, We Bought a Limo video: http://bit.ly/2rJATsS  Check out Jake's YouTube page: http://bit.ly/35XLwau  Letter Board Training, with Trey Kennedy and Jake Triplett: http://bit.ly/2P8tcVd   ---   This episode is sponsored by  · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. 