Ep 307: And Then DMX Happened

Summary

Podcast Summary: "This Is Important" — Ep. 307: And Then DMX Happened

Date: July 14, 2026
Hosts: Adam Devine, Anders Holm, Blake Anderson, Kyle Newacheck
Podcast Network: iHeartPodcasts

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Overview

In this lively episode, the "Workaholics" crew—Adam, Anders (Ders), Blake, and Kyle—dive into the nostalgia and chaos of summertime, exploring everything from growing up in the “dog days,” youthful misadventures, music culture, and the evolving landscape of childhood and adolescence. The conversation jumps from jellyfish in the bay to the complexities of athletic genetics, summer pranks, high school music movements, toxic masculinity, and that pivotal moment "when DMX happened." The episode is filled with laughs, roast-like banter, and introspective moments about fatherhood and growing older—all while plotting a possible trip to Catalina for drinks and more bonding.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. What Defines "Dog Days" of Summer?

• Summer Nostalgia: The group recounts how summer symbolized freedom, mischief, and lasting childhood memories. Blake, now living by the beach, revels in the seasonal jellyfish, surfing, and the vibrant social life.
• Summer Rituals: Adam reflects on family traditions like watching Wimbledon and baseball. Kyle describes summer as a time for movies, playing outside, and late-night TV.
• Emotional Impact: The hosts reflect on the way summer changes as you age—childhood summers are endless, but adulthood compresses the season into a fleeting moment.

Memorable Quote:
"Summer's the best memories of your entire childhood."
— Blake [11:47]

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2. Baywatch: Jellyfish, Urine, and Bro Bonding

• Non-Stinging Jellyfish: Blake describes swimming with safe jellyfish, sparking a comedic tangent as the group questions animal anatomy and the ethics of picking up sea life.
• Classic Bro Humor: The talk devolves—characteristically—into sexual jokes about jellyfish, with a running gag about whether anyone has used one as a “pocket pussy.”
• True Story: They relive a Miami trip where Blake was stung and Adam insisted Kyle pee on the sting, debating the science of direct versus “bottle poured” urine and the bro-camaraderie it created.

Timestamp: [07:23] - [08:44]

Notable Excerpt:
"And then the next night, you guys stung my jellyfish. Whoops. I'm your pr."
— Adam [08:13]

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3. Summer Activities & Changing American Childhoods

• Athletics vs. Academics: The guys debate youth sports burnout, early specialization, and recognize athletic predispositions in children. Adam observes traits in his kids, lamenting the balance between sports, fun, and pressure.
• Parental Aspirations: Blake wishes his son had more natural athleticism, which prompts jokes about intelligence versus athletic prowess and references to “Rudy.”
• Baseball & Movies: The slow pace of baseball makes it the best sport for movies (e.g., "The Sandlot," "Field of Dreams"). The crew shares their rekindled love for background baseball.

Timestamp: [15:46] - [17:58]

Notable Excerpt:
“I wish he was blessed with a physical athleticism that I didn’t have.”
— Blake [22:20]

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4. Moral Quandaries: Scholarships & "Soul Man"

• Means-testing for Scholarships: The group discusses the ethical gray areas of well-off kids taking college scholarships and reminisce about the infamous, problematic 1980s movie "Soul Man," dissecting its intent and offensiveness with surprising nuance.
• Pop Culture Litmus Test: Adam raises James Earl Jones’ participation as a 'barometer' for social acceptability, leading to discussions on canceled media and cultural memory.

Timestamp: [24:03] - [29:51]

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5. Road Trips, Marg Machines & Adult Summer Aspirations

• Planning a Trip: They plot a future work "retreat" to Catalina Island, hyping up local cocktails like buffalo milk and Wiki Whackers, while fantasizing about adult summer rituals—drinking, neighborly camaraderie, and the perils of home margarita machines.
• Suburban Dreaming: Kyle wants to be “the house” with a margarita machine; Blake comments on the dangers of too much adult fun and the inevitable weight gain and flies by summer's end.

Timestamp: [41:14] - [43:54]

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6. Teenage Rebellion: From Music Gangs to Parking Lot Parties

• Subcultural Identity: The hosts reminisce about high school musical tribes—goth kids, pop punk fans, stoners, and hip hop heads—highlighting how music defined social cliques and rebellion.
• Marilyn Manson Debate: The guys recall the 90s/early 2000s "dark era" of Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, and Jinko jeans.
• Substance Experiments: Party stories abound: basement drinking, weed revelations, hacky-sacking, and faux criminal elements (including a wild story about a fake keg scam and resultant parking lot brawl).

Timestamp: [53:38] - [74:28]

Memorable Quote:
“And then DMX happened.”
— Kyle [66:33]

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7. Culture Gaps and Geographies

• Regional Music: The group discusses the regional differences in radio play, with Omaha getting a mix of East Coast, West Coast, and Southern hip hop, especially the No Limit soldiers and the rise of DMX.
• Other Genres: Kyle admits to liking 90s “heroin rock” (Alice in Chains, STP) and admits a past love of Godsmack, to the collective amusement of the group.

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8. Reflections on Growing Up & the Changing “Dog Days”

• Adulthood & Parenthood: The group reflects on how summer—and fun—shift with adulthood and fatherhood, from running wild on bikes to organizing summer vacations and neighborhood BBQs.
• Lasting Friendship: Plans are hatched; more bro bonding is celebrated.

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9. Notable Quotes & Moments

• "I'm just a smart boy who isn't that athletic. And I'm sorry." — Blake [20:41]
• "[Marilyn Manson] was just a little too… not really hitting with me." — Kyle [62:44]
• "We're getting work done. You know what? This is a brainstorming session." — Blake [42:06]
• "And then DMX happened. ...Rest in peace." — Kyle/Adam [66:33–66:36]

Classic banter and callback references, especially regarding peeing on each other and summer mischief, punctuate the entire episode, particularly Blake’s jellyfish story and the recurring “dog days” motif.

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [03:03] Dog Days of Summer Defined
• [07:23] Jellyfish & Pee Remedies Story
• [15:05] Background Baseball Returns
• [22:20] Parental Hope & Athleticism
• [24:03] Scholarships and “Soul Man” Discussion
• [41:14] Planning the Catalina Work Trip
• [53:02] High School Fashion Tribes and Jinko Jeans
• [66:33] “And then DMX happened.”
• [72:07] Wild 90s Party Stories and "Crime" Foreshadowing

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Episode Vibe & Tone

Playful, self-deprecating, and irreverent. The hosts freely blend raunchy humor with genuine reflection, providing harmony between nostalgia and punchlines. Their unique blend of personal anecdote, social commentary, and callback gags ("pee on my jellyfish sting," "dog days," and "daddy's pink lemonade") keeps the conversation dynamic and inclusive—even for listeners who didn't live their adolescence in the era discussed.

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Conclusion

This episode is a wide-ranging ode to summer and the arc of growing up, set against a comic backdrop of 90s/2000s nostalgia, bro rituals, and the weird ways music, parties, and friendships marked the passage of time. Whether discussing failed baseball dreams, plotting margarita-fueled boating trips, or reviewing the impact of DMX and No Limit Soldiers, the crew manages to deliver a comedy-filled meditation on youth, change, and enduring friendship.

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For fans of outrageous comedy, 90s/2000s nostalgia, and mock-philosophical deep dives—this episode is a dog days treat.

Transcript

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[Blake]

Come on, just have one.

[Kyle]

Just have one.

[Blake]

Don't be a pussy, just be a bitch.

[Adam]

Tonight on tmz, the Workahawks guys have gone missing at sea.

[Kyle]

Bro, go touch grass.

[Adam]

Buckle up.

[Blake]

Oh, is it the dog days yet?

[Adam]

I think it just started, actually.

[Blake]

Is the dog. Are we in dog days yet?

[Kyle]

What is what the dog days are

[Adam]

like the final days.

[Blake]

August. I think dog days are like August.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Blake]

The end of the sound.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Blake]

I love this summer dude, this summer.

[Adam]

Look at this guy. Comes in rock hard.

[Blake]

I like, I'm. I'd love the summer. Well, I live at the beach, and so when. It's. When it gets summery, it gets summery down here. Everyone's on boats. Everyone's surfing, everyone's swimming. There's jellyfish in the bay, and it's not the stinging kind, and that's good. It's the jellyfish that you can swim with.

[Kyle]

Dude, which one? I thought they all sting. Are some of them nice?

[Blake]

Not these ones. Not these ones.

[Kyle]

You can, like, rub them on your body, and you would be perfectly fine. You can.

[Blake]

You can swim with them. You can, and you're perfectly fine.

[Adam]

Let me. What are we talking about? This is, like, a perk of the summer. Like, you just listed, like, three things about summer, and one of them is that there's jellyfish in the water, but there's.

[Kyle]

What are you doing to these jellyfish, man?

[Adam]

I know you don't eat chips, but, like, this is where we are now.

[Kyle]

What are you doing to these jellyfish?

[Blake]

I'm just.

[Kyle]

Okay, okay.

[Blake]

And I'm just saying I'm ex.

[Kyle]

Ow.

[Blake]

I'm excited about summer. Okay.

[Adam]

Okay.

[Kyle]

All right.

[Blake]

And. And then.

[Adam]

But so wait, in the winter, you can't swim because there's sea lions?

[Kyle]

Well, it's chilly.

[Blake]

You can swim. It's just cold. As in the. In the bay or in the ocean. But now the water's super warm, so there's great whites right out there. Right out there. Pizza. Pizza. There's also jellyfish.

[Kyle]

Yes.

[Blake]

In the bay, which normally they wouldn't be there because it's too. The water's too cold, but they're here now, and it's. They're stunningly beautiful.

[Adam]

Oh, so you can see the jellyfish?

[Blake]

Yeah, you see them right in the water?

[Kyle]

They illuminate. Or do they look like plastic bags?

[Blake]

No, they illuminate.

[Kyle]

They do. They have the lights.

[Adam]

Yeah. At night.

[Blake]

Well, where I saw them, a light was shining in the water and you could just see them. So I don't know.

[Kyle]

I'm talking, like, some of them, like, actually, like. Like, light up.

[Blake]

I'm not positive, but it was beautiful.

[Adam]

It was science striking.

[Kyle]

And I'm not. And I. I know this is so on brand, but, like, could you literally, like, hold the jellyfish in your hand?

[Blake]

Like, I think you would kill it.

[Kyle]

Yeah, it's really. But could you use it as a.

[Adam]

You can definitely just scoop a jellyfish out like this and then just drop it back in the water.

[Blake]

Yeah. And kill it. Yeah, you could do that and murder it.

[Kyle]

No, I'm saying what if you. Could you hold it all. Bunch it up in your hand and could you. Could you, like, use it as, like, a pocket pussy?

[Blake]

Okay.

[Adam]

Let it hang. Pun intended.

[Kyle]

I'm serious.

[Blake]

Jesus. What the.

[Kyle]

Blake, I'm serious. What would happen if you.

[Adam]

Blake. I'll answer this one. Adam. I got this.

[Blake]

You're serious, dude.

[Adam]

Blake. Yeah, you could. Blake, you're serious.

[Kyle]

Could you. What?

[Adam]

Yeah, I got this Monarch hat still streaming on Apple.

[Blake]

I can.

[Adam]

But fuck that. What do we got here?

[Blake]

You're serious.

[Adam]

Got a. This cruise is important that you think anyone.

[Kyle]

Do you think anyone in history.

[Adam]

You see this staple? You could probably fit your dick in there and.

[Kyle]

Fucking jellyfish.

[Adam]

Yes. Play history in 2026. Someone's done this.

[Blake]

The thing. Well, the fact that you just said it aloud means that across the world, the 8 billion people that live on this planet, most live by water.

[Kyle]

A lot of them.

[Adam]

I like that. BL thinks he has had this. This is the first time someone's thought of this. The ego on this guy.

[Kyle]

No, no, no, no.

[Blake]

Right now, on this planet, someone is a jellyfish right now.

[Adam]

Yeah. Dude, cut it out.

[Kyle]

Well, hopefully it's not one of the ones that sting you. I thought they all stung you.

[Blake]

Maybe they get off. Maybe they get off to that.

[Kyle]

That would be crippling pain.

[Adam]

Blake, you got stung by a sting. Not stingray. A jellyfish in Miami many years ago, or Kyle did.

[Kyle]

And who peed on who got stung? I don't know how severe it was. I don't know if it required Kyle peeing on me.

[Blake]

You just wanted Kyle to pee.

[Adam]

Ow. I got stung. Where?

[Kyle]

In my mouth.

[Blake]

I remember it being a big thing where, like, you were saying, someone has to pee on me. Someone has to pee on me.

[Adam]

This is three in the morning.

[Blake]

And then see you. And then you go, does anyone have to pee? And I'm like, well, I have to pee. I could, like, pee in a. A. Like, a empty bottle, and you could spray it on you. And you go, no, not you. And I go, what?

[Adam]

Oh, wow, him.

[Blake]

And you go, not you. And then you go, him. To Kyle. And Kyle's like, oh, yeah, okay, I think I got a pee. And then water trash. You make Kyle actually piss on you and. Not my plan, which I thought was a perfectly good plan of pissing in a cup or a plastic bottle and then putting it on you.

[Kyle]

No, everybody. Everybody knows that. It's.

[Adam]

You guys got into the shower together, right?

[Kyle]

We did yeah, that's right. I'm starting to remember. Yes.

[Adam]

And then the next night, you guys stung my jellyfish. Whoops. I'm your pr.

[Blake]

Yeah, I got stung by a jellyfish on my. Literally around my ass.

[Adam]

There's two things that get help.

[Kyle]

You were.

[Blake]

You got to spray it in. Hit the bullseye, Kyle. I. I was in the next room. I kept hearing, hit the bullseye.

[Kyle]

Have you ever been to a carnival where you play the game where you have to inflate the balloon with the squirt gun? Oh, yeah, that's what we were playing. But with my jellyfish thing on my

[Adam]

ass, I'll sing that jellyfish. That's a starfish.

[Podcast Host/Announcer]

Yeah.

[Blake]

Should we. Should we get. Should we get into that? Why you didn't want my piss?

[Kyle]

Well, you were saying you wanted to pee into, like a jar or something. But I think science depicts that it has.

[Blake]

You think science depicts that it has

[Kyle]

to come directly out of you for it to neutralize this thing. I don't think it can be like, yeah, why. Why is that Happens when the urine touches the atmosphere and it, like, it has to be. It has to be fresh. It has.

[Adam]

Like how blood is blue, but it turns red.

[Kyle]

Exactly. Thank you.

[Adam]

I do believe science depicts that as well.

[Blake]

I don't know if science depicts that science. Can we see if science depicts that at all?

[Kyle]

I. I think that's at least what I saw in. In some sort of a science show dream.

[Adam]

Some sort of a fantasy.

[Blake]

It's science. And the weird thing was, is just how immediately you were like, so. By the way, you didn't then. I did have to. I did have to piss and you didn't go, that's okay. Just piss on my leg. I'd prefer that.

[Kyle]

Right.

[Blake]

Because of the way science depicts it. You go, not you.

[Kyle]

Right.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

I. I wanted.

[Blake]

Not you, Kyle, who. I don't know. I feel like the last science has depicted. I feel like if science were to depict the person I would want to piss on me the least. It would be Kyle.

[Kyle]

Sure.

[Blake]

It'd be Kyle.

[Kyle]

Sure.

[Blake]

But that's who you wanted.

[Kyle]

Well, we have a lot of history, and I just felt like it was also. We were killing two birds with one stone. You know, it's like something that we hadn't accomplished as friends yet, and I was ready.

[Blake]

Accomplished.

[Kyle]

Yeah. Try to accomplish. Check things off.

[Adam]

Adam, you gotta remember how Blake and his friends interact. Yeah, it's different. It's a little different. We're close.

[Blake]

It's gayer.

[Adam]

It's.

[Kyle]

We're close.

[Blake]

Gay.

[Adam]

Gayer. It's a lot more dicks out and we're close. Closeness and giggling and great ass. Less stories about girls they know and have talked to.

[Kyle]

We don't talk to them. We.

[Adam]

It's like, hey, did you talk to that girl? Yeah, I did. Cool. They're more like, hey, do you feel that? And you go, what is that? And they go, that's my dick on your neck.

[Blake]

That's my dick on your leg.

[Adam]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blake]

No, that's. That's exactly. That is so spot on.

[Kyle]

I'll hold a jellyfish. It.

[Adam]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, man.

[Kyle]

It's called bro bonding.

[Blake]

High speed, bro.

[Kyle]

You ever heard of it? Sorry.

[Adam]

Oh, man, I've heard of it.

[Blake]

And to think, all this started by saying, I love summer.

[Kyle]

Dude.

[Blake]

I love summer.

[Kyle]

Well, when you talk about summer, I love summer.

[Adam]

Unbelievable. The jellyfish. You're back. Blake's feeling a dick on the back of his neck. Just.

[Kyle]

Come on.

[Blake]

I mean, summer's. The best memories of your entire childhood are from summertime.

[Kyle]

Yeah, of course.

[Blake]

And then the whole part of summer is great, because when summer starts and you just get off school and all of a sudden it's getting late, it's getting dark, a little bit later, and your parents, like. You stay up a little later, and then all of a sudden, it's July, and then it kicks off with a kaboom.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Blake]

And your parents let you play with explosives? At least my parents did, because they were cool. We played with so many explosives. I was the rocket.

[Adam]

Show us your legs.

[Blake]

Yeah, that was it. That wasn't from that.

[Adam]

No, it was a car accident, but

[Blake]

I was hit in the end of June.

[Kyle]

Sure.

[Blake]

I kicked off my summer that year.

[Adam]

Okay.

[Kyle]

The dog days.

[Blake]

And then you start. Then the dog days hit, and then it's too hot to even go outside. So then you watch some afternoon movies when we. That's fun.

[Kyle]

Or read a book.

[Adam]

We were a Wimbledon house. It was always on the kitchen TV. The little black and white kitchen TV.

[Kyle]

You walk in there, TVs are.

[Adam]

You want a little crystal light? You want some triskets? You go in there, Wimbledon's on.

[Kyle]

We didn't have a kit. We didn't have a kitchen tv.

[Blake]

I didn't even know what tennis was until I was 32 years old.

[Adam]

Until you met me.

[Kyle]

Yeah. Tennis is actually tight.

[Adam]

But you were like, this guy smells like tennis balls. Tennis is sick.

[Kyle]

I love.

[Blake]

Tennis is cool.

[Guest/Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

I. I found it. The worst way possible is through playing pickleball. And then I realized, like this. There's there's got to be something better than this. And it was tennis. It's tennis. Tennis is so crazy. But how come they don't get hurt all the time? How come their legs aren't exploding out of their. They are not.

[Blake]

Their knees probably get fucking twerked.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

Not at the rate of like, a basketball player or a football player. Like, yes, Tennis.

[Adam]

They do the thing. This is. But. And this is why. Jokic. Jokic joke. Joe Kitchen, the joke. Joker. They call everyone's Joker because they're like. I don't know if there's no back joke or.

[Kyle]

Wow.

[Adam]

Joker is like an anomaly because he's lasted for ever somehow. Whereas Rafa Nadal, he's had all sorts of leg problems and knee problems, which is why he's a savage on clay. Because it's less. You can slide and it's less cutting back and forth on your legs and your knees. But generally speaking, if you talk to old tennis dudes, their legs are all up.

[Kyle]

Yeah. But they're still playing into.

[Blake]

When you're thinking of ears. Summer, Sure. I don't know if you're thinking jellyfish.

[Kyle]

Tennis.

[Blake]

Tennis. Joker, to me, when you think of

[Kyle]

summer, what do you think?

[Blake]

Well, you grew up in more of a country club atmosphere, so there's. There's more golf, there's more tennis. Mine was mostly.

[Adam]

Dad was always coming back from golf when I woke up.

[Blake]

Yes. Mine was mostly baseball. It was baseball or pickup basketball.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Blake]

Or throwing rocks at abandoned buildings.

[Adam]

Harry Carrey, also on the TV a lot in my childhood.

[Blake]

Oh, yeah. Oh, we had wgn.

[Adam]

A lot of Cubs win superstation situations.

[Blake]

And I'm find I. I think I finally aged to the point that I like baseball again. Like, I really do.

[Kyle]

Oh, baseball rules. Baseball rules. I'm back.

[Blake]

I'm back on. I now I just will turn on baseball and just have it on. And Chloe's like, what are we doing?

[Kyle]

Oh, man.

[Blake]

And I'm like, it's just on.

[Kyle]

That was me.

[Blake]

She's like, do you care about this game?

[Adam]

I'm the same way with tennis.

[Blake]

And I'm like, I absolutely don't care about this game, but it's on. And every once in a while, you'll see something cool.

[Kyle]

Yeah, I used to love doing that shit. Of course, I lost my baseball team, so I don't really do that anymore.

[Blake]

But it.

[Kyle]

It was. It was a great joy in my life having baseball on in the background.

[Blake]

Dude, last summer I did a. I got. I told Chloe I was going to get deep into baseball. Didn't watch maybe more than one baseball game, but I watched every baseball movie I could think of.

[Kyle]

Hell yeah, those are the best one.

[Blake]

And it. It was the best. It was the best.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Blake]

Summer baseball.

[Kyle]

Baseball has the best movies. That's.

[Adam]

Why does baseball have the best sports movies? Go.

[Kyle]

Um, it's the, it's the pace of the game. You know, you, like, you don't have to like.

[Adam]

It's already the worst answer to me.

[Blake]

I think it's. It's about a childhood and there's so much freedom when it comes to baseball because you do have so much free time during the summer. So then it's not like football. They then are in school for the entire week. Baseball there, you know, if you're on like a competitive team, you're playing multiple games a week and you're playing weekday games, and then on the off time, you're just kicking at it at each other's house.

[Adam]

Oh, yeah, they're playing double back to backs in a day now, bro.

[Blake]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Adam]

These kids are getting. These parents are getting milked for it. You don't get me started on the YouTube videos I watch about the decline of children's sports in America. Oh, what, It's a nightmare. Well, it's a whole. It's just a cash.

[Blake]

Well, it's not a decline.

[Adam]

Yes, it is.

[Blake]

It's a. Well, it's a decline in the way that it's not as fun for the kids, but it's a incline with how much more sports they play.

[Kyle]

What?

[Adam]

I'm still gonna send it. Yes, but it's a decline in, like, return. Like more kids are getting injured because they're specializing earlier.

[Blake]

Yeah.

[Adam]

And doing the same thing over and over and over. Whereas you used to do like three months in one sport, three months of another sport, three months of another sport, and three months of another sport, or 4 and 4 and 4 and 4. Now you're doing year round, 12 or 11 months of one sport, and then all of a sudden you're like, my ankles are all fucked up because all I do is play tennis or all I do is play basketball or whatever. You didn't take that time off to be like, hey, actually I wrestle for two months or I swam in the summers or whatever it was. And so they're getting all these crazy injuries and burnout where kids are like, yeah, I fucking hate this.

[Kyle]

Yeah, that's.

[Blake]

When do you notice? At what age are you. Oh, my kid is athletic right away because. Is that right?

[Adam]

Yes. If your kid, if you, if Your kid is like a g. You know, right away, just by the way they. By the way they run. If you have a kid who runs around the house and, like, jumps off something and sticks the landing or jumps off something and continues to run in a way where it's, like, seamless. They're a student. If you have a kid who, like, climbs up the couch and then, like, jumps off and collapses.

[Kyle]

Finds jellyfish.

[Adam]

Finds jellyfish, begs their friends to pee on. No, but if, like, you can tell or I can tell, like, I just. The way they, like the way they move.

[Blake]

Yeah, the way they move yours is

[Kyle]

just at parks, like, that's an athlete.

[Adam]

Like, my oldest kid. My oldest kid, he runs, like, very, like, kind of like gazelle, like. And I could tell right away that he was never going to have, like, fast twitch. Speed.

[Kyle]

Yeah. Look at you.

[Adam]

My second kid, he ran with his legs out, like this kind of goofy. It's slowly, like, reeled in as he's gotten older. But I was like, well, okay, he's not necessarily built for land. And he plays water polo.

[Kyle]

There you go.

[Adam]

My third kid.

[Kyle]

Hello, my kids.

[Adam]

He connects with the ground in a way that makes me very excited.

[Kyle]

This is the way.

[Blake]

Well, I, I. Yeah, I'm like, he's got twitch.

[Adam]

He moves.

[Blake]

Eric Griffin's kid is, like, two weeks younger than Bo or it's something. They're really, really close in age, and he is already. First of all, he's like a head. He's like, weighs 20 pounds more than him, is a head taller, is, like, fully hitting the ball when he tosses it to him.

[Kyle]

Right.

[Blake]

He's like, shooting a basketball, is kicking a soccer ball.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Blake]

Bo doesn't do any of this.

[Kyle]

No.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Blake]

No.

[Adam]

Eric is 6, 3, 6 4. And yeah, his wife is tall. Right.

[Kyle]

What's Beau excelling at? Maybe he wants to read books.

[Blake]

He is. He's really smart kid.

[Kyle]

That's right.

[Adam]

There you go.

[Blake]

Yeah, but that sucks. That's not what you look for your boy.

[Adam]

I got one of those. Good luck having a conversation.

[Blake]

Yeah, you don't. You don't want that. Dude, I'm so disappointed.

[Adam]

They're like, what'd you think about the war? 1812? And you're like, oh, God, nerd, dude.

[Blake]

I'm like, don't you want to go throw rocks at an abandoned building, dude, come on.

[Kyle]

And they're like, dad, let's go light fireworks.

[Blake]

There's no abandoned buildings around here. And you're like, you're right, dad.

[Adam]

We're at the Acropolis. In Greece. Yeah.

[Kyle]

Come on, let's go. Like fireworks. Dude. This will be cool. Let's blow some up.

[Blake]

Yeah, you just keep showing him jackass

[Kyle]

over and over again and he's just. Just not click.

[Blake]

Yeah, he's.

[Kyle]

He's just.

[Blake]

He's just a. A smart. A smart boy who isn't that athletic. And, And I'm.

[Adam]

I'm sorry. Hey, Adam, I'm sorry.

[Podcast Host/Announcer]

Give it.

[Blake]

But he's not even two and a half, so I was like, when does it kick in? Is he like maybe 4?

[Kyle]

Some people find their. Their love for sports way later in life.

[Blake]

It's not about a love. I'm not talking about love.

[Kyle]

The love of the game is, I think, the most essential part. Like what Ders is saying, like the burnout.

[Blake]

That's not. But, but, but, but. Blake, that's not what I'm talking about. You can think anything you want. I'm talking about the freak athleticism that I wish my son had instead.

[Kyle]

Haven't you seen Rudy, dude, haven't you seen Rudy? You don't need athleticism. You need love.

[Blake]

Have I not seen.

[Kyle]

You need love for the.

[Adam]

I think the point of Rudy was that he was an athletic and that he was just a hard worker.

[Kyle]

Yes, exactly. You don't need the freak athleticism.

[Adam]

You need and make the team. He didn't really make the team.

[Blake]

No, he did.

[Kyle]

He.

[Blake]

He did need it.

[Kyle]

He did it.

[Blake]

He.

[Kyle]

Did he score? Doesn't he score the fucking touchdown?

[Blake]

No, he doesn't.

[Adam]

I think the movie does, but I don't think in real life he.

[Blake]

No, in the movie, he doesn'. He does not score touchdowns.

[Kyle]

What do you mean? They hoist him on the shoulders.

[Adam]

I think that they put him in the game.

[Blake]

He gets a sec. They put him in the game because everyone chanted his name. Okay, he gets a sack.

[Kyle]

That's huge.

[Blake]

What the are you talking about? Do I not know Rudy? I'm not ready to crawl through this screen. Do I not know you're the one

[Kyle]

who's claiming the love of the game is unimportant? It's obviously the most important thing.

[Blake]

No, I'm not saying it's not important. I wish my son had more God gifted talent. When it comes to physical athleticism.

[Adam]

Yeah, that shit's important.

[Blake]

I wish. I wish he was blessed with a physical athleticism that I didn't have.

[Kyle]

Sure.

[Blake]

That my wife didn't have. But I was thinking maybe somewhere along the line a lineage, he could have it.

[Adam]

I think there's a good coordinated hand eye, though.

[Blake]

No. Also, yeah, I was good at baseball as a kid, but I. But I also wasn't like the best. You know what I mean?

[Adam]

I was like, I literally tell my kids, I'm like, just pick your sport and hang in there. You're gonna be 6 4, and it's gonna come in handy. And everyone who's better than you at sports or gives a more now, they're gonna quit in sophomore year because they're 5 7.

[Kyle]

Yep, gotcha.

[Adam]

And they don't want it. And if you want it and you

[Kyle]

like it, still work hard genetically, I have set you up well.

[Blake]

That's right.

[Kyle]

Maybe both.

[Blake]

Must be nice. Must be nice.

[Adam]

Not even that ath. Athletic, but I was like, I gotta get into college somehow. And I just focused up.

[Kyle]

That's kind of.

[Blake]

What are your kids? I. I wondered that too because, you know, I saw this thing for like college scholarships and I was like, like, are you going to just pay for your kids college?

[Adam]

What do you mean?

[Blake]

It's almost like if they. I guess for athletics, that's one thing, because they just want you to come do athletics.

[Kyle]

Right.

[Blake]

But to get a college scholarship in another way where there you might be taking some. Something away from someone who doesn't have the means to afford it. I'm like, is that. Is it. What is the. That's a moral quandary a little bit.

[Adam]

Oh, sure. I know what you're saying. So this is. This is made famous in the movie Soul man, right?

[Blake]

Is it?

[Adam]

Who cares?

[Kyle]

That's a movie that you've never seen.

[Adam]

Soul Man.

[Kyle]

I don't think you can watch it anymore. It's notoriously the most offensive movie of all time.

[Adam]

Then why is James Earl Jones in it? Well, this is my. Hey, this is where I stand. James Earl Jones is in it.

[Kyle]

He's not the moral compass to me.

[Blake]

He's James Earl Jones.

[Adam]

James Earl Jones. James Earl Jones.

[Kyle]

From Conan. Yeah, from Conan.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

With the cool wig and the bangs.

[Adam]

Baseball. Yeah. From Field of Dreams. He's my barometer for what's racist and what's not.

[Kyle]

I. Well, he.

[Adam]

If he's in that movie and he read the script and he was like, I think it's hilarious. I'm Darth Vader. Then I go, yeah.

[Kyle]

For people who don't know, Soul man was a movie that was played on Comedy Central all the time.

[Adam]

Constantly.

[Kyle]

All the time. It's a movie where the main character is doing blackface the entire movie.

[Blake]

And what was the name? What was his name?

[Adam]

He's not doing blackface. He's wearing black makeup as opposed to Blake's favorite thing, traditional blackface.

[Kyle]

Right. He's not.

[Adam]

But in the movie, he's taking tanning pills. So, yes, the actor had to paint his face darker.

[Kyle]

But he's also acting like he's African American. It's crazy.

[Adam]

He's acting like he's African American at first when he thinks he has to. And he's, like, pretending. This is where I think James Earl Jones. Because it's a complex. It's a complex compliment. Complicated movie.

[Blake]

And that's why I was on Comedy Central at 4:00am yeah, yeah.

[Kyle]

Playing over and over again.

[Adam]

And I think that you can. You can definitely write it off immediately. You could definitely write it off immediately based on all the things you're saying.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Adam]

I do think that if you do watch it and you see how they hand. How they did what they did. Sure.

[Kyle]

I don't think it was meant to be an offensive movie. It's definitely a movie to make you think. I think, like, it has a point of view. It's trying to say something.

[Adam]

Radon Chong. These are two people.

[Blake]

Okay.

[Kyle]

The actor never worked again after.

[Blake]

Okay, so here's the. Here's the. The elevator pitch. To achieve his dream of attending Harvard, a pampered teen poses as a young black man to receive a full scholarship.

[Kyle]

Yes.

[Blake]

Okay, so he's stealing a scholarship from a young black man.

[Adam]

But no, here's what. Here's what they do in the movie. They go, the apologist, dude. They used to play this constantly on Common Sense.

[Kyle]

Unreal. How many times they would play this movie.

[Adam]

So they go. They go with these scholarships, like, if no one claims them, they just roll into the next year and someone else gets it. And he's like, this one hasn't been claimed. So he claims it. Then he falls in love with this black woman in the movie, and she's like, are you the one who got the so and so scholarship? And he's like, well, what are you talking about? And she goes, yeah. Like, if no one from LA claims it, it goes up to Oakland, and that's where I'm from. But then you got it. And I'm happy you got it because you're such a great guy. And he's like, and he is, what? And then it's snowing. Yeah. And she goes, you're turning. She goes, you're turning white. And he's like, what? And she's like, because of all the snow on you, I know this movie so much, dude. Dog Days of Summer.

[Blake]

Yeah, that's a movie during the dog

[Adam]

day, just sitting on the ottoman like this, watching tv, booty in the air,

[Kyle]

eating chips, watching Soul man over and over and over again. Bro, go touch grass. I did.

[Adam]

I was touching water. Couldn't really make things work on grass.

[Kyle]

I mean, I. I. Maybe I need to revisit the movie. That was one of those movies where it was on all the time, but I just. Yeah, I never really sat down with.

[Adam]

Yeah, see, Thomas Howell did not work after that.

[Blake]

Yeah, Yeah, I did.

[Kyle]

I don't think it was done maliciously.

[Adam]

Correct.

[Kyle]

Hence.

[Adam]

But there are way worse movies that are, like, reprehensible and did not even know it. And this one was at least conscious and trying to do something, but obviously, like, you know.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Blake]

And then they, you know, fumbled the bag. They fumbled it. I. Yeah. I don't know if I ever watched it. Just didn't seem like a movie I would even care to watch. So I did.

[Adam]

It's so funny. He goes to dinner at this white family's house, and he's, like, dating this white girl, and then they go into the mind of the dad and his racist thoughts, and he. He turns into, like, a pimp who's, like, yelling at his white daughter. It's crazy, dude. Julie. Louis Dreyfus is in it.

[Blake]

Dang heavy hitters.

[Kyle]

Oh, how come she didn't catch any?

[Adam]

Get her. I stand with Julie. I stand with James Earl, Ray dawn, and Julia.

[Kyle]

Louis, these are your barometers. Who's. Who's. You keep saying Ray Dong.

[Adam]

You don't know who Ray Dawn Chong is?

[Kyle]

Said no one ever.

[Adam]

From Commando. It's Tommy Chong's daughter, first off.

[Kyle]

Oh, it's a girl.

[Blake]

Is that real?

[Kyle]

Yes, it's a girl.

[Blake]

Oh, I did not know that.

[Kyle]

Ray Dong Chong.

[Adam]

She's the woman from Commando.

[Blake]

Oh, yeah. She was a. She was a babe. She was a babe.

[Kyle]

He named his daughter Ray Dong Chong.

[Blake]

That's Tommy Chong's daughter.

[Kyle]

That's incredible.

[Adam]

Wait, say that five times fast.

[Kyle]

That's a really good.

[Blake]

Yeah, because she was in Commandos. She was in all kinds of.

[Adam]

Yeah, I remember her when I worked at Bones. She came in for an audition, and I lost my mind. I was like, I'm not supposed to say anything, but Commando is awesome, dude.

[Blake]

Thanks.

[Adam]

She was. And it had been 30 years, and she was like, thank you.

[Blake]

Yeah, thank you. That's the thing I did 30 years ago. Leave me alone, dude. Yeah, Dog days, you know, you get to watch cool movies like that.

[Adam]

And then that was a big dog day summer movie.

[Blake]

And then it's just the looming. You're going back to school. But then that also kind of rocks too, because by that point, at the end of the summer, you've. You did it. You have a nice tan, you maybe took a little vacation.

[Kyle]

You.

[Blake]

You play, you know, you. You were out there, you were in the streets, you got a little dirty,

[Kyle]

you were kicking the cane.

[Blake]

And then now you're like, what? Hey, what them? At least Anders and I were like, what them girls? Do you know what's. What's up with the girls this next year that we haven't seen?

[Kyle]

That was.

[Adam]

We had a beach. We had a beach. So you're just at the beach every fucking day, and you're like, where the girls at? Which beach are they at?

[Blake]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

And I'm like, where the jellyfish at, brother?

[Adam]

And then your buddy's like, we should kiss.

[Kyle]

Do you love it?

[Adam]

What if we kiss? What if.

[Blake]

What if you pissed on my mouth? I mean, we're. We're not getting.

[Kyle]

Not yet. We are more of a.

[Adam]

We just can't find women. What if we can.

[Kyle]

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[Blake]

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[Adam]

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[Adam]

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[Blake]

Let's talk about a condition many people haven't heard of, and it turns out it's more common than you'd think. Peyronie's disease, or PD for short. PD can happen when scar tissue builds up under the skin of the penis.

[Adam]

This can cause a curve with a bump during an erection and for some men, lead to pain during intimacy. And may impact mental health. It may also lead to anger and frustration, depression, lowered self esteem, and even withdrawal from sexual activity and physical intimacy. Because of this, some men could feel embarrassed or reluctant to talk about pd.

[Kyle]

The actual cause of PD isn't always known. In some cases, it may be linked to a minor injury or repeated injuries during sex or other physical activity. The good news is PD is treatable. If you notice a curve with a bump, a trusted urology specialist can help diagnose it and walk you through your options, including non surgical treatment. To learn more about Peyronie's disease, visit talkaboutpd.com hey guys. You know I love to use Instacart whenever I need last minute groceries. From chicken tenders to ice cream to protein powder, Instacart solves all my problems with their deliveries straight to my door. Plus, now that it's the peak season for fresh produce, I like to have some juicy strawberries and tomatoes picked up as well. Thanks to Instacart, you can get all the freshest seasonal picks.

[Blake]

That's right, Blake. Your shopper can help select the best quality items so you're getting peak season flavor without having to hunt through the produce section yourself. Plus, if you're like me, you're always looking to pack some snacks and drinks for a day on the beach.

[Adam]

And thanks to Instacart, you can get everything delivered before you head out, including pre cut fruit, cold drinks, sandwich ingredients, and whatever else makes your day easier. One less errand means you get to your destination sooner and stay longer. Instacart brings convenience, quality and ease right to your door so you can focus on what matters most. Download the Instacart app now and get groceries just how you like. And you know what, Adam? To really get into the dog days of summer.

[Kyle]

Okay, yeah, I'm starting to understand what they are now.

[Adam]

My looking back now, the evolution of summer based on age is the because when you're six or seven, you're kind of just getting like carted around. You're going to summer camp during the day, you're staying up late at night, you're watching like again, cable all day long.

[Blake]

Yeah.

[Adam]

Eureka's Castle.

[Blake]

Maybe. Maybe a movie you shouldn't be watching.

[Podcast Host/Announcer]

Right?

[Kyle]

Okay.

[Adam]

Usa up all night.

[Kyle]

My favorite part of summer, the dog dog days was I would stay up till like one in the morning every night. So I would actually watch like Conan o', Brien, which was sick.

[Blake]

Well, that was just bad parenting, dude.

[Adam]

So now you're in high school.

[Guest/Advertiser]

You.

[Adam]

You went to high school? You're fast forwarding.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Blake]

You were six years old, staying until

[Kyle]

1:00am yeah, and I'm watching Doctor who.

[Blake]

That's crazy, dude.

[Kyle]

I don't remember six years old. What the. I was doing. I didn't go.

[Adam]

I do. I was on my bike outside constantly. I was playing football, eating like lightning bugs and just putting them on my face.

[Blake]

Put them on your teeth? Yeah.

[Kyle]

We didn't have those. That. That is some hillbilly ass. There was no lightning bugs.

[Blake]

Okay, well, like, that sucks for you. That's a bad childhood. It's not.

[Kyle]

It's just a bug.

[Adam]

Was it humid. Is it humid in. In Omaha in the summer, Adam? Yep, very humid in the bay in the summer. It's not, right?

[Kyle]

No, not at all.

[Adam]

The humidity was like a whole. Just sense memory that I don't.

[Kyle]

With humidity.

[Adam]

I don't either, but I. It takes me back when I feel it.

[Kyle]

I do very poorly in.

[Adam]

It takes me back.

[Kyle]

I'll take you. You want to feel something that's going to take you back.

[Adam]

I'll take you back.

[Blake]

Yeah. Something is in the air. Even. Even. You know, I live. I live down here at the. At the beach now. And you see it like a little hop, skip, and a jump in, like, people's steps. Even the. The adults, you know, they're like, oh, it's summertime. You know, I'm gonna start being an alcoholic as soon as the sun starts.

[Kyle]

Margaritas start pouring, baby, it's five o' clock somewhere, brother.

[Blake]

And not even the sun. It's like it's five o' clock somewhere. And they start parents walking the neighborhood

[Adam]

with a huge mug of alcohol.

[Blake]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam]

Is all I ever wanted to achieve.

[Blake]

And I bet you have.

[Adam]

I do it. We got some new families on the block. It's a beautiful thing, but I can't do it. As much as I wish. I wish I could do it more. But it was just kind of the whole thing. You'd go house to house. You'd top off, get a little more ice, maybe go on to the next one, see what people are up to.

[Kyle]

That's cool.

[Blake]

That's a nice life.

[Kyle]

That's a good community right there.

[Adam]

Yeah. Yeah. And then it was always jokes about like, oh, you come and empty my liquor cabinet.

[Kyle]

Oh, you know.

[Adam]

You know, I need to get.

[Kyle]

I need to get like, a margarita machine. That is on my list.

[Adam]

Sure.

[Kyle]

I want to get some. I want to be the house Blake.

[Blake]

You. You have a dive bar 60ft from your house. How close is that bar from. From you?

[Kyle]

It's that does not make a good. That. A, they don't make a good margarita, and B, shots fire. It's too damn poor. I want it right here. I want it right here.

[Adam]

Now, is this one that, like, it's just constantly churning like a slurpee machine, like so you could just.

[Podcast Host/Announcer]

I would.

[Kyle]

Oh, wouldn't that be just peak existence to always have a.

[Blake]

Why can'. Have that you have in your little man cave that you have out there? Why isn't there?

[Kyle]

I've been YouTubing products, and I haven't found the one that I have settled on. I want to find the ultimate margarita machine.

[Adam]

If you're listening. Hang on.

[Blake]

Why don't you buy a industrial machine? It'll probably cost you several, maybe $2,000, but I bet you could do it.

[Adam]

You'll make that back in police reports.

[Kyle]

It's. It looks like the cleanup is a little bit of a chore. I will say that.

[Adam]

Here's what I was just gonna say, because I know you gotta, like, keep it fresh, right?

[Kyle]

You got it.

[Adam]

I don't know how often you have someone come to clean your house. Extra 50. Extra $50 a week or whatever a visit to have them clean it and repour and just have it refreshed.

[Blake]

Oh, here's a. Here's a thought. Here's a thought. Because. Because you. You have to keep it fresh. Like Ders just said.

[Adam]

Gotta be fresh.

[Blake]

Can you not have. Alcoh it so you can give it to the kids? You can have, you know, the wife,

[Adam]

she doesn't want habit forming very young.

[Blake]

And then you. And then you have daddy's tequila stash, and you do a little mix.

[Kyle]

I. I bet there. I bet that that's a possibility. What would be really cool is if there were two. Two machines spinning at once.

[Adam]

Oh, okay. All right. His and hers. All right.

[Kyle]

One for daddy. One for mommy.

[Adam]

That's. That's daddy's pink lemonade. Okay. I don't know about you guys. I like a slice. Dirty soda.

[Kyle]

Oh, dirty soda's trending right now.

[Blake]

That's one of those things that. That. It sounds like a thing that would be. And it probably would be so fun. But then by the end of the

[Kyle]

summer, once the dog days are over,

[Blake]

you're 15 pounds heavier, and there's flies everywhere, everywhere getting radical, and you're like. It's just sluggish. And now you, like, you're getting blood work done from your doctor, and they're like, Jesus Christ, you're all over the place.

[Adam]

You've been Eating chips.

[Blake]

You have diabetes.

[Kyle]

I.

[Blake]

It seems like it wouldn't be as great in practice.

[Kyle]

It's a lot of power. You can't. You can't. You can't abuse the power. What you really need is, like, you got to be the guy on 4th of July, on Halloween that the neighbors know. Oh, damn. He's breaking out the margarita machine.

[Adam]

That is true. That is.

[Kyle]

And he makes a hell of a concoction.

[Adam]

Hey, have you gone over to the jellyfish house for a margarita yet? Literally, I don't like talking to him, but I do like his margaritas is once a year. I'll tolerate.

[Blake]

I was. I was saying. I think I just talked with Blake, and you were out of towners. You were traveling the world with your

[Adam]

family, and you guys talked to each other without me.

[Blake]

Yeah, we talked about you. We talked about you. I was saying, me, you, Blake, we need to. The three of us, and it's a work trip. We're talking work good. We're getting work done. Okay?

[Adam]

Like plastic surgery.

[Blake]

I will have a Botox doctor on the boat with glp. One, twos, and threes.

[Kyle]

Yes.

[Blake]

No, we. We get on my boat. We take it over to Catalina.

[Adam]

Yes.

[Blake]

We try out some margaritas there. Maybe we spend the night. Maybe we come back later. That I'd prefer not to because I want to be drunk.

[Adam]

Tonight on tmz, the worker hawks guys have gone missing at sea.

[Blake]

That's why I don't want to come back. I would love to. And by the way, we can all crash in the boat.

[Podcast Host/Announcer]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

Yeah. That would be so fun.

[Blake]

We could all crash.

[Adam]

Do you have a cool little fur fireplace I can vomit in? Please?

[Kyle]

Okay. Let's get dirt back to the old.

[Adam]

Yeah, I would love to go to Catalina.

[Blake]

Let's. Let's do. Let's do it. Let's do it sometime in August. Yeah, let's do it. It.

[Kyle]

Okay.

[Adam]

And it's a work trip.

[Kyle]

We'll. We'll pod. Live.

[Adam]

We'll get work done.

[Blake]

We're. We're getting work done. You know what? This is a brainstorming session.

[Adam]

We come back, like, we just. All.

[Blake]

All lips.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Blake]

Durs has tattooed eyebrows. You know how women get those, like, tattooed on?

[Kyle]

Hey, yeah, that would be awesome.

[Adam]

I don't know why I wouldn't.

[Kyle]

Oh, that would be so awesome.

[Blake]

That would be sick.

[Adam]

I got. I look at myself, and I go, what? What? Where's this going? Where does this happen?

[Kyle]

When you were over in the European countries, did they lack eyebrows as well? Did you know?

[Adam]

But look At Erling, Holland. That dude is.

[Blake]

I don't know what. Who that is.

[Adam]

You don't know this Norwegian soccer player. By the way, congratulations to them. They just won the entire World Cup. Very crazy.

[Kyle]

He's an absolute beast. He's, like, humongous.

[Adam]

He's a big dude. He's like six four and jacked and

[Kyle]

fast, and he just looks like the most Norwegian thing you'd ever seen.

[Adam]

He looks like watching Gronk play football.

[Kyle]

Yeah. Pure Viking blood.

[Blake]

That's fun.

[Adam]

But it's soccer, so it's a little smaller, but it's also the size.

[Kyle]

He's definitely the story of the World cup. Like, as far as, like, newcomers. Like, that dude is cool. Yeah, he is cool, man.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Blake]

Okay.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Blake]

And now I know I've gotten a

[Adam]

lot of people sliding in. The DM's sending me the RO.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Blake]

So here's what we're going to be drinking.

[Adam]

Yes, Here we go.

[Blake]

Here's what we're going to be drinking.

[Adam]

Line them up.

[Blake]

In Catalina.

[Adam]

I'm drunk now.

[Blake]

Well, we will be drinking buffalo milk.

[Kyle]

Oh, love that. I've had that. Delicious.

[Adam]

Tell me more.

[Blake]

Which is a delicious concoction. But then also, we're going to go to Luau Larry's and drink some Wiki Whackers. I just want to party, so just. Just know that we will be having some.

[Kyle]

I'm already. I don't. I have no clue what it is. I'm already 3D.

[Adam]

I'm in. I want a fun glass. That's. And then I'm good.

[Blake]

We're doing it.

[Kyle]

Wiki Whackers, baby.

[Blake]

We want a Wiki Whacker. Because Blake winced one time during COVID We went the once.

[Kyle]

It was a blast.

[Blake]

Fully mad, but we didn't go.

[Adam]

But you peed in your mouth butt.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Adam]

What is your mouth butt?

[Kyle]

You know what my mouth butt is. Everything goes into my mouth.

[Blake]

But so basically, that's. That's just my long winded speech on how much I love summer. And to end it with the boys in Catalina.

[Kyle]

I mean, that's fine.

[Blake]

Let's.

[Adam]

I. I want to continue this trajectory of the chronology of how you age with summer. Because it starts off summer. Remember when you're, like, really young, summer goes on forever.

[Kyle]

It takes too long, and then as

[Adam]

you get older, it shortens and shortens. And then when you're 45, you're like, there's no such thing as summer. It's just. It's over. Yeah, but like, 12, you got a little independence. You're riding your bike all over town. Oh, you're hitting up your boys. You're causing mischief. You go to sleepaway camp.

[Kyle]

You can start to go to, like, you're making out. You get. What the.

[Adam]

With not your friends.

[Kyle]

No.

[Blake]

Blake. Blake.

[Kyle]

What?

[Blake]

Draw. Blake. Be honest. Did you ever draw little eyes?

[Kyle]

Absolutely not.

[Blake]

Eyes in a lip on your hand right here.

[Kyle]

And do what to it? And kiss it. And I'd never practice kissing.

[Adam]

Bro, you're sagging your pants way too much.

[Kyle]

Definitely sagging.

[Adam]

Your braided belt is long af.

[Kyle]

You're making bike rides too. Carl's Jr and you're ordering and you're getting your own lunch, and then you're hitting 711 on the way home.

[Adam]

You're kicking it at a white hen, which is that 711 chain that doesn't exist in Chicago anymore.

[Kyle]

What White.

[Adam]

White hen is what we had.

[Kyle]

You need to get the T shirt. Yeah.

[Blake]

We had come and goes, and I still. I believe they still exist in your world. I believe I was on my way to a come and go when I was hit by the cement truck. Oh, boy.

[Kyle]

I'm gonna come.

[Blake]

I came and went.

[Adam]

Almost came and went. Yeah, I think we've said that. Hey, is your shirt and your hat matching? Like, is that the same thing or just coincidentally? Wavy fonts.

[Blake]

Oh, wavy fonts. This says number one mom.

[Kyle]

Okay, that's funny. Representing.

[Blake]

That's like. Someone gave Chloe this hat, took it off when she became a mom, and she was like, I'm never gonna wear this hat, and I'm gonna get rid of it. And it was in the, like, go. It was in, like, the goodwill pile or whatever.

[Adam]

And what a cool, nice thing to highlight on an international podcast.

[Blake]

Yeah, well, it just doesn't. She doesn't really wear hat, so she was like, I'm not gonna.

[Adam]

Of course. It was stupid. It was idiotic to give it to her. Yeah.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Blake]

Well, it was like a PR package thing.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Blake]

And. And I was like, well, I will absolutely wear a number one mom hat.

[Kyle]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Adam]

It's a conversation starter. It's trans friendly.

[Blake]

Don't assume. Don't assume what I'm working with.

[Adam]

It makes people go, oh, interesting.

[Kyle]

I would say you're a hot mom.

[Blake]

Thank you. I would not be a hot mom.

[Adam]

I guess I didn't know. Madame Divine.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Adam]

Have we said that?

[Kyle]

That's gotta be Madam Divine.

[Adam]

Madam Divine. Have we said this?

[Kyle]

Yes.

[Adam]

Points.

[Kyle]

Pretty good.

[Adam]

Pretty good, pretty good, Pretty good. That's almost as good as a slice. Dirty soda.

[Kyle]

Okay. Are you guys down for dirty sodas. That this is a trend now. What are they? You just.

[Adam]

I didn't know that. Really?

[Kyle]

Oh, yeah. They sell Mountain Dew Dirty sodas. Now.

[Adam]

What does a dirty soda mean?

[Blake]

Yeah, what does it explain what a dirty soda means?

[Kyle]

I think it's like, I've never had one. I think it's when you add cream to a soda, like so you're just like pouring milk into it or something.

[Adam]

I. I can't. I hate what's happening.

[Kyle]

What.

[Adam]

And I'm actually. This is a whole. This was like a Bill Maher thing the other night where he's like, there's like a new name for everything that we have to know. Now.

[Kyle]

That's a very old man.

[Adam]

Like, I remember when it's just called a cream soda. But then they're like, oh, dirty soda. We can use that to market to people who like the hot new thing. And now it's dirty soda. It's like, it's still just strawberry. Delicious strawberry cream. The orange cream soda I had was great. I didn't know why it was called the dirty soda. But you're telling me this is the new. What we were talking about last week with.

[Kyle]

Yes, the new Red velvet and hot honey.

[Adam]

I don't give a.

[Blake]

So I just read the little thing that's. That's in the chat that our boy Toddy just dropped. I believe. Dirty soda is a customizable non alcoholic drink made by mixing soda with flavored syrups and a splash of cream and half and half, creating a creamy, fizzy treat. And it originated in Utah, which. Here's why. It originated in Utah and the. The Mormons. And they call it dirty. And that's their way to be. Like a little naughty.

[Kyle]

Yeah, Dirty.

[Blake]

It's a little dirty. It's a little.

[Adam]

Right, right. Because they're not even allowed to drink caffeine.

[Kyle]

Right?

[Blake]

Yeah. Are they not. They're not allowed caffeine if you're real. If you're the real deal.

[Kyle]

Actually, now that you mentioned.

[Adam]

I don't think so. I don't think so.

[Kyle]

Now that you mentioned that I. That might be a thing.

[Blake]

What might be a thing? Blake?

[Kyle]

I'm trying to remember that they can't have caffeine. I'm trying to remember the Mormon family in the summer. The dog days.

[Adam]

Wait a second.

[Kyle]

The Kimballs. I don't think they are allowed to have caffeine.

[Adam]

They're also this. Call me crazy. They might not be allowed to murder.

[Blake]

Strictly prohibits consuming coffee and traditional black or green tea. Okay, Interesting. Of course Believe this is due to caffeine. The official doctrine focuses on the substances themselves, and caffeinated sodas are perfectly acceptable. So you can have caffeinated sodas.

[Kyle]

Why can't you have black tea or green tea? But you can have soda.

[Adam]

This does check out the Mormon dude. On my swim team, we would all do a case race and get hammered, and he would always show up with two liters of Mountain Dew. And he'd always be like, I'm gonna get more messed up than you guys. And we'd be like, no, you're not. I went to prison for a weekend

[Kyle]

squad dork squad, dude. Damn. God bless.

[Blake]

Yeah, that's cool that. Actually, I really like guys that are like that.

[Adam]

I mean, he had to do something.

[Kyle]

Yeah, it's cool that he. He showed up. He's still part of the team. He's doing the best he can.

[Blake]

I really like it.

[Adam]

Yes.

[Blake]

I would always, like, put in. Put an arm around those guys, you

[Kyle]

know, and try to get them to

[Blake]

drink and then actively try to get him to drink.

[Kyle]

Come on, dude. Just have a show.

[Blake]

One. Just have one.

[Kyle]

Do you have to make sure. Just have one.

[Adam]

Don't be a.

[Kyle]

Be a. I love you, dude.

[Podcast Host/Announcer]

It.

[Adam]

It happens naturally. There's always somebody who holds out, and then they realize, like, everyone's doing it. They're like, all right, it. Like, let's do this. And it always goes poorly. It never goes well for those people.

[Blake]

I remember these girls in high school cried when they found out that I smoked weed. Cried.

[Adam]

Adam had, like, a nerd fan club.

[Blake]

I mean, sort of.

[Adam]

Then they lost you.

[Blake]

Yeah, they legit cried and were begging me to not be this person.

[Adam]

These were the girls who pushed his wheelchair around for two years. And then he was like, I think I'm gonna go smoke weed with these hot chicks. See ya.

[Kyle]

That shit's important.

[Blake]

Well, if. If the hot chicks were Kyle Walsh and Zach Leonardo.

[Adam]

They both have beautiful locks.

[Kyle]

Yeah, they do. They're very cute.

[Adam]

Kumbaya. But I'm not far off.

[Kyle]

Off.

[Blake]

You're not far off? No.

[Adam]

They were so nice. We'll push you around.

[Blake]

And they were devastated.

[Adam]

Good people.

[Blake]

And it sucked. And I felt. I felt really bad, but I'm like, dude, smoking weed is awesome. It's so true.

[Kyle]

When you find it, you. It does completely change who you are as a. As a student.

[Blake]

It's so fun. All of a sudden, I was hacky sacking all the time.

[Adam]

Devil's Day. Devil stick.

[Blake]

I never did the devil sticks, but I did have a lot of hemp accoutrements.

[Adam]

Sure. Yeah.

[Blake]

I had necklaces and bracelets and belts.

[Adam]

Did anybody make clothes for you? We had a few girls who would like make like knits, like wide leg corduroys with like patchwork down the side style.

[Kyle]

Oh yeah, I remember that. I remember some.

[Adam]

Because jeans hadn't been flared yet.

[Kyle]

That's right.

[Adam]

And so they were like, we're gonna make them big and wide.

[Kyle]

Yeah, they would. Admin.

[Blake]

Well, by the time we. Your few years old, our jeans had been flared. When we were in high school, they had figured it. Levi knew what they were doing.

[Adam]

You guys wouldn't understand what I had to go through.

[Blake]

Yeah. And I mean, Jankos were all the rage.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Blake]

Thank God. I. Thank God none of us went down that path.

[Adam]

Kyle for sure.

[Kyle]

Well, Kyle was close.

[Blake]

I don't know if he truly did, but I remember having a homie that I was like friends with in middle school and then, you know, you kind of fall out of. We just weren't as close. And then saw him in high school and it was freshman year and he just came with a look. Yeah, freshman year.

[Adam]

Yeah, yeah.

[Blake]

Like, hadn't seen him all summer and now he's like wearing all black Marilyn Manson T shirt.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Blake]

And Janko jeans with like the super thick leg holes.

[Kyle]

He found his people.

[Blake]

And then like fishnets on his arms.

[Kyle]

Jeff Hardy.

[Blake]

Oh, buddy.

[Kyle]

Oh, yeah. He just fell into a hot topic and just emerged a new man.

[Blake]

Absolutely, dude. Absolutely.

[Adam]

It happens.

[Blake]

I. I was truly taken aback. Like, wow. Like, I couldn't imagine going that far down the rabbit hole in like the two and a half months that summer had happened. I saw him. He was like kind of a nerdy kind of put together guy.

[Kyle]

Sure.

[Blake]

And then going into summer or going

[Adam]

into freshman year, this is like a Marilyn Manson summer. Probably.

[Blake]

Yeah. I would say for us, seventh and eighth grade were very. It was. And.

[Kyle]

Marilyn Manson had a real bottle of mud and.

[Blake]

And Rob Zombie.

[Kyle]

No, Romstein. Oh, there was a. The. It was right before Matrix.

[Blake]

It was a dark time.

[Kyle]

Right before Matrix. Like bordering Matrix.

[Blake]

No, that was during Matrix.

[Adam]

Covered in gemstones. This is gemstones adjacent.

[Kyle]

No, I want to say Marilyn Manson was before Matrix, but same time. It was all kind of the same time.

[Blake]

Well, Matrix came out in 99. Right. And I think Marilyn Manson was 97, 98 into 99.

[Adam]

This is as dark as it gets. But I think the fucking Columbine kids dressed up like the Matrix and then played Marilyn Manson on the speakers.

[Kyle]

Yeah, it's all connected.

[Blake]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

So yeah, we're all, we're all talking. We're all speaking the same language right now.

[Adam]

You probably read the book, didn't you, Blazer?

[Kyle]

I I did not. No.

[Adam]

No, me neither.

[Kyle]

I, I, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't read the manifesto.

[Blake]

Terrifying.

[Adam]

I feel like the people read the book and I'm like, who gives a terrifying. Dude, those dudes.

[Kyle]

Dylan Klebold.

[Adam]

I don't want to. No. Well, I wasn't going to say the name, but sure. Look at you go.

[Blake]

Come on. I couldn't have pulled that out.

[Kyle]

You got to know your history.

[Adam]

He's your hero. He's your guy.

[Kyle]

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[Blake]

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[Adam]

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[Adam]

Oh yeah.

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[Blake]

That's hypo o.

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[Blake]

let's talk about a condition many people haven't heard of, and it turns out it's more common than you'd think. Peyronie's disease, or PD for short. PD can happen when scar tissue builds up under the skin of the penis.

[Adam]

This can cause a curve with a bump during an erection and for some men lead to pain during intimacy and may impact mental health health. It may also lead to anger and frustration, depression, lowered self esteem, and even withdrawal from sexual activity and physical intimacy. Because of this, some men could feel embarrassed or reluctant to talk about pd.

[Kyle]

The actual cause of PD isn't always known. In some cases, it may be linked to a minor injury or repeated injuries during sex or other physical activity. The good news is PD is treatable. If you notice a curve with a bump, a trusted urology Specialist can help diagnose it and walk you through your options, including non surgical treatment.

[Adam]

To learn more about Peyronie's disease, visit talkaboutpd.com hey, guys. Have you ever found yourself craving a cold snack?

[Kyle]

Yep.

[Adam]

Do you even know what a cold snack is?

[Blake]

I do.

[Adam]

Well, some of you may have noticed I've been wearing a Montucky shirt on the video version of the podcast. And that's because Montucky makes my favorite cold snack. That's right. It's a cold snackable beer. And summer is the best time to enjoy it.

[Kyle]

You're right. There's. Montucky is a light American lager from Bozeman, Montana. It's snackable, shareable, and perfect for all occasions.

[Blake]

Hey, that sounds like the dream beer to me. Go to montuckycoldsnacks.com snacks snack-finder to find Montucky cold snacks and a retailer near you. And if you're looking for some Montucky merch, use important snacks all one word for 20 off their merch store.

[Adam]

They got some cold horses on those cans.

[Blake]

Cold snacks. Yeah. So we were right in the pocket, Blake. It was our sixth grade year was 1996, and so that's when Marilyn Manson came on the scene.

[Kyle]

Imagine if he grabbed me by the heart. And I was. That.

[Blake]

I could have seen it. I could have seen it saying, I just.

[Kyle]

It never. It never. I didn't think it was cool. I didn't think it was cool.

[Adam]

Was it popular at your school or was it, like, fringe?

[Kyle]

It was very fringe.

[Blake]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

For me, like, there was a very select few of, like, the Darkness, you know, where it was just like, oh, these are. These are the little goth kids.

[Blake]

But it's not even the dark. The dark souls.

[Kyle]

Yes.

[Blake]

I was just too happy to. With any of that. I was like, I don't know. I mean, I was just hit by a cement truck, but now I'm walking again, and I'm just.

[Kyle]

I'm walking on sunshine.

[Adam]

I'm like.

[Blake]

I'm like, I'm back, baby. Like, it's all working out for me. I could have been dead.

[Adam]

You don't realize if you. Yeah, if you.

[Kyle]

You never walked, you probably would have gone the way of the Janko.

[Blake]

Yes. Out of the beautiful people.

[Adam]

Your wheelchair would be like the Adams family car.

[Blake]

Or.

[Adam]

No, the monsters. The hot.

[Blake]

Yes.

[Adam]

But.

[Blake]

But the Jankos are always getting caught in the wheels. I'm always, like, falling over.

[Kyle]

Yeah, he died. Jankos caught in the spokes again. Swear something else.

[Adam]

I always had I always took a bunch of art classes because I was into that. That. And so then I had. I just had like a leg in or a foot in with the darkness. The goth crowd.

[Blake]

Yeah, Well, I was. Yeah, that for us, the goth crowd, there were all. They were heavily involved with the drama department stage crew, so that's. Yes, they weren't.

[Kyle]

Oh, no. Yeah, they were.

[Blake]

They were. The stage crew.

[Adam]

Yes.

[Kyle]

They weren't in front of curtain. They were behind.

[Blake]

Yeah, yeah. And so I knew a lot of them, and I was friends with a lot of them. And so much so that this girl who I knew put a list together of people that she was wanted to murder. And it became a big thing at our school.

[Kyle]

Yeah, it was a different time. It was just thoughts in the journal.

[Blake]

And then I was devastated that I was on the list.

[Kyle]

God damn it. You really.

[Blake]

And I'm like, homie, I know you. Like, we are friends.

[Adam]

And she was like, I pushed you around in the wheelchair for two years and then you started smoking weed.

[Blake]

You be trying to smoke weed.

[Kyle]

That's crazy, man.

[Adam]

I. I know that we were in a heightened era of that kind of stuff, but, like, couldn't believe it.

[Blake]

Couldn't believe it.

[Adam]

If you go through every diary from, like, the 90s and 80s, I'm sure a lot of girls were like, I want to kill this person. Yeah.

[Kyle]

No, I mean, but I think we

[Adam]

just got hella organized about it. And then someone was like, I'm gonna do it.

[Blake]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

Yeah. Then they started to.

[Blake]

Well, then it just got too easy.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Blake]

The guns got too good.

[Podcast Host/Announcer]

Good.

[Blake]

The guns got.

[Adam]

Two guns got good.

[Kyle]

And people start. You could find those communities. You'd be like, oh, check out my. And it's like, oh, dude, are you really gonna do it? It's like, yeah, I am. And it's like, oh, he did it. And it's like, this is terrible.

[Adam]

And that's how you think they sound? Absolutely 100 interesting.

[Kyle]

I kind of feel like, though, that. I never went Marilyn Manson. But I was. But I was Nine Inch Nails. I was Nine Inch Nails. I thought Nine Inch.

[Adam]

What do you mean you were. Tell me more. I was Nine Inch Nails too, because I just thought it was a cool video.

[Kyle]

I liked those albums. Like, well, yeah, they're. But those are like downward spiral.

[Adam]

Those are kind of almost undeniable genre jumping albums, right? Where you're like, oh, Metallica, the Black Album. People who are. Who don't like heavy metal, like that album.

[Kyle]

Right, right, right. Because it was like more of like. It was kind of, like, industrial and.

[Adam]

But were you wearing, like, snake eye contact?

[Kyle]

I would not. I would not wear a Nine Inch Nail shirt. I couldn't. I wasn't. I wasn't a true fan like that, but I would dabble in that. But Marilyn Manson, I think it was just like, his music wasn't. Wasn't really hitting with me, and he was just a little too.

[Adam]

Did you ever stick Nine Inch Nails under both your eyelids? Is that the line?

[Kyle]

And then Eminem came and cleaned. Clean the slate.

[Blake]

I didn't. Well, the thing is, is I didn't hate, like, some of his songs. Like, We Are Stars now in the dope show.

[Adam]

Like, if it came on now, would you let it ride?

[Blake]

Yeah, yeah, I bet I would. Yeah, for sure.

[Kyle]

At the strip club, it goes.

[Adam]

I remember the video where he had, like, titties, Right?

[Kyle]

I think so.

[Blake]

I remember watching that, like, the TRL video. And you're like, yeah, he's walking around

[Adam]

with, like, titties and he had, like,

[Blake]

a moose knuckle and he's, like, all creepy. But I'm not, like, waving that flag, you know?

[Adam]

Sure.

[Blake]

I'm like, that's not my thing. But when it comes on, I'm like, yeah, all right. Okay.

[Kyle]

I'm trying to think.

[Adam]

I don't know if there's a Marilyn Manson song that I would. Still with. There's 29 inch nail songs, I think.

[Kyle]

Dope show.

[Blake]

There wasn't that crowd. I'm not doing beautiful in your high school at all.

[Adam]

Not doing. No, there were. There were.

[Blake]

There were goth. There was goth energy. There was the carpool.

[Adam]

There were like 10. 10 per grade, maybe. But you would just get clowned on so hard.

[Kyle]

Absolutely annihilated.

[Adam]

They'd be like. I mean, it just. It just is like. Like, it just wouldn't fly. It just wouldn't work. It just doesn't work.

[Kyle]

Just don't. It would break it out of you.

[Adam]

But I'm trying to think of, like, what is this? Sweet Dreams are Made? Like, I don't. I wouldn't mess with that still either.

[Kyle]

Sweet dreams. Yeah, but that.

[Adam]

But, yeah, there weren't that many people who weren't just kind of hip hop heads. That was kind of just what it was.

[Kyle]

I think that's actually.

[Adam]

And then there were stoners who got into, like, music that way. And then there were just white girls who were big into Lilith Fair.

[Blake]

Our school was pretty. Either you liked, like, punk rock music was like, a huge. Or you were top 40s.

[Adam]

But commercial.

[Blake]

Pop.

[Adam]

Punk.

[Blake]

No. Yeah, yeah, Pop Punk, pop. Punk.

[Adam]

Punk rock.

[Blake]

Getting radical.

[Adam]

Omaha Blank Green Day.

[Blake]

Like Blink and Green Day and.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Guest/Advertiser]

Or.

[Blake]

Or it was top 40s or you had skinny sideburns and

[Adam]

you loved House of Pain

[Blake]

and you. And you were like into, you know, deep. You were backpack rap before that term existed.

[Adam]

Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kyle]

Okay. Hell yeah. That Omaha backpack rap was going off.

[Adam]

I mean, who's the. Besides 311? Isn't there somebody.

[Blake]

And I guess not even backpack rack. It also was just like rap. Like the guys that. Their parents gave them Tahoes and they put them on giant rims and they had earrings.

[Adam]

Adam, you may or may not know the answer to this question, but for sure, in Chicago, it was just east coast hip hop, really, by and large.

[Blake]

Yeah.

[Adam]

Didn't even really have access. You would hear some Tupac on the radio, but not really. It was mostly east coast and a lot of R. Kelly. RIP Omaha.

[Blake]

Are they.

[Adam]

Is the. Is the radio playing east coast or West Coast? Like, it was a.

[Blake]

It was a mixed bag and it was a lot of, like, from the South. It was a lot of, like, New Orleans.

[Kyle]

Yeah, I think I was.

[Adam]

Oh, the south had happened at that. Yeah.

[Kyle]

No limit and.

[Blake]

And it was a no limit Soldiers. Yeah. Like I told.

[Adam]

That was like my senior year of high school school, I think.

[Blake]

Yeah. That was our eighth grader freshman year.

[Kyle]

What a time to be alive.

[Adam]

What a tank to drive onto basketball.

[Kyle]

And then. And then DMX happened. Then dmx.

[Blake]

Oh, dude.

[Adam]

Rest in peace. Rest in peace.

[Blake]

Barking, barking at you.

[Adam]

And Blake, you completely skipped the entire Bay Area underground hip hop era.

[Kyle]

Yeah, I wasn't fully in. I was more into like, the E40s of it all. And it records.

[Adam]

Yes.

[Kyle]

Yeah. Yeah. I wasn't really digging into the Hieroglyphics and Far side and all that. Now I do. Now I do.

[Blake]

Did you like any guitar music?

[Adam]

Me?

[Kyle]

Yeah, 1,000%. Yeah.

[Adam]

There's no such thing as 1,000%.

[Blake]

No. Who were your bands then in high

[Kyle]

school then that were like, rock bands? I was kind of. See, I liked like, fucking, like, heroin rockers, like Alice in Chains, like Stone Temple Pilots.

[Blake]

But that was before high school. That was

[Kyle]

a. Jason.

[Blake]

Alison Chains was like. Yeah, we were in like, fourth grade.

[Adam]

Allison Chains Unplugged Crazy album.

[Kyle]

Alison Chains, like, released like a Greatest Hits probably in our high school. But then, yeah, like, Tool was releasing albums. I was kind of. And I was embarrassingly, like, really into Godsmack, which they turned out to be like, the funniest, weirdest band.

[Blake]

Yeah, they sucked. Yeah, they really really suck.

[Kyle]

They, like, all claim to be witches.

[Adam]

I don't even know, honestly. I guess.

[Blake]

Go away I'm doing the best I ever can yeah Go away I'm doing

[Kyle]

the best that I can Every song was about going away.

[Adam]

Is that a real song?

[Blake]

Yes.

[Kyle]

100.

[Blake]

And that's. And I sound exactly like him.

[Kyle]

Yeah, it was.

[Blake]

I'm doing the best that I can yeah, Go away.

[Kyle]

I. I was heavily influenced. I was heavily influenced by my friend John Paul. And he didn't listen to anything except for, like, the Zelda soundtrack and, like, God Smack and Allison Chains. And then, of course, west side Connection. And that's, like, what I had to listen to because that's what it would be listened to in his car.

[Adam]

West side Connection is Ice Cube.

[Kyle]

Ice Cube, Mac 10 and Dub C. Right.

[Adam]

Got it. Got it. And they did America's Most Wanted.

[Kyle]

No, they did Bow Down.

[Adam]

Bow Down. When you come to this town.

[Kyle]

Yes. And we would listen to that album over and over and over and over and over again. We didn't listen to anything except that

[Adam]

and Zelda and no east coast hip hop.

[Blake]

And were you smoking weed during this time?

[Kyle]

I was not smoking weed. We were starting to drink, but I was not smoking weed.

[Blake]

You were starting to drink at Wynne Fresh. We drank freshman so much in high school.

[Adam]

And now. And now we're getting into the 16, 17 age era of summer.

[Kyle]

These are the summer.

[Adam]

This is where you're, like, running around. Someone got a 30 pack. You're gonna go find them.

[Blake]

Oh, yeah, dude. Everyone would go $5 in on beer and weed. And then someone would get a bag of weed. Someone would score a 30 pack. And then.

[Adam]

Or.

[Blake]

Or you would get a handle of vodka. And then the amount of. I was just talking with my sister about this. The amount of drinking in parking lots that we would do.

[Adam]

Yeah, tons.

[Blake]

That's all we would do.

[Adam]

We. We would drink on a golf course.

[Blake]

That's why you'd wait to hear where the party was going to be.

[Adam]

Right.

[Blake]

So you would go to the Taco Bell parking lot and you would.

[Kyle]

You guys were popular.

[Blake]

You would drink. You would drink there.

[Kyle]

We would drink at the same place.

[Adam]

I do love how it's like, you guys must have been so cool drinking in parking lots.

[Blake]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

I'm like, oh, you were looking for somewhere to go drink with at a party with people. We would just drink at John Paul's house.

[Blake]

Yeah.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Blake]

We would also drink at someone's basement, too.

[Adam]

I remember hearing stories about somebody would be like, oh, did you hear about so, and so. And all those guys were drinking in the basement and I'd be like, oh, all right. And then eventually those people came out of the basement and then they would be at the party also and you'd kind of go, oh, like, like it was Avatar style. We're like, I see you, you know, like freaking see you. You finally, you're, you're out. You're finally out. Have a Bud Light.

[Blake]

That was right. It, it. They weren't there freshman year. They weren't there sophomore year. But by junior and senior year. Yeah, especially senior year, you'd be like, welcome.

[Adam]

Yes. And then you would watch people who finally came to the party lose their go so hard and it became their entire thing and they just went missing into the ether.

[Blake]

Yeah.

[Adam]

And they're gone. And it's sad.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Blake]

I remember seeing our valedictorian freshman year of college. I went back to visit and I, I went to Lincoln to visit a bunch of friends and I'm, you know, moved out to California. I came back, I'm at University of Nebraska. We're at this huge party and then I see her and she never drank. She was never at any of the parties. And then she was fall down, stumbling, cross eyed drunk.

[Adam]

Adam.

[Blake]

Hey. Good to see you.

[Kyle]

This is the way.

[Blake]

And I'm like, oh, you blew it, dude.

[Kyle]

Damn.

[Blake]

You do not know how to handle yourself in college. You have to drink. You gotta at least a year to two years before going into college.

[Adam]

Especially if you're going to Omaha.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Blake]

Yes. Especially if you're going to a big state school like university.

[Kyle]

That's the best. You gotta, yeah, you gotta, you gotta train when you're young.

[Adam]

Did I ever tell you guys this story? Maybe I haven't, maybe I haven't or even told it on the pod, but I had a friend, you guys have met him and he went to a different school and then he started coming to my school, but I had already known him from the other school and he was out with his friends and I'm like, bring your friends to this party. Like it's going off, we're having a good time. Like there's a keg. Da da da da da. Also that night, my good friend who was like a fake ID type guy, he told some people from another school that he would like buy them a keg at the liquor store in Evanston. The liquor store in Evanston has a back door and a front door and you can just go, go right in the front door and out the back door.

[Kyle]

Brilliant.

[Blake]

So great place To Rob.

[Adam]

Has these guys meet him? Yeah, has these guys meet him. They give him the, like, $80 for a keg. He goes in the door to go buy the keg for them. Goes right out the back door, gets in the car, drives off with their money. Freaking see ya, right?

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Blake]

Oh, bummer.

[Adam]

They're like, we're gonna kill you. Like, he comes to the party and is telling the story. We're like, that's hilarious. And then people are getting drunker. They're, like, calling his pager, paging him, calling him, threatening. And he goes, you want your money? Like, come and get it. And everybody, for, like, an hour is getting hammered and, like, ready to. Ready to fight these fucking people who think they're gonna show up and, like, get their money back that my friend stole from them.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Adam]

And so my buddy is calling, like, this is before cell phones. I don't have one. I'm trying to be like, yo, get here. Like, we're having a good time. So then he's putting it off. He's not coming. He's not coming. And then everyone's like, yo, we gotta go outside. Like, they're here. They just rolled up. We go outside. I'm watching dudes from my high school, like, annihilate some people in, like, a holy way. And they're, like, running off. Someone has, like, a bat. It's, like, gnarly. And then they. They run off, and people are all hyped. The cops showed up. People split. And then I get to school on Monday, and my homie was like, what the fuck? And I'm like, you bailed on the party. You never even showed up. He goes, we showed up. And all my friends got beat up.

[Kyle]

Oh, no. They were the friends.

[Adam]

So all these dudes that my buddy brought who I didn't know, and nobody at this house party knew, all got beat up. Because people who weren't even involved in my friend stealing the money were just waiting for people they didn't know to roll up.

[Kyle]

Oh, they weren't even the. Oh, man.

[Adam]

And maybe the people who got their money taken never even showed up.

[Kyle]

Just got the. Oh, that just sucks car they didn't recognize.

[Adam]

And he's like, like, dude, my friend got hit with a bat. And I was like, I saw that. I saw that.

[Kyle]

That's crazy brutal.

[Adam]

And he was like. And then I kind of stepped out the whole story to him. And he was like, that's hilarious. Like, he kind of got it. He was like, that's unreal. I can't believe that.

[Blake]

Anyway, the amount of V.I. you see, like, the people that are going to be real criminals when they get older. You know what I mean? Like I told you, dude, we used to hang out with this. This older kid and he.

[Podcast Host/Announcer]

He.

[Blake]

He would, like, get his booze.

[Kyle]

He.

[Blake]

He had a fake ID or whatever. And. And we. We were driving around with him. He gets in a road rage fight with this guy, follows him, and. And me and Walsh were in the car, follows him for 40 minutes. This guy's car runs out of gas. And now we're in the middle of

[Adam]

nowhere and you're in, like, the back seat, like, yeah.

[Blake]

We're like, maybe we just. Hey, maybe let's not. Not continue to. He punches through this. This guy was like. He was also on steroids. He punches through his window, drags him out.

[Kyle]

He.

[Blake]

Now he's all bloody because he just punched through a window, drags him out, beats the guy to an inch of his life and then. And then opens up his car and goes through his glove box and finds, like, it.

[Adam]

Insurance or.

[Blake]

Or no, like, $12 loose cash. Sure. Like, just rob the guy. Yeah, yeah, for like $12. And then gets in the car and he's like, you didn't see. And we're like.

[Adam]

He says, you didn't see. Like, you.

[Blake]

Yeah, like, us.

[Kyle]

Like, we didn't see that in the car.

[Blake]

We've been here the whole time, dude. Like. And we're like, oh, of course. No, no. Meanwhile, this guy is just bloody. I'm like, this is. It's not worth getting, like, the bottle of Boom Moon's Farm that he promised us.

[Adam]

That's crazy.

[Kyle]

I love that you're in the car for like 40 minutes. Like, several songs are going by. You're like, hey, that's a good one, right? Maybe.

[Blake]

No, it was 40 minutes of hey. Well, you know, I mean, I figured he's starting to head out of town. Maybe we just don't even.

[Kyle]

Hey, let's just.

[Blake]

Well, that party's should be going off.

[Adam]

He's love.

[Blake]

If you just.

[Adam]

He's love. He's love. He's in my hair and he.

[Kyle]

I'm getting hungry, dude.

[Blake]

Huh?

[Adam]

Pretty fly for a white guy.

[Blake]

You know, it's on. It's on me. A combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell's on me. If.

[Adam]

If we just stop. Never. Knock on wood.

[Kyle]

If we just stop now I got you, boo. Yeah.

[Blake]

Hey, now you're an all star. Get your game on

[Kyle]

Life she hates me.

[Adam]

It's been a long December it's been a Long time we've been following this guy.

[Kyle]

One week since you looked at me. Damn.

[Blake]

He's a. She's a lover, She's a child. She's a mother.

[Adam]

Oh, my God.

[Blake]

She hates me.

[Adam]

A song by Fastball I'm trying to.

[Blake]

Everyone. You see the roads that they walk on? And paint in gold clothes.

[Adam]

Oh, my God.

[Blake]

Any takebacks, Any apologies? Any epic slams?

[Kyle]

How did we start? I. You know what? I take back starting off the pod by talking about a jellyfish. I don't. You know, it's par for the course. I'm sorry. But it might feel good.

[Adam]

I didn't realize, Blake, you're the X Factor. X factor. I don't know. We. We need that. We need. Otherwise, we're just going to talk about Norway children's development. Yeah. We're going to talk about how angry I get hearing about.

[Blake]

Yeah. Seeing if my child will be physically gifted. And Dur says he will not be.

[Adam]

I'm telling you. How's. When he jumps off the couch, how's he land? Does he stick the landing?

[Blake]

It's not looking great. He's not sticking the landing.

[Adam]

How fast. How fast do the legs move when he runs?

[Blake]

He's pretty. He's getting fast. He's getting fast.

[Kyle]

There we go.

[Blake]

Yeah.

[Adam]

And by the way, that's just, like, body coordination. Yeah, that's just 90% of the sports. He could be good as the. He could be the guy who shoots the gun with one arm.

[Blake]

Gymnastics. Yeah.

[Adam]

No, that's speed. That's power.

[Kyle]

Did you guys have, like, speed training when you were young? You can get faster. You can train to be faster.

[Adam]

No, no, no. But there's a difference between, like, you just go to a playground and, like, look at kids move.

[Blake]

Dude, watch the kids.

[Adam]

This is when I go to a playground.

[Blake]

Do you. Do you want to take back how often you said that you watch kids move?

[Adam]

No, I'm sticking to it.

[Kyle]

You should.

[Adam]

I watch kids play on the playground, and I go, go, that girl's gonna be a gymnast for sure. Or you watch, like, out loud, and I go, well, yes. Yeah, she's promising.

[Blake]

No, quietly. It's even. It's even worse if it's quietly to himself. That girl's gonna be a gymnast.

[Adam]

Into a. Into a beer can in a bag.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Blake]

Enter your goblet, your giant Stanley of.

[Adam]

Just tell. And so what I'm saying, Blake, is that, yes, everyone can train to be better, but there are people who are at a starting point where there's just, like, your Allen Iverson's Your Bo Jacksons were Bo Jackson's always like, I didn't lift weights. And you're like, how is that even possible?

[Kyle]

Yeah, you're genetically.

[Blake]

You're gifted freak.

[Adam]

You're gift.

[Blake]

I thought I was a great podcast. I love talking with you guys. And I love talking dog days of summer. We're in it. We're in it. Let's go to Catalina, get us some buffalo milks.

[Adam]

And just what is that before I go?

[Blake]

Yeah, what is exactly? It's like the drink there on Catalini.

[Adam]

All right, cool. Let's do it.

[Blake]

I think it's a rum.

[Kyle]

It's delicious. It's fantastic.

[Adam]

I'm in.

[Kyle]

Yeah, you're gonna love it. Creamy cocktail, actual bison milk. Okay, I'm out.

[Blake]

Signature cocktail of Catalina Island. Despite its name, the frothy tropical drink contains no actual dairy from Buffalo. Instead, it's an alcoholic blend of vodka, Kahlua, creme de la cacao, creme de banana, and half and a half topped with whipped cream and nutmeg. It's the type that you will your pants if you have more than three of them.

[Adam]

Sounds like a dirty soda.

[Kyle]

Give me a dirty. Give me a dirty buffalo milk, baby.

[Blake]

Oh, they're dirty. They're dirty. Well, that's another episode of.

[Kyle]

Can I finish?

[Blake]

Can I finish? Can I finish? Can I finish?

[Kyle]

Can I finish?

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