Best Thing About The Canadian Wildfires 🎙 #338

Summary

Podcast Summary: You Betcha Radio - "Best Thing About The Canadian Wildfires 🎙 #338"

Release Date: August 6, 2025

Host: You Betcha (Myles), Ryan, Tyler, and Jared

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1. Introduction to the Episode

In episode #338 of "You Betcha Radio," the hosts dive into the pervasive impact of the Canadian wildfires on the Midwest, blending humor with relatable anecdotes. The conversation seamlessly transitions into various topics, reflecting the "Midwest" essence of the podcast.

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2. The Ever-Present Wildfire Smoke

Impact on Daily Life and Small Talk

Tyler kicks off the discussion by sharing his recent encounter with a neighbor, highlighting how wildfire smoke has become the new norm in small talk:

"It's still crackling things into the mic." [00:07] – Tyler

The hosts emphasize how the smoke has infiltrated every conversation, from casual greetings to serious discussions about air quality.

Health and Social Implications

Ryan recounts his experience at a golf tournament affected by smoke, illustrating the real-world consequences:

"I played in a golf tournament... he just blame his poor play on the smoke." [03:07] – Ryan

Jared adds humor by suggesting that wildfire smoke serves as a catch-all excuse:

"If you got a problem in life, just blame it on this Canadian Wildfire smoke." [03:50] – Jared

Ongoing Challenges and Future Outlook

The conversation touches on the concept of "zombie fires," persistent wildfires that continue burning beneath the snow, with no foreseeable end:

"They're burning under the snow all winter... we're back to square one." [06:53] – Ryan

Tyler muses about the unending nature of the smoke:

"There is no end in sight." [13:14] – Tyler

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3. Coping Mechanisms and Lifestyle Adjustments

Air Quality Games

To cope with the persistent smoke, Tyler introduces a lighthearted game of guessing the air quality index:

"It's a new Midwest game to guess the air quality." [07:24] – Tyler

The hosts discuss their strategies and the evolving nature of small talk centered around environmental conditions.

Technological Adaptations

The hosts also explore potential technological solutions, humorously suggesting video game concepts to combat wildfires:

"It's a video game about firefighting drones." [12:19] – Jared

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4. Transition to Broader Topics

While the episode primarily focuses on the Canadian wildfires, the conversation fluidly transitions to other relatable themes, embodying the podcast's Midwest charm.

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5. First Cars: Nostalgia and Anecdotes

Quirky Features and Memories

The hosts reminisce about their first cars, sharing stories of mechanical quirks and memorable experiences:

"First ever push button start on my first vehicle." [20:37] – Ryan

"I just drove for six months with that thing hanging off." [22:31] – Tyler

Naming and Personalization

They discuss the tradition of naming first cars, adding a personal touch to their automotive memories:

"Every good first car needs to have a name." [27:16] – Tyler

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6. Back to School Preparations

Supply Lists and Parental Expectations

The conversation shifts to back-to-school routines, highlighting the generational differences in preparing for a new academic year:

"It's the exact same box of Kleenex." [30:39] – Ryan

Challenges Faced by Teachers and Parents

The hosts critique the burdens placed on teachers and parents regarding school supplies:

"Teachers are getting no support off of that stuff." [31:40] – Tyler

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7. Football Practices and Hazing: A Look Back

Intense Conditioning and Hazing Rituals

Delving into their high school football experiences, the hosts recount rigorous conditioning practices and hazing traditions:

"There was this thing called mandatory fun day... whipping with pool noodles." [77:32] – Tyler

"Live tackling drills were insane." [46:21] – Miles

Changing Perspectives on Hazing

They reflect on the shift in attitudes toward hazing, advocating for more respectful and productive forms of team building:

"I'm pro eliminate hazing. It's just pointless." [78:44] – Tyler

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8. Modern-Day Adaptations: Technology and Social Habits

Earbuds vs. Over-the-Ear Headphones

The hosts engage in a lighthearted debate about headphone preferences, emphasizing practicality and style:

"Over the head over the ears are so inconvenient to have on you." [85:30] – Tyler

"AirPods are like one of the sneaky best products Apple ever made." [89:07] – Tyler

Integration of CarPlay

Discussing technological integrations in vehicles, Tyler and Ryan share their experiences with CarPlay, highlighting its convenience:

"Having everything on the screen... it's the best." [90:08] – Tyler

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9. Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Throughout the episode, "You Betcha Radio" offers a blend of humor, nostalgia, and candid discussions on pressing environmental issues and personal anecdotes. The hosts' camaraderie and Midwest-centric conversations provide listeners with both entertainment and relatable content.

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Notable Quotes:

• "If you got a problem in life, just blame it on this Canadian Wildfire smoke." – Jared [03:50]
• "It's a new Midwest game to guess the air quality." – Tyler [07:24]
• "Every good first car needs to have a name." – Tyler [27:16]
• "I'm pro eliminate hazing. It's just pointless." – Tyler [78:44]
• "AirPods are like one of the sneaky best products Apple ever made." – Tyler [89:07]

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This episode captures the essence of Midwest life amidst environmental challenges, intertwined with personal stories and lighthearted banter, making it a compelling listen for both regular and new audiences.

Transcript

[Tyler]

Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of the you Betcha radio podcast. Tyler, how are you feeling?

[Ryan]

I feel great.

[Tyler]

Nice. Ryan, how you feeling?

[Jared]

Feeling great. Feeling great. Lungs are a little bit. A little bit smoky, but other than that, feeling good.

[Tyler]

Don't crack. Don't. Don't crack all the thing into the mic. What episode are we on? 3:38.338 reps. Still doing. Still doing day one stuff.

[Miles]

Not including Patreon or double.

[Tyler]

There is still crackling things into the mic.

[Jared]

Whoopsies.

[Miles]

Clap it into the mic.

[Tyler]

Crackling things in the mic.

[Jared]

Okay, we're good now.

[Tyler]

We're good.

[Jared]

Label off.

[Tyler]

You got it.

[Jared]

How you feeling? No one ever asks you how you're.

[Tyler]

Thank you. I'm. I'm tired, dude. I believe it. We. Just before the episode started, I said, this is the busiest summer. I think the last time I was this busy summer is when my mom signed me up for 46 sports camps.

[Jared]

Yeah. Yeah. Just to get you out of the house.

[Ryan]

You're 15 years old. The last time you were this busy.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Or younger than that.

[Jared]

But at that age, you wanted to be that busy.

[Ryan]

It's true.

[Tyler]

It did. And then I just remember a moment as a kid being like, all right, I had football camp in the morning, basketball camp in the afternoon, and then like, traveling basketball practice at night, and I'm like, what are we doing? Yeah, yeah, I don't think we need to be doing this when I feel I'm not going to be a professional.

[Jared]

It gave you something to do, though. It got you out of the house playing video games. You know, your head could have been in an iPad.

[Ryan]

Instead, your mom did it for her. She's trying to get you the hell out of the house for a summer day.

[Tyler]

She still holds it over my head. She's like, the amount of camps I had to sign you up for as a kid, you're fine. You know, like, basically everything I did for you and I, you know, I get it. Filling out 46 forms for. For camps is definitely a lot.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

So.

[Jared]

Yeah. Tyler, have you got any permission slip slips that you've had to sign?

[Ryan]

Yeah, all this field trip type stuff.

[Jared]

Does your kid know your signature by now? If he needs a forge that he can. He's five.

[Ryan]

I'm sure he's working on it.

[Tyler]

I told you about my. My brother. He used my dad's like, check stamp. That's a great.

[Ryan]

That's so smart, though. That's so much better than him trying to actually forge the signature.

[Tyler]

Pretty funny. So also, guys, I Realized that Midwesterners unlocked a new form of small talk over the weekend. I get to lake go up to my neighbor. He's staying in his deck. So that was going to be my small talk discussion. Oh, you're staying in your deck? And he goes, yeah, the wildfire smoke has just been bad out here. Cool. He's like, you couldn't even see across the lake yesterday.

[Jared]

And then you look at him, you go, so you're staying in your deck.

[Tyler]

No, Then it was. Yeah, it wasn't too bad. It wasn't as bad, Fargo, yesterday. So it must. Must have been really bad out here. That's. That's wild.

[Jared]

Quite literally.

[Tyler]

It's. It's running rampant through Midwestern in. In this northern region of the Midwest with that.

[Ryan]

I played in a golf tournament on Friday last week, and there was a dude at the end of the tournament where we were talking to that legitimately blamed his poor play on the last few holes on the smoke.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

He's like, I just. That smoke was messing with my lungs. I didn't play very good at the end because of it.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

It's like. Yeah, it is real smokey, man.

[Tyler]

If you got a problem in life, just blame it on this Canadian Wildfire smoke. See that? It's. It null and voids anything.

[Jared]

That's what I'm like.

[Tyler]

I was. I was. Sorry I'm late. The wildfire smoke.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Held us up.

[Jared]

I couldn't see my GPS.

[Ryan]

I said, sorry, Mr. IRS, I missed that tax dollar deadline. It's because of the smoke.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jared]

It's the only time the US Will say no to that smoke.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

There you go, Ryan.

[Tyler]

So he's on fire. He's on fire.

[Ryan]

Quite literally. He's on Wildfire Smoky in here. That's what Ryan was crinkling that water bottle. Start the podcast. His head's all full of smoke.

[Tyler]

That's true.

[Jared]

Well, no, because I've. I've been around my college buddies enough to where like, they. Tyler, to your example, they play their best golf in this kind of weather.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Like, their. Their lungs have to be full of a certain amount of smoke for them to even be, like, hit the ball off pretty.

[Tyler]

Pretty cheap high that they' gotten lately.

[Jared]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Shout out Canada. You know, maybe they're causing the smoke. It just.

[Tyler]

It just doesn't matter who you're talking to or what scenario. It could be your parents, it could be your wife. It could be complete strangers. It just always defaults back to, are we ever gonna not have smoke again? Or God, I just don't remember a summer where there was this much wildfire smoke. It's just. And it just keeps going and going.

[Ryan]

And I feel like there might be a group of like smoke deniers out there because there's a group of my grandparents friends that only call it the haze. It's really hazy out today. I've heard that it's smoke.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And yeah, it's been so hazy this summer because there's a woods on fire.

[Tyler]

I even went as far Canadian wildfire smoke. Talk to where I told my buddy, oh, we got a south wind today. We'll blow that smoke back.

[Ryan]

Give the smoke right back.

[Miles]

Yeah, I insist.

[Tyler]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jared]

Hey, Canada, what are you doing? Just blowing smoke up our asses.

[Ryan]

Kind of.

[Tyler]

Kind of.

[Jared]

Whenever there's a law in a conversation with like, I don't know, my buddy or something at the lake, we'll just, we have another buddy across the lake. He, you know, he likes to dabble and, and then we'll just be like, yeah, buddy, you must have just sparked up over there. Hazy. Oh no.

[Ryan]

There's a small group of people, namely Ryan's colle buddies that are absolutely thriving. Oh God. All those guys that got shit on by their parents in high school for being like, Ryan's college buddies are laughing now. They're like, I've adapted for this well.

[Jared]

I'm sure because their neighbors can't detect when there's smoke, you know, billowing up in the air from like someone's driveway or deck just by. It all blends in at that point.

[Ryan]

So the worst part is this is actually legit. I asked the guys when I was in Canada for the bear hunt, like you just wait for winter and it all goes out or what? They're like, well, actually all the swamps and stuff that get on fire, like that thick matagrass, they'll burn under the snow all winter. And when that melts away, it's just we're back to, back to square one.

[Miles]

I think they call it zombie fires.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Tyler]

That sucks. That doesn't make me feel good about this at all. So actually kind of infuriates me.

[Ryan]

So next year we'll be, we'll be talking about that. The haziest summer we've ever had.

[Tyler]

I don't know if you guys do it, but I, I like that the Canadian smoke has kind of turned into a little bit of a game for me. So I will go outside, I'll try and guess what the air quality is.

[Jared]

Okay.

[Tyler]

Right. So on like your, your weather App, it like tells you a score. It's like, oh, if it's 30, then it's like, you know, fresh air, clean air. If it's. I think the last weekend it was like 156 and it was like says, you know, it's unhealthy or whatever, but it's a new Midwest game. To guess the air quality, we were in the red.

[Ryan]

We just refer to it by the colors. Like now we're good to go outside. We got yellow today.

[Tyler]

Well, and so when it, when we first started getting the wildfires this summer, I was like looking at me like, oh, maybe I shouldn't like go outside. And now I'm to the point where I'm like, so I'm just not going to go outside this year. You know, I only got a few weeks left, a couple, a month and a half left of going outside regularly. If I don't do it now, I won't go outside until next April for a week.

[Ryan]

Just a week.

[Tyler]

And then it'll start up again.

[Jared]

Yeah, it actually be a great concept for a video game.

[Tyler]

The summer was supposed to be the reason why we still live here. You know when people say why do you live here? Like, oh, the summer is nice. Nope, not anymore. What the fuck are we doing? Where are we gonna go? Not north, we can't handle all the heat down south. We go north, we're in the same scenario. Where are we supposed to go? Tyler? Where are we supposed to go if we don't have the summer anymore? Where are we supposed to go overseas?

[Ryan]

Where they got, I don't know where, Cambodia.

[Tyler]

Right now we're not going to be welcomed into other countries very well. What are we supposed to do? You know.

[Jared]

That'S a great question I don't have an answer for. I wish I did. I normally do, but I don't today. I mean big sunscreens, they got to be kicking themselves right now. Do people put sunscreen on when it's hazy like that? Cuz I don't.

[Ryan]

I think the UVs still get through probably.

[Jared]

You think so?

[Tyler]

I bet it, I bet it kills it a little bit though.

[Jared]

Yeah, it's gotta.

[Ryan]

I mean, cuz you can still get sunburn even when it's lightly cloudy.

[Tyler]

But not as sunburned.

[Jared]

Yeah, not as a boom.

[Ryan]

I'm not saying debunks. I just answered your question.

[Tyler]

Yeah, we have the, we have the, the unhealthy rating for it. We should also go like, like a UV filter rating, you know, like today it's like because. Or like SPF rating on the smoke.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

SPF 15 today. So you got an extra 15 minutes or whatever before you gotta put sunscreen on.

[Jared]

Yeah. It kind of sounds like a drink you'd order at the bar. I'll take a UV haze.

[Tyler]

Yeah, it does sound.

[Jared]

Yeah, it does.

[Miles]

Sounds like high school.

[Jared]

Yeah, it does. Would you like that with Blue Powerade or Mountain Dew?

[Ryan]

Okay. It does, like, basically like we said, it does block it a little bit, but you should still put sunscreen.

[Tyler]

They always say that.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jared]

The winner too. Like. Yeah, the reflection off the snow.

[Tyler]

Can they also say you should only have one drink a day?

[Jared]

Yeah, yeah. This is a recommendation.

[Tyler]

But yeah, it's. We just have unlocked a new Midwest small talk. It's an extension of the weather.

[Ryan]

You know, it's included in on local TV weather reports now every day they. They tell you about the smoke rating every day on tv.

[Jared]

So why is it. Why is this summer different than say five summers ago?

[Ryan]

More. More fires.

[Tyler]

Yeah, but why is it more fires.

[Ryan]

When there's smoke there? I got. I got a lot of updates this spring, essentially. Tyler, can I finish?

[Jared]

Sure.

[Ryan]

I got updates when I was there and they said basically, like, there's something to do with the government money where they only have X amount of helicopters fighting the fires. So there's basically less support to help put them out. And they have to choose, like, which fire are we going to put the water bombers on today?

[Tyler]

And they should. They should. They should do everything on the. They should let it burn on the east side of Canada and put on all the west side stuff.

[Ryan]

I think most of the western Canadians would agree with you.

[Tyler]

Yeah, yeah. So I'm on. I'm on team West Canada right now. Let's put out those fires.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Jared]

I was gonna say make a great video game concept. You're just like, it's a video game about. You're just. It's like a first person firefighter. See who can put the firefighter down.

[Tyler]

Power washing simulator.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Wildfire simulator.

[Jared]

Boom.

[Tyler]

I like that.

[Jared]

Generate revenue. Country of Canada. More helis in the air. Boom. Wildfire is gone. North Dakotans happy.

[Ryan]

You use the revenue from said video game to create firefighting drones. And then you recruit the best players at said game to fly those drones.

[Tyler]

There we go. It's a. It's a whole ecosystem now.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

You got to figure it out.

[Miles]

And you can attach a water hose to the drone.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tyler]

Firefighting drones.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah. You do water bombing drones.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Or like. Yeah, even like your dad if your dad was looking for like a career change, I mean, he could go straight north and be putting up fires like crazy.

[Ryan]

He is an obvious first round pick. Definitely.

[Tyler]

He's a lot trained his whole life for this.

[Ryan]

So footage will be incredible too.

[Jared]

Yeah. Wood. Yeah. You got footy and you get less smoke.

[Ryan]

He ain't afraid to get close to the fire either.

[Jared]

And you know, there's a group of people out there too that's just like, you know, I'm not a big fan of these fires, but man, it's great for regrowth. Sometimes you just got to burn it down to build it right back up.

[Miles]

Long term thinkers.

[Jared]

Yeah, it's the re regrowth phase, but.

[Tyler]

Anyway, so, yeah, it just feels like there's no end in sight.

[Jared]

I would agree with.

[Miles]

Well, on the bright side, winter is not too far away.

[Tyler]

Yeah, that's good. Yippee.

[Jared]

But we just heard, I mean there. Those suckers are gonna be burning under the snow.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You know, zombie fires.

[Miles]

Zombie fires.

[Jared]

It's like, well, I want people to take notice of the fire. I'm gonna have this winter at my house. But now I can't because the Canadian wildfire.

[Ryan]

You're most upset that they're gonna be like overshadowing your fire.

[Jared]

Exactly.

[Tyler]

You think your fire is big.

[Jared]

Talk about 1 million times. They should get me up there. Yeah, we don't want to light stuff on fire. We put stuff out.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Jared]

I would not get along. I wouldn't get along with those people up there.

[Tyler]

Yeah. It's just. It's nice for Midwesterners to have a new thing to complain about.

[Jared]

And it's still weather related.

[Tyler]

It's still weather related, but it's just nice to have an additional thing that we can jump on, you know, because usually around this time, it's the humidity that we're bitching about. So it's kind of nice to throw in a curveball and be talking about the smoke instead of the humidity.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

You know, it's not. It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the smoke, you know, kind of fun to do a new wrinkle.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Miles]

It's like adding 30 minutes to every Midwest goodbye now. The smoke.

[Jared]

Yes.

[Tyler]

And also Midwest hello. Yeah. Yeah.

[Miles]

Everyone's late to everything now.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jared]

You. I mean, you didn't even get to ask your neighbor about his deck again until 30 minutes later.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

That's what you were over there asking him about.

[Tyler]

That's right. So we'll figure it out.

[Miles]

We'll figure it Out.

[Tyler]

We'll figure. Well, I guess we don't have. I think that's the worst part is we don't have any control in this scenario.

[Ryan]

None whatsoever.

[Tyler]

You're just an innocent bystander. I mean, we keep catching shrapnel.

[Jared]

Yeah. We just sit here about it.

[Tyler]

It's all we can do.

[Jared]

Yeah, exactly.

[Tyler]

And if we don't do it, who's gonna?

[Jared]

Thank you.

[Tyler]

You okay? Smoke.

[Ryan]

And actually, like, I genuinely think the smoke's been up my allergies worse.

[Tyler]

Yeah. I mean, there's probably science behind that.

[Ryan]

Yep. My eyes have just been watering for two weeks straight.

[Jared]

They should just not.

[Tyler]

I'm just emotional guy.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

So you're just not just crying?

[Ryan]

My wife's been putting estrogen in my food.

[Jared]

So you've been coughing and your eyes been watering?

[Ryan]

No, that cough was cuz I choked in my VO for. That was. That's the truth.

[Tyler]

Did you swallow it?

[Ryan]

No, I caught it.

[Jared]

But what was it doing that far down your throat?

[Ryan]

I was switching lips and it got stuck.

[Tyler]

Oh, switching lips?

[Ryan]

No. Great band name.

[Miles]

Great band name.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

All right, guys, prize picks, time of the week. And right now on prize picks, they will give you $50 in lineups when you play your first $5 lineup, win or lose, you'll get 50 bucks in lineups. Use promo code YBR when you sign up today. And boys, we got a good lineup this week.

[Ryan]

A great slip.

[Tyler]

You can tell we're excited that we feel really good about a lineup when we do that. We do that.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Tyler]

So, Jared, this. This foolproof lineup we got, what do you got?

[Miles]

First I have the Minnesota Loons. Dane Sinclair.

[Tyler]

Dang.

[Miles]

More than one and a half goalie saves.

[Tyler]

See, me and Ryan toggle them up. We believe in Dane.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Tyler]

Yeah, we believe in the loons.

[Jared]

He had five last game.

[Ryan]

That's what. That's what he does every save.

[Tyler]

Yeah, we believe in the lo. Tug it up. Three and a half like it, Tyler.

[Ryan]

I got my girl. Jewel Lloyd.

[Tyler]

Everyone knows you've been a Jewel Lloyd fan Since day one.

[Ryan]

Since day one, dude. More than 12 and a half points.

[Tyler]

Nice.

[Jared]

I like that.

[Tyler]

I have my girl. Jackie Young, rebound machine. They. She's actually.

[Ryan]

They.

[Tyler]

They actually call her the. The. The box out princess. Wow. But I call her the rebound. I got her for more than four and a half rebounds.

[Jared]

And that's a red devil toggle, too.

[Tyler]

Yeah, you got to toggle that guy up, that girl up.

[Jared]

I mean, and then just to cap this. This foolproof slip off, I got eight. AJ AJ Wilson. Less than 21 point.

[Ryan]

Aja.

[Tyler]

Aja Asia.

[Jared]

Aja Wilson.

[Tyler]

See, I know. Spelt the same. She goes by Asia.

[Jared]

So less than 21.5 points. That's, that's gonna be. That'll be the one that wins or loses.

[Tyler]

Slip.

[Miles]

She's really good.

[Tyler]

She's good.

[Jared]

I know, but she's only had one over 21 in the last five.

[Miles]

All right, crush the numbers.

[Jared]

Trust me on this one.

[Tyler]

Okay.

[Jared]

You said TREY Lance under 119 last week.

[Miles]

That was bad.

[Jared]

And he had 120.

[Tyler]

That was huge.

[Jared]

We would have won the slip.

[Miles]

I know.

[Jared]

No, no, no, no.

[Ryan]

I scored one touchdown.

[Jared]

Yeah. We had a flex play win.

[Tyler]

Oh, well.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

So guys, roll with us this week. Huge lineup. Go loons.

[Jared]

Go Aces.

[Tyler]

Another thing we were talking about last week was your first car.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

When you, you know, there's always like, oh, every first car should be a Beetle. Every first car should be a beat up old wagon. Correct.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Tyler]

And there's always, there's always little quirks with your first car. Right. It's, it's never as simple as getting in the car, starting it up, turning on the radio, and driving. There's always something extra that you have to do, whether, when you're turning the key to start it, you have to like wiggle the steering wheel to make sure that the, the key turn the radio never works. And so you like, need to, you're like, I only can get AM 1040 and that's the only station that comes in. And so that's what I'm locked into. Do you guys have like that with yours?

[Ryan]

So my first, my first vehicle I ever had was a blue pickup that I had for a summer. I think it was like 97. And it, the ignition didn't work correctly, so my cousin rigged up. He'd have to put the key in, turn the key, and then he. It was the first ever push button start. He rigged up a yellow push button on the left side of the steering wheel so I'd have, I'd be holding the key, I'd press the button, and then it would fire up and it ran like a dream other than the ignition. And then the radio didn't work. So I would wear over the ear, like mowing radio headphones so I could listen to the radio while I drive. And the AC didn't work, but the air would blow. And so if I blew the air and it stunk really bad because when we pulled this thing out of the woods that had a bunch of squirrels, nests in the air filters and shit.

[Jared]

You pulled this truck out of the woods?

[Ryan]

Basically. It sat behind our house for a long time. So we pulled it out and it like, Besides the air filter being gross, we cleaned everything out and got it running pretty quick. So then the ac, so I had windows down. And then the passenger window got fucking stuck down. So the window down. No radio. And a first ever push button start on my first vehicle.

[Tyler]

Wow. Tyler had pushed the start on his.

[Jared]

First car before Wiz Khalifa did.

[Tyler]

Jesus. My cousin, who's like, I don't know, 17 years old, he was looking at my uncle's car that he's restoring and he, he's like, get in there, like, start it up, see if it runs. And he didn't know what to do with the key?

[Ryan]

No.

[Tyler]

Because nowadays it's only pushed to start.

[Ryan]

How old did you say he was?

[Tyler]

17.

[Jared]

Was it a manual? Manual or automatic?

[Tyler]

Is the car. Yeah, yeah, I think it was a manual.

[Jared]

Okay. Because you gotta, you gotta hit the clutch when you, when you turn the key in a manual.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You gotta figure out where to put.

[Tyler]

The key before that's step two. Yeah, sure.

[Jared]

Okay. Okay. So, yeah, we can't even get past step one. I try to give him some, some, give him some grace here, but I, I, I get it.

[Tyler]

Yeah, Yeah. I, My, my truck that I got was hand me down from my older brother. And there was only one speaker that wasn't blown. And it had the little thing you could move to which direction it was like the fading, whatever. And so it just always just was coming out of one speaker. So if you were a passenger, you couldn't hear. Music wise.

[Jared]

Yeah, yeah. You just have to put some over the ear, headphones in and just hit start on your CD player at the same time.

[Tyler]

I drove for like six months with, you know, like, they have like detailing on the side panel of the door where they glue like, just like a little decorative thing at the time.

[Ryan]

They make it look like fake wood.

[Tyler]

Yeah. But this was just a match. The color paint, but it was like some texture strip they put on there. Yeah, it was just hanging off for like six months. Because I'm like, I'm not gonna rip this. I feel like it's weird to rip it off and I'm definitely not gonna re. Glue it. So I just rolled around with that thing hanging off for like six months until it finally fell all the way off.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Ripped the paint off too. So that was a good look.

[Ryan]

What was that?

[Jared]

A Dodge Dakota?

[Tyler]

Dodge Dakota Sport.

[Ryan]

Oh. Luxury is the first Car.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Actually it was like nice when my brother got it, like pretty decent. But by the time my little brother got it, not so much.

[Jared]

Yeah, that thing's not coming out the other side in decent condition even. I had an 01 Pontiac Grand Dam.

[Ryan]

That's such a classic first car. Dude.

[Jared]

That's like for people our age, I think there that was the most popular car on the road. It was a Pontiac Grand Am and a Pontiac Grand Grand Prix, which they don't make anymore.

[Ryan]

And. Yeah. And then the next evolution was the G6.

[Jared]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tyler]

100 G6.6. You were rolling. Yeah, well, because then college with a G6.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Didn't the song like G6 come out like right around that time?

[Ryan]

Yeah, I think that was about the jet. No, right.

[Tyler]

Yeah, that he knows that. Right?

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

But, but it was funny because all the people with G6 is correcting like the song was about their car.

[Ryan]

I didn't in high school because nobody had nice cars at my school. And the G6 is in the parking lot were the nice cars. And so I genuinely thought the song was about the G6 to start.

[Tyler]

I, I, I get it.

[Jared]

I get it.

[Ryan]

Like my car was my truck with all those issues was like middle of the road for quality of vehicles in my class.

[Tyler]

No 100%. But to assume that they're doing a hip hop song about a Pontiac.

[Jared]

Well, maybe you knew how popular they were.

[Ryan]

They were. There was like 12 of them in the parking lot and they're like the nicest cars.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Fortunately, I never had any issues with my grandam. But my mom had gotten in an accident because it was a hand me down for my mom and she and a, she and a friend had gotten like a bad accident with it. So the is damn near totaled. So through insurance it got rebuilt and damn near brand new Grand Am when I got it. You just had one, you know, hefty accident underneath its belt.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Salvage title.

[Jared]

Yeah. And also to get a hand e brake in your first car, especially in North Dakota winters where it was Tyler. The wrestling tournament at the local college. That parking lot I would rip around after that tournament in, in my granddad.

[Ryan]

Dude, the parking lot after winter sports practice as a 16 year old is, is like the parking garage in Tokyo Drift.

[Jared]

Yes.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Like, because we would have, there would be two different like time frames for basketball practice. It either be like right after school at 44 or you'd have the late PR 6. So when you roll out of practice at like 8, 8:30 and there's no one else in the parking lot. And there's a fresh snow while you were at practice.

[Jared]

Oh my God.

[Miles]

Just a little bit of ice. Not too much.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we got, we got reckless driving tickets for doing that in the parking lot one time.

[Tyler]

What kind of fucking cop in your town is doing that?

[Ryan]

I'm not going to name it but.

[Tyler]

I mean what a power trip. And some high schoolers and empty parking lot after they just got done. This was laying on each other at wrestling practice. This was after driving ticket.

[Ryan]

This was at like midnight. We had gotten home from a tournament and we were on our way home. We got back to the parking lot so there was completely empty except for the wrestlers cars. So even the other sport like basketball players were gone. So it was just us and we were just whipping shitties in the parking lot. We got reckless driving tickets.

[Tyler]

That seems. Come on.

[Jared]

Oh yeah, you're in a parking lot too. It's not like any. It's not like there's two way traffic in a parking lot at midnight, you know. And you know you guys are mentally exhausted from the duel you just got done with.

[Ryan]

You know, we probably would have got away with it, but one of the.

[Tyler]

Guys was running his mouth class Dylan.

[Jared]

He was Dylan.

[Ryan]

Totally a Dylan.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Right.

[Miles]

With the grand amount you mentioned, like that's the high school car. I can picture like three people in my head that drew it.

[Jared]

My wife had a Pontiac Grant. She had a Grand Prix. Yeah, it was, I don't know, a couple years newer I think her dad. So her and her sister had like identical cars and he just got them on an auction somewhere and then I think they went to complete like three.

[Ryan]

Or four years later.

[Jared]

It didn't run at all.

[Tyler]

I also feel like every good first car needs to have a name.

[Ryan]

Oh, blue.

[Tyler]

That was always like all blue. I feel like a lot of them are called Bessie. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jared]

Like they just dumb names like that Bill.

[Tyler]

Tabitha. Driving old Tabitha today. Is that even a real name?

[Ryan]

Tabitha? Yeah, yeah, that's the name.

[Jared]

Oh yeah. I went to a. I went to school with a girl named Tabitha. I went to school with a girl named Tabitha.

[Miles]

What did she drive?

[Jared]

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

[Ryan]

Intrusive thought he did not push down.

[Tyler]

What was that? Is that a song? I don't know. No, I, I just sound like a.

[Jared]

Like a song lyric of some sort.

[Tyler]

Like kind of sounded like the start of like a Garth Brooks song.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it sounded like the lyrics to one of those AI songs we Put at the end of the podcast.

[Jared]

School with a girl named Tabitha.

[Tyler]

I went to school with girl named Tabitha. There's just not a lot of good words that rhyme with Tabitha is. I think the problem.

[Miles]

I can think of one.

[Tyler]

Really?

[Jared]

Tabitha.

[Ryan]

I can't. Tell me.

[Jared]

I mean, I legitimately don't know what you're referring to.

[Miles]

It's a female body part.

[Tyler]

It. It's a. It's a slant rhyme.

[Jared]

Okay. Yeah. So we're not, like, completely parallel. We're more so, like, adjacent. A little perpendicular.

[Tyler]

Yeah, sure.

[Ryan]

An acute angle off of it.

[Tyler]

So, you know, it's always like. Nothing rhymes with the word orange. What rhymes with Tabitha? What ends in itha. Do we unlock a new word that can't be rhymed?

[Miles]

What?

[Ryan]

Right.

[Jared]

I feel like there's got to be someone in those books that. That. Those fictional books you guys are reading. There's some sort of city.

[Miles]

Grabbing a Arabica.

[Ryan]

Arabica.

[Jared]

That's a decent one. Grabbing the Navina. Cafeteria.

[Ryan]

Establisher.

[Miles]

Britannica. That's pretty good.

[Jared]

Britannica. Yeah. High school, actually.

[Tyler]

My sister's name's Danica. That kind of rhymes with it.

[Ryan]

There we go.

[Jared]

Danica. Yeah. Teaching Britannica.

[Ryan]

Germanica.

[Miles]

We're on the board. Metallica.

[Tyler]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Tyler]

Yeah, there's plenty of words. I'll shut the up. But not cool words.

[Miles]

I mean, Metallica.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Anyway, yeah, every. But every car's got to have a nickname of some sort.

[Ryan]

What was the Dakota Sports?

[Tyler]

I think it was the Black Stallion.

[Ryan]

Nice.

[Miles]

It was. It.

[Tyler]

Was it black? It was black.

[Miles]

Okay.

[Tyler]

Yeah, it's a Black Stallion.

[Jared]

Yes, that. Mine was just called. It was called a Whitey. This is a white.

[Ryan]

Nice. Whitey Duval.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Starts with the color, then you name it.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Tyler]

Speaking of school, I feel like this has got to be back to school time here pretty quick.

[Ryan]

Oh, for sure. We're in it. I got. I got the school list. I got to take my kids school shopping.

[Tyler]

What's this? What does the school list look like in 2025 Jordans?

[Ryan]

Honestly, dude, it's. It's prime for kindergarteners.

[Tyler]

Okay, Finish.

[Ryan]

Can't talk today, Ryan.

[Tyler]

Oh, my God.

[Ryan]

I. It's not that different for kindergarteners. I thought it was going to be, like. I had to get him a whole bunch of weird shit. It's the exact same box of Kleenex. I got to get them the pencil box, the pencils, the erasers, all that stuff. It's the exact same.

[Jared]

Dude, I forgot about the box of Kleenex we used to have to bring.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Miles]

I never understood that.

[Jared]

I didn't either.

[Tyler]

Because.

[Ryan]

Because it comes out of the teacher's pocket, and the teacher's like, I don't want to have to buy Kleenex for these snotty little kids. So we'll just have each one of them bring one box.

[Miles]

So that's so messed up.

[Jared]

Why don't they just.

[Tyler]

Well, so we're in the phase now, though, that. So we've probably gotten, like, four dms from random people asking us to buy stuff for their classroom. So teachers are getting no support off of that stuff. They got like, buy stuff for their classroom, so now they're just mass, like, messaging and texting people trying to get all their stuff bought for their classroom.

[Miles]

It's kind of have to.

[Jared]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tyler]

Like, I. I appreciate the hustle, but at some point, it's like, should a teacher be having to buy decorations for their classroom is kind of where I think the real issue lies, right?

[Ryan]

No.

[Tyler]

Out of their own pocket.

[Ryan]

Yeah. That's crazy work. That's like Miles being like, tyler, edit a video. Go buy a laptop on your own and then. And then buy all the software, buy some cameras, and then shoot the video for me.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

It's very similar.

[Ryan]

It's the same thing.

[Jared]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bring your own blank T shirts to work.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

So we can get those shipped out. Okay. Does anyone want to donate to my blank T shirt fund? So we can just keep this thing going?

[Miles]

Comfort colors.

[Tyler]

So people have to buy the blank shirt for you and then also buy the printed shirt.

[Jared]

Yeah. Right.

[Tyler]

That's dope. Yeah. So they're not different. Like, do you still gotta, like. I wonder if in high school you, like, still even need to buy a calculator or not?

[Ryan]

I don't. Yeah, that's a really good question.

[Tyler]

I saw a pretty funny meme that it was like the TI100 calculator.

[Ryan]

Do you remember the TI84?

[Tyler]

Well, no. So the one that was, like, higher than that, it was like. The meme was like. I remember thinking that this fancy calculator cost 1 million doll. Because it would be like, you go. And you'd want to get the nicer calculator. Your mom be like, no, we're not buying that. That's. We don't need to spend money on that.

[Jared]

Well, and it's not a. It's not a calculator. It's an instrument.

[Tyler]

Texas.

[Jared]

Texas instrument.

[Ryan]

That's the ti.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

What a stranglehold that company had on calculators.

[Ryan]

Yeah, they did have great calculators When I found out that you could store notes in that.

[Tyler]

Play games on it.

[Jared]

Stats class. Dude, that's testing my kill.

[Ryan]

I had everything. I took one math class in college and I had every test answ in my notes on my calculator.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Do you want to know what I did mostly with my TI calculator was I made up a pattern of numbers that would fill the entire row of screen and then I would just see how fast I could type the exact same number. That's what I would do during math class.

[Ryan]

You were bored, but then it made.

[Tyler]

It look like I was actually doing work.

[Jared]

You were just grinding away on the ti.

[Tyler]

Look like a banker with the green visor going like this. Yeah. Then how fast can I do with one hand versus two?

[Miles]

Got to see in the class.

[Ryan]

What was your npm?

[Tyler]

It was pretty high. I would say it probably take me 2 seconds max to type the whole number.

[Jared]

What? You guys were with npms Numbers per minute. I know we didn't do like that.

[Ryan]

I made it up. Oh, you're the king of making random acronyms. That's how you get.

[Jared]

Well, no, it would mix it because, I mean, you got words per minute. So I'm like, what were you guys learning that I wasn't, apparently. Npms. I was putting that in my.

[Tyler]

That was made up. Made up.

[Miles]

My. My wife works at a school and she says, like, because they all get like, Chromebooks or whatever and those kids just. Just put those Chromebooks through hell.

[Ryan]

Oh, I believe it.

[Jared]

They're not. They're not there. So they can do whatever they want to in their mind.

[Miles]

Yeah, like, screwed up the thumb drives with like, paper clips and like, taking the keys off of the Chromebooks, throwing them across the room, all that.

[Jared]

Dude, we're just like. We're just either making those triangle footballs and flicking them at kids or like spitballs with a random straw. We got a lunch.

[Ryan]

I remember our teachers trying to make us feel like we were getting something special when they gave us our daily planners. And now kids get Chromebooks.

[Tyler]

Do you guys get the daily planners that had the, like, reflective thing that it would like? It was like when you would turn it one way, it would be one thing and you turn it the other way.

[Ryan]

Inside cover was a globe map of the world.

[Tyler]

I just remember getting it and be like, I am going to be so.

[Jared]

Dialed this semester plan.

[Tyler]

I am going to. Starting right now. I'm going to color code some shit. I'm going to put everything in my planner. That other stuff three Days later. Where's my planner?

[Ryan]

No idea. We used to have to bring our planners home and get them signed by our parents. Same terrible nightmare zone. My dad's like, why do I have to keep signing this thing?

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Here. They make me do it.

[Jared]

I'm gonna. I'm just gonna get a stamp with my signature and we're just gonna take the easy route.

[Ryan]

I don't. Yeah, let the kid forge notes. I don't care. No.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Only thing that matters is, like, can you count basic numbers? Can you multiply, divide? Do you know the basic amount of history that you need to know about the US and the world and the.

[Miles]

Powerhouse of the cell?

[Tyler]

Yeah. Do. Do you know very basic, like, science stuff? That's kind of it.

[Jared]

Yeah. But then if you didn't get a 25 or higher in your act, you were a dumbass.

[Tyler]

You know, you're gonna be homeless.

[Jared]

God, I grinded a 23 out and I'm like, jesus, I'm gonna fail in life. That's what's gonna happen.

[Tyler]

The other thing. We're back to school that's going on is football practice is bad.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Tyler]

I just remember. You know what? Kids got it easy these days.

[Jared]

Okay, go on.

[Ryan]

What do you mean? They're practicing in this smoke.

[Jared]

That's true.

[Tyler]

Okay, fine. Maybe this year they got it maybe just as bad as we used to have it.

[Jared]

But it's probably cutting down on conditioning, so they're not doing as much conditioning with the smoke.

[Tyler]

Yeah, we used to have to do two a days, man.

[Ryan]

Do they not do two days anymore?

[Tyler]

No. It's, like, illegal to do two days now.

[Ryan]

What? It's illegal, right?

[Tyler]

I'm not. I'm not tripping, Right?

[Ryan]

Like, I didn't know this.

[Tyler]

It's like, you can only practice for so long, and I don't think you can do it twice in one day anymore because of, like, kids were, like, getting overworked and, you know, the Junction Boys kind of ruined it for everyone.

[Ryan]

I don't know who that is either.

[Tyler]

Do you know the Junction? You don't remember that movie? It's like a guy in, like, the 70s who, like, brought his football team out in the middle of desert, like, gave him no water, made him practice all day. And, like, guys were going to the hospital and stuff. And then they did a movie about it. Oh, they got everyone all bent out of shape.

[Ryan]

That was good for him, though.

[Tyler]

Yeah. I mean, it was. It was basically child abuse at that point was Junction Boys. But. But they were a good football team. Though.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Went eight and two.

[Ryan]

Made to the second round playoffs.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

So I, I mean maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure like across sporting, like even in college they kind of have banned two a days.

[Miles]

It's much more regulated now than it used to be.

[Tyler]

Yeah. It's like if you're gonna have a second practice, it needs to be like walk through only like that.

[Miles]

And like mandatory water break breaks and stuff like that.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

If you want to take a water break in high school football, I feel like, like you just dropped on the depth chart immediately.

[Ryan]

Well, if you took it up, we weren't. If you went and took a water break without it being like a, hey guys, go get some water. Like you got to run for that.

[Tyler]

Yeah, just totally.

[Jared]

You had to, you had to sweat that water out that you just drank out of.

[Ryan]

Water break our water. I mean, I think this was pretty common for most football teams. Correct me if I'm wrong, but our water receptacle was like a sawhorse kinda with a PVC pipe with the holes drilled in the sides. Yeah, no, we didn't. And then it would squirt out of the sides of the pvc.

[Tyler]

We had a fancy one where it was like a hose that, that came off of the PVC thing. So like you could. Yeah, yeah.

[Jared]

Microplastics.

[Tyler]

My favorite though is when high schools call the first week of football practice Hell week.

[Ryan]

I love that.

[Tyler]

Just nothing screams we're going to go five and five this season. Like naming the first week of practice hell week. Where all you do is condition.

[Miles]

Don't touch a ball.

[Tyler]

Don't. Yeah, don't touch a ball. You're like, well, that sucks, coach, because we're playing football.

[Ryan]

I would love to learn the playbook, but I can't because I'm running 12 miles today.

[Tyler]

We might not be the most talented, but we're going to be the most conditioned. We're going to show up in the fourth quarter and we're going to still be conditioned. We can't run plays good, but we are going to be not tired in.

[Ryan]

The fourth quarter so we can be more lucid while we're getting our asses beat.

[Miles]

We're running the T wing.

[Jared]

Those guys across the river are drinking. They're drinking heavies while we're drinking light beer all summer. Football team in North Dakota. I won't name the city, but I just. It was a great find. Huh?

[Miles]

Nothing.

[Jared]

I, I had just heard that like their offseason conditioning was just changing from heavies to Light beer.

[Miles]

Does make a difference.

[Ryan]

They're onto something less bogged down come hell week.

[Jared]

That's right. Less lactic acid in the. In the muscles.

[Miles]

What was like the conditioning drill you guys hated the Most in football?

[Ryan]

100 yards of burpees.

[Miles]

That does suck.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

See, I got a little bit lucky. My coach wasn't an insane person.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

So we would do conditioning that mattered, not just, like, doing burpees for a hundred yards. That just sounds like it was run.

[Ryan]

Run five yards, burpee on the five, run five more, burpee on the ten. That's better.

[Tyler]

Rather than just burpeeing every two yards.

[Ryan]

Yeah, sorry. And that was college. That was in high school. That was the punishment in college before I got there.

[Tyler]

There was a different coach in college, and apparently. I think I've said this before, but they would make a barrel roll for 100 yards. It's like a conditioning punishment. And then they just all would be puking for, like, an hour afterwards.

[Jared]

And while these conditioning drills are going on, everyone on the coaching staff is just yelling, fourth quarter.

[Ryan]

Fourth quarter.

[Jared]

It's like, all right, we get it.

[Tyler]

Yeah, we're gonna be doing the. Whenever it was like. Like, let's say you had to run 20 sprints or whatever, right. The last five sprints, coach would pause, and everyone would hold up their fours for the fly. Nothing breeds camaraderie like a good four thrown up. You know, nothing brings a brotherhood together like four fingers.

[Ryan]

We. I'm sure that we weren't the only ones to do this either, but at the end of every practice, we would run 40s, and then the Monday after.

[Tyler]

Wait, why? Like, what do you mean? Like, as conditioning or like, you guys were timing them?

[Ryan]

No. No conditioning.

[Tyler]

Okay, so like, every week, they're like, all right, let's see if we got faster.

[Ryan]

Everybody lined. The whole team lines up on the tiny school so we can fit our whole team on the goal line, run to the 40, stop, run back, and we just run x amount of 40s. And on Mondays, the amount of 40s we'd have to run or how many penalties we had in the game before. And then if we jumped because our 40s that we ran were. Were time downs, and if we jumped on our 40s, it would add an extra one, and there was always a kid. We'd be on our 12th 40, and then he would jump, and then everybody'd be looking at him. It'd be on two or the next 40, and then some other would jump.

[Tyler]

We would do that as well. Like, like, my coach would be like, all right, this is on three. And it would. So if it's on three, it's actually four whistles. It's like the first whistle is like the. Like, everyone gets set, and then the last three, and. Yeah. Nothing will make people turn on each other.

[Ryan]

Oh, my God.

[Tyler]

Accidentally drill like that. Yeah.

[Ryan]

It doesn't matter how many fours are held up in the air. If Brett.

[Tyler]

Four fingers turn into one. Really?

[Jared]

And if you jump again, that one finger is going up your ass.

[Miles]

Yep.

[Tyler]

And there'd be showers after practice. We used to. In basketball, we would do, like, conditioning based off of free throws. So technically, if everyone on the team made all of their free throws, no one would have to run. But that's never no happen. That will also make people. Because that one's, like, more like your skill based. Whereas, like, takes no skill not to jump off sides.

[Ryan]

So especially in a 40 where it doesn't matter if you're off the ball late. Because we're just conditioning.

[Tyler]

Correct.

[Miles]

Yeah. We had a coach. This is basketball. But, like, if somebody would get in trouble with the teacher, the whole team would have to run. And the kid that got in trouble had to watch the whole team.

[Ryan]

So I got in trouble once. I made some. Some comment during film, and it got overheard by a coach, and so they were gonna make me run 40s in front of the whole team by myself. And I was fine with that. Like, I got caught, whatever. But then there was the do Gooders on the team. Like, we're gonna run with you. And I was like, just. I wanted to just tell them to off so bad, but I didn't want to dig my hole any deeper. So there's just, like, the three Captain America is standing next to me on the line. I'm like, I. I hate you guys. Just let me eat my punishment by myself.

[Miles]

What was your ad comment? Do you remember?

[Ryan]

I made a comment about a hot teacher that poked her head into the film room.

[Tyler]

What did you say that got you 40s? I would have got a big laugh at our.

[Ryan]

It got a big laugh from everybody but the coach that heard me say it.

[Jared]

Oh. And he want. He. You know, he wanted to laugh. He just had. He had to say something.

[Ryan]

She said something about us stinking. And then I said something about the showers and.

[Tyler]

Oh, Tyler.

[Ryan]

Yeah. And the coach. The coach heard it.

[Jared]

I plan on. Yeah. Getting clean in the showers if you want to meet me in there.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I think I said, well, I could use some help. Smell or something like that.

[Tyler]

Oh, yeah. Tyler Big laugh.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Except one.

[Tyler]

I think the worst part about football practice was when you had to do live tackling drills.

[Ryan]

Oh, God.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Just nothing worse than having to like, do a full tackle. Not in a game.

[Ryan]

It's especially late season when it's cold as too.

[Tyler]

Like, I feel like coaches have gotten smarter now. Like in college, there was very few times at practice we would actually live tackle each other. So when you would do it, it actually would like, be kind of fun. We would do third and short, so it'd be like all the offense just needed to gain 3 yards. The defense had to stop them. And we would do full live tackling and it would always be the starters against each other. That was actually like, pretty fun. But when you're in high school and like at the end of practice, you're doing like a half hour thing of just live tackling drills. Not even actually, like running plays. You're just like, what are we doing out here?

[Jared]

I think, though, I think the one thing that got me to finally this. I'm just like, I'm done with football was we would do like the corner end zone, like tackling drill. So like, one guy would be on the goal line and the other guy would start like the 10 meet at the corner of the end zone.

[Tyler]

Small box, dude.

[Jared]

I like, they'd put me at this. This time I was like five, seven, A buck fifty. They put me against like the starting linebacker, get tackled and. And like, I have zero chance. And of course you're going to just throw yourself into them as hard as you can. I'm like, oh, weird. I'm getting.

[Tyler]

When I would come across the little guy in those drills, you are like, little bit. You're like, I should take it easy on this guy. But also it's gonna make me look really good if I bury this guy.

[Jared]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tyler]

And.

[Jared]

Yeah. And there's no. No. I'm sure at that age there's no better feeling than burying somebody and you're just all pent up. And what better way to do it than in tackling, like live tackling drills. That was insane.

[Tyler]

We used to do Oklahoma drill where it'd be three linemen and a running back and then a linebacker and it was like a 10 by 10 yard box.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

And you guys, you just would run at each other, each other as hard as you can.

[Ryan]

Oklahoma drill was great. What was it called when you. We'd all get in a circle and there'd be one guy in the ring. Yeah. Bowl in the ring. And then the coach would Call out a name of somebody in the circle, and they would just have to smash the guy in the middle.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Winner stayed. Just to get lit up.

[Tyler]

We wouldn't do winner state. You'd have to go until everyone hit you. You at. When we would do.

[Ryan]

Oh, we would just go. We kind of did. Maybe we called the king of the ring, because whoever we. We would go until there was one guy left.

[Tyler]

Yeah, dude. We would just. It would just be. I think our coach was like, we just need you to get used to getting hit. And so it would just like, all right, Tyler, you run at me, and if you got knocked in your ass, you have to get up. And then Jared would run at you. We should do that. Yeah.

[Jared]

At the end of it, the last guy standing, they just like, the Blue 10 is already there. Ready to flip over top of.

[Miles]

Yeah, for sure.

[Tyler]

Just do it in the blue tent.

[Jared]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Miles]

We had one kid that got jacked up like, four or five times a row and just, like, walked out of practice like this.

[Jared]

I get it. I get it. What are we doing?

[Tyler]

I remember when we did the Oklahoma drill, too. I. It was when I was a freshman. We had a pretty good class. I mean, one of the guys played in the NFL for nine years, so we, like. We had a good class, and we. It would always go seniors versus the freshmen, the juniors versus sophomores, and there'd be a championship. I remember just beating the seniors my freshman year. And everyone. And everyone was. It got really awkward, weird. And obviously the seniors that played, like, there was a. They definitely were, like, embarrassed, but also, like, kind of pissed. You know, the kids are supposed to let us win, basically. That was. You also, like, have that dynamic on a high school football team of, like, seniority and stuff.

[Jared]

It's weird.

[Ryan]

Yeah. It's the first time, like, I would say typically, it's like, there's always, like, a sophomore that kind of up a senior. And it's like, the first time you realize growing up that, like, age doesn't matter if someone younger than you is better.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Good.

[Miles]

Life lessons all around.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Tyler]

So, yeah, I actually. I kind of like to know why you quit football. What age was that?

[Jared]

I played through my freshman year. I didn't play sophomore through senior year.

[Tyler]

Yeah, he got. He got lit up by starting linebackers.

[Jared]

I did. Dude, I'll show it. Yeah, I'll show you that. He was not small by any means. Probably 6, 2, 6, 3. Like, probably 230, 220. He was a heavyweight on the wrestling team.

[Tyler]

There is definitely a Moment when football goes from. As a kid goes from this is fun to roughhouse with your buddies to this guy could actually fuck.

[Jared]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Tyler]

There's like a clear turning point, and it always happens. Yeah. Right around eighth grade, ninth grade, you're like, oh, this is. This is real now.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

I. I could break my neck playing this game.

[Jared]

Yeah. I probably shouldn't be getting headaches after every pract.

[Tyler]

During practice. During practice or after I hit someone the first time.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Helmet technology is bad.

[Jared]

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, as freshman, too, you get the last pick of helmets.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jared]

So I said, you just hope you get a good face mask. Hope you don't have the fucking bar down the middle, like, let alone.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Ryan's playing receiver with a bar down the middle. He's wearing. He's wearing number 54.

[Jared]

And it's like someone took it, like, just grab my earlobe and just, like, slit the bottom of, like, where my earlobe attaches to my head. They just, like, slip the bottom of that from taking it on and putting.

[Miles]

From the 90s.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

There would always be, like, two helmets that had the face mask where the. The thing wasn't thick up and down, but it was thick front and back. You know what I'm talking about?

[Jared]

Yep. It was like, flat, like.

[Tyler]

And the. The clear plastic things that screw to the helmet were always yellow. Yes. Yep.

[Jared]

Yep.

[Miles]

It was like a bike helmet. It said bike on it.

[Tyler]

It said bike. Yeah. It's like, literally you're wearing a bike helmet to play football.

[Miles]

Those brands you've never heard of.

[Jared]

Yeah. I'd rather want a full cage hockey helmet than a. And get the bar down the middle.

[Miles]

Might as well at that point as a wide out. You know, like, your thigh pads are.

[Tyler]

Just way too big for your pants.

[Jared]

You get the last pick of girdle.

[Ryan]

We might have been the last generation to have girdles where you had put the pads in them.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

The girls are terrible.

[Tyler]

Even towards the end, like, of high school, I would. I got a one.

[Ryan]

When they were built in.

[Tyler]

They were built in.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

It was way better.

[Tyler]

I just remember, like, my parents almost getting divorced over trying to figure out how to weave the hip pads in with. Through the belt.

[Ryan]

Oh, my God.

[Tyler]

They're not.

[Jared]

Not easy. Not easy.

[Tyler]

Before, every time my mama washed the pants, they have to re. String it through. It was like. Like one of the parents was getting pissed and giving up. I felt like at least once a week there was a. There was someone blowing up over weaving the belt through the hip pads.

[Jared]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Tyler]

And Then eventually they were just like, I'm not doing it, you're doing it. So you'd be on the way to practice still trying to figure out how to get it in there.

[Miles]

Terrible.

[Jared]

I actually remember those. We had those like fifth and sixth grade.

[Ryan]

I don't know. It was, it's. I mean today they gotta just have the pants. Have to have them built in by now, right?

[Tyler]

Yeah. I mean not even if you just get it like hip pads back in the day were so ridiculous how they would stick like 6 inches.

[Ryan]

But it was just that like that little circle that would stick out.

[Tyler]

No, it was the, that was on the bottom. Were you putting them in upside down?

[Ryan]

We had. So they look, they're like a upside down triangle almost. And it had the little circle on the end and then had a. Another circle on the top. So our circles were sticking out above our pants.

[Jared]

Yeah, these ones were kind of just like. They're like flat on top and then they're like, like, like half moon in.

[Ryan]

And then, then ours came to a taper and we had a circle on the bottom and a circle on the top.

[Tyler]

Yeah, ours had like. It was like a full block, like a rec on the top stick rectangle sticking out the top.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

You know what I'm talking about?

[Jared]

Yep. That's.

[Tyler]

That's those, that's what we, we didn't have the circles.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we, we had the rectangle as well. But it was also a little loop up there. Look stupid.

[Jared]

Like, I'm actually surprised in those practices that like they didn't like. Okay. A coach is gonna long snap it to the, to the punter on the team with no line or anything. And then just the starting special teams defense is just gonna bull rush the punter and hit him as hard as they can. No, it wouldn't be surprised me if they're doing drills like just to get him ready for maybe. Maybe like a botch punt. Hey, I'm. I'm gonna like these guys are gonna your world up because we just need you to know what that feels like so this doesn't happen. Yeah, we just need reps in this. You know, I, I understand if your head comes off, but we'll. We got the trainer over here is new this year.

[Tyler]

Real fast.

[Jared]

Yeah, he just graduated from college. We'll get him to attach it.

[Ryan]

I mean I, I blew up my kidney at practice. Not even in a game. Like some kid got fucked up so bad he helicoptered in the air and his helmet hit me in there like I wasn't even by the play I was just kind of stopped doing.

[Tyler]

If you are a high school football coach listening to this, if your players are helicoptering during practice, you are doing something wrong. After playing five seasons in college, you do not need to be helicoptering in practice.

[Ryan]

I think we went full contact in college like three times.

[Tyler]

Correct? Yes. You do not need to be doing that.

[Jared]

Okay.

[Tyler]

I just, I can just imagine kids getting launched.

[Ryan]

He got hit so hard that he was spitting in the air. His helmet hit me in the ribs and it broke my kidney.

[Miles]

He was just fine.

[Ryan]

And I was like, coach, my ribs are broken.

[Tyler]

And, and the best part is, is the coaches were a rock hard. They're like, yeah, see, that's how we practice. Yeah.

[Jared]

Because they're probably guys who like you played in a few years earlier now are just back in their hometown trying to coach football.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Doing the. Yeah. Student coaching.

[Miles]

I, I think get paid a thousand bucks for the season.

[Jared]

If there, if there was a day where I was happier than like the birth of my two kids, it would be like Thursday. Walk through practices.

[Ryan]

Shells only.

[Jared]

Shells only. No hitting, no nothing. I'm like my, like, I'm going to skate out of this with no headache and this, it's going to be glamorous.

[Ryan]

Oh, we didn't do a single notepad walkthrough in high school. We would do shells where you just tap on people. But never once were we just T shirts and shorts. Walk through. Really.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

The one thing that was after I was done playing football, I enjoyed playing football. It was a great time. But that first fall where I didn't have to worry about playing football was just amazing.

[Jared]

I believe it.

[Tyler]

Like your sophomore year, going into August, you had to admit you, you were like, hey, all my buddies are at football practice. I'm going to the, the public swimming pool still.

[Jared]

Yep. I'm gonna skate park.

[Tyler]

Go to skate park. I'm eating blizzards at 2pm on Thursday while everyone else is at 2 a days.

[Jared]

Yeah. And I think because one of my other good buddies, he didn't play either. So it was like made the decision easier for me. And then I think it got to a point we were like, we were trying to talk our other buddies out of football just to like come hang with us. We're like just, just trash in the program or whatever. And I don't know, we might have recruited like one guy, but that was about it. It was a win.

[Miles]

Football coach must have hated.

[Jared]

Yeah. Well, hey, we saved his brain though.

[Miles]

It's true.

[Jared]

His brain.

[Tyler]

What is pretty Funny about Ryan's high school team at that time. Time is they quite literally had four plays in their entire offense.

[Jared]

Yeah. Probably dive right.

[Ryan]

Yeah. They didn't have time to learn it that hell week.

[Tyler]

And one of them was they only had one pass and the rest were run plays. And it was like run right, run left and run middle and that was it. Like game planning for them was the easiest thing ever because they just ran the same plays over and watch one drive.

[Jared]

Yeah, we had the best running back in the season.

[Ryan]

State.

[Tyler]

Yeah, it was.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

So yeah, we got. The only reason why we lost you guys. That was my last high school football loss was to. To Ryan's high school because their running back was so good. Yeah, actually it was because he was so fast. I think it was like fastest kid in the state. One of the first.

[Jared]

One of the first dates with my now wife was at. At what was when our high schools played against each other. At your high school.

[Miles]

That's wild.

[Tyler]

That was a wild move because you could have lost her to me real fast.

[Jared]

I think we won.

[Tyler]

That could have been like. She was probably this close. Be like, God, the QB on the other team.

[Miles]

So good.

[Tyler]

He's so good and hot. Yeah. So I probably had a bad game. So you're welcome for not stealing your wife.

[Jared]

Not yet.

[Tyler]

Way back then.

[Miles]

Just imagine if you threw five touchdowns.

[Tyler]

Jones, which I probably did.

[Jared]

No, I think it was like 14:6 or 14:8 or something.

[Tyler]

That was, that was the game I was talking about then.

[Jared]

Yeah, yeah, that was the game. That was your. That would have been your last loss. So.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Think about it every day.

[Jared]

Yeah. And you don't need to play football to get chicks. I mean, I'm a great, I'm a great, great example of that, you know. Found my way at 16 years old.

[Tyler]

No, no, no, no. Not chicks. You don't need to play football to get a chick.

[Miles]

Right?

[Tyler]

You've gotten one chick.

[Jared]

Well, I know.

[Tyler]

It's like.

[Ryan]

You.

[Jared]

Yeah, you get it.

[Miles]

Nice guys finish first.

[Jared]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't say.

[Tyler]

Football guys aren't nice to Jared.

[Miles]

Not, not with bow in the middle.

[Tyler]

Or whatever ball in the ring.

[Jared]

I just like once I got the feeling of being able to take someone deep, then, you know, I was out on football.

[Tyler]

Feeling of taking someone to baseball.

[Jared]

Correct.

[Tyler]

Oh, well, did you play a fall sport then?

[Jared]

I played fall. I've played fall baseball in Fargo.

[Tyler]

But that was like. It's a side.

[Jared]

Yeah. Just like not rec league, but yeah.

[Ryan]

Not school related.

[Jared]

No, dude, I was, I, I Like, I was hunt. I. I was hunting more. I was so relaxed. And then like, what was it like October hit or November and basketball is starting up. I mean, that's only like two months into school, so. God, that was a good feeling. What a great decision by me.

[Tyler]

Should take a break. All right, boys, Jared has got a segment for us today. Jared, what is it?

[Miles]

Still trying to catch my breath. I just ran upstairs.

[Tyler]

You went up the stairs? Yeah. All right, Ryan, do you want to give like, give us like 45 seconds of filler for Jared to catch his breath?

[Miles]

I don't need that long.

[Ryan]

Do you need a UFC minute right now? Real quick, Real quick.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah, go ahead.

[Ryan]

Ryan, gloves off.

[Jared]

No, no, you stuff last time's performance. You gotta just give me a like a day heads up.

[Miles]

Okay, I'll do that.

[Jared]

Tyler, you're a wrestling guy. You. You guys have heard of Ben Askren?

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah. How's he doing?

[Jared]

Lung transplant? I don't know. His insurance company didn't cover the cost of anything, so he's 2 million bucks in.

[Ryan]

Absolutely insane. But didn't Jake Paul pay for a bunch of.

[Jared]

A bunch of money? Yeah. Good guy.

[Ryan]

Surprisingly cool.

[Jared]

Yeah. Whether. Whether he actually did or not. I mean, he said he did.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Tyler]

So why do you need a lung transplant? Did he have like.

[Jared]

Why did he get staff and then.

[Ryan]

It like had pneumonia, then got his lungs, got infected with staff?

[Jared]

Yeah, like he should have been dead.

[Ryan]

Yep. He had a double lung transplant and.

[Jared]

I don't know, he probably went from like 220 pounds to probably like 150 pounds.

[Tyler]

I don't says this might be really dead dumb, but I don't understand how if you take. I mean, obviously do one at a time, but how do you. You have to breathe in order to be alive. How do you transplate even or even like how do you do a heart transplant?

[Ryan]

So they just basically put in like.

[Miles]

An artificial thing, the heart.

[Ryan]

It just pumps and pumps blood through your body. So they would just put an artificial pump on it while they're transplanting the other wild.

[Tyler]

That. We figured that out.

[Jared]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tyler]

So you're just then on a fake lung while they're replacing your other lungs?

[Ryan]

Something like that, I would assume. Cuz like they remember that iron lung machine. Like some guy had been in an iron lung since like the 70s and he just died like this year.

[Tyler]

Oh, God.

[Miles]

And that has to do with like polio.

[Ryan]

Yeah. So his lungs just like stop working. So he's in this giant. Only thing sticking out was his head. It would Just like make his lungs expand and contract.

[Miles]

It's like a Big Lebowski long.

[Ryan]

Yeah, but we can't.

[Miles]

Yeah, that one singing Big Lebowski. Yeah, the guy that. The bulk of the series of branded. He was in an iron.

[Tyler]

Oh, remember that?

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Anyway, but we. Yeah, we can't figure the H VAC issues out here, so.

[Tyler]

Yeah, yeah, we can do heart and lung transplants, but we can't figure out a filterless age.

[Miles]

I guess you technically transplant the filter.

[Ryan]

That's true.

[Tyler]

True.

[Ryan]

And our body is. Our organs are. A lot of them are filters of some sort.

[Jared]

Yeah, but, like, they're not making the individual transplant. Their own lungs, liver, heart, just like they're making us.

[Tyler]

I mean, changing on air filter is essentially like doing a heart transplant, because without the air filter, the world can't exist.

[Miles]

It's a pain in the ass.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Yeah, it's a pain in the ass. Same like. Just like a heart transplant. Well, I guess it's more of like a pain in the chest, but then it is a pain in the ass, but.

[Jared]

Not with this Canadian smoke. We probably need to change in filters like once every week, Something like that.

[Tyler]

I didn't think about that.

[Jared]

Yeah. So the lifespan of our filters, we're supposed to expire in January now, probably.

[Tyler]

Tomorrow, but I just don't need that right now, Ryan. All right, Jared, are you ready for your segment? Have you caught in your breath? You need a lung transplant.

[Miles]

The video just stopped working. Let me just see something.

[Tyler]

Okay. Are we still recording on audio?

[Miles]

Yep.

[Tyler]

All right, well, we'll just keep rolling while you're figuring that out. This is going good, Ryan. What other stuff can you fill time with?

[Jared]

Well, I wanted to ask Jared a question. Obviously that's not going to happen now, but I.

[Tyler]

Because we never could ask the same question to me. We'll see what happens.

[Jared]

Well, it was.

[Tyler]

No, just ask the question to me that you were going to ask.

[Jared]

Jared Miles, what kind of. Like, what kind of first car did you have when you were in high school?

[Tyler]

That's what you were gonna ask him?

[Jared]

Yeah, because Jared never told us anything about his first car.

[Tyler]

Jared had a Chevy Malibu in high school. I'm pretty sure that was a sick car.

[Ryan]

Probably a pretty good guess.

[Miles]

No, I had a pickup lot like Tyler's. Yeah, it was like a teal 98 Silverado.

[Ryan]

Oh, yes.

[Miles]

Very similar to Tyler.

[Tyler]

Three door.

[Ryan]

Nice.

[Jared]

What's like the.

[Ryan]

Or that's. My current truck's a three door. That green Chevy have.

[Miles]

It's like you open door, you have to, you have to open door to open the back door. It's like in the door frame to open the door.

[Jared]

Sure. Yeah, Yeah.

[Tyler]

I, I wouldn't.

[Ryan]

I.

[Tyler]

So then I just call that a half cab. Right.

[Ryan]

Or. So the driver's side only has the driver's door. And then if you go on the passenger side, you can open up the front to open up.

[Tyler]

I got it. I was thinking trucks does it on both.

[Jared]

Do you guys.

[Tyler]

What's it called though when it's three door but when a truck has it on both sides, it's like not a four door pickup up. It's just.

[Jared]

Is it like a two door extended cab or.

[Tyler]

I don't know.

[Ryan]

Anyways, door and a half.

[Jared]

Do you guys remember the, the, the back seats that would face like sideways.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Jared]

And they were like on the floor. Those were kind of crazy.

[Ryan]

The most uncomfortable seat in the world. My grandpa Al had those In a big diesel pickup with a tiny cab.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

So you're sitting back there and both shoulders are touching the front seat in the back wal wall.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Have you ever seen the car seat of like the kid that's just like in a. Like it just looks like a. Like you know when you go to the Mall of America and you do that ride where you sit in a swing and they spin you around.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

It just looks like the seat for that, but it's just like hooked onto the back seat. And that's like what they used to put kids in in the back seat back in the day.

[Jared]

It's kind of tight actually.

[Tyler]

So dangerous, no?

[Jared]

Yeah, dangerous, absolutely.

[Ryan]

But my grandma told me that she broug my mom home just on her lap in the front seat.

[Jared]

Yep.

[Ryan]

Teeny tiny baby.

[Jared]

That's how it used to be.

[Miles]

We're good now.

[Tyler]

How we doing, Jared? We're good.

[Ryan]

Okay, that's good filler, guys.

[Tyler]

All right, Jared.

[Miles]

So I've on tik tok. It's that time of year again where you see a lot of like sorority rush tik toks and they make these elaborate videos of them dancing or whatever.

[Tyler]

Yep.

[Miles]

I was thinking like if construction trades had a rush week week and maybe even have to put a tick tock video out, what would the trades have to do for rush week?

[Ryan]

Electricians would just do the same rush videos as all the sororities, correct?

[Miles]

Yes.

[Tyler]

Carbon cop.

[Ryan]

They'd be in crop tops saying rush high delta.

[Jared]

Yeah. Or they'd make them latch on a hot wire or something for like initiation.

[Tyler]

Who, what trade would throw the best rush party? You think?

[Jared]

I Might think like framers or even concrete guys.

[Ryan]

Dude, concrete guys are the guys paying Johnny Sins for a cameo to rush their friend.

[Tyler]

No, they're not spending money on dick.

[Ryan]

They'd get us. They'd find a guy that's bald and just to say he's Johnny Sins. Okay, you guys should rush concrete this fall.

[Tyler]

They would shave one of their buddies heads and he would pretend to be Johnny.

[Ryan]

Yep. Yeah.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

What like, what is the. Like, what is the first day back look like after being laid off for the winter?

[Tyler]

What do you mean?

[Jared]

Like, you get laid out. Conger guys get late. Don't they get laid off in the winter? I mean you can't holes like the first day back in the spring of. Okay, the crews, we're back at it again. We can start digging, we can start pouring forms. Like what does that first day look like?

[Tyler]

It's. It's like the first day of school. But. But everyone's miserable. Like first day of school, you're happy to see your buddies. You're like, hey, what's going on? What you do this winter? But then, but then you're like also like, wow, I need to work this job for another year.

[Ryan]

All right. Yeah.

[Tyler]

Anyways, who did we decide would throw the best party?

[Ryan]

I think we're still debating.

[Tyler]

I think plumbers out.

[Ryan]

Yeah. That plumbers, they. They don't throw parties.

[Tyler]

I think it's gotta be.

[Ryan]

Depends on how you define a good party. Because a welder might throw a great party because they're loaded. But do you want to. But it's not that great going to the snotty Ridge kids house.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

It's like who can throw the best party or who can. Who can party the hardest?

[Ryan]

Yeah. Concrete guys are partying the hardest.

[Tyler]

Yeah. And to them it's not that they're partying hard. They're just living their normal life.

[Ryan]

It's Tuesday night. Tuesday.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You guys ever watch Blue Mountain State?

[Jared]

Oh yeah.

[Ryan]

A roofer's party is probably like I imagine the drug Olympics on Blue Mountain State.

[Jared]

Okay. Oil changes.

[Ryan]

They have a giant candy dish of mystery drugs and you just reach your hand and you pull it out.

[Tyler]

We call that skiddling.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Tyler]

Well, we wouldn't.

[Jared]

You're called.

[Tyler]

I've heard the term. I've never skittled.

[Ryan]

You've never tasted the rainbow?

[Tyler]

No, no, no, no. Yeah. I feel like, I feel like, I feel like plumbers would do the most hazing. I don't know why.

[Ryan]

A lot of broomstick mix type jokes, hazing.

[Jared]

A lot of pal people's cracks just.

[Tyler]

To deal with so many more cylindrical items then they.

[Ryan]

They're used to bodily fluids.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Swirlies.

[Ryan]

Backed up pipes.

[Tyler]

So many swirlies. So I feel like they're doing the most hazing. Yeah. I mean, if you're going into a could concrete frat, you're like only going into the concrete frat because you couldn't get into any of the other ones.

[Miles]

It's like Animal House.

[Tyler]

Yeah. I feel like welders are a good combination of.

[Ryan]

They.

[Tyler]

They kind of got their shit together, but they also seem like a great time.

[Ryan]

The heavy equipment operators, they're just not even recruiting for rush week. They're just all napping, trying to catch up, catch up before everything starts gna.

[Jared]

Be a group nap. They're like, hey, what'd you do? Like, what'd you do over the winter? I just slept.

[Ryan]

I hibernated dog.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I slept in my plow truck between snowfalls.

[Tyler]

Yeah. I guess I also just don't know a ton of things that are involved with rushing.

[Ryan]

As far as I know, rush is like.

[Tyler]

Yeah, it's like we definitely. Someone who has rushed before, I feel like, is like, wow, these guys have never been through a rush because. Because I. All I. All I know is limited stuff from like the movie accepted and maybe 21 jumps. 22 Jump street when you're in college or whatever.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I got. My experience is limited to TikTok videos. I've seen the movie Old school.

[Tyler]

Oh, yeah. Old school too. Yeah. Yeah.

[Ryan]

And then American Pie. That's all I know about rush. Rushing.

[Tyler]

What would be in the trades will be an initiation log.

[Ryan]

Tipping the porta potty over when someone's in there.

[Tyler]

Yeah. All the new rush after just. They line up like 10 porta potties. All the new. New. What do they call them? Recruits?

[Ryan]

Recruits, Pledges.

[Tyler]

New pledges. Yeah, yeah. New pledges after just go on porta potty one by one. They just. The frat guys just tip them over and that's their initiation until it.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I mean, tool belt. Just one of the upper classmen on the crew makes them carry their tool belt around all day. I feel like frat hazing is just like. We mean, we had football hazing in college. Nothing like the frat hazing is probably a little more aggressive.

[Tyler]

Yeah. I feel like football hazing, they. It's like it's mostly like extra work or doing something embarrassing. Whereas I feel like the problem with frats is it's like, it's like demoralizing.

[Ryan]

And like, it really tiptoes the line of sexual assault. It's just not to sugar.

[Jared]

I don't even know if it tiptoes.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

They kind of just not good.

[Ryan]

Jump right over it.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

I don't know. Are we? Are we? I feel like that we as a society are moving past hazing. Is that.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Tyler]

It's.

[Ryan]

It is. Crack down on hard.

[Miles]

It's like, two. It is.

[Ryan]

So, like, our football hazing in college was not serious at all. Like, it was based on your position group and mine as linebackers. Just during fall camp for, like, a week, we weren't allowed to get caught turning right by an upperclassman. So, like, if.

[Tyler]

If so then. But if you did, then they'd shove a broomstick up your ass.

[Ryan]

Literally. Literally all it was is they would make us run sprints after practice. So, like that. That's pretty light hazing. And even that got kibosh. They're like, absolutely not. We're not doing any of that anymore.

[Miles]

What do you mean by turning right?

[Ryan]

So, like, think I'm in the lunch line. Right. Like, we're at the cafe and I need to turn right to get to more food. I'd have to do a full 360 to my left. I wanted to go to my right.

[Miles]

Gotcha.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Who the came up with that?

[Ryan]

It's super. I. I don't know what's.

[Tyler]

What's dumb of that is it's. Yes. It's, like, funny to, like, catch someone, but you're now, as an upperclassman, you're just spending your whole time watching the other classman. If they're turning the correct way.

[Ryan]

Yep. And then on the travel bus, each freshman had to, in turn, sing a song for the bus. So they.

[Tyler]

Yeah, I'm on board with that. I think that's general tomfoolery. I don't know if that's hazing, in my opinion.

[Ryan]

Right. And that. That's all kibosh. Yeah. No, no, more.

[Miles]

Just sing Wheels on the bus. That's all you gotta say.

[Ryan]

That would have been really funny. I wish I'd have done that. I sang.

[Miles]

Or Flintstones.

[Ryan]

I sang the Vikings fight song.

[Miles]

Oh, that's good.

[Tyler]

That's easy. That's more of a chant. Yeah, See, if I was an upperclassman, I would have made you do it and then been like, ah, no, no, no. That was more of a chant. We need a real song. Song.

[Miles]

The broomstick.

[Ryan]

They let it slide. I did get booed.

[Tyler]

And if you do another chant, you shove a broomstick up your ass.

[Jared]

Like the. I think if it. I can't remember if it was like, freshman or just like your first year on, like, the varsity baseball squad in college. The only thing that we did for initiation was you had a deep throat, a banana, and. And you had it because some guys would try and cheat the system. Right. You had, like, you were for. You had a gag.

[Miles]

Just light stuff.

[Tyler]

Yeah, it's just like.

[Jared]

That was the only. That was the only thing. But also if you just embrace it and then you get a laugh out of everybody and you're, you know, you're the man as the underclassman. And that was on. That was on the people mover bus, like, I. E. The short bus, I guess.

[Tyler]

You baseball guys are weird.

[Ryan]

Is that a. Was that a whole team initiation or just the pitchers?

[Jared]

No, that was a whole team.

[Tyler]

We had a thing that our coach put a kibosh to as soon as he found out what it was. So my freshman year, there was this thing called mandatory fun day that it was like one of the last days of fall camp before the season would start. We would go to, like, this one of the guys lake cabin. And so, like, we'd have a fun lake day, except for it's just like you would eat lunch, then everyone would go on the water, and all of the upperclassmen would just take pool noodles and just beat the. Out of all the freshmen. That was it. That was like the whole thing.

[Ryan]

I mean, that's better.

[Tyler]

Just drove to the lake to just get whipped with pool noodles. And we were the last freshman to get whipped by pool doodles. And our coach was like, yeah, we're not doing that anymore. That is the dumbest thing we've ever seen.

[Ryan]

In the 80s, you got beat with two by fours.

[Tyler]

No, I understand. I understand. It was the. I'm just saying. It was just funny that, like, we drove to the lake to get hazed.

[Ryan]

Hey, office plausible deniability.

[Tyler]

And then it got weird because my buddy Drew. Crybaby baby Drew, I don't think he cried, but he got hit in the face of the noodle. And he would get bloody noses like that. His nose just started bleeding really, really bad. Which actually was kind of helpful.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Is that it? Like, everyone. All the alba grass, like, oh, maybe we took it too far here because he's got blood gushing out of his face.

[Miles]

Oh, man.

[Jared]

Yeah. And if he was smart, he would just let it dry on his face. So then everyone sees it from there on out. No one's gonna hit you.

[Tyler]

But yeah, just so dumb.

[Ryan]

I Think we have to title this episode yearbook wide open.

[Tyler]

Yeah. But, yeah, I think, you know, we talk a lot about, like, stuff that's we shouldn't have stopped doing. I think hazing goes in the. The bucket of. Yeah. It's really not productive for anyone.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

There's way better ways to build camaraderie like you.

[Jared]

You can.

[Tyler]

Less trauma, you know, less all that. So I, I, I think I'm on pro eliminate hazing. 18. You can, like, I think it's just pointless.

[Ryan]

You just redirect hazing. Make the pledges be in charge of keeping the frat house clean. Like, maybe make. Make that productive. Yeah.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Make them clean the toilets. Don't shove their head in a toilet.

[Ryan]

Yeah. You know, and let them use cleaning supplies. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jared]

Don't make them not their own cleaning supplies.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Jared]

You're gonna drink this whole bottle of oxiclean as a freshman initiation.

[Miles]

Rip.

[Tyler]

Rip, Billy.

[Jared]

Yeah. Rest in paradise. Love you, bud.

[Miles]

I got one. Fun fact. The last person known to have been born in the 1800s was Emma Morano of Italy, who died in 2017 at the age of 117. 17. She was born on November 29, 1899. She was also the world's oldest person at the time of her death.

[Tyler]

That's crazy.

[Jared]

What was your secret?

[Tyler]

One glass of Italian wine a night. I'd have a hot dog for lunch every day. Oh, my God. Hot dogs are the key to long life. It's like, no, she just had unbelievable jeans.

[Jared]

One slice of Giordano's pizza, every single bite.

[Miles]

A glass of Coke every day.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

I love when they do those stories.

[Tyler]

Oh, what's the secret to one bush light every evening? You're like, okay, that's not. The correlation is not causation here in this scenario.

[Miles]

You have to ask it, though.

[Tyler]

You have to ask it.

[Miles]

You have to.

[Tyler]

What's the key to long life? The answer should just be, I got lucky. Yeah.

[Jared]

Just like trying to think of lottery.

[Tyler]

Yeah, that's. That's the whole answer that just.

[Jared]

Boom.

[Tyler]

Should just be lucky. Woman lives to be 117. Not woman who drinks a glass of wine for dinner every night lives to be 117. 17.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Yeah. I was just thinking, though, I don't think I've ever met anybody born in the 1800s.

[Tyler]

Yeah. I mean, yeah, probably not.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

But I suppose, like, when you were a kid, you mean, even.

[Jared]

Sure.

[Ryan]

Maybe I'm trying to think my great, great grandpa might have been. And I've met him when I was little. Little. But I Know I met him.

[Tyler]

What's crazy guys is she is younger than my pocket watch. Whoa.

[Jared]

Oh, wow.

[Miles]

So not impressive fact.

[Tyler]

So yeah.

[Ryan]

What's your pocket watch secret to such a long life?

[Miles]

One second at a time.

[Tyler]

Yep. Yeah. Just make the, make the ticks count, you know, don't count the ticks.

[Miles]

Storming roof temperature safely.

[Tyler]

Yeah, Yeah. I mean it's even like I, I think my grandpa was born in the 30s, right. So he's 95. What's 95 years ago is what, 1930. Yeah, 1930 or whatever. And like even he like, like electricity in homes wasn't even like a full fledged thing across.

[Jared]

Yeah. I mean, didn't he found out what pizza was when he came back from.

[Tyler]

Yeah, yeah. He had had pizza before.

[Jared]

That's crazy.

[Ryan]

And then he had one. He's had one every day.

[Tyler]

Yeah. That's the secret to his 95 years.

[Miles]

That's, that's gonna be me, me telling my kids about cronuts. Like I remember a cronuts got invented.

[Jared]

Cronuts.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Oh, don't do this again.

[Jared]

Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. I'm thinking corn nuts and. Yeah.

[Tyler]

Wait, what? I don't remember this.

[Jared]

We've done croissants and donuts.

[Miles]

Yeah, it's a croissant.

[Ryan]

We brought up J. J brings up cron nuts. You and Ryan don't know what they are. And then Jared and I explain them and say they're really good.

[Tyler]

I thought you were gonna say eating Chinese food every day, especially before races.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah.

[Jared]

Don't the Chinese. Aren't they, don't they have, don't they live a long time?

[Miles]

Yeah, they have a good diet.

[Ryan]

I did see some stat about there's like 90,000 people in Japan that are over 100 years old.

[Jared]

It's kind of crazy.

[Miles]

They have a really good diet.

[Jared]

Well, and that's probably where the Chinese food before the race came.

[Tyler]

Came.

[Miles]

Well, it's Americanized Chinese.

[Tyler]

And also that's in Japan.

[Jared]

Authentic.

[Tyler]

Different countries that would be Japanese.

[Jared]

Well, no, yeah. Originally I, I, I had said that the Chinese do live a long time. Yeah. So maybe next year try sushi.

[Tyler]

There you go.

[Miles]

Get some mercury in me.

[Tyler]

Yeah, like that, Jared.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Well, is that it? Jared?

[Miles]

I got.

[Tyler]

Thanks guys for tuning in to another episode of you Bet yout Radio. We'll see you in the next one. You betcha. Yeah. Yeah.

[Miles]

Mary. Kill earbuds, headphones, Bluetooth speaker.

[Tyler]

So for the longest time I was headphone over the year headphones guy. And then I just like reached the age of like 28. And I was like, I look ridiculous with over thee headphones in public. I don't know if you guys feel that way or not. Not, but I just feel like. Like I just got. I outgrew the over the ear headphones.

[Ryan]

So my, my theory, my take on over the headphones. If you have them around your neck, you're weird. If they're on, it's okay. I think it's so weird that just people walk around with them around their necks.

[Jared]

See? But I think like over the ear radio headphones are just fine.

[Tyler]

Those are cool. I would wear that.

[Jared]

Yeah. But there's something about like not having the little antenna coming up from, you know, say a pair of bow skull candies that just make it look weird. You know, it's like, I don't need to be wearing skull candies to noon ball.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jared]

I think I'm more of an airpod guy. But like.

[Tyler]

Well, it's also like over the ear headphones were more advanced than earbud technology for a while there.

[Ryan]

Long time.

[Tyler]

So if you wanted a good listening experience, you had to go over the ear to. To get good one. And then the earbud technology with the noise canceling and how good they sound have gotten so good that I was like, well, why would I lug around this giant pair of headphones when I get the same experience or at least 90% of the way experience with just the earbuds?

[Ryan]

Yeah, it. That is a good. The. You kind of glazed over it. But a really good point is the over the head over the ears are so inconvenient to have on you.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Unless you're putting them around the neck and looking like a weirdo.

[Tyler]

Yeah. So that's my thought. That's why I go earbuds.

[Ryan]

Many earbuds guys guy, I would marry those.

[Tyler]

Is this a Mary kill? What is it Bluetooth?

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

With a Bluetooth speaker, y. I think I'd kill over the year headphones. I'd marry earbuds and I'll a Bluetooth speaker same. Not every scenario is a Bluetooth speaker is good, but most of the time a Bluetooth speaker can enhance whatever you're in. Like right now would be. Would not be good because it's a podcast. So I can't say every scenario is improved by a Bluetooth speaker, but most social situations can be.

[Jared]

Well, that's why you're married to the earbuds too. You're just looking for. If you're just looking for a buddy every once in a while, Bluetooth Speakers.

[Tyler]

Correct. Great. Great example. Is anyone. Jared, Are you over the ears guy?

[Miles]

I'm over the ears guy. Like at home, but in public it's in ears.

[Tyler]

Yeah, yeah.

[Miles]

Because I like listening to music. Like with over ears. It's just a little better quality.

[Tyler]

Also, like, I feel like earbuds are more versatile. Right. They're easy to carry around if you're gonna work out over the ear. Headphones can be a lot. And then they get sweaty and it's weird.

[Ryan]

So I caught before they made the earbuds better fits and like you could change the sizes of the thing I had to wear over the ears because I got cauliflower ear in my left ear and not in my right ear. So I was always over the year. And working out in those things is just the worst. First you, like, if you work out hard, you'll literally get a pool of sweat in those things.

[Jared]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Ryan]

Disgusting. Yeah, yeah.

[Tyler]

Greed.

[Miles]

I was at a bachelor party and my buddy, he had a Bluetooth speaker with him wherever he went. Really brought it everywhere. Like, and it was always like blaring Morgan Wallen. Like a conversation.

[Jared]

See when you really.

[Tyler]

Yeah, See overdoing it. Not good, not good. Now over the ear headphones, you're at a silent disc disco. That's the time.

[Jared]

Yeah, yeah. Has anyone ever been to a silent disco?

[Ryan]

No, No.

[Tyler]

I don't think people actually go that. I think it's just like a myth made up on the Internet.

[Ryan]

That'd be a awesome prank in like 10 years. Like remember silent discos? None of them ever actually happened. We made it up.

[Jared]

Yeah, yeah.

[Miles]

We were silent about.

[Jared]

I. I thought it was like popular on cruise ships.

[Tyler]

And now one thing, I have the AirPods as my in ear headphones. The one thing I don't like is if I wear them for, you know, like after about like 20, 25 minutes, it will get less noise. Canceled. And then I have to like readjust them or take it out and put it back in and then it re. Noise cancels. I don't know if that happens to you guys. Maybe I have ill fitting.

[Ryan]

I was just gonna say it's just getting loose or.

[Tyler]

Yeah. I don't know if like just by moving around they start to like kind of come out a little bit.

[Ryan]

But I've never had AirPods. I have little Bose tiny buds.

[Tyler]

I think that AirPods are like one of the sneaky best products Apple ever made.

[Jared]

I would agree.

[Miles]

Looks like they're most profitable.

[Jared]

I would agree.

[Tyler]

Yeah, they're there. It's just so nice to be able to just pop them on, put them in. That's connected. It'll just start playing automatically. It's great.

[Miles]

Oh, here we go. What do you like more? AirPods or Apple CarPlay Play.

[Tyler]

I use CarPlay more.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

So probably CarPlay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jared]

CarPlay is great.

[Tyler]

CarPlay is.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Did I talk about that? I'll, like. I'll. I'll delay a road trip if my car play is not.

[Jared]

Yeah, I've.

[Ryan]

I've seen it happen.

[Tyler]

I. I need CarPlay on rental car.

[Ryan]

On the way to the Ozarks. We sat in the parking lot for 25 minutes.

[Jared]

Going off two years ago.

[Tyler]

It's. I don't know if it's a comfort thing for me or a peace of mind, but just having everything on the screen. If you need to pull up gps, it's right there. Nothing's worse than, like, having to do one of these.

[Miles]

Dangerous.

[Tyler]

It's dangerous.

[Ryan]

I.

[Tyler]

You know, if you get a phone call, you just. You don't even have to look at your phone. You just. All right there. It's the best. I think that plays the best.

[Ryan]

I don't know if I brought it up on the pod, but I definitely brought it up to you guys in person. On the way from Saskatoon to our bear hunting camp in our rental car, I set up CarPlay, and it blew my dad's mind. I'm like, dad, you have a 2025 Ford. You have CarPlay. He's like, shut up. I can do this in my truck. So he just, like, when he first turned it on, just hit no on everything like an old guy does.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And now CarPlay has completely changed his life.

[Tyler]

Also a huge flex that your Dad's got. A 2025 Ford.

[Jared]

Yeah, not to brag.

[Tyler]

It's that drone. Money must be good.

[Ryan]

Yeah, if it makes it better. It's a lease, so.

[Tyler]

Oh, he does company lease.

[Ryan]

He's borrowing one.

[Tyler]

Yeah, yeah, I see how it goes.

[Jared]

My CarPlay, my. I have a 2020, so I have to plug in to get CarPlay. Yeah, it just doesn't. It doesn't.

[Tyler]

Bluetooth still better than.

[Jared]

Yeah, no, it's the.

[Tyler]

No. CarPlay.

[Miles]

Does your car also run on kerosene, too?

[Tyler]

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