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