Construction Workers Worst Nightmare 🎙 #346

Summary

You Betcha Radio

"Construction Workers Worst Nightmare 🎙 #346"

Date: October 1, 2025
Host: Myles (“the You Betcha Guy”)
Co-hosts: Ryan, Tyler, Jerrod

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Episode Overview

This episode of You Betcha Radio, titled "Construction Workers Worst Nightmare," is a classic, laid-back, and hilariously Midwestern roundtable featuring Myles and the gang. The crew riff on changing personal styles, Midwest weather woes, generational fashion, construction vs. farming, and tackle a string of fan "would you rathers" and goofy hypotheticals. Laced with nostalgia, man-culture, and signature dry humor, the episode shines brightest in its relatable stories and offbeat observations on everyday Midwest living.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Evolution (or Stagnation) of 'Guy Style'

• Growing Out of Caring
  The episode launches with a self-deprecating chat about how their clothing styles have remained static or regressed with age. The group roasts each other over shirts (Old Navy, UFC gear, vintage band tees), and discuss the phenomenon of wives subtly "upgrading" their wardrobes.
• Fashion Apathy
  They riff on why people, especially guys, get stuck in a style rut and why the classic Midwest uniform (plain tees, jeans, flannel) never dies.
  Memorable quote:
  • “Now we start to understand why the lady who's 60 still sports the haircut from the '80s...you reach a point where you just don't give a [care] about staying up with the times.” – Myles (01:29)
• Cargo Shorts Make a Comeback?
  • They joke about reverting to “dad fashion” like cargo shorts for the pockets.
• Style as an Identity
  • The boys discuss the emotional attachment (or lack thereof) to wardrobe items and why some “edgy” purchases just gather dust.

Timestamps

• [00:00 – 11:08] Style, wardrobe transitions, Midwest fashion tropes

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2. Midwest Suburbia (Neighborhood Mysteries)

• Keeping Up with the Joneses, Midwest Style
  • Myles recounts seeing a pool slide poking over a neighbor’s fence and speculates whether the family even has a pool, launching into a tongue-in-cheek analysis of “Midwest status symbols.”
• Classic Midwest Fences & Lawns
  • Jokes about what lies beyond tall privacy fences—gravel pits, dead grass, or just the top of a pool slide.

Timestamps

• [03:10 – 04:11] Neighborhood anecdotes, pool slide mystery

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3. Aging, Hairlines, and Going Gray

• Considering a Buzz Cut
  • Ryan contemplates a new hairstyle (buzz cut & fade), sparking a group discussion about receding hairlines, beards, and embracing impending “silver fox” status.
  • Key advice: "You gotta earn your grays." – Tyler (06:44)
• On Hair Dye
  • Ribbing ensues over the idea of dyeing gray hair, with the group agreeing: you can't dye your hair and mock people for buying $400 Yeti coolers—“the math doesn’t add up.”

Timestamps

• [04:46 – 08:15] Hairline talk, facial hair woes, “authentic self”

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4. “Excuse Wardrobe Choices by Saying You Lost a Bet”

• The Ultimate Excuse
  • If someone comments on bold fashion choices, just say it’s because you lost a bet. The hosts explore the social utility of this excuse, especially if adopting dramatically new styles.
  • “There’s something people say when making fun of someone’s outfit: 'Did you lose a bet?'” – Myles (08:53)

Timestamps

• [08:01 – 10:14] "Lost a bet" as a Midwest style hack

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5. Climate & The Core Topic: Construction Workers vs. Midwest Heat

• The Pain of Midwest “False Fall”
  • Discussion pivots when they lament the October heatwave (mid-80s), labeling it construction workers’ true “nightmare.”
  • “Construction workers’ worst nightmare is it being 85 in October. We're almost there.” – Myles (16:05)
• The Psychology of Midwest Weather
  • The group gripes about the false promise of autumn: crisp mornings give way to sweltering afternoons, disrupting outdoor labor and seasonal routines.
• Impact on Midwest Livelihoods
  • Contrasting reactions: construction workers hate late hot spells, while Midwest farmers love them for a longer harvest season.
  • “It’s a yin and yang situation.” – Myles (20:12)
• Farmers vs. Construction Workers
  • They unpack the unique love/hate relationships each group has with the weather and muse on how a conversation between them would quickly get tense.

Timestamps

• [15:23 – 22:41] Heatwave effects, construction/farmer rivalries

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6. Farmer & Construction Worker Similarities/Differences

• Equipment Failures and "Mamba Mentality"
  • Riff on how both jobs despise breakdowns but react differently—farmers often push through, construction crews call it a day.
  • “Farmers have the mamba mentality. Construction guys, not so much.” – Jerrod teasingly (23:18)
• AM Radio vs. Heavy Metal
  • Farmers are AM “Ag Report” and obituaries fans, while construction crews blast “The Fox” classic rock station.
  • “With construction, the heavy metal station is always called The Fox, doesn't matter which city.” – Myles (27:09)
• Harvest as the Ultimate Bra-Off
  • Completion of harvest is described as the rural dude’s version of taking a bra off after a long day—instant, guilt-free relief.

Timestamps

• [23:41 – 31:40] Work ethic, music choices, “harvest bra” metaphor

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7. Would You Rather, Sleep, and Superpowers

• Classic “Would You Rather” Rounds
  • French fries for $2 a day vs. pushups for $1 (ultimately most pick pushups for health/earnings potential)
  • Control over time: pause, rewind, or fast-forward? Group leans toward “pause” as the ultimate productivity (and rest) hack.
  • Super sleep: sleep as long as you want without losing time, or only need two hours’ sleep per night? Most prefer the first—maximize both productivity and rest.
  • Which utensil finger? (lighter, knife, flashlight, spork, or Sharpie) Lighter and flashlight emerge as the most functionally cool.

Timestamps

• [55:21 – 73:54] Would you rathers and philosophical banter

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8. Midwest Philosophizing, Conspiracies & Absurdities

• The "Ghosts & iPhones" Conspiracy
  • Jerrod's tinfoil hat theory: ghosts no longer appear in modern photos because they've adapted to iPhones—or maybe Apple filters them out as part of "big ghost."
• Existence of Places
  • Wry debate about whether places like Europe, Madagascar, or Area 51 even exist if you don’t know anyone who’s been there.
• Alarm Clocks & Cavemen
  • Rant against alarm clocks and timekeeping: What if society functioned without arbitrary schedules, like “cave dudes”?
  • “In caves, you woke up when the sun came up, went and hunted... There was no such thing as late—just time.” – Myles (78:13)

Timestamps

• [35:33 – 84:19] Ghosts, Bigfoot, existence debates, timekeeping

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9. Rodeo Assignments & Midwest Stereotypes

• Which Rodeo Job Are You?
  • The team imagines their roles at the Midwest rodeo:
    • Ryan: barrel racing or rodeo clown
    • Tyler: would have been a bull rider before having kids
    • Myles: wants to try roping
    • Jerrod: would ride the “usher horse” (the safety crew)
• Classic Midwest Rodeo Observations
  • Playful riffing on rodeo clown annoyances, bull rider bedroom stamina, and the “urban legend” energy at PBR events.

Timestamps

• [84:47 – 89:59] Rodeo jobs, Midwest culture

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10. Quirky Midwest Grandpa Moments

• AI (Artificial Intelligence) vs. A1 (Steak Sauce)
  • Listener question: Grandpa calls AI "A1"—should you correct him? Consensus: let him be.
  • “He thinks the same company makes both steak sauce and thinking computers.” – Tyler (90:35)

Timestamps

• [89:59 – end] Grandpa A.I., episode wrap-up

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Memorable Quotes

• On Style Stasis:
  “We now are starting to understand why the lady who's 60 years old still is sporting the haircut from the 80s...” – Myles (01:29)
• On Weather Disappointment:
  “Construction workers’ worst nightmare is it being 85 in October and we're almost there.” – Myles (16:05)
• On Gray Hairs:
  “You gotta earn your grays.” – Tyler (06:44)
• On Midwest Excuses:
  “There’s something people say when making fun of someone’s outfit: ‘Did you lose a bet?’” – Myles (08:53)
• On the Joy of Harvest:
  "[Finishing harvest] has got to be like taking a bra off after a long day.” – Myles (28:55)
• On Grandpa Technology:
  “He thinks the same company makes both steak sauce and thinking computers.” – Tyler (90:35)
• On Alarm Clocks:
  "Think about where we could be in society if we never invented alarm clocks.” – Myles (78:13)

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Notable Bits & Running Jokes

• “Flat work vs. wall crew” in concrete—flat work is for “babies,” wall crew is tough as nails.
• “The Fox” is always the hard rock construction radio station, no matter the city.
• Midwest hierarchy of writing utensils: "Sharpies are an adult writing utensil."
• Harvest as the “bra off” moment—man-culture at its finest.
• Running debate: Does Midwest have only one week of true fall weather?
• Cave Dudes—pitch for a sitcom about the first conscious humans
• College superstitions: never use a white lighter (“bad luck”)
• Ryan's exclusive name meetup (the "Ryan meetup" in South Dakota) and whether it’s worth the trip.

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Conclusion & Tone

The episode weaves a warmly sarcastic, playful tone throughout, embodying the spirit of Midwest camaraderie. Most topics spiral into lovingly absurd Midwest-centric tangents covering everything from weather, blue-collar life, and style, to the existential quandaries of ghosts, superpowers, and time. The humor is self-aware, poking fun at themselves and their surroundings, with the group’s chemistry shining in both the teasing and the nostalgia-soaked asides.

Anyone who’s lived in or loved the Midwest—or just wants to enjoy a relaxed conversation full of laughs and cultural quirks—will find this episode a satisfying, relatable listen.

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Transcript

[A]

Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of the you bet your radio podcast. I'm here with the boys. We're back in the studio. We're feeling good. We're feeling alive. Ryan's got his old navy shirt on.

[B]

Hell, yeah.

[A]

What would you call that old navy shirt of yours? It's kind of like a cross between a vintage rugby shirt and did digital camo. You know what I mean?

[B]

Yeah. From the distance, this distance, it just kind of looks like stripes.

[A]

What?

[C]

I don't know. I also kind of feel like I.

[A]

Could be a foreign exchange student because it's European or.

[C]

I don't. It just kind of looks like someone in Germany would be wearing.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

I mean, I am, like, of small German descent. Irish and Scottish as well, but I.

[A]

Don'T know Fucking my one's like that.

[C]

For some reason, I feel like my wife has been. She. She never used to do this before, but she's been buying more clothes for me just unprompted.

[A]

I feel like that's because we've now reached the age where, like, buying new stuff is not very appealing anymore.

[C]

No.

[A]

You know, when you're younger, it was like, oh, I saw that shirt. That looks like a cool shirt now. I don't even notice the shirt. I just walk right by.

[C]

Well, I just. I just wear blank stuff. Like, I wear, like a $5T shirt. So I don't know if this is her, if it's a hint from her to be like, hey, like, maybe we should just start looking nicer.

[B]

Yeah, you're maturing, but your style has not. Is I think, what she's saying.

[C]

Yeah, my style has just been kind of. It's just been keeping kind of stale.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

It's like now we. You. We now are starting to understand why the lady who's 60 years old still is sporting the haircut from the 80s, you know, I mean, you always wonder, how can that happen? And it's like, because you just reach a point in your life where you're like, I don't really give a. About staying up.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

To times. Staying up with the times, you know.

[B]

It'S like I've kind of found myself reverting in style, to be honest. I. I wear cargo shorts on the weekend unironically just because I genuinely like having all the pockets.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Keep snacks in there, too.

[B]

Y. Yeah.

[A]

Reverting to what? I think that that's always been cool.

[B]

You're right. You're right. My bad. Yeah, it's cool.

[A]

Yeah. I mean, like, my M.O. now is just like, give Me, a blank T shirt and jeans. And then I'll throw on a sweatshirt or maybe a long sleeve once in a while, and that's about it.

[C]

Yeah. I mean, yeah, some days I'll get a little edgy. I'll wear my UFC shirt in here.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Sometimes I'll throw flannel over top of the blank T shirt.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Crazy.

[B]

Well, yeah, sometimes I like to wear my bandana and my American fighter shirt, but that's pretty rare.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Sometimes I like to wear my backwards fitted hat over my eyebrows, but that's kind of about it.

[B]

Yeah. With your. Your no rules T. Yeah.

[A]

Sometimes I like to wear my young and reckless gear from Zoomies.

[C]

But you dust off drama. Drama from Rob Dyrdek.

[B]

Dust off the Osiris is. Yeah.

[A]

Does like to sport the knees just in case I, you know, maybe I have a meeting at 4 and hitting the skate park at 4:30. I like to wear my at knees.

[D]

So you drive by like an empty pool. Like I might need my at knees.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Just in case it's empty.

[A]

So when we take our kid on a walk, we like, we walk around the neighborhood and like on the outskirts neighborhood, there's the fence. So you like, can't see the backyard zone, but you can see this pool slide poking out over top of the fence at this one house. And. And we made a comment about the pool and I'm like, well, we don't actually know if they have a pool back. That's right. Like, what if they just bought a pool slide to make everyone think they have a pool that's cooler than it is?

[B]

Status.

[A]

Way cheaper to keep up with the Joneses if you just buy the pool ladder and not the pool.

[C]

Yeah. I mean, a good fence can cover a lot of stuff up. They might have had a pool when they had when their kids were young and they just filled it in, kept the slide.

[B]

You don't even know for sure if they have grass.

[A]

That's true.

[B]

It could just be a cement pad back there.

[A]

It could be gravel pit for all I know. But all in. The only thing I can confirm is that they have a pool slide, not they have a pool.

[B]

Well, you can confirm that they at least have the top half of a pool slide.

[A]

It's true. The top three rungs on a pool slide.

[D]

You might want to buy a drone and poke around up there.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And see what's going on.

[A]

I mean, I probably could just peek over the fence, but now I don't want to know.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

And that's creepy. Unless unless you're Mr. Wilson. It's creepy.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Also, how did Mr. Wilson get away with peeping over the fence? Not being creepy?

[B]

I don't know. That's how he got a hold of people back in the day, though. He needed to know what his neighbor was up to.

[A]

That is true. Um, so, yeah. What were we. Oh, yeah. Style.

[C]

We're just talking style. Yeah, I mean, you. So you had mentioned the haircut thing. I. I mean, I'm. I'm heavily considering just going with a new hair. I might just do buzz cut. Yeah, I might try the buzz cut. I'm also a little bit scared. I'm a little bit scared just for myself and what I'll think about it, but also for what you guys will think about it.

[B]

Well, how's your hairline?

[C]

I think that. Well, I. See. I don't. The hair. I think the hairline's fine. It's receding a little bit and in the. In the top corners.

[B]

But because my hair looks. My hairline doesn't look terrible. When I have. When I buzz cut my hair, my hairline looks like it's in the middle of my head, so. But the buzz cut does make the hairline look worse. Just a warning.

[A]

I.

[C]

But it would. Yes, I would do the buzz cut, but I'd also do a fade up the side.

[B]

I went to military.

[C]

I went to a.

[A]

What's wrong with your haircut?

[C]

Yeah, well, nothing. I just. You know, I'm kind of just looking for a change.

[D]

I like your hair, though.

[C]

Well, thank you. I appreciate that.

[B]

Team Ryan.

[A]

Grow a beard. I'm.

[B]

Instead.

[C]

We've tried.

[A]

Grow a stash.

[D]

We've tried.

[B]

You can get that.

[A]

You can get that. Oh, I could.

[C]

Yeah. But you guys would make fun of us.

[B]

Just keep evening it out, because I know you said it grows more on the edges.

[A]

Actually, let's. Well, let's start making fun of him as his current state, so when he does change, it won't be as bad.

[C]

Okay, I'll do it. November. The thing is, it gets so itchy, though, too.

[D]

That's part of the.

[B]

Yeah, it's only itchy for like, a week, and then you get through.

[C]

You guys get itchy.

[A]

You can't. Yeah, no, not anymore.

[D]

Yeah, you just get used to it.

[C]

Your bottom lip. Does it ever hit your bottom lip and you're like, whoa, what the.

[D]

Sometimes it goes. My. My mustache here will go up my nose.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah, that happens to me, too.

[A]

Well, now I'm actually getting nose hairs into my beard. That's A problem I'm getting. I pulled out a gray nose hair the other day.

[B]

Hell, yeah.

[A]

And then right here, can you see it up front? There's one singular gray hair coming in right up front.

[C]

I can see the shine on it.

[A]

Yeah. And called me a silver fox the other day.

[B]

Nice. All it takes is one hair.

[A]

I thought about plucking it out, but then I was like, you know what? I'm just trying to be my most authentic self.

[B]

No, you. You got to earn your grays.

[A]

It's true.

[B]

You don't get them for no reason.

[A]

And now I have, like, you know, my kids piss me off being like, hey, you're giving me grays. See? Give. You gave me one gray.

[C]

Yep. Yeah, I'm getting full. That's why Ikea. I gotta keep it short on the sides. Maybe do like. Yeah, light fade up top.

[B]

Yeah, it looks good.

[D]

Would you resort to hair dye, Miles, if it got really bad or.

[B]

No, no, no.

[C]

I mean, guys weren't playing T shirts, you know, he. He don't care.

[A]

It's like, you can't. You can't simultaneously make fun of people who buy yeti products and dye your head.

[C]

That's very true. That's very true.

[A]

And not saying that I would. I'm just saying, like, on top of that, I don't want to do that for the rest of my life. On top of that, you can't be that guy. No, you can't have both.

[D]

The math doesn't add up.

[A]

Does not add up.

[D]

That's fair.

[B]

Unless you lose a bet to your podcast co host, then you can dye your hair. Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. That's all. It's all. Yeah. Tar. I. Let's make a bet. And if I lose and I have to dye my hair for the rest of my life. That's maybe a good loophole.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

Oh, do you dye your hair because you're self conscious about your gray hair and afraid to get old and don't like what you see when you look in the mirror? No, I lost a bet 15 years ago, and I just. I'm a. I'm a man of my word.

[B]

I mean, I've spent thousands in hair dye.

[C]

Yeah, that's good for, like, that's good for any. Any sort of change that you make. Like, if you're gonna start wearing new clothes or a new haircut, like, if someone comments on it not in the way you want them to, you just say you lost it back.

[B]

Yeah, but it's got to be a major change, though, because you can't Just like start wearing patterned shirts and I.

[C]

Mean, like, what if I wore like the big like black parachute pants with like the chains on them? You guys would say something. I lost a bet to a buddy.

[B]

And I would totally believe that that was. That's a punishment to a bet. But if you just started wearing like plaid shirts, I'd be like, that's a weird fucking bet. It's not like major enough for it to be a punishment in a bed.

[A]

I mean, there's also like something someone says when they're making fun of something someone's wearing is, did you lose a bat?

[D]

Yeah, that's true.

[A]

So if someone, if like, like these shoes I'm wearing, if someone says, you lose a bag, you got to wear these shoes, I'm just gonna say yes.

[B]

Yeah, there you go.

[A]

And move on.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

What is it?

[B]

What?

[C]

Did it rain out today? Got your rain boots on? I lost a bed last.

[D]

A bed?

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

State basketball is the whole thing.

[B]

Yeah, I had the field. This other guy had one team.

[A]

I lost in a hacky sack competition in, in seventh grade. So now I have to wear these the rest of my life.

[D]

Yeah, he triple dog dared me too.

[A]

Yeah, I can't back down from a quadruple dog dare.

[B]

Yeah, his name was Ryan. I wonder what he's up to these days.

[A]

Quadruple dog dare. Great band name.

[C]

We're the last two and three had pelt and he ended up smashing in the face.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So here we are.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I think we're just locked in, boys. Like, no, like Jared's just going to wear black clothes for the rest of his life.

[B]

Man in black.

[D]

Yep. I'm fine with that. It's comfortable.

[A]

He's going to take a. He's going to take a vacation to Cambodia's beaches and he's just going to be wearing black sweatshirt because that's what.

[D]

You know, it keeps the hot out. Yeah, that's why I wear it.

[B]

Yeah. It absorbs more heat, so it keeps it from your body. Right.

[A]

And what's kind of funny too is like over the last few years there has been a couple of items that I've bought, clothing wise that I am like, hey, maybe I'll, you know, try something a little different.

[C]

Yeah, it's fun.

[B]

It's kind of.

[A]

And then it just fucking sits in my closet. I wear it like immediately after I buy it and then it just sits in my closet.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Perfect example of that. Today I brought a purse pearl snap shirt in that I bought in Nashville and we used it for a video today, and Mom's like, this is a nice shirt. Why don't you wear it? I'm like, why would I ever need to wear a pearl snap? I bought it on a whim because I thought it looked cool. And I was in Nashville, and I'll never, ever wear it.

[C]

Yeah, it's probably like them cowboy boots I almost bought. Maybe a good thing I didn't.

[A]

Yeah, it's probably good. They'd just be collecting dust, Right?

[C]

And I was ship face, too, so.

[B]

I was stone cold sober when I bought that pearl snap. I just got caught up in the moment.

[C]

So, you know, I, like. I feel like one of the new fashion trends now is just wearing camo when you're not hunting. I think. I mean, I think that's something we could maybe get on board with.

[B]

Yeah, I mean, I've been doing that forever. Like, half my clothes growing up were hand me down camo that I got from my dad.

[C]

Yeah, yeah. It's the classic. Like, I've been doing that. I've been before the kids have been doing it.

[B]

It's true. It's kind of nice that it's in style. Now that it's in style, I kind of don't want to wear my camo.

[C]

I know.

[A]

Know. Yeah. It's like. Yeah, I was a Shane Gillis fan before he even got canceled from snl.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Old stuff's better.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I'm gatekeeping camo.

[A]

It's kind of like how I am with oar these days.

[B]

Their.

[A]

Their old stuff's way better.

[B]

Are they making new stuff still? Yeah.

[A]

Yeah, why not?

[B]

I'm not plugged into the oar scene.

[D]

I know, and it shows.

[B]

It shows.

[A]

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[D]

Prize picks.

[A]

Prize picks.

[B]

What?

[C]

What did you say?

[A]

What did I say?

[D]

I said price picks.

[A]

Oh, he's just. Oh, Price picks.

[C]

Price picks.

[A]

Guys, guys, guys. Last week, I talked all sorts of noise. Baker, and you guys warned me.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Said he's going to hear about this, and he's going to. He's going to go for more. And he did. He went for more. And I was the reason why we didn't have a hit the whole lineup.

[B]

You can't bet against Baker. It's written into the football bylaws.

[A]

And so as my Penance for this week we. We have added Baker Mayfield More than 221 and a half pass yards which.

[B]

Is an absolute lock.

[A]

That is my. That is my penance for the week.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Price picks your Michael Penix for the week.

[A]

Nope.

[B]

He's not on the lineup.

[D]

But I have a Marvin Harrison More than 52 and a half receiving yards.

[B]

I'm going Jackson Dart more than 183 and a half. I'm getting on that train.

[A]

Okay. Because the only highlight I saw from him was running the ball like 15 yards for a touchdown.

[B]

He threw one dime of a touchdown too. Okay.

[A]

Just, just, just was wondering.

[B]

Hey, I'm.

[C]

I'll probably take that one off my line.

[B]

Okay. You're lost.

[A]

No, I. I got it on there. I already submitted mine. So I'm locked the fudge in.

[C]

You're locked at Baker. I'm locked at Daniel. Keeping up with the Joneses. More than 222 and a half.

[B]

I love this season Danny Dimes is having.

[A]

It's weird. It is James Cook I got for my real pick. 76 and a half rush yards. More than feeling good about that one. He's hit so many.

[D]

He's good.

[A]

He's good. He's really good.

[B]

He cooks knock on wood here. But I feel the best about this lineup in a lot of lineups for this podcast.

[C]

That's why we should power play.

[A]

Also I. I put in a free. What is it called? The Free to play. Free to. Free to play.

[B]

The.

[A]

The touchdowns. Who gets what touchdowns. Kind of fun.

[B]

It's super fun. Except I'm bad at it.

[A]

Yeah. But someone's gotta be bad at it in order for someone to be good at it.

[B]

Like me.

[A]

And so I think I'm good at it this week. Dodge bad at this week.

[B]

I have done it now. How many weeks we're in week four of the NFL. So I've done done it for college football and the NFL. So two a week. For the last four weeks, I have gotten zero first touchdowns.

[A]

That's be. But it just takes one.

[B]

It does.

[A]

You go in $1 million, you can win $1 million. It's worth it.

[C]

So yeah. The best thing about it is it's.

[B]

Free to play that. It's true.

[A]

So you guys could win a million dollars this week if you sign up for prize picks, use code YBR and pick all of them. Right. So have fun this week. And this is a week. We hit a. We hit a full one. I'm just feeling it.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Price picks also.

[A]

What's going on with the heat.

[B]

Oh, it's.

[A]

Why? Why.

[B]

We got that. Why it's annoying.

[A]

Why is it 85 degrees?

[C]

It's gonna be mid-80s all week.

[D]

El Nin.

[C]

If. Yeah.

[A]

If you weren't aware, are we in the Ninas or.

[D]

No, we're in one of them.

[C]

We in NAS or Ninos?

[A]

Are we?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Are we?

[A]

I just imagine like construction workers right now have to be pissed at the heat for sure.

[B]

Oh, for sure, dude. They're especially in the Midwest. They're looking forward to ice fishing and it just keeps getting pushed back.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. Construction workers. Worst nightmare is it being 85 in October and we're almost there.

[B]

Yep.

[C]

I mean, now it's.

[A]

I mean, it's like the reason why you're like, okay, I'll put up with the heat in July and August because in September I'm going to get that crisp, cool, 60, maybe 58 degree weather and it's going to be easy, easy working weather. The temperature is going to be great. My. I'm going to be feeling good. It's not too cold where my joints are hurting, but it's not too hot where my balls are sweating all day long. And it's just been ball sweating hot all day long. And I feel bad for the construction workers out there.

[B]

Right. And the, the. The double whammy to it all is it. It is nice and crisp in the morning, so it kind of teases you with what it could be all day, but then it just isn't.

[C]

Dude, I went for a walk this morning. I had shorts and a coat on.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

I'm not you. And I was.

[A]

That's what it should be all day long.

[C]

I know. I was so comfortable in it too.

[B]

We did get that one week in the middle of September where it was like a high of 50 for a week straight. And we all thought we were there. So just another slap, like, slap in the face. The construction workers, they thought it was over.

[A]

False fall. We have false fall.

[D]

It's just like I thought.

[A]

Yeah. I thought we only had false spring and now apparently we have false fall.

[D]

Yeah. And then during those like June, July months, it was so smoky. And then, you know, construction workers are getting more excited for fall weather.

[A]

Yeah. Like, no smoke. It's going to be cool. And it's like just hot.

[B]

We did the explaining the Midwest video this spring and talking about, like, the best thing is the one week of fall where it's really nice. And we kind of did that as an exaggeration, but we might actually just get one week of fall, it's going to be 85. Then we'll have a week of it being 50 and perfect out and then it'll snow.

[A]

Yeah. Or. Yeah. Or It'll just be 85 and then the next day it is 30 degrees and snowing.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

It's going to be no in between. Now what's the.

[C]

What's it like?

[A]

Like there's a little bit of like, I'm wondering, like, are we. Is this what it's like to live in la? You know, like it's just hot all the time. That sounds terrible. Yeah.

[D]

Yeah. Fall could be overrated.

[B]

Well, it's not. When it happens, when it actually happens, it's.

[A]

What do you mean? This isn't fall. This is still summer, Jared.

[D]

I know, but. No, it's technically.

[A]

Technically it's fall technically on the calendar, but if you live in the real world, we're still in summer.

[B]

We might be. We're still in the dog days of summer. It's hotter now than it was in June.

[A]

That's what I'm saying.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

I just like it when people say, like they think it's a hot take when they say fall is their most favorite holiday or a season.

[A]

There's like a study that, that's actually every, like Most, like over 50% of people's favorite season is fall.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Everyone thinks that's a hot take. Like, you know what, actually?

[A]

Well, this year it is a hot take because it's scorcher out.

[B]

Yeah. The only people that don't have fall as their favorite season are like high schoolers.

[D]

That's a good point.

[B]

They just want summer for no school.

[A]

But yeah, it's like, you know, it's not enough that your boss is an. And the work is back breaking and all of that. And then on top of it, you just have to still be working. 85 degree weather.

[D]

It's not fair.

[B]

In October with no end in sight.

[A]

No end in sight.

[C]

Yeah. The. The bosses should. It should kind of be like, it's got working construction. Should kind of be like a school calendar to where like if you like go to school for an extra two weeks, like then you don't start for an extra two weeks come springtime.

[B]

Yeah. So if, yeah. If the weather holds and you don't quit work, you don't get laid off until December.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You don't start work up again until July, June. Yeah. Sliding calendar, you're guaranteed four months.

[C]

It should be. Yeah. I mean.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

It's just like you guys said, it's false hope. For these guys. Farmers are fucking loving it though.

[B]

Yeah. I didn't.

[C]

Farmers. They might even hit deer opener this year.

[A]

Yeah, that is true. I didn't even thought about. Yeah. Construction workers hate it when the fall is warm. And the farmers love when the fall is warm.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

It's kind of a. It's a ying and a yang situation.

[C]

Yeah. One of one of these things. Whatever. Audio.

[A]

It's kind of like my dad being a concrete guy. When it rains, he's pissed. And if you're a farmer, you love it when it rains.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Farmers and construction workers archetype are very similar. But what they love and hate is much different.

[C]

Very much so. Like, I don't think like you get a construction worker and a farmer together. I can you really talk about the weather. There might be. I mean there might be arguments like.

[D]

Talk about politics or religion.

[A]

Some weather. Some weather we're having. Yeah, it sucks. No, it's. It's been great. What do you mean?

[C]

So many.

[B]

We've gotten so many projects done. It's been fantastic. The rain's held up.

[A]

Farmer's like, I'm not gonna make any money this year.

[B]

Yeah. My corn's only ankle high and it's the 4th of July because there hasn't been any rain.

[C]

I gotta claim insurance on it all. Yeah. Interesting dynamic. Dynamic. I like. I. I don't. I guess I don't know. The. The farmers that I'm close to, I don't remember the last time that they got out for like a deer opener.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Because they're always harvesting corners at that time.

[A]

Not to brag. He's got friends with lots of acreage.

[B]

Well, I was going to say that the. The farmers that I know that are definitely not related to me definitely don't just bring a gun with them while they're harvesting. The best deer stand that you could possibly have.

[C]

No. Yeah.

[A]

They would never do that.

[B]

They would never ever do that. Park the combine on the top of the field.

[A]

That is kind of vibe. Actually.

[B]

No.

[A]

If someone want to do it.

[D]

But yeah.

[C]

But then like in turn us like us non. Us non farmer hunters are going to be pumped too because corn is going to be off by deer opener.

[B]

Sometimes just going to be on my food plots.

[A]

Boom.

[C]

Supply. It's supply and demand type deal. Big deer are going to come over to your corn because you have it and farmers don't.

[B]

The neighbors got their beans off this weekend and I couldn't be more excited because now the only food left in like three plots is my food.

[A]

What that's gotta feel your neighbors got their beans off.

[B]

They did get their beans off. Their rocks are still on, though. They haven't got their rocks off yet.

[C]

They haven't? Yeah.

[A]

Oh, I love it when people get their bean off early for October. That usually never happens. Usually. Sometimes you don't even get your bean off at all.

[C]

Yeah, a nice fall. Bean off.

[A]

Beans off. Sorry. Oh, yeah. What other ways are construction workers and farmers different, but the same. Same, Same, but different.

[B]

They both hate their equipment. That's true, but for different reasons.

[A]

No, it's usually they just both don't work. Yeah.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

Yeah, everything's broke.

[B]

I was gonna say the construction workers. Sometimes, like, if something breaks down, you're kind of done for the day.

[C]

Yeah, we got to fucking get this fixed asap.

[A]

Yep, that is true.

[C]

Because the late, late and great Kobe Bryant job's not finished. You know, concrete construction guys, they don't. They don't. They don't have a mama mentality like farmers do. I'm sorry to say that, and this may not be the right platform to say that, but they just don't have mama mentality. Jobs not finished. Oh, equipment bro. Oh, my. The sole of my shoe came out. Okay, well, I guess I'm just going to go sit on the bench the rest of the game and you guys can just go ahead and play it out. Probably lose. They got that mama mentality.

[A]

What kind of mom mentality goes on at the. The minor league baseball game? T shirt launcher job. What kind of mentality you need for that?

[C]

I mean, if you don't, if you don't get one in the stands, you're gonna get booed. You want to get booed in front of 5000? I sure as hell don't. It's embarrassing.

[B]

How many times did you get booed? You think five?

[C]

Probably five out of 50 games. So like once every 10 games.

[B]

Nice.

[C]

But I mean, it also matters how, like how much you crank the CO2 up. So there's, there's factors that go.

[A]

Let's go back to what you said earlier. So you're saying that construction workers don't have any heart or grit?

[C]

No, I didn't say that at all. We were talking about broken down equipment and Tyler said, oh, my, My day is over. Now if equipment breaks down, if you.

[B]

If you like, let's say we don't have our materials on the roof yet and the lift breaks, like, well, I guess we kind of just have to go home, guys.

[A]

What would you actually do in that scenario?

[B]

We would have to do as much work as we possibly get things ready to go. Line.

[A]

Couldn't you just get a ladder?

[B]

No, not to carry up like giant sheets of rubber. They weigh like 6,000 pounds.

[D]

That mama mentality.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Honestly, what we do is we'd probably just do busy work until the boss could get a different lift in. So we wouldn't be done for the day, unfortunately. Yeah.

[C]

So Tyler misled me into. Into what I said, maybe they do a moment. I don't know. That's for you guys to choose. I. I'm not. Not a construction guy.

[B]

What do you do if the concrete truck breaks down on the way to give you to pour for you guys if you go home? Or do you just chill the rest of the day?

[A]

That just doesn't happen because they just send another truck if they're true. Because it's not our. We don't. We don't mix the concrete, you know.

[B]

I'm just trying to find the equivalent of a tractor break.

[A]

But if, like, we couldn't get a. If we couldn't get a conveyor belt or a pump truck, then we would just go to the next job site and just start that one. It's just never ends. It's a. It's perpetual Sisyphus loop. Just push the rock all the way up the hill and then it just rolls all the way back down. You gotta do that every day. Working on the concrete job site, at least like, with what. What I do think is like. And maybe I'm wrong in saying this, but what is kind of cool about farming versus, like, construction is especially what we did. We did. Like you could. You would have one job for like three days and then move on to the next one. Whereas, like, farming, it's like a whole year process.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

So it's like you get different phases and seasons of what you're doing every day. Whereas I feel like especially working in like residential construction, it's like a short burst of doing something and then you just have to do it again after that and do it again and then do it again and it's just the same thing over and over again, which could be tough.

[C]

Yeah, it's. It's the sprinters versus marathon runners.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I sprint marathons. So maybe.

[B]

It is kind of like there's some farming that's like that. Like if you. If you're harvesting, hey, you've got first crop second. Yeah, yeah, yeah. By the time you finish the first, it's like, like, well, I guess I better start over again on the second cross. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

I think farmers always listen to AM radio too. And construction workers always listen to like.

[A]

Heavy Metal 107, the fox playing the hardest rock that rocks your rock. It's always called the Fox. Doesn't matter what city in America you are. The heavy metal station is called the Fox.

[B]

Yeah, it's just like. And with. With Grungy and the Toad.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And like, I don't. I also don't feel like fox resemble, like heavy metal music, you know, it should be like.

[A]

Yeah, it's like you got. For country music, it's froggy.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

And for metal it's. It's the Fox.

[C]

Could be fox racing, you know, tie that too.

[D]

That's probably why they like it.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Well, and then like, like you said with the farmers. And then theirs is just. It's swap and shopping for four hours in the morning.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And then you get.

[D]

And then grain prices.

[B]

Yep. You get the ag report and that you. You get egg report. Then you swap and shop. And then you get an hour of poker music. And then. And then after that it is the obituaries. And then after that, local news. And then they have played two songs the whole day.

[C]

Yeah, I bet like the, the old, like the older farmers of the. Someone asked them what they listen to, whatever. And like I was listening to the obituary. I gotta. Gotta see if my name was in there. That's a classic. Gotta see if I popped up on the obituaries.

[A]

I tell you what though, maybe again, I. I'm just not a farmer, so I don't know, but I imagine when you finish that last strip harvest or the last piece of work for harvest, it's gotta be like taking a bra off after a long day.

[B]

If the bra is like your family's.

[A]

Financial future, just taking that thing off and just putting sweats on and just relaxing on the couch with a nice glass of wine. It's what it's got to be like.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

It's just like in the middle of the night too, when they get done too.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I'm trying to feel that, but I can't.

[B]

I just.

[C]

I'll never know what it feels like.

[A]

Sounds awesome though.

[C]

Yeah, it does.

[A]

Wait, you don't know what it feels like to be done with harvest or taking a bra off at the end of a long day.

[C]

Be done with harvest.

[A]

Yeah, that's.

[C]

I can.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I would assume taking your bra off is. Is a lot like taking your socks off for a. For a male.

[A]

Or do you guys ever, like, you have like one pair of underwear that's just a little too tight. Taking those off after a long day. Pretty nice.

[C]

Yeah. And then putting a pair on that actually fits. You're like, God, just. I could breathe again.

[B]

Some. Some fresh ones right out of the dryer.

[C]

Yeah. A little bit, A little bit stinky.

[A]

Or it's the, the taking bra off after a long day. The equivalent to guys is like after you wearing. Been wearing a stocking cap all day and then you take it off and you itch your head. Itching your head after wearing a st. All day long is the best feeling.

[C]

Stop it. That's the cat's meow right there. That's the fox's tail right there.

[A]

I just remember as a kid, my dad would always take his hat and then just rub his head with his bill.

[C]

God. Yeah, it feels great.

[A]

Get home from work and he just do this on the couch.

[C]

Have you guys ever seen those, like, I don't know, like five prong or six prong deals? Taking a stocking cap off and fucking doing one of these guys.

[A]

You've done that before or.

[C]

I've used one of those. Those things. But not after a long day of the stock.

[A]

That would be nice.

[B]

Want some comedy in your life? Use one of those, those whatever scalp deals on your kid. Kids like tweak out with.

[C]

Oh, yeah, I have.

[B]

Super funny.

[C]

I have before. Yeah. I, I can't tell if he like, if he loves it or if it. If I'm like tickle monster, you know, so.

[B]

Yeah. Because they just like, like spasm.

[A]

Yeah. So good luck to all those construction workers out there in the scorching heat.

[D]

Find some shade.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Yep.

[C]

So like, how close do you got to be? How close you got to be, like with cold weather rolling in to where the boss will kind of give you like a final, final date? Like, hey, this is going to be like the last job or the last one of the last days that we work.

[B]

Like when layoffs start.

[D]

Yeah, I'd say when there's like snow in the forecast.

[B]

Maybe. I don't know.

[A]

I think it all. It's a combination of weather and workload.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Like sometimes you get to the end of the year and they're just like, oh, we just don't have like a final project, so we're just done early.

[C]

Sure. So it may not be wet.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Fully weather dependent.

[A]

Yeah. Because I've done a basement in. When there's snow on the ground, you have to like cover it. The concrete after we pour it with blankets and you gotta like tuck your concrete in at the end of the night. Yeah, like, sweet dreams, concrete. Here's your blanket.

[D]

Stuck as a bug in a rug.

[B]

I never made it to the end of a season because I was always the summer help. So then once college would start back up, I was back in school. So I never got to finish an actual season. And boy, did I get for that every spring.

[A]

God, yeah. Oh look, you decided to come back to work.

[D]

Look who went to college.

[C]

But you couldn't wait for that last week.

[B]

Oh yeah, dude.

[C]

Cuz you weren't going to do anything.

[B]

No senior slide every single summer.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

So like sometimes it'll be December 1st. Could be almost all the way up to Christmas. Could be Valentine's Day. Never worked that late before. Okay, that would suck.

[D]

Sorry honey, I can't make it.

[A]

Sometimes they'll save like projects that like are like pouring a floor inside of a building that maybe is already heated for the winter. I don't know. That's a flat guys.

[C]

And you're not flat.

[A]

Fuck with the flat guys.

[C]

No, you're fucking.

[A]

Hey, when, when I came out of retirement a few weeks ago, did that slab, I just looked at my brother who was also on the wall crew and I was like, this shit. Flat work compared to doing concrete basements is fucking baby. It is the easiest thing ever. And I said that to him. And then the guys that were pulling the board were on the, on the flat crew. He's like, don't let them hear you say that. Go ahead. I'd love to see them do a full summer in the wall crew. They're going to be begging for their.

[D]

Flat work job back climbing the walls to get out of there.

[C]

Yeah, they're saying they're always taking the easy way out in life.

[A]

There is the one thing I don't like about flat work is there's a lot of bending over. Then you just start developing techniques, you.

[D]

Know, lifts with your back.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Sharp, tricky.

[A]

No, like so like depending on some, you gotta do like rebar. You gotta tie the rebar that's on the ground together. Well then you just like instead of having to bend all the way over to lift the rebar up to do it, you just like, you take your hammer and you pry it up and then do that. You know, you develop stuff like that.

[C]

Yeah, you guys should, you should get like, like a swing set type structure to where you can just like clip in a. I don't know like a, a bow hunting harness or something. You can just lay over top of.

[A]

It, be kind of nice Actually kind of sweet. That would be kind of fun. Just take. Well, we got a boom truck.

[C]

Yeah. Use a. Tie something up to the boom truck. Just lay over top the concrete. That way you're. I mean, you're. You're horizontal. You're not wrecking your back.

[A]

Yeah. It's like the. On sandlot when they send the guy over the wall with the. Remember, he's like laying in the ca. Yes.

[B]

Remember that? Oh, yeah.

[A]

Not a bad idea.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I'm just trying to save backs out there, you know, we don't need anyone blowing their back out.

[D]

That would be bad on the job site.

[A]

That would be weird, getting your back blown out at the job site.

[B]

I'm sure it's done before.

[A]

I'm sure it's been done before, too.

[C]

Chiropractor and retainer.

[A]

It's probably the H VAC guys, mostly. Hell yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, should we take a break?

[D]

Sure.

[A]

All right, guys, during the break, Jared just informed us that he's got a groundbreaking theory for everyone.

[B]

How he get tinfoil hat time. Jared?

[D]

Pretty much, yeah.

[A]

He wanted to preface it that. He said that if I was going to stake my entire reputation on a theory, it would be this one. So I just. Throwing that out there before you say it.

[D]

Yep.

[A]

Want people to know the stakes around what you're about to say.

[D]

Yep. So, you know, in old photos, you can like, see ghosts in some pictures.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

Like. Like your old photo albums and stuff.

[B]

This is starting great. Hell, yeah.

[A]

Yeah, I know.

[D]

You don't. You don't really see that anymore with iPhone photos. And we're taking much more pictures, I feel like, than we used to. So my theory is I think ghosts have gotten smarter about iPhones. They've caught onto it, and now you don't see them quite as much as in iPhone photos anymore.

[A]

So you're basically saying that iPhones are causing a deforestation of ghosts.

[D]

Ghost. Ghosts know about it and like.

[A]

All right. Yeah. So, I mean. But now are they hanging out in places where there's no iPhones or what? That's kind of what I mean is like, you know, you start building a city, all the animals got to go somewhere else, you know? Is that kind of what you're thinking?

[B]

Because of the rise of the cell phone, Third world countries and uncontacted tribes have a plague of ghosts.

[A]

There's just a plethora of ghosts messing around.

[B]

Yeah. I could buy into it. Yeah.

[D]

That's my theory.

[A]

Yeah. It's not bad. Or another conspiracy on top of your conspiracy. And again, Jared's going to put his whole reputation on this conspiracy that I'm about to say it. Wasn't it that like Samsung phones or Android phones, weren't they like. They're like, oh, look how you. Look how good of photos. You can take pictures of the moon with your iPhone. And then people. What people found out is that they were just putting a filter on any circular white dot on a black background.

[B]

Oh.

[A]

So they were putting a moon filter on things that your phone deemed was the moon. Is it kind of like that where actually Apple and Android don't want us to know about big ghost. And so they're filtering them out. Maybe they're still there. They're filtering them out because they're studying ghosts for themselves.

[B]

The cameras are so advanced that they automatically eliminate the ghost from the IM anti ghost technology. Essentially because if we were taking a bunch of photos with our phone and seeing ghosts all the time, we'd stop taking pictures with our phone.

[A]

They need us taking photos. They need us buying phones.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Because then you don't have to upgrade icloud storage.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

They need the extra upgrade and icloud storage.

[A]

Yeah. They really fucked me. So I getting a new phone.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

It was an unreal time. Is this total side note, but you. You either could buy 500 megabytes of additional iCloud storage or 2 terabytes.

[D]

Oh, there's no in between.

[A]

There's no in between. And guess where I am at like 600 megabytes of storage. Yeah. That's.

[C]

I mean it's quite the difference.

[B]

That's really annoying.

[A]

So annoying. But they know what they're doing.

[B]

Yeah. For the folks at home, two terabytes would be 2,000 megabytes.

[A]

Give me something in between.

[B]

Big jump.

[A]

So anyways, back to your conspiracy that you. You're staging your entire reputation around.

[D]

Yeah. And I don't know where the ghosts are. I would like to know. Maybe I'll take more photos of the digital camera.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And really test the theory. I could maybe do that.

[B]

I mean, I have another theory that, that Jared is staking his reputation on. It could be a false correlation. Because if you look at the rise of cell phones, it almost mirrors the rise of the show Ghost Hunters. So maybe Ghost Hunters is actually what got pushed. All the goats that goes.

[A]

They're hunting them all. It's kind of like, you know, uncontrolled hunting will kill deer population.

[B]

They're essentially poaching.

[A]

Yes. Poaching will kill in an ecosystem.

[B]

You will.

[C]

It's also like the the tornado theory to where, like, tornadoes don't hit big cities because there's a lot of shingles. So it's like, anywhere that there are a lot of iPhones, you're not going to see ghosts because it's pushing ghosts away.

[B]

Yeah. Maybe they're not getting smart. The. The pictures themselves are repelling ghosts.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

We're like, all individual, personal ghostbusters with our iPhones.

[A]

How many old photos do you have, Jared, that feature ghosts?

[D]

I would say at least two or three and from, like, photo albums.

[C]

Really?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And, like, were they on your board at your wedding?

[D]

No, I don't think so.

[B]

Those are the only photos of you we've seen.

[A]

Yeah. Only old photos of you we've seen.

[D]

Yeah. I remember a few instances, like, oh, that looks like a ghost in that photo, like, in the background.

[A]

I'm sure that there's no other logical explanation for. Other than it's just a ghost.

[B]

Correct.

[D]

Right.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

It's a classic Bigfoot. Bigfoot thing too. It's like, oh, I got Bigfoot on camera. It's like, no, you didn't.

[B]

He might have.

[C]

I mean, if Bigfoot was real, we would have gotten. We would have found a dead one by now. Do you not think?

[B]

Yeah, Unless the government died of.

[D]

We'll never know.

[A]

So you're a Bigfoot denier.

[C]

I think they did exist a long time ago. Like the woolly mammoth.

[D]

That's not Bigfoot.

[C]

Saying they missed. A long time ago.

[D]

Oh, gotcha.

[C]

But they're extinct.

[D]

They do have big feet, though. Woolly mammoths.

[A]

They do, but wouldn't. So what species did they originate from? Because Homo sapiens are progressively getting larger as time goes on because of evolution.

[B]

Gigantopithecus. Yeah. It's like, actually what they think that they could be.

[C]

Yeah, that's. Yeah. Thank you, Tyler. Took the words right out of my mouth.

[A]

So who knows? If Bigfoot was. Let's say they were back in the day, who knows how big Bigfoot would be? He might be by now. They may be ginormous foot. And not just Bigfoot because they're progressively getting taller, you know?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You imagine how first Homo sapiens seeing Yao Ming walk up to him. That's.

[D]

Bigfoot gets guy on the court.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

I mean, I don't. Again, I. This is just a. I have no evidence that that's the case. That's just.

[B]

Just.

[D]

You're going off vibes.

[C]

Just going off vibes.

[A]

But just. I want you. Also, this is another fun gameplay. Think I want you guys to close your Eyes. And think about how much dirt exists on the planet Earth.

[C]

Yeah, a lot.

[A]

And how much we've not excavated to find a potential Bigfoot skeleton. Think about that.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay. You can open your eyes if you. What do you guys think?

[D]

It's gonna take a while.

[B]

I would say roughly a metric ton of dirt.

[A]

It's a lot.

[C]

Mft.

[B]

Yep. Yeah.

[D]

We could use maybe, like, lasers or something to track it.

[B]

We're not using lasers to track stuff enough.

[D]

Just point a laser somewhere.

[A]

I just. I don't. I don't think I understand lasers even. Even, like, a little bit. How many things we use lasers for. It blows my mind.

[B]

Hair removal comes to mind.

[A]

It can be a kid's toy, and it also can kill people. I don't understand how we do that.

[B]

You could also strap laser beams to the tops of freaking sharks.

[A]

That's true.

[C]

Freaking laser beams.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

If you saw a news headline like they're using lasers to find Bigfoot, you'd.

[A]

Be like, oh, yeah, okay. They really buckle down. They're gonna find them.

[C]

Now.

[D]

It could just be one little wimpy laser.

[B]

Just some guy with a laser pointer using it to point to spots on the map. They haven't grid searched yet.

[D]

They're locking down. It's my mentality.

[B]

This would be for the.

[A]

Also side note, you like how Ryan tried to bait me into getting worked up?

[C]

He was getting worked up. No, it's actually gonna bring that up. I was gonna ask, did you get a little bit worked up?

[B]

Over.

[A]

But you see how he baited me and Ryan. That's how you handle it. You don't just go off YouTube, Tyler.

[B]

What?

[A]

You don't just go off the handle on each other.

[B]

I mostly go off the handle. When you say something to Ryan and he deflects to me.

[A]

I ex. Amplified the perfect example of how to handle. When someone's talking a bunch of. That they don't know anything about.

[B]

I. Where was he talking?

[C]

I don't think I talked any.

[A]

He said that construction workers don't have mamba mentality because they just give up. And he knows that. That's what he was doing. Look at his face.

[C]

No, I did it based off what.

[A]

Tyler said, and it was don't.

[B]

Don't deflect. Yeah, no, no.

[C]

We. We talked about this in the last segment. I said. Because you said, okay, if the. If the. If the lift breaks, we're probably. We're just gonna be done for the day.

[A]

But just. I just want to just go on record and say, like, how much I'VE grown. I didn't take the bait.

[D]

But you kind of are taking the bait, right?

[B]

Yeah, a little bit. Just a different way.

[A]

No, but I. I just. I want to use me as a good example for the future for you guys. And if I don't do that, well, just. It'll get lost in time. Like, it's like. Also, I kind of deserved a good job, and it's kind of deserved an atta boy for that because of how much I've grown. That I don't. Wouldn't bring that up and get worked up about that.

[D]

Don't have Ryan at a headlock right now.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

I'd slip right out of. Because that's what mamas do. Mama mentality.

[D]

Like, I have words out of my mouth.

[A]

So anyway, sorry, what are we talking about?

[B]

Bigfoot.

[D]

Bigfoot.

[B]

Lasers, laser beams and Bigfoot.

[A]

Fire the laser.

[C]

Did any of you guys ever bring lasers to school?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You did?

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Laser pointer. I never got. My mom never bought me a laser pointer. But I always had a buddy. It's probably the same buddy that. That had his dad's hand me down Palm Pilot. And also his dad worked for Hershey's, and so he would just always have candies. He just had the best childhood.

[B]

Hell, yeah.

[C]

Yeah. He just had the best childhood.

[B]

Yeah. The good pop tarts.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

The blueberry shit.

[C]

Yep.

[D]

Unfrosted.

[C]

Yep.

[A]

You know, he just had like. Like, I don't know what he was doing on the Palm Pilot because, like, what would. What calendar would he have to keep?

[D]

Breaker.

[B]

Yeah. C's playing Snake.

[A]

Yeah. But yeah. Pretty sick. Yeah. He always. It felt like he always had a laser pointer on him. You know, everyone. Everyone had a gadget buddy growing up.

[B]

Oh, yeah. I had a buddy who's. His dad was super into old arcade games, so his whole basement looked like an 80s arcade. There was Street Fighter. There was Frogger. There was Pac Man. It was like, this has to be the coolest thing ever. He's like, it's just normal for me.

[A]

Yeah. That's the thing. Right. So, like, it's kind of funny that your kid's childhood is shaped by your hobbies.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Which is kind of cool in that case. Right. He's got all these arcade games in his basement. What the was my dad doing?

[B]

His hobby was concrete.

[A]

Yeah. What? Just lower back pain and. And falling asleep on the couch is his hobbies. And that's how my childhood is shaped.

[D]

Watching Wheel of Fortune.

[A]

What if he'd video games that have been sick? What if you've been arcade games that have been awesome. But no woodworking.

[C]

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean you can.

[A]

I guess, I guess the one thing would have been golf.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

But so, but it's not like you had a sign. Tiger woods, like Red Polo in the basement that.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Buddies could look.

[A]

It was, you know, so.

[B]

Yeah. The hobby has to be like really in your house to, to truly like leak into your personality.

[A]

I know.

[C]

Yeah. Crazy.

[B]

My dad's hobbies were hunting and yelling at inanimate objects.

[D]

So that transferred.

[B]

Yeah. So if I can't fix my lawnmower, my dad's hobbies come out in me. Oh yeah? Yeah.

[A]

My dad's hobbies were making sure that all the lights were turned off in the house.

[B]

And you were, you weren't cool in the outside.

[A]

Yeah. And, and, and shutting off the television before we left. Anywhere.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

If you're leaving, the house has to be off. Otherwise like something really bad.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

But what sucks is like I, I, when we, you know, we'll leave the house and I'll be like, we gotta shut the TV off. And Anne was kind of like, why? Right. And I was like, well one. It's part of the principle. But then I started realizing it started sounding like my dad. And I'm like, how much electricity are we really wasting by leaving the TV on? Not that much. So now I will intentionally leave the TV on to spite my dad.

[B]

Nice. Make up for all the times you turned it off and Correct.

[A]

Canceling them out.

[C]

If there's no activity on the tv, it's just going to shut off on its own.

[B]

Yeah. Nowadays.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

We don't have a TV timer. The like, like YouTube TV will stop playing gotcha. But the TV doesn't shut off.

[B]

Sure.

[A]

It just goes into that like this shitty stock Google Photos.

[B]

Hell yeah.

[A]

They just like flash across the screen.

[D]

Like the Bay of Italy or something.

[A]

Just a bunch of places that I'll never go. Also, isn't it kind of. Isn't it kind of funny to think about? Like, how do I've never been to Europe. How do I know Europe exists? You know what I mean? Like, how do I know that the, the places in the photos actually exist? I don't know anyone who's ever been there, I guess. How do we know that it exists?

[D]

Nothing's real.

[A]

And also it could be a simulation. What if it does exist, but only if it's rendered when I'm there?

[B]

So you.

[A]

It's like a video game.

[B]

You don't know anyone that's been to Europe Up.

[A]

Well, no, what was the place you.

[D]

Said, like the Bay of Italy?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Right. I don't know. I don't think anyone's been to the Bay of Italy. Is it even a real place?

[B]

I don't know.

[A]

Now I do know someone's been to Australia, so I can confirm that.

[D]

Australia, Cambodia. You can confirm that?

[A]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, I've been Chile, though. I don't know.

[C]

But actually my brother's been to Chile.

[A]

Okay, so Chile exists.

[B]

My sister has been to Italy. I don't know if she went to.

[A]

The Bay though, also, you know, the place probably doesn't exist. Everyone. Everyone's a lot of hoopla about Madagascar. Come on. There's no way.

[C]

Well, there's a movie on it.

[B]

Yeah, there's just no way.

[A]

There's talking animals on an island in Africa.

[B]

Animated real life documentary.

[C]

We don't know anyone who's ever been there. How do we not know there's talking animals?

[D]

Yeah, it's like Jubungi.

[B]

I'm pretty sure.

[C]

That'S a great movie. I was scared shitless when I was younger watching that.

[A]

It was. It was a mildly scary. I mean, not. Not so much for me, but like my bro scared.

[C]

Yeah. I was scared to. Yeah. Ouija boards. And I don't. With Ouija boards.

[B]

Well, you don't have to worry about if you have your iPhone.

[C]

That's true.

[A]

But you guys know what I mean though.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

No, it's like if you don't know anyone who's confirmed that a place exists, how can we conf. How can we say that it actually exists?

[C]

That's very true. I have been to Europe though, so I can confirm that.

[A]

Yeah, but not. You haven't been to all of Europe.

[C]

Europe, no. Amsterdam, Germany.

[A]

Have you been to the Scandinavian countries?

[C]

I haven't, no.

[A]

My brother has. We can confirm.

[D]

Antarctica. They can't confirm that one.

[B]

That's true.

[A]

Well, did Mr. Beast go there though? I think. I think the beast went.

[D]

So Mr. Beast goes somewhere that confirms he probably.

[B]

Just bought an island similar to Antarctica.

[A]

That's true.

[C]

Yeah. Build a set too.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

What's some other places do I not know if anyone's been to?

[B]

Luxembourg.

[A]

Yeah, I don't know anyone.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Never been to Lux, Idaho.

[A]

I've been to Idaho.

[B]

It exists.

[A]

I confirmed. I got ocular pad down.

[B]

Yep, it's there.

[A]

So anyway, it's just side note, Area 51.

[B]

Never been there.

[D]

That's a good one, Ryan.

[A]

I think the Beast went there too.

[C]

I signed that petition. I just never showed up that one.

[B]

Yeah, I had going on.

[C]

Otherwise, Facebook. I'll sign this. You put anything in front of me or Miles, I'll sign it.

[D]

Except a Facebook invite.

[A]

Kind of this recently.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Anyways. Oh, also, side note, I saw comments. Someone said the Ryan meetup. Oh, yeah, Ryan meetup is in South Dakota. Know there's a Ryan meetup? Do you guys know what I'm talking about?

[B]

Yeah, yeah, we talked about this.

[A]

Hey, I wish someone would say something so I wouldn't have to keep saying the Ryan meetup.

[B]

We.

[C]

We.

[B]

We talked about it.

[C]

No, yeah, yeah, we. We definitely talked about the Ryan meetup. I didn't see the message.

[A]

Yeah, well, it was a comment on one of our things. I'm now telling you that I think that there's a meetup in South Dakota. Okay.

[C]

Can we.

[A]

The Ryans are meeting up in South Dakota.

[C]

Any way we can confirm that time, place, date?

[A]

And also now that you are team Ryan. Jared.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

You need to go, but you're not gonna be let in, so you just need a sign outside that says go, Ryan.

[B]

Yeah. Or you could maybe just get a. They might hire you to work the Ryan meetup.

[D]

Yeah, because.

[C]

No, they don't want any. Ryan's working at the meetup. This is for us to meet each other.

[B]

Yeah, you're supposed to hang out there.

[A]

So would you go to Orion meetup?

[C]

I mean, it was embargo.

[A]

What's the farthest you would travel for? And we're going to say your travel expense. Your travel expenses are paid for by the company.

[C]

Does anyone get to come with me?

[B]

Not. That's her name. Ryan.

[C]

I understand they can't go to the meetup, but there's.

[A]

You can bring your. You can bring your family and then just leave them at the door.

[D]

There's no plus one. Involved. Involved.

[A]

What's the final suit? Travel?

[C]

Hawaii.

[B]

Oh. Oh.

[C]

All expenses paid, though. That's. That's the kicker.

[A]

And I suppose, like, the further you get away, the more enticing it's all expenses.

[D]

Madagascar.

[B]

And you get to bring your family. Yeah.

[A]

What about like Guadalajara? Mexico?

[C]

They got pharmacias down there. That's where the beat up's at. Know. Probably Hawaii. But if there was one in South Dakota, I mean, if we're talking like Mitchell or something, I don't know. I don't know if I'd drive to Mitchell for the.

[B]

The r. The Ryan meetup at the Corn palace in Mitchell, South Dakota. There's a.

[C]

This fly. I swear to God, it's like the nation Beatles in my garage. If we can get. I mean time, place, date, get. Get more info on it.

[D]

Yeah, I'd consider hour and a half drive. Would you do it?

[C]

Probably not. I'd probably have to miss that one.

[D]

Catch the next one.

[A]

Well, you could start a Ryan chapter here in Fargo and just do event right here.

[B]

Post it.

[C]

Yeah, I could. I could just appoint myself chapter pre.

[D]

Do anything.

[A]

That was a side note. All right. Jared, you got some would you rathers for us?

[D]

Yes, I got four of them.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

Would you rather receive $2 for every French fry you eat per day or $1 for every push up you do a day?

[A]

$1 every push up.

[B]

Oh, I take that French fries, dude.

[A]

But you guys aren't thinking long game. You haven't been Domino Dan before.

[C]

I've been French fry Frank, though.

[B]

Domino Dan's a ways. Your lifestyle be it.

[A]

You can do way more push ups in a day than you can eating french fries. And you're like, oh no, it's. Yeah. Right away until you start getting domino danned and you're fat and then you have to start doing push ups anyways. Might as well get paid for them.

[C]

I suppose you do got to buy the french fries too, so. So you're spending.

[A]

You know, I'm guessing you don't. That would. This would make no sense if that was the case. Well, I mean, I guess it would.

[B]

Would.

[D]

It'd be a net positive.

[A]

Yeah, about like, what. What's french fries cost these days? Like four bucks.

[D]

Four or five bucks you get. You know, you want a large one.

[B]

You gotta eat three of them to get your money back.

[C]

Yeah, like how many do we. Can you look up how many french fries on average come in like a large McDonald's?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Oh, burger King for me though.

[B]

Obviously those are thicker fries, so maybe you'd want to go McDonald's.

[C]

That's true. Maybe I want to go Freddy. Steak burgers.

[B]

Actually, give me those.

[A]

Because think of it's one of those things that like. Like with push ups, I mean, you could easily get to a point of doing like a thousand push ups a day.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Over time.

[C]

I'm with you.

[A]

Then you're also in great shape. Secondly, you're making a thousand bucks a day and you're. You got the pecs of Arnold Schwarzenegger. I mean, come on.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. So if we say 92 French fries in a large McDonald's fry, that feels.

[B]

Like a more than there actually is.

[C]

I know. Well, that'd only be 184 bucks.

[A]

Spade. A spade I. I knew this was a bad deal, that you guys were going down a wild goose chase. You have to. To get the same amount. Once I get up to a thousand push ups, which. That's on the light side. I could probably get up to 2k easy. Once I get to a thousand. Like, you guys are gonna have to eat five large fries a day. You guys are gonna be. You're not gonna be able to eat anything else.

[C]

Yeah, no, you're right.

[B]

Right.

[C]

You're right.

[B]

If we could, there's got to be a loophole here.

[C]

I mean, like you, for you go. You go to the gas station, forget your wallet or something. Just drop and give me 10. There's 10 bucks, right?

[D]

That's what I'm saying.

[B]

Not a bad idea. You just put do the amount of push ups you need to do to pay for every meal.

[C]

Yeah. I mean, if you live in a small town too, there might. Might not be a McDicks.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Might just be a Subway and DQ.

[D]

Yeah, there's probably a diner.

[C]

Oh, they got. They got fries at dq. I suppose. Yeah.

[B]

I'm getting convinced.

[C]

Me too. Me too.

[D]

Would you rather be able to pause, rewind or fast forward time?

[A]

Feel like we talked about this one before.

[B]

I think rewind is the most useful.

[A]

I only want pause.

[D]

Like click.

[A]

I only want pause. You start going back, then it's like you go back once. Then you could just redo a scenario over and over. You're just stuck in the same scenario until you get it right. But you'll never get it right, you know? And what's the fun of life if you know what the future holds? You know, if you fast forward and come back, you're like, oh, I already know what happens. That's sucks.

[B]

It'd be super useful, though.

[A]

It's like knowing the spoiler before you go to the best movie in the world. World.

[B]

Yeah. You could also be a superhero with the rewind. You just save everyone every time.

[A]

I know, but isn't part of being a superhero is that it's not always that fun to be a superhero?

[B]

Yeah, but you do.

[A]

I learned that about, you know, the movie Superman, which is a great character, by the way.

[C]

I think I would want to. I would want to rewind specifically for investment purposes.

[B]

Hell yeah. Sports betting. Betting.

[C]

Sports betting. Sports cards. Yeah, you name it. Investment purposes, Rewind.

[B]

Yep.

[D]

Yeah, but if you pause it too, like, you can be at a football game and have money on the game and then like trip the receiver, put the receiver out of place, and they don't catch the ball.

[B]

It's more work than just rewinding and changing my bet. Okay.

[A]

That is. Yeah, it's a really good argument. And I'm a guy who can be persuaded. And so I'll take both pausing and rewinding. But all. But I'm putting in the contract for this. I only go back for monetary reasons.

[D]

Gotcha.

[A]

Yeah, like going back. Can I only go back until I once I was born or can I go back in time anytime I feel like we should.

[B]

We get to.

[C]

I think you can go back before. Cuz like Harry Potter, he went back in the Sorcerers or Chamber of Secrets. He went back to when. What's the guy's name who was. Who was Voldemort pretending to be?

[B]

He didn't. He didn't go back.

[A]

He didn't go back in time. They only had one.

[C]

He went through the book.

[A]

They only had.

[B]

It was like watching a movie for him, basically. He wasn't back in time.

[C]

Yeah, okay.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

They only travel in time one time during Harry Potter and it's like.

[B]

And they go back like a day.

[A]

Yeah, if that.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, they do.

[A]

So you thought the whole time he was actually going back in time during that.

[C]

Well, no, but I mean, he was. He fly.

[B]

This fly dude.

[C]

So what. So what would you consider him going back to. What's the guy's name?

[B]

Tom Riddle.

[C]

Tom Riddle.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

What would you call that scene?

[B]

He was basically, essentially watching a movie on an iPad. But he would teleport into the book. He was just seeing.

[C]

So was he teleported?

[B]

I said no, he wasn't even there. He was just. Consciousness was there. He was watching something unfold because they just.

[A]

They just took his memory and he watched his memory. He didn't actually go back to.

[B]

To that time. He's basically seeing.

[C]

He got sucked into the book.

[B]

He's basically seeing.

[A]

Not a book either, by the way.

[B]

He. A diary.

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

He's just. He's seeing a memory. Like he's. He's w. He's in a vision.

[A]

Of.

[B]

A vision of the.

[C]

Because he can't be seen when he's back there. So I understand what you guys are saying. When he didn't like travel.

[B]

Yeah. He couldn't influence anything happening. Yes.

[D]

Observing that kind like Brandon from Game of Thrones. You can see the past or the future.

[B]

Yeah. You can see it all time at all, at once.

[A]

Spoiler alert.

[D]

Sorry.

[A]

Jesus, you're always doing that, Jared.

[D]

Also, right, you gotta be really careful when you quote the Harry Potter Books.

[C]

Well, no, I, I, I'm also being educated though I wasn't firm on I.

[B]

Could see why I think he's traveling back in time.

[A]

You do see him walking around. Pretty obvious. If he could just travel back in time by looking at a book, I think that'd be a bigger plot point. I think that they would probably be sticking their nose in books more. But that's just me. It's like they did. All right.

[C]

I do gotta be careful because I.

[A]

Did a whole book around actual time travel book. It actually was a book.

[B]

Yeah. Miles was thinking of the pencil.

[A]

So when I was a kid reading that book and, and I come across the word pensive. I, I did. I didn't know how to pronounce it. So I went the whole time reading the book without ever actually knowing what it was called. I just would skip over that word and my brain would just be like that word.

[C]

Oh yeah, dude.

[A]

It walks over to the that word and then just keep moving on.

[C]

They also say er in, in in that book a lot.

[B]

Yeah. I think British. It's their version of.

[A]

Yeah, it's like er.

[D]

What.

[A]

So I what's very scary.

[B]

You gonna get this stone or what?

[A]

So what's funny is I also thought the same thing and I just discovered like this summer that my wife says er a lot. And I was like, you're the first person I've ever met that actually use it. Because I remember when I read the book.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And they use like a lot.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. I was like, urm, erm, no, erm, wasn't it.

[B]

I don't remember.

[A]

I had the same thought. I'm like, no one says that.

[C]

I didn't even know how like in context what it sounded like. So that that was where I was and does it.

[D]

So what's, what's an example, Miles? What Ann will say. What's it.

[B]

There you go. That's all you need.

[A]

There we go. It's like when she's starting to say something that stops and rethin thinks what she's saying.

[B]

Okay. She's like, yeah, we're free to. No, we don't have something going on today.

[A]

Correct.

[C]

Interesting.

[A]

Kind of weird. Very weird.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I'm never gonna not hear it now.

[B]

They also in those books called Boogers Bogeys, they do a weird amount of bogeys talk. And I didn't know what the that was until I was like 15. Like, oh, it's boogers.

[A]

I probably just read it as boogies and just said it as typo.

[B]

Yeah. They Just keep repeating the same typo.

[C]

Do you ever.

[A]

Do you ever read something like they had a typo and then you reread again? You're like, oh, no, I'm just an idiot. Yes, I read it wrong.

[B]

I'm just dyslexic.

[C]

Oh, they put two that's right next to each other. It's like, wow, you didn't think they had a proof?

[B]

Oh, yeah, there's a comma. Damn it.

[A]

Anyways.

[D]

Would you rather have time stop every time you fall asleep so you could sleep sleep for however long you want without wasting a minute of your day, or have the ability to sleep only two hours a day and never feel tired?

[B]

O, no, the first one. Well, yeah, sleeping is. It's nice that.

[A]

I mean, the first one is quite literally what I said my 1 want my superpower to be. Yeah, you technically, in the, in the 24 hour cycle, you're technically not sleeping at all if time stops while you're sleeping. Sleeping. So 100% well. Yeah.

[C]

And I mean, if, if you could sleep for two hours and not be tired, you'd still be going two out. Like, you'd lose two hours. Whereas the. The former option, you wouldn't lose any time.

[A]

And if you do, in the one where time stops, if you do get tired, just take a nap.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And you'll just never be tired. Yeah, you just sleep whenever you want.

[B]

Want.

[A]

Be so time stops.

[B]

Be so productive.

[C]

Have you guys been able to find your ideal amount of sleep?

[B]

Yeah, I'm still searching. By the way, I've found mine. It's like right at seven hours.

[D]

Yep. Seven. Seven and a half.

[B]

Any more than that, I wake up groggy. Any less than that, I wake up groggy.

[A]

Mine's about eight. Yeah, I can survive on like seven consistently, but my optimal is eight hours.

[B]

I'm.

[A]

I'm about as basic cable as it can be. I'm an off basic. Yeah, I'm an. I'm an off rack sleeper, you know.

[C]

Sure.

[A]

No measurements needed. Just get me my 8 hours.

[B]

T shirts and jeans of sleep.

[A]

It's like my older brother, he's an off the rack suit guy. My wedding, he got measured and he's like, you can just pick out anyone over there. They're all you.

[B]

Not.

[C]

It's not bad though.

[D]

Not bad.

[C]

You don't have to worry about your suit not showing up on time.

[A]

It's like the opposite of Shaquille o'. Neal. You know, he's got a custom order everything. My brother can just walk into any store in, in the entire world and just get something off the rack. Yeah, it's great.

[B]

Shaq's sleep schedules, He. He has different hours for each day. That's how confusing is. He's off the rack. His is.

[C]

He's gotta, he's gotta have 12.

[B]

I bet on Tuesdays he needs four. On Wednesdays he needs 11.

[A]

Oh, okay. Got it.

[B]

He's the exact opposite of off the rack.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. Like even. Yeah. It's also I. I realize how much it matters when I actually fall asleep. So, like, if I went to bed at one and I still got eight hours, I'm still not gonna be great. My. Like, but if I go to bed at like 11 and I get eight hours, I wake up at seven, I'm. I'm great. So, yeah, I can. If I can go to sleep between like 10 and 11:30, I'm good.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

You can replace one figure, one finger on either hand with the following. Would you rather have a refillable lighter, 6 inch stainless steel blade, a rechargeable 2000 lumen flashlight, a spork, which is a spoon, fork combo.

[B]

Thank you.

[D]

Or a Sharpie that never goes dry?

[B]

I'm out on the knife right away way. Why?

[C]

Why?

[B]

That's a real pain in the ass to have.

[A]

But think of martial law scenarios. What's going to be most useful?

[B]

The lighter.

[A]

That's probably true.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I'm not ready for martial law.

[A]

Does the lighter ever lose its light?

[B]

He said it's refillable. Yeah. So we'd have to.

[A]

Yeah, but even in a martial law situation, you're going to run out of fuel at some point.

[B]

Yeah, but I could refill it.

[A]

I know, but you like. What if you run out of.

[C]

Is it a torch or a lighter?

[D]

Lighter.

[A]

What would I rather. I mean, if anyone's using a spork, that is just. That's like. Spork is like. If you're good at two things, you're good at nothing. You know, it's like spork is like. Oh, it's funny. That was a spork. Great. But fork spork sucks.

[B]

They're not good. I mean, honestly, the. The spork, the knife and the sharpie are off the board for me.

[A]

Sharpie is what do you need a Sharpie that much for?

[B]

If it was a.

[A]

Besides sniffing it, what was the other one?

[B]

So it's between lighter, flashlight. Flashlight. That's a good one.

[D]

2000.

[C]

Yeah, but you always got an iPhone on you.

[B]

That's true.

[A]

What about martial law, though?

[C]

They have I mean, they have solar powered flashlights, so.

[A]

What. What. How does this thing power powered the lumens?

[D]

Oh, It's a rechargeable 2,000 lumen flashlight.

[B]

That's good. That's good. But there's no power to recharge it unless you have a generator.

[A]

Yeah, it would suck, dude. But like the flashlight, like, you could at least like, get into sports games, but if you have a lighter or a blade. Blade for a finger. Like, you can't even get into a sports game.

[C]

You could. Yeah.

[A]

Chop your finger off before you go in.

[B]

No. Watch the Vikings wear gloves. That won't be suspicious.

[C]

You can just. You could just make sure the lighter is empty. Id. Of. Of butane or whatever the it is before you go and just prove to them it doesn't work.

[B]

Does it still look like a finger?

[D]

You. You can replace one finger.

[B]

So it's completely replaced?

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay, I'm gonna go. I'm still gonna go with lighter.

[A]

On the. On the grounds that a Marshall Law situation may have happen.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You can always spark up anywhere.

[B]

Anywhere.

[C]

Church.

[B]

You know how cool it is if somebody needs a light and you just whip out your finger?

[C]

That's a great talking point too.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You might scare people.

[A]

I think I'd want it to be my thumb so I can go like that.

[B]

That would be sweet. That.

[A]

I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about any of these utensils. Like, yes, in a martial law situation, a lighter would be sick. But like, in my regular. I don't need a lighter that much.

[C]

I.

[A]

There's like three weeks out of the year where a knife is really handy to have.

[C]

We don't want to cut your finger either.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

That.

[C]

Cut your other fingers.

[A]

Spork. No one ever needs. Like, what do I need a sharpie that much for get it on your.

[D]

Clothes all the time.

[C]

Like, okay. In reality, like, like, like all of.

[A]

These are kind of choices.

[C]

Do we even need Sharpies to exist is the question.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

For what?

[B]

I used one today, actually.

[C]

For what?

[B]

For what I had. I had to block cross offs a. A prop there. We had. We printed off a Green Bay packers ownership certificate for a video, and it had a guy's name and address on it, so I needed a Sharpie to black that up.

[A]

Like, sharpies are definitely an adult writing utensil.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Like, adults use Sharpies way more than kids do. But like, Crayola markers are a kid's writing utensil.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Mechanical pencils, kids writing utensil pens. Adult writing utensil.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You see where I'm going with this?

[C]

Zebra pens, especially.

[A]

Gel pens. Kids writing utensil, highlighter. Adult writing utensil.

[D]

Yeah. Because kids have markers. They don't need highlighters.

[C]

My college buddies, they used to go to the, like, arts and craft store back in our college shop. They would buy the place out of zebra pens because it's the best pen to convert into A1E. Oh, whatever A1E is, is sure.

[B]

So microplastic.

[C]

They started IDing for zebra pens back in my college. John.

[A]

How would that prevent. Why would that matter? Doesn't help any. Regardless of age, it doesn't help anything. I don't know. I don't know.

[C]

Maybe they write your name down and be like, hey, he's bought 30 this month. He's hit. He's like, hit his max limit for being able to buy them. It's a. Zebra pens in. My college buddies were like, chapstick. You know, they'd have one at every spot.

[A]

Who's one?

[C]

And then have to replace it with something from another area, and then they'd have to go buy more. So.

[D]

So what's the final verdict?

[B]

I'm lighter.

[C]

Lighter, sure.

[A]

We'll do lighter.

[D]

Okay. One fun fact, and what's rare is.

[A]

I feel like I normally have an opinion on that, but I just don't care about. Care about any of those. My college buddy don't care about any of those.

[C]

My college buddies also used to, like.

[A]

The most I care about is the knife, but, like, I just feel like it's so hazardous. Like, how am I going to hold my kid?

[B]

Yeah, you can't.

[C]

I can shake someone's hand, whatever.

[D]

Scissor hands.

[A]

Yeah, they did a whole movie about that. I'm definitely not picking that.

[C]

Yeah. How are you going to pop the balloon around with your. With your little one?

[B]

Yeah. You have to have a sheath on your finger at all times.

[A]

Yeah, it's kind of sick. All right, what were we going to say?

[C]

My college buddies, they would always stay away from white lighters. White lighters are really bad luck because they said, like. Like, I don't know if it was, like, El Chapo or Al Capone or something. When he. When he finally got arrested, he had a white lighter on him.

[D]

Oh, that's good to know.

[A]

I think it's very funny that your college buddies have superstitions around Al Capone and El Chapo.

[C]

I don't remember which one it was, but, yeah, they always stay away from the white lighter. Even if, like, the. If the, like the color Would chip off. They would never use that.

[D]

It's good to know. So if you have a white lighter.

[A]

That's just the most stoner thing I've ever heard.

[B]

I'm pretty positive I own a white lighter.

[D]

Throw it away.

[C]

Get rid of it.

[A]

No wonder.

[C]

Per my cost, I guess.

[B]

So unlucky lately.

[A]

No wonder you got so many hornets nests in your house.

[D]

Yeah, the white lighter.

[B]

Update on that. They have not come back. I think I've successfully won the war. Good.

[D]

Big news.

[A]

Could do a version of the. The show the White Lotus, but call it the White Lighter. And it could be set in Ryan's college town with his college buddies as the main characters. Kind of a fire. Sid, the white lighter. Someone always dies in every season.

[C]

Someone always gets arrested. How about.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

Because of the white lighter.

[A]

Well, I. We wouldn't. If it was a show, we wouldn't actually cast. It's a show, Ryan. So no one actually dies. Spoiler alert. In real life, we would just pretend that someone died. No, I know, but that's still cool. If we kill someone.

[C]

Well, I was gonna say, if you arrest them, then you can, like, you can can. Later on, they can get out of jail or prison, too. Yes.

[A]

Okay, well. But there's all the other characters that didn't die that we can put in season two.

[C]

I only got so many college because.

[A]

Like, death makes a show better.

[B]

Or we could just change the cast every season and maybe just have one or two people.

[A]

That sounds like a really good idea.

[C]

I mean. Yeah. There are groups of college buddies. I have.

[D]

Okay, so we got multiple seasons.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

The White Light for five years. We could do five seasons.

[A]

The white lighter can be the smoke shop in these college towns. And then you just have a different college town. Kind of a good idea.

[C]

Kind of a fire show, actually.

[A]

Kind of fire, though.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Kind of like it.

[A]

It's kind of got, like a Clerks 2 vibe.

[D]

Not the first one.

[A]

Well, I just.

[B]

The reason why is better.

[A]

It's better. And the reason why. Because we had the Clerks 2 on DVD growing up.

[B]

Oh.

[A]

So that's why we didn't have Clerks one. So just a lot more of my Clerks knowledge comes from two now.

[B]

One.

[D]

Have you seen one?

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Okay.

[A]

But yeah, I've seen Clerks too. A lot more. Isn't that because he starts doing the. Like, the music's playing. He's like. Oh, when he starts, like, rubbing his nipples and putting the Chapstick on Silent Bob.

[C]

I've never seen Clerks.

[B]

I like it, actually. That's funny.

[D]

Watch the second one first.

[B]

Yeah, watch.

[C]

You gotta watch the fourth one first.

[A]

It's kind of like watching this movie. Waiting. You don't want to watch Still Waiting first. It's way better.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Or. And then after, you could start with number three weighted, if you want to go in that order. Some people do that. Yeah.

[A]

And then you can also watch the. The outdoor spin off called Waiting and Still Waiting.

[B]

Yeah, but that's W a d I n g there. Yeah.

[C]

No, I got you.

[D]

I got you.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

One fun fact. The very first American alarm clock was invented back in 1787 by a guy named Levi Hutchins. It only rang at 4am that's when he needed to wake up for work, so he built the clock just for himself.

[A]

Also, he can go himself.

[D]

He's dead, so he.

[A]

I hate that guy. Think about where we could be in society if we never invented alarm clock. We could just wake up and do stuff on our own time. How nice that would be.

[B]

We'd be late to everything.

[A]

But why did we decide we had to be on time? Who decided that being on time was a thing? Back in the day in caves, you woke up when the sun came up and got into your cave, and you just went hunted. And you're like. You're. Your. Your cave wife was like. Like, where the is Miles at? And he's like, I don't know. He's hunting. He'll come back with an antelope or whatever.

[B]

This is the most chronically late guy take ever.

[A]

And then when I show up with me, she's happy. She's not mad that I showed up late, because there's no such thing as late back then. There was no such thing as late. Think about that. There was no on time. There was no late. It just. They just were.

[D]

It was just time.

[A]

It was just. It was just. Just. We just were doing stuff, and there was no schedule, and it was all about your survival needs, and you just did what you needed to to survive. And now. What's his name? Neil?

[D]

Levi.

[A]

Levi Hutchins. Levi Hutchinson shows up, invents the alarm clock, and now all of a sudden, I'm getting shamed for being a little late once in a while.

[B]

I like that we used caveman for the analogy. And this is in the 1700s.

[A]

No, I'm saying we were good till then. We didn't need an alarm clock.

[D]

We peaked right away.

[A]

We did. We did peak really early, actually. It's like when we first became conscious. That had to have been the best time to be alive. Just no rules, no social norms, better music. Like, just think.

[B]

Yeah, just a bunch of grunts. Rocks on rocks.

[A]

But just think about, like, experiencing everything. Imagine, like, experiencing consciousness for the first time. Just all the time. He's just like. It's like learning to ride a bike. But you just. It's just your mind, you know? Look how thrilling riding a bike is for the first time. You're just doing that all day in your brain.

[B]

Simple. We gain consciousness. Our entire existence was not getting eaten. And also finding things to eat, which is fun.

[A]

Dude, you like to hunt.

[B]

It's true.

[A]

Hunting's the best gathering. Yeah, I mean, gathering's kind of. Probably have Ryan do that. Gathering can be fun. You walk through the forest, find a good stick. Pretty fun to gather those berries.

[B]

Y.

[D]

Some mushrooms.

[B]

Ryan.

[A]

See, I knew he was the guy for the job. Imagine we all just imagine us. Us four cave dudes, right?

[B]

That's a sitcom.

[A]

Cave dudes dudes.

[B]

We're.

[A]

We're cave dudes. We just gained consciousness and we're all like, hey. Looking at each other like, we should invent a language. Huh? But we can't say it because we haven't invented it yet. But we're all like, holy. And then, like, I started drawing a picture on the wall, and you're like, oh, my God, is that another human? And then we say we send Ryan out together, and he comes back with a fucking marijuana plant. I mean, can you imagine how euphoric that would be? You imagine he comes back with some psychedelic mushrooms?

[C]

I probably wouldn't tell you.

[A]

Well, you. You. You haven't. You know, we're sorely on in consciousness. You haven't invented this. Just being deceptive.

[B]

Lying isn't a thing yet.

[A]

Yeah. So we're just sharing everything. This is like. This is like what communism was supposed to be. And then again, we peaked early. And then communism went back bad. Communism was good. First consciousness, then bad. After that, bad.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Just think cave dudes.

[C]

Life would be easy.

[A]

So now I got. We got in my. In my show arsenal. I got the cave dudes. I got the. The white lighter.

[C]

Lighter.

[B]

The white lighter. Sounds like it's like the leader of the clan or something. Oh, yeah.

[A]

Yeah. Not great.

[B]

Great.

[A]

That's. Yeah, you're right. That's bad. Hey, we'll roll. We'll see. We. We. We'll keep it anti clan.

[C]

Yeah. You just gotta watch a trailer for it, obviously. Understand?

[B]

No, that's.

[A]

Actually.

[B]

Maybe it's good that it sounds like that. Oh, people like, what the hell? Then they'll check it out and then.

[A]

They'Ll realize, oh, this is just a bunch of stoners in Jamestown, North Dakota, superstitious about a white lighter like that. Someone's gonna die. Die. Spoiler alert. Someone dies. But not in real life. Ryan, I know you're worried about losing a buddy. It'll just be. It'll be acting. It'll just. We'll use like, ketchup.

[C]

You can't bring him back. That's the thing. Like what? Like what if we want to. I want a college buddy to come back after you graduated for like, homecoming the next.

[B]

We can do flashbacks.

[A]

I think you're more of a. I think, yeah, we do flashbacks, but also I think you're more of a soap ruper guy. Those people die and come back all the time.

[D]

Right?

[B]

So they don't come back. They have secret twin brothers you didn't know about.

[A]

Yeah, whatever.

[C]

Because I was thinking, like, one of the graduated college buddies could come back for. For homecoming next year and introduce another, like, new college buddy to like, the.

[B]

Supply chain that's to be the spin off show of the supply chain. Yeah, it's actually.

[C]

I guess I do have a supply chain story. I'll say that for Patreon down though. It's a good supply chain story and it has.

[B]

It.

[A]

It's a.

[C]

It has to do with my college buddies. It's not like our supply chain here at work. Okay. It's a college buddy supply chain. It's awesome.

[A]

Can't wait.

[B]

Can't wait.

[A]

Is that it, Jared? Well, guys, thanks for tuning in to another episode. A very even keeled mellow episode of the Betcha Radio.

[D]

Nobody freaked out.

[A]

Nobody freaked out. I stayed calm. Especially when Ryan baited me. I didn't take the bait. I'm still swimming in the sea. I'm not in this sushi. Roll.

[C]

Home roll.

[A]

Have a. Have a great week and we'll see you in the next one. Oh, you betcha.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[D]

If you betcha join the rodeo, who's doing what and who'd be the best?

[B]

I think Ryan would be really good at barrel racing.

[A]

So it looked nice on a pair of those jeans.

[D]

I think it'd be a great rodeo.

[C]

Miss me jeans or what? Rock revivals.

[B]

Yeah. Who's.

[A]

Who's insane enough to get on a bowl?

[D]

I think Tyler could.

[C]

Yeah, I think. Yeah.

[B]

Pre kids in a heartbeat. Now. Now I got to worry about have dying and having my kids grow up fatherless of this.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Oh, you wear a helmet though.

[B]

Yeah, I would.

[A]

You wear one of Those back braces.

[B]

Yeah, if they.

[A]

Fine, dude.

[B]

If they pad me up, I'll do it.

[A]

We'll put you on, like, the. We'll put you on, like, the older bowl with the lower T. Perfect.

[B]

Yeah, me and. Me and low T. That would be.

[A]

The name of the bowl too. It'd be low T. Like, what all the kids ride.

[B]

Yep.

[C]

So, like, what are. Okay, like, what kind of. Of what are the jobs that we can pick from?

[D]

I know rodeo clone's one of them.

[A]

Yeah, we're just. What sucks is we're just not rodeo guys. Like, I've been to a rodeo, but if you're not Ian rodeo, you don't really fully know what's going on unless you've been going a few times.

[C]

Like, I. I'll. I'll tighten the strap around the. The. Around the bulls. Like, what do they call this?

[A]

Yeah. We working it or are we, like, competing in this?

[B]

I guess I feel like working it would be a boring question he's got to be asked.

[D]

Rodeo in.

[C]

In terms of competing, there's only one occup. Like, there's only one job that can be taken that's getting on the bowl. So that covers one of us.

[A]

Well, then you have, like, the barrel race. Like, the calf.

[C]

Gotcha. Gotcha.

[B]

Yeah, you have roping, you have barrel racing, you have Bronx, and you have bulls. And those are the only ones I know of.

[C]

Okay, so let's go with those four.

[A]

I'd like to be a roper, I think. Think. Yeah, try it out. I don't know.

[C]

I'll take the. Yeah, I'll take the barrel.

[A]

Hip, hip, hip, hip.

[B]

When. When I work from home, I just have the TV on in the background. And it was on rodeo one day and I kind of got into. They were roping calves, these kids were. And then they had to get out and tie them up super fast. And a bunch of them kept screwing up when they would tie them up. And so they were all just getting super pissed. It was kind of fun to watch. They can.

[D]

Can't even tie their shoes. How they going to tie?

[A]

Yeah, they need a velcro rope.

[B]

They're like.

[C]

They just wear cowboy boots their whole life. They don't know how to tie.

[A]

Sh. That's true.

[B]

Like, some of them were, like, full. Just hip tossing these calves.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

That's impressive, dude. Watching, like, adults do that. I went to that rodeo at the Dome last year.

[A]

They.

[C]

They throw those things around.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Like, imagine being a woman, like, getting in bed with one of these ropers. Like, you better get ready.

[A]

We actually had a gal call in for the Bellied up podcast that was she dating a guy who is a bull rider.

[D]

Yeah. And she couldn't keep up with him in bed or something.

[A]

Like. Yeah. Or he was kind of didn't want to unleash the beast in bed and she wanted him to or something like that.

[D]

She said she wanted to like throw salt in his eyes and tie him up.

[A]

Yeah, something like that. It was a Patreon episode on Bellied up for sure. Sure. Hell yeah.

[D]

I think episode 94.

[C]

I think I have heard though the. What is it the nfr?

[D]

Is it pbr?

[B]

Pbr? There's another one.

[C]

The, the one in Las Vegas, the massive one. Is that the pbr, I believe. I mean I've. I think there are a lot of just like non rodeo people who go to that because it's so electric.

[A]

Oh yeah, no, 100%.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Rodeo's sweet. I just don't ever go and don't know anything about it.

[B]

My financial advisor does rodeo.

[C]

Really?

[B]

Dear rodeo, the most opposite personalities you could possibly have.

[C]

Yeah, right.

[B]

Hey dude, do you want to buy into term life insurance? Also, I can't talk this weekend because I'm going to be riding a 3,000 pound bull.

[C]

Yeah, also I can't talk this weekend. My jaw's wired shut from getting stepped up.

[A]

Like I literally can't talk.

[B]

Yep.

[D]

Why they have texting.

[A]

If we were working it though. Ryan, be rodeo clown.

[D]

You'd be a great rodeo clown.

[C]

That'd be fine. The one, the one, the one at the rodeo I went to this last night. He. It was just annoying after a while cuz he was like getting on the mic and.

[D]

Oh, I don't like that.

[C]

Yeah, it was. No, it was. It was just fine.

[A]

You're going to be like a mime rodeo clown, you know, no.

[B]

Silent clown.

[D]

Yeah, he tries to.

[A]

Excuse me. Yeah.

[C]

Actually, I think if I was. If I was going to be working rodeo, I'd want to be. I'll call them like the, the usher on the, like the usher horses. So essentially they get like right up next to the bull after the guy. Guy gets bucked off or jumps off and they like usher him back into the, into the chute. Yeah. Those guys are amazing.

[A]

All right, that'll be. But you're the rodeo clown.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Let's see. Pizza Hut. Paul, my grandpa calls AI A1 as in the steak sauce. Is it even worth correcting him or do I just need to ride with the wave of him calling it a one.

[B]

Just let him ride, dude.

[C]

He's your grandpa. He's probably.

[A]

He.

[C]

Yeah, he's probably not going to learn.

[A]

What's it going to hurt if he knows that he doesn't know that it's AI. What? I wonder what he thinks it stands for.

[B]

No, he has no clue.

[D]

Steak sauce.

[B]

He thinks the same company makes both from steak sauce like the most unnecessary sauce on the planet. To self thinking computers.

[D]

It's like Nintendo making board games to video game consoles.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

But even worse, that's like if Nintendo was making posted stamps and then did.

[B]

Video games just decided to really get into pizza ovens.

[A]

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