How We Became The Worst Wiffle Ball Team in History 🎙 #337

Summary

Podcast Summary: You Betcha Radio - "How We Became The Worst Wiffle Ball Team in History 🎙 #337"

Release Date: July 30, 2025

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Introduction

In episode #337 of You Betcha Radio, hosts Miles, Ryan, Tyler, and Jared delve into their recent experience participating in the Wiffle Ball World Series. The episode offers a candid exploration of team dynamics, personal commitments, and the humorous yet humbling journey of becoming the league's worst team in over a decade.

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The Missing Member: Ryan’s Absence

The episode kicks off with Miles addressing Ryan's absence from the Wiffle Ball World Series, which Miles, Tyler, and Jared attended. This absence sparked confusion and tension among the team members.

• Miles (00:15): "Ryan, when you initially said you couldn't be there, you said there was a concert, right?"

• Ryan (02:02): "There wasn't lying. There was just details left out."

The conversation reveals that Ryan's actual reason for missing the tournament was a pre-planned golf trip, which he chose not to disclose initially to avoid exacerbating the situation.

• Miles (02:15): "Can we even trust you anymore to say what you're saying is true or the whole truth is the question?"

Ryan explains his reluctance to reveal the golf trip, fearing it would escalate tensions further.

• Ryan (02:37): "If I'd have said I was going on a golf trip, it would have intensified things 10x."

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Performance in the Wiffle Ball World Series

Despite their efforts, Miles, Tyler, and Jared found themselves struggling significantly during the tournament, ultimately becoming the worst offensive team in 13 years.

Game Details and Notable Incidents

• Poor Batting and Defensive Plays:

  • Tyler (20:12): "We could the fucking broad side of a bar."

  • The team scored only one run throughout the entire tournament, with a point differential of -11.

• Hilarious Mishaps:

  • Miles (22:53): "First swing of the day. I swing and I whiff and the bat no goes flying out of brewing flying out of my hands."

  • The bat striking Miles and Jared resulted in welts, adding a layer of physical comedy to their woes.

• Defensive Efforts Amidst Chaos:

  • Miles (24:20): "But defensively and pitching wise we were rock solid steady."

Despite their defensive capabilities, their offensive shortcomings overshadowed any positive aspects.

Statistical Performance

• Runs and Point Differential:

  • Tyler (20:47): "We scored a total of one run the entire tournament and our point differential was minus 11."

• Pitching and Strategy:

  • Miles (36:14): "The problem was, is I wasn't. I was. I think I was using the lines on the wiffle ball because if you turn it a certain way, it'll curve and whatever."

Their pitching strategy fell apart due to inconsistent ball handling, leading to multiple runs against them.

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Reflections and Future Plans

After their dismal performance, the hosts reflect on what went wrong and discuss potential strategies for improvement.

• Miles (45:28): "But as a podcast, we are discussing things like this. So regardless, you're right. We just. Hey, we'll never ask for a reason from you ever again."

• Tyler (38:17): "We got our asses beat, and we need redemption."

They humorously contemplate returning to the tournament, albeit with a better-prepared team and perhaps a few more practice sessions.

• Jared (38:09): "Yeah. Hypothetically, we can't do much worse if we were to go back next."

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Conclusion

The episode wraps up with light-hearted banter and a seamless transition into promoting their Patreon community. The hosts maintain their camaraderie despite the setbacks, emphasizing the importance of teamwork and humor in overcoming failures.

• Miles (80:37): "Well, guys, thanks for tuning in to another episode of You Betcha Radio. We'll see you in the next one."

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Key Takeaways:

• Team Dynamics: Transparency within a team is crucial to maintaining trust and cohesion.

• Humor in Failure: Using humor to navigate and reflect on failures can strengthen team bonds.

• Continuous Improvement: Recognizing weaknesses and planning for improvement is essential for future success.

Notable Quotes:

• Miles (00:39): "Ryan, on. When you initially said you couldn't be there, you said there was a concert, right?"

• Ryan (02:02): "There wasn't lying. There was just details left out."

• Tyler (20:22): "We scored a total of one run the entire tournament and our point differential was minus 11."

• Jared (38:09): "Yeah. Hypothetically, we can't do much worse if we were to go back next."

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This episode of You Betcha Radio provides an entertaining and insightful look into the challenges of amateur sports, the importance of honesty within a team, and the enduring spirit of camaraderie among friends. Whether you're a fan of Wiffle Ball or simply enjoy a good laugh at the antics of four friends, this episode delivers a memorable experience.

Transcript

[Miles]

Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of the you Betcha Radio podcast. We are back in the studio. We have quite a bit to unpack over the weekend. It's.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

So before we even get into our Wiffle Ball World Series that. We participated in that. Me, Tyler, and Jared participated in that. Ryan did not. I do. We do need to clear the air. Ryan, on. When we initially. You initially said you couldn't be there, you said there was a concert, right?

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Miles]

And then we were very confused because the concert was later at night six. And so we're like, well, what about earlier in the day? And you just were like, I. I need to mentally get ready for the concert. I don't want to. And then we find out, no, I.

[Ryan]

Don'T think I said I need to mentally get ready for the concert. I just said, I don't want to. I don't want to go on.

[Miles]

But we later find out that would have been an infinitely better excuse to not be at the Wiffleball World Series that you had, like, a guy's golf trip already planned for that day. Why didn't you just tell us that you had that planned already?

[Ryan]

Well, so the golf trip was. Was Friday. And also, Tyler, you're a. You're an.

[Tyler]

You said it on the podcast.

[Ryan]

It doesn't matter. That's a different podcast. We don't talk about that podcast. Separation of Church and State.

[Tyler]

We've posted it, but that's fine.

[Ryan]

He's not gonna listen to it, people.

[Miles]

I don't understand why you didn't want me to know that. That's just such a better excuse than being like, I got a concert at night.

[Ryan]

I didn't. I, I, I didn't want to.

[Miles]

I'm not mad about it.

[Ryan]

No, I know. I know.

[Miles]

I confused at why there was all no and deceit.

[Ryan]

There wasn't lying. There wasn't there. I, I didn't lie about. I didn't lie about anything. There was just details left out.

[Miles]

I know why. I mean, because. Can we even trust you anymore to say what you're saying is true or the whole truth is the question? You know.

[Ryan]

I wasn't gonna put fuel on my own fire. There was already a lot of heat coming at me because I wasn't playing in the Wiffle Ball World Series. If I'd have said I was going on a golf trip, it would have intensified things 10x. I can guarantee you that. And as much as you guys want to say it. Oh, no, I would have for sure. Live on air. It would have been like, well, there's.

[Miles]

Like, there's not true. There's multiple things going on here. So one.

[Ryan]

It.

[Miles]

From what Tyler told me, you had this trip planned for a long time. So when I initially brought it up to you, you should have. All you had to do is be like, I have a golf trip planned with my buddies that weekend, and then that's the end of it.

[Tyler]

And I. Right. I truly believe that if you just said the golf trip, all of us in here would have rather gone to a golf trip. So we would have been on your side. We'd be like, oh, yeah.

[Ryan]

What time did you guys get home? Like, what time did you get done?

[Jared]

7:30.

[Ryan]

We were home. Yeah. So regardless, I wouldn't have been. Why I wouldn't have been able to play.

[Tyler]

Well, we left for the concert for you. We were. We.

[Jared]

We were just spoken.

[Tyler]

Well, spoilers. We were.

[Miles]

Yeah. We literally got done at 5pm and then we hung out for a couple hours.

[Ryan]

Too close.

[Miles]

Regardless, we don't. This is. Hey, we are. This is. We're a podcast together. We don't need to be leaving out details for no reason whatsoever.

[Ryan]

I mean, anything.

[Miles]

And. And ruining the circle of trust that. That is this podcast.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

And so this is. Hey, it's fine. None of us are.

[Ryan]

And I know it's fine. It's some. Some details in my personal life. I. I don't need to share on.

[Tyler]

Air, you know, you shared it on air. Just.

[Ryan]

I share a lot of. I just decided to leave that. That one out because I didn't want to again. I didn't want to put fuel on my own fire.

[Tyler]

It just caused confusion is what it really did because we were so confused.

[Ryan]

No need to be confused. All you know is I'm not going to be at the Wiffle Ball World Series. That's all you guys needed to know. It's like taking a day off. It's like, oh, where are you going? It's like, well, I don't. In, like, bigger companies. This is different. Right. I'll tell you guys where I'm going, but in bigger, like, why do you need to know where I'm going?

[Miles]

You are correct. But this whole podcast is us discussing things like this. So regardless, you're right. We just. Hey, we'll never ask for a reason from you ever again. We'll just assume that you are always out.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I mean, I didn't. Yeah. I never said. I never said I was going to be somewhere I wasn't. I just didn't. I just left out where I was Going to be that morning.

[Miles]

Correct. Which we're just. That's what we're so confused about.

[Tyler]

Because we wouldn't have begged and pleaded, like, you could come with and play the first couple games. We wouldn't have done all that.

[Ryan]

Oh, get out of here.

[Tyler]

We wouldn't. If we didn't know.

[Ryan]

Out of here, Tyler, you for sure would have.

[Tyler]

Every single one of us on the way to the tournament were like, yeah, we'd rather be going to a golf tour. A golf trip with the boys. Right now we get it. That is, except for Jared, who doesn't golf.

[Miles]

Except for Jared. Yeah.

[Tyler]

But the three golfers in the car were like, yeah, that sounds awesome. I'd rather be going on with my best friends going to a golf trip.

[Ryan]

It was awesome. Yeah, I'll talk about that tomorrow.

[Tyler]

And we'd have been like, oh, yeah.

[Ryan]

Podcast can be found.

[Tyler]

I get it.

[Jared]

The private podcast.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Well, not now. I don't know if I can trust Tyler tell him anything.

[Tyler]

I literally said it on air on the Double Bogey Show. I'm like, oh, yeah, that sounds sick.

[Ryan]

I don't know if I can trust you anymore.

[Tyler]

You trust me. You lied to all of us first.

[Ryan]

I didn't lie to you about anything.

[Tyler]

You literally said you couldn't go in the morning because you have just a concert. You didn't say you said you had to.

[Ryan]

I just said. I just said I couldn't go. I did not say I was busy that morning. I said, I don't want to make too many commitments that day.

[Jared]

That is true.

[Ryan]

Run it back. We got plenty of tape pullers on this podcast. Yeah. Thank you. Jared.

[Jared]

You did say you can't make it correct, but you didn't specify why.

[Ryan]

Correct.

[Miles]

Yeah. Yeah. And I think obviously you're very worked up right now, and I understand, because.

[Ryan]

You feel now he's trying to back to me even more by saying that.

[Miles]

No, you're back to we backed you into the corner, which I did. That I. I'll own up to that. I think that the part that's so confusing is in the past, you have been pretty much an open book with us. So we. It's. We were more so just like, why all of a sudden, the secrecy?

[Ryan]

Okay, so the reason, if not it.

[Miles]

Always been secretive, we would not have thought twice about it.

[Ryan]

No.

[Miles]

But being a guy who's pretty open book about stuff, we were just confused with the secrecy and wondering about that.

[Ryan]

What? I don't think it wasn't even secrecy. It was more the fact that when you originally texted me to ask if I could play. I said, hey, I got this concert at 6pm and when, when you later realize, like, oh, shit, you did say that. I thought you were already committed. And then I said, well, no, I, we went through the text messages. We did all that. If I would, if I would have then added this onto it, then I feel like at that moment it would have been a much bigger deal that I wasn't going to be there because of A.

[Tyler]

And B. I, I, don't get mad at me again. I, I genuinely think you overthought that because if you would have told us you were going on a golf trip with the boys, I know you disagree.

[Miles]

We would have been cool with extra funny to be like, Miles, I said I couldn't go. Not only do I have a concert, I also have a golf trip plan that we've had for a long time, so I doubly can't go. And you thought that I could, even though I was very clear about that. Like, that would have been like, okay, yeah. Really an oversight of my.

[Ryan]

No, you know, and you're right. And, and I think I, if I would have committed to saying it right away, I, I, I, it would have been fine. But the week after, you know, in my head, if I was like, maybe I should, I should have disclosed that there you, there's no backpedaling on this podcast because then if I would have came back, the next one been like, hey, I actually got this too. And then I would have turned into like, oh, so you now you're just planning stuff for that morning when you, you know, it would have. That's what would have. Is why I never brought it up after the fact when it was already too late to say something.

[Tyler]

So, yeah, so I think the error was made in the initial. The first error was made in Miles just not reading his text.

[Miles]

Yeah. Which I think I owned up to. It was like, oh, fuck. Yeah.

[Tyler]

And then I think error two was you only talking about the Sam Barber in the pod.

[Ryan]

Because I couldn't, I could not add this back in after the fact.

[Tyler]

I think you'd have been okay though, if you did in that podcast. Like, I also had this too.

[Ryan]

No, because you know how like that.

[Tyler]

You would have got a little. But I don't think as much.

[Ryan]

Yeah, well, you're down playing it a lot.

[Tyler]

I, I true. I would have been on your side.

[Ryan]

It doesn't matter if you're on my side though. It's the guy sitting next to me that, that we would have went on.

[Miles]

So I also wanna, I wanna, I wanna say that regardless of what happens, unless you're doing some crazy illegal. That's really bad, I am always on your side. It's just, yes, I'm on your side, but I might be jabbing you in the side with something, but I'm still. Well, I, Like, I, Regardless of. Even if you had lied even more than you already did, if you would have withheld even more, I'm not like, ryan's dead to me. I'm just like, wow. I just, and I just don't, I'm.

[Ryan]

Confused when I think the other.

[Miles]

I'm always on your guys' side, so let's not get that confused. Even when I think some listeners will.

[Ryan]

Be confused about that statement, I think.

[Miles]

You, you know what I mean, Jared, it's not like, yeah, there are very little things you could do that is gonna be like, me be like, all right, you wait.

[Jared]

You just want honesty, that's all.

[Tyler]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Ryan]

I, I think another fact.

[Miles]

But even if we got a guy like Ryan who's being a little dish, withholding some of truth, I'm not gonna be like, I mean, I'm not abandoning. Like, we just gotta air it out and then we'll move on. I'll have a great podcast.

[Ryan]

Here's the other thing about my personality, whether you guys have figured this out or not, I have a hard time saying no to stuff. So I will try and make something work, like, to the very last.

[Miles]

That is why we are so confused, genuinely, about the fact that you had all day available other than the concert, because you are a guy who will make something work.

[Ryan]

No, I, I, I, I think it's more so just me learning how to, Just learning how to say no. Like, get straight to the point right away.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Like, there are some times where I, I'll, I'll just leave stuff up in the air, even though I know I can't. So I can try and make it work. This one, I just, like, left. I didn't really leave it up in the air, but I also just didn't disclose that I was going on the golf trip.

[Miles]

Yeah. So, I mean, me and, and you are 100, right? In a workplace, you do not have to disclose, but this is a podcast.

[Ryan]

No, I, I completely understand. No, I, I could.

[Miles]

It's a, It's a weird conundrum we're in with the whole. We're a workplace, but we are also a podcast that shares about our life.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Work hard, play hard.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

So.

[Ryan]

And there was no there's no lying. There's no dishonesty. There's just a detail left.

[Miles]

Oh, no. Tyler. What? We're almost through.

[Tyler]

No, it' the U.S. court of Law. Omission of truth is considered lying. Omission of truth.

[Ryan]

Is that a ship Omission?

[Tyler]

Omission of truth, basically. Not.

[Miles]

Not admission. Omission.

[Tyler]

Omission. Like. Yep. Not including a detail in your. In the court of law is.

[Jared]

You're not on trial, though.

[Ryan]

You're not.

[Miles]

Omen is a little bit on trial right now.

[Ryan]

My right hand was never raised, and this isn't a court of law.

[Tyler]

You're right. You're right.

[Ryan]

Yeah. No, but you're right in saying that.

[Miles]

But at what point does this become the. You bet your court of law, you know. You betcha radio. Are we not holding court right now?

[Ryan]

We can have a court. We can have a court of lawsuit. Like, if you're right, we need to.

[Miles]

Disclose that we are now in you bet your radio court.

[Tyler]

Correct.

[Miles]

So that there is no omission of the truth.

[Tyler]

And in your defense, you can use this now that we're in session. You never said you were on the record, so.

[Miles]

You said you never was on the. Well, I mean, we are recording.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

We just found something late in the discovery phase, you know, but. Yeah, no, it's. I just, again, I don't think we really care about what Ryan was doing on Saturday, but I just. I had to bring it up.

[Ryan]

No, I, I, I, I, I, I also knew that it was gonna get brought up. I, I mean, again, there's no good. There's no good way to be like. Yeah, I just.

[Miles]

Did you feel a little guilty about not just saying that? Is that why you talked about it on the Double Bogey show, or did you talk?

[Ryan]

Yeah, a little bit.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

See?

[Ryan]

Yeah, a little bit.

[Miles]

I mean, that's also kind of a smoking. If, if you feel guilty about something, you probably shouldn't have done it that way. I don't know.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I mean, right.

[Jared]

If you had a time machine, would you do anything different?

[Ryan]

But possibly. Okay, yeah. In the moment, yeah.

[Miles]

Had, like, if I had a time machine, I would read his text message.

[Ryan]

We start with the text message.

[Miles]

If we're being real. My negligence on reading the text messages is what started this whole thing, and I will own up to that fact.

[Ryan]

What? And I already knew that, like, as the baseball guy, not being able to go to the. The baseball function. That was not. It's not a great start.

[Miles]

All right, guys. Very excited this week for Prize picks, how we all feel. Let's just, let's just start it off with some clapping. Just clapping. We're clapping. We're excited for prize picks this week because the NFL is back, baby. And right now, guys, Prize picks will give you $50 in lineups. When you play your first $5 lineup, win or lose, you'll get 50 bucks in lineup promo code YBR when you sign up today. And let's clap for code YBR and the start of the NFL season. Yes, it is preseason, but it is still a season of some sort. And we spent all summer long in the Sahara desert of sports. We were, we were looking under every rock, looking in every nook and cranny. Last week we put a lineup in on Call of Duty, but we've made it. We are here. And it is time for anyone who is not currently on prize picks to fire up that account. Use YBR because the NFL is back and we're putting lineups on football yet again, boys.

[Tyler]

Feels good. Real good.

[Miles]

That being said, we have the first preseason game between the Chargers and the Lions. Jared, who do you got picked?

[Jared]

I have Omarion Hampton, less than 13 and a half rushing yards.

[Miles]

Less than. We got a lot of less thans, I think, in this first game of the year. Backups. Tyler, what do you got?

[Tyler]

I'm the only more than. I'm going Jake Bates, more than one and a half P a ts.

[Miles]

All right, so you're hoping for two touchdowns.

[Tyler]

Lions will score twice.

[Miles]

Okay, I have hendon Hooker, the QB, the backup QB for the Lions, less than 18 and a half rush yards.

[Tyler]

He ain't running anywhere preseason.

[Miles]

The backups can't even think out there, let alone run bubblegum.

[Ryan]

And I got the, the pride of the North Dakota State Bison, Trey Lance on I, I, I got Trey lance, less than 119.5.

[Tyler]

The prides.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Yeah, There you go. I mean, I feel like they got the numbers pretty high for these guys.

[Ryan]

So I might throw a couple extra lineups.

[Miles]

Yeah, it's just, it's to that point I got that little tingly feeling in my feet. And I'm excited. I'm very excited, actually. I've never been this excited for preseason.

[Ryan]

Games ever, so I might throw 100 xer in.

[Miles]

Are you?

[Tyler]

You won't.

[Miles]

I'd like to see you try.

[Ryan]

Okay, I'll cook one outside.

[Tyler]

I'll ride with you.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

So, guys, it's that time. It's the time of the year. Fire up prize picks account. Let's get after it. This NFL Season, which is a great segue into the Wiffle Ball World Series. I don't think you being there to make you sleep better at night would.

[Tyler]

Have mattered in the grand scheme. No, I don't think it changes our record, but it changes our pride.

[Miles]

So hold on. So hold on. Okay, so on top of all this, we had. We. I had Jake be like, jake committed to doing the Wiffle Ball World Series.

[Ryan]

Okay?

[Tyler]

He's your replacement.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Miles]

So at least you never actually committed. So you're feeling great right now. Jake committed. I was with Jake on Thursday. Wiffle Ball World Series is on Saturday. I told these two guys, Jake is definitely going to back out early on on Thursday. I go, hey, what is your plan for Friday? Saturday to get there for the Wiffle Ball World Series. Cause Jared not only did we. He commit to it. Jared sent a text message trying to get a plan together Wednesday night. On night. I talked to him on Thursday. He was in the group message. I know he saw the text message. And I go, what's your plan? And he. He does the lying face. You guys know the lying face. And he goes, oh, wait, that's this Saturday. And I just laid into him. I'm like, don't act like that. You know it's this Saturday. Why didn't you just tell us you didn't want to do it in the first place? You saw the text message. Why. Why didn't you respond this and that? And he was.

[Tyler]

And I know for a fact that he knew it was that weekend because previously in the week, I was talking to him through zoom, and he's like, yeah, I can for sure go to it because it's the same weekend as my friend's wedding that's in town.

[Ryan]

I'm looking.

[Tyler]

So I will.

[Ryan]

Real good.

[Tyler]

I will be in the area for that wedding, so I can for sure go play Wiffle ball the day before.

[Jared]

Guilty.

[Tyler]

So, yeah, he knew.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

You're now looking like a bouquet.

[Ryan]

When was the wedding?

[Tyler]

The wedding was Sunday. Yeah, either. Either Sunday, wedding Sunday, or something.

[Miles]

Regardless. So then we had to find. So we. We ended up getting my brother to come play. And so we show up, and let's. Let's just say it. We were the worst, statistically, the worst Wiffle ball team in the 13 years that this wiffle ball tournament asterisk.

[Tyler]

We were the worst offensively in 13 years.

[Miles]

Yeah, that's true.

[Tyler]

We didn't have the worst point differential even this year.

[Miles]

Correct. Yeah. Yes, you are correct.

[Tyler]

Yes.

[Miles]

But offensively, we had the coldest bats of Any wiffle ball team in the 13 years that this series has been going on.

[Tyler]

We could the fucking broad side of a bar.

[Miles]

So we scored a total of one run the entire tournament and our point differential was what?

[Tyler]

12. Minus 11.

[Miles]

Minus 11.

[Ryan]

Holy.

[Tyler]

Hey. One one team was minus 28.

[Miles]

Correct. So. So we went oh three and one. We tied a game. 00.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Because in pool play they weren't gonna do extra innings to keep things moving.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Tyler]

So like soccer at the end of the fourth inning because he played four inning games of pool play ties a tie and we tied a team. 00.

[Miles]

Yeah. They also were absolutely obliterated.

[Tyler]

Shit can their catcher didn't know where he was.

[Miles]

Didn't know where he was. And we, we, we struck out or whatever and so we were flipping the side. So we were going out in the outfield. One of their players like was just standing in the outfield waiting to play defense. Even though they were on off drunk.

[Tyler]

We had to tell him to go hit. And that team. This is. It makes you they perfect gamed us. We didn't just tie00. We got perfect game.

[Ryan]

We had two perfect games against a shit faced pitcher.

[Tyler]

Back to back games. Game one and two, we got perfect game. And against this the pitcher was the most sober on their team, but he was still shit based.

[Miles]

What. What's wild is so if you take out one inning, we only gave up four runs. Four runs.

[Ryan]

We were good in four games.

[Tyler]

Four runs in four games. If you take out one inning where we gave up eight runs.

[Ryan]

Holy.

[Tyler]

And that was on two dingers.

[Miles]

So defensively and pitching wise we were rock solid steady.

[Ryan]

What was that? What did the, what did the field look like? Is there pitcher, catcher, outfield, infield?

[Tyler]

Yeah. So you go two outfielders because the second base is only five yards off of the whole the back fence.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Tyler]

So we went two outfielders. Pitcher, catcher.

[Ryan]

Gotcha.

[Miles]

So yeah, it was quite the thing. You want we should have known the day was going to be what it was when my first at bat.

[Tyler]

Oh my God.

[Miles]

First swing of the day. I swing and I whiff and the bat no goes flying out of brewing flying out of my hands. And the best part is Ryan and Tyler were standing behind me and it went and hit both of them in the stomach.

[Tyler]

Yeah. The bat, it just so that the front of the barrel like the very tip of the bat hit me in the gut. And then the handle whapped Jared right in the ribs.

[Miles]

They both had welts the whole day.

[Tyler]

And then Miles clearly embarrassed face ready. He Goes. Shouldn't have put sunscreen on right before the game.

[Miles]

I did, though. I went to the truck, I put sunscreen on. I had it all over my hand.

[Ryan]

Cover up, though. I mean, you're quick on your feet. When it came to the.

[Tyler]

To the rebuttal, he full on longest yard popcorn. That I shouldn't have had that popcorn.

[Jared]

Yeah. Immediately it was like out of a movie.

[Miles]

So hard. I swung so hard.

[Tyler]

Right. We were. They don't have like benches or anything. And there's. We weren't even standing like where the on deck circle is standing. Like we were 6 o' clock from us.

[Miles]

I was.

[Tyler]

Yeah, we were directly behind him. So he let it go fully, like over his shoulder in his backswing.

[Ryan]

Holy shit.

[Jared]

Couldn't make again.

[Ryan]

We talked about bringing pine tar. The pine tar must not have been brought.

[Tyler]

No.

[Ryan]

Was there a heat check on that pitch?

[Miles]

Because the harder somebody way too early.

[Tyler]

So that was our problem. Right. We swung at everything.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah. It's hard not to. How. Okay, can someone give me a gauge of how fast they're throwing?

[Miles]

Not very.

[Tyler]

Not that fast.

[Miles]

25 miles an hour.

[Tyler]

There was never even an inkling in me where I should have been hit. Heat checking someone.

[Jared]

Correct.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Okay.

[Tyler]

So we did. I did get. Got on some junk.

[Ryan]

Sure.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

That's where they're gonna get.

[Miles]

Putting some curvature on it. I told you guys, as soon as the ball started curving in baseball, I was like, I'm out.

[Ryan]

I'm done.

[Tyler]

When they weren't straight pitches down the middle, I. No more.

[Miles]

Yeah. I can't. I can't do it. So that was a real hot start. And, you know, being the. You bet you guy and everyone there knowing who I am, I didn't get any thrown my way after that. That was. Yeah, they just let it slide.

[Jared]

Yeah. There was like one volume missed and somebody said Charlie Barons would have caught it.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

One major error and you.

[Ryan]

And. And so. And that was the leadoff spot, too.

[Miles]

Now, in my defense, though, on that defensive error that I had, I had. We had just slammed a bunch of beers before the game, and I just had beer sloshing around in my belly.

[Tyler]

So did that. Game two, we spent the whole first inning because game one, we embarrassed ourselves. And then game two, we're like, we need. Just need to get drunk. And then Miles and I spent the whole first two innings trying to burp.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

So much.

[Ryan]

There's an issue.

[Miles]

So many times looking at each other, being like.

[Jared]

Like there wasn't a lot of chitchat. It Was a lot of silence.

[Miles]

You guys are.

[Jared]

Try to.

[Tyler]

I had two very egregious errors, but none of them. I had more than two errors, but two. Just embarrassing ones.

[Ryan]

So what was the positioning? Who was pitching?

[Miles]

My brother was pitching, Jared was catching, and me and Ty were outfielders.

[Ryan]

Got it.

[Tyler]

It.

[Miles]

Dude. It just keeps. So we. The third game, right, was when we got our first hit.

[Tyler]

Yep.

[Miles]

So we. It was the third game, we got our first hit. I got on base, which somewhere we have the whiff. We saved the.

[Tyler]

Yeah, we told. Yeah, we were like, excited that it was our first hit. The. The dude's like, save that ball. Save that ball. Then they threw it in from the outfield.

[Ryan]

Was it. Was it a legit hit? Like the line drive?

[Miles]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was the one that was towards the fence.

[Tyler]

Right. I think. I think the first hit, you hit it down like the first baseline.

[Jared]

Nobody remembers.

[Miles]

I don't remember. I was at that point pretty intoxicated.

[Tyler]

Like, pitcher had a play on it, but it was too. He hit it too hard. Got just under his glove issue.

[Miles]

Crowd went wild, though, when we got our first hit.

[Jared]

Correctly.

[Miles]

So we got the first hit. Made a big deal out of it. I got the ball. We'll put it in the studio. You know, we might write on it, you know, first base hit, whatever. And actually the technique that I switched to was I just started swinging with one arm.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's something about it feel like when your body. Your body turns a little bit more towards the field and you just get a better visual.

[Miles]

So when we finally did score our first run, Jared got a base hit. So he was on first. I hit the ball. It kind of pops up to. In between the pitcher and the outfielder and they both call it and they both just smash into each other.

[Tyler]

You could hear it in Jamestown.

[Miles]

Ball on the ground. Jared makes it all the way home. We score run. So quite literally, the only way we were able to score a run is because the pitcher and the outfielder almost decapitated each other because of concussion.

[Tyler]

It was a solid snack.

[Jared]

And then when I went home, I, like, I thought people would be cheering, and they're just dead silent because they're.

[Tyler]

All worried if they're alive.

[Ryan]

Yeah, they. I mean, they. They took your shining mom. What?

[Tyler]

They did.

[Miles]

That's right.

[Tyler]

And that. That ump. That ump was like him. Balls live. He literally was like, ball still alive as this pitcher's laying on the ground.

[Ryan]

Just.

[Miles]

So I got a triple out of this.

[Ryan]

I was going to say, did you Try and stretch three. Okay.

[Tyler]

You should have taken it.

[Miles]

Should have.

[Ryan]

Was there anyone playing third base, Coach.

[Tyler]

Like, some teams did not team.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Some guys took it.

[Miles]

We only made it to third twice.

[Tyler]

Yep.

[Miles]

So it would have been pointless.

[Tyler]

I didn't get a single hit. I struck out the first game, and then after that, I popped up probably eight times.

[Ryan]

Softball guy. Yeah, softball guy.

[Tyler]

Underneath everything.

[Miles]

I did have a miraculous catch, though.

[Tyler]

You didn't need to be miraculous, Miles.

[Ryan]

Is that a misread?

[Miles]

Off pop up? No pop up between me and Tyler, we established early on that Tyler was going to be the center fielder, calling people off and on.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Miles]

I don't. I just remember. I don't know. You were pretty intoxicated at this point.

[Tyler]

I was camped under the ball, so.

[Miles]

Hold on.

[Tyler]

Me, me, me, me.

[Miles]

Had a couple errors already.

[Tyler]

This was before that. This was before that.

[Miles]

I don't think I was time travel. I think it was before. So Ryan's or Tyler says he's camping underneath it. I don't know. I got no feel for where he is. All I is is me and the ball at this point.

[Ryan]

Sure, you're committed.

[Miles]

And then at the last second, I do feel Tyler there. So I knew I had to go high point it. Otherwise it was going to be a disaster. So I went up, you know, 50, 50 end zone ball. I went up and got it. I ended up catching it, but then I fell back into Tyler. We both fell into the lfield fence and just plowed it completely.

[Tyler]

It's a PVC fence that we broke.

[Jared]

It was funny.

[Miles]

And then the guy tagged up and got second base because of it.

[Tyler]

Yep.

[Miles]

But it did look sick. I mean, I had to have been, what, 24 inches in the air.

[Tyler]

I'm like, literally said, me, me, me, me, me, me, me. It was funny. It's just so unnecessary. Thank God he caught it because it would have been really embarrassing if you did it. It was a good catch, so.

[Ryan]

And then they had to just delay the game to get the fence back up.

[Jared]

Didn't take very long.

[Tyler]

The up and got second. Felt so bad for us. He called time and came to help us put the fence back up.

[Ryan]

Basically called time. Otherwise he could take them out. Out of the base path. Yeah.

[Miles]

So, yeah, we didn't. So it was what, Pretty much every team makes it into the tournament except for what?

[Tyler]

No, everyone's in. You're guarant, you're g. But the actual tournament.

[Miles]

So we had to play a play in game to the tournament. So there's what, 17 teams I think.

[Tyler]

Yeah, there was, there was two play in game. So four teams weren't just automatically in the 16.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

So yeah, we, we lost that game. We didn't even make it into the actual tournament.

[Tyler]

Oh, we got, we got beat. 1 nothing on a walk off solo shot.

[Jared]

That's right.

[Tyler]

Bottom of five. Yeah. We are now putting on another defensive clinic.

[Ryan]

So were people like, were people hitting bombs over this fence? If they got a hold of one, it was going 40 yards over.

[Miles]

Yeah, I mean in our defense, none of us on our team played baseball past like eighth grade and I, I was probably the only one that played till eighth grade. So we had, we're walking in with zero baseball talent whatsoever. And these other guys clearly were softball team guys.

[Tyler]

So one dude came up to us before we even started, said that he used to eat your lunch.

[Miles]

Oh yeah.

[Tyler]

From Valley City. So a baseball player from Valley City was his name?

[Ryan]

Was. It was his initials junior?

[Tyler]

No.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Tyler]

First name starts with a B. Oh, is it B? A BR oh, he said he's a lefty, a lefty hitter. And that a right handed sidearm pitcher was his bread and butter. And he said he took you deep many times. And he says he has video of it, that he's.

[Ryan]

What's his name?

[Tyler]

Yeah, I don't remember his last name. Okay. Oh, you're saying initials B.A.

[Ryan]

Initials B.A.

[Tyler]

I thought you were spelling his first name.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he was a fucking dog. But I also, I, I mean he didn't, he definitely didn't. Like we were. He took my lunch money, I took his.

[Tyler]

Okay.

[Ryan]

And we can go, we can go look up individual stats. No, no games.

[Tyler]

He liked you. He was nice.

[Ryan]

No, he's a phenomenal guy.

[Tyler]

He was very.

[Miles]

He did like you. Which was our first alarm.

[Ryan]

Maybe this guy's lying. No, we get along. Like Ryan.

[Tyler]

Yeah, he just very subtly was like, yeah, I used to crush Ryan.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he listens to the pod too.

[Tyler]

Nice.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he's. I mean he's a, a, he's a stud. He. Not to, not to degrade vcsu. He shouldn't have been playing there. He should have been playing somewhere else.

[Miles]

So not Division 3. Should have been playing higher than that.

[Tyler]

Yeah, he was good. We watched his team.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Crushed the ball.

[Ryan]

Yes, he does.

[Tyler]

I think, I think we, we left before because the. We. We weren't even through the first round by the time we had to go home and it was like 7 o' clock and I think they had a pretty good shot of winning. And I'm not 100% sure who won yet, though?

[Miles]

Yeah, I think we look up Facebook.

[Tyler]

Were the 1 seed though, going into the tournament.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Yeah. So that was. That was tough. And then on top all that, like in the third game of four, I Achilles started getting tight on.

[Tyler]

Your Achilles Got hurt when you ran into me?

[Miles]

No, I don't think that's.

[Tyler]

You immediately got up. You're like, my Achilles, dude.

[Miles]

Is that what it was?

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Even lights are on. No one was home at that point.

[Miles]

Tight. And so then the whole time I'm like, don't make too many sudden movement because last thing I need is a popped Achilles, you know? Yeah, I can handle Achilles strain, which is what I got, and I'm currently nursing it.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

But I was like, if I tear my achilles over going o3 and one with one run, this would be terrible.

[Jared]

Hot as too.

[Tyler]

It was so it was miserable outside.

[Ryan]

Okay. Just. I just want to get a better gauge of things. Like a good game. What's the final score?

[Miles]

9 to 7.

[Tyler]

Okay. Yep.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Tyler]

Yeah. I think the most runs I saw scored because you could get 10 runs. 12. It was. Yeah, it was like 13 3. I saw a 10 run game because you could get 10 run.

[Ryan]

And you guys never got 10 run, did you?

[Tyler]

No, the worst. The worst loss was eight nothing. And they scored all eight runs on two homers.

[Miles]

Then we lost, what, three to one.

[Tyler]

Three. One and then one one nothing. And then we had the tie.

[Ryan]

And what kind of bat are you using? Using a fat bat or using a. Just a baseball? Wiffle bat.

[Tyler]

It looks exactly like a baseball bat, but it's black plastic.

[Ryan]

Gotcha. Okay. Is it a wiffle ball with holes all over like a pickleball, or does it have the three. The three stripe holes, the lines on one.

[Tyler]

So those.

[Ryan]

Yeah, you can get dirty with those. Y. Oh, yeah, that's an issue.

[Miles]

So then my brother gave up two home runs in a row. And so we kind of had like a thing where like, hey, if they. If it starts to go bad, we're gonna change pitchers. So I went into pitch, I'm doing my warm up pitches, and they're right down the pipe. I'm like, let's go. I got this. The next eight pitches, I threw seven balls in one strike. They just switched back after the. After the seventh ball. I just go like a. I just put my finger up and start walking the outfield.

[Ryan]

It's a good try.

[Miles]

Well, the problem was, is I wasn't. I was. I think I was using the lines on the wiffle ball because if you turn it a certain way, it'll curve and whatever. And I was gonna put way too much curve on it.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Okay. Okay.

[Jared]

Hey, now we know.

[Miles]

No, we know.

[Ryan]

I just need more reps, so, like, any mountain. Did you do any mountain visits or anything?

[Miles]

No, no.

[Ryan]

It's okay.

[Miles]

Like I said, defense was no problem.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jared]

Oh, nothing, really. Just the bats.

[Tyler]

Jared had some great catches behind the plate. He did one that was his best catch. Didn't count. Caught it off a bush, and then the ump's, like, hit a tree.

[Jared]

Didn't count.

[Tyler]

And even though there's no challenge either, even though I'm playing in the outfield, if it hits a tree and I catch it, it's fine. But it's. Jared, does it. Apparently, it doesn't count.

[Miles]

Strike zone was from your ankles all the way to the top of your head.

[Tyler]

Pretty much.

[Ryan]

Yeah. And you threw.

[Miles]

I mean, getting it over the plate was my issue. It wasn't up and down. So cool.

[Jared]

Golf boy.

[Miles]

Yeah. Why don't you go. Yeah, why don't you go circle jerk with your boys and Brainerd again?

[Tyler]

Ryan. The very first inning of the very first game, we went. Who did? Jared, were you second? I. I let off, and I struck out in three pitches. And then whoever was second also struck out in three pitches.

[Jared]

Yeah, that was me.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Yep. That's correct.

[Miles]

Correct. So six pitch inning.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

So that. I mean, that pitcher, he was going the distance for sure.

[Tyler]

Nope. They switched pitchers three times in that game. And perfect game to us as a team because they knew after inning one, they're like, this is a great practice round for us.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

So, like, let's try out all our arms.

[Jared]

We were like, a scrimmage to them.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And so are you guys bummed that this is. Because this is the last year of the Wiffle Ball World Series. So do you would. Do you want redemption?

[Jared]

Like, I would like to.

[Miles]

I would not be back.

[Tyler]

Oh, I would. I would go back at A Heartbeat.

[Ryan]

Oh, really? Yeah, I would like to. I'd have to check my schedule first.

[Miles]

Off, but you're not invited. I don't know, dude.

[Tyler]

It. I would go back for sure.

[Jared]

That was fun. I had a lot of fun, and I have fun.

[Miles]

But I also like to win.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah. No, that's tough. That's tough.

[Tyler]

Exactly. We got our asses beat, and we need redemption.

[Jared]

Yeah. Hypothetically, we can't do much worse if we were to go back next.

[Tyler]

That's true.

[Miles]

But if we did do worse.

[Jared]

Yeah. They were not going.

[Tyler]

We Couldn't, dude. We'd go to the. We'd go the night before and we'd do the Home Run Derby. Not because we're trying to hit home runs, but we're trying to figure out how to hit the ball.

[Miles]

I also realize that the best way to turn an enemy into a friend is just by bonding over free alcohol.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

They had free booze, Noel. So Tyler was kind of being a little like, ah, that. That guy pitching right now. God, just don't. Yeah, he's rubbing me the wrong way.

[Tyler]

So there's this dude. I was playing left field, and there's this guy. The audience just sits on the baselines, basically, and he's sitting there and he's kind of chirping me because I was, like, pulling my shorts up a little bit when I'd get into my. When the pitch was about to be thrown hard on. And every time he'd be like, oh, here come the shorts. Here come the shorts. Here come the shorts.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that would piss me off.

[Tyler]

It pissed me.

[Miles]

And then so. So Tyler was a little worked up, to say the least. Then after one of our games, we're walking back to where our chairs were, and we're like, where's Tyler? And he's standing there talking to the guy, just drinking his whiskey.

[Tyler]

He just kept giving me spools.

[Ryan]

The way I see that. Is he. The guy was just trying to get your attention because he wanted to have a beer with you. Maybe you want to have a drink with you.

[Tyler]

Turns out he's a great guy.

[Ryan]

The free booze.

[Miles]

Is he a great guy if he doesn't give you free booze? Is the question. You know, they were.

[Tyler]

He was being nice before the booze was given out. So I think I would have probably not hated him.

[Ryan]

Like, if it was a dry tournament, you wouldn't have went up and started chitchatting and. Correct. Being buddies with them. You might have been able to share a smoke with him or something.

[Tyler]

Yeah, maybe.

[Miles]

But just think of how easy it is to make friends if you have free alcohol.

[Tyler]

Right.

[Miles]

You start handing out free drinks at a bar. You are everyone's friend, and that's just how life goes.

[Tyler]

It's what it's purely. It's social lubrication.

[Ryan]

Yeah. And I don't think if someone comes up for a free beer from you, like, there's not a guy coming up without a smile on his face.

[Tyler]

Right.

[Ryan]

And that's a great introduction to begin with.

[Tyler]

Yep.

[Miles]

And I just think that we should be handing out free alcohol at More stuff. You know, if, if, if you are a car salesman, you're not going to let them test drive it when they show up. You should have a keg there and saying, hey, do you want a free beer while we look at these cars? And then you know, make sure you bring your wife so you can, she can drive you home.

[Ryan]

Yeah, you can sit in the passenger seat. I mean that's make good.

[Miles]

Yeah, that's a really bad example.

[Ryan]

Well, look at it this way. Like you got these, these like chain haircut businesses like great Clips or whatever they're giving, they're giving free beers out with haircuts.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Because they know their product isn't as good.

[Ryan]

Exactly.

[Miles]

So yeah, it makes everyone feel better about it.

[Tyler]

When we went to Nashville, we went to the boot store with Covas. They're giving out free beers there. And you.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Trying to get you to buy boots.

[Ryan]

Oh God, I would have bought a pair of boots so quick.

[Tyler]

We did. They didn't need to give me the beer. I was already committed.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Miles]

You didn't buy boots in Nashville though.

[Ryan]

That's because my wife was with.

[Tyler]

That's smart.

[Ryan]

I was shit facing the bootstra and I put a pair on. I'm like, wow, do these feel good? And I was like, I gotta get. I think they're like 300 some bucks. I'm like, I gotta to get these. And she talked me out of it. She said what? She said we'll talk, we'll talk about getting them in the morning and if you still want, we'll go get them like little kids. And then we, I think we just forgot to talk about it.

[Miles]

But even just think about scenarios like let's say you, you know, you're trying to, you know, get in with the in laws or something like that. Nothing will make you break the ice better than being, than offering a beer to someone. That's maybe a little standoff to you.

[Ryan]

Yeah, well, yeah, I also think it like, it's a good way to get through maybe some awkward silence. Like if it was the in laws because you can, like if you got something in your hand and you're just kind of. You both are sipping away. There's really no awkward silence versus like if you're just sharing a water, you know.

[Miles]

Yeah. So I don't know. I just feel like any scenario is. Any situation can be improved with some free alcohol.

[Tyler]

It's a peace offering. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Except for a car dealership maybe.

[Tyler]

Yeah, scratch that one.

[Miles]

Like the one.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

What about the dentist?

[Tyler]

I mean that's probably fine.

[Miles]

I mean, why not start off a dentist trip with a beer? Because they're gonna clean your teeth anyways.

[Jared]

It'll kill some bacteria.

[Miles]

Like, why don't dentists start with free beer and candy? Because if you eat the candy, they're just gonna clean it all off right away anyways. And then it's like, that should be the one time you should be eating and Dr. Stuff that's bad for you.

[Tyler]

I think we're missing a super important point. Every time I leave the dentist office, what do they give you? Mouthwash. That's alcohol.

[Miles]

That's true.

[Tyler]

They're already doing it.

[Ryan]

True.

[Tyler]

They give you a shooter before you leave.

[Miles]

But I don't go, wow, they gave me this shooter of mouthwash. I now like them more.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah. They stopped giving me a mouthwash at the dentist because I kept swallowing it.

[Miles]

Okay.

[Ryan]

Dave. No, I feel like anywhere with a waiting room is a great place to hand out free beer. And the first thing that came to mind was the DMV. Back to the car dealership thing. DMV's. Probably you just.

[Tyler]

No, not good.

[Miles]

Steer away from.

[Tyler]

I know.

[Miles]

Quite Motor Vehicles.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I know, I know.

[Miles]

How about. How about when you walk in the mall?

[Tyler]

Yeah. You know, it would get me if they gave out, like, free beers. When you're trying clubs, getting fitted for.

[Miles]

Clubs, they would sell so many more clubs at the golf store if they were handed out free beers while you're doing fittings.

[Tyler]

Yep.

[Ryan]

Well, and it probably speeds the process up a little bit because you're going to be making decisions faster.

[Miles]

Plus, it's also a more accurate. Your swing is a more accurate representation a few beers deep than if you're in the golf store completely sober.

[Tyler]

I need two sets of clubs. I need to have my sober clubs and my drunk clubs.

[Miles]

Yeah. It should be like. Instead of them being like, okay, do you normally slice it or hook it? They first question should be, how much do you usually drink on the course?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

And if you're like, yeah, eight beers, they're like, all right, well, let's start drinking, get you in the optimal thing here. And then we can start talking about slicing and hooking.

[Tyler]

Yeah. We'll start warming you up at your sixth beer, and then by eight, we'll. We'll start the fitting.

[Ryan]

That's actually a great idea.

[Jared]

Yeah. Like, Best Buy, put the beer by, like, the biggest TVs.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Impulse buyers.

[Tyler]

That way you put it by the medium TVs, they can get a buzz, and you work them towards the big tv. Like Let me show you something that we don't put out in the front for everybody.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Let me take you to the back room.

[Miles]

So, yeah, all in all, if they had another one next year, I don't know if I'm playing out after that. It was kind of.

[Tyler]

I.

[Miles]

It was. We were really bad.

[Tyler]

I think I could talk you into it.

[Ryan]

Were you guys taking. Were you. Were you taking BP or anything? Or did you like.

[Miles]

That was also. We went in 100 cold.

[Ryan]

I know there was no BE. You guys didn't play like, yeah, we would have.

[Tyler]

There just wasn't an opportunity because both fields were being played in at all times.

[Miles]

And you also can't be the hardos trying to get in batting practice and then be the. Statistically the worst team, because at the first game, my thought was we should probably get some practice cuts in. But then I'm like, we can't be the guys getting extra reps and being that bad because they're all just thinking it's not going to matter.

[Tyler]

See, and that's. That's all knowledge we have for. If they had it again, we could improve upon. We could go do the Home Run Derby to get some BP in and see some.

[Miles]

They all got Home Run Derby.

[Tyler]

Yep. They all did the. Pretty much every team did a Home Run Derby the night before.

[Ryan]

Oh, you guys want to get some wiffle ball going on on the front lawn?

[Tyler]

I'm not gonna lie to you, Ryan. I kind of do. I kind of. I just.

[Miles]

I'm not gonna lie, Ryan. We can discuss that in a week. I'm still a little tender about the whole golf thing. Okay.

[Jared]

I thought your Achilles was tender, too.

[Miles]

That. That, too.

[Tyler]

I am sore. My.

[Jared]

So sore.

[Tyler]

My hip flexors are tight.

[Ryan]

Mine, too.

[Tyler]

I just. Miles, you think you said it after the first game, you're like, it felt really good to just run full speed at something.

[Miles]

It was. It's like, how often do you actually have an excuse to run full speed?

[Ryan]

So now, were you guys, like, first game, like, kind of just getting into it, not really knowing how guys are playing? Were you. Were you sprinting down the first baseline.

[Miles]

Line or did not even get an opportunity?

[Ryan]

Okay, all the questions I had are kind of irrelevant.

[Miles]

Make contact until the third game. I did not make contact with a ball.

[Tyler]

No, you had some ticks in the second game because we got. We did the bench hammers. Yeah.

[Miles]

The second game, I finally made contact. I did four foul balls on what I bat and then struck out.

[Tyler]

So. So Miles's brother and I didn't get a single hit, but we flew out a bunch and, and his brother did hit a home run foul.

[Jared]

Yeah, that's right.

[Miles]

So we were.

[Tyler]

He still struck out that at bat, but he did it. A home run foul. And we were pumped.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jared]

And Miles, you hit us the first game, so I can.

[Tyler]

This is true. You did hit us.

[Miles]

So. Yeah, I made contact in the first game. It just was with humans and not, Not a Wiffle ball.

[Ryan]

Did one of you guys walk the bat to back to him, or did you have to go walk and get the bat?

[Jared]

It'll happen.

[Tyler]

So it hit me and then, like, stuck in that bush right next to me.

[Jared]

I don't remember.

[Tyler]

And so I grabbed it and gave it to the ump because Miles was doing crowd control, talking about his pr.

[Ryan]

He had a lot going on. You had to deal with. I, I, I understand.

[Miles]

And then after, you know, salt in the wound after what, what was it? Our third game, I had to go do radio.

[Tyler]

Oh, yeah. In, In a trailer.

[Miles]

The lady did know that I did content online, so she was like, kind of a little bit prying about what I do or whatever, so I eventually, slowly had to reveal that.

[Jared]

And yeah, it was great radio.

[Miles]

But then one. But then once she found out that I basically talk, do a podcast for a living, she wouldn't let me get go. So it was like, all right. And she's like, just one more segment. One more segment. And I, at this point, I'm just sweating my ass off. Sh. Face. And I'm holding the Wiffle ball that I got a basement like a little kid.

[Tyler]

I didn't know that you just had the prop in there on radio. Tell us about this ball you're holding, Miles.

[Miles]

Well.

[Jared]

What do you should ask?

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Jared]

It was good, though.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah. A lot of questions. They're all kind of out the door, though, because.

[Tyler]

Yeah, a lot of people asked about you.

[Ryan]

It's not surprising.

[Tyler]

Yeah, genuinely.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

I know a lot of them. Valley City players.

[Ryan]

Yep. So there was probably anyone not a fan, because it wouldn't. I mean, not surprising at all.

[Tyler]

No. No one that said that outright.

[Jared]

Sure. Sure. There was haters there.

[Miles]

I thought it hadn't been a tough hunting.

[Ryan]

They were probably thinking it. Yeah.

[Miles]

If there was 15 people that came out to us and there's 100 people there, 85 people were haters.

[Ryan]

I'm pretty sure that's not surprising. Yeah.

[Miles]

Well, Ryan, it's okay.

[Tyler]

We'll get a team for the next one. They'll come back in a couple years.

[Ryan]

Was the guy Selling. Is it in someone's backyard? Is he selling his house or what?

[Tyler]

No, I think the story is kind of kids are just moving away. Everyone's doing different things.

[Miles]

They're all like 40 years old.

[Ryan]

Ever something that you'd want to consider taking?

[Tyler]

We did talk about it. We have the space.

[Miles]

We.

[Ryan]

We had too many beers to be.

[Jared]

Talking about that or just the right amount of beers. It talks about like that.

[Miles]

Yeah, that's true. It was on the drive home, we're like, you know, we. We could have a couple of fields outside the office space and we got.

[Tyler]

Some cool features too. We'd have. We could have canoes out in the pond.

[Ryan]

I was gonna say it's like the. The giants, right? Feed field.

[Jared]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Miles]

We could have a 10 field wiffle ball complex out there.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Could be sweet.

[Ryan]

It could be sweet.

[Jared]

Turns like a thousand bucks a team.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I mean, the getting weed whacked out there, that would look pristine.

[Tyler]

Yeah. We go. We do it last weekend in September. A little cooler.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Free beer.

[Miles]

It was free beer at this event.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

It's kind of sick. All right, well, should we take a break, boys?

[Tyler]

Yep.

[Miles]

All right, Jared, we're back. We are back. We're rocking and rolling. That's our first ever slow clap into a segment. Here we are. Jared, you got some big news for the boys.

[Jared]

Moved into a house in the last three, four months and I'm now a part of the nextdoor app community.

[Miles]

Hey.

[Tyler]

Wow.

[Miles]

Nice. You are part of the nextdoor app community. So I am not. But we do have the like ring doorbell app. So we got a ring doorbell and so I feel like it's next door app. Light is the ring app.

[Jared]

It's next door to next door.

[Miles]

Correct. Right next door. D anyu rest the other guys have next door app.

[Tyler]

Yeah, I. I had it when I lived here.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

I don't. There's no need for anymore.

[Miles]

You don't have neighbors.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Out of city limits.

[Ryan]

I. I just. I. I have the ring cameras as well. Can you talk to people on the ring cameras? Like in a. Yeah, you could post stuff.

[Miles]

Stuff. No, you can post stuff and then people can comment and like, and stuff.

[Ryan]

I'm gonna start posting on there.

[Tyler]

There you go.

[Ryan]

Gain a little following.

[Miles]

I don't have a ring ring doorbell app. Influencer.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they're gotta be looking for influencers at this point. But no, I. I don't have the next door up. I. Well, if I did, it would just be me and my next. Just One neighbor. And that's actually for us, it's just called the text thread.

[Tyler]

Yep.

[Jared]

So it's called imessage.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

So I. I'm pretty sure I have the gist of what the next door app is, but explain what, what you got yourself into.

[Jared]

Yeah, it's like, I don't know, it's like in high school, you know, you do the regular apps, you know, Instagram, Facebook, whatever. And then you go to college and then it's the next door app. It's kind of like when you go to college and you see that theater kids actually exist. You never knew that that thing existed before, but you kept hearing about it.

[Ryan]

It's a phase of life type deal.

[Jared]

Exactly.

[Miles]

Yeah. So what's going on on the next door app?

[Jared]

There is a lot of older people hating younger people.

[Miles]

Okay.

[Jared]

There's a lot of lawns that need to be mowed and people offering to mow lawns.

[Ryan]

Sure.

[Jared]

And. And there's a lot of Amazon packages getting stolen, apparently. So those are the three things I've been noticing.

[Miles]

So that is the entire next door app is old, old guy yelling at cloud.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Lawn wars and. Or lawn services and then packages being stolen.

[Jared]

That's all it is.

[Tyler]

So really what nextdoor has turned into, it's just localized Facebook.

[Miles]

It is hyper local.

[Tyler]

It is Facebook in your immediate vicinity. It's like they have a. There's a marketplace on Nextdoor now too.

[Miles]

Yeah. I mean, you're gonna have to keep an eye on it for next elections cycle. People are probably gonna be posting their new yard signs supporting one side or the other. Could turn into political if it's like.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

So people will keeps stealing my. My yard signs. And that's because I had it for like 10, 15 years. I've had it since I was in college.

[Ryan]

Oh, really?

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Oh.

[Ryan]

So do you get like well versed? Do you get invited to the next door app by like a neighbor saying like, hey, we're all on the next door app. Like, you should download it and like join our neighborhood or how does it work?

[Tyler]

You just get it and share your location.

[Jared]

Location, yeah. And then it like inserts you into that location.

[Miles]

So how do they usually, like. Because they have to like gate it. So like is it just within a however much radius?

[Jared]

Or I think it's like a 10.

[Miles]

15 mile range or do you join a neighborhood?

[Tyler]

So two ways. You can either geo. Just like open up the geolocating services and then you can set your radius. Like, hey, I want to know what's going on in my entire town. Or I want to have it in the Osgood neighborhood. Like, I just want to know what's going on there. There. And that's.

[Jared]

That's.

[Tyler]

And as the longer I've had it, the more narrow I made my. My circle.

[Ryan]

Yeah. It just became you and your next door neighbor.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Can you find, like, a weed plug on there?

[Jared]

You can get your weeds pulled.

[Ryan]

Like, ISO Looking for a weed plug. Yeah, I E. Like, I need. I actually need my weeds plugged.

[Jared]

He's the winking emoji.

[Miles]

Yeah. There's slang on there for certain things.

[Jared]

You know, haven't got that far into it, but I'll. I'll reset research it.

[Miles]

So what. Have you seen any wild conversations in there yet or.

[Jared]

I. I saw, like, a. A fake account that's like, he's pretending to be an old lady. And it's clearly, like, just a parody, like, making fun of the app itself. It's very fun.

[Miles]

So you sniff that out.

[Jared]

Sniff that out pretty quick.

[Ryan]

And do you know what house that they're coming from?

[Jared]

You know, the neighborhood they're coming from?

[Ryan]

Okay, yeah.

[Jared]

So say, like, whatever downtown.

[Ryan]

Sure. Yeah.

[Tyler]

So Jared mentioned this to me before the pot. So I re downloaded next door, and it's set up to my old neighborhood where I used to live in Fargo. And there's a landlord looking for a handyman right now because SWAT showed up to his six apartments last week and busted down all the doors.

[Miles]

Oh, my God, all the doors?

[Tyler]

Yeah. Six units. Six units. Doors have been swatted.

[Miles]

It's also wild. Like, does the SWAT team pay for that? I guess I never even thought about that. Like, who pays for the doors to get fixed?

[Jared]

I guess the landlord with insurance, maybe.

[Miles]

Yeah, there's gotta be. Is there a SWAT insurance? Yeah. When SWAT teams come busting through the windows, who's fixing those windows?

[Jared]

Who's paid for this?

[Ryan]

I've actually, I've had that same thought. It's been a while since I have, but I don't know. The city, does that go on, like, special assessments where the whole neighborhood ends up paying for it over time?

[Tyler]

The whole comp. Apartment complex pays for it.

[Jared]

I'm not paid for that.

[Ryan]

Huh. So, like, if I, like, could I just join your neighborhood?

[Tyler]

Yeah, you can pick a neighbor that.

[Ryan]

Does that to me. That doesn't make any sense because then, I mean, you get some creeps out there joining neighborhoods with kids in it or whatever. That.

[Miles]

That's.

[Ryan]

Yeah. That kind of hooked up.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

I haven't got.

[Miles]

Yeah, maybe. Okay. I was Just in T shirt guy against the next door app.

[Ryan]

Well, just like. I mean, you got parody accounts on there. It just doesn't seem like it's serving the purpose that it should get a.

[Jared]

Lawnmower real quick, though.

[Ryan]

It's kind of like Tumblr. Like, Tumblr turned, like, started out as this, you know, like this, like, social platform, and then it just turned into p.hub.com. you know, it just doesn't serve its original purpose anymore.

[Tyler]

I haven't seen anything provocative like the hub on next door, so you can ease pretty fast. One of my favorite things on nextdoor, though, is when they rip on businesses where they weren't satisfied with the. The service they received. Oh, yeah, There'll be people that just. You'll get sewered if you don't do it to a te.

[Miles]

So like, I hired Rick's lawn services, and they forgot to weed whack this one section that burn them to the ground.

[Tyler]

Yes.

[Miles]

There. Maybe you haven't been on there long enough, but I. The ring doorbell app. There's always someone about. Every. Every week, there's at least someone asking if people heard gunshots. And most people are like, that was just a lawnmower backfire.

[Jared]

You know, I heard it too.

[Ryan]

Yeah. My wife just slammed the door behind me.

[Miles]

Yeah, that was fireworks.

[Jared]

I'm just the dog.

[Miles]

Especially in Fargo, it's like, you know, that you heard a loud noise. Someone's gonna think it's gunshots. And about 99% of time, it's not gunshots.

[Ryan]

Yeah, exactly.

[Miles]

We. On the ring Doorbell app, someone sent. There's like, these homeless pe. I don't know if they're homeless or they're just tweakers or what. There was just like, clearly up somehow just walking around our neighborhood. And someone sent a photo on the ring doorbell app. Was like. Saw these guys milling around in the neighborhood. And then like, the guy. So, you know, in construction, they do those, like, things of hay with a netting around it that they put on.

[Ryan]

The edge of for washout or for.

[Miles]

Washout and all of that. Some guy was just taking a nap on one of those. And then later, which kind of freaked Dan out about. Someone took a photo. It was my backyard, and these two guys were just, like, laying in our grass just enjoying the day, which could.

[Ryan]

Be a compliment to you, but also.

[Miles]

Wow, this is plush. Plus than that. Than that. Than the hay log that I laid.

[Ryan]

On that was pre voles.

[Jared]

The haylock would be a good body pillow.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Essentially, they were using it like that.

[Ryan]

It would get itchy though, real fast.

[Miles]

Yeah, it would. You got to make sure you're very well clothed.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Or tweaked out or very calloused.

[Ryan]

So Jared, like, what is. Is it something that you're going to stick with long term or like do you after. After diving into it for however long you just not see it beneficial?

[Jared]

It's. It's turning into not being that beneficial. Yeah, it's gonna turn into like.

[Miles]

Okay, so expectation versus reality. What were you expecting to find on the next door app? Were you expecting like, hey folks, I. I ran out of sugar. Can anyone spare me a scoop? Is that what you thought you were walking into?

[Jared]

Yeah, and I didn't think be so paranoid with like people walking around in neighborhoods too and.

[Miles]

Yeah, right. Taking photos. Like, who the was this guy walking.

[Tyler]

Around like he's lived here for five years and he's just taking his dog for a walk.

[Miles]

Just on a walk. As you can see, his dog is on the leash right there.

[Jared]

People are very fearful. They think of the worst is happening on the next door app. Yeah, I thought it would be more of the sugar route, but yeah, not quite.

[Miles]

Hey guys. The kids are playing in the blowup pool today if anyone wants to stop by.

[Jared]

Exactly.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

A lot of missing pets.

[Miles]

See that. To me, that's a great. Use the next door app. Yeah, a lost and found is great.

[Tyler]

One lady that I just, I just read it. She lost her car seat. Mother in law was supposed to drop it at her house, put it on the front step. Mother in law said she did it, but the lady never got her on the ring doorbell. So she's pretty sure the mother in law put it at the wrong house. So she's looking for a missing car seat.

[Miles]

Now. Another great use of the next door.

[Jared]

I love, I love the details too. Yeah, my mother in law, like, nobody cares.

[Miles]

Someone I know. Yeah. What is the. What's the. Because porch pirates, right? That's what they call people stealing packages. There's not a lot that people can do about it.

[Tyler]

No.

[Miles]

You know, so what is the talks in there about that? Is it like, like, hey, we got to catch this guy if we see him around. Call the cops.

[Tyler]

Yeah, it's like people sharing photos like, caught this porch pirate. Anyone recognize him?

[Jared]

Yeah, it's walking around in this neighborhood, time, you know, identified.

[Tyler]

Keep your head on a swivel, folks.

[Ryan]

More so like a psa. If you see that guy walking around not ceiling packages, odds are he's probably looking for packages to steal.

[Jared]

Exactly. Yeah.

[Miles]

Yeah. I'm Trying to think of what's the best use the next door. I probably lost pets is good.

[Tyler]

I the only time I ever post on it. Way back in the day when I was at the news and I found out I was going to have a kid kid and I was making like minimum wage reporting of stories. I offered my mowing services up and I filled out the entire week in a matter of hours. People were like hell yeah.

[Miles]

Was it because you were so cheap?

[Tyler]

Yeah. And I didn't even put a price. I was just like hey, expecting my first kid, looking for some extra cash. Anyone need their lawn mowed?

[Miles]

Smart to use your kid.

[Tyler]

Yep. Yep.

[Jared]

It's a good idea.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Jared. Expecting your first kid even though you're.

[Miles]

You'Re not and then let's say you're like hey, we're not having kids. Kids just always just do the cycle of well you know, didn't work out.

[Jared]

Right.

[Miles]

But now we're expecting another kid and I need more cash. You can just go down the revolver.

[Jared]

You could always be expecting something.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Jared]

You don't just say how far or when.

[Miles]

My wife is going back to school to chase her dream. Need some extra cash.

[Tyler]

Just just make it see if people are even reading it. But like my wife's going back to school to trace her dream of being a stay at home mom. Need some extra ca.

[Ryan]

Would also be a great place for, for businesses to swoop in and make things right for people that are pissed off on there. That is whether it's lawn mowing. I mean lawn mowing is probably the most common but yeah. Yeah.

[Miles]

Being like I'm Rick's Lawn services. Sorry we forgot to weed whack that. I'd like to do a month free of doing your stuff and I'll also mow your neighbor's lawn for free one time.

[Ryan]

Time. Yeah. Or even to combat combat porch pirates. If, if there's like a stay at home mom or somebody on, on a longer lunch break, you could just hire them to grab your packages from your porch and put them inside. That's got value to it.

[Miles]

That actually is not a bad idea. No, I, I, yeah, that's a good idea.

[Jared]

It's like a porch vigilante.

[Ryan]

That's got value to it. Yeah, pretty much.

[Miles]

Yeah. No, don't, don't be proactive. Be reactive. So have that person in a ghillie suit in the bushes and catch people red handed because if we prevent it then those people are going to find crime. Otherwise we need to clean up the streets.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

You know, and if we're just preventing them from doing crimes, they're just going to do maybe even more heinous crimes than just porch pirating.

[Ryan]

Well, and you could sell, you could sell homemade glitter bombs too. Yeah, you just have a, you have a garage full of glitter bomb boxes. And then if someone is a. Hey, I need a glitter bomb box box like by 8am tomorrow morning, boom. Gotcha. Front door. It is Amazon tape and everything.

[Jared]

Don't open it.

[Ryan]

Do not open it.

[Jared]

We could even write that on there. Do not open.

[Ryan]

Yeah, sign the waiver. Say if you do open this, I am not liable for you getting glitter bombed. Not a bad idea.

[Jared]

Because if you're right. Yeah. Do not open on a box. Porch pirates will really want to open it for sure. So that's great.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Tyler]

What could you put on a box that would keep them from opening it? Like dangerous animal handle with care.

[Ryan]

Like glitter bomb inside.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

There is in this box that's whatever the, the colon guard or whatever the like where you actually send in a stool sample. Just put all your packages in one of those boxes. No one's stealing that.

[Tyler]

Yeah, Human fecal matter.

[Ryan]

Is there anyone on there complaining about people's dogs in their yard and them not picking it up?

[Jared]

Haven't gotten that far.

[Miles]

Gotta be.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

That is a hot topic at my grandparents campground right now. Oh, so there's the campground community where everybody has to have their dogs on a leash or on a lead at all times. But it's on a lake where other people live and the homeowners down the street, their dogs keep coming over and shitting on the campground's beach. And the campground folk are pissed off.

[Miles]

Okay, so they've, they've, they've solved the internal dog poop struggles and now they're facing external forces.

[Tyler]

Like we were there yesterday afternoon swimming and our dog was on his leash tied to the umbrella and some lady came out, she's like, whose dog is that? Whose dog is. I'm like, it's our dog. He's fine. He's on a leash.

[Ryan]

Like.

[Tyler]

Okay, good. Because if it was that from down the road.

[Miles]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, oh, oh. He's on, he's on a leash. Good. It's like. Well, you can clearly see he's, he's.

[Tyler]

20 yards in front of you.

[Miles]

I think you just came up running to about the neighbor. I don't think this is about my dog at all.

[Tyler]

Yeah, my grandma's petting that dog, so that one's not a problem.

[Jared]

Setting the toad.

[Tyler]

Yeah, she was Fired up and I'm, like, in the water. I didn't have my glasses on, so I couldn't see.

[Ryan]

And like.

[Tyler]

Ah, it was just the most awkward situation.

[Ryan]

Well, maybe she didn't have her glasses on either, so she didn't see. Yeah, she could be. Yeah.

[Miles]

I was on the lake a few weeks ago and I saw one of the guys on the lake. They had a dog on a leash, but it was on, like, a track. So.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Like a clothesline type.

[Miles]

Clothesline type track is. The advantage is that that thing just doesn't get wrapped around stuff versus just putting a stake in the ground.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that. And then they just. They also just have more room to run. Like, they actually have a little bit of space where they can walk back and forth instead of. Of just being confined to, like, this one circumference of an area.

[Miles]

I know. It was kind of a vibe. I thought it was kind of sick.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah. Because then, I don't know, they also can, like, run from one end to the other and. Well, it's also kind of a detriment because then they could. It yanks them back when they hit.

[Tyler]

The other side or they get enough momentum to snap that sucker.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Gone.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that's. It's. Yeah, it's a sticky situation. I've never. I've never done before. I've seen it, though. Dogs will get, like. It'll hit the end and they'll backflip from the momentum. It's unbelievable. But, Tyler, I was gonna. I was gonna back to, like, the internal external of, like, the lake homes and the camp. Like, the. The people who live in the lake homes, they. They probably love that their dogs are at the campground, because I feel like the campground, like, they're. They're already pissed off that the campground's there anyway.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Because it just is that much more traffic. So they're probably sent. They're probably training their dogs to go over there and shit.

[Tyler]

I wouldn't be surprised. And if you asked any of the campers there, that's 100% what they believe. They believe that those dogs are being sent over to the campground on a shit mission to fuck with their properties.

[Jared]

Code brown.

[Miles]

You know what would diffuse the situation? If one side offered free alcohol.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Yeah. The dog's shitting on the beach actively. And the owner comes over, hey, I'm so sorry. You want to be Beer. Game over. That lady is now happy again.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah, no, I'll for sure do a margarita.

[Tyler]

Oh, that's a beautiful dog.

[Jared]

Folds.

[Miles]

But, yeah, the People get. Because it's. I think, the reason why so much weird stuff happens on the Next Door app. Or like you said, you weren't expecting everyone to be so paranoid. Paranoid is because it's relating to their territory. You know what I mean? The gas. People get worked up about stuff going on in the world and all of that, but truly, unless you're like most people are, they will get mad about stuff and they kind of let it go. But as soon as it's. They feel like it is encroaching on their actual territory of where they live, that is when it's like, all gloves come off.

[Ryan]

Mm.

[Jared]

Much like dogs.

[Miles]

Yeah. Next Door app makes humans turn into dogs.

[Jared]

Very territorial.

[Tyler]

Defend your.

[Ryan]

Yeah, the Next Door app is. It's pretty much just like an HOA without the documentation.

[Tyler]

I was gonna say, Jerry, there's got. There.

[Ryan]

There's definitely a leader of your neighborhood on the Nextdoor app.

[Tyler]

If you keep up with the Nextdoor app and start to get into it, before we know it, he's gonna be applying to be on the HOA board.

[Miles]

Do you have turn into a nerd? Do you have an hoa?

[Ryan]

No.

[Miles]

Smart.

[Tyler]

Not yet, anyway.

[Jared]

Yeah, I'll start one. I'll be the cool hoa, though.

[Miles]

The. The best way to prevent an HO away is by starting one yourself.

[Jared]

Yes.

[Miles]

You know, then you have all the power and control.

[Jared]

Just make people sign stuff and then never do anything.

[Miles]

Yeah, don't try the cool guy.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You get a couple guys like, Miles, I'll sign hey there.

[Jared]

And say it's like a charity fundraiser, but they just sign up for an hoa.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah. And they have to pay you the dues. Their HOA dues.

[Jared]

No, we're cool. We don't charge anything.

[Tyler]

Jared just have a contract to even seem cooler pops over to people's houses every once. I'm like, hey, just let you know what you're doing with your lawn is technically not up to HOA code, but don't worry about it. All right? Yeah, I'll keep them off you. Don't worry.

[Jared]

Keep them off. You give me a free beer.

[Miles]

Yeah, yeah, Just start exploiting your neighbors for free booze.

[Ryan]

Have you been. Have you. Have you had a beer with a neighbor or anything? Or chit chatted about, you know, whose lawn's looking good, who's not.

[Jared]

Not quite. Not really. No.

[Miles]

That actually is a great move to make friends. Be like, hey, I'm just, like, collecting the dues for the hoa, but we don't have to do that like you're good. I just, I'll tell them that you paid. And you do that with every neighbor. And all of a sudden everyone thinks they're in the HOA doesn't exist. But they're also not getting scammed. But now you have good faith with every neighbor because you're like, don't worry about the fee we got you.

[Tyler]

And then every time somebody new moves to the neighborhood, you just like, hey, the people that lived here before you already paid for this year. So you're good.

[Jared]

Dude, just say your grandfather did.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we do like a pay it forward system around here. It. It just makes everyone happy.

[Jared]

People feel so special when their grandfather did.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Yeah. I'll wear like a, A nice polo when I go up door too. Yeah, maybe like a neighborhood logo or something.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

You just gaslight everyone into thinking there's an HOA just for good faith and free beer.

[Ryan]

Well, because when they see you come to the door too, they're going to think you're selling them solar or something. And then when, you know, when, when they realize they, I don't have to pay HOA dudes, they're gonna be so happy. Their mood is going to be changed in an instant.

[Jared]

Could be a double edged sword though, because then they'll recommend HOAs to their friends.

[Ryan]

Correct. Yeah.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

That ain't.

[Jared]

Yeah, but not in my neighbor. Not in my neighborhood.

[Ryan]

And then they might, they might nominate your neighborhood for HOA of the year. And when they realize.

[Miles]

Well, no, it's like, you know, when companies, you know, and it's like when unlimited PTO was invented, people would like go and give talks about how that's great for their company.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Jared can be the face for do lists HOAs.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Do list that you literally do less.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Do less with do. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Do. Yeah. Do less with do list HOAs.

[Jared]

Yeah, there you go.

[Miles]

And then all of a sudden you start a revolution that by becoming an hoa, you are eliminating HOA sabotage from within.

[Tyler]

Yeah. It could be a long play to show how they're completely irrelevant.

[Ryan]

And then you become the face of the next door app.

[Jared]

Yep.

[Miles]

Millions of dollars in endorsements.

[Ryan]

You know, you're wearing a polo to work every day, which I know you love doing.

[Jared]

Have an HOA conference at like the Ramada Inn once a year.

[Ryan]

Yep. Yep. Or the local park of everyone's local park park.

[Tyler]

It's. Jared does this and it just, for some reason just lights up. Neighborhood pride. Fire under everyone's asses. And he just has the nicest Neighborhood. Everyone's just like, God, that guy's so. I gotta.

[Miles]

He's so dedicated to the hoa. I think I'm dedicated. We're gonna start a neighborhood watch.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Miles]

But because he's doing so much work, he doesn't have to be on it.

[Jared]

Yeah. Because he's so cool about it.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

All of a sudden, Jared has just created a utopia.

[Miles]

Accidental utopia by a duelist hoa.

[Tyler]

I think you can pull it off.

[Miles]

Where we do less.

[Ryan]

Well, I think a great starter, too, is just to, like, go on Amazon, get a yard of the week sign and just go put it in someone's yard.

[Miles]

That actually is a vibe. And just have no voting criteria. Just randomly do it.

[Jared]

And you get a free code at DQ once a week.

[Tyler]

It's waiting for you.

[Ryan]

Your first name.

[Miles]

Just say your first name.

[Ryan]

Yeah, first name would be at the counter.

[Tyler]

They'll.

[Ryan]

No. Yard of the. Just say yard of the week.

[Jared]

Yard of the week.

[Ryan]

Because everyone wants that yard of the week sign. If they see one person with it, they're going to do everything they can.

[Miles]

Yeah. You just got to start doing of the week things.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah. You know, plow Driveway of the week.

[Miles]

You got to have neighbor of the week. So whoever just gives you the most for free.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

So whatever guy drops a 30 rack at your door.

[Tyler]

Door, you know, hey, thanks for all the hard work, Prez.

[Miles]

Neighbor of Neighbor of the week. Whoever gives you the most scoops of sugar.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Neighbor of the week.

[Tyler]

Now neighbor doesn't have to buy beer ever. Doesn't have to buy groceries ever. People are just bringing to his house to get the sign in their yard.

[Miles]

You know, Gardener of the week. Whoever gives you the most tomatoes and vegetables from their garden every week, it's Gardener of the week. A week.

[Jared]

Oh, yeah. It's like the green thumb of a word or something. Change it up a little and it's.

[Tyler]

Just a side with a big ass. Green. Thumbs up.

[Jared]

Thumbs up. Yeah, there you go.

[Ryan]

Sunshine of the week. Whoever has their. Whoever never draws their blinds in their house. Just make it look more welcoming.

[Tyler]

Jared, keep an eye on what's going on in there.

[Miles]

So. So why? Why? What's the advantage?

[Ryan]

I don't know. I'm just. Just random ass things.

[Miles]

Now it just sounds like Jared's a peeping Tom.

[Tyler]

Yeah, a little bit. Yeah, that's true.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah. You kept your blinds open all night. I know that for a fact because I was looking.

[Jared]

Do a mo. Do a Most Improved of the week. They just mow their lawn after, like, Three weeks.

[Miles]

And then you can have good kid of the week, too.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, whatever.

[Miles]

Kid mows your lawn for free, gets good kid of the week.

[Ryan]

Beer fridge of the week. You could do beer fridge of the week, too. Mm. Because then everyone's gonna wanna show you their beer fridge to try and get the sign in their yard.

[Jared]

Yeah. It's like they're gonna have to offer you one thirstiest of the week or something.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Could be a move.

[Jared]

I like this.

[Tyler]

I think you're gonna have a lot of fun, Jared.

[Jared]

I just need yard signs at Apollo. That's all I need.

[Ryan]

Yeah. And a pen. Pen's for the most part too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Whenever you go walk into someone's door, you're just jotting. You're just jotting down. You're actually just drawing a picture. Picture. They think you're just so dialed in, though.

[Jared]

Taking notes, drawn houses.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jared]

It's the only thing I can draw.

[Miles]

Square in a triangle.

[Ryan]

You rip it off at the end of the conversation. You just give it to them and, you know, you. There's an upcharge of 12 for a frame if you want to put this in there.

[Miles]

Well, is that it? Jared?

[Jared]

One fun fact.

[Miles]

All right, let's hear it.

[Jared]

If Wayne Gretzky never scored a goal, he'd still be the all time career points leader in the NHL.

[Miles]

You just had that many assists.

[Tyler]

Great one.

[Ryan]

Holy.

[Miles]

What is. Did you get a point for only. It's just goals and assists.

[Ryan]

Y.

[Miles]

Or what about the like, double assists where you pass to the person who.

[Tyler]

You get a point for that. Yep.

[Jared]

So like two away.

[Miles]

Got it. You still get. He had so many of those that he still. That's crazy.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jared]

And Yarmir Jagger is second with 1921.

[Tyler]

Where's Ovi?

[Ryan]

Oh, Vashkin has the goals. Yeah, he has. Yep.

[Tyler]

Yeah. I just want to know where he's told.

[Jared]

I think he's around 1600 points. Wayne Gretzky's got 2,857 points.

[Tyler]

That's insane.

[Miles]

How long did he play?

[Jared]

I don't look that up.

[Tyler]

I would guess 15 to 20 years.

[Ryan]

Got it.

[Miles]

Yeah, that's first question.

[Ryan]

It's more of like an average per season type of deal.

[Miles]

Well, nice. That was a fun fact, Jared.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jared]

I think I feel like we could do one. Wayne Gretzky's back. Back to week.

[Tyler]

Oh, we could.

[Miles]

Oh, you could feel like. I thought you were pitching.

[Jared]

Should know.

[Miles]

I was. I. I was thinking maybe like we do Wayne Gretzky fact week once a year. Yeah.

[Ryan]

You could do the Tiger woods facts once a week.

[Miles]

That is also true.

[Jared]

He played from 78 to 99.

[Tyler]

21 years a long time.

[Ryan]

That's over 100 points a year.

[Miles]

Nice.

[Tyler]

It's realistic. Over 80 games is.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Miles]

Well. Is that it, Jared? Well, guys, thanks for tuning in to another episode of you Bet yout Radio. We'll see you in the next one.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah, betcha.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Jared]

I traveled to the Midwest a couple times a year and was looking for spots that. That I have to check out. So far, I've checked off Holiday Culver's quick trip. As I've heard mentioned on YBR for reference, I am a Canadian 511, size 12. Also, bowels was right. Culver's root Beer, Florida bucks.

[Miles]

Let's go.

[Ryan]

That does.

[Miles]

You got to check out Wall Drug.

[Tyler]

Yeah, you do.

[Miles]

I. I think the. The Wall Drug, Rapid City, Sturgis, Deadwood tour.

[Jared]

Pretty good.

[Ryan]

Kind of.

[Miles]

Kind of a sick tour.

[Tyler]

There's a ton of tourist trap things on that stretch. Like you got the reptile gardens, the mystery caves for whatever.

[Miles]

Maybe just because I went there as a kid, for whatever reason, I want to get touristly trapped.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

In the stuff around that area.

[Tyler]

Yeah. It drives me nut drive through that and nobody wants to stop but me.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

And I got my family to stop at Wall Drug on the way home from Yellowstone, and that was the only time.

[Miles]

Also, I'm pretty sure they're working on Crazy Horse again.

[Tyler]

Hell yeah.

[Jared]

I think they always have, haven't they?

[Miles]

I thought they stopped for a while and that's what we were like. Crazy Horse awareness. You know, we were like, hey, we should. We should raise some money to get this thing going again. And maybe we did it.

[Jared]

I think they're just going really slow.

[Tyler]

Because it's volunteers only. Yeah.

[Miles]

Yeah. I think. I think we were. I think we were the linchpin in the whole thing.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

To get it going again brought it back to life.

[Ryan]

So if it's volunteers, like, who's doing the carving? I mean, I can't just volunteer. And they're like, all right, here's your pick.

[Miles]

You can remove rocks and.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Tyler]

I'm sure there's like a lead volunteer in charge of design.

[Ryan]

Sure.

[Tyler]

You gotta go to the Dells. Wisconsin Dells.

[Miles]

Wisconsin Dells. In reality, I'd go to the north shore of Lake Superior.

[Ryan]

Duluth.

[Miles]

That's Duluth and up.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Great area. Check out the lighthouses for one good party weekend. You got to go to Lake of the Ozarks, the Vegas of the Midwest.

[Ryan]

That's a great time. You gotta go to. You gotta. You gotta go to Lincoln, Nebraska. It's a top 10 city in the United States. Just there's. I mean nothing.

[Jared]

Corn Oscars game would be great.

[Ryan]

Corn Oscar is great. Game is awesome. Nothing particular in Lincoln. Just to Lincoln.

[Miles]

Yeah. I feel like going to a college football game across the board is pretty fun.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Any Big ten? Really?

[Miles]

Yeah. Big ten is kind of sick. Yeah. You could also check out some North Dakota interpretive centers as well. You also could make the drive from Fargo to Bismar and see the. The hill of Bismarck.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

The riverboat.

[Tyler]

Quite literally. The highlight on that drive is the buffalo in Jamestown.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jared]

And a little past Bismarck, you got the Salem Sioux. The big cow.

[Ryan]

Yep. And then keep going. You. There's a big pheasant on the side of the. The road, isn't there?

[Jared]

Well, then steel. There's a world's largest sandhill crane.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Nice.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I think Rich. I don't know if it's Richard Tin. I don't remember. Rich. It's kind of actually cool to go like to cross a time zone like on a road. Richard is where the time zone goes to Mountain time.

[Jared]

Kind of a vibe.

[Ryan]

Straight down the intersection. It is worth.

[Miles]

Check Drive.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Jared]

From Fargo. The Fargo wood chipper. That's a cool thing to look at.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

It's in the Fargo community Center or whatever.

[Tyler]

Which is. Other people would call it an interpretive center.

[Miles]

Is it an interpretive center?

[Ryan]

Yeah. I don't even know if they have interpreters there. But it's an interpreter.

[Miles]

Well, no, it's just a place that you get to interpret. Interpret things. There's you. There's no interpreter. You are in doing the interpreter. You are the interpreter.

[Ryan]

I know.

[Tyler]

What's the name of that town on 200 nor in north north Dakota that's like the geographical center. Rugby, rugby, Rugby, rugby geographical center. They have a monument in a parking lot next to an anytime fitness in a Mexican restaurant.

[Ryan]

Yep. Yep.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Niffle soup.

[Ryan]

Got it.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

If you like fish, and I mean devil, you make a trip to Devil's Lake. You'll never. You'll never regret that.

[Tyler]

Actually a really cool thing. Stump Lake, which is feeds off of Devil's Lake. It flooded and you can fish over. It's super clear. You can just see fully submerged homes underneath you as you fish. Because it like flooded people's homes out wild. It's cool.

[Miles]

A lot of good structural for him to swim around.

[Ryan]

Yeah. A lot of good rock beds and.

[Tyler]

And where are you fishing? This weekend I think I'm gonna go over the. Olson's house.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah. Minnewak and Flats. My buddy's from Tall. Now you can go see my buddy.

[Miles]

Could be. Could be a great place to scuba. Maybe there's some safes down there.

[Tyler]

They find a painting in a safe like the Titanic.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Get. I think they have a good scuba certification in Fargo.

[Miles]

Might be some good emeralds down there. There in a safe.

[Jared]

I don't know. The.

[Tyler]

I think they're just making this up.

[Miles]

What do you mean?

[Jared]

I think there's a strip club in Devil's Lake, too. Right.

[Tyler]

Right underneath.

[Miles]

Underneath the water.

[Ryan]

Well, the one got. The one got shut down.

[Miles]

Stripper poles. A lot of good structure for fish to swim around.

[Ryan]

Yeah, there was a Smell fishy in there. There was one highway, two driving into Devil's Lake, but I think shut down because someone got shot.

[Miles]

But then there's one downtime scene.

[Ryan]

There's one downtown called Lotus.

[Miles]

A lot of what just.

[Ryan]

It's just called Lotta.

[Miles]

I know, but a lot of what.

[Ryan]

A lot of pussy. My buddy almost got. He, like, tried to pick a fight with some guy outside a lot of us.

[Jared]

Did he win?

[Ryan]

It never. It manifested anything, thank God. Yeah.

[Tyler]

Did somebody throw dice at the back of his head or.

[Ryan]

No, I think he just started. Just. We got outside and just started talking to this other. I'm like, what the is going on here?

[Miles]

Lottas, you go golfing in the Brainerd area. It's a good golf. Turned into a little bit of a golf dusty bully pulpit. Guys, if you want more, you bet your radio. You gotta check out our Patreon. You gotta go to patreon.com radio or look us up on the app. And we have hundreds of hours of other episodes on there that you can't get unless you're signed up. So you gotta check us out on Patreon. You bet your radio, baby.