Million Dollar Gas Pump Idea

Summary

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You Betcha Radio: "Million Dollar Gas Pump Idea"

Release Date: April 27, 2026
Hosts: Myles (“You Betcha Guy”), Ryan, Tyler, Jerrod

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Episode Overview

This episode of You Betcha Radio dives into some classic Midwest banter and nostalgia while riffing on a "million dollar idea" for gas station entertainment—a concept that unravels into a larger discussion about Midwest mall culture, old-school shoe shopping, small-town hobbies, and the true spirit of having fun (and maybe a little beer) while golfing badly. The chemistry and comic timing of the crew create a laid-back, relatable experience that feels like hanging with buddies at the pump or on the course.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Million Dollar Gas Pump Game Idea

[00:00 – 01:54]

• The Proposal:

  • Myles pitches the idea of playing quick competitive games, like tic-tac-toe, at gas pumps instead of watching boring ads. Winners could get a $5 gas discount.

  • The group enthusiastically approves, expanding on the potential fun—even without rewards.

  • They brainstorm adding a geofenced app so users could play from their cars, particularly helpful in frigid Midwest winters.

    "At gas pumps, instead of the ads, you can play games against other people at the pump." – Myles [00:00]

    "I would play the game without the five dollar reward." – Ryan [00:19]

• Expanding the Concept:

  • The idea morphs into creating similar location-based games at malls, where people killing time could challenge each other (e.g., Battleship or slime volleyball).

  • Discussion about adding a chat feature quickly veers into hilarious caution about unwanted "hookup scene" vibes.

    "Let your play do the talking." – Tyler [01:54]

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2. Midwest Nostalgia Tour: Journeys and Mall Staples

[01:58 – 05:46]

• Journeys Shoe Store

  • Myles admits never having entered a Journeys, sparking a round of everyone recalling their go-to mall shoe spots (e.g., Etne, Osiris, Vans).
  • Ryan explains the appeal: "Yeah, it's like a punk store. It's for punks. They sell vans, they sell Converse."
  • The crew jokes about the vibe: part Hot Topic, part PacSun, but for shoes.

• Local Mall Memories:

  • Glicks (G Licks?) at Detroit Lakes and Buffalo City malls become the core of “rainy day at the lake” stories: get a Blizzard from Dairy Queen, hit the hobby shop, and see a flick.
  • Benjamin Franklin stores remembered for being Midwest Hobby Lobbys before fading away.
  • The segment is loaded with inside jokes about the quirks of small town and lake life:

    "You'd buy your block of wood for the Pinewood Derby and Boy Scouts." – Tyler [05:12]
    "Like a lame Hobby Lobby." – Myles [05:17]

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3. Kareem de Jeans: Beer, Golf, and Being Bad at Both

[06:07 – 08:00]

• Golfing with Beer Dilemma:

  • Myles confesses: He only enjoys golf when drinking but gets worse with every beer.

  • Tyler relates: two beers is the sweet spot; after that, the focus is gone.

  • The crew concludes that it's perfectly fine to embrace mediocrity on the course, or even to just be the “cart guy” and enjoy the atmosphere.

    "I'm the tallest dwarf when it comes to being good at King of Turd Mountain." – Ryan [06:52]

    "Just remember that we're all gonna die and that we're not going anywhere because the universe is way too big for us to do interstellar travel. So who cares if you're good at golf?" – Tyler [07:29]

• Existential Midwest Golf Wisdom:

  • Lighthearted, tongue-in-cheek philosophy: Golf doesn’t matter in the grand scheme, so don’t stress about sucking. The group riffs on embracing the fun and fleeting things in life instead.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• [00:00] Myles: "Is this a million dollar idea? At gas pumps, instead of the ads, you can play games against other people at the pump."
• [01:54] Tyler: "Let your play do the talking."
• [05:12] Tyler: "That's where you'd go and you'd buy your block of wood for the Pinewood Derby and Boy Scouts."
• [06:52] Ryan: "I'm the tallest dwarf when it comes to being good at King of Turd Mountain."
• [07:29] Tyler: "Just remember that we're all gonna die and ... who cares if you're good at golf?"

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:00 – 01:54 — Gas Pump Games & Geofenced App Tangents
• 01:58 – 05:46 — Midwest Mall Shoe Stores & Nostalgic Chain Recollections
• 06:07 – 08:00 — Beer/Golf Balance, Golf Mediocrity, and Sweaty Existentialism

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Tone & Atmosphere

The episode is fun, casual, and laced with self-aware Midwest humor—the kind you only get from longtime friends talking shop, reminiscing about their youth, and imagining how to make everyday boring moments a little more fun. Listeners get plenty of laughs, a dose of nostalgia, and some life lessons that don't take themselves too seriously.

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Transcript

[A]

Is this a million dollar idea? At gas pumps, instead of the ads, you can play games against other people at the pump.

[B]

I love that.

[C]

That's a great idea.

[A]

Tic tac toe and stuff. That's quick.

[D]

That would be sick.

[A]

That's two out of three and winner gets five dollar off the gas. There's no way there's a hole in this idea.

[E]

No, I think that's actually.

[D]

There is not a hole in that idea.

[B]

I would play the game without the five dollar reward.

[C]

Yeah, same.

[D]

No, Yeah, I mean I would even

[E]

be able to if they geo fenced it.

[D]

If you could just have an app like. Because like in the winter I'm not gonna stand out there and play true. So if you could scan a QR code and just play a game quickly against someone else sitting in their car. Even though I know you're not supposed

[E]

to sit in your car with me pumping gas.

[D]

Everyone does. What am I gonna stand out there the whole time?

[B]

It's negative 30.

[C]

I usually go inside and buy snacks while my gas is pumping.

[D]

Yeah, we need more geofence games going on. Like, oh, this is. I'm gonna take that a step further. There needs to be an app that is geof, like locally like based off of like maybe a wi fi network. So if your wife is like shopping at the mall, you can play games against other guys sitting in the couches in the middle of the mall.

[B]

Battleship in the mall.

[D]

Yeah, yeah. Scrap, you know, whatever you want to do. It's kind of sick actually.

[B]

That would be fun.

[C]

Slime volleyball.

[D]

Yeah, maybe. Maybe even a. Maybe even like a chat of some sort. Just you and the boys be like, where are you at? I'm on the blue couch outside of Journeys. Where are you at?

[C]

Yeah, what's the credit card bill at today?

[E]

But then we run the danger of

[D]

it turned into a hookup scene.

[B]

That's true.

[C]

Yeah. Well, then it turns into an Ashley Maddie.

[D]

Yeah. So maybe no chat, just games, but

[B]

let your play do the talking.

[D]

Yeah, but I like that idea.

[A]

Journeys. I don't think I've ever stepped.

[E]

You never sat out the at the

[D]

blue couch outside of Journeys.

[B]

I used to buy my shoes from the Journeys in the mall every year in high school.

[D]

Really?

[B]

I'd get my school shoes from Journeys. That was big into Etne. And I had some Osiris's at the time.

[D]

Yeah, I had some Vans.

[A]

Is Dirty's like a skateboard store.

[B]

It's like.

[D]

Yeah, it's like a punk store. It's for punks. They sell vans they sell Converse. They sell skateboarding shoes.

[C]

Fat farms.

[D]

Fat Farms.

[B]

They had the PF Flyers from Sandlot one year. I got those.

[E]

Yeah, it's like. It's like if. I'm trying to think of. It's like not quite Hot topicy, you

[C]

know, it's almost like a PacSun.

[E]

It's like if you took hot. If you took Hot Topic and Pack Song and you combine them and they sold shoes on me. If they. They had a baby, but that baby only sold shoes.

[C]

Yeah, that would be.

[B]

It's not far off.

[E]

I. I just never thought I had to explain to someone what journey.

[A]

It just always looked like crap to me. That's why I never.

[E]

That's because you're a sports kid. You're too busy.

[A]

Yeah, you're right.

[E]

You're too busy at Foot Locker.

[B]

I need my Nike shocks asap.

[C]

Foot Locker and Lids.

[E]

I always thought it's Stephen Barry's.

[D]

Do you remember that?

[C]

Oh, yeah. You guys ever. Have you ever been into a Glicks?

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

Or G Licks, Whatever.

[B]

One of the DL Mall.

[C]

Well, because the G is a different color, so you don't know if it's the same.

[E]

That's the only Glicks I've ever been into is the Detroit Lakes Washington Mall.

[C]

Yeah. In the Buffalo City Mall in China.

[E]

Rainy day at the lake. You'd head in to a movie, but you go early. So you could swing through glitz and get a blizzard at the ice at the Dairy Queen.

[A]

Right there it'd be flicks and glicks.

[E]

We go for. We go for a flicks and Glicks.

[B]

Did you ever go there in probably the 2010ish range when they had the hobby shop with the giant race car track?

[E]

Probably.

[B]

And you got to like.

[D]

I think I went to a Batman in that theater of some sort. But yeah, huge rainy day activity for our family.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

I didn't catch a.

[E]

Catch a flick, but swing through Glicks. Then later trying to find the click.

[B]

You know, classic rainy lake day stuff.

[C]

Can you imagine if you're going now?

[E]

Not back then, not when I was a kid.

[C]

Imagine if you want to watch the movie.

[D]

Click. Oh, my God.

[E]

Gonna catch flicks.

[B]

Click.

[E]

Catch the flick. Click. But first I gotta.

[D]

Sweet. It's Glick.

[E]

Still there.

[C]

Yep.

[E]

No way.

[D]

Who's shopping there?

[B]

I don't. I mean, I don't know.

[D]

Yeah. DL also used to have a Benjamin Franklin.

[B]

That's gone.

[C]

We had one of Wapton too.

[B]

Yep. Nope.

[A]

What's that, Frank?

[B]

It's like a Craft store kind of sucks anything sort of deal.

[C]

We used to buy our guppies from there when we were young.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah, like guppies and betta fish.

[B]

That's where you'd go and you'd buy your block of wood for the Pinewood Derby and Boy Scouts.

[C]

Yeah, they had everything there.

[A]

Like a lame hobby lobby.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's perfect.

[E]

It's like more of like just like a small town, local hobby lobby.

[B]

Yeah, you could buy like, thread and then beads. Yeah, like that fabric.

[D]

You know Ben Franklin's.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

They.

[C]

They used to have a pretty good fireworks stand, too.

[D]

It's not there anymore. Sued for that?

[B]

I have no idea for what. There's no laws in the night.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[E]

By.

[C]

Yeah, By Ben Franklin.

[E]

Glicks. Glicks. Glicks.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

Well, it's raining out. We might as well head into town for a flick. Maybe we could watch Glick. And after, let's buy some stuff from Glicks.

[D]

Next sec.

[B]

What the frick?

[D]

Next segment.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, that one.

[A]

Kareem de Jeans. So I realized that I only like to play golf when there is a lot of beer drinking involved. I also noticed that the more I drink, the worse I am at golf, which frustrates me greatly. What am I supposed to do?

[D]

I am also worse.

[E]

Get one, two beers feeling good. After that, I just stop caring.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[D]

And I actually get, like, worse because I'm so bad. I'm not good at golf. So, like, I. I need a lot of focus to be good.

[C]

You're also not bad at golf, though.

[D]

Yeah, but I'm a 12 handicap, so I'm like the worst type of good at golf.

[C]

Yeah, that's very true. That's very true.

[E]

I'm the. I'm. I'm the tallest dwarf when it comes

[B]

to being good at King of Turd Mountain.

[D]

Yeah, it's like, oh, yeah, I can hit the ball good, but I still don't shoot good scores.

[C]

Yeah. Yep.

[B]

I mean, this guy.

[E]

I can't brag about it.

[B]

The problem with this guy is, like, he. He gets pissed off that he sucks when he's drunk, but he only likes golf when he's drunk.

[D]

That. Okay, now I'm seeing the conundrum.

[B]

Yeah, so just be the cart guy. There's nothing wrong with just riding in the car with your buddies and drinking.

[A]

That sounds fun.

[D]

But also, it just doesn't really matter if you suck at golf.

[B]

Yeah. Don't get compared.

[C]

It doesn't. You don't get anything for it. Yeah, you don't get anything.

[D]

Just remember that we're all gonna die and that we're not going anywhere because the universe is way too big for us to do interstellar travel. So who cares if you're good at golf?

[A]

Yeah, that's what you say on the 18th hole.

[D]

Yeah, that's what I say before the round, after the round.

[B]

I think to get him in the

[D]

right headspace, I think T number one, you know, we're all gonna die. It doesn't matter if we're good at golf. And then if I have a good round, I'm like, I'm good at golf. And this is the only thing I care about now.

[C]

Yeah, how do I.

[B]

How do I feel next week?

[C]

How do I live longer?

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

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