New York City VS. The Midwest 🎙 #349

Summary

You Betcha Radio Episode #349: New York City VS. The Midwest 🎙

Date: October 22, 2025
Hosts: Myles “You Betcha Guy,” Ryan, Tyler, Jerrod
Theme: Contrasting life, culture, and quirks between New York City and the Midwest, peppered with the crew’s signature humor, storytelling, and a deep dive into “sports parenting.”

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Episode Overview

In this episode, the You Betcha crew explores the glaring differences and humorous similarities between life in bustling New York City and their familiar Midwest roots. Ryan returns from a trip to NYC, sharing fresh tales and observations, which spiral into a riotous conversation about urban living, Midwest values, culture shocks, and ultimately spins off into their comedic "guide" for being a top-tier (and probably terrible) sports parent. The episode is filled with lighthearted ribbing, cultural commentary, and the kind of relatable Midwest humor that regular listeners have come to love.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. New York vs. The Midwest: Stereotypes, Surprises, and Culture Shocks

(Timestamps below)

• Ryan’s NYC Vacation Recap

  • Opens with the misconception that “the city that never sleeps” now refers to Vegas, but historically, it's NYC. ([00:51])
  • “City never sleeps? Midwest cities are the ones that get the appropriate amount of sleep.” ([02:10])

• Public Transit: Subways vs. School Buses

  • NYC kids’ independence riding the subway alone is mind-blowing to the crew. In the Midwest, it was all about bikes or waiting at a bus stop. ([02:48])
  • Tyler teases, “We rode our bikes around town, they just ride the subway.” ([03:20])

• Living Situations & Green Spaces

  • The hosts marvel at tiny NYC apartments vs. the Midwestern dream of “a house with a yard.”
    • “In New York, you’re just a faceless number... In the Midwest, you’re paying attention to who you’re walking by or driving by.” – Ryan ([04:51])
  • Jokes about the luxury of having two rooms, or not smelling the toilet from your bed. ([04:33])

• Crowds, Skyscrapers, and Tourist Life

  • Difficulty adjusting to skyscraper neck strain: “Midwesterners need iPad-sized mirrors with handles so you can look down but see up!” – Ryan ([05:57])
  • Minneapolis vs. NYC: Not the size, but the sheer volume of buildings ([06:44])

• No Gas Stations in NYC & Everyday Convenience

  • “There are no gas stations, Tyler...They don’t drive.”
  • The bodega as the snack solution: “Most of my New York knowledge is from Marvel movies.” ([09:19])

• Attitude, Pace, and Sociability

  • Small talk struggle: NYC is rapid and transactional, while Midwesterners love to chat. ([10:44])
  • “Tried to joke with a store clerk, fun playful joke – she didn’t know what to do.” – Ryan ([11:13])

• NYC Diversity & Neighborhoods

  • “Every single culture you can think of is in NYC. It’s a block of Chinatown, then boom, you’re in Little Italy.” – Jared ([08:00])
  • Turf wars: “NYC’s turf wars are real mobs, Midwest turf wars are two dads trying to out-lawn each other.” ([09:00])

• NYC Iconography and Tourist Traps

  • The omnipresence of “I ❤ NY” stores, compared to if every 8th shop in Fargo was “I ❤ Wood Chipper.” ([07:05])

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2. Memorable New York Experiences

(Timestamps below)

• Times Square & Photo Hustlers

  • Asking for photos = someone expects payment in NYC; in the Midwest, it’s an old lady with a finger over the lens. ([10:23])

• Superheroes on the Streets

  • “You can see every superhero in Times Square...and get your photo for sure.” ([10:18])

• Safety and Urban Chaos

  • Hosts marvel no one dies daily given the chaotic criss-cross of cars, bikes, and buses.
    • “In the Midwest, it’s blizzards; in New York, it’s traffic. How do people not die more?” ([12:04])

• Street Vendors and Scams

  • “The amount of fake watches, purses, and sunglasses getting slung around is unbelievable. Ended up with an Oasis CD when I thought it was OAR…” ([15:19])
  • Tourist scams, including fake Statue of Liberty ferry tickets, are impressively convincing. ([32:52])

• Sept 11th Memorial Reflections

  • Ryan shares a detailed and moving account of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, expressing deep respect for both the experience and the stories of heroism.
    • “It was wild to be at... If you’re going to New York City, you should go to the memorial.” ([16:33–19:30])
    • Emotional takeaways: “A lot more people should have died, which is good but also sad. If it happened an hour later, thousands more would’ve been in the building.” ([19:44])
    • The ethics of 9/11 merch (“Never Forget” mugs): awkward or memorial? ([19:12])

• NYC Travel Nightmares

  • Ryan’s journey home included delayed flights, scramble for new tickets, and a late-night rental car drive from Minneapolis to Fargo. Rental car logistics after midnight get a laugh. ([22:33])

• Missed Iconic Spots

  • Didn’t visit the Statue of Liberty up close; just saw it from Manhattan. Imagines the impact for immigrants seeing “Lady Lib” for the first time. ([25:04])

• French Food, Chinatown Mishaps, Pizza

  • “French” restaurants are just American food with French ownership.
  • “Did see a guy just with his dick out, just pissing on a building. I guess that’s like the Midwest, just NYC is at 3pm not 3am.” ([28:01])
  • NYC pizza: “The floor is so high—it’s better than an average place here, anywhere you go.” ([27:26])

• Hotel Sizes

  • “We splurged for a more expensive hotel—13x13 room, a tiny bathroom, a 6x6 nook. What’s a ‘cheap’ room like?” ([28:34])

• Cops, Ambulances, and City Living

  • “Saw eight cops in a Dunkin Donuts—stereotypes come from somewhere!” ([35:56])
  • Ambulances in gridlock: “NYC must be the worst place to have a heart attack.” ([35:14])

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3. Midwest Life: Small Towns, Sports, and Family

(Timestamps below)

• Friendliness and Small Talk

  • Midwest: “We can make small talk for five, ten minutes. In New York, it’s wrap it up, got stuff to do.” ([10:44])

• Parenting and Sports: The Satirical Guide

  • Massive extended segment (approx. [39:16]–[55:51]) lampooning “sports parent” culture—overbearing, hyper-competitive, living vicariously through their kids, obsessing over coaching, wins, and gear.
    • Memorable Satirical Quotes:
      • “If you want to be a good sports parent, you need to be insufferably negative to your child and insufferably positive to everyone else.” ([44:11])
      • “If you’re not first, you’re last” and “If you have fun, you’re a loser.” ([48:16])
      • “If your kid’s happy, you’re doing sports parenting wrong.” ([55:51])
    • Satire includes:
      • Projecting your failures and ambitions on your kids
      • “Live feedback” to kids, refs, and coaches (yell at everyone, constantly)
      • Goggles, sleeves, matching gear for maximum “drip” and “confidence”
      • Hilarious “travel” (playing in far-flung small towns) as a Midwest substitute for vacations

• Transition to Sports Grandparenting

  • The grandparent stage becomes the opposite: “With grandkids, it’s—‘You having fun, buddy? That’s all that matters.’” ([57:17])

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4. Fun & Absurdity: The Great Job Site Blunt Rotation

([57:52]–[63:38])

• Dream Construction Site “Blunt Rotation”
  • The hosts design their “ideal” work crew: the wild card, third-party vendor, best friend, class clown, encyclopedic “Petey”, strong-man, ex-con, new guy, the boss, Luke from “Outdoor Boys”, and even Shrek.
  • “There’s nothing better than getting in an enclosed space with people and just letting her rip.” ([69:15])
  • “Ratchet strap the new guy, he’s gonna be getting freaked out...” ([68:37])

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5. Rapid Fire Midwest Bits

• Debating the best way to put on belts—men vs. women ([78:01])
• The “curve” of a worn dress belt ([80:06])
• Mascot suit trauma (“it’s 115 degrees in there!”) ([76:15])
• The evolution from sports parent to “glory days” sports grandparent ([53:11])
• Question: "Fornicate, assassinate, elope" with Halloween family events ([72:23])
• Random fun fact: “At 40, we'll have more career NFL receiving yards than Brett Favre in his 40s.” ([69:55])
• Who won Super Bowl 1979? “Steelers beat Cowboys 35-31.” ([71:48])

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Notable Quotes & Moments

[02:10] Ryan:
"If New York City is the city that never sleeps, Midwest cities are the cities that get the appropriate amount of sleep."

[04:51] Ryan:
"In New York City, you’re just a faceless number…In the Midwest, you’re at least paying attention to who you’re walking by."

[07:05] Ryan:
"Imagine if every eighth store in Fargo was an ‘I heart Fargo’ store."

[10:23] Ryan:
"In New York, if you ask a stranger to take a photo, they're going to try and get money out of you for it. In the Midwest, they’ll do it for free, but it’s some old lady with her finger over the lens."

[12:04] Ryan:
"In the Midwest, I don’t know how we drive through blizzards and not die more. It’s crazy."

[16:33] Ryan (re: 9/11 Memorial):
"It’s wild to be at…if you’re going to New York City, you should go to the memorial."

[19:44] Ryan:
"A lot more people should have died, which is good and also sad…if it would’ve happened an hour later, thousands more would’ve been in the building."

[28:01] Ryan:
"In Chinatown, I did see a guy just with his dick out, just pissing on a building. …His was at 3pm; ours is usually at 3am."

[35:56] Ryan:
"Saw eight cops in a Dunkin Donuts – stereotypes come from somewhere and I got to witness it firsthand."

[44:11] Ryan (on sports parenting):
"If you’re gonna be a good sports parent, you need to be insufferably negative to them and insufferably positive to everyone else."

[48:16] Unknown:
"If you’re not first, you’re last. And if you’re second…You’re just the first loser."

[55:51] Ryan:
"Basically, if your kid’s happy, you’re doing sports parenting wrong."

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Essential Timestamps

| Timestamp | Topic / Segment | |-------------|-----------------------------------------------------| | 00:44 | Ryan’s NYC trip begins | | 02:10 | NYC sleep vs. Midwest sleep philosophy | | 02:48 | Subway kids & Midwest bus nostalgia | | 04:51 | “Faceless number” & personal connection | | 05:57 | Skyscraper-mirror bit for Midwestern tourists | | 07:05 | “I ❤ NY” tourist trap comparison | | 08:00 | Cultural variety, Chinatown vs. Little Italy | | 10:23 | Midtown photos & expectations | | 12:04 | Traffic, chaos, and fearlessness (city vs. blizzard)| | 16:33-19:30 | 9/11 Memorial review & emotional impact | | 22:33 | The journey home: rental car saga | | 25:04 | Statue of Liberty: missed opportunity | | 27:26 | NYC pizza reflections | | 28:34 | Hotel room sizes, cost, and expectations | | 35:56 | Stereotypes: "Eight cops in a Dunkin Donuts" | | 39:16-55:51 | Sports Parenting Satire | | 57:52-63:38 | Dream blunt rotation on a Midwest job site | | 69:55 | Fun fact: Outgaining Brett Favre (receiving yards) | | 72:23 | Halloween “Fornicate, assassinate, elope” lightning | | 78:01 | Belt orientation: men vs. women |

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Tone & Style

• Authentically conversational: The group riffs effortlessly, layering on inside jokes, relatable lines, and running gags.
• Satirical, self-deprecating Midwest wisdom: Many segments are intentionally exaggerated or tongue-in-cheek, especially the “sports parenting guide.”
• Nostalgic but unfiltered: The crew doesn’t shy away from crude memories or urban Midwest comparisons.

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For New Listeners

• If you’ve ever wondered how New York City looks through Midwest-tinted glasses, or if you want to vicariously experience city chaos and Midwestern camaraderie, this episode is for you.
• The show is best enjoyed with a sense of humor and familiarity with Midwest humor, sports culture, and, ideally, a beverage in hand ("sippy sip").

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Listen For…

• “Mirrored sunglasses for skyscraper looking” ([06:15]) – classic Midwest fix-it creativity.
• Satirical “sports parenting” ([39:16–55:51]): Over-the-top, but rings painfully true for anyone raised with competitive parents.
• Honest, heartfelt take on the 9/11 Memorial ([16:33–19:30]).
• Absurd “blunt rotation” crew-building—with everything from job site wild cards to Shrek and Snoop Dogg ([57:52–64:00]).
• Miscellaneous Midwest bits: Dress belt curvature theories, mascot PTSD, and Halloween event hot takes.

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In sum:
This episode is a love letter to everything “Midwest Vs. The Big City”—equal parts observational humor, cultural differences, personal travel logs, and unapologetic nostalgia. By the end, you’ll either want to visit NYC yourself or cement your loyalty to the land of green lawns and eight hours of sleep.

Transcript

[Ryan]

Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of you bet. Your radio podcast. The Boys are Back in Stew. Boys are back in stew.

[Jared]

Boys are back.

[Ryan]

That was kind of a little bit of Tom delong as well. As the boys are back in town. The boys are back in the stew. That sounded like Blink 182.

[Tyler]

I was just going to say. I'm going to guess Tom the longest. Blink182.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Tyler]

Just to start off on the. On the right foot here.

[Jared]

Dialed in already?

[Tyler]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

Dialed in. But we're back and ready. Having a little. Little sippy, sippy, little sippy sip and. Yeah, I just got off of vacation.

[Unknown Male]

Hell yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Cambodia.

[Ryan]

I was on Cambodia. Was actually in New York City.

[Unknown Male]

Wow. Did you love it?

[Ryan]

New York. I was in the concrete jungle. What was in the city that never sleeps? And most people think that the city never sleeps is Vegas, but originally, New York was the city never sleeps, and then Vegas just stole that idea. Just, like, steal everything else.

[Jared]

Which tour guy told you that?

[Ryan]

No, because we had an argument about it while we were there, and I was like, no. Like, why would they have it in the song? Because he says, the city that never sleeps, I' ma slip you an Ambien. Why would he say that if that wasn't it?

[Tyler]

Yeah, I mean, that's. Yeah, yeah. My buddies in colleges, this is. This is freshman year, they used to rip Ambien. And like, I don't know, one guy, he got so off Ambien, he. There's like, a cupcake in one of the urinals in, like, the shared bathroom. Next morning, I was like, what the went on last night? Is somebody's birthday or what?

[Ryan]

Yeah. No explanation on how the cupcake got there. No one knows.

[Tyler]

No one knows.

[Unknown Male]

He doesn't know Ambien induced psychosis.

[Tyler]

Yeah. He does not remember a single thing. So. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, yeah.

[Unknown Male]

Windy City. How was it?

[Ryan]

Windy City. The Big Apple, as they call it. Who's the Little Apple? Do we know?

[Unknown Male]

Jersey.

[Ryan]

Jersey.

[Tyler]

Spokane.

[Ryan]

So, yeah, I was in New York City, and there's a lot of differences between New York City and the Midwest. And I'll just say that, you know, if New York City is the city that never sleeps, Midwest cities are the cities that get the appropriate amount of sleep.

[Tyler]

Sure. Full eight hours.

[Ryan]

Found that out. This is my second time New York. The last time I was there, I was only, like, 11, 12 years old or whatever.

[Unknown Male]

So have you been? Ryan, I know Jared has never. So you and I have never been to New York.

[Ryan]

Jared's been.

[Jared]

I've been three times.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

One of the big differences is like, in the Midwest, we gotta like, wait for the bus and a bus stop. In New York, the kids just ride the subway.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Which is just a wild thought that, like you're seven years old and you're just gonna go ride the New York City subway with you and your buddies. Like, think of how much more fun that would have been riding the subway versus the bus. Like, no one's paying attention to you on the subway.

[Unknown Male]

So, like, they're straight up just going to school on the subway by themselves.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Well, so it works.

[Unknown Male]

Apparently.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

I mean, we used to ride our bikes around town. They just ride the subway around town.

[Unknown Male]

Fair enough.

[Tyler]

It's so easy to skip class. Be like, yeah, I miss subway stop.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah. Missed a train on my way to geology.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Some stockbroker pushed me down before I could get inside the door.

[Unknown Male]

That's also something I've never done. I've never ridden a subway. I've ridden like Amtrak, above ground stuff. Never been on a subway.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Subway. Honestly, I think it gets a bad rap. It's not too bad. Yeah, it's.

[Tyler]

Yeah, it's fine. I usually go the foot long.

[Ryan]

Like, imagine what Imagine like riding it. Riding it at 3am you get to see some weird. But whatever. I think another big difference is, is New Yorkers just don't care about green space whatsoever. Like, there's just like. Imagine like it's, it's just a living situation, you know, like we value a, a house with a yard. And they're like, I just value an apartment that has a stove. Sure.

[Tyler]

You know, five grand a month.

[Ryan]

Yeah. We're like, God, be nice to have a bigger backyard. And they're like, it would be nice to be able to have two rooms in my apartment instead of just one.

[Unknown Male]

It would be nice to be able to not have to. And sleep in the same square footage. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Correct. Yeah. It would be nice to lay in bed after taking a shit and not just still smell the shit.

[Tyler]

Sure. Not have your head in the toilet.

[Unknown Male]

It would be nice to not live in a prison cell with houseplants.

[Ryan]

Yes. Another big difference between New York City, Midwest is like, in New York City, you're just a faceless number. I feel like Midwest, you're at least like, you're paying attention to who you're like, walking by or driving by or whatever. But there's so many people that if you did that, you wouldn't get anywhere. You know, you just have to just walk with your head down. And just not look at anybody.

[Jared]

Right?

[Tyler]

Yeah. Like, I feel like. I feel like most people in New York City, their form of road rage, it's not actually in a vehicle. It's just walking on foot.

[Unknown Male]

I'm walking people.

[Ryan]

But New York City road rage doesn't exist because, like, if it's your constant state of mind, how could it be road rage? Just normal life.

[Jared]

Very true. Yeah, it's very true. They do hate slow walkers. So that is.

[Tyler]

Do they? I fit in good, then I. Yeah, I'm a fast walker.

[Ryan]

What else would you say is different, Jared?

[Jared]

The skyscrapers for sure.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I mean, also, side note, I came up with a great idea for midwesterners when they're visiting New York City.

[Unknown Male]

Okay.

[Ryan]

After a while, your neck starts to hurt from looking up at all the buildings.

[Tyler]

Sure.

[Ryan]

So what you need is you get like a. Like a, you know, like an iPad sized mirror with handles on it. And then you can just walk around looking down like you're looking at an iPad and you can see all the architecture above.

[Unknown Male]

And they make mirrored sunglasses. So like you can basically rear view mirrors for your walking. Yeah, you could do that, but you look up.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's like. It's like mirrors in front that just. You can flip them up and then they can look up.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

I mean, like baseball players have. They have the sunglasses that flip up when it's not sunny.

[Ryan]

You get ones that flip down.

[Tyler]

Flip down. Yeah.

[Ryan]

It's actually a great idea because my neck starting to hurt.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Unknown Male]

Okay, so for context, how. How much bigger are the buildings in, like Minneapolis?

[Jared]

There's just a lot more of them.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Like Minneapolis probably has very similar size building, which is way less of that.

[Unknown Male]

Gotcha. Okay. Yeah.

[Tyler]

I feel like there's less tornadoes in New York than there is in the Midwest.

[Unknown Male]

More.

[Tyler]

More shingles.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah, it's very good point.

[Ryan]

More body heat or body heat.

[Jared]

So it puts the tornado away.

[Tyler]

Yep.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I think that there's also. When people visit New York City, they want to buy stuff that says I heart New York. And there's one of those stores on every corner. Like imagine if you came to Fargo and every about 8th store was an I heart Fargo store.

[Jared]

I heart wood chipper.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Just only sold that stuff on every corner.

[Unknown Male]

They got to make a killing, though.

[Ryan]

They got to make a killing. Whoever's got the trademark? I'm guessing the city does.

[Tyler]

It might just be open for whoever.

[Ryan]

No, it's a registered trademark.

[Tyler]

Okay.

[Jared]

Yeah, I looked. Yeah, I have one.

[Ryan]

I tried to get it started.

[Tyler]

Taking I love New York.com would be a great URL.

[Ryan]

What else, Jared?

[Jared]

Yeah, the people, like, every. Every single culture you can possibly think of is in New York City.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Like, you can go to Chinatown, and then you walk one block, and you're in Little Italy. And it's like a very weird, like, harsh transition from being in Chinatown to suddenly being in Little Italy, and you're just like. It's so strange.

[Jared]

And Little Italy is very little, too.

[Ryan]

It is.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah. Very little. They. They named it appropriately.

[Tyler]

Is there.

[Ryan]

I mean, like, it'd be like walking down, like, Main street of a small town, and, like, one block is just, like. It would just be one theme and then another block, a completely different vibe.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

You think there's got to be turf wars of some sort between Italy and China.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Unknown Male]

Like, is Italy trying to expand into Chinatown?

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

No, no. But I think there definitely is turf wars in. In New York City.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Do they have people?

[Ryan]

Yeah, that's the turf wars in the Midwest versus New York City. Turf wars in New York City are actual, like, mob turf wars.

[Tyler]

Y.

[Ryan]

And in the Midwest, it's two Dads trying to one up each other's lawn.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah. Trying to get the rights to the neighbor's hunting land.

[Ryan]

Yeah. But, like, literal turf wars.

[Tyler]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Unknown Male]

What's the hospitality like? Is there people holding the door open at gas stations, or is it. Is that completely different?

[Jared]

There's no gas station.

[Ryan]

There's no gas stations, Tyler.

[Unknown Male]

Or people get gas.

[Tyler]

They don't drive.

[Ryan]

They don't drive.

[Unknown Male]

I mean, there are cars.

[Ryan]

I know, but you. Anyone who's got a car lives outside the city and comes into the city. Right. So you better get gas before you go into the city. My wife would be terrible at living outside the city and having to drive in because her car is always on east, so she would be just constantly running out of gas.

[Unknown Male]

So, like, if I want to, like, a quick snack, where do I go?

[Ryan]

Yeah, they got little shops, but they use gas station.

[Unknown Male]

Okay.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Unknown Male]

Bodega makes sense. Most of my New York knowledge is from, like, watching Marvel movies, so.

[Tyler]

Okay.

[Jared]

With spider.

[Unknown Male]

So it's usually Spider man goes to a bodega after school, so it's just.

[Ryan]

Usually destroyed, is what you're saying.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah, there's a lot of rubble.

[Ryan]

A lot of rubble. Taxi cabs getting thrown.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah. People are just, like, randomly getting abducted by super villains. So, like, I avoid New York for that. I don't want to run into the Green Goblin or anything, but you can.

[Jared]

See every single superhero in existence In Times Square.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Photos, for sure.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah.

[Unknown Male]

Oh, for legitimately.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Was there in New York, if you. If you ask a stranger to take a photo of you, they're going to try and get money out of you for it. And in the Midwest, they're going to do it for free, but it's going to be some old lady with her finger over the lens, so pick your poison.

[Jared]

Yeah. I would say another thing is, like, when you try to make small talk to a New Yorker, they're very go, go, go. Like, let's wrap this up. I got stuff to do. In the Midwest, It's. You can make small talk for five, ten minutes.

[Tyler]

Sure.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I tried to. We were in a store. My. My wife wanted to go into this shop, and so me and my buddy went to the men's section, and we came up the escalate, escalator. They went to the ride, and the lady was like, oh, the men's section's to the left. And I go. I go, how'd you know we wanted the men's section? And she, like, didn't know what to do. Fun, playful joke.

[Jared]

Oh, yeah, right. Yeah. You know, like, it's very transactional conversation.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

And New York's also a big hub for comedy, too, so you'd think they'd have a little sense of humor.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Unknown Male]

Maybe that's why comedy crushes there so much, because people don't have one. Except the comedians, they're like, what is this?

[Tyler]

What is comedy?

[Unknown Male]

He's saying words that I find amusing.

[Tyler]

Yeah, yeah. No, that checks.

[Jared]

They paid for it.

[Tyler]

I.

[Ryan]

One thing. One thing that's very similar is I think both New York City and the Midwest is. I don't know how more people don't die New York, because there's so many cars and bikes and buses and stuff flying everywhere. I just don't know how more people don't get hit by stuff and die.

[Unknown Male]

Sure.

[Ryan]

In the Midwest, I don't know how we drive through blizzards and not die more. It's crazy.

[Unknown Male]

You know, that's a very good point.

[Ryan]

Like, driving in the winter, more people probably should die, but we just have figured out how not to just like them. Like, it's like a sixth sense. If they. They just know how to not get hit while still just walking with their head down. It's amazing. Spidey senses that checks out, Jared. All right, guys, time to play surprise picks this week. Tyler. Actually, hold on, guys. Right now, Prize picks will give you fifty dollars in lineups when you play your first five Dollar lineup winner, loser getting fifty bucks in lineups. Use promo code YBR when you sign up today. Tyler, what happened last week?

[Unknown Male]

I had the. I broke my streak. I had a really nice streak going of being right on this podcast. And I didn't just break the streak, I broke it in embarrassing fashion. I did Joe Flacco less than like 180 yards and he went for damn near 400. So yeah, it was.

[Ryan]

That was not very good.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah, I lost big. I lost.

[Ryan]

I'm on a hot streak one week in a row now. Scatty Boo hit the touchdown for me. It's a receiving one too. I was not anticipating that. But anyways, I'm kind of on a hot streak. They could say.

[Jared]

Well, don't like to talk about it.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I don't, I guess no hitter. Don't talk about a no hitter while you're throwing a no hitter. So I'm not talking about that anymore. Not talking about the fact I have a one week streak going. Jared, what do you got this week?

[Jared]

Derrick Henry, more than 75 and a half rushing yards.

[Ryan]

Tyler, which one are you going to mess up this week?

[Unknown Male]

Dylan Gabriel, more than 181 and a half. Oh my God. I think Dylan's going to give me back. Back in the green, Ryan.

[Tyler]

I got Christian McAffrey more than 50.5 receiving yards.

[Ryan]

And I got Michael Penix. Is he junior?

[Jared]

Yep.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Why does this not say Junior on here? Get his name right. Senior doesn't play more than 229 and a half pass yards. Feeling good. Feeling good.

[Jared]

Two in a row.

[Ryan]

Going two in a row. Don't talk about it, Jared. Jeez, I'll cut that. So yeah, guys, you gotta play prize picks. Make sure you're also hitting your free to play stuff. Remember to do that because it's free to play. Just a couple minutes of your time. Yeah, you can win a million bucks.

[Jared]

I got 10 boost this past week from free to play.

[Ryan]

Dude, I had one a couple weeks ago.

[Unknown Male]

I'm still batting. Oh for whatever 50 it is.

[Tyler]

Me too.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's tough, but it's fun.

[Unknown Male]

We'll get it. We'll get it, right?

[Ryan]

We're 50. We've both got something out of it. All right guys, have fun this week.

[Unknown Male]

Did you get any? Were any street rats coming up to you, trying to shake you down for stuff, sell you newspapers or pickpocket you?

[Ryan]

Well, I guess I don't think I got pickpocketed.

[Unknown Male]

You did lose your AirPods.

[Ryan]

I did. That was my fault though. I didn't get pit pocket on those, but, I mean, the amount of fake watches and fake purses and fake sunglasses and stuff getting slung around is unbelievable.

[Jared]

Selling CDs.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Mixtapes.

[Unknown Male]

You get any good ones?

[Ryan]

Any good CDs?

[Unknown Male]

Mixtapes? Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I thought I was getting an Oasis cd, but I thought I was getting a OAR cd, but ended up being Oasis cd.

[Unknown Male]

What a shame.

[Jared]

I hate when that happens.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah. Wonderwall.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Go see the Twin Towers.

[Ryan]

I went. That was actually the best part of the trip, was going to the 911 exhibit or memorial. Memorial, yes.

[Unknown Male]

Is the memorial at ground zero, like, the museum and all that stuff?

[Ryan]

I'll talk you through it. It was. It was sick. We did a tour of the grounds, so we got, like, a guy that brought us through it. So they have two, like, waterfall pool things where the previous towers used to be.

[Unknown Male]

Okay.

[Ryan]

It's like, in the exact spot. It doesn't cover the full footprint, but pretty close. And around the pools, they have all of the names of the people who died on it. And it's a memorial there. And then you go to the museum and you go underground, and the whole museum is underneath where the towers used to stand. And the total time Anna and I were there was like three hours with the tour and then going through the museum, but I could have been there probably for at least five.

[Unknown Male]

That's cool.

[Tyler]

Interesting.

[Ryan]

There's so much stuff, like, in the museum on the wall. They have, like, the timeline across the whole thing where it's like, at this, like, 8:46am this happened, and it goes, like, minute by minute all the way through the whole thing. And I was kind of cool, crazy, very sad, but it was like. And, like. So then someone was asking me, like, about, like, oh, after being there, what about the conspiracies? And, like, who did you know, all that. And I was like, I won out of respect for the people that died. I was not trying to be in that mindset at all. I was just trying to be like, wow, this is just take it all in. And even after, I'm like, I just not even trying to dive into that right now. It's like, that's gross.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

It just feels weird.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

But it's cool to do the tour. I recommend. I recommend anyone going to New York City should go to the memorial. It's pretty. It's wild to be at. And, like, what was cool about doing the tour is, like, you heard stories about different people on the day. Like, our tour guy was talking about a guy who implemented A security protocol after the 93 bombing that happened because it took them 12 hours to evacuate one of the towers. Holy.

[Unknown Male]

Oh.

[Ryan]

When that happened. And the one security guy is like, oh, that's not gonna fly if something else happened. So he like implemented a whole like fire emergency drill for the thing and ended up saving like thousands of people because of it. So kind of sweet to find out all that stuff that you wouldn't maybe know about. Yeah, it was really cool. It's cool. Sad, but also like, I mean, just the amount of stuff they have from the day. Like you. You see like a fire truck that's completely ripped to shreds. They have that in there and stuff like that. It's kind of wild.

[Tyler]

So it must be pretty like underground. Must be a huge exhibit type deal.

[Ryan]

It was honestly very like, to get your bearings because there's like this whole wall that was originally there that like helps keep the water out.

[Jared]

Did you go into the museum like 10 years ago? I went through it.

[Ryan]

There's like the big wall. It's called the like starts in the S. I don't know. But basically it's a wall that they had to put up to keep the water from the river getting into this area. And like that they left one of those walls completely exposed. And it's just. I don't know, it's a wild thing.

[Jared]

But yeah, when I went like 10 years ago, I went. I don't know if the shop was affiliated with it or not, but they were selling like merch.

[Tyler]

Profiting off of us.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I mean there was. You could buy like 911 shirts and like, you know, NY PD and like, I suppose.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

New York Fire Department shirts and stuff like that.

[Jared]

I just remember seeing like a never forget, like coffee mug. Like who would, who would want that?

[Tyler]

Yeah, yeah. It's like a reminder every morning, like relaxing, sipping coffee. Like. Oh yeah, that is true.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

What? Yeah.

[Unknown Male]

Remember that time thousands of Americans were killed and sent us to war?

[Tyler]

Yeah, it's a little weird.

[Unknown Male]

Good morning.

[Tyler]

Good coffee.

[Ryan]

The biggest thing I took away though is like a lot of more people should have died, which is like good and also sad.

[Unknown Male]

You're saying like, because people did heroic, like with the protocol.

[Ryan]

Well, yeah, the heroic stuff. But like just like how. I mean, think about how big those buildings are. They fell when they did, like more. But also apparently like if the tax would have happened like an hour later, like a lot more people would have been in the building because it got hit at like 8:45 or something like that. Well, The. It was a finite. A lot of financial businesses in there. So, like, the markets don't open till 9, so people were, like, still arriving. And apparently on the day one, there was. It was first day of school, so a lot of people were taking their kids to school. There was an election going on for, like, mayor or something like that. And so people were, like, voting before that. And then I'm trying to think of the other reason why. Might have just been that because they just wouldn't have shown up yet. And so, like, if it would have happened an hour later, there might have been, like, thousands and thousands of more people there. So it's kind of wild. Yeah. But it was. Yeah. I recommend anyone, especially someone who, like, was alive during it. You should definitely see that when you're there.

[Unknown Male]

I know. I know a lot of people are hesitant of. To go to, like, museums that are based off of a tragedy, but I went to the. The Titanic museum. It travels around the US when it was in Atlanta. And that's. It just. It's kind of a perspective moment. Like, you just. It helps you appreciate more what really happened because, like, it's. It's not just a headline. You're seeing the stuff. You're seeing the facts and all that noise. So.

[Ryan]

Yeah. And I think they did a really good job, like, doing what. Like what happened. Doing it justice in terms of memorial. I think they did, like, actually a really good job with it. Sometimes you're either underwhelmed.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Like, oh, this seems like this should be a bigger deal than just like one building with it, you know? So. Yeah, all in all, was cool. Went to a Jets game.

[Unknown Male]

Hell yeah, buddy.

[Tyler]

One of the better games of the season, I'd say.

[Ryan]

It's tough. It's tough, but anytime you go to NFL games, you have a good time.

[Unknown Male]

Oh, yeah.

[Tyler]

I had the more on Justin Fields pass yards, and that didn't check out.

[Ryan]

I mean, he got benched, so.

[Tyler]

I mean, it scratched, but he didn't even give me a shot.

[Jared]

Blame the coach. Don't blame him.

[Tyler]

No, I know. Yeah, he's an elite quarterback.

[Ryan]

Had an absolute nightmare trying to get home, though.

[Tyler]

That's what we heard.

[Ryan]

Our flight got delayed, so we're gonna miss our connection in Chicago. And then if on the same airline, if I were to miss the Chicago connecting flight, I wasn't able to get to Fargo until Tuesday. And this is Sunday.

[Unknown Male]

Holy.

[Ryan]

So then I bought another ticket. I was going to go to Chicago. And then the following day there was a flight from Chicago to Fargo. But Then Anne's like, it's just got to be a way to get home. Like our kid. I haven't seen him in a few days. Whatever. So somehow we ended up finding two tickets on another flight to Minneapolis. So we flew from Newark to Minneapolis, and then we got in at 11pm Minneapolis time. And then I had to rent a car and drive home from Minneapolis. God. So I got home at like 2:45, 3am down for the count.

[Tyler]

How was the car rental experience at midnight?

[Ryan]

It was. Well, that's. It's because there's no one else there.

[Unknown Male]

The time to do it.

[Ryan]

Pretty slick.

[Tyler]

Yeah. I mean, knowing the car rental industry, though, you'd think they'd still find some way to it up.

[Ryan]

It's just still crazy to me that they just hand you a thing and just go. Just pick out anyone in this section, whatever one you want. Just. It's still wild to me that that's how we're doing it.

[Tyler]

Yeah, dude, We. We had a similar situation coming back from Florida. We got into Minneapolis, had to drive to Fargo because we missed the flight. And I want, like, my wife has the Hertz, like, rewards program, something like that. So I don't even know if we checked in. I think we just went to a vehicle, got it, and left. I'm almost positive that that's how it works.

[Unknown Male]

Keys are in it for you. Go find it.

[Jared]

Yeah, that might be the move, though. Just skip the front desk and just go.

[Tyler]

Yeah, Yeah. I mean, it'd be a hell of a lot easier.

[Unknown Male]

No questions asked.

[Tyler]

So that's a nightmare, though. You can't even stop at your favorite spots on the way back.

[Ryan]

Also a huge nightmare, too. I came to work after that, and then Anne went and returned the rental car. She forgot to put gas in it. So then I had to pay, what, $7 a gallon or whatever. Gosh, huge kick to the nuts.

[Unknown Male]

You're right. She'd never make it to New York.

[Tyler]

She'd never make it driving New York.

[Ryan]

I told you guys, I never. I didn't go see Statue of Liberty, though.

[Jared]

That's fine.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I. I saw it from Manhattan. You know, Lady Lib, the one thing I think was be like, how sick would it be, though, if you're coming over from Europe? You're, like, moving here. You're immigrant. You're an immigrant coming in, and you come around the bend on a boat and you see Statue of Liberty stand there. You got to be pretty Lady Lib. Yeah. You're like, let's go.

[Unknown Male]

We're here.

[Tyler]

Go I'm actually. Because it was a gift from the French. So I'm actually surprised you didn't go there. Being French heritage.

[Ryan]

We. We. Did you go to a French restaurant?

[Tyler]

Did you?

[Unknown Male]

Yeah. Extremely disappointing that he didn't order in French.

[Tyler]

Well, this is kind of a dumb question, but what, like, French restaurant? What are they serving there?

[Unknown Male]

Freaking baguettes.

[Ryan]

Baguettes. It was, it was French styled American food.

[Unknown Male]

I don't know.

[Ryan]

We had steak and duck and.

[Tyler]

Okay.

[Ryan]

Chicken cordon blue. It's.

[Tyler]

It's just regular restaurant food. They just say it's.

[Ryan]

It just might be a French guy that owns it.

[Unknown Male]

Gotcha.

[Ryan]

I don't. I don't know. So. Yeah, it's a good trip. Trying to think if there's anything else that's glit. I mean, just in general. It's just everything's moving fast. So many people in such a small area. Every square inch of that island is accounted for. You know, you go drive five minutes out of Fargo and there's nothing there.

[Tyler]

You know, a fun game to play would just be to walk down the street streets in New York and not move for anybody that has come in the opposite direction to see if they run into you.

[Unknown Male]

I think they would.

[Tyler]

We used to do that at like basketball tournaments and we'd walk down the concourse aisles and not move for anyone coming the same direction just to see who would move first.

[Unknown Male]

Mom carrying a baby shoulder checks her like that.

[Tyler]

It was on. It was on. I'll be on.

[Unknown Male]

I. I think I would hate New York.

[Ryan]

You would hate a lot.

[Jared]

I think you would.

[Tyler]

I think I'd like to go there.

[Unknown Male]

Once for a very short time.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Unknown Male]

I think two days, probably my max.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I think it. Now that I've been there as an adult and like saw a bunch of the stuff I was supposed to see, I feel like I need a specific reason to be going to New York. Sure. I don't think I'm going to go and just hang out necessarily.

[Tyler]

Let's go there for like a. Yeah. Long, long weekend. Thursday to Sunday or.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Jared]

How much pizza did you have?

[Ryan]

I probably had pizza two or three separate times. Yeah. Pretty good. It's like, I just feel like this. The floor is so high there it is. Like, I didn't like, seek out the best slice, but I just feel like you can walk in almost any shop and it's the. It's going to be better than walking into an average place here, you know?

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Unknown Male]

New York style is the floppy style, right?

[Ryan]

Yeah. Like the thinner crust, big slices it's really good. It is good. I did in Chinatown, I did see a guy just with his dick out, just pissing on a building.

[Unknown Male]

Really?

[Ryan]

He wasn't even, like, facing the building either. He was like, leading up against the building, his dick out, just taking a piss. And I guess that's like, not so much different than the Midwest. It's just his was at 3pm and ours is usually at 3am yeah.

[Unknown Male]

And we usually face it towards the tree.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah. It's usually a tree rather than a building.

[Tyler]

Maybe he's trying to lose weight. Who knows? That's a Big Daddy reference.

[Unknown Male]

Oh, yeah, Sorry.

[Ryan]

Yeah, you guys, that was our bad, not yours. No, I know, I know, I know.

[Tyler]

I'm not offended.

[Ryan]

Our hotel room, which was pretty expensive.

[Unknown Male]

Not to break.

[Ryan]

No, I'm just saying, like. No, like, in comparison. Let me, let me finish. It is expensive. Right here in New York City, we had you walk in, it's right into the bedroom, and it's probably a 13 by 13 square room. And then there's a small bathroom and there was a small little, like nook area that was six by six.

[Tyler]

Yeah, a little.

[Ryan]

That was it, essentially. Yeah. Like you could sit on the one side of the room and it feels like you're still in the bedroom. Sure.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

So it's probably smaller than the pod studio.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

If it was 13 by 13.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

If you don't spend that much time in the hotel room, but still, place to sleep.

[Unknown Male]

Just a place to lay your head.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Like, I splurged and got a more expensive hotel. Like, what does it look like for a cheap hotel room?

[Tyler]

9 by 9.

[Unknown Male]

Termites in a closet.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Hostile maybe.

[Ryan]

That's crazy. But yeah, all in all, pretty good trip.

[Unknown Male]

Good.

[Ryan]

You have anything to add to that, Jared, in terms of your New York City experience?

[Jared]

There's a. I think there's more Irish pubs in Manhattan than there are in Ireland.

[Unknown Male]

Really?

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

There's like Irish pub.

[Ryan]

I felt like we did go to an Irish pub. I'm trying to remember where exactly it was. But you definitely. Also one thing, if you're going, try and be the navigator for the trip because you actually learn a lot more about the city when you're in charge of getting people places.

[Unknown Male]

Okay.

[Ryan]

Because like, day one, the people were with. They had lived in New York at one point, so they were just taking us and I was like, I don't know where the we are. The second day it was just me and Ann and I had to be the navigator. And by the end of that day, I was like. I knew I had a pretty good sense of like, where we were at all times and what the districts are.

[Tyler]

And if someone asks you for directions, you could just point them out. Like, take a left on.

[Ryan]

Yeah, you're going to want to take the R train, our station, all the way up north. And then you're going to hop over to the LNW train and Houston streets. And then it's just going to pop you out at 34th and you just got probably two block walk. And you're right there.

[Tyler]

Two block walk.

[Jared]

I was really turned around by all the subway lines. I could not figure them out.

[Ryan]

Yeah. At first you're like, holy, what's going on? But then it's like you just. Yeah. You really got to be aware of the signs. Where am I walking? They should have came up with a better system for the subway other than like, like the R train to uptown and Broadway. Right. And then it's like, okay, but on the other side, it's the R train to downtown. Yeah. It's like just, you know, it's. That part's confusing at first, but that kicked my ass.

[Jared]

I was like going on the wrong subways, like, seemed like every time really.

[Tyler]

That stresses me out. Tried navigating that train system in Germany. I was like, I'm just gonna. I'll live in Germany.

[Ryan]

You're like, this is in a completely different language.

[Tyler]

Yeah. I don't know what. Like, there's homeless people behind me. I'm like trying to watch behind my back. I'm just gonna live in Germany.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

I got part German in me anyway.

[Jared]

So I'll fit in.

[Tyler]

Yeah, it's fine.

[Ryan]

We did watch walk by Wall street and there's the. The Wall street bull there. You know, the line to touch the bulls balls was longer than the line to take a photo in the front.

[Tyler]

Really great. Kind of like the bean.

[Ryan]

Like, I watched a family, like, with their kids. Their kids are like cupping the bulls balls for a photo. And it's supposed to be that if you rub the bull's ball. Sure. But I just thought that was funny. The line was way longer for that than the front of the statue.

[Jared]

Yeah, that's way funnier.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I also love that they made sure that the balls were a good girthy size for everyone to take photos with.

[Tyler]

Yeah, I think they were full.

[Unknown Male]

It's also funny that, like, the oils on our skins react with bronze. So you can see where people.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah. A nice set of gold balls. Yeah. They're not blue yeah, the funny thing, too, about the, like, fairy to go see the Statue of Liberty in Ellis Island. Like, I think you can only, like, buy the tickets online now. But there are people who are dressed and, like, wearing the merchandise. They look like they work for the ferry, and they're, like, selling tickets on the street. And, like, if I hadn't, like, seen the signs that. I have signs everywhere, like, beware of scammers there. These are not real tickets. Like, all that other stuff. But I didn't see that even. I was like, me. And I'm like, yeah, let's maybe go on the statue. I'd have bought a ticket from them. They looked that legit, huh?

[Unknown Male]

How did they not go?

[Ryan]

I feel like scammer radar, you know, is pretty good. And I would have got fooled for sure.

[Unknown Male]

Maybe that's another difference. Like, New York scams are a hell of a lot more elaborate than Midwest scams.

[Ryan]

That is true.

[Jared]

We just got the.

[Ryan]

Actually, I don't know about that. The. The 20 steaks for 40 bucks. That'll get a guy. It takes you to. To know that's a scam. It takes you to get scammed once on the stakes thing, mistakes. Then you're like, oh, that was a scam.

[Tyler]

Yeah. No one wants to stand in the street in the Midwest and scam people. They're just going to call over the phone from India or wherever, Right?

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Lucrative, though, I guess.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah. Maybe we should come up with a scam.

[Ryan]

No.

[Unknown Male]

Seems kind of fun.

[Jared]

Crypto coin.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

The. The next.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it'd be.

[Tyler]

It'd be crypto, if anything.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we got rug pull some folks.

[Unknown Male]

I mean, all we got to do is be successful once. We're asking for 50 grand from each person.

[Tyler]

So, yeah, be successful once. Go dark. Go ghost mode for six months.

[Jared]

And, yeah, we could be transparent about the rug pull. And then, like, a minute before we say we're going to pull the rug, we.

[Tyler]

Yeah, it's like when you count down, like, three, two, one. Like when you rip a band aid, you, like, always rip it on two or one. Yeah, we did, like, a minute before. Now why are we even talking about this? Stupid.

[Unknown Male]

Now they're gonna know we're gonna have to pull it on one.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

God.

[Ryan]

The other thing, too, is, like, there's an ambulance trying to get through the traffic.

[Unknown Male]

Oh, God.

[Ryan]

Who was ever in the ambulance had to have passed away. All right, sure. There's no way that it got to the hospital in time to save that. Like, it's. New York City's got To be one of the worst places to have a heart attack. You're just screwed. I don't know, maybe that's insensitive me to say, but I was just. I wanted. My God. Get out of the way. This person's dying.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Pull over to the side. Oh, wait, there's nowhere to pull over at.

[Ryan]

Right.

[Jared]

Go on the sidewalk.

[Tyler]

Were the cops. Where you see any. Any cops?

[Ryan]

Dude, I saw the most. I saw the most New York City cop thing in the world. We walked by a Dunkin Donuts and there were eight cops in there. Yeah. Hell, I couldn't believe it. I guess stereotypes come from somewhere and I got to witness it firsthand.

[Tyler]

Hell yeah.

[Ryan]

Eight cops and a Dunkin Donuts.

[Jared]

Eight cops walk into a Dunkin Donuts.

[Unknown Male]

That's it.

[Ryan]

You can't make that up.

[Tyler]

Hell yeah.

[Ryan]

So yeah, all in all, good trip nightmare. Getting home jet lagged all but I'm here. I'm ready to rock and roll. I got a nice drink to get me back. So here we go. Should we take a break, boys? Yeah. All right, folks, fall is here and you know what that means. It's almost whiskey season and it's almost deer hunt. Deer hunting opener season. I don't know about you guys, I'm wearing my blaze orange here soon. And what's pretty cool is Windsor's now got a Blaine's orange bottle to go along with it.

[Tyler]

Yep.

[Ryan]

There's just not much better than having a hunting Windsor bottle ready to rock and roll for deer camp.

[Tyler]

Yeah, Windsor just dropped the. The old blaze orange bottle on us out of nowhere too. Couldn't be any happier about it. But it's only here for a limited time.

[Ryan]

That's right. So guys, if you're headed to deer camp and you need a good companion to go along with it, you know when my wife says, hey, you got all your hunting stuff? And I'll say, yep. And I'll tell them I got my wins. Tell her I got my Windsor all packed up. She's like, oh, no, I'm talking about your like blaze orange stuff. And I'd be like, yeah, I got my Windsor ready to rock and roll.

[Tyler]

You guys want to hear a little fun fact too?

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Windsor is born up in Alberta, Canada, but it was made from the. The fresh glacial. Sorry, Glacier water straight from the Rockies. Not confirm if it was cataclysmic event.

[Ryan]

I think it has to come from the cataclysmic event that happened 8 to 12,000 years ago. I was gonna rapidly melted the ice caps.

[Unknown Male]

Yes, it's so crisp. How could it not?

[Tyler]

Well, distilled from the finest prairie grains to an age. And ex bourbon barrels for that rich, smooth flavor.

[Ryan]

So, guys, if you're gonna be participating in whiskey season this year, if you are going to be going hunting, you gotta pick yourself up a blaze orange bottle of Windsor Canadian whiskey. I promise you won't be disappointed. I'm not. I'm feeling good. And also the deer camp's gonna love it too. Yeah, great conversation piece.

[Tyler]

The deer will never see it coming.

[Ryan]

So cheers to that and cheers to whiskey season.

[Tyler]

One of my favorite things to. To see on Facebook is if someone posted a photo 10, 15 years ago and then one of their buddy buddies comments on it because it's like, you know, 10 years ago today or whatever, it pops back up in the feed. Yeah, that happened this morning.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah, I did.

[Tyler]

With Tyler.

[Unknown Male]

I do that.

[Tyler]

To my Mr. Tyler Ziegler right over there. First place, second place, third place. Like podium photo of him wrestling. And you couldn't. You couldn't have looked more upset in the. But I. I could also. He was heading first.

[Unknown Male]

Thank you.

[Tyler]

I could also. I could hear your dad through the photo yelling at you to put a smile on your face. Or maybe, I don't know, maybe you wouldn't.

[Ryan]

Maybe.

[Unknown Male]

No, I was probably pissed off because I didn't win good enough.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that's.

[Tyler]

That's a good point. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You're just expected to do more.

[Unknown Male]

Yep.

[Ryan]

That's also dad's move. Right? You know?

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You got first place, but, you know, you gotta use the bank board now. Think of what we could have won by.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah, I mean, you were out there. You. You wrestled for the entire match in the finals. Why don't you pin him right away?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Unknown Male]

Wow. Sorry.

[Tyler]

Yeah. We got a supper to get to tonight. Can we just finish this thing early? Yeah, but I had to get.

[Ryan]

I had.

[Tyler]

I saw the photo. Like, you probably saw, you know, notification.

[Unknown Male]

I didn't actually, but I like every three months or so, I go back into my buddy's Facebook posts and just scroll all the way down to the bottom and then just comment dumb. And they hate it. So now they started doing it back to me.

[Tyler]

Ah, okay. That makes sense.

[Unknown Male]

Yep.

[Ryan]

But you bring up a very funny point, Ryan. There's a. There's a certain way, if you're gonna be a sports dad, you're gonna speed up. Sports parent, you got to operate a certain way. And so I think if you're gonna be a good sports parent, you can never ever be Satisfied with what happens on the field of play?

[Unknown Male]

100%. You can always do better, even if you set state records. Like, why don't you set it higher?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jared]

You know, conditional love.

[Tyler]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

But no, there's no. There's just no love at all. It's just conditions. They're always evolving and always changing.

[Unknown Male]

Those conditions are never met.

[Ryan]

Correct.

[Tyler]

Yeah, but you also. You would never.

[Ryan]

You need to go win, and then you win. And then it's like, oh, but you didn't win by enough. You know, maybe don't get four fouls, maybe only get three. None of that finger roll. Just put it on the bank board, buddy.

[Tyler]

Yeah. You know when you're over at the water cooler sipping out like losers, sip on water, that shows a sign of weakness over there. That shows that. That shows me that you're tired. It shows the other coach that you're tired.

[Ryan]

Yeah. And then it's like when. Let's say you played a perfect game, they'd start. Nick, you got to start nitpicking the warm ups. You know, it's too much slap. Dicking around during warm ups. You need you to be locked in for the game.

[Unknown Male]

Do you understand what kind of message that sends if you're just dicking around during warm ups?

[Tyler]

Yeah. Scouts ain't just watching the game. They're watching warm ups game, post game. They're watching everything.

[Unknown Male]

And I think the important detail we're missing about this is that this feedback should come live during the game.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Well, why would you. I mean, how can you correct it? If you don't do it during, you can't do it after.

[Ryan]

It doesn't help anything. Correcting things after the game.

[Unknown Male]

Right. So.

[Ryan]

So yeah, if you're. If you're a good sports parent, you're getting out of the bleachers, you're going and talking to the coach during the game.

[Unknown Male]

Right.

[Ryan]

You're gonna want to get in the ref's face, potentially get kicked out.

[Unknown Male]

And if you're trying to give your kid advice, you got to make sure that the whole gym hears it.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Yell it as loud as you can.

[Unknown Male]

As loud as possible.

[Tyler]

Because what if. What if some other kid needs that same advice? At least he's gonna get very smart.

[Ryan]

Two birds, one stone, correct?

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

You say you saved this other kid's dad. You know, you save him some yelling and screaming so he can do it later in the total percent.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I don't know.

[Tyler]

Makes sense.

[Ryan]

And if you're going to be a good sports parent, you got to Sign your kids up for as many things as possible. Camps, clinics, leagues, maybe two, three leagues at one time. Really want to just. You want to try and burn your kid out.

[Unknown Male]

Totally.

[Ryan]

If you're going to be a good sports parent, you got to just sign them up for everything.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah. Because if you want them to succeed in the future, they need to understand that this isn't fun, it's a job. Yeah. And you take it 100%.

[Ryan]

If you want to be a good sports parent, you need to project the feelings that you have about the sport onto them especially. So if you weren't very good, make sure you project that on your kids so that they can be good at some point.

[Unknown Male]

Right. Yep. Yep.

[Ryan]

You don't want a long line of losers in your family. You want to stop that by just projecting onto your children. Yeah.

[Unknown Male]

Their career is now your career.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Unknown Male]

So whatever they do is going to.

[Ryan]

I mean, that just. That just is a good point. You know, if you're a good sports parent, you view that you are playing the game as well, you need to treat it as such.

[Tyler]

Well, you got to be able to see the game from the inside out as the parent.

[Unknown Male]

Totally.

[Tyler]

You got to be able to see the game on the court as if you were playing.

[Ryan]

And honestly, if you want to see it from my court, just maybe go out onto the court and just start coaching as well.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah, yeah. Get as close as security will allow. Like, you be right up in there. And if security comes and talks to you, just tell them that. You ask them if they know who you are because you used to play there.

[Ryan]

And if you're gonna be a good sports parent, you need to know how good your kid is, and it's usually really good. And you need to make sure you let everyone know that.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah, but that's where you save the positivity. You save the positivity for telling everybody else. Don't tell your kid.

[Ryan]

If you're gonna be a good sports parent, you need to be insufferably negative to them and insufferably positive to everyone else. My kids the greatest. He's the next LeBron. He's going to be in the NFL. All of those things to other parents, then to your kid. You got to tell them that they're going to mount to absolutely zero anything.

[Tyler]

Yeah, well, I think they. They're more so, like, encouraging, like, yelling and trying to correct refs from the stand, too, because there's already a referee shortage. So it's like the referees on the court are burnt out from doing all these Games like they need the help from the parents to make those.

[Ryan]

The last thing that the ref wants to do is go watch film after to get better when they could just get yelled at during the game. So get better during the game. Live feedback. A tight feedback loop is what I think all refs are looking for.

[Unknown Male]

I think, I think that encompasses all aspects of the sport itself. Like you gotta, you gotta give the athlete, your child immediate feedback. The refs, the coaches, other parents.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Unknown Male]

So just constant, constant feedback, whether it's asked for or not.

[Ryan]

Yeah. And I think another good point, you know, it's not just about games either. As a good sports parent, you got to be going to every practice and getting involved with those because how is your kid going to know you care about them if you aren't involved in every aspect of their sport? Well, how do you know micro level.

[Tyler]

Yeah. How do you know the coach is going to be on their toes for every practice? It like you have to show up and be there for those kids if the coach is going to take a day off mentally, you know.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

I mean, also good sports dads like, like when it comes to travel ball and all that kind of stuff. Like, why do I need to take my wife on a vacation when we could just sign our kids up for 4th grade travel ball and we could travel the Midwest, spend thousands of dollars that way and not go on vacation. We could just save money that way.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah. Drop a couple GS to go visit Browerville for the weekend.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah. Or what? Dina, Minnesota.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tyler]

Ortonville, Minnesota.

[Unknown Male]

Who wants to go to Florida when you can go to Wahpeton.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

For way cheaper.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

And your kid is, you know, ultimately getting better and one step closer to the NFL, NBA, whatever.

[Ryan]

Yes. 100. And if you're gonna be a good sports parent, you need to make sure your kid's decked out and all the cool stuff.

[Unknown Male]

For sure. Yeah.

[Ryan]

You can't have your kid show up in just if it's a basketball player, you can't just have his uniform and pair of shoes. He's gotta have the sweatbands, the arm sleeves, the leg sleeves, the finger sweat bands that Kevin Garnett used to wear.

[Unknown Male]

Those.

[Ryan]

You know, he needs to have all those. Maybe even one of those clear protective face masks.

[Tyler]

He doesn't have broken nose, he just has the face mask on to make it look like he's a. He's gamer.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah. And there's no age that's too early to start that. So, like, even if it's T ball we're talking like elbow pads, sliding mitts.

[Ryan]

Full face paint, like expensive Oakley sunglasses.

[Unknown Male]

Yep. Yeah.

[Ryan]

You're gonna need it all. Yeah.

[Tyler]

Well, what I. What the. What I've seen the good sports dads do these days is they'll get their kid the same pair of shoes, but each pair is a different color. And then they'll mix match. They'll take a green one and a red one.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Because that's. You're gonna be a good sports ad. You gotta understand. Drip.

[Tyler]

Exactly.

[Ryan]

Because scouts also look to be drippy.

[Tyler]

Scouts look at drip. They look at drip. Drip leads to confidence too.

[Ryan]

Yes. Yep. Yeah. And I think also in it kind of. To kind of encapsulate everything we've been talking about, what makes a great sports parent is treating their child's respective sport and how even doesn't matter how old they are, like they are a professional sports team.

[Tyler]

Correct.

[Unknown Male]

Yep.

[Ryan]

Yep. Everything you do needs to be just like the professionals do it, you know?

[Unknown Male]

Yeah. You don't need love of the game when it's the job of the game.

[Jared]

Yeah. The coaches should always be on the hot seat to get fired.

[Ryan]

I think another thing too, that makes a great sports parent is remembering why you're there and why you're there is all about winning.

[Unknown Male]

Yes.

[Ryan]

And just keep reinforcing that your child doesn't amount to if they're not winning.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah. I mean, it goes all the way back to the. The fantastic sports biopic Talladega Knights. If you're not first, you're last.

[Ryan]

Yes. Adopt the mentality of if you're not first, you're last, and if you're second.

[Tyler]

You'Re just the first loser.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And you need to really make fun of the kids and parents that say that they're there to have fun, because everyone knows that's the lamest anyone's ever heard.

[Unknown Male]

Losers have fun life. Winners win.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

If you want to be a winner, you gotta win. If you want to be a loser, you have fun.

[Tyler]

And like, so everything we've said so far is all kind of like in. In the public domain. But there's also the private side of things too, where you have to sit your kid or you have to, you know, tough love. Throw your kid down on it, on the couch, on the bed or whatever and give him the ass whooping that he needs. Especially after.

[Ryan]

After a bad game.

[Tyler]

After a bad game, even a good.

[Unknown Male]

One, because it's never quite good enough.

[Tyler]

It's. But it's tough love at that point. It's like, do as I say, not as I did back when I was in high school in the 80s.

[Unknown Male]

I. I wish my dad did. This is what you say to your kid. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah. And if you want to be a good sports parent, anything they mess up during the game, make them do 100 fold later.

[Tyler]

Correct.

[Ryan]

Yeah. So if they miss a free throw, make them shoot a thousand free throws.

[Unknown Male]

Y. Before they're allowed to go to bed.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Before they can get food. It's like, oh, yeah, we were going to go to McDonald's after this, but now you're going to stay here and shoot a thousand free throws.

[Jared]

If they fumble, duct tape the ball to their hands.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

For a week until the next game.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

It's like if you don't try hard enough, you got. You're running home. You're like, dad, we're in. We're in Wapiton. I don't care. You better start hoofing it right now.

[Unknown Male]

It's going to be a long couple of days, buddy. Get running.

[Tyler]

They have headlights on vehicles for a reason.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

So you can see your kid running in front of you. And it all boils down to breaking generational curses. Right. Because. Because you as a dad, like, could have went pro, but something happened.

[Unknown Male]

Well, the kid happened.

[Tyler]

The kid happened. Exactly. Now you want to break the generational curse.

[Jared]

Break the cycle.

[Tyler]

Yes. And if you don't hit for the cycle in a baseball game, we're gonna take a thousand cuts. And I'm not pitching to you.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Unknown Male]

And I think just self load the jugs machine or what?

[Tyler]

T. I'm gonna go back to the basics. Basic fundamentals is what it's all about.

[Jared]

You guys, if you're gonna act like a child, you're gonna be, you know, you're gonna.

[Tyler]

Yeah. You're gonna train like a child.

[Ryan]

Yeah. And I think another thing too, if you're a good sports parent, you gotta. When you come in contact with people who have nothing to do with said sport or your kids team, you need to dump all of the drama onto them. You know, if. If your kids in a sport and you're a hairstylist with every single client that comes through, you need to be talking about how much you either hate the coach or how you got screwed over by the refs the last weekend. All just start telling everyone about it. And then a step further, make sure you go and post about it on Facebook.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah. And honestly, make sure everything boils down to is, it's politics. Right. That's who's. How you. Who starts. That's how who gets more playing time?

[Ryan]

Good sports parents are always heavy into this politics.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Because it's the only way to get ahead in the sports world. It's not about playing good and having fun. It's about who knows who.

[Unknown Male]

Yep.

[Ryan]

Who can you screw over. Yeah. And how loud you can yell.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I mean that's what sports are all about. Yeah.

[Jared]

And if your kid's not getting playing time, pepper the coach with emails.

[Ryan]

Emails, texts, phone calls, voicemails. Drunk 2am Voicemails. Blow them up. You know, in forms. You know, that's another.

[Tyler]

Good sports forms is a great.

[Ryan]

Good sports parents are heavy in the forms. They're gassing their kid up or tearing other kids down or trying to get coaches fired. That's what makes a great sports parent. You're going the extra mile. You're in those forms. Heavy.

[Unknown Male]

I got, there's a wrestling form called the Guillotine for Minnesota wrestling. And in high school during computer lab we would go in and just shit on each other. Like we all had our burners on the guillotine. And I'd go and I'm like, I've never seen a bigger pussy in my life than Bruce. And then Bruce would say something about me. We, we ripped on each other.

[Tyler]

That's good though for your guys's self confidence because like Guillotine, like Guillotine comments are like real world thoughts.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah. For sure.

[Tyler]

You know.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

So you were all thinking it. I just said it.

[Tyler]

Yeah. But it was a Joe.

[Unknown Male]

Yes.

[Ryan]

Yeah. And then also, you know, people aren't talking about sports parents retirement. You know when, when your kid finally doesn't make it to the big leagues and gets an accounting job.

[Unknown Male]

Yep.

[Ryan]

You should still be watching old film. You should still be talking about the glory days, about how your child used to be good and all of that stuff.

[Unknown Male]

Well, and also pressuring your failure of a child to have a kid to try again, to do it again, try again.

[Ryan]

Because if I know one thing about sports parents is that just because your kid's grown and didn't make it doesn't mean there's not another kid up ready to go that you can next you can sink your teeth into.

[Unknown Male]

Next man up sort of family.

[Ryan]

And that's a whole nother segment is talking about what makes a good sports grandparent.

[Tyler]

Insisting on, you know, your, your son and daughter in law or vice versa to like just keep working a little bit late. You got sports practice tonight.

[Ryan]

Yeah. And I think all in all like a good way to model your sports parenting off of is the guy who. Whose kid was little Hercules. I don't know if you remember that.

[Unknown Male]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

Just getting in the gym as early as possible.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Brady Gronk's a great role model.

[Tyler]

That.

[Ryan]

Big justice, too.

[Tyler]

Yeah, big justice.

[Ryan]

Yeah. They do. They don't. They do social media, but essentially, if you could apply the same principles to.

[Unknown Male]

If social media was a sport.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I mean, that's the way they're treating it and he's doing it really well. I think Michael Jackson's dad is a great example of what a sports parent.

[Unknown Male]

Should be if you want a success story. Earl Woods. Tiger Woods.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Unknown Male]

Greatest of all time.

[Ryan]

Great. Just don't let them do anything other than that sport Blowhorn. Just make it miserable for him.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah. It definitely will not affect their social life or mental health.

[Ryan]

And if. And if your kid. Yeah, if your kid's like, oh, Dad, I hate this. This sucks. I don't want to do this. You're ruining my life. They'll thank you later.

[Tyler]

Right, well. And then you just got to remind them of how it was when you were back in high school.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Because they got it easy most of the time.

[Ryan]

That's. Yeah, that's a huge thing. Remind your kid how easy they got it. And then also when they are kind of when your kid isn't into it, you make sure that you guilt trap them into making them do stuff. Right. You know, it's like, hey, dad, another fucking basketball tournament this weekend. They're like, I work hard and I spend all this money on here and you're not even grateful for it. You know, you gotta do stuff like that.

[Tyler]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

Really make him feel like a piece of.

[Jared]

Yep.

[Ryan]

Basically, if your kid's happy, you're doing sports parenting wrong. So I'm glad you brought that up, Ryan. That was really good.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I think we got it.

[Unknown Male]

You nailed it.

[Tyler]

I might. Yeah. I'm gonna. We should cut this. This segment up, send it home individually with all of us and we can just start playing it on the tv.

[Unknown Male]

Yep, yep.

[Ryan]

No, it would be funny to cut that up and send it to my parents. We all send it to our parents and just see what they. I feel like Jared and Ryan's parents don't necessarily. They were not great sports parents in this sense.

[Jared]

Right.

[Tyler]

Yeah, yeah. An email was never sent. A phone call is never made that I'm aware of anyway, of my.

[Ryan]

My parents were. They were decent sports parents. Sure.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah. My dad was. He did a lot of this stuff, but not.

[Ryan]

So he's a Great sports.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah, he could have been better is what I'm saying.

[Ryan]

Okay. He could.

[Unknown Male]

He.

[Tyler]

He was.

[Ryan]

Right.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah, he was intense, but not quite as intense as he should have been.

[Tyler]

You know, but you were a good wrestler. So what he. What he was doing was.

[Unknown Male]

It worked.

[Tyler]

Yeah, it was working.

[Ryan]

It's really funny is I'm gonna get a text message after this episode comes out. We were not like that. And they weren't. There's just a few things here and there. I was. I was an intense sports kid, so.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah, yeah, no, the. The whole grandparent thing, it's actually the complete opposite of that. Like, my dad was tough on me. Like, high expectations, grandkids. He's like, you having fun, buddy? It's all that matters.

[Tyler]

You know, it gives them another chance, a chance to do.

[Unknown Male]

He's like, yeah, you don't have to go out there if you don't want.

[Ryan]

He's like, I was a good sports parent before. That didn't work out. Maybe I'll try being a bad one.

[Jared]

In this sense.

[Ryan]

Yeah, in this sense. Oh, Jared, you said you got a question for us for today?

[Jared]

So you guys know about, like, dream Blunt rotation?

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah, Ryan. I mean, Ryan lived that like.

[Tyler]

Like la. Garrett Blunt.

[Jared]

Yeah, could be. So, like, what would be the dream rotation for, like, any sort of like.

[Ryan]

Blue collar job site in terms of people working on the job site?

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Unknown Male]

Like real life people. Are we just, like, stereotyping them?

[Ryan]

I think we stereotype.

[Unknown Male]

Okay.

[Jared]

It could be cba, can be anything.

[Ryan]

Yeah. My dream construction, Blunt rotation would be one. The wild card guy on every job site who. You just never knows what they're going to come out of their mouth. You never know what they're going to say. You. You ask them what that you did that weekend, and it could be anything. It could be that they stayed home and watched tv or it could be that they were in Bangkok with a prostitute.

[Tyler]

Yeah, they're down in South Dakota.

[Ryan]

You know, you just never know. So I'm putting that guy in there. I think I am gonna put the there. At every company, there's always a third party that needs to attend the job site at some point. So, like, if you're a roofer, maybe it's people dropping off supplies or whatever. When I was working concrete, it was the. The pump drivers. So the people running the pump.

[Unknown Male]

Yep.

[Ryan]

For the concrete, I'd throw one of those guys in there. They were always great. Time to hang around.

[Unknown Male]

Our dude was the sheet metal guy. Sometimes we'd have to do a Roof, that's either half rubber parts, really. Sheet metal. The sheet metal guy was on the job site. It was a good job site.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that's right. For whatever reason, the third party is always a great time.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Because you both got your own issues that you can about separately.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

But each other.

[Unknown Male]

It's nice to hear about other issues.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Unknown Male]

You know.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Um, you got throwing the job site best bud.

[Unknown Male]

For sure.

[Ryan]

Everyone's got a best bud on the job site. Throw them in the blunt rotation. Get them in there. It's going to be a good time.

[Unknown Male]

I mean, I think it goes without saying to every job site, rotation needs the class clown. The guy that's constantly joking and like, he does get on your nerves by about 4:00'. Clock. But he's a hell of a good time till lunch.

[Ryan]

But you know, you've already done the rotation, you're feeling pretty good. Nothing's getting on your nerve.

[Unknown Male]

Yep.

[Ryan]

What about you, Ryan?

[Tyler]

Probably micro.

[Jared]

That's good.

[Unknown Male]

That is great. Micro would be a good time.

[Tyler]

You tell us how dirty this job is.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

I mean, I could listen to Mike Rotalk all day.

[Jared]

Imagine get nothing done.

[Tyler]

Get nothing done.

[Ryan]

Larry the cable guy would be great too. I feel like he kind of fills.

[Unknown Male]

That class clown role.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah. I think you need the. The facts guy. Like Almost like a more wise Jake. Like the guy that has got stories about everything. Right.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Buddy on job site. Nickname would be the encyclopedia.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah. Yep.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Cycling shortened.

[Unknown Male]

Like he's. He's probably.

[Tyler]

No, you just call him pd.

[Ryan]

There we go. Yeah, there we go. We found it.

[Unknown Male]

It's probably like way too smart to actually be working this job, but somewhere along the line he's like, ah, it should be a college professor.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Got like a 35 on his act.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah, exactly.

[Ryan]

Didn't want to work a desk job.

[Unknown Male]

Yep.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Gotta have that guy because there's going to be some Doug Dumb arguments going on in this blunt rotation. And so you need a guy that knows what he's talking about.

[Jared]

But he can't be like a well, actually type guy.

[Ryan]

Can't be a well. It can't be a well.

[Tyler]

It's like he.

[Unknown Male]

You need to search out the answer from him. Like, hey, let's call him Bill. Bill, you gotta. Yeah. Petey. Petey, you gotta solve this argument. Who is right? And then he chimes in.

[Jared]

Yes.

[Tyler]

LeBron. Ramj. Yeah, what do you got?

[Unknown Male]

He's like, well, it depends on what you want.

[Tyler]

Yeah, Compare the stats.

[Ryan]

And then I think also the blow rotation. You got to get a guy in there who gets worked up real easily.

[Unknown Male]

Easy target.

[Ryan]

Easy target. We need in this. There's always one guy on the job site. Easy target. And when you're, you know, rotoing around, got to be. Got to be painting a target on that guy's back.

[Jared]

Yeah. I would say, like, a really strong guy, where you don't like something that's really heavy, but, you know, this guy lift anything. You don't need to get the skid steer or anything.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Because then. Because then you go. There's like a whole segment where you're just asking the guy if he can lift certain things, and then you guys are all just watching him lift heavy things and being like, that's awesome.

[Jared]

Yeah. I pictured my brain like a Brock Lesnar type.

[Ryan]

Type. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jared]

Just a brute.

[Unknown Male]

Just a meathead, too.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Or like a John Cena.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Could be him, too.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

I feel like you also gotta have maybe like, someone who's on probation or like a. Like a convict of some sort. Someone's got, like, active guy with a.

[Ryan]

Shady pass that as soon as he starts loosening up, he starts slinging stories.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Unknown Male]

And you get uncomfortable. By about the third story, you're like, I don't think you should be telling me this.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I feel like it's incriminating on you right now.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Well. And you don't know if you're gonna be a guy down the job. Like, if cops show up, he might get arrested.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah. Yeah. There could be active war.

[Ryan]

Cops show up. Depending on what state you're in, you're all getting arrested.

[Tyler]

Yeah, that's true. Well, we'll just say we're in a legal recreational state. Yeah. You just got to keep it interesting with that.

[Ryan]

What could be interesting, actually, is throwing the boss in there.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I feel like most construction bosses, when they are in work mode, they're a nightmare. But as soon as you get them in vacation mode or I'm having fun mode, I feel like they. They're pretty fun.

[Tyler]

They'll open up or on a Friday.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Like Friday afternoon vibe.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Trying to think of even construction, like, actual people now, like Ryan said, Mike Rowe.

[Unknown Male]

Mike Rowe is a great one.

[Jared]

I would say micro 20 years ago, might be a little old now.

[Tyler]

He's kind of just the wisdom guy now. Like, he's. He's seen it all. So anything you got, he's gonna have it. That's true, too.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Kind of the wise guy.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

I mean, best way possible.

[Tyler]

Yes.

[Unknown Male]

Look on the outdoor boys would be an absolute delight in the rotation.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Because technically he is a construction worker.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

It's just bushcraft. It's not, you know. Yeah.

[Tyler]

He's like a. He's like a natural construction.

[Ryan]

He's technically framing houses.

[Unknown Male]

If you think about it honestly, he would be a huge asset to the. Because if something breaks down, Luke's gonna know how to do it a different way.

[Ryan]

Also, dude, he's gonna have a fire going and he's gonna be doing homemade bread with honey butter or some guy. After about three rotations, you're gonna be licking your chops at that food.

[Tyler]

Yeah. You're. You. You won't know if you're at the job site or at Texas Roadhouse.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

You know.

[Ryan]

I won't even know what time it is.

[Tyler]

No. God.

[Ryan]

I think also you gotta throw the new guy in there.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah. Raz him a little.

[Ryan]

Well, it's just like. Because then you got like. I imagine the new guy's a virgin. He's just never. He's never had alcohol or any type of drug whatsoever. So then you're kind of like. You get the fun thing of corrupting the new guy.

[Unknown Male]

You know, Convince him to eat the roach.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

100.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And after diagnosing all this with you guys, I think just having a blunt rotation with the guys you work with sound like a great time.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Kind of covered almost every guy's all the jobs. The only one that's excluded is the foreman who's an. Yeah.

[Unknown Male]

He's not in.

[Ryan]

Yeah. He could sit in the truck by himself.

[Unknown Male]

Yep.

[Tyler]

Actually like boss's kid might be a good one to have like of age. Obviously do blackmail.

[Unknown Male]

That little.

[Tyler]

That, that. And I mean you could just video of them.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

You could just find out a lot. Find out a lot more about the boss than.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah, you would have thought so.

[Ryan]

Yeah. That kind of blackmail. Nice.

[Unknown Male]

Some drug induced intel.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Why. Why is he the boss of this construction. Construction company? Like what did he do before this prison?

[Jared]

Shrek would be good, strong.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah. Yeah, I think he would.

[Tyler]

Green.

[Unknown Male]

I think it might be miserable.

[Ryan]

Just regular blunt rotation territory now.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah. I. I don't know.

[Jared]

I think Snoop Dogg.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Shrek. Marshawn Lynch Daily.

[Unknown Male]

No, I. I stand by my take. John Daly would be really hard to party with because you couldn't keep up with the man.

[Ryan]

Yeah. But it's also like if you just don't try and keep up with them, you just witness, you know, greatness.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I feel like it's like watching Picasso paint.

[Unknown Male]

There'd be a Lot of peer pressure to keep up.

[Jared]

Can't have any more Diet Coke.

[Ryan]

And vodka. So much. How are you drinking chocolate milk? Isn't he a chocolate milk guy?

[Tyler]

Huge chocolate milk guy.

[Ryan]

Just like. How are you drinking chocolate milk and vodka?

[Unknown Male]

It's been in your golf bag for, like, three hours. Dude, that can't be good.

[Ryan]

So hot out. Are you drinking that?

[Tyler]

We can add Halloween candy covered at our house for three years with how many peanut M M's you've eaten today?

[Jared]

Full size.

[Ryan]

So. Yeah, I think that would be it, Jared, if I didn't answer that question appropriately.

[Tyler]

The entire blunt rotation is taking place in the porta potty.

[Jared]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan]

I think that I. I'll pass on that.

[Unknown Male]

So hot and gross in there.

[Tyler]

Yeah, you'd be on, like, an acid trip. I. After. After combining those two smells.

[Ryan]

No, I think that this rotation needs to happen where everyone's sitting on something that's not a chair.

[Jared]

Oh, yeah.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Unknown Male]

Someone's sitting on material. Someone's sitting on a toolbox.

[Ryan]

Metal drum. Leaning up against the wall you're building. You know, like that broomstick. Yeah.

[Jared]

I was thinking like company truck. Yeah.

[Unknown Male]

Shouts to Elk River.

[Ryan]

What were you saying, Jared?

[Jared]

I was thinking, like company truck, and the new guy has to sit in the back seat, like, where all the tools are. He's very, really uncomfortable.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're all hot. Boxing in a company truck, and he's got to sit in the middle with his feet on the hump in the middle.

[Jared]

He's like, sit on a ratchet strap. You can't get out.

[Tyler]

Yeah, his knees are gonna.

[Ryan]

No, better yet, ratchet strap him down because he's gonna be. He's gonna be getting freaked out.

[Tyler]

Yeah. And then when.

[Ryan]

Of.

[Tyler]

Of recreational, then you. You throw him out the vehicle and tell him to just walk around the corner and get you out of S'.

[Unknown Male]

More.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Unknown Male]

So on my drive homes from work, I keep. I. I keep seeing trucks from the roofing company I used to work for. They've started now just using shuttle vans to bring people back and forth to Fargo for jobs.

[Ryan]

Rotation in this. In the van.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah, that's ideal.

[Jared]

So much fun being there.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah. It's just 12 dudes in this shuttle van back and forth.

[Ryan]

There's nothing better about, you know, just getting an enclosed space with people and just letting her rip.

[Tyler]

Nothing better like bong rip or like fart rip.

[Unknown Male]

Both.

[Jared]

Same time.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah. You got any thing else for us today, Jared?

[Jared]

That'd be it.

[Ryan]

You got a fun fact?

[Jared]

I didn't get one today.

[Ryan]

Come on. Come on.

[Jared]

I don't have one.

[Ryan]

Throw one. Just throw one out. Your best. New York City fun fact.

[Jared]

I don't have one of those.

[Ryan]

Maybe I could do a New York City fun fact.

[Jared]

I think I have one. It's not New York City. When we turn 40 years old, we will have more receiving yards than Brett Farr.

[Tyler]

Far.

[Jared]

So Bed Farve in his 40s, has negative 2 receiving yards.

[Ryan]

Got it.

[Jared]

Yep.

[Tyler]

But we'll have less receptions.

[Jared]

Yes, but we'll have more receiving yards because you have.

[Ryan]

That's a good fun fact.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah, so he what, he caught a swing pass on a trick play and got tackled for a loss?

[Jared]

I think it was like a Brad Johnson thing.

[Unknown Male]

Like, he.

[Jared]

It was like a tip pass. He caught it and went down.

[Tyler]

Right.

[Unknown Male]

Gotcha.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yep. We may have more receiving yards than Brett Favre, but he'll. He has more fraud than we do.

[Unknown Male]

And so infinitely more. More leaked dick pics, too.

[Ryan]

As of now.

[Tyler]

We'll have less CTE as well, presumably.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we'll see. Presumably, everyone here, except for you played football. So you actually. You could probably say that accurately. Yeah.

[Tyler]

Yeah. But the amount of times I'd throw my head down, just take a. Take a hit by pitch, get on first base. Someone tried to throw me some chin music. Head down.

[Unknown Male]

That's a good way to get. It's a free bass beamed in the neck. Yeah.

[Tyler]

You see the guy for the Mariners, he kind of like got out of the way of a hit by pitch that would have won in the game right there.

[Jared]

Oh, yeah, I heard about that.

[Tyler]

Yep. So.

[Ryan]

So if he just stuck in there and taken one for the team.

[Unknown Male]

Damn.

[Ryan]

Didn't they win anyways?

[Tyler]

No, no, dude, they lost.

[Unknown Male]

Blue Jays, go ahead.

[Tyler]

Three run homer in the seventh.

[Ryan]

That's.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

All right.

[Ryan]

Well, that's a good fun fact.

[Jared]

See, off the dome.

[Ryan]

You, dude, you're. You're selling yourself short. You're kind of our local Schwab.

[Jared]

It's got to be sports, though.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that's fine.

[Tyler]

Who won the Super bowl in 1979?

[Jared]

Steelers.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Who'd they play?

[Jared]

I think it was a Cowboys score. I think it was a post game.

[Ryan]

Sure.

[Jared]

I wasn't there.

[Unknown Male]

I'm gonna live.

[Ryan]

Yeah, Schwab, you and thought about. All right, guys, well, thanks for tuning in to another episode of you Bet yout Radio. Make sure you pick yourself up some Windsor. Have a good whiskey season. That's coming up, guy.

[Unknown Male]

1979 Steelers defeated the Cowboys with a score of 35. 31 that's crazy Jared.

[Ryan]

He's the schwab. Cheers, folks. Yeah.

[Jared]

Fornicate, assassinate, elope, pumpkin patch trips, pumpkin carving, family costume theme of this is.

[Ryan]

My literal nightmare is this isn't Friday night or. He posed.

[Jared]

Oh, this is the question. Okay, we're done with Friday night highlights.

[Ryan]

I was like, God, this guy's really got a long evening ahead of him. All right, so it's pumpkin patch, pumpkin.

[Jared]

Carving, and then family costume theme for decade. Assassinate, elope.

[Ryan]

I'm absolutely assassinating the costume.

[Tyler]

Yeah, I think you have. I think you have to.

[Unknown Male]

I'm torn between assassinating that and the pumpkin patch.

[Tyler]

I was gonna say, I think. Can we all agree that we have to elope with pumpkin carving? For sure, because there's no public shame in pumpkin car.

[Ryan]

No, no. I kind of. I kind of like it once in a while. Yeah, maybe not every year.

[Unknown Male]

I like to carve one pumpkin a year. That's it. Just one?

[Jared]

Sure. That's about all I can do.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

It takes time.

[Jared]

If you're doing public covering more than five times a year.

[Ryan]

Is it weird that, like, I just. When I'm carving a pumpkin, I love the smell.

[Unknown Male]

I agree.

[Ryan]

Love the smell.

[Unknown Male]

They make a whole candle about that.

[Ryan]

Oh, do they? Yeah.

[Tyler]

Do you guys like pumpkin seeds?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Unknown Male]

Eating them? Yeah, I.

[Tyler]

With pumpkin seeds.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah, that's definitely the best. Definitely gonna marry the hell out of that one.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And, you know, I guess. I guess then I just have to go on the pumpkin patch.

[Tyler]

Same.

[Unknown Male]

I think I'm gonna pumpkin patch as well.

[Ryan]

Because, like, you know, it's like. Yeah, it's like pumpkin patch is like a booty call when, like, you're having a terrible day, struck out at the bar, then I guess then I'll, you know, fornicate with the pumpkin patch.

[Unknown Male]

But just like.

[Ryan]

I'll saw some of you up.

[Tyler]

Sure. Yeah.

[Ryan]

At like, not. Not 1am like, we're dying, like 4am Their last ditch resort.

[Unknown Male]

You know, it's waking up for work and you're sending a text.

[Tyler]

Yeah, you got to think that Sickle guys out there are. They have you up texts scheduled for sure.

[Unknown Male]

That's how Jared landed his wife. He scheduled the U up text.

[Jared]

So I met your mother.

[Ryan]

Now my whole life's crumbling around me. First my buddy just lies to me, just constantly. Now I find out Jared, I don't know if a text message from him is genuine or not. It's like my world is crumbling around me.

[Tyler]

See, the thing with the family costume thing, though, is if you pick a. If you pick the correct costume. Like you can.

[Ryan]

There is no.

[Tyler]

You can fully hide your identity so no one knows that it's you.

[Unknown Male]

The, the reason I chose to assassinate it is because regardless of it being on the list or not, a coordinated family costume is going to come with the photo. So photo session, which I do not want to be a part of.

[Tyler]

Let's just matter whether it gets posted.

[Unknown Male]

Or not, posting or not, I don't want to be even there for the taking of them.

[Jared]

Photoshop you had.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah, I'll stand in front of a white wall. You can cut me out and add me later.

[Jared]

I'm not smiling either.

[Tyler]

Yeah, I'm gonna assassinate that as well.

[Unknown Male]

You can't see it behind my wolf mask, but I'm not smiling.

[Ryan]

They should have a service like, like for Halloween family costumes. You always pick one that you can't see your face and then you just pay a guy to stand in for the family photos for you.

[Tyler]

It's not a bad idea.

[Ryan]

Absolutely brilliant. Very niche. Very niche. You can make like a, you know, 20 bucks.

[Unknown Male]

You can make tens of dollars.

[Ryan]

You can make tens of dollars on that idea.

[Jared]

We're gonna need multiple people for different builds. Like the bigger guys and skinnier guys.

[Ryan]

That's our $1 idea right there. We should do a segment of $1 ideas and they're just super high hyper spec. Write it down. Jared.

[Unknown Male]

That idea is a $1 idea.

[Ryan]

No, that one's a billion dollar idea. Well, it's a hundred dollar. Hundreds of.

[Tyler]

Anyways, when I, when I work for the minor league baseball team, I'd have to wear the mascot. I wore the mascot suit probably like five, six times. I, I never smiled for a single picture ever.

[Ryan]

There's no way. Just by out of habit you weren't smiling in that thing. You know what I mean?

[Tyler]

No, dude, because I'm, I'm clinging on to my life at that point. Point. Because it's 115 degrees in there.

[Jared]

At least you're getting paid.

[Tyler]

Well, I wore that 600 bucks a month.

[Unknown Male]

I had to wear the frog mascot for the radio station I worked at. And I instinctively smiled and everyone not. Yeah, I just like, I'm an idiot. Why am I doing this? Yeah.

[Tyler]

Yeah. I can't see.

[Unknown Male]

Was creepy as shit though. Some people would post those pictures and if the sun was in my face in the frog costume, you could see my eyes in the mouth of the frog.

[Tyler]

Wear sunglasses, but I can't see because it's black mesh. You don't need to see. Like, you don't need to see anything. You could be blacked out. You could be drinking.

[Ryan]

I love the complete different experience in wearing a mascot suit from YouTube.

[Unknown Male]

What are the odds?

[Ryan]

I can just. Absolutely Bane of his existence. And Tyler seems like, yeah, it wasn't so bad. Jared, have you ever wore a mascot? Yes. We're too. We're bad. 50. I've never been in a mascot uniform.

[Tyler]

It's.

[Unknown Male]

I think it's weird that 50 of this podcast has.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Yeah, it's kind of weird.

[Ryan]

I'm a little concerned.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

I always get a little nervous when mascots are around me because I don't know how to interact with them. I can't talk to them.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I usually just, like, pretend to, like, you know, sack tap them or something, you know.

[Jared]

That's good. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Always plays. Kids love it.

[Unknown Male]

Hawkeye loves when you do that.

[Tyler]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan]

Let's see.

[Jared]

Troy Escalade. What's the proper way to put a belt on? Clockwise or counterclockwise?

[Ryan]

Countercounter, Counter. Same.

[Tyler]

Don't.

[Ryan]

Isn't that because. Don't women put it on clockwise?

[Unknown Male]

I don't know.

[Ryan]

Google it.

[Unknown Male]

I just have literally never done it any other.

[Ryan]

Do men and women put belts on different ways? I don't know.

[Unknown Male]

Do you know that women's zippers on their jackets are on the other side?

[Jared]

Yeah, I knew that.

[Tyler]

Yes. Yeah, I think I heard that a while ago.

[Unknown Male]

I. I didn't know that. And I have a Viking zip up where the zipper was on the other side. I'm like, what the is this? And Becca's like, that's a women's jacket.

[Ryan]

Wow. You accidentally cross dress like Michael. Michael Scott.

[Unknown Male]

Apparently, I've worn it in front of you guys. You haven't said anything. So it doesn't look like a women's jacket.

[Jared]

Yeah, you're right, Miles.

[Tyler]

Men typically wear their belts counterclockwise, so the excess. And hangs on the left. Excess end hangs on the left, while women traditionally wear them clockwise, so the excess end hangs on the right.

[Unknown Male]

Why?

[Ryan]

It's just. It's just how we do it. It's just Howie Mandel how we do it, I guess. So what's dumb is they're like, that's how they're designed with the buckle going that way. Well, if you just flip the correct y. Flip the belt, it would work just fine. Correct.

[Unknown Male]

But, yeah, I would feel pretty dumb trying to put it in the other way. I think I'd.

[Ryan]

I don't know if I could do it.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah. First try, it'd be like throwing them. Throwing a ball.

[Ryan]

It would take me a couple tries. Yeah.

[Unknown Male]

Be like throwing a ball with your off hand. You just. You could do it, but it would sure feel weird. Yeah.

[Ryan]

It also looks super bad.

[Unknown Male]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Unless it was like. Like the dress belts that are like, like always kind of like curved. You don't even need a hand to feed those through. You can just. Just keep pushing it from like, where your. Your zipper is. And because it's curved, it's just going to like hit. Hit each loop and go all the way around.

[Ryan]

I'm confused on the curve.

[Tyler]

So, like, dress belts, like you'd wear with dress pants, whatever wedding, you name it, they're. They like never straighten out.

[Unknown Male]

I. I bought one on. On Friday and it was perfectly straight when I bought it.

[Tyler]

Maybe I just have a different belt than you guys. My belt has never been straight before, so it's always. It's always. It's always curved.

[Jared]

Like, this could be the humidity in your house.

[Unknown Male]

Could be like the leather warped or something.

[Tyler]

Yeah. So I. I don't have to feed it through.

[Ryan]

I just keep.

[Unknown Male]

Really.

[Ryan]

Jared, that's the best you got? That's the best explanation.

[Tyler]

I disagreed with you.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Maybe.

[Jared]

So drafty.

[Ryan]

Maybe it's the. The moon location and the tides.

[Unknown Male]

It's probably curving it, you know, Probably.

[Ryan]

I think that's proof that the earth is round.

[Unknown Male]

It's probably.

[Ryan]

Take that flat earth.

[Unknown Male]

Probably the smoke from Canada.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Unknown Male]

Changing the shape of the belt. Yeah.

[Ryan]

I think you just gotta. I think you just got a strange belt. I've never had a belt.

[Tyler]

I don't know.

[Ryan]

Now my belt will. After, like, I wear it a bunch. If it's leather, it'll go like this and then it'll like kind of curve a little and then straighten back out.

[Unknown Male]

Where. Because it curves where you put it in the loop.

[Ryan]

Correct.

[Unknown Male]

Because it's constantly bent right there.

[Ryan]

Yeah. So mine. Mine curves a little to left.

[Tyler]

It's a joke.

[Jared]

I know.

[Unknown Male]

I didn't even say curved. I said bent.

[Tyler]

It's joke.

[Ryan]

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