Signs a Blue Collar Guy is Quitting 🎙 #384

Summary

You Betcha Radio #384 – "Signs a Blue Collar Guy is Quitting"

Released July 1, 2026
Hosts: Myles, Ryan, Tyler, and Jared
Theme: Midwest culture, summer paralysis, garage life, blue collar quitting signs, and plenty of comedic banter

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Episode Overview

This episode is a quintessential “You Betcha Radio” blend of Midwest comedy, nostalgia, and real-talk as the gang explores the unique cultural pressure of making every summer day count, the science of garage “vibe,” what it looks like when a blue-collar guy is about to quit, childhood chaos at the lake, and the art of slowly collecting the perfect man-cave. Lively, intimate, and full of laughs, it’s equal parts therapy session for Midwesterners and a tongue-in-cheek celebration of their quirks.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Summer Activity Paralysis in the Midwest

[03:04-10:11]

• The hosts joke about the pressure Midwesterners feel to maximize every precious summer day due to the harsh winters.
  • “There comes a point where in every Midwesterner’s year, they’re like, ‘Alright, this is the best time to be a Midwesterner,’ and there are about a hundred different things to do…but you end up just getting paralysis and kinda not doing anything, or feeling guilty.” (Ryan, 03:06)
  • Guilt about not being outside (“I should be using my patio furniture!”) and wanting to do everything or nothing at all.
  • Discussion about how social gatherings get stacked in summer, even though it might make more sense to hang out more in the winter.

2. Weddings, Family Dynamics, and the Never-ending Summer Calendar

[06:03-17:18]

• The hosts joke about being done with friends' weddings but bracing for the “second wedding phase.”
  • “I’m just starting my friend group’s second wedding phase…only have one friend left that’s unmarried.” (Jared, 07:07)
• Obligations like weddings and family reunions as “monkey wrenches” and stressors.
• Debate over the balance between solo time, family/friend time, and the impossibility of being both a “good husband” and “good dad” at the same time.
  • “You gotta pick where your time’s going.” (Jared, 08:17)

3. Nostalgic Midwest Attitudes (“Porch Memories”), Sports Heartbreak, and Movie Sequels

[08:00-18:32]

• “Porch memories” of sitting with loved ones and doing nothing are both lauded and joked about.
• Extended bit about the pain of being a Vikings fan and never seeing a Super Bowl, even in the afterlife—a running joke about “haunting” the stadiums.
  • "On our deathbed, will you…think about never seeing the Vikings win a Super Bowl?" (Ryan, 16:01)
• Nostalgic tangent about why movies like “Angels in the Outfield” never got endless sequels, unlike Air Bud and Sandlot.
• “Double Teamed” and other obscure Disney movies get shout-outs.

4. Signs a Blue Collar Guy is About to Quit

[21:00-33:01]
Main Segment

• The unmistakable warning signs that a blue-collar worker is prepping his exit, including:
  • Sudden calmness and indifference to tasks — “post-nut clarity.”
    • “Stuff that would irritate them in the past just doesn’t anymore…that’s probably a sign they're gonna quit.” (Ryan, 21:23)
  • Willingness to take undesirable shifts or jobs with no complaint.
  • Not coming back after lunch, or just vanishing.
  • Casually mentioning better pay or benefits elsewhere.
    • “If they bring up how much another company is paying…they’ve already decided they’re leaving.” (Jared, 26:50)
  • Melting down or picking fights over small inconveniences—a sign a “snap quit” is imminent.
  • Failing to engage with coworkers (“not talking fantasy football in the fall with you—gone”).
  • Asking about pay schedule right away.
  • Their “one and done” theory: if a new hire gets hazed too hard or starts in tough conditions (“muddy footing”), they’re gone.

5. Garage Culture and the Art of the Midwest Man Cave

[37:30-61:08]

• The garage as a sacred place for Midwest men—stories of collecting the right found objects rather than buying them.
  • “Sometimes you just walk into a garage and…taste ice-cold Busch Light in the air.” (Ryan, 50:35)
• The “rules” of garage culture:
  • The best bar signs, games, and seating find you, not the other way around.
    • “If you go searching for a garage fridge, you’re not gonna find it…but it’ll fall in your lap at some point.” (Ryan, 51:25)
  • Keys to a beer-drinking garage “vibe”:
    • Neon sign, beer memorabilia, mismatched barstools, odd collections, and random old sports equipment.
    • Everything should have a story (“That helmet isn’t because I wanted a Broncos helmet…”).
    • The importance of keeping clutter off the ground and maximizing shelf/pegboard space.

6. Lake Cabin Life, Parenting Chaos, and Survival Mode

[37:55-47:19]

• Hilarious stories of Tyler bringing his three kids to Ryan’s cabin and causing “Hurricane Ziggler.”
  • “The more kids you have, it becomes less about nurturing and more about just keeping them alive…It’s survival.” (Jared, 38:22)
• With just one kid, it feels easy. With three, it’s pure chaos—“zone defense.”
• Toys add to the chaos rather than reduce it.

7. Listener Questions and Patron Shoutouts

[73:35-77:29]

• Advice to a listener racing a truck at the county fair—lean all the way into memorable paint jobs, truck nuts, and silly Mad Max/Grease-style aesthetic upgrades:
  • “Any amount of loss of speed from your balls dragging on the ground—worth it!”
  • Jokes about making it either hyper-masculine or hilariously “girly” to win psychological points.

8. Cooking, Life Advice, and Bonus Laughs

[77:35–end]

• Tyler’s fettuccine Alfredo is mythologized, then gently deflated…
• Listeners ask for job-search timing advice and how to know it’s time to move on.
  • “If the Sunday Scaries really bother you, then it’s time to look for a new job.” (Tyler, 85:09)
• Riffing on what makes a job worth staying at—mostly, workplace camaraderie.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “You gotta pick where your time’s going.” (Jared, 08:17)
• “There's just too much stuff to do in such a little time…I feel like a puppy with 400 toys, and I don’t know which one to play with.” (Ryan, 08:32)
• “There’s just no way we didn’t lose a guy after that day…Someone on this drive home is planning their quitting.” (Ryan, 22:32)
• “I think the number one way to ensure you'll never get a hole in one is if you have a hole-in-one plan.” (Ryan, 14:21)—on golf superstitions
• “If they ever bring up how much another company is paying, they're gone. The second they get [their first paycheck], they're gone.” (Jared, 31:37)
• “If they're not talking fantasy football in the fall with you…done. Gone.” (Ryan, 32:15)
• “All it takes is a couple bolts and that [ski bike] is back and ready to roll.” (Ryan, 59:52)—on saving childhood creations in the garage
• “If you go searching for a garage fridge, you’re not gonna find it. But the world’s gonna bring you one at some point.” (Ryan, 51:25)

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Important Segment Timestamps

• 00:03:04 – Midwest Summer Activity Paralysis
• 00:06:03 – Weddings & Obligations
• 00:08:00 – “Porch Memories”; Vikings Fan Heartache; Nostalgia for Movie Sequels
• 00:21:00 – Signs a Blue Collar Guy is About to Quit (main segment)
• 00:37:30 – Garage Culture, What Makes a Hangout Garage
• 00:37:55 – Lake Cabin Parenting Chaos
• 00:73:35 – Listener Q: County Fair Truck Racing – Paint jobs, spikes, and psychological warfare
• 00:85:09 – Advice on When to Look For a New Job (“Sunday Scaries” test)

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Tone and Language

The episode is marked by dry Midwestern wit, self-deprecating humor, and a sense of brotherhood. The hosts riff off each other with inside jokes, gentle roasting, and plenty of relatable anecdotes. The language is conversational, often tongue-in-cheek, leaning into regional modesty and realism.

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Takeaways for Non-Listeners

If you’ve never tuned in before, this episode is a crash course in Midwestern priorities: maximizing summer, balancing niceness with sarcasm, finding joy in used garage gear, and recognizing when it’s time to move on (whether from a job, a party, or a cluttered garage). It’s also about knowing when “everything’s fine” is a red flag and why having too many activities—or too many kids by the lake—can be both a blessing and a beautiful headache.

Whether you’re a blue-collar pro or a nostalgia-loving Midwesterner-at-heart, you’ll find yourself nodding along, laughing, or planning your own man-cave upgrades before it’s done.

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“If you go searching for a garage fridge, you’re not gonna find it. But it’ll fall in your lap at some point.” (Ryan, 51:25)

That’s the Midwest Way.

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Transcript

[Jared]

All right, back to it.

[Ryan]

Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of you bet, your radio podcast. We're back in the studio. And we are Ryan List today.

[Jared]

Ryan List.

[Ryan]

Ryan's in Cambodia.

[Tyler]

Yep. The bones.

[Jared]

Yeah. He's finally exploring it himself.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

In a real sense though, I. I do hope you know, that he gets some eyes on Crazy Horse. Ryan's in South Dakota right now. In the real sense.

[Tyler]

Oh, God.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah, I tricked.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Miles]

Dang.

[Ryan]

He's in South Dakota. It would be nice if we get some boots on the ground. Eyeballs on Crazy Horse.

[Jared]

I thought you were saying that they're doing a crazy horse in Cambodia for a second.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Sounds like a rock song.

[Jared]

They're in a race now.

[Ryan]

It's like the Statue of Liberty in Vegas.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

But. Yeah. So Ryan's gone today. He'll be back next. Back for Patreon.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You won't be here. I will. We're all sorts of messed up summer, man.

[Tyler]

It's gonna be the first Patreon I missed since like two years.

[Ryan]

It really. Wow.

[Jared]

It's weird because like you and I take a vacation in the winter. Nobody else takes time off in the winter and then we don't take any time off in the summer.

[Ryan]

That is weird. That. That is weird. I mean. Yeah, it's cuz like in my mind, just going to the lake is kind of like a mini vacation every weekend.

[Tyler]

Gotta make every day count. At the lake.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Cuz you have what, 36 days you said.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

So I bought a lake cabin on a. If you go. If you go down Friday night and leave Sunday evening, It's basically like two full days every weekend. You got four months. Two times four, eight times four months. Yeah. It's about 32 to 36 days a

[Tyler]

year, give or take.

[Ryan]

You have at the lake. So you bought this? I bought this entire other home to use 36 days a year and a

[Tyler]

majority time you're doing chores.

[Ryan]

Yeah. So actually we've started. I've decided like to spend more time during the week out there and then maybe just drive home or like drive here for work and go back so Ann and. And our kid can hang out there during the weeks. We're using it more.

[Tyler]

Yes.

[Jared]

I think if you, if you talk to us, we'd probably let you work from home a couple days.

[Ryan]

Well, that's what I was saying. Then we also, like, it's a great opportunity for us to do lake content and do stuff. We can just do stuff out there. And so. Yeah, I'm trying to get More days there. But then it's like, all right, now I'm spending less days in my house,

[Tyler]

which, oh, I got all winter there.

[Jared]

Yeah, you're trapped in that place for way more than 36 days.

[Ryan]

But, yeah, we're lucky enough to have a cabin, too, which is sweet. But I will have to say right now, we're in the heart of summer activity paralysis.

[Jared]

Oh, my God.

[Ryan]

I. I don't know about you guys, but there comes a point where in every Midwesterners year, they have. They're like, all right, we are now in summer. This is the best time to be a Midwesterner. And there are about a hundred different things that I should do and take advantage of this awesome weather. And what ends up happening is, is you have so many options for activities that you end up just getting paralysis. And you, like, end up kind of not really doing anything or feeling guilty about doing one activity and not doing another 100%.

[Jared]

And then especially you throw kids in the mix, and then you. You, like, I should take some time to relax for myself, like, or I should take some time to do something really summer and fun with my kids.

[Ryan]

Correct. It's like, even. Even Ryan and I were talking the other night. It was, like, one of the best evenings ever. Like, perfect weather, great sunset and all that stuff. And me and him are both like, I didn't go outside that night. I just laid in bed because I was tired. And the whole time, I just felt guilty and just was thinking, I should be sitting outside right now. And every. Every Midwesterner has that moment in the summer where they say, I should be outside right now enjoying the weather, but I don't want to. But I feel guilty.

[Tyler]

We spent all this time looking for patio furniture. I have to use it. Correct.

[Ryan]

And in two months, we won't be able to hang out outside anymore.

[Tyler]

The cushions are not wet right now. This is a perfect time to go outside.

[Jared]

But I'm so comfy right here, so I'm going to feel shitty about this no matter what.

[Tyler]

Yeah, I'm going to scroll my phone outside instead of inside.

[Jared]

I was thinking about the summer. Like, everybody wants to hang out in the summer. Why don't we hang out in the winter when there's nothing else to do? We just hang out when we're trapped. That's like the summer. We could just go do solo adventures or, like, hang out a little bit. But, like, I get that it's nice weather. We don't have to share it. We can share in the misery in the middle of Winter, let's hang out when there's nothing else to do.

[Ryan]

That's true.

[Tyler]

Go to the bar.

[Jared]

Yeah. I just. I wish we did more get get togethers in the winter and less in the summer.

[Miles]

Mm.

[Ryan]

I mean, you can.

[Jared]

I know.

[Ryan]

Do you. Well, here's the question. Do you invite people and they just turn you down or.

[Jared]

No, no, no. I don't invite people anywhere.

[Ryan]

What are you complaining about?

[Jared]

It invites the other way around. Everyone's like, hey, you want to get together? Like, yeah, I do. But also I kind of want to just do some of the projects I said I was going to do this summer.

[Ryan]

I mean, I think it's also like, most people are like, I don't know, it's just a mentality. Like if you're in the mid, you just don't do anything in the winter.

[Jared]

I know. I wish we did. I think it should flip. I think the summer should be more solitary and the winter should be more together.

[Tyler]

I think another big factor is that a big monkey wrench is like, weddings during the summer.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

And that makes you feel more fatigued throughout the summer. Is the obligation to travel to go all these weddings or a family reunion is kind of the same thing. So maybe we have family reunions more in the winter that could help.

[Jared]

We should.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Well, then the problem is you gotta, like, rent out, like a space. Like in the summer you just need one relative with a cabin with a good yard and everyone can go there for free.

[Jared]

Well, in the winter, you just need one relative with a nice shop.

[Ryan]

That's true. That is true.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Yeah. So I think that's another big monkey wrench.

[Ryan]

I am lucky, though. I feel like I am on the other end now of going to weddings where everyone is now. Anyone, any wedding that I would probably get invited to. They're pretty much all married now. And so I got a nice little sweet spot between these people's first wedding and their second wedding.

[Jared]

Yeah. I'm just starting my friend group's second wedding phase. My first friend that got divorced is getting remarried and it'll be this year and then after that. I only have one friend left that's unmarried. Really?

[Ryan]

And you think he's ever gonna get married?

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Okay.

[Jared]

Yeah. It'll be a few years. He'll bog a question any day.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

And then after that it's family. I don't. I'm not gonna be going to any other ones, I don't think.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I don't have any more friends.

[Jared]

Yeah. And I. You guys know me. I'm I'm done making them.

[Tyler]

It's true.

[Ryan]

But, yeah, I don't know. It's like. Because it's like. Okay. There's also, like, a family component to this, like, summer activity deal where I want to maybe at the end of the day, go fishing, but I also feel like I should, like, be, like, hanging out with Ann, sitting in the lawn chair, making. Making porch memories with my wife.

[Jared]

You know they're calling it these days.

[Ryan]

It's like, you know, you wouldn't call them porch memories just hanging out with your wife on the porch.

[Tyler]

You could call it that and call whatever you want.

[Ryan]

I'm calling it porch memories, where basically you're not doing anything, but you're making memories.

[Jared]

You know, that is something that people don't talk about a lot is, like, the. The battle between being a good husband and being a good dad. Like, sometimes you can't do both at the same time. You got to pick where your time's going.

[Ryan]

Yeah. So, yeah. I mean, there's just too much stuff to do in such a little amount of time. You know, I feel like. I feel like a puppy with 400 toys, and I don't know which one to play with. The squeaky one, the furry one that I can rip to shreds. The dog bone, my owner's shoe. The shoe, the socks, the pacifiers laying on the ground. You know, which one do I play with?

[Tyler]

Right.

[Ryan]

So I feel like that's a real issue for people in the Midwest, for sure. But, like, you know, those. Those guys down in LA never even have to think about.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

They can just do whatever activity whenever they want all year round.

[Tyler]

They don't have to look at the weather app.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Because they just know it's going to be nice. Yeah.

[Ryan]

And then, like, that's the other thing. I. If you want to go golfing, you have to now decide, am I trading a good day on the lake for a round of golf? You know what I mean?

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

What is it, though? A bad day on the course is better than whatever.

[Jared]

A bad day in the course, better than a good day at.

[Tyler]

So I have that mentality when you go golfing.

[Ryan]

So a bad day on the course is better than a good day at the lake.

[Tyler]

I'm not a golfer, so perhaps I.

[Ryan]

I like to golf, but I don't know. I don't feel like that's a good equivalent.

[Jared]

No, I wouldn't. I had a. I had a bad day of golf. It was. It was a fun day. I played, like, absolute on Friday last week. In a tournament. I went to the lake immediately after. I was like, this is nice.

[Miles]

This is better.

[Tyler]

Did that golf trip beat a day of work here or like a good day?

[Jared]

Yeah, maybe.

[Ryan]

I'm fine with that.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Work is work.

[Jared]

Yeah, it was a. It was a. A golf scramble with my family. Like, all four members were uncle, sister, grandpa. Yeah.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

So we had a good crew. We sucked ass, but it was a

[Tyler]

good crew golf memory.

[Ryan]

Was your dad there? Okay.

[Jared]

Mom's side, basically. All right. Yeah.

[Ryan]

I mean, you. You were in a scramble and you had that bad of a time. That's not good.

[Jared]

Well, we.

[Ryan]

That's.

[Jared]

It's just.

[Ryan]

That's some bad golf right there.

[Jared]

I was just a non factor to the team. And I. That's not that I was like absolute, absolute dog. It's like anytime I had a good shot, there was one a little better. So I did not really contribute to the. I made like one or two putts and that was it. It. Otherwise, I was. I was there.

[Tyler]

You're a body.

[Jared]

That was it.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Vibes, though. Are you good vibes?

[Jared]

Yeah, I think so. Me and my uncle ripping around. It was. We had. Me and him had a good time, and my sister and grandpa were in a different cart.

[Tyler]

You should have pouted and just brought the whole mood down.

[Jared]

Yeah, I should have just been shitty about it. I did get drawn. This is my second time in this tournament. They draw out of all the contestants to. At the end of the tournament for a hole in one chance for 50 grand.

[Ryan]

And you got drawn.

[Jared]

This is. Yeah, my second time in like six years. I got drawn and I topped that. 30 yards.

[Tyler]

Oh.

[Ryan]

I mean, no.

[Jared]

Nobody was even close. Everyone were bombed at the end of the tournament.

[Ryan]

I mean, I don't understand why home one's hard enough and they're doing a drawing.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Why didn't they just let every person in the tournament get a chance to make a home?

[Jared]

Because it was free. So, like a lot of tournaments where they give everybody a chance, like, you have to buy it and it goes to a charity. This was just like your entry to the tournament got you into the drawing.

[Ryan]

And how much do you win?

[Jared]

50 grand if you hone on it.

[Ryan]

Oh, my God.

[Jared]

And I was far from the worst shot.

[Tyler]

Wow.

[Jared]

And so I topped it 50 yards into water. One guy got it over the water. Everybody else was left and right. Didn't even get to the water. 10. 10 names drawn from the tournament.

[Ryan]

Yikes.

[Jared]

A lot of booze.

[Ryan]

A lot of booze.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

They probably don't have 50 grams. That's why they make it so hard.

[Jared]

They get insurance for it.

[Tyler]

Right.

[Jared]

I was like, you guys gotta start doing this. I mentioned it to the dude. I was like, you gotta start doing this before the tournament starts. Like you got insurance for this. It doesn't matter if someone makes it.

[Tyler]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

I mean, you blow up the tournament, if someone wins 50 grand, people will start coming out of the woodwork.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

One day you'll get it.

[Jared]

Yep. I'll keep getting drawn.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Because every golfer eventually gets a hole in one. So you'll get one actually.

[Jared]

So I hope so. And I hope it's for 50 grand.

[Tyler]

Yep. 50 GS. But like, then you have to go back to the clubhouse and buy your own a drink. So it's going to be about $49,000.

[Jared]

Shit.

[Tyler]

I should hit that hole in one.

[Ryan]

I mean, I'm guessing this is not at a fancy place.

[Jared]

It's not. It's a nice course. It's not. It's at Forest Hills. So it's definitely. It's not a dog track.

[Ryan]

But if you're buying, you're buying drinks at Forest Hills. You're like, you're not even a thousand bucks in.

[Jared]

Wow. For 200 golfers it is.

[Ryan]

200 golfers. You buy everyone at, you know, two dollar drink.

[Tyler]

Cheapest one they have.

[Ryan]

You're 400 bucks in.

[Jared]

Well, Ryan and I would do. We've talked about this on the on double bogey show before. We would just buy a couple kegs or buy. If it's like a regular Saturday, buy one keg. And then the guy would be like, somebody got a hole in one. This keg beer is free.

[Tyler]

Oh, smart.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Rather than dealing with the buying everybody a drink. So at a tournament I would just buy two kegs like that or three kegs and be like, there you go, guys.

[Ryan]

I like, I like that we are getting a game plan for just in case we at all.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You gotta be like the number one way to ensure you're never gonna get a whole one is if you have a whole in one plan.

[Jared]

And then I don't have to. Then I don't have to worry about it.

[Tyler]

True. It's like when the Vikings win the Super Bowl, I have a whole plan in my head of what's gonna happen.

[Jared]

You're gonna get a full back piece. Tattoo back piece. Yeah.

[Tyler]

We're gonna take work off.

[Jared]

Yep.

[Tyler]

Gonna drive up to Minneapolis, go to the parade. That's like the same hole in one logic.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

But I have the plan in My head, I guess. It happens. So break in case of emergency.

[Ryan]

I mean, it is. And you could probably. I would say it's probably the equivalent for me and you would probably. Tyler is like, what if I go my whole life without a hole in one? Like, what if I'm one of those losers that dies without a hole in one? You know? Like, what if you're one of those loser Vikings football fans that dies without ever seeing a Super bowl in your 90 years?

[Tyler]

So it's fun to imagine a game plan for it.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah. But it's also, like, super depressing to think about.

[Tyler]

Oh, yeah, for sure.

[Ryan]

But at least, like, the whole one thing is, like, in your control, you know? Like, yours is, like, not even in your control at all.

[Tyler]

I could cheer loud at the games.

[Jared]

Okay, we can help. Where I put the remote and how I stand when I watch in the living room always helps.

[Tyler]

Yeah. We have a Vikings lamp. We turn on and off. They're doing good or bad.

[Jared]

Okay.

[Tyler]

So there's a couple.

[Jared]

And if I wear the right jersey on Sunday, then we're good.

[Tyler]

Okay.

[Ryan]

Yeah, but it's just kind of a depressing thought, you know, if, like, we go our whole life without a home one or a Super bowl, that's sad. On our deathbed, will you. Will that be, like, one of the last things you think about before you die?

[Tyler]

You think, Jared, the Vikings.

[Ryan]

Yeah, Like, I never got to see a Super Bowl.

[Jared]

Well, they're going to be his pallbearers, so he can let him down one last time.

[Tyler]

Nice little article in the obituary.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

About that. Yeah. Yeah. Probably will be.

[Ryan]

I think that actually would be a funny prank if I could convince whoever writes your obituary. If they say, like, at the very end, just throwing a line says, like, and he never saw Vikings. It's like my last little laughed myself.

[Jared]

Would you let Miles do your eulogy?

[Tyler]

Sure. Yeah.

[Ryan]

You let me eulogize you.

[Tyler]

Yeah, sure. I don't care. I'm not gonna be around there, so.

[Ryan]

That's true.

[Jared]

It's not up to you.

[Ryan]

You also don't have a say, right?

[Tyler]

Yeah, exactly.

[Ryan]

What are you gonna do, stop me?

[Jared]

You can put it in his. In his will. I only want Miles to do my eulogy.

[Tyler]

And if I'm a ghost, I'm not sure if I'm showing up to my funeral. So you can do whatever. You haunt the packers, hunt the Packers. Yep.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Why don't you. Instead of haunt this Vikings mentality here, instead of haunting the packers doing angels in the outfield, deal with the Vikings.

[Jared]

Well, it wasn't. He's a ghost, not an angel yet.

[Tyler]

Yeah, but angels, they all feel they didn't help in the championship game or something.

[Jared]

Yeah, they. They're not allowed to win the big game. We watched angels in the outfield not that long ago.

[Ryan]

Allowed to get them there but not winning.

[Miles]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jared]

So we're like, we'll hold your hand to the finish line, but you have to take one single step over.

[Tyler]

So according to that, I can't really do a whole lot if it's in the Super Bowl.

[Jared]

You could. You could let down the entire state by getting us there and then abandoning us.

[Tyler]

Oh, yeah, yeah, That'll be. Just. Be usual D. Yeah, that would.

[Ryan]

Hey, dude, can you imagine as a Vikings fan, you don't see a Super bowl in 90 years. You then die, you become an angel, you then get granted the ability to help them get to a Super bowl only to watch them lose a Super bowl in the afterlife.

[Tyler]

Yeah, it'll probably be a missed field goal, too.

[Ryan]

Like, you're. Yeah, you're like. Because you were guiding for eternity. Even though you're in heaven, you're still in hell.

[Tyler]

That probably is what is happening right now to the Vikings gigs is like, there's some ghost that's like, them over.

[Jared]

That's what happened with Gary Anderson's missed field goal and Blair Walsh. The NFC was a championship game. They're not allowed to help in championships.

[Tyler]

Throw.

[Jared]

Yeah. Gary Anderson had an angel carry every single field goal through the uprights until that one. Because it was. It was a championship.

[Tyler]

Exactly.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I think you guys may be.

[Tyler]

Yeah, it's an angels in the off field situation.

[Jared]

That's crazy, dude.

[Ryan]

Angels in the end zone. I can't believe they didn't do, you know, if. I know Hollywood, like, I think they do, like, think about Air Bud. Yeah, they did Air Bud every sport possible. Why didn't they do angels in the end zone and Angels. Angels in the paint?

[Tyler]

Gotcha.

[Ryan]

Like, you think they should have just hammered that.

[Tyler]

I thought you were gonna go with, like, airbud died and then Air Bud becoming a dog ghost or something.

[Ryan]

Well, that too, dude.

[Jared]

Airbud.

[Ryan]

That's not out of the Dogs go to heaven.

[Jared]

Have you seen the title of the movie? What airbud is on these days?

[Ryan]

No, homeboy.

[Jared]

The Feeling.

[Ryan]

We've talked about this.

[Jared]

Yeah. It went from airbud to his kids to air buddies, and now it's like air buddies in space and air buddies with Santa Claus.

[Tyler]

It's like the fast and furious approach 100.

[Ryan]

Yeah, but I just can't believe we got a one off Angels in the Outfield Crush. And they didn't even do anything with that ip.

[Jared]

That is a good movie.

[Tyler]

There's so many good actors in the first movie.

[Ryan]

They even did a sandlot too, you know.

[Jared]

Sandlot 3 and 4.

[Ryan]

3 and 4.

[Jared]

Shit.

[Ryan]

But angels in the outfield, untouched. Little Giants untouched. That crazy.

[Jared]

Yeah, I try to watch the Giants and my kid the other day, nowhere to be found. You got to pay like eight bucks for it. Is a good movie, but it's not eight bucks.

[Tyler]

Good luck of the Irish. Untouched.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Double teamed. Untouched.

[Tyler]

Smart house. Untouched.

[Ryan]

Xenon girl, the 21st century, untouched. Actually, there might be a Xenon too.

[Jared]

Probably Zoom.

[Ryan]

Zoom.

[Tyler]

I like that. We call double teamed. Like the sequel. Double Team Two Double team.

[Ryan]

Double double team.

[Jared]

Would it be triple team or would it be quadruple team?

[Tyler]

Two double. Two teams. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Two double two team. So, yeah, I mean that's. I mean, just don't think about that tonight when you're laying. Laying in bed, Jared, that you probably will be tortured even in the afterlife.

[Tyler]

It's tough.

[Ryan]

You know, you think that, you know, death may be your way out of this hell that is being a Vikings fan, but probably not.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

If anything, you're just gonna. You're gonna help and then it'll hurt even worse because you actually will be able to help as an angel, you

[Tyler]

know, up in the rafters of U.S. bank as a ghost.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Oh, man.

[Tyler]

Just hanging around there all the time.

[Ryan]

We were talking last week, we thought we'd talk about it here on the podcast, but there's a very clear sign when a blue collar worker is gonna quit.

[Jared]

It's when he gets his first paycheck. Yeah, he's gone.

[Ryan]

There's kind of a. Yeah, it's like it's usually. If you get paid on Friday, it's usually like a Thursday, you know, and it's kind of like, like, like right before there's like this, this, this almost like a post nut clarity for these guys where you can kind of tell that stuff that maybe would irritate them in the past just doesn't irritate them anymore. And they just seem pretty cool with whatever's going on.

[Miles]

Yep.

[Jared]

Sounds good, man.

[Ryan]

That sounds fine. Yeah, it. I'll go do that. I don't care.

[Jared]

Can I work in two Saturdays from now? Yeah, sure. Yeah, no problem.

[Ryan]

Next Saturday. No problem. Probably a sign they're going to quit.

[Tyler]

Very content with what's going on. Not Complaining.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I think. I think you can also tell when there's. There's usually a moment when you have, like, a really shitty job. Like, I remember this one time we had to. We. We were working in. In Bismarck. So Bismarck's, what, like a two and a half, three hour drive?

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Remember one day I had to get up at like 5, drive three hours to Bismarck, set and pour a wall in one day, and then drive home back to Fargo. It was like 18 total hours, end to end. And there's. You can always. There's. There's a weird moment around, like, construction days like that where you're like, someone on this drive home is planning their quitting.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Yeah. It's very quiet.

[Ryan]

We. There's just no way we didn't lose a guy after that day. There's no way a guy wasn't like, this ain't worth it.

[Tyler]

Right.

[Jared]

I'm gonna finish this job, and then I'm done.

[Tyler]

You're thinking about opening the door handle and just barrel rolling out of the trunk.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I mean, I think another good sign they're gonna quit is like, they just don't show up after lunch one day.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

They're not coming back.

[Jared]

You know, didn't you see your dad had a guy that would. That quit like three times like that, but just kept coming back, it would just disappear.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah. I mean, Dave.

[Jared]

Dave.

[Ryan]

The amount of times Dave either got quit or either quit or got fired from that company and then was there the next week. Unbelievable amount.

[Jared]

That's a great way to get p.

[Ryan]

He got fired one time by my dad's business partner's wife, and he still showed up the boss of all bosses. You know? You know how. How dumb and bad you have to be to get fired by the boss's wife, who has no. Who has no operational input ever.

[Tyler]

It's almost impossible.

[Ryan]

It's almost impossible.

[Jared]

You should never even be crossing paths.

[Ryan]

No, never once. I think it was. I think that he got fired because he used to. They used to let him drive a work rig. And somehow I'm pretty sure his. Dave's dog got sprayed by a skunk. And then the dog went in the trunk, all right. Went in the truck and made the whole truck smell like skunk.

[Jared]

Oh, God.

[Ryan]

And so he was at the shop, like, spread like power, washing out the inside of the truck.

[Tyler]

Fabric seeds.

[Ryan]

And that's when he got fired on the spot by the boss's wife.

[Jared]

What the are you doing? Skunk.

[Ryan]

The skunk smell. God. God. I mean, the chain of events that has to happen for, for you, for your dog to get sprayed by a skunk. Not only, but then allow him in the cab of the truck.

[Tyler]

Yeah, the work truck.

[Ryan]

The work truck. Not even your truck.

[Jared]

What is your dad doing letting him have a work.

[Ryan]

He never, he never got a work truck after that again.

[Jared]

Yeah, that's good.

[Ryan]

That was a lesson that they did learn.

[Tyler]

So are the seats like fabric?

[Ryan]

I don't know.

[Tyler]

Okay. I don't know.

[Ryan]

I gotta get more details from my dad.

[Jared]

I would guess they were.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Then it just smelled like musty skunk.

[Tyler]

Right.

[Jared]

There's no way you got that stuff dry.

[Tyler]

There's mushrooms growing out of there.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I mean they probably had to either junk the truck or sell it. I don't know.

[Tyler]

Or just deal. Just have the windows down permanently.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

It's a summer truck, not a winter truck.

[Tyler]

They take that in the summer.

[Ryan]

But yeah, it's almost like you should have actually, instead of taking the work truck away from you, you should have made him drive that every day.

[Tyler]

Sit in the stench, stick his nose into it. Quite literally.

[Ryan]

But he's like a, A mink trapper. Like he, he works at a mink. Like he probably didn't. He probably even noticed the smell. He's probably just immune to that.

[Tyler]

Right? Yeah, it smells good to him.

[Ryan]

What's another sign that, that a worker is going to quit? I think if they start talking about how. I think if they start talking about like how much money people are making in other jobs.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Jared]

I was just gonna say if they ever bring up how much a comp. Another company is paying.

[Tyler]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Jared]

They're. They already have interviewed or they've already,

[Ryan]

They've already decided they're leaving.

[Tyler]

Yeah, they're gone.

[Jared]

Like you're. Rick's Towing is paying this much an hour.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Oh, full benefits too.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I think there's, I think there's also a moment like. So there's, there's, there's no middle ground. I feel like a blue collar guy doesn't just like do his job normal and seems normal and then just doesn't show up. It's either that sense of calm where he just. Everything's fine and he'll just do whatever or everything is just. They throw a hissy fit over everything.

[Jared]

The former. If he's calm, he's already put into motion that he's quitting. The other one is he hasn't officially decided yet, but he's about to snap and quit.

[Tyler]

Yes.

[Ryan]

It's going to take one minor thing to make him snap and decide that he's done.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Like his favorite hammer isn't there or something. And then, yeah, snap.

[Jared]

New guys using his drill. That'll be the final straw. It just makes him blow the up and leave.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Or like he's already in a shitty mood. He goes to hammer and nail and he like clips his thumb or something and then that'll just be it. I'll be done. He's gone. Because it's never, it's never some giant thing like that, you know, it's not like, you know, he gets screwed over and the boss didn't pay him what he was said he was going to pay him. It's not that. It's like always something. Just death by a thousand cuts on the job site.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Like that boss thing might start it, but that's not the nail.

[Tyler]

Yep. Or it's like lunch breaks a half hour later than it usually is and I'll just set them off.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Jared]

We're out here. Slavery all day. I can't even eat my pop tart.

[Ryan]

SpaghettiOs.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

I was trying to think like, what are the signs like, of like a, a one and done. Blue collar worker. Like, they work there for a day and they're gone. What are signs that like, that person's not going to show up the next day?

[Jared]

I never, I never met a one in Dunner. I met one weeks and doners.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah, no, we had those all the time, dude. I mean, it's usually it's. There's a huge correlation of one and doners and how much they've got bullied on that one day, at least in my experience on our job site. New guy. And so here's the distinction. So I actually have realized that it takes like the college summer help much longer to quit than it does someone who's not like, who's just actually looking for a job.

[Jared]

They know there's an end in sight.

[Ryan]

Well, they know there's an end in sight. So they're kind of like, all right, this is three months of misery I can endure. Sure, I can handle that. But they also like, expect to be the low man on the totem pole.

[Tyler]

So.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

So then they are much more like their expectations are, I don't really know what I'm doing. They're probably going to give me shit for it. That's fine. But if you walk in as a, you know, someone who's just like looking for a, for a, for a construction job and you walk in and you start getting ripped on immediately, it is Like, I. I'm too old for this shit. I'm not dealing.

[Tyler]

I'm going back to Rick's Towing.

[Jared]

Yeah. I can get ripped on at a job where I make more money.

[Tyler]

Exactly.

[Ryan]

Yeah. And doing concrete work, it was like a combination of just terrible culture of just everyone ripping on each other all day long. And then you pair that with like a muddy footing. Like everyone who. Who starts working concrete should do it on a dry. Like in a drought. They should start in a drought. Especially if they're doing basements. They should do it in a drought. And they should do like a. Like a four foot slab on grade home. It's what. How every person should start with that

[Tyler]

should be the starter pack should never

[Ryan]

start with like a. Like a giant muddy footing. That is like number one way to get someone not show back up. It's like, it's almost like my dad should be like, all right, so normally we'd want you to start Monday, but it looks like we got rain in the forecast and we got a big footing. So I want you to start on after we rock the footing and you can walk around with tennis shoes on and be fine.

[Tyler]

It's gonna be nice and dry on Wednesday.

[Jared]

Perfect.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

It's like you just gotta get them past day one.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

But if. For sure, son. I think we've put it in videos before too, that someone's gonna quit after their first paycheck. If they ask you within the first two days when you get paid, what day do we get? Do we get paid once a week or every two weeks? Doesn't matter. They're gone. The second they get it, they're gone.

[Ryan]

I also think if. If the person never makes an effort to try, at least be friends with the crew, they're not sticking around very long, right?

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

If they're not even attempting to, like, make any sort of acquaintance with their co workers, they're not sticking around.

[Jared]

No, I agree 100%.

[Ryan]

They're not talking fantasy football in the fall with you. Done. Gone.

[Jared]

They're not bitching about their wife on the way to the job site. Gone.

[Ryan]

So, yeah, I would say that's how, you know, blue collar workers gonna go quit pretty quick.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Well, should we take a break, Jared?

[Tyler]

Let's do it.

[Ryan]

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[Jared]

Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna. I'm an OG guy. Original recipe guy.

[Ryan]

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[Jared]

They're fun either way.

[Ryan]

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[Tyler]

Does it dissolve?

[Ryan]

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[Jared]

What flavor you got today?

[Ryan]

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[Jared]

Me too.

[Ryan]

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[Jared]

I'm a big, big fan. When I. I think I said this last week, but when I saw apple and ice. Ice usually means a mint. I was like, that's a weird flavor. I'm not gonna like that. And I do. I like it a lot.

[Ryan]

It's. It's a great flavor. What's your flavor, Jared?

[Tyler]

Right now I have the mint just Redmond.

[Jared]

Yeah, those are good too.

[Ryan]

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[Jared]

Pomegranate, the pink one, the palmy is where it's at. That. That's my favorite gum.

[Ryan]

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[Jared]

Yeah, it's doing something, but it's also not making me crazy, you know.

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[Jared]

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[Ryan]

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[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

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[Jared]

Happy birthday, America. You know who has the best sunglasses possible for the fourth of July on right now?

[Ryan]

You do, Tyler.

[Jared]

Jake does. Look at those bad boys. They're red, white, and blue.

[Ryan]

Turn to the side. Let me see on the side profile right there. Oh, my God. Sex appeal.

[Jared]

Hey, look on the inside. Left arm is the name of them. Those are the Liberty Apex.

[Ryan]

These are the Apexes, Tyler.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Jared]

I know my Shady Race.

[Ryan]

You do?

[Jared]

I know my Shady race.

[Ryan]

Let's go. Yeah, Jake, you're gonna look great on the 4th of July. I am. And also, these bad boys are polarized, so cut down the glare when the fuse is lit. But also, why is Jake in this ad read? He's not in the episode.

[Jared]

Surprise. We brought him in because of the sunglasses.

[Ryan]

Doesn't matter. It's because he wears those sunglasses. And we said, jake, we need your 4th of July sunglasses on this ad read. And so here he is. I'm just looking way too good in

[Tyler]

these things for you guys not to include me.

[Ryan]

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[Jared]

I do.

[Ryan]

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[Miles]

It's a lot.

[Ryan]

That's a lot of percent. So go to shadyrays dot com, use code YBR. All right, guys, so this is. We didn't talk about this, but just I. Just thinking about it. So Tyler came over to my cabin yesterday to help shoot a video. And Tyler brought his whole family over.

[Tyler]

Nice.

[Ryan]

And there was something that I noticed. And the. The difference is the the biggest difference is between having one child and having three children there. And I just felt like. I felt like Tyler and his wife were just. It's just constantly. It's. There's just a lot of chaos.

[Jared]

Yeah, yeah, there is.

[Ryan]

I think it was a chaos that I wasn't ready for.

[Jared]

Yeah, yeah. It. The more kids you have, it less it could becomes less and less about nurturing and more and more about keeping them alive, surviving. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

It's less about thriving and more about survival.

[Jared]

Yes.

[Ryan]

And I was able to witness that front and center. And I think it also is like your. Your boys are also, like, at the prime age of chaos.

[Jared]

Yes.

[Tyler]

Tomfoolery.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You know, they're all in that age where they really just don't give a. About anything. Whereas, like, when your oldest one, maybe three, four years from now, he'll be like, more mature and whatever. But. Yeah. Every single one of them just don't give a. Yeah.

[Jared]

And it's like a. When there's. The three of them are together, it is a constant competition for attention. You remove just one kid from the equation. Like you ship off one with the aunt or one with grandpa. Completely different human beings. It is a wild phenomenon.

[Ryan]

That is weird.

[Jared]

Yeah. It's like all of a sudden it's like, oh, I don't have to compete for one of my brother's attentions or mom and dad's. They're like, I'm just gonna be homies with the one that's here. And we're. You want to do a puzzle? You want to just chill and do a puzzle? You try to do that with all three of them there, the puzzle pieces become projectile ninja stars in about 10 seconds.

[Ryan]

Yeah. See, like, for me, it's also like, Anna and I have always kind of been like, yeah, I think we would want to have three kids. And it's just the more families that I hang out with that have three kids, two starts looking pretty good.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

One starts looking pretty good. And I've never had that thought before, you know?

[Jared]

Yeah. At one point, we're just sitting in Miles's cabin, we look out, and my 4 year old just got a flag and he's trying to break it over his knee.

[Ryan]

He just. He broke our flag. It actually wasn't even my flag. It was my mom's flag.

[Jared]

Yeah. So I owe Miles a flag, so.

[Tyler]

Very patriotic of them.

[Jared]

No.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Jared]

And then he just was running around with the very sharp stake of wood.

[Ryan]

I didn't say anything, but I was thinking, Tyler, you should Go get that sharp object from your child. I did get it. You did? Go get it. Yeah.

[Tyler]

Good control of your kid.

[Ryan]

It was, it was, it was Hurricane Ziggler at my cabin.

[Jared]

It was.

[Ryan]

I mean, everyone had fun. It just was definitely just more than I'm used to.

[Jared]

New place too. Not an excuse. They were crazy. I'm not saying they weren't, but it's like they wanted to see everything and see it at once. So they're just one Ziggler this way, one Ziggler that way, one Ziggler this way. One's in the dock, one's in the front yard, one's in the house.

[Ryan]

And, and Anna and I, before they came over, put out some like, toys and stuff for everyone to use because we were thinking like, oh, if they, if we have something for to do, you know, they'll just like do that stuff. I actually think it may have been less chaos if we had no toys at all. Yeah, it actually created more chaos.

[Jared]

I think this is that same effect. Like, look at all these toys. Let's touch them all. Let's move them and, and use. Use none of them for their intended purpose, but we're going to use every single toy here.

[Ryan]

I also do now have to go diving for a. A watering can at the end of my dock, by the way.

[Miles]

Christ.

[Ryan]

I was, I was fishing off the dock last night and I looked in the water and I was like, what the hell is that? And I asked Ann and she said, oh, yeah, the thing. One of the kids threw it out there and it floated out and sunk.

[Jared]

That was your kid did that one?

[Ryan]

That was.

[Jared]

That was one of your kids.

[Ryan]

My kid knows not to throw stuff. Yeah.

[Tyler]

That was affected by Hurricane Ziggler.

[Jared]

Yeah. The only thing that, like most of it was pretty run of the mill chaos. My Olaf was being a little to Anne. He was splashing her. I think he was flirting with her.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Nice.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Let's go.

[Jared]

Yeah, he's. He's starting to think girls are hot.

[Tyler]

Really?

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You better get a lockdown on those Google searches if I know anything about Zigglers. Yeah, you better, you better turn on some whatever parental filter you can turn on on all your devices.

[Jared]

Yep.

[Tyler]

Head on a swivel for phrase track schedule on your Google searches.

[Jared]

That's right. Yeah.

[Tyler]

Yeah. There is something true. Like you say, when it's just the two of your boys, it's Kumbaya 3. It's chaos.

[Jared]

Yep.

[Tyler]

I feel like that's the same with like adults, because if it's just being You, Tyler. It's pretty casual.

[Jared]

Yep.

[Tyler]

But if there's another dude in the room, it turns into like kind of like shit talking a little bit more.

[Jared]

Totally.

[Tyler]

Yeah. So there is that little bit of that. I don't know that.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Tomfoolery as you get older too. That's weird where you like break each other's balls and stuff.

[Jared]

Yeah. Like I could have a very casual night out fishing with one buddy, we introduce a third and all of a sudden beers are getting thrown back.

[Tyler]

Right.

[Jared]

Like in excess.

[Tyler]

Right. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Maybe it's just a guy thing in general that we get three or more guys in one room. It turns divulges into chaos.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I kind of that tribe mentality.

[Tyler]

Right.

[Ryan]

But there's just two of you. You're just a duo. You're a partnership.

[Tyler]

Right.

[Ryan]

As soon as you become a tribe, all of a sudden there's chaos.

[Tyler]

It's almost like a competition.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Who could have the best insult? Almost.

[Ryan]

You know, if. If guys wanted to have a pretty chill bachelor party, they would have 10 mini bachelor parties with one of their.

[Jared]

Just partner them all up. They would get. They would get five tea times and purposely just make it twosomes.

[Ryan]

And it would be the most mild bachelor party of all time.

[Tyler]

Right. It just feel like getting beers.

[Jared]

It also didn't help that we were grossly under prepared for the lake. We didn't have swimsuits. We didn't have anything. So one of my kids just running around in his underwear.

[Ryan]

I was wondering about that. You guys did know you were coming to a lake cabin?

[Jared]

Yeah, it was. We had that. We have a lake bag packed constantly and we just forgot it because we were in town all day and we like stayed at grandma's before coming to your place.

[Ryan]

Got it.

[Jared]

So the lake bag never made it into the car.

[Tyler]

They just try to survive.

[Jared]

Yes.

[Ryan]

Trying to.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Thank God the kid had underwear.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that was it.

[Jared]

We. We had changes of clothes for two of the three kids. And the one kid that we didn't have a change of clothes for, he was ripping in his is paw patrol undies all over Miles lake lot.

[Tyler]

Classic.

[Ryan]

It's fine though.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

But I just thought I'd share that. That hurricane Ziggler came through my cabin yesterday.

[Tyler]

And you will rebuild.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah. We're recovering.

[Tyler]

FEMA's there.

[Ryan]

The red Cross dropped off some water for us, But yeah.

[Tyler]

Stayed at a camper.

[Jared]

This shitty FEMA tension fire fest.

[Ryan]

Yeah. But the. The local communities really come together to rebuild.

[Tyler]

Rebuild by that water can.

[Jared]

Yeah. A Bunch of churches are on going on missions to Miles Lake now.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Weird what happened. We're actually staying in the Fargo Dome with all the other survivors this week.

[Tyler]

Just like a couple cots right in the middle. Yeah.

[Jared]

Just put them on the 50 yard line like it's gonna fill up fast. I heard the zigglers are going to another lake this weekend.

[Tyler]

Fourth of July too. It's gonna be chaotic with fireworks.

[Ryan]

But yeah, it was. Everyone had a good time.

[Tyler]

That's good.

[Ryan]

But yeah, it's like, I don't know, it's just every time I get together with friends, not even just Tyler, we have multiple kids. It just makes looking, makes having one kid look like the biggest piece of cake ever. Even on my kids worst days, it's still pretty relaxed compared to multiple kids.

[Jared]

I mean like we always use football references, right? One kid.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jared]

You're double teamed. Someone, two kids, it's still man. And you get to three now you're running zone.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

And one of them's an athlete. So it's like running. Keeping him in the zone is a lot harder. And then you got a spy, you have somebody, you have over the top help. So you pass that one off. But if they're looking at the, the flats and the two year olds running around in the flats, the six year old, he's deep, he's in the end zone already. You missed him because I went and picked up the four year old that was coming across the middle.

[Tyler]

You're right on. Bengals def.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

The worst defense of the league.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Well. And it just also is making a case for spreading them out as well.

[Jared]

Totally. And I always feel bad shipping one off, but it's like you sometimes you gotta like. I feel kind of like you go with your aunt this weekend. It's not because I don't love you. It's because that the other two need a little bit of attention too. And it's just like it's such a weird mental game.

[Tyler]

Right. And all the kids are under the age of six, right?

[Jared]

Yep.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

That's the oldest is six.

[Tyler]

Right. So you're like in that prime territory of tomfoolery.

[Jared]

Yeah. So what we've started to do and I recommend this to anyone, like if you have a family member that is super involved or whatever. They take turns at my sisters. So once a month one of them gets to go spend the weekend with my sister.

[Tyler]

That's good.

[Ryan]

What does your sister think of that?

[Jared]

She loves it. Oh. She's like, I don't want all three of them Just give me one at a time.

[Ryan]

There you go.

[Tyler]

That's a win win. Yeah, Yeah, I like that.

[Ryan]

That's sweet. So yeah, you survived.

[Jared]

Yep, I survived.

[Ryan]

Also at the lake, I've been trying to get my garage slowly. I feel like I said this already, but I'm slowly trying to collect things because I'd like it to be this, my workbench in there. I'd like it to be full, but I'd like to do it for as cheap as possible. And even if that takes me 10 years, you know what I mean? So like for example, my father in law is getting rid of a like a smaller shop vac. They asked if I wanted it, I said yes. So now I got a shop vac at the lake that I didn't need to buy. Even if it's not the most heavy duty one, even if it's not the largest. It's just at least it's a shop vac and I got one there.

[Tyler]

As it sucks.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, as long as it sucks. That thing really sucks.

[Jared]

I got a little shot.

[Ryan]

That's why I should have stammet. They said, do you want this? I go, well, does it suck? And then they wouldn't have known if I meant that. It's good or it's bad, right?

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Damn. Missed opportunity.

[Jared]

Little shop vac is actually nicer than you think because you can. You put it up on top of the workbench with you.

[Miles]

There you go.

[Jared]

And it doesn't take up a shitload of space. I have a, not a mini but a medium sized one that I keep up on top of the workbench.

[Tyler]

Great rapper name too. A little Shop Vac.

[Jared]

Yeah, a little Shop Vac.

[Ryan]

And so I've been doing that and I actually got the biggest compliment from my brother ever. He was back there, we were milling around in the garage and he looks at me, he's just like, I could drink some beers in here.

[Jared]

Hell yeah.

[Ryan]

And I feel like that's when you know your garage is starting to become a place of like a good garage is when guys are suddenly just feeling the pull to just slam beers in there. I don't know if you guys know I'm talking. Sometimes you just walk into a garage and you're just like, this garage tastes like beer.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

There's something in the air here that just tastes like a, like a ice cold bush light.

[Tyler]

It's like that old. It smells like old beer that like signals to your brain like stale beer,

[Jared]

engine oil and sawdust. Awesome. That needs to be a Cologne or a candle. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Old beer.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Instead of that new car smell, it's that old garage smell. Candle. God, that would be a great candle. Yeah. The only thing I think I'm missing to be able to really be able to start hammering beers in the garage is a girl, is a beer fridge. I have one at my house. But I, I, I don't know. To me, it feels like if I go searching for a garage fridge, I'm not gonna find it.

[Tyler]

Right.

[Ryan]

But I just believe that the world's gonna bring me one at some point. I, I've had you guys ever feel that about stuff. You're like, yeah, it would be nice to have another garage fridge. But I just, I don't know, there's just something calming about, like it's just gonna, it's gonna fall in my lap at some point.

[Jared]

Yeah. Very similar situation with the garage fridge for me. I was gonna, you know that little white one we used to have in the shop? That was my college dorm fridge. And Ryan was trying to get rid of him. Like, I'm gonna put that in my garage. I was like, nah, it's too little. That's not a garage fridge. And then a week later, Ryan's like, hey, my in laws are getting rid of a fridge. Do you want it? And I was like, yes, I do. I want that fridge.

[Ryan]

That is, it's true. If you go searching for a garage fridge, you're not gonna find one or it'll break right away. Like the, my garage at home, my in laws were like, hey, we're getting rid of this fridge. Do you want it works great. All you got to. It's a little wobbly, but all you got to do is stick like a little piece of wood underneath the one corner and it's perfect.

[Tyler]

Like, that's perfect.

[Ryan]

And it works like a charm. It's like, that's the one thing I, I, I need but I'm not searching for because I'm going to, it's just going to fall.

[Jared]

It'll show up. It'll show up. You'll be driving down the road one day and you'll just see one on some at the end of someone's driveway that says free. Works great

[Tyler]

Boulevard days. You might find one.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

So, yeah. What are some other things you guys think? You know, that like, a garage is a great place to just hang out and drink beers in.

[Tyler]

I think just like one neon sign.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Tyler]

It could be anything too. But that, that just sets the vibe that you're almost in a bar. I Could pound beers in here.

[Jared]

Yeah. Like you're allowed to drink in here. Yeah. It doesn't have to necessarily be like, oh, I'm this. They're trying to make it look like a bar. It's just like almost permission granted to drink. I would also say the same effect with any sort of like beer mirror or like any sort of bar decoration in there.

[Tyler]

Bar decor. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Even if it's like a sign that just says something dumb on it with, with a liquor logo.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

And that is your sign to start drinking.

[Ryan]

It's your sign.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Here's your sign.

[Jared]

Somebody should just make a sign that's that. That says, here's your sign to start drinking.

[Ryan]

Let's do it. Call Ryan Thomas. Vacation's over. He's got to start sourcing signs.

[Jared]

Get on it.

[Ryan]

We're not selling T shirts right now. But we're selling. We're selling signs that says this is your sign to start drinking.

[Tyler]

We'll get 5,000.

[Jared]

That's it.

[Ryan]

Now. Screw that. I feel so good about this. Deal is get 20,000.

[Jared]

Hell yeah.

[Ryan]

There's no way we can't sell through 20,000 in like a month and a half.

[Jared]

That's a great bar sign.

[Ryan]

I'm sure it's mid made.

[Jared]

Yeah. Not by us though.

[Tyler]

Yeah, it's by us.

[Jared]

We just came up with it now.

[Tyler]

Right. I'd say like more than like, I would say it has to be like four old bar stools. Like leather bar stools. That's a good sign.

[Ryan]

That's a good sign. I think that that's a sign of a very mature garage if you actually have a dedicated spot that basically is a bar in your garage. Like my dad had a buddy who had like actual like booths and an actual bar rail in his garage.

[Jared]

That's cool.

[Ryan]

But he's, you know, he's an older guy. I feel like that's something that is like a very mature garage.

[Tyler]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jared]

I am in the market for a bar store right now because I want. I want to sit at my workbench and work and when it's high up, because I have the workbench butted up to the back of my table saw so that when wood size off, it's just already on my workbench there's an island bench. And so on the opposite side of it, I want a stool so I can sit there and do my things.

[Tyler]

Are you gonna let the stool find you or are you gonna find the stool?

[Jared]

I'm gonna let the stool find me.

[Tyler]

There you go.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Smart. I mean, I feel like that's how a garage should be.

[Jared]

I kind of only want one because I want the seating to be sort of weird.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jared]

Like, I have a recliner in there that I sit. I sit on this recliner when I sand things. So I sit there and I. I sit in this recliner.

[Ryan]

Is it leather?

[Jared]

No, it's. It's. It's got a lot of sawdust. You pat that thing well in the same as leather.

[Ryan]

It's great, too, that you can just wipe her right off.

[Jared]

Yeah, no, no. She's caked with the dust.

[Tyler]

It's the layer of dust.

[Jared]

Yep.

[Ryan]

I also. I think a. I think another good sign that a garage is. Is truly a garage you want to hang out in is if there is a section of the garage that is just. You're gonna find the most random you could possibly find. You may have a car battery sitting there. You may have a lacrosse stick. Or, like, even though you don't know anyone who's ever played lacrosse ever.

[Tyler]

Or, like, three football helmets that are really old.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You know, there's a ratchet strap that's literally completely broken, but you just can't throw it away.

[Jared]

It's a good hook on the end of that.

[Tyler]

Yeah, yeah, I'll need this.

[Ryan]

And it's just. It's just the most random stuff, because when you're drinking a beer, that's when you start kind of, like, noticing that corner, and you start going, like, I gotta know the story behind this old Broncos helmet. What's going on with that? You're not even a Broncos fan, Right. There's always a story. And that's the thing about a garage. If you go and try and find stuff for your garage, then you're never gonna have any stories about it. They go, where'd you get that Broncos helmet? Be like, oh, I went to look for decor to put in my garage, and I found it where instead.

[Jared]

Lame as hell.

[Ryan]

That's lame. But if you're like, oh, this sign that I have that says, private work shop, leave my mess alone, That's a rug mounted to a piece of wood that actually turned into a sign. Be like, oh, that was the sign that was hanging in my dad's cabin when he bought it as the old guy. So it's, like, 40 years old. It's, like, cooler than. Oh, I just went to the flea market and bought it.

[Tyler]

It's more authentic, more organic.

[Jared]

I've. I've started on the. There's a slab of wood above the window because My garage is unfinished. That has become the. My grandpa doesn't want his deer antlers.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Jared]

Yeah, he shoots the dinkers. He doesn't want them. And he's like, you deal with them. So I've been taking them every year for the last 10 years. And now I've started mounting grandpa's deers.

[Tyler]

Great story.

[Ryan]

I like that.

[Jared]

So there's. There's a whole wall of grandpa's four corners.

[Ryan]

You should call it the wall of impatience. And it's a great reminder to be patient and wait for a bigger buck to come along.

[Jared]

It's the wall of I need new glasses and I gotta stop shooting forks because I think they're. Does.

[Ryan]

There you go. Whatever. See? Then that's like. Okay. What's your interpretation of this wall?

[Tyler]

Yeah, it's like an art installation.

[Jared]

Yep.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I actually. Because my. There is no. I have no, like. There's no like sheetrock in my garage. Just the rafters. And so I have started hanging stuff in the rafters. And the first thing that I got hung up there is our old ski horse from when I was a kid. Me and my buddy down the road, we mounted a bike frame to some skis and pulled it behind the boat. And it actually worked until, you know, after we did it like 12 times, then it finally busted and then it. And then it was just in my parents garage and now I have it hanging in the rafters.

[Jared]

Your parents had to be so excited

[Ryan]

to not rid of it out of

[Jared]

their garage for you to get the cabin next to them and just start shipping your back over.

[Ryan]

And my wife was not very happy that that didn't go out on cleanup week. But it's going to be in the rafters forever. I mean, the rafters for the next 60 years.

[Tyler]

It's almost like a personal museum to

[Jared]

be in the rafters till your kid gets a wild hair and wants to build it himself and him and his four brothers.

[Ryan]

It just. No, yeah, it's. I mean, it's just all it takes is a couple bolts and that thing's back and ready to roll.

[Tyler]

Right. And you tell that when you're telling the story, that's how you end it.

[Ryan]

So, yeah, I'm excited to also see what happened. What gets up in the rafters.

[Tyler]

Right.

[Ryan]

You know, we also do have a pink flamingo floaty in the rafters, but that's not gonna stay there forever.

[Tyler]

No good story behind it.

[Ryan]

There is no good story behind it. It's mostly just. I didn't want to stare at that thing on the ground anymore. So I put it up there so I don't have to look at it. Right.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

It is a great spot to forget about things.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah. Oh, no. I forgot that was up there.

[Tyler]

I feel like whenever there's like a. A heater in the garage that levels up a garage.

[Jared]

Yeah. I need a heater pad. It's tough being out there in the winter.

[Tyler]

Like a corner ceiling unit. Like, this guy's serious about his garage.

[Jared]

Yeah. I have a. One of those propane cylinder ones that look like a giant bazooka. You just hook the grill. Propane thing. But it's so goddamn loud. It sounds like a jet engine.

[Ryan]

But that thing heats a spot up.

[Jared]

It does that.

[Ryan]

So you only got to put it on for like, five minutes, and then you're sitting sweating.

[Jared]

And I'm just. I'm worried about it because it's open flame.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jared]

And I'm doing w working, so I really want a ceiling unit like Ryan has. I think you have one in your garage at home that I'm in the market for. One of those guys.

[Ryan]

I got a hot dog or something is what it's called.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Nice one.

[Tyler]

Nice and warm.

[Ryan]

It's a big dog.

[Tyler]

That. That. That is like a head turner for me. Like, damn, they are serious about this garage. They have a heater.

[Ryan]

I. I even think if you. Well, how do you guys feel about, like a window AC unit or even like a mini split in your garage?

[Tyler]

Oh, yeah, that's.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Because I've been thinking about that a little bit. I've been thinking about. But then you gotta have the garage door close. And I love having the garage door open.

[Jared]

That's true. Yeah. One thing that I did. I didn't design my garage. I bought it like this, but it's. So it's. It's technically a three stall, but it's only two stall wide. And the third stall is on the back. So there's two doors here and then a third door here. And if you pop open all three a lot. Perfect breeze through there.

[Ryan]

That's the problem with mine right now is I had no airflow because I just got the. The doors in the front.

[Jared]

I need to.

[Ryan]

I need to punch a hole in the back wall.

[Jared]

You just need to drink a couple Mountain Dews and just start punching. Ventilating the back.

[Ryan]

Just start taking a hammer. Sledgehammer to the back. I do have a perfect lot set up to where if I put a garage door out the back, it would be pretty nice.

[Jared]

Yeah. Because I got that spot back There, do it on. If you're facing the back, your back, left wall.

[Ryan]

See, I was thinking back, right wall.

[Jared]

I don't know, you put it wherever you want. It's your garage.

[Ryan]

But I'm probably not going to do that.

[Tyler]

It's a lot of work.

[Ryan]

It's probably going to stay exactly the way it is for like the next 20 years.

[Jared]

Just let the garage door come to you.

[Tyler]

If somebody offers like, hey, that you could use a garage door there and he does all the work, then that's a good, good thing to do.

[Ryan]

And I think also a good. So there's a lot of stuff. You buy a lake cabin, there's a lot of stuff that you'd like to do. Right. You're like, oh, we could do this with it. We could do this. I could put up 14 sheds on this because I got room. You know, you're like, we use a shed for that. We could have a shed for that. And then you get to the point where you realize I should only do stuff that has a specific use for.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Because I'd like a, I'd like a shed on the front lot that we got so I don't got to walk all the way to the back lot every single time. But then, you know, I'm not spending as much, much time back in the garage.

[Jared]

You gotta force yourself in there.

[Ryan]

And I still, and I still got room in the garage to store stuff. I should only build an additional shed once the garage is too full. Then we have an overflow shed instead of just prematurely building a shed.

[Jared]

And pretty soon your kid's gonna be old enough to send him to the garage to get stuff for you.

[Ryan]

So, yeah, you know, it's like inevitably when I end up buying a boat because my dad's goes to, he's not buying another one that I'm gonna have to like, all right. Is this gonna fit in my garage over the winter? You know?

[Tyler]

Right.

[Ryan]

And if it doesn't, then I got to build a bigger garage or I got to build a, you know, an addition on it so I can put it on there. You know, because building an addition on to your garage is so much cheaper than just doing cold bolt storage somewhere.

[Tyler]

I have to do that.

[Ryan]

I have to do it.

[Tyler]

Are you running to the problem of like, you have too much in your garage or not?

[Ryan]

Not yet. I, we. Anna and I threw a bunch of stuff away, got rid of a bunch of stuff. So we're kind of starting with a clean slate here.

[Tyler]

Good.

[Ryan]

And it only took me like five years to do that after buying the cabin. But we kind of got a clean slate and I've been pretty intentional about what gets to stay and what has to go. So I think I should be good for like 30 years in that garage.

[Tyler]

Oh yeah, for sure. Then you build the addition.

[Ryan]

Because I've also started a rule where if I can, until I run out of space, every. Nothing can go on the ground other than a vehicle. I don't ain't that or directly up against the wall. So like we have like a. A cart with all of our like kids toys in it that just gets shoved up against the wall. But like floaties and yard games and stuff either goes on a shelf or gets hung on a nail on the wall.

[Tyler]

Gotcha. So the giant Jenga is on a wall?

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Tyler]

Yeah, yeah. Giant Connect four on the wall.

[Jared]

The giant Jenga is still in two by fours behind the garage outside.

[Ryan]

Well, no, it's. Yeah, it's just not on the floor. So I have a pallet that it goes on.

[Jared]

Yeah, yeah, that counts.

[Ryan]

It's got to be elevated.

[Jared]

When I first moved into my house and I was organizing the garage, I legitimately was hanging some things one foot off the ground. Oh, it just feels better.

[Ryan]

It's just great. Because if that's. That's the place that it goes, you know, there's something like, like you watch like guys build like cabins in the woods, you know, and they'll like make like this. They'll make like an 8 inch by 8 inch shelf for a specific tool that they have and that you can just tell they're like that feels that puts my mind at ease and that eliminates clut even though it didn't.

[Jared]

And then they'll never put it there.

[Ryan]

No.

[Jared]

You're in the middle of probably you're just setting it the closest place possible.

[Tyler]

Then you can't find.

[Jared]

You're like, ah, it's not on its designated shelf.

[Ryan]

I actually, the guy that I bought it from used to. He had an old radio collection. Like vintage radios.

[Jared]

That's cool.

[Ryan]

And so that's why I have all those shelves in my garage is all of those shelves were full of radios.

[Jared]

Interesting.

[Ryan]

And so I actually have an excess of shelves to where like I kind of want to take a portion of the shelves down and put up more pegboard.

[Jared]

Okay.

[Tyler]

I think I say put up more

[Ryan]

radios, start my own radio collection.

[Tyler]

I kind of like this.

[Jared]

Well, if you want to get rid of shelves, let me know.

[Ryan]

Yeah, so we'll see. Because I. Because I did find some old Pegboard from my dad's old. From his garage that I moved over to my garage.

[Jared]

It found you.

[Ryan]

It found me.

[Miles]

There you go.

[Ryan]

They were gonna get rid of it. Can you believe that?

[Jared]

What the.

[Ryan]

They were just gonna throw it away.

[Jared]

Did you look at him and say, you've changed?

[Ryan]

Yeah, a little bit.

[Jared]

Who are you?

[Ryan]

No, I've been kind of giving them. I. When they were cleaning out, I was. He did keep some stuff that I was like, dad, why?

[Miles]

My.

[Ryan]

My. And my parents. My mom gets a little sentimental about stuff too. So the first video that blew up for us was the spotted cow versus the bush light video. The table that I shot that video at, my mom refuses to throw away because I shot it at their cabin at their table. And it's still just taking up a full load of room in their garage.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And it's like the. The. The. They. It was a table that was just a regular table that my mom broke plates and then glued them to the top of it and made, like, a tile table herself.

[Jared]

That's kind of cool.

[Ryan]

It's cool. But now the tiles are, like, coming off and stuff, so it's like it just needs to get junked. But my mom refuses to throw it away because that was the table. Yeah.

[Tyler]

Well, that's gonna go in our museum someday.

[Ryan]

I'll put it in the rafters.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

But what I should do is just chisel off a couple of tiles and put that up.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Not the whole table.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You know, it's a cool table, but it definitely. You could tell my dad's, like, kind of a little annoyed at me for putting significance on that table so he can't get rid of it. Gotcha. That makes sense.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Way to go, Miles.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

That table is like Shaq on the Celtics past its prime.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Yep. But it's fine. We also. My parents. My dad being the true concrete guy that he was. That he is. They went. When we moved in the cabin, they redid the countertops and made concrete countertops. So, like, the island in my parents cabin was made out of concrete that we formed up. And what they did was. Is actually pretty cool at the time that it just kind of got old and kind of not great. But they. They made the top of the concrete look like it was sand with, like, shells and stuff in it. And then they poured resin over the top up so that it was like, literally, the island looked like it was beach sand with, like, shells and stuff.

[Jared]

That's cool.

[Ryan]

But I don't know if you guys know anything about concrete. Countertops is. They're heavy. And we had, when they decided they were going to get rid of it, that they were going to redo it again. Getting that thing that. Because we couldn't throw it away because it was like, this is now a piece of art. That's history to the cabin. So we have this like 500 pound countertop just leaned up against the wall in my dad's garage.

[Jared]

What could you.

[Ryan]

And then. But so it started as like, God, it's cool, we can't get rid of this. And now it's like we can't get rid of this because no one wants to lift this and throw it away. And if we put it out on cleanup week, the guys coming around grabbing all of the garbage is not. They're not gonna be able to lift it it in there. So it's going to have to be us taking it somewhere and we're just not willing to do that.

[Jared]

It's just like tamp down a spot in the yard and it becomes like a, A grill patio type of thing. I don't know.

[Ryan]

Just bury it.

[Jared]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tyler]

I was thinking like, like chip it away in pieces. But that's probably a no go if you're gonna throw.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's like a. It's like when an old school comes down, everyone can take a brick.

[Jared]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like getting a seat out of the Metrodome.

[Ryan]

Did you guys get a seat?

[Jared]

No, I was too young when that happened.

[Ryan]

That would have been sick.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Didn't get that.

[Jared]

Didn't they go for like 800 bucks a piece?

[Tyler]

Something like that.

[Jared]

And there's.

[Ryan]

That's crazy.

[Jared]

Like 50,000 seats.

[Ryan]

That's crazy.

[Tyler]

Pays for itself.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Nice.

[Tyler]

Well, you could make maybe swim up bar out of that puppy. Two. Two spa bars?

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Even though it's like two, it's like two or three times as thick as the other concrete table. That was a pain in the ass to take in and out. I mean this thing, it was literally like this thick, like like 4 inches. 4 to 5 inches thick of concrete.

[Jared]

When did you get rid of it? Cuz I don't ever remember seeing that.

[Ryan]

It was a long time ago.

[Jared]

Okay.

[Ryan]

But yeah, so. And now my parents have butcher block countertops. Whoever thought making countertops of something that can't get wet?

[Tyler]

Oh, really? Can't get wet? I didn't know that.

[Ryan]

Well, you can, but you gotta like wipe it up real quick so the wood doesn't go bad.

[Tyler]

Oh, okay.

[Ryan]

And what's funny is it just drives my brother up A wall. He's like, yeah, let's new countertops out of that. You can't get wet.

[Tyler]

That makes a lot of sense.

[Ryan]

So annoyed by it.

[Tyler]

The benefit is, is that it's like a cutting board. Right. You can use it or.

[Jared]

No, but yeah, you. If like you're using a butcher block in a restaurant.

[Tyler]

Right.

[Jared]

But like, it's your home. So then your countertop will be all have a bunch of cut marks on it.

[Ryan]

Yeah. So it's.

[Tyler]

I suppose so.

[Jared]

You. You can. You absolutely can.

[Ryan]

It's literally just an aesthetic.

[Tyler]

Sure. Okay. So I like the look of them, but. Yeah, it's not practical. Then it's not good.

[Ryan]

Yeah,

[Tyler]

they. They struggle with countertops. It sounds like they can't get the right one.

[Ryan]

Well, no, it's the right one until it's not.

[Tyler]

Sure.

[Ryan]

You know, my mom likes to change things up quite a bit.

[Tyler]

And you have to lift it in and out all the time.

[Ryan]

Yeah. So. Well, Jared, you got anything else for us?

[Tyler]

I just want to do this patron question here.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Tyler]

Let's see. Low T sheely racing a truck in the county fair this year. What are some things I should do to it both aesthetically and mechanically?

[Ryan]

You're gonna want to do so well, one, you're talking to the wrong guys about mechanically.

[Tyler]

Maybe a V8 in there.

[Ryan]

Maybe some nos.

[Jared]

I'm sorry, can you repeat. To repeat the question, I was pulling up my fun fact.

[Tyler]

Racing the truck in the county fair this year. What are some things I should do to it both aesthetically. That's a hard thing to say. And mechanically.

[Jared]

If I've learned anything from the racing shows that I've watched. Fiction. You should get some spikes sticking out of your hubcaps so that when another car wants to rub.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jared]

It destroys their tires and they go careening off the road.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Kind of like on grease.

[Jared]

Yeah. Like on Greece. Like mad max fury road. Just maybe a flamethrower. An oil slick out of the pack that you have to flip open a cover and then press a button.

[Ryan]

I think that you're also going to want to catch some eyes pre race to either. To either create haters or lifelong fans. And I think you need to do the snoop dogg hydraulics. And while you're rolling up to the starting line, be bouncing on the front tires.

[Tyler]

Oh, yes.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Hydraulics could be huge.

[Tyler]

Distracted.

[Ryan]

Yep. I'm. I think paint job go with something super memorable. Flames.

[Miles]

Flames

[Ryan]

with. And it just says suck my ass on the side.

[Jared]

People would not forget that.

[Ryan]

Suck my ass. Something like that.

[Tyler]

On the back bumper, it says wash me or something.

[Jared]

Yeah. On the back bumper says, if you can read this, get. So.

[Ryan]

Yeah, if you could read this. Suck my ass. I think if it's a truck, definitely do truck.

[Tyler]

Trucks. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Any amount of loss of speed due to drag from your balls dragging on the ground. Worth it is worth it. One and two, you're gonna make up for the other, the intimidation factor to the other. To the other drivers.

[Jared]

And don't get like. Like typical truck nuts. Get huge ones, big ones. Yeah.

[Tyler]

That drag.

[Jared]

Yeah. They should be spraying sparks.

[Ryan]

I think the other direction you could go is make it like a really girly truck. Paint it pink, put eyelashes on it, put a bra on the front, do all that stuff. So when you do win, the guys are emasculated because they lost the guy in the pink truck with eyelashes. You know what I mean?

[Tyler]

Yep.

[Jared]

They put a skirt on it.

[Ryan]

It's like losing to Caleb Williams because he's got his fingernails painted.

[Tyler]

It's exactly.

[Ryan]

You know what I mean? It's just, hey, the Vikings lost. Not only did they lose, they lost to a guy with his fingernails painted. Not great.

[Tyler]

No.

[Ryan]

So, yeah, I mean, I think all those are probably good options.

[Tyler]

Yeah, I'd agree.

[Ryan]

I think also, if I know anything about cool cars, you gotta have, you know, you open up the trunk and you just have only speakers and subwoofers back there with, like, underglow and neon lights and preferably, if you could have Ludicrous walking around with a comb stuck in his afro, that would be great too.

[Jared]

Yeah. Maybe if you could. You could get exhibit to put a fish tank in the back seat. Make the whole back seat a fish

[Tyler]

tank and a PS2 in the back.

[Jared]

Yeah, it's gotta be a PS2. Yeah.

[Tyler]

Yep.

[Jared]

Make the car undrivable.

[Ryan]

Yeah. So, yeah.

[Jared]

Should be fun. Good luck.

[Ryan]

Good luck. Good luck in the races. You got a fun fact, Tyler?

[Jared]

I do.

[Ryan]

Do you have a backup fun fact, Jared? Okay, so this is Ride or Die here with Tyler's fun fact.

[Jared]

Okay. Jared Schumacher is a great cook. He makes fettuccine Alfredo where he has a homemade roux so the sauce doesn't curdle.

[Tyler]

Yeah, that's sort of true. I don't really make a roux for fettuccine, but, yeah, I make a good fettuccine.

[Jared]

I've heard it's not just good, it's great.

[Ryan]

What are we doing?

[Jared]

Jared is a fun fact about Jared.

[Ryan]

Did we decide we were doing a fun fact about Jared?

[Jared]

I was in charge of Fun facts. So I picked one about J, which

[Ryan]

he said is not even a full truth fact.

[Tyler]

I don't really make a roux or fettuccine, but.

[Ryan]

What's a roux?

[Jared]

A roux is just, like, thickens a sauce.

[Tyler]

It's something you start with in a pan. Would be usually with, like flour and. Or like butter or oil, and you stir it, and that's like the foundation of a sauce.

[Ryan]

Got it.

[Tyler]

Or like a jambalaya or a soup.

[Ryan]

Got it.

[Jared]

So, like, sauce, like the gravy on biscuits and gravy has a real thick roux.

[Tyler]

Gravy will always have a roux, typically way.

[Ryan]

And so you're saying you don't have a roof for your fetuccini?

[Tyler]

No, I don't really. I sort of do one. It's mostly melted butter.

[Jared]

Sort of.

[Tyler]

Yeah, sort of. I guess you could call it a roux. I don't know what you would call it, but I make a mean fettuccine.

[Ryan]

So you're a cook?

[Tyler]

I like cooking. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Why don't you. Why don't we do a little cooking segment once a month where you bring in some food and we eat it and we critique it.

[Tyler]

I could bring fetuccini in. Yeah.

[Jared]

Oh, yeah.

[Tyler]

Or chicken Alfredo.

[Ryan]

Something nice and light, you know? Right. Especially if you do in the afternoon right before dinner.

[Jared]

Let's do it right before. Podcasts were nice and bogged down.

[Tyler]

I could. I make jambalaya too. I like making jumbalaya.

[Ryan]

I would actually like to try your jambalaya.

[Tyler]

Okay.

[Jared]

How spicy is it?

[Tyler]

Oh, it's not. I can make it not very spicy.

[Ryan]

Make it spicy.

[Jared]

I can handle, like, sweat on like, a Midwest scale. I can handle like a six.

[Tyler]

Okay.

[Ryan]

Make it a nine and a half on the Midwest scale.

[Tyler]

On average.

[Jared]

My pants.

[Tyler]

On an average scale, it's like three.

[Jared]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Give me a world three and a Midwest seven. Do you.

[Ryan]

Do you put like, like. Do you, like, put like, crackers and in after you're done jambalaya?

[Tyler]

No.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah.

[Jared]

God damn.

[Tyler]

It might be more of a gumbo. Gumbo is more of a soup.

[Ryan]

It would be. It would be a great prank if you got like, the one chip challenge for, like, a tortilla soup, but didn't tell Tyler that they were. So he takes, like four of them and crunches them up and puts them in his soup.

[Jared]

I mean, have you ever done the one chip challenge? No. You know what that thing is when you take it out of the package, the smell is bad.

[Ryan]

You've Done it.

[Jared]

Yeah, I did it on stream when we were streaming.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan]

God, that's a lifetime ago.

[Tyler]

I can read Jumbalaya.

[Ryan]

Yeah. So we'll do a jambalaya. Do a jambalaya. Next couple weeks. I don't know when you want to

[Tyler]

do it, but still, it takes a lot of work. But yeah, I can do it.

[Jared]

When? My source told me that you're very patient when making your roux. How long does it take?

[Tyler]

Like, yeah, Jumbalaya Roo. That'll. You'll be at the stove for at least a half hour, just stirring.

[Jared]

Damn.

[Tyler]

It helps to have a couple beers while you're doing it. Yeah, because you're just constantly stirring in the Dutch oven.

[Jared]

Yeah. Because you can't, like, you can't stop or it'll burn to the pan. Right?

[Tyler]

Yeah. If that happens, you just start over. That's kind of how it works.

[Ryan]

Yikes.

[Jared]

Gotcha.

[Tyler]

All right, so it's a lot of

[Jared]

endurance sense, this fun fact about Jared, isn't it?

[Tyler]

It's.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's all right.

[Tyler]

Can't wait for you guys to critique.

[Ryan]

I want to be. I want a mind blowing fact about space or something.

[Jared]

It's not called mind blowing facts.

[Ryan]

All right, fine. All right, guys, thanks for tuning in to another episode of you Bet you Radio. Have a great week. We'll see you in the next one.

[Tyler]

Oh, you betcha.

[Jared]

You. Yeah.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Kareem de Jeans. Stump, everyone. Late night bonfire. Cold beers, country music. Name a better way to end a night. Can't say sex.

[Ryan]

Wait, what?

[Miles]

Beers, bonfire and country music.

[Tyler]

Yeah, Late night bonfire.

[Miles]

Is there. Is there a better trio that beats that?

[Ryan]

Oh, can't say sex.

[Tyler]

God. Guns and family.

[Ryan]

Oral sex.

[Miles]

Self sex.

[Ryan]

Self sex.

[Miles]

There's another. Another term for J. Owen.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Jerk at it.

[Miles]

Bonfire.

[Ryan]

Bonfire. Guns and country music.

[Miles]

Bonfire, beer and country music.

[Tyler]

Cold beer.

[Ryan]

There's no better way to end a night. Or a night at the lake.

[Tyler]

No way. No. Name a better way to end a night. Can't say sex.

[Miles]

We need to be clear on this because this is. He's trying to stump all of us, so we've got to be clear on what we're talking about.

[Tyler]

He's been a prick. We're gonna be a prick.

[Miles]

Yes.

[Ryan]

We're going prick for prick with this guy.

[Tyler]

Touching pricks.

[Ryan]

There's just no podcast out there. I can go prick for prick club weekend. I mean, it's pretty good. It's pretty good. I mean, I'll go winning the lottery. I mean, if this is stump, I'm not stumped. It's like winning the lottery and then to anything to other else.

[Tyler]

Hit the jackpot on a slot machine.

[Ryan]

Jackpot on the slot machine.

[Miles]

Yeah. And then getting a hole in one in Glow and on Globe all night or something.

[Tyler]

It's a great way to end the night. It's a great way. Not stumped.

[Miles]

You can buy beer for the entire county with the lottery winnings.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

That is a great lineup of. If you're being like in a much more realistic scent it sense. It is pretty good. Pretty good. But it's not stumped because.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You know, like I would say probably like having a child. Probably.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

The night.

[Miles]

If there were more parameters.

[Ryan]

Birth of my next child.

[Miles]

Yeah,

[Tyler]

yeah.

[Miles]

Like, like if the parameter was like it has to be done in a circle.

[Tyler]

That would have really.

[Miles]

Bonfire, beer, country music. It's all done in a circle.

[Tyler]

Right. It's true.

[Miles]

And circle jerk is not. It's not sex.

[Tyler]

That's true.

[Ryan]

True.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

So you would rather end the night with a circle jerk?

[Miles]

I'm just saying.

[Ryan]

Bonfire, beer and music.

[Miles]

No, I'm just saying that if there were parameters on Kareem's end, this might have been a little harder.

[Tyler]

True.

[Miles]

Literally and figuratively.

[Tyler]

Literally and physically. Let's see. Ben. Wa Balls. When's a good time to look for a new job? Every day I fight the years of high Right. To hit these more and more.

[Ryan]

I'm just like, I'm just such a bad person to ask on this question. Just the guy who's just never really worked a real job.

[Tyler]

I think I got advice. If. If like the Sunday scaries like really bother you on a Sunday, then it's time to look for a new job.

[Miles]

That's a. That's a good measure.

[Tyler]

Yes. If you're like dreading all day Sunday, then it's time to get. Get a new job like consistently.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

That's when I would say that's the time to look. Yeah.

[Miles]

And. Yeah. And if you're getting in like right at 8 and leaving right at 5 with Sunday Scaries, I think that's just.

[Ryan]

That's a. Yeah.

[Miles]

That's a recipe for possibly new job.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I even think if you just don't have any like friends at your job, probably get a new job or at least someone that you'd like to like just have non work related conversations with at work. If you don't have that, then it's. You're gonna be miserable.

[Miles]

Yeah, I think that's important,

[Ryan]

you know? Yeah, I think that's probably a good one, Jared. I like that.

[Miles]

I'd like to know what. What he does, what your job is and. And why you want to suck those.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Who's the.

[Miles]

What are they doing?

[Tyler]

Who's the worst person to work with?

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

What does that person do?

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Because if he sucks enough, we'll come sock him for you.

[Miles]

Yeah.