This Man Believes He Can Bend Time

Summary

You Betcha Radio: Episode Summary Title: This Man Believes He Can Bend Time
Release Date: May 9, 2025
Host/Authors: Myles ("Myles the You Betcha Guy"), Ryan, Tyler, and Jerrod
Description: The most "Midwest" podcast on the planet, where the gang discusses man culture, nostalgia, and Midwest living with a comedic twist.

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1. Introduction to Tim's Time-Bending Claims (00:00 - 00:32)

The episode kicks off with a monologue from Tim, who passionately claims to have manipulated time:

Tim (00:00): "I've compressed and condensed time. I've bent it... I now get 21 days a week... Stack that up over a month, I'm gonna kick your butt."

Tim's unconventional perspective on time—dividing the day into three six-hour segments to create a 21-day week—sets the stage for the hosts' ensuing discussion.

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2. Initial Reactions: Delusion or Innovation? (00:32 - 01:12)

Myles immediately skeptically labels Tim's claims as delusional:

Myles (00:32): "And that, folks, is what we call delusion."

Ryan and Jared echo surprise and skepticism, highlighting the absurdity of a 21-day week by comparing it to the more optimistic four-hour workweek concept popularized by Tim Ferriss.

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3. Exploring the Concept of Extra Days (01:12 - 02:30)

The hosts delve into the hypothetical benefits and practicalities of having additional days in a week:

Jared (01:12): "Just think about how much free time you'd have in those thousand some days."

Myles (01:15): "If you guys get 21 days in a week, that means that you get like three weekends in one week."

The conversation humorously explores using the extra time for leisure activities like golfing, with Ryan and Miles envisioning playing multiple rounds each week and significantly improving their game.

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4. Implications for Daily Life and Productivity (02:30 - 04:44)

The discussion shifts to the practicality of Tim's time manipulation, questioning how such a schedule would function in reality:

Miles (04:19): "About when he says that he is, you know, adding more days, does that mean... how does this work?"

Ed and Jared speculate on potential side effects, such as napping between cycles to reset the day, suggesting Tim might be creating an impractical and grifting schedule.

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5. Mocking Potential Scams and Products (04:44 - 07:02)

The hosts humorously critique the feasibility of selling products based on Tim's time manipulation theory, particularly focusing on oversized calendars as a likely scam:

Jared (05:06): "It's probably more likely grifting."

Miles (05:46): "He could just sell a calendar. So there's one guy that makes a killing on the Internet of selling the big ass calendar."

Ryan and Ed add to the jest by imagining exaggerated features of such a calendar, poking fun at the absurdity of the concept.

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6. Discussion on Calendar Views and Personal Preferences (07:02 - 10:14)

Shifting gears, the conversation moves to how each host prefers to view their calendars, revealing personal productivity styles:

Ryan (08:00): "I am a week guy."

Jared (08:11): "I have to have the entire month."

Myles and the gang debate the merits and drawbacks of day, week, and month views, sharing anecdotes about missed appointments and scheduling mishaps:

Miles (09:32): "I did a video titled 'I only allowed myself to view my calendar one day at a time' and it resulted in a lot of fights with my wife because I had no idea what was going on that weekend."

This segment highlights the importance of effective time management and the pitfalls of different calendar perspectives.

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7. Final Thoughts and Wrap-Up (10:14 - 11:17)

The episode concludes with the hosts reflecting on the earlier topics, emphasizing skepticism towards overcomplicated time-management schemes:

Myles (10:58): "It just proves that if you say something confidently enough, you can sound like you know what you're talking about."

They wrap up by reaffirming their Midwest charm and witty banter, leaving listeners with a blend of humor and thoughtful commentary on time perception and personal productivity.

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Key Takeaways:

• Skepticism Toward Extreme Time Management: The hosts critically examine and humorously debunk the idea of bending time to create a 21-day week.
• Humorous Exploration of Productivity Hacks: Through playful banter, they explore the unrealistic benefits and potential consequences of manipulating time.
• Personal Productivity Preferences: The discussion on calendar views provides insights into different approaches to managing schedules and the importance of finding a system that works individually.
• Critical Thinking on Scams: By mocking the concept of oversized calendars as a potential scam, the hosts encourage listeners to question and critically evaluate dubious self-improvement products.

This episode of You Betcha Radio blends humor with insightful critique, offering listeners both entertainment and food for thought on how we perceive and manage time in our daily lives.

Transcript

[Tim]

So I measure time. I've compressed and condensed time. I've bent it. My day is 6am to noon. And I'm not crazy. You're crazy for thinking it takes 24 hours, just like some dude in a cave did 300 years ago. My second day starts at noon and goes till 6pm that's day two. And then the next day is 6pm to midnight. What I've done now is I have changed and manipulated time. I now get 21 days a week. Stack that up over a month, I'm gonna kick your butt. Stacked it up over a year, you're toast. Stack it up over five years. My entire life is different than it would have been otherwise.

[Miles]

And that, folks, is what we call delusion.

[Ryan]

Holy.

[Jared]

I mean, we went from the four hour work week, work week with Tim ferriss to the 21 day week.

[Miles]

The 21 day week, I think, is what.

[Ed]

He manipulated time.

[Miles]

He manipulated time and he kicked your butt now. Yeah, you stacked that over a year. Good luck to everyone. I mean, my butt is. Could you imagine if you had. What's that, 21 a week, 21 times a thousand days in a year? Of course you're going to be way farther ahead than everyone else.

[Jared]

Just think about how much free time you'd have in those thousand some days.

[Miles]

Yeah, if, if you guys get, if you get 21 days in a week, that means that you get like three weekends in one week.

[Jared]

If I can manipulate time, I'm not going to use that extra time to work. I'm going to go golfing. I'm going to do other that I want to do, you know?

[Miles]

Yeah. I'm going to, I'm going to somehow use this to my advantage so I can golf more.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

I think there's three Saturdays every single week for me and you said I could go golfing on Saturday.

[Ryan]

Yeah, but the thing is, I fit my first 18 holes in holes one through three and then my next 18 holes are four.

[Miles]

That's true.

[Ryan]

So by the time I'm done with one round of golf, I've already golfed for an entire tournament.

[Miles]

It's true. You've done 36 holes in one round.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Miles]

And you stack that up over, you know, one day, two day, three day, you're going to be shooting way under par.

[Ryan]

I'm going be kicking your butt.

[Jared]

I think it's a good conversation to have with your boss too. Just so they understand why you're, you know, why you're golfing so much.

[Miles]

I'm going to start breaking my golf Game up like this. By hitting the fairway, that's a hole in one.

[Ryan]

I put it.

[Miles]

If I hit it next to the green, that's a hole in one. And I stack that up over. I'm gonna be shooting way under par.

[Jared]

You're gonna be kicking butt.

[Miles]

Good luck. Good luck.

[Jared]

Yeah. You want to play me for money? Good luck.

[Miles]

This is just classic guy who wants to optimize everything about his life and he's just like, oh God, yeah, I gotta rethink everything. I even gotta rethink time. What if time was different? And then that's how he gets there.

[Ryan]

Do you think he buys his own bs? Do you think he's serious?

[Miles]

Do you think I think he is? Because I've seen another clip of this guy and he talks about how he wakes up at 4am with his wife. They go on the treadmill and they do.

[Ryan]

That's day one.

[Miles]

They do, yeah. So in day one, he gets up, gets up with his wife on the treadmill and does like 30 minutes of like, like over gratitude session where they just talk about how grateful they are for everything. And I will say though, every time I come across that clip, because I have seen it, I watch it every time because so ridiculous.

[Jared]

You know what's crazy though, Miles is like me in my early to mid-20s. I would have, I probably would have tried to do something like this. I mean, went through a huge phase, which was Ed Mylett, who's on the video, Gary Vaynerchu. Like, I, I was so invested in guys like this. And then I, I think I. One day I just had an epiphany. I'm like, this is all just bogus, you know, you can't manipulate time. Like, yeah, If I had 21 days in a week, like that just. This doesn't make any sense.

[Ryan]

I mean, if you redefine the day, he's right. But it's the same amount of hours.

[Jared]

Yeah, yeah, 21 days.

[Ryan]

It's still the same amount of hours.

[Ed]

I don't really get the benefit of it.

[Miles]

About when he says that he is, you know, adding more days, does that mean. So if he's first because he breaks it up into eight hour days or six hours, something like that. So is he waking up and then at the end of that, like sleeping for an hour going into the next day or how does this work?

[Ed]

Like da Vinci.

[Ryan]

Yeah, Just constant power naps.

[Jared]

D It's a great question. It's almost like, you know, he's got blackout shades on every single window and he has like the, like the alarm clock that illuminates when it's time to wake up. He just like resets that for like 1pm so noon to 1, he's napping and then the day starts again. It's like that he's gonna start selling a product like that.

[Ed]

That's. That's probably more likely grifting.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ed]

Yeah, for sure.

[Ryan]

Is that, is that the next step for him? What is he selling?

[Miles]

Calendars.

[Ryan]

The biggest calendar you've ever seen.

[Miles]

It's. It looks like an encyclopedia hanging on the wall. It actually comes with Reinfor forced anchors to put the calendar on the wall because it's like putting a phone book.

[Ed]

Up there because of the stud fighter, I think.

[Jared]

Yeah, the Mayan calendar, that's. That's dead and gone. I mean, that was supposed to end in what, 2010, 2011, 2012. Like the, like for someone who wants to just like place their name on the calendar, like, it could be the Mylet calendar.

[Miles]

Is that the guy's name?

[Jared]

Yeah, Ed Mylet.

[Miles]

Yeah. Yeah. He could just sell a calendar. So there's one guy that makes a killing on the Internet of selling the big ass calendar. So it's just a calendar, but really big.

[Jared]

Kind of like the big ass fans.

[Miles]

Yeah, but those to me have a purpose. Correct.

[Jared]

They're practical.

[Ryan]

So the, the big ass calendar exists and somebody else sells that.

[Miles]

This is another guy sells the big ass.

[Ryan]

This dude could just sell the thick ass calendar.

[Miles]

The thick ass calendar?

[Ryan]

Yep. Because there's so many days in it.

[Miles]

Big ass.

[Ed]

What, sorry, what was this?

[Miles]

Big ass calendar.

[Ed]

Oh, calendar.

[Ryan]

Is that just like the ones that go on your desk?

[Jared]

There's probably so many like 20 some year old, like single 20 some year old dudes who would buy the thick ass calendar thinking that they're gonna get some decent photos inside of it.

[Miles]

Some. Some absolute juicy, juicy pics every time.

[Ryan]

Just so many confused reviews. Like, I didn't see a single big ass in this entire calendar. There's just extra days spent, all that money.

[Miles]

So yeah, that's what it is. It's just, it's just a really big calendar.

[Ryan]

Hey, no, no misleading. There it is, a big ass.

[Miles]

Now is. Is. Is thing. Is. Is that you. It's all 365 days in one view. So you can like see a whole year in one.

[Ryan]

Gotcha.

[Miles]

But you could just do that on a piece of paper.

[Ryan]

You could.

[Miles]

It doesn't have to be that big.

[Ed]

It could be a dot.

[Miles]

Yeah, it really, it really can be smaller.

[Ryan]

You could just shrink the font. Put it on a normal sized calendar.

[Ed]

You can make it like a PDF file.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Miles]

Just do an Excel spreadsheet. Each cell is a day.

[Ryan]

Yeah. If you go to Google Calendars it's just a drop down box. You can do the same thing.

[Ed]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You just switch your view from week to year.

[Miles]

You just press Y on Google Calendar. You can see the whole.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

That'S a great question. How do you guys like to view your calendar? Do you guys do the single day, the three day, the week or the month?

[Ryan]

I am very particular about this. I am a weak guy.

[Miles]

I am a weak guy.

[Ryan]

Only the week.

[Jared]

I can't, I cannot stray away from the month calendar.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Ed]

Same Ryan.

[Jared]

Yes. Like, like the day week or what is it? The day, three day and week. Like my brain just can't fucking look at that. I have to have the entire month.

[Miles]

So the thing I don't like about the month calendar is when you start stacking multiple things in one day, it gets so small and you're like I don't know what's going on in this day because it doesn't show me everything anyway.

[Ryan]

Right. I don't know the order you said the show more.

[Jared]

But yeah, it's like the, you have like three tasks or three events and then you just go like plus three more. You click on that, it drops it all.

[Ryan]

I hate the view so much that even when I'm looking forward, I just click through week view. I don't even zoom out to.

[Miles]

I do the same thing.

[Ryan]

Month might be if we were doing Mary Kill on this Google Calendar view. I'm killing month.

[Jared]

It's got to be like some sort of personality trait within people of like what calendar type they look at.

[Miles]

Yeah. So we're all in agreeance that if you use out the only the one day view, you're a serial killer.

[Ryan]

Crazy move.

[Miles]

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know how can you do that?

[Ed]

Yeah.

[Miles]

What about tomorrow? What about the next day?

[Jared]

But hey, like what the month. Tomorrow is not guaranteed.

[Miles]

That's true.

[Jared]

Like it could be people who only look at the day counter. It could be a great outlook.

[Ryan]

You want to live in the now.

[Miles]

Honestly. That's correct. That's that, that's true. That should be my next YouTube video. I only allowed myself to view my calendar one day at a time and this the results. I did that. Yeah. I, I, all I know is I started a lot of fights with my wife because I had no idea what was going on that weekend. I went, I scheduled so much stuff.

[Ryan]

I shouldn't have I. I woke up on a Tuesday morning really pissed off because I found out I missed a 3am flight.

[Miles]

Yeah. Because I didn't zoom out and I, I usually only look from like 8 to 5pm on my calendar. I didn't scroll up and down, so I missed my early flight. Yeah. Yeah.

[Jared]

As if I, I don't already know not know what's going on. And this is a whole new level.

[Ryan]

I could live with. Three day view.

[Miles]

A three day view. I'm on board with.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Miles]

What if Jared was just like, I, I just do the year.

[Ed]

I, I like seeing like, when the weekends are and like, oh, this is when Arbor Day is.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ed]

Gotta get my time.

[Jared]

Like, how would you guys have known that it was an Earth day today?

[Ed]

I haven't looked at my calendar.

[Miles]

Yeah, it is. It's also my wife's birthday.

[Ryan]

Happy birthday to the Earth. And Anne.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Wish your happy birthday.

[Miles]

It's so crazy that, you know, the Earth was born in April.

[Ryan]

Is she Mother Earth? Is Anne Mother Earth?

[Miles]

Maybe, huh? But yeah, so that was a good video, Jared. I've seen that one. But every single time I, I, it gets me. I just, it just proves that if you say something confidently enough, you can sound like you know what you're talking about.

[Jared]

Yeah, for sure.

[Miles]

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