Unwritten Rules Of The Group Chat 🎙 #335

Summary

You Betcha Radio Episode Summary: "Unwritten Rules Of The Group Chat 🎙 #335"

Release Date: July 16, 2025

In Episode #335 of You Betcha Radio, the hosts—Ryan, Tyler, Jared, and Miles—dive deep into the dynamics of group interactions, both in-person and within the ever-evolving landscape of group chats. This engaging and humor-filled episode explores unwritten rules, personal anecdotes, and lighthearted banter that resonate with listeners familiar with Midwest camaraderie and man culture.

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1. Weekend Recap and Group Dynamics (00:00 – 02:05)

The episode kicks off with Ryan sharing his weekend adventure involving an 18-person gathering with friends. Despite initial concerns about keeping up, Ryan exclaims with relief:

Ryan (01:31): "All of my fears of not being able to hang with the boys anymore just completely out the window."

The group discusses various competitive games they played, highlighting the intensity and camaraderie that comes with such large gatherings.

2. The Competitive Spirit and Drinking Games (02:05 – 04:00)

Ryan elaborates on the variety of games they engaged in, from beer pong to beer die, emphasizing the physical and competitive nature of their interactions:

Ryan (02:40): "We played every game under the sun."

Miles adds humor by recounting his own experiences with napping:

Miles (03:48): "He would come and crush my ribs and give me a hug."

3. Handling Hangovers and Parenthood (04:00 – 08:16)

The conversation shifts to the aftermath of their weekend, with Ryan describing his struggle with a severe hangover while juggling parenting duties:

Ryan (06:17): "For me, it's just immense brain fog."

They share relatable stories of managing responsibilities amidst recovery, highlighting the balance between personal enjoyment and family obligations.

4. Unwritten Rules of Group Chats (08:16 – 21:10)

A significant portion of the episode delves into the unwritten rules of group chats. The hosts categorize different roles people play within these digital gatherings, such as:

• Group Chat Mom: The organizer who assigns tasks and keeps the group coordinated.

  Ryan (13:55): "Who's a guy?"

• The Funny Guy/Meme Guy: Often sharing memes and GIFs to keep the conversation lively.

  Tyler (14:45): "I'm very guilty of responding to group chats with just GIFs."

• The Ghost: Rarely participates, leaving others to wonder about their presence.

Through anecdotes and playful teasing, they illustrate how these roles contribute to the group's dynamic and overall functionality.

5. Prize Picks and Sports Betting (21:10 – 29:31)

Transitioning from group chat dynamics, the hosts introduce Prize Picks, a sports betting platform offering promotional lineups. They discuss their strategies for NFL futures bets, providing specific examples:

Tyler (12:06): "I have Joe Burrow, more than 4174.5 pass yards. Lockdown lock 4900 last year."

This segment blends humor with practical advice, encouraging listeners to engage with the platform using their special code.

6. Fyre Festival Updates and Market Predictions (35:17 – 43:38)

The conversation takes a humorous turn towards the infamous Fyre Festival, with updates on its current status:

Ryan (35:57): "He's selling the brand Fyre Festival on eBay."

The hosts predict the auction's outcome, showcasing their camaraderie and shared skepticism towards the festival's legacy. They humorously speculate on the final selling price and potential returns.

7. Personal Injury Stories and Safety Tips (40:03 – 48:56)

Jared shares his mishaps of falling down the stairs, followed by Miles recounting his own minor accidents. The group offers lighthearted advice and safety tips, blending concern with humor:

Jared (40:26): "I just fell straight on my lower back and my tailbone."

These exchanges emphasize the importance of safety while maintaining the show's comedic tone.

8. Yard Maintenance and Weed Whacking (48:56 – 73:14)

A lengthy discussion ensues about the challenges of yard maintenance, particularly weed whacking and mowing. Miles and Ryan critique each other's techniques, offering tips and sharing frustrations:

Miles (63:25): "It looked like I had smoked a bowl before I went out and got really creative."

They navigate the complexities of maintaining large properties, illustrating the relatable struggles of suburban living.

9. Superhero Rant: Superman vs. Other Heroes (73:16 – 82:14)

In a spirited segment, the hosts embark on a superhero rant, critiquing the character development of icons like Superman and Batman:

Ryan (75:18): "Superman is just born like that."

They debate the merits of various superheroes, comparing their backstories and motivations, ultimately favoring characters with more relatable flaws and developmental arcs.

10. Closing Thoughts and Patreon Promotion (82:14 – End)

Wrapping up the episode, the hosts provide final thoughts and promote their Patreon, inviting listeners to access exclusive content:

Ryan (75:18): "If you want more, you bet your radio, you got to check out our Patreon."

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Notable Quotes:

• Miles (03:48): "I got more hugs this weekend from that one guy than I've gotten from you in the last five years."

• Ryan (06:17): "For me, it's just immense brain fog."

• Tyler (14:45): "I'm very guilty of responding to group chats with just GIFs."

• Jared (40:26): "I just fell straight on my lower back and my tailbone."

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Conclusion:

"Unwritten Rules Of The Group Chat" offers a blend of humor, personal stories, and insightful observations on social dynamics both online and offline. The hosts' chemistry and Midwest charm make this episode a relatable and entertaining listen for anyone navigating the complexities of group interactions and maintaining friendships amidst life's responsibilities.

For more engaging discussions and behind-the-scenes content, visit their Patreon.

Transcript

[Ryan]

Welcome back everybody to another episode of the you Bet yout Radio podcast. We're live here in the studio with Ryan, Tyler and Jared.

[Tyler]

Hello.

[Ryan]

Reporting for duty.

[Tyler]

Are you doing your. Your WGN news anchor voice?

[Ryan]

Yeah, I'm jet lagged. All. I had a two hour drive yesterday. I'm car leg. Car legged.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Car leg. Two hour drive yesterday. Hungover. Yeah.

[Miles]

Is there, is there any type of music you can listen to on a two hour car ride by yourself? Hungover?

[Ryan]

No, dude, it's just silence. Silence.

[Miles]

Oh God. Yeah.

[Ryan]

The hum of the car. Kind of soothing.

[Miles]

Yeah. I'd probably have to pull over like a rest area and take a nap or something. Actually, I took three naps this weekend. It's the first naps I've taken in probably like five, six years.

[Tyler]

You took one and then you're just addicted. Well, I just, I need two more.

[Miles]

I was laying down with my kid, trying to get him to sleep and then I just accidentally fell asleep.

[Ryan]

That sounds like awesome. I could have done. I tried to nap yesterday but my kid wouldn't. So I just didn't got to sleep.

[Jared]

When the kid sleeps.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he didn't sleep. Great weekend with the boys.

[Miles]

That's what I hear.

[Ryan]

You are alive, guys. 18 guys. I'm alive. So there's a few things to take from this weekend. One, I still got it.

[Miles]

We.

[Ryan]

All of my fears of not being able to hang with the boys anymore just completely out the window.

[Jared]

Oh yeah.

[Ryan]

So we're back. Survive. I not only survived, I thrived, if I'm being honest. And but what's funny about getting that many dudes together who are all, you know, competitive guys is I played more games this weekend than I have in the last decade.

[Miles]

Any card games?

[Ryan]

They played horses. I didn't get in on horses. You know, like where you roll the dice and they go down. Played horses. But I played beer pong. Beer die. Do you know what that is? All the frat guys.

[Tyler]

I've never played it, but I've seen clips of it.

[Ryan]

Is a couple of guys who were in a frat that really got people going on the beer die. I went wake surfing. I played pool, I played darts. Flip cup play.

[Miles]

Flip cup, flip cup.

[Ryan]

I mean every game under the sun.

[Miles]

Road go karts.

[Tyler]

18 guys, they're all competitive. You had to have played Boom cup. That's.

[Ryan]

Oh no. So I brought it up and it was too late in the weekend. They were kind of like, you know, we're kind of set on the games we're playing. But if, if I'd have brought it up the first day. I think we would have played it. They would have loved it.

[Tyler]

I feel like that's an electric group boom cup with.

[Miles]

Yeah, 100%. I mean, yeah, you guys have seen me play boom cup. I'm not a professional athlete, but I can have bought a. Imagine how those guys would get. Yeah.

[Ryan]

So, yeah, it was good time. The other thing I realized too, though, get a bunch of guys who are competitive and drinking beer. Lot of physical. Physical motivation.

[Miles]

I'll say.

[Ryan]

Sure. High fives, ass slaps, fist bumps. And actually, one of the guys was really into bear hugs, and he was my partner in beer dye. So anytime something good would happen, he's a big dude. He would come and crush my ribs and give me a hug.

[Tyler]

You, like, pick you up.

[Ryan]

And I told Anne, I got more hugs this weekend from that one guy than I've gotten from you in the last five years.

[Jared]

That's why you're sore.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I might be sore from that. Yeah.

[Tyler]

Miles only gets hugs on his birthday and Father's Day now.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

From his kid. Yeah. Not even for his wife.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Hands. Not a hugger.

[Miles]

Did, like, was there any rat, like, any takedowns or anything? Did the physical aspect ever.

[Ryan]

Anyone, like, trying the locker room grab assing? Was. Was positive. Okay. There was. There was no physical altercations.

[Miles]

Sure. Okay.

[Ryan]

I think it's good because I was worried about that. I was worried some guys pissed about.

[Jared]

The rules or put you in a chicken wing.

[Ryan]

Yeah. And I'm just gonna be caught. Shrapnel in the middle, you know?

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

But no, that was good. I also had a moment where we're all sitting around drinking whatever, and bullets are flying left and right. Not. Not real bullets.

[Miles]

Verbal bullets.

[Ryan]

Verbal bullets of guys just ripping on each other. And there's just something beautiful about guys all making fun of each other and no one getting offended.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

100%.

[Ryan]

Just. It just can't. There's nothing better than ripping into each other and no one getting offended. That's like. Yeah, that's the best.

[Jared]

Because if everybody gets offended, nobody gets offended.

[Tyler]

Yep.

[Miles]

Well, then it just makes shit weird, too. It's like, okay, well, I guess I just crossed the line with that small comment. Was there anyone who took the grunt of the shit talk, but then would also, like, throw it back in the. In their face? Because there's always the one guy in the group who, like, he's the one probably getting shit on the most.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I mean, of course I'm not gonna, like, name the people.

[Miles]

No, yeah, I'm just. Yeah, I was just asking if. Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

I mean, it's how it goes. Usually the smallest guy's got the biggest mouth and then. But somehow just never gets his face clocked, but.

[Jared]

Yeah, that was you.

[Ryan]

No, it was not me. I was not the smallest guy there, but yeah, it was. That was. That was fun. It's very fun. Definitely, though, still feeling it.

[Tyler]

I was going to say you might still have it in the moment, but. How was the. The hangover now, post 30.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Don't sugarcoat it. If it was bad, tell us.

[Ryan]

Yeah, for me, it's just immense brain fog. Yeah. You just. You just need to lay down.

[Miles]

Yeah. You know, did you ever wonder it.

[Ryan]

Just gotta get horizontal. Just don't want to be vertical.

[Miles]

Do you ever wonder if there was light at the end of the tunnel? Like this could possibly be it?

[Ryan]

No.

[Miles]

Okay. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Oh, thank God. I'm never drinking again. Also, I kind of turned a little bit into a pool shark over the weekend. I played. I played probably 10 games of pool and only lost one.

[Jared]

Oh, weird.

[Tyler]

And you don't like pool that much, do you?

[Ryan]

Not really, no. Yeah. I don't know if it was the devil's asparagus and mixture with beer or not, but I was. I was locked in. I made it. I made like two combos.

[Jared]

Oh, wow.

[Ryan]

What the happened?

[Tyler]

I don't know. You just. I. For me, when I play pool, there's like a strict amount of beers where I can be in the zone. If I'm below that or over that, I'm fucking terrible.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

But I can compete anywhere from like five to eight beers.

[Miles]

It's just like playing around a golf. Like, I feel like the sweet spot in pool, though, is a lot smaller reason.

[Tyler]

So maybe I think it also might.

[Ryan]

Be an age thing. I feel like pools is one of those things that as you get older, you get better. Like, I feel like everyone's dad is good at pool.

[Tyler]

True.

[Ryan]

And so it might just be now I'm a dad and now I'm getting older, I'm just acquiring that skill now.

[Tyler]

You say, I don't think I've played pool since becoming a father, so maybe I should test it out.

[Ryan]

Honestly, because I feel like I'm. I'm more relaxed and chill now with, you know, having a kid. You're like, okay, this is. Doesn't matter if I win this game of pool or not. I gotta keep my kid alive at home. I gotta go home to him tomorrow.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You know, you're thinking about stuff like that. I don't know if that's it, you know. Just wanted it too much before maybe.

[Miles]

I always like, like if I'm watching someone play pool, I always like observing how they like how they form their front hand that the, the, the stick slides on. Yeah. Cuz everyone's different. Some people got some weird techniques on that front hand.

[Ryan]

Also you want on the table, you want something fun about doing that weekend. And then yesterday I got back to Fargo, guess what I had to do?

[Miles]

Put the stay in the bench.

[Ryan]

Go to a one year old birthday party. Oh no.

[Tyler]

Oh no. Hungover.

[Ryan]

Yeah, everyone. And of course people are like, oh, you feel it all right, dude. Because I'm just sitting in the shade by, you know, just sitting there, just watching my kid splashing the water table.

[Tyler]

My sunglasses on, sucking down lemonades, trying to go horizontal.

[Ryan]

Yeah. God, that was not ideal.

[Miles]

Yeah. I mean on the plus side, it.

[Ryan]

Was like funny, you know, like at the end of a party you're like, your wife's like, well should we get going? And usually like yeah, yeah, we go. She goes and goes. So we get going. I go, yes, I am already packed.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Diaper bags in the car, let's go.

[Miles]

Yeah, Yeah. I mean plus that it wasn't your kids, you know it wasn't your kids first birthday.

[Tyler]

Yeah, I was going to say that might be. The only thing that's worse is hosting a birthday party.

[Miles]

Yeah, we hosted my. We hosted my oldest 3 year old birthday party this weekend. Man, that's a grind. Hosting the party for kids who can just run wherever and do whatever those.

[Ryan]

Three apps do you do it at your house or at the lake?

[Miles]

At the lake.

[Ryan]

Let's say you don't have a, you don't have a yard yet either.

[Miles]

No.

[Ryan]

The dirt would have mud everywhere.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Fires go.

[Tyler]

Every one of them be climbing Ryan's.

[Ryan]

Burn pile, getting attacked by a woodchuck in the backyard.

[Miles]

Yeah. Or fucking rabid raccoon or something. That wouldn't have been good. So yeah, we had to put that off at the, at the house for now, but maybe next year.

[Jared]

So playing around the burn barrel.

[Ryan]

Maybe when he's four.

[Miles]

Yeah, maybe on the fourth birthday. Yep.

[Tyler]

We're back. Prize picks, time of the week. You guys know the drill. Prize picks is going to give you fifty dollars in lineups. When you play your first five dollar lineup, win or lose, you get fifty bucks in lineups. That's just. It's free gambling.

[Miles]

Yeah. So pretty much what we're saying is like if you sign up for prize picks using code ybr. You spend your first five bucks on a lineup. Say you lose. Well, you can get that 50 bucks for free. You can put it towards this lineup we're about to give you, and this one happens to be a 10x. You can pull 5 hundo out of this baby.

[Ryan]

But you're going to have to wait.

[Tyler]

A little bit because there isn't any sports really happening right now. So we're doing an NFL futures bet. Yeah, it's our first futures bet ever, so now we can track this thing all the way through the fall.

[Miles]

The best thing. Sorry. The best thing about futures, though, is that one day, like at the end of the NFL season, you'll open your prize picks account and you'll realize. You might realize you hit this bet, and you'll just have. You'll just have all this money in your account that you never even realized.

[Tyler]

Week 8 of the NFL season. I'm going to forget that I did this. And then I'm going to peek in there and just see that the only thing left to hit is my pick. Jack Fox, the punter for the Detroit Lions, throwing for more than a half yard.

[Jared]

That's doable.

[Miles]

It's doable. It's just one. It's one fake punt.

[Ryan]

Fire.

[Miles]

Fire.

[Ryan]

Fire.

[Tyler]

Literally. And if there's any team in the NFL that's going to have their punter slinging the ball on trick plays, it's going to be the Lions.

[Jared]

Yep.

[Miles]

Yep. So you got Jack fox, more than 0.5 pass yards. Tyler.

[Tyler]

Yep.

[Miles]

I have Joe burrow, more than 4174.5 pass yards. Lockdown lock 4900 last year.

[Jared]

I have Baker Mayfield's more than 3799 and a half passing yards.

[Miles]

Nice.

[Tyler]

Jared loves Baker. Yeah, Miles is out of town, but Miles, you know him, he's a big Josh Allen guy. He's got Josh for more than 3,749 and a half yards. That is the easiest $500 I think I've ever made. It's going to be. We're going to be sitting there Week 17 Just praying the Lions pull out a trick play for Jack Fox.

[Miles]

Yes. And just praying that these team are not playoff locks. Which cup the Bills probably will be. Just so starters are playing in week 17, week 18 for sure.

[Tyler]

Well, hopefully they're all. All four of these guys, even Jack Fox, are in an MVP race because they just have so many pass yards.

[Miles]

Crazier shit's happened.

[Jared]

That's true.

[Tyler]

Oh, it feels Good to be betting on the NFL again.

[Miles]

Yeah. Yep. We got a game this month too.

[Tyler]

So anyway, code YBR$50 in lineups. Sign up, folks.

[Ryan]

The other thing too, with that big group of guys, there's that we had a group chat. Group chat of 18 people. And when it's a bunch of people you don't know, you just. It's just phone numbers texting and you don't know who is who.

[Tyler]

Yep.

[Ryan]

If it's funny or not, because you don't know who sent it or who they're sending it about. But I feel like, I feel like every group chat is the same. Every single group chat's got certain guys in it, certain behaviors happening. What do you guys think is if we had to pinpoint the guys, there's the guy who's clearly leading the group chat. Right. He usually starts a group chat off with some long paragraph about how excited he is to have everyone in there. Yeah, the little rat. Tat tat. A few attempts at humor in there.

[Tyler]

Group chat mom.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Also.

[Tyler]

Also assigns who's supposed to bring what to the aforementioned gathering. Hey, Ryan, I need you to get this. Miles, can you grab these? Jared, if you wouldn't mind, I need you to bring this. That's the guy that starts the group chat.

[Ryan]

Group chat mom.

[Tyler]

Yep.

[Ryan]

Who's a guy?

[Tyler]

Yes, Group chat mom. Who's a dude. And then there's also the funny guy. And the funny guy, the first thing he does in the group chat is change the name to something stupid. Is going to be like the boys with four eyes and a. Yeah, yeah.

[Miles]

There's also the meme guy too, who, like, he'll like. I don't know whether it's daily or a couple times a day. He's throwing memes into the chat with really no context, you know, or gifts or gifts. GIF guy. He is the. Yeah, it's. It's the same person. Essentially.

[Tyler]

I'm very guilty of responding to group chats with just GIFs.

[Miles]

Well, yeah. And if, like I never respond to text messages with GIFs, but if someone in a group chat throws. If they're a gift guy, I'll probably become a short term gift guys.

[Ryan]

So what's even better about this group chat is you talk about gifs and memes and stuff. Someone made a meme specifically for this. So they took a screenshot of like a news report on online with like cops and background and it said breaking news. And they put the, put one of our buddy's faces in the top right corner as the Suspect and the meme was man arrested for breaking into homes and tickling buttholes. That was quite literally the first text message after the first long paragraph. Set the tone early.

[Miles]

Good.

[Ryan]

You gotta have that. It's also the guy that doesn't. He's the ghost. He just never sent the mystery. Just never sent anything in there. And I don't have his phone. Have the person's phone number. So you just don't even know who that is.

[Tyler]

Yeah. So Jared and I were talking this morning. There's a group chat. I went to We Fest with a group of guys in 2020 and we made a group chat. And every single day since 2020, that group chat has been talked in. I haven't responded since 2022 and I am still in the group chat. And it started on Snapchat and then it got moved to text in 2023 and I. They let me come with even though I haven't responded in years.

[Ryan]

So what would happen if you left?

[Tyler]

I don't know. I just don't know.

[Miles]

You don't want to. I don't think you want to find out.

[Tyler]

Yeah, I.

[Ryan]

You.

[Tyler]

I wouldn't find out.

[Ryan]

You wouldn't.

[Miles]

Well, someone's going to tell you in verbal conversation.

[Jared]

I think it says you some so and so has left the group.

[Miles]

Yeah, it does.

[Tyler]

Yeah. And I just feel like after three years of me not responding, the first message they get from me is, tyler's left the group chat. I don't know, I just. I don't have the. The heart to do it.

[Miles]

Yeah. I've considered leaving group chats too, before, and I've tried to think about it in a sense, like, is there a. A good. Could I do it? Could I set like a 3am alarm and then do it, like in the middle of the night when no one's going to see it, but then.

[Ryan]

No, you want to.

[Tyler]

Then they'll wake up to it.

[Miles]

I know. So there's no good time. If you do it when there's a bunch of conversation going, everyone's gonna see it.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

So, like you, there's really no good way to bury it.

[Tyler]

I just have a muted. So I don't get alerts anymore, but I'll still get the red bubble.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You just gotta click into it and click out.

[Tyler]

Yep.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Yep. I. I couldn't tell you what they're talking about these days, but I'm there getting the freaking.

[Ryan]

I want to check and make sure they're not talking about anything incriminating because you're in the Group chat.

[Tyler]

I am.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Guilt by association.

[Tyler]

My history in the group chat, though, they'll be like, this guy was. He's keeping a watchful eye out. He didn't participate.

[Jared]

He was the chill one.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

There's always also the guy who. See, you usually start a group chat for an event of some sort, then the event happens. And the day, once everyone leaves, there's always one guy that will send like a message being like, boys, what a great week. That was a movie.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Can't wait till we run it back next time. And then, then you get the snowball of all the other people. Just they feel like they have to say the same thing but just worded differently. Yeah. Epic weekend, boys. And then it's like, you know, what a great time with the boys this weekend, boys.

[Jared]

And it'll be like some inside joke that they'll end it with too.

[Ryan]

Correct. Yeah. 100. And then I'm gonna get text messages for the next probably five, four to five days. And then it will. It won't exist.

[Tyler]

Disappear forever.

[Miles]

It's a.

[Ryan]

It's a very short tale on a group chat like that.

[Tyler]

The only time those group chats get revitalized is when it's like a bachelor party and the group chat is ripping. And then the wedding happens.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Tyler]

And then 8 o' clock for the.

[Ryan]

Grooms dinner tomorrow, Boys.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

And then they started like, you guys excited for flip cup at the wedding just because he played a ton of it.

[Ryan]

Boys.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

And then two days after the wedding is dead forever.

[Ryan]

Yes. Until that guy gets divorced, we run.

[Tyler]

Into back divorce party. Boys.

[Ryan]

Boys.

[Miles]

That'd be kind of a funny joke. Just like scroll like all the way to the bottom of your text messages and just find every group chat and just respond something in them.

[Ryan]

That's a diabolical.

[Tyler]

I have a group chat of a buddy's bachelor's party. He's divorced now. I could bring that back.

[Miles]

That you should.

[Ryan]

You definitely should. Like, boys.

[Tyler]

We running it back in Deadwood.

[Jared]

She's dead to you, so why not dead?

[Ryan]

Or just respond and just go, well, I guess this party was a waste of time.

[Jared]

Well, this is awkward. Well, this is awkward.

[Tyler]

He's been divorced for like almost two years now. And now I texted to the bachelor.

[Ryan]

Party group, it would be funny.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Or just. Yeah. Or just like. Yeah, just reply to the group chat with a photo from their wedding.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Just say, well, this is awkward with the photo.

[Jared]

Active in two years.

[Ryan]

No, what you should do is like, I'm sure there's a group photo of all of the groomsmen and all of that. And send that photo and just X out the. The wife's face.

[Jared]

Put a mustache on her. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Blackout devil horns with, like, the tail out the back.

[Miles]

Yeah, yeah. I was gonna say that's like. That's the other guy in the group chat is the one who, at the end of it, sends all the pictures they have from the weekend. And then when. Once they send their set of pictures, then you get a couple more filtering in. Kind of fun to relive the weekend.

[Jared]

And they're never that good of pictures.

[Miles]

No. They're like.

[Jared]

Like, very wide.

[Miles]

Right.

[Ryan]

Right in the group before I got there, because I was a day later than everyone. They're already, like, drinking whatever. Someone said a panorama panoramic photo. Is that what it's called?

[Miles]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

But, like, the people in it were moving, so, like, all the. Everyone's bodies were, like, up.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

In. In the photo. Just classic shitty photography and group chat.

[Miles]

Well, yeah. You know what stage of the day they were? They probably are 15 beers deep. Like, trying to keep the arrow exactly on the line, going over, shaking, wobbly.

[Jared]

I like a good panorama.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

I can't tell you the last time I shot a panorama p. Panoramic picture on my phone.

[Ryan]

It's been a while.

[Tyler]

It's probably since, like, the week they launched it.

[Ryan]

I feel like they launched it. And every photo I took for a week was a panoramic photo. And then you're like, all right, there's just no need for this.

[Miles]

Yeah. Well, now they got 0.5. So it's like, 0.5 kind of does it, yo. Doesn't.

[Jared]

That's a good point.

[Miles]

Yeah. 5.5 killed the panel.

[Ryan]

It's. It's like that. The meme of the guy walking with the girl and he's looking back and like, yeah, panorama girlfriend. And then the one who's looking back.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

0.5.

[Tyler]

But that meme would have to be wider scaled with the rest of it filled out.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Well, we always. We go on a family vacation every winter, and there's a bunch of us, like, 15 people. And grandma always does the photo dump at the end of it, and you just find out grandma was taking secret pictures of all of us the entire vacation.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah.

[Tyler]

It'll be like, when did you film this? She's like, I've been taking pictures the entire time. There's like, 75 photos of, like, the back of your head. What are you doing?

[Jared]

Yeah, it's like a PI.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Yeah. There's so many photos you see, like it just sends it a link.

[Tyler]

Yeah, yeah. It gets all compressed.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

You got to open the zip file from grandma. In the family group chat.

[Ryan]

There was one guy who brought a real camera.

[Tyler]

Okay.

[Ryan]

Which I don't. Yeah. So I showed up the second day, and so I don't know if he did it all the first day, but we were playing beer pong and he whipped out the camera, have flash on it. So he's like flashing, which don't get me wrong, I was like, you know, a little weird, but if he does this the whole weekend, like, it would be kind of sick to have like a bunch of photos of that we did. Because I never. Like, we didn't take a group photo.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You know, like, we didn't. Guy. The one thing guys don't do when they get together that they kind of wish they did is they don't take any photos other than like a guy passed out. That's it. I think the one other photo taken was a guy the next day. He was sitting on the ground, leaning up against a tree, just drinking a diet Coke, just clearly dying. That was it.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And it was like clearly a photo that the guy zoomed way in because he was far away when he took it. Right.

[Jared]

So pixelated.

[Ryan]

But I wonder if the guy taking the photos got self conscious about the fact he was taking these photos. Photos. Because after like the first two hours I was there, I didn't see his camera the rest of the time. So I wonder if he was kind of like, no one, like, posed for a photo when I brought it out. So maybe his guys aren't into it.

[Tyler]

Not a single person was like, oh, great idea, dude.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it was. Cuz. Cuz he started doing it. We all kind of were like doing one of these, like, with our eyes, like, kind of, you know, it's. What's he doing?

[Tyler]

We're men. We don't take photos of each other.

[Ryan]

But at the end of the day, I think if you'd have stuck with it, I think it would have been cool by the end.

[Jared]

Was it one of those cameras you take like 20 photos or.

[Ryan]

No, it was like, it was a digital, like, DSLR camera.

[Jared]

Okay.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Jared]

Gotcha.

[Miles]

It just didn't get the entrance that it maybe deserves.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Right away a little gun shy.

[Ryan]

Because, like, I get it, you know, if he would have committed to it, it would have looked like, you know, we could have had a little photo album. Like the Hangover.

[Tyler]

I was gonna say it'd be like the Credits of the hangover. Yeah, that's something. Where. Speaking of group chats, you. You gotta feel it out in the group chat first. Like, hey, you guys, should I bring my camera? I could get some sweet photos and just guess the vibe after that.

[Miles]

Yeah, yeah. You almost have to make it into a joke. So, like, if. If people aren't digging it, like, it, then it was just a joke. But if people are digging it, like, Or.

[Ryan]

Or you go like, oh, like, my wife made me bring this dude. Like, she just.

[Jared]

What's receipts?

[Tyler]

I've done that with the karaoke machine before. Like, it'd be funny if I brought the karaoke machine, right. And then just waited to see what people said.

[Ryan]

No one says, no, I've brought it.

[Tyler]

My friends are more fun than you guys. They like karaoke.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah, it was good, man. It was good. Therapeutic. Really?

[Tyler]

You needed that?

[Ryan]

Therapeutic about just getting hammered, busting each other's balls, and just making money on pool? Making money on pool?

[Miles]

Well, like, all the games you're playing, too, they're all betting games.

[Ryan]

Correct.

[Miles]

So, I mean, if I'm gonna play any game, it's gonna be a game that you could throw money around on.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Miles]

You want to play Goldfish? I'm not playing. Goldfish Kings Corners. I'm not playing.

[Tyler]

So why are you, like, cars, A lot of cards you can put money in.

[Miles]

I know, but I'm more of a physical game type of guy, you know?

[Tyler]

Well, the brain is a muscle.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Yeah, that's true.

[Ryan]

What was funny is there. So when you play beer die, if you make it in your own cup, like, because there's the four cups. Four cups on the corners of the thing. Throw a dive in the air if your die ends up going in your cup. I didn't know this, but the rule is that you have to run around naked.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And one of my buddies made it in the cup, and so he had to, like, do a lap around the beach area.

[Miles]

Yeah. And then the. And then the camera came out. Flash.

[Ryan]

But the thing is, is he. It was like, me and a bunch of other guys he played football with. And he, like, puts his clothes base sits down, and everyone's like, oh, how was it? He's like, dude, every guy here has seen me naked. Other than, like, two people.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

What is the.

[Miles]

Am I trying to impress you? Yeah, yeah.

[Jared]

It's a safe space.

[Miles]

Put your tape measures away.

[Jared]

Yeah, that's the thing about, like, those parties. Like, every drinking game has different rules. You've never heard of.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah, dude.

[Tyler]

I Saw somebody did a really funny skit video of making fun of people's house. Rules for beer pong.

[Ryan]

Dude, there are so many rules.

[Tyler]

Oh, it's. It's unbelievable. And they just make them up on the spot, and then that sticks forever.

[Ryan]

Correct.

[Jared]

Because they won that game.

[Tyler]

Now that's forever.

[Miles]

Right.

[Ryan]

It's also like, how do we all have still the same rules about beer pong? Like, no one's ever, like, posted rules about beer pong online. It's not like there's been, like, a viral video. It got 100 million views, and everyone's like, oh, these are the rules that we abide by. You know, it's like the Mar. Marilyn Manson rumor. How did we all just acquire the same rules?

[Miles]

Right?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

There's no Beer Pong for Dummies book that you could buy on Amazon. Well, there probably is.

[Ryan]

There might be.

[Jared]

Yeah, there is.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

So, yeah, group chats and having a good time.

[Miles]

You think you guys love a running.

[Ryan]

Back with that exact group? Not a chance.

[Miles]

Well, there's always the guys who are like, we got it. We gotta run this back.

[Jared]

You can touch it. Right.

[Miles]

We should do that. We should do it next year, too. And it never. It's never gonna run back.

[Tyler]

I mean, it's also. It's. It was a party that's supposed to be kind of one and done. It was a retirement party.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Also, since we started this podcast, there's been seven text messages that have been launched into that group.

[Jared]

Still active.

[Ryan]

Yeah. No. Yeah. Three to four to five days after, it'll be active, and then it'll be dormant.

[Tyler]

We'll check back in next week.

[Ryan]

It's still going.

[Miles]

And then I feel like everyone's. Was anyone talking about their hangovers on Sunday? Like, that's the topic of discussion.

[Ryan]

So I pulled the move where I slept in really late and I missed the goodbye.

[Tyler]

That's not a bad move.

[Ryan]

It was not intentional, but it worked out kind of.

[Miles]

Yeah, that's not bad at all.

[Tyler]

See, I'm the opposite. I try to wake up early to avoid the goodbyes. Just clean up one portion of the place that's a mess and then bounce.

[Jared]

It's a good move.

[Miles]

You got something to get back to, whatever that may be. Y kid's birthday party.

[Jared]

Baptism.

[Miles]

Baptism. I gotta stay in my. This bench at home. It's been here for two years.

[Ryan]

There's also. When you get a big group of dudes like that together, especially for, like, a full weekend, there's always one moment at, like, the last dinner or Something or the first dinner that like a guy will like kind of say something really nice and heartfelt.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And it, it's like, it's nice but then you're just. Everyone's uncomfortable. We don't. That's not how we function.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Keep your emotions in your pocket.

[Ryan]

But you know what I'm saying.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Everyone's peering their peeling their beer label off their.

[Ryan]

Yeah, everyone's peeling their beard label. They're kind of just looking at the ground and then they get done and it just takes one guy to just make fun of something that he said and then you're back.

[Miles]

Yeah. Yeah. It's a complete opposite of the conversation that was had leading up until that point.

[Jared]

Do you guys cheers at all? Do a big cheers?

[Ryan]

Yeah, we did one big cheers.

[Tyler]

Was there a toast guy? No, I got a buddy toast guy. Every time we have like the guys together and we're about to eat a meal, he does a toast.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Is it a bit or does he like.

[Tyler]

Actually is it like the toasts are never like serious. They're always like a joke toast, like the X rated. Yeah. They're either dirty or they're funny. But he, I don't think, I think he does it because he likes doing it. I don't think he's doing it as a bit.

[Miles]

Imagine preparing. He's preparing for that for sure.

[Tyler]

He, he, he'll like sit. Probably save him when he goes by him on TikTok or something.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he's on toast TikTok.

[Tyler]

Oh yeah. I was on toast TikTok for a while.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Tyler]

I just can't remember any of them.

[Ryan]

They got a niche for everything.

[Miles]

Dude.

[Tyler]

I'm three naps this weekend.

[Miles]

I'm dogging it. I, I went to bed. You want to know when I went to bed last night? 11:15.

[Tyler]

Oh wow.

[Miles]

Up at 5:45. Dogging it today.

[Tyler]

Both of those things feel like they're your fault though.

[Miles]

Yeah. Fully self induced. I mean I took a nap at 4, like 4 to 5:30 and then I went to bed, you know, an hour and a half later than I normally dogged.

[Ryan]

I think it's probably been a year since I've gone to bed before 11.

[Miles]

I know. Which is wild. Which is wild. You also know. Yeah. Our sleep schedule like an hour and a half off.

[Ryan]

That's true.

[Jared]

That's sick though.

[Ryan]

Oh. So yeah. Good weekend. I survived. Yeah.

[Miles]

How long till you could do it again? Two weeks. Brought it back Friday this weekend.

[Ryan]

I mean I could do it tomorrow if I needed to. I mean it's like.

[Miles]

I get that.

[Ryan]

But like how long want to do it again?

[Miles]

Correct.

[Jared]

On a clinic?

[Ryan]

I'd like a. I'd like at least a two month break.

[Miles]

Okay.

[Ryan]

You know, recoup, get back to normal and ripper again.

[Miles]

Yeah. Six times a year type of deal. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Maybe once a quarter.

[Jared]

Yeah. Doing a football season.

[Ryan]

Yeah. My wife looks forward to vacations. You know, I kind of look forward to. When's the next big group thing.

[Miles]

Yeah, when's the next group chat?

[Ryan]

That's where you get in life. You go from when you're in college or just out of college. It's every weekend is a big group thing and you're looking forward to the weekend where you don't have something going on. And then you get older and have kids and it flip flops.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Then every weekend is normal and then you're looking for the big group thing.

[Tyler]

Well, you go through the. I'm in the era of every weekend. The kids have something right now. So it's like T ball, birthday parties, like you said, all kinds of like that.

[Miles]

Yep.

[Jared]

Was this the first time you're deathly hungover with a kid?

[Miles]

Brain fog.

[Ryan]

There might have been one other time, but. But he was so young then. He just laid. Laid in your arms.

[Tyler]

You know, I think it maybe a post. Post swim up bar debacle one summer ago. I think he had a kid even he was new. New.

[Ryan]

Oh, it was. It might have been.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

I think you remember talking about that where you're just like, thank God my mom and Anne were there.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I needed that. I was down for the count. Well, should we take a break, boys? All right, boys. Some big news over the last week or so.

[Tyler]

Very important to this.

[Ryan]

Very important. We, you know, us, we're always trying to keep up to date with Fire Fest. I think we identify with Fire Fest so much is. I just feel like that's about how it would go if we tried to put on an event like that. Not so much the fraud, but just being a complete debacle.

[Miles]

We.

[Tyler]

We would up fyre fest because of incompetence. Not because of greedy.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Not because we would undersell the tickets. You know, like, let's just. Let's just sell them for 20 bucks a pop. You know, that should make us money. Right. And then you realize you're, you know, $2 million in the hole and be like, oh, fuck.

[Jared]

Well, I got two Porta Potties.

[Ryan]

Yeah. But the recent news is that Mr. McFarland, our boy, the godfather of Fyre Festival.

[Jared]

I guess that's accurate.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he is. He. He did sell, right.

[Jared]

Currently going right now on ebay.

[Tyler]

I thought that ends in 22 hours.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Jared]

By the time this comes out, it's.

[Miles]

An insane marketplace to put.

[Ryan]

So he's selling the brand Fyre Festival on ebay?

[Jared]

Yep.

[Ryan]

And he started the bid at $0.01? I believe so. Started from zero. And it is up to $211,000. 600 bucks. At the time of this recording. 135 bids. Because now I think his social media is just him trying to find ways to pay back the money he owes. Correct. Oh, here we go. New fire brand, though, that he started. Fire Hotels.

[Miles]

Okay.

[Tyler]

It's just a FEMA 10. It's a campground. What he's calling him Fire Hotel.

[Jared]

It's a camping experience.

[Ryan]

I'll read you what it says. It's just. There's a Fire Hotels hype video. See you on the island. He's just addicted to islands.

[Miles]

Yeah, Ebay is an island.

[Jared]

He's an island boy.

[Tyler]

Yeah, he's got to get island boys to play it.

[Ryan]

But it's a pop up. September 3rd through the 10th of this year. Book your room now. See you on the island.

[Miles]

Yeah. And you can upgrade to vip. VIP tickets for a chance to camp with him and attempt ride jet skis together. Yeah. For an hour.

[Jared]

Yeah, just an hour, though. He's busy, man. He's got train.

[Miles]

So. Okay, what's wild about the Fyre Festival? The. The brand up for auction is. I mean, so ebay takes a, like a 13 and a quarter percent fee from these sales.

[Jared]

Oh, okay.

[Miles]

So like 13 and a quarter percent.

[Ryan]

Oh, my God.

[Miles]

I don't even know, like, dollar value. It's based off dollar value.

[Ryan]

But I mean, I imagine though that once it gets to the end of this auction, it's going to start firing.

[Miles]

Oh, it will.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Well, when there's. When there's 10, 15 minutes left, it like bids will start going up. So I bet it'll probably sell for around 300,000, so.

[Tyler]

Oh, more than that. I think it'll be more if you're confident.

[Ryan]

Let's.

[Tyler]

Let's put a bid in right now. Just put it in there for 211, 6. 211, 601 dollars and just hope it doesn't stick.

[Jared]

Let's put on my card.

[Ryan]

What are the other details you add, Jared?

[Jared]

Just some general feedback.

[Ryan]

Oh. According to McFarlane, the winning bidder would gain what he described as an intention.

[Tyler]

He's. I don't think he's Wrong there.

[Miles]

But is Billy McFarl attention engine or as Fire Festival. The Attention Engine.

[Tyler]

Very good point.

[Jared]

I like that term. Attention Engine.

[Miles]

Attention Engine. It's a good, great band name. Potentially.

[Ryan]

Well, when this comes out, we'll know.

[Jared]

So how much do you think it's going to sell for?

[Miles]

I'll say 300 to 350.

[Jared]

Okay, say 351.

[Tyler]

I'm gonna say 352.

[Ryan]

Then you're.

[Jared]

I just thread the needle.

[Ryan]

I just. I just feel like I think it's gonna go for more than a half a million dollars.

[Miles]

No, I've been on enough ebay auctions where if there's 22 hours left and it's that at that price there, it's only. There it's gonna only go up so high.

[Ryan]

Just think of a VC thing. Just take it and then deploy the brand all over the place.

[Miles]

Place. No, I get vcs. Aren't. They ain't buying brands on ebay though. That's the thing.

[Ryan]

It's the only place they can buy it. Well, someone already tried to buy it for a seven figure deal.

[Miles]

Yeah, and. And he should have. That deal should have went.

[Ryan]

It ultimately fell through. Gotta read the whole headline.

[Miles]

So if it sells for 350. 13 and a quarter percent. I just did the math. Like, eBay takes 46 thou. Like 46,000 of that.

[Ryan]

Jared, you had something you want to talk about today?

[Jared]

I fell down the stairs twice this weekend.

[Ryan]

I have to get you life alert now or what?

[Tyler]

Are you okay?

[Jared]

I was at my brother's house.

[Ryan]

I.

[Jared]

It's got some slippery wood stairs and.

[Ryan]

I know what you're talking about. You got socks on. It's. Whatever the material is, is just extra slick.

[Jared]

Yep. And I also had my sweatpants, like underneath my heel.

[Miles]

Oh yeah.

[Jared]

And I don't know if he just cleaned his stairs or what, but I just fell straight on my lower back and my tailbone and I. Brother kind of twisted my ankle a little bit too.

[Tyler]

Wait, wait, wait.

[Ryan]

Intoxicated?

[Jared]

No.

[Tyler]

Is it. Is Jared setting it up so he can cancel on the Wiffle Ball World Series the night before?

[Jared]

No. Jared, I could play through an injury like that, but it will be a hindrance. I'm not sliding into first base.

[Miles]

Nor should you. Yeah, that. Yeah. Sports science. Yeah. Says you're actually faster if you run.

[Jared]

It out, so I'm gonna have to dive head first. So.

[Miles]

So you said. Sorry. You said you were going down or coming up down.

[Jared]

Both times. And I fell down like two hours later. I had some beers.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Classic.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

First one was a freak accident. Second one, I was a little drunk.

[Jared]

Fortunately, the second one was on the carpeted stairs, so it wasn't much of a blow.

[Tyler]

Wait, different stairs?

[Jared]

Well, it's like a split level. There's one set of stairs there, wood. And then when you go over the basement, it's carpet St.

[Miles]

Okay. Yep. So, yeah, I mean, I will admit this is probably three, four weeks ago. I did. I also did fall down the stairs as well.

[Tyler]

What's going on?

[Miles]

I was only, like. I don't know. I just, like, misstepped. I. I stepped, like, too far, like, towards the front of the stair, and my foot slipped off and I couldn't catch it.

[Jared]

New house, though.

[Miles]

New house. I'm not really used to the stairs yet, but we're getting it figured out. We've only had one slip in the last five months, so we're. We're doing okay.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Need to put, like, some, like. I don't know, it's like that coarse tape, like, on the edge of the steps.

[Miles]

Yeah, yeah. Like grip tape. Yeah. Like, just get a bunch of, like, skateboarding. Skateboard grip. Cut it up.

[Jared]

So I might need to put that on the bottom of my socks or something.

[Tyler]

I got some hospital socks. I'll just give you.

[Jared]

There you go.

[Tyler]

It's got grips on them.

[Jared]

Yeah, that'd be nice.

[Miles]

Yeah. Falling down the stairs at our age is pretty. It is pretty embarrassing.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Like, I can understand when you're older because you're. You're. I don't know, old, decrepit, whatever. Or when you're young, but when you're in middle age, you just shouldn't be falling down the stairs. I don't know why that is, but it shouldn't happen.

[Tyler]

We gotta get Jared one of those motorized stair chairs. Yeah, yeah.

[Miles]

With the track that goes down the side. Yep. Yep.

[Ryan]

So, like, you hurt pretty bad.

[Jared]

I had decent bruise on my lower back, so other. I was icing it last night, so.

[Ryan]

Oh. It was even an icing situation. I got to be. At this point in my life, I gotta be pretty injured to be icing.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

So you must have been hurting pretty bad.

[Jared]

Yeah, it's like a classic thing. It doesn't hurt till the next day.

[Ryan]

Yeah. So that was fine also. I don't know, but, like, I feel like if you are gonna ice something, you're like. You ice it right away. And then, like, because you're supposed to keep icing it over the course of however many days you do it. One time, you're like, I'm good.

[Tyler]

Didn't do anything.

[Ryan]

Yeah, there's water leaking out of the bag. Like, it's not worth it.

[Tyler]

My bag of peas are just mush now.

[Miles]

Frozen vegetable medley works great. I. I use that for about a month straight on the wrist.

[Ryan]

I heard that they get a little.

[Jared]

Snack after an hour.

[Miles]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, they. Yeah, they were frozen, and then they thawed and. Frozen. Thawed. Frozen. Like, so. Yeah, they're probably still good. They're probably still good.

[Jared]

That's probably still good.

[Miles]

Yeah. Yeah. If I'm ever in a pinch, need, like, wife's gone. Need to feed my kids something. Vegetable medley straight into the. Straight in the old microwave.

[Ryan]

So have you thought about that maybe you could own your brother's house?

[Jared]

I was. That crossed my mind a little bit.

[Ryan]

Give.

[Tyler]

Nicolette.

[Ryan]

I always think about that if someone is falling down the stairs and they grab the hand railing and rip the railing out of the wall, you know, like, that would just be disastrous.

[Tyler]

That's why you just don't put railings in.

[Ryan]

Like, I don't at the lake. Our. Our hand railing going up the stairs is. Was pretty. I. I could just tell it's weak at best. And I'm just thinking, you know, if I have a few beers and I try and go up or down those stairs and I slip and I gotta grab that thing, it's just coming out of the wall.

[Miles]

Yeah. If anything, it's gonna cause more damage. Probably gonna hit you on the way down.

[Tyler]

It's not in studs. It's just drywalling.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You know, I thought about maybe anchoring a rope at the top of the stairs, and then you just climb up with the rope is probably that.

[Tyler]

I say for bad mountain climb up.

[Miles]

Not a bad idea at all.

[Tyler]

Miles clips into his own st. Yeah.

[Jared]

It'S my drunk rope.

[Ryan]

Drunk rope. Yeah. Yeah. You coil it up in the ceiling, and then you're like, yeah, like, all right, I'm going to drink. So you just pull a thing, and then the rope goes to the bottom of stairs and for whenever you need it.

[Miles]

Yeah. It's kind of like tube city, but for drunk, it's a rope city. So you have a rope coming from, like, each room you need when you come over. Ship face. Like, you got a rope going to the kitchen if you need to make pizza. And then you got a rope going up to the bathroom. You got a rope going to the bedroom. You just got to clip incorrectly.

[Ryan]

Y got.

[Jared]

Deploy all ropes.

[Ryan]

That would also be kind of. It's just not practical. But it would be kind of fun if there was, like, a restaurant where you just harness in and there's like a rope system. Like, you clip in and then you just, like, you just slide around on, like, the system.

[Tyler]

Like, it's a buffet. It, like, kind of zip lines you.

[Miles]

Yeah, like a zipline buffet.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Be kind of fun.

[Tyler]

I'd be more into that than the Dark World, the Blackout. Yeah.

[Jared]

You wouldn't burn a single calorie at the buffet.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Kind of sick. No. I don't know how you're gonna, like, maneuver if you can't. You would still be able to, like, walk, but then if you just pick your feet up, you can guide. So you can kind of, like do a few steps and then just glide.

[Miles]

Well. Yeah, it's just like wearing Heelys. Like, you can just walk in Heelys. Or if you need to get somewhere quick, you just pop on the heels and you're off.

[Ryan]

It's like a packed bar, and there's just too many people on the track. So it's just. Everyone's just nuts to butts on the.

[Tyler]

Track when you got to try and stop. So you're picking your feet up and you gotta, like, kick the guy in front of you to stop.

[Ryan]

Better on paper.

[Tyler]

Yeah, we'll. We'll make it a one person in the buffet at a time situation.

[Ryan]

That's the worst. Just anytime you have to wait outside because there's a limit on how many people.

[Tyler]

No, no, you can be in the restaurant, but you can't be up. Only one person grabbing food at a time.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jared]

And then you get full quicker and then you make money.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, it's true. Charge the same amount. Actually a premium because you get to slide around.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

I gotta pay for zipline discount if you bring your own harness.

[Jared]

Yeah, zipline fee.

[Ryan]

But I remember when there was this workout facility in Fargo where they have, like a. They have a hockey treadmill where, like, kids can wear skates and then they can, like, condition by skating on a treadmill. But the safety mechanism was they would wear this harness and there was a track around the whole thing.

[Jared]

Okay.

[Ryan]

And so, like, if you fell, you would get caught by the harness and not get all scraped up.

[Tyler]

And.

[Ryan]

But then if you weren't on the treadmill, you had to, like, go around the track and wait to go to hop back. Sure. And that was kind of where I got the idea from.

[Miles]

Yeah. It can extend past hockey.

[Tyler]

I think I used to go there when I was a kid. Pleasure. Sweet.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it was cool. Yeah. So are you doing all right, Ryan? I. You heard anything? Getting fallen?

[Jared]

Oh, you got 100 injuries too, Ryan.

[Miles]

Yeah, I nicked my wrist on the mower blade last week. Where else am I at with my. Keeping my body in good condition? You know, outside of that, I'm doing pretty well.

[Ryan]

Was the. Was the mower running?

[Miles]

It was not running, no. No. But I was, like, trying. I was trying to scrape. Scraping a bunch of off the. Off the bottom, and it just, like, it slipped and then just hit the bay.

[Ryan]

Sharp blades, though. Gotta love that.

[Miles]

Yeah. Well, yeah, they actually are getting kind of doggone. We're gonna have to get them sharpened soon, but that's for another day.

[Jared]

Since your arm headed, I got dull pretty much, yeah.

[Miles]

My bone dolled it out, but no, I've been doing good lately.

[Jared]

Tired.

[Miles]

Just. Yeah. Dogging just, you know, needs naps.

[Ryan]

Just.

[Miles]

Yeah. Yeah. You know, I go three days in now, now I can't function without it.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Miles]

It's like.

[Ryan]

Must be. You just had a kid. Low T. Must be low T. Yeah.

[Miles]

It'S got to be low T. I gotta start getting on that synthetic new genics. Yeah.

[Jared]

Frank Thomas.

[Miles]

Yeah, Frank, Tommy.

[Ryan]

I think I'm. I'm still in low T from having a kid a year later.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

Just gotta get on the new genics grind.

[Miles]

Yeah. Low T. High E. Yep. Too much E in the system. That's short for estrogen.

[Jared]

Oh, gotcha.

[Ryan]

No, no, no, no. Just low T.

[Tyler]

I'm just running on no hormones and empty.

[Miles]

No. What?

[Tyler]

No T or E. Did you guys okay?

[Miles]

Yeah. I thought you said no homo right away.

[Tyler]

Oh, I said hormones.

[Ryan]

That's what it sounded like. Tyler.

[Miles]

Yeah, to relax, dude.

[Ryan]

Anyone else got anything they wanted? I'm brain fogged.

[Tyler]

I had a mini, mini Ryan moment this weekend.

[Miles]

Okay, you can't just. You can't just coin a phrase. A mini Ryan. Well, without my number one big Ryan moment.

[Tyler]

There's more than one person named Ryan. Anyway, I had a giant brush pile from the storms that blew down all my trees, and I. I started the. The brush pile on fire, and it got a little hairy for a second.

[Miles]

How the batteries hang. Hold up in that. The car. The 58 car batteries that you told me that you were gonna burn, they didn't.

[Tyler]

They didn't burn as fast as all the drums of oil I put in there.

[Miles]

Okay, yeah, yeah. Really send a signal with that oil.

[Ryan]

Did you say you were gonna burn car batteries? No.

[Tyler]

You said he was gonna burn car batteries, and he's ricocheting it to me.

[Ryan]

Got it. That's how I remember it. I didn't remember.

[Miles]

So walk me through it. How did it feel? Felt good. It felt good.

[Tyler]

I did get a little nervous right away though. It took off mostly green, so I thought it would take off slow. No, it took off immediately. And it was probably like a seven foot pile and. Which is pretty narrow. Yeah, that's why I said it was a mini Ryan moment.

[Miles]

Exactly right. You're exactly right.

[Tyler]

Tyler and I started the fire. It took like three minutes and the whole thing was burning. I just started it in one little corner just thinking the green wood would burn really slow. And it was a full blaze. 20 foot flames and then the wind.

[Ryan]

20 foot flames?

[Tyler]

Yeah. It's a seven foot pile.

[Miles]

Yeah, I get it. Yeah, that's about. Yeah, the math. It's like calculating temperature. Fahrenheit, Celsius.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

My wife wasn't impressed, to say the least. And then the wind picked up about five minutes into the burn, blowing in what?

[Ryan]

Dirt.

[Tyler]

Blowing directly towards the woods. And I was like, it's gonna be fine. I just had to keep telling her that. But mostly I was telling myself that, like, it's gonna be fine. It's gonna burn down quick. It's gonna burn down quick. But then the wood was green, so it didn't burn down that quick. And then I finally relented after like 20 minutes. And the wind just. It was supposed to be not windy all day, like gusts of 7 mph. And it was blowing pretty hard. I was like, hey, honey, you better go grab the hose.

[Miles]

You asked her to grab the hose?

[Tyler]

Yeah, because I had to stay by the fire.

[Ryan]

And do what? You didn't have a hose.

[Tyler]

I'd punch it away from the trees. I don't know.

[Ryan]

Stop. Stop it out.

[Jared]

That makes it worse.

[Tyler]

Yeah, no, but so I had. The wheelbarrow was over there and it had rained a couple days before, so the wheelbarrow was full of water. And that was going to be my. In a pinch if the hose wasn't here, I need to put this thing out. But then nothing happened. It ended up being completely fine. So I was worried for nothing. And I admitted defeat. For nothing.

[Miles]

Yeah, I think I, I don't. No good fire comes without nerves.

[Tyler]

A little bit of a panic mode.

[Miles]

Yeah. And I, I, yeah, I totally understand the panic mode thing.

[Ryan]

I'm gonna be honest. I feel like that's Hawaii. You guys got into the fire game anyways just to feel something true.

[Miles]

Yeah. Feel some nerves again.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's kind of.

[Miles]

I Don't know. It's kind of like, so now.

[Ryan]

So you don't have to admit defeat. Just tell your wife, like, hey, just like, I saw a Tick Tock that, like, you should prep your fires by just having the hose ready. So it's not that I'm gonna let this thing out of hand. I just, you know, just a prep item. Do it before the fire starts.

[Tyler]

Yep, yep. Yeah, I. I did. Spoo. There's one tree. It's a small. A real short apple tree that's pretty close to the fire pit. I did spray that down with water first because that's really close, which is good. Yeah. But I did not spray the woods, which is probably 30 yards from the fire.

[Miles]

Yeah. Nice little form of entertainment is if you get one of those automatic automatic squirt guns like you see on Tick Tock and just have one of those loaded up. Or a couple of them loaded up. Yeah. Then you can just shoot the fire.

[Tyler]

That'S trying to get.

[Miles]

Get away. Gonna mix it.

[Jared]

Or put the hose on jet. That would work too.

[Miles]

Yeah, that would work, but that's just too easy. Where do you gotta have precision with this, you know?

[Jared]

You.

[Ryan]

You know where to aim for putting.

[Miles]

Out a fire right in front of it?

[Jared]

The base.

[Ryan]

The base, yeah.

[Miles]

Yeah. Well, I. Yeah, I usually just aim, like, in front of the direction it's going, so then it has to stop somewhere.

[Jared]

Gotcha.

[Ryan]

That's Jedi level stuff. It's like leading a receiver over the middle, you know? Don't throw it to where they're at. Throw it to where they're going.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Right.

[Tyler]

Pursuit drill. Yeah, don't run to the guy with the ball. Run to where he's gonna be.

[Miles]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

Leverage. That's what we call that. Jared, you're gonna burn anything.

[Jared]

I kind of want to now.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I don't really have anything you would burn.

[Jared]

Oh, that's a great question.

[Tyler]

Piece of mower that won't start for you.

[Jared]

No, it's good. Now we got that gas.

[Miles]

Spark plug?

[Tyler]

No, it just didn't have gas.

[Miles]

Oh, man.

[Jared]

This probably isn't good, but I have a lot of old paint cans left over from the previous homeowner, so that's probably not.

[Miles]

Yeah, no, I would just recommend. Yeah, you could just dig a hole.

[Ryan]

I got a bunch of aerosol cans.

[Jared]

I've been looking to get.

[Tyler]

Okay, so, Ryan, you bring your car batteries. I'll bring my barrels of oil. Jared will grab his paint can, and Miles will grab his aerosol cans, and we'll have a big Bonfire.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Jared]

I'll probably just put mine down the storm drain. That's probably the easiest.

[Ryan]

That's way better. Yeah.

[Miles]

Out of sight, out of mind type of deal.

[Tyler]

You got to dump it down the sink so you can rinse out your sink. You can't rinse out the storm drain.

[Miles]

True.

[Jared]

That's a good point.

[Miles]

That's not a bad point.

[Ryan]

It's actually a good idea to dump paint down the drain. I don't really like the. The color is kind of outdated in our. In our drain. Just dump some paint down.

[Tyler]

Yeah. I just. I groan every time I look down there.

[Ryan]

Like an eggshell white color. Yeah.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Probably a satin finish paint.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Yeah. Well, because then when the. When the plumber comes over to look at why your drain is clogged, then it just looks like pvc.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

So it's gonna blend in.

[Jared]

Feel. Feel right at home.

[Miles]

Yeah. Collect insurance on that and have a day. Yeah. I think we. I think the boys are the boys. I could start a group chat right now if you want. I think we're kind of due for a burn party.

[Jared]

Yeah, I'd be sick.

[Miles]

Could burn a lot of stuff.

[Tyler]

We got some around. We could have a burn party here. Yeah.

[Jared]

Right in the middle of the warehouse.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

You just sit in a circle, each in a lawn chair and just.

[Ryan]

I mean, we could burn something.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Have a fire fest.

[Ryan]

Put it right by the pond.

[Tyler]

Yeah. There's plenty far away from the trees. The only thing we. We risk is starting a prairie fire.

[Miles]

Yeah. But it's great for regrowth.

[Tyler]

It's true. People do it all the time.

[Ryan]

Plus, I'm probably gonna have to. We're probably gonna have to mow that down because there's some invasive weed that grows in there that every year we get a letter from the city saying we got mowed down every year.

[Tyler]

Have we ever wrote it down?

[Ryan]

Yeah, every year I do it, but I usually get someone who's got, like, a. Yeah. Yeah. You've been mowing the lawn. You're not gonna have to mow the whole thing. I. I can see your eyes light up.

[Miles]

No, I was gonna say that. And that. Yeah, because holds a lot of moisture.

[Ryan]

Yeah. What, like. Like seven acres Mowing seven acres of. Of weeds this tall?

[Miles]

Yeah, because I'm all just a strip out there. And that's why I had to clean under. Get all the gunk underneath the mower because it's just. It's so moist under there. Huh. Okay, well. Yeah, we'll take a look at that weed we'll see if we can maybe do something different. Just get some weed killer or something.

[Ryan]

Well, that's the alternative. You could also have. You could spray it, but then you just, like, have to, like. What? Get a farmer with the spra.

[Tyler]

You can get one on, like, they make them for four wheelers, but you might be able to put on the side by side.

[Miles]

Yeah, I got electric. I got electric backpacks for now. We could use that. I do, actually.

[Ryan]

For seven acres.

[Miles]

Yeah. Probably not ideal, but just a Sunday stroll, you know?

[Ryan]

I'm just not gonna buy a sprayer.

[Miles]

No, we're not. No, definitely not.

[Ryan]

There's got to be someone we know with one.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah, I got a sprayer guy. I do, dude.

[Ryan]

And I didn't want to bring this up, but.

[Miles]

Bring it up.

[Ryan]

You're not gonna love it either.

[Miles]

Oh, okay.

[Ryan]

But next time you mow, you got weed whack around all those stones on the corner over here.

[Miles]

No, I know.

[Ryan]

And it. Hey, I don't want to be the guy. It looks really bad.

[Miles]

No, no. As you can tell.

[Ryan]

And, like, we bought those stones for aesthetic purposes, and it's now just. Just a clump of weeds, and you can't see the stones. Like, I. Again, I don't want to be that guy.

[Miles]

No, no, no, no, no, you're not that guy. Because I've actually. I've planned. I've been planning to knock, so I. I had my weed whacker here last week, and I. I had to. I had to, you know, tap it on the ground so many times to get those. Try and get the weeds out that I ran out of. I ran out of. Oh, yeah, I ran out of whack whacker.

[Jared]

Yep.

[Ryan]

Yeah, the line.

[Miles]

Yeah, I ran out of whack line.

[Jared]

So.

[Miles]

Yeah, then I was gonna ask you where. If we had a. If we had a mixed gas tank for the. For the. The company weed whacker. Haven't gotten.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I got a weed whacker here. And Ryan's like, nah, dude, I'll use mine.

[Miles]

Yeah, but if we run out of. If we run out of gas, I don't know. I don't think we have any mixed gas or. Or if we have oil for that, so. Well, yeah, we'll get. We're gonna get there. You know, I was actually just gonna. I was just gonna spray them and kill them all off me. Much easier, because then I won't mow over them. And then the.

[Ryan]

Ryan's the weed seed to Roundup, even though Roundup has been found to have cancerous materials in every single bottle.

[Miles]

Yeah. You gotta remember that. You got to read into that more, though, because it's.

[Ryan]

It's.

[Miles]

It's not.

[Jared]

Yeah, it's not.

[Ryan]

I know.

[Miles]

You'd have to drink. Yeah. You'd have to consume so much Roundup to buds.

[Ryan]

It goes into the, you know, runoff rain water into the retaining ponds that ends up back in the river, which ends up back in our drinking water.

[Jared]

The birds.

[Miles]

Yeah. I'll send you. I'll send you to my wife with that question, and she'll actually.

[Ryan]

No. The only reason why I brought that up, because I knew you would be like, that's a bunch of hoaxy.

[Miles]

No, I was just gonna get him. Yeah. Sprayed or whacked. It's been on my mind, though, so I'm glad you brought it up. Yeah.

[Ryan]

And, like, it's just also, like, kudos to me as a boss to have had that thought three weeks ago and just been like, I trust that he's gonna get it done.

[Tyler]

I. I will vouch for Ryan. He's been doing a lot of mowing. He's been. He's been taking care.

[Ryan]

He cares more than you bargained for when you signed up?

[Miles]

No.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Miles]

No.

[Tyler]

Weird.

[Miles]

I got everything in a pretty good spot right now. Where? Yeah, Once a week, few hours. I now know the pattern. Like, I know where to start. How Direction to mo. Yeah.

[Jared]

System down.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Do you have an ETA on the weed whacking?

[Miles]

Yeah, I mean, we could. Yeah. This afternoon.

[Ryan]

I don't need you to jump on it. It's not like a high priority, but does look pretty bad.

[Miles]

Are you referring to the one on the. On the southwest? Like, the way southwest by the berm?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Okay. By the. Like on.

[Ryan]

Right here. If we go out the building straight.

[Miles]

This way because there's two of them. There's. There's one, like, halfway into the property, and then there's one on the far side of the berm. You probably couldn't see it because the week.

[Ryan]

The first. The first berm you see when you roll up.

[Miles]

Okay.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Miles]

We're on the same page. I had the same thought.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, and I know you saw it because you mowed around it.

[Tyler]

It's the one.

[Miles]

Oh, yeah. No, trust me.

[Tyler]

He's talking about the one that looks like that one.

[Miles]

Both of them. Okay. Yeah.

[Tyler]

I have no clue what they're talking about.

[Miles]

Yep. I did almost put the mower into the pond last week. It was a little. It was a little bit Wet. And those zero turns. Sometimes I don't know. Sometimes I'm not a huge fan of those zero turns because, you know, if the one wheel starts spinning, then you're. And so you just have to crank and pray and hopefully that sucker starts to turn because otherwise I'd have been nose down in the pond. And can you imagine me walking up, being wet, walking up here, being like, here's what happened.

[Tyler]

I know exactly what. I was mowing my ditch the other day, and I always just do one strip right along the road. I don't mow the whole thing and.

[Miles]

Try and get a little too far in there.

[Tyler]

And I got, like, sucked into the ditch. And these dudes were riding by on bicycles right when I did it. So I just played it off like I meant to do that.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah.

[Tyler]

So now there's just one line in my ditch mode.

[Miles]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jared]

Makes you feel some.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Miles]

Oh, dude. My adrenaline was pumping when that.

[Ryan]

Why are you getting that close to the pond?

[Miles]

Well, I do. I was probably fine. I. I was no closer than I normally get. It was just. It was just a little bit more wet than it normally is. And that wheel started spinning when I started turning. And I'm like, oh, here we go.

[Jared]

Oh, that'd be great. I know you would not have heard.

[Ryan]

The end of it.

[Miles]

I know. I. So thank God that didn't happen. But you.

[Ryan]

I. Hey, also, I do want to commend you. I saw you get a little creative with the mowing lines the other week.

[Miles]

I was wondering if someone was going to comment on that.

[Ryan]

Ryan did a little squiggly line.

[Miles]

Well, I followed the land. I followed the landscape contour. The. The landscape edging is what I did. And I was going to actually send you guys a picture. And I was gonna. I was just gonna say, tell me that you burn without telling. Telling me that you burn with that design in the yard.

[Ryan]

What? Oh, did it look like.

[Miles]

It looked like I had smoked a bowl before I went out and got really creative. No, no, because it was like, really creative and thought out.

[Jared]

Gotcha.

[Miles]

Or it was artsy because I would.

[Ryan]

Say it looked like you did it on purpose. It didn't look like you accidentally it up.

[Miles]

Oh, Yeah, I know. 100 did it on purpose.

[Tyler]

You got to get a rake on the back of that thing so you can really get some lines going. Brush.

[Miles]

Yeah, we can rush something up.

[Jared]

We gotta get that thing weed whack first.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I mean, what the Are we talking the rock formation looks like out there? So what.

[Miles]

What I. When I was when I was weed whacking it two weeks ago. So you have to like knock it down in the middle and then you just have to shave it all the way to the bottom because the stems are like an inch in circ.

[Ryan]

I know. Because you let it get so long.

[Tyler]

Just weed whacking trees now.

[Jared]

Need a hedge trimmer?

[Miles]

No, I need one of those, like spire. It's like a circular metal one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I had one at my house and I gave it back to my father and I said I didn't need it anymore and now I need it. And I don't want to go crying to my father in law saying, saying I need this again, you know, because.

[Ryan]

I mean, I can text him, say I need it, give it to Ryan.

[Miles]

Oh, he'd give it to me in a heartbeat. But it's one of those pride things.

[Ryan]

Yeah, but you know, pride's not gonna get that whacked down. Hard work and grit and grit is what's gonna get that.

[Jared]

Text to your father in law.

[Miles]

And I've been meaning to do in between the trees on top of the berm too, because I'm gonna do it.

[Ryan]

Honestly. That was also on my lip, but I didn't want. I just.

[Miles]

Dude, it's been a high list too.

[Ryan]

I'm not mowing all of this lawn. So like, you know, I, I not. I can't necessarily complain, but at, well, at some point I have to hold a certain standard, you know, for sure.

[Miles]

For 100. It's been on my mind too.

[Ryan]

And like just every week you don't do it, the harder it's going to be the week you do.

[Jared]

I know, like his dad.

[Miles]

No, it's 100 accurate though.

[Ryan]

But like, I know you're like, oh, I'll do it every other week, but it's like, why don't you just do it every week? It'll take an extra 15 minutes to do a couple swipes down and back. Just do it every week. How about.

[Miles]

Yeah, because you can't. You can't use a zero. You can't go. You can't mow it with the zero turn because it's like a.

[Ryan]

You can die. You can.

[Miles]

You should see me.

[Ryan]

You should do. I really got to get out there and show you how.

[Miles]

You should watch the way, way that I have to sit on the mower when I'm mowing the side of that, of that hill. You should see the way I have to sit on that mower so it.

[Ryan]

Doesn'T tip over, like shift Your weight?

[Miles]

Because I'm. I'm at probably like a. I don't know, what, 90, 55 degree angle? 50 degree?

[Ryan]

Well, why don't you just mow it at an angle? Just go up and over.

[Miles]

I could go up and over, but.

[Tyler]

Yeah, then you would scalp the top of the hill.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Better than it being three feet long with weeds.

[Miles]

And maybe scalping it is the move because then it just won't grow back as fast.

[Tyler]

Yeah. We are approach drive season, so it'll just burn.

[Miles]

Yeah, yeah, we'll get that done. I kind of. I got that fire under my butt now to get out there and get her done, because I've been. Trust me, if you could just enter this mind of mine, you would, you would. You would have. You would have seen this conversation in my head 15 times.

[Ryan]

Are you surprised at how long it took me to say something?

[Miles]

No, I didn't even think you'd notice, to be honest. Well, because there's a lot of other weeds around it too, so I was just. I was going to get to it and. Yeah, now I noticed everything.

[Ryan]

Right. It just, it just takes an unbelievable filter for me not to say everything I notice. You wouldn't believe the amount of stuff I noticed. I don't say anything about. It's like kind of. It's impressive.

[Jared]

And Miles hates filters. Something.

[Miles]

Yeah, yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna get.

[Ryan]

No. And I trust. I trust he'll get it done. I trust to get done, but. But let's get it done.

[Miles]

Yeah, we'll get it done. We'll get it done.

[Jared]

So, Miles, what would you give ryan out of 10 with his mowing this summer so far?

[Miles]

Like an overall score without the weeds? Without.

[Ryan]

No, that's it factored in. I mean, that's the, the, the berm. Your effort on the berms have knocked a couple points off.

[Miles]

Yeah, I can. I can understand that for sure.

[Ryan]

You did, though. You did round up and give the entire city of horse cancer the weeds. So that's, you know, you killed those weeds, which you definitely did. I definitely could have been on my hands and knees out there doing it.

[Miles]

Are fried in about three, four days.

[Ryan]

So I'll give you eight and a half out of ten. Oh, that's pretty good. You know, the weed killing gave you an extra half a point. The berm situations knocked down a couple. Couple. So yeah, you. You gotta be.

[Miles]

I'll take the berm. So. Yeah, the berm situation. Yeah. Because now again, the longer you put it off, the more work it's gonna be. So now I either got to bring a rake or the mower to chop because, I mean, the weeds will come down in full weed form, you know, Ain't gonna chop them up with a weed whacker. So I gotta bring a rake or a mower out there to finish those.

[Ryan]

Well, do that before you mow, and then you can just. Just. Yeah, I can mow over it, mulch it out.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You also have been battling the city a little bit in terms of how many flags they put in the one section.

[Miles]

And weirdly enough, yeah.

[Ryan]

They were attaching utilities or something to a building across the road. So they had to, like, find out and do the spray paint with the flags in our yard of where all the underground stuff was. But no one told us, like, how long they need that in there for.

[Miles]

No.

[Ryan]

So for a couple weeks, Ryan had to deal with all the flags until finally I was like, all right, they haven't done. Just take the flags out.

[Miles]

I had to push. I had to push them all that area. And then it looked like. Because then I had to go around the flags. So then it was just all discombobulated. I was gonna have someone. I was actually gonna ask one of you guys, if you could just walk in front of me, pull the flag up so I could put it back. Put it back down.

[Tyler]

I was gonna say, there's no weed whacking around those flags either, because you're. The second you hit them, it just wraps around.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah, they're terrible.

[Miles]

So.

[Ryan]

So, yeah. Eight and a half. I'm. I'm very happy. Not extremely happy, but I'm. I'm happy with how it's been going.

[Miles]

Yeah. That's my lunch.

[Ryan]

Little mid summer review.

[Miles]

My lunch break. Yeah, my lunch break today is gonna be that. Those weeds.

[Jared]

You don't do it today. Just get it done.

[Miles]

No, because now it's on my car. Now it's. Now it's. It's full frontal lobe of my brain. Whatever that frontal lobe does. I don't know if that's the creative aspect.

[Jared]

Nobody knows.

[Ryan]

Nobody knows. Yeah. You don't even have to get creative.

[Miles]

Just. No. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Knock them down.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Also, one of the stones fell off of the top. It was like to stack it too. If you get that stone, lift it.

[Jared]

Up back on there and be just deadlifted.

[Miles]

Really?

[Ryan]

How wind, rocks are settling, sabotage, Pesky pranks.

[Miles]

When it comes to, like, when it comes to that type of work, like, let's just. Okay. Like yard maintenance. I'm not asking anybody for help. If a rock needs to get put back in place, I'm gonna find a way to put it back in place, because that's just like. I don't know that. Here's my man card.

[Ryan]

Well, yeah, no, like, if you. If you want to take a stab at that rock, you definitely can.

[Miles]

I will. Yeah. Show me where the rock's at and I'll.

[Ryan]

It's. It's right where you have to weed whack.

[Miles]

Okay.

[Tyler]

It's in the weeds.

[Ryan]

In the weeds.

[Miles]

Maybe I should just put that rock over top the weeds.

[Tyler]

Not a bad idea.

[Ryan]

We don't do shortcuts around here, Ryan. Shortcuts got you to eight and a half.

[Miles]

Yeah, they did.

[Ryan]

Yeah, they did.

[Jared]

Don't make it seven and a half.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Also, don't smash your foot on the rock. No, don't try in hero mode. Lift it up and then drop it on your foot. I don't need that either.

[Miles]

No, but you lift the one end up, you put it on, you rest it on the top, and then you. Then you lift the other end up.

[Jared]

And put steel toes on.

[Ryan]

Yeah, they did install it with a skid steer, so just so you know.

[Miles]

It can't be any heavier than them landscape or them stairs. Stairs that you got at your house.

[Ryan]

Also, at some point, we may need to. They're so heavy that they settled and they like dropped like 2 inches. So we may need to take them off re. Put some more sand in there and get them back, so.

[Miles]

Or what we could do is just. We could just. Just run a sprinkler on them for like a couple days straight, have them settle enough to where it just actually makes the. Another step.

[Ryan]

Another step.

[Miles]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Shortcut.

[Miles]

Yes.

[Tyler]

Love it.

[Ryan]

Shortcut. Chili.

[Miles]

No, no, I mean, we're gonna do it.

[Ryan]

Every part of his life, he just takes the shortcut now.

[Miles]

If we're gonna do it, we're gonna do it right.

[Ryan]

Now. If you think that I'm gonna to mess with those bricks in the next two years, you're dreaming, dude. Only way I would fix it maybe is if I sold the house. And I was worried that someone be pissed they'd stub their toe on.

[Tyler]

Yeah, I don't think you're gonna lose the deal over the stair.

[Ryan]

Spectre makes you put caution tape on it?

[Tyler]

Yeah, you gotta mark the stairway. Yellow and black tape.

[Miles]

Okay, we gotta wrap this up so I can get out there and then get them weeds under control.

[Ryan]

You got any fun facts, Jared?

[Jared]

The state of Colorado is not a rectangle with four straight sides due to poor navigation and terrain. And the terrain getting in the way. During early border markings and expeditions. Colorado is a shape with 697 sides to it.

[Miles]

Holy.

[Ryan]

Isn't that every state? It's pretty much like that.

[Miles]

Yeah. We've been misled.

[Jared]

Wyoming and Utah are similar. Where it's not like a perfect.

[Ryan]

Yeah. On the map, but if you zoom in far enough, it's all jaggedy.

[Jared]

Yep.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Because, like, I don't know how. What would you consider, like, the Minnesota, North Dakota border? Is that multiple sides or is it just one because it's the river?

[Ryan]

Didn't foresee that question.

[Miles]

Yeah, I didn't either.

[Jared]

I have no idea.

[Tyler]

Because, like, you could argue that it's a shitload of sides, but you could also argue it's just one because the river is a side.

[Ryan]

Because, like, North Dakota is northernmost border is just the parallel.

[Tyler]

Yep.

[Ryan]

What? The 49th parallel or some whatever number it is. So that one technically is a straight line.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Yeah. And Canada's right above North Dakota.

[Ryan]

Yes. Yes, they are. Yeah.

[Jared]

So, yeah.

[Ryan]

Geography.

[Miles]

51St state. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I mean, I just feel like you do have any, you know, know any state.

[Jared]

Nothing's perfect.

[Ryan]

But it was supposed to be a straight line is what you're saying. But they're like, ah, there's a mountain. I'm not climbing that. Let's just make it around it.

[Jared]

Yeah. Early surveyors use change compasses and celestial navigation through rough terrain.

[Ryan]

Celestial.

[Tyler]

That makes sense.

[Ryan]

Map making before satellite images. Insane. Just doesn't make sense to me. Yeah. They just had to tape measure the.

[Jared]

Whole thing or what kind of what it sounds like.

[Ryan]

All right, guys. Well, that's another episode of you bet you radio. Thanks for tuning in. We'll see you in the next one. Love you guys. Oh, you betcha. Yeah. Yeah. Superman is just got to be one of the worst superheroes.

[Jared]

I think he's the best superhero probably.

[Ryan]

Well, it's like, okay, you made an invincible guy unvincible. Invincible. You literally can't Vince him. You can't convince me. You can't Vince him. That's why Vince Vaughn has never played him. He's unvincible. He's invincible. So, like, like, wow, that's really like a good plot. It's like, nothing can hurt this guy. Well, except for what's his. Kryptonite.

[Jared]

Kryptonite.

[Ryan]

I know, I know. No, I know. They just like, oh, yeah, there's this from another world that's gonna show up on Earth and just make him not good. I mean, Just. Just the plot writing. Who wrote. Who wrote that? Stan Lee. Who. Who's.

[Jared]

I think so.

[Ryan]

No, he's. He's dc, so he's not Stanley. I don't know. Whoever did it, just not your best work. He just could. You know, you can fly, you can ease. He's just invincible, right? Yeah, I mean, that's pretty much it. And I don't. I mean, granted, I haven't seen any Superman movies, but, like, Batman's got a sick backstory. Right. His parents died.

[Jared]

Spoilers.

[Ryan]

Spider Man. He also can't fly. Yeah. And if you shoot him, he will die. Yeah, yeah. But, like, what I'm saying is, like, they both have, like, really solid reasons that motivate them to be, like, good and be who they are. Superman is just like. He's just born like that.

[Jared]

Oh, if Tyler's here right now, you correct us so much.

[Ryan]

Oh, my God. Yeah. Oh, well, you'll see. Jake, that is not canon. If you. If you go into a. That is not a canyon event. Yeah. And. Well, actually, that's not canon. He retconned it. Tyler loves saying Retcon, which is retroactive.

[Jared]

Canon.

[Ryan]

Canon or something like that. They, like, retroactively write stuff into the story. Just Retcon. Red. Like, retina. What is it? Retcon. Redcon. Rhett. Retcon. Retcon.

[Jared]

Like Thomas Rhett. Cod.

[Ryan]

I think that there's. There's probably a thousand instances in the world ever that people have used the word canon in Tyler's. Like, 898 of those references come from Tyler. Yeah, Tyler loves lore. It's like when Tyler was born, you know, like on Google Search. It'll like, show the. The trends of words and stuff. You could track it from when Tyler was born and could start talking that the can. The word canon had a big spike using that. The last time he used canon was like 1904. And then Tyler shows up and it's a huge spike. He's bringing it back. I wouldn't be surprised when he has his fourth kid. That is. The kid's gotta be named Cannon. Nick Cannon. Yeah, that's Tyler's Nick Cannon. And it actually would work with his rhyming naming scheme. They all start with the letter C. That's true. Oh, yeah. It works perfectly. So we're gonna get Canon Nick Ziggler as the next Kid Cannon. Nick.

[Jared]

Write that down.

[Ryan]

Write it down. It's just. I don't know. Is Superman is. You know they're making a new one, right? Is that why you. Yeah. Billboard for it. And I was just like, wow, that movie sucks. What I think is really funny is that there's, like, a big reveal for who's gonna be the next Superman. Like, what actor they're gonna pick. And, like, nobody cares. They make it a huge deal that it's like, who's Superman? Is this who cares Years.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

If it's not Vince Vaughn, I'm not in. He's invincible. Yeah.

[Jared]

Who would be the best Superman? Like, Danny DeVito would be really funny to pick a Superman.

[Ryan]

See, that's what they got to do. Like, you know how.

[Jared]

Go flip it.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Like, Deadpool was great because he was kind of an sarcastic character, and people like that. Whatever. That's what he's got to do with Superman.

[Miles]

He's.

[Ryan]

He's run its course culturally. People don't. Yeah. I mean, it's like the star quarterback being a superhero. It's like, that's not very fun. You want the nerdy guy who gets shoved in a locker to suddenly hours, and then he comes back and he saves the day. Spider Man. Spider man, yeah.

[Jared]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan]

You want this guy to be orphaned, be bitten by a bat, come back? It's like. It's like. And you want him to be orphans, too?

[Miles]

You.

[Ryan]

You just want him to be orphans completely. Batman's not Batman if you ain't orphan. All right. I like this kid. He's got some superpowers. Somebody kill his parents.

[Jared]

Somebody kill.

[Ryan]

He doesn't have superpowers.

[Jared]

That's true. Well, I mean, being rich is a.

[Ryan]

Superpower, so that is true. The best power of all. Let's see, you know, like, the guy.

[Jared]

Like Aquaman. How did Aquaman come to be?

[Ryan]

He's a DC comic. He's got no good backstory, isn't he? He's not Marvel. No, no, no. DC Comics guy that just likes walking around shirtless with jean shorts on.

[Jared]

Is that Wolverine?

[Ryan]

And he just gets pissed.

[Jared]

Oh.

[Ryan]

And turns green. Like, that's a great story. Great one.

[Jared]

He just takes steroids, like, wearing shirts.

[Ryan]

It wouldn't be as good, you know, if he was always green and angry all the time. Not as good.

[Jared]

It's like, relax, Hall Hulk.

[Miles]

Literally.

[Ryan]

That's what people are like. Yeah. We didn't morph into the Hulk if he just was the Hulk. That's why the thing didn't become a thing. He just was always a rock, you know, he could never be paper or scissors. He was his only rock, and he was getting beat every time in that someone's papering his ass. Yeah. All the time. Yeah. Why is the villain in that thing not paper? Paper man. That's a great paper boy. Yeah. You know, that's why. You know, the Mr. Fantastic is way more popular than the Thing because the Thing is just always rock. The Hulk morphs back and forth. There's some dynamic. Superman's always super. He's not the sometime Superman. Maybe that's how they got to fix him.

[Jared]

Well, he's Clark Cat.

[Ryan]

Yeah, but he's.

[Jared]

He's a journalist, isn't he? Or is that.

[Ryan]

Yes. He works for the Daily Planet. This is something like that. That. Yeah. Lex Luther.

[Jared]

So, anyway, yeah, that.

[Ryan]

That's my superhero rant, guys. If you want more, you bet your radio, you got to check out our Patreon. You got to go to patreon.com you bet radio, or look us up on the app. And we have hundreds of hours of other episodes on there that you can't get unless you're signed up. So you got to check us out on Patreon. You bet your radio, baby.