#193 After 2 Beers: Ambition Without Evidence Meets Gravity’s Deadline

A century-old film clip sparks a modern gut check: a Paris tailor climbs the Eiffel Tower in 1912 wearing a parachute suit of his own design… and jumps. The crowd is ready, the cameras are rolling, and gravity answers in four seconds. We break down why this infamous moment still matters—how belief is fuel, but physics is the guardrail—and use it as a lens for the tech leaps we’re making right now.

From there, we fast-forward to the near future that’s already pulling into the driveway: AI-driven cars you can nap in, not-so-subtle subscription features hiding inside your vehicle, and why flying cars sound fun until you imagine them running out of charge over your roof. We explore the quieter revolution of convenience—groceries delivered, apps everywhere, VR meetings that might actually feel present—and ask what happens to community when leaving the house becomes optional. The thread runs through drones and swarms, unmanned warfare, and the rising value of metals like silver and copper that power electrification and chips. Follow the materials and you can almost map the next decade.

It’s not all heavy. We trade small-town legends, smoky humor from a Colorado dispensary fire, and updates on our live trivia nights and a 90s country theme party. But we close where it matters most: eight years into this show, we’ve seen how quickly life can turn. People get quiet. Grief sneaks up. If someone in your world hasn’t sounded like themselves, reach out. One honest check-in can land harder than any algorithmic upgrade.

If this mix of history, tech, and real-life storytelling hits home, tap follow, share with a friend who loves a wild tale, and leave a quick review so more curious listeners can find us. What future leap do you trust—and which one needs more testing?

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Transcript

Welcome Back And Shoutouts

SPEAKER_02 0:02

Welcome to the After Two Beers Podcast. I'm Dutch Dalton. Joined as always by Kimmy Gibbler. That's me. And Michael Summers. What's going on? Hanging out in the uh I don't know what we call that. The uh the studio. A studio. No, we're the studio. That's the uh control room. It's uh Mr. Scar Petty, Jeremy Scrady himself, our buddy Nick Jones hanging out with us tonight, and of course, the man that makes this all possible, Mr. Kevin Shook. Yes. Here at uh Global Media Enterprises. So uh without further ado, we're gonna jump right into this. I just want to make sure we send a couple shout-outs, a little thank yous to our uh Patreon sponsors that continue to provide us some fundage to help us stay on air. You know, it's been a minute. I um you know, we've been doing trivia so much that uh I was honestly as I was preparing tonight, I was like, shit, I feel like we haven't done one of these in forever.

SPEAKER_03 0:56

I know about ask you what we've got to do tonight. How do we do that?

SPEAKER_01 0:58

I hope not a connections. No, no.

SPEAKER_03 1:00

I almost do I need dude. I need to get some questions going.

SPEAKER_04 1:05

As long as Putin's not doing the music, we're fine.

SPEAKER_03 1:08

Uh, whatever. How was my music hard? Shut up.

SPEAKER_04 1:11

No, number four was good, but before that, I felt like I was um, I don't know, wouldn't stab myself in the throat.

SPEAKER_01 1:20

He was in his fields when he made that.

SPEAKER_02 1:22

He was stuck in the 90s.

History Segment Setup

SPEAKER_04 1:23

Uh that's fine.

SPEAKER_02 1:24

Coming up on tonight's show, we are going to dive back into one of my favorite segments from the past. I'm bringing it back. Uh maybe we're gonna make a little changes this year as we move into 2026. It is our, we just celebrated our eighth anniversary, and I forgot.

SPEAKER_01 1:38

Yes, I sent him.

SPEAKER_02 1:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:40

No, I sent him pictures. Yeah, you had to remember.

SPEAKER_02 1:43

I totally forgot. We're gonna dive back into After Two Beer's history. I've got a history story tonight. And then I found a couple news stories to kind of dust off the uh the rust as we uh we move into this. The goal again is to continue to do these every other week throughout the entire year uh with Kevin's blessings. So uh um I'm ready to get back into it.

SPEAKER_01 2:07

Yes, I've missed this.

The Franz Reichelt Parachute Story

SPEAKER_02 2:09

All right. Our uh Jeremy, our first history, after two beers history.

SPEAKER_05 2:14

Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_02 2:15

I picked one specifically for you. Uh-huh. French engineer.

SPEAKER_05 2:18

Son of a bitch.

SPEAKER_02 2:20

The thing about Jeremy, um, and and actually, you know, Kevin kind of falls into this uh spectrum a little as well. They're both very highly motivated by doing great things. Right. Right? They um it's not about just doing and getting by, it's about doing good things. Conquering. Right. Jeremy Straddy wakes up in the morning and tries to figure out how he's gonna make two nickels that day out of one. Right. Am I right? You're right. So I found a story about a gentleman in Paris that kind of falls into that spectrum. And this is gonna be right up your alley, okay? This is 1912. We're in Paris. The Eiffel Tower is just barely two, 20 years old. It's a new building. People are checking it out. The Wright brothers, one of which went to our high school.

SPEAKER_03 3:06

Yeah, they did.

SPEAKER_02 3:07

They had just invented flight, but it was dangerous. It was dangerous.

SPEAKER_01 3:11

Well, yeah, everything is. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:12

I mean, you can die now from a plane flight. Can you imagine what it was like in the early 1900s? No, it was horrible. Pilots were falling out of the sky, people are dying. And this guy, his name is Franz Reichelt. Everyone agreed at that time that what the world needed was a better parachute. Right. Now we're gonna compare Franz to Scarpetti all night long.

SPEAKER_03 3:33

I'm not testing that.

SPEAKER_02 3:34

You know? Put this on your back. Right. Now, Franz, uh, he wasn't an engineer, he wasn't a physicist, he was a tailor. Dar? Even better.

SPEAKER_01 3:44

Pull your shoes. I mean, pull your chute.

SPEAKER_02 3:46

Yeah. But like Jeremy and others, he believed in himself. That's what's important. That's important. That's what you're gonna have. He convinced himself that he had solved the problem by inventing what he would totally, or what we would call today, a wearable parachute suit. All right, think of uh like wings sewn into a coat, okay?

SPEAKER_00 4:07

Playing squirrel.

SPEAKER_02 4:08

Yeah, it's kind of like the bat suit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 4:10

Right? Like he was a uh he made zipper coats. That's funny.

SPEAKER_05 4:14

Oh now.

SPEAKER_02 4:17

The thing about old Franz, nobody believed in him. Now he tested these things out, kind of. Okay. What are we talking about, kinda then? Kind of. Uh he would drop mannequins off buildings. Yeah, okay. And uh the results, sometimes it worked. I thought you were gonna say cadavers. No, no.

SPEAKER_03 4:36

Can you imagine?

SPEAKER_02 4:37

But this guy was a marketing genius. He's like, I've gotta grow my brand. If I'm gonna sell any of these suits, I've gotta get out. I've got to get my name in.

SPEAKER_01 4:47

Right? That's the kind of science I'm donating my body to.

SPEAKER_03 4:50

Hey, if you think about jumping out of a plane, try this.

SPEAKER_02 4:53

Right. He's trying to, he's he's getting in on the ground floor. Exactly. Up up, yeah. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_01 4:59

Top floor.

SPEAKER_02 5:00

Now he asked permission to test his suit from the Eiffel Tower. Ooh, okay. Right? What a great way to get some notoriety. We're gonna jump off the Eiffel Tower and try out our suit. Now, authorities agreed, but there was a condition. And the end. Yeah, there was a condition. He had to use a dummy. Oh yeah. Now on February 4th. Yeah. Yeah. Give me a cheeseburger and they'll jump off that thing. Uh on uh February 4th, 1912, he uh he had agreed to use the dummy, but when he showed up, he was wearing the suit himself.

SPEAKER_03 5:35

Oh, there you go.

SPEAKER_02 5:36

Now, there's one important detail, and I'm saving this to the end. Oh, I can't wait. This is an interesting one. Now, crowds gathered, reporters showed up, and this was the demonstration. Now, again, everyone expects Franz to fail. Right. Oh, of course, yeah. You know, like somebody's like, I'm gonna be the firework king of Wayne County, right? Right? And people are like, You ain't gonna do shit. And Franz is like, you gotta believe this is like a public execution here. Everybody just showed up to see him die. That's it. Now he went up to the first platform, which is about 187 feet up.

SPEAKER_03 6:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 6:12

And Franz did what probably most people would do. Checking out. He hesitated. He paced back and forth and back and forth, and he's like, I don't know. I don't know if I want to put my house up for these fireworks.

SPEAKER_03 6:25

You know, uh, maybe a dummy is a good guy.

SPEAKER_02 6:28

Right? Maybe I should do this over water. Well, he leaned over the railing, and at this point, he jumped. Oh, I mean, do what you gotta do. And he left his mark in history. On the ground? On the ground.

SPEAKER_05 6:44

Yes. Oh.

Watching The Footage And Reactions

SPEAKER_02 6:45

He fell 187 feet. The only thing the parachute did was cover the body when he landed. Oh shit. Now, the interesting part, and here's the detail that I first of all, when he he landed. When he landed, it was frozen ground and he made a dent. There's a dent in the ground, but this is the part that Kevin Shook's gonna love the most. Oh yeah. They taped it. There's actual video of this. And you can watch.

SPEAKER_01 7:13

There he is. There's a suit.

SPEAKER_03 7:15

Holy cow!

SPEAKER_01 7:16

Oh, that suit does not look the least bad thing. No, it's not saving.

SPEAKER_03 7:20

I think he probably needed about 197 feet.

SPEAKER_01 7:23

He needed more zippers.

SPEAKER_02 7:27

He uh he went up 187 feet. You can find video footage of this. I've watched it on YouTube. And this poor guy jumps off that building in that fancy ass suit and just goes splat. Right? Did they bounce? No, he left it in a crater in the ground. They measured the crater. That's how messed up we are as human beings. They're like, well, let's just see how big of a dent he made. We might be able to make a swimming pool out of it or something. We'll put a fountain there and sketchy. You gotta see the video. Have you found the video yet? Are we gonna can we show this on YouTube? All right, here he is. He's like, oh man, this is gonna, I'm gonna be so rich.

SPEAKER_01 8:07

This is terrible. This is a bad idea.

SPEAKER_02 8:10

He's got the handlebar must damage the engineer.

SPEAKER_01 8:13

I should probably not do this.

SPEAKER_02 8:15

Tip of the cap to you. Yep, that right there. I ain't gonna tell you what I thought that said at the beginning. Oh man. Yep, there it is. They're just trying it out. Uh why wouldn't that work? Now, again, he was a tailor, not an engineer.

SPEAKER_01 8:29

Not a good one, apparently.

SPEAKER_02 8:30

Oh, he may have been a good tailor. Oh, okay. It covered the body. Oh, look at it. He's scared as shit. You should be. They're like, are you sure you want to do this, Franz? He's like, but everyone.

SPEAKER_01 8:42

Everybody's here. Put all my money into this.

SPEAKER_03 8:46

You know what? I think I do need to do it. No, I'm not gonna do it. Nah.

SPEAKER_02 8:50

He's gonna do it.

SPEAKER_03 8:51

I ain't gonna do it.

SPEAKER_01 8:52

I'm not gonna do it. Oh I oh I did it.

SPEAKER_04 8:55

I did it, y'all.

SPEAKER_01 8:56

I ain't gonna do it.

SPEAKER_04 8:57

I bet he's going, man. I hope this works. You think? He goes, this is either gonna come back.

SPEAKER_00 9:02

Okay, this is working! That's what he said all the way down.

SPEAKER_03 9:05

I'm gonna leave my mark on history. Oh, look at it. And on the ground. It's so suspenseful. No, he didn't want to go. No, he didn't. No, he wouldn't either. The first guy.

SPEAKER_01 9:14

Oh I have coats bigger than that, and I don't think I'm gonna jump off there.

SPEAKER_03 9:19

There it is. Oh, that was a bad jump.

SPEAKER_04 9:21

Pew That wasn't. If he would have just jumped, putting if he would have laid out, laid out, he might have had a chance.

SPEAKER_03 9:27

He might have. Oh. Yeah, he landed. He you're right, he did land flat. But you know.

SPEAKER_01 9:34

Is that what happened to Henley Road and Bachmire where all those holes are and people keep getting their wheels messed up?

SPEAKER_04 9:41

That guy, they do have those squirrel, those suits like Michigan. Squirrel suits, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:46

Well, those are pretty cool. Because they're neoprene.

SPEAKER_04 9:50

Well, probably a little bit tighter. That looked like too much.

SPEAKER_01 9:54

Straight cotton.

SPEAKER_03 9:54

That was just like he needed about 10 more feet and it would have been fine. It didn't have time to expand.

SPEAKER_01 10:01

He might have needed to have gone higher.

SPEAKER_03 10:03

He probably used cotton.

SPEAKER_02 10:05

His thread count wasn't that high.

unknown 10:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:07

See, right there, them things right there. That's what he invented, but he didn't know how to do it yet. He didn't know it yet.

SPEAKER_03 10:12

That's right. He didn't know it.

SPEAKER_01 10:13

Those are those flying squirrel suits, I call them.

SPEAKER_02 10:16

Yeah, look at that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:17

That was I'm still not trying that. I'm still not trying that.

SPEAKER_02 10:21

Bronze is up there looking down going, that was me. Dude, I'd hit a mountain like Kobe in one of those. Wow. Is that too much? That was a little too much.

SPEAKER_01 10:35

A little too much.

SPEAKER_02 10:36

You ain't getting a statue, though. Dude, I'd look like one of them birds that hit somebody's front picture window.

SPEAKER_03 10:44

I mean if I didn't know, is that motherfucker blimp up? So I uh I ask you. I have to have a lot of neoprene for me.

SPEAKER_02 10:56

There it is. The lesson is you can believe in yourself all you want, but science is undefeated. Maybe next time jump over water. There you go. JP's like he gone. Oh, faces of death up in here tonight.

SPEAKER_01 11:16

Oh, these lights are terrible on my face.

SPEAKER_02 11:18

On your face? They make my face look like my face.

SPEAKER_01 11:22

They do.

SPEAKER_02 11:22

Oh, I did that. I did that. Beer drop. Beer drop. We got beer rolling.

SPEAKER_03 11:26

I'm new.

Futures Talk: AI And Self-Driving

SPEAKER_02 11:26

So there you go. After two beers. Oh, that was good. Wagon officially has jumped back on the wagon. I wanted to thank you for that one. I was like, did you like that? I loved it. That was good.

SPEAKER_03 11:36

Loved it.

SPEAKER_02 11:37

What do you think he was thinking? It took about four seconds for him to hit. And he's like, it should be inflating anytime.

SPEAKER_01 11:43

He was like, oh, this was a bad make.

SPEAKER_03 11:46

This uh this is just patent number one. Somebody else will figure it out after me.

SPEAKER_02 11:52

What's wild is the video of it. Like the fact that it has remained, it's almost what year was it?

SPEAKER_00 11:57

Like, how did they even have it? How did they have video?

SPEAKER_04 12:01

Oh. Oh, time travelers. Did he owe a lot of debt? No.

SPEAKER_00 12:05

I mean, what's why? You know, that's Oh, now we're relating back to you.

SPEAKER_04 12:10

Did he owe a lot of debt? You know, screw it. If this doesn't work, I might as well die anyway.

SPEAKER_02 12:16

You would have thought the mustache would have caught some sort of look at it, boy. This poor guy's my guy.

SPEAKER_01 12:22

I can't see nothing in this damn thing.

SPEAKER_02 12:24

That looks like he put a bed sheet on and jumped. Oh, he fell. It was more of a fall.

SPEAKER_04 12:30

This shit didn't even open.

SPEAKER_02 12:31

It looked like the Wily Coyote.

SPEAKER_03 12:33

Thank you. I was going to say it looked like an acme shooter.

SPEAKER_00 12:36

Oh, they're carrying him off everything.

SPEAKER_04 12:41

I wonder if they got a marker for him over there, like a headstone. This is where he landed. Oh, the Eiffel Tower. Oh, man. Oh, I'm going to go there next. So, what resides in his indentation now? We have to go there now and pray for him. No, I just want to go see the dent, dude.

SPEAKER_01 12:56

I was going to say, what lays there where the indentation is?

SPEAKER_02 12:59

Look, here's the case.

SPEAKER_01 13:00

Are they covered in there or what?

SPEAKER_02 13:02

Hey, squirrel. Squirrel. See, look how much better that one looks than what he was wearing.

SPEAKER_01 13:06

That one wasn't different, mate.

SPEAKER_02 13:08

That guy looked like he had taken his wife's like curtains to I swear, honey, this is gonna work. It's gonna work. It's gonna work. It's me as pitch. You know, it's just me as a bitch. So much money. When I tied that bowl around my neck, thought I was Superman. Yeah. The next time your kids tell you they want to be the president, make them watch that video. There's a moral. World needs dish diggers.

SPEAKER_01 13:31

You can grieve everything.

SPEAKER_02 13:32

But you might splat yourself. All right. What else we got? You know what? Like I said, this is gonna probably be a shorter show. Well, that took 20 minutes, so we're good.

SPEAKER_03 13:41

Oh, I tell you, we we haven't done this in a while. So we're gonna be we're off a topic.

SPEAKER_02 13:44

The history stuff, man. Actually, you know what? Before we move into, I've got a few news stories as we always do, the A to B news. I want to ask you guys, and I was I'm sincere about this question.

SPEAKER_03 13:55

Button on a fur coat.

SPEAKER_02 13:56

No. Um we've we've been doing this show now.

SPEAKER_01 14:01

I'm not gonna answer.

SPEAKER_02 14:02

We've been doing this show now for eight years, and uh, I realized that uh the other day I was born in 1978. I've been alive for six decades. Yeah. If you count 70s, 80s, 90s, the whole deal. Yeah, I've been alive now a long time. I'm getting to be an old man. We're the best. My question to both of you, all three of you, and actually everybody in there in the next 25 years. Okay, okay, let's do 30 because that's what uh Back to the Future was. Yeah. 85 to 55. Yeah. Think about that. Yeah, no doubt, right? What do you expect the world to create in the next 25, 30 years? Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_03 14:43

Oh, with AI coming along.

SPEAKER_02 14:45

Flying cars.

SPEAKER_03 14:46

I don't think so. I'll tell you why. No, no, no. No, people can't drive now. People can't drive now. I don't want somebody flying over people.

SPEAKER_04 14:53

I think it'll be uh off. It'll be like an AI Tesla.

SPEAKER_01 14:56

Women don't put gas in their shit now, and that would just fall from the sky. That's why it has a handle.

SPEAKER_03 15:01

We ain't gonna have flying cars because people are idiots. I've never thought of that. They'd run out of gas. Right.

SPEAKER_01 15:06

Run out of gas, be like, ain't got no gas in it. We'll be hitting houses.

SPEAKER_02 15:11

Have you seen three Midwesterners pull up to stop sign at a four-way station? You guys, me, me, you, you, me, me, me, you want to put them in an airplane and fly them around schools?

SPEAKER_04 15:22

I don't think I don't think it'll be them. I think you'll be shuttled.

SPEAKER_02 15:24

I don't think it's you think it'll be just random. Yeah. See, I'm I'm for sure, I mean, we're already there on self-drivable cars.

SPEAKER_03 15:31

They have them in Vegas now, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:33

Well, all over California, uh, Texas. Uh that was one of the things that happened um when ice went there before, I believe it was ice. Uh, they started setting the self-driving cars on fire. I don't know why. Maybe you know, they didn't like robots also. But um, I was driving somewhere the other. I drive for a living. Yeah, yeah. I'm an outside sales guy. Hate it at times. I I mean, as far as driving. A lot of window time. A lot of windshield. That's how I come up with a lot of trivia. Yeah. You know, like I've got a really good connections, by the way. Ooh, I can't wait. It's it's pretty good. But I'm not sharing it because it's a good one. I never have good connections.

SPEAKER_03 16:09

We'll save until next week. Yeah, I had a good one last week. Everybody liked it.

SPEAKER_02 16:12

It was good. Uh, but anyway, I'm convinced within 10 years, you'll be able to get in your car, type in an address, and it will take you. Go. You go.

SPEAKER_03 16:22

Oh, I can see that.

SPEAKER_02 16:22

And you can Jeremy and I think we're talking about this. Absolutely. You'll be able to take a nap, read a book, work on something.

SPEAKER_01 16:30

What will this do for DWI?

SPEAKER_03 16:32

You probably don't even have to type it in.

SPEAKER_01 16:34

You don't even have to type it in. Because you're not driving.

SPEAKER_03 16:36

It's gonna be on your appearance you have to download and pay for it, and you go, hey, on your smartwatch, and you go, hey, I need to go. You can get a clear bar. Take me to the liquor store.

SPEAKER_02 16:46

It's funny you say the app because they're already doing that now. Right. There are cars that you buy, I believe they're European cars, that um certain features that are installed on the vehicle, you have to pay a monthly fee.

SPEAKER_03 16:59

Like for a heated steering heated steering wheel.

Automation, Apps, And Everyday Life

SPEAKER_01 17:02

If you want to like um, so a lot of them, if you want to be able to like you can start your car from a like a remote thing.

unknown 17:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:13

Your key fob. But if you want to start your car from an app, you have to pay extra.

SPEAKER_02 17:18

Oh yeah. My jean's that way. My jean does same way.

SPEAKER_01 17:21

Yeah, Nissan was that way.

SPEAKER_02 17:23

Now they give you other features that you'll never use. But the the intent is.

SPEAKER_01 17:28

Now, one thing that was kind of cool on the Nissan one though, is that if you do pay for it, and I think that this was intentional for like people that had kids that were starting to drive, yeah. Is that you could see when they were going over the speed limit. You could like all kinds of devices. All kinds of things to where you could be like, you can't go over the speed limit. You can't do it.

SPEAKER_02 17:53

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 17:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:54

They should make an app that goes off when you're around somebody with too many zippers on their clothes. You shut your face. Zippers.

SPEAKER_01 18:02

We're not talking about this again.

SPEAKER_02 18:04

Oh, we're talking about zipper guy. Uh zippa. Zippa. You know, zippers would be kind of nice, though. Like if you get hot, like especially I get under boob sweat. Like a vent. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Remember like cars, like trucks in the 70s, they had those vent visors.

SPEAKER_03 18:18

Don't take my idea. I'm gonna be a new zipper guy. I'm not gonna jump off an Empire State Building, but all right, what else?

SPEAKER_02 18:26

You know, they're talking about really adding a lot of lifetime to be.

SPEAKER_03 18:30

Well, I can't wait till.

SPEAKER_01 18:31

I don't think we'll ever have to go to a grocery.

unknown 18:34

Really?

SPEAKER_02 18:34

You think it'll just bring it to your house? Yeah, no. Yeah. Or to your car.

SPEAKER_01 18:37

I mean, they practically do now if you want to pay a little bit extra, but then like if you go through my secrets, but if you do Aldi, and you have it delivered. But no, I just feel like if I order from Aldi, even having it delivered, the extra amount that I'm paying to have it delivered, I'm still saving from going to the regular grocery.

SPEAKER_03 18:57

Oh, yeah, because all the extra shit you buy.

SPEAKER_01 19:00

But I think that like I would have never ever done that prior to COVID. You know, I'm like, I don't mind going to the grocery.

SPEAKER_02 19:07

It's bringing it home and putting it away. I don't mind walking around the grocery.

SPEAKER_01 19:12

I don't mind doing laundry, but putting it away sucks. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:15

They uh they have self-automated machines.

SPEAKER_01 19:18

Something like that, I'd be on board. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:20

How much how many days a week do you pull clothes out of a laundry basket? Too many.

SPEAKER_01 19:25

Too many. What's what it'd be straight seven? I'm gonna say most.

SPEAKER_02 19:29

Most. I'd say probably about four. Three days a week. Why do why do human beings buy dressers? Right? So my I live out of a hamper. Jeremy puts his shit away. He does. Look at him.

SPEAKER_01 19:41

It's on the same level as his bedroom.

SPEAKER_02 19:43

Mine two fights of steps away. Yeah, I can tell.

SPEAKER_01 19:49

Two fights of steps away. That's the difference.

SPEAKER_03 19:51

I bet Shook's a hanger upper.

unknown 19:54

50 50.

SPEAKER_03 19:55

Depends on what it is.

SPEAKER_01 19:56

Do you live on one level? There we go. That's the difference. So, like, my biggest thing is that like I have to carry laundry down two steps. Well, actually, I have a JP for that. That's that's my app. I have an app for that. I have an app for that.

SPEAKER_03 20:13

Hey, bring me the clothes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:15

No, he'll carry it down and then he'll carry it up, but then we gotta put it away. But no, it's carrying it down two steps, then carrying back up two steps, and then putting it away. I don't have to all the time.

SPEAKER_02 20:29

She says, I actually hate going to the grocery. I'll put the shit away, but hate dealing with people. Actually, put it in headphones. You know, it's funny a lot of people do that too, right? And not just at the grocery, but just in everyday walks of life. Amanda, I think there's a lot of people that are going to move more introverted in the future. I'm convinced there will be a day very soon. And I was talking to Jeremy about this. So I'm an outside sales guy, and um when I go to Louisville from Richmond, it it's about a three and a half hour drive each way. Yeah. And I'll go down and I'll meet with a few customers. But in reality, I'm spending seven hours a day trying the windshield. Yeah, you are, right? Unproductive time because first of all, I don't have a self-driving car. Yeah. Right. But even if I did, it's not like I can sit at a workstation and and do things.

SPEAKER_03 21:18

You still gotta pay attention.

SPEAKER_02 21:19

Yeah. I'm I'm as as VR gets better, there will be a day where people will put on a VR headset. This is what uh Meta was trying to do, but it looked goofy. Yeah, it looked like a uh like an early edition Sims. Okay. You know what I mean? But can you imagine being able to sit in meetings face to face with someone, but you're not face to face, quote unquote. Right.

SPEAKER_01 21:41

But it's called a Zoom meeting.

VR, Introversion, And Education

SPEAKER_02 21:42

Yeah, but I'm talking about making it more real. Like I've seen now where you can buy programs where you sit with a VR and it's like sitting courtside at a at a basketball game. And you can move your head and it moves with it, and you can watch it from that moment. From that and and now the thing about it is we're Gen X. All of us in here except Nick. Well, and I guess Kevin too. But uh, but anyway, we are still the generation that likes people.

SPEAKER_01 22:13

I do like it.

SPEAKER_02 22:14

We like to be around people, we like experiences. There's a we are seeing a growth of a generation of people that are more and more introverted, yeah, and people are afraid to go out. Yeah, you know, you see a school shooting now, and people are like, I don't want to send my kids to school. I don't want, you know, and so but if I can get the exact same education and not come out weird as hell like homeschooled kids do. Am I right? Is there anything more weird than a homeschooled kid?

SPEAKER_01 22:40

I was actually gonna get ready to say a lot of people are starting to homeschool their kids. Homeschooling everybody. There's a lot more people homeschooling their kids.

SPEAKER_03 22:49

That's right, Amanda.

SPEAKER_02 22:51

She don't she didn't homeschool her kid.

SPEAKER_01 22:55

Yeah, but it's not something we say because like not all of them are weird.

SPEAKER_03 22:59

I come here to see you guys. That's the only people I need to see.

SPEAKER_01 23:02

Not all of them.

SPEAKER_02 23:02

Not all of them are weird, but yeah. I mean, I don't like to put people in a group, but homeschool people.

SPEAKER_05 23:10

Am I right?

SPEAKER_02 23:12

Am I right? Am I right? Am I right? They're the type of people that own birds.

SPEAKER_03 23:17

As a fair or something. You are free tele, so yeah, you use up all that.

SPEAKER_01 23:22

Oh, you've got to refill your cup.

SPEAKER_02 23:24

Tell me that the quarterback for IU doesn't act like he was homeschooled. Oh, absolutely. Hey, Shook had a good one.

SPEAKER_01 23:30

He's risen.

SPEAKER_04 23:32

What'd he say? Well, I want to hear it. He said, just like not all Somalians are crooked.

SPEAKER_02 23:36

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 23:38

Here we go.

SPEAKER_02 23:38

But they all have daycares. We made it almost 31 minutes without anything political being brought up.

SPEAKER_01 23:45

But what about that?

SPEAKER_04 23:48

I love it.

SPEAKER_03 23:49

Oh man. Start my own leering center soon. Learning center. No, it's leering. Leering, is that what it is? It said leering. It had no N on it. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 23:59

I didn't follow up. Put no R. It's leaning. Was it leaning? I thought it was leering. Leaning. I don't live in Minnesota, so don't worry about it.

SPEAKER_01 24:07

I lear often.

SPEAKER_02 24:09

Yeah. Well, sort of most homeschooled boys.

SPEAKER_01 24:11

Depending how many beers I have, I might lean as well.

SPEAKER_02 24:14

Telling you, the kid next to us when I was at in them, he was an odd kid. I'm just saying. I'm not saying he's weird, but I'm not saying he's odd, but I would be like, you know what?

SPEAKER_01 24:26

Some of them odd kids, they're gonna make more than we do doing this little podcast. Good for them, but we're all still gonna die. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:33

We're all still floating on a rock in the middle of space.

SPEAKER_04 24:37

Wow, it went really dark, Putin.

SPEAKER_03 24:39

Yeah. Putn be all right.

SPEAKER_04 24:42

Putin's like, we're gonna get the solar flares and it's gonna kill us all.

SPEAKER_02 24:44

Uh solar flares. Yeah, like I'm like, man, have you seen the price of silver? Oh, it's exciting.

SPEAKER_03 24:49

Putin's like we're all gonna die. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 24:53

But I'm over here, and I'm over here going, oh, I've got so many fraud cases coming up because people think that they're buying silver.

SPEAKER_02 25:00

Might as well be like that. Sending wires. That's a fronds. You're like Al Bundy on the uh Waynes World. Right donut guy. Yeah, donut guy. Oh man. So anyway, uh we spoke for 15 minutes, and what we came up with was self-driving cars, maybe flying cars, but I'm with you.

SPEAKER_01 25:19

But not flying people.

SPEAKER_03 25:22

No. Well, would they fly now? Kind of.

SPEAKER_04 25:26

I mean, not then. They might be flying those drones. Those are anything.

SPEAKER_02 25:32

Well, that could be way more dangerous. Yeah. Oh, yeah. We did a story last year on the show about uh a guy that was using drones to drop dye packets in uh people's swimming pools and got caught for it. Now, have you seen what China just launched? No, what'd it get? It's a mother drone. It had little baby drones?

SPEAKER_01 25:56

I didn't know if you were talking about Denzel Washington talking about a drone. Let's say you're going to go, okay?

SPEAKER_02 26:03

And you use one big gigantic drone to take them all out there, and then it drops off a thousand that all have little bombs in it.

SPEAKER_03 26:12

Well, all war is gonna be no manned.

Drones, War Tech, And Metals

SPEAKER_02 26:14

It's all gonna be I heard robot. So, like right now, that's how Ukraine has basically been able to there it is right there. Look at that fucking thing.

SPEAKER_03 26:23

Well, it's it's just like Ukraine did with the uh trucks. Did you see that? Oh, where they shipped uh the drones and package containers? With they were all packaged up top and they sent off the little explosions that pop the top off and they all came out the top. And they were all dedicated to had certain points they had to go to, and they went there and took everything out.

SPEAKER_02 26:45

I'm telling you, man. This is now imagine what it's gonna be in 10 years. Terminators. We're gonna have Terminator.

SPEAKER_01 26:52

How many years did you say that we need to be looking?

SPEAKER_03 26:55

30.

SPEAKER_01 26:56

30 terminators.

SPEAKER_04 26:57

How much did you say in trivia last night? Greenland was uh 80%. 80% and they just sent troops over there from France or whatever. Yeah, cold. It's gonna be a troop war in Greenland, and there's only 20% left.

SPEAKER_02 27:09

Uh it has not you know what that whole thing is about, and it's because, and this is why silver is going to be sources. It is, it's don't be mad. No, I'm not mad. I've been buying it. Like I'm fully on board on this process. The whole thing is everything that we're building now requires different elements than we typically use. Right. And silver is a phenomenal conductor of electricity, and as we're using up, copper's going up, and a lot of it is because those mines are controlled by people that are outside the United States. Yeah, and so that's why you're starting to see this stuff going on. I'm I don't know. Now I'm starting like the Joe Rogan podcast.

SPEAKER_03 27:46

Now we're going down the dark path.

SPEAKER_02 27:48

Yeah, well, it's interesting to me. Like, I'm just fascinated because I think that we live in the best time ever. I really do. I mean that sincerely. Like, you live longer now.

SPEAKER_04 28:00

Unless you're a Cowboys fan.

SPEAKER_03 28:01

You shut your mouth. That's you shut your mouth.

SPEAKER_02 28:04

That's kind of funny. Dirty ass. Yeah. You had to been born in the 80s to enjoy the 90s.

SPEAKER_03 28:11

Hey, I still got my VH test.

SPEAKER_02 28:13

VHS tape test. VHS. They say kids born today will never use a mouse.

unknown 28:20

What?

SPEAKER_02 28:21

It'll all be touch screen. Oh, yeah.

unknown 28:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:24

You remember the uh Tom Cruise movie? Well, you gotta get out of your house first. You're all homeschooled. They're all gonna be homeschooled, man.

SPEAKER_04 28:31

People won't leave the house. No. I think losing my mic. I think you'll have that little the screens, the virtual it'll all be with your hand. You know? That's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_02 28:40

Yeah, I agree.

SPEAKER_03 28:41

I'm thinking Terminators.

SPEAKER_02 28:43

They're already coming up. Uh Elon Musk has done this now with people that are paralyzed and things where they will implant shit in your brain.

SPEAKER_03 28:49

Terminator shit.

SPEAKER_02 28:50

He's got one in his head. He's got an implant in his head, dude. Seriously. Uh Josh Hunter, I'm in the scrap industry. All metals, even precious metals, are up.

SPEAKER_01 29:01

Everything is everything is.

SPEAKER_02 29:03

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 29:04

No, like I have so many people going, uh, is this fraud or is this legit? Because people are wiring money to buy silver and gold.

SPEAKER_02 29:14

To Dubai? That place has already got money. Hey, give me in.

SPEAKER_01 29:17

I'm just fucking out.

SPEAKER_04 29:19

Ask Dalton who told him to buy silver.

SPEAKER_02 29:21

Yeah. See? That's why I listened to the guy that jumps off the parachute.

SPEAKER_04 29:26

In July. It was$36.

SPEAKER_01 29:28

How much is it now?$94.

SPEAKER_04 29:31

Holy cow. You hit 94 today. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:33

Well, thanks for the heads up, Dick. I see you like. Why do you think I've been buying it up?

SPEAKER_00 29:41

Hey, good thing I don't get rid of shit like I should.

SPEAKER_03 29:44

Good thing I'm bogarting my nickels.

SPEAKER_02 29:48

Yeah, well, hey, man, nickel's up too, I guess. Look, Josh Hunter said nickel's up. Not up 30% over the last month. Dude, I bought an ounce of silver at the beginning of December for uh my grandson. It was his first Christmas, and I think I paid$75.80. It's already worth$95. There you go. How about an ounce of something? I'd just burn it.

SPEAKER_03 30:10

$91.77.

SPEAKER_05 30:13

That's fucking awesome. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_02 30:18

It's about the same price, too. Michigan. It is.

SPEAKER_01 30:22

I don't think I I mean your quality of life may have gotten better, but I was better now because Dick over here didn't give me the nickel.

SPEAKER_03 30:31

So I'm all gonna I gotta figure shit out myself.

SPEAKER_04 30:34

You can buy copper too. It's uh yeah. I bought like 26 kilos of copper.

SPEAKER_03 30:42

Oh, is that your shipment coming in to get busted? No, but it was copper. Okay. Is that what we call it now?

SPEAKER_02 30:51

Nose candy with the copper. All right. What else we got, dude? All right. You know, I thought this was gonna be a quick show, and here we are, 40 minutes in.

SPEAKER_03 30:58

I tell you, it's because we haven't done it, we haven't uh done this in a while, so we just need to chitty.

SPEAKER_02 31:02

Right, it worked. I honestly'm fascinated by what the teacher is gonna bring.

SPEAKER_03 31:07

I we now my big thing, I would really like to see like prosthetics for people.

SPEAKER_04 31:13

Yeah. I thought you were gonna say sex dolls. I thought you were saying prosthetics.

Small-Town Legends And Wild Stories

SPEAKER_03 31:18

No, like like really. Like just people that need help, like that way, prosthetics and uh maybe implants that can actually help people that are have spinal injuries like me. So yeah, there you go. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:30

You should tell people how you got a spinal injury, though. Yeah, we're gonna stick it's a hell of a story. Yeah, there we go.

SPEAKER_04 31:38

There we go. We'll save that. This is what I'm talking about. Save that for later.

SPEAKER_02 31:42

See that right there?

SPEAKER_04 31:42

With aria.

SPEAKER_02 31:43

You know what that aria will not do? Take half your shit when it doesn't work out.

SPEAKER_04 31:47

Yeah, and she won't treat you bad.

SPEAKER_03 31:49

Remember that, Jeremy.

SPEAKER_04 31:51

Why'd you look at me? Because you looked at me funny.

SPEAKER_00 31:54

I didn't. You looked at me, that's why I looked at you.

SPEAKER_04 31:57

There's been a bunch of movies. What's the one with the really hot lady that tell me the guy and the lady? Terminator? No, but she does sexual favors for him and she's a robot. Oh, Terminator.

SPEAKER_01 32:07

Hey, I want to see her go. Can you please pick your socks and your shoes up off of the floor? We would not.

SPEAKER_04 32:14

We would not do that. We would not trade her to do that. That's the point. That's when you just put it in demo mode. Put her in demo mode. That's why guys have that. So she doesn't say that.

SPEAKER_02 32:24

What a hella story that needs to be told. Is that the socks and shit?

SPEAKER_01 32:29

No, I think she was talking about his spinal injury.

SPEAKER_02 32:32

Oh. Oh, my injury. Man. Speaking of trying to fly.

SPEAKER_03 32:38

Yeah, hell yeah, we did. We tried to find a 96 Lumina. Speaking of flying cars, didn't work.

SPEAKER_02 32:45

Obviously, the only way that story would have been better is if you had had that General E horn. Did you jump Inky Road?

SPEAKER_03 32:52

Yeah. Is that how you got it? Yeah. Well, whatnot, Inky Road. We jumped 227. That's Inky Road? Yeah. The one right past Inky.

SPEAKER_04 33:00

Boom. Yeah. It landed on Inky. What happened? I didn't know you got hurt there.

SPEAKER_03 33:05

Yeah, dude. That's where I broke my back.

SPEAKER_04 33:06

I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_03 33:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 33:08

Man, I hit that in an 83 Ford Ranger at 90. Pegged that bitch out.

SPEAKER_03 33:12

We had that 96 Luminette about 100. Ford Ranger?

SPEAKER_04 33:14

Ford Ranger. 83 Ford Ranger. Ford Ranger? Ford Ranger. 1,200 pounds? 83 Ford Ranger with Thad Renner. And I had it pegged out. And those things only register 85. So I'm thinking 90? I don't know. Oh, yeah. Nah, we were flying. You're saying if you had a flux capacitor, you would have to a different area. We went a different zone, bro.

SPEAKER_03 33:32

It was I think we went so fast we went to the city.

SPEAKER_01 33:34

He went in a few divorces passed.

SPEAKER_02 33:36

All right. So for people that don't know, because a lot of the people that listen to our show are outside of Richmond. Yeah. There is a um estate road here in uh just outside of our town, north of town. That um if you drive on it, it is it's got some of the most well structured hills jumping gouge marks in the road.

SPEAKER_03 33:56

Literally. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it looks like Seal's face. You can go the speed limit.

SPEAKER_02 34:03

Damn. It looks like that guy landed 30 times in the bottom of that like the moon crater.

SPEAKER_03 34:10

Yeah. Tell me I'm not. No, you're true. It's true. You can go the speed limit and it's still. Did you roll?

SPEAKER_02 34:17

Hey, did you roll in the no, buddy? You just tell them the story. Tell them about your button on your pants.

SPEAKER_03 34:22

Yeah, that was the best part. Like we hit that first hill and we were like, okay, that wasn't bad. Sped up. Yeah. Right past Inky Road, that next hill. Yeah. Hit that going about a hundo. Front came down. Then I was in the backseat passenger seatbelt. Acend came down, and that's where it crushed and ripped all my lower back muscles. Dang. And it couldn't feel my legs. No, the tire blew out. Then the other tire blew out, and you kept it on. We kept it on the road, stopped in front of the houses. The only reason the paramex and cops showed up is that people called the cops and said there's kids partying in the street.

SPEAKER_00 34:58

Partying.

SPEAKER_03 34:59

That'd be the worst place to ride.

SPEAKER_04 35:01

What were you freaking out?

SPEAKER_03 35:02

No. Well, my buddy was because it was his mom's car.

SPEAKER_04 35:06

Um But I'd be freaking out if you didn't feel your legs or something.

SPEAKER_03 35:08

No, I didn't. I couldn't. For like 10 seconds, I couldn't feel my legs or shit. It was like Stone Cold Steve Austin, wrestling SummerSlam. And then it finally came back, and then I hopped out, and it hit so hard like the button on my pants fell off. What year was that? 96. Two months after I graduated. That was the year I graduated.

SPEAKER_02 35:25

You want to hear about a small town hospital? Tell them. Oh, love it. For one, one.

SPEAKER_03 35:30

With a broken back, they made me climb in the ambulance. No, they made me climb in the ambulance by myself. I about fell out twice and they just put my hand on my ass and shoved me in. I got to the hospital. The MRI machine had started smoking on the last person. They said, Well, we're gonna go ahead and put you in there. I'm like, no, I'm good. They're like, Well, if you don't, you have to go to Indy. I was like, I'm going to Indy for surgery, anyways. They shoved me in there 30 minutes later, they pulled me out. It's not working. I was like, no shit.

SPEAKER_01 35:57

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_03 35:59

So, yeah, it was a rough day. Great healthcare. Uh, but the parents had the car fixed and made him drive it.

SPEAKER_02 36:04

Wow. It looked like on uh National Lampoons vacation, you know, and he jumped. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:12

Dude, yeah, he was freaking out trying to, hey, can we put the spare on and get out here? I was like, but there's like three different leakers.

SPEAKER_04 36:19

Oh man.

SPEAKER_03 36:20

Oh, yeah, it didn't flip or nothing. We just he it hit the way the way the tires just happened to blow.

SPEAKER_02 36:24

I've heard of people taking like um rice rockets out there. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:30

I've heard of people driving lawnmowers off of the roof on that hill.

SPEAKER_02 36:34

I I've I was there for one of these things.

SPEAKER_03 36:36

We had never been on that road. That was our first time on that road.

SPEAKER_02 36:39

And it was a riding mower.

SPEAKER_00 36:40

It was a riding mower off of a roof.

SPEAKER_02 36:42

Are you serious? On that road. Takes a lot of northeastern football players to get a riding mower on a roof, too, by the way. Yeah. This is also a guy that uh he had a Ford Fiesta.

SPEAKER_00 36:54

Yes, he did.

SPEAKER_02 36:55

And he had found a glass cutter and he cut lightning bolts in the side of his glass, like the side. Oh and then he got this brilliant idea that he was gonna cut a circle in front of the driver's face because he said it'd be like having like a convertible. I can feel the air in my face. So he gets on there and he cuts the circle right in front of the person, you know, in the front of it, and he's kicking on it to pop the glass out. But it's made out of tempered glass. Pop the whole windshield. So he puts the windshield out and drove around for a few days with no windshield.

SPEAKER_01 37:31

Yeah, I was gonna say it was a good week, week and a half.

SPEAKER_02 37:34

He hit a deer one time and killed it and put it on the hood and tried to drive it home and got about halfway home and realized it wasn't gonna work and pulled the deer off.

SPEAKER_01 37:44

Oh, that's great.

SPEAKER_02 37:45

This guy was crazy.

SPEAKER_01 37:46

Ford Fiesta.

SPEAKER_02 37:47

Remember Spencer's? You guys remember Spencer's? Spencer's had those cool posters in the back corner, and it had the one that uh it was like different shots. This was before apps. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like this and this and this. He would show up at a party, and that Ford Festiva would open up the hatch and that poster would drop down. Are you serious? And he had a cooler with all the different liquors in it, and you could just it was like an ice cream truck, but we're gonna be like, Holy shit, that is the greatest. Yeah, love it.

SPEAKER_01 38:17

Oh, John.

SPEAKER_02 38:18

Johnny's. Well, we both know John. We knew we knew John. Another great story about John, we're gonna end it up on this. I won't even tell the stories, they're not near as good as John's stories. One time we were at a bar, and uh, I wasn't there for this one. What? And uh it was the wheel down on the south side, right? Was I here? And he had stolen a tomato out of like you remember what you could make the sandwiches, right? They made the hamburgers right there.

SPEAKER_01 38:45

Oh, they had the best hamburgers.

SPEAKER_02 38:46

He took a tomato and stuck it up in the air, like the air thing to blow your hands dry. He stuck a whole tomato in there and they pissed it and they were like pissed about it.

SPEAKER_05 38:57

Oh shocker.

SPEAKER_02 38:59

Shocker. So they threw him out and literally threw him out.

SPEAKER_01 39:02

How'd they know it was him?

SPEAKER_02 39:04

It was John.

SPEAKER_01 39:05

He probably bragged about it.

SPEAKER_02 39:06

Probably when he landed, he broke his elbow. Oh shit. Right? He worked at a company in town that when they make their product, it smells really, really good. Right? He this happened on a Saturday. He waited till Monday to go in to work and threw water on the floor and told him that he fell and hurt his elbow. It worked. And then they put a screw in his arm and he cut it out one night.

SPEAKER_01 39:35

Oh, I remember. I was there that night.

SPEAKER_02 39:37

Are you serious?

SPEAKER_01 39:38

Oh, he took it out.

SPEAKER_02 39:40

He cut at a party. Yeah, on a couch, just unscrewed the and he's like, We're getting ready to take this out anyway. This is the guy that if his mom was like, You can't eat soda, you can't drink soda, and she would like just you could like bake hamburgers. It was horrible. And but and he'd give you shit about it. But this is also the guy that would grow weed in his house and then dry it out in the microwave.

SPEAKER_00 40:07

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 40:08

And I don't know if you've ever heard of somebody drying out marijuana in the microwave, but it stinks the house up real good. Real good.

SPEAKER_03 40:17

Was it in Utah or Colorado the dispensary caught on fire?

SPEAKER_02 40:20

Actually, you know what? I've got one story I'm gonna share tonight. And this comes to us from Leadville, Colorado.

SPEAKER_05 40:25

There it is.

Dispensary Fire And Munchies Humor

SPEAKER_02 40:28

Actually, Kevin Schick sent this to me, and this is a great story. Yes, sir. This happened on the morning of December 18th. A well-known marijuana and CBD dispensary in Leadville, Colorado went up in flames. Top of flames. The Floyd's dispensary on Poplar Street. It uh drew fire crews from multiple nearby counties. Uh neighbors in nearby homes were evacuated as a precaution. Fuck that.

SPEAKER_01 40:56

They all left happily.

SPEAKER_02 40:57

Apparently, they went under an air quality alert. The thick milk filled the mountain air. It prompted air quality alerts. Residents.

SPEAKER_04 41:07

The motherfucker channel mungees.

SPEAKER_02 41:09

Yeah, no shit. They fucking sales at the restaurant. Pizza restaurants reported the largest assales in franchise history. The police mentioned how there were no issues all today. That was the best day ever. Netflix signed up more accounts that day. And that kept not making all that. They even canceled the elementary school outdoor recess activity. My god, I would hope so. Oh. Richmond, Indiana. We get fires that are shown on CNN from plastics. Plastics. Good old Colorado. Have you speaking of this, of fires with marijuana? There it is.

SPEAKER_03 41:47

Look at that. I'd be standing right there next to it.

SPEAKER_02 41:51

You can't do that. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 41:54

You could have done a lot of things.

SPEAKER_01 41:55

You can't park here.

SPEAKER_03 41:58

Well, I have to because my buddy didn't tell me the price of silver.

SPEAKER_02 42:01

You know, I will say one of the things in life I'd love to see in real life is when a firework factory catches on fire. Oh, those are awesome. I just especially at night. But it would be amazing to do after this.

SPEAKER_03 42:17

As long as you had a couple pizzas with your face.

SPEAKER_01 42:19

Here's your face after this. Here's your face.

SPEAKER_02 42:22

Speaking of what there is a funny story, and this is all true, about a uh there's a YouTube video of this too, where a guy had was growing shit in his attic and it caught fire.

SPEAKER_03 42:33

Oh, nice.

SPEAKER_02 42:34

And they sent firefighters to put it out. And one of the firefighters they interviewed is hot laughing.

SPEAKER_03 42:41

Are you serious?

SPEAKER_01 42:42

Serious. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 42:44

I'm not gonna tell you what was in there, guys, but we're gonna feel good here in a little bit. I suddenly wanted to get some of that chili.

SPEAKER_01 42:50

He just kept giggling.

SPEAKER_03 42:51

Just make sure you guys are downwind.

SPEAKER_01 42:53

He wanted to either go to Taco Bell or Waffle House.

SPEAKER_02 42:57

I'm trying to think of any of this other shit.

SPEAKER_04 42:59

DB, baby. He said you guys are too funny. You know what I love you, DB.

SPEAKER_02 43:02

Denver Baker. I've got a great Denver Baker story you told me one time that uh I believe it was there it is. You don't even need to hear it. You just need to watch the firefighter at the end of this and think that this guy got paid that day. Look, now hold on. Hold on. Look at that. Look.

SPEAKER_05 43:25

Look, look.

SPEAKER_01 43:29

He's like, how are you doing? Best fire ever.

SPEAKER_02 43:34

Nah, best fire ever. Oh, there you go. You know what? That's the after two beers that I've grown to love. We're gonna go ahead and wrap this one up. We hope you all have had a great time tonight watching the After Two Beers podcast. You know, we've been doing trivia here locally, and we've had a great time with it. We've been doing it down at the firehouse here in Richmond. It's been great down there. Oh, the staff is phenomenal. The support we've been receiving from the community is great.

SPEAKER_01 44:00

We got VFW too.

SPEAKER_02 44:02

Yeah, and what the VFW coming up. We've got um now I'm I'm warming up to it a little bit. On uh January 31st, we're gonna be doing a uh theme night in music.

SPEAKER_01 44:14

This is all up my alley.

SPEAKER_02 44:16

And we're doing 90s country here locally from 8 to 11. Now I'm not a big country guy myself, but we were working on the uh the playlist today, AJ and I, and it's not bad music. No, it's not it's not like I would love to do an 80s, 90s RB or hip-hop night. I don't know that Richmond Indians are.

SPEAKER_01 44:33

For the country thing, are you gonna wear your Halloween costume?

SPEAKER_02 44:37

Not maybe not the full, but I've got the cowboy hat and everything. I'm gonna I probably need to get online and get like a one of those pearl buttons. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:45

You got a bolo tie. What is it called? A death. Bolo tie.

SPEAKER_04 44:50

So Dalton, maybe you guys can uh we're gonna do a prom. I want to do a prom. I'd love to do a prom. I want to do the old school 80s prominent prom would be great. You could do multiple. And on the 31st, we're doing fireworks. Oh, that's right. The meltdown.

SPEAKER_01 45:10

Oh, yeah, that's coming up.

SPEAKER_02 45:11

That is great.

SPEAKER_03 45:12

Yeah, good call.

Community Events And Trivia Plans

SPEAKER_02 45:13

A lot of stuff coming up. And we've got trivia at VFW, as Gibler mentioned, coming up. Uh, make sure you follow us on our webpage and uh we'll keep you updated with dates. Follow us on Facebook and we'll do that as well. Um, we only told one story, but it was a pretty good one, I think. We still got it. Jumped into the history a little bit. Oh, I forgot my Denver Baker story.

SPEAKER_00 45:33

Uh-oh. You know what?

SPEAKER_02 45:35

I will approve it with Denver before I share it.

SPEAKER_00 45:38

That's probably a good idea.

SPEAKER_02 45:39

We got a couple dollars with DB. Oh, mine involves a baseball that he signed. And uh, what about the Spanish mackerel he caught? I don't know. Oh, yeah, that's true. Yeah, he was chumming for sure. He was chumming the ocean more than he was catching. First fish ever, though, DB. Yeah, so anyway. Uh yeah, I think the prom, AJ, would be. Oh, Denver's good. Denver, I'm gonna need you to ask you right what you wrote on the ball, but apparently, I believe he was married at the time. And his wife or girlfriend, I can't remember which one it was. Meaning, not that he had a girlfriend while he was married, meaning it's a wife.

SPEAKER_01 46:18

Status it was.

SPEAKER_02 46:19

Um, was cheating on him. And he found out who he was cheating on with and took a baseball, and I don't I I can't remember what he said he wrote on it. But uh he threw it through the guy's front window at his house. Ah, nice. But then it turned out to be the wrong house. That's a news story right there. Can you imagine how much trouble that guy got in at that house? You fucking my wife. Holy baby, I ain't been doing nothing. And my friends can't throw that hard. I don't know how that ball got through that window. Oh man. You know what? I've been surrounded by some amazing people in my life that have funny stories, and I love every minute of it. So all right. Thanks again, Dorothy. Can you guys hear me? Yeah, because I can't hear shit through my headphones right now.

SPEAKER_03 47:11

I can't see shit through the same thing.

SPEAKER_02 47:14

You know what? I want to do a thing on that where we do our favorite scenes from films.

SPEAKER_05 47:18

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:18

Where I'm the white woman at. Oh, that's another one. Blazing Saddles. I love it, but movies you can't remake today. Oh uh, thanks to our buddy Kevin Shook here at Global Media Enterprises for it once again. We haven't been here in a few weeks, but uh Kevin is always top-notch, doing lots of cool stuff here in the community. So thank you so much, Kevin. If this is something you're looking to do, uh it's not that hard. You basically you hang out and do whatever you want. Uh he's got some really cool ones that are going on down here. I stopped in. Well tempered. Or um, I it now what is it? Um yes. Uh lots of cool stuff. Uh, I left the guy to cash in the mailbox.

SPEAKER_05 48:05

Good job.

SPEAKER_01 48:07

Hey, and I bet that that guy's still trying to get his sneakers every time he bets on Denver's things.

SPEAKER_02 48:14

That guy just found out Sundays. Yeah, he did.

SPEAKER_00 48:16

Oh, that was that was Denver.

unknown 48:18

That was Denver.

SPEAKER_02 48:19

He's got a hell of an arm on him. Uh thanks to our Patreon sponsors. Uh, thanks to our good buddy Jeremy Screddy, Scratty Pirate Next. If you're looking to blow some shit up, make it look cool, uh make sure you do that. Don't worry, I'll give you the next time. Uh thank you to uh the firehouse for continuing to have us down there on Wednesday nights, 6 o'clock for our trivia. You know, we get 40, 50, 60 people in there, and it's it's so much fun. Everybody can we have a good time and we've got uh yeah, wait, I've got more stuff coming up. We got lots of people to think. Um we've got our uh 90s country, January 31st. I mentioned that. Right now, if you look at going and can and interested, I think we're over 125 people.

SPEAKER_01 49:04

That's amazing. Just a hand. It's gonna be so much fun.

SPEAKER_02 49:08

People used to go to uh triangle. Yeah, yeah. I'd never went. What? Never went. I've never been either. This is gonna be my version that night of the triangle.

Gratitude, Longevity, And Mental Health Close

SPEAKER_01 49:18

I will do and everything.

SPEAKER_02 49:20

Yeah. All right.

SPEAKER_01 49:22

Heel toe doe.

SPEAKER_02 49:23

Oh yeah, we're gonna watermelon crawl and all that shit.

SPEAKER_01 49:26

Watermole and crawl.

SPEAKER_02 49:27

Yeah, so make sure you tune in for that. Uh, thanks to our buddies down at the bottle shop who continue to supply us with all the great liquors that uh inspire us for this evening. I took a 99 shot of uh cherry lime aid earlier. It's fucking horrible. Just don't do that one. But uh, some of the other stuff they do is really good. It's not good at all. When it says 99 and it's kind of hard.

SPEAKER_03 49:50

It's gonna be bad.

SPEAKER_02 49:51

But uh thanks to those guys. Thanks to VFW. Thanks again to the Moose. We're gonna be down there. Thanks to the Firehouse, thanks to our buddy Kevin Shook, thanks to Patreon, thanks to Jeremy Scrady, Scratty Pirate Nicks.

SPEAKER_01 50:02

And thank you.

SPEAKER_02 50:04

Oh thank you for the story.

SPEAKER_01 50:06

You do a lot for us with the stories. Oh, you know what? We the three of us, we can't do it without each other.

SPEAKER_02 50:12

Oh, that's right. And thank you. He drives the line. He's fine. Dude, I'm telling you right now, there's no way our trivia, you know what? And I uh I think our trivia, in all honesty, is the best trivia I've ever seen. Oh I love it. We're trying to bring in some new stuff and we're trying to figure out how to get it in. But in defense of other people, it takes all three of us and we're busting our ass for two hours to do it. Like we've got lives.

SPEAKER_03 50:36

It's more than two hours. I mean, the show is the event itself. The days before is hey, what are you doing? You got this? Hey, how about this? How about this one? And we're kind of back and forth.

SPEAKER_02 50:46

Yeah, we don't pay for any of this stuff. A lot of people join these subscriptions where they uh they get the questions sent to them. We come up with everything on our own. Yeah. On our own uh the music, the family feud, the uh the connection. We do all kinds of things.

SPEAKER_01 50:58

We just like to have a good time, even if you don't like our music.

SPEAKER_02 51:01

Yeah, yeah, Jeremy. It's I'm telling you, it's hard to pick. Dave Matthews, Bruce Springsteen. My bad.

SPEAKER_01 51:07

You were in your feels, it was it's fine.

SPEAKER_04 51:09

I never heard of them, bro. Now I guess how bad it was.

SPEAKER_02 51:14

I can't hear it. I think Jeremy just said that.

SPEAKER_01 51:16

He ain't never heard anything.

SPEAKER_02 51:17

Yeah. Yeah, he's horrible at it. Well, we're gonna do movies for you, buddy. We'll figure it out. All right. I think uh, you know, we say it at the end of every show. It is by far the most important thing we say. We need to start saying it at trivia. You guys need to remind me.

SPEAKER_03 51:31

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 51:32

Uh it's simply this. You know what? We all go through shit in life. It doesn't matter if it's right now, if you know, we've been on this thing for eight years. That's amazing. That's crazy. I wonder how many podcasts make it eight years. I you can't think of many. Not many, not many. After two beers has built at least a small dent, like that guy fallen in the community.

SPEAKER_03 51:56

And in Europe. We're huge. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 51:59

Uh yeah, we do, yeah, Germany.

SPEAKER_02 52:01

For some. Germany loves German.

SPEAKER_01 52:03

Germany loves us. Yeah, we're like, all one to kill us. I don't know which, but whatever.

SPEAKER_02 52:08

One or the other. But uh, no, this has been a fun ride. But uh, you know, we all go through things. We, you know, it it doesn't you've got family, especially as you get older. Gen X. The the hardest part about being Gen X for me now, I'm like I said, I'm approaching 48 in April, is uh the obituary page becomes more and more common. Uh it's like you're herian. Yeah, it's it's sad. It sucks. A lot of great people in my life that are no longer here, and it can get you down. You know, holidays we just came through is kind of rough, and um it's a rough time of the year for a lot of people, but regardless of what time of year it is, people struggle. So the only thing that we ask here on the After Two Beers podcast is if you know someone in your life that might be struggling right now, go and sue some things, maybe they just uh they don't seem like themselves or you just haven't heard from them in a minute. Do me a solid. Reach out to them, ask them how they're doing, how they've been, just let them know you care about them and appreciate them. You could be surprised how something so small might be the thing that makes them wake up tomorrow morning. All right, without further ado, pudding, Screddy, Nick Jones, my good buddy Kevin Shook, Gibler. We will talk to them all next time.

SPEAKER_05 53:21

After two beers. Take me home, take me home home.