Rowd & Loudy Comedy Podcast
Welcome to Rowd and Loudy, the podcast where two blue-collar best friends from Michigan take you on a wild ride through life’s highs and lows. Whether we’re swapping stories from the jobsite, sharing laughs over backyard beers, or diving deep into the struggles and triumphs of everyday life, we keep it real, raw, and relatable. Expect a mix of humor, heart, and hard truths as we navigate the chaos of work, family, and friendship—all with a Midwest twist. Tune in and join the crew for a weekly dose of unfiltered conversation, a little rowdiness, and a lot of laughs!
Every episode features funny stories, funny moments and a top 5. The top 5 is unique because we do not share our top 5's with each other until we are live on the air.
The catch neither Brad nor Eric knows what the other person is going to say, the shock value is incredible. This is a comedy podcast about all the fun stuff in life.
Every episode features funny stories and a top 5.
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Rowd & Loudy Comedy Podcast
Episode 3 - Celebrating Chris: Absurd Mishaps, Ridiculous Resolutions, and Wild Predictions
Ever thought about starting an "OnlyFans" account because of a single fan? That's how we celebrated our first subscriber, Chris, on the Roud and Loudy podcast! This episode is packed with laughter as we dive into some of the most ridiculous New Year's resolutions you've ever heard, including a brother-in-law's infamous golf course incident involving a towel and a tree. Our journey continues through the snowy streets of Michigan, where winter driving brings its own brand of chaos and humor—who knew a stubborn car hood could become a real-life survival challenge?
As self-proclaimed car enthusiasts, we reminisce about our childhood misadventures, like the painful yet hilarious memory of getting a finger caught in a Honda Accord's trunk at a car show. And let's not forget the wild tales from our college days, from cramped dorms and jungle juice parties to the chaos of receiving a shocking $1,300 unpaid electric bill that left us shivering in the cold. Through all the mishaps and misadventures, a unique blend of camaraderie and humor shines through, turning every challenge into a story worth telling.
Looking to the future, we let our imaginations run wild, pondering everything from autonomous vehicle crashes to Taco Bell becoming a health trend. We also speculate on rock band reunion tours, dream about the Detroit Lions winning a Super Bowl, and even toy with the bizarre concept of Kanye West as a life coach. So buckle up for a blend of nostalgia, humor, and outlandish predictions that will have you questioning if our podcast is a stroke of genius or just the ramblings of two crazy individuals.
ROWD and LOUDY is the ultimate comedy podcast where two best friends share hilarious, never-before-heard stories in every episode! Tune in for laughs, surprises, and spontaneous humor as each episode features fresh, funny tales that one of the hosts has never heard before. Plus, every episode includes a Top 5 list where we rank and discuss random topics, adding even more fun to the mix. Whether you’re into storytelling, comedy, or just want to hear two friends banter about life, ROWD and LOUDY has you covered.
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Welcome back to the Roud and Loudy podcast. This is episode three and we've got a pretty good show for you tonight. We are going to go over some winter stories, some good, bad fails. You know, you name it. We're going to throw it out there. We have the top five from our previous episode, episode two, that we kind of combined and we're going to go over that. Eric's going to share that with you. And then uh yeah we have some predictions for 2025 that, uh, I think are going to be pretty cool, pretty funny.
Speaker 2:I did too.
Speaker 1:We'll see, we'll see, and then so this dropped yesterday and I didn't tell Eric about it. Maybe I did, but we actually have one subscriber. Holy shit we have one subscriber and Chris, if you know who you are, buddy, thank you.
Speaker 2:Dude Fall Out Boy has a song that's like Dear Chris, you were our only friend and I know this is belated, but we love you back. Right, dude, our first fan, our first well so would this be only fans like the only right, because we only have one fan like I'm not trying to be that dude, right, maybe, maybe dude we need to host a banquet in his honor, if we ever make it.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, Absolutely.
Speaker 2:You're the first one, dude. Mad props, chris. All right, I don't even know if I know you, but I feel like I do.
Speaker 1:You don't, you don't, but he's a great, great guy.
Speaker 2:Dude, that's good news. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dude grew up to 28.
Speaker 2:Subscribers are kind of moving up in the world.
Speaker 1:if you ask me, you know we got one.
Speaker 2:So am I allowed to tell my wife I have an OnlyFans account. I'm on OnlyFans, are you? No, we only have one fan, it's ironic to me. I just thought I'd say it like that, Right Funny thing is, if I said that to my wife she wouldn't be fucking shocked at all. I say the craziest shit to her with a straight face. And that's why we work so well. She's my fucking world. We rock Absolutely, just like Chris.
Speaker 3:Oh my.
Speaker 2:God. So, anyway, in a previous episode we did a top five worst New Year's resolutions. So, in short, your buddy comes up to you, he's all geek, got a smile on his face and he's like hey, what's up, sean? Hey, how are you? Dude, this year I'm going to blink and that stupidest fucking thing you've ever heard. That's what we're after, right? So if you want to listen to the previous top five, brad did one, I did one, and kind of the premise with it is we don't share it with each other. So this episode I have a brand new top five and I'm really excited to share it with him. I'm excited to hear it, man. So, yeah, once again, go ahead and listen on Apple Spotify, iheart, however you listen. So here's our recap of the top five worst new year's resolutions from episode two. All right, number five. So these are in descending order. Uh, the last one I go with is the best um number five drinking only miralax for a year, mr brad, I can you imagine that like?
Speaker 1:just how would you play around the golf? You wouldn't, okay, I? I have a story that we can interject here. So my brother-in-law yeah, and joe, you know who you are he had an incident at the golf course so quotations so he goes back to that golf course, right, I think like five years later there is still a towel in the tree that he used to clean himself.
Speaker 2:Does it?
Speaker 1:have strings. I'm sure it hasn't moved in five years, so I'm sure that nobody is no dude. If there's a towel in the tree, nobody's going to touch that right.
Speaker 2:What color was the towel?
Speaker 1:I think it was white, probably. Oh God, yeah, yeah, that's not a flag.
Speaker 2:That anyone should fly Like the maintenance guy is driven by that every day. And, by the way, oh, weird shit stain on that Either Bigfoot's real or I got to clean this shit.
Speaker 3:That's a bad day. That's a bad day to mingle One of these two things have to happen.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God.
Speaker 1:Number four, trying every drug A to Z throughout the year. So I actually listed all of them and some of them are wild, Like some area 51 cocktails that we came up with GHB, some, whatever.
Speaker 2:US 47. I don't know, it was wild.
Speaker 1:I don't remember what it was. You have to listen to find out yeah, insane.
Speaker 2:I want number three. I want to be so good at smoking pot that I become a marijuana success story, the white snoop dog of smoking. Can you imagine if someone had that title? They'd have clout everywhere, like that, that would be the dude that can walk in anywhere and it's just like what up schwab.
Speaker 1:Like I want that I want that anywhere I go, it's just instant. Well, you knowab like I want that I want that anywhere I go it's just instant. Well, you know what? I tell you what? If you don't make it as that, maybe you can be like the round and louty guy, you know yeah, oh my god, it's the right one.
Speaker 2:Again I heard he's got one subscriber. Oh my god. Number two I want 2025 to be the year I finally get my taint waxed, and then we kind of split off from that and like tell it everybody, like can you imagine that? Like Walmart, hey, how you doing today? Yeah, not bad. Got my taint waxed and just straight face it, dude, just everywhere you go.
Speaker 1:I got my asshole bleached today. This morning.
Speaker 2:It was great. Welcome to mcdonald's. Are you gonna be using the app with your order today? Go ahead when you're ready. Yeah, uh, real quick. Before I proceed, I just want to let everybody in your kitchen know I bleached my asshole yesterday. But I'd also like a mcdouble. You know Like a McDouble. You know It'd be so perfect, oh shit.
Speaker 1:And number one. This one had me rolling dude. I fucking was crying over here.
Speaker 2:And the best part about this is with these top fives is that I usually start with the one that I think has the least amount of bang.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:This was number one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, this killed me. And maybe this shows me I need to switch the tone a little bit. I need to go bang bang, boogie and bang bang boogie, you know Right.
Speaker 2:So, number one I want to put a mirror above my head in bed so I can start appreciating my own handiwork. We're talking about how, like we watch our kids do sports, but we don't ever appreciate our own work. Right, you know, we watch all these different things, but Ah dude, I listened to that episode again. I did too. Oh my God.
Speaker 1:Dude, I was crying. I saw stars, I was laughing so damn hard yeah.
Speaker 2:It was just fantastic. That's what's so cool about this podcast, brad, is that we get to look back on this, you know, yeah, to look back on this.
Speaker 1:You know, and yeah, hell dude, maybe this time next year we'll have four subscribers. I have a prediction for that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I can tell my wife we have a fourly friend.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I can't fourly friends, oh my god, oh shit.
Speaker 2:So anyway, with, with, uh, with our previous top fives, if you ever want to listen to those, did I already do that? I don't know, it doesn't matter. Say it again Apple Spotify, wherever you're listening now.
Speaker 1:And now we're going to get into our new episode, which I'm really excited to talk about and if you haven't subscribed which we know you haven't, except Chris, Chris. Go ahead and hit that subscribe button, maybe we'll have four five. I Go ahead and hit that subscribe button, you know, maybe we'll have four five, I don't know We'll have a prediction on that Dude.
Speaker 2:We're small enough right now that we could shout out all of them until we get, like you know, like what up, melinda, what up Susan, kitty, cat girl nine.
Speaker 1:How you?
Speaker 2:doing. So do you got any funny winter stories for you?
Speaker 1:I do.
Speaker 2:I have a couple tonight and to set the tone a little bit. We are in the Midwest, so part of this podcast is we are in Michigan, so we deal with a lot of snow. We're not in the UP so we don't get dumped on like crazy, but right now there's snow all over the roads and I really feel the effects of it.
Speaker 1:I drive 45 minutes to work every day.
Speaker 2:I drive close to an hour so and I have to go back roads. Yep, yeah, it sucks, dude I go.
Speaker 1:I go back roads because, well, I don't know, you run into the people that that drive like 10 with their flashers on. Yeah, like get the hell out of the way. Okay, everybody out there that's listening. If you're one of those people, just get off the road for a minute, just stop. If you have 40 cars behind you, just move over for a minute and just let some people go. I get it. You're scared or whatever. You know, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Stop being a dick.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Dude.
Speaker 2:I always get stuck behind buses and I get stuck behind like semis heading to Allegan? Why the fuck is a semi heading to Allegan? It's like what the hell are you doing? There's four businesses here, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God.
Speaker 1:Anyway, they're the meth delivery trucks.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Or they're going to pick it up. I don't know Whichever.
Speaker 2:We're self-taught pharmacists. We're delivering in order.
Speaker 1:All right. So my first story. This is back when I was, uh, I think I was around 20, okay, and, um, I had an 84 grand prix. It was a big boat, right, if you remember those dude. Those were sweet and uh, so I had my starter went out and it's the middle of winter, okay, and it's cold as shit.
Speaker 2:Did it go out on the road?
Speaker 1:No, I was actually. I was at my apartment where I was staying.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 1:Went out in the parking lot, I would go out to start it up and it doesn't start, right, fuck. So I go grab a new starter, because I work on my own shit, because you know, know, I'm just that guy and I've I raised the hood and those hoods. Back then they had springs on each side, right, they would hold the hood up for you. You didn't have to have the, the stupid rod in there that holds it up, which I understand why they do that now. Okay, so was it the latch?
Speaker 2:but then it went to a spring.
Speaker 1:So you pop the hood and you lift the latch, Yep, and then there's, it springs up and there's two springs on each side of the hood that hold it up.
Speaker 2:Weird.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it was a giant hood, right, yeah? So anyway, I pop the hood and I get down there. I'm taking the starter off and I'm working on it. I'm laying in the snow right Under starter off and I'm working on it. I'm laying in the snow right under the car.
Speaker 2:Under the car, I've got it jacked up and hoods up jack hoods up.
Speaker 1:I got to jack saying under it and everything you know so, trying to be safe, and I have to shovel snow out of the way so I can get down in there, because we just got like six or eight inches of snow and shit is not going well. Like I take the starter, I'm trying to put the new one in, right? And there's shims and you got to get in there and get the proper fit and all that bullshit.
Speaker 2:Pontiac probably wasn't known for their designs, right yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Which is why they're not here, right. So, for whatever reason, I pause Right. Sometimes you got to walk away, uh-huh. So for whatever reason, I pause right. Sometimes you got to walk away. So I'm over the hood, I've got both hands. I'm on the driver's side, I've got both hands over the fender, right. So I'm like I'm pissed and I'm like I just kind of give the car a shove down like son of a bitch, you know, and the hood drops and my right no, my left thumb okay, my left thumb gets shut between the hood and the fender.
Speaker 3:So if you can imagine.
Speaker 1:I'm on the driver's side right, my left thumb is there and I'm back towards the back and I can. I can reach the the side mirror right. So there's no fucking way I'm reaching the latch in the front. There is nobody around. Oh, it's 10 fucking degrees outside. What time of day it's? Um, we'll say four o'clock I don't know three o'clock four o'clock somewhere in there. So I end up I have to rip my thumb, my thumb out of the fucking hood where it's shut.
Speaker 1:So to this day I still have a scar there. From where?
Speaker 2:I ripped it out I had like skin, like pulled back and so kind of explain to me how your your thumb got, but you couldn't reach the latch. That's the only thing, if you don't mind.
Speaker 1:So if you can imagine, I'm on the driver's side right Yep. My thumb is between the hood and the fender. Yep, I can reach the side mirror right. Yep, the latch is all the way in the front of the car.
Speaker 2:Gotcha, I can't fucking reach it Okay.
Speaker 1:So there's no way. Oh my God, how?
Speaker 2:long did you sit there before you had to?
Speaker 1:make Until I made the decision to rip my thumb out.
Speaker 2:Dude. You had a real life saw moment, right when it's like dude. What if? The fucking doll came out of nowhere. It was like hey, Brad, how are you?
Speaker 3:I know you want to start your 84 Pontiac Grand Prix today.
Speaker 1:It's just not happening. But you have two choices. Yeah, so, dude it was. I was like fuck, what do I do? I'm like I'm looking around, there's nobody. I'm I'm calling, I'm like yelling, there's nobody. Nobody coming. I'm like shit, I probably, I don't know. Minute, minute and a half before I just decide to okay, here we go, did the nail just come right off no, luckily it didn't.
Speaker 1:I think there was enough gap in there that it just peeled the skin out right just dude, before the next episode we have to look up what an 84 grand prix hood weighs oh yeah do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2:yeah, it was. It was down and latched like I couldn't pull it out.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to pull the the the hood back up. You know it's latched. There's no way. I mean, luckily it was down and latched, Like I couldn't pull it out. I'm trying to pull the hood back up. You know, and it's latched. There's no way. I mean luckily it didn't close all the way down, right, Otherwise it would have probably taken my thumb off.
Speaker 2:This was not even in the plan tonight. So since you told that story, I got one for you. That's kind of crazy. So you know, the auto show in Detroit, I got one for you. That's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1:So you know the auto show in Detroit, yeah, Like every year.
Speaker 2:It's like the big one in America. So there's the like SEMA or FEMA in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1:Did you say semen, sema or FEMA?
Speaker 2:Oh, sema it's one of those two, but it's like a huge like.
Speaker 1:Isn't FEMA the ones that are out of money?
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're not doing well, yeah, I don't know that I'd go to the car show. You know, um, so the big one in detroit it's at like coble hall. So me, so my dad and brother were really really big into cars growing up.
Speaker 1:Like it was a big, big deal to them, like, like, they liked like the ferraris and the oh yeah the amberginis just really cool designs and yeah, I remember having those posters on my wall yeah, like my dad always read like road and track and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Like I was a huge sports kid so it wasn't really my thing, but like I was just geeked to spend the day with them, right. So my dad had like a I don't know 1999 Honda Accord, like the white one that has two doors Okay, fantastic, with the weird little triangle lights in the back right. Yep, so we get out of cobalt halls. We drove from kalamazoo two and a half hours. We get out. Obviously, all of us are ready to get the fuck out of the car, just like you do oh yeah I've that far.
Speaker 2:We get out of the car and we open the trunk. We got like snacks and you know, a cooler back there, whatever. I'm rummaging through it while my brother was at the trunk before me and he was done. So, just like, it's like that knee jerk reaction, right Like. Like it's like when your wife's showering or something you got to pee and she's like don't flush, you know Like, and as soon as you're done, it's like what you always do, right, right. So my brother shuts the trunk, dude, oh, no shit.
Speaker 2:My brother catches my middle finger dude, oddly enough in the trunk dude and I'm like 10 years old no, like shit dude, it was caught, completely caught in the trunk like like no wiggle, like like it's not coming out of there, like do you got wd-40 or? You know yeah so my dad is in a panic and like I can't even imagine being in that situation now, like with my daughter or my son. Like I love them so much that, like, if something were to happen like that, I'd lose it.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Dude, my, my finger must've been in there. I mean it felt like five minutes, but I'll bet it was 30 seconds and it was awful.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Get out my. My whole nail is just full of blood.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Like to just full of blood, oh yeah, like to the point that it's poking out the top, like that was so much pain, man, yeah and then to have to walk around a car show, yeah, for like six hours, and you know and your fingers just throbbing yeah, and the two people that you look up to the most.
Speaker 2:They're geeked to be there and you want them. You want them to have fun, right. So like you can't even complain, but you're not even old enough to understand pain and you just went through that Like it was such a weird day, dude. I have a picture of me Like I still remember it because I'm wearing like a Michael Jordan jersey. Oh yeah, I'm giving a thumbs up and if you look in the picture like I, have my thumb cocked a little bit.
Speaker 2:And like it, it looks like a really gangster person is really trying to make an impact with their middle finger the thumb out. I don't know if that makes a difference, but yeah, it's just my nails full of blood, oh shit. Anyway, oh damn so that wasn't even my winter story. I'm so sorry if we go over. That's all right, I mean, you don't get your fingers caught in trunks like that doesn't happen, right? We're Eskimo trunk brothers dude.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, it's like one in the front, one in the back Paniac, honda, dude. Yeah, I've been there, you know. So I got a really, really, really funny winter story for you. So I'm going to take you back to the college years. All right, so 2010.
Speaker 1:Okay, and I went, so I'm going to take you back to the college years.
Speaker 2:So, all right, 2010, okay, and I went to what I went to western michigan university, so that's right. In kalamazoo, yep and uh, the golden years of learning, personal growth personal growth life lessons that no textbook could teach you oh, yeah, you know my third year was kind of a high a highlight reel of, if you ask me, thank you to the kind folks at bronco apartments.
Speaker 2:So first year I lived on the dorms it was wild, I mean you have a, you have a roommate, you have a room that's, you know, no bigger than a utility closet, and don't you?
Speaker 1:have to stay on the dorms. Yeah, it's kind of it seems like it's just a money grab, but in the in the end it is kind of cool because you get to stay on the dorms.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's so weird. It seems like it's just a money grab, but in the end it is kind of cool because you get to learn campus and you get a lot of your friends that way. So a lot of my homies were the people on my floor that we would just do crazy shit. We could do a whole episode on that dude.
Speaker 3:We used to have jungle juice parties.
Speaker 1:We may do that someday.
Speaker 2:Yeah, jungle juice parties, all sorts of crazy shits Like filling up bathtubs with liquor and inviting 30 people to a closet to get all fucked up, did it? You know? Yeah, so, anyway, bronco Apartments. So this is my third year of college, right? Yeah, so these beauties were the equivalent of a dive bar, the apartment.
Speaker 3:Okay, like if an apartment was a dive bar.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's where I stayed, okay gritty, questionable, but somehow charming, you know, yes, yep, so only a only a broke college kid would really appreciate that too. Right, like you, like like my parents pulled up to like help me move in. They're like you gotta be fucking kidding me like this looks like shit.
Speaker 1:Dude, are you fucking serious right now and you're like this is got to be?
Speaker 2:fucking kidding me. Like this looks like shit, dude, Are you fucking serious right now and you're like this is great, Like, dude, it's a perfect two bedroom fucking bath.
Speaker 3:Like dude, I used to live in a utility closet.
Speaker 2:This is an upgrade. So the deal that they were running which is really weird is rent and internet was really what we had to cover. So we thought so water trash utility is recovered by them. Plus, it was really weird but you got a 40 gift card to get like cottage in, like a pizza place, like every other week or something. Okay, so like that's probably what draw drew us in, which is so stupid right like yeah, but I mean when you're a college kid.
Speaker 1:I mean pizza is what you live on it's so true, but I want pizza and ramen noodles dude ramen noodle pizza needs to be created. No, no, nobody needs to create a ramen pizza. Yeah, no so long story short.
Speaker 2:I I had a really awesome roommate growing up.
Speaker 1:His name's jacko I mean just, you've met jack with the barbara bash. Just a fucking great guy right flew from fucking arizona yeah to be there at the party.
Speaker 2:Just a fucking great guy Right Flew from fucking Arizona.
Speaker 3:Yeah, to be there at the party.
Speaker 1:What a fucking dude Yep.
Speaker 2:Well, he's been one of my best friends my whole fucking life. I lived with him in college, so we got duped, right. So we go to this apartment complex. You know, they got the free pizza coupons, dude. Of course we're signing up for that shit, right? So it's probably December, it's close to Christmas, it's winter break for college, so it's got to be like mid-December, you know, probably sometime between December 15 and 25, 2010.
Speaker 2:We walk into our apartment and lights are on in the hallway. And lights are on when you walk up the staircase, not when you open our door. Lights are off. Okay, we're. We're like six months into this. Okay, yeah, lights are off. It is so fucking cold in there. You can see your breath oh yeah like I wasn't worried about any of our fridge items or freezer items, like they're totally fine, right, right. So we freaked the fuck out, naturally.
Speaker 3:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Like we got our power shut off, dude.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So here we are thinking oh my God, we get pizza coupons and they pay our utilities, and they pay this, whatever right.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Shadiest place in the world dude.
Speaker 1:No shit If.
Speaker 2:Denny's had like an office where, like, like the managers all worked. It would look like this do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3:like, if like, all the dandies employees like had their own office like this is what it would look like, right?
Speaker 2:so we called the electric company, just pissed off, and we're like we this has to be a mistake, right? Yeah, the deal is you guys cover utilities, you guys cover water, you guys cover trash. We cover the rest so we had to pay our internet and our rent, yep, so we thought it was a huge mistake and it was not in the way that we know shit at all. So they said you owe us thirteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 2:We called up and we're like it's right around christmas time, like you gotta be fucking kidding me, right? She then tells me that it hasn't been paid in 14 months.
Speaker 1:No, shit we've been there six, oh my god.
Speaker 2:And honestly if I'm being completely brutally honest right now I never in a million years thought that that's how like electrical worked in an apartment. I thought it was either on all or nothing like right like like you either, have all the lights on or you don't.
Speaker 1:Right. Well, you didn't have any.
Speaker 3:Do you get?
Speaker 1:what I'm saying though.
Speaker 2:Like the other, the other tenants had their lights on.
Speaker 1:I thought it would either be like the apartment lost it Yep, I didn't know it was individualized either.
Speaker 2:Like it was weird for me, me, okay. So they tell us, 14 months, 1300 bucks. Me and jack were like what the fuck? Dude, fuck these people, fuck their pizza coupons, dude, you guys fucking suck. So we go in the office, right yeah, and they tell us flat out like if you want your heat turned back on, it's 1300 and from that day we'll be there in a week oh, my god like like like, talk about shitting on an arty, shitty situation.
Speaker 2:Okay, it's like hey, if you scrap up money for, uh, that guy's rent that was here before you, you know the guy you've never met before and owe nothing to um. Also, it'll take a week because of your goodwill, fuck you wow so in a confused panic we stormed the apartment office right like we walk in there. We're hot oh yeah like absolutely, you know what I mean. Like like mom just found weed in the fucking in the phone in your in your room during your 14.
Speaker 2:Like you hear that, like we're fucking done here, you know so we thought you covered this. You know we want we walk in this lady and she's just dude, yeah she she doesn't give a fuck.
Speaker 2:No, she's smoking a cigarette in her office. Okay, fucking shit everywhere, dude looks like a hoarder house, like they could have done a documentary on cleaning her fucking office, right. So she's looking at us, she kind of like. She's just kind of like nope, we cover trash water, you cover internet utilities and rent. And then me and jacko had that light bulb click and it's like we've never gotten a fucking bill. We've never gotten a consumer's bill yep, right, yeah.
Speaker 2:And want to know why I didn't look for one, because I didn't think I had to fucking pay it. I could have sworn. That lady told me that's how it worked, right. So she literally looks at me and janko, like when we have the slide balls, like okay, so if we're supposed to pay this, then where's our fucking bill? Why have we not gotten a bill?
Speaker 2:yeah she looks at points and goes could be in the stack over there. There is a stack of mail, buddy, that is okay, you never fucking checked the mail. Okay, like eight foot high ceilings tables, maybe four, this stacks five deep. All of it's touching the fucking ceiling, buddy wow me and jacko, are going through this mail and just fucking scowling at this lady. Just what the fuck? Where's the fuck? We're like looking for our apartment number and other names that we don't even know exist. Yeah, you know, frustrating that shit is oh my god and, like me and jacko, both have anxiety.
Speaker 2:We're both, we both made it. But like god damn, like talk about putting someone in a pressure situation, so she knew that there was a stack of fucking mail piling up and didn't say anything. Dude yeah, what the fuck. So yeah, so we look through 2 000 pieces of mail, like indiana jones looking for a fucking artifact from tenants, some dude. Some of this mail was dated seven years ago.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, so 2010.
Speaker 2:Some of this mail was like almost y2k era oh shit yes, wow so that's fucked up I just stay at my parents and here's, here's the twist. That's kind of hilarious, okay, so just like a dorm we had. Uh, so in the dorm you share a bathroom with another, but like your rooms are connected by the bathroom right so same thing with this apartment, but we shared a deck. Okay, so same thing we didn't have to shit in the same place, which is really neat yeah you know.
Speaker 2:But we could go uh, smoke a duve on the porch right marshall mark, great fucking guys. So we go over there to their apartment, which also doesn't have power. Okay, also happened to them, okay oh shit they're just like back then they were true blue stoners, just didn't give a fuck right like so they weren't gonna go down there and cause a ruckus, like me and jacko were. They were gonna let me and jacko go cause the ruckus.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah and figure out what the fuck's going on through us, right so this is the kicker dude, I stayed at my parents for like five days and, dude, that's weird, like when you're like 20 or whatever, and you, you have that independence and then you have to come back yeah awful, yeah right it was just weird. Not that I don't love them. They're the.
Speaker 1:They're the shit, dude yeah, no, everybody gets that. Yeah, if you're out and you have freedom, you don't want to go back I come back five days later to the apartment to get clothes.
Speaker 2:Like dude, it is freezing. So, like the first time you could see our breath. Yeah, this time, like when I walk in dude, nipples are hard Like it's fucking brutal. Yeah, I walked in there with a coat on, like a hat. You know I'm not a scarf guy. I don't even want to lie about it, but, like you know, I was bundled up and five days later walk on my deck. I realize that marshall and mark have been there the whole fucking time.
Speaker 1:Oh shit, how the fuck are they surviving?
Speaker 2:they got like their parents, live in town too that's the best part dude their parents live 15 minutes away, just like mine.
Speaker 1:Do right dude, they got like a little uh pit, like a burn pile or something like that, out there on the deck Sleeping bags, a tent indoors.
Speaker 2:dude A buddy heater.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:Lamps and, like Coleman fucking lamps everywhere.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:Illuminating the sky, dude. Apparently they were doing their own fucking survival show. Extreme apartment living frostbite edition Five days. I still, to this day, have so much respect for them oh, yeah, yeah and those are dudes I haven't talked to in a while but honestly I love them to death, man and dude like. I tell that story all the time because it blows my mind and maybe they did go home, but I don't want to believe it that way right like sorry yeah dude, you want to hold up a hot dog.
Speaker 2:I'm outside like smoking a cigarette. One of them holds up a hot dog. I'm outside smoking a cigarette. One of them holds up a hot dog like Schwab, you want a hot dog. And it's just like dude, they're nestled in. This is like a whole new spring break for them. They've been smoking weed, They've been eating hot dogs, they have camping equipment. Dude, they didn't have to pay a fee. They definitely didn't have to pay for the power.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean?
Speaker 2:oh my, probably not even paying rent at that point they're the true champions, right like bronco apartments taught me a lot. Okay, they taught me always ask who's paying the utilities. I think that's a key question now, you know like you know, when you start dating someone, you move in like, hey, you got this, or do I?
Speaker 2:probably should ask that, yeah, just throw it out there and never underestimate the resilience of college students armed with a grill and a motherfucking dream. You know what I mean, like that's. But here we are, like staying with mom and dad hating it. Dude, come back five days later. Haven't talked to them, they're just nestled in and having a blast. No shit, yeah. Playing cards, dude with a whole, like like camp, like a camp like.
Speaker 2:They could have started their own for survivorship, like a lantern that you like put the oil in. You know, like, like that kind of shit. They're eagle scouts, so like, they're very, like, very resourceful dudes, oh yeah nice, awesome.
Speaker 3:That's awesome. Yeah, that's a great story, my best buddies, that's a great story.
Speaker 2:And the best thing about all these stories too, everybody they're true yeah every single one of these. You can call my friend jacko right now. Be like tell me about the time that your power got shut off. You look, oh, my fucking god, you know, oh yeah, hey, jacko, you know hey tell us about the time that the cops knocked on the door? And eric was smoking down the apartment, blurring records, at 3 am on cinco de mayo, on a thursday oh yeah, I still got the scar on my thumb.
Speaker 2:Dude, dude my middle finger like it's still like it's still yeah, I can show it to you now, you know all right, so I got a second story all right.
Speaker 1:So this is when I was 14, okay, okay, and it was wintertime obviously, and where I lived, we had a gravel pit that was it was called. It was wintertime obviously, and where I lived we had a gravel pit that was on Big Hill Road, right.
Speaker 2:Was there a big hill on the road?
Speaker 1:Yeah, there was actually.
Speaker 2:Fuck yeah dude.
Speaker 1:So I actually went on maps and got the distance from my house to the gravel pit right, because when we were there there was five of us.
Speaker 2:What town is this?
Speaker 1:This is Sturgis. Grew up in Sturgis, Dude hot now. Oh yeah, they're the last one. I wanted to go there the other day, they were closed.
Speaker 2:Try the ranch.
Speaker 1:Are you a ranch guy?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Dude, I haven't been there in years.
Speaker 2:Next time you're there, trust me, okay, order your three burgers for six bucks, right.
Speaker 3:Order your fries yeah.
Speaker 2:Ask them for a side ranch.
Speaker 3:They make it in-house and it is to die for dude. All right, I'll check it out. Continue the big river, the big hill story. Yeah, the big hill story.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the big hill story. So it was 0.7 miles from my house to the gravel pit right. Yep, I believe there was four of us, four of us guys. There was me, john Corey and Greg how old were you guys. Everybody was around 14. I was 14. A couple of guys were probably 15. I'm not sure we were all about that age. Yep, and so we took our sleds there, right, because it's wintertime and there's a great big fucking gravel pit, there's a big hill right, yeah.
Speaker 1:We're going fucking Mach 2 down the hill, right, yep. Well, we're all there and, for whatever reason, we find this great big plastic sheet and it's really thick. It's probably a half inch thick plastic.
Speaker 2:Like at the top of the hill.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we just found it somewhere in the gravel pit and we're like fucking A, this is plastic, this should go right. So we all get on this sheet of plastic, which is probably like a four by eight sheet of plastic, and we all get on and we're like, pull up the front like you would a toboggan, you know, and like home alone.
Speaker 2:We're just going down the stairs, yeah okay, dude, we fucking flew.
Speaker 1:I mean, we were fucking moving. Well, what we didn't realize was because our sleds weren't that fast and obviously you have all this weight right behind you. Yeah, so you're gonna get some more velocity and some distance.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And what we didn't realize, was there a great big pile of tires in the middle of the gravel pit? Was it snow covered? Yeah, you couldn't see. Okay, we hit that fucking pile of tires and we fucking launched.
Speaker 2:We're jumping this Holy shit.
Speaker 1:Dude, we had to launch like 10, 15 feet. Oh my God, dude, we had to launch like 10 15 feet. So we're like we fucking get down we're all scattered right, we all fucking look at each other like fucking hey that was awesome.
Speaker 2:Let's do it again. Oh my god, oh my god, right, only a 14, 15 year old, right so we get up, we're going. I don't know, we went probably three or four times right how big is this drop like, if you don't mind painting the picture like from like. Okay, so you're the top, I'm thinking ground.
Speaker 1:I'm thinking it's probably. I mean, I was 14 right, so huge though yeah, I'm. I'm thinking it was probably 30 to 40 feet okay, so that's a big from the top where we started to the bottom.
Speaker 2:Four people on the same sheet. Yeah, of plastic plastic, just flat. Of plastic Plastic, just flat plastic dude.
Speaker 1:So we get down on like the third or fourth trip down. I'm in the front and we go down. We hit the pile of tires, just like we've done several times already. We come down and every fucking one of those guys land on me Right and my fucking leg is underneath and my leg breaks Like my foot. The top of my foot fucking breaks. Oh no, I'm in fucking agonizing pain.
Speaker 2:So when you hit the tires, they all hit you.
Speaker 1:No, we jumped the tires and everybody, all the guys, landed on me.
Speaker 2:Okay, so everyone got airborne from the tires. Yeah, oh yeah, they're airborne, they're coming down. You landed first, being in front. Yep.
Speaker 1:Everybody's fucking pile driving me. Oh God, so I'm fucking laying there, I'm not moving. All those fucking guys get up and go again. They just fucking leave me there. Are you kidding me? No, I'm not kidding they just kept riding, oh yeah, and they come down, and they damn near land on me again Every time.
Speaker 2:Do they know your foot's broken?
Speaker 1:No, I don't know it's broken Right, it's broken. No, I don't know it's broken Right. True, I'm just, I'm fucking in pain. So they come down again and they, they finally ask like dude, are you okay? I'm like no, not fucking Okay, Do you? I'd be up fucking moving with you and you know like do you think I'm sunbathing in this?
Speaker 2:This is what I want to do.
Speaker 1:So these guys realize you know like something's wrong. So basically that's the end of our sledding time, right? So there's the one guy, Greg, like he leaves, he goes and we walk down there, right we don't have a car, we have no vehicle.
Speaker 1:We walk down there with our sleds. So, john and Corey, I get in a sled and they're pulling me back to the house Up the hill. Up we got to go up the gravel pit and then they're like through the woods and there's like other hills and shit that they got. I think at one time I got off the sled so that they could like have a break and I like crawled a little ways, but yeah, they pulled me 0.7 miles from the gravel pit back to the house.
Speaker 2:I take off my boot when we get there, like I can't even hardly take it off yeah, it's my mom yeah, so over the river and through the gravel pit to bradley's house, we go right so, yeah, I get, I get home my boot.
Speaker 1:I can't even hardly take it off right. My foot is swollen and everything. Yeah, I had a major fracture across my growth plate on my foot.
Speaker 2:So I was in a cast and shit for the night. You know, it's like taking off a ski boot. That's too small, right, yeah, oh my God.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that was my yeah. Are you a?
Speaker 2:big fan of sledding.
Speaker 1:No, I mean dude, I'd do it again, but I'm not. I'm going last, right, I'm in the back. I'm going to Echo Valley, I'm going somewhere where I know if something bad like this happens. I can talk to someone. We're not trespassing right? Oh my God, dude, that's insane, it sucked.
Speaker 2:That must have been a long day.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I mean I don't know how long it took him to drag me back, but it was dark, I think. Three kids hauling it, two, the one guy I don't know he left, or whatever, I don't know. But yeah, johnny cory, I don't associate with people with broken legs.
Speaker 3:I'm out of here right, yeah, yeah, dude, that's nuts, but yeah they were?
Speaker 2:did your folks like freak out when you came home with a broken leg?
Speaker 1:no, I mean, my mom was a little bit.
Speaker 2:My mom was a nurse, so dude, mine she was fucking too no shit yeah, yeah, and I broke a lot of dude, I broke a couple bones too, like I'm just being real like yeah that's the best part, though. Like is when. So, my brother, like do you remember back in the day when they used to have like hills, like with, like flower, with like flower boxes in them? Like you'd have a hill by your house, you'd like throw a flower box into the hill.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, Sure.
Speaker 2:Yep, we saw that and we're like we got to jump it. Right Like probably 10-foot drop.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, I get in the sled, my brother's, like, whatever you go, don't let go. Yeah, like fourth grade, maybe I let go, right, the first one to try out this technique, right? Yeah, I land so hard on my arm, dude, I go inside, I take my coat off and it is fucking huge. And like dude bones like popping out a little bit like not like out, but like it's protruding.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can see it under the skin, my mom is being so nice to me, dude, she's like, it's not that bad, it's okay, right, you know like hey, you know it's not that bad, it's okay, right, you know like, hey, you know, it's not that bad yeah.
Speaker 2:Brother comes in, dude, your hand looks fucked up. Look, and that's when I knew, and that's when I panicked, right, right, your mom was trying to keep you calm. Yeah, she kept me calm. Who's that, you know? Oh my God. So I got another funny college story for you. So the first one about the apartments. It was very true, and Jacko's in this one as well.
Speaker 3:Okay, all right.
Speaker 2:Me and my roommate Jacko, and then our two suite mates were Joe and Ted from Traverse City and they were just the coolest dudes, yeah, Like just really goofy guys. So like, if you've ever heard me say the term, like doubt it. When someone like, like whatever someone says, when they're like hey, you never shot a par on this hole. Like doubt it, you know like that comes from them dude, like they'd say it about anything yeah it's just hilarious.
Speaker 2:So the four of us were really into rock like and I still am so a big part of my growing up was going to concerts yeah I'm I'm still super passionate about music and I kind of, like you, know heavier music.
Speaker 2:So, um, not not so much like blah, blah, blah, like screaming in your face stuff, but like I, like you, know alternative rock or like oldie rock, Right yeah. So we get a, we get a concert and we're all excited about it. We're college kids, we don't get to get out much, we're broke as shit. So we find a time in winter. To be exact, it was March 21st 2008.
Speaker 1:March 21st.
Speaker 2:We get tickets to go see.
Speaker 3:Three Days Grace.
Speaker 2:And dude, they're a great band. I understand that there's people out there that aren't a huge fan of them. That's fine.
Speaker 1:Yep, fuck them.
Speaker 2:Early, early. Three Days Grace and Adam Gontier's singing for them. They're insane.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like they're just. They're a talented group. Breaking Benjamin's opening. Seether's opening.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, Like three really nice.
Speaker 2:I mean to see all three of those bands now be a lot of money right like there's no way, that's a whatever. We paid 40 ticket yeah so we had floor seats at the palace man three days grace breaking benjamin's seether. We're fucking geeked. So we get in my car, which is a bowling alley.
Speaker 3:I mean, it's an old buick, right like we call it the bowling alley because it smelled like pot and smelled like cigarettes.
Speaker 2:Like a bowling alley, right right, so we take off at two o'clock, show starts at seven and it's sold out. I mean it's, it's epic, like dude, like this before stopover or whatever, but like I'm sure you could sell this ticket for 200 bucks, right? Oh yeah, we take off from kalamazoo to detroit, so we're heading to auburn hills area, we're going to the palace and it is dumping snow outside. Yeah, it is just awful. So I mean traffic is is moving slower than stephen hawking running a mile right like it's like like I truly, I truly feel like we could get there quicker, okay, if we were walking.
Speaker 2:You know, like, like one of those days, dude, everyone's tense. We have 168 miles to go. Full-on fucking blizzard, dude. Like before we did the show I looked it up, dude it snowed like six to nine inches from 1 pm to 5 pm that day oh shit like full-on blizzard.
Speaker 1:Dude, there's cars in the ditch everywhere, like not like one or two right everywhere dude like well, it was like 94, right yeah, and 94 is notorious for that dude and there's not like dude.
Speaker 2:This is like before MapQuest, right? So like we're not printing out directions, thinking, hey, we're going to get fucked in a snowstorm. Like we should have alternative routes. Like that's not a thing, it's not a dude thing we just figure out how to fix it. Throw some duct tape on that bitch and let's go you know, I'm a duct tape.
Speaker 2:So we sit in traffic, dude, and like hour goes by. Look down, like dude, we've traveled two miles in an hour. Holy shit, we left it. We left at two o'clock. Oh my god, we finally called it at six o'clock. Okay, we were so pissed off oh yeah yeah I live for that stuff yeah, I still do.
Speaker 3:No, I still do how far? Did you go total.
Speaker 2:If I had to guess, I would say somewhere in the ballpark of 10 miles. So oh my god so that's leaving kalamazoo, you know yeah that's heading, you know that's getting like to 131 to 94? No, not even close to battle creek buddy, we're talking like oakland drive 75. Yeah, we made it to sprinkle, you know what I'm saying? Like four fucking hours, dude like if, if, if, uh google maps existed right now, like that girl would straight up get on our fucking screen and be like you're not gonna make it.
Speaker 1:You know like here's the. You're running late. You're still on the fastest route, dude. Here's the kicker. So we're pissed all of us right.
Speaker 2:We're all out 50 bucks, we know it yeah we're all out in experience and we know it. Yep, like I don't know if we all try to even go to a concert after that, like me and jacko went to a lot. We saw blank. We saw a lot of cool bands but like I don't think and when I say we went to a lot, I mean like we probably went to 15 concerts a year- yeah.
Speaker 2:Like this one we were geeked about. Right, right, right. Here's the kicker dude, ready for the kicker. It's not a good one. I'm shopping Christmas time. I'm at Best Buy, yep. Okay, remember, best Buy was a thing, yep.
Speaker 3:That's where you shopped back then, oh dude.
Speaker 2:Three Days Grace live at the Palace. They filmed their live DVD.
Speaker 1:No shit.
Speaker 2:That day.
Speaker 1:Oh wow, that sucks that fucking day, dude Wow.
Speaker 2:That we traveled 10 miles in four hours. Wow, they filmed their live DVD that night. Dude, no, we traveled 10 miles in four hours Wow they filmed their live DVD that night. Dude, no shit, I've never watched it. I can't, I just can't.
Speaker 1:I just can't watch it, yeah.
Speaker 2:And after that, like dude, adam Gontier leaves the band. They don't ever make another concert like that. Like dude, that dude. Can you imagine how electric that must have been? Oh, yeah, Well, Can you imagine how electric that must have been?
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, well, maybe you should watch the video and you'd know.
Speaker 2:But also like Three Days Grace was on the up and up back then, so like they had just made it, yeah, like for venues around us right, like it would be like the intersection of Step 1. 20 Monroe Live is Step 2. The Orbit Room is Step 3. The Deltaplex is Step 4. And fucking in fucking van andel's step five yeah they're on step five right they're filming it yep they're fucking crazy dudes yeah I'll bet that was an epic show oh yeah, I bet we fucking blew it.
Speaker 1:No shit, the bowling alley, you know what?
Speaker 2:you should watch it dude, I don't think I can like it's just like one of those things like right yeah it's you're gonna get triggered like I. Yeah, it's like fear of missing out, like what the fuck he played this song like but, dude, you know they played like a 22 song set that night yeah, you know, they know.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm sure that show was awesome. Oh my god, yeah.
Speaker 2:And here I am just fucking smoking cigarettes with my fucking sweet mates dude doing watching the snowfall yeah, fuck, knowing that in two years my power would shut off and it would be all right. You know, at At least we're not stuck in traffic. Right, like if Jacko would have said that to me come home like we're like seeing our breath, like at least we're not stuck in traffic, Brad fucking lost it.
Speaker 1:Right, you know oh shit Well hey man, you know what time it is it is time for the top five.
Speaker 2:Fuck yeah, are you going first or second?
Speaker 1:I think I'll go first. I like it All. Right, it's tenacity Okay. So these are our 2025 predictions. This is what's going to happen this year, and then you know what? Maybe next year we'll revisit and see how accurate we were.
Speaker 2:We have to.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We'll have to play this exact clip and go through it and just be like Brad you fucking blew it, like you know or vice versa, but yes, these are all the things we think are going to happen in 2025. All right, I have no idea what Brad's going to say, but I'm geeked about it, yeah.
Speaker 1:So you know some of them. I think might be funny, but you know we'll see. So my first one rowden laudy will have 100 count at 100 subscribers 100 chris's.
Speaker 2:That's what we're gonna. That's our unit of measure. Dude, there you go fuck you dude?
Speaker 1:fuck yeah, chris okay, that's my 100 dude, 100 subscribers okay, so is that by that's by?
Speaker 2:that's by december 31st okay, 25, any platform, just any little. Okay, I like dude, yep whatever 100, we can still shout out those people, right? Oh yeah like we can give them some chris love. Yeah, we get to 100 chris's dude, I'm in. Yeah, hell yeah, absolutely yeah, miranda all right, all right, johnny.
Speaker 1:Number two okay, number two. Weed will be rescheduled, oh, and become federally legal dude, we can use a debit card.
Speaker 2:Is that what you're telling me, bud? That's the biggest problem I have with this whole dispensary shit. I always gotta like stop and pay some fucking bullshit fee to get cash out, it's like just take it from my bank right, yeah, yeah, like no no no, sir, because if you got up, if you got pulled over by a cop, you're fine, don't worry about it right after I come stomping through you fucked right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, all right, that's number two, okay, okay dude, I like that. Number three yeah.
Speaker 2:Number three.
Speaker 1:Can you run for president Number three? We will have definitive proof on whether the earth is round or flat.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, dude.
Speaker 3:As if we don't already. Oh, my God.
Speaker 1:All right Number four. My God, all right Number four. Dude Number four is Are you a?
Speaker 2:flat worlder.
Speaker 1:Flat earther.
Speaker 2:Are you a flat worlder? Are you a flat earther? All right, no, seriously, that's a serious question Are you a flat earther?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Okay, thank God. Thank God, because that's just like dude, I mean no, I'm not, but I you know what.
Speaker 1:There's so many things that don't make sense like mosquitoes what do they do, mosquitoes? Yeah? I don't know. I mean, it's keen I have. I have a very good understanding of a lot of the things that I learned in science that I question now, like in science class in high school and shit. I question the shit out of it yeah, they're full shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, if I can buy a rack making kit at walmart for fucking twelve dollars yeah, I don't know that you need your job anyway, yeah.
Speaker 1:So, uh, where was that number four? Number number four we're gonna have 3d printed sex dolls that's fully customizable and have an ai tailored personal preferences.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, yeah, you imagine that oh, thank you, brad, you like me we love you long time would you like me to do the same thing I did last time, when you smiled so big Like just a robot oh my God, dude. But like you can print them at home, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:I guess there could be a sextile army That'd be so creepy. Yeah, sextile army.
Speaker 2:With AI and stuff yeah oh yeah okay number five do you send her through the dishwasher when you're done? Well, they told me on the news net to eat the Tide Pods. Is she allowed to? Because that thing's wrecked. You know what I mean. Like we got to clean this. I get it. It's not a dish, I'm going to clean it like it's one. Call it a spa for her. You know who wants to go to the spa? You know, oh shit and number five.
Speaker 1:Okay, so we're coming out with all these EVs and electric vehicles and all this autonomous shit, right? Yep? So I think in 2025, we're going to have our first autonomous and autonomous crash. They will run into each other.
Speaker 2:Like two people who are letting the cars drive themselves, but they hit.
Speaker 1:Yep, they both fucking deserve it well, you know what, but that's the thing that's a big question for who pays for that? Yeah, who pays for that shit? I don't know. Yeah, so that's my top five. That's deep.
Speaker 2:That's my top five dude, I'm kind of glad that we're not rich like that, though, like dude, if I had a car that drove like, I would spend a whole day going around like Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone, Like I'd have like the cheese pizza waiting for me I'd go to like the fucking toy factory, dude, Like you know what I mean. Can you imagine if me and you had driving cars, dude?
Speaker 1:We'd get fucked up and just go around town.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't want that though I don't, I, I yeah, I don't know, I'm not sold on that shit.
Speaker 1:I like driving, I do, I do, I like, uh, having some control. You know the naps must be awesome though.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, you know we, we might have to interview someone that has a car that drives itself yeah, I've just said because, like I don't even know what that's like. Yeah, it's like staying at like the ritz carlton, like I I don't even know what that is like holiday end to me is awesome yeah all right buddy okay, I got my top five predictions for 2025. These are a little bit bold.
Speaker 2:Some of them are crazy okay so number one, and these are things I kind of think are gonna happen, like I you know half-heartedly because, uh, this is a comedy podcast, so I gotta keep it fucking funny right right give the fans what they want, chris um. So I think in 2025. This is bold, but I I truly believe it. I think a team that has never won the super bowl will win the super bowl this year. Oh, there's only two teams that are left that could have that happen? The Lions.
Speaker 1:That's a bold, bold prediction there buddy, the Lions and the Bills.
Speaker 2:Do you know what happened to the Bills, Brad? They went to the Super Bowl four times in a row.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Lost all four. Yeah, ooh, that's Dude. I would enjoy that. I would enjoy either one of those teams you know four times losing yeah, that's gotta hurt so bad like this is our year.
Speaker 2:It's not. You know what I mean. Like yeah so the super bowl began in 1967 we're talking about 56 years, you know when the first super bowl bred the green bay, the green bay packers, over the kansas city chiefs.
Speaker 1:Oh really, I you know who won the first Super Bowl? Brad the.
Speaker 2:Green.
Speaker 3:Bay.
Speaker 2:Packers, the Green Bay Packers, over the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 1:Oh, really, I did not know who they played.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I think the Bills or the Lions this year it's bold One's on NFC, one's AFC.
Speaker 1:Oh, that'd be cool to have them both there so we can have Lions-Bills Super Bowl. That would be awesome.
Speaker 2:That would be awesome, and it's time to send those fuckers home for a fifth time. Am I right? Oh my God, all right. Bold prediction number two All right, in this one, god, I hope this happens. I hope that a huge rock band will announce a reunion tour this year.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:And the ones that I have listed Ozzy Osbourne or Black Sabbath. I know he's frail dude, but Ozzy Osbourne lives to play music. Yeah, I don't care if he's sitting down, His voice is insane.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Like say what you want about that guy.
Speaker 1:He's changed the genre, he's still rock.
Speaker 2:Dude, that's one guy that I just you know. I've been to so many concerts I've never seen Ozzy. That's the one that I'm dying to see yeah. And oh man, he's just electric. Or Black Sabbath, yeah, fuck Led Zeppelin. Okay, Dude, everyone's alive in Led Zeppelin.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Except for John Bonham. So their drummer died right His son Jason Bonham, right his son jason bottom. They did a tribute show in 2007, so robert plant, jimmy page and john paul jones are alive.
Speaker 3:They had um john bottom do the drums, yeah pink floyd david billmore and roger waters, both alive van halen.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, the beatles which I know, I know, know, but Ringo and Ringo and Paul.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that would be tough. The Beatles would be tough.
Speaker 2:I know it wouldn't be the same, it's not the same without John Lennon, and it's not the same yeah. It would just, it just wouldn't, it wouldn't be the same, but I think it'd be super fucking cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But yeah, you need George Harrison there and you also need john lennon. I mean, they're just incredible. But so number three, bold prediction, all right, this is where it gets a little funny. But I think electric cars take an even bigger shit on the market, putting a lot of the main ones out of business, and I think that people will store them in the old kmart blockbuster bed, bath and beyond sears and jc penny lots and it will turn into a bad decision museum, right Like where parents can use that to show their kids like, hey, don't get cocky, all right, see all those cars there.
Speaker 2:At one point people thought those were going to sell everywhere. You see that fucking store right there. Yeah, it's called Blockbuster. Yeah, used to sell stock for tons of money. Yeah, can't find one anymore. That's awesome. That's awesome and I think they're going to take a huge dip in the market. So like 20. So just to put it in perspective for you 2019 electric car sales 17.8 billion yep 2020 17.7, 2021 25 billion, 2022 40 billion, 2023 67 billion and 2024 59.8 billion.
Speaker 2:So it's going down. Yep, I guess where they're going bad bath and beyond it's about time we figure it out what that beyond section is all right, yeah, beyond, beyond bad decisions a bunch of cars blinking, pissed off, like you know, you know, oh my God.
Speaker 2:So I have another prediction that was kind of similar to yours, which I kind of enjoyed. So I think that in 2025, the Rout and Loudy podcast will gain a lot of traction and become part-time work for us in 20, 2026 or it's actually something a little more professional what do you mean? We're not professional I'm not saying that we gotta go get suits right, dude.
Speaker 2:Funny, funny fact about me a lot of people know this dude, and so I don't wear suits a lot, as you know, right, yeah, but I've had to, and just like everyone else has had to. Every time I put a suit on buddy, I want to go fire someone in a random business like just random, like I want to go like three.
Speaker 2:Walk up to terry dude, you're fired I want to go to fucking someone at speedway. You know? It's like hey, janice, I'm just letting you know we're done here. It's like what, what's going on? Um, yeah, i'm'm Bill from corporate. Like what I responded my manager's George, like I'm George's boss. No, George's boss is Steve, Like I'm Steve's boss too, Right?
Speaker 1:You know, Just like walk in there, like you're fucking done, get your shit, you know.
Speaker 3:Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:I could never do that, though, because I have a huge heart. No, somebody. But like every time I put a suit on, I just want to go make a funny fucking punked video. You know, like janice, you're fired. Am I really? No, no, not at all. Wow, yeah, I think by 2026, I think okay. So I think by 2025 we're gonna have more subscribers, more listens, yeah, but I think by 2026 it's gonna be partially our job okay, part-time work yeah and that's not me being cocky, that's just me.
Speaker 2:I fucking believe in us, dude, and yeah, and that's what it is like it's just like dude we're two fucking dumb asses right, we don't even know how this shit works, we're just like we're just fucking doing it we're just yelling into microphones.
Speaker 1:So you know what, dude, I'm having fucking a riot yeah, and honestly, that's what it's all about.
Speaker 2:Only goal with this is just making other people laugh and have a good day, like if you're having a shitty fucking day. Yeah turn this on and tell me you don't laugh.
Speaker 1:If you don't laugh, dude fuck you, karen, I'll buy, yeah, I'll buy you some taco bell and we'll go talk about why.
Speaker 2:Pc is not the coolest way to be, you know, like Like an adult, like a Christmas carol or whatever, taking a reality. You see, these people, they're not having as much fun as Brad and Schwab are. Right, yeah, I can guarantee it. Yeah, all right, number five. So I think that the OnlyFans platform in 2025 will crash because people will figure out that porn is also on the internet. Oh my god, there's a free version. Cool, I don't have to pay Miranda $24 every month to see her titties. Oh my god dude Right Free version.
Speaker 1:Dude, to put it in perspective for you, though OnlyFans. Last year 60 billion dollars oh my god, really 60 billion dollars for the kicker, the nba 57 billion wow, really yeah, they outdid the nba last year. They didn't shake a stick at the nfl yeah, yeah, wow, but yeah, no, shit, that's so. So what you're saying is, we should have our only fans page, is there?
Speaker 2:yeah, right we already do. We've got one subscriber and our fucking poor awesome friend chris would be so confused when we use this profile picture, right? But it's about you, buddy. Oh my God, did you have any? That didn't make your list.
Speaker 1:Oh, predictions, let me look back. Yeah, one was air taxis. Air taxis Well, like drones, Like a tram car, but a taxi Well no, like a drone, like they're starting to deliver packages and shit like that with drones. Just having a drone taxi, like a flying car, dude, that would be sick. It would be, you know, it would be so sick. Let's see, the war in Ukraine will magically just end.
Speaker 2:Without any statement, it'll just kind of just stop.
Speaker 3:It'll just go away.
Speaker 1:That'd be sweet and I think that's it. That's all I had for other predictions for this year.
Speaker 2:I had some crazy ones, dude. I always go with like 10. It's insane. I'm like sitting there crossing them off. You know Diddy's list will have over 300 names on it that Kyle's coming up right I think some of them are gonna suck dude.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, you know like.
Speaker 2:I think a lot of our athletes that like we really like are gonna be on there yeah, it's unfortunate, but I think someone will date an ai robot. Like fucking date an ai robot and like go public about it.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, like, like walking around meyer dude, like well, I mean that goes along with my 3d pen.
Speaker 2:They're gonna be fully customizable oh my god, you know armies dude yeah whole fleets. You're not gonna get dude. What if doordash went with robots? So doordash is now delivering fast food, which is already like the laziest fucking thing you could have delivered. Right, right, it's fast food. It's called fast food because it's quick for you.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And now you're getting it delivered Like it's already. A lazy fucking system.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Sorry, if you guys like DoorDash, I do too.
Speaker 1:But like it's just like when you're at home and you just don't want to leave yeah, I mean, I guess you know, but it's the same thing. I mean, we've had delivery pizzas for how long? I mean, we use. We both used to be those, those guys, oh dude I would deliver pizzas and like smoke a dube.
Speaker 2:Take my time coming back, dude.
Speaker 1:It's like when you think about I mean I'm sure there's people that use it because they're just lazy and don't want to do it. But then there's you got families that, yeah, you know there's.
Speaker 2:There's different reasons but nothing like driving through a snowstorm to give someone else a pizza like right like what a weird, what a weird frame of mind. Right, like, hey, you know what, I'm gonna take my car out here, I'm gonna drive through this blizzard and I hope that daryl's happy right yeah, so a couple other ones. Only fans university. I. I think that, like a prestigious college, will develop a new program called uh, digital entrepreneurship. But it's all about only fans in the success stories.
Speaker 3:Dude right like strip club nfts like the best dude, only fans.
Speaker 2:Entrepreneurship yeah, dude ofe baby, you know what I mean. Like, do you know what an nft is? So, like you're buying like a piece of media. Yep, what strippers had nfts dude for their best move. Like dude, like you know like. Like, watch this. They call this the ping pong ball trick. Like what's the ping pong ball trick? Well, in order to see it, you'd have to buy my NFT.
Speaker 1:Oh shit.
Speaker 2:Kanye West will become a life coach, I think Taco Bell will get recognized as a healthy meal option, and I think that all movie theaters in the continental United States will turn into laser tag arenas.
Speaker 1:Oh, dude, dude, that would be awesome, yeah, or paintball.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Paintball Both.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean yeah, but man, I kind of liked this episode too, Like we kind of had a different approach but like with the predictions and stuff. But it gives us something to look back on.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So we need to know from our listeners and our one subscriber, chris, what do you like about the content. Do you like it? Are we just two crazy fucking nut jobs that just need to not quit our day jobs? Yeah, like this is never going to be part-time work.
Speaker 2:Yeah right, I know what number on Eric's list isn't fucking coming true, you know but, yeah, let us know comments.
Speaker 1:Uh, yeah, give us some feedback. We'd love that. We'd love to uh to interact with, with anybody out there that's listening and uh, you got any suggestions for better episodes?
Speaker 2:top fives that you want to see or predictions for the year. Predictions for the year yeah shoot them over to us.
Speaker 2:We're all about interacting with you guys, yeah we actually um, just for a second, we actually opened up a direct line of communication for you guys. So, um, uh, just like the title, but it's spelled out. So route and loudy at gmailcom. If you send us a message there, it comes right to us yeah and we will absolutely respond so absolutely don't feel like you have to. If you just want to listen, that's fine too yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, give us a like, give us a subscribe.
Speaker 2:Whatever you know, you do it, you do the thing you know, we'll give you a shout out dude, you can become a legend, like you can be you can be, uh, you can be number two, number three you know all the way up to 100. Dude, if I was listening right now, I'd be like I am waiting until 69. I want to be number 69. I want to be subscriber 69.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah but we can't tell them that, dude, we'll never get it. Everybody will wait until 69.
Speaker 2:There's always a 169 and 269 and 369. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we got this shit.
Speaker 1:All right. Well, hey, everybody, thanks for listening. We will catch you on the next episode. Have a great night, a great day, whatever time you're listening. Yep, thanks for listening and I appreciate you. Love you guys. Peace out Peace.
