Bastu Boys
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Bastu Boys
We Take A Break Then Come Back Recharged For Season Two
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We disappear for a bit, then come back like we never left: door cracked open on a warm Minnesota day, fire going outside, and a full backlog of life to unpack. We talk about why the break was planned, what “reset and refocus” actually looks like when work gets busy, and how coaching seasons and family schedules can quietly take over your calendar.
From there it turns into travel stories. Jamaica delivers the tropical vacation everyone wants, but seeing hurricane damage up close is a reminder that “paradise” can sit right next to real hardship. Then we jump to Las Vegas for the construction aggregates expo, where the heavy equipment is massive, the steps add up fast, the vendor parties are unreal, and the gambling lessons come hard. We get into trying new casino games, why winning big early can be the worst thing, and what it’s like meeting the YouTube gambling creators you watch every day.
Back home, we hit the stuff we’re building toward: Nashville plans, getting dialed for golf season, and updates from the sauna rental business including leads for custom barrel saunas, design approvals, and how we think about seasonal delivery windows. We also talk local sports, movies, and a bigger question we can’t shake: will our generation handle aging differently because we grew up with video games and tech?
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Back After A Long Break
SPEAKER_02I'm whoever you want me to be. I'm whoever you want me to be, baby. Deeper. Lord.
SPEAKER_00I don't know if I can get deeper.
SPEAKER_02That's what he said. We've been gone for a while. Yeah, it's been a minute before Thanksgiving, I think, was our last episode. People probably think we just disappeared. Well, the break was planned. We needed it. Reset? Reset, refocus, reload. So what is this? Season two? Bob. You like that alliteration? I like that. Beautiful, beautiful pre beautiful pre-spring day.
SPEAKER_03Fifty-some degrees today.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we got the door open, a little fire burning outside, sitting watching degenerative gambling.
SPEAKER_03It's beautiful. Smell of fire smoke.
SPEAKER_02The smell of campfire smoke. It's delicious. So obviously we've been gone since November. I think it was around early November. That doesn't mean Tony and I haven't been hanging out and talking to each other, but we just kind of took a little break from the podcasting bit. I had a lot going on with work. Tony had a lot going on with work. Tony kept on coaching, and obviously the sports don't stop.
Jamaica Trip And Hard Realities
SPEAKER_03So Yeah, it was my first season as the junior varsity girls coach, and I had a lot. It was a lot. But it was fun. It was good. Kind of a different experience with a different coach and leader and all that kind of stuff. Same kids, but you had a different head coach. Different head coach. Yeah. Different varsity head coach, which was a change for the whole program, which I thought went well. A good change, obviously, then. Yeah. And I mean the old coach I mean she did a good job. She I I'll give her flowers on bringing the program back to where it is now. But I think everybody welcomed a a change in direction, a change in voice and stuff like that. Absolutely. Change is good. Busy with that.
SPEAKER_02You went on a couple vacations? Yeah, we went to Jamaica over New Year's. That was a good trip. It was it was a lot of fun with the people we were with. Jamaica as a whole, I mean, outside of being a tropical quote unquote paradise, the the resort was great, the service was great, the experience was great. However, after that hurricane demolished the country, there's just so much so many things that kind of got to me when we first arrived. Just the the the buildings that are in shambles, people walking around on the streets with bare feet. They don't have access to the same like disaster relief that we have here in the States. So so it was tough to see, and that kind of brought my mood down a little bit. But all in all, the the resort, the beach, the the the rum, everything was great. And the people we went with, it was fun. It was me, my wife, my daughter, and then my daughter's best friend and her sister and their parents, and it was it was a fun group to go on vacation with. Ten out of ten would do it again.
SPEAKER_03That's good. And you were where you went somewhere for work.
SPEAKER_02Oh, well, yeah. So that I don't consider that much of a vacation, although work trip. Although people could describe it as a vacation. Uh it was in Vegas. It was the construction aggregates expo. It's like the biggest expo of construction aggregate equipment in the world. Millions of people, I don't know about millions, but definitely a hundred thousand plus people attend every year or every three years or however many years it is.
SPEAKER_03That's like heavy equipment and yeah, it's all the anything to do with construction.
SPEAKER_02Anything that, yeah, any equipment having to do with construction or like cement work, well drilling, pile drivers. The Caterpillar Caterpillar obviously is a very large world-class company. They put on this big show and they had like operator competitions. They had a big sandbox built in in the middle of one of the parking lots.
SPEAKER_03That'd be cool.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it was cool to watch. There's there's so much there. Like I put on over 25,000 steps a day the four days that I attended the expo, and I still didn't see everything.
SPEAKER_01Wow.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it was wild. It was cool. And I lost my ass gambling on the off hours when I wasn't quote unquote working. What was the highlight of the trip in your for you personally? For me personally, the highlight, I got to see a couple content creators that I follow closely on YouTube, Lady Luck and Dude Luck. Great people. They were on their way out. I didn't want to stop and talk to them for too long, so I just got a quick picture with them and casino manager Adam from El Cortez. It was it was so cool to see the people that I watch daily on YouTube. I I don't really watch a lot of shows on TV, but I watch my I watch my gambling on YouTube and I follow them closely. So it was it was really cool to see them. Interesting. Yeah, it was neat. Got to play Baccharaw for the first time and Craps for the first time. And I did well and I did awful but on both. The first night I was playing Bubble Craps, first night I was there, I won, I was up like 2300 bucks, and that was the worst thing that could have happened to me.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, normal normally you want to win at the end, yes, not at the beginning. Yep. It's almost like they set it up like that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, because I had to spend four more days gambling my ass off after the expo was done for the day.
SPEAKER_03And how food, I was just gonna ask, how was the food?
SPEAKER_02Food was awesome. We we get to hang out with different industry leaders in in construction. So, like our vendors, where we get all our steel for the shovel buckets and stuff like that, they all put on parties for their customers during that week. There was a big one, so the komatsu one was massive, the caterpillar one was massive, and then there was a smaller, I think they're called general general construction equipment, I think is their name. They're their their party was more it was more intimate. It was smaller, there's less people, they're a smaller company than Caterpillar or Komatsu, obviously, but I I enjoyed that party the most.
SPEAKER_03Are they like a regional type?
Nashville Plans And Traveling At 40
SPEAKER_02Yeah, they they do they're nationwide. Oh, they are, yeah, but they're just a smaller footprint than Caterpillar or Komatsu. Gotcha. But yeah, that so those those were the two trips, two winter trips I went on. We are gonna be in Nashville later on, end of the month in April. So we're going down with a few people, celebrate a couple birthdays happening this year that people turn 40. Should be fun.
SPEAKER_03Like I've said to the group that's going. Like for me personally, I've been there forever. I've been there going there once a year, probably since I was about 13. So I know a lot of the places to go. I know like the the more popular bars, the time of day that's best to explore things without being too claustrophobic with too many people. Perfect. Which is nice. I don't want to say I'm an expert on Nashville because I'm not I'm not, I'm nowhere near it.
SPEAKER_02However, well, you do have family that lives there.
SPEAKER_03I do. I have family that lives Bradley Parkway, right by the airport. It's about five minutes from downtown. So, I mean, that's where we're gonna stay with them and save a little bit of kaching. I'll be coming to have a beer there. That's fine. I'm sure my uncles and my aunt and my grandma would be more than happy to see you again since they haven't probably haven't seen you since the wedding, probably over ten years. 13. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So yeah, that'll be fun. I I I'm excited to see some some live music, no matter what or who it is. I mean, it's all good from the opening of the bar scene down there till close. I don't want to be downtown at close. No. I don't know if you guys want to have that experience, but it's it's not it's not fun. Well, it's not it's not fun for me.
SPEAKER_02Well, I'm not 22 anymore. Right. So I just I like I want to go I want to go for the day, see what you know. I want even evening bands would be fun to watch, and then eight, nine o'clock rolls around. Let's head back to the Airbnb, have a little campfire, play some beer pong.
SPEAKER_03Or cards or something. Something just hang out. Yeah. I I I don't think we're gonna golf. No, I don't think we are either. Which I'm okay with. Yeah, I am too.
Golf Season Goals And Home Setup
SPEAKER_02I mean, I was excited about it to begin with, but then kind of looking at it It's just not gonna be the same, it won't be a good golf experience because we're just supposed to go do nine holes in the morning, which is super casual as it is, and then if we have to be back by a certain time, or if yeah, you know, and and I just for some reason it won't be the golf experience that I think the people that want to get would be. Yeah, and and and I've I'm like super dialed in on golf this year. I I'm going over to Hibbing Masaba Country Club for my membership, and buddy of mine that I know originally through work when I worked back at Delta, he is a member there, and we're gonna golf a bunch this summer. And I got enough, like I think I can bring a guest up to like four or six times.
SPEAKER_03So well, and what's nice about that course is that it's super novice. Yeah, it's a simple course. It's a simple course, and it's but it's beautiful, it's nice. I know some people don't really like it or they talk shit about it or whatever, but I think it's perfect for somebody like even myself beginning with the second season of golf coming up to hone skills to figure out what clubs to use when for distances, for swinging. The driving range is really easy, it's not super difficult there. I think it's ten bucks for a bucket of balls or something like that. So yeah, I think it's five bucks per pouch.
SPEAKER_02So yeah. Yeah, it's a good it's a good time. I'm looking forward to that. I can't I hit some golf balls into the woods the other day. Yeah, I'm super excited to start swinging.
SPEAKER_03Well, I saw on Facebook, I don't I don't know if you saw the message that I sent you, I saw a simulator for like six hundred bucks the projector and the and the uh projector and the screen. Yeah, but I don't know the quality of it. No, it's not to mention the space that we would need to put it in.
SPEAKER_02Correct. And I've swung at the net in here, and it's just not quite tall enough in here. If I had another six inches the roof on the ceiling, I it'd be no-brainer. I'd go for it, but I just don't have the ceiling height in here.
SPEAKER_03Well, and I thought about building some like tea boxes at like scrap from roof, yeah, like a five by five, six by six tea box with the fake green grass with the tea underneath it and all that kind of stuff to put in your shop area, the barn area, or even in my barn or garage or whatever.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and then the only the only gripe I have is this net that I have. Great net, but it needs to be just a little bigger. Yeah, yeah. Because it you have to be close enough so you hit the ball into the sweet spot of the net, but you have to be far enough away to not hit the net with your club. And that's where I really struggle because when I'm using like a pitching wedge and doing a full swing pitching wedge or sand wedge, sometimes I'll go right over the top of the net because I can't get close enough because my arms are so long. So I wouldn't have that problem. No, I don't think you would.
SPEAKER_03But yeah, I'm antsy to get golfing. I was talking to my wife about it, and I think she's a little frustrated with me because she doesn't have her set of clubs yet, and she wants to go with and you and I have agreed.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, when we golf, we golf together, that's fine. Wife golfing we can do a couple times a summer, but it's just it's hard. I and I I only did it once or twice last year, but it is not easy. Yeah. And then you you might as well not even keep track of your score when you're doing even even when you're golfing with somebody that's completely bad at golf, right? You might as well not even keep score because you're gonna suffer. Your game suffers when you golf under your level.
SPEAKER_03It's just like any other sport, honestly. You you either play down to the level of the people that you're with, or you get so frustrated that you golf like shit or shoot like shit or play softball like shit or whatever you're doing. So yeah, I I agree. But like I'm hoping to get to the Muni a few times, even by myself. I like golfing by myself. Like I did it a couple times last year.
SPEAKER_02The only problem with that is when you make fucking God shots, nobody believes you.
SPEAKER_03That's why this next summer, when I go by myself, I will be recording. Yeah, absolutely. I'm gonna get a a tripod and everything. I'm gonna do some other stuff with that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I really wanna I really wanna actually do that this year.
SPEAKER_03I think we would benefit from it a lot, and I know there's a couple other friends of ours that want to get in on it too, which is good and exciting.
Sauna Rentals And Custom Builds
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that'll be fun.
SPEAKER_03What's new in the sauna world?
Parades And Shack Build Priorities
SPEAKER_02Winter was okay. I would have liked to rent them out a few more times over the winter, but it was it was decent. December, January were popular months. November deer season was very popular. I had them both rented out for the entirety of deer season, so that was cool. I got a lead on a couple customers for custom saunas, so one of one of whom is about 98% committed, so that's really cool. I got the quote over to them and got the design almost fully approved. I need to make a couple quick changes here on the software, on the design software, and send over the mock-up to them, and then once they approve it, I can I can start I can write the contract and then get the down payment and start the build. Yeah. That'll be nice. Yeah. And then over the summer we're gonna be rebuilding the rentals just because as I do, I always think of everything all the time, and I found some new ideas for the design of our rentals. They're still gonna look similar to what they do, but they're gonna be a little a little bit more well, more better, way tons more better built. I don't know. A little more economical. Yeah, it's I I think they're just gonna they're just gonna go together better better the second way the second way that I designed it.
SPEAKER_03So before I forget to ask Before I forget that are we going to do the Moonlight Gram Day parade? I would like to. Yeah. It's a different time. That's fine. It's at three now.
SPEAKER_01That's totally fine. Instead of noon.
SPEAKER_03I like that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we should do the parade again. A couple of them, or are we just gonna stick to that one? Depends. I gotta look at the schedule for the summer, and then I gotta figure out because so sidebar where my hunting party our land finally went through the legal part of the tax part or whatever. So my hunting shack, we have an LLC, I think there's 12 of us in it, and we finally got our name put on the land so we can build the shack. So I'm gonna be busy at least three different weekends building that. Obviously, the business takes precedence over the shack. The the custom saunas are gonna come first, obviously, and then the shack is next on the priority list, then rebuilding the the second rental is gonna be next on the list. But I yeah, I a couple parades I think we should do. And then I really I'd like to I got the application sent to me for the fair again this year. I'd like to do the fair some way, shape, or form. I don't, even if it's not even you know, even if even if we just have the sauna parked there and we have a little booth and we hand out business cards, and then by that time, obviously, I should have at least one, possibly two custom builds done so I can have some portfolio pictures as examples of the custom builds. And then I can talk to the customers a little bit more about you know what how the the story how how how we came to be and then how the business actually works, where we focus on on the rentals in the winter, and then once 50 degrees rolls around in the spring, that's our custom sauna season where I I basically deliver the custom saunas from May 1st until October 31st, and that's your window to get a custom sauna. Yep. Anytime beyond May May to October, I don't take commissions to build the custom saunas because I don't deliver in the winter just because the logistics would be impossible doing that.
SPEAKER_03Not just logistics, but being able to work outside and get it done efficiently and the correct way. Yeah. Because trust me, I just put a ramp together for work. It was a mobile ramp, but it was on that was on Thursday, and that's when it was cold again, and it sucked.
SPEAKER_02Did you guys uh do you guys go to Aiken? I saw a brand new ramp in Aiken. Did you guys do that one?
SPEAKER_03That was our other our sister company. You could call it, I guess, sister, whatever, out of blah blah blah blah Brainerd. Okay.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, because I I I know that's the first thing I noticed. We're driving down Aiken, we were headed to the softball games yesterday, and we went through Aiken on the way there. I saw the same one. Beautiful brand new ramp. I was like, oh, that looks like that looks like a Tony Company ramp.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, we've done some stuff down that way, but it's it's such a drive for us from Hibbing. That's a hike and a half. Um, yeah I mean you spend two and a half hours in a vehicle to then try and spend six to eight hours building a ramp efficiently and the way it needs to be done, and finishing it in one day to then drive back another two and a half hours or so. It's it's that's a long it's a long, long day. We've done it. I think the furthest I've ever gone to actually build one is is Moose Lake. Okay. We we or Willow River, whatever.
SPEAKER_01Same diff.
Softball Lessons From A Tough Game
SPEAKER_03Yeah, same thing. They're right next to each other. But we do we'd we'd built a ramp and then refurbished a deck. So that's the furthest I've ever gone. But re-decking something is not that's not hard. No. Popping up all the boards and then just putting new ones down, that doesn't take very long. Unless you're with a guy that breaks stuff and doesn't know what he's doing, which which did happen. But yeah, that was that was a nice ramp. I almost made my wife pull over and go look at it. Yeah, see if they did it right. Oh jeez. Oh jeez. Oh jeez. Softball. Softball was fun yesterday.
SPEAKER_02It was, it was fun watching the girls. They actually swung the bats. Last year we went to the same tournament essentially, the same game, scrimmage, whatever you want to call it, in a different dome down in St. Cloud. And I there were a lot of girls that had never played before last year, and nobody was nobody was swinging the bats. They were watching strike three go by all the time.
SPEAKER_03Very just hesitant on swinging and very hesitant on making mistakes, which as both of us know, and probably most of our listeners who've played baseball or softball or anything like that, talking to the coaches, even it's like it's a game of failure. Like you have to be okay failing. Like even if you square up a ball and and you hit it and a person makes a good play on it, like you gotta tip your cap to them and go go back and try and do it again. I mean nothing else you can do. And and just the the overall attitudes of 'em were great. Yeah and the smiles and the laughing and the cheering each other on. Both of our daughters got smoked by a ball.
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SPEAKER_03Yeah, Nina got hit in the ribs with a with a pitch.
SPEAKER_02My daughter got hit running the basses right in the stomach just below the ribs. Then she got mad at me because I told her that's why you slide.
SPEAKER_03And it was her birthday. It was her birthday. She said 17. 17.
SPEAKER_01She's only seventeen. Goddamn dick list. Seventeen.
SPEAKER_03Make it stop. If any of our listeners know that song or can tell me who sings it, I will give you a high five. High fives are great. High fives are great.
Minnesota Sports And Vikings Takes
SPEAKER_02Been watching any Timberwolves stuff? I have been watching games, yes. I I can't wait till Ant-Man comes back.
SPEAKER_03Me too, but they've been playing pretty well without him.
SPEAKER_02They have. They've shown a lot of promise without Edwards, which is cool to see.
SPEAKER_03And I'm I'm gonna take the take the time to say this. I honestly don't watch much NBA until playoffs happen. I've been watching a lot of March Madness, obviously, lately with women's and men's. So there's that. There is that. There is a lot of college basketball going on. College baseball started. The twins started. I'm not gonna touch much on the twins. I like baseball. I love playoff baseball, but the twins look really bad. I looked at their looked at their roster and I think I know like three guys on there, maybe four. I've heard their names before, but I don't know how promising the twins are gonna be. Woof. I know the Vikings made a pretty big signing, I guess, in the last since we had our last episode, they did sign Kyler Murray. So we have a new quarterback in the building challenging JJ McCarthy for the starting spot. I think he'll probably get it. I think JJ needs another year watching, listening, figuring out the the system and all that kind of stuff. He's been hurt a lot. But I mean the Vikings should have a pretty decent run again next year. I know they didn't change too much because of their cap. I know Justin Jefferson's excited to have Kyler Murray. Kyler Murray just brings in another angle. Like he's mobile, he's he's played, he he he was a top pick in the draft for a reason. Like yeah, for sure. He he's he's obviously got the talent. I know he's smaller, but I think he brings another dynamic to the Vikings that they haven't had in a long time, which could help. They need a running game, they don't really have a a Bell Cow runner. I know that Mason Jordan Mason or whatever the hell his name is, he's back. Jordan Mason, yeah. We have Xavier Scott, Aaron Jones, Jordan Mason. I think they're gonna cut Aaron Jones before the season starts. And we have Wentz. Yep, they just did resign Carson Wentz. Yep. I know that there's been a lot of talk of the of them cutting Aaron Jones and TJ Hawkinson, which would free up a whole bunch of money. It would. Hawkinson was kind of an underperformer last year. Well, JJ didn't really use him. Like that was that was the problem. I I think he just was underutilized, and I don't I don't think that there was any kind of chemistry between McCarthy and Hawkinson at all. And we still have Josh Oliver, yeah, who does the same shit. Yeah. Which and he's younger and hasn't gotten it, hasn't been as injured. Yeah. I think they're gonna trade Addison on draft night.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that would be a good trade, I think. He's he shows promise, but we have too many off-the-field issues. Yeah, he does have that. And then we got plenty of weapons. I mean, we don't I I don't think we need to dilute the wide receiving core.
SPEAKER_03All I see and hear when I hear something about Jordan Addison is Jim Carrey in Liar Liar. Stop breaking the law, asshole! That's what I see. Yeah. I don't think KOC's too committed to him. So I think I I think they can, or they will, or they should make a deal on draft night to get uh we pick up a couple O line guys.
SPEAKER_02We did, and Caleb Etienne and Ryan Van Demarck.
SPEAKER_03Yep. Which they're lower level offensive line guys, they'll be rotational guys, but we need that. Like our offensive line was beat up last year, and it showed. I our defensive line, we let both of those D tackles go that we signed last year, so we have like no-name D tackles right now that played a little bit last year. They gotta figure out what they're gonna do with Harrison Smith. Yeah. I mean, he's old. We got a new punter, Johnny Hecker.
SPEAKER_02Really? Johnny Hecker. I like that punter we had. I liked our punter too, but he was good. I like Johnny Hecker. Johnny. Johnny Hecker.
SPEAKER_03Hecker. What the hacker? So I I think they'll have a good year. I mean, they're in the toughest division in football with the Bears coming up, with the Lions still being the Lions, and then everybody thinks the Packers are gonna be going to the Super Bowl because they're the Packers. They almost talk about the Packers like they talk about Dallas, which drives me insane. If I hear again that next year is Dallas' year, I'm gonna lose my shit right here on this podcast. I am gonna literally whip the next guy that says shenanigans. I am I'm gonna lose my shit if I hear that again from some kind of sports analyst because it hasn't been Dallas' year since 1995. 1995. Half of the people that are rooting for Dallas right now weren't even alive when they won their last Super Bowl. But they're America's team. No, they're not. No, they are not. They're America's team, man. Do you know who America's team is? And I know. Thank you. The team that went back to the Super Bowl last year with that name, the New England Patriots. What's more American than a Patriot? Than a Patriot without Tom Brady, even though I love Tom Brady.
SPEAKER_02And we're not talking you fucking bullshit fake patriots. You know who you are. I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_03And I don't really follow hockey much, but I know that the wild are kind of in the middle of the playoff run here. Scoring for oh, I I went to a wild game in Vegas.
SPEAKER_02That was cool. Yeah, that was really cool. So it was right after the Olympics, and it was obviously the Knights versus Minnesota. And they brought all the guys out that were on the USA hockey team and they took a picture together. It was really cool to see the camaraderie between the USA hockey players and then they being on opposite teams. And we won in overtime, which was cool.
SPEAKER_03Nothing fires me up more than the speech from Herb Brooks in the locker room before the Russian the Russia game. Oh, I got goosebumps just thinking about it. Nothing fires me up more.
SPEAKER_02Goosebumps just thinking about it.
SPEAKER_03That is one of the best sports speeches in a movie ever. 100%. From what I've heard in interviews on reels and stuff like that, it sounded very similar to that speech.
SPEAKER_02Play these guys ten times, they might win nine. Not tonight. Not tonight. Tonight is your night. Tonight is your night. God, he did such a good job playing Herb Brooks. He did.
SPEAKER_03He did.
SPEAKER_02Too bad Herbie wasn't alive to see it. Yeah, it's a shame. That's what sucks. Car accident. Motherfucking.
SPEAKER_01Damn it. Motherfucking. Motherfucking damn it.
Recent Movies And Comedy Favorites
SPEAKER_03Ton. There's so much to cover, and I just I don't even I don't even know. You don't even know. You don't even know. Did you watch any of the award shows for movies and such? I did not. Have you seen any new movies lately? I have not. So I will suggest one that won some awards, and I'm sure you've heard of it, Sinners with Michael B. Jordan. Yep, I want to see. You need to watch that. It's phenomenal.
SPEAKER_02You know, I still haven't seen Oppenheimer.
SPEAKER_03Great movie. I know. I watched that. In theaters, I made my wife come to the movie in theaters with me. I think I did. Maybe I went by myself. I don't remember. But phenomenal. It was really, really good. Phenomenon. The other one that was really good was Nuremberg. That's another new one. Okay. It's about the Nuremberg trials. If you know anything about that. I I know about it. Really, really good. Russell Crowe, Remy Malik. It's phenomenal. Phenomenal movie. Sinners kind of took the show at what is it, the Oscars or the Academy Awards? Yeah, it was the Oscars, yeah, Academy Awards. Michael B. Jordan won best actor. Deservingly so. Like, dude was phenomenal in that movie. Really, really good. He plays Twin Brothers. Haley Steinfeld is in it. Yes. It was awesome. It was it was a really good movie. The other one that I actually recently watched that I haven't seen in a really long time that I don't know why I really wanted to watch this, but I made it a point to, was Wolf on Wall Street.
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah, I love that movie.
SPEAKER_03I can't believe how fucking nuts that movie was. How did Leonardo DiCaprio not win something for that? No kidding. I mean, it was stupid good. It was.
SPEAKER_02Didn't wasn't Jonah Hill nominated for a supporting in that movie?
SPEAKER_03Yeah. He did a really good job. And he's super skinny now. He looks like Yeah, he lost all of his weight. Holy shit. Well, he was sick of being called the fat funny guy.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, there was I just saw something on that where he was kind of picked on and stuff. He was typecast. Yeah. Well, look at the phenomenal job he did in Superbad. Oh yeah, that's a great that's a classic. He was really good in in Moneyball. Moneyball, that's what I'm thinking of. Moneyball was really good with him.
SPEAKER_03He was really good in Moneyball. I don't know. I just when I see Jonah Hill, it's either it's either super bad or accepted.
SPEAKER_02Accepted he was really fat. That was his one of his first movies.
SPEAKER_04Tell me about my winner.
SPEAKER_02He was so yeah, that that was that that's what put him on the map, I think. And then super bad was huge.
SPEAKER_03Him and Mike Sienna, and then yeah, Fogle. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00I I can never remember that dude's name.
SPEAKER_03And then Landon McLuhan. It was that or Muhammad. And then uh Emma Stone was in that too.
SPEAKER_02Oh, I love Emma Stone. I do too. And then uh Channing Tatum.
SPEAKER_03Oh, 21 Jump Street.
SPEAKER_0221 Jump Street. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that was good.
SPEAKER_02And 22 jump streets. I love when Channing Tatum's freaking out because he found out his the his girlfriend is the captain's daughter. Oh that's that's a great scene.
SPEAKER_03I thought well Jonah Hill was dating the captain's daughter, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And he's like, oh shit, oh shit. He's like, every time he says that, my foot goes further up your ass. What a perfect role for Ice Cube. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_03It was great. Oh, I love that movie. That's such a good movie.
SPEAKER_00It is. It's a beautiful movie. Tremendous. Compelling and rich. Tremendously beautiful.
SPEAKER_02A lot of people are saying it. A lot of people are saying it.
Woodworking Auction And Internet Humor
SPEAKER_03Anything else going on for you?
SPEAKER_02No, right now I'm just kind of fiend auctioning right now because I said right now twice. Because there's uh there's a woodworking equipment auction in Duluth that closes in four days, and I'm just favoriting basically every single listing so it's in my queue so I can get notifications when it closes. Lots of good stuff. Some of the best stuff. Really? Some people are saying that it could be the best woodworking auction that Duluth has ever seen.
SPEAKER_03We're not going there today, Tone.
SPEAKER_02Some of these items are the best items that you can possibly get for woodworking. We're not going there today, Tone. I'm not going there. I'm just talking. I don't know what you're talking about. They're just the greatest. These corner clamps. Best corner clamps in the game. Best corner clamps that you can get. Money can buy. Spare no dollar. Selection of tin snips.
Skipping Drama And Keeping It Light
SPEAKER_03Digital angle readers. So for those of you that are waiting for us to get into a discussion on things that neither one of us want to talk about or feel the need to talk about, you're not going to find it here today.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, no, we tried actually we did record one other episode in November, maybe December. I think it was closer to like it might have been after.
SPEAKER_03I think it was like February.
SPEAKER_02It might have been January or February. We did record an episode in the in the offseason and and I didn't even edit it because I went on a tirade. And I didn't want to talk about that on the podcast, so that episode was just washed.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I I think we're gonna stay away from some stuff just based on the overall climate of what's going on and the tone. Uh there's a lot of stuff that's happening locally here that Oh, the local stuff.
SPEAKER_02Damn. Yeah. We got lots of drama going on locally.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and I don't even know if I really want to talk about that.
SPEAKER_02No, I don't want to talk about it. I'm just saying we got we got a lot of drama.
SPEAKER_03I think that one of the things that's going on, it's a lot of it's a pissing contest to see who is going to It's always a pissing contest. To see who's gonna stand their ground longer, and no matter which side comes out of it, no but everybody can't win, unfortunately.
SPEAKER_02Hey, it's 2026. We hand out participation trophies, everybody wins all the time. Yeah, you're not wrong.
SPEAKER_03And then the other issue. I won! Across the bridge. What bridge? The Mitch Bridge? The Mitchell Bridge. Oh, that bridge.
SPEAKER_02I was like, what northeast? Like the neighborhood I grew up in?
SPEAKER_03What the fuck's going on there? No. The Mitchell Bridge. That whole situation on that side. Oh, damn! Yeah, I forgot about that. That there is That there. How can I put it?
SPEAKER_02How can I put this where How can we talk about it without actually talking about it?
SPEAKER_03I I think there's people and things. Nouns. There are nouns. There's people that are doing their job, and there's people that never did their job, and I think that there's delusional, unintelligent people that are anonymous on Facebook.
SPEAKER_02As it were.
SPEAKER_03That don't have a fucking clue what they're talking about. So on that note, I just want to do a couple shout-outs for people and businesses.
SPEAKER_02Shout it out!
SPEAKER_03One of them is one of our close friends, has a salon in the town that we live in.
SPEAKER_02Hair works!
SPEAKER_03Hair works on Lake Street. If I wasn't bald as fuck, I would go get my haircut there. I bring my kids there every once in a while. I I've I haven't myself gotten a haircut there, which I probably should, uh, considering the fact that we've known this young lady our entire lives and her entire beautiful, luscious hair is what it is.
SPEAKER_02It's better than mine.
SPEAKER_03So if you're looking for a haircut in the Iron Range area, anywhere from Virginia to Grand Rapids, and you're in Chisholm, the Chisholm, as some people call it. The Chisholm. Um, check out Hairworks on Lake Street, ask for Hannah, uh, and she'll be able to hook you up or your kids or anything like that. I believe she also does hair for uh special events, uh like prom and Sadies and things like that. So just reach out to her, uh, go on Facebook, it's on the Chisholm area chamber of commerce website. Yeah, you can go ahead and just look it up there and called hair works with an X. Yep, hair works, two words, works with an X on Lake Street. Uh ask for Hannah. Who else do we like? Who else do we like that we can shout out on here?
SPEAKER_02I know I got asked by a couple people when our next episode was coming out. Oh I that was encouraging to hear.
Listener Love And Blarney Stories
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it was. I know we were at the Blarney Bond spiel.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03A couple people there were actually more than a couple. There was quite a few people there that asked me when our next one was coming out. Yeah. Shout out to Nick Zubic for wondering, Justin Shaga. Shags. And then uh Derek and Jamie. They were asking about it. I know Derek was for sure. Oh, yeah, they were just over today. I've got some of my son's friends that listen. They're down in they're down at Disney World in Florida, but I know a couple of his buddies listen to it. He listens to it. Trevor Simon. Yeah. Trevor at Symes and his brother Tyler.
SPEAKER_02Tyler.
SPEAKER_03You know, uh Eric.
SPEAKER_02That motherfucker. Which one? Tyler. He fed you pizza. He made me get drunk on Sunday at the Blarney. I saw that. I've never I've never tied it on at the Blarney. I always I always turned down on Sunday. What? Did you work Monday too? No, I took it off because I was drunk on Sunday. All day. All day. My wife called me at 10 30 in the morning asking if I was alive, to which I answered, yes, I am alive. And then for some re well, then then at around like one, we went down to the curling club and I gathered my things that I inevitably leave at the curling club every year when I'm drunk on Saturday night. Got all those, brought them back to Trevor's house, and then I don't know why, but Tyler and I went to the bar. And then I looked at the clock and it was three. And then I looked at the clock and it was six. And then I looked at the clock and it was ten. And then I looked at the clock and it was midnight. And I was like, I am hammered. Just shocked. Just done. And I drank so much that weekend that my guts were messed up until Thursday, the the day after the Thursday after that. I believe it. I mean my microbiome in my gut was dead. I don't think I had one cell of living good bacteria in my gut left. So on Wednesday, I chugged some probiotics and prebiotics and took some of that bloom stuff for gut health, and I drank a bunch of fiber and I ate a bunch of broccoli. And then by the by the next weekend, my guts were back in working order, which is good. But I never want to do that again. I'm getting too old. And Sunday was completely unnecessary. But it was fun. I talked to some good people at the hideaway. It was a blast. Nothing ever good happens in Buell. Oh, all kinds of good stuff. You meet so many cool people. Tanya. Tanya. Shout out bartender that reminded me of a tall, skinny Martha Stewart. Don't know her name. She was nice.
SPEAKER_03Tall, skinny Martha Stewart.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, she works at the height of way. I was drunk, so she might not look anything like Martha Stewart, but she had the she had the blonde hair like Martha Stewart.
SPEAKER_03Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg hang out.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I know. They're they're awesome. They're like besties. Snoop Dogg. Uh, one of my favorite clips of Snoop Dogg is when him and Kevin Hart were commentating on the Olympics and they did the horses, and the Snoop Dogg's like, ah shit, that horse crip walking.
SPEAKER_03I like when they do the island boys. Oh, yeah, that was great too. Oh. I want the Blarney. The Blarney was fun though. And it is really nice to hear people ask when our next episode's coming out. It's kind of cool.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it shows interest. It means that at least at least a couple people are listening, which is encouraging for us. I don't, I mean, we talk anyway, so it's not like I'm not gonna talk to you if we don't podcast, but but it's nice to know that people are willing to listen to some things. And honestly, we we have like we talk about some relevant stuff. I it's not just two guys just bullshitting in a garage. Right, right. You know, and and if you if you care at all about like the business adventure or Tony's high school athletic adventure or anything like that, this is a good place to go to get that information. And especially for people that know me, you can just mute and then you don't have to hear me. Like if you you can choose what you want to listen to when I'm talking on this podcast. When you're in person, you're forced to listen to whatever I'm telling you.
Planning Video Podcasts With GoPros
SPEAKER_03Well, and not only that, I think we keep it pretty light compared to other podcasts that you listen to. Like a lot of it's aggressive and abrasive, and in your shirt.
SPEAKER_02There's controversial stuff on a lot of podcasts. I actually saw a post not too long ago about this guy, he's got a podcast on the range, and he does specific like Iron Range stuff, and he had one of his episodes go viral or something, and he had like over a million plays on that episode. And so he was reaching out to like local businesses and and different like not businesses, but local things to do on the range, like MDC, also known as Ironworld, to those of us that know what it actually is Museum of Mining, like the Greyhound Museum, stuff like. Like he wanted to highlight some Iron Range attractions. New audience.
SPEAKER_03Yep.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. So that was cool.
SPEAKER_03And if he listens to this, we'd love to sit down and chat and make sure.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, he's got a full video podcast set up. He's not just on the audio waves.
SPEAKER_03I'd have to figure out what his name is and shout him out and get in touch with him too. Yeah, I can't even remember where I saw that. I think it was on Facebook, but I think you and I'll eventually start videoing these. Yeah. Well, I mean I have a camera.
SPEAKER_02I have a good camera for streaming or for recording these.
SPEAKER_03I think that if we get to that point here in the next couple months, we'll definitely start doing that.
SPEAKER_02I actually have several GoPros saved in my Facebook marketplace. Some a lot of them are really affordable. I want to get two GoPros for golf this summer.
SPEAKER_04I love that idea.
SPEAKER_02Love that idea. That that way we can it's it's a little easier to manage GoPros than it is the big ass camera that I have. And my camera is not even that big, but it's big enough where it's clunky and yeah, and it's expensive. And I don't want to like GoPros are pretty dis destruction proof. Yeah. Well, yeah, they're destructible if if you know the English language.
SPEAKER_03They take them skiing, they take them, you know, dirt biking and all that other shit. Underwater basket weaving. Underwater welding. Oh, basket weaving, yes. Yeah. Some use it for corn. Oh. Did not know that. Can't use the real word because then we get canceled. Surprised we haven't yet already. Anyway.
SPEAKER_02Can't use yeah, so the euphemisms of the online community. There's corn, there's there's pew pew, there's grape, there's what's the uh what's the one that is like I don't know. I'd have to ask my kids. Yeah, there's another one that's a euphemism for end life.
SPEAKER_03We don't talk about that. It's almost like fight club.
SPEAKER_01It's almost like fight club.
SPEAKER_02Anyway, yeah, those buzzwords you can't use because then the algorithm doesn't highlight your your content. What you got there?
SPEAKER_01You got a fucking Snickers bar? God damn. And a purple drink.
SPEAKER_02I've been Dave Chappelle's been popping up on my Instagram feed a lot lately. Fuck your couch! Yeah, that one. Can't say the other word. Can't. There was Did I send you? I didn't, I don't think I sent you the video. There's a video of a guy with like a mashed potato bowl from from Yes, you did. I did send you that. And I said if there was one thing that I got the the N-word pass to say is god damn! Because the his reaction encapsulated everything that you need to feel about the video that he was commenting on, and I just wish that I could portray that attitude when reacting to something like that. You were not allowed, no, and I would never assume that I was allowed. I just but that his reaction, goddamn, and and because the guy just a whole spoonful of mashed potatoes without even like he just swallowed the whole it was like a cup of mashed potatoes on this fricking spoon. I love mashed potatoes, but I don't I could not do that just all at once. That would hurt, it would physically hurt. You ever swallow something like too much of a food and it gets stuck in your like like right in past your past your trachea so you can still breathe, but it's stuck like right here, and it just feels like it's a fireball in your esophagus. I've done that with mashed potatoes. Spaghetti gets me every time because I just I I love spaghetti. So much. Spaghetti is spaghetti and pizza. I could eat every day. Every single day, every meal of every day. Spaghetti and pizza. Just or spaghetti pizza. Spaghetti pizza. I like the baked spaghetti. I'm a big fan of the baked spaghetti. I don't like crunchy noodles. No, you don't do crunchy noodles. You just make the spaghetti and then you add a bunch of fixens to it, put it in a baking dish, put cheese on top of it, melt the cheese, get the cheese crusty on top, and then you got spaghetti plus the fixens plus the cheese, and it's just basically spaghetti that gives you a heart attack.
SPEAKER_03Do you like baked mac and cheese with breadcrumbs? I think it's gross.
SPEAKER_02I don't think it's gross, but I prefer I much prefer the natural mac and cheese.
Mic Drop And Gear Survives
SPEAKER_03Now, people down south would argue with us because the they like to eat mac and cheese with the the breadcrumbs and all that. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no.
SPEAKER_00I'm getting killed.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, my hands are cold.
SPEAKER_00Shut the door!
SPEAKER_02The baby's cold!
SPEAKER_03Love you, mom.
SPEAKER_02I can't wait to hear the audio from that.
SPEAKER_03On my scream or you dropping your microphone? Yes.
SPEAKER_02There's floor dry on my microphone.
SPEAKER_03Interesting.
SPEAKER_02Uh reconnected. Enhance. Enhance. I can hear you. I did I did more damage to my headphones than the microphone.
Can Comedy Survive The Internet
SPEAKER_03I believe it. These things are indestructible or non-breakable, like you said. They resist destruction. So do you think anybody will ever be able to put out a comedy show like Dave Chappelle did?
SPEAKER_02Absolutely not. Do you think anybody would ever make a movie like Tropic Thunder?
SPEAKER_03I think somebody would try. I don't know if it would be as successful.
SPEAKER_02I think it would be zero successful.
SPEAKER_03I'm extremely interested to see how this new scary movie does. You know the scary movie con franchise? Yeah. Like they're making a new one, and the preview is pretty controversial. And I can't wait to watch it. It's a lot of the same jokes that they did like back when the first couple came out, and it's gonna be hilarious. I am I'm so excited. Because I went and saw the new Scream movie, Scream 7, which was very lackluster, I'll be honest, and I'm a big Scream fan.
SPEAKER_02See, I'm just you've heard this before. I'm not a huge horror. Yeah, and it's more of a thriller than a horror, but I'm yeah, that's just not my not my lane.
SPEAKER_03But on that note, I was watching a reel the other day, and I it was this these guys had have a podcast. I can't remember the name of the show. But they were ranking their top ten movie trilogies. Now, I'm gonna kind of put you on the spot. I'm not gonna make you make a top ten. Okay. I I just want to know like what movie trilogies would you say are your favorite movie trilogies?
SPEAKER_02It has to be limited to a trilogy.
SPEAKER_03At least three. At least three movies. At least three. So I'll give you an example. Now, like Star Wars has nine. Yeah. Now those are three separate trilogies. Yeah. The prequels, the originals, the new ones. You can put in there. Do you want me to do mine first to give you a few? Well, I I I think I know what you're saying. Okay. So what are your favorite movie trilogies? And give me give me five. Five trilogies. Five trilogies.
SPEAKER_02Okay. This is actually way easier than naming like five individual movies. I I think so too. For me. I think so too. So definitely, and this is in no particular order. I'm not going to rank them one through five. Right. Jurassic Park original, Jurassic Park, Jurassic World. Jurassic Three. Jurassic Park Three. Yeah. Is the third one. Is it just Jurassic Park 3? Yeah. Jurassic Park, Jurassic World, and Jurassic Park 3. The Matrix.
SPEAKER_03Interesting.
SPEAKER_02Definitely The Matrix. Okay. I was obsessed with the Matrix. Still am, actually. Still 100% obsessed with The Matrix. I don't think I ever saw the third one. There's a fourth one now. Yeah, Resurgence. Resurrection and then Res is it Resurgence? I don't remember. The Matrix Reloaded Resurrections. Resurgence. Resurgence. It might be Resurgence. That just doesn't sound that sounds too much like the Divergent franchise to me. I don't know. Anyway. Speaking of Divergent, Divergent franchise. Really? That's on there. Is that three already? Wait, Jurassic Park? Matrix. Matrix. Divergent.
SPEAKER_01Three. Lord of the Rings. Four. What was the other one that I had? I had them all.
SPEAKER_02Wham bam, thank you, ma'am. Ready to go. It's hard. Yeah, well, no, it wasn't a while ago. I was gonna say Harry Potter, but I'm not gonna say Harry Potter. See, I'd consider that a thr a series. Yeah, that's too much. There's more, that's not a true chili, trilli true, true. I was reading okay, so I was reading the word triple on the TV, and I was saying trilogy and true true trilogy and triple. I'm trying to think of like I'm trying to think there's I know for a fact there is another series, a trilogy that I have watched that I would watch religiously, and I'm trying to think of what that one was. You go with yours. I'm gonna need some help with this one.
SPEAKER_03Okay. So I'll do five also in no particular order. The Christopher Nolan Batman. Okay. Batman Begins, Dark Knight, and then the last one. Dark Knight Rises or whatever. Yes. Okay, so that's one. Back to the Future is another one. Okay. I can watch those three movies over and over and over and over and over again. Let's see. So Batman Back to the Future. I will say I'll also say Lord of the Rings, because that you can't. It's just such it's so iconic and it's so cinematically perfect. Like it's just so good.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you can't have you can't have a trilogy list and not include the Lord of the Rings. So there's three.
SPEAKER_01Man. I'm gonna have to pee. A fourth one. Me.
SPEAKER_03It's harder than five.
SPEAKER_02Well, and now I'm making this even more hard. That's what she said. On myself. Because I'm looking at this big list of trilogies, and there's a lot of good ones. And I only have one left.
SPEAKER_03The Godfather?
SPEAKER_02I knew you were gonna say that.
SPEAKER_03Just based on the first two.
SPEAKER_02I literally just scrolled past that and I knew you were gonna say that from scrolling past. Is that four? That's four for you.
SPEAKER_03Toy Story. Okay. Toy Story, Godfather, Lord of the Rings, Back to the Future, Christopher Nolan, Batman.
SPEAKER_00Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!
SPEAKER_03And there's so many more. Like you could obviously do any sort of Star Wars. I have to give it to the Ducks.
SPEAKER_02I gotta do the Mighty Ducks trilogy. Yeah, that's another one. That's my number five.
SPEAKER_03Mad Max trilogy. That was really good too, especially for its time. You could alm you could almost throw the Terminator movies in there, the first two just based on the first two.
SPEAKER_02Hey, Vegas Matt referred to kindergarten cop today. It's not the tuma. He said it's not the tuma. It wasn't Vegas Matt, it was WBG that ref referred to the part because they were talking about something I can't even remember what it was, but I was like, hey, we do that all the time. It's not the tuma. You got to get down. You got to go go now.
SPEAKER_01Go now. Get out.
SPEAKER_00We apologize. This happened. Saracana! Saracana.
SPEAKER_03You know, I'd have to throw Scream in there too. I knew you would. I like I like the Scream movies. I actually was watching the first two the second one and the third one before I came over today.
SPEAKER_02Of course you were.
SPEAKER_03They're just so good. So good.
SPEAKER_02Let's see where we're at. Anyway. Oh, we're at a buck 18 with I mean, we did like a 20-minute intro, so we're at like an hour right now.
SPEAKER_03And that's okay. We haven't talked, we haven't talked in a long time. I know. I mean I mean, I could even take it a step further with you. What's your favorite sports movie? I know we've kind of gone over that a little bit with Miracle and Remember the Titans and things like that. Well, those two. I mean Did you like Little Giants?
SPEAKER_02I did. It's a good movie. I I like it. It's not it's not like it's not really a sports movie. It's not a blockbuster like cinematic masterpiece of a sports movie, but I love that movie.
SPEAKER_03I liked it too. It was it was it was good.
SPEAKER_02It fits right in there with the Mighty Ducks. I can't believe how long ago that was made. Let's not talk about stuff like that. 1980. 1980 was 20 years ago, man.
SPEAKER_03That's what I always think too.
Getting Older With Tech And Games
SPEAKER_02It's crazy. Did you know that 2026 and I read this somewhere? 2026 and 1990 are the same distance apart as 1990 and 1954.
SPEAKER_04Shut the fuck up.
SPEAKER_02I don't want to talk about that. Yeah, 1990, 1954 is 90 minus 54. It's 36. 36 years. Isn't that how old you are? Yep. So in 1990, as old as I am right now, nobody's gonna understand this, but it works in my brain. In 1990, as old as I am right now, I would have been born in 1954. That's disgusting. So gross.
SPEAKER_03I don't I don't like it.
SPEAKER_02Well, as long as we're happy and healthy and have friends and family, I don't care how old I am.
SPEAKER_03I agree. I mean, I I think that as you get older, you obviously you you take you don't take things for granted like you used to.
SPEAKER_02So here's something that's interesting. I agree wholeheartedly. I was my grand and I were talking, and I've we were talking about my grandpa passing last year, and we were talking about how he lost his ability to physically do the things he wanted to do, and he was sick of it. He was he got grumpy about it. He like he and I understand that because he was a physical guy, like he went out and did stuff, and his hobbies all involved doing stuff, physically doing stuff. I thought that it's interesting to think about when we get old and our bodies fail us, inevitably they will. I don't think our generation is going to be nearly as grumpy when we're old because we grew up in the gaming era. Yeah, and we're gonna be able to do things that don't involve physicality.
SPEAKER_03Well, we were so we we were like our generation was so lucky because it was the first generation with video games like video games, actual video games.
SPEAKER_02Not like Atari and Pong, you old Gen X fucks.
SPEAKER_03And cell phones, yes, and DVD players, yes, and streaming, yes, flat screen TVs, yes, we have all this technology, all that stuff. Where we always were sitting down.
SPEAKER_02And we're gonna be content being immersed in that type of thing. I like we can still play basketball, just not with our bodies.
SPEAKER_03See, and now on the the total other swing on that side, like our kids are like that right now. As kids. As kids. So when they get to be adults and they have to go do stuff.
SPEAKER_02Well, they're not gonna know what the hell to do, first of all. You know what I mean that's I mean, I do my best to teach my daughter and her friends things like to be outside to do stuff. Well, even changing a tire, checking your oil, change putting coolant in your car, you know, stuff like that. That's good to teach. What? Frying an egg, cooking, cooking, yes, cooking's big. I'm happy that my daughter is actually interested in cooking and she tries and she does it well. Like she bakes and she she cooks eggs and makes breakfast once in a while, and she like she can make pancakes, she she can do it all, she does everything that she needs to do cooking wise. However, I've taught her how to check her coolant level, taught her how to check her oil. She's never done it herself, but I've taught her how.
SPEAKER_03But she knows where to look if she has to.
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_03So when she goes off to college, she's not gonna have to worry about having to check whether she's gonna call you and say, Hey, can you come check my coolant or my oil? Yeah, you know what I mean? Or she's she might have a boyfriend. I don't know if what's going on right now is gonna last forever. Sometimes it doesn't. I'm married.
SPEAKER_02I don't know if what's going on right now is gonna last forever. Nothing is guaranteed in life. You have to enjoy it while it's here.
SPEAKER_03But like for my middle daughter, like, is she gonna find some guy where he doesn't even know where the fucking oil cap is?
SPEAKER_02For the record, I'm just kidding. I love my wife and I want to live with her forever and grow old with her, just for the record.
SPEAKER_03Good save.
SPEAKER_02I mean, I'm just saying that's uh that's what I truly believe. I I want to live with her forever and be with her forever. I that's why I married her. But my I'm just saying, nothing is guaranteed in life.
SPEAKER_03My thought on that, like I just said with my middle daughter, is she gonna end up with some jackass that doesn't know where the oil cap is and she's gonna be calling me, like, hey, how do I do this? How do I do that? I would say Or she'll already know how to do it and she's gonna tell that guy he's a fucking moron.
SPEAKER_02I would he can't even bait a hook. What singer is that? I used to listen to that CD all the time. He can't even skin a book. He don't know who Jack Daniels is. I have no idea who he's it's a good song. It's Josh, it's not Josh Thompson, is it? It could be Josh Thompson.
SPEAKER_03Anyway, I just with talking, I watched Jimmy go through his failing, I shouldn't say failing bodyhood. He's getting old, his knees hurt, his feet hurt, his toes hurt, his shoulders hurt, all this other stuff. Like a he's things. He's a guy that I remember that could pick up a thousand-pound boulder and move it by himself, and you know, watching somebody like that, and you did, you did it, you watched it. Yep. Watching somebody like that, who you've always known your entire life, be one of the strongest people you've ever watched, and most active people you've ever watched, to literally sitting there not able to do it. Not able to cut the grass or to go get the mail. That's what happened with my grandpa. And I just, it's it's such a hard thing to watch. And yeah, I think you're right.
SPEAKER_02I think our generation, most of our generation I was trying to make is put me in a fucking nursing home with a flat screen and a diaper, and I'm playing COD all day long. Like, seriously.
SPEAKER_03Like, but that's what kids are doing right now.
SPEAKER_02I'm not gonna be they're not in nursing homes, but they're I mean the the yes, the kid thing sucks right now, but I'm focused on this like like we're getting older type thing. Like, I truly believe we will be in better spirits when we're old because like I'm gonna fucking online. Put me on my goddamn commode and give me the controller. I'll take a shit eventually. Just let me sit there and play Call of Duty. Like, I'm not gonna be mad about that. I'm not gonna be mad that like, god damn it, I could be working on my car right now. No, fuck that. Give me fucking COD or Halo or some shit. There's gonna be by the time I'm 80, god forbid, I hope I make it to 80 with my physical faculties with me. 80 years old, imagine. The gaming environment that's gonna be out in 40 years. Oh man, we're gonna be just completely immersive experience. Like, I'm not even gonna need a controller. I'm just gonna need to like think about what the character on the game is doing and they're gonna do it. It's just gonna be like VR a hundred percent. Anyway, how can you uh oh okay I got another Ready Player One, yeah. I got like a fucking five-hour TED talk on that shit. Are we in a simulation? It could be that's for another episode. Not getting into it. I we're already at a buck twenty-six. It'll be two hours if I if I go into this because this is a lot. We don't need that. We'll talk about it some other time. There's actually a lot of scientific evidence regarding that fact that this is or is not a simulation depending on how one views it. So more to come on that. We'll talk later on this year about that. I'm excited to have that conversation.
SPEAKER_03We can have that one. We can definitely do that one.
SPEAKER_02That's a good one.
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SPEAKER_03So, like I said earlier, we will probably end on that note, is what I'm thinking. I agree. Yeah, I think it was a good episode. It's like I said, welcome to season two, or what we said.
SPEAKER_01I'm gonna throw in a lip pillow.
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