Ep.1 The Introduction

Join Tanner and Derek from the Two Guys, No Script podcast as they introduce themselves. This episode is an introductory to Derek and Tanner as well as their 18 year long friendship. Thank you for tuning in!!!

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:01

Can't I can't read the script you're all. Derek, it's not scripted. Hey guys, welcome to the two guys no script podcast. How's it going, Derek?

SPEAKER_02 0:13

Pretty good. How's your day? Oh, pretty good. The operator at work kind of pissed me off. Really?

SPEAKER_01 0:21

Oh man. Well, we're already talking like that. We uh should probably introduce ourselves. My name is Tanner. And uh across from me is Derek. I work with Derek every day, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_03 0:36

Or fortunately.

SPEAKER_02 0:39

Probably spent over half our days together since we were in first grade. Yeah, that's a long time. Remember when I uh first saw you, Sam Otto introduced me to the new kid, and you were wearing wooden breaker pants and some DC skater shoes. You're really styled back then.

SPEAKER_01 1:00

Did I have a blue mohawk at that time?

SPEAKER_02 1:02

No.

SPEAKER_01 1:03

No, that was before that was before I met you. Was there blonde hair at all in that realm? I don't think so. You had a close-shaved head, is all I remember. That's that's pretty typical for me up until like the last couple years. Yeah. Man, friends with Derek. Now, Derek remembers our friendship way back in the day, and I will be honest, I don't remember the first grade interactions, but he does, and that's important.

SPEAKER_02 1:30

Well, I was probably dressed like a normal kid.

SPEAKER_01 1:32

Uh well, if I had to guess, it was probably a full car heart suit and that bowl cut kind of thing he had going.

SPEAKER_02 1:41

The beaver flow is a big thing.

SPEAKER_01 1:43

Yeah, the beaver flow, yeah. And you were probably twice my size. Well, maybe not. I mean we've been both kind of chunky our whole lives. Well, what about our friendship? How has it lasted so long?

SPEAKER_02 2:00

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 2:00

We're like an old married couple. We becker a lot. So I did the math the other day, and when we started this adventure, I'm like, I wonder how long we've been friends. And it's roughly 18 years. It's gotta be encroaching on 18 years. I don't exactly know how old we were in first grade because we're both uh I think older than our class. Yeah, I would have been five for my entire first grade year. So I I mean I'm you're a month older than me, so I I mean it's gotta be we're we're coming up on like 18, 17, 18 years, so it's it's a long time we've been friends. And it's been nothing short of a hell of a journey. That is for sure. This man is a very interesting man.

SPEAKER_03 2:47

What are we doing here, Derek?

SPEAKER_02 2:49

Well, we're trying to make our first podcast, see if we can embarrass ourselves a little bit. Yeah, give people something to listen to.

SPEAKER_01 2:58

So I came up with, well, I can't take all the credit, but I think we have discussed this before when we've talked to each other. We're like, we should have a podcast. But as we dig deeper and you guys learn more about us, you'll understand why it never came to fruition. But my girlfriend just the other day was like we read uh we were playing a game about for couples, and it was like, what would you be most known for or most famous for? Like, what would you be known for? And she's like, I think you'd be known for a podcast. I'm like, really? Why do you say that? She's like, You and Derek should start a podcast. And I think she no more and said that, and I texted you and you're like, sure. Of course, Derek's common response, sure. Never decisive, and then I, you know, had to use a little chat GBT and figure out a name and make our logo, and here we are. And this is less than what five days ago, maybe. Well, I think it text me Saturday night, and it is Wednesday, so yeah, and so we got our little studio set up, we got cheap mics, we got computers that aren't great. So bear with us if there's anything that isn't great about this setup as we continue to go. If we get some people that like our podcast, we'll upgrade our stuff. But I hope you guys are ready for this journey because not only do we have a lot to share about our friendship, we have a lot we can talk about just from our day-to-day experiences, and so much more. And eventually we bring on some guests. So, Derek, let's talk a little bit more about our friendship. We'll talk about the podcast at the end. Let's talk about our friendship. We need to figure this out.

SPEAKER_02 4:46

Well, I remember obviously the first time I met you. Then there's a few years that I don't really remember a whole lot happening. Then when we were probably 12, 13, would you say? Almost every day in the summer, I would ride two miles into town on my bicycle and we'd go fishing. And we'd drive around town, we'd stop at the grocery store and buy as much junk food as we could fit in our back.

SPEAKER_01 5:19

So let's let's let's take a little moment for this. So I grew up in a house where junk food of plenty, so I was used to it. And I mean, there's no reason I'm chunky. I mean, or there's no reason I'm not. Like I there is junk food in my life. Derek was the kid, and he's always a bigger kid. I'm not poking at him, but he's always been a bigger kid. But his house was healthy-ish food, you know, like good family meals. Didn't get to drink Mountain Dew. Yeah, and so this kid he'd come to town and we'd hit up the local gas station. And I mean, it was a box of nutty bars, box of cosmic brownies, was our typical, like we'd each buy a box and share it, and sometimes pop. I mean, you'd get a half gallon of chocolate milk and drink it. And that was honestly the highlight of our lives. I wish we could go back. Like every day, I wish we could just go back and relive the moments because that was the best. We didn't have any care in the world. We just go around fishing, and it was like a real treat when his dad would bring his boat into town for us to use that day. Like hands down, the best day ever.

SPEAKER_02 6:32

And when I'd bring the boat into town, we would beach the boat at the culvert and walk uptown to go grocery shopping, leaving all of our fishing supplies, our boat, the motor, everything unattended, and it never got stolen or messed with or anything. We got lucky there.

SPEAKER_01 6:52

Those were different times, though. I mean, we're not super old, but I mean, back then you didn't have to lock your door on your house, you didn't have to lock your vehicle every time you left it unattended. I mean, it's different times. And we were young, I mean, we didn't care. I mean, we wanted to go get our snacks. And sometimes we'd catch fish, sometimes we wouldn't catch anything.

SPEAKER_02 7:14

I think a lot of times we swam more than we fish.

SPEAKER_01 7:17

Yeah, the swimming was really fun. Um I'm glad that Derek was a good swimmer and I got to swim a lot because little does he know when I first started hanging out with him, I couldn't swim at all. And I learned and figured it out, and I became a good swimmer for a while. But I mean, I wonder how many miles the bikes like rode. I mean, we were constantly on them things. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:42

I remember I used to there was a few days that I would ride into town, and my parents wouldn't know that I rode into town, so I'd have to ride home before they got home from work, then tell them that I was gonna go into town to go fishing with you and ride back in, each way being two miles.

SPEAKER_01 8:00

So eight miles total. And he was quick at it. I mean, this kid should have been like uh skinny as a twig, but I mean he wasn't. And like our summers were that was the best time ever. And he was a different person back then. This kid has matured a lot. I mean, how I survived being his friend this long without dying, hating him, I I it's it's a miracle within itself. Um there there's so many stories and like what do you highlight? Because there's just random moments throughout our lives that many.

SPEAKER_03 8:34

Like, how do you pick one? What's the next big moment in our life? Snowmobiles?

SPEAKER_02 8:43

Yeah, I suppose we met each other, and we did riding bike into town fishing every summer, almost every day. And then in the winters we'd be able to ride snowmobile.

SPEAKER_01 8:57

I'll hold you for one second. Because it just came to my mind, I don't ever remember calling you in the summer to go fishing. I remember I had your house number or something, or your mom's number wrote down, but I don't ever remember having my mom call your mom. How did we figure that out?

SPEAKER_02 9:15

I don't know. I think I think we'd plan, like, the next day, or yeah, tomorrow we'll meet up, or like I'm busy tomorrow, let's plan the next day. Okay. Cause yeah, I didn't have a cell phone. Cause I actually remember the one time leaving your house, and every so often my mom would send me with her cell phone. Right, I remember that. And so that day I had my mom's cell phone. I wasn't used to carrying one yet. So I go to Subway and I walk in, order my sub, and I'm waiting in line, and someone's phone starts going off. I'm looking around. Who's whose phone's going off? This person's so stupid. Why aren't they answering their phone? You know, get all pissed off. Well, then I remembered, oh, I have a cell phone today. So I reach into my pocket, pull it out. Yep, sure enough, the phone's going off. I was an idiot with the phone not being answered. But yeah, I don't know if we uh I think we just planned it, you know. Two days from now we'll ride back in town.

SPEAKER_01 10:17

That that's my I I I just sorry I had to stop. I mean, but it just came to my mind, like, and all the time we talked about this, I don't ever remember how we figured that out.

SPEAKER_02 10:26

I I and we'd always start at your house, so I don't know. Maybe I'd just knock on your door. I don't yeah, it must have been. I guess I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 10:34

But there's some mornings we'd start at like like when you get your boat, it would be like what, 6 30, something seven.

SPEAKER_02 10:40

Like it was and when I get my boat, I'd pick you up. So it must have been we had that plan.

SPEAKER_01 10:45

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:46

Because the boat was like a treat.

SPEAKER_01 10:48

That was every like two weeks. The snowmobile is is a good point, but let me tell you guys about this man's boat. So he had a John boat. How long was that thing? 12 foot. All right, he had a motor on it, and this motor was the junkiest motor ever. And when we were younger, we called it getting balls because it would only run on what half the cylinders?

SPEAKER_02 11:09

Yeah, it was a two-cylinder, ten horse, and it might have been a seven six-horse. I think it was a six horse, then later I got a ten-horse.

SPEAKER_01 11:17

Yeah, yeah, it would run on one cylinder. And man, when that thing would run on two cylinders, it we called it getting balls, and we'd be able to get across that dang lake as fast as we could. We were so excited because we'd be out puts along all day. And like, why? Like, this is boring, like let's go quick and then get balls, and we're just hauling across the lake.

SPEAKER_02 11:38

We're probably lucky that it did run like crap because we would have definitely gone through the wake zone way too fast because we always did that when we got balls, you know. We'd we'd slow down, but we didn't want to lose the two cylinders, so we didn't want to let off too much.

SPEAKER_01 11:56

Yeah, that was like that, like a boat was a treat. I think getting balls with that motor was a treat within itself. That was that was something. We'd have three to four guys at a 12-foot job. It was even better when we'd be pulling, like we'd sometimes take kayaks, or like we all kind of had kayaks, but Derek had the boat. And so some days we'd have your kayak and you'd hold on to the side because running on one cylinder you could hold on to the side and you just put along, you know. And that thing that one time it got balls, and there was two friends hanging out on the side who were just about capsizing in their kayaks because Derek was not stopping, and they they were going a lot faster than they intended. Yeah, that boat was something.

SPEAKER_02 12:37

Yeah, you'd be driving it, and then all of a sudden you'd hear it like sputter a little bit, and you knew what was about to happen, and then it would just open up and take off.

SPEAKER_01 12:45

Yeah, that was that was fun. Uh I I wish like out of anything in our friendship, I wish we could just take a week off of work and go and just relive one summer week like that. Because I mean, then were the days. And then I wouldn't want to ride bike that much. Yeah, I don't even have a bike anymore. Yeah, and then so I'd say the next thing in our lives, which we kind of mentioned, is snowmobiling, and that was I mean, why did we start riding snowmobile? 14, something like that.

SPEAKER_02 13:20

Yeah, probably. I can't remember how long. I mean 12. We could start legally raining, but I think the first couple years that we were able to ride, we didn't get much snow. Right. So I think, yeah, it was probably around at 14 years old.

SPEAKER_01 13:35

I know it had to be roughly 14 because I had a job at the farm. Yeah. And that's how I funded my gas expenditure on stuff. Yeah, no, I would load uh the trap houses, the gun club. I mean, them snowmobiles were our free. I had, did I have was it the 580 or the 570?

SPEAKER_02 13:53

You had the 570.

SPEAKER_01 13:55

I had the 580 also, but I blew that up.

SPEAKER_02 13:57

Or yeah, you had the 580.

SPEAKER_01 13:58

I think I started with the Articat 580, blew that thing up. Well You dropped the clutch off. Both both clutches, both clutches sheared off and fell in the belly pan, and it was dead in the water, and cost too much to fix it. And I got that 570. That 570 is still around. It survived me, it survived Derek, and then it came back to me. Which granted, I haven't rolled it since it's been back. It's I mean it got rolled one time since I got it back from you, and it's been sitting, so I don't know what kind of shape it is. I think my cousin's gonna buy it from me. But you had the V Max. Let's hear about the V Max. The blue bullet. Blue bullet.

SPEAKER_02 14:40

Oh, what year was it? The 96 V Max, I think it was. 600. It's my dad's snowmobile. Which later on got hit by a car. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_01 14:53

We got you mentioned this. What happened, dude? What happened?

SPEAKER_02 14:58

What I got hit by a car. Yeah. Well, I you couldn't see the road f so the ditch was steep, and so you had to go up the hill to be able to see the road. So I pulled up the hill and stopped with the skis on the white line. Otherwise, you'd slide back down. And a car was coming, and I didn't think they saw me, so I was kind of like panicking and realized they were gonna hit me. Well, I couldn't back up, the snowmobile didn't have a first. So I began to bail off the snowmobile, and the car struck the front of the snowmobile, and I had both my legs on the other side of the snowmobile, so it took me out. I bounced off the side of the car, did my one and only somersault, and landed on my knees on the black talk. And that was the end of the V-Max. It drove onto the trailer though. The cops were there when I loaded out the trailer and I pulled it up, parked it on the trailer, and said, That's why I drive the Yamaha, it still runs.

SPEAKER_01 16:05

So, a little foreshadowing for you folks, as we get to learn Derek more. This is his first of many accidents. But I want to explain this from my like I wasn't with you when this happened. But we Oh, we were we were younger, middle school when this happened. No, high school because I went to the basketball game after we did. Well, we f he finally had Snapchat, which that was a miracle in itself. But I mean, this guy cannot use technology. And all he puts on a Snap story, I can't remember the exact picture, but it was something of like the ditch to Snowbank, and it was thankful to be alive, and that's all he left it at. And then the kid wouldn't answer his phone. So we're all panicking, like, what just happened to Derek? Like, what why is he thankful to be alive? Like, we're all thankful to be alive, but why is he doing this so much to post it on his story? Well, then yeah, we find out he got hit by a car.

SPEAKER_02 17:01

Yeah, I don't think you because most people didn't realize it was a snowmobile down in the ditch because it was such a grainy picture, and yeah, it was so that was the end of the V Max?

SPEAKER_01 17:12

Yeah. Okay, so my favorite story was before the end of the V-Max. We're riding, and we were riding as kind of some corners in a swamp. And I think that's when you had a was this when you had a broken foot or ankle?

SPEAKER_02 17:27

I believe so.

SPEAKER_01 17:28

Okay, so that's the story I'm thinking of. Okay, let's let's do this. This kid had a broken whatever, ankle?

SPEAKER_02 17:35

I think it was an ankle at that point. He was wearing a boot.

SPEAKER_01 17:38

So he's wearing a boot, he'd wrap it up, get on his sewmobile, and take off riding. Like, dare, seriously? I mean, he's just a Neanderthal a little bit here. And so, anyways, we're riding this one day, and he's ahead of me, he's flying way too quick. And I come around, we go around a corner, and then I go around another one, and here he is piled into a tree with his snowmobile. And I'm like, I stop, I'm like, Derek, are you okay? Yeah, I think so. Okay. But I think my my snowmobile's broke. And so then I'm like, okay, what are we gonna do? He's like, well, we're gonna have to get back to your house. Because I mean, I think we were closer to my house trail-wise.

SPEAKER_02 18:23

Yeah, we were about in the middle.

SPEAKER_01 18:24

It was probably a horse apiece, but well, you didn't want your own.

SPEAKER_02 18:26

I wanted to fix it before my dad's up.

SPEAKER_01 18:28

Yeah, yeah, you didn't want your parents to see this broken snowmobile. So we're like, we gotta go back to your house. So I'm on the 570, and this thing, I mean, it was a great trail sled. It did a lot more than it probably should have. But I went to turn around and I did not realize this was like swampy, swampy area. And I get out there and I'm just bogging this thing. Barely get it out, get Derek's sled away from the tree, turn around, and was it broken break?

SPEAKER_02 18:54

I broke my throttle off when I flew over my handlebars, because I flew over and fell into the snow. My uh thumb caught my throttle and snapped it clean off. I had no well, I had about a quarter inch of my throttle. That's true. Is all I could push out, and then my ski had a dent from where I hit the tree. So, yeah, we went back to your house and attempted to pound the dent out with a sledgehammer, and we actually did an okay job. I think that ski was still on it when I crashed it the final time.

SPEAKER_01 19:29

Did your parents ever know about that?

SPEAKER_02 19:30

Yep, because uh the throttles broke, so I still had the broken throttle. Yeah. I don't think they realized how fast I was going. I just said that I slid into a tree and didn't you say that your brakes went out or something like that?

SPEAKER_01 19:44

No. There was a time you said that about something. Oh I mean, he was a menace. When I mean, when you had that broken ankle with that boot, I mean my grandma's sled with the mirrors on it, we're riding down the trail, and you fly over that driveway. You had to have had five, six feet of air. And all I can think of is this kid's got a boot on, and how is he gonna land? And he just bottoms out that side and keeps going. It it's I don't know. I you're you're nothing short of a feet of strength or something. Thankful to be alive. Thankful to be alive many times over. You're a cat. You better like wrap yourself in bubble wrap. I mean.

SPEAKER_02 20:28

Now you're sound like my mom.

SPEAKER_01 20:30

I I think you I think you're not quite to the nine, but you know. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02 20:34

Well, like I always say, good thing I'm not a cat or I'd be out of life.

SPEAKER_01 20:40

So then, yeah, so I mean our snowmobile adventures were. I mean, remember no cop, no stop. I mean, this might be I mean, we're past the statue of limitations at this point. We're we're riding with a buddy, and me and the buddy are stopped, and we're on each side of the trail at the road at the stop sign.

SPEAKER_02 21:00

And you just that that's my brakes going out.

SPEAKER_01 21:04

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 21:04

That was actually my brakes didn't work for a minute there. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 21:08

Because you just come barreling right between uh luckily there was no car. But I mean you shot that gap, and then after that, I don't I don't remember ever like everyone stopping at a stop sign. I was like, if one went, it was good. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02 21:20

Well, we'd have the first person stop and wave everyone through, and then that was we made some land speed records in the area. At least it felt like it.

SPEAKER_01 21:32

Then there was a time on that one road where we all like we it was like four hours of getting stuck in a quarter mile, eighth mile stretch, probably. That was bad. Got the cops called us, we got out of there just in time as the cops showed up. Which I don't think they would have said anything. No, I mean it was completely legal.

SPEAKER_02 21:51

You're ditch bang, but the person just did not like that. We were making noise out there. Yeah. I mean, they kept driving by us, and uh granted everyone.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

I mean, for like four, like no joke, four hours we were stuck. Like we'd get one person unstuck, another one would get stuck. We had a buddy that lived up the road with his tractor there for a while helping us. He got his tractor stuck and finally just get got out of there. And it started with one one of us getting stuck, and we went back and and it just remember I got ran off the road. That's how I got stuck the first time by that car. I was because that side of the road was that steep ditch. I couldn't get down in the ditch, so I was rode on the shoulder, which that maybe is not the best, but I mean did what we had. And the trail was down like you like this was a common place to go because the trail was down this road. Like everyone on snowmobiles would come from that gas station and go down to the trail. But yeah, then we'd go to the the bowling alley and get the appetizer platter, and that was very unhealthy for us. I mean anything deep fried food for appetizers on that thing.

SPEAKER_02 23:00

The the mini taco runs.

SPEAKER_01 23:02

The mini taco runs, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:04

We'd uh take snowballs and we weren't of age to drink, so we'd go bar hopping and get mini tacos at every bar and see which ones had the best. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:15

That was fun too, honestly. I think all so much of our friendship is just good times. I mean I'd say high school, we were close, but there was points where we weren't as close. You were a menace in high school.

SPEAKER_03 23:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:32

You were hard to be friends with some days. I think one of the biggest memories from high school that stands out to my mind is whenever we'd piss each other off, we'd start kicking each other's shins, and we wore steel toe boots to school. And your mom even commented one time, why is your shin all bruised or something? Yeah, that was bad.

SPEAKER_02 23:57

And we wouldn't try and stop it, it was like bloody knuckles.

SPEAKER_01 24:00

Yeah, yeah, it was going to like and honestly though, like teachers would watch us do it. I don't know if they were just scared to break it up or what. I mean, we weren't fighting necessarily, we were just hurting each other for doing something stupid.

SPEAKER_02 24:14

We were fairly like well behaved, other than stuff like that.

SPEAKER_01 24:18

Like it wasn't like very real troublemakers. I mean, nothing that we ever got caught in.

SPEAKER_02 24:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:24

Um, yeah, and then I don't know a lot of high school. We were kind of close. Well, we got close partying. We were yeah, we partied it up for a while.

SPEAKER_02 24:35

And I mean, like the what would that be our sophomore and junior year? We did the construction, the house building a house with Mr. Gangee.

SPEAKER_01 24:44

That kept us close.

SPEAKER_02 24:46

Yeah, we were really close, man. I still owe you a bunch of quick trips.

SPEAKER_01 24:51

Well, yes. So we did this construction thing with the school. And since Derek's a month older than me, so my birthday's in September, his is in August. Well, the get the job site, we had to be there before school hours, and there was no transportation provided. You had to get yourself there. Well, school obviously starts before September, or like at the beginning of September. My birthday's at the end. This kid already has his license. And Derek's like, yeah, I'll give you a ride. Okay. But there's gonna be a fee. Alright, well, I worked all summer, you know. What's what do I gotta do? You gotta buy me breakfast every morning at Quick Trip. Because they just built a new Quick Trip in our town. I don't know how much I spent on you for breakfast for like that month, month. I think it was like a month and a half, because I don't think I got my license until October. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:42

And we had a few days of work days before school even started that we'd uh Yep.

SPEAKER_01 25:47

I remember that. So I think we did, was it concrete or was it site work?

SPEAKER_02 25:52

Yeah, I think concrete. I think yeah, we had the concrete ready by the time school started.

SPEAKER_01 25:58

So I mean I bet it was I mean, it was like twenty dollars a day, probably. I mean, I'd I'd buy myself breakfast too. I bet it was between twenty-five and thirty dollars a day for the both of us. I mean, he'd get a sandwich, a snack, something to drink, and it and anything else I was just on the hook to pay for. But I had no other choice. My mom was at work, and I wasn't walking my happy ass all the way over there. I mean, I lived in town, it was probably a mile and a half from where I lived.

SPEAKER_02 26:31

Yeah, probably.

SPEAKER_01 26:32

I mean, town's not that long. I mean, it seems like it's a long distance, but I wasn't walking there.

SPEAKER_02 26:38

I do feel bad for uh making you buy me all that, so that I mean that was fun though.

SPEAKER_01 26:44

I mean, how how I survived riding with Derek for that month, month and a half, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 26:50

I mean, do you want me to tell him? No. I got to. No, you really don't.

SPEAKER_01 26:58

Alright, well, we can at least talk about the burnout, can't we?

SPEAKER_02 27:02

Yeah, the S10. She'd uh do some pretty nice burnouts. So we'd I'd pick them up early so that way we could go out of town. We all we had to do is drive a mile and a half to the school, but no, I'd pick them up early so we could go out side of town and do burnouts, and then on rainy days, there's a nice curvy road that we would drift in S Pen around.

SPEAKER_01 27:26

Okay, well, if you're gonna bring that up, we gotta talk about the minivan day. No, that's my mom's bag. Well, Mary, if you're listening to the mom stopped listening, yeah. Derek's like, this minivan's got balls. I'm like, no way. And there's a road that runs along our municipal airport. It's not directly along, and it's not, you know, but it's pretty much a straight shot. And of course, it's after the curvy road, Derek would drift, which we were in the minivan that day, so there's no drifting or nothing. And he just pegs it. I have it on video somewhere, and I I got nervous because I actually told you to slow down because he was trying, I think you were trying to get it to 100 or 100 plus.

SPEAKER_02 28:07

I I was trying to figure out where the chip where it would stop accelerating. And I think it's like a pickup truck. I think vans stop at 98.

SPEAKER_01 28:16

I think we were doing 90.

SPEAKER_02 28:18

It just held at 98 for a while, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:21

So we're there's two 16-year-olds in a minivan on their way to this early school project. And yeah, could you imagine if something bad would have happened? No. Well, we survived.

SPEAKER_02 28:33

Yeah. And then the minivan kept running. No harm there.

SPEAKER_01 28:38

I think we don't necessarily need to bring up names about the job site at construction, but we need to talk about a little bit of how we were. We got in trouble because one kid, Derek and I like to we like to argue about stupid stuff too. I mean, if I if I cut a board a sixteenth the wrong direction, I mean if it was too long or sixteenth short, he'd freak out, call me a dumbass. I mean, everything under the sun. And you know what? It was funny. Then I'd argue back with him. I'd tell him he's measuring wrong or something. But this kid, he said, you guys are like married couples. Well, Derek took that to heart and he teased him. We won't go into specifics of that, let's be honest. And he teased him so much that we got a talking to early one morning when we got there. But it was worth it.

SPEAKER_02 29:31

Yeah. Yeah, that was I still feel bad for him, but no. He he did get in uh in ways deserve it because he would poke fun at us, and I was very nice to him until he poked fun at us.

SPEAKER_01 29:46

You know, honestly, though, we were kind of like a married couple. I uh the stupidest thing could set us off into a bickering. When we did the finish trim of that house, that was probably that was a true test of our friendship.

SPEAKER_02 29:59

And I think the teacher was even getting to the point, like I think he was getting frustrated because I mean it was a lot of bad cuts and arguing and yeah, I remember at one point he said that we had to stop arguing because we couldn't afford to mess up any more trims.

SPEAKER_01 30:19

But it's not like we were that bad at it.

SPEAKER_02 30:22

It was just we didn't always it's also hard to do a square trim on our own house. Like those houses weren't quite square. I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:35

I I didn't go to school my senior year. I did that online because of COVID.

SPEAKER_02 30:39

Yeah, and I pretty much had to work at least. I had an English class on work early.

SPEAKER_01 30:43

Well, I mean that we didn't hang out a whole lot.

SPEAKER_02 30:46

Junior year, I think I had a lot of work early.

SPEAKER_01 30:49

So yeah, and then we got shut down at school early. Yeah. Um because of COVID. And so, I mean, we seen each other somewhat, but it wasn't a lot. Well, I'd say our senior year, I because I worked during the day and you kind of did too. So, like, we go bowling every once in a while or do something.

SPEAKER_02 31:09

Yeah, and I think our senior year was when we'd start almost every night going to Hunter's house.

SPEAKER_01 31:14

Yeah. We yeah, because then we well that was yeah, what well it was the later part of our senior year. Yeah, yeah. Because I I was technically already done with school because I graduated early. I think you did too, didn't you? So yeah, I graduated in January. Because I yeah, I lived on my own, and that was kind of when we started our party stage. That that is something we'll leave out. That's for way down the line when we talk about that.

SPEAKER_02 31:40

Because that's one of the embarrassing stories about Taylor come out.

SPEAKER_01 31:45

Well, and Derek. There's plenty, and and some true tests to our friendship once again. I mean, there was a couple nights where uh there was fists about to be flowing, not for any real reason, but it was just two drunk idiots that were not happy with a certain situation. Um yeah, and then I don't know, when you got together with Remy, we well, what came first? My relationship, my past relationship, or your past relationship I came first.

SPEAKER_02 32:17

And then I started Dave and Remy, and we still talk to each other, whatever, but it was and once you moved further away. And then we started working together.

SPEAKER_01 32:34

Yeah, when we started working together, I that was that was fun. So Derek and I work in the salvage industry. We work for his local scrapyard, and I I've worked there since 14-ish. Can't remember, I think it was like 14 and a half, something like that. And we got to the point we needed another guy. And my boss, he wouldn't hire, he's like, I don't think we need another guy. He was a he's a tough sell. I mean, he's still a tough sell, and we need more help now, but you know, we we've really expanded over the last couple years, but yeah, but when we needed Derek, I'm like, I I need we need a guy, and he's like, Well, I don't know anyone. I'm like, and that was right when you were kind of winding down with the construction business.

SPEAKER_03 33:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:18

And I'm like, my buddy Derek, he's a good worker. I mean, he's a little wild, but I think we can tame him a little bit. And then there you go, you got your job. And I remember at first, I mean, Derek, I'm gonna, you are really good at the job now, and and you caught on quick. But this kid and chainsaws, I don't know what it is about chainsaws. And in the scrap business, you get a lot of chainsaws, so we'd be busier in hell, and he'd be over there trying to pull start every damn chainsaw that came in, and it was like, dare, if we got work to do, and he'd be I mean it's a good chainsaw, yeah. But come on, man.

SPEAKER_02 34:00

It's only steel and Husqvario.

SPEAKER_01 34:02

How many chainsaws did you get? Have you got?

SPEAKER_02 34:05

I think around a dozen.

SPEAKER_01 34:08

Man. I I think the time that got me the most about the chainsaw is there's a gravity wagon or something that's taller than Derek out of his line of sight. And I swear he smelt the chainsaw inside of it. There's a million other things that we have to separate out. I mean, uh at the scrapyard, I mean, we're sorting aluminum, you know, different types of metals, and this kid comes out with a chainsaw.

SPEAKER_02 34:36

How I saw the steel orange. It was above your head. I don't know. I swear I saw it. I probably smelled it.

SPEAKER_01 34:50

I I swear you smelled it. Yeah, that was that was interesting. You got pretty good. Yeah, we've we've made a lot of funny memories at work. I mean, there is so much we can talk about just at work experiences.

SPEAKER_02 35:07

Yeah, there's a lot.

SPEAKER_01 35:09

Then you broke your neck.

SPEAKER_02 35:12

Yeah, I was out for what? Well three months.

SPEAKER_01 35:15

Three and a half months.

SPEAKER_02 35:16

I think I it was like two months before his hair coming back, but I think three months was when I got my neck brace off.

SPEAKER_03 35:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 35:24

And the doctor and Alec both told me, like, go ahead, do whatever you can do.

SPEAKER_01 35:30

Yeah, because you well, you started doing office work at kind of at first, didn't you?

SPEAKER_02 35:34

Like, yeah, I was doing uh titles, filling out the paperwork for titles and stuff for cars.

unknown 35:41

Man.

SPEAKER_02 35:42

Doing that, and then I think it was the one day I went back to just because if we were slow, I'd go back by you guys and just BS or whatever, and then we started to get busy when I was back there, and so I crawled myself up in a skin shirt, could hardly move. I mean, I don't know. I think I was still using a cane at that point.

SPEAKER_01 36:02

I remember I was worried that you were gonna like tweak your back, bounce around or something. I was a concern for quite a while when you came back.

SPEAKER_02 36:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:09

But you were determined.

SPEAKER_03 36:11

I mean, at that point, I didn't need the knack brace, it was solid, but yeah, it was still You never know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:22

And I mean like that, I think it was more nerve-wracking when he came back to work than it was the whole experience of going through the broken neck at the hospital and like worrying about your friend, you know what I mean. You were paralyzed for a while. I mean, almost fully, weren't you?

SPEAKER_02 36:40

Yeah, I could I could move my right hand minimally, but yeah, pretty much no feeling, no movement besides my right hand a little bit. I couldn't even feed myself with my right hand personally, yeah. Yeah, I mean when you and that that will be a whole nother episode of all the funny stories, embarrassing things. Oh, there's so much there. Stuff I I like making jokes to the doctors and nurses and try and keep the spirits high while I was at the hospital. So that will be a full episode.

SPEAKER_01 37:18

One thing I have to mention, I think if it wasn't for your high spirits, you wouldn't be in the condition you are today.

SPEAKER_02 37:24

I mean high spirits and also I think like you guys at work and like Alec just, you know, keeping me like, hey, you're gonna have a job no matter the outcome and whatever. I mean, it gave me something to look forward to outside, you know, knowing that no matter what I was gonna have a future besides sitting at home and doing nothing.

SPEAKER_01 37:49

So it it worked out, and I'm glad it everything glad you are where you are today. And then I don't know, we I don't know and after that you tamed down a lot, and I'd say we got even closer, kinda again after you broke your neck.

SPEAKER_02 38:07

Yeah. I mean, starting work I tamed down a lot, and yeah, we got a lot closer. I joined the fire department. Yeah. I was gonna do just fire, but then after I broke my neck, now I did EMR and gonna do fire classes.

SPEAKER_01 38:22

Yeah, that was that was one inspiration thing when you broke your neck, is I remember the first day. So I'm also on the fire department with him, and I was one of the first first responders there the day Derek broke his neck. He broke it in our fire district, and um, so that was kind of tough. I mean, you're the first person I'd ever been to that I actually knew, and I I think some of this be saved for when we talk about this in a whole episode, but um I remember the first time I went to see you at the hospital the next day, you were like, I'm running a marathon when I get out of here, and I'm gonna get into the EMS world because I've seen what it did for me and I want to give back. And that's that's a powerful thing. So it I mean that I don't want to say it was good for you, but I mean it I think you've matured a lot from this.

SPEAKER_02 39:14

Yeah. If I could have got the maturing from it, but not the forever physical right, yeah. That would that would it is.

SPEAKER_01 39:25

Ah, you're you're handicapable. Yeah. Um yeah, so then present day. We've we've continued to do. We went to Florida uh is that a year ago? A little over a year ago.

SPEAKER_02 39:41

Yeah, two or I guess, yeah, the winter before this passed, and then we went to South Dakota.

SPEAKER_01 39:47

That was fun.

unknown 39:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:50

We're in South Dakota fishing. We rented a random shack from a guy, and well, not a random shack, he was a company, but it's not quite what we fully expected. It wasn't bad, I won't knock it. But we brought our women with, and I'm not knocking them, they were champs. I mean, they they powered through it, but it was not like we were told we're getting a new shack. That was not a new shack by any means.

SPEAKER_02 40:17

Spent extra$50 a night because we're getting the new shack, so they're expecting, you know, a nice fancy uh right.

SPEAKER_01 40:24

I won't lie, I was kind of expecting it too. And we get there, and it's an older shack, it's not super nice, not the greatest sleeping conditions, and no bathroom, which I thought there was gonna be a bathroom because it did say on the website like most of them had a bathroom, which I think some of them actually had a true bathroom, and then some of them were what we had, which was just a pail and a garbage bag. Yeah, and obviously the girls didn't like going to the bathroom in it, and I wasn't the biggest fan of it either, because it was pretty freaking nasty. Um, you'd imagine we were drinking, so two guys shitting in a bucket. Um Derek, Derek used it, but by I think like the third day you were you were more than willing to go to the landing and use the public.

SPEAKER_02 41:15

I was I was getting over it. Well, the first night, I apologize to the ladies for saying this, but the first night the ladies were drinking also, and they kept peeing in the same bag in the bucket, you know. We don't have to change it, it's just pee. Well, we went to bed, never changed it. Middle of the night, I have to go in there and do some uh paperwork. I get it done, I have to carry about three gallons of liquid sludge out the door that later froze on the ice.

SPEAKER_01 41:52

Uh kind of froze.

SPEAKER_02 41:55

It froze on the ice enough that it made a mess when I tried picking it up, and then we had to clean that mess up.

SPEAKER_01 42:01

Yeah, it took a little longer to freeze than eggs, but then we didn't know where to get rid of it. Like we ended up asking, and apparently this garbage dumpster at the landing and could throw our shit in. But I wouldn't have thought that was okay, but they they gave us the okay for it, and that's where everyone did it. But that was that was a fun trip. I mean, I got a little too intoxicated to keep fishing at night. So I'd wake up to Derek throwing a fish on the floor in the shack, and then he'd play it, and uh it was that was fun. I that was that was a good trip.

SPEAKER_02 42:36

I'd definitely do it again. I don't know if we can convince the women to go with.

SPEAKER_01 42:40

We might have to just do a guy's trip, but you know, I mean they're they're definitely listening to us, so we should probably not talk about that. Uh I think I'm looking forward. I want to go to Florida again.

SPEAKER_02 42:52

Uh that will be fun, huh? Well, we agreed. We're going south somewhere this winter.

SPEAKER_01 42:57

So I Florida. I mean, I don't necessarily have to go to Florida, but I want to go somewhere south, sit on a beach again. That was fun. I mean, relaxing. That was. I think we're gonna fly this year. So I I'll give you guys a little something that's a little embarrassing about myself. I am terrified to death of airplanes. I I so my past relationship that I was in, that was who I initially was gonna go to Florida with. And we had the plane tickets booked, paid expensive tickets for Delta, and I asked Derek, I'm like, Derek, if we drive, would you want to leave like tomorrow and go to Florida with us? He's like, Oh, maybe, you know, he's just doing his thing. And I asked her, I'm like, would you be okay with that if we drove? Yeah, sure, but what about the plane tickets? I'm like, I don't want to fly. I'll I'll just whatever. So I ate$800 in plane tickets because I did not want to fly. And I I am truthful, planes scare me too. I I don't know what it is, but I'm gonna hopefully get over that this year because I I need to fly. It just has to happen. It'll be fine. That's what they all say. Yeah. I mean they say that there's you're more likely to get in a car accident than a plane crash, but I don't know about that.

SPEAKER_02 44:20

Yeah, but plane crash was hurt a little more.

SPEAKER_01 44:23

And especially when I when that happened, it was right when like all those planes were crashing. I'm like, see, this is why you don't fly. Everyone's like, oh, you're just being dramatic. No, like you don't fly because of this. But I don't know. I need to I need to fly. I want to go on a cruise at some point too in my life. I'm just gonna have to get over the flying thing. And I really want to go to Bora Bora, and that's like two or three airplanes you have to use to get there. And one of them's like a little puddle jumper thing that you're flying across an ocean with, so I'm gonna really have to get over it. But I have to be rich to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_02 44:59

So hopefully we get an awful lot views and subscriptions and everything.

SPEAKER_01 45:04

Yeah, so that way we can sit pina coladas on a beach somewhere. Alright, well, let's talk a little bit about this podcast, Eric. What are we thinking? I think we're gonna do one a week, right? Something like that.

SPEAKER_02 45:18

I think yeah, we'll try and do one a week. We'll try and probably keep it around that forty-five minutes, 10 hour fluctuation.

SPEAKER_01 45:26

I mean, we're not gonna have a set time, but I think I think like this episode, maybe a little bit less lesser time because it's our first one. We're getting used to it. I mean, now that we've been talking for 45 minutes here this far, I feel like we're getting more confident with it. But like this topic seeming this is kind of a basic introductory to us, us our our friendship. Yeah, and and about the podcast a little bit. Um So I mean there might be some where we go two hours or you know, I mean there's I'm sure there's topics if we dug deep into it and we really got talking, it could go.

SPEAKER_02 46:04

I mean I mean, lots of the stories we said tonight also were just you know a quick gist and time periods and right.

SPEAKER_01 46:14

There's more to it. And then at some point we want to bring on some guests that we work with, know from the area, uh, some people that we think we could add to it. We're gonna get our woman on women on at some point. That's gonna be a fun one. I don't know if we're gonna do them both at the same time or separately, but that one could be fun.

SPEAKER_02 46:36

Um that's when a lot of embarrassing stuff will probably come out.

SPEAKER_01 46:40

Yeah, probably. Um one thing to expect with our podcast is we're gonna be fairly unfiltered with what we say. We're not gonna try to do a lot of editing with our podcast. Him and I are really good at BSing with each other. This episode, yeah, maybe doesn't seem like that. But as we get a little more comfortable with this, I mean he he brought his laptop over and he barely knew how to turn it on. So I mean, once he gets more comfortable with this setup, it'll be good.

SPEAKER_02 47:11

Yeah, I mean it's not every day we've talked with uh mics in front of us and computers on the table, so it's a little and at some point we're probably gonna add video.

SPEAKER_01 47:21

Um I if I don't want to take a picture of the setup because it it is it's an old dining room table. I got a monitor facing him so he can see what's going on. I got the laptop facing me. Got mics in front of each other, and we're just sitting here like it's like we're having kitchen dinner, you know. And yeah, it's it's janky looking. But you know, as we get going, we're if we get traction with this, and I'm not necessarily expecting to make a lot of money out of the gate, it may take we may never make money, but if we get going and it's something that we want to keep doing, obviously we'll invest a little bit more into our setup and expand on our capabilities, make a better background so we can have something to record, you know, maybe like an actual desk, uh a computer that works smoothly, and not that your computer is actually great.

SPEAKER_02 48:11

Yeah, it it worked actually. My computer load that one.

SPEAKER_01 48:15

I'm gonna recommend this. If anyone wants to start a podcast, do not buy the cheapest computer laptop you can find on Amazon because that thing is slow and it's it's a nice looking computer, it looks nice, but it is the Derek's computer is way faster. But yeah, and so I mean it says unfiltered in our uh in our cover photo, and I kind of want to keep it that way. I mean, there's topics that are gonna be embarrassing, they're gonna be I don't know what to all say about some of our topics we got coming, but Unfiltered.

SPEAKER_02 48:49

I don't know. We talk about not doing super educational, more of uh keep people entertained for these stories and stuff. We might get a little educational on some.

SPEAKER_01 49:00

There might be some educational because Derek loves to pull out his phone and correct me. So once he gets comfortable enough to do that, like if there's a topic, he's gonna He's gonna make sure he's right. And he's like Albert Einstein over here. The smoke starts rolling out of his ears, and there we go. But yeah, uh so I think we're gonna shoot for this. Is while we're recording live or recording this, so I don't know exactly the upload day, but Thursday or Friday, probably fairly early in the morning. Um six or seven, seven, eight central or uh eastern time, probably. Probably um six, seven central. That's just depending. Um, we got a lot to learn yet here tonight after this recording. We've got to figure out how to edit this. Not that we're gonna edit it a lot, but we just gotta find fine polish it and figure out how to upload it. That's the next task. So once we get through with that, um once we once we pick a day to upload, we will be consistent or at least try to be consistent and then see where it takes us. Maybe someday we'll maybe do two episodes a week. And you know, we there's ideas out there. We could do an episode where it's just me and you conversing, and then there's an episode a week where we have a guest on or something. Yeah. You never know where this could take us. You got anything else to add, Derek?

SPEAKER_03 50:22

No, I think that's about it.

SPEAKER_01 50:24

Well, it's been fun, it's been real. We'll see you next time.