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On Tap Podcast
On Tap is the podcast that celebrates the heart and soul of blue-collar working class culture. We'll be hosting some amazing folks from the blue-collar world and beyond. Listen in as we chat with industry legends, unsung heroes, and experts in their fields. Their stories, experiences, and insights will inspire and entertain you. Comedy is our secret sauce. Kody & Sam have a knack for turning everyday work stories into side-splitting anecdotes. Prepare for laughter, hilarious work-related mishaps, and a good dose of humor to brighten your day. Whether you're clocking in for your shift or winding down after a hard day's work, "On Tap" is your go-to podcast for a dose of blue-collar pride, a taste of the finest brews, a good laugh, and a fresh take on the world's current events. Subscribe now and be part of the working-class revolution!
On Tap Podcast
1 Year Without a Single Drink – Tyler Gets Real
Tyler marks a significant milestone on this episode of On Tap - 365 days without alcohol. What began as a personal challenge has transformed into a journey of clarity, revealing how sobriety reshapes not just nights out but entire perspectives on life.
0:00 Tyler's Sobriety Milestone
6:56 Life Changes and New Priorities
16:33 Looking Back at the Podcast Evolution
26:14 Childhood Internet Discoveries
34:34 College Days and Social Pressures
42:23 Addictions and Their Impact
53:15 Finding Connection and Vulnerability
58:34 Final Thoughts on Mental Health
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All right, sam, bring us in. All right, welcome back to an episode of On Tap. We have Cody Hughes in the house. He's going to take us in on our intro.
Speaker 2:Cody. Thank you for having me on the show, sam, I really appreciate it. No problem. Today we're joined by our good friend Tyler, founding father of the podcast newly sober man. We wanted to bring you on to talk about your new journey. What have you been up to since you have not been here?
Speaker 3:My mentor, the cool part about sobriety is that it's extremely boring, so I've been up to nothing. No friends anymore, yeah.
Speaker 2:so you're celebrating a big milestone right now 365 days of no alcohol yeah, pretty pumped on it.
Speaker 3:I guess.
Speaker 2:How do you feel about that? How do you think your relationship with the bar scene has changed since you've quit off the?
Speaker 3:pit, as some would say. Pretty damn rare. I guess I step into a bar anymore. If I'm going, it's for a fish fry or a rockin' appetizer.
Speaker 1:Or maybe a meat raffle and karaoke.
Speaker 2:Dude, I'll still hit up the Legion as much as possible for karaoke. Yeah, we've been doing at least one or two karaoke since you've been off of the drink, oh yeah, do you think that you have a different experience, like a different time, in there now? Do you want to drink while you're in there?
Speaker 3:Well, no, I don't think I want to drink in there, but I think it's more of just trying to enjoy yourself in other ways, like I was fucking around with friends and stuff, and yeah, I don't want to stay out nearly as late. I kind of feel bad. I feel bad sometimes because I'm like, hey guys, it's, it's 11 o'clock, let's shut her down, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I get that Well the are. Honestly, because the last karaoke night that we were at together, I remember thinking the same thing. I'm looking at my watch. I'm like damn, it's 10 o'clock, I'm tired.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but you don't drink heavy anyways.
Speaker 2:No, I really don't, honestly.
Speaker 1:Well, dude, especially being a dad, you don't get days off. They're still going to get up in the morning and need your attention.
Speaker 2:That's exactly what I'm thinking in the moment too. When I was younger, I was so quick and so it was so much easier to sacrifice like being like, screw it, I'll stay up till three, four in the morning and then go to work at 6. Am. I don't care, I'll be tired tomorrow. It'll be fine in two days. Now, first off I like, but now you know, I know that the kids are going to wake up somewhere between 5 and 6 30. Regardless if I want to or not, I have to get off. You know they're not old enough to just like do their own thing. So it's like I'm getting up somewhere between 5 and 6 30, no matter what oh yeah, I'm tired, and then you add hungover onto that too.
Speaker 1:It's a terrible combination yeah, that fatigue sets into probably about 2 pm once you've you've trudged through the day, but then you gotta hit the line like, hey, maybe we should take an extra long nap today, boys oh yeah, I get a pot of coffee in me, maybe a couple energy drinks, and I feel good for about an hour, and then it's just once everything crashes.
Speaker 2:Then it's like damn, I'm really tired right now age, you start understanding the cost of your actions. Oh yeah, even early in the night you're like I'm going to feel this in the morning.
Speaker 3:This is not going to be worth it 100%. Yeah.
Speaker 2:So now in the year that you've been off the drank, you've gone mostly California sober for most of it, half Half of it, but now you're fully clean and clear. The only vice you have is what Caffeine and nicotine.
Speaker 3:A lot of caffeine and nicotine is the problem. Yeah, yeah, that's probably still.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's tough to be off of the caffeine and the nicotine, though I will say that At least I'm off the vapes. Yeah, that is a good point. That is not a good deal. Do you notice not being on the vape? I've never been a big vape guy because my lungs bog me down like crazy. Do you notice that you can breathe better?
Speaker 3:No, not really, because I am also more unhealthy right now because I gained a bunch of weight with a new girlfriend that cooks like crazy. Yeah, I can't quit eating because she's so goddamn good at cooking. Yeah, so yeah, I'm still unhealthy don't get it wrong.
Speaker 1:Don't get me wrong. You gotta just pick and choose. You know you can't have it all. Yeah, exactly unhealthy in a few different ways. It's like the pie chart yeah, yeah, pick two of them you know raging alcoholic and yeah, whatever, yeah maybe have a dinner that's not have that extra chicken Alfredo, or go drink 15 beers tonight. Yeah, it's a good trade-off.
Speaker 2:I heard that you think you're clear, Like you think you think clear, yes, 100%, I think.
Speaker 3:memory well, memory's still shit, but also we're getting old but there's a lot of shit floating around up there.
Speaker 2:No, so we're getting old, but uh, there's a lot of, a lot of shit floating around up there, but no, I think, I think a lot clearer, a lot, uh, easier thinking and stuff. Let's, let's bring it back, I mean, to the episode one. We the first 10 episodes of the podcast, we didn't even have video first episode of uh season.
Speaker 3:Two bees trigger pocket bees trigger.
Speaker 2:yeah, so that would have been episode number 11, the first one ever recorded on video. Yeah, how do you think you've changed from episode 11 to now episode? I don't even know what number this is, because I don't number them anymore, but let's say 260.
Speaker 3:Well, it's pretty funny because when we first started this podcast, my parents, at least, and probably your parents or whatever were like you know, be careful what happens, because this is going to be out there forever. And I always told myself, if anything, my kids can watch this and be like this is all my stories and everything. And now that I'm older and I watch them back, now that I'm a changed man and I'm sober now, I'm like fuck, I was kind of a piece of shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3:It's not like I did anything like extremely bad.
Speaker 2:You know I didn't go to jail the whole time that we did the podcast, so that's good that's an accomplishment, anything like that, no cases or nothing so I remember recording the first, like, let's say, 100 episodes, and being like I don't care what I say. I will say and do anything, obviously within what I'm okay with, but I will never be in a position where it will affect my career. And now, like now, I'm working a corporate job and I'm like, damn, everything is pretty incriminating. But I will say this I do, I feel like I have enough, I have enough pride where I'll be, like I'm standing on business, like that's not me now, but I don't want to, I don't want to go erase that, because those are all really good memories.
Speaker 3:It is like timeframe. You just sent one, sent an episode to us yesterday, but every time that I listen back to him it's like a little time capsule to me. You know we talked about this on the five-year anniversary episode too where it just kind of puts you back exactly in that era, the first episode with Sam. It's like a flood of memories of exactly what happened that night, which I feel like a lot of people don't have that to go back on, which is cool, especially when you drink so much you don't remember the whole night. But it kind of floods back when you can see a visual representation and then also hear yourself tell stories that you kind of forgot yourself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dude especially in the episodes where we're like talking it's not the big story, a funny story that you tell throughout your life, just something random that happened over the week. That was funny. That kind of left. Those are the moments where I'm like, oh my God, I forgot that happened. Kind of left, those are the moments where I'm like, oh my god, I forgot that happened, because the other day I I put it to oldest first and scrolled through every thumbnail and read a bunch of comments and like, exactly like you said, it was like oh we got really fucked up.
Speaker 3:This one, that's pretty much what all the memories are yeah well, just the whole structure of the podcast and stuff, and how much you guys have changed, uh, with the podcast and everything, how we had a swear jar at the beginning oh my god, because that was brutal. Your grandparents didn't want us to swear as much, so then I just kind of took it upon myself. That was my character to. I was gonna swear a lot, and I was gonna drink the swear jar.
Speaker 2:I didn't, I didn't care that was kind of what it came down to.
Speaker 3:It's like us just knowing you're gonna be the one to drink this concoction of everyone's drinks all put together, all the way up to chugging a can of SpaghettiOs mixed with a can of Natter Days All the way up to that for $200. No $100.
Speaker 2:He made you give $100 of it back, right, fucking crazy.
Speaker 3:Thank God you're out of the state.
Speaker 2:The only episode Caleb was ever on Bad day Too many, if you ask me. Yeah, I would think. Like me looking back, it's like it's funny now, like I said, I'm in a corporate position now and it's funny seeing some of these different versions of me colliding now that you know I have some people that I work with phone numbers. So, um, just at a meeting, like a couple of weeks ago, someone comes up to me and they're like is your name on Snapchat, booger snatcher? And I was like okay, hold on. First off, I made this account when I was 12 years old. I can't change it now, you know. So it's funny Cause I remember specifically when I was making that username. I'm like I don't care, I'll never, never, I'll never work a corporate job anyways, you know whatever. And I'm like damn, those benefits seem pretty enticing.
Speaker 3:It's so funny. Uh well, I've seen the snapchat. There was a lady that posted your photos, for you shot her wedding and it was these extravagant wedding photos and they're so sentimental. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2:Cody did an amazing job at booger snatcher I had so many people swipe up on my story because I shared it. You know she tagged me and so I shared it and, uh, some people swipe up. It's like this was super nice until I seen your username in the caption and then it was like, wow, this is really funny.
Speaker 3:Vibe change instantly.
Speaker 2:I know, and I go back and forth on, I do I. I am thinking in my head like should I change my username or do I? Do I keep rolling with booger snatcher?
Speaker 3:I'm tyler yolo ploschek, so that's pretty lame. Now that we're 30, almost that's a really good point.
Speaker 1:I feel like you guys because you guys are four years older than me and you were at the forefront of Snapchat I feel like you guys kind of went for Everyone has a name like an AOL username, where it's something a little off. It's definitely not your real name. And then, when a lot of kids migrate, they just went for the first name underscore last name. I thank myself. Now. Every social media.
Speaker 3:I was smart, I planned it out for the future, I was thinking ahead one thing I'm extremely grateful for was the uh, the school made us make our own emails and I still use it and I'm so grateful. My email is this tyler ploschek at gmail, because what was your first email, sir?
Speaker 2:oh, um, cody big sexy at gmail. I remember the first time I was like, yeah, I need to make a new email. I was signing up for something I don't remember where I was Maybe like a rewards program at a retail store or something and I did the thing where I just spell it out and thinking they're not going to actually read it, and the lady looks up from the computer like Big Sexy, is it CodyBigSexy? At gmailcom? Like what? So this was actually. I got this nickname at Lake Owen, the skateboard camp that we went to, and I still have the skateboard on it. Someone wrote Big Sexy in graffiti on my grip tape. I still have it in my garage. But I was like, oh yeah, this is my name. I was like this is the people chose this I have to run with.
Speaker 1:Were they just like bullying you or something?
Speaker 2:no, it was dead serious. I was just a big sexy guy. He's never been big, it's gotta be an ironic name, dude.
Speaker 1:It's not like they saw you and was like oh my god that guy's big and sexy yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:So what part of that would be funny to you? Because I am big and I am sexy, so like big, like you were fucking jacked at that time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, massive. You might be fit and handsome, but you're not big and sexy buddy yeah, well, now yeah dude, bringing it back to childhood.
Speaker 1:I was thinking about like, and I could only be speaking for myself. I'm not gonna speak for every teenage boy, but like you know how, like you're just extremely horny at a young age you know, no, like really, you know, it's just like almost life-ruining, like to the point where I would miss school just so I could jack off, and I was thinking I can't tell you that I relate to be honest with you, dude when I was it I was probably 14 or 15 is when I discovered that kim kardash Kardashian had a sex deal.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I had no idea.
Speaker 1:I didn't know you could fucking find it. I thought I remember like hearing something like there was one out there that's how she got famous, but I didn't know I could fucking go to Pornhub and find it. The day I discovered it, dude family iPad. I fucking pulled that bad bitch up. I'm like what the?
Speaker 1:fuck, but that bad bitch up. I'm like what the fuck? But my whole family was home, so I couldn't do it in the house. I literally went out into the woods and sat under a tree, and that was the first time I watched kim k's sex tape do you ever think we overshare on the podcast?
Speaker 3:no, hey, I'm with you, I remember. I remember the first time I found out about it I was I see she was on the view or something. I was at tucker's house and she was on the View and Tucker's older sister was like, yeah, she has a sex tape. Yeah, as soon as I had access to the internet I was like, okay, well, we got to find this.
Speaker 1:Well, what else is out there? Yeah, dude, I used to have a fucking track phone, flip phone, and my buddy would send me pictures of his dad's playboys and I would just look at him on that little screen.
Speaker 3:Well, that's the evolution that that's scary, for kids now have so much access to the whole world that, like our parents was, you know, you rip a sheet out of a playboy and it's in their tree house, in the woods and the whole, the whole town or whatever, depending on where they lived. They all shared this one playboy, magazine or whatever and like. For me, the first thing I had was a wii and they had the internet, but you couldn't watch videos, so it was pictures and you just watch. It load from the top down of the picture and just one picture at a time. Oh, dude, I'll never forget I.
Speaker 1:So I have a weird childhood where, like I grew up as more of like a 90s kid than a 2000s kid because we had dial up until 2012 and so I was a dial-up kid growing up and I'll never fucking forget the day that my mom called me down to the computer room and the search history was pulled up. I didn't even know search. I was so naive at the time I didn't know there was a search history and it's fucking hot. Naked girls. Naked girls, boobs. And she's like what's this? I have no idea, it was a search history and it's fucking hot.
Speaker 3:Naked girls naked girls boobs.
Speaker 1:And she's like what's this? I have no idea. I it was a virus, you know, that's all I knew is pull the virus card. And I did put a fucking virus on her computer and I think she just ended up believing it eventually Cause she I've ruined a laptop, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Mine, that was spicy big butt. Yeah, my, my dad did it in such a nonchalant way to tell him it's uh, teach me their research history. He's like, yeah, let me show you this. Like I was looking for a trailer for the farm and stuff and it's like you know, I was looking yesterday and it's like so cool that you know I can't remember exactly where I've seen this trailer, but I can go through here and it'll show me exactly the website I was on yesterday. I can click like isn't that sweet? And I'm sitting there as good.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's so cool but what a great way for him to handle it. You know, you knew he was being passive aggressive.
Speaker 1:I still have never talked to him about that I should almost bring that up to him see that's the difference between your dad and my dad is he would pounce at any opportunity to embarrass me. Like not for other people, For himself. If he could fucking embarrass me, he would take it every time.
Speaker 2:Hey, come down here. What's this yeah?
Speaker 1:Oh, dude, that's like yeah, I fucking. That was a rough fucking day.
Speaker 2:I don't think that I ever got caught with any suspicious browser activity, but I will say I gave multiple of our computers the technologically equivalent to cancer, from downloading random songs on limewire and completely ruining the computer to the point where it wouldn't even start or you couldn't click on anything because it would take forever to load. I mean the computer trashed completely.
Speaker 1:I remember my mom standing. Is it Geek Squad that's in Best Buy? Yeah, Geek Squad. I remember us going there multiple times for her to try to get her computer fixed and knowing I was the culprit.
Speaker 3:How about your story of when your stepdad fixed your computer?
Speaker 2:Yeah, Okay, how about your story of when your stepdad fixed your computer? Yeah, okay, I did forget about that.
Speaker 1:Dude If it's embarrassing. I got a very embarrassing one to follow up.
Speaker 2:I don't remember specifically what it was, but I do remember it was a very not. It was very, very similar to your dad's story where he just kind of nonchalantly was like so there's certain websites that you go on that will ruin these computers with viruses, you know. But because I remember specifically that laptop, it was one of those ones. Like you click on any website and all of a sudden, like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, all these pop-ups yeah, yeah and I was like what the heck is going on.
Speaker 2:and my stepdad was really good with computer so I had him like, hey, can you reset this for me? And then, yeah, there's this like a very, and I knew right away what he was talking about. I'm like I gotta be more careful, I gotta use someone else's laptop.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dude it's going to what you were saying about how kids have access to all this shit. My first time getting a debit card in my life, dude. Time getting a debit card in my life, dude. I've signed up for like some, some type of premium, something on a sketchy website. 16 first debit card, first job. And uh it, they fraud my card, they're. They called me out, canceled my card. So I'm like, oh fuck, I go into the bank and she's like, yeah, uh, it looks like there's some suspicious activity. Do you have any idea what the website was? And I was like, no, I don't think it was me, there's no chance. And she's like, oh here, I'll just look it up quick. Dude pulls it up on her computer in the bank.
Speaker 1:It was like a live cam site dude, it wasn't even like normal shit. She's like oh yep, this definitely wasn't you.
Speaker 2:I'm like, oh my gosh, that's disgusting. I don't even like that I mean talk about. I mean the way the internet has changed now, especially since the dynamic of like only fans. Think of how many kids now growing up are potentially finding their parents in these sites online.
Speaker 2:No, it's going to happen well, it already is happening, no doubt. I mean it's it's naive to think that people haven't found this. But the craziest part to me is, like kids don't have any chill, you know. So like no me knowing what I know now, when we were kids, if any of our moms or dads were on OnlyFans or any sites like that, we would have found it and that would have been every single one of our wallpapers that would have been printed out. We would have given them a lot of shit for that. It's obviously not right, but you don't think of that as a kid.
Speaker 1:It's super low-hanging fruit and it's really easy to make fun of you don't think of a long-term trauma that comes along with that no because, like I think of, like even buddies that had sisters that would send nudes to somebody and people look at this oh my god, that's your sister.
Speaker 2:Oh, I, actually there was one one instance, one of our buddies it was, uh, maybe it was someone in college, but it was like we'd zoom in on like butt.
Speaker 3:Actually, it wasn't even a nude.
Speaker 2:maybe it was just like a Facebook photo or something. We'd zoom in on their butt and be like what do you think of this? And they're like, oh yeah, she's hot and we'd zoom in and it's like it's your sister.
Speaker 1:You shit, fuck Dude. That's evil shit man.
Speaker 2:And that is relatively innocent, to what you could probably do do to your friends.
Speaker 3:I remember our one buddy when we were kids and he he was oh, check out this nude. And he zooms in. She has really pretty eyes, like he'll pass the whole body into her eyes that was a good one, diabolical now also.
Speaker 2:I mean the dynamic of that changing like you can get hit with child, child pornography by, you know, just having it on your phone even as a child like you know, if you're both in high school, whatever the case.
Speaker 1:So it's like it's very serious now I think you know when you're young you're like that's fucking bullshit. But you realize they went to the extreme just to hopefully eliminate it entirely you know like yeah it probably isn't right that a 15 year old should get charged with cp when they got him from another 15 year old, but how else are we gonna stop?
Speaker 1:the yeah the epidemic of nudes dude, like it's a real fucking problem and when you're young you think it's so cool, and then the trauma that it leads to later and just like I saw dude guys like you said no chill, you get. You're 14, you get a nude, you're showing every friend. It's just how it went, especially in these days. And I saw girls just get fucked up by it. Man, like I see why they go to the extreme. Like it should end. It's fucked up.
Speaker 2:Well, and it doesn't always just happen to girls too. I mean, there's plenty of guys. There was one guy that we graduated with that sent an unsolicited picture of himself to another girl and she showed everybody, and I actually. I think he dropped out of school like it. I would assume it ruined his whole entire life. I never heard one good thing about him after the fact, but uh, it goes both ways. No doubt it's just definitely more common for girls, and especially with uh, age now and different perspective on life.
Speaker 3:It's, it's pretty wild how you think about things differently oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, we talk about from the first episode of this to now. It's like just in five years, and I'm sure it's just because we've gotten older. But, like my perspective on you know even the topics that we select, yeah, it's completely different. Yeah, it's like who is who?
Speaker 3:is really going to be listening. Well, like even these topics, I feel like we're talking right now is a little off-brand, for how tab is nowadays? A little bit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we go to have an Iron Worker flute-playing guy on to talk about Sam's first time that he got off, but we're only 20 minutes in, not the first time, the first time to Kim K yeah.
Speaker 1:There's been many more.
Speaker 3:You always remember your first time.
Speaker 1:Oh God, yes, dude. I remember chasing the dragon dude. I remember one of the first times I ever watched porn. It was just a banger video. And then I tried to find that video for years. I could remember little snippets and I'd search just broad.
Speaker 2:Vague statements. Try to find it and I'd fucking never find it, dude. Now with AI, you could probably spot that thing right away. That's a good point, dude. You should try typing it into ChatGPTO.
Speaker 1:See that's the problem. Though this was now over a decade ago, I don't remember all these keywords. I don't even remember if it was a mil for stepsister or stepmom. I don't know where to go with it.
Speaker 3:You're lost in the scene. I'll find the dragon one day. It might not even be on there anymore.
Speaker 1:Dude, it probably was one of the gutter videos that they got rid of.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, actually wasn't that a thing with legislation, with the hub that they took down all of the previous content that they had before it was verified?
Speaker 3:There was millions of videos that were like rape videos and sex trafficking and like and they didn't know, how to distinguish. A lot of it was revenge porn too yeah, they had to just wipe everything out and now there's like heavy verifications and stuff. It's not good. I just listened to a podcast on this. Don't act like I'm a massively uh in tune with the porn industry, but I do enjoy theovan and he had an amazing podcast on it with a lady against it.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I did see that too. Yeah, yeah, she's the one kind of leading the charge against getting these websites taken down.
Speaker 3:Well, it's bad yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, since we're getting into it, do you guys remember the Fappening? Oh yeah, that was a big day in my life.
Speaker 3:Jennifer Lawrence was released in that one right. Kate Hudson.
Speaker 1:For people that don't know, the fappening and I'm sure there's a lot of young viewers that are not aware in I want to say 2013-14, seems about right. Hundreds, without exaggeration, of celebrities had their nudes leaked to the internet. And it was all on one website. You basically look up any celebrity crush you had and there was new nudes of them out there and it was like I'd skip school the next day at least now, with today.
Speaker 3:Uh, celebrities and stuff can just deny stuff because with with ai, you can make a photo of anybody. Oh yeah, yeah. So yeah, that's crazy I've literally. You know that's too much actually yeah, you gotta draw the line I'm going to keep that one to myself. I'm reeling back on that one boys. All right, let's switch. Yeah, ai is crazy. Hard topic change Dire wolves Dude no, fuck dire wolves.
Speaker 1:I want to talk about the lady boys, not my turn I want to talk about the lady boys in Thailand that have to draw for the military. Have you seen anything about this dude fucking nuts? I've been on this rabbit hole because I it's been a thing for a long time, but it's just going viral. Where so in thailand, once you graduate high school, if you volunteer for the military, you have to do one year and you're done. If you go and get your bachelor's degree, you have to volunteer for six months and you're done. But if you don't do either, you have literally a bucket like an ice cream pail. Some of them, I saw, was like a jar, like Hunger Games.
Speaker 1:You walk up in front of a whole gymnasium of people. There's red and black cards in this jar that this guy's holding and two security guards hold you so you can't run away. And you pull it and they read read it out loud either red or black. And if it's red, you got to go serve two years. If it's black, you're free from serving. And so most of the people that don't volunteer are people that probably wouldn't it's. It's like the nerds, the lady boys and so like dude, they're just sweating this and if they get red, they fucking grab them by arms, pull them into a different room and they're serving now, that's literally hunger games.
Speaker 3:What do you think?
Speaker 2:I mean just the fact that people obviously are potentially fighting their way out of going into the service. What do you think the service looks like in thailand?
Speaker 1:so I I did a little research on it and I think it's it's really fucking bad, and I guess thailand and china are really kind of always about to go at it, and so a lot of people are scared because when it happens, a lot of Thai people are not going to make it. It's going to be a big deal and yeah, I don't know, man, I'd be fucking scared.
Speaker 3:You're never going to have a good army if your army is not passionate for your cause, like if they're forced to be in there. A hundred percent.
Speaker 2:You're never going to have a good army if your army is not passionate for your cause, like if they're forced to be in there A hundred percent. The thing is, I think, from a strategy perspective, I think what Thailand needs to do is they need to introduce monster energy and, you know, maybe grizzly wintergreen into their economy. And then, all of a sudden, some trend, some trend. All of a sudden you have a phenomenal military, because I think that's where the United States really benefits.
Speaker 1:Cigarettes. They probably got plenty of cigarettes.
Speaker 3:Well, maybe meth pills that worked good for the Nazis.
Speaker 1:Very true, very true, dude yes, that shit's crazy man, the fucking meth pills. And at the time it was like no, this isn't bad for you. Like, this gets you all fucking amped up. You just won't sleep for four days. It's not a big deal, dude. It's crazy hearing guys from that grew up in the 70s and early 80s talk about meth because it started as like a fun party drug like people would just seriously dude.
Speaker 1:I swear to god, they would just do meth casually, like my generation. It was like adderall people, that was a big party drugging people, which is meth? Someone pops an adderall in front of you, you don't think twice, you're like oh this guy likes to get after it but like that's how meth was looked at at that point.
Speaker 1:That's wild it's just a rebranding, just a different name dude, this older guy I know that was telling me this. He's like yeah, man, everyone was doing it. It was like it kept the party going and all of a sudden the party changed and some people got out and some people they just never made it.
Speaker 2:That's crazy to me I could not imagine just being okay with. Well, actually I take that back. There was, uh, we were at a party. Tyler and I were at a party one time for halloween and I remember we, we were all sitting in this big circle and this girl dressed as a nurse had this needle in her arm, and I remember being like oh, that's funny, she's dressed as a nurse, that's the costume, and then she's hitting the plunger.
Speaker 1:You're fucking kidding me. Swear to God, swear to.
Speaker 2:God. And I look at Tyler. I'm like what is? And all of a sudden they pass that on to someone else. They're all using the same needle and everyone is doing it in this circle.
Speaker 2:And keep in mind, this was just a party that we were walking down the road in college. There was a bunch of houses lined up and everyone's just having big house parties. It was also around Halloween and so we just stopped in at this place that was hopping and we go to the basement and they're all like shooting up in this basement and all of a sudden I'm like whoa, this isn't just a Halloween costume, like they're legitimately shooting up. I'd never experienced this and I'd never seen this in a normal setting in my entire life. I've literally only ever seen it on TV. And so I remember thinking like damn, we got to get the fuck out of here.
Speaker 2:And one guy that we were with knew the people that were there and he, I was walk out of here. And one guy that we were with knew the people that were there and he I was. I look at him and I'm like I must have looked panicked. He looked at me and he's like don't, don't do anything crazy, just act like you're interested, but pass. And I'm like, uh, no, I'm, I'm getting out of here right now. Fuck dude, I could not believe it. So I could see, you know, I mean everyone there was just so cool with it, except for like the five or six people that we were there with, and we're like every one of us is like we have to leave now I do not want to be here like what do you guys fucking pussy?
Speaker 2:everyone was so okay with it too. I was like this is why, dude that's how it happens.
Speaker 1:Like you always wonder like or people. You know everyone's always like I would never do meth, I would never try heroin and then all of a sudden.
Speaker 1:It's just tyler and I were talking off camera about how the people you surround yourself, like I heard that my whole life but it hasn't hit as hard until now. And it makes so much sense to me, like if you're around people that are shooting up and it's completely normal, and they're like, yeah, man, you just tried a couple times, it's not even that addicting, that's bullshit. Like it's just fun way to relax. Like I see how people are talked into. Like you know, fuck it, what's one time gonna do yeah, and then that one time I mean dude, I fuck.
Speaker 1:I remember the first time I smoked a cigarette.
Speaker 3:I was hooked like I do heroin one time, I'm done. Yeah, well, if all the viewers and whatever can take anything out of it, whoever you surround yourself with is who you're going to be and how successful you're going to be. Me and Cody have a lot of conversations about how it's pretty wild that everybody in our friend group is doing good, but that's because we all have like-minded mindsets and all are driven.
Speaker 2:I always thought it was really corny when people say your network is your net worth, but I think there's a lot of truth to that. No doubt the people that you surround yourself with are who you kind of become, you know, and the ideas that you think about are really just like an accumulation of everyone else's ideas around you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, if you get together and just get blackout drunk with whoever you consider your friends at the time, that's all you're going to do.
Speaker 2:Where we'll talk about what stocks are doing randomly. Yeah, yeah, and even me, knowing that I don't have any stocks, you know I don't have money to invest involved with it yeah, fuck dude, I lost my ass on like wednesday this week that tanked so hard yeah oh my god, dude, big deal in the news, right it bounced back decent though I, though I got about 25% back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I recently got into a car accident and someone hit me and I had to take my car down to the Tesla body shop in Eden Prairie to get it fixed, was it?
Speaker 1:because you're a fascist, you're a Nazi.
Speaker 2:Well, I'd asked the people when I got there I was like hey, have you guys seen any like crazy protests around here? And the guy, dead serious, was like not here, because we're kind of like hidden. This is a brand new building. We're kind of in the middle of nowhere. They're like on the outside of Eden Prairie, you know. So it's like no one has come here. But their store in golden Valley they're like they've had people protesting outside of there. Luckily nothing broken. But there's plenty of places around the country that people are like breaking into these tesla dealerships. Um, I know the one supercharger that we stop at going to my mom's the shields in fargo. Someone tried lighting it on fire.
Speaker 3:How dumb are people that they don't realize. Teslas are surrounded with cameras that are always recording. Yeah, like all, I see all these videos of people vandalizing and you can fucking see them clear as day through all these cameras. Did you see that Wolf Electric cyber truck? No, in I-San-y got spray painted with swastikas and shit.
Speaker 2:No, I did not see that yeah.
Speaker 3:Wolf Electric the solar guys get turned on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh my.
Speaker 3:God In I-San-y. What the fuck.
Speaker 1:Dude. It just pisses me off because I don't understand why people are going after Teslas. Don't buy one, then. Don't fucking go after the people that bought one before I told.
Speaker 3:Cody to cover his ass. Just get that bumper sticker that says I bought this before Elon went crazy. I think that that's like the antidote for people to be like hey man, I'm not a part of this, but it's like you're not even hurting Elon, You're just hurting the person that owns it.
Speaker 1:You're not 100. Yeah, and that's what kids do, that like we were talking about. When you're a kid you don't understand action, consequence, cause, effect. It doesn't fully process. So when you do dumb things that affect people's lives, you just laugh and move on. Whereas it's like now, I think about the poor motherfucker that woke up, had to deal with this now in the morning and what he's got to go to work, get his kids to daycare. You know it's like, oh fuck, it's so fucked up to me.
Speaker 3:Regardless of what your reason is, don't fuck with other people, you know you gotta have more sophisticated boycotts, like even the, even the bud light boycott. Look at how successful that shit was crazy.
Speaker 1:I mean in retrospect, it's like why the fuck it was even had it was pretty ridiculous but In retrospect it's like why the fuck did that even happen?
Speaker 3:It was pretty ridiculous, but holy shit, was it effective. I mean, look at their stock prices, everything. They were frantic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dude, I love Bud Light Lime, and I had to drink them alone for a couple years, you didn't want to get seen.
Speaker 3:I was scared to bring that back out in public.
Speaker 1:Luckily I never drank any Bud Light so I didn't have to get brought into the controversy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, locally I know a lot of places just stopped carrying it all together wasn't selling at all.
Speaker 1:Shout out red he. He's like nobody buys it, it doesn't? We talked about him on his podcast. Oh yeah, that's right. Actually he's like yeah, I, I don't even I called the distributor. I took half of what I would normally take because it was hitting them that hard. I mean, I was one of those people that I'd never even drank bud light. But I, besides the lime, I don't fuck with the lime, but I was like I'm sure as fuck I'm not gonna drink it now. I don't want to be fucking pussy.
Speaker 2:Those bud light platinums when they came out, though god those things were tasty really good and it was so in the aluminum and no the blue bottles, the blue glass, it was so fancy, okay, so I only remember ever having them in those Tallboy aluminum bottles. I really liked those.
Speaker 3:I think I only had them in the it's crazy too how every beer tastes different the way that it's bottled. Oh yeah, Glass bottle beer tastes different from cans. That taste different from canned bottles yeah, the canned bottles are damn near top-tier beer taste.
Speaker 2:Yes, I totally agree, get a little bit of that metal flavoring.
Speaker 1:in there it is so weird. Especially like I love a Coors Light Silo. The big motherfucker got the big hole so you can really fucking guzzle her down.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, the breather valve on the side of it.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I was thinking, did you guys drink Natty Light in college?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Is that something that you guys weren't Natty Light guys, Because when I in Bemidji, that was just like the big beer that the college kids were drinking. And I never see anyone drinking Natty Light and I looked at the price of it. It's catching up to Bush Light.
Speaker 3:It's getting up there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so when we were in college, the liquor store that we used to buy from was the number one distributor for Bush Light in all of the world. Granted, they don't sell it in all of the world, but everywhere that they distribute bush light too. So they always bought in massive bulk and so they had really stupid good prices.
Speaker 3:It was like 15 bucks for a 30 or 16 dollars for 30. Like how could you beat that? Oh yeah beat that we'd go get eight, 30 racks at a time. Yeah, we'd have a guy buy it for us and he's like dude, you know I can buy more, I don't have to.
Speaker 2:He'd buy so fucking much. I'll just go whenever you want.
Speaker 3:I'm sick of these guys coming out with a dolly to carry everything out to my truck, but then we're calling him every day for beer, so he, would he just quit buying for us?
Speaker 1:quit answering the phone call that's why you got to get a couple of them, so you can spread it out a little bit.
Speaker 2:You don't want to wear out the plug dude.
Speaker 1:That's one thing I I feel bad, but also I'm proud of myself because, you know, growing up I had we had multiple guys that would bias it.
Speaker 2:When I turned 21 I was a motherfucker dude I didn't buy shit for anybody I took a hard stance because they will ruin your life for that and I'm a worrier.
Speaker 1:I think about the cause and effect in like what if I? Because I know when we were 17,. It's same thing when you're young, you don't understand what you're doing and we would drive drunk more than we should have, which is never, yeah. And all I could think about was buying some kid a case of beer, him driving drunk, something happening, and then my life's over because I bought this case of beer.
Speaker 1:That was all I needed to never do, even if nobody knew. You knew that you caused this, even like some of my buddies, because I would turn 21 early.
Speaker 2:I'd be like nah dude you just got a power trip on them it was.
Speaker 1:It was nice. It was definitely nice. It was hard. It was lonely hitting the bars for a while, being being an older one of the friends, but you know I was the younger one that everybody was sick of going to the casino by the time I turned 18, so that sucked.
Speaker 3:I was at the forefront.
Speaker 1:dude Me and my buddies after school would go every single day for a good period there $20 a piece. Hit it on blackjack. Everyone loses. Get out the door.
Speaker 3:The good hit it on blackjack everyone loses get out the door.
Speaker 1:Oh, the good old days two dollar blackjack table.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh yeah. Now I lose like 40 bucks and I'm sick to my stomach yeah, well, you can't play for less than ten dollars a hand.
Speaker 3:Nowadays, it seems like dude, it's crazy yeah, uh, your age is showing, tyler dude. Well, the value of the dollar is showing. I think that's what it comes down to yeah, what was that?
Speaker 2:what's the comparison? It was where it was like uh, the us dollar and something else have always remained almost exactly the same. Well, I can't remember what it is well not, not, not the euro. It was um gosh. I can't even remember that they're the same, like they've always yeah, they've almost remained the same, but for the first time ever it dipped below. Usually it's the opposite way, where the other one would dip far below and then come back and dip below and come back.
Speaker 1:It had to be the Chinese dollar, I'd assume.
Speaker 3:No, because that's yen, isn't it? I think that's Japan. What about rubles?
Speaker 1:Is that one?
Speaker 2:Isn't that like India? Yeah, fuck yeah, dude. And also Legend of Zelda, right?
Speaker 1:Rubies, All I know is that fucking greenback baby.
Speaker 3:Heard that the blue stripes. What do they?
Speaker 1:call Canada money.
Speaker 3:Dead presidents.
Speaker 1:Dude, is that what they call it? They still call it dollars.
Speaker 3:No that's what we call cash back. In high school there was a couple dead presidents in my wallet.
Speaker 1:Their money looks fucking stupid, like a monopoly money. It does. It does look like that red fucking bullshit. I'd be embarrassed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know, do you ever? Are you cash guys? Do you ever carry cash on you? I have been recently. I don't know why I don't ever. It's almost like an inconvenience for cash.
Speaker 1:Cash ruins me, dude. I know people always say like no, you bring cash, because then you can watch it.
Speaker 2:No, I don't, I treat it as like it's separate.
Speaker 3:I do girl math dude yeah.
Speaker 1:I have cash, whatever's, in my bank account. That's the money I have. This cash means nothing.
Speaker 2:Once it's in, I can't. It's extra, it's extra money. It's not in my bank account, it's just.
Speaker 3:This is free money to spend on whatever I want, you need cash to play pull tabs and if I don't have cash? I can't play pull tabs and yeah seriously that, and that comes down to the not drinking anymore. What do I do at bars? I eat and I play pull tabs.
Speaker 1:That's what there is to do yeah, I guess and I feel like if you lose on pull tab sober it fucking hurts a lot worse well, I guess it always hurts yeah but at least it's not like I go away I don't go nuts either.
Speaker 3:Like I used to work with some guys, I'd go nuts, you know, like five, six hundred dollars just going, chasing that thousand dollar in the box.
Speaker 1:I've seen people literally spend their rent right in front of me.
Speaker 3:It's nuts and it's like how is this ever going to pay out? Like I feel like you're in so deep, you're all you're. You're just trying to break even at this point.
Speaker 2:There's no way it's a good investment, if you win, though dude, that's what fuck?
Speaker 1:that's what keeps people in man, they eventually will win and they will only tell you about that. Oh yeah, they want a thousand dollars.
Speaker 2:I have a good buddy of mine that's like that. He'd be like dude. I won $300 at the casino last night, but won't tell you that he spent $700 to get that, yep?
Speaker 3:That's what they only talk about.
Speaker 2:It's all about what they won and not what they spent to get that. Well, our motto at the casino, that meme of those diamond tunnel diggers and the guys like right next to this huge pile of diamonds. But he's turning around because he got discouraged. But the guys that just lock in and just keep going, they eventually get to the diamonds.
Speaker 3:Take out another hundred brother.
Speaker 1:Well, dude, we know some guys personally that have probably lost a million dollars at the casino.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I've always heard of people losing their houses and stuff and when I was younger it's like how does that work?
Speaker 2:but then it's like the credit lines the casino gives and stuff like that yeah, or like people going to take out, take out home equity line of credit on their house and then you can't pay that back man, I just realized that's what he lock stands for.
Speaker 2:Yes, okay, cool, yep, I always hear he lock yep home equity line of credit yeah, big finance guy, this is big finance guy, yeah so you get this money, and the crazy part about it is is actually you don't pay any payment on it. You only pay interest on it if you want, and so you can drag that out for a very long time until you win which I would imagine happens not very often I'd say never Dude.
Speaker 1:I would not want the casinos coming after me too. You know, if you try to run off, on it.
Speaker 2:Well, wasn't there a farm here where some dude lost it in Vegas and they a bunch of people flew out here and liquidated all his assets? Yeah, yeah. That's the story I heard when I was a kid.
Speaker 3:Obviously, I'm not going to go into it Right right, right Local. In case I don't know the right person.
Speaker 1:I love a good folk tale.
Speaker 2:Yeah, good folk tale. Yeah, this was a local story of this guy literally losing his entire farm. Family leaving, kids leaving, wife leaving, and then these people from out of town fly in and just start selling everything and taking what they can.
Speaker 3:It all runs back to addictions, man. I think addictions run everybody's lives to the smallest thing. Don't mess with me before I have my coffee. Fucking, nicotine, alcohol, drugs, gambling everything is addictive, depending on what's your personality at a certain point.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think everyone has vices and I think the levels of it vary depending on who you are. But it could be something as innocent as I can't function without coffee all the way up to I'm a junkie and I can't function without being not myself Different levels.
Speaker 3:It's an MLM.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1:Addiction is crazy to me Different levels. It's an MLM, yeah, it is. Addiction is crazy to me, especially when it gets to its worst point, to where people are literally ruining their lives right in front of you. They know it, I know it, the people around them know it, but it's just not enough to stop the addiction. I struggle with my addictions, the way that I can convince myself that it's not that bad or you know what we'll quit tomorrow. I can't imagine if that addiction was fucking heroin.
Speaker 2:I would be screwed. What are you addicted to?
Speaker 1:oh god, dude, I'm addicted to nicotine. I'm addicted to food, I'm addicted to weed, and those are my big ones for sure. Alcohol I'm addicted to getting fucked up once I start drinking, but I'm not addicted to drinking like there's, there's, I'm. I'm addicted to the vibes and that's that's one thing like I I wanted to talk about with tyler, where it's like I thought that I needed the alcohol to hit the vibe but, then the vibe in the morning would be so fucking bad that it ruined how much fun I had the night before anyways it ruined your whole week at least.
Speaker 3:Yeah, a hundred percent the anxiety.
Speaker 1:Me and you both struggled heavily with anxiety kills me it's crippling and I think that's what keeps me from being addicted, yeah because there's no part of me like if I let her rip tonight, there's not a fucking chance in this world that tomorrow I'm gonna rip it like I can't. I don't work that way. I'm good for one crazy night and then I need a couple easy off ones, because it will destroy me even when we first started the podcast and stuff.
Speaker 3:Just uh, we try to shoot skits the next day and stuff and it's just like impossible to have a vibe and stuff the next day and get into the mood of filming when we're just so in our head and feel like absolute shit.
Speaker 2:How much of that do you think is nature versus nurture, to like do you? Think a lot of people are just predisposed to having that, or do you think a lot of that is your relationship with the thing?
Speaker 3:predisposed to always having anxiety, and how you handle it?
Speaker 2:Not necessarily that, but just like maybe the negative side of that, because I I have never been affected by that and I always think to myself is it because I think back to like when I was a kid? Regardless, if I was tired, if I didn't want to do something, I had to do it no matter what. So, like there's something I feel like in my brain that's just like you don't feel bad, you have to do what you need to do.
Speaker 2:The second, that there's a lull in the day or whatever, then I really feel the effects like, specifically, a hangover or just being tired. But I do think, if I know I have to do this thing, that takes priority over how I'm feeling.
Speaker 1:See, you can tell when someone that doesn't have anxiety is talking because he just doesn't understand. Yeah and no offense, but everybody's fault.
Speaker 3:Everybody is different, everybody handles things differently and stuff and totally don't yeah, it's like I feel like coded and so like I've always had anxiety my whole life. Yeah, and it goes back like procrastination when you hear that, it's like I would be crippling in high school if I know I have to do homework or something and but I won't do it. And it just gets worse and worse. The longer you wait it gets worse and you keep putting it off.
Speaker 1:Yeah, until you explode so you talk about anxiety.
Speaker 2:I think I would almost argue that I have really bad anxiety, to the point where it's almost exact opposite of effect of what you get when you're hung over and make sure you do everything exactly like. I'm so anxious about not doing the thing that I've convinced myself there is no other option. No matter how I feel, no matter what the situation is, it's getting done, and sometimes I'm so anxious about that for myself.
Speaker 1:It works both ways. It just it just depends on the situation, like when you ask about like, if it's something that came about later, if it's something that worked up. My whole life growing up, anxiety was not a word that was ever said in my household, like I never even knew what anxiety was. It was never like I had all these weird quirks of things I would do that. My dad would literally call pussy shit and my mom would call overthinking.
Speaker 1:Like that was the way that they looked at it yeah and you know, as an example, like the simplest form, the earliest I can remember anxiety in not even realizing until I was much older, is when I was a kid. I, if I could not fall asleep. It would put me in a spiral like when I laid down. If I couldn't fall asleep right away, I would go into an absolute spiral of like if I can't fall asleep now, then I'm gonna be tired tomorrow. And what if I can't fall asleep? What's what if it's a while till I fall asleep? And like there would be no rhyme or reason why I would be worried. I was a kid, I had nothing going on the next day, but I would spiral, dude or something even as crazier. When I first got my first phone, it was the prime time of sending crazy like if you don't forward this to 10 people.
Speaker 1:This will be in your room and I got my first track phone when I was in fourth grade, so I was still pretty young and I remember like I would be freaking the fuck out like I didn't get this off what is the first off?
Speaker 2:what's the point of those anyways, like whoever creates those there, what do you gain from that? There was no link, nobody it was literally just forward this message. There was no notoriety like there's not. There's no benefit to this, so why? What the hell is the?
Speaker 3:point of starting. It was all before you could monetize things. Yeah, you know, once monetization came, it got worse.
Speaker 2:But it was just for to know that, like I did something that other people are doing now, like I'm controlling yeah, it would have been way more beneficial if you had, like, a website that was like something and you forwarded it with the message like forward this link to 10 friends or you're gonna die. Nobody knew how to make money on the internet.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's a good point that's a really good point, god that's so weird to me and everything is ran by money now. Now Nobody does anything without money. Yeah, very good point.
Speaker 2:Yeah, very good point, even like it's ruined entertainment a lot for me too Big time. Because now I think whenever there's a product placement or someone talking about a thing, I'm thinking how much did you get paid to say this?
Speaker 3:But that's also because we've been in this industry and know how much money is involved. I run into so many people like just they were just asking me, uh, my girlfriend's dad was asking me about the podcast and how that works and stuff, you know, and just like trying to explain them, uh, advertising and marketing and stuff and how there's money in it, like they can't comprehend that I guess like older generations and stuff of how it works yeah, it's so crazy to me.
Speaker 2:I, I, I've obviously just been in it for so long, but there's so much confusion for me that someone can't understand that, because of how everything else is sort of a similar model now.
Speaker 3:Which I mean kind of in this conversation, is a good time to bring up today's sponsor, betterhelp.
Speaker 1:I use it and I love it every day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, you're 100% right. I it's crazy, as when you hear ad inserts like that, it's like if it doesn't really make sense, it feels very ingenuine, it feels really it puts me off a lot to the whatever I'm watching um, which actually brings me into I think my biggest vice, like my biggest addiction I think by far, is my phone, or just like social media in general, it got.
Speaker 3:I got really bad over the winter. There's like time.
Speaker 2:There's like a couple of apps I've downloaded that will lock apps on my phone and I will do everything I can to completely disable that, knowing that I'm disabling it and I use this weird excuse of like because we post things on social media and that's a part of my business, that that justifies it, but knowing full well like I lose sleep over it, I'm probably a worse dad because of it. I'm probably a worse friend because of it. Like I'm not engaged in conversations, I probably get less work done because of it. But I use the excuse of like I'm consuming to understand and not that I'm just like zombying out for a couple of minutes.
Speaker 3:I do the same thing with YouTube. I say, you know like you can learn things on YouTube and stuff. It's like, yeah, but what percentage of my on YouTube does desk scrolling reels like it's?
Speaker 2:TikTok, well, and I get this weird spot of like constantly consuming content. That's like, well, and I get this weird spot of like constantly consuming content. That's like learn how to edit better, or learn how to strategize better, or learn this business topic, or whatever. But then, all of a sudden, I find myself not even remembering these things that I'm watching, and then I'm just brain mushing, yeah, but it's like a analysis paralysis.
Speaker 2:Like I, I consume way too much and then I can't hold all of that and I can't app. I can't apply that to what I'm doing.
Speaker 3:I'm learning shit that I'll never apply in my life the fucking water table in Dubai so that they can rebuild, uh, their agriculture systems, how, how to restructure, um, landfills? I watched like a fucking hour long video on landfills and how they work and shit. And it's like just pointless. Fucking hour-long video on landfills and how they work and shit. It's like just pointless. Like yeah, but realistically, we did just bid on a landfill. We didn't get it, but I could have used that knowledge, yeah, but you'd have looked like the fucking man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like how does this guy know so well?
Speaker 2:the other guys already did landfills I'm the only one that hasn't so, so you're just trying to catch up yeah, but you're using this as an excuse to consume, yeah it was like dirt shit.
Speaker 3:You know, I like consuming a lot of um videos on projects across the world of math, mega projects and dirt and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was talking to my manager about how like dirt is like a passion once you're into it and I love talking about it and stuff, dude I totally get that, because you used to say that back in the day when you first started and I remember thinking like I just, I just can't, I can't picture myself being like that. But now I realize, like I I just watched this video on um, the editor for gladiator 2. The movie I watched like a breakdown of like how he edited the movie, why he made certain editing decisions, the different takes that they you know, they chose, and the sound design for it. And I remember thinking, like I know full and well I have absolutely no desire to edit a full-length movie, but I'm still watching this because you're passionate about your work and it's a string of your work.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm passionate about my work. Do you ever consume anything on bricks and chimneys?
Speaker 1:dude, I I do definitely enjoy it and like if I see other people post like cool jobs that they've done, I love it. But even just in real life I look at every chimney and be like, oh, they need four courses and some tuck pointing like it, it fucked me up. Or like if I drive by something that they did amazing work, it catches my eye like oh, that's really good.
Speaker 3:They did a good job there I know if I was in masonry like going to these old towns like um north. Have you ever been to northfield?
Speaker 1:dude, northfield and det Detroit Lakes is another one that came to mind right away, where they've got just amazing fucking historical buildings yeah.
Speaker 3:Dude, it's unbelievable, even here at the pub, the work that they used to do back in the day. Oh yeah, like those.
Speaker 1:Corbel courses, where that's how they make like the cool designs on these buildings. That's how they make like the cool designs on these buildings, like we. We could mimic it to a point, but you know we've got guys that are great bricklayers that couldn't do anything like that it was such an art it's fucking crazy, but it was a pride thing in those days you know if you if you had the building with the cool brickwork like that was a big fucking deal yeah, and everyone in the community built it said they could say I was a part of that.
Speaker 3:It's even the church in Baroon Like it was built by everybody in that community and they would said we built this church. You know it's bad ass it was. Everybody was a part of it. It's crazy.
Speaker 2:We did this, yeah, once you and I think a lot of it just gets to be when you get older you kind of narrow your focus on one specific interest. You know, because I do find myself like my wife really hates watching movies with me now because, like I'll, I'll notice certain cut changes that I'm like, oh damn OK, so I'll pause it. Be like OK. So you know you notice how this was a totally separate shot, because the way her hair lays from here to here you can tell that's a different take.
Speaker 1:That is so annoying. Yeah, yeah, she hates it.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, I nerd out over that. I love it. You actually pause it, like you swear I have before I don't know because she. She lit me up a few times.
Speaker 3:I'm like all right, I won't do that, I used to be like I used to get scared at like haunted houses and uh, scary movies. I I was just such a pussy when I was younger and now, after like just shooting skits and stuff, I feel like I have such a different understanding of production value. Just like when we go to pine haven, I'm just analyzing how cool and how much money and how much work was put into building the set and doing this and yeah and everything and it I don't I guess I don't get because I can't get involved and like try to be transformed into this
Speaker 2:world you're not.
Speaker 3:This is real, yeah because I know it's like all this is fabricated that's actually a really good point.
Speaker 2:I think doing concert photography and videos has also ruined concerts for me a little bit because I understand the production and then I'm thinking about like when I was a kid going to concerts it felt legitimately like a movie, Like you're in a cinematic experience. But now I see it for the production and it's like knowing that this same exact thing is recreated every stop of the tour that they're on To me like ruins, some of like the stardust for it.
Speaker 3:And you guys were talking shit about me with bode, about the nicki minaj concert and it's like I wasn't. I said you had a great time there, so but, like I thought, the morgan wallen concert blew because it was literally just a guy singing on a stage there was no real production to it, but also he wasn't the headliner. So I heard that morgan does a big production when it's his deal, but then, like nikki, you know rap and stuff I feel like they have to do more production it's all about so many moving parts and costume changes and how much work into building the set.
Speaker 3:That was a fucking ice rink two days ago. Like that was like just so crazy. To me, like that's what I like about it, is the production value of concerts yeah, you know.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it's an art for sure.
Speaker 3:That makes the entire show where I'm the only way I could enjoy like just a regular country singer is if we go to a bar and there's a guy sitting in the corner like doing an amazing job, then I will love that.
Speaker 2:I would love that but you're not gonna like seek it out.
Speaker 3:No, well, I would. I really want to go see a bluegrass player live. Like a really good bluegrass player, just go fucking see oh, dude I completely agree. When I stumble into a bar with live music or something, it's sick or like these buskers. I don't know why there's this. Have you ever seen Button the Busker? I don't even know what, but a busker is a term for the people that sit on like corners in las vegas and do little tricks the, the statue guy and stuff that had the hat out with money.
Speaker 2:That's the name for him it's a busker.
Speaker 3:I'm pretty sure that's what I've never heard of, that I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's okay. Yeah, so there's this dude that does youtube live and instagram live and stuff and he's just he's a busker live streaming his one-man band thing and it's like mesmerizing to me that's why I gotta look up definition of busker yeah, I've never heard of this yeah, what was that one? I was really wrong about the moon landing. I got a lot of fucking hate about that yeah, well, diet coke over here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, we've all fucked up on the podcast.
Speaker 2:Yeah, shit would yeah, busker is a person who performs music or other entertainment in the street or another public place for monetary donations.
Speaker 3:Another random thing that I know that does.
Speaker 1:I have never heard of that he wanted you to be wrong.
Speaker 2:No, no, I just genuinely have never heard that. I'm surprised because I've been to Vegas a few times. I've never heard the word Busker thrown around.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of Buskers there in Vegas. It almost sounds like a slur yeah.
Speaker 3:It.
Speaker 1:It almost sounds like a slur. Yeah, it's one of the last ones we can use. Buddy, Hold on to it. Hey, we're bringing some back man.
Speaker 3:Me and my people. I got a team together. Oh, your people, huh.
Speaker 2:We're working, here we go. I ain't going to get specific. Sam just bought a Tesla, by the way.
Speaker 1:It's black and I park in front of Pizza Pub Pine City all the time. I was going to say it looked like a Kreutzer tongue-in-counter to me Go spray paint it.
Speaker 2:That's funny. Well, what do you think, boys, should we get out of here and go enjoy all of our addictions?
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's get drunk, oh boy, yeah, just kidding, Do another year brother.
Speaker 3:Yeah, another year Might as well.
Speaker 2:Anything you.
Speaker 3:Plug Go. Follow Tyler on Snapchat at.
Speaker 2:Tyler Yoloplashik.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I will say if anybody is struggling or anything, especially in men's mental health, there's nothing wrong with seeking out or talking to people with therapy or just owning up to whatever you think is wrong with you 100% Nothing wrong with that Be vulnerable it's not corny.
Speaker 2:It's not corny.
Speaker 1:No, especially guys like us, with you 100. Nothing wrong with that, it's not. It's not corny, it's not corny. No, especially like guys like us. We have very good friends that I I have a lot of friends that I have that I talk to about serious stuff, and if you don't have that, that can be really hard.
Speaker 3:There's a lot of people that are hard to be serious with totally and that they can't get serious. So find somebody you can be serious 100 yeah, the offer stands with me as well.
Speaker 2:If anyone you know, obviously I don't yeah, because you're not fucking busy call somebody else.
Speaker 1:Don't call cody, I'll respond all right yeah, probably don't hit me up, I'm just kidding hit me up, hit me up if.
