Speaker 1: Hello, Hi, Hey, hey, hey, Hey, what's your name?
Speaker 2: Wyatt?
Speaker 1: Wyatt? What's up? Wyatt? How you doing?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: No, how you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm chilling, I'm being a gecko, and I'm I'm truly,
Speaker 1: honest to God looking forward to talking to people on
Speaker 1: the phone today and seeing what's up. And that brings
Speaker 1: us into my next question, which is what's up?
Speaker 3: Not a whole lot. I'm just finishing up a little
Speaker 3: bit of work in my shop.
Speaker 1: Is there anything in particular you wanted to talk about today?
Speaker 3: No, I not particularly. I'm a blacksmith.
Speaker 1: What what's going on as a blacksmith?
Speaker 3: So right now I'm fixing armor. I'm in a group
Speaker 3: that does armored combat.
Speaker 1: You're in a group that does armored combat, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: Like you and a bunch of your boys get together
Speaker 1: and take and fucking smack each other with actual swords.
Speaker 3: So it's an access.
Speaker 1: Really does that?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Can you not like get killed doing that?
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess you probably could, but it's the sport. Like,
Speaker 3: so all the weapons have to be blended and make
Speaker 3: an only way like a certain amount.
Speaker 1: All these sorry, so the swords and the knives and
Speaker 1: in the axes that are all blunt. No knives. Okay,
Speaker 1: so the swords and axes, they're all blunt.
Speaker 3: The rules of the sport are you can't stab, so
Speaker 3: you can't trust. You can't intentionally hit somebody in the
Speaker 3: dick behind the knee, strike vertically down the spine or
Speaker 3: the back portion of the head. But aside from that, everything's.
Speaker 1: Really okay. Do people get like really hurt doing this?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, have you hurt doing this? No? Fortunately, what
Speaker 1: were you about to say?
Speaker 3: I know I was gonna say. I know a guy
Speaker 3: that broke his arm. He blocked an act shot, stuck
Speaker 3: his arm up and it shattered his arm.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3: A lot of guys blow their knees out acls because
Speaker 3: the armor weighs like seventy pounds. Its heavy.
Speaker 2: Shit.
Speaker 3: You know, you step wrong, and you know you're you're
Speaker 3: in like a judo throw. You step wrong and every
Speaker 3: single tendon in your knee explodes.
Speaker 1: Now, what do you think it is that inspires most
Speaker 1: of the people who join this sport to join this sport?
Speaker 3: Autism?
Speaker 1: One hundredercent serious.
Speaker 3: A little bit, yeah, yeah?
Speaker 1: Why what is the what is the link between autism
Speaker 1: and armored combat? In your in your brain.
Speaker 3: Well so so, I mean, and it's a little bit
Speaker 3: of a joke, but only a little bit. It's a
Speaker 3: lot of nerds who are also athletic enough and like
Speaker 3: want to do like a physical sport.
Speaker 1: But why not? But why not? Just like like why
Speaker 1: not basketball or wrestling? Why armored?
Speaker 3: Come you can't use a axe?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. Yeah, that's a dumb question of me
Speaker 1: to ask.
Speaker 3: Of course, Well, that wasn't a dumb question.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no no no no, no no no,
Speaker 1: let's get this straight. That was a dumb question of
Speaker 1: me to ask you because of course, of no, no,
Speaker 1: all right, we're not being kind to ourselves. That was
Speaker 1: a dumb question. Of course, we want to play the sword,
Speaker 1: to play the game with the sword and the acts. Okay,
Speaker 1: it was dumb of me to even suggest to even
Speaker 1: wonder why people wanted to get into this because we
Speaker 1: want to hit things with swords. We want to kill
Speaker 1: each other, but not Actually, that's why people play video
Speaker 1: games so that they can practice killing each other without
Speaker 1: the death. And this is a bit of a step up.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is. Have you ever hurt someone seriously doing this?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yes? And I and I cried after it because I
Speaker 3: am at the end of the day, I am just
Speaker 3: a little guy. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I blew someone's I
Speaker 3: didn't blow me out, but he couldn't walk for like
Speaker 3: an hour afterwards. I he was he was bent over
Speaker 3: and I chopped just above his knee and and it
Speaker 3: shut his leg off and he just went down.
Speaker 1: Holy fuck. He was he all right?
Speaker 3: Yeah after a while, Yeah, he was fine.
Speaker 1: Do you play a lot of like high fantasy shit.
Speaker 2: A little bit?
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm into like Lord of the Rings, but
Speaker 3: aside from that, I'm not super I kind of feel
Speaker 3: like an outsider a lot of the times because I'm like,
Speaker 3: I'm not huge into Warmammer forty K or anything like that,
Speaker 3: and it was pretty common.
Speaker 1: It's kind of funny that you just said you feel
Speaker 1: like an outcast because you're not into Warhammer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I mean. Like a little bit of
Speaker 3: the autism is like it's it's an important feature, and
Speaker 3: the Blacksmith thing is kind of my like hyper focus,
Speaker 3: but with most of the other fighters, it's D and
Speaker 3: D and Warhammer and whatever else.
Speaker 1: I respect the people in this sport because yes, Warhammer
Speaker 1: and D and D are traditionally very nerdy, but to
Speaker 1: take a step up and be like, no, let's actually
Speaker 1: fucking quit being a pussy and take up an axe
Speaker 1: and fight me like, that's awesome to me.
Speaker 3: It's it's something. I was on the the American team.
Speaker 3: We represented the country for the international competition in Mexico
Speaker 3: this year, the first time in Mexico.
Speaker 1: And Mexican sword fighting.
Speaker 2: Sort of.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's badass, keep going, tell me the story.
Speaker 3: So there are so within the sport it's blueherd or
Speaker 3: armored combat. There are dual categories, and then there are
Speaker 3: the group fights. So the group fights are broken up
Speaker 3: by five on five, ten on ten, twelve on twelve,
Speaker 3: sixteen on sixteen.
Speaker 1: Yo a six like sixteen on sixteen giant fucking sword fights. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's sick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I was. I was on the sixteens team.
Speaker 2: You know, we fought it.
Speaker 3: There was a qualifying event beforehand. The best first and
Speaker 3: second teams made five and ten, and then third and
Speaker 3: fourth place work together to do the sixteen. I was
Speaker 3: on the sixteenth team. We smoked smoked them, America. I
Speaker 3: don't think there's a single category where we didn't bring
Speaker 3: home gold.
Speaker 1: That's so sick. Yeah, did it so sixteen on sixteen,
Speaker 1: does that feel like three hundred?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Does it feel like a like tell me more?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, it's five on five, not to change five
Speaker 3: on five. It's a whole different game to where it's
Speaker 3: you know, you can count how many people you have
Speaker 3: to deal with. It's like you're in the one corner,
Speaker 3: you're looking at two guys and then there's a third
Speaker 3: that'll be on your right. Sixteen on sixteen, it's a
Speaker 3: wall of men, and if you get in a bad spot,
Speaker 3: the rest don't stop it because they can't get to you.
Speaker 3: So in the five on five, if you so you
Speaker 3: know all your boys go down, you're the only one up.
Speaker 3: If the enemy team has three up, they'll call it
Speaker 3: there just because you're not going to win a three
Speaker 3: on one, you're just gonna get broken. In the six teams,
Speaker 3: that's not the case. So you can have three on
Speaker 3: ones everywhere and they're not going to stop it.
Speaker 1: Has anyone ever successfully as one man defeated three others.
Speaker 3: I'm sure. I don't know if it's happened to where
Speaker 3: the three were actively fighting at the same time, but
Speaker 3: I'm I mean, I know guys that have sweat the
Speaker 3: entire like the entire team before.
Speaker 1: That's so cool. Now, normally, in a traditional sword fight
Speaker 1: that I think of when there's like a war, you
Speaker 1: beat your opponent when they bleed out and die. Yes,
Speaker 1: And I assume it's not like that in these competitions.
Speaker 1: How do you tell this to feed your opponents?
Speaker 3: So when so in the groups, when you go to
Speaker 3: the ground, you make three points of contact, you were
Speaker 3: out because historically the way you kill a nite is
Speaker 3: you put them on the ground and you stick your
Speaker 3: bodykin through the gaps in his armor and stab them
Speaker 3: to death. It's so because the sport is actually based
Speaker 3: off of tournament fighting. So you've got jousting on one side.
Speaker 3: There was a a foot and side of that to
Speaker 3: where they were armored fighting with blunted weapons, and when
Speaker 3: they went to the grounds that was considered they're killed.
Speaker 3: You keep fighting, So.
Speaker 1: This is really just like a You have to knock
Speaker 1: them down using your weapon, either.
Speaker 3: Either by successful there's there's a lot of judo that
Speaker 3: goes into it, or pain submission to where you you
Speaker 3: hit the marginals that they give up go or you
Speaker 3: break their armor to the point where they can't keep fighting.
Speaker 1: So I got a question. Are you jacked?
Speaker 2: Mmm?
Speaker 3: No, at six one, two hundred and fifty pounds, I'm
Speaker 3: in corn fed, but I'm not jacked.
Speaker 1: Okay, are you like are you like strong guy?
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say so.
Speaker 1: How do you usually do in these tournaments?
Speaker 3: Fairly well? Fairly well? I mean I haven't been injured before,
Speaker 3: and I've been on a lot of winning teams. But
Speaker 3: there's there's always improvement to be made.
Speaker 1: What's your life like outside of armor battling.
Speaker 3: So, like I said, I've I've got a forge. I'm
Speaker 3: a kind of a blacksmith on the side, have done
Speaker 3: that for a while, and part of that is to
Speaker 3: support it. It's make armor, fixing the other teams, like
Speaker 3: the the my local team's armor. But I work in
Speaker 3: an iron foundry from a day job.
Speaker 1: You working? You work in an iron factory for your
Speaker 1: day job?
Speaker 3: Yeah, iron foundry?
Speaker 1: What is that? What is iron?
Speaker 3: We melt steel and chrome irons to make big like
Speaker 3: pump casings, big big industrial parts like the like the
Speaker 3: factory on Giannosis, the second Motor Earth Sorry Star Wars
Speaker 3: mm hmm, like going through the Droid factory ship like that?
Speaker 1: Do any women play the armored Battle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there are women's teams.
Speaker 1: Are there are? There's not men versus women's teams, So
Speaker 1: there's women versus women's.
Speaker 3: Teams, women versus women. There aren't as many, but there
Speaker 3: still are some and they are tough.
Speaker 1: All right. So you said that there was an international No,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Sorry, I want to let you finish your thought.
Speaker 1: Actually no, I I was you said, this is an
Speaker 1: international competition and America one, America USA. Let's go. What
Speaker 1: who is number two? Can I guess?
Speaker 3: I guess we're gonna guess?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Hold on Swede? Now Finland they.
Speaker 3: Were, they were present, but no, they actually got their armored,
Speaker 3: not stolen, but the the Mexican customs wouldn't give it
Speaker 3: to them because they thought they stole it from me
Speaker 3: museum because they didn't know what the sport was and
Speaker 3: there was a language barrier and they couldn't communicate. But
Speaker 3: they needed their stuff back.
Speaker 1: All right, the KNY get one more guests, go for it.
Speaker 3: Japan also, now, unfortunately I don't think they had a
Speaker 3: team in this year. All right, hit me, I don't remember,
Speaker 3: you don't remember.
Speaker 1: Why'd you make with guests?
Speaker 3: If you don't remember, Hey, you wanted to guess I
Speaker 3: was to stop.
Speaker 1: Second, I said, hold on the second, I said, can
Speaker 1: I guess? You should have just been like you can guess,
Speaker 1: but I don't remember. If you told me you don't remember,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have guessed.
Speaker 3: Well, if you said the right thing, I would have remembered.
Speaker 1: You don't have the answer to.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna stop you. If you want to guess,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to stop you. Go for it. I'm
Speaker 3: just here to hear what you have to say.
Speaker 1: That was such buss. You don't remember? No, when did
Speaker 1: this happen?
Speaker 3: May this year?
Speaker 2: So you said it was first.
Speaker 3: I think Brazil took third in the five on five. Okay, Now,
Speaker 3: if we're talking in the sixteens, the category I fought
Speaker 3: in it was USA France, and then I think the
Speaker 3: Ukrainian team.
Speaker 1: Russia was gonna be one of my guesses, although I
Speaker 1: don't know if they're like embargoed from Funny Sports.
Speaker 3: Yeah they're, yeah, they're they're on the no whitlist currently.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I'm trying to think if I have any
Speaker 1: other questions for you, Okay, your life, Do you have
Speaker 1: a life outside of making steel things?
Speaker 2: Not?
Speaker 1: Really, I don't think really I genuinely don't think you
Speaker 1: need one. I think you have you have. You're you
Speaker 1: strike me as a full, complete human being.
Speaker 3: I think that's kind of generous, but I mean it's
Speaker 3: a little tall to be a dwarf.
Speaker 1: What would make you? What would make you more complete
Speaker 1: of a human being?
Speaker 3: I think if I was a dwarf, like a like
Speaker 3: a fantasy dwarf, that would that would be the icing
Speaker 3: on the cake.
Speaker 1: Why don't you just be fancy as you are?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 1: What why not you just be fancy as you are? No?
Speaker 3: No, I'm saying I want to be a dwarf. I
Speaker 3: do all this metal ship. I want to be a
Speaker 3: dwarf like gim me, I want.
Speaker 1: To be what's your ultimate dream before you die?
Speaker 3: To keep doing this as long as I can, until
Speaker 3: I die.
Speaker 2: All of it.
Speaker 1: What is something you haven't made yet that you want
Speaker 1: to make.
Speaker 3: A good decision?
Speaker 1: Really? What you don't feel like you've made a lot
Speaker 1: of good decisions.
Speaker 3: I think I've made a lot of bad ones, and
Speaker 3: sometimes I make uh most of them.
Speaker 1: Give me one example of a bad decision you've made.
Speaker 3: I got engaged right out of high school mm hmm.
Speaker 3: And it was with somebody I didn't really know and
Speaker 3: it it didn't band out very well.
Speaker 1: How long did it last?
Speaker 3: A few months?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 1: Only a few months?
Speaker 3: What, it's a lot more common where I'm at.
Speaker 1: Where are you at?
Speaker 3: Utah?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Are you?
Speaker 1: Are you exmo?
Speaker 3: I am not EXMO.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 3: My parents left the church when I was a kid,
Speaker 3: so I was raised around Warmon but I was not.
Speaker 3: But the girl that I was engaged to was Mormon. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so there was a little bit of a cultural thing.
Speaker 1: Are you with anyone now?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been dating a girl for about three years.
Speaker 1: Now, how's that going good?
Speaker 3: I want I think I've decided I want to make
Speaker 3: her ring, and that's that's the only thing that's stopping
Speaker 3: stopping it from the natural progression.
Speaker 1: I think as a blacksmith, it would be a stupid
Speaker 1: idea to buy a ring, right making I think, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: making one and is way better.
Speaker 3: It's romantic.
Speaker 1: It is romantic.
Speaker 3: Romantic in the classical sense too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's I didn't have anything to have, you.
Speaker 1: Know, because you have that advantage of her most guys
Speaker 1: is that you can make jewelry. You don't have to
Speaker 1: buy it, right, It's pretty cool. And you know, you know,
Speaker 1: it's not even like shitty jewelry, like I could make
Speaker 1: like a bead, I couldn't. I was about to say
Speaker 1: I could make a bead necklace, but I couldn't even
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 3: So you're kind of being harsh with yourself, sir.
Speaker 1: No, I'm not. I'm being honest. I could not make
Speaker 1: a bead necklace. I've not. I have not said a
Speaker 1: single harsh thing about myself that wasn't true.
Speaker 3: When has when's the last time you made any jewelry?
Speaker 3: When's the last time you tried?
Speaker 1: Never in my life? That's why I couldn't make it.
Speaker 3: Why you're being so harsh?
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not like that's like saying that's like
Speaker 1: if I okay, Like if I told you right now,
Speaker 1: but hold on, hold on, whytt if I told you
Speaker 1: right now that I couldn't deadlift two hundred pounds you
Speaker 1: and you said to me, I am being harsh on myself,
Speaker 1: I'd be like, what are you talking about? I cannot
Speaker 1: deadlift two hundred pounds. I cannot make a bead necklace.
Speaker 3: I think I would give you more rooms if if
Speaker 3: you knew you couldn't do it, But you haven't done it,
Speaker 3: so you're don't know. Harsh maybe isn't the correct word
Speaker 3: if you.
Speaker 1: Like that's like, that's like I can't do a kickflip
Speaker 1: on a skateboard.
Speaker 3: Well a lot of people can't do that.
Speaker 1: Well, well, hold, so why why? Why is that different
Speaker 1: from me saying I can't make a bead necklace.
Speaker 3: Because I don't think a bead necklace is super complicated.
Speaker 1: That's because you make swords and ring That's because you're
Speaker 1: you white.
Speaker 3: I don't know how to make a necklace. Ether, I
Speaker 3: don't know anything about beats anyways.
Speaker 1: How'd you meet your girlfriend?
Speaker 3: Kinder? Kinder? She was Mormon when she came here.
Speaker 1: That's cool. A blacksmith meeting his girlfriend on Tinder on
Speaker 1: tender she.
Speaker 3: Is a baker. We are we have very.
Speaker 1: You guys have very. That's so awesome. That's so fucking
Speaker 1: cool that she's a baker and you're a blacksmith. That's
Speaker 1: so fucking cool. Do you don't have any like software
Speaker 1: engineer people there are out there? Or like you know
Speaker 1: some guy like he's a software engineer's girlfriend works in
Speaker 1: like AI. Whatever the fuck? Just complete bullshit. That's you guys,
Speaker 1: are you're a baker.
Speaker 3: That's the contemporary baker and the blacksmith.
Speaker 1: You're a baker and a blacksmith. No, the contemporary baker
Speaker 1: and blacksmith is a baker and a blacksmith. That's what
Speaker 1: you are.
Speaker 2: You.
Speaker 1: You are a baker and your girlfriend is a blacksmith,
Speaker 1: and you both are alive, existing, doing your profession in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, currently making you the contemporary versions of
Speaker 1: those things.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, Yes, sir, it is. She's a celiac, so
Speaker 3: it is kind of a kind of a strange combination.
Speaker 3: She works with stuff that can technically killer.
Speaker 1: Are you allergic to anything?
Speaker 3: No, so the duality is lost on that.
Speaker 1: I'm going to take questions from our live twitch chat
Speaker 1: for you. You don't you don't have to, you don't
Speaker 1: have to read them. I'll just read them out to
Speaker 1: you if the twitch chat has any questions. But while
Speaker 1: I wait for the chad questions to come in, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna ask you one more question.
Speaker 3: Go for it.
Speaker 1: I'll try to think of one. Do you have a
Speaker 1: question that you want me to ask you? I hate that.
Speaker 1: Never mind, that's stupid. That's stupid thing to say.
Speaker 3: Again, you're being a little bit harsh.
Speaker 1: Why but I but it's okay. I would rather let
Speaker 1: me tell you something. I would sincerely rather live in
Speaker 1: the universe of truth then be night, then the universe
Speaker 1: of Sometimes you know, some questions are stupid, some things
Speaker 1: are bad, and some people such as myself, cannot do
Speaker 1: some things. I enjoy the truth of this universe right now.
Speaker 1: If I here's the thing, if I told you that
Speaker 1: I was like an idiot and I'll never achieve anything,
Speaker 1: and I just if I just really beat down on
Speaker 1: myself like I'm a person of no value when I suck,
Speaker 1: I'd be being harsh on myself. But I guess saying
Speaker 1: that was objectively saying what do you want me to
Speaker 1: ask you? Is objectively a stupid thing for somebody conducting
Speaker 1: an interview to say. And I believe that with full force,
Speaker 1: and uh, I stand by it. I'm allowed to make
Speaker 1: mistakes and still be good at doing this. But that
Speaker 1: was a stupid thing to ask you. And I'm you're
Speaker 1: not going to change my position.
Speaker 3: On that the last I'll let you have it.
Speaker 1: No go ahead, you were gonna saying, I want to
Speaker 1: let you. You can say what you can say, what
Speaker 1: you can say.
Speaker 3: Hey, I thought you. I thought you got questions. It's
Speaker 3: our questions.
Speaker 1: I want to hear what you were gonna No, I
Speaker 1: want to ask you plenty of the questions we got
Speaker 1: questions with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but this is really bringing up bringing something up.
Speaker 3: There's an emotion here and I'm not sure. I don't
Speaker 3: know what's going on.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take questions from the chat. All right.
Speaker 1: Somebody said, uh uh do you ever work with damascus?
Speaker 1: What the hell is that?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: No, I don't. It's it's a it's folded steel. You
Speaker 3: hit it up to where it's almost melting but not quite,
Speaker 3: and then you hammer it together and you keep folding
Speaker 3: it and it makes school patterns.
Speaker 2: I do not.
Speaker 1: Someone wants to know how many if you have any
Speaker 1: battle scars, Like, do you have any lasting scars from
Speaker 1: any of this?
Speaker 3: Not from fighting. I do have a couple of scars
Speaker 3: on my face, but they're completely unrelated.
Speaker 1: You have, you know what? That's okay? You? It's so
Speaker 1: funny because if someone's talking to you and you have
Speaker 1: like a noticeable scar on your face and you're telling
Speaker 1: them about the fact that you fucking professionally make swords
Speaker 1: and do sword fighting, they're gonna be real bum to
Speaker 1: hear that your scar is not sword fighting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was an older lady. I was standing in
Speaker 3: the airport with my helmet my and because I had
Speaker 3: to take it on because it's to meat weight bags whatever.
Speaker 3: She looks at me. She looks at the helmet and
Speaker 3: she like leans in and stares at the scars on
Speaker 3: my face. It's like, so is that how you got those? Like, no,
Speaker 3: it's not it's not a cool story. Oh and she
Speaker 3: just like walked away.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You really got to start lying. You really got to
Speaker 1: start lying when people ask you about this. I think, so,
Speaker 1: what is what's the truth? Can I hear it?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: I hit my face with a with a hot knife.
Speaker 3: I've got a line that runs down and then I've
Speaker 3: got a cut in between my eyes. That was from
Speaker 3: a rifle scope.
Speaker 1: Okay, Uh you said it's from a rifle scope.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's too close to it.
Speaker 1: Uh, Like you were shooting, you shot a rifle and
Speaker 1: then there was kickback and the scope smacked in the face.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a pretty cool story too.
Speaker 3: It's it's a story.
Speaker 1: Were you killing something?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: No, why are you shooting rifle?
Speaker 3: I was hunting with a friend, who's listening to this,
Speaker 3: so he gets his story gets to be told in
Speaker 3: front of your audience.
Speaker 1: What were you trying to kill?
Speaker 3: We were on a deer hunt. He shot out a deer,
Speaker 3: didn't hit it. It was like the last bullets, Like,
Speaker 3: do you want me to try? I get it. I'm
Speaker 3: not used to shooting with scopes, so I got way
Speaker 3: too close to it and shot in it. Cut my
Speaker 3: cut me open.
Speaker 1: Trying to shoot a deer and then the gun kicks
Speaker 1: you back in the face. Feels like a real Elmer
Speaker 1: Fudd moment. Sure does, Like that's something that would happen
Speaker 1: if Elmer Fudd. Like Elmer Fudd's trying to shoot.
Speaker 3: And like the barrel bends around, and.
Speaker 1: The barrel bens around. Yeah, yeah, Elmer. And then what
Speaker 1: how what was the other scar from? You said from
Speaker 1: a knife?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a hot knife. I was I was
Speaker 3: trying to straighten it while it was hot, and I
Speaker 3: knocked it into my face.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it was welding, not welding, but it was
Speaker 1: it was hot. Why was the knife hot because you
Speaker 1: put it in the forge, right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, so you were blacksmithing blacksmithing, yes, okay, so it
Speaker 1: is related, Yes, the way I did. M okay.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Someone had said, what's the someone? Someone wants to know
Speaker 1: what the weirdest thing you've welded is.
Speaker 3: Well, I assume by welded the means what I've made,
Speaker 3: because I'm not. I'm not actually a welder. I haven't
Speaker 3: made a lot of weird stuff. I've met a few
Speaker 3: sword swords for commission, and they've They're a little funky,
Speaker 3: but not really any weird stuff.
Speaker 1: Someone wants to know, Uh, let me look at let
Speaker 1: me look through these. Someone asked me if I've ever
Speaker 1: tried the deadlift two hundred pounds. I don't like the deadlift.
Speaker 1: Always feel like I'm gonna hurt my back. I just
Speaker 1: don't do it.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: Someone asked, do you like your life the way it
Speaker 1: is now?
Speaker 3: As much as I complain about that, I do. I
Speaker 3: think this is the life I was meant to have.
Speaker 1: That's nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so sweet.
Speaker 1: M okay. Hold on. There's a lot of people asking
Speaker 1: if you ever worked with Damascus.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you already.
Speaker 1: Answered that question. Someone said, do you believe in aliens?
Speaker 2: M I guess.
Speaker 1: Someone asked, what is your McDonald's order.
Speaker 3: Anything? That comes with a sprite.
Speaker 1: Okay, one final question. Have you ever done a spinning attack?
Speaker 1: Like when like when you're playing Zelda and you hold
Speaker 1: b and you do like a fucking spin attack? You
Speaker 1: ever done that?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: No, I get dizzy.
Speaker 1: Hey, Wyatt, Yeah, I enjoyed having this conversation with you.
Speaker 1: This was this was really nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for having me and uh.
Speaker 1: Sorry I dropped my glove.
Speaker 3: Oh ship, Yeah, thank you for behind me.
Speaker 1: Is there is there anything else you wanted to talk
Speaker 1: about or say or anything that maybe we didn't cover
Speaker 1: before we go?
Speaker 3: Nope, on to the next call.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Thank you, Wyatt.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 1: I like that guy. I I I want to make
Speaker 1: I want to remake Skyrim. But when you go to
Speaker 1: the Blacksmith, it's just that guy and he's nice. Hello.
Speaker 4: Hello, how are we Hey?
Speaker 1: I'm doing good boss. What's your name?
Speaker 2: My name is Dale?
Speaker 1: Dale? What a great name? Like the race car ga.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like the like that car driver, the one that
Speaker 4: goes like left or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like the race car driver, or like the fucking
Speaker 1: chipmunk from the Disney cartoons.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that guy one who likes the nut or whatnot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he likes we got you got a guy
Speaker 1: who likes nuts and a guy who likes cars, and
Speaker 1: then we got you, and I don't know what you like,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna find out by talking to you.
Speaker 4: I'm all about loath, but I'd be more than happy
Speaker 4: to tell you more.
Speaker 1: What's uh? What's up? Dale? Is there anything in particular
Speaker 1: you called in to want to talk about? Todad ah?
Speaker 4: I mean, so far, it seems like we've had a
Speaker 4: pretty good uh following and just like talking like jobs
Speaker 4: and careers, So I think I might continue.
Speaker 2: That little path.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, what do you do?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 4: I'm a brand ambassador for an energy drink company. I'm
Speaker 4: not sure if I should actually say the uh.
Speaker 1: Brand ambassador for an er Okay, I'm gonna talk to
Speaker 1: you for a little bit, and then if I feel
Speaker 1: like it's right, I'll ask you to reveal what the
Speaker 1: energy drink company is, but let's keep it a secret
Speaker 1: for now.
Speaker 2: Cool? What uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Tell me more about that?
Speaker 4: So, like, my primary focus is like I drive like
Speaker 4: this big food truck that's been like souped up to
Speaker 4: like I don't know it be like hip and cool
Speaker 4: with the young folk.
Speaker 2: Mm hm and uh.
Speaker 4: I pretty much just drive it around the country, going
Speaker 4: to like music festival. Uh certain, Oh, not trying to
Speaker 4: give too much away, but uh, going to like themed events.
Speaker 4: I've done a couple of comedy shows, and uh do
Speaker 4: like tailgates for like big football games things like that.
Speaker 1: Cool.
Speaker 4: Pretty much just get out there and just pass out
Speaker 4: for a drinks and stuff to people.
Speaker 1: Had you had did you get the job?
Speaker 4: So funny enough, I was actually working events and like
Speaker 4: helping build concerts at a local stagehand for a hot minute,
Speaker 4: and eventually I got injured. I got a forty pound
Speaker 4: pelican dropped on my head Jesus and got injured. Yeah,
Speaker 4: So like it was one of those moments where I
Speaker 4: was like just trying to heal up. And I left
Speaker 4: that job to go do another job, which was like
Speaker 4: just transporting audio and video equipment across state lines and
Speaker 4: stuff like that, and over time I lost my more
Speaker 4: round for that job, and by that I mean I
Speaker 4: got fired. And from there I was unemployed for a
Speaker 4: hot minute and looked into indeed and just type an
Speaker 4: event specialist until I was hoping I could get back
Speaker 4: into concerts or whatever, and I actually ended up finding
Speaker 4: a position for the Energy drink company and I was
Speaker 4: like okay, like read like the description of the job
Speaker 4: and told myself, yeah, I can do all those things.
Speaker 4: Shouldn't be too hard. Takes like four or five months
Speaker 4: to get hired on. Get hired on, they tell me
Speaker 4: how much money I would be making, and it's nearly
Speaker 4: like double almost tripled what I had been making wow
Speaker 4: prior years. So now I drive a big truck and
Speaker 4: pass out for stuff, which is like my favorite passion.
Speaker 1: That sounds I dude, straight up, not even just not
Speaker 1: just saying this to be wholesome or whatever, that sounds
Speaker 1: like a sick job.
Speaker 2: Dude.
Speaker 4: It's really cool, and like the companies like standards and
Speaker 4: morals and whatnot. It's a pretty progressive company. But they've
Speaker 4: been like they're a core energy drink company, so like
Speaker 4: they've been around for a long time. As like a kid,
Speaker 4: I always said like, oh, I want to be sponsored
Speaker 4: by these people because I used to skateboard growing up.
Speaker 4: And now that I'm working for them, I'm like, I'm
Speaker 4: finding out I'm kind of more sponsored than like actual
Speaker 4: athletes under this brand.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, let me don't talk, don't tell
Speaker 1: me what it is, but let me throw out one guess, okay,
Speaker 1: is it is it Monster Energy?
Speaker 4: It sure is.
Speaker 1: Oh that's so cool. You drive You drive the Monster
Speaker 1: energy truck, dude.
Speaker 4: So that's like the funniest part is I tell people
Speaker 4: I drive the monster truck, and people like, their first
Speaker 4: like thought is, oh shit, dude, you drive a monster truck.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I do technically drive a monster truck. You're living.
Speaker 4: You're living the thought that like I drive this like huge, massive,
Speaker 4: fucking like sports truck whenever reality, I drive a food truck.
Speaker 1: You're living the plot of the movie Role Models. You
Speaker 1: know that movie.
Speaker 4: Oh, dude, I remember that movie when it first came out.
Speaker 4: I have never been in a big film guy, so
Speaker 4: I've never actually seen it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they drive like a fucking monster energy truck or
Speaker 1: it's some energy drink damn. So you drive the that's
Speaker 1: so okay. Wait, tell me, okay, not for this to like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't want this to turn into a big ad
Speaker 1: for Monster, but I I'm just following my natural curiosity.
Speaker 1: You telling me you like this company because it's got
Speaker 1: strong morals. Tell me what does that mean? Like Monster
Speaker 1: has strong morals?
Speaker 4: Strong morals. I might have used the wrong wording there,
Speaker 4: but it's just kind of like everything that like I've
Speaker 4: always stuck to, which is just kind of like keeping
Speaker 4: more of an alternative and like a I guess, like
Speaker 4: an edgier vibe of things like you whenever I like
Speaker 4: I got into the workplace, like my biggest problem is
Speaker 4: like I'm pretty heavily tattooed, So like when I got
Speaker 4: in there, I was really worried that some of my
Speaker 4: tattoos that were gonna be like, oh, we can't hire
Speaker 4: this guy because you know he's he's he added the
Speaker 4: fuck up. But no, they told me that, like my
Speaker 4: look that I walked in with was exactly what they
Speaker 4: were looking for for my position. They were sounds kind
Speaker 4: of weird, but like they were looking for someone who
Speaker 4: has an edgier and more alternative.
Speaker 2: Look for the role.
Speaker 1: Fuck it no, that's why, bro, that's who I want
Speaker 1: handing me a free can of Monster Energy is a
Speaker 1: tattled up guy named Dale dude.
Speaker 4: And that's like that's another like great thing is like
Speaker 4: I was working, uh this festival called Bridge to Day
Speaker 4: up in West Virginia, and like I'll talk a little
Speaker 4: bit more on that in a second, but uh, there
Speaker 4: was there was a group of girls who had walked by.
Speaker 4: At one point, they like point out the truck. They
Speaker 4: were like, that's what a monster dude looks like. And
Speaker 4: I was like so like self fulfilled in that moment,
Speaker 4: was like, Yeah, I fit into this job role.
Speaker 1: That kicks ass man. That's so cool. Right, wow? So
Speaker 1: how long you've been doing that for?
Speaker 4: So I've actually only been doing it for about uh
Speaker 4: like five maybe six months?
Speaker 1: Now is this a long term thing?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Is this a career that you can like hang out
Speaker 1: at for five years?
Speaker 4: So likely for at least five years, because it's the
Speaker 4: brand that I work under, specifically, h like the monster
Speaker 4: like sub brand has been around for almost ten years.
Speaker 4: I think they started a program about five years ago.
Speaker 4: But if it ever goes away, so likely just moved
Speaker 4: me off into like a different branding position, I would hope,
Speaker 4: Or they'll just make me drive a different truck, which
Speaker 4: would also be cool as long as I still get
Speaker 4: to like shoot out to events and continue doing my passion.
Speaker 1: It sounds like I really can't like this sounds like
Speaker 1: a sick fucking job. How old are you?
Speaker 4: I am twenty five?
Speaker 1: Very cool, very cool? Now, how do you are you
Speaker 1: in the truck alone or is there somebody else helping
Speaker 1: you out.
Speaker 4: So normally on events, we have local crews everywhere across
Speaker 4: the country, and sometimes they will pair me with one
Speaker 4: or two people. But there have been many events where
Speaker 4: I have gone out and I'm just like solo sampled.
Speaker 4: So like most of the events that I've solo sampled
Speaker 4: were looking at like a population of like maybe four
Speaker 4: to seven thousand people, but like Bridge Day is a
Speaker 4: great example of that was an attendance of two hundred
Speaker 4: thousand patrons.
Speaker 1: Now I feel like I had two sorry guys, go ahead,
Speaker 1: go ahead.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, okay, fine, but I had two other guys
Speaker 4: with me that day, because I mean do we were
Speaker 4: just we were slammed the entire day. It's a wonderful time.
Speaker 4: Absolutely loved being that busy and being able to deserve
Speaker 4: that many people. But without the other two guys, I
Speaker 4: would have been swamp and probably would have drowned in
Speaker 4: that moment.
Speaker 1: So cool. So I feel like, tell me what your
Speaker 1: interactions with these people have been like, because I assume
Speaker 1: that people who are like at a music festival on
Speaker 1: drugs or or drunk or whatever getting a free thing
Speaker 1: from you are probably in a good mood.
Speaker 4: So dude, it's like actually really polarizing, and I mean
Speaker 4: it's one of the reasons I love the job. I'm
Speaker 4: a huge people person. So like there's so many people
Speaker 4: that come up and like we've attended the event like
Speaker 4: years prior, and they come up and they're like, Yo,
Speaker 4: no way the monster truck, Dude, we missed you guys,
Speaker 4: Like we've been looking around for you all day, and
Speaker 4: like that's always like such a good feeling because like
Speaker 4: they always leave with like smiles on their face and like.
Speaker 1: We fucking love you.
Speaker 4: Oh, you guys are great. And I mean that's always
Speaker 4: like the sunshine is like an event for me. And
Speaker 4: then there's also people who come by and they just
Speaker 4: don't know about the brand, and I tell them on
Speaker 4: the brand, and you know, they leave away with a
Speaker 4: little bit or they walk away with a little bit
Speaker 4: of knowledge of like the drink itself, how the can looks,
Speaker 4: so they can find it in store, and also they
Speaker 4: get to try the flavor and they can give me
Speaker 4: like positive or negative feedback on it. I always appreciate
Speaker 4: it because I drink some of the things sometimes. But uh,
Speaker 4: and then you have people who walk up and they're like,
Speaker 4: uh uh I drink. I drink dark coffee and dark
Speaker 4: coffee only I'm drinking, and blacks don't offer me nothing else.
Speaker 4: I'm like, okay, yeah, no, it's freeze.
Speaker 1: You ask people. Oh, people think that you're trying to
Speaker 1: like sell it or whatever.
Speaker 4: Dude, Dude, that's the biggest that's the biggest problem with
Speaker 4: the job. And like I'm doing, I'm working on ways
Speaker 4: right now to like kind of get around, like people
Speaker 4: like seeing my truck because I was actually just in
Speaker 4: Miami not long ago for art bossals cool and uh
Speaker 4: I was like pretty much just posted up on the
Speaker 4: side of the sidewalk, so like people would see my
Speaker 4: food truck with canopy open and they would they would
Speaker 4: see the truck and they'd go, oh, that guy's gonna
Speaker 4: try to sell me something, and they would cross the street.
Speaker 4: And it would completely like I thought it all day
Speaker 4: long for like five days, like where people would like
Speaker 4: make eye contact with the truck go uh huh uh huh,
Speaker 4: and then would just cross the street.
Speaker 1: Little do they know they could have gotten something for free, dude.
Speaker 2: And that's the thing.
Speaker 4: People will walk by all the time and they'll try
Speaker 4: to ignore me. You know, like whenever people try to
Speaker 4: talk to you and I like the mall key off,
Speaker 4: they're like, hey, man, can I clean your shooes? And
Speaker 4: You're like just keep walking and they won't notice.
Speaker 1: Mm I.
Speaker 4: You know, I always try to like offer up, like hey,
Speaker 4: would you like a complimentary Monster? And if they keep walking,
Speaker 4: I'm like, okay, don't I don't understand how you don't
Speaker 4: like free stuff? And they're like, wait, hold up did
Speaker 4: you say it's free? And they'd snap back around real
Speaker 4: fast and come grab something.
Speaker 1: So you said this is like it's like a sub brand.
Speaker 1: But because you're well, okay, a couple of things. One,
Speaker 1: you said that people like give you feedback on the flavors.
Speaker 1: Do you like send your feedback to Monster HQ? Like
Speaker 1: are you single handedly influencing the taste of Monster Energy drink?
Speaker 4: No, that was the case, there would be a Chai Monster.
Speaker 4: So I don't work under Monster cream like the standard
Speaker 4: like Monster. I work for the coffee brand the Java side.
Speaker 1: Oh you work for Java Monster? Yeah, okay, let me
Speaker 1: all right. I have I have actually opinions about Java Monster.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, Oh, I though, I there's been like
Speaker 1: one or two I've had a Java Monster maybe one
Speaker 1: or two times in my life, and uh, when I
Speaker 1: wake up. There's been times where like I wake up
Speaker 1: from a nap and I'm just like insanely groggy and dehydrated,
Speaker 1: and I drink a Java Monster and I'm like, this
Speaker 1: is the most fucking delicious thing I've ever had. And
Speaker 1: then I look and I'm like, oh, there's about three
Speaker 1: hundred grams of sugar in this fucking can.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And see, that's the bad side about trying to
Speaker 4: market it to older people. Not calling you old Viisle
Speaker 4: Happy Birthday, by the way, But you know a lot
Speaker 4: of young people like sixteen to like twenty, they're not
Speaker 4: really looking for those labels. They don't really care. But
Speaker 4: we make it super sweet with real cream, real sugar
Speaker 4: and everything else so that younger people will like it.
Speaker 4: And you know a lot of older folk will come
Speaker 4: by and be like, hm, it's got like sixty grams
Speaker 4: of sugar in and I'm like, yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 4: what the kids like. But yeah, no, it has a
Speaker 4: lot of sugar. But another thing that I have to
Speaker 4: tell people, because a lot of people have the misconception
Speaker 4: that Monster Java is just like the standard energy drink,
Speaker 4: but we make it coffee flavored, and it's not that
Speaker 4: it's like no, yeah.
Speaker 1: No, it's yeah. If you just if you just put
Speaker 1: like if you just took like coffee with cream in
Speaker 1: it and then you poured a Monster energy into it,
Speaker 1: that would be disgusting.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's hilarious that you work for Java Monster. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this, how many of those? Because
Speaker 1: how many of those do you drink a day? Because
Speaker 1: if the answer is you drink at least one a day,
Speaker 1: I have to assume that you've significantly shortened your lifespan.
Speaker 4: So fun story and like kind of ironic because I
Speaker 4: don't really drink a lot of the Monster products. I
Speaker 4: don't drink like any energy drinks for that matter. I
Speaker 4: have a little bit of a Coca cola problem. I
Speaker 4: love a good soda, but it's just a little too
Speaker 4: much caffeine for me. I get jittery and anxious.
Speaker 1: M do you drink while you're on the job.
Speaker 4: I'll drink whenever an element because like sometimes I'll be
Speaker 4: posted up for like eight or nine hours, so like
Speaker 4: I'll grab a water, might drink half of a coffee
Speaker 4: because I mean truly, like the Javas. I do think
Speaker 4: that they're all really good. It's just I know I
Speaker 4: cannot handle drinking an entire one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're delicious, They're just like fucking like five hundred
Speaker 1: calories or whatever. Are there gonna this is a this
Speaker 1: is not even uh, this is not a I'm just
Speaker 1: asking this of my own pure like, this is just
Speaker 1: for me. Are they working on like a zero sugar,
Speaker 1: zero calorie version of the Java Monster. I'd fuck with
Speaker 1: that heavily.
Speaker 4: See, I have absolutely no idea. I'm actually like not
Speaker 4: that like deep into the program. I just I'm just
Speaker 4: kind of like branding out on event.
Speaker 1: This is cool. I love this is such a fun job.
Speaker 1: Like if I weren't doing what I do, I would
Speaker 1: love to do your job. That sounds well, let me here.
Speaker 1: We'll say, I'm gonna let the twitch chat throw some
Speaker 1: questions in there that I'll ask that, and I'll ask
Speaker 1: to you, what's your life like outside of driving the
Speaker 1: Monster Energy truck? Do you like life? Oh?
Speaker 2: Dude?
Speaker 4: I mean, uh, personally, I'm a pretty depressive dude. But
Speaker 4: I mean I just play video games. I used to
Speaker 4: paint and draw because I've before I worked for like
Speaker 4: concerts and getting into a Monster. I used to like
Speaker 4: want to be a tattoo artist and things, and that
Speaker 4: kind of like falls into this position as well because
Speaker 4: I get to draw up on the shock boards and
Speaker 4: whatnot my truck. But uh, I mean no, man, I
Speaker 4: kind of like dropped a lot of my hobbies to
Speaker 4: focus on like just becoming more financially forward and more
Speaker 4: successful in my future, which is like kind of sad
Speaker 4: because you need like a good balance, but I'm so
Speaker 4: fucking busy at this point that like it's hard to
Speaker 4: balance the two.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like your job has helped with your depression?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: For sure, because I get to go to work and
Speaker 4: actually do something that I enjoy every day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have to imagine, like, uh, well, it's funny
Speaker 1: because like traditional retail is like miserable for so many people.
Speaker 1: But what you're doing, just like handing shit out for
Speaker 1: free and getting to talk to people and whatnot, seems
Speaker 1: like it's nice.
Speaker 4: Oh dude, it's such a pleasure in my eyes, because
Speaker 4: like it's ninety five percent of time it's just smiles.
Speaker 1: Okay. Somebody said, uh, uh, what's Monster's mission statement?
Speaker 4: You know, that's a crazy question. I have no idea.
Speaker 1: Uh have you ever scored a chick's number from doing this?
Speaker 4: I am very happily in a committed relationship. There could
Speaker 4: definitely have been times I probably could have, but it's
Speaker 4: not really my goal focus while working my job.
Speaker 1: My man, has anyone complained about getting a free monster?
Speaker 4: I've had a lot of people like I hand it
Speaker 4: out for Finna, like why are you doing this? Like
Speaker 4: there's some kind of catch because like I've had like
Speaker 4: kind of fish people and I'm like, I'm not trying
Speaker 4: to tell you nothing. I'm not gonna tell you anything.
Speaker 4: Just come grab a can. It's absolutely agree And people
Speaker 4: are like, there's no way it's free. Why why are
Speaker 4: you doing this? And I can't like really look at
Speaker 4: our our clients, like our patrons, face to face and
Speaker 4: be like we're doing it because it's really good for branding.
Speaker 4: But I mean that's essentially what it is.
Speaker 1: Well why why why wouldn't Why wouldn't you? I think
Speaker 1: that's a fair truth to say. Why don't you look
Speaker 1: at that? That that's that's a solid truth. We're giving
Speaker 1: away for free for marketing. That's true.
Speaker 4: The thing is is a lot of companies would would
Speaker 4: prevent going out that way. I mean, there's a lot
Speaker 4: of radical companies that are very much that way. But
Speaker 4: I think in our vision of doing our marketing was
Speaker 4: we don't want to seem desperate to get rid of
Speaker 4: our stuff, because I mean, at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: we are canning out thousands upon thousands of dollars.
Speaker 3: You're absolutely free.
Speaker 1: Someone wants to know, have you experienced any road range?
Speaker 1: Have you experienced any road rage in the Monster truck? Oh?
Speaker 4: Dude, I don't want to like get rid of I
Speaker 4: don't know if like any of my bosses or co
Speaker 4: workers well over here this so like I'm gonna say this,
Speaker 4: driving in Miami was terrible. Not gonna not gonna go
Speaker 4: much deeper than that. But if you've ever driven in
Speaker 4: Miami you probably understand.
Speaker 1: What I mean. I don't how much deeper can you
Speaker 1: really get on that? Very very Uh? Is Monster a
Speaker 1: demonic company? I have heard some rumors about that, dude.
Speaker 4: Everyone at Monster is an absolute joy to work with.
Speaker 4: The higher ups. Like it's really hard to explain, like
Speaker 4: feeling so comfortable in a workplace, like getting it and
Speaker 4: like I feel like a boot liquor right now, saying
Speaker 4: I'll be thinks because I've always been like, man, screw
Speaker 4: major Corporation's a terrible bell. But like, I don't know, man,
Speaker 4: it seems like everyone's on the same page, a monster.
Speaker 4: We all want to have a good time. We all
Speaker 4: want to do the job. The job has to get done.
Speaker 4: And uh, I mean we go out to these event
Speaker 4: and we're going there for the people there. The people
Speaker 4: at the event are what makes our jobs worth it.
Speaker 1: And I I, oh, go ahead, Oh no, no, I
Speaker 1: want to let you finish.
Speaker 4: Oh do all word moomb And I have no idea
Speaker 4: what I was about to say.
Speaker 1: So well, someone was gonna say. Someone said, this isn't
Speaker 1: this is more of a comment. Someone's saying, I'm getting
Speaker 1: heart palpitations just listening to this guy.
Speaker 4: What does that mean?
Speaker 1: Because you because you sell them? Okay, I thought you
Speaker 1: would think that was funny because you sell Monster energy.
Speaker 4: Anyway, Oh okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, someone said, okay, this one. I also think I'm
Speaker 1: not asking. I'm not posing this to you as a
Speaker 1: real question. I'm posing this to you as this is
Speaker 1: also something funny. In the chat, someone said, do you
Speaker 1: think you have the ability to have children? Still? I
Speaker 1: guess considering, but you don't even you don't drink the
Speaker 1: monster that much, so you're.
Speaker 4: Fine, Oh yeah, no, I don't figurely drink it, but
Speaker 4: also not really that interested in having kids.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see here, what's the least favorite events
Speaker 1: you worked for? Give me least.
Speaker 4: So, I mean, that's hard to like really jot down.
Speaker 4: I would say that one of my least favorite things
Speaker 4: that I've done is doing like more like just passing
Speaker 4: out at like very very small get togethers. I won't
Speaker 4: I won't listen anything, as we have major contracts with people.
Speaker 4: But I mean, one of my favorite things that I've
Speaker 4: done so far was working this one music festival called
Speaker 4: what was it? I think it's born and raised the
Speaker 4: country music festival. And I'm not much of a country
Speaker 4: music kind of guy, but the people who were camping
Speaker 4: out there were such a good time to talk to
Speaker 4: and interact with and passing things out to them. They
Speaker 4: were just so stoked because most of them are drunk
Speaker 4: or hungover or doing some kind of drug and they're like,
Speaker 4: you're saying, I can have this for free, and I'm like, yeah, dude,
Speaker 4: just take it, get out of here, and they just
Speaker 4: like They'll come back three or four times throughout the day, like, hey, man,
Speaker 4: the the you know, the whole festivals. That's like really
Speaker 4: get going. I need something to keep it going. I'm like, sure, dude,
Speaker 4: I get it. So like being at music festivals where
Speaker 4: like there's a whole lot of people camping, waking up
Speaker 4: early in the morning ready to drink a coffee. That's
Speaker 4: like hmm. It's like a good sweet spot for me
Speaker 4: because I love music festivals. I love seeing people getting
Speaker 4: like super excited to go have like the time of
Speaker 4: their life for like a whole week.
Speaker 1: I have one all right, I got one final question
Speaker 1: from the chat, and it's an important one. Okay, Okay.
Speaker 1: They want to know the Red Bull car, you know,
Speaker 1: the one with the big red.
Speaker 4: Do you guys buy the Red Bull car while driving?
Speaker 1: Do you guys have beef with the Red Bull car?
Speaker 4: I don't know if like other monster people have like
Speaker 4: problems with them with the Red Bull car. Personally, whenever
Speaker 4: I saw it on the inter state, I spuit up
Speaker 4: or sped up till I get next to it so
Speaker 4: I can like wave at them all goofy, like yeah,
Speaker 4: because like there's no beef with me. Personally because I
Speaker 4: think like with Monster and Red Bull kind of being
Speaker 4: like the uh, the core giants of the energy drink world.
Speaker 4: I think there's like a mutual respect. We're not really
Speaker 4: like competition. It's like a mutual respect between the two companies.
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if there's a way that both you and
Speaker 1: I can make money off of this phone call from Monster,
Speaker 1: But I don't. I don't think there is no.
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure if honestly, if I hire up here
Speaker 4: is this, there's a possibility I could lose my job.
Speaker 4: But it's such a cool thing.
Speaker 1: To talk about, So like, why would you hold on?
Speaker 1: Why would you? First of all, that's why would you
Speaker 1: lose your job? Talking about this on the podcast you're
Speaker 1: giving a you are giving free advertising two Monster Energy. Honestly,
Speaker 1: hearing you talk about this, I'm talking about how lost
Speaker 1: in the company is. It's making me want a job
Speaker 1: a Monster right now.
Speaker 4: I mean, please, And then why would.
Speaker 1: You why would you get why would you get in
Speaker 1: trouble for this?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Monster's a pretty specific like you can go on Amazon
Speaker 4: right now and type in Monster Energy T shirt and
Speaker 4: you'll get thousands of thousands of results. For that right,
Speaker 4: But the branding that Monster does is so specific, like
Speaker 4: you wouldn't understand, like looking at the two logos, like
Speaker 4: which one is like the legitimate one, because there's such
Speaker 4: tiny little details that Monster puts in there, like even
Speaker 4: like getting like our custom merchandise that like the drivers
Speaker 4: and stuff, where the branding team is like super super
Speaker 4: specific about who gets it, who can wear it, How
Speaker 4: the labels can be like put on there, like everything
Speaker 4: is like to a key of like what is allowed
Speaker 4: in the company. So like I don't know, maybe talking
Speaker 4: and trying to brand over the phone.
Speaker 2: I.
Speaker 1: Hold on hella hala, But this conversation is not an
Speaker 1: attempt to brand. This is just a conversation that you
Speaker 1: and I are having with no corporate interest except for
Speaker 1: the except for the ads that I am going to
Speaker 1: put in this podcast. Other than that.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, if it happens, it happens. But if
Speaker 4: it doesn't, you know, keep living my best life up
Speaker 4: Monster energy.
Speaker 1: I predict that you will be fine no matter what
Speaker 1: happens to you.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 1: I hope the same for myself and everyone listening.
Speaker 4: I agree. I agree. Well, here lyle, let me ask
Speaker 4: you one more question, all right, do you have anything
Speaker 4: to say to the people over their phones and mobile devices?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Nothing, I haven't said already a thousand times.
Speaker 3: Do you fair enough?
Speaker 4: If you don't like your job, please find something in
Speaker 4: your weird niche that may fit into it, or keep
Speaker 4: looking for better because realistically, if you were good job
Speaker 4: that you're not happy in, you were just setting yourself
Speaker 4: up for a career that you will not be happy in.
Speaker 1: Fin will you do me a favorite dale If you don't,
Speaker 1: if you ever see me make an Instagram post that
Speaker 1: I'm retiring the Therapy Getico podcast, please hit me up
Speaker 1: and let me know if there's any positions available to
Speaker 1: drive the monster truck.
Speaker 4: Dude, I have, I mean, honestly, if you whenever you
Speaker 4: go back on tour, probably in like twenty twenty six
Speaker 4: or whatever. Right, I'll meet up with you after the shot.
Speaker 4: I've seen you twice now, Oh you have. I didn't
Speaker 4: meet up with you at either of the two shows
Speaker 4: because I was like, that line is crazy and I.
Speaker 1: Sell which which way? Which two shows?
Speaker 2: Nashville?
Speaker 1: Oh cool? Oh cool? All right, cool cool man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: next time, next time I come to Nashville, pull up
Speaker 1: on the truck.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I could actually possibly talk to marketing about that,
Speaker 4: but yeah, I'll definitely see what's going on. If not,
Speaker 4: I'll just come talk to you Dale.
Speaker 1: God bless you keep doing great work out there, and uh,
Speaker 1: I'll talk to you in another life.
Speaker 2: Stay sextually. Ye.
Speaker 1: Also, happy birthday, dude, Hey, thanks man, Thank care. Hello, Hello, Hey,
Speaker 1: what's your name?
Speaker 2: I'm Derek, Derek.
Speaker 1: What's up, Derek? How you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing pretty good, dude. Happy birthday?
Speaker 1: Oh, thanks man. I appreciate that. It is. It is
Speaker 1: at the time of this recording my birthday, I'm turning.
Speaker 1: I'm turning twenty seven. I feel good about twenty seven.
Speaker 1: That feels like a good age. I feel my I
Speaker 1: remember being like thirteen and thinking twenty seven was really old,
Speaker 1: and I feel pretty I feel pretty young. Actually, I
Speaker 1: feel pretty young. Yeah, how old are you? How old
Speaker 1: are you?
Speaker 2: Do? I'm twenty seven as well?
Speaker 1: Actually, oh okay, all right, well maybe this is good.
Speaker 1: Maybe this is a good call to have on my
Speaker 1: birthday and we can talk talk talk to seven. How's
Speaker 1: your how's your experience of being twenty seven going?
Speaker 2: You know, it's pretty good, but at this age it
Speaker 2: kind of like was the point where like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: it seems like I've become more conscious. I've become more like,
Speaker 2: you know, I feel like I should how do I say,
Speaker 2: be less of a dumb ass?
Speaker 1: Oooh okay, well let's get into that. What do you
Speaker 1: I mean two questions? What do you say you feel
Speaker 1: like you should be more conscious? What do you feel
Speaker 1: like you should be more conscious of? And and what
Speaker 1: does not being a dumb ass look like?
Speaker 2: So it's more of the not being a dumb ass part.
Speaker 1: I guess, like, Okay, you're trying to be conscious of
Speaker 1: not being a dumb ass. So what is not being Yeah?
Speaker 1: Exactly what is not being a dumb ass look like?
Speaker 2: One solid example of not being a dumb ass is
Speaker 2: so I went to school and I had student loans, right,
Speaker 2: and I just was like, ah, yeah, that's not real.
Speaker 2: I don't have to pay that, you know, and I
Speaker 2: you know, just forget about it for many years. I
Speaker 2: probably it's been probably since twenty seventeen that I got
Speaker 2: out of college and I just started paying it back
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 1: What do you do?
Speaker 2: I am a a welder, a welder and fabricator.
Speaker 1: Oh that's so cool, that's like you you really have.
Speaker 1: It must be nice to in the year twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four have a job that was around in like the
Speaker 1: fifteen hundreds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, something like that, something like it's cool. I do it.
Speaker 2: I do enjoy my job though. It is really cool
Speaker 2: and I have fun doing it.
Speaker 1: What do you make? You make swords?
Speaker 2: I've never made a sword, but I could. What I
Speaker 2: actually make is industrial mixers. We're talking like, I mean,
Speaker 2: some of them you could live in. They're so fucking big.
Speaker 2: And I've made mixers for like anything from coffee to
Speaker 2: rat poison McCormick spices, all sorts of stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Now, at twenty seven, do you feel young or old?
Speaker 2: I still feel pretty young, honestly. I mean I don't
Speaker 2: feel that old at all, like you were kind of
Speaker 2: saying earlier, like it's not. Yeah, I don't feel old really,
Speaker 2: and I wonder as I do get older and older, Well,
Speaker 2: I feel old maybe physically, but not mentally. Hard to say.
Speaker 1: It's second to my dad. Last time I saw him,
Speaker 1: He's about sixty six or something like that, and he
Speaker 1: told me he remembered being my age and thinking about
Speaker 1: what it would be like to be sixty six and
Speaker 1: how he could have never imagined it, and now that
Speaker 1: he's sixty six, he feels pretty good. And I am
Speaker 1: inspired by that, you know how I feel. I feel
Speaker 1: kind of like I feel like I'm on extra credit
Speaker 1: mode at twenty seven. I feel like I have three
Speaker 1: more years to really roll some dice and fuck around
Speaker 1: and do whatever until I turn thirty. Like I feel young,
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm not yet thirty, and I got
Speaker 1: three more years to just keep sucking it up until
Speaker 1: we get there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, if I plan in my life correctly, if
Speaker 1: I execute certain whatever things or come to certain understandings
Speaker 1: or build certain habits, I could really, I think, have
Speaker 1: a better life in my thirties. I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be reborn into some new person. That's what I'm hoping.
Speaker 2: You will become an ethereal gek at thirty most.
Speaker 1: Likely who fucking knows, but I know, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: it's hopefully not hopefully it's something ethereal right. Right, Well listen,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I just wanted to give you the opportunity.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you called in to talk about
Speaker 1: anything particular.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, I have a couple things. I write
Speaker 2: down stuff every once in a while if I think
Speaker 2: it'd be cool to talk to you about cool.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I guess one thing is so I stop
Speaker 2: smoking weed much lately, and that's actually part of repaying
Speaker 2: my student loan. I'm trying to cut shit out as
Speaker 2: much as I can so I can just throw large
Speaker 2: sums of money at it. And a dream that I
Speaker 2: had and there was a result of not smoking weed,
Speaker 2: I'm having more dreams, right yep, yeah, for sure. And
Speaker 2: so the other night I had a dream and you
Speaker 2: you were in my dream.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what was your dream?
Speaker 2: So we were outside in the driveway of my childhood
Speaker 2: home and we had a dining room table set up
Speaker 2: with a bunch of people where we were having a
Speaker 2: lovely dinner outside at night in my driveway and we
Speaker 2: and you were still wearing the gecko suit and we were
Speaker 2: we were talking and we had an emotional moment, like,
Speaker 2: you know, we were talking and you were telling me
Speaker 2: something very uh and you know, I don't remember what
Speaker 2: the words were, but you know, there were tears, we
Speaker 2: were crying, we were you know, it was it was
Speaker 2: a beautiful moment though. At the end of the day
Speaker 2: and we we we finished up that conversation went back
Speaker 2: to the uh, to the table to sit down, and
Speaker 2: then somebody sat down next to us, and he was
Speaker 2: kind of just a guy with a comically large chin.
Speaker 2: And I looked over at him and said, who the
Speaker 2: hell are you supposed to be? Jay Leno? And we
Speaker 2: laughed really hard. Whether or not that's actually funny, we
Speaker 2: laughed really hard at that, mm hmm. And then I
Speaker 2: woke up.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like, okay, haven't, now that we're talking
Speaker 1: on the phone in real life, is the conversation that
Speaker 1: we've been having anything close to the conversation that we
Speaker 1: had in in your dreams?
Speaker 2: I would say, not the you know, not the emotional part,
Speaker 2: you know, because we're not we're not getting too deep
Speaker 2: into the into the weeds that right now, you know,
Speaker 2: But it you, It is very much the same vibe.
Speaker 2: I suppose.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you and I were like on M
Speaker 1: D M A in this dream or something like that,
Speaker 1: and we were really spilling our guts to each other.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's kind of the vibe of it.
Speaker 1: Honestly, that's interesting.
Speaker 2: And this was another yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, go ahead. I was gonna ask who else
Speaker 1: was at the dinner table if if there was anyone
Speaker 1: else there was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was other people, other costumed people.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, so who are who are the other Who
Speaker 1: were the other costumes?
Speaker 2: God, I don't remember. The only specific one that I
Speaker 2: remember is the guy who pulled up looking like the
Speaker 2: Crimson and Chin and Jay Leno mixed together.
Speaker 1: It sounded like you, you know what? You know what
Speaker 1: this reminds me of? You had like a weird like
Speaker 1: where the wild Things are adventure, but instead of big beasts,
Speaker 1: it's like fucking dudes who look like me in animal costumes.
Speaker 1: You you did, you you pulled? You stop smoking weed
Speaker 1: and then your brain pulled a where the wild things are?
Speaker 2: For sure? Dude. And I guess another thing I've at
Speaker 2: least been interested in talking to you about is.
Speaker 1: It's Smash Smash Brothers. Super Smash Brothers.
Speaker 2: Yeah dude, yeah, dude.
Speaker 1: Some people who listen to this show may or may
Speaker 1: not know that. Uh I. I look, I'm not very
Speaker 1: good in comparisons what's out there, But I do regularly
Speaker 1: participate in competitive Super Smash Brothers melee tournaments, which I
Speaker 1: think I've been doing that since like for like a
Speaker 1: decade now. Yeah. I went to my first and so
Speaker 1: tournaments super Smash Con in twenty fifteen, go ahead.
Speaker 2: And so I also given some content so the people
Speaker 2: who don't know. Also, when someone says what Lyle just said,
Speaker 2: they're actually really fucking good at the game.
Speaker 1: Well I'm good. I'm really. Here's the thing. I can
Speaker 1: beat anyone who doesn't like actually play the game, but
Speaker 1: when it comes to people who like actually competitive to
Speaker 1: play the game, I kind of suck.
Speaker 2: Right, No, I know what you mean. And I used
Speaker 2: to kind of be at that level. I went to
Speaker 2: an actual major tournament one which one and also it
Speaker 2: was oh god, I still have the lanyard. What the
Speaker 2: hell was it called Paradigm Shift?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, which was that? Which year is that?
Speaker 2: What would it have been? It was, god, I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe twenty I got I don't remember what year it was,
Speaker 2: but it was it was. It was several years ago though,
Speaker 2: And like who was there? I mean there was no
Speaker 2: like super duper like Heurbo, famous top players there, but
Speaker 2: like there was Myron was there, and he's a he
Speaker 2: you yeah, he plays ultimate. He's an ol Lamar player.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't plan on places for Smash for his Ultimate, right.
Speaker 2: I know you're a you're a million.
Speaker 1: You know, what's funny is where I, like, uh, really
Speaker 1: alienating nine of the podcast listeners by talking about a
Speaker 1: niche subject. But you know, I've all I there's lots
Speaker 1: of times where I'm listening to a podcast and people
Speaker 1: will start talking about like the Eagles or whatever, and
Speaker 1: I don't know what the fuck they're talking about. So
Speaker 1: it's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 2: But you know, also there's there's life lessons to be
Speaker 2: learned from from play and smash, you know, practicing something
Speaker 2: super hard, you know, and this is macro shit, like
Speaker 2: of course, like practicing l canceling is not applicable in
Speaker 2: real life, but like you knowing shit and huh god.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna let you. I'm gonna let you finish,
Speaker 1: and then I'm gonna push back against everything you're saying,
Speaker 1: but go ahead.
Speaker 2: No, So as far as like practicing something and you know,
Speaker 2: really getting into it to the point where you really
Speaker 2: understand it, I guess. Or here's a specific example, when
Speaker 2: you're practicing something the lab for for a long time
Speaker 2: and you're doing it and then you try to do
Speaker 2: it in a real match and it's totally different. And
Speaker 2: then that first time you find where that actually fits,
Speaker 2: you know, in a real match, and you actually do it.
Speaker 2: It's like a religious experience.
Speaker 1: So here's here's my I'm gonna play Devil's Advocate to you,
Speaker 1: and then I'm gonna play Devil's Advocate back to my
Speaker 1: own Devil's Advocate. All right. So yes, I've spent a
Speaker 1: considerable amount of time getting very good at, truly, honest
Speaker 1: to god, a completely useless skill, which is playing competitive
Speaker 1: Supersmash Brothers Melee. And it's even like, getting really good
Speaker 1: at a video game is a completely useless skill. It's
Speaker 1: made even more useless by the fact that the video
Speaker 1: game I got really good at nobody fucking plays anymore.
Speaker 1: It's from two thousand and one, Like if I got
Speaker 1: really good at like Fortnite, and I could be like
Speaker 1: a popular like Fortnite streamer or like whatever League of
Speaker 1: Legends or dotorting and that stuff. Like if I even
Speaker 1: if I like like, it would be slightly better if
Speaker 1: I got really good at a game that people cared about.
Speaker 1: But I got good at a game that no one
Speaker 1: gives a shit about that and I'm about about and
Speaker 1: I'm not even that good at it. So if you're
Speaker 1: considering trying to learn at a place super smash Brother's
Speaker 1: Melee at a high technical level. I strongly urge against
Speaker 1: it because you will waste a lot of time. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's my hold on. Okay, So that so that's
Speaker 1: my devil's advocates everything you just said. And then here's
Speaker 1: my devil's advocate to what I just said, is like,
Speaker 1: you know, sure, but like, what what else are you
Speaker 1: gonna do? What else you gonna do with your fucking
Speaker 1: time or your life?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Like you could sit here and go like, oh, I
Speaker 1: could have spent ten years learning French, but whatever where
Speaker 1: you're gonna spend ten years jerking off and going on
Speaker 1: your phone and not doing anything. So I mean, just
Speaker 1: you know, who gives a shit. You're gonna die, so
Speaker 1: just do whatever, and it's fine. That's my counterpoint to that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess if you do if you I guess
Speaker 1: if you spend the time learning something more like if
Speaker 1: you learn French, maybe you could go to France and
Speaker 1: immerse yourself in something and do you have a rewarding
Speaker 1: experience and whatnot. But usually it's not between getting good
Speaker 1: at competitive video games or doing something else. Usually it's
Speaker 1: doing something versus doing nothing and jerking off and eating food.
Speaker 1: Usually that's what it is. It's not. So that's why
Speaker 1: like opportunity cost is not as interesting to me, because
Speaker 1: the opportunity cost of learning a new thing, of learning
Speaker 1: a skill, even if it's usually not between learning some
Speaker 1: new skill and learning some other ski ill, it's usually
Speaker 1: between learning a new skill and not doing anything. So
Speaker 1: go ahead and learn whatever new skill you're gonna learn,
Speaker 1: even if it is truly, honest to God, absolutely useless,
Speaker 1: like getting better at Competitive Smash Bros. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: people out There's people out there like learning Gaelic or
Speaker 1: fucking like how to speak, or there's people out there
Speaker 1: learning how to like speak Danish, like the no no, no,
Speaker 1: hold on, you gotta let me finish. These are not skilled.
Speaker 1: Like learning Danish and getting really good at Super Smash
Speaker 1: Brothers Melee are equally useful skill, not equally useful. Learning
Speaker 1: Danish is actually learning Danish is actually about forty percent
Speaker 1: more useful than getting good at competitive Super Smash Brothers Melee.
Speaker 1: But whatever, you're gone, you're.
Speaker 2: Gonna die to learn stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, hold on, let me finish, but you're gonna
Speaker 1: die no matter what. So who cares to do stuff
Speaker 1: or don't do stuff? Okay, what were you? What were you?
Speaker 1: What did you want to say?
Speaker 2: No, that's it's good, Like, yeah, of course, like there
Speaker 2: are skills you can learn that provide you with monetary
Speaker 2: value and and social value. But you know, learning melee
Speaker 2: to a really high degree is also fun in the
Speaker 2: same way kind of like you just said, you know,
Speaker 2: not that you're going to make money off of it,
Speaker 2: but it's it's something. It's a way to learn how
Speaker 2: to learn, which is kind of an interesting thing.
Speaker 1: I still highly highly recommend doing literally anything else. What's
Speaker 1: your name again?
Speaker 2: My name is Derek, Derek, Derek.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed having this conversation with you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I enjoyed talking to you too.
Speaker 1: Man, I'm sorry if this was I feel like this
Speaker 1: conversation it was nothing like the conversation you had in
Speaker 1: your dreams.
Speaker 2: It maybe it was better.
Speaker 1: Do you are you? Are you just saying that, well,
Speaker 1: this is a.
Speaker 2: Real this is the real deal, right. You know, whatever
Speaker 2: whatever happened in my dream was just something that I
Speaker 2: made up in my head, you know, yeah, you know
Speaker 2: what is reality?
Speaker 1: Baby, Derek? I love this even if I love this.
Speaker 1: Even if your reality was not as good as your fantasy,
Speaker 1: at least your reality was fucking real and there's something
Speaker 1: to be appreciated, right man, I like that. I like that, Derek.
Speaker 1: Thanks for talking to me about random bullshit for twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: Is there anything else that you wanted? Is there anything
Speaker 1: else a that you wanted out of this conversation that
Speaker 1: maybe we didn't have, or be that you wanted to
Speaker 1: say to the people of the computer before we go.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, there is one other thing that's kind
Speaker 2: of interesting that I'd like talk about, and that is
Speaker 2: the fact that I have a medium scale glass dildo
Speaker 2: making operation that is going on in my garage.
Speaker 1: Why did you get into making glass dildos?
Speaker 2: So, my buddy he worked for a guy making these
Speaker 2: glass dildos, right, and his boss, you know, gave up
Speaker 2: the dildo crafting business. He was, you know, throwing in
Speaker 2: the towel. And he offered my friend, He's like, you
Speaker 2: can take this, you can take the dildo business and
Speaker 2: you can be the new dildo guy if you want.
Speaker 2: And he said, hell yeah, And I'm into you know,
Speaker 2: glass stuff and everything like that. And I had the space,
Speaker 2: you know, to do it. So he asked me, He's like, so, hey,
Speaker 2: can I like do this out of your garage? And
Speaker 2: I was like absolutely, And so now that's that's what's
Speaker 2: going on out there. But we also we have fun too,
Speaker 2: see that the dildos are what bring in the money
Speaker 2: for him, but we also like to make marbles and
Speaker 2: little little trinkets and shit like that.
Speaker 1: That's really cute. You're making big glass cocks and tiny
Speaker 1: marble balls. Absolutely, you have an interesting life, Derek.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you. I think you have an interesting life
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: Just a couple of twenty seven year olds who hopefully
Speaker 1: don't shoot their face off with a shotgun like that guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that one guy who shot hisself with the shotgun.
Speaker 2: I know, I know what you're talking about. I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna do it. I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna do I'm not gonna do it. You're
Speaker 1: not all right. If you don't do it, all right,
Speaker 1: if you don't do it, I won't do it, all right.
Speaker 2: Thank you? Promise?
Speaker 1: Think you promise fucking right. Have a good one, Derek.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, you too, Lyle, thanks for talking.
Speaker 1: Thanks man, thanks for joining me in reality.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and you as well. Night. Night.
Speaker 1: No, this guy, this guy Lyle, the Gecko guy. He
Speaker 1: will he will not be joining in the twenty seven club.
Speaker 1: I want to live. God damn it. I want to live.
Speaker 1: I want to live. God damn it. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: I love you know what? Fuck this shit. I love life, dude,
Speaker 1: fuck it. I don't know why. I I just to be,
Speaker 1: just to be, you know, frank with you people. I
Speaker 1: don't know why my brain continues to tell me that,
Speaker 1: try to trick me into think that I don't fucking
Speaker 1: love life. I'm gonna name ten things that I love.
Speaker 1: I love going on long walk, I love getting high.
Speaker 1: I love orange creamsicles. I love uh uh looking at dogs.
Speaker 1: I love drawing a picture on a piece of paper. Okay,
Speaker 1: five's good enough. Goes on the line taking your phone
Speaker 1: calls every night.
Speaker 3: Never Beak goes doing his ride, just teaching.
Speaker 1: You about in them of your life. But he's not
Speaker 1: really an expert.