Beard Laws (00:00.618)
That one definitely made it again. That had to make it. That's the way to start an episode with some giggles, some boys. The voice you're hearing is me, it's Matt at Spirit Loss. Joining me as always, Huubin Hockenoff and Brandon J McDermott. What's up dudes?

Yuban Whakinov (00:00.79)
That one's in too.

Brandon J McDermott (00:15.721)
Not much, doing well, excited. Good to be

Beard Laws (00:17.472)
Good. Hell yeah. Back into the groove of the whole work life after vacation, finally.

Brandon J McDermott (00:22.943)
Yeah, used to and back to the idea that I'm gonna work for the rest of my life and then keel over one day while on the job.

Beard Laws (00:31.348)
Yeah, yeah, that's enlightening. Well, you know, we'll do our best to go over there and celebrate your life. And then you've been whacking off. He's back, he's feeling better, he's looking better. It's good to see

Yuban Whakinov (00:45.472)
back in the swing of things again, hit the old bong and even struck the old dong. I'm having myself a great.

Beard Laws (00:55.06)
Yes.

Brandon J McDermott (00:55.786)
At the same time.

Yuban Whakinov (00:57.834)
I tried and I can't multitask. can't chew gum and walk at the same time either. It's it's a problem, but you know what we're we're overcoming those hurdles like the Olympics.

Brandon J McDermott (01:07.295)
You know, there's only one time in life where I'm like, God, why didn't you give me more arms? And it's probably one of those times.

Beard Laws (01:13.335)
What would you call that if you were masturbating and ripping a bong at the same time? I'm assuming that's already a thing. Like if we were to actually Google it, turns out I'm not going to. But I mean, it has to be something. When I was on Urban Dictionary, Brandon's like,

Yuban Whakinov (01:13.568)
I

Yuban Whakinov (01:28.864)
That's what I mean. Bong and dong to me. That means it's going to be something like that. Shlong maybe. There's so

Beard Laws (01:37.322)
I was thinking, you know, Winter Olympics. There has to be some sliding event that it could potentially, you know, pair well with, if that's the right terminology. It has to be something, but it has to be almost like a name that's like a rare feat because it is almost impossible because you need, unless it's, you know, unless you were maybe to have it on a stand, you need, you find it?

Yuban Whakinov (01:42.259)
I'll

Brandon J McDermott (01:54.591)
Hahaha

Brandon J McDermott (01:58.603)
called hijacking.

Yuban Whakinov (02:01.962)
That's actually, that's a good

Beard Laws (02:04.074)
Okay, but you know, that's good. Obviously you're high and you're jacking, but that could be anytime you potentially were high on any substance. mean, it doesn't really… Ooh, bong sledding. Hmm. Okay.

Yuban Whakinov (02:11.712)
on sled?

Brandon J McDermott (02:15.561)
Master blazing, weed whacking, leaf blowing yourself, disappointing your parents. Those are the four.

Beard Laws (02:22.346)
Those are the ones. So I think there's opportunity for us to come up with a term for specifically the act of doing the bong don. Why don't we just call it the bong don.

Yuban Whakinov (02:34.934)
I like it, patent it.

Beard Laws (02:36.992)
There we go. What's the thing? what about long bong dong? Did we just hit a different market? Potentially.

Brandon J McDermott (02:37.593)
Not to be confused with Whiskey Dick.

Yuban Whakinov (02:47.66)
We can, we can, can, now we're diverse, you know? Definitely not my market. I'm more of the mini ones, so what's the, not so long.

Beard Laws (02:58.016)
Like the mini brands, we've been moving rooms and the kids love those little mini brand toys or whatever and what a pain in the ass they are to pick up. Because I pick it up and I'm like, here's a little ramen, that's gotta be garbage. Like, what are you doing? That's one of my mini brands. I've been looking for that one. it's like, I pick up a goddamn, it's a

Yuban Whakinov (03:13.076)
Yes, that's back in the, whenever my daughter was growing up, were Shopkins and it was like these little tiny, yeah, I'm just stepping on those is worse than the Legos. Those are fucking sharp.

Beard Laws (03:25.77)
And then the parents, like our parents and other generational ones are like, you think Legos were bad? What about stepping on those jacks, those metal pieces where you have to bounce the ball and pick them up real quick? That had to be way worse. I never owned one, probably because of

Yuban Whakinov (03:42.388)
I think mine was like plastic ones. I don't think I ever actually had the metal jacks back in the day But did you boys ever play marbles?

Beard Laws (03:50.518)
yeah, I don't remember how it was played now that you're thinking of it, but I remember having a bunch of marbles and thinking, how the hell do I play this? And then nobody taught

Yuban Whakinov (03:59.981)
I remember it was like, they drew like a circle and you had to kind of like flick the marble to like bounce there's kind of like out of the ring type of thing is I think how we played it. And I just remember collecting these awesome marbles. Maybe it was like my artistic trade or something back in the day, but I had so many in between of those and pogs. I don't know if you guys ever had

Beard Laws (04:20.094)
I remember Pogs.

Brandon J McDermott (04:22.837)
That's some pretty hefty slammers.

Yuban Whakinov (04:25.088)
Dude, like, is that what it, I can't remember, is it like a slammer? Didn't they have like one that was called like a slammer or something like that? I had this Tasmanian devil one that was fucking thick, dude. It was old trusty every time.

Beard Laws (04:26.752)
some pogs

Beard Laws (04:37.854)
Mm -hmm. That's…

Brandon J McDermott (04:38.591)
I had a Shaquille O 'Neal one.

Yuban Whakinov (04:41.336)
sick magic was it magic or lakers

Beard Laws (04:45.514)
Johnson?

Brandon J McDermott (04:49.039)
sorry, I thought you were saying Magic Johnson. I thought you were like I had magic. No, it was when he was with it was when he was either with LSU or the magic. It was ninety two ninety three. Yeah, it

Beard Laws (04:50.986)
Me too. I was waiting for

Yuban Whakinov (04:51.475)
No, sorry.

Yuban Whakinov (04:56.999)
shit.

Beard Laws (04:58.666)
Damn, wonder, everything makes a comeback. Did those, did those, I can't imagine those are gonna make a comeback. Like if you were to get on Google and be like, let's me buy some Pogs. Cause we had a kit, I remember me and my brother where you can make your own Pogs, which essentially like you could just take a magazine or a poster or something like that. I remember cutting up posters and magazines and stuff and just making your own Pogs.

Brandon J McDermott (05:05.866)
Those

Yuban Whakinov (05:24.236)
I remember that and I remember I think ours we didn't do so well with ours. I don't think ours turned out so well, but I'm looking Amazon has him for like looks like a legit one 200 with six Slammers for 30 bucks.

Beard Laws (05:30.918)
Arst did alright.

Beard Laws (05:39.794)
What? So for anybody that doesn't know what pogs are, let me see. Let's pull up the pogs for people. Apparently it was also referred to as milk caps. I've never heard it such as that. I'm assuming it went from maybe milk caps. yes, milk caps is a children's game played with flat circular cardboard milk caps. The game is also known as pogs, under which name it was sold commercially in the 90s. The name originates from Pog, a brand of juice.

Yuban Whakinov (05:47.764)
the eight ball one man.

Yuban Whakinov (05:52.507)
I don't think I ever heard of that.

Beard Laws (06:07.86)
made from passion fruit, orange, and guava. The use of the juices caps to play the game preceded the game's commercialization. educational show. I didn't know that.

Yuban Whakinov (06:18.444)
So is a Pog almost like a hug? Because we always had like the little hug juices, I think is what we, is what we had them, whatever they were called. Like the little 25 cent juices.

Beard Laws (06:29.494)
Look at these. If we get together, you guys wanna play some pogs?

Yuban Whakinov (06:31.526)
kinda.

Brandon J McDermott (06:33.227)
There was I'll tell you this man. Pogs fell hard, like no pun intended. But they were visually fun to look at and collect.

Beard Laws (06:41.696)
Yeah. I mean, look at here. You got anything from Jordan to Sprite, Diet Coke, Poison Eyes. I mean, you could essentially have anything in royalties and stuff. wasn't like you were going to get arrested for having Diet Coke on a POG. There's a symbol of our age. The yin

Yuban Whakinov (06:55.446)
gonna have a beard laws one. We're just gonna have assorted characters. You know what I mean? Like we'll each be a slammer. You know, mine's just gonna be a d#@$ It's just like, hey, I got the hammer slammer. Yeah, baby. You know, it's like, it'll be a rare collectibles and everything. We'll have like specific ones. We're gonna bring back pogs. America, you're welcome. This shit's happening. It's like the minis container, but it was just pogs. You know, those things just

Beard Laws (07:16.985)
This shit is happening. Yeah, we're gonna bring it

Yuban Whakinov (07:23.359)
Imagine pulling like, are you happy to see me or do you play pogs? Look, commercials already write themselves, God damn

Beard Laws (07:30.272)
How funny it would be though if like this next thing you know this is your this is your content. You're the POG guy on TikTok and Instagram Facebook YouTube wherever else and you just roll into random places go to a bar and just bust out your POG container sit down and be like you want to play you in.

Yuban Whakinov (07:46.612)
see and then then they see the big old veiny one they're like no it's the hog

Beard Laws (07:53.046)
And then you have all these quotes of just like…

Yuban Whakinov (07:59.268)
Yes, and just you've been whacking off and as soon as I slam the pog down little Splatter comes out. god. There's just so many marketing materials

Brandon J McDermott (08:09.895)
Either of you have a 3D printer?

Beard Laws (08:12.0)
Yep. Do either of you have a 3D printer that's hooked up?

Yuban Whakinov (08:12.02)
I do. I don't use it.

Brandon J McDermott (08:14.013)
You can make your own.

Yuban Whakinov (08:17.516)
Mine's plugged in, but it just it has more dust than it does filament.

Beard Laws (08:24.0)
Dude, have mine is in storage right now and I've even spent all the money on the auto leveler. I did the programming everything so I could press a button that auto levels perfect prints almost every single time. The only time it would fail is if you had cheap filament or a filament break once in a while. But it's like it's ready because remember mustache me. I was crushing those out for the longest time and some other like I miss doing it. I just don't have any frigging room for it. They're not small.

Yuban Whakinov (08:49.804)
that's how it's mine was just the little ender be pro or something v3 or so I can't remember what the hell it was but yeah a little Amazon purchase whenever I was Tony baloney thinking I was going to use it often

Beard Laws (09:01.354)
That's what I do. The Ender, I think it's the Ender Pro something, yeah.

Yuban Whakinov (09:04.778)
Yeah, it was nice. mean, it was easy to use. My dumb ass was able to figure it out a little bit. But whenever you tried to make the ones that had like little intricate pieces like the little snakes and the dragons and stuff like that, for some reason, it would turn into like a bird's nest every single time. I'm like, I'm too stupid for

Beard Laws (09:19.958)
Hmm. It's so finicky because you have to have the right temperature. even bought one of those things that looks like a grow tent to have temperature control. So I have it inside. Yeah, I have it inside of that. So then it's there. So then you just close it up and it feeds the filament through the side. And that way the temperature is completely controlled and from the environment and everything. I mean, the tent, that thing was like 20, 30 bucks. I think it wasn't much. But yeah, I don't know. I really enjoyed the hell out of it. But I just got to the point where it's like I was just making stupid shit spending

You know, not a ton of money, but buying it because the kid would be like, can I have an Among Us character? And I even got into being able to actually create and design things like I was able to take like the beard laws logo, put it into the right file, design it, use some software. I was I was getting and honestly, the person that really got me going and any question I ever had was Grim. You guys remember Grim from the chat. He's he's super into it. I mean, that's kind of what he does. I mean, on social media, he's the 3D print guy. Sorry, Brandon, there must have been a reason.

Yuban Whakinov (09:55.787)
I'm

Yuban Whakinov (09:59.793)
you

Yuban Whakinov (10:11.241)
Yeah.

Beard Laws (10:19.264)
while you were asking before we went nerding out.

Yuban Whakinov (10:22.301)
Yeah.

Brandon J McDermott (10:22.525)
just gonna say you were talking about having a veiny slam or you could probably make

Beard Laws (10:27.125)
Mm -hmm.

Yuban Whakinov (10:30.496)
Only thing is though is I only have blue and red filament. I'd have to buy one more. The purple head, my god, that would be fucking amazing.

Brandon J McDermott (10:34.795)
You can make purple!

Beard Laws (10:40.214)
look at that. did type in do POG still exist? And according to public .com, shortly thereafter, the World POG Federation was officially shuttered. Other companies that produced POG quickly followed suit. By 1998, POGs had fizzled out and children had moved on to other trends. But turn of the century or by the turn of the century, the POGs were all but

Yuban Whakinov (11:02.814)
So what better time to do it when it's the 25th anniversary of them departing, right?

Beard Laws (11:07.859)
we have time to even ramp up. OK.

Brandon J McDermott (11:10.995)
It's it's so weird to me. It weird in an interesting way. I'm so intrigued by what comes back, what makes it come back and what doesn't vinyl made a comeback. I don't know if vinyl ever went away, to be honest with you fully, because people always swore by it even in the 90s. I mean, remember High Fidelity with Jack Black and that movie? I mean, people loved vinyl. It just wasn't being produced like it once was. And now it is. Well, now it's being produced at least. Pogs never made a comeback.

What were those little, those little beanie babies, the beanbag little things like they never, they'll never make a comeback. But apparently pogs made somewhat of a comeback in the last couple of years with NFT stuff. I don't, I don't, didn't dive too deep into it to understand exactly. But, but yeah.

Beard Laws (11:48.118)
Thank God.

Beard Laws (11:58.729)
Remember, remember at one point we talked about Jenko jeans if they would ever make a comeback this or that somebody within the last couple of days actually commented on that short from forever ago and was like, yeah, I actually rock Jenko's when I skate. They're awesome. I said something smartass, I don't remember, because that's my thing. So if you're going to put something in there, I 90 % of the time put something very smartass back as a comment on YouTube. Don't take it that I hate you.

Yuban Whakinov (12:12.316)
Jesus.

Brandon J McDermott (12:22.259)
There were some there were some people who growing up with in in high school, who were the like, they weren't email. But they were like gothy kind of kids and they were those pants that like, would put bell bottoms to shame. Like it was like basically they were a dress like that. The bottom of the where the heel and the foot comes out was like so big.

they'd be all ratted out because they're stepping in mud and dirt and everything else and basically so but like and then they had would have chains hanging it out from it fish black fishnet shirts and the t -shirt over the black fishnet and fishnet pulled down to like their yeah dude yeah like what was it with all of these thing and like the people wearing these when I was in kids because I do not remember I did not know what what it was but anyway weird time

Yuban Whakinov (13:02.112)
Yes.

Beard Laws (13:11.35)
I don't know. This is gonna make me sound like an old man too. The people that buy brand new jeans with all the holes and stuff in them, like that's fashion. So like, you know what I mean? I don't get the homeless trend. I know people say, look at that guy. Look at his beard. He looks homeless. At least my clothes, well, the ones that you can see in my socks and underwear probably have holes in them, but I'm not wearing jeans with big holes in them. I don't get

Yuban Whakinov (13:35.04)
Yeah, I don't understand that either. I still buy them but and Brandon I was always I was always super nice to those kids that wore those jeans in school, you know what

Beard Laws (13:39.805)
Yeah, I mean,

Brandon J McDermott (13:49.707)
I do know what you mean. The kids that were those jeans in school where I was at there was a very small group of them, but they were super into the crow. You know what I'm saying? Like, for whatever reason, they were the coolest kids. I never had any worry about that happening. With those particular kids, there were some kids in junior high. That junior high I don't know about for you guys, but that's where bullying was like really lived out. Like in high school bullying and

Yuban Whakinov (13:50.944)
Yes.

Yuban Whakinov (14:00.071)
Yes.

Brandon J McDermott (14:19.207)
for the most part took on a different like, you see Susie's shirt, look stupid shirt, but like actual like book checking and pushing people into like that was junior high stuff, man. I never did it or took part in it. I was bullied for a while. But

Beard Laws (14:30.368)
Big time. Middle school, yeah, middle school slash junior high, guess I don't like that. From like seventh to what? 10th grade, seventh to ninth grade, that area. Yeah, maybe six.

Brandon J McDermott (14:42.643)
Yeah, but once you get to high school, it's like, dude, I got too much shit to worry about.

Beard Laws (14:48.522)
I remember I remember one time we were sitting there and this guy was like there was like this little thing like dude you got to come to the bathroom. I'm thinking shit there's gonna be a fight or something. And I walk in and there's this dude in our class who was like apparently double jointed fists or something. And he was I mean big guy like big big tough guy. And he was just punching the walls brick walls as hard as he could. I never feel pain in these. And I was from that moment I was like this dude's gonna be in my circle.

Yuban Whakinov (14:48.544)
Yeah.

Beard Laws (15:16.766)
It's probably going to become the birthday parties and stuff. But when we're in school, I'm going to make sure he sits next to us and lunch. Nobody ever messed with. He would be the guy where it would be like, hey, that guy's picking on that kid for no reason. Got it. He wouldn't even come up. He'd just be like, hey, pop. I was like, that's that's the guy you got to have in your circle.

Yuban Whakinov (15:22.657)
Yeah.

Yuban Whakinov (15:35.192)
You always look for those ones too, because you want to build yourself like the infinity stones. You know, you just want to collect yourself like the powerful gauntlet there. But it's my high school is a little different. It's I went through a K through 12 school. So like you'd walk on the same hallway and like see kindergartners and just like, hey, what's up? So there wasn't like a lot of throwing people into lockers or anything like that. And there was only 19 kids in our entire graduating class. So

not a lot of clicks or anything like that either. I mean, you had like your farmers that were like really dedicated then huge FFA people and stuff like that. You had the degenerates like me that just hung out in the home ex so I can sleep with the women that was in the class. It was.

Beard Laws (16:18.493)
Yeah, ours was K through 12 as well

Yuban Whakinov (16:21.812)
It's a lot of people whenever you bring that up, they're like, you, you had all three grades into one school. I'm like, yeah, that's, that's just how it is. You know, you rode the same bus, like you can get on the bus and sit right next to a kid who's in first grade. You know what I mean? You're like, what's up little buddy? I mean, it's weird.

Beard Laws (16:36.398)
Mm -hmm. It was, yeah. And it was just kind of the same thing. Most of the schools around here, there's probably, I don't know, if I had to guess, less than 10 schools that have elementary or whatever and middle schools and separate ones that go to a high school. Most of them are K through 12.

Brandon J McDermott (16:52.992)
Those of you listening in about ready to type your angry comment. Yes, he said elementary, but he meant elementary.

Beard Laws (16:58.984)
Yes, I did. I thought it out in my head. was like, elementary is going to say something, not elementary. That was a well thought out execution. Also.

Yuban Whakinov (17:00.879)
Sherlock Holmes over

Yuban Whakinov (17:05.095)
Hehehehehe

Yuban Whakinov (17:09.38)
We have a town three miles away though that has even split up their high school, middle school and elementary and they're the exact same size as us. And I'm like, the fuck? So when you want to go play their ball fields, they have three different ball fields. And I'm like, somebody's funneling tax money here. was like, who works for the cartel? Marty Berg from the Ozarks is over here out in Northwest Missouri now.

Beard Laws (17:30.42)
Now, they were they one school and broke out to three or were there is it a new district where it was kind

Yuban Whakinov (17:37.516)
No, it's it's always been the same county and they just they the middle school and the elementary used to be in the same one, but they end up building a new elementary school for the 30 kids that are there all day.

Beard Laws (17:51.222)
See, some of those schools were starting to put that in their budgets around here because there's talks of trying to combine schools. So you might have, you know, the one like you say school one that has 19 kids. This other one that's, you know, 20 miles away has even less with 12 kids in each class. You know what I mean? So they're trying to find central places and just kind of absorb and just get all of these schools. And it's funny to me because the biggest pushback on why they won't do it is sports. High school sports at the lowest class where

You're lucky. mean, there is probably the coming to my head. There's less than five people that came out of any sports around here to be professional at whatever they do. And even, you know, they don't make a career of it. It's like, who gives a crap about sports? If you went from this school and now you are, you know, a Jaguar, now you have to go be a knight or something like, come

Yuban Whakinov (18:44.522)
have to look it up now but I believe the famous person from our area or not from mine but from this town that's always trying to not consolidate Roger Whirly. He was like an American football player now I'm look it up this guy. I would like to say it's close man I still I remember I skimmed through his video of a snapchat and I was just

Beard Laws (19:00.616)
Is that what Burley's real name is? Roger Whirly?

Yuban Whakinov (19:13.824)
where does this guy work? Like I was determined, I was like, I'm gonna figure out what his name is. And then whenever I did, that's why I was so giddy to text you and you're kinda like, that's cool, man. I'm like, I was like, I spent an hour skimming through this video, this, I figured it out. And then once I figured out where he worked too, I'm like, this makes no sense. I'm like, this is clearly, and I thought I was like, he put that as a joke?

Beard Laws (19:29.483)
Mm -hmm.

Yuban Whakinov (19:39.116)
because that looks like something that he put down as a joke. So I still haven't asked

Beard Laws (19:43.03)
There's more layers to him. He's a complex man. He has the ability to be able to be a completely well to be burly on camera and you know, Roger Worley in real life. Like it's kind of cool. I mean, in a way, you know what I mean? He can he can get that personality out. And that makes sense. I mean, he he was into wrestling as a kid. So he's I'm sure most wrestlers, mean, Stone Cold's probably not going around, you know, shocking and beers and stunning people in the supermarket. Yeah.

Yuban Whakinov (19:54.55)
fucking fucking

Yuban Whakinov (20:09.334)
Did you, do you know what he's up to right now? He's taking care of like these random stray cats that he found and he's like, he's a cat dad. Like he's fucking.

Beard Laws (20:17.246)
I randomly saw him on one of the feeds and he was like in a creek, creek or a river and he was pulling out like a dam or something and the water was flowing and he got back up and I'm like, and that's the video. He walked down, pulled this thing out, walked up and that was his video on his thing and I'm like, son of a bitch. Like, you look at that, you guys, you don't have to dance and you don't have to talk about, you know, whatever else, you know, and eat random things to be fair. Just, just do what Stone Cold does.

Yuban Whakinov (20:36.554)
Yeah.

Yuban Whakinov (20:44.78)
he's he was talking about going to Carson City to get this like specific cat tower for these cats. And like, the whole video is he's like, Yeah, I'm go get this cat tower. And he just said there he's like, this is muffins. And he's just sitting there like petting this cat and stuff like that. You're like, Stone Cold. Look at you. You stone cold pussy. I would never say that to his

Beard Laws (21:03.862)
Dude, my kid. No, no. I mean, you could. What's he going to do? He can't assault you. There's going to be cameras. He's got money. He's going to just settle. mean, call him a pussy. He's not going to stun you. He's getting up there. Speaking of cats, you guys are cat owners, right? You guys like actually enjoy, you know, most of the time having some cats. This is this probably isn't for the show, but I need some quick advice because we got this stray cat.

Yuban Whakinov (21:20.086)
years.

Beard Laws (21:31.69)
And this cat's actually somewhat cool, but we have these other two cats who are just assholes. They're brothers and they're beating the shit out of this cat. They don't even let them get to the litter box anymore. So I'm waking up at least in the morning, sometime at night. Got to clean some random piss. Got to clean some random shit. I'm goddamn over it. You guys, you guys like honestly, as cat people have any, I know you guys aren't vets and this isn't professional advice, but you've got cats long enough. My thing is I just want to get rid of them all.

but that's not going over as a good option, so I'm looking for option B.

Brandon J McDermott (22:01.119)
So these are like farm cats.

Beard Laws (22:04.118)
They've always well, they've always been house cats from what I know one was this one was a drop They dropped somebody dropped off two cats a brother and a sister ended up in the middle of winter when it was like negative 30 One of them passed away this cat somehow found its way into a barn my buddy's barn and it was just like not gonna make it and I made the mistake of like look at this poor cat to the wife and Next thing you know, we have said cat But the other two

Brandon J McDermott (22:29.589)
So you're just want to understand it's now your single indoor cat and it just poops, shits and pisses everywhere and you're wondering.

Beard Laws (22:38.11)
No, it's because the other and it wasn't always like this recently. The two other cats don't allow it to get to the litter boxes. There's two different rooms of litter boxes. It pins this cat in a corner and it's like, that's your corner. You go nowhere. Almost like I would have to imagine some weird prison shit. And it just happened in like the last couple of weeks. I'm not sure what the hell's going

Yuban Whakinov (22:56.89)
It

Brandon J McDermott (22:57.493)
So how many and this is getting into the weeds here, but how many shit boxes do you have total? How many cat boxes? For three cats. That's good. That's good. That's good. Actually, the rule of thumb from what I've heard, I'm no expert. Please understand that is that you should have two for one cat and then for every other cat, you should have one more. And so you're right to have four for three cats because cats

Beard Laws (23:04.811)
Four.

Yeah, I read you had to do one more.

Brandon J McDermott (23:27.199)
choices now there's only two separate rooms and they're not letting them in there I mean it sounds like you have an issue with territorial cats that you may need to separate I think is the biggest thing because that's never going to change cats are pretty fucking rigid and who they like and who they don't like when it comes to other cats

Beard Laws (23:32.598)
Yeah. And one's upstairs.

Beard Laws (23:47.232)
The only thing I can think and talking to some other people was apparently like this time of the year is like cats, like outdoor cats or something like mating season before winter or some set. So I think they're starting to be trying to get on the dominant one because it's been fine up until the last couple of weeks. And I was just like, whatever.

Brandon J McDermott (24:05.151)
gonna be Bob Barker. Are they spay and neutered?

Yuban Whakinov (24:06.154)
That's… That's another…

Beard Laws (24:08.66)
Yeah, they all are. They're all neutered. They're all dudes. They're all fixed.

Yuban Whakinov (24:13.174)
So that that did help with us because it seemed like during there was a stray cat that would come outside our place and they we would have one that wasn't fixed that would spray next to the door. And I'm like, you son of a bitch. I'm again, wanted to get rid of it. It was the one that was added to the which we have three and it's a gigantic pain in the ass. And so we did the same thing. We kept adding litter boxes, switched them into different rooms and everything. At one point we were up to five litter boxes. And I'm like, this is a fucking

mess. I'm like this what is going on? getting him neutered helped and also trying to keep these fucking strays from coming around my house too. So if I see anything, I'm like the crazy fucking person just going outside trying to fucking scare the shit out of it. And for the most

Beard Laws (24:58.816)
You should get a blow gun and shoot little paintball. That's what I do. I'm not going to shoot somebody. I'm not going to shoot a stray cat. And to be honest, like even if I don't like an animal, it's my choice to take the animal. I'm not going to just kill an animal. Like a lot of people are like, just get rid of it. Just, you know, just you want some lead poisoning. I'm like, I'm not going to just kill one of the kids. You know what I mean? The cat like it'd be one thing like if, you know, if anything, I'm going to drop it off to the buffet potentially in the town and, know, they can serve it up. It'll go, you know, serve its purpose or whatever.

That's a joke. But so I have a blow gun and they make little paintballs for it. So like it so I'll just get the blow gun out and I'll wait and it'll hit it and you'll get a little mark. It's obviously not going to hurt it that bad. I mean, but like.

Yuban Whakinov (25:38.614)
That's a good idea. think I'm so, I gotta get myself a blow gun now because now that sounds awesome as shit. Because we have possums too that always come by.

Beard Laws (25:41.908)
Yeah

Beard Laws (25:46.57)
if you're looking to actually take out something, they make like darts for them with like lead tips and stuff like that. So like I've I was sitting there one day and I was in the studio right here and I looked and there was like a little mouse that was like getting in and was chewing some shit. I'd like a bag of rice or something on there. So I'm sitting there. I grab it and I go killed it. It went right through the mouse stuck into the wall. And then it was starting to do like it was kind of alive still. So I had to go and give it a little and I was just like, holy shit. And all of a sudden I go, I go to the wife.

Yuban Whakinov (25:51.404)
I've seen

Yuban Whakinov (26:14.006)
Dude!

Beard Laws (26:15.818)
Okay, she goes, no way. I'm like, first shot. That was probably the coolest. I'm not a hunter, so it was pretty cool for me. Donnie Dust would have approved.

Yuban Whakinov (26:21.302)
Dude, did you just put like a little burlap sack over your crotch and everything and just make like a little tribal suit? You're like, I'm all man now. Like this is me. Like this is what I've become. I'm gonna hunt for my food every time now.

Beard Laws (26:32.83)
I tried. The mouse skin was too big for my crotch.

Yuban Whakinov (26:38.016)
Hehehehehe

Brandon J McDermott (26:38.143)
Well, I wanted to say something. That's a good good moment to segue. You you were talking about cats. I told you boys maybe I did offline or not. I purchased a one of those expensive eight hundred dollar like automatic cat shit things that Rick recycles itself. So you don't have to. I did it on credit, so it wasn't eight hundred at once. I was able to pay it same as cash over a certain amount of time.

Beard Laws (26:58.58)
Yeah.

Beard Laws (27:03.732)
Yeah.

Was it the Amazon, not to get too into the weeds, was it the Amazon one? Have you ever seen that? They do a 0 % interest on purchases. So I was just curious. I debated doing that recently,

Brandon J McDermott (27:15.327)
No, you're good. And it's not the only one that has this. So just understand, but pretty much anything you have nowadays is going to have an app for it. But it literally has an app that lets you know how much it's full, how much litter is left, how many scoops you've saved, and how much the shit weighs afterwards. just, that's going to get

Beard Laws (27:34.932)
Yeah, and they even do like a health like they can detect health wise of your cats based on, you know, the weight and the density of because I've looked into them. I really want to one. So I'm glad you have it. So would you say so going back to it, you have to have four or five litter boxes. Do you still have other ones out there or is this the only one?

Brandon J McDermott (27:53.311)
I've got two, three for two cats. but we haven't had to do, mean, they, took them about a week or so to kind of get used to it because what the hell is this first of all? And then when I get done with it after two minutes, it moves in cycles and like, the hell is this shit? You know, but now they're using it exclusively and like, I don't even have to change the other ones now. but

Yuban Whakinov (28:17.622)
Did you see the lawsuit on what happened to a cat with one of those? I don't know which specific one it was, because the the Wi -Fi were just talking about that there was this a couple of days ago, but apparently a cat got decapitated because its head got stuck in like the revolving part of whatever. I guess it was in there and it got it. So there was some kind of like recall on a specific one or whatever it would. I'm like, my God.

Brandon J McDermott (28:42.411)
It could totally, could, ha, nice.

Beard Laws (28:43.126)
Can you send me a link to that one?

Yuban Whakinov (28:47.072)
That's how it's like, I give me two, you know. But also cats fucking suck because Brandon, I didn't get to tell you this. I told Matt this. I was pretty pissed off. that. Yes, that's when you guys were like, you have cats? I'm like, yeah, they're really, really fun and super cheap to have. I have this cat that is an overweight, lazy piece of shit. And

Beard Laws (28:48.906)
Yeah. What's the return policy on that?

Beard Laws (28:59.541)
Uhhh… I forgot about that!

no.

Beard Laws (29:13.066)
This Stephen Purry.

Yuban Whakinov (29:14.732)
It's not Stephen Burry, even though he's a Maine Coon. So I give him a reason to be a little fluffy. So we did weigh him. He's 21 pounds. And the other cat who's not a Maine Coon is 19 and he's short haired. So I'm like, you fat fuck. So he started getting sick and just green bile just every time. And I'm like, what the hell is going on? And the cat's not eating. And I'm

Beard Laws (29:16.062)
Okay, cool.

Beard Laws (29:30.644)
Cheers.

Yuban Whakinov (29:42.752)
This cat does nothing but eat. I'm like, there's something's up. We take him to the vet and the vet kept him overnight and the next morning they're like, hey, you guys can just go and take him. Everything seems to be fine. And I'm like, really? So he ate and they're like, no, but they let him. He let us pet him and stuff and I'm like. What the fuck? And I'm like, but he didn't eat and I'm like this this cat.

Beard Laws (30:01.078)
Wait, was this your doctor? Did you have a double visit? It sounds like what they were telling for

Yuban Whakinov (30:08.5)
So there was, pretty much, I'm like, this is the same guy. like, did you guys all get your degrees in the same fucking place? I'm like, this is ridiculous. But this was a different vet than we normally deal with, because ours apparently had a couple days off. they're like, he's fine. We're allowed to pet, like he let us pet him and stuff like that. And I'm like, did he eat anything? They're like, no. And they're like, he didn't poop either. I'm like, yeah, because he didn't fucking eat. I'm like, that's the problem. Like, look at this guy.

Does it look like he's ever missed a meal on the right? So do you want us to like give him an X -ray and I'm like, yeah, preferably just check him out. I don't give a fuck, you know, so they do the X -ray and they're like, yeah, we didn't, we didn't find anything. Go ahead and take them. And I'm like, okay. Did he ever eat? They're like, no, I'm like, okay. So as I'm getting ready to go over there, my vet shows up and they're like, Hey man, this cat is definitely not acting right. I'm going to give him an X -ray and look at myself. And I'm like, okay, don't charge me again. Motherfucker. already did it once. I'm like, what the

And he goes, there's a perfect square in his gut. And he's like, we don't know what this is. And I'm like, okay. And then they're like, we're gonna have to cut him open. I'm like, son of a bitch. And when they did, they took it out. It was a fucking makeup sponge. I swear to God, this big. He ate the whole, it looks like the shape of like an egg, but the base of it is a square. So he ate this entire fucking thing. I don't even know how. And it was completely intact.

When they took it out, it absorbed some his chest. It came out and they're like, what is this? And they cut it and it was bright pink and the women go, it's a makeup sponge. And they're like, how the hell did he get it all in one bite?

Beard Laws (31:39.891)
Yeah

Beard Laws (31:52.256)
Jesus, he's part Python.

Yuban Whakinov (31:55.36)
Did it just that he doesn't chew anything and that's why every time I watch him eat I'm like this cats not chewing at all. He's just he's like a shop vac just Just get all this shit in and they're like leave him alone. He's just a husky boy like dad You can relate and I'm like first of all fuck you Low blow don't compare me to this damn cat. I'm not out here fucking inhaling all this shit. I've never ate a makeup sponge

Beard Laws (32:18.688)
Did you change his name to Eddie Van Halen? Eddie Van and Halen?

Yuban Whakinov (32:22.508)
going to holy shit I gotta write that down dude can you imagine that Stephen Purry and Eddie Van Halen my god

Beard Laws (32:31.067)
That's a duo. It's not like animals that respond to the names half the time.

Brandon J McDermott (32:32.286)
We

Brandon J McDermott (32:35.819)
Luckily the vets around here are really good. I'll send them to the vet. We've had to do this a few weeks ago to eat two months ago or so less less than that. But a month or two ago we took him to the vet, stopped eating, but 1920 pounds big ass boy cat. OK, he's not eating what's going on. He's drinking water. He's going back to the bathroom, but he's just not eating what's going on. So we took him. They because their vets say OK.

Let's feel his by his bladder to see if he's not pissing, you know, so do I feel you? Okay, we'll do the we'll do the field test. Okay, then do we need to is he acting like the day's a call? Okay, so then we probably need to like you said, x ray him. And then we need to keep him overnight feed him and make sure he's pipped pissing and shitting. And then when he does that, then we can test it. But we also additionally in the meantime, test his blood. So they're doing all these things, which cost a lot of money.

Yuban Whakinov (33:22.732)
That's a big word.

Brandon J McDermott (33:34.229)
they're doing it for you so you're not like. Yeah, I pet him and he seems alright. You just come take him home. You're the fucking expert and paying you money to make sure my cat doesn't die. So I'm not going to be the one that tells you what you need to do because I expect you to say well, we've X -rayed him. We've done this and this and we don't think there's anything wrong, which at that point they did all those things and they said he was fine. He came back home and he was fine. He ate and everything's good. Sometimes they do that, but what kind of weird fucking vet?

Yuban Whakinov (33:46.173)
In

Beard Laws (34:00.554)
He just needed a vacation.

Brandon J McDermott (34:03.12)
Right before vacation. What kind of weird vet, doesn't or let's office doesn't know? Yeah, that's wild.

Yuban Whakinov (34:10.349)
They even have you fill out a form too. They're like, hey, you what's the maximum amount that you pretty much give a fuck about your pet and everything?

Beard Laws (34:16.682)
I know, that's always the worst when they're like, if something happens, do you want us to save them and spend all this extra money or let them go? And I'm always like, let them go. Like, listen, our kids have watched Frozen enough. They watched enough Disney movies to know that loss and heartbreak is a thing. They'll get over

Yuban Whakinov (34:26.208)
Yep, yep, too.

Yuban Whakinov (34:34.412)
They will. And so like, I just hate when they're like, Hey, what's the amount? And I'm like, how much is this cat worth? I'm like, carry the one 30 bucks.

Beard Laws (34:41.206)
What's the first number that pops in your head when you're like, all right, cat in. What's the first number that you guys all think the first one that popped in my head was like 1500 bucks.

Brandon J McDermott (34:49.941)
for the max that you would spend or what you think it's going to cost.

Yuban Whakinov (34:51.037)
shit.

Beard Laws (34:54.762)
the max you're gonna spend.

cats specifically. have to imagine my dog, I spent some money on this little guy, like one of the two dogs, I'm spending a little more on him. Maybe like two grand.

Yuban Whakinov (34:59.894)
Drop.

Brandon J McDermott (35:09.195)
I love my cat. Now I love one of them more than the other. I would say six for one, two for the other probably.

Beard Laws (35:14.688)
I won't tell them.

6 ,000 for one, 2 ,000 for the other.

Brandon J McDermott (35:19.051)
Yeah, I don't have any dogs though, so you know. We've had this. We've had this guy since he was about 10 weeks old. We love we love him to death. He's he's a little shit, but we love him. The other ones just dumb.

Yuban Whakinov (35:34.561)
I like how we all like we're not afraid to play favorites with our animals right? know these this one's kind of a piece of shit. You know it just

Brandon J McDermott (35:41.117)
Listen, I hate to break to anybody watching or listening into this, your parents had a favorite and it likely wasn't you. And I'm not trying to be mean because I also wasn't the favorite. It's natural. It happens now, whether or not they spell it out or I love you all the same bullshit bullshit.

Beard Laws (35:56.534)
No, my parents, my parents have told me. But after I think 30, let's say 35 years of being the not favorite since I'm the older, at least I'm the executive on the wheel now. So I feel like I'm moving up in the world.

Yuban Whakinov (36:10.742)
So mine's a little morbid. I wasn't the favorite, but the favorite died, so I became the favorite.

Beard Laws (36:15.484)
Mm -hmm. Yep. Sometimes by default, you end

Brandon J McDermott (36:15.785)
Jesus Christ, didn't mean to open up this one. Golly.

Yuban Whakinov (36:19.052)
But yeah, so you know, you take your wins and your losses. it's just, know, that, that one and.

Brandon J McDermott (36:24.415)
You know, you know, this reminds me of I had a really good friend we used to go when I was a journalist, we used to go out to we'd call it the press club. There was no actual press club. It was just basically the local bar where we'd get drunk and we'd have a conversation. And he told me one time, this dude's funniest dude you ever met, like just easy going. He's like, yeah, there was a house fire when I was a kid and my sister got caught in it and

Beard Laws (36:38.08)
Hell

Brandon J McDermott (36:50.525)
Okay, that's fucking awful. a couple weeks later, not thinking like we were talking, I don't know what it was. It was just one of those things where it was like a mixture of like your filters off slash you're recalling a memory and it just comes in and I go, I'd rather die in a house fire. And I was like, my God, I'm so sorry before I get out. He was like, he was like, dude, that was good. That was good. I was like, but

Beard Laws (37:05.632)
Where you drinking?

Beard Laws (37:16.15)
It's the booze. It's the booze. telling you, sometimes it just comes. I've made a mama joke on somebody that was within two weeks was just telling me how they lost their mom. And it was just like, and I haven't made a yo mama, any kind of mom joke since.

Yuban Whakinov (37:32.82)
So I don't know what it is too. when someone tells me something like that, something in my brain is always like, hey, don't mention that. Don't mention anything like that. Don't mention anything like that. So there'll be somebody like, hey, I had a brother that drowned or whatever. And I'm like, sweet, sweet, And I'll just be like.

Beard Laws (37:49.494)
Sweet, sweet, sweet.

Yuban Whakinov (37:52.416)
But bars, bars, drowning and pussy over here. Look at this. It's just like, dude, what the fuck? I'm just like, yeah, don't say that. Don't say that. And always I end up dropping something and I'm like, why do I keep doing this? I'm like, don't say it. Don't say it every time. I don't know.

Beard Laws (37:56.754)
Mm -hmm.

Beard Laws (38:08.042)
Yeah, I've had so many awkward moments like that. I mean, we had a DD once and unfortunately this person just like had a miscarriage. They were a DD so they still weren't drinking or whatever. And doesn't one of the guys in there, it was like, don't say anything. Babies, your kid, nothing. And next thing you know, Michael Jackson came on the thing. So there was some kid jokes and then it just kept getting darker and darker and darker and we were just like, we're like what? And then all of a sudden it was like.

I mean, granted, this was at like three or four in the morning after several, like intoxicated, like can't get out of bed drunk the next day. Yeah, I don't even remember what I said, but it wasn't good. And I don't know why our brains work like that. don't know.

Yuban Whakinov (38:53.64)
I don't know. It's just because you're you're you're like, hey, I'm gonna be defiant. Don't tell me what to do. I'm not going to say it. It's and I always laugh at inappropriate times to like if, you know, funerals, anything like that. If I if I'm around anything, I'm just like someone would be like, hey, like there was somebody that got into a car accident and there was a lady in front of me. She's like, yeah, I would never get a Jeep. Those things are a death trap. And I'm like, I'm like.

timing. What are you saying lady? It's always like extremely old people that have no filter. They're like, yeah. Reginald died 13 years ago today too. It's like who gives a fuck about Reginald? This is not about Reginald. Who gives a fuck? Like it's just, I love

Beard Laws (39:33.418)
Yeah. Yeah. So this is this just popped in my brain. It has nothing to do with any of that. But the fire talk, whatever. So I think I think I shared with you guys a while ago. There's a guy that I went to school with and he was delivering pizzas for a living. Like and he had this vehicle called the General We. Does that ring a bell? Did I ever show you guys? So it's this little teeny tiny car like this. I don't think this is the actual one.

but it was like this. So this is what he would deliver pizzas in. And then at one point somebody in a college town, at some point, know, a college kid put it in there and went viral, whatever else. So recently he had this car at a car shop, just getting some repairs, whatever. I think it was gonna be a while. So he, guess, took it off the road and a vehicle next to him miraculously burned. Not sure what's going on with that, but it caught.

his car on fire and because it was off the road, his insurance won't cover it. And because it was ruled accidental fire, which I'm not sure how vehicles just accidentally catch on fire, the car dealership or repair shop, whatever it was, isn't liable. So he's got this vehicle that unless he spends, I mean, the whole quarter panel caught on fire, you can see the insides. I'm assuming that there's no way that the state is ever going to pass it to be on the road again.

And I'm just like, man, I'm good on gas, good on that. So I have I don't ever get on the book of faces. So I get on there last night. The first thing that pops up is this guy. He wanted to replace him. He buys two of them. They're just, know, like a white one and a black one. I forget the colors, but he buys not one, but two. So I don't know if he's going to repaint it, if he's going to have it redone, what he's going to do. And the wife was like, what are they electric or something? Is he going to have like one charging while the other one's there? And then when it runs out of battery, he just swaps them

Why too? I'm like, it's because that's this guy and his name is Richard Day. And we always called him Dick, Dick Day. Funny dude, I want to if we had like an interview style show, I wanted to bring him on because he had something happened to him that more or less he was dating this girl, took off to work or whatever. don't know if they got in a fight or whatever. He was on his motorcycle. He gets hit on his motorcycle like hard, right?

Yuban Whakinov (41:38.422)
day.

Beard Laws (41:59.54)
And apparently it was his girlfriend that hit him. Right. And he's all messed up, like pretty hurt. But the funny part is he did. He got hit right in front of a stop school bus. So there was a bunch of kids horrified watching a man. Apparently he popped up like, when the adrenaline wore off to the kids on the bus. So that's not funny enough. He's telling the story at the bar. And all of a sudden somebody goes, wait.

You were the guy that got hit. I was a kid on that bus. And I'm like, what? And I was like, so he tells his side. I'm like, I need you to fuckers on the podcast to tell this story. Dude, I was crying laughing about that. So maybe maybe Dick Day, if you're listening, shoot me a message and we'll get you and the other guy on the show. Holy shit, man. Like, I mean, granted, small town, things like that do happen. But yeah.

Yuban Whakinov (42:39.904)
That would be awesome.

Yuban Whakinov (42:52.423)
my god.

Beard Laws (42:58.036)
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Yuban Whakinov (43:57.26)
Do you ever pull your nose hairs? I love the feeling of that. God damn, I don't know what it is. I just, I'll be over there and just, and I'll get like 10 of them just be like, that was a good one. I feel like gold member. That's a keeper.

Beard Laws (44:00.021)
Yeah.

Beard Laws (44:08.436)
Your eyes water.

Brandon J McDermott (44:12.939)
You know, you've heard the old wives tale of, don't do that to yourself because what could happen? You could get an infection in your brain and die. You've heard of that,

Beard Laws (44:25.726)
No, is that true? Burp, you been? That explains everything.

Brandon J McDermott (44:26.633)
Well, I mean, I've it's like squallowing gum.

Yuban Whakinov (44:31.526)
I… Dude, you guys keep taking away everything I love. What the fuck?

Brandon J McDermott (44:36.779)
Plucking nose hairs can cause nasal cavity infection called nasal vestibulitis, whatever that is, caused by staphylococcus bacteria that enters wounds in the nose caused by plucking, blowing your nose or other industries, injuries. It's easily treated in most cases. In severe cases, it can lead to complications such as boils, blisters, or even a deep infection which could go to the brain and cause blood clots behind the eye sockets.

Beard Laws (44:37.797)
Yep.

Beard Laws (45:07.99)
Dude, Brandon just diagnosed you. You have syphilcoccalitis.

Brandon J McDermott (45:08.159)
So, whatever.

Yuban Whakinov (45:08.822)
Well, now I'm fucking terrified. God damn.

I have cock in my nostrils from what I heard is…

Beard Laws (45:18.664)
of all the things you said, cock was the one that stood out.

Yuban Whakinov (45:21.11)
That was the thing. God,

Brandon J McDermott (45:22.567)
So, you mind if I bring this

All let me unzip it. I don't know if you guys did, but I got some hot sauce this week. Did you

Yuban Whakinov (45:26.347)
My dick.

Beard Laws (45:27.264)
Yeah, it's already

Beard Laws (45:35.85)
Ooh, I… We are supposed to, but I haven't got mine yet.

Brandon J McDermott (45:40.251)
I just, got mine this week and it is, it's pretty

Beard Laws (45:46.474)
We can talk about it. Like I said, we don't have it. I think I told him to the creator, if you want to tell them, you know, there I told him he could come on for a little bit of the show. We could just do exactly what we're doing. And do you have it near you? Like I said, if you want to show it and then when we all have it, because he wanted us to taste it. OK, that's fine. No, that's fine. And this guy, you know, he was in the beard world and, he used to do the freestyle beards. So it was the ones where you decorate them, you put the rings, whatever. And he actually.

Yuban Whakinov (45:47.318)
video.

Brandon J McDermott (46:00.905)
It's upstairs. I'd have to go get it. could,

Beard Laws (46:14.743)
kind of shifted being like the Beard World content stuff, because there's only so much you can do, trust me. And he ended up getting into hot sauces. And he's even gotten to the point where he was on Hot Ones Season 23. Yep, so that's what I think I told you, but I think that that's what I that's what I had you send me over your address. I said, hey, man, I said, we're not looking for anything other than, you know, just send us send us some hot sauce. We'll either organically do it or we'll get you on the show, whatever.

Yuban Whakinov (46:27.595)
What?

Beard Laws (46:43.244)
whatever works out.

Brandon J McDermott (46:44.245)
So I posted a link in the chat. I'm not sure if you guys are interested, but at the at the bottom of there, I'll show you the one that he sent me to. So if you.

Beard Laws (46:48.148)
Yeah, there it

Beard Laws (46:53.886)
Yep. And I asked him, I said, said, I said, listen, stay out of, stay out of my fridge is the platform to show off this sauce. said, Brandon J McDermott, I said, he's the food daddy. And I said, and I said, you know what? I didn't realize it was a little bit awkward saying that until I said there, he goes, it's not that weird unless you call him daddy. I said, don't judge me. But he ended up, I said, he likes the hot, hot stuff. I said, I am a pussy when it comes to the hot stuff. said, I can't handle it. He goes, but I said, I said, I want to try the one that was on Hot Ones and anything else you want to send me, whatever. And then I said for Eubin.

Yuban Whakinov (47:09.194)
Yeah

Beard Laws (47:23.498)
Just kind of have fun with it. Because I don't know if you overly love super hot or not,

Brandon J McDermott (47:27.967)
So he

Yuban Whakinov (47:28.798)
I like to punish myself sometimes. I guess when I go to B -dubs, I love Mango Habanero is one of my basic ones and then like Wilds or whatever. So I mean, I like the hot stuff,

Brandon J McDermott (47:40.085)
So he sent me the Chimchar, which I haven't tried yet. And then which is like a chimichurri charred serrano peppers and then the smoky three at the bottom. That's the one that was on hot ones. And that is just a jalapeno sauce, but it is it you literally taste. It says on the back of it that it's jalapenos that were like oak aged or oak, whatever you can taste the oak in it is like very, very good.

Beard Laws (48:06.966)
Really? Yeah.

Brandon J McDermott (48:08.105)
It's a very smoky flavor of a jalapeno sauce, but good on everything. Literally like you could throw it on eggs and steak and I mean anything you eat it with. I threw it on a bologna sandwich. It was so

Beard Laws (48:13.27)
That sounds awesome.

Beard Laws (48:19.306)
I was intrigued by this. I wanted to potentially try the funky garlic. I love garlic. But yeah, we'll see what it does. And if you guys are wondering what we're talking about, Sam, what is it? Sam's S -A house? Sam's a house? How the hell would you say? Sauce. okay. That makes sense. Sauce. Yeah, and the guy on there, if you guys are looking at the website or if you're watching it on YouTube, the picture of him, that's him, that's Sam.

Brandon J McDermott (48:32.693)
Sam

Yuban Whakinov (48:37.823)
South.

Beard Laws (48:48.606)
And he's been doing some festivals and stuff and had some really good chats with him and everything. So again, he was like, hey, can I just send you guys some sauces? Not a paid thing. But as you know, we love to help people. We love to help companies. Doesn't matter big or small. We like to help. You know, this is no offense to anybody that we've ever worked with. We like to help the little guys, you know, you know, whether it's a whether it's a rascal watch, which they did come out with bracelets and chains. And I'm going to be

chained out and stuff. You're not gonna be able to see the chain around my neck when I'm at the bracelet and stuff. I'm super excited about that. And yeah, like I said, you know, just one of those things we're not saying we're not out here being like, hey, go spend all your hard earned money on stuff because they work well. No, these are stuff that we truly think are pretty cool. Like we love hot sauce and make sense. Potentially, we're gonna be working with some more pretzel stuff. You guys can obviously check out Milwaukee pretzels, but there's gonna be another pretzel company that I think sent off some stuff.

So hopefully let me know if you guys get that because Brandon and Eubon, you guys should be getting that as well too. So for some reason, yeah, even if you don't get the hot sauce, let me know. We'll figure it out. I actually I'm trying to think like if maybe it was like you were super sick at the time you were sending them and I didn't. I don't know. I'll follow up on it regardless. So

Yuban Whakinov (49:46.656)
Hell yeah.

Yuban Whakinov (49:57.002)
Yeah, the pretzels, whether it's soft, regular pretzels, and I'm, I love me some pretzels. And the mall that's around is closing. And I think I mentioned before that, I know how you pronounce it. Is Auntie Anne's, Auntie Anne's? don't, whatever the hell the pretzel place is.

Brandon J McDermott (50:13.097)
You mean like they're shuttering or they're just your local locations closing?

Yuban Whakinov (50:17.12)
The whole mall is eventually, I mean, I think the only thing left is a JCPenney and a guy, think there's a Chinex is what it's called, like the Chinese restaurant. That's the only thing that's still, I think, open in that entire mall.

Beard Laws (50:31.776)
sounds like the one near me they actually just turned it into some kind of warehouse distribution something I don't even know

Yuban Whakinov (50:38.326)
They're wanting to turn ours into a indoor sports complex with like meeting spaces around it and stuff. a pretty cool vision of like, they want to have like indoor baseball and stuff. So that way when these tournaments are in town, there's a backup option to house it indoors for weather related, you know, that way if it's not raining or whatever. But they have like big plans. But I don't know. It's always these, keep hearing about those things and seeing a decade later, like, I wonder what ever happened to that? Nothing, fucking nothing. But.

Beard Laws (51:05.807)
Mm -hmm.

Yuban Whakinov (51:06.848)
But yeah, I used to go over there to get the pepperoni pretzel and they had the spicy fucking cheese sauce. my God, it was amazing.

Beard Laws (51:15.562)
No, it would be ironic if Jeff Bezos started a mall chain, seeing how he killed all the malls with Amazon. If he started a chain of malls where he could just have different departments of his own stuff, like, hey, come over to the Amazon sporting goods. Hey, come over to the Amazon, you know, returned place and pick some stuff out of bins. Come over to the Amazon. Then people might start going to malls again.

Yuban Whakinov (51:37.206)
That's actually. That's not a bad idea, honestly. He had sleep with one eye open, because he's going to be like you never came up with an idea. Get you, you know.

Beard Laws (51:46.846)
I don't care. Yeah, regardless, you know, I'm doing I'm probably not. He's not going to put one anywhere near me. Let's be honest. So, you know, hey, I knew I was going to know we're going to we're going to move past that one. But yeah, I used to I mean, I used to like going to the malls. I've been seeing these memes lately where, all the you know, the people our age because we're starting to get older like, man, I wish my kids could have grown up through this, you know, where it's like put on your ripped clothes.

Yuban Whakinov (51:53.004)
he'll put one in here.

Beard Laws (52:15.744)
We guys were coming full circle with that. Get out on a bicycle, ride all day, hang out with your friends, whether it was pick up this, this, just be outside and do the thing. then it's like, no, things have changed. That's my perspective on it. If we all had the technology that our kids did, we'd be doing the same goddamn thing. You know what I mean? And then if, as a parent, if you're the one that you're forcing your kids not to be on technology, to be like you were growing

Yuban Whakinov (52:35.339)
Yeah.

Beard Laws (52:42.528)
You're gonna raise some weird ass kids. Like you just can't raise them like that anymore.

Yuban Whakinov (52:47.02)
It's my my daughter was she has Snapchat and stuff like that. She's always on these FaceTime calls with everybody. And of course, you know how it is with K through 12 schools. It's you can be friends with people from 15 miles away this way, that way, you know. And so but she's talking, you know, she's like, yeah, I'm in a group chat with all these kids from, you know, this town 40 miles away. And I'm like, how do you know all these people? She's like, through here and here and here. And she's like, I've got like 500 friends on Snapchat now. And I'm

Jesus Christ, I'm like, what the hell? But then I was thinking about when I was growing up, it was MSN Messenger. It was like the same thing. We would get on group chats and stuff. it was that that's how we communicated. And they're able to instantly FaceTime with each other and do all this stuff. And it's just it's a crazy time. I wouldn't want to do that. I'm so glad that we had a little bit of privacy in the fact that dial up Internet. If my mom wanted to answer the phone, I could step away for a little bit.

Beard Laws (53:42.422)
Yeah, but it's nice because they're actually face and my daughter is doing the same thing. They're actually FaceTiming. They're talking. It's kind of moved past the text only phase of things where, you know what I mean? Like it was just texting, texting. Nobody would pick up the phone and call. At least they're talking to each other face to face. If you're going to be a bitch, you're going to be an asshole to somebody. You're at least talking it out and you're not sitting behind the keyboard warriors of the text and, you know, saying some shitty stuff, which that still happens. But.

And at the end of the day, if you're raising shitty kids, they're gonna be shitty whether they're on the internet or in the streets. Plant corn, get corn kind of mentality, you know?

Yuban Whakinov (54:17.425)
Is your daughter in like the like six people group chats too with like the facetimes everything it's

Beard Laws (54:22.718)
I have to imagine, to be honest, like I don't overly monitor it. You know, I mean, she's has restrictions to a lot of the stuff. I mean, she's still pretty young. I didn't really want her on the apps. But again, you kind of have to because all the other friends are on them. But I have to imagine there's there's groups and she's got like kind of one friend that she talks to more than others. But I think they do those square video calls or whatever, whatever app it is. Man, I sounded old right there. I don't like

Yuban Whakinov (54:45.355)
Yes.

Yuban Whakinov (54:49.366)
They even watch, you can, they have like the app where can watch movies together and stuff like that too. I mean, constantly doing stuff together and I'll always, you know, knock on the door and like peek in and they're always like, hi, you know, my kid's dad and everything. I'm like, yeah. Hi, you've been, but the one of their friends did find my TikTok one time and I was like, hey, I was like, no. And they're like, they don't, I don't think they know it's you. And then they're like, she texts, or she was like two days there. She's like,

Beard Laws (55:02.612)
Hi Wackenoff, Mr. Wackenoff. No, don't call me that.

Beard Laws (55:13.226)
now.

Yuban Whakinov (55:19.092)
She knows it's you. I was like, son of a bitch. So that's why I don't post as much because I feel like I gotta behave but I don't know. Life's too short. I'm gonna be a piece of shit again soon.

Beard Laws (55:28.721)
Yeah. Yeah. And it's cool because they can hang out with these friends 40 miles away and it's not like they can ride their bike there or we can drop them off while we're working. So like they have the ability to communicate and still see and talk to friends. And it's nice because where we live and the wife and her family and the kids, they go to school 55 minutes away. So it's like harder for them to do stuff, you know, whether it's a boyfriend or a friend or something. So at least they have the ability to pick up the phone.

Like I was trying to give her advice the other day from a dude's perspective. You the oldest is talking to her boyfriend. He's clearly playing some video games. So I was just like, just kind of, you know, interrupting, seeing what the hell they're doing. And she was just like, I'm with this. And I was like, just let him play his video games. You think he wants to be on the headphone playing a video game instead of chatting with the boys chatting with you? He's only listening to 10 percent of the shit that you're saying. Like you have two options. You either start playing the video game with him or just let him play.

the video game. Like, find a different time. That's his time. You know what I mean? Like, whether you're reading a book or doing whatever girly shit you're doing, your nails, this is the equivalent for a dude. Let him have his

Yuban Whakinov (56:37.388)
You gotta have your time. Dude's gotta have like that little bit of advice, that little bit of a break to get away, you know, a little bit of an outlet. So it's important.

Beard Laws (56:45.118)
I was like what games he playing thinking because he's into eSports I'm thinking maybe like League of Legends or something like that. He's like, please play in some Minecraft I was like, fuck it chat with him. Whatever he's but there's no offense to the Minecraft community But I feel like that's a game where you can still do what you're doing and do that and he's like, He's just editing a video for the YouTube firm's minecraft. I'm like, what is this YouTube? I don't know. I'm like bullshit. What is the YouTube? I Really? I was like, you know, just tell me

Yuban Whakinov (57:06.902)
Hehehehehe

Beard Laws (57:12.662)
I told them I wouldn't tell you. I was like, I will find the goddamn YouTube. I'm gonna give you a week to just do it. Or the next time I see them, it's embarrassment 30. Like, give me the goddamn YouTube.

Yuban Whakinov (57:22.24)
Yeah, I mean, so, Brandon, have you ever played Minecraft?

Brandon J McDermott (57:25.314)
I played. Yes. I've had servers and yes, yes.

Beard Laws (57:26.794)
He's a minecrafter.

Yuban Whakinov (57:27.948)
Okay, my kids tried to get me on it too. I they're like, hey, dad, do the crafting table and all this other stuff. I'm like, okay, and then I do this and this and then you can get like an axe and then pickaxe and everything. I'm like, okay, I'm figuring this stuff out. I finally built like a house and they're like, it's not bad, dad, you know, then they show me there's it's like 18 stories and all these rooms and they got beds and stuff. And I'm like, how the hell did you guys do that? The same time I did my it is

I tried to enjoy it, but I'm just too stupid for it.

Brandon J McDermott (58:00.363)
No, it's it's it's fun. It is once you get past it looks like Legos because I've had friends are like I'm not playing a stupid game like it's 1983 like once you get past that and you get into the idea of it, you're just it's it's so immersive. It's as fun and complicated of a game as you want it to be. It can be simple as let's go hide from the scary people trying to kill me at night to hey, let's build this train and make a city and do you know

Yuban Whakinov (58:22.474)
Right.

Yuban Whakinov (58:26.902)
That's, they had to turn off, I think it's the survival mode or whatever too, because I could never build fast enough to get safe and I was always dying from like the enders or whatever the hell was trying to kill us every time. And they're like, dad, are you down again? And I'm like, yes, leave me alone. And they're like, it's okay, we'll go ahead and just turn this off so you can just start building. And sure enough, I'm like, okay, I'm having fun, everything. I look and I go, it's been three fucking hours? I'm like, get out, no. And they're

Beard Laws (58:27.018)
Yeah, no.

Yuban Whakinov (58:55.688)
Isn't it fun and I'm like this actually wasn't bad. I was like, yeah, it's like you don't look And so they're of course on their Nintendo switches in their phone everything they're like dad you're you got to finally join it and I'm one those ones where I'll go hard into the paint on this for like a week and then I burned myself out of it and I'm like I'm gonna play this shit again for a couple months and so whenever I finally got to that day, they're like, alright dad like hey you want to you want to load into our server again and I'm

Brandon J McDermott (58:59.032)
One of us, one of us.

Beard Laws (59:00.938)
What? What of us?

Yuban Whakinov (59:23.22)
Nah, and they're like, man, they're like, he's reached his limit, like he's done. And they're like, you might as well just kick him out. He won't be in it again for another month. And I'm like, yeah, that's just how it is. You guys know what you guys understand, Dad.

Beard Laws (59:34.934)
Yep. But if you little shits want to challenge me in NCAA football, let me know because I got to drop 1200 bucks just to get a new console and a game.

Yuban Whakinov (59:42.412)
That's I really wanted to fucking play that. And of course, the kids, each have newer Xboxes than I do. And I'm like, OK, well, I was sick. I was like, I'll just I'll play NCA. Like this is what's out. Like this is perfect time. I'm going to be a bum and become a stud at this game. Your Xbox is not compatible. I go up fucking corset is and I'm like, son of a gun.

Beard Laws (01:00:01.844)
Yep. And if I was to ever be able to have time to play a game, which unfortunately in my life I allocate not to, I would want it on PC. And they don't, it's not a PC game, console only. So I'm out. I know we need to get back into that, but either way, let's go ahead and end this. I just looked at the clock for the first time and it has been a blast. So thanks everybody that's listening. Obviously thanks, Eubin. Good to see you feeling better. Brandon J. Always a pleasure.

Yuban Whakinov (01:00:14.07)
don't even play VR enough.

Yuban Whakinov (01:00:24.008)
Yeah.

Beard Laws (01:00:31.392)
Go NDSU. And Brandon, we actually were talking about you on the Triple T podcast with Nebraska football. And we are weeks away from college football. Goot loves himself some sports. And he said, you know what? And he did. I don't know if you guys have ever had a conversation, but he's like, you know what? I think Nebraska is starting to put some pieces in place. I could see them being relevant in the next couple of years again. know, because we were talking the year, whatever. I think it was the year that Nebraska lost

You know, the big game wasn't the national championship. It was one of the big bowls or whatever. And he was like, I'm telling you, they're coming back. And then I was like, Brandon J. McDermott, he's the only one I know who's a Nebraska fan.

Brandon J McDermott (01:01:09.099)
So I have before we go and I apologize an app on my phone called Countdown One of them happens to say the last time Nebraska made a bowl game 2774 days. It's been seven years you guys so

Beard Laws (01:01:12.596)
Yeah, that's good.

Beard Laws (01:01:27.808)
since a bowl game? Like a relevant bowl game or even like the, you know, Sam's house.

Brandon J McDermott (01:01:32.363)
We haven't hit six wins since 2016. It's been three and nine, five and seven, four and eight, five and seven, three and nine, five. Yeah, that's what it's been. Four and eight, we had one, three and nine year, mostly five and seven. But Nebraska, we could go into details, there's a lot of misconceptions about Nebraska football, but we were basically, in short, we were relevant from 1962 until…

Beard Laws (01:01:36.79)
Damn.

Brandon J McDermott (01:02:01.899)
2016 now relevant in that we were making bowl games. We were in the top 25 ish Now we were on top of our game from basically 1970 until 1969 until 2001 No team won more than us in the 80s Florida State won a couple more games in the 90s It could be arguable that which team was better program was better than 90s, Florida State or Nebraska

Florida State had something crazy like from 86 to or 87 to 2001. They were ranked in the top five the whole

Beard Laws (01:02:39.136)
wild.

Brandon J McDermott (01:02:40.043)
That which is just mind boggling, but which is crazy too. But Nebraska being Nebraska in the middle of nowhere, 1 .9, 1 .7 to 1 .9 million people to be considered a blue blood at all. It's amazing. Can we win this year? Who knows? But I feel like a fucking Cubs fan after being a Yankees fan for

Yuban Whakinov (01:02:40.382)
It's a

Beard Laws (01:02:59.542)
Yeah, but I mean, you got to at least have a little bit of excitement that they've changed things up. They're expanding the playoff, at least for me, that's going to because I don't have a team. So it's a little bit different for me. Like I didn't go to a big school. I don't root for a big school. There isn't one near me. Like I haven't we've talked about that, but it's like I am going to watch it now knowing that there is going to be a expanded

Brandon J McDermott (01:03:21.163)
And that's the thing. Last thing I'll say, cause I know this is well, fuck it. This is what dads do when we sit around the refrigerator. The great thing about the expansion to 12 teams and I don't know if it's going to go to 16 or if it's going to stay at 12, but the greatest thing about that is that Nebraska football for many reasons will never see the nineties again. one of them being a change in, prop 48, which is allowed Nebraska to take partial qualifiers, people who didn't hit the grades.

Yuban Whakinov (01:03:29.516)
That's right.

Beard Laws (01:03:29.706)
Hell

Brandon J McDermott (01:03:50.763)
and they had like a semester or two semesters to make the grades 2 .0 GPA or hit an ACT score or SAT score. Nebraska built themselves on that. Their championship team in 95 had like 10 people starting that were Prop 48 kids who were partial qualifiers to start. Anyway, that's one of the things. Changes in scholarships and all that thing. So basically, in a nutshell, Nebraska was never going to be one of the top two teams in the country again.

to make the national title game. It was just not going to happen for various and varied reasons. Nebraska can be one of the top 12 teams at some point in a given year. If Kansas State and Missouri and even Iowa State can have a year where they go off, it can happen. And that's promising for college football, even with the crazy conglomeration that you're seeing with the combination of conferences.

Beard Laws (01:04:45.494)
Yeah, so right now it's a 12 playoff participants, which are going to consist of the five highest ranked conference champions. And then the next seven highest ranked teams and the four highest conference champs are going to be seated one through four with the first round by. So there's going to be essentially, like you said, no matter what, seven teams. And there's always that complaint, well, this team just went 14 and 0. They were ranked number three, but didn't make it. So you're going to get a lot of colleges that just have to go more or less all in for a year or two, get some transfers, put the pieces together.

pay these college kids the right amount of money.

Brandon J McDermott (01:05:17.323)
But you know what's gonna be fun? And I don't know, listen, we're speaking in what's happening today and not how college football can look in five years. They could break off, it could be the top 48 teams or 60 teams make their own league. I mean, that could happen. But if things stay where it's at currently and old dominion still playing Alabama, kind of a thing, then you could potentially see here where Liberty or Coastal Carolina.

Yuban Whakinov (01:05:27.936)
Yeah.

Brandon J McDermott (01:05:44.299)
or one of these one offs that back in the day Boise State, Fresno State, Hawaii could go off and have a year where they could make, they can go undefeated and make a top 12. And now it's no longer, could they play with Florida, Florida State or Tennessee or Nebraska or Alabama? It's a let's put it on the field and see. So it could be fun. Like this could be potentially fun. Like March madness and cheering for a team. None of my dogs are in the, I have no dogs in this fight,

It's fun to cheer for that underdog.

Beard Laws (01:06:16.246)
Yeah, exactly. And I mean, of the power conferences, you just got to win the conference. So it kind of shifts focus on your schedule, how they're going to schedule. Like maybe I don't take a chance on this other game because really if I just need to make the top 12, I have to just win my conference. You know, whether it's ACC, Big 10, Big 12, SEC and what's the other one? There's a West Coast one. Pac -12? Is that one? Has it gone?

Yuban Whakinov (01:06:16.32)
That Cinderella story,

Brandon J McDermott (01:06:36.658)
SEC.

Brandon J McDermott (01:06:40.159)
Pack

Yuban Whakinov (01:06:42.252)
the impacts going I miss the old big 12 man because that's when you're talking about the Nebraska days I'm like it know being a Mizzou fan fuck I hated it and still a big fuck you to Kansas KUPU is what we used to say whenever I was in kindergarten I hate that damn school the rivalry is still there fuck you Kansas

Beard Laws (01:07:01.162)
Yeah, but hey, no, it's exciting times. We're around the corner from that, football, all the good stuff. But all right, we'll get out of here. Speaking of fridges, I'm going to go raid my fridge. I actually have some decent leftovers I'm super excited about. So I'm going to go eat some food. Appreciate anybody that's still listening for whatever reason. Eubin, Brandon, hope you be good to your wieners. Be good to yourselves. Go eat something good. That's all I got. guys got anything else?

Yuban Whakinov (01:07:24.852)
I can't promise anything that you just said.

Beard Laws (01:07:26.898)
Okay, and don't remember. I mean, we've covered a lot of things from Pogs to Bong and Dong, so… I'm gonna go play some Pogs. Okay, bye!