The Mick & Pat Show - Camp Tales

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uh, welcome to the mick and pat show again.

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Um, I will say, pat our.

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The amount of degenerates listening to this show is rapidly increasing, yeah and english speakers.

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Oh good, yeah, so um, but uh yeah, welcome degenerates.

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You know who you are and thanks for tuning in.

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We appreciate you and if you're new to the show, we refer to our dedicated listeners.

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As Ken, I see you as family and thanks for tuning in.

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We have a special, special evening because a good friend of mine and a new friend of Pat's Because I can't remember if you guys had met before in Crossing I don't think so.

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It's very hard for me to recall after all these years which friends have overlapped in the Venn diagram of events, but joining us tonight is my buddy, ty and Ty, we go back over 10 years now.

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It'll be 10 years this summer.

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They say.

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They say if, uh, you've been friends with someone for 10 years I think it's seven, I know what you're going to say it's seven that you'll end up making love to each other.

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Ooh, I'm behind there at the end.

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But yeah, Ty go ahead and introduce yourself, share whatever you like to do, whatever your job, your life is, it's really up to you, man.

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Yeah, thanks for having me on.

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I've been looking forward to this.

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This is quite the honor.

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I am a friend of Mick.

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Yeah, what did we say?

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It'll be 10 years.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, 10 years in 2025.

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That's crazy.

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Where'd you?

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guys meet Ooh.

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So Mick and I met at a.

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Summer camp.

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Summer camp yeah.

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Eagle.

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Lake Okay.

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I mean, it's so far behind us that I don't really feel like it matters.

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Yeah, so we met at Eagle Lake Camps, which is located in Woodland Park yeah yeah, colorado Springs, woodland Park.

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Yeah yeah, colorado Springs, woodland Park area.

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Yeah.

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So how I got there was I had originally applied to be a groundskeeper at this camp because I was just like at this point in my life, um, where I just wanted, uh, just kind of a fresh start, and I was like, should I work at a dude ranch, should I be?

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I was born in Colorado.

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Kind of a fresh start and I was like, should I work at a dude ranch, should I be?

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I was born in colorado, kind of grew up here, but at the time I was living in nebraska and then you were also at that point a degenerate uh, I don't know, yeah.

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Yeah, I was gonna say I don't know if a whole lot has changed, but still a little bit of a degenerate would you say you were walking with the lord before you came to?

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absolutely not, brother no um no, I very much not.

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Did not.

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Went to a um catholic high school and middle school, so I could probably at the time give you some Sunday school answers.

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Did not have Jesus in my heart for sure.

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Anyways, did not know that I was going to be working at that camp.

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I thought I was going to be a groundskeeper, like I said.

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Are you a counselor?

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I drove like 600 miles from Lincoln, nebraska, to Colorado Springs and I'm thinking, okay, cool, I'm going to get like the dude rants experience, I'm going to ride horses, I'm going to fix fence, chew tobacco and I'm going to fuck off for the summer.

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Yeah, no, no, no, absolutely not.

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I show up.

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And at first they wanted.

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They were like hey, man, we filled your position, um filled your position with a black dude from mississippi was he from mississippi, where?

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was he from atlanta, I can't remember where.

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His name was chris, and chris he's from the inner city somewhere.

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He's cool.

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Yeah, he't remember where he was from.

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His name was Chris.

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He's from the inner city somewhere.

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He was cool.

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Yeah, he was a good dude.

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He's definitely not counselor material.

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Looking back now, he was better for that position than I was, and if I was a groundskeeper, I would have never met my now wife and then a few other friends, mick being one of them.

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Yeah, so, yeah, so that's just kind of how it happened.

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Yeah, it was pretty much love at first sight, Pat.

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Mick physically assaulted me.

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Okay, so this is where he wants to start with this.

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Yeah, really, I think I'd like to start from like we're sitting there during the orientation.

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Oh, that's true.

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And like.

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Playing the human, not game.

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No, no, no, it was like the boring Death by PowerPoint presentation part.

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And it was like Eagle Lake does this presentation on, like you know how to sing the papaya song.

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No, no, no, no like this is not the joke one.

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This is like the.

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This is like if you're a pedophile, we'll make you disappear this summer.

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Like, just quit now.

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There's like they're getting serious yeah, well, it was literally like it was so hammered over and over, like it's better for you to leave than for us to find out, like if you're a pedophile, we're basically gonna kill you, we're gonna take you to the train stop or the train station you know it was.

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It was just like over and over, and I remember it was like so long and I'm like looking at like people and none of us are friends yet, except for people who had already been there, I'm like, good god, I wonder if someone here's a pedophile they're it Like how many pedophiles come to the like be camp counselors every year.

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And then, like it was right after they like were like all right, take 10.

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And you know, I'm just like sitting in my chair and looking around and just kind of eyeing people up, and then I see Ty and he's he had like a Jimmy Neutron haircut at the time.

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It was pretty like up and then curled.

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It was like a snake tunnel.

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Or tunnel snake.

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Yeah, I thought it was funny, tunnel snake, a wave.

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Well, the tunnel snake's a hairdo.

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It's a hairdo, it's your hair, bro.

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You got that stiff, dark Nebraska hair.

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Well, Mick doesn't have any hair, that's true male pattern baldness is is coming on set early.

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We don't even know if it skipped a generation I have more hair on my face than you ever will oh, also not, not true?

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yeah, exactly 100 true um, what you know, it's always just like been unbelievable.

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Like, looking at you, what you have like, like you have a hair, you get out of my feelings.

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You, you have like no like between your neck and then your your nether bits.

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You don't have any hair.

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Yeah, it's true, I have a happy trail yeah, that's all you got yeah, I am pretty squeaky clean like a baby, other than like the stray like Naked mole rat kind of.

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Like oh okay, all right, that's how you see it.

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I see it kind of as like a slick, hard plastic, like you know, ken Bod, wow, here's the thing, man, you're running your mouth a lot right now and I recall you just ogling and taking every opportunity to rub your hands across my body that summer.

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So no, but all right, no.

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So like literally, like we make eye contact and I just it's just kind of like this like nod thing, like he.

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I see he's looking at me, I'm looking at him.

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It is like one of those things that like in my head I'm like it's a little gay, but like whatever, I don't know that guy's name, that room, room beneath the dining hall.

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Dining hall.

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No, it's like the big bubble yeah, the big bubble, T-Dome and later on.

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You know, I'm still trying to figure out who actually can hang and be kind of rough and tough for the summer, Because it's like summer camp but there's a lot of people who are like weenies.

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That is Mick, down to his core Like who's gonna roughhouse with me yeah, and like we're throwing the frisbee on this hill while leaving the dining hall.

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No campers, of course, are here yet and I don't know what started at first, but I felt someone it might have not been you, it might have been, uh, one of these other guys, danny someone bumped into me like a good shoulder check shove to snap the frisbee and I was like I and like.

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Then, when it was coming back our direction, I saw a tie going for it and I just bulldozed into him down the hill and the fact that he was laughing about it and we were laughing as we were rolling down the hill in like dry shrub brush.

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I was like this is my dog, like for the rest of the summer, this is the dog and like it's this is it, it's going to be a good summer.

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You two were just like Simba and Nala, rolling down that hill.

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It really was, bro.

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It was like that yeah, just all like, oh my gosh, uh, anyways.

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So, um, oh, the chemistry, yeah, no, I mean it was.

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It was pretty much like we became buddies off from there yeah, we became buddies real fast and we're spending pretty much like every night we were just up late, either playing cards or talking on the cabin patios and just getting to know stuff, and um, I'm trying to think like what the first?

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I feel like that first weekend or one of those weekends we were like we've got cigars and when I don't know whose house we were at but we were just chilling to smoke cigars, it was just a good old boys weekend before any girls came and ruined it.

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Oh dude, mick introduced me into the wonderful world of primetimes.

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Oh yeah, that's right, I was a primetime monster bro.

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Early college age high class cigars.

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Bro, what can I say?

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I grew up on the streets, I love my grape and watermelon primetimes, oh yeah, um, but uh, yeah, and then uh, we, I really think like the the best thing was like what three weeks, four weeks into with campers.

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We got paired up with these like kid, like we were in a boy's cabin, of course paired up, and the boys were like little boys, not middle schoolers, and I think they were all like in the age range of like seven to maybe nine, like first and second graders yeah and uh, oh, man, they were just.

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It was awesome like they were.

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Like there was times where they're annoying, for sure, but it was pretty much just Ty and I got to just wrestle them, you know, I mean and like that was that was the whole week of just wrestling them until they were tired enough to nap, and then we just sit out on the patio that's definitely like the age group where they're not too cool and um yeah, so they can't read, so like it's like bible time and it's like what are you gonna do?

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like they just look.

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There was weeks where I remember one time I was, it was someone that week it was just a kid looking at his Bible, crying because he just couldn't, he didn't know how to read yet, and he was just so overwhelmed by the amount of words on the page.

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It was hilarious, dang.

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Is that a core memory for you just now?

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That just came back.

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No, I'm thinking of the Jesus.

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Jesus was good, okay.

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So I, later part of the summer I had this camper who, um, I think he got like anyways, like a, a sponsorship, um, anyways.

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Someone had basically like kind of helped him get you know, get to this camp, and he was writing a thank you card at the end of the week.

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And I still, now that I'm thinking about it, I'm still questioning if he just like pulled one over on me.

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I don't think so.

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But he wrote, uh, this thank you note and then was trying to say jesus, and it was jesus jesus every time, yeah, I just about lost my mind well, because you don't want to laugh at him and hurt their feelings like you want them to write the cards but I was like jesus.

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Jesus, how many times has it been up on the screen this week?

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There was also bro.

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You gotta tell this one, this was a good one.

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You had that middle school.

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I'm pretty sure it was middle school age camper that made the ultimate commitment to it, wasn't Gaga Ball?

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What was it?

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No, this is the same kid.

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Oh, it was the same kid, same exact kid.

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Okay, alright, now you gotta tell this story of how you found this out All right.

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So on Thursdays, thursdays was probably the most full day because campers maybe, yeah, maybe Friday, I can't really remember Anyways full of activities, full of a lot of fun stuff.

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But yes, it was during Gaga Ball.

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So Gaga Ball, what is that?

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No, newcomb, newcomb, it was.

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Newcomb that's what it is.

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I was king of the Newcomb courts at Eagle Lake.

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Yeah it was Newcomb.

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So if you don't know, for the listeners that don't know what Newcomb is, it's essentially volleyball, but you can't move and there's way too many players there's like 20 players on each side and if it comes near you and you don't hit it back and it hits the sand, you're out every like pinballs off of you and a couple other people and hits the ground.

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You're all out.

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Yeah, you're all out.

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It's kind of like dodgeball in a sense and for some reason, it's the most important thing to win to a lot of middle school boys.

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Yeah, I broke my tailbone playing nukem really yeah, because you can leave your feet, but then, like, the new position that you land in, is you where you gotta stay until the ball comes near you again?

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Yeah, uh.

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But yeah, the ultimate sacrifice was made by this kid and somewhere in between playing Newcomb, and then we went straight from that to dinner.

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Thursday night was banquet night too.

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Banquet night, dude.

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So yeah, he just unloaded in his pants, Just shit in his pants and just shit, good old to win nukem dude.

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He was not like.

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This is not a second grader.

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This must have been, oh, way too old, like sixth or seventh grade.

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Way too old, way too old for this, um, which made me kind of feel bad because I don't know, he's probably probably just more going on.

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But, dude, he's a laugh at him for it.

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Okay, we've all been there.

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You know he's probably got a college degree now.

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Yeah, if you're listening to this man, I've been there.

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Um.

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I I've been in situations where I've been prairie dogging it but um, yeah, been prairie dogging it but um, yeah, I don't know he he committed all the way.

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Anyways, it gets to the end of the night, we're all going into our bunks and I am just like dude, and this is after like we had showered and everything, and I was just like yo, it reeks, this is insane and it's I know I can smell and it's near me because I remember walking around the cabin and it would just, it would like, dissipate, it would be like you could smell it right here and then it's, you can't smell it over here.

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Then you come back around and it's, it's here, it's under, and literally like I look down, I have my headlight on, I look straight down, there's just his pair of underpants, uh, between my feet, just with that log in it.

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It was like whatever, probably like 10, 30 at night I want to say maybe earlier, but I was way too tired for this and I just like went outside, found a stick, pick, pick the pant, you know underpants up and just like threw them just outside of the cabin.

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I was just I don't even have like the tolerance or the energy to like actually just like go toss him away.

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But then I made a point the next morning to confront this kid and I was just like what's this about?

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Yeah.

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He was like nuke him, I did it, those aren't mine.

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And I was like, well, after nu, after nukem, we went back to the cabin.

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You could have, like you had like all these different chances to change you know didn't do it, yeah, and somehow like no one else, I don't know.

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so anyways, nuke, just nuke, just pants.

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Yeah for the win Wow.

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Well, I've talked about the gorilla costume on this podcast before.

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Right, you're right.

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Yeah.

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See, hey Ty, I just want to know what it was like from your perspective, like from within the cabin.

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You don't have to tell the whole story, because people who have listened have already heard the story of the gorilla costume and the whole buildup, but I just I wasn't in the cabin so I'm only Translated like what I heard from the outside.

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Um, I haven't Thought about that literally Since it happened.

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I mean, I'm sure we've probably Talked about it afterwards, but I'm trying to remember.

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Um, you had the really rough inner city Mexican kids that were from Denver, oh yeah, and like none of them brought real swim trunks.

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They just like were too cool for school.

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You had the really rough inner city Mexican kids that were from Denver, oh yeah, and like none of them brought real swim trunks.

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They just like were too cool for school.

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Yeah, yeah, do you.

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How did?

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Okay?

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Just real quick recap.

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How did you get that?

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How did you procure my campers?

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brought it up and we and.

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I was like so ball.

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And they were like, yeah, we should just run around all week this and this.

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I'm like no, no, no, no, like we get them to announce there's a gorilla loose from cheyenne mountain zoo, we build up to it and then I'll I'll put it on and run through camp and scare campers and I I didn't tell any other dude counselors other than like you and and our buddy gom, and I think you were the only two I kept in on it.

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Oh no, gum was gone, gum was fired by this point.

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Yeah I can't.

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I'm trying to remember.

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There was only like you and one other dude.

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I told about it.

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I was like, hey, I'm doing this.

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It was probably danny, and then the rest of them.

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I didn't tell because I wanted it to be genuine, but I remember, like you, had those mexicans that were too cool for school.

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I'm like, bro, I'll scare the daylights out of them.

00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:53.710
A couple of them were super cool, but I think I found out that one of them had a vape and I was just like dude Share.

00:18:53.710 --> 00:19:01.171
I was like I'm not going to report you or anything.

00:19:01.171 --> 00:19:06.880
I don't want to make this a thing which I totally could have got fired for that.

00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:08.483
Yeah, so what?

00:19:08.483 --> 00:19:10.867
Yeah, because that other.

00:19:10.867 --> 00:19:12.290
Well, anyways, we're getting.

00:19:12.290 --> 00:19:13.173
Did anyone cry?

00:19:13.493 --> 00:19:20.463
when I because I remember I was like picking up their I do remember porch and like acting, you know, sniffing them, and I was blowing on the glass definitely.

00:19:20.944 --> 00:19:25.894
Uh, one of my kids cried now that I'm thinking about it, which was super cool.

00:19:27.123 --> 00:19:27.705
It was awesome.

00:19:27.705 --> 00:19:29.845
That was honestly the best.

00:19:30.527 --> 00:19:41.208
Yeah, kids that have never really been to the woods or have seen wild animals, yeah, and then just get PTSD.

00:19:44.462 --> 00:19:44.805
Oh man.

00:19:45.846 --> 00:19:53.864
From making a gorilla costume costume it was a good time oh, man, dude, I've never been back, man not?

00:19:53.984 --> 00:20:00.019
once I went back a few times to do some video editing and stuff to visit some people.

00:20:00.019 --> 00:20:06.329
Anyways, you met your honey from there.

00:20:06.329 --> 00:20:17.450
I did meet Bonnie, yeah, and now you and Bonnie have a little one, clyde Clyde Nice, it's kind of weird that she named her son Clyde.

00:20:17.940 --> 00:20:43.893
It's kind of a you know we're not going to go there, Right, but yeah, it's been almost 10 years, yeah, basically every time I ever hung out with her besides, maybe like one or two times there was, you know, you were around.

00:20:49.359 --> 00:20:50.884
You also had a lady friend at the time and she's doing great.

00:20:50.884 --> 00:20:56.979
She's out there married with kiddos and she's very successful, yeah, um it was?

00:20:57.019 --> 00:20:57.440
yeah, it was.

00:20:57.440 --> 00:21:06.862
It was a lot of fun to because we had like a good group of friends that would hang out when we would have our 24 hours off the mountain.

00:21:06.862 --> 00:21:19.971
Yeah, and one of my favorite memories is we uh there was like the four of us decided to have like a late lunch on saturday afternoon oh, this is good.

00:21:19.971 --> 00:21:35.008
And um, we were somewhere downtown colorado springs and we were running late and I must have ran over a nail and so, like we came out to my 98 Lexus LS 400.

00:21:35.008 --> 00:21:36.991
Beautiful car, it's a great car.

00:21:36.991 --> 00:21:53.829
Rip With a completely flat tire and I was just like like, oh my gosh, and luckily uh had like a regular rim and tire ready to, ready to roll and we probably changed that tire in what?

00:21:53.829 --> 00:21:54.491
Two minutes?

00:21:54.652 --> 00:22:04.825
two minutes, yeah it was like it was crazy, it was unreal we were already late, like there was no chance we're gonna make it on time, and then, with having a flat tire, it was just like oh my god.

00:22:04.965 --> 00:22:12.685
But I've never had and I've had like probably three or four instances of a flat tire on someone else's car on my own, or blunt like pop tire.

00:22:12.685 --> 00:22:16.205
I've never had anything remotely as aligned as that.

00:22:16.205 --> 00:22:22.849
It was like Ty and I were like we didn't attach, no, literally didn't say anything.

00:22:22.849 --> 00:22:32.685
I we came out and I saw the flat tire and Ty says I like fuck and he's like I got a spare in the trunk and that was the last thing he said.

00:22:32.685 --> 00:22:58.202
And the girls just stood to the side and watched us chain this tire in two minutes without any words said and just jacking it up, knowing exactly where to throw a jack and, like you know, take all the legs off and swap it out and uh, we get in the car and like the girls were like that was incredibly hot, like you guys, you guys didn't say anything, you just like did that without having to do.

00:22:58.343 --> 00:23:00.991
Like the fact that you did without having to communicate and argue was unreal.

00:23:01.011 --> 00:23:12.528
I was like, yeah, that was, we were really good at that that we were really on the same page, and then, for whatever reason, we decided to take the most ass-backward way back to camp, which is the real reason why we were late.

00:23:12.528 --> 00:23:21.029
But yeah, that drive up Rampart Road was one to remember, yeah it was a good time, it was pretty.

00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:25.107
Anyways, pat, sorry we were going down memory lane.

00:23:25.107 --> 00:23:27.785
No, I don't know if there's anything you want to clue into there.

00:23:27.805 --> 00:23:29.128
No, I like it eagle lake is.

00:23:29.128 --> 00:23:34.163
I've attended there a couple times as a camper back in the day.

00:23:34.163 --> 00:23:35.227
It's a special place for me.

00:23:35.227 --> 00:23:40.710
Yeah, it's fun to talk about, I can picture all the spots and yeah, it's a super cool place and getting to.

00:23:40.710 --> 00:23:43.807
And then also, you know, yeah, had fun summers.

00:23:43.807 --> 00:23:46.281
I did my like summer stuff was at young life, camps and stuff.

00:23:46.281 --> 00:23:47.404
But you know, it's nice.

00:23:47.404 --> 00:23:57.034
That's just full of fun memories and you're young and you really don't have any responsibilities or like really everything's fine in your life.

00:23:57.034 --> 00:24:05.780
But but then all the um, the cool thing about that is like you're just so present you know, like there's not like a lot again.

00:24:05.800 --> 00:24:07.346
Other people, people do have stuff going on.

00:24:07.346 --> 00:24:13.034
Lives are hard things, but for the most part, usually you're just college age, you're here for the summer and this is your whole life.

00:24:13.034 --> 00:24:18.270
You know, everything's just like in the moment going on and good friendships, good memories.

00:24:18.270 --> 00:24:24.991
It's where you make lifelong friends, where you sometimes find a lady, yeah, and hang out with them for a long time.

00:24:25.534 --> 00:24:41.865
Um, it was at a young life camp where, um, where I figured out that I liked makes me do yeah, she was um, we had been friends for a while but and she was working at the young life camp on the next mountain over and I had to go do a.

00:24:41.865 --> 00:24:45.930
Uh, I would get to go over to that camp once a week to.

00:24:45.930 --> 00:24:51.215
We would take my camp was a family camp and the other camp was a camp for high schoolers.

00:24:51.215 --> 00:25:07.346
Once a week we'd take families over to the high school camp and while the high schoolers were all gone from camp for the day on the hike, then all the families could play in the pool that day and it was a cool way for families and adults to see, like what a young life camp is and see, see that camp and so.

00:25:07.346 --> 00:25:13.326
But I got to drive the fans over there and take people over there, and so then she was a baker.

00:25:13.326 --> 00:25:18.240
I'd go see her in the in the old bakery wow, that's so on brand for her.

00:25:18.361 --> 00:25:20.506
Yeah, I could see her in an apron bacon.

00:25:20.526 --> 00:25:23.752
She was aproned up just bacon, wow, covered in flour.

00:25:23.752 --> 00:25:30.210
And I'd go there and excited to see her and we'd write letters back and forth, all summer long.

00:25:30.351 --> 00:25:31.011
Who initiated?

00:25:31.011 --> 00:25:35.210
When did you know she was into you?

00:25:35.210 --> 00:25:39.118
Was it after you made the first move or were you like, oh wait, this chick's into?

00:25:39.140 --> 00:25:39.180
me.

00:25:39.180 --> 00:25:40.465
The funny thing is this was the summer.

00:25:40.465 --> 00:25:42.647
We didn't start dating until October.

00:25:42.819 --> 00:25:44.507
Okay, you're writing letters to each other.

00:25:45.820 --> 00:25:49.740
You're flirting here's what I'll say is like all of our friends, even leading up to like why don't you guys date?

00:25:49.740 --> 00:25:52.311
And we're like well, like what are you talking about?

00:25:52.311 --> 00:25:54.000
I love attention, we don't like each other.

00:25:54.000 --> 00:25:55.545
Like like I have no idea what you're talking about.

00:25:55.545 --> 00:26:09.721
Both of us were like I, literally, but you were writing letters to each other, but we did, we, we kind of we uh, which is a cool thing about a relationship, was it really is like, was like founded and rooted in like friendship first, and so then it was just a very strong relationship going forward.

00:26:09.741 --> 00:26:24.005
But that's when I kind of started realizing like yeah, I think I kind of like this girl and so then, when we got done with summer, came back to school, um then that beginning that fall semester, we officially started dating hell yeah, and I initiated that.

00:26:24.005 --> 00:26:30.873
But yeah, it was camp, summer camps, college time, it's good good stuff.

00:26:31.314 --> 00:26:34.421
I am so glad that that's how I met my wife.

00:26:36.042 --> 00:26:42.991
Like to just court a woman in that way, it was a really good it was.

00:26:43.071 --> 00:27:02.345
It was a you know, it's a lot better than a lot of people meet their spouses and you know college and stuff bonnie and I talk about it every once in a while be like I have no idea how you could date, how you would even date right now, oh yeah yeah, yeah, it'd be crazy.

00:27:03.125 --> 00:27:03.768
Feel the same way.

00:27:03.768 --> 00:27:38.170
Um, one thing I do want to say too is just, you know, ty, I think about it a lot in, uh, I think you were with me probably at like the most ghetto, like roughest moments of college, like I genuinely think, like cause Ty, after summer camp, was back in nebraska for a minute before moving out to colorado and our college town, and then he lived in our college town for a little while with some randos and then he moved in with me my, uh, junior year.

00:27:38.170 --> 00:28:04.902
We were roommates my junior year, but the summer before the junior year he moved in and that summer it was just him and I in this townhome or condo and I was working like 70 hours a week because of the commute, and he was working like 70 hours a week because it was construction and we would literally just see each other as, like I'm coming home from a super long security shift, he's just clonked out on the couch.

00:28:04.902 --> 00:28:08.912
I just wake him up, give him like a beer because he couldn't drink yet.

00:28:09.140 --> 00:28:19.131
Well, he could, but like he could buy alcohol and I was 21 and I would just like bring home a beer or something and like we drink a beer before we both just go to bed, to do it again the next day.

00:28:19.131 --> 00:28:23.451
And it was just every single fucking day it was on.

00:28:23.451 --> 00:28:28.227
It was like I would have a thursday off and it was just like that was it.

00:28:28.227 --> 00:28:58.330
That was my only day off and it was random and it wasn't enough time to turn around, yeah, and there was like some straight up moments where, like ty and I would somehow like we'd find a window to like crush a good like 20 rack outside just in camping chairs in the cul-de-sac, just under street lights, and it was like some, those are some great beers they were good, but like dude, it was like honestly so miserable like it was like it was like misery, not because I was like an alcoholic.

00:28:58.371 --> 00:29:09.887
It was misery because I was like I have no life, I can't I can't I cannot differentiate any of the days that have occurred in the last 30 days, like they're all the same thing and just mindless, boring.

00:29:09.887 --> 00:29:11.765
And I don't even like what's good.

00:29:11.765 --> 00:29:13.185
What good is my money?

00:29:13.185 --> 00:29:19.369
Because I have nothing to spend it on, because I have no free time, and that summer was just like it vaporized.

00:29:19.901 --> 00:29:24.608
It was surreal it was really weird Just crushing beers and like camel crushes.

00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:28.240
Yeah was surreal.

00:29:28.240 --> 00:29:29.707
It was really crushing beers and like camel crushes.

00:29:29.707 --> 00:29:29.948
Yeah, we did.

00:29:29.948 --> 00:29:34.446
What was really fun, too, is like I would have friends from high school come up and visit us that summer, just when they because you know they're doing the same thing.

00:29:34.446 --> 00:29:41.771
They didn't go to college, right, so they drive a visit and there's these horses nearby and I still have pictures and ty actually found this picture.

00:29:41.771 --> 00:29:44.192
I want to show you, bro, one of my favorite.

00:29:44.192 --> 00:29:45.579
There's horses named.

00:29:45.579 --> 00:29:46.982
We called them burt and ernie.

00:29:47.124 --> 00:30:20.069
Don't know who they were but uh, it became kind of a ritual at one point in the summer to just like after we were drunk, to go there, meander our way over there and just grab, uh, just grab grass wherever we could, because the horses already ate, like the grass over the fence, you know, we would just feed the horses just it was like until 3 am until until one night yeah, my buddy andre was up with us and I mean gosh, he brought a rack of beer.

00:30:20.631 --> 00:30:21.553
I had a rack of beer.

00:30:21.553 --> 00:30:38.167
I mean, we were, we were drunk as skunks and it was like one of those things where, like, we were drunk and then started sobering up because we were staying up so late, smoking cigs and stuff and just talking, and then we just got like drunk again, like it was like.

00:30:38.682 --> 00:30:52.039
But there is this picture from that night and while we were feeding these horses gosh, let me find the year.

00:30:52.039 --> 00:30:52.641
What year was that?

00:30:52.641 --> 00:30:55.185
That was like 2016.

00:30:55.185 --> 00:31:07.003
While we were feeding these horses, the like dude who owns the farm came outside and racked a shotgun and fired it off into the air.

00:31:07.003 --> 00:31:20.477
Oh my gosh, and like we were so blitzed that we didn't even jump or like yell, but like we all, we all recall like the gunshot, but it was.

00:31:20.477 --> 00:31:25.508
We were so drunk that we were just like I guess we go home like we just stopped.

00:31:27.357 --> 00:31:33.907
But it was, it was, it was surreal to me, uh, that like that was our, our like reaction.

00:31:34.950 --> 00:31:38.188
Um, but were you riding the horse at this?

00:31:38.248 --> 00:31:42.105
no, no, no, we were just loud being loud and stuff, and I'm trying to find this picture.

00:31:42.105 --> 00:31:49.714
Maybe it's uh, I think it's actually my contact picture of no, it's not my contact picture of ty, I can't find it, but it's anyways.

00:31:49.714 --> 00:31:54.171
It's him just putting his hat on the horse's head while petting it, and it's just.

00:31:54.171 --> 00:31:56.298
The horse is very happy to be there.

00:31:56.298 --> 00:31:58.655
Um, but we would take everyone.

00:31:58.655 --> 00:32:04.056
I mean, we would get my mom came up to visit we all drank beers and took my mom over to the horses.

00:32:04.917 --> 00:32:06.181
It was a great picture.

00:32:06.181 --> 00:32:09.728
This is me, like you, like, I literally just got off of a shift.

00:32:09.728 --> 00:32:12.820
I still have my security jacket and headphones on around my neck.

00:32:12.820 --> 00:32:22.416
I probably still have my gun, but it was so much fun, it was a good time, good memories.

00:32:22.416 --> 00:32:26.163
But anyways, yeah, there's just like a lot of memories like that.

00:32:26.163 --> 00:32:29.701
I do remember like very clearly too, when I like oh, here we go.

00:32:29.701 --> 00:32:33.025
Here's Ty putting a hat on Ernie.

00:32:33.025 --> 00:32:34.758
He's got a cigarette hanging out of his mouth.

00:32:34.758 --> 00:32:36.604
I'm going to send that hat in forever.

00:32:38.455 --> 00:32:41.640
Probably left it out that hours that one would surprise me.

00:32:41.640 --> 00:32:48.602
But anyways, the moment I knew we were actually really going to be friends was the summer of camp.

00:32:48.602 --> 00:32:52.175
I had a buddy that was a really good friend of mine pass away.

00:32:52.457 --> 00:32:54.296
You don't find out about it when you're on the mountain.

00:32:54.296 --> 00:32:56.042
You just find out when you come down.

00:32:56.042 --> 00:33:03.940
And we came down the mountain and I found out he had drowned in the river tubing one day.

00:33:03.940 --> 00:33:15.384
Oh no, and it was just like pretty crazy, because I was like everyone only gets like 24 hours off, you know, and you kind of don't want to ruin someone's 24 hours because then they have to go and do a whole nother week of being a counselor and stuff and it's exhausting.

00:33:15.384 --> 00:33:27.446
And I just remember like, uh, I remember we were hanging out and I don't remember exactly what we did, but I just remember like you were really present still, you know, for that whole weekend and I was.

00:33:27.446 --> 00:33:30.440
I was really, you know, touched by, just like you know.

00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:43.705
These were all strangers before that summer and they really came around and were looking out for me that that weekend and really considerate, um, and then I remember the weekend of the funeral.

00:33:43.705 --> 00:33:54.625
It was one of those things where I think, ty, I think you drove me down and dropped me off at my grandparents and then, uh, I had a buddy drive me back up from college.

00:33:54.625 --> 00:34:05.980
But it was one of those things that, again, that was just like a convenience of, like willingness to, you know kind of help me, you know, make make it to this important event Right and say goodbye to a good buddy.

00:34:05.980 --> 00:34:24.387
But that one of those weekends too, though, ty is down in my neck of my of the woods where my stomping grounds at, and I'm showing him my high school and this hill that I love to sit on and make out with chicks on in high school, and all that and um.

00:34:24.387 --> 00:34:26.172
For those who those who know?

00:34:26.235 --> 00:34:27.217
it's called jackass hill.

00:34:27.217 --> 00:34:29.762
Yeah, do you remember this?

00:34:29.762 --> 00:34:31.324
Are you talking about the mountain?

00:34:31.324 --> 00:34:33.677
No, that that hill.

00:34:33.817 --> 00:34:49.478
Well, while we were there uh, I don't remember I had a I did make the ultimate sacrifice oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, go ahead yeah, I mean it just you know, probably you know watching sunset on this big giant hill.

00:34:49.518 --> 00:34:51.403
It's called jackass hill if you've ever been to.

00:34:51.443 --> 00:34:52.786
It's a beautiful scenic view.

00:34:52.786 --> 00:35:01.960
Yeah, it was super smoking cigars smoking cigars, and that's probably just what made me had to, you know, go.

00:35:01.960 --> 00:35:10.003
So I and there's, if you've ever been there, there's no trees, there's no, nothing and I'm like just a hill that goes down into

00:35:10.043 --> 00:35:15.019
people like rich, wealthy people's backyards, there was one faithful bush that I found.

00:35:15.019 --> 00:35:32.644
I mean, it's like an arm's reach away from the trail that, like you, just everyone uses and I was just like okay, I guess, and I like wedged myself into this bush and it was just enough cover and I just did the business and left the sock.

00:35:32.644 --> 00:35:47.206
But Mick didn't know that I was gonna be um doing this, so I just like came, I left for a little bit and I remember, like walking back and you're like where's your?

00:35:47.206 --> 00:35:49.541
Why do you only have one sock?

00:35:49.601 --> 00:35:54.273
I was gonna say about that memory, though.

00:35:54.273 --> 00:36:14.724
I remember where they're looking at, all the like foothills, and I was like I think I could, I think I could pull it on this guy, I think I could pull over his wool over his eyes, because to many people who are like coming from the plains, they think every single mountain has a name and a story and there's a reason that mountain has that name and it's called Mount, whatever, right.

00:36:14.724 --> 00:36:18.478
And I remember I I was like, yeah, they all, they all have names.

00:36:18.478 --> 00:36:23.380
And I just like it already crafted this story in my head and he's like, well, what's the name of that one nick?

00:36:23.719 --> 00:36:25.965
it's just one for gimmicks.

00:36:26.045 --> 00:36:30.257
Lives for it, like lives for without it like losing a beat.

00:36:30.257 --> 00:36:33.623
I was like something like oh, that one's like uh deal gloves.

00:36:33.623 --> 00:36:39.210
Malin, he was a eastern european immigrant, uh, and it was.

00:36:39.210 --> 00:36:50.856
He came just on the heels of lewis and clark and and I'm like telling the story of like how they came across and like saw this and like how they oriented to like decide where they're gonna go up in, and it got so steep.

00:36:50.856 --> 00:37:01.847
You know, I was building up for like five minutes or whatever, just all bullshit, but I was, I was, I was working with it and then I was like it got so steep though that they had to start just tossing dead weight.

00:37:01.847 --> 00:37:28.297
They took out their packs of their wagons and then they just unhitched the wagons and it just kept on getting so steep that that they had to carry their horses on their backs and like there was like a moment of like digestion I saw on his face and then he was like, oh wait, okay, like this is all bullshit, but it was like it was so sweet and do his credit though, like he got me.

00:37:28.757 --> 00:37:35.864
I think I've told this one before, maybe on the podcast, but we went down the mountain to this burger joint in colorado sprigs.

00:37:35.864 --> 00:37:39.048
Oh man, this dickhead.

00:37:39.048 --> 00:37:42.637
Um, he like we're in line ordering our burgers.

00:37:42.637 --> 00:37:56.563
I see this like tin that's open and it looks like freshly baked cookies are in it, but they're in the shape of dog bones and I'm like, okay, well, those are dog treats there, but there was no price thing on them and they're pretty small.

00:37:56.563 --> 00:37:57.306
So I was like whatever.

00:38:01.641 --> 00:38:10.425
So I grabbed my drink and I go and sit down and I see Ty walk up to me and he's just got he's like chewing.

00:38:10.425 --> 00:38:12.442
He's got half of one in his hand.

00:38:12.442 --> 00:38:16.905
He's just like bro, those are dog treats.

00:38:16.905 --> 00:38:18.239
He's like no, they're cookies.

00:38:18.239 --> 00:38:19.557
I'm like what?

00:38:19.557 --> 00:38:22.467
He's like yeah, no, it's like a sugar stinker doodle thing.

00:38:22.467 --> 00:38:23.992
Like or are they free?

00:38:23.992 --> 00:38:25.416
He's like, yeah, you should ask him.

00:38:25.416 --> 00:38:27.362
I'm like all right, so I go.

00:38:27.362 --> 00:38:28.666
I'm like can I get one of these?

00:38:28.666 --> 00:38:44.675
And they're like, uh, yeah, and I grab it and I am like I'm walking back to the table and I just see die laughing his ass off, as I'm like just chowing down on this and like it's like when I see him laughing, I immediately know it, like everything connects.

00:38:44.675 --> 00:38:49.137
Like he was fake, julie, he didn't have anything in his mouth, he just broke it in half.

00:38:49.137 --> 00:38:53.340
Oh, dude, like I felt so bad.

00:38:53.340 --> 00:38:55.445
Oh, do you remember that?

00:38:55.445 --> 00:38:56.838
Were you proud of yourself?

00:38:56.838 --> 00:38:57.619
Oh man, yeah.

00:38:58.181 --> 00:39:00.206
That was so good that was so clean.

00:39:00.206 --> 00:39:04.224
And then I, to make you feel better, I took a bite.

00:39:04.224 --> 00:39:05.427
You did yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:39:06.456 --> 00:39:10.226
The posterity, but anyways, it's a classic Solidarity.

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Classic getting the old dog treat maneuver.

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Yeah, dude, he's so funny.

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Anyways, ty, welcome to the show.

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