The Gas Tank Ain’t Empty Yet
Welcome. We're back. We're doing it. Yeah, we're back.
Tyler:We're doing it.
Danny:We have. It's kind of like a sporadic now. Right? Just for a minute longer. I mean, I think we'll get back into a groove of things like once we get like It's wild.
Danny:Dialed
Tyler:I don't even remember the last time we podcast. That's the sad, that's the hard, that's a hard part for me because it's been so consistent, but this has been the year of like life disruption. I mean, I've said that for the last three years, but it seems to be like, it's like Theo Von says, it's amazing how life comes at you.
Danny:Yeah. Right.
Tyler:Then there's more life. Here's some more life.
Danny:Yeah. Here's some more. Here's some more Yeah. For you to to to gasp and to to to go after.
Tyler:Yeah. Excuse me.
Danny:The last time we talked was three weeks ago.
Tyler:Dang. Yeah.
Danny:Yeah. Because we had since then, we've had a couple of things. Maybe it was right after
Tyler:competed? Oh, yeah. Yeah. It was right after Tripp Tripp competed.
Danny:I think we came over here after Tripp's competition, maybe. Right? Yeah. Kinda seems like
Tyler:And he was in Chicago.
Danny:Chicago. Yeah. Kinda seems like that's what happened. Right? Yeah.
Danny:Yeah. We we we make every plan and intention to, to go. I also like my, my, my life is disrupted right now. Right?
Tyler:Yeah. That happens. You're in the, you're in the thick of the government. And we're feeling it in the corporate world. Right?
Tyler:Like a government's a big a big section of our business. You know, we do business with the FAA
Danny:and Yeah. You said that.
Tyler:Army and like army has so many printers, man. They want to save some money.
Danny:Get rid of printers.
Tyler:You know, should do is yeah, replace the printers with digital documents. Come on. Yeah. I don't know why we're still doing print documents.
Danny:You know, what's funny at my work, we have, we have this schedule on, we have a schedule printed on, like we, we see the schedule printed. Yeah. Right. We know that we're supposed to check all of these things and we put our initials and we, we put our little, our little data four digit pin number. Yeah.
Danny:Right? That says that you did your briefings before work. Every day before work, Tyler, I'm supposed to look at the weather. I'm supposed to monitor the weather. I'm supposed to monitor any things that have changed.
Danny:So we have these briefings that we get every day and they come to us on on a computer that we'd all log into. And you check your you check them all before you check everything before you go to work. Before you go to work, you have to do these things. You have to sign in. You have to check this weather.
Danny:You have to sign that you checked the weather. You have to check your briefings. You have to sign that you checked your briefing. And when you check your briefing, you have to do it in three different places. Right?
Tyler:Triple checks.
Danny:It's the same briefing. Yeah. But you have to put your pin number in three different times. Yeah. Right?
Danny:So Like
Tyler:fail safes.
Danny:Then we also have printed papers of all of that. I get so mad about I'm like, why do you guys do this? Like I told the other day, other day, I was like, do you guys waste trees? Well, what do you mean? Look at I mean, look at how much better we're doing.
Danny:It's like, really? You, you can do better by just having people making sure that the that we do it. You don't have to print papers to ensure to four quadrupled that we've already done this shit, you know? And so I don't know why we still do printed paper of stuff. Most everything I mean, get mail sometimes and I'm like, I know I signed up for the printed or the emailed portion of this.
Danny:Don't send me your shit Yeah. On a paper. Yeah. Just for no reason. Yeah.
Danny:Ain't that weird that we're gonna go away from that someday though?
Tyler:I mean, there's some areas where paper is super helpful, but like the more I get away from it, the more I'm like, I really don't miss it. Yeah. I really don't miss it. It's it's it's shocking to me. And I guess like maybe in titles title work, right, there's still a use for paper.
Danny:I mean, most things digital signed anyway.
Tyler:I mean, it it feels like anymore now digital is the way to go. Digital is the you know what I mean? What do you do though when like the the digital goes down? If the digital goes down?
Danny:Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. Where's everything at?
Tyler:And you gotta have some sort of hard archive like that. You know what
Danny:I mean? I don't know. I don't know either.
Tyler:That's, guess this is what Tyler Durden was trying to find out by resetting the banks.
Danny:Yeah. See what happens. Yeah. Yeah. We right now, it's wild to me that we still do the things that we're doing.
Danny:The fact that like, you know, I know that this whole government shutdown is not based on like anything else except for posturing. They want to get things done. You know, we have these young kids at work and I worry about them because, you know, you go from making a pretty good amount of money on your paycheck to not to, you know, having a couple hours, you know, eight, sixteen hours, maybe shy sometimes. And these kids are pretty stressed out. Yeah.
Danny:And we make pretty good money, you know, but it's the first time dealing with it. And then right now we're in the news so much with like this, like stick out and them telling us threatening, well, it's just a couple of bad apples, so we'll just go ahead and fire them. And you're like, you just said that we're short staffed. You literally just said that we're short staffed and you're going do whatever it takes to keep our staffing numbers high and to get more staffing. And now you're like, actually, you know, if you if you if you're disposable, then we'll just fire you.
Danny:But then I also am in the in the government and I go into work and I see people there that I'm like, yeah, you're the person that should be fired, dude. You don't do nothing. Yeah. You literally don't do anything. Yeah.
Danny:You know, you and and a lot of times they'll use, you know, if you go there and you get a little rough with them, they'll file a file a hazardous work environment harassing.
Tyler:Yeah, you're making it. Yeah.
Danny:And you're like, what? I mean, I know the government needs needs some sort of overhaul, but is it for you to, you know, politically charge it? I don't know.
Tyler:Dude, it feels like there is a palpable tension in the area. Just in our neighborhood. Like, I mean, in our community, local communities, right? Like
Danny:Heber for sure. Right?
Tyler:You don't have to like drive very far to have people just on edge.
Danny:I know.
Tyler:And we're in the middle of like, it is it's election season primarily like like for local government and stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah, nobody's nice to each other. There's no more decorum. Right?
Tyler:This long gone are the days of Reagan versus Mondale. Right? Like this kind of like political decorum. Right?
Danny:Well, you used to be able to walk around, you know, going through Heber and I mean, everywhere you went, you would see somebody that you knew. Yeah. Now you go there and you're like, I don't know any of these people. Hardly. Know?
Danny:And then most people, you know, have probably not lived in Heber when it was like so nice to live in Heber. And I lived, we both got here, you know, I mean early enough to experience it, but not like at the good part.
Tyler:Not in
Danny:the like one stoplight in town. Now we have a stoplight. I mean, they had to put a stoplight on the edge of your was an accident there last Saturday
Tyler:or Sunday, there was an accident.
Danny:I sit there and I'm like, Oh my gosh. Every time before I go out, I'm like praying that I judge that car correctly or, you know, judge something correctly. Yeah. It's just a weird, it's so fast. It's sixty, seventy miles an hour right here.
Danny:Yeah. And cars turning into that, you know? Yeah. Does Ben drive the back?
Tyler:I he yeah, he's pretty he doesn't like to be on the highway.
Danny:Me either.
Tyler:And I don't blame him. Like, I tell him take the back way. But even the back way these days is like, it's crazy.
Danny:Said the day that somebody dump trucks.
Tyler:Yeah. So going down like twelve hundred twelve hundred South. Right? Like you're going out towards to get to Mill Road. Right?
Tyler:It goes from two lanes to one lane. It's pretty well advertised. And I'm just kind of going along, keeping the pace of traffic. And I kind of look over and there's like big silver trucks coming over into my lane. I like, I start honking.
Tyler:I'm like, they're coming into me. They should have merged either behind me or sped up There in front of wouldn't have been enough room for them to have sped up in front of me. They really, really just kind of I think we're trying to be dicks.
Danny:Just expected you to slow down.
Tyler:Yeah. Just expected me to slow down. And when I didn't, you know, she the woman in the car flips me the bird. That's the double deuces. Me and Banner sitting there, we're just like
Danny:Was she driving or was her
Tyler:He her husband was driving.
Danny:So I just I came to a complete stop. He said
Tyler:They got behind me.
Danny:Give him the bird.
Tyler:They got behind me and I just came to a complete stop. Middle of the road.
Danny:Dude. Just a complete stop. Well, don't know. Right? I mean, like, man, you don't know anymore.
Danny:I don't.
Tyler:And then I just as soon as he stopped, I just like I just kept going and moved on. I'm not Crazy.
Danny:You know? Yeah. I'm like, this this woman's this woman's fingers are right in Chuck's homeboys. Yeah. That he's gonna
Tyler:He might not be able to cash.
Danny:Yeah. Right? He's like, yeah, give him the burden until something happens. He's like, man, I told you not to do that. Don't get my ass right.
Tyler:We pulled up to that stop sign at mill at mill. And I said, Ben, if I see him getting out of his car, I'm charging his door before he even gets out of
Danny:the car.
Tyler:I'm like, I don't know what to do. He's behind me. He's got the,
Danny:you know, the element of surprise. Yeah.
Tyler:But it's, you don't know. And I don't want to be that way. I don't want to be all on edge. I'm already like on edge because my meds have got me all whacked. Just whacked.
Danny:What are you on? What are you at right now? You're on last. Oh, you just finished your fourth. You are about to start
Tyler:Fourth round of arsenic.
Danny:And that's it. I'm done. One more round. Four weeks
Tyler:and I'm done.
Danny:And you're done. And, and really though, I mean, like for all your purposes, like you're cancer free.
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we know that we know that now that I'm cancer free, but like, yeah, we're with double dead. Right. You know, they really want to make sure
Danny:make sure it's gone.
Tyler:Make sure it's gone.
Danny:Wow. What a crazy, I mean, like, and then it's like, okay, just for a moment, let me fucking breathe.
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm hoping that 2026, like, knock on wood is like smooth free. But like, we're, you know, we're experiencing our own growth growth pains at work and corporate world's crazy.
Tyler:You know what I mean? It's it's interesting. Right? You've seen what's happened to gold and silver? Oh, gold's like $4,000 an ounce right now.
Tyler:It's What? It's like a record high. Silver's closing in on $50 an
Danny:ounce. What?
Tyler:Yeah. Excuse me. Pardon me. I'm I'm dealing with some stuffy stuffs, but yeah. Gold is going crazy right now.
Danny:Are you allergic to dogs?
Tyler:I don't know if I'm allergic to dogs or it's just the seasons changing because I'm now constantly out all always outside. But I'm not ruling out allergic to dogs because I did did adopt a new puppy.
Danny:You did. This thing is not a puppy.
Tyler:It's not a puppy.
Danny:I mean, is for all intents and purposes.
Tyler:She's not
Danny:I thought she was gonna be down here so she could be running back and forth and
Tyler:like Yeah.
Danny:And then the the the the we could see her. Yeah.
Tyler:So We'll introduce her at some point and she's got to go to doggy daycare. We're working on doing a two week intensive with this dude down in Spanish Fork. He's he's Melonoise is his specialty. He's like, he's like, it's $2,000 I have her for two weeks and you get back a completely different dog.
Danny:You have adopted, which is crazy that that dog was, so you into the kennel with the idea or did you know that she was there?
Tyler:So, you know, I'm on Facebook marketplace is the only reason you use Facebook. Right? Facebook marketplace.
Danny:Yeah. Why not?
Tyler:And so all kinds of crazy buy sell trade stuff that you just like, it's the equivalent of reading the toilet, the
Danny:Yeah. The paper.
Tyler:Shampoo on the
Danny:the toilet. The classifieds.
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah.
Danny:It's funny because I not to cut your story out, but, you know, you like every once in while you'll kick on something and it'll be like, let's say it's a boat, click on the boat and then you know you got you got boobs in your face. Yeah. It's like, what the hell? That's a good ploy.
Tyler:That's it. That's it. That's it. They sell the sell the boat with the boobies. With the boobs.
Danny:So yeah, so you're on marketplace. You're on Facebook marketplace.
Tyler:I'm scrolling in it's like local Heber, think pause for life. And I'm like, oh, she's cute. I've kind of looked at this particular breed. Which is? German Shepherd Malinois, we think.
Tyler:Everybody's everybody says Looks
Danny:like it.
Tyler:Everybody says she's a Malinois. Everybody that looks like her says she's a Malinois.
Danny:I would 100% agree.
Tyler:I agree too.
Danny:Her face has the German Shepherd look on her face.
Tyler:Yep. She definitely has like the little malligator nip that she does. So we'll see. I sent off a genetics test. We'll see.
Tyler:We adopted her for $65 and I'm like
Danny:She's already fixed?
Tyler:Nope. We gotta get her fixed.
Danny:Oh, she's not fixed now? She's not fixed now. Oh, shit.
Tyler:Yeah. That's okay.
Danny:Don't put a bone near her.
Tyler:No. No. Yeah. No. She's the even the kennel that I'm taking her to is like, oh, we don't typically so that's the we've got to wait for her to get fixed so she can even go to boot camp.
Tyler:But they're saying once she goes to boot camp, it's like a whole different talk.
Danny:We have I'll get you a number because there's a place in town, I think, it's not like a backdoor bringer in there. There's somebody here in town that like does it pretty good.
Tyler:I met with Warren and I'm like, oh, she's sweet. Maybe she'd be sweet to work with Cozy.
Danny:But I I'm up to get her fixed.
Tyler:Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, good. Because I've I've I've heard questionable things about when I've signed up.
Danny:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You wanna be careful with that. Yeah.
Danny:You want it to be pretty quick and painless, which it should be. Yeah. You know, in and out. Yeah. And so you you go pick her up and
Tyler:We go actually, we just went to go meet her. I'm like, I've looked at this like, we looked in December, February, like whenever all the kids were down here and we looked at a German Shepherd at the puppy mill. So cute. They wanted like $4 for her.
Danny:Wow.
Tyler:Know, for a German Shepherd, I'm like, whatever. They're like, have a payment plan. I'm like, this puppy mill, screw them. I would have never bought from a puppy mill anyway, but, you know, you care where you get these things sometimes, I think. But, she was there.
Tyler:She cuddled right up to my youngest, Cozy. She's kind of a little bit skittish around men. Her and Cozy, obviously, now we're having to work out their relationship.
Danny:Does she do a good okay with Ben?
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah. She does good with anybody who can like, with authority. She's also though a teenager. Right?
Tyler:Her and Cozy are the same age in in their adolescent. Right?
Danny:Okay.
Tyler:So like Cozy is really sweet with her, but that doesn't necessarily translate. Cozy has got to be like Riley. You know what I mean? Like, you have to be kind of authoritative. They don't they don't respond to emotion the way we respond to emotion.
Danny:Especially those ones.
Tyler:Yeah. You don't cuddle them and they're like, they don't think, oh, this person loves me. They think I'm doing something good because you're you're being sweet to them. Yeah. They'll just do more of that.
Danny:And then they'll be and they're also so intelligent that they pick up on any little thing. Yeah. That's like, oh, I can, I can expose this? Yeah. That she was also doing some things of like pushing, trying to get her way with And I was like, no, you're not gonna get your way.
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah.
Danny:Because the other thing is, is once they realize that they can and they will, like establish a little bit of dominance, then you can't, you can't get that back unless you grab them, hold them on the ground and be like, no. Yeah. Yeah. Like, yeah. Kind of dog where you need to be like, nah,
Tyler:you
Danny:can't do that to me. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Yeah.
Danny:My buddy's dog, he had one. Yeah. It was Cujo is what we call it. Cujo. Oh my god.
Danny:It was terrifying because, you know, you get most for the most part, they're very kind. They're very they're very loyal, but they have that, like, trigger of I was telling that story of the thing where it says, here's a German shepherd and the guy's standing across the room. Yeah. And there's a bunch of chairs and the German Shepherd goes weaving its way through. Get the guy get the guy, bite the guy, take him down.
Danny:Yeah. The Belgian Malinois jumps over all the chairs and just attacks the guy. That's what how his dog was. Yeah. And so it bit him regularly bit him and they would have to like hold it and he would be like holding him and like trying to like choke the shit out of him because he's got to establish dominance.
Danny:The dog was like, yeah, you're not doing that to me. Yeah. I'm the I'm alpha in this relationship. Yeah. So it ended up happening to, you know, send him to a he ended up going to be a search and rescue dog.
Danny:Yeah. Yeah. But it's like probably muzzled and he's probably I mean, the other thing is like, they gotta work. He's a working dog.
Tyler:When they get bored when can tell when she gets bored, I'll be sitting like working, she'll get she'll come nip at me, like nip on my heels.
Danny:Time to go.
Tyler:Yep. I didn't I didn't adopt a dog. I adopted a training partner.
Danny:Oh, yeah.
Tyler:I mean, she's up at six and wants she wants a mile. Yeah. We did six miles yesterday I was like exhausted and she was ready to do more.
Danny:So You also went to the the other day you went to the hot springs, right?
Tyler:Oh yeah. We went up we went up Fifth Water Hot Springs. Have you ever been up there?
Danny:I've never been there. Oh. I've never been there. I've heard the hike is amazing. And I heard if you're lucky, you get there and there's not that many people.
Danny:But if you're unlucky, it's like, it's like spring break.
Tyler:Yeah, it is. It is. I didn't it wasn't too crazy. It was pretty crazy. It was rainy, but it was it was it was awesome up there.
Tyler:It is an awesome hike. And the the springs are amazing but it's like it it is. There's a lot of people.
Danny:Yeah. That's what I've heard.
Tyler:And it about a six mile hike too.
Danny:Oh, yeah.
Tyler:I think because you don't you can if you can get a parking space in the parking lot, you're like at three.
Danny:Okay. But if you can, then you're hiking the length of your parking spot to the trailhead.
Tyler:To the trailhead.
Danny:Have you noticed any of your have you noticed that you've lost weight? That you feel better?
Tyler:I mean, I feel better moving. It's better for me to, you know, as I've, as I study kind of the chemical reactions of these medicines, specifically this ATRA, it's good for me to be moving, you know, trying to get to jujitsu, trying to, you know, get back into the normal normalcy of things. I have like no attention span for anything right now though.
Danny:Really?
Tyler:It just feels like everything is switched on. I'm exhausted yet I'm Yeah. I'm awake. Yeah.
Danny:Are you still doing the weed to off balance some of this stuff?
Tyler:Some. I've the weed was starting to make me really anxious and so, and that was really more for nausea. And so there's another drug called lorazepam, which is like a Valium that it's pretty good. It makes me tired, but I can like the anxious, it just the anxious, the anxiety just kind of goes away.
Danny:Really?
Tyler:That just kind of goes away.
Danny:Okay. And then are you, you anxious for this last four weeks to just kind of get over or you just like, I'm going to stay present? Are you like, fuck, let's just get this over with?
Tyler:I don't know. I'm kind of sad, man. I've made a lot of friends. I mean, I'm kind of missed the people. Like the people in the hospital were really caring and kind of, you just kind of look forward to seeing them and, you know, Any
Danny:good looking nurses? Boy or girls?
Tyler:Yes. No. Yes. All of the above. Sometimes you only see the face and you're like, oh.
Tyler:Yeah. I don't know. I feel like I did the nurse thing already and it was a fun ride, but we're we
Danny:Moved on.
Tyler:Moved on.
Danny:Yeah. Good.
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah. Man things, man. Man things. Yeah.
Tyler:And what about you?
Danny:Great. I mean
Tyler:You training?
Danny:Training a bunch.
Tyler:Well, you were supposed to fight this weekend.
Danny:I was supposed to have a fight this weekend. The guy that signed up, he was he was there. Tripp and I both had fights and then we didn't. So we're going to the coach where you've been training a bunch. We've been Tripp, I mean, know, we're kind of like, we're ramping up for wrestling, but we're also kind of like not, you know, we we have a camp coming up on next Saturday and we're excited for that.
Danny:We have some good clinicians. We have two kids that wrestled for me, wrestled with Tripp in high school and junior high. And they're going to come up. They wrestled. They actually live in Park City, but they wrestled at Wasatch Lake trip.
Danny:And they're going to come and hang out. Our, one of our coaches got hurt. He got into a motorcycle accident, Got the speed wobbles going down the street. And I guess as it corrected and he corrected, it threw him into a tree and he shattered his bottom half of his leg.
Tyler:There's a term for that. I forgot they teach you in like motorcycle class.
Danny:You should not be on a motorcycle. So now he's out potentially for the season. So it might be just Tripp and I and Larry, and Jared will be there, but, you know, we may have to look for another coach. But we got 12, sometimes 15 kids out there, which is insane. That's good.
Danny:But there's really good, really great kids that are coming out. Lots of kids that are first time wrestlers, but pretty athletic. Park City has this like amazing ability to have really athletic individuals.
Tyler:I think that do you think it's the the it definitely promotes the outdoor lifestyle. Right? You see that. I see that working at the rink. Like everybody's out, Right?
Tyler:It attracts outsider type people. Yep. People don't want to be out and doing activities.
Danny:And I think just because of the the wealth Yeah. That sometimes those wealth equals the opportunity. Yeah. Wealth equals opportunity within. We have one thing that we're working on hard is like the Hispanic community.
Danny:And even some of those kids are just so athletically gifted. I mean, you've you've trained with Alex, right? Like little Alex, he's on the wrestling team and he's man picks things up and like picks them up and then can can do it right then. So he's got an athletic gift. Right?
Danny:Yeah. He was on the mountain bike team.
Tyler:Oh, cool.
Danny:Know, rode his bike everywhere. Rode his bike to park rode sorry, rode his bike to train rode his bike to training. We have we just have a lot of fun stuff going on. We've got some fundraiser going fundraiser We we came on, I was telling Tyler, we got 500 poinsettias that we're gonna We're gonna do some other stuff to try to get fundraising up. So we we we've got a lot going on.
Danny:Right? Plus work. Misty's working a bunch. So that's She
Tyler:Does she have a busy season or is it like now that it's the weather's turning or people coming in more?
Danny:Is it pretty much just kind of steady? From what I gather from her and Krystal is that currently it's about to start to get wild. Yeah. It's about to get really busy and they're doing some really cool stuff there, you know, and they're thriving, Tyler. When I tell you they're thriving, they are Good.
Danny:And it's funny to see their relationship, you know, we've, we've gone on vacation to places to go and market research some things. And it's funny to see their relationship. Yeah. They're exactly what each other needs. Yeah.
Danny:You know, Krystal's super kind. She's super caring. She's she sometimes gets herself where she doesn't like, maybe she needs to stand up for herself, you know, and she's and then she has Misty who will be like, you know, and they're like, no, you can't do that. You know, and they'll and they'll they'll off balance each other. Then Misty can sometimes be a little rough on the edges.
Danny:Right? She if she can come off rough. Right? Yeah. So she has Krystal who can offset that with their kindness, you know?
Danny:But then when they both get their minds set Yeah. It's like it's like an unstoppable object.
Tyler:Yeah. They figure out how to just kind of
Danny:And they're doing some really cool things like, you know, now they're doing a lot of packages and things. Oh yeah. Yeah. So you come in there and you're like, Hey, we want to you should come back more often. We're going to make you a good customer.
Danny:If you come back, we're going to give you, you know, we're going to give you these, these things. If you come back and be by this package, sure. It's a lot of money upfront. Right? And I personally took that into my own Misty kind of explained it to me and then she kind of helped me because she's really good at like, she's a really good salesperson.
Danny:Misty is. And she kind of like sees when she gets you excited, then she's like, okay, I got you. Right? So she helped me develop where I do one on ones with wrestling, one on ones with some of the younger kids. And so I, she helped me develop a package of like how many times they'll do it, how much they're going to pay me.
Danny:And I've been like selling packages, you know, this. And she'll help me like, oh, this is what you need to say. And if they, if they start to waffle, here's what you do. You know, you kind of add some incentive, you know? And so it's been really fun.
Danny:It's been really fun.
Tyler:Yeah.
Danny:And we both had birthdays. Yes, we did. We both had birthdays. We both had birthdays, which means that we're technically on year three and some change of doing this. Yeah.
Danny:I turned 47 on the twenty seventh and on the twenty sixth, you turned 44. 44. Yeah. And so we had our birthdays. We had, I mean, that's a birthdays are interesting.
Danny:Right? Because either you love them or you don't.
Tyler:Yeah.
Danny:And where do you sit? Do you enjoy them?
Tyler:I don't know. I used to get really excited for them. Sure. But I don't know. I grew up with parents that like, you know, my mom would make a big deal but she would like there was an expectation like she was never gonna deliver anything like really spectacular like other than just
Danny:Be there.
Tyler:Be there. And I I mean, I love my mother's birthdays to death. She actually came out for my birthday.
Danny:That's
Tyler:right. Made dinner for me. It was amazing. I loved it. We spent the weekend together.
Tyler:We we took her to Sundance and, you know, she was she's always very thoughtful with her gift. Her gift is like generally one of the most thoughtful things ever.
Danny:She put some effort into it.
Tyler:Yeah. Like really thanks. And I'm to the point where like, don't I don't necessarily need that now. Like, I really just enjoyed that she came out and spent time with me, spent time with the kids.
Danny:Yeah. You know, and so it's great.
Tyler:And, know, my dad, he calls every year. So,
Danny:you know, there's been years where he's been in
Tyler:his own world and he hasn't. So for me, it's more like do my kids my kids remember? Do they make a big deal?
Danny:Did they?
Tyler:Yeah. I don't know. I think Cozy did like I think they all wished me happy birthday, but it wasn't more than like
Danny:Yeah. Just a happy birthday. Just a happy birthday. Which is fine. Yeah.
Tyler:Are you a birthday? Are you a birthday guy? Are you a birthday guy?
Danny:I like to celebrate everybody's birthday, but sometimes like, you know, I don't have any expectations. Yeah. This year we went to Colorado for my birthday.
Tyler:That's cool.
Danny:Which was awesome. Yeah. Oh my gosh. It was so fun. We had such a good time.
Danny:We, We Misty and I drove out on Thursday night and we went to the hot springs in Glenwood Springs. We went there. We went to Vapor Caves. I know.
Tyler:You told
Danny:me about that. Gosh, it's such a good time. Glenwood's great, man. I they've got it figured out and I've heard that that's this is the kind of like Heber Main Street. They're gonna they're gonna build where like you go, it's over the top of the buildings and then you can and then everybody walks on the main Street.
Danny:So like the thruway will go and it will be like an overpass almost. And then the buildings will be underneath them. I've heard this that this is kind of like in the works for Downtown Heber, which that's how Glenwood is. Everything is like elevated for the like the cars are elevated and then all of the businesses are down on the bottom. I think it's a good idea.
Danny:I was trying to figure out how that was going to work in Main Street Heber, but it would be a good idea.
Tyler:Anything to save the traffic on Main Street. Right?
Danny:Yeah. No, we don't need the lights. It's a nightmare. Plus they need to take the trucks off there. I hate this.
Tyler:The biggest thing is the trucks.
Danny:I hate that shit.
Tyler:The biggest thing is the biggest thing is just the through, right? Like just the through, the people cutting through.
Danny:And they just, man, people are just so rude on that road. No. No. No local is on that road. There's no locals on that road.
Danny:It's all people trying to get through Heber. Yep. But nobody if you live in town, you are not going on Heber, Maine.
Tyler:If every time I go on Main Street, I'm like, I made a mistake. Yep. I've never like, there's not been probably in the past three years, I've not driven on Maine
Danny:Yeah.
Tyler:And been like, this is a good idea.
Danny:Yeah. We we we Misty, you know, Mountain Elite massage is on. Mhmm. Technically on Main Street, it's just on the backside of Main Street, you know? And so there's times when I have to go adjust the signs or things like that.
Danny:And there's always chat. There's always foot traffic on there. So it would make sense to be able to figure out a way to like get everybody off and just keep foot traffic on there. Just only foot traffic. There's no other, nothing else.
Danny:Park somewhere else, you know, and keep it just foot traffic on Heber Main.
Tyler:Have some parking rides. I don't know. I don't know. I've, I've known it's a problem. I know like the high density housing people complain about again, that's my Facebook time on Facebook.
Tyler:That's what I'm reading. People bitch about who's
Danny:running for president, who's running for mayor and who's who's selling out to the the the money. The money. Yeah. The developers and who's
Tyler:in whose pockets and everybody's got an opinion. Everybody's got an overreaction. Everybody wants to be heard and everybody's right.
Danny:Everybody's right.
Tyler:Everybody's right.
Danny:Well, it goes back to like what you said at the very beginning. We have this like narrative right now of everybody gets an opinion and you can like fight like a motherfucker for your opinion. And you can say your opinion. And honestly, like without, we don't have to even have to do it in front of each other. Can just do it on a text thread or we can do it on a Facebook post or we can like, somebody can say, I was reading, you know, I have some cousins that are really, really smart and they're, they're very educated.
Danny:They're very worldly. I would say military guys travel a lot. They have a, they're not just, you know, they're not just people that make comments. Before they make the comment, they or before they share the thread, they're they they put some thought into it. Yeah.
Danny:And I have a cousin that that shared a couple threads and one guy, all he put was, you're an idiot. Yeah. And I was like, you're only doing that because you can do it on this. Yeah. And and people he somebody said that to him.
Danny:He goes, no, I'd say it to his face. It's like, no, you wouldn't. Yeah. You oh, you would, but you would know that what's going to happen. Right?
Danny:Yeah. You're gonna be, you're gonna say it, but you're prepared for a fight. Yeah. You know, you're not prepared for like somebody to be like, it's okay if you talk to me like that.
Tyler:Right. And if by fight, you mean mostly just posturing and
Danny:I mean, my cousin probably punched him in his face.
Tyler:They probably swing. They come to blows.
Danny:I would. I would. If you did that, if you said that shit to me, I'm not like
Tyler:I mean, I I think you're you're probably right. Each each each dynamic is is but I think in general, I don't you think people are really ready?
Danny:No. Fuck no. They're not. No. That's why they wouldn't say them to each other's face.
Danny:Yeah. They'd probably agree a little bit more. Probably like have a little bit less oomph. Yeah. Right?
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah.
Danny:You get these personalities, you know, and I and I don't get too involved in politics because I'm middle class. Yeah. It's not like the Republican Party cares about me. I'm middle class. Yeah.
Danny:Yeah. And not like the Democrats care about me. I'm middle class. I pay my taxes. Yep.
Danny:I pay for my groceries. Yep. I pay my bills on time.
Tyler:That's kind of me. That's kind of, that's
Danny:kind I'm worried about my creditors.
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah.
Danny:You know? Yeah. I'm not, I'm not making enough money that I don't have bills. Right. Or debt.
Danny:Yeah. I'm not, I'm in the middle. Yeah. Nobody cares about me.
Tyler:Yeah. Nobody cares about me.
Danny:Nobody. Yeah. They're not trying to get my vote.
Tyler:No. They want my money.
Danny:They want my money.
Tyler:Yeah.
Danny:And that's how I believe.
Tyler:I'm a number with an income that provides to the bigger Yeah.
Danny:Yeah. And neither of us are going to like claim bankruptcy every every year just so that we can live our life that we want to. No, we work our asses off and sometimes two, three jobs hustle like a motherfucker. Yeah. You know, get our kids to hustle, you know?
Danny:But you get some of these parties and some of these people behind these parties and you're like, you can't, you can't. You're only talking like that because you're on a stage and you believe this is what's going to get your party's vote.
Tyler:We we've we've we've legislated this idea of safety, I think. Right? Like, you know, how many of these interactions should just end up in in, you know, a fist of cuffs? You guys know
Danny:Office fight night.
Tyler:Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. You know, you throw some blows, you throw some hands, you somebody gets knocked out and either you walk away from it and you
Danny:never talk to each other again or it's
Tyler:but it's considered resolved. Resolved. Or you, you know, you dust each other off and you have a beer after and you you figure it out. Right? Like, we've kind of lost the we've lost the concept of of danger.
Tyler:What does it mean to be dangerous?
Danny:Yeah.
Tyler:You know what I mean?
Danny:Or in danger, being in danger.
Tyler:I mean, there's obviously this palpable fear that everybody wants, you know, that that is being perpetuated, right? Going to these events like, you know, this whole thing that happened in Orem and then, you know, there's these things that people Antifa or whatever is happening in Portland and you're like, there are some reasons to feel unsafe. But in our day to day interactions with other humans, we are marginally safe.
Danny:And we live in America.
Tyler:We live in America.
Danny:I mean, we're safe.
Tyler:We feel yes.
Danny:You know?
Tyler:Yes. Yes. You know, we're not you know, you know, back in the day, not very many not very long ago, you you got the you got the West out here, you got the frontier out here.
Danny:We're still pretty young. Where we live is still pretty young communities.
Tyler:Right.
Danny:As far as generationally.
Tyler:Right.
Danny:Right. You can you know that your great, great, great grandpa lived here in Heber or your great, great grandpa lived here in Heber. Yeah. That's a pretty young community. You're young genetics.
Danny:Right?
Tyler:Right.
Danny:So the West is young. But back before Yeah. Like you said, it's only a couple generations ago that they were killing each other. Yeah. Just for like getting a little out of turn.
Danny:Yeah. You know? Yeah. We're not that far from it. Like you said,
Tyler:Feels like we're going maybe going to sliding back to that a little or like I don't know.
Danny:It feels like we're doing it online.
Tyler:Yeah. It feels more digital
Danny:for sure. Digital. And it also feels like you and I can just like, we don't have to have an opinion because we don't feel like we have an opinion because we don't feel like we care. We don't feel like anybody cares about us.
Tyler:Everybody's got an opinion, right? Everybody's got an opinion and they all kind of stink. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, you don't want to add to the voice of the nonsense.
Tyler:Then you got like the other day I was like, kids are showing me all this AI stuff with these videos. My daughter sends me this video. She's like, dad, this homeless man has just walked into our house and I'm freaking freaking out. I'm flipping out. She sends me this video.
Tyler:She had she had asked Google Gemini. She took a picture of her front door and said, hey, make an eight minute video or eight second video of a homeless man walking into my my room.
Danny:Oh, that scared the shit out of me.
Tyler:Yeah. It terrified
Danny:I don't like that shit.
Tyler:It terrified me.
Danny:Well, and then going back to some of these things is like you, you know, you're you're what we see, what we hear on the news, what we see is bullshit. Yes. It is 100% bullshit.
Tyler:Whatever sells ad times.
Danny:Whatever sells ad times. And whatever can get you bumped to the top of the search history.
Tyler:That's so funny because I'm listening to the like, have you followed the Zach Bryant controversy? Like his new song lyric drops and it's like
Danny:I know that I liked when he climbed the fence and challenged that guy and that guy was like, had all those people in front of me. And I was like That's a man that's doing business. Like, come on, man. Like Yeah. He jumped over the fence.
Danny:Yeah. Oh, he didn't mean anything. You're like bullshit. Jumped over the fence.
Tyler:And it was a barbed wire fence.
Danny:He came over the fence. Over the fence. That's all. I only know that he's just in the news. Yeah.
Danny:And each time I'm like, I like him a little bit more. I don't want them to get wrapped up in some of the bullshit, you know, but I like him a little bit more. Yeah. And I liked Gavin Adcock. Yeah.
Danny:His music. But then I was like, kind of a bitch, man.
Tyler:Kind of a bitch. Yeah. Shit fucking like threw your tenant.
Danny:You shit taking your cowboy boot off and throwing it at him or something. Right? Like They're like kind of like not tough.
Tyler:Yeah.
Danny:You know? Yeah. And then you're like, nah, wanted to go and be on, be on the stage. I didn't want those. It's like, no, you didn't come on real puss.
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah.
Danny:But what it was, so it So was
Tyler:your lease is a new song, right? And it's something about ice knocking down your door. Can't build the I don't know the lyric that well. It was it, you know how he does. He'll he'll release like a snippet and kind of just feel it out.
Tyler:Well, one's caused all kinds of controversy.
Danny:Right?
Tyler:People are calling him un American.
Danny:They serve his course country.
Tyler:Right? They're like, dude, who's in the Navy? Yeah. You're Navy. And I it just it realized I realized what what was going on because the people that are calling him out on it, these are people that are jumping on his name.
Tyler:They're clout chasing on his name and they're using this song, whether it's controversial or not, like, yes, ISIS knocking on people's doors. I don't think he's talking about how, you know, Old Glory is looking a little faded and I don't we don't know what the rest of the song is. There's not enough there to really be offended. Sure. If you're being offended by this song, it's to me, I'm just like, you're choosing to.
Danny:Yeah. Yeah.
Tyler:Yeah. You're finding something.
Danny:Yeah.
Tyler:And to let it rally you up. But then you see the guys commenting on it and it's this this, this, this ad cock dude and these other young country singers that are trying to up and come. And they're all telling him, Hey, you shouldn't be in our genre, whatever. He writes these statements and he's like, he's like, dude, you don't even haven't heard the whole song.
Danny:Yeah.
Tyler:I served this Navy. I served the Navy. My father was in the army. Like we're, we served.
Danny:Honestly am trying to get ice at my door and, and, and give me a free trip back to Mexico. I'm trying to go back to Mexico. Missy right. And I were like trying to figure out, can we go to Mexico three times this year? Yeah.
Danny:Can I figure out a way to get to Mexico in December? And I was like, maybe. Yeah. Maybe. Maybe I'll just go over there and be like, hey, walk up to the ice guys.
Danny:Pick me.
Tyler:Pick You
Danny:know? Wago? Right. That we at work, we have this airplane that flies in and, and, and what people say is this is it's, it's the plane that comes in, gets the deportees and takes them back over there. Oh, really?
Danny:And I'm like, hey, tell them, save a seat for me. You know, like, I'll get over there. And, and, well, you know, we joke around about that, but I'm like, yeah, man, send me back my guy. You know, like, whatever. Yeah.
Danny:It's funny because like people always talk to like, you know, like, I know it's I know it's there, but then if you talk to people, they're like, I mean, really the people they're sending back or the people that are there probably have like done something that they shouldn't do. Right. You know, so like if you see it online and they're like, oh, this guy was a hard worker. It's like, well, how'd they know? Right.
Danny:Like he probably did something that he should there's probably a felony and he may maybe the felony isn't what he's supposed to be doing, but it might be a felony. Right?
Tyler:Right.
Danny:So, I mean, I'm not gonna go commit a felony just to get back to get But on the man, I want a free trip back over there. I'm trying to get over there.
Tyler:Right.
Danny:We I do believe that right now, we are taking a turn for the worse. Yeah. You know, it's it's kind of a bummer. I was listening to a podcast the other day and it was saying, you know, that at some point we may be one of those countries where it's like not viable to be here. If the dollar goes low and you know, the Euro takes over the dollar or, you know, something happens where our infrastructure starts to fall a little bit apart, we may not want to be you may most people want to be an American American citizen.
Danny:Most people are like, fuck man, I want to go to America. There might come a time when it's like, I don't want to go there anymore. Yeah. I'd like to go to Europe because they're a little bit more accepting. They're little bit more friendly.
Tyler:Yeah. I have no idea, man. France is looks like shit right now.
Danny:Really?
Tyler:France is in some, I mean, they've had this mass immigration. The mass immigration is now like, you know, they, there was somebody told me that there was a study that was done in Denmark about 130 immigrants from, you know, an Islamic country that moved to Denmark. And they followed the statistics of several generations and saw how many ended up in jail or involved in crime. And it was like a 78% incarceration rate, like on welfare. These, they weren't necessarily contributing members to society.
Danny:Sure. I believe in some sort of immigration or some sort of like control of coming here. Sure. But Utah is very known for going, now you can send those people here because the church is like, yeah, send them over here. We'll we'll just convert the we'll convert them to LDS people.
Danny:Yep. But then they don't take care of them. Right? Imagine going to your local store, your local store, and all of a sudden, it's like an influx of, like, people that you're like, I have no idea who these people are. They don't speak English or nothing like that.
Danny:Yeah. They're not speaking Spanish. Yep. And you're like, what the world? Right?
Danny:Imagine. See that. It would scare me a little bit. I would get nervous.
Tyler:Right.
Danny:You know, I mean, like that would scare me.
Tyler:Well, then you get to be told like, oh, white America doesn't have a culture.
Danny:Yeah. Right? Yeah. Yeah. I think that like, like there should be some way to become a citizen.
Danny:The problem is, is like the people that don't want to become citizens, there's probably a reason why they don't want to become citizens.
Tyler:Right.
Danny:They're probably, you know, they probably have a background or a way of doing things that's probably not like what you and I do. Probably felonious. Yeah.
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah.
Danny:In my opinion. This is just my opinion. I have friends that like, if they came to America, they would be looking for a better life. Mhmm. They would be looking for jobs.
Danny:They would be looking to provide. They would be looking to give back to this country. They would be looking for that. And I want a way for them to be able to come here.
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. I totally agree. It's not
Danny:Both of our parents probably both of our both of our religions, I'm sorry, both of our ancestors probably came from another country.
Tyler:Oh, 100%. You know? Absolutely. We can we can trace our roots back.
Danny:And we are here, part of our environments because of that ability to become citizens. Yep. Right? Yeah. And we're going to fight hard.
Danny:We're going to we're going to we're going to do good for our communities. Right. You're gonna have both or have been pivotal in our communities. We've given back to our communities and I want that for people. Yeah.
Danny:You know? Yeah. But if you're not going to do a good job and if you're not going to be a productive member of society and you I don't I don't care if you're American or not. I don't
Tyler:want you
Danny:be part of my community. Yeah. Yeah. Be a good person.
Tyler:I I I it's it's it really is that simple. It really is that simple. I think the problem is just the sheer numbers too sometimes. Like, just the number of people.
Danny:Yeah. Right.
Tyler:I'm like, I can't I wanna move to a smaller community, but, you know, what is the right size community for me? You know what I mean? Like, where is it? Where is it? The just the, you know, the right size.
Tyler:I I don't know.
Danny:I don't know either.
Tyler:I don't know either. I mean, I love I love that where I'm at proximity to the airport, we can travel. You know, we have some great national parks.
Danny:Like we would live, we would, you know, you drive between here and Glenwood and anywhere along those lines, I'd be like, I'd live here. Yeah. I'd live here. Yeah. But you're adding two, three, four miles from four hours from any major international airport.
Danny:Airport. Yeah. Tyler, we live an hour from an international airport. We could be anywhere. Yep.
Danny:We live an hour from it. Yep. Right? Our community, like our our community, we have such good friends here. Yeah.
Danny:We couldn't recreate it anywhere else. No. We have such good friends. Yeah. Like our friend group has developed like Eric, Grant, Tripp, Hallett, you know, Preston.
Danny:Yeah. You can name name after name after name and you're like, oh, It's my friend. Yeah. Yeah. Our friend group would Yeah.
Danny:We we get together on a regular basis now to watch the fights. Yep. We we get together with our men's group with with a lot of our community. Right? Yeah.
Danny:On a regular basis now. Yeah. Where we have a consistent group of men that we hang out with. Yeah. Right?
Danny:Friend group. And everybody with the same goals. Yeah. Right? But we couldn't recreate that anywhere else.
Tyler:No, I think we should. But, you know Yeah.
Danny:Grab everybody in group. Yeah.
Tyler:Yeah. I mean, I think it I think these these type of little grassroots movements are what what men need. Right? Like we need these little tribes to I mean, who knows? I know I know when I participate in these time type of things, I'm less Yeah.
Tyler:I'm less, you know, I can be a little bit more patient. She can flip me off.
Danny:I just stopped. Right? Like,
Tyler:I didn't need to get violent. I didn't need to shake my fist. I didn't need
Danny:to flip her off back. I just stopped.
Tyler:Yeah. And then I I went on my way.
Danny:Yeah.
Tyler:Like, I don't know. I I I I just think it's it's I don't know if there's too many
Danny:of us or if there's Well, apparently, we're on the like, we're legitimately on a downward slide. Our societies are on a downward slide, like production rate
Tyler:Yeah.
Danny:Of humans. I gotta send you the funniest the absolute funniest thing that I've ever seen in my entire life. I I've seen a lot of hardcore shit. Yeah. I've seen I you know, people sent me the two chicks, one cup thing.
Danny:Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't make it through it. No.
Danny:I have lots of friends that did. I've seen some I've seen some horrible things. Yeah. I've seen some funny things. You you know what sucked?
Danny:I'll tell you what sucked. Thing that happened in Orem. Yeah. I made a commitment to not look at the video. Mhmm.
Danny:Right? I did not I literally was like, nope. Not gonna look up the video. Not gonna look at the video. I don't wanna see it.
Danny:It's in Utah. I'm a little sensitive to that. I have my I have my own opinions about shit. Right? Yeah.
Danny:The first thing I just pressed Facebook. Boom. It was right there. It was the first thing that came up and I was like, motherfucker. I don't wanna watch that.
Danny:Yeah. I've seen some fucked up things. Yeah. I had never seen this. Yeah.
Danny:It's called Samezies. You ever seen this? Uh-uh. Samezies?
Tyler:Uh-uh.
Danny:Dude, I sent it to Preston last night. We were I was we were laughing. He was sending me he was sending me messages back and forth till, like, midnight. Him and I were sending it is literally one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my entire life. And I had never seen it.
Danny:And we're at work and somebody made a comment about Samsies. No more Samsies. So you can kind of guess what it's about. No more same z's. Yeah.
Danny:No more ding da
Tyler:ding's. Yeah. Oh. No more same
Danny:z's. So fucking funny. And as we start to share these things, when you hear somebody to say the same z's or of the things that talk about it, oh my gosh, we laugh about it. But there's so much fun that we can have in this country. Yeah.
Danny:In this little world that we're in. There's so much fun that we can have. And then you think, do you really need to focus on the negative? Do we need to like, know, do we need to go deep dive of why some of these things happen? Why the Aurum thing happened?
Danny:Why all these things happen? Or is it just like, fuck it, it's just part of life. You know, we've talked about that before. Like, sometimes people are like, well, why do if there's a God, then why do these things happen? Mhmm.
Danny:If there's a God, why do these things happen? And I believe these things are gonna happen. They're gonna happen. Bad things are gonna happen. Good things are gonna happen.
Danny:And you could be like, oh, it's because of God. Or you could just be like, no, my faith gets me through the things that happen. Mhmm. My belief in God gets me through these things. Yeah.
Danny:And my belief that there's a higher power, my belief that that I can pray and I can I can have a relationship with something different than me that's that I can't physically or emotionally or mentally sometimes understand? It's just there sometimes. Right? And I believe that that is a good thing. Right?
Danny:And I believe that if I by putting too much effort into negative, it's going to be there. Yeah. You know? Yeah. It literally is going be there.
Danny:If I put too much thought into the fact that I'm not getting paid, it's going be there tomorrow. Yeah. You know? And so Eric made this super cool. He made this super cool thing.
Danny:And what he said was how he sometimes deals with things is he's like, can I address it today? If I can address it today, then I need to put some effort into it. Yeah. But if I can't, then it'll be there tomorrow. It'll be there in an hour.
Danny:It'll be there next week. So maybe I don't need to address it. Maybe just eventually it'll just work itself out or if or guess what? If it needs to be addressed, it'll bring itself back up and then I'll need to address it that day. Yeah.
Danny:Right? And so some of these problems, some of these things that we go through every day, we just don't need to fucking work on them. Yeah. Maybe they're just not worth our effort. Yeah.
Tyler:Yep. Yeah. I could not agree more. I mean, mind goes where your attention flows or your attention flows where your mind goes, You know, it's like these things rein you in. They're meant to be inflammatory, right?
Tyler:Inflammatory cells, right? That's the point I was most crushed with is how similar that event felt like to what was hap what happened in Columbine for me. Being in high school, having that parallel, right? And then just noticing that like the speed at which information now moves has completely changed. Sure.
Tyler:It's completely changed. And we're we've completely eclipsed into some into some new epoch in time. And I agree, you don't. You give your attention to things that build you.
Danny:Yeah.
Tyler:I think that's, I've studied this year with kind of the concept of like no quarter. No quarter has been the substack where I've kind of just written my, you know, my updates on but like the concept of no quarter, you know, the battlefield concept of no quarters that you don't show any mercy to your enemies. One, it's a matter of compassion the sense that you can't take care of them. Right? You're not backing down, you're not giving up.
Tyler:And so what I've tried to do is apply that to myself. How do I how do I no quarter how do I do no quarter to my weakness? The things that I want to get better. Not to push myself for performative, you know, experience, but to like to really get down and say like, okay, how do I give these terrible thoughts no more room in my mind to grow. And I just kind of said, how do I evolve?
Tyler:How do I evolve? What is the next evolution of Tyler look like? And when you start focusing on yourself, can say, you know what, Screw these other people. They're having their own experience. Their own experience is going to reap them whatever they sell.
Tyler:And I'm just going to try to be grateful. I'm going to try to, you know, connect Well, with my
Danny:and being like, you know, those those emotions that that just don't do us any service, anger. Yeah. Rage. Yeah. Vindictiveness, glutton, all that shit.
Danny:Those negative emotions. Yeah. They're going to be there. Right? Yeah.
Danny:We don't have to feed those. No. We don't have to keep feeding that shit. You know? If you notice that you're not this is this is a thing that's that's distracting you or impacting you, your life negatively, then you can also take the stance of like, well, I'm just not going to deal with it.
Danny:I'm not going worry about it. Yeah. I'm not going to put some I'm not going to feed it anymore. Yeah. But if you get like gratitude, happiness, joy, appreciativeness, acceptance, you know, that's the men's group topic was acceptance.
Danny:Acceptance. What can you accept in your life? And if you can accept it, then it's okay. Yeah. It doesn't make you a puss just because you accept certain things.
Danny:Right. But as a man, you need to learn to accept things. Right. It was a big topic and it was a big thing that we that we that we dive deep down into. Right?
Danny:But when you feed those good, happy, healthy qualities, your life tends to be, your outlook on life tends to be better. Yeah. Right? Yeah. You know, we go back to what you've experienced the last couple of years.
Danny:If you feed those negative feelings, which, know, don't get me wrong, you have to like give them some attention, but you can also just accept them and be like, doesn't fucking define me.
Tyler:Right. Yeah. What are they, you know, at this point, it's what are they teaching me? Where are they directing me? Right.
Tyler:Where are they directing me?
Danny:And you don't know.
Tyler:You don't know.
Danny:And that's okay.
Tyler:And so you give it attention so you can kind of find out
Danny:and
Tyler:you can say, Hey, what is this telling me that I need? But Hey, yeah, you can't, we can't live in it and you can't be defined by it. When you start defining yourself by these things, that's when you need the validation. That's when you start seeking the validation. Unfortunately, social platforms have given people that shouldn't be validated.
Tyler:There are some ideas that don't need validation. There's some shitty dumb ideas out there. Whoever came up with the term that there are no dumb questions. Yeah. No, there are some dumb questions.
Danny:Are some
Tyler:dumb questions. Sure.
Danny:Pay attention.
Tyler:You know what I mean? Like
Danny:Yeah. Don't ask the same question when you just asked it just to try to get the answer to Vin to that you would like to hear.
Tyler:Yes.
Danny:If the answer is this. Yeah. Don't ask the question to just constantly to try to change the narrative to be on your side. Yeah. Right?
Tyler:Yeah.
Danny:You know, when you and I talk about this a lot with some of the things that you deal with in your personal life. Yeah. And I'm always encouraging you to like be like, remember who you are. Yeah. Because sometimes you're like, no, no, no.
Danny:I'm this. And you're like, and I'm thinking, no, you're not. Yeah. You're literally not. You know?
Danny:I'm your friend. I know who you are. You know, you're this kind gentle man. And that's what that's what people are drawn to you about. Yeah.
Danny:Plus you have really good looks, you know? And so it's like people are drawn to you. Don't forget that. And if you focus on those things, then you know, that's who you are. It's literally who you are.
Danny:Yeah. But you're a kind soul, you know? And you can't change that about yourself. It's it's your genetic gift. And sometimes the way that we see our genetic gift can be a genetic curse.
Danny:Yeah. Right? And you're like, oh, I don't like that about myself. And you're like, I need to change that. It's like, no, it's genetic code.
Danny:Whoever your people were gave you that. You can't change that shit. It's not butterfly effect. Yeah. You don't know how that will work.
Danny:No. Right? No. And like you said, you you want to be able to have some tolerance Yeah. In in these environments.
Danny:Yes. Because life is gonna test the shit out of you. Yeah. You know? Yeah.
Danny:And who knows what's And gonna you don't know.
Tyler:And you don't know.
Danny:You just don't know.
Tyler:You absolutely don't know. And, you know, I'm you say this and I'm all for communities coming, communities wanting to bring their culture here and share their culture with us. I mean, I think there's time and places for that. I love Cinco de Mayo. I love, you know, the fact that I get to surround myself with this Hispanic and Latino culture here in Heber.
Tyler:We have some great Mexican food because of it. There's some great people here because of it. And, you know, I enjoy seeing them celebrate the Mexican flag when it's their day, but I also would love to see them enjoy, you know, celebrating the July 4 here or the events that we hold culturally appropriate, the rodeos and things like that, you know. You know, we're blending our culture and we're coming together for the better. Right?
Tyler:And so that's not to say that, you know, something has to die, but something new is going to get some, something new is going to be born out of, out of all this intermixing. And I think whatever that is, is hopefully smarter and kinder and better for the next generation.
Danny:For sure. Cause that's what it matters, right?
Tyler:That's what that's what it hopes. That's what it's my hope.
Danny:Your hopes are like that your kids' life are
Tyler:Yeah.
Danny:Are as good or Yeah. You know, better Yeah. Than what we had. And honestly, like if we if you or I were to not be here tomorrow, we've literally had a fucking amazing life. Absolutely.
Danny:And? Like our adventures have gotten better and better and better and better and like the things that we've experienced, the loves that we've had and lost and like, and those things have defined who we are as men. Right? And we always, you and I always definitely say that it's not easy being a man. No.
Danny:This narratives that we are dealing with now, it's not like they're proponents of like strong valued men. Yeah. You know? No. That just keep their mouth shut sometimes and then voice when we have concerns.
Danny:Yeah. You know, I don't need to go out on a stage and call out the generals for being fat, dumb, and lazy
Tyler:Right.
Danny:To get to to feel good about myself. No. I need to shut the fuck up sometimes Yeah. And just be grateful that those people are there. Yeah.
Danny:Know? And sometimes when I need to, like, voice my concerns, I may have to voice my concerns. Yeah. You know? But I'll have to do it every time.
Danny:Yeah. You know, as a man and it's not like we're proponents. Like, our friend group, like our friend group, have the same values. We all have the same, like, mindset. Right?
Danny:We train together and try to kill each other. Every night we train with each other. Yeah. You did 20 rounds the other day. I was so proud of you.
Danny:Yeah. What a kudos, man.
Tyler:Thank you.
Danny:Like, how fucking insane is that that you just are coming off of cancer and you were able to, like, savage your way through 20 rounds Yeah. Of, like, training hard in the academy, you know? Yeah. Was so proud of you. And everybody was like, that was so good for Tyler to be there.
Danny:So good for you to be there. You may pay for it for the next ten days. Yeah. But you have that mindset. Right?
Danny:Yeah. And that's what you're trying to like promote. Yeah. As a man, you're trying to promote these things. You're trying to like to be like, man, this is why look, look at me.
Tyler:Yeah.
Danny:Look, look at me. Let me be your let me be the role model that I'm I'm I'm put on this earth to be. Struggles. Hard last three years, but still rally like a motherfucker. Yeah.
Danny:You know?
Tyler:Yeah. Smile. What's all you can do, man. It's all you can do.
Danny:It's I'm all you proud of you.
Tyler:I appreciate it. Yeah. What we got going on? What do we got coming up? What is what's new?
Tyler:We're getting into the fall season,
Danny:I sixth need a battery in my bus. Thank you for being patient with me. I gotta get a battery in my bus. The problem is, is the batteries that I like I told you before that I'm looking at are expensive. Yeah.
Danny:I'm hustling like a motherfucker trying to get that thing in there because we need to get some bus episodes in. We didn't do any, but I wanna get some in. Yeah. I would like to take a big shout out to Riley at Salt Electrolytes. Yes.
Danny:Salt. I was on his podcast the other day and we talked a lot about our this this environment. We talked a lot about you. We talked about yours and I's friendship and how we got to where we're at because Riley had said he met you at the camp because you guys were sitting next to each other. You were running the, the merchandise for the camp.
Danny:Then he was right next to you. So he said you guys talked And then him and I trained and it was a good conversation. It was an hour and a half conversation with him. Huge shout out to Riley.
Tyler:I think his watermelon salts were the ones I had. They were good.
Danny:Salt electrolytes. That's good. I even asked him. I was like, hey, I'm an element guy, L M N T. And I was like, tell me the difference.
Danny:He told me the difference. Sent me a package and I actually like it. It's good. It's got a lot of it's got a lot of good stuff in it. So look that up, Salt.
Danny:We'll probably hopefully do some more collaborations with him. We're going try to have him on here. We'd like to get we need to get more we're figure out how to get We're
Tyler:seeing I think we're I think I think if anything, this walking and having this little bit of time has given me like, how do we evolve this? How do we maybe we've hit something that we need to evolve and how what does that evolution look like? Because there's all kinds of changes that have happened.
Danny:We have, again, Mountain Elite Massage. At some point, they're going to be a sponsor of this of this platform because Crystal's, you know, Crystal Joy CJ, her her idea is that men men need what we have, what we're doing. And her idea is to to incorporate that somehow in in their sanctuary. So we might be gearing up for doing another men's meeting, men's group there at at her spot. We may do a men's, you know, men's meet up there.
Danny:So we we appreciate that. What else? Hopefully the government opens so I can get a paycheck so I can buy myself a battery. Yeah. Yeah.
Danny:No, I don't know.
Tyler:I mean, it's all real. It's all very real.
Danny:What about you?
Tyler:It's all very real. I mean, yeah, I think the same things are true for me. I'm going into my last round of training. I'm in the treatment, I'm training, I'm training an incredible dog that is hopefully going to be one of those. My goal for her is that she's one of those just attachments, right?
Tyler:Like she has the brain, she has the brawn. She just becomes one of those attachment pieces that
Danny:I would love to see her with a service dog vest on.
Tyler:You don't technically or legally have to have they don't technically or legally have to wear that.
Danny:Do you think you're going come down tomorrow maybe to watch Oh yeah. The
Tyler:We're coming down. I'm going to go say hi to my dad, introduce him to the dog. Perfect. So I might as well just come see the fights. Yeah.
Danny:Tell Doug I said hi.
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah.
Danny:So I haven't seen him.
Tyler:I don't know when it'll happen. I haven't made, I haven't coordinated, but I need to get out the house anyway. Yeah. I do have the little dogs while my kids and other, my other family the younger family goes to the Mexico with their mom.
Danny:Okay. And how's baby?
Tyler:She's she's kicking. She's kicking along. She's, you know, still fierce, but she's leaking something and I don't know what it is. It's it's
Danny:Dude, that sucks. Yeah. I'm sorry. I know. I know.
Danny:One thing, dude, ATC Jeremy, dude, this dude is blowing up.
Tyler:Yeah. Yes.
Danny:He's blowing up. I know. Bro, he was just in, like, on
Tyler:He just did he did my two my two big adventures. He did within the same few weeks.
Danny:He was just on set with the new Yellowstone spin off. He was just on set with
Tyler:him. Really?
Danny:Yeah. He just had a The Marshals.
Tyler:The Marshals. Yeah. They were recording that. They were they had all the extras parked out in Park City Hospital when Hey, I was
Danny:PC Jeremy. Bro, keep going. Him and I always talking. Him and I always like chatting, you know, chopping it up. He's he's always like stoked on, you know, life and how things are going.
Danny:His Atlanta thing, you know, he was supposed to move to Atlanta, it's falling apart. And I'm so happy. Good. Because
Tyler:I love
Danny:him being an effusive and, you know, working around me so much. I do. I'm so close to pulling the trigger on retiring in December. I'm so close. This last week I was hustling pretty hard, you know, trying to make some money and it felt good working Yeah.
Danny:For something that I, you know, myself and a bigger picture. Yeah. Yeah. I'm I'm pretty close. Good.
Danny:I'm pretty close. Good. I'm more as soon as I've tapped past the 50% retire needle, I might just do it. Yeah. I might just do it.
Danny:We'll see. I mean I need need to have you know, we need to have another round of like where direction of some of the things that we were working on that we're not that we couldn't put on the back burner after October after this last so you get done November
Tyler:November 7 is my last treatment.
Danny:And then we pig roast the next day. We dude, we're so that night we're celebrating your your finishing of cancer. Yeah. With we're we're all sitting up together at night and roasting the pig. Alright.
Danny:So me, you, Grant, Tripp, Eric, I think a couple other guys are coming out and we're gonna do that pig roast.
Tyler:Oh, yeah? Where's the pig gonna be? Where are we where is it roasting it?
Danny:So we're trying to figure that out right now because we're little worried about the smoke and the ash smell. So we're either gonna do it at Grant's house or at the academy and then just do it there.
Tyler:Spend the night.
Danny:We're trying to figure that out right now, but we're doing it no matter what. We got the wood donated. We have everything ready. We just need to get the pig. We have everything.
Danny:We have everything already.
Tyler:Nice.
Danny:It's gonna be insane. So we're celebrating that that night. We're watching movies. We're hanging out with each other. We're gonna fucking have a good time.
Danny:Yeah. I'll pass it on that Tyler that's the night we're celebrating. Then belt test Belt test. On the eighth. Mhmm.
Danny:And then it's gear up for fucking fights Yes. Next year.
Tyler:February 28.
Danny:All year we're fighting. Yeah. We're fucking rallying and we're gonna we're gonna put some effort into
Tyler:Yeah.
Danny:I'm close. Close
Tyler:to 2,000 I've close I've raised close to $2,000, for cancer charity.
Danny:So I'm I'm stoked. Stoked.
Tyler:Kind of about $500 away. So
Danny:I feel like we could sit here all night long could. And talk.
Tyler:We
Danny:could do a Joe Rogan three hour episode.
Tyler:We could do a three hour episode. Just doing it. It's been too long. We probably owe it to our, we owe it to our fans who've hung in through this year. It's been bumpy.
Tyler:Thank you for coming back. Thank you for jumping on things like, you know, the Substack and checking in other places and yeah, thank you.
Danny:Yeah. Whenever you think about the fact that like Tyler and I, our gratefulness for this whole journey, the fact of the matter is, is like, we're just doing this to to hopefully reach somebody to hopefully, like, to to put our name out there to, like, to to remind those that I don't know if I told you this, but I had a buddy from high school kill himself on my birthday. I'm not saying that he did whatever. It doesn't
Tyler:Right, right, right.
Danny:But it was on my birthday. This guy was one of in high school, him and I were like good friends. Out of high school, whenever we see would see each other, we would like, we, you know, we'd run into each other. We'd we would always either have a beer, talk bullshit, dedicate this episode to Berlin Birmingham. To him?
Danny:A great guy. He was a good dude. Must have been in the struggle. And at some point just was like, you know what? I don't got nothing left.
Danny:I got nothing left in the gas tank. What we want is to ensure that if you don't have anything in the gas tank, if you hear Tyler and I just reach out to us. Yep. Because believe it or not, we have a lot in the gas tank even though, like, sometimes struggle gets bad. It's like, no.
Danny:Fuck it, man. We got lots in the gas tank. Right? Yeah. I'm gonna take a picture of us.
Danny:I'm gonna this is my goal is as we start as we finish and sign off let me do that again. Sorry. As we sign off, I'm going to take a picture of us, and we are currently signing off from episode whatever it is. It's in the fifties, and this is us signing off. We're up recording.
Danny:We're grateful for you guys, and look out. We're gonna come back strong as ever. Here we go.
Tyler:Here we go. Cheers, everybody.
Danny:Cheers, guys.
