Manhood, Meds, and Middle Fingers
Welcome
Tyler:back.
Danny:Here we are.
Tyler:We're back at it. We got a little little special guest here. Riley's making her first appearance on the podcast.
Danny:Riley is we talked about Riley last time and she's Yeah. She's here. She's definitely she she has, in my opinion, shown a little bit more social skills because she barked a little bit, but then she came to me Yeah. Right away. Yeah.
Danny:I I probably see her a lot as much as the kids. Right? Like Yeah. Me, I mean, I'm I've seen her more.
Tyler:They still bark. Like, Ben will come in and then they'll still bark. I mean, she's I think she's still finding like the ease of life here.
Danny:Yeah.
Tyler:But she is highly driven. Like I've noticed she needs to be worked.
Danny:She's oh, she's go.
Tyler:Yeah. Just go.
Danny:You guys so you guys did the test and what is
Tyler:she? She would queue the test came back. She's like 48% Belgian Malinois.
Danny:Okay.
Tyler:20 something percent golden retriever of What all
Danny:the heck?
Tyler:Yeah. Total random shattering.
Danny:It is random.
Tyler:There's like, you know, percent Siberian Husky, like
Danny:Which might be the Belgian Malmo.
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah. I I I question those tests, how they have you do them and how quickly I did it. Like, I don't know how DNA works. Like, long does DNA hang around in your mouth if you're playing with those other animals?
Tyler:Yeah. You know, I don't know. I don't know. She's a sweetheart for the most part. She's not I know I know not everybody has the same experience with with dogs, but
Danny:Or Belgian Malinois.
Tyler:Or Belgian Malinois.
Danny:Are we supposed to be red hair? I forget. Yeah. Red there and that means we're recording. Good.
Danny:Yeah. She's a sweetheart.
Tyler:Yeah. She really is. She's I think she's just settling into her piece. Like, I'm I found the trainer I think we're gonna work with.
Danny:Oh,
Tyler:good. Super excited when we can we can work that out and announce that. We'll make sure that we we
Danny:Give her a shout out.
Tyler:Give her a shout out because it I think that's gonna be huge
Danny:Yeah.
Tyler:For her. I mean, she's she's pretty well trained like this for her is a real treat. I don't let her on my sofa upstairs. I don't let her upstairs.
Danny:Just because of her hair?
Tyler:Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of it.
Danny:Did you decide if you're allergic to her?
Tyler:Things kinda cleared up. So I don't know if I am or not or if, like, maybe just my weakened immune system
Danny:Oh, caused you a little bit of
Tyler:Caused me a little bit of allergy.
Danny:So Yeah. You are almost done with week two?
Tyler:I'm I'm just started week three of round four. Wait. You just started? Sorry. Is that what you mean of of treatment?
Danny:Yeah.
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Week week week three started. Oh.
Tyler:Started Monday.
Danny:You're on week three.
Tyler:Yeah. Week week three.
Danny:Almost week three. You're almost hump day. I know. It's almost hump day and then it's Yeah. The man, it's the the amount of times left is
Tyler:It's I low. I know I know I said this earlier and I jinxed myself, but I I believe I've taken my last my last dosage of Atra.
Danny:Okay. When?
Tyler:Monday.
Danny:Okay.
Tyler:Monday night. They cut my a lot has happened. Right? And that's part of the problem with me keeping this the schedule. A lot has happened like chemically, I've been way unbalanced.
Tyler:Right? Earned myself a trip to the the social worker's office
Danny:Okay.
Tyler:In week two?
Danny:Two. Yep. That was last week.
Tyler:Last week. The where they actually cut my Atradose.
Danny:When when you say you when you say you went there, did they ask you a certain question that they that it spiked their senses that Tyler may need to be?
Tyler:Well, I asked for more Ativan, which to me was the best the best option. Ativan is a barbiturate. It's Valium, very similar to Valium. It's it's addictive. Okay.
Tyler:But it was the it's the for me, it was the best balance as a rescue. Right? I could take up to three half milligrams per day and be good and be within my my my realm. They prescribed me some on October 6, so they were a little leery when I asked for more. And I was like, no, listen, do the math and you'll see that you didn't really give me enough.
Tyler:I'm not trying
Danny:They thought, here's an addict looking for more pills.
Tyler:Yeah. Mean Wow. Who knows? I mean, it's this system is so big that, you know, and of course, the the thing is like, okay, we want you to talk to this person. Wanna I did have an an experience I'm not proud of at Dutch Brothers.
Tyler:You know, I just it finally just caught up to me and I lost my shit a little bit.
Danny:On a worker?
Tyler:I mean, I wouldn't say so much at a worker as much as just like throwing a tantrum, like a grown ass man throwing a tantrum over coffee. Oh, no. Oh, we we hit another restaurant and I grabbed coffee before and I decided this isn't satisfying enough.
Danny:So you went to Dutch Brothers?
Tyler:So went to Dutch Brothers. I had I had Bryn and Ben and one of Bryn's friends with me in the car.
Danny:Okay.
Tyler:Order order order, you know, leave what I thought was a very generous tip. You know how they have you order and then you kind of pull up to the window.
Danny:Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Tyler:And I go, I hear you guys have a coffee exchange program or you can throw this away and give me a good one. They didn't think that was funny. They said, oh, actually we can't take anything through the window. And I said, that's funny because you took my dirty money through the window.
Danny:Oh, no.
Tyler:And she's like, yeah, it's like I'm like, okay, cool. So I just popped the lid and poured it out like right not in the like the window, like not
Danny:Just on the edge of the corner.
Tyler:Yeah. Just like on the corner. And the poor 16 year old girl was like, this is wild. And my daughter's like, dad, you're being an asshole. And I'm like, yeah, I I kinda was.
Tyler:It was like,
Danny:I I just But the coffee was not what you wanted, it wasn't good?
Tyler:It it was the the coffee I got at the other shop. Like, I get why she said she can't take it through the window.
Danny:I see what you're saying.
Tyler:I see why they they don't wanna take my trash to the window. Right? But they also don't provide a trash can, like, right close by. You think that, you know, I don't know. I'm justifying my behavior at this point.
Tyler:But
Danny:I thought, oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You were just being an asshole.
Danny:That's okay.
Tyler:100%. Yeah. 100%.
Danny:Just in a moment.
Tyler:Yeah. Just in a moment.
Danny:Well, and you've said that the atra causes some of those spikes of emotions. Right?
Tyler:Yeah. I mean, it just it it I didn't really have a good name for it until meeting with the social worker Mhmm. And asking them. Like, I I I went in dead set to like, I'm done.
Danny:I don't presume.
Tyler:Yeah. They've told me I'm my cancer's gone. Good. I'm done. I'm good.
Tyler:I don't need to be punished.
Danny:I'm ringing the fucking bell today.
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah. And they were like, yeah. Okay. But there's also this option as well.
Tyler:And luckily, I have the same doctor that I've had consistently even through my inpatient, you know, for her privacy. I won't mention her name, but she's she's an incredibly well respected person in her in her space. Okay. And, you know, I think very highly of her and I I feel really grateful that I've I've had her in my corner,
Danny:but Okay.
Tyler:She was very very, you know, she was willing to take me off completely and she gave me three different options. She said the, you know, the only the only thing I want you to to to really, you know, I want you to meet with a social worker. Okay.
Danny:And we did?
Tyler:Yeah. And and I did. And I told the social worker my my story and I was just like, I'm I'm I was embarrassed like I'm not I'm not proud of
Danny:it. Sure.
Tyler:You know? But we all have those moments of weakness and I hope that whoever that young lady was will hopefully never see me in the drive through again. But if I do, just know another big tip is coming.
Danny:Oh, yeah.
Tyler:I'm I'm sorry. Yeah. It was it was not me. Such is life? Yeah.
Tyler:Yeah. I had a really I had a really interesting experience too with this this very something very similar early in the summer that's kind of been eating me up. Cool. I had the I yelled at somebody for walking their dog off the leash. I don't know why.
Tyler:And all the doors off my Bronco and I'm like, I'm in the most like noticeable car. Like I don't I don't drive like a sleeper like you know, oh, that's Tyler right there. Like Yeah. You take the doors and roof off and it's even more all that more noticeable. And I think been eating myself up because I recognize the dog of a lady in my neighborhood who I know has just gone through a divorce.
Danny:Oh, shit.
Tyler:And I'm like, did I just yell at this woman about her dumb dog when I don't even care? Like, don't I don't care if she's off the leash or on the leash or
Danny:Do you remember what you said?
Tyler:I said, put your dog on an effing leash.
Danny:Oh. What'd she say?
Tyler:Well, it wasn't her. Oh. But the response was go fuck yourself.
Danny:Oh. Yeah. It was a good one. Yeah.
Tyler:And, you know, of course I responded.
Danny:Oh. Yeah.
Tyler:And it wasn't it wasn't luckily, wasn't her, it was her ex. But I saw her at the ice rink.
Danny:Okay.
Tyler:And I was finally like, this is great. I can actually like Apologize. Apologize. And I totally went up to her and apologized. And I was like, yeah, I'm sorry.
Tyler:I've been on these meds. It's really messed with me. It's eaten me up all summer that I shouted at this person. I go, I don't think it was you, but was it? On the off chance it wasn't.
Tyler:She goes, well, actually funny that you bring that up. It was my ex my kid's father. That's how she put it. And I said, enough said. I have one of those as well.
Tyler:Maybe he deserved it. And we both kind of laughed. And yeah. I mean, it was just an opportunity to, repair, which which felt good because that's the that's been the problem all along. Right?
Tyler:When you know you should be doing better Sure. But you're not. Yeah.
Danny:Swallowing that pride and and admitting wrong is not is not like we're built for that. No. Well, a lot of that comes with ego and pride
Tyler:Right.
Danny:Getting in the way of, like I think I've said this before that I'm not a good apologizer. Yeah. Like, I don't usually say I'm sorry. Yeah. I usually, like am like, I'm sorry you made me do that
Tyler:to you.
Danny:You know? Like, I'm that kind of guy, narcissistic in that way. Yeah. You know, like, ghost you, or what they call it, gaslight you. Yeah.
Danny:Yeah. Yeah. But I I I've been trying to get better at apologizing quickly, showing a little bit more restraint in in in those moments of there's lots of times when I think of funny things to say or, like, kinda douchey things to do. You know? Yeah.
Danny:Yeah. And then, like, going, okay. Don't do it. And I'm really proud of myself when I don't.
Tyler:Right.
Danny:I still might be a little proud of myself when I do.
Tyler:Does feel good. Does feel
Danny:good. It every once in a while. Fuck you.
Tyler:Yeah. When you got one of those loaded up when you got one of those loaded up, I thought that guy was walking so high. Yeah. And I and I slinked off feeling bad, and I did feel bad. I don't want any beef with my neighbors.
Tyler:I don't care if they're walking their dogs.
Danny:Yeah. And and and like you said, I mean, you know, you give you give grace to people, but also give grace to yourself and the fact that, like, it's just not, you know, you're you're a chemical it might not even be Tyler.
Tyler:Yeah. No. I was
Danny:Might be, you know, it might be who who's the who's the guy off of who who's Tyler's alter ego on a Yeah. On Yeah. On a Fight Club?
Tyler:Tyler Durden. Tyler Durden. It was the it was the unnamed author.
Danny:The unnamed author.
Tyler:Yeah. The unnamed author.
Danny:Just have a little little bit of an alter ego that Yeah. You know, that maybe burns a little bit of soap into you and you don't even know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Tyler:Know? Exactly.
Danny:It's kinda one of those things that you're going through right now, honestly, you think about it, like, it's just there's times when it's like, may not be you. Oh, yeah. The chemicals or just Yeah. You know, the the the alter ego.
Tyler:Well, it was such a staggering difference from the week before. Right? A hundred milligrams a day, then to go to fifty milligrams a day. Like it was night and day difference. Like after she told me that, like, I didn't need the Ativan anymore, I wasn't I wasn't as anxious anymore, I didn't feel this like, like it was it's been pretty pretty doable.
Tyler:So You
Danny:have the rest of this week.
Tyler:The rest of this week.
Danny:Then next week.
Tyler:The next week. The seventh. That's it. Seventh is my new birthday. November 7.
Danny:That's the day.
Tyler:That's the day.
Danny:That's the day of of when you can ring the is that when you ring the bell then? The seventh? You will ring the bell the seventh?
Tyler:I will ring the bell the seventh. I'm torn what to do. Like, do I ring the bell in Park City or do I go back down to LDS?
Danny:Do you do it at both?
Tyler:I mean, I might do it at both. The problem is I only go to LDS on Monday.
Danny:So oh, so so do you you're in Park City on Friday? Mhmm. What time is your last treatment?
Tyler:It'll be it'll be in the morning.
Danny:Really?
Tyler:Yep. I've already scheduled my my I know when my port's coming out.
Danny:Wow. When does your port come out?
Tyler:The I believe it's seventeenth November. Like right that Monday before Thanksgiving.
Danny:Oh. Yeah. So do you then is it then you you can kinda get back to the normal normalcy Yeah. When your port is out? Yeah.
Tyler:I feel like I will be able to. I mean, I'm hoping that like even going into this last week, I feel a little bit better. The other strange thing that that happened is all of a sudden, the pharmacist has now said, I can go from instead of taking the arsenic over two hours, they can do it in one hour. And I'm like, well, that's eighty hours of my life I want back. Like Yeah.
Tyler:You know.
Danny:So you do it in an hour, you're in hour? Yeah. I mean Is it a lower dose?
Tyler:No. Same dose. Woah. Same dose. And I I can tell I can tell definitely tell the difference.
Danny:It's you could feel like fucking like a like fuel burn like fuel in your body like where is it going?
Tyler:Yeah. It's just like yeah. You just you get done and you just feel, I feel drugged.
Danny:Oh, really?
Tyler:I feel drugged.
Danny:Can you taste it? Like when it goes into the port, do you taste it because it's into your bloodstream or no?
Tyler:No. Not like I would like they have like this the they have these syringes full of saline that they'll they'll use to like clear.
Danny:Funny flush thing in my mind, go ahead.
Tyler:Well, I wanna hear it. I'm like, it's called a flush, but I can taste those. I can taste those and I can smell those. When I had my pick line in, I could hear them.
Danny:That was weird. About the you know, you've heard the thing if you put stuff on your balls, you can taste it. Have you heard this before?
Tyler:I've never heard this.
Danny:I've I've heard that, like, if you, like, put something on your nuts, you'll taste it. I'm gonna try And I wonder if it's true. Like, if I just, like, you know, if you put, like, something like cherries cherries like cherry something that's, like, kinda strong, you know, like Yeah. Yeah. Not don't wanna put jalapenos or peppermint on my balls, but all of sudden, you're like curse.
Danny:Like chopsticks. It. Yeah. But I've heard I've heard this story that you can put it on your balls and you feel you taste it and you taste it. I don't know if it's true or not.
Danny:Just a I'm gonna I'm an urban legend.
Tyler:I'll do some research. I'm I'm feeling I'm feeling kinda dry down there.
Danny:Maybe I need to
Tyler:experiment with some different lotions.
Danny:Yeah. You're like, oh, that's coconut. Yeah. Yeah. Right?
Danny:Yeah. I wonder if that's true. Sorry. I was No.
Tyler:Don't be sorry.
Danny:That's not talking about that. Was like
Tyler:But this is the podcast. Right? It's the man it's the it's the extension of the man show. Right? As long as we ask questions
Danny:Where am I thinking? Where you know, when you were talking, I was
Tyler:like, where am I what am
Danny:I thinking about that I was like, that you could taste things? And I was like, oh, it's on my balls. That was a conversation that I had with somebody at work.
Tyler:That's funny. Speaking of work. Yeah. Yeah. Are you it's still happening for you.
Danny:It is happening for me.
Tyler:But it's not happening for you.
Danny:Bro, so I had made the decision a couple of weeks ago, maybe about a month ago. I was like, I think I'm just gonna retire. Yeah. You know, and I hadn't, like, really said it. Like, I hadn't said it out loud, but I kind of, like I've been really, like, setting the seed in Misty that I was gonna retire.
Danny:Not being paid, still going to work every day kinda helps that along of like Yeah. Yeah. I'm over this shit, man. Is it is
Tyler:it safe to say? Is it safe to clarify for the listeners what you do and and why?
Danny:So, yeah, I am an air traffic controller.
Tyler:Mhmm.
Danny:Everybody know yeah. I'm
Tyler:Most like listeners know. But,
Danny:Most listeners know.
Tyler:Yeah. Sometimes, you know, you pick up that new listener every episode.
Danny:Yeah. I know. I'm an air traffic controller, and I've done it my entire adult life, nineteen years till now. I was 19 years old when I started till now I'm 47. So it's about thirty years.
Danny:Twenty nine years is what I'll finish up with. Yeah.
Tyler:Not your first government shutdown.
Danny:Not my your first government shutdown. Not my second government shutdown. Not third, not fourth. It's a it's a lot. You know?
Danny:Most of the time, there's a CR, which is a continuing resolution, which just means that they can't come to an agreement, but they're at least gonna say, let's fund the government because we people need to get paid, plus you don't want that on your you don't want that on your conscience that people aren't getting paid. Yeah. The first time it happened was with Trump where, you know, I can remember being thirty days, two paychecks, and you're like, man, you know, I mean, I have we have savings, but it's not like, you know, you see that savings go kinda dwindle. Right?
Tyler:Yeah. It
Danny:and what happened was is then they gave you a check of just a straight 80 just to get money into your account. And, oh, we're going to we're gonna get you square in the next couple of paychecks. It doesn't happen. They don't square you away. Mean, there's lots of times that people are losing.
Danny:I mean, it's 2 or $300, which in, you know, intents and purposes is not that much, but it's it's not like they compound it Right. Either. Right? Like, everything if you get a paycheck, like, there's compound to it. Right?
Danny:It compound interest.
Tyler:That's that's the thing that really pisses me off about our government because guaranteed, that 2 or $300, if that were owed to the IRS
Danny:And it would be interesting.
Tyler:You know they'd come fuck up your life
Danny:for it. And they'd be interested.
Tyler:Yeah. And they'd be interested.
Danny:They'd add interest to it. And I always tell people, like, okay, let me so let's say I don't pay my bills. Mhmm. Right? I don't wanna pay my bills.
Danny:Yeah. I don't wanna pay my I don't wanna pay my car payment today. Mhmm. Am I gonna fucking really? Are they gonna let me not go without not paying?
Danny:No. No. You know? So you, you know, you you you can we can float ourselves for a little while. You know, we we we pay our bills and you call your bill collectors and you tell them, hey, I'm part of the government, just so you know, like Yeah.
Danny:Things could get pretty tight around here. You know? Mhmm. Luckily, it's just Misty and I, but there's, like, there's a lot of people in my job that, man, are young and Mhmm. Young young guys, and they're just not prepared for this.
Danny:I I had talked to we so in my job, if you're if you're in the training department Mhmm. It's it's it's so outsourced out to a to a private company. And so in my mind, I was like, oh, what if I just talk to them about, like, working for them part time while my paychecks you know, while my my retirement starts up? And then maybe, like, if if it's like, oh, this is kinda nice to have a little bit of extra money, just work a couple of extra days a week, and then I'm not fully retired and Misty doesn't feel like I'm Yeah. You know, not gonna be bringing any money in.
Danny:So that's kinda what I decided. And then I talked to my union guy because, you know, in in my job, in in our my career field, we bid what they call RDOs, which is your regular days off, which is so you work five days, have two days off. Your RDOs is that two days, which is just your weekend
Tyler:Mhmm.
Danny:Is what it means. Right? But we also bid our annual leave a year in advance. Wow. So we bid our annual leave for next year, but you so you have to, like, know what you're doing.
Danny:Right?
Tyler:Yeah.
Danny:So we're in the middle of negotiations. It's not going very well, and I just was like, I'm done. Yeah. I'm done. You know, I'm done.
Danny:I told my told my union guys, like, look, man, I'm I'm pretty sure I'm gonna retire. And they're like, man, this I mean, they all knew that I could retire, but they were like, here, retire and here, retire. You know? Kind of like, just let them believe that because I didn't want to mess up negotiations. You wanna have as many piece people as possible on the schedule.
Danny:But if I, you know, one person off the schedule, it changes it changes the dynamics of the whole of the whole facility. So my so he knew. You know, I told my best friend who I work with. And then just randomly one, you know, another guy there, I was just in a moment, and I was just needed to tell somebody. Was like, dude, I'm retired.
Danny:And he was like, what? And I was like, yeah. I told you because I know you're not gonna tell anybody, you know. And then they come to terms with negotiations. Misty and I talk a lot.
Danny:We it's back and forth. I have all these emotional drops and all these emotionals like, what the fuck am I doing?
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah.
Danny:What am I doing? Is this the right call? Talked to my my mom, my in laws, my boys. I talked to you. I talked to other people where I was like, look, man.
Danny:Like, I'm gonna do this just to get it out of my chest and get it out of my head. And not one single person said, do you know what you're doing? Like, you should be Yeah. You should think about this. Everybody was like, fuck yeah.
Danny:You should retire. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck yeah. You should.
Danny:Yeah. You know? And then Sunday, you know, they start it's called bidding, but, you know, it goes out of seniority. You bid your days off, and I skipped, which I knew everybody's gonna know at that moment that I was retiring. And my and I got so many calls and so many phone so many text messages of people like, man, congratulations.
Danny:I'm so happy for you. So January 8 is my last official day of air traffic control. Damn. Last day. So that's 30 no.
Danny:Sixty I have sixty five days left of work. Yeah. Sixty sixty six days of work.
Tyler:Yeah. Of which, if the government never starts back up
Danny:I'm working.
Tyler:You're working here on
Danny:this. But I'm not getting paid. Yeah. So right now, yeah, we're not getting paid, which just means, you know, you see zeros in your pink you see a checking account. You see your check, and it has zeros.
Tyler:Yeah. That's
Danny:All the way across the board, we did some they did some leafletting today at the airport just to kinda get our names out there that, hey, this is happening.
Tyler:You know, why don't I mean, why hasn't there been a bid to privatize
Danny:There is.
Tyler:There is.
Danny:Every year. Every year. Every year. Usually, it just is it would be so hard to transfer
Tyler:Right.
Danny:All of the, I mean, everything. Like, a company would have to have a lot of money and a and a very deep pockets.
Tyler:Yeah.
Danny:And I don't know if they want that kind of, like, man, if if things don't go the way that you know, it's not like the airlines get charred the they get blamed. No. You know, we're right now, we have frequencies. You know, we talk to airplanes on frequencies, and there's so many going out. And it's the government.
Danny:Right? People are gonna be like, oh, it's the government. That's the government. You know? But if it's a company and, you know, you're traded and all that stuff and people start being like, man, Delta, you didn't get me to my flights on time.
Danny:I'm going to go with Yeah. American Airlines. But Delta is the only one that can be the air carrier. There's just so many dynamics, so it just never has come to fruition. I've often thought privatization would be a better Yeah.
Danny:A better suit for air traffic control. Just because you could have a little bit more ability to check and balance. Yeah. Because there's no checks and balances.
Tyler:Which is which is wild because that's, you know, kind of the whole reason the government was set up was to protect the interest of
Danny:No checks.
Tyler:The people.
Danny:Yeah.
Tyler:And I did I watched the whole the do you ever watch John Oliver? No. He mean, there's not a whole lot of reasons to watch him. I think his news is
Danny:Was that the one you told me about the air traffic controller?
Tyler:Yeah. The air traffic controller guys. I mean, that I mean, it paints a it paints a picture of a not like the best working environment.
Danny:Yeah. There are facilities that are probably not that good. Yeah. There's some facilities, man, that are like the facility itself is like forty, fifty, 60 years old.
Tyler:Oh, wow.
Danny:So you're talking about asbestos? Oh, wow. You You have asbestos in the state of the state of, like, these other things like archaic.
Tyler:Nobody wants to go to those cities anyway.
Danny:No. No. I mean, like, if you go if you if you work in Oakland at an FAA facility, you are driving to Oakland, and it is, like, gated, high gated, and you do not stop at the stoplights that are prior around those facilities because it's super crime ridden. Super crime ridden, I've heard. Then there's another there's facilities like that all over the place.
Danny:Yeah. Where you're like, you're probably not safe. You're probably safe inside the building, but as soon as you leave, you're probably gotta be pretty careful.
Tyler:Yeah. I I remember the first time I landed in Detroit before Detroit rebuilt their airport.
Danny:Oh, yeah.
Tyler:And I was like, there were people sleeping in the freaking bathrooms. Yeah. There were homeless people sleeping in the bathrooms and it smelled like, you know, nobody was taking care of it. And I get it. I mean, I have a small slice into that working for Park City.
Tyler:Right? Like I have you see kind of the bureaucracy of the government on a small level, right, working with a local government. I can only imagine that kind of pain is compounded. Yeah.
Danny:Where where my facility itself, the people that I work with are great. And I've told people this, like, Friday, I was super emotional. Yeah. I had I had committed. Missy and I talked.
Danny:She was cool about it, and I told everybody, and I was like, I'm retiring. And then I got really emotional. Like, really emotional because I was like, man Mhmm. I'm gonna just not see my friends every day. My my my social my social circle at work is so cool.
Danny:Such fun group of people that I work around, and we've been working together for, like, 10 same people, you know. Yeah. One of my best friends that I've known since I was 13 years old, we worked together. Wow. We see each other every day.
Danny:Not that we wouldn't see each other anyway. I mean, we're pretty related. But the same time, it's like, man, I'm not gonna be seeing those guys every day. You
Tyler:know? Yeah.
Danny:And then you wonder, what am I gonna miss? What's gonna happen? Holy crap. Life can life can change overnight. Right?
Danny:I mean, one of our friends just Friday called me and said that he was on his way to a heart surgery because he had full blockage, and he literally could have fell down and died at any moment. Any moment. Any moment. And it's like, woah. Like, that brings life into perspective.
Danny:Right? Because the one commodity we always talk about that you don't have is time. Yeah. It's not like you can make more time.
Tyler:Right.
Danny:You can't create more time. You can't get more time. You can, you know, lighten up your day to get more time, but you'll probably fill it with a bunch of more stuff, a much more bullshit. Right? Right.
Danny:Right. Time is the one thing that you're just not guaranteed to have. Yeah. And so that played a lot into my decision to just, you know, go and see what happens. Yeah.
Danny:So I'm gonna work part time. I'm going to for the most of the month of February, part of part of the month of February, I'll be in Mexico for, you know, sixteen, seventeen days, which will be nice. You know, all praying that we get paid. That will
Tyler:Yeah.
Danny:Yeah. Yeah. That will help. And then see what happens. You know?
Danny:I'm gonna really see what happens. That's awesome. I'm
Tyler:excited for you.
Danny:Thank you.
Tyler:I'd be I'd be so stoked, right, to be in your position. I mean, I think you've you've done a lot of good work. We've you know, obviously, I've got the opportunity to see and meet Jeremy and, know, people rave about about what you what you do and Yeah. I can imagine, like, what a huge shift especially in the context of like manhood, right? Like Yeah.
Tyler:It's so so often we tie our worth to what we do Agreed. And how we make money.
Danny:I was talking to a guy who's part of our men's group and he he was an air traffic controller and, you know, he he he was taking this role of, like, big brother and kind of, like, giving me he's like, don't wanna discourage you. He's like, but, you know, you're going to forget within a couple weeks that you were an air travel controller. Yeah. And I I I listened to him, but I also told him, I was like, well, I honestly don't identify myself as an air traffic controller. But I work with a ton of guys who the first thing that they'll tell you is that they're an air traffic controller.
Danny:They'll give you their life story about air traffic control because like you said, they they identify that that's such a big part of their life. I personally don't just because there's so many other things that I do. Right?
Tyler:Right.
Danny:I'd rather be be like, oh, he's a good good dude. He's a dude. Yeah. Yeah. He he does a lot for his community.
Danny:He works with children. He's, you know, he does a lot of things. That's what I'd per personally be, you know Yeah. Proud to know be known for. But he was like, you know, he was he was saying that he struggled because he didn't have that social that social thing that you're used to for twenty nine years
Tyler:of your life.
Danny:Right? Going and having coffee with your friends at sitting on position and you're talking about your life. And, I mean, I spend ten day ten hours, five, six days a week. Yeah. That adds up after a while.
Danny:I don't spend that much time with Misty.
Tyler:There is they're as much your family as, you know,
Danny:as For sure.
Tyler:Tripping Misty, for sure. For sure.
Danny:And it goes back to, you know, what what what, like, some of, like, some people like Corey Bryan, when you talk to him, he's like, you need to do stuff like this that scares the shit out of you.
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah.
Danny:That puts your puts your senses, your spider senses of, like, I'm not gonna fail either. Yeah. Yeah. My my bank account may take a spike or something, you know? Yeah.
Danny:I'm not gonna fail. I'm not gonna go back with my tail between my legs and be like, please hire me back. No. I'm gonna do whatever I can to make this work. Yeah.
Danny:Right? And I think it's something that men should do is Yeah. Put yourself in a position where you're like, I'm gonna I'm gonna survive and I'm gonna thrive and I'm not going to fall fail or fall. And and it won't last if I do.
Tyler:Yeah. Because that that's like that's I think that's the case of the the performant like, you heard of like the performance male? The performative male? Mhmm. Like the the the the man that's a feminist.
Danny:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Tyler:And and like it's like it's all just a performance. Right. I don't know. I mean, I think you're absolutely right. That's probably comes from it probably stems from not challenging ourselves.
Tyler:Yeah. Not not disassociating from that fear.
Danny:Well, how many times do you get you're so comfortable that you're like, I'm not changing this. Right? I mean, guys have known to wear the same underwear for years.
Tyler:Right?
Danny:Right? I mean, falls apart. I have pants and I've had shoes since, like, twenty, thirty years because I'm like, man, this shit is comfortable. Yeah. Yeah.
Danny:So you do get comfortable and we don't put ourselves out there. Now, you and I have this amazing we talk about all the time, jujitsu that challenges you to to be a better person and to not, settle because you'll get crushed, you know, by people. And it it does surround our network of men now or all these walks of life who encourage you to be better to be a better man. Yeah. Right?
Danny:But I think sometimes, like, you get so comfortable that even maybe your spouse or your significant other is like Yeah. Oh, yeah. You're boring. Yeah. You know?
Danny:Yep. And then you're like, yeah, but look at how comfortable our life is. Yeah. Like, yeah, there's no excitement and you're like, oh,
Tyler:yeah. Yeah. You know? Yeah. You forget about that part.
Danny:Yeah. Yeah. Forget about it and and then maybe don't have the wherewithal or the gumption to Yeah. Change it. Because you're like
Tyler:go ahead.
Danny:What if you what if it what if it what if everything changes?
Tyler:Yeah. I mean, I think that's the fear. Right? Like our brains well, I think we're change adverse. We we prefer comfort.
Tyler:Right? We prefer to to not like, our our prefer our brain prefers predictability. Sure. Right? So I think that's I think that's reasonable to say like, oh, you know, that that change is hard.
Tyler:We don't do change well on our own.
Danny:Yeah. Why? Why? I wonder why, like, especially like our generation is probably the last generation of guys that, you know, would be willing to go to war Right. For things.
Danny:Right? Yeah. I mean, like, my dad, they seen war. Yeah. His dad, they seen war.
Danny:Yeah. You know, it's part of their life. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Danny:You know, go okay. Time to go fight.
Tyler:Do you know Colonel Hackworth? Uh-uh. He was super famous. I mean, served in World War two, served in Korea, served in Vietnam, then kind of becomes a reporter. But he like, he changes in the nineties, he kind of he starts tearing apart the military.
Tyler:He's like, why are we doing this? Like, have we not learned anything from our failures?
Danny:Yeah.
Tyler:He's he's actually really he has teaches some really interesting lessons on leadership and he he talks directly about this. We're not you know, because he's talking at a time when Bill Clinton's president, they're the Gulf War is about to start. He's like, we're not he's like, he was from the inside he goes, we're we're hiring all of these new positions and we're specifically making them women friendly. Meanwhile, we have all these people that are not combat certified. They have asthma.
Tyler:They have bad knees or bad eyesight. They can't go to combat. They're combat ineffective. You know, why are we holding on to this? Why are we holding on to this fat and and creating new positions through this new, you know, nuclear submarine that has very little utility when our last few wars have been on the ground human to human contacts.
Tyler:Right. And is coming from the, you know, nineties perspective. Right. I I wonder what he would he he passed I think in 2005 just after we got into Iraq the second time because he was not satisfied with what we did
Danny:Yeah.
Tyler:The first time driving Saddam out. He thought it was silly we didn't go after him and finish it. But I'd be interested to know kind of what his take is on military preparedness now. He calls them No.
Danny:I can assure you it's not there. Yeah. I can assure you we're that we are not prepared for war. Yeah. Truth be told though, like I tell people all the time, we're in war.
Tyler:Right.
Danny:We are in a sort of a civil war. We're just we just do it. We talked about this last time. Yeah. Yeah.
Danny:We do it on the Internet. We do it amongst we do it fighting, like, bickering when you're watching the news and you're like, oh, that's bullshit. You're screaming at Right? About something that you that is on the news, so it's probably 95% embellished
Tyler:Yeah. Bullshit. Yeah. Right? Manufactured to sell more ratings Yeah.
Tyler:Tied or whatever whoever the sponsor is for that hour.
Danny:How often on your feed do you see something that you're like, I agree with that? Most of time you see on your feed, you're like, fuck. I don't agree with that at all. Yeah. I don't know how I'll be sitting at home and I'll be thinking of something, pull up the Internet, and it's right there what I was thinking of.
Danny:And I'm like, oh, damn. Fuck. Bro, it's like they got a chip inside of me. Yeah. But I can assure you, we are not ready for war.
Danny:We're not none of our boys are ready for war. Yeah. You know? You know, I was listening to a podcast yesterday where it was talking about, like, he was a he was a hitman or no. Yeah.
Danny:Hitman for the Gambino crime family.
Tyler:Oh, jeez.
Danny:And he was like, from the time I was three years old, my dad told me that I was gonna go fight, that that that my job was to fight. My job was to make my job was to fight. I was supposed to fight. And I had this in my mind, like, okay. Time to fight.
Danny:And he's like, you know, when you're a kid, 12, 13 years old, you're you're at the little League baseball field with this baseball bat, and you don't realize that six months later, you're gonna be using that baseball bat on a human skull, and you're like, woah. Yeah. But he's like, I was able to compartmentalize that that was my job. This is what I'm supposed to do. My dad told me that that's what I was put on this Earth to do.
Tyler:Right? Yeah.
Danny:And I think, like, my grandpa and my dad and those guys that were like, this is part of your life. You're supposed to go fight. Yeah. You gotta go fight. You're supposed to defend your country.
Danny:You're supposed to defend the honor of the country. Right? And now you don't have that where people wanna defend the honor. Right. It's not like you're gonna defend your the honor of the country because you may not believe in the the diatribes or the the the the shit that they sell you.
Danny:Right?
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah.
Danny:I don't know. I I mean, in my mind, it's like, yeah, that's not
Tyler:Or you you take such a a political stance against somebody that, you know, for whatever reason. Right? Yeah. There's a million reasons not to to like president Trump. Yeah.
Tyler:You know, name pick one.
Danny:Pick one.
Tyler:Right? And then, you know, then to join our military and and say or not to join our military or just make that the decision why you don't, you know, join the military. You know, it's it's unfortunate. Right? Because because those those that take up the call, you know, they they what's the saying?
Tyler:They they they actually are there to defend.
Danny:Call to arms, call of duty. Yeah.
Tyler:To to to both both foreign and domestic. Right?
Danny:Right. I tell people all the time. Yeah. I tell my boys all the time, like, yeah. When you when you sign that you know, in in our household, you may not agree with what the president, whoever that is Mhmm.
Danny:Is is doing, sane Yeah. Beliefs. You may not believe it. Right? But in my in our household, we pre we practice and we preach that you will respect him Yep.
Danny:Because he's the commander in chief. Yep. Right? You don't have to you don't have to agree with him, but you will respect him, and you won't take a negative tone Right. About it.
Danny:Right? Because one, I served in the military, my dad, my grandpa
Tyler:Mhmm.
Danny:My son serves in the military, and he is doesn't get a choice.
Tyler:He
Danny:protects whoever the commander in chief tell him to go Right. Protect. Right? And you may not agree with it, but you protect them. Yeah.
Danny:Right? And not every household has that same belief. Yeah. I can't tell you how many times I get mad when I see somebody with the, you know, the American flag on the back of their pickup truck or hanging off the back of their pickup truck. I don't care that you have it there.
Danny:It's just not supposed to be worn or tethered. It's not supposed to look worn or tethered. If it's worn or tethered, you're supposed to replace it. Replace it. So you don't purposely put it on the truck and then have it, like, hang in the rain or hang, like, the the the there's a you know, the way the flag is supposed to be.
Danny:It's supposed to be the highest point. Right? The American flag is supposed to be the highest point. And so you put it on your truck or you put it like I've seen people, like, put it on their like, hanging off the back of their truck and dragging
Tyler:on the ground. And I'm like, that
Danny:to me is the same thing as you burning it. Yeah. Right? And a lot of times, it's these people with the same with the Trump flag next to it, and
Tyler:it's like,
Danny:in my eyes, you're saying that the Trump flag and the American flag are equal. Yeah. Right? And that's not the case. Mm-mm.
Danny:And I don't know if they and and then I thought I think to myself, well, that's because your dad never told you that. Your dad never corrected you and been like, that's bullshit. And then take that shit down and Yeah. You know, that's not the way you do that with the with something that was cherished so much.
Tyler:Yeah. I yeah. It's so it's sad to kind of see the loss of nationalistic bonds. Right? Like we we used to have so much pride in, you know, coming from like even, you know, even when I would come out here and visit my cousins in Utah from Colorado, I had so much pride.
Tyler:Yeah. Oh, I'm from Colorado. I'm not from Utah. Right? Know what mean?
Danny:Yeah. Yeah.
Tyler:Yeah. You have that those little bit of nationalistic bonds. Now that I'm here, I'm like, yeah, I'm I'm from Utah. Sure. You know what I mean?
Tyler:Like, I we we just don't have those those nationalistic bonds anymore. Yeah.
Danny:And I think sometimes we're not taught these these lessons in school because people get nervous about what they're teaching or you may have somebody who gets offended by what you're teaching.
Tyler:You know?
Danny:Yeah. I mean, when we were kids, we said the pledge of allegiance. And we said and we said one under God, indivisible. Right? We said that.
Danny:Yeah. I remember every day saying the pledge of allegiance every day.
Tyler:I remember it was probably about high school when they stopped doing it for me. Yeah. You know what I mean? And that that's yeah. I mean, it was a subtle it was a subtle kind of like rinse out of of church and or not church, excuse me, education and state.
Danny:Yeah. We yeah. I don't think that even like little kids anymore probably don't say the pledge of allegiance. Right?
Tyler:I'd be I'd be interested to come to your class on Thursday and ask them. Which which of the kids in your class on Thursday know.
Danny:I wonder if they know.
Tyler:The pledge of allegiance.
Danny:Oh, and and, you know, in Park City, it's sometimes super progressive with things. Right? And they probably, like, could be like, hey, we don't we don't we don't wanna talk about that. Be careful. You know?
Danny:And it's like, no. I don't practice that shit. Yeah. You know?
Tyler:You're in the wrong academy. Gracie Barra's over there.
Danny:Yeah. I say the pledge of allegiance. Yeah. I I I know. You know, in wrestling, we say the you know, if somebody's there not to sing, then we say the pledge of allegiance.
Danny:We say it to the flag. Sometimes people don't even know to look at the flag or if there's no flag, they don't know which way to look. Oh, yeah. But it's it's it's fine. One time I was at a at a a wrestling tournament, and there was no flag, but there was a little tiny flag poster.
Danny:It was, like, up in, like, one of the little corners, and everybody's like, what are we looking? I was like, oh, there's a flag right there. And so I was like, oh, let's just all look at that flag there. And then you should've seen everybody, like, looking, they're like, where is it? I was like, oh, it's right there.
Danny:Like, oh. And everybody's like pointed. But like like sheep, eventually people start to Yeah. Look. Taking your hat off when the national anthem Yep.
Danny:Yep. Sung. I don't know how many times I've said, hey, hey, hey, your hat off to somebody and
Tyler:Mhmm.
Danny:It's like, how do you not know that?
Tyler:Yeah. I mean, that's a big deal for us in lacrosse too. When you take your helmets off, you take your hats off.
Danny:Take your hats off.
Tyler:Yeah. We always do the pledge of allegiance. We were doing land acknowledgment ceremonies for a while.
Danny:What's that?
Tyler:Well, so lacrosse in and of itself was a native game.
Danny:It was
Tyler:invented by the indigenous people of Americas
Danny:Yeah. Indians.
Tyler:In in in Canada. Yeah. Yeah. It was the the Catholic the French Catholic priests kinda came in and organized it into a to a sport. Oh.
Tyler:And so, like reaching back out to like the Iroquois tribes and out of respect to them, we started doing land acknowledgment.
Danny:So what would you do?
Tyler:They typically would bring in somebody from one of the local tribes and just acknowledge that, you know, this is where the land came from.
Danny:That's badass.
Tyler:Yeah. It it it's it's cool in some concepts. It's in others, like, you kinda have to question like, well, you know, did was this land taken from them or Yeah. Like
Danny:I could see that.
Tyler:Was it like just poorly defended? Yeah. You know? And I mean, I I have a tender spot in my heart for, you know, Native Americans. I got the you know, what I got from my mission was the opportunity to serve amongst native tribes
Danny:and Yeah.
Tyler:Yeah. I I certainly understand how Manifest Destiny, you know, kinda screwed them over especially as we
Danny:For sure.
Tyler:We've reviewed some of the books and literature that we've reviewed and had some of the conversations. I I attached to that kind of connection between nature and spirit.
Danny:Okay.
Tyler:And so for me, that's like, I I find some some some peace there.
Danny:So Yeah.
Tyler:But I know for a lot of people that it's like, oh, come on, we're doing this, like
Danny:I know. I don't like that when, you know, you because you can see when people are like, roll their eyes and you're like Yeah. I can Yeah. Help you with those eyes.
Tyler:Yeah. Right. Right. Speaking of eyes, did you watch any of the fights this last weekend? Did you see I the
Danny:watched so no. You know what happened is, was going through my you know, I was going through everything with with retirement, and then we needed to get my yard done on Saturday. So we spent Misty ran Misty and my sister and Abby ran the Halloween five k down in Oh, yeah. Orem. And then I got home and me and Tripp got down on my yard.
Danny:And at that time, I was planning to watch the fights at night. Yeah. And I got a text message that said, hey, you know, the fights are on right now? And I was like, I did not know the fights are on right now.
Tyler:And
Danny:I'm so busy, I can't get to the fights. Right? And then I seen then Tripp texted me and said, the fight's already over. Freaking dis or a a disqualification or whatever they call it. No contest or some shit like that.
Danny:Yeah. And I was looked at the pictures, and I was like, dude, that dude's fingers are at least two and a half pads in his eyes.
Tyler:Yeah. You got a you got a solid full knuckle full knuckle in there.
Danny:Could you imagine? I've been poked in the eyes so bad one time that I was like, I I thought for sure Yeah. That I was I was blind. Yeah. It hurts so bad.
Tyler:It's it's it's not great.
Danny:And the UFC fingers I mean, like, there there's so many other glove options that make your hands curved so that you can make a fist, but they don't open and do this. That's the problem is people have Yeah. Much They've and and there's a lot of people that say that Cyrille Gagne is one of those guys where to keep distance, he opens his hands as a distance maker. But, I mean, imagine coming at me full force, my fingers are going.
Tyler:What's a little bit different to be like this than to be like we're taught when we do self defense, our hands are up Hands
Danny:are up.
Tyler:Kind of fingers.
Danny:Well, and these guys are reaching Yeah. To to to gauge distance, to to manage distance, but their fingers are going like that. And there's a lot of times people have have used it to their advantage of Yeah. I always put my hand like that.
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Danny:Yeah. Then
Tyler:you I watched them Stooges.
Danny:Yeah. You can't get your fingers in there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Danny:Yeah. Yeah. That was a nasty I think that there's some people that are just cheaters. Yeah. I don't think Sergio Gagne is I don't think he's a purposeful cheater, but I think he is like
Tyler:An opportunist? An opportunist.
Danny:Because at one some point you go, just close your fist, buddy. Yeah. Yeah. No more no more this. Make your hands go like
Tyler:that. You think different gloves are the way to go in
Danny:this scene? Different gloves are the ways to go. There's the the guy that's he was Donald Cerrone's coach, I think, is who it is out of that fight camp. But he has the gloves that cover your hands, and they make your hands do this, and you can't open them. And you it instantly is able to make a fist.
Danny:Yeah. I think so.
Tyler:Would that impact, do you think, the grappling side of of no. I don't think so. I'm kind thinking of situations that I
Danny:still grab. I guess this is not attached, so you're able to grab. It's like this, so you're able to grab. It's just a padding over your fingers so that you can't do this. It's it makes you do this.
Danny:It makes your fingers do that, so you're still able to grab. I don't think so. Man, the UFC is going away from grappling anyways. They don't want you to grapple. They want you to punch.
Danny:Wow. Yeah. Freaking suckers.
Tyler:Yeah. Mean Grapplers. It's not mixed martial arts anymore.
Danny:Yeah.
Tyler:It's Muay Thai and boxing.
Danny:Yeah. Who's the most unbelievable striker? Yeah. Because that's what sells. Right?
Tyler:Well, yeah. That's yeah. That's and that's what all the bonuses are for.
Danny:Yeah. I'm there to watch another person dominate another person. Yeah. I had a funny funny thing today. I heard that during one of the day classes, somebody asked, professor, how do I stop Danny from smother tapping me with his beard?
Danny:And Mike said Mike said, well, you know, at that moment, you're in prison. And he says, in prison, sometimes you just can't stop what's gonna happen to you.
Tyler:I would've paid money to be there for that.
Danny:I would've too. They told me that story and I laughed because I I know who it is. And I do it all the time because I know he hates it. You know? And I'm like, probably half the size of this person.
Danny:Yeah. But they can't stop it from happening.
Tyler:That's true.
Danny:I was telling Corey Bryan, he's like, Danny, you need Jesus in your life. He goes, I don't know how you get so happy about that. Was like, dude, it's so funny. That is hilarious. Yeah.
Danny:What's what's so let's so let's so now we're gonna we're going to wrap up this chemo.
Tyler:Wrap up the treatment. Will it
Danny:will will it have been under a year?
Tyler:Yeah. March March what is it? March 11 through November 7
Danny:Okay.
Tyler:Would be will be my full treatment time, then I'll do blood tests monthly. Wow. I don't know why monthly.
Danny:We're wrapping this up and then you're you gotta man, you've gotta hit the fucking ground running because I do. What what weight do you plan to fight at?
Tyler:I'd like to be a one eighty five. Yeah. I will be having no Christmas dinner. I'll be having no Thanksgiving dinner unless it comes
Danny:to You're wrestlers.
Tyler:A lean cuisine
Danny:You're like wrestlers.
Tyler:Yeah. Honestly, no. This is something that needs to happen for me. I I think I was a little bit aggressive in my goal to cut, but I think I don't think it's impossible.
Danny:Right.
Tyler:Four months to cut, you know, close to 25 pounds. The biggest thing is, can I get my cardio back? That's where we're gonna get science involved. I'm working with the Wow clinic to do some hyperbaric oxygen stuff.
Danny:Oh, cool.
Tyler:So that's, you know, hyperbaric, like, basically it's not blood doping, but it's like introducing more oxygen.
Danny:It's wild. It's a new I was talking to my friend Sam, who is gonna go to Bali to do some hyperbaric. Yeah. Some hyperbaric stuff. It's a little bit cheaper in Bali for some of that really, really, really deep hyperbaric
Tyler:Oh, I'm sure.
Danny:Stuff that you can yeah. Just get your blood. It doubles your blood oxygen stuff.
Tyler:Yep.
Danny:And then when you come out, now your body's like, oh, I need to, like, send all of my senses there. So now it, like, triples and doubles and Yeah. Makes it more and more and more. Yeah. I don't have enough information on it to be super I
Tyler:I don't either. It's one of the things
Danny:yeah. Doctors
Tyler:I know it's one of the things that doctors have recommended that
Danny:Concussion? Yep. What is it when people get the brain injuries?
Tyler:Yeah. TBI, traumatic brain injury. CTE. CTE is definitely
Danny:That's like the the NFL players. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Did you say that NFL player broke break his ankle?
Tyler:Yes. I
Danny:heard he's gonna play tomorrow or Saturday.
Tyler:I'd be
Danny:I've seen those videos.
Tyler:Have you
Danny:seen those videos of him? Well, I'm gonna make it. He's in a wheelchair and he's got his eyes all crooked and he's like, I'm gonna come out there because he's like kind of a knucklehead anyways. Yeah. Man.
Danny:That's a bad break.
Tyler:I don't know why we're still like I don't know. With this don't know. I love watching football. My Broncos are doing great. I love seeing them succeed.
Tyler:It's just just such a high impact injury sport. Bro. And they're devastating injuries. Like if he does dude makes it back from that injury
Danny:He'll be lucky.
Tyler:I mean,
Danny:he's gonna
Tyler:spend he's gonna spend excuse me. He's probably gonna spend a third of his paycheck while he's not playing
Danny:Trying to get better.
Tyler:Trying to get better so we can get back to playing. Right? Like that's an investment worth making. Yeah.
Danny:Do you think he's insured?
Tyler:He's gotta be insured. Right?
Danny:Body parts have to be insured.
Tyler:I would imagine at some at some level. Right? I don't know. I don't know how that all works. Insure themselves.
Danny:Yeah. But they do. But there's some sort of insurance Yeah. Where you insure yourself and because he was a kind of a wild man. Yeah.
Danny:He'd get zero shit about his body. Yeah. He tried to have his friends help him up. And they're like, woah woah woah, stay down, buddy.
Tyler:It's yeah. Your foot's the wrong way.
Danny:Your foot doesn't go that way. And it's dangling.
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah. I don't I don't do well with that kind of stuff. Get all queasy.
Danny:Yeah. So I'm proud of you. I'm proud that you're gonna be done with this thing.
Tyler:Oh, I mean, big big things for both of us right now. You you you working your way out of work and and, you know, I'm working my way out of out of the hospital. Yeah. There's only one reason I'll miss going back to the hospital. You know, there's a cool group of people that I've I've met.
Danny:Yeah. Do you see yourself going back there and volunteering and helping? Like, give yourself a little bit of a break from it.
Tyler:No. I I mean, the what I don't know. What would I do? I would just be in the way. The the lady that I talked to the social worker that I talked to was also recovering from cancer, she was really pushing hard for me to come down and do her her group.
Tyler:Oh. Her group and I'm
Danny:Her cancer group?
Tyler:Yep. I'm like, I'm in two already, like, I think I'm grouped out.
Danny:Times the one commodity I don't have. Yeah. Are you and and what about your job? Are you solid in it? Safe in it?
Danny:Yeah. Feel safe?
Tyler:I I mean, for now, we'll see. It's business. Right? If the government's not spending, it's generally an indicator that, you know, I mean, we have we have big government contracts. Yep.
Tyler:So
Danny:Riley did so good today. She did. Riley. Hello, girl. Hello, girl.
Tyler:She did.
Danny:She did awesome.
Tyler:Pretty dog.
Danny:Yep. She did good today. Yeah. She was just down here hanging out, chilling. She was napping the whole time.
Danny:Cool, man. Well
Tyler:Yeah. Thank you. Appreciate you.
Danny:Appreciate you. Yeah. Fun. What else? You got a pig roast coming up.
Danny:We're gonna do that. That's gonna be fun. We're gonna celebrate.
Tyler:Next is next Saturday?
Danny:Friday. So Friday, when you get done, we'll just be up all night long Yeah. Hanging out and celebrating for your your recovery, unless you have plans already, unless you I
Tyler:don't have any plan. My kids my kids will be back. I'm thinking about pulling them out of school for the day to For the day. Come come hang out with me.
Danny:Saturday is the pig roast. Thanksgiving? Yeah. Coming up. Holidays are coming up.
Tyler:Holidays. Just gonna buckle down and wait for the weather.
Danny:Winter. Yeah. It's already cold. It's already cold. It's cold, dude.
Danny:It's cold right now. It was 22 when I left to work today.
Tyler:I don't think we're gonna get the snow either that we I don't know. That's and that's the worst part for me. Right? Like, I can deal with this the cold if we've got snow or something. If it's just cold for cold sake, like, that just feels like miserable.
Danny:Yeah. I don't like the cold. Anyways. Cool, man. Appreciate you.
Danny:Appreciate you.
Tyler:Yeah. Cheers, everybody.
Danny:Cheers, everybody. Why stop and turn him back?
