We Didn’t Predict Any of This
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Tyler:Here we go.
Danny:Episode 60. Episode 60.
Tyler:Wow. We've been doing this. This is a man, kind of a weird a weird year. Right?
Danny:I mean, every time I definitely wouldn't have predicted it.
Tyler:Every time we talk, we're like, here we're back again.
Danny:Yeah. Holy shit.
Tyler:It's been a couple of weeks. This kind of this one was kind of my fault because plans to get to get together and and then I got sick. It's been two years, Tyler, like two years since I've had any any form of an illness. And I'm usually pretty good about cutting things off, putting my medicine in, getting going. Yeah.
Tyler:No. No. Dude, I was like, wow, this is a bad one. I still have a lingering, like, it's weird. I'll wake up like yesterday morning woke up, felt pretty good.
Tyler:Yeah. This morning woke up and I was like,
Danny:God, so horrible. You got the pain in your ear too. Right?
Tyler:Oh, dude.
Danny:That was weird.
Tyler:What year was yours?
Danny:So mine was this year. Same. When they gave me the flu shot, it was this year hurt, but then like a few I must have gotten like some sort of tag along flu because I got the flu shot during treatment mid November, early November.
Tyler:Okay.
Danny:And then coming out of it being done with treatment, caught something, you know, just boogery and this ear started to hurt.
Tyler:I've never had any ear pain. Yeah. It was weird. It was So I was like, I went to I went to work out with a kid in wrestling. And I was just like, man, I don't feel so good, you know?
Tyler:And then I went home and took a bath like I normally do. Yeah. Lay down. Everything good?
Danny:Yeah. Yeah.
Tyler:Laid down. And as I was laying down, was like, oh, my fucking ear is killing me. And it hurt, dude. It it hurt. And then I was like in panic mode of like, oh, what is this?
Tyler:And then, I mean, I have a a set thing that I do. I throw some stuff up my nose. I start, like, attacking it right away with vitamin C, with, like, natural Supplements. Remedies. Right?
Tyler:Get after it. Yeah. But what I also do is I go to a local health and wellness here in Heber. Doctor. Dumar.
Tyler:Shout out, Doctor. Dumar, man. Him and his wife get me right in. But they stick these two q tips that are probably about six inches and they rape my sinuses. They stick them in
Danny:They rape
Tyler:or rake? Rape. Yeah. That
Danny:sounds They
Tyler:stick like these things up and it is I'm like, oh my god, man. I'm gonna cry, dude. I'm gonna cry. And it feels like it's in your it feels like it's in your brain. Yeah.
Tyler:And then you lay on your back for five minutes, but it has all these oils and it has this, like, silver and this other stuff on it. And they stick it up there and then you lay over. So you let it, like, you let it get after it. Then you turn over and you let all that gunk and you're supposed to, like, just kind of breathe through your nose and and and just blow all the snot rockets and all the garbage and
Danny:It's got to feel just incredible, though. Like
Tyler:Dude, it is insane. When you get it all out, like And it like twice now, twice now, I believe, has shortened
Danny:the duration.
Tyler:The duration. It's I still feel kind of garbage y. But then and then what you do is then you just saline almost like neti pot. Yeah. Every day.
Tyler:And if you miss a day, you know.
Danny:Have you ever had any like sinus, like a septum repaired or anything like that?
Tyler:No. Is it? Oh, you I've
Danny:had it done a couple of times and what you're describing a lot of the same kind of like, oh, the relief, like after I had my septum done last time they put in splints to kind of hold the shape of your your, you know, your nasal canal here. And when they pull those things out, it's just like, you did just the relief. It's like
Tyler:I believe that it it helps. I believe like in that kind of stuff. Yeah. You know, I'm not a big I don't take a lot of medicine. Sure.
Tyler:Here's the thing, Tyler, like Missy was leaving to North Carolina and and and neither of us like it's like, man, if I get it, whatever, man, I'm not I'm not sleeping downstairs. I'm sleeping in my bed. I'm I'm going to drool on over you and sweat all over you. But I was terrified that she was gonna get it before she went to North Carolina. Could you imagine a sinus thing or something crazy going up and flying?
Tyler:No. You know, knock on wood, knock on life. She she she hit the vitamin C hard, the airborne hard, the oregano hard, the trust everything, you know, saline, everything and silver and she flew out there and she's been out there the last couple of And, you know, hopefully that's the last battle.
Danny:Dude, have her started on the way back too, man. Those airplanes are like cesspools.
Tyler:They are cesspools.
Danny:God. That recirculating air, man.
Tyler:I I know. We just got done with training tonight. What a fun night.
Danny:Dude, it was there was some solid rounds.
Tyler:It was
Danny:solid, like
Tyler:I turned that heat up to 80. I could yeah. It was it was hot. It was hot.
Danny:Man, that first Pacifico hit and it was just like, oh. Hot. I haven't I mean, I haven't really had one. It's been so I've just I just do it so sparingly. Then it's just like, tonight it hits super.
Tyler:It was cool because like Gator and Eric were there. They were rolling our our normal, you know, like, you know, like there's this like solid foundation crew of guys. Yeah. And that's who was there. And then some others, like some some sprinkles of like other things.
Tyler:Yeah. But it was fun. Mike Grand Prix drove up from Lehigh. That's always fun. But it was cool because you start or you end the year the way you want to, hopefully starting your next year, your next adventure on a good note.
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah. Jiu Jitsu is so important to my health and my I went almost eight days without training and I was like going crazy in my head, you know.
Danny:Noticed like getting back into it, trying to get my body back into it as I prepare for this tournament and just trying to find my body after this just whack ass year of health issues that how much I've missed it, where my body is, you know, saying, okay, this is your limit. And then the quality of guys that you left in the gym that were below you that have like, they've spent this last eight months really getting better. And I'm not like, I'm
Tyler:There is comparison. There always is.
Danny:Oh, yeah, of course. Right? Like, you want them you know, want to know your pacing, but I'm I'm also stoked to see these guys are sticking through it. And this now this person is becoming, okay, this is a challenge. This is somebody I want to be like, this is somebody I want to, you know, match.
Danny:This is I need to get back up here because I know when I left, was better than this person, you know, in some aspects of my game and they've exploded and, you know, I'm always really excited to see, you know, that kind of stuff.
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah. It's funny when you walk your journeys together and you notice those kinds of things and you're you're in that growth. As long as you stay in a growth mindset, you never like, you know, you never like get there's always a tinge of jealousy sometimes for me, you know, like a little bit of like, oh, for sure. Gosh, like
Danny:For sure.
Tyler:How did that person Yeah. How did that, you know, how did that person, you know, how did he become a kryptonite for me? Right. I mean, like, there's not very many people that, like, I I'm like, holy moly, like, I could look across around and be like, Nick, go, my God. Yeah.
Tyler:You look across the mat and you're like, Oh, God, I got him. Yeah. And he's just, God, he's a nightmare. Yeah. Yeah.
Tyler:Tripp and Tim, they're just so young and so athletic. And so their ability to see things is so different than mine, you know? And then you see other people and you're like, oh my gosh, man. Like everybody's like elevating and like stepping up incrementally. You're like, holy shit.
Tyler:And then you wonder yourself, did I am I improving at all?
Danny:You know? Yeah. Gosh.
Tyler:Sometimes, you know, you don't you you then there's times when you're like, okay, I'm not that bad. You know? We have Cade in there and he's Cade's gotta be pushing three hundred pounds.
Danny:He's he's he's he carries his weight well, that Highlander like
Tyler:His head is huge. Yeah. Neck is No neck, huge shoulders, big belly. And I always just think, I do not want you on top of me. You'll smush me, dude.
Tyler:Yeah. And he does everything he can to deal with that. Do everything I can to stop him. Yeah. But so it was a good night.
Tyler:It was it was fun. It was exactly what I needed. You know? She gets you?
Danny:Oh, yeah. She's she's hit that point. I love this thing. I love this. She's just been so much work and like so much like
Tyler:Explain what kind of work. Like, it is it what you thought? Is it more than what you thought? Is it overwhelming?
Danny:It's there's times when I'm over I'm overwhelmed for sure. The other day I was like trying to get her like, she's really well behaved. She's really well behaved, but she's also not super confident. So she's still in that stage where she's following me around and I'm like, there's some things I want her to be able to do specifically like sit on my porch while I just go check. We have a really strict leash law here in Heber.
Danny:Like Heber's the worst for dogs. So, you know, I'm I'm trying to work her both on and off leash and and try to build our confidence. So like, I will sit her at my doorstep and like just go over here where it's grassy, make sure there's no other dogs. I'll release her to kind of come use the bathroom. She gets a little bit of sniff around time.
Danny:It allows me to just give her little intermittent breaks outside, you know, five, ten minutes without her being on a leash and like she can just sniff around and kind of and she needs that kind of stuff. But that's like the bare minimum. She needs to be walked. She will start this is her saying I need to walk. I need to move.
Danny:I need to play. You know, she's just sat in her kennel for, you know, what an hour and a half as we trained and so but I love it. It's the it's the kind of like drill sergeant ish type get off your ass and move. Like, don't sit down and watch TV. I will, you know, the other day I locked her in the yeah, at the rink, I take her to the rink with me because I wanted to be exposed to everything and, you know, just build that confidence.
Danny:But I I lock her in her in the office that we have as operators and it's it's it's it's really one of our buddy, Deersen's office and and his counterpart. And she shredded a respirator, like one of those mask respirators. I'm sure it was scary to her but she just like, she tore it apart. I'm like, you know, sorry. Sorry, Dearsan.
Danny:Gotta pay for this. But it was just like, she was anxious or she was bored. Like her behavior tells you these things and so rather than get mad that like we're not talking the same, we're just having to learn each other's behavior and what it's telling us and she's pretty simple. Once you once you distill it down, she's pretty simple.
Tyler:Sure.
Danny:And she's very driven to to do and perform really well.
Tyler:And please.
Danny:And please.
Tyler:Is she okay around other dogs?
Danny:She's great around other dogs. She does get a little skittish, especially on leash. She wants to go up and meet and make sure that everybody's okay. But because we have such weird leash laws here, not everybody is okay with that. A lot of people will see us and like they'll cross the street or you know, and I just don't know.
Danny:I don't know if it's like the culture of dogs in our particular town or what, but I like to get her exposed to other dogs. But she's also really, really playful too. So she's really
Tyler:It's funny because like she's never had a she's always been super kind to me. And it's probably because I give her treats right away.
Danny:Yeah. Yeah.
Tyler:But she's also like, knocks my hand around if I'm not paying attention
Danny:to She wants to be she wants the attention. She That's wants
Tyler:my dog. My my big dog. He Yeah. If you're not paying him attention, he also is pretty self sufficient. Yeah.
Tyler:Of like, okay, if you've had enough of him, you're like, okay, go. He's good. You know? Yeah. Yeah.
Tyler:Where she was kind of like,
Danny:no, no, no. A little, still a little needy. Yeah. That's that's what we're trying to break. That's what the training, you know, getting her to do specific tasks, you know, going into this new year, I really wanted to start working scent work with her and give her some real challenges around the house.
Danny:She'll find things and, you know, I don't think she's really discovered her nose that well. Sure.
Tyler:How old is she?
Danny:She's I think she's I think we're I'm gonna say a year. When I adopted her in September, said eight to ten months.
Tyler:Oh, wow. She's young.
Danny:Yeah.
Tyler:She's a teenager.
Danny:Just a teenager.
Tyler:Damn. Yeah. Did Jenna get her fixed?
Danny:Oh, yeah. Yeah. We just got it done.
Tyler:Yeah. So that's good.
Danny:Yeah. Yeah. We got a great shout out to what is the where did I go? I went with there's a a charity. It'll come to me.
Danny:But they're great. They're a nonprofit.
Tyler:I bet that's where we took Nala. Nussel.
Danny:Maybe Nussel's up in the up in the Park City in the outlets.
Tyler:I think that's where we went.
Danny:I mean, just a great group of ladies and and doctors
Tyler:yeah. And
Danny:I mean, she gets compliments everywhere she goes just on her color and temperament and Yeah. Just the the perfect kind of dog.
Tyler:She is nice. Yeah. She's she's a sweetie.
Danny:But this is the time of year where like this is our letter writing time of year. This is where I opened the letter to myself. Did you do one last year?
Tyler:I did. We can't find it. Oh, no. I know.
Danny:Oh, no.
Tyler:We can't find them. I don't know. Misty was in a mood and knows where they are.
Danny:They got swept up.
Tyler:And I don't know where they are. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna make an effort to look before we put everything downstairs. We usually put it in this ornament that open like a like it's like a lantern that opens and we usually stick them in there. So I think they're in there, but I don't know where they are. And she's wasn't very forthcoming with where those ornaments were because she had moved on to new ornaments and new tree new decorations.
Tyler:Oh. And so when I asked her, she's like, don't know. It's one of those boxes. And I was like, well, can you find it? And she's like, well, go look.
Tyler:And I was like, you're so much better at this. Like, you know where it is. You know where it is. I'm gonna go in there and rip everything apart. Then you're gonna be pissed.
Danny:Yeah.
Tyler:Because I ripped everything because I'm a dude and I just ripped shit apart. Yeah. If I can't find it, you know? And and I was like, you know where it is. You just have to go like look through a couple boxes and you'll see what you're looking for.
Tyler:She has a good memory like that. So we I don't know where mine is. Have you read yours?
Danny:I haven't read mine yet. I really want to rip it open and read it. I told the kids I'd wait for the them to come back. So I probably won't do it until they're back with me
Tyler:Okay.
Danny:In a few weeks. I will write I will write my next year's letter.
Tyler:I will too.
Danny:Just as I close out the year. Think, you know, luckily I've got the benefit of some alone time for.
Tyler:Me too. So I'll do mine Thursday. Yeah. Year in review.
Danny:Year in Like what I wanted I'm I'm I'm morbidly curious to see what I got wrong. You know what I mean? Because the last
Tyler:You you had you I'm sure you got a fucking lot wrong, Tyler.
Danny:Right? How could I not? No way. How could I not?
Tyler:I think this year, cancer. Fuck it.
Danny:Right? Yeah. No, I mean, yeah, I, it's interesting when life gets in the way. Right? And not that it gets in the way.
Danny:It just yet again threw me another curveball. I'm hoping that 2026 knock on wood, knock on Dick. Yeah, yeah. All of it. All of the above.
Danny:Like I have, I just have so much, gratitude towards life. I'm moving into 2026 with just this attitude that it's gonna be the this is gonna be a year like it's just gonna be an exciting year for me.
Tyler:So our first quarter was January would have been January to what would that be? March, April timeframe? Yeah. And February? February.
Tyler:February will be a year?
Danny:February well, March 10 technically was that I think the day, the exact day that I went in.
Tyler:March 10.
Danny:Yeah. That so it will be marked. Yeah. February, March is kind of what I'm I'm saying is the year. Yeah.
Danny:I'm mark kind of marking the tournament as as a year mark.
Tyler:Because, you know, when we come through January, it will be the two year anniversary of Knicks passing. Yeah. Right? Yeah. And and and I remember talking about like the year of of that.
Tyler:Right? Yeah. And just like joyous last year, had a lot of snow.
Danny:Yeah, we did.
Tyler:This this year, it's it's the best. It's the best. It's the best winter ever. 50 degrees.
Danny:Yeah, it
Tyler:was 60 degrees the other day in in Utah. Yeah. Super strong south winds, which means it's a lot of heat coming Yeah. Towards us. We have maybe an inch of snow, you think?
Danny:It I mean, not I mean, maybe. If if that? What I thought was was wild is it just the sheets of ice that it rained the last few weeks and then how like bitterly cold.
Tyler:It's cold? It is stupid. It's cold today.
Danny:Yeah. And she wants to go out and walk and she doesn't care. She doesn't care how cold it is.
Tyler:I'm not going out there.
Danny:She got all this fur and I'm kinda like, are we sure? And she's like, hell yeah, we're going. Yeah. You put your wool socks on.
Tyler:Don't be able That's funny. Don't yeah. And so your your first quarter of of this year was hospital. Boom. A diagnosis.
Tyler:Boom. It's kind of like like we talked about, like, time stopped stopped at that moment. Right? Just like when when Nick passed away, like, time stopped. You do a you do a time stamp and we talked about this.
Tyler:You do a time stamp a tick on your on your life line of like, this was a major a major thing.
Danny:Yeah.
Tyler:Right? Yeah. Going into the going into it, we don't have anything to base our our understanding except for that we knew that it was 95%, you know, life rate.
Danny:Yeah. We knew You're
Tyler:going to be healthy.
Danny:The thing that made it so maybe like the, what is the tragic comedy of it, if you will, was that, yes, you have cancer, but this is the type of cancer we actually know how to beat its ass. We've got the perfect playbook for it. We caught you in time. The biggest risk I was probably in that two weeks where I was fucking around and not going to the doctor. That was where I was the biggest bleed out blood clot risk.
Tyler:Yeah. Huge fucking bruises. Yeah. Can't see your tattoos bruises. Yeah.
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah. To me to me, like our this year is so like, I remember so much about it just because there's so many things. Misty getting a new job. Right?
Tyler:She she took on that new job in February. She she's been with the Mountain Elite massage since February. Since February. And it was one of those things where, like, remember I I announced it on the podcast. Yeah.
Tyler:But she had not told her other employees.
Danny:Oh, yeah. Remember? Okay.
Tyler:Yeah. And it was one of those first things where, like, the podcast actually kinda got me I didn't I I I'm here talking. You've And I I I pass on this information. Her boss is like, hey, Danny's been talking about this shit on the fucking. I remember I was like,
Danny:Holy People are listening.
Tyler:People listen.
Danny:People listen. Yeah. We had, we had that experience and we had my mom, my mom chastised me about, about the, about an episode as well. So yeah, we felt that.
Tyler:We felt that. Had that like, Oh, this is actually where people do listen to us. We thought that we were just like
Danny:This is for us 99 Yeah, percent of this the this is is for for us us 90999% of of the the time, time. But like it was cool. It felt powerful throughout the year to have people reach out to me, right? People that have in the podcast, you know, whether they're on the mat with us all the time or they're maybe just picking up tidbits on the podcast, like they're reaching out and they're connecting. I mean, you did a great job.
Danny:You set up this men's group and we met and, you know, furthered the community even further. And that would, you know, what a great experience to get to partake in that and see who we bring in from outside of our normal circle. And I think, you know, even the last episode you mentioned that like, hey, maybe we've hit this blue belt stride. And I feel like my goal one is to get this episode out before the end of the year. I'm cramming tonight to publish it.
Danny:So it'll be published tomorrow, less than twenty four hours after recording it.
Tyler:Just throw it out there.
Danny:I mean, just because for me, it's a moral victory to get 60 episodes in 2025.
Tyler:Isn't that crazy?
Danny:Right.
Tyler:We also we're also gonna change how we release. We're gonna release on Tuesdays.
Danny:I want to start releasing on Tuesdays for
Tyler:a told couple GPT this shit. And it said Tuesdays? First thing it said is release on Tuesdays because it said it actually it actually looked at our our personal Yeah. Have you done this? Put in Lost Boy Scout.
Tyler:Can you find I I put, can you find Lost Boy Scouts podcast on shout GPT and give me some insight on it? And it said a lot of good positive things. And it said you need to release on Tuesdays. And I was like, that's fucking weird. Tyler just said that.
Tyler:And I was like, is that Google listening to me at
Danny:time of
Tyler:this conversation?
Danny:I've asked, I've asked some weird things like what it can search in other people's searches because I wanted to see like, can it pull up? But I've had a couple times where it's I've done searches and other people have had similar responses from the same kind of sorts like prompt, right? Because it's prompt engineering. That's what we're doing. Prompting this AI to So
Tyler:let me ask you this. Are you still on your are you still working on your master's program or have that paused?
Danny:I have just reinitiated. So I paused most of this year.
Tyler:Because of everything. Because remember, like right, when you started your journey of your master's is like pretty close to that. You got your diagnosis.
Danny:Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I started, I think I started in October and I mean, I didn't quite make it. I made it through two classes and two and a half and I kind of failed out. I'll be honest, National University, if you're paying attention, if you watch this, not super helpful.
Danny:Fuckers. But no, I'm I'm working on getting re enrolled and like I'm gonna I'm gonna kind of fight them on, hey, I need some credit, like you guys should have helped me when I I reached out so many different ways. You know, part of the problem with online school is in order to be taken seriously for credibility sake, they need to you need to pursue it in a certain, you know, with a certain speed and I just couldn't keep up. So, but yeah, I have I'm going back to that in this next year.
Tyler:And then for me, right about that time is when I started to really dive into could I sustain my life with a retirement? Yeah. You know, my plan, like I told you, my plan was to stick it out for another year because of the bonus. I also thought to myself, if I stick it out another year, maybe Missy, you know, was able to like make some waves at Mountain Elite Massage. Yeah.
Tyler:And honestly, did. She's Yeah. She's knocked it out of the park, you know? And I chat GPT'd just one night I chat GPT'd what my retirement would look like now. Yeah.
Tyler:If I was able to do the things that I wanted to do. And I was like, woah, this is real. This is a real thing that could happen to me. I could really retire. That was about that April to, you know, June, July, August timeframe was the first time that I'd actually like kind of put on the paper because like me, I'm like you, I don't I do mine in like thirds, you know?
Danny:Yeah. Yeah.
Tyler:One through June, sorry, January through April, April through the summer. And then now you're in the winter and Yeah. That's kind of how I do my life. About that time is when I thought to myself, wow, this is a real thing. Retirement is real.
Tyler:Retirement is right around the corner and I could do this.
Danny:It's not like you were sitting down at the end of the year, like or writing your letter being like, hey, I'm gonna make specific steps. It's one of those things you kind of uncovered as your year unfolded.
Tyler:And when I uncovered it, I was like really surprised
Danny:Right.
Tyler:Of like how much how lucky I am because of the pension, because of social security supplement. Yeah. Right? It's a it's it's a chunk of money that I'll get for the rest of my life. Yeah.
Tyler:Right? And I've said this before that I didn't know when I was 19 and 20 years old, I didn't know, you know, I had this really good friend and today I got pretty emotional. I called Misty and I was I had just talked to him and he's so man, he's done wonders to me in my life. Right? And I talked to him today and I'd realized today, he's my best friend in the whole entire world.
Tyler:Like, I love him so much and I see him every day. I've seen him every day of my life since we were 12 years old.
Danny:Damn.
Tyler:Every day. We live together. We're in the military together. We we work together. We we've worked together for twenty plus years, you know.
Tyler:That's wild. He's my and he's my end. He's my best friend. Right? So today, when I talked to him, he told me he only had one day left and I only have one more day left with him.
Tyler:And those are the things that, like, I think about is like how lucky I am, how lucky I've been in my life. Right? And when I made the decision to retire, I I don't know what that looked like. Yeah. Because, you know, it's like, okay, I've got I made the decision in August about August, September's time frame, you know?
Tyler:I was like, okay, I'm gonna retire. Yeah. And you still have, you know, through January to go. Then now it's December 30 and I have eight days left. Eight working days.
Tyler:I don't know what my life I've worked since I was 16 years old, you know, and I don't know what everybody's like, what are gonna do? What are you gonna do? And I'm like, I have no idea.
Danny:I think I'm I'm gonna project here a little bit. Maybe maybe this isn't you can correct me if I'm wrong, but like, you're not you're not retiring in the sense that like, I mean, yes, you are retiring, but there's a
Tyler:lot of
Danny:revenue streams that you are, I think you're going to discover. And I think that's what, you know, if I were to say this is where you want to talk about jealousy, this is where I'm jealous of Danny because you now have you now have the time and you now have kind of the safety net to pursue Sure. Some of those things. And, like, kudos to you, man. Kudos to 18 year old Danny.
Danny:Like, hell yeah. Like cheers to him. Dude. Buying him a drink. Like, you know, we don't put these things together that there's like there's viable options coming out of the military.
Tyler:For sure.
Danny:There's viable options coming out of trade school.
Tyler:For sure.
Danny:I feel like sometimes I feel like, man, I've last, especially the last three years, I totally mishandled my career. Like I was on such a different trajectory and then the divorce and all this stuff. Now I'm like, okay, how do I how do I recover? I've been like in a flat spin and, you know, you're getting to this point where like, oh, man, I I hope I hope. I can't wait to just cheer you through this and just be like
Tyler:And there's gonna be road bumps. Right? Like, is gonna be road bumps. I'm prepared for that. Like, know that, like, you know, there's gonna be life is going to hand me things that are going to be really rough.
Tyler:Yeah. Because my parents are getting older, you know, mine and Misty's parents are getting older. I'm getting older. My kids I worry about my kids all the time, man. I worry like I worry like about things.
Tyler:And because of my childhood, you know, I worry about things. But I also know I have a support system around me. Yeah. Right? That is going to like encourage me to do to to to be great.
Tyler:Right? Yeah. Today, Misty and I talked about, like, packing up the bus and leaving for July and August and going up to Montana, going up to Big Sky Festival, coming back down, going to a couple of festivals, going back down to Jackson to Colorado and then home and spending, you know, a couple of months in the bus. And and we talked about that. And and, you know, if I didn't have I I tell people this all the time.
Tyler:The last, you know, five, six years of my life with my friends, with you and with with with jujitsu and with the confidence that I've built in my life. If I didn't have that, I would probably still be the same person that, like, was stuck chasing, like chasing an endless goal. Right? But now I don't know if that's the way it is. I think I'm chasing like true, true goals.
Tyler:Yeah. True things in my life that I'm like stoked about. Yeah. You know? And I believe that like relationships, this Yeah.
Tyler:This thing that we're doing, this 60 episodes of like one fucking time, my friend is like, you know what would be fun is we do a podcast. Yeah. And then you go, yeah. And then you look back on it, you know, and we have this like timestamps of things that you and I have done. And I can remember everything about that.
Tyler:Right. Where we were at in the sauna, where we were at in our life, where we were at, what we were doing, how we were getting through things. And then you have this like foundation, this concrete foundation thing that said, we're going to get dealt a really rough hand in March. Yeah. A really rough hand.
Tyler:Yeah. But our foundational fucking thing that we've built is going to be like not fall. Yeah. Not break. Sure.
Tyler:We don't record like like we were for a little while. Sure. But our foundation never wobbled.
Danny:No. No. I mean, I think we did the best with what we could this year for sure. I mean, we've wanted to do guests. We've wanted to we always sell we always set like push goals, like goals we know, like we knew we were going to podcast this year, right?
Danny:We didn't we like, of course we set out with the idea of like, we're going to maintain this discipline because that's who we are, right? That's how that's what we bring to the mat, right? And, you know, that white belt for life, that adapt mentality that I've been studying recently the concept of allostasis versus homeostasis, right? Homeostasis keeps us in patterns of safety regardless of whether or not they're actually safe. They're only safe because our brain knows how to handle It's
Tyler:kind of like your routine.
Danny:It's predictable. Right? It's predictable. Becoming truly comfortable in allostasis means that you're comfortable with the change. Sure.
Danny:You're like
Tyler:What is allostasis? What is sorry. What is allostasis? What is it? What is the root?
Tyler:Do you know the root word of I don't know. I've never even heard.
Danny:I'd have to go back We to my
Tyler:had these funny things where you like say things and I'm like, I've never even heard this fucking word.
Danny:It's a newer word for me too. Like I was talking to it about to a friend about it and it's something my therapist brought up to me like, hey, remember you're in homeostasis, next is allostasis, right? We got to find the change, the safety and the change, the
Tyler:growth pattern of
Danny:it The growth pattern of it all, right? We know life is unpredictable, right? We know that there can be challenges. It depends on how we frame it, right? And so when we can approach life in a mindset of, hey, allostasis, right?
Danny:We know how to make ourselves safe. We know how to keep ourselves safe. Nobody's choking. Nobody's bleeding. Nothing's on fire.
Danny:Those are like the base level things we need to just make sure that are taken care of, right, in any situation. And then we can kind of, we can we build on that, right? Homeostasis isn't always bad. We as long as we understand that, okay, there's a period of comfort, but that's going to be followed by the next question mark.
Tyler:Sure.
Danny:Good, bad, it doesn't matter. Sure. I like to frame it in good, bad, whatever it is, I'm learning something about myself. I'm becoming more self confident. I'm becoming more self reliant.
Danny:Can I hold my head hopefully a little bit higher and yeah?
Tyler:I was talking to one of our friends who's going through something pretty rough right now. And I was talking to him about our self rescue, like our the self rescue idea. Yeah. And like, if you're like, man, I want all these people around me and I'm like, the only way I can function is if I have all these people around me. And I was like, no.
Tyler:What you want to do is I'm by myself and the only person that's going to save me or like pull me out of this is me. Yeah. Right. And then finding happiness in, let's say the person that you you're so mad at, but being like, man, I'm going to find some super happy thoughts about you so that I don't get caught in this anger. Right?
Tyler:Cause an angry man is a scary man. One, you know, the times in my life when I've been angry or not or dysregulated, you know, which is kind of what I'm what I'm thinking about with your allostasis. Yeah. Allostasis is you're not regulating right Right? When you're in that, like, this is my routine, this is my function, this is what I do.
Tyler:I wake up, this is I go to work. You're you're working in this like routine as home homeopathic? Homeostasis. Homeostasis. Yeah.
Tyler:You're fine. But when you get thrown a wrench and you're like, fuck man, the cogs aren't turning. Can I self rescue? Can I Right? Can I get myself out of this?
Tyler:Right. And how? How can I do it? You know, when we look at these things in our lives that that throw us these curveballs. Right?
Tyler:Yeah. Did you falter? Tonight when I'm, you know, when you're talking, I'm like, man, like you're I can tell that you're the clarity is coming back. Yeah. Because there were times when you and I were talking this year where I was like, bro, we're not we are we're having a conversation, but we are not talking about the same thing.
Tyler:Because your brain, I could tell sometimes that your focus would be like, boom, gone. Yeah. You know? But now, today, I can tell that, like, my friend is 100% back to kind of a a calm. Yeah.
Tyler:And you don't have this, like, idea about you. Because, like, there was times when I'd be like, holy fuck, he's got this, like, growl. It's like growl.
Danny:It was it was yeah. It was just a pharmaceutical cloud of and of and right they I don't know, I know how to explain it other than yeah, just this pharmaceutical cloud of like, how am I going to handle this? How do I handle this? How, what is going on with me? Like literally there were times when I'm like, I am so out of balance and I realize it and I don't know if it's the I don't know if it's the anti nausea meds.
Danny:I don't know if it's the Atra. Atra. I don't know if it's the, you know, the fucking arsenic.
Tyler:Arsenic. Which is 100% arsenic is a poison.
Danny:Oh, yeah.
Tyler:It's it literally is. It's it's a downer. Yeah. Right? It's something that you'd use to kill people.
Danny:And the routine of it all, like just the medical routine of being in and out of the hospital while, you know, I was able to just kind of complete the routine and, you know, I found out today that, you know, I'm in the top 3% of performance of my in my cohort of workers and I'm like, I did that while battling freaking cancer, right? Like I'm hoping that next year like y'all are unnoticed
Tyler:because I'm coming for you.
Danny:I'm going to be healthy and, you know, I'm not I won't be satisfied at number three. Sure. So, yeah, it's it is one of those things where I've had to just kind of go back and I think I wasn't really good at just slowing down. I wasn't good at like saying, hey, just slow down. I mean, I did slow down.
Danny:I slowed down a lot but I think that added to the nightmare of like, I'm stagnating.
Tyler:Sure.
Danny:I'm stagnating. And that to me is not comfortable.
Tyler:And healthy, Tyler, looks a little different than Tyler fighting cancer. Yeah. Right? Because you're still healthy. Right.
Tyler:I mean, today when we were training, like I could tell that you were you were self regulating. Yeah. When we were training, I was like trying to I was trying to smother the fuck out of you. Yeah. I was trying to kill you.
Tyler:Yeah. And I wanted to see like what you would like, how you would respond because there was a time when you train and and like I was like smothering you and you were like I could tell you were like, fuck, man. I think I'm gonna die. Yeah. Right?
Tyler:Tonight I was like, oh, this dude is mentally mentally available.
Danny:Interesting.
Tyler:Because as, you know, my job is to push you to to your limits. Right? And to see if you're ready for battles. Right. Because, you know, guys at the academy right now are gonna be gunning for you.
Tyler:Yeah. Right? And they want to prove they want to prove themselves. Yeah. Right?
Tyler:They want to be like, okay, well, Tyler's been a blue belt for a little while. I'm gonna fucking show, you know, I'm gonna show him. Right? And I think that's what like life does to you. Yeah.
Tyler:Life like tests you because right when you start to get comfortable, which is like in my mind, I'm about to be super uncomfortable. Yeah. Like super. Yeah. I'm going to go a little while without paycheck.
Tyler:Right. And I'm going be in this like this like up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down. Yeah. Where I've like lived kind of comfortably for the last And little while. I don't know what I don't know what it's going to look like.
Danny:That's good. I know. I mean, I know I can I can only imagine I can only imagine how tight And
Tyler:I'm a controller dude? Know I'm a what ChadGBT told me was like, you're an air traffic controller, so you're used to giving orders and find having a result right then. And I remember, like, I've told you this before that, like my Misty's always said, don't talk to the boys like they're planes. You know? They're humans.
Tyler:Yeah. Don't talk to them like they're not gonna do do what you want them to do. Yeah. And I ChatGPT called me out on it and I was like, this is so fucking silly. I mean, literally called me out on it.
Tyler:Today, you know, I got I got rough with Tristan because he kind of pissed me off. And then we went and trained and I could tell I was like, fuck, man. I better be ready. Yeah. Because Yeah.
Tyler:Can't hide if a person coming after you. Right? And he I could tell, man, he was like, I'm gonna fucking we're gonna fight this out.
Danny:He's ready.
Tyler:And it was good for both of us because it's how you we needed to solve our problem. Yeah. I need to remember if I'm not careful, he'll kick the fucking shit out of me. Yeah. And he needs to remember that like, man, if you need to regulate, this is how you do it.
Tyler:Yeah. You don't hold it in. You don't get pissed off. He was fine after we're done. He like, you know, we shook hands and bumped fists and he got me pretty good.
Tyler:He like came in hard, dude. He came in hard and like hit me kind of like on the side of the head and then he choked me and I was like, woah, about to pass out. Yeah. But it was, you know, you tell you regulate. It's You have to fight as a man.
Tyler:Yeah. Like you have to fight. You can't back down from shit.
Danny:Was it I think it was you and Riley from Earn Your Salt. You were talking about kind of like the natural hierarchy in the gyms, which is a fabulous podcast. If you haven't gone, go check out Danny's episode on Earn Your Salt.
Tyler:Thank you.
Danny:Riley does a really good job with that podcast and the conversation goes really well.
Tyler:Thank you.
Danny:And you showed up well and you represented the podcast well and so thank you.
Tyler:I was wondering, I was worried that like maybe I like told too much of your story and that I that I like shared too much. Yeah. You know? I think when I listened
Danny:to it, was like, you haven't you didn't share anything that we hadn't we hadn't already talked about So like, what yeah, I was just like, cool. I hope I hope for the opportunity for you to get on more of that and continue to share that story. Like, to be honest, like, continue to build that brand of that breath work that you want to do and build those things that are more emotionally fulfilling, you know, and hopefully they'll fill your your wallet as well.
Tyler:I know. Hope
Danny:so. But yeah, just the hierarchy like the the pecking order. There's just a natural pecking order in the gym.
Tyler:It's a bummer when you're when you're lower than your son. When realize, oh no.
Danny:But you're you're not in the sense of of rank, you are in the sense of, you know, you age adds, it's an enhanced it's a performance enhancing drug, believe it or not. Just your age. Right? Yeah. Spry purple belt, you know,
Tyler:is Game.
Danny:Yeah.
Tyler:Yeah. Bigger than me. Yeah. And, you know, like, if I if we were in the wild and I was a bear. Right.
Tyler:I would had to kill him when I was younger. He's younger. Now that he's a fucking monster. Yeah. Of course, that's the way it's going to work.
Tyler:Yeah. You know, I should have killed him earlier.
Danny:Yeah. Now you become, you know, you have to pass the it's so interesting. Have to Right? Pass the Yeah. Right.
Danny:You become part of his counsel, right? Cause as he takes, as he steps into leadership in the gym, you now become part of his counsel. I think that's, that was, you know, one of the things I wanted to leave, the lessons I wanted to leave behind for my son and other sons and other men with, you know, grew up with single mothers is like how do we pass down these lessons? I noticed recently Andrew Huberman launched a podcast on like masculinity and I haven't listened to it yet. I'm interested to listen to it because I think that's I think as we evolve, that's we're going to bring the continue to bring this topic to the forefront.
Danny:Like what is masculinity? What is toxic masculinity? What is healthy masculinity? And like, that is my goal is to be an example of healthy masculinity to the next the next generation.
Tyler:Even when you even when you falter and you make mistakes.
Danny:Hell yeah. You don't you don't always win. You don't always win. You don't always do it right. Sometimes you get pissed off and you want to throw your shoe at the dog and like, you know, she doesn't know.
Tyler:Yeah. Beat the shit out of him. Yeah.
Danny:Doesn't know. She doesn't know what she did wrong. She's just operating like, that's the that's the wild thing. You you watch people interact with their their dogs and they're just like, no, we don't we don't process psychology the same way.
Tyler:Sure. When you and you so as you turn this corner into this last quarter and you you came out of the fog, what remind me the day that you were done, all the way done. When did you get your port out?
Danny:Oh yeah. You know what? I got my port out before Thanksgiving. Like November 15.
Tyler:So yeah, technically it was was thinking like October, November was the
Danny:December 10 was my last oncology appointment where they actually said, okay, you're done. Got all the cancer free. Like you truly are. All the tests came in.
Tyler:Did you So now your last quarter of this year as you move into January 1, which is in a couple days. What's your what's what's besides I let's say that do you plan to fight? In February?
Danny:I plan on fighting in February. You do? I don't at this point, like,
Tyler:I Is it still going on? Because I thought that I wasn't sure if it was.
Danny:It's still it's so they're still they're still they're still advertising it. I think there's still time to to raise fund raise funds. I'm going there but I think my mindset on what I'm planning to prove when I get there, it's for me, it's less about the competition and more like, can I raise money? There are people that are suffering and this charity does so much good work for those people that Yeah. Like
Tyler:Tap Out Counter, like, the way that it came about, if you look at their backstory, if you look at their
Danny:Yeah.
Tyler:Their Instagram and their their Facebook, they have the backstory. They have like of how it developed and how the guy I don't know his name. Yeah. I don't remember his name, but how he came about. Yeah.
Tyler:He almost like quit a couple of things. Like, almost quit Yeah. Doing the whole platform of Tap Out Cancer.
Danny:It's and I mean, it's just such a cool way to involve yourself in this in this community and they do a great job running their tournaments and they just raise money for good people. So you want to get out there and you want to support. Like, I like to I don't know that I like to compete. It competing is probably not where I see my jujitsu career going. But I do like to push myself.
Danny:I do like to have something that I can train for and do. So honestly, my goal is if can I raise the funds that I want to raise? Great. Then I'm just gonna go I'm gonna do my best and I think everybody's gonna be in everybody from our academy will likely be in Florida.
Tyler:Wait. When is it? February 28. No. No?
Tyler:Will we be back from Florida? Florida's the February, and we are not going to Florida this year.
Danny:Oh, we're not going to Florida this
Tyler:year. Nope. Bummer. Right? Well, you know Florida is the February.
Danny:Okay. I couldn't remember. I was around Super Bowl and I couldn't
Tyler:I had to back out of the the Florida, which means Preston wasn't going to go. My Grand Prix, I heard is going. Most everybody's not going this year because this wasn't in my cards. You know, I had I got retirement coming up and I wanted to save some money. Sure.
Tyler:And so I get home from Mexico on the twenty seventh. Oh yeah. So that means if I compete, I will come from Mexico and compete the next day. And I'm so so my so so I'm I'm still planning to compete. I'm signed up right now.
Tyler:Yeah. I just need to raise the $2.50. I to raise the two fifty to get I think which is pretty easy.
Danny:No. Yeah. I I think you would need to tell people that you're raising money for cancer, you know, just put it out there. People like two fifty, like I was surprised how quickly two fifty
Tyler:came in.
Danny:Came in.
Tyler:And so do you still plan to compete at the lightweight?
Danny:That is going to be harder. That is going to be a little bit harder.
Tyler:How has your stuff gone with the Wow?
Danny:It's gone really well. It's gone really well. I've I've really kind of focused. I'm dialing in nutrition. Obviously, this is not helping, but, know, this is a treat.
Danny:It's Christmas time.
Tyler:Helps me. But I have
Danny:some pretty lofty goals and to be honest, like my weight is fluctuated just being off the meds just kind of like regaining that plus with the holidays. Will I compete at my goal was to be at one hundred eighty five. My goal is probably compete probably at two hundred. Okay. Which I mean, that's that's pretty easy for me to do.
Tyler:Okay. Is anybody else signed up at 200?
Danny:I don't think so. I think Grant is the only other person that I know that's signed up at that weight. So I haven't I haven't I haven't checked recently. And I think that we'll get the full like they use grab what is the same thing grappling
Tyler:Smooth Comp.
Danny:Smooth Comp. So I think I'll know better once I get into smooth comp, I haven't I honestly, I've just tried to be gentle with myself and say, Hey, yes, this is this is a North Star right now. This gets me back on the mat. Importantly, it gets me back on the mat.
Tyler:Yeah. Cause because consistently you you're gonna have still find a schedule of like, I'm going these days. Yeah. Yes. Yeah.
Tyler:And then any other. So so let's just talk about the first quarter of your let's January to April, you have the competition. Anything else on your radar that you're thinking this is going to happen and I'm going to push myself to do this?
Danny:For me, it's going to be probably signing back up for the the Park City the trail running races. One, my goal this year is going to be really replacing the muscle mass that I lost in, you know, sitting in the hospital just rotting. You know, that's where my gains have really struggled is in that muscle mass. Two, figuring out how can I build muscle that supports what I want to do in jujitsu because that's where I feel like my game is the weakest? So that's what I'm working on with Wow.
Danny:In addition to kind of getting my oxygen and my cardio back up up, it's like how do I act consistently build muscle? Are you sleeping better? Oh, yeah. I'm sleeping much better.
Tyler:All those drugs out of your system.
Danny:All the drugs out of my system.
Tyler:I'm telling you, dude. Like, just talking to you right now, I can kiss you on the lips, dude, because I'm like, holy fuck.
Danny:He's back.
Tyler:He's back.
Danny:Yeah. No. It it was
Tyler:Your clear eyes, like your eyes are clear. You're like, even your facial expressions are like different today, even than the last time that we podcast because there was still some like Yeah. Coming off of things in like Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the holidays are hard for you.
Tyler:Right?
Danny:They have been. This this year was like pretty fantastic, if I'm being honest. It's good.
Tyler:The kids were fucking around you the whole time.
Danny:I mean
Tyler:Can't get rid of them fuckers.
Danny:I would never try but like I do. Yeah, they I really had like, I I just, I put it out there like what do I want it to be? I want it to be mine. Like I didn't want anyone to take it from me. I kind of, sorry, I pushed him off and, you know, I just wanted to stand on my own and just like, it was my, it was my holiday with the people I wanted to be around and we did what I wanted to do.
Danny:We ate well. We went and saw a really funny stupid movie and we saw Anaconda.
Tyler:Was it good?
Danny:Like the old school Anaconda
Tyler:with like Ice Cube
Danny:and the That's the best part. No. It's a remake featuring Jack Black and Paul Rudd. Oh. But there's so many callbacks to the original that, yes, it did make it funny.
Tyler:Was it Ice Cube?
Danny:Ice Cube did make a make a cameo, a new cameo.
Tyler:Let's go.
Danny:Yeah. Yeah.
Tyler:And I got I remember that show. Yeah. That's funny.
Danny:Yeah. And then so they like they made they remade it. And so I don't know that my kids thought it was that funny. There were some some funny parts, but I thought it was funny. And then we went and ate Chinese food on Christmas day.
Tyler:A good old classic Christmas story.
Danny:Mean, just felt you cut
Tyler:the Exactly. Duck's head That's so funny.
Danny:Exactly. So I had the holiday that I wanted to have, I wanted to have. And most importantly, like this year, I was just like, it was about just really being grateful to people that were around me.
Tyler:I'm so proud of you for how you accomplished this year. I'm so proud of like your your gumption, your ability to your ability to like regroup, to to to still function, even though like your heavenly father is beating the piss out of you, you know? And and even though, like, where you came from doesn't doesn't you've had to rechange a couple of things. You've had to reframe and reinvent in certain ways. I'm so I'm super proud of you.
Danny:Well, thank you.
Tyler:You know? And this year, while I hope you never felt like you were taking all of the limelight.
Danny:Yeah.
Tyler:You know, because you should have. Everybody should have been like, we're fucking only care about Tyler.
Danny:I I I feel like I feel like well, like my feelings matter. Like, not that my feelings don't matter, but like, I'm not my feelings. And so what I what I look back and I say one, walking out even the last day I ring the bell, I'm like Tyler doesn't know how to celebrate Tyler. Two, Tyler was pretty entitled and needs to just really be grateful for for the people that he has in his life. And I've just wake up every morning and I thank whatever creator you want to worship, whatever it is, that actually I I have some pretty badass motherfucking people in
Tyler:my life.
Danny:I have some incredible people in my corner. Yeah. I mean, have you, I have the jujitsu community, I have you, I have the all like I have kids that my high school friends that showed up from Yeah. You know, out of the out of the blue to my house. Your mom.
Danny:Mom, my dad, like
Tyler:Your
Danny:kids. My coworkers, like my kids. Like, I was just shocked at how many people showed up for me and like, I felt really like, man, there has been some years of really ingratitude towards that. Like, need to just be super grateful for that. And the people that I didn't talk to, the people that that maybe because of circumstance I've cut off or I've shut out, you know, I know that there was a lot of prayer, there was a lot of well wishing my direction that didn't even make it to me.
Danny:Sure. And so all I can all I can be at this point is just really grateful.
Tyler:Sure.
Danny:Just really grateful that I didn't completely fuck it up and burn all the bridges. Good. In my nightmare of my nightmare of medical cloud, you know, pharmacy.
Tyler:And you're healthy. Like you come out the other end and you're healthy. You're still like, you're still the same person. Like I said, tonight like was a good thing for me because it helps me remind myself to, like, weather the storm. Right?
Tyler:Run that motherfucker like as fast as you can go.
Danny:Right.
Tyler:Yeah. Don't run away from the storm. Go at it as a 100 miles an hour. Be a bison. Yes.
Tyler:Be a buffalo. Run at that fucker. Because on the other end, it's like beautiful. There's blue skies. You're happy.
Tyler:Lights. You're good. Like, you're alive. Right? And tonight, like I said, when I'm like, I've sat on this side of the chair looking at you and being like, Oh geez,
Danny:what are
Tyler:we doing in a moment? Yeah. You know, even as we're talking, like sometimes I'll be like, Oh yeah, I can see in your face that you're aggressive. And even that alone gives men what, what this, what this 60 episodes, what does this 60 episodes means? It means that like men don't have the answers and that's completely okay.
Tyler:Yep. We're completely okay knowing that we don't know. Yeah. You don't know. I don't know what January 9 looks like.
Tyler:I literally people are all the time be like, okay, what's your last day? January 8. What does January 9 look like? I have no fucking clue. But I know that, like, I'm going to be emotional.
Tyler:Yeah. I'm going to be nervous. I'm going to be grateful. Yeah. I'm going to be super appreciative because like I said the other day, Misty just stopped me and was like, I'm so proud of you.
Tyler:Yeah. And I was like, woah, lady. You got to be careful with that kind of like, kind of encouragement because
Danny:Can you celebrate yourself, Danny? I, you know,
Tyler:I don't think I know how to. Yeah. But what I can do is I can be I have learned a long time ago to be grateful.
Danny:Yeah. I mean
Tyler:To be thankful. To just be thankful. To be fucking like Right. Man, I'm so appreciative. Right?
Tyler:And today when I called Missy, you know, I had a little moment because I was like super emotional and crying and she was she didn't know how to respond to me. Right? I'm driving up Parley's and I'm just like, I'm in a full fucking emotional breakdown. Yeah. And she's like, I don't know what to say.
Tyler:And I was like, it's alright. It's alright. Like, I'm good. You know, I know that, like, this is weird for you because I don't I'm not an emotional person. You know?
Tyler:I'm not like, I'm not a crier. You know, my parents didn't teach me how to cry, you know, but I was it wasn't tears of like sadness. It was tears of like, just so fucking happy for who I am, you know? And that's what this year brings us to the table. It's like, I'm so happy.
Tyler:Yeah. You know, I'm happy you're happy. I'm happy you're alive. I'm happy that we got through it. I'm happy that we're doing this.
Tyler:Yes. I'm happy because men are going to hear this one day. Twenty years down the road where you and I are like stoned out of our minds, you know. Drink a beer is doing jujitsu. We're going to be back here.
Tyler:And and twenty years from now, somebody's going to listen to Lost and be like, I just needed that. Yeah. You know? And they're going to listen to today and and they're going to know that, like, it doesn't fucking matter. No.
Tyler:Because because tomorrow's not guaranteed. Right? No. But you know what is guaranteed? Is like experiences.
Tyler:Yeah. Trust. Yeah. Faith. Yes.
Tyler:100% faith that you're okay. Yeah. And then fuck it.
Danny:Yes. Well, I mean, you're you're right. That it that it is unpredictable.
Tyler:It is unpredictable.
Danny:You'll never predict it. Right? And that's where that's that's what separates us from the GPTs.
Tyler:It is.
Danny:The the fact that GPT is just built on what is the predictable pattern of of language that would come back to said response, to said prompt. We can adapt to that. Chat GPT can't.
Tyler:Can't.
Danny:It it it will shoot out whatever answer. We have the ability to adapt midstream. And this is it's gonna be a big year. I'm excited for my friend Danny. Oh, man.
Danny:I'm so excited. I can't wait to help celebrate you.
Tyler:I know.
Danny:Thank you so much for another great year of friendship and, yeah, to many more.
Tyler:To many more.
Danny:To many, many
Tyler:To many more.
Danny:Many more.
Tyler:And and also to you, like, just thank you for sharing, like Yeah. Yeah. It was a it was a long year, you know. And Just the fact that you came out the other end. I always knew that, like, that you would.
Tyler:Mhmm. You know? But there were times when I was like, oh, man, what do you need? You know?
Danny:And
Tyler:and why? Like, why did what lesson did you need today? You know? And, man. Yeah.
Tyler:What a great what a great thing that we have. And and like and I said, men are going to be like, listen to us and be like, oh, I needed that. Yeah. I needed that. You know?
Tyler:I hope so. And, it was it was it was it's it's so fun. Yeah. It's so fucking fun. Yeah.
Tyler:This this is so fun to me. Thank you. You know, and it doesn't every time we sit down here, every time we do it, it's so fun.
Danny:Thank you for not giving up on me
Tyler:on this.
Danny:Thank you. I needed you. I needed you to I needed you I needed a Danny in my I needed O'Danny in my quarter the last three years and Yeah. I wouldn't have wanted to do this journey with anybody else.
Tyler:Yeah.
Danny:It has not been easy. It has not been without its growth and I'm like so grateful for the growth that I've had this year. Thank you for not giving up on me. Thank you for not, you know, not giving up on me. I wasn't, I don't know that I was I wasn't completely right in my head a
Tyler:lot. Right.
Danny:And you were able to maintain a level of consistent friendship that I needed and I'll forever be grateful for that. And I'm excited to celebrate Danny this next Yeah. 2026. I'm excited to see the bus out cruising in the sun.
Tyler:So fun.
Danny:The fucking Pacifico paddleboard out on the water.
Tyler:Yeah.
Danny:And Danny Danny, thank you.
Tyler:Yeah. I appreciate you. I appreciate this. Appreciate, like, being able to do it. I appreciate, like, the the fact that, like, it's there.
Tyler:The fact that I can listen to our episodes, you know? And so for the anybody that like again, like if you're if you're if you're just wanting to know, like, what's on the other side of this dark fucking world, there always is sunshine. Yeah. You just have to find it.
Danny:You just have to find your why.
Tyler:You know? And we'll and we'll next year, we'll make big plans, make big big goals. Yeah. Right? And I think that we'll I think that we'll get there.
Tyler:Think that like people are gonna find it.
Danny:And we'll adapt to to however the chips fall.
Tyler:Whatever they do.
Danny:However the chips fall.
Tyler:Yeah. And and won't change. It won't. It
Danny:won't. Well, until 2026, man. It's hard to believe that that's the that's what's next. Yeah. 2026.
Tyler:I appreciate you, dude.
Danny:Appreciate you, man.
Tyler:I love you.
Danny:Cheers, everybody. Cheers.
