Men At Work Podcast - What Happens at a Celtic Festival?

Episode Date: October 16, 2024

Kyle Pagan and Matt Peoples went to a Celtic Festival to see what it's all about. We talk to the Armored Combat Fighters, which is a MMA for medieval times, a kilt salesman and who tells us why we should be wearing kilts in our daily lives, a college student displaced by Hurricane Milton, and finish with the Rowdy Barlings, a Celtic band who have great stories on the road. 00:00 - Menendez Bros 9:45 - Medieval MMA Fighters 27:05 - Kilt Salesman 44:15 - Future Gym Teacher and a Displaced Florida Student 58:40 - Rowdy Bardlings Band #celticmusic #festival #podcast About Us: The Men At Work Podcast asks one question: What do you do for work? After that the conversation flows from there. We’ve met substitute teachers, Bangladeshi t-shirt moguls, a real estate broker tight with LeBron James, and more. And we’ll record anywhere. Random sidewalks during an eclipse, a baseball game, a bar crawl, casino, and more. We like to find out what people do for a living. If you want us to come to your event email us at: [e-mail] APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/men-at-work-podcast/id1373108039 SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4XcFWt0I6gFvMotqDp5bsZ?si=2273debc08e5485d If you want more bonus content from every episode check out our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/menatworkpod Follow Us: The Pod: https://www.tiktok.com/@menatpodcast https://www.instagram.com/menatpod/ Follow Matt: https://www.tiktok.com/@mattpeoplescomedy https://www.instagram.com/mattpeoplescomedy/ Follow Kyle: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kylepagancb/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kylepagancb Follow Vito: https://www.instagram.com/vito_visuals/?hl=en

Three, two, one. Welcome back to another episode of Men at Work. I'm Kyle Pegg, and as always, I'm joined by Matt Peebles. Matt, where are we today? Kyle, you better believe we're kind of back to my origins as an Irish young man. We're at the Celtic, not Celtic, quit saying Celtic, the Celtic Festival in beautiful Burlington County. We just watched, for real, two knights fight. They have an actual dress-up knight fight with full armor and stuff,

and it looks like it hurts more than it's worth. It's insane. It's actually the closest I think we've ever gotten to medieval times. Yeah. Speaking of medieval times, it's making me nervous. That guy just put a shield to that guy's head. I wonder. There's a big crowd around them, too,

so I wonder if you're one of those guys betrothed to watching. Does that make you kind of feel something? Or do you think you're like, oh my God. I mean, how many layers are we away from these guys? How many layers of separation are we away from dressing up in full knighthood and just beating the ever-living piss out of each other? I think you're right.

Because as a content creator and a comedian, we really are where there was just like, you know how they say a boat, you just do a small turn and then you end up 3000 miles away from it. We really were one small turn. We were on the Titanic and we would have went right into the iceberg. You and I are like former theater people that just like were like, all right, I got to find myself after college. I have an art degree that I can't do anything with. Let's just become a Renaissance fair individual.

Let's go to the Celtic Festival and just beat the shit out of each other. Is that kind of thing? I think it's good. I think it's probably an alternative to like i don't want to say that some other guys are incels but i think it's probably that might be the worst version of this honestly yeah like this could be a school shooter and dressed up here and you know what they didn't do they got there they didn't shoot up to school they actually came down to the berlin county uh celtic society festival and just beat the shit out of each other with with medieval gear

on now is it a little bit funny to think of like a night guy going into a school dressed up like that and that's his mode yeah that's a little bit funny to think about folks but that's nasty talk i'm excited to be have you ever been anything anything like this no well until since we did the renaissance fair about five episodes okay yeah so we did exactly that that was a smash hit performance no i like it dude this is kind of fun for me i feel feel like this kind of channels back to my very nerdy days. I was an extraordinarily weird kid growing up. I was like Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, Magic the Gathering.

I'd watch my cousins play. And then D&D. You a Dungeons & Dragons guy? Why would you even ask me that? You know the answer to that. I just want to break through on one thing for you that brings out the inner dork in me. What did I tell you? What's that?

I said I don't have memories of my childhood that don't wrap around sports. It's something traumatic happened that I don't have memories before the age of like 18. You're like a Menendez brother, dude. Stop it. People are getting canceled left and right on that. I don't think we're going to have an opinion on this. Maybe we won't talk about it. What are you thinking?

Innocent, guilty. There's great people on both sides. Draw a line in the sand. Israel-Palestine and the Menendez brothers. I want your answer right now. I'll tell you right now. I'm on the brother's side. A hundred percent.

Oh, dude, you're on Palestine's side? I'm with the P's. I'm with the P's. You're on the brother's side? No, let the boys free. I don't understand the opposite opinion. Which ones? All of them from different regions of the Middle East and California or wherever they're from. I don't know.

I'm scared. I'm packing you into a corner right now. Why do you let me do this? I'm in the corner and I'm actually giving you some body shots. That's what happens. You put me in the corner and I give you a couple. Shout out to Menendez Brothers. I'm not scared to say that opinion. I think they should be free. Okay. Yeah.

What do you think? I haven't done my research. I'm going to sit this one out. I haven't done my research. I don't to sit this one out. I haven't done my research. I don't like to talk about things that I don't have my research done on. All the other things that we talk about that we have no idea about, this is where you draw a line. Yeah. Menendez Brothers. Menendez Brothers are hot in the street right now. I thought that was like a cold, closed case.

Yeah. Turns out there are a lot of layers. They're like the flu. I feel like they come up every couple of years and it's real bad. Well, they have that really, really, really cool thing in pop culture where they were in the back of a Mark Jackson card. You ever see that? They're sitting front row at a Knicks game. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And like that Mark Jackson card, which is like would typically go for like $5, $10 on the market. It goes for like maybe like $200, $500 on it because the Menendez brothers are literally sitting front row right behind. That is insane. I had forgotten about that. Yeah, I think their parents were dead by then. So they're just like gallivant. Again, I didn't do enough research.

Haven't watched one episode. I think sometimes in society we have too many opinions on things. Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one. Sure.

I'm going to sit the Menendez Brothers out. I think that's a crazy one for you to be like that's the one I'm not touching. Because I'm seeing people get canceled for having their opinions on it.

And you know what? I enjoy a nice canceling because I don't think canceling is real. But I'm going to sit this one out. Who's getting canceled? I've seen people be like,

no, the Menendez brothers should be still in jail. They did some horrific things, which I kind of agree with, but I'm also like, well, they had, you know, some unfortunate circumstances happen in their life,

which I also kind of agree with. And they've also done 30 years. And now I'm giving my opinion where I just said I was going to sit this out. But boom, who's in the corner now? We put baby in the corner.

How about those Phillies, man? Yeah, how about those Phillies? I wonder if the Menendez brothers were in any of those games. Mark Jackson card with them in the background. Yeah. Shot his dad. He's like, hand down, man down. His dad should have had a hand down.

Mark Jackson's got nothing but parents going, mama, there goes that man. That's crazy. He's replicated all his famous quotes off of the Menendez Brothers. Mark Jackson, he's got their aura within them. Yeah, how about that? Do you think the Menendez Brothers hit up Mark Jackson and was like, this is what I said when I hit my father. Mama, there goes that man. We've got a couple notes for you, Mark.

Look, we, mama, there goes that man. Mark, they only put the national broadcast games on in the prison over here. So I've been watching a lot of it. I wrote you this note of some things that you can say. You don't have to attribute them back to me and stuff. We think you're great. They got to get Doc Rivers off the air. I mean, technically, the Menendez brothers' father

should have played better defense. Yes, he should. He should have been playing with his hand up. Yeah. That was totally on him. 100%. The parents should have went, man, they're playing zone. 100%.

Yeah, we're not going to get canceled over that at all. That'll be a great... The one thing I will say is Mark Jackson has one of my favorite on-air moments of all time where he was calling a game. I think it was an NBA Finals game. Yeah. And I think it was LeBron was playing the Warriors during that run where they played nonstop. And Mark Jackson starts talking about LeBron's wife.

Yeah. Have you seen this clip? I'm going to give my opinion on it after you're done because I think you're spreading fake news, but go ahead. Okay. I may be. I'm just trying to get a better understanding. There's no fakeness.

It's just that there's a duck. Let's go. That's the greatest thing I've ever seen. Anyway, back to LeBron's wife. So there's a clip where he's talking about and Savannah James, one of the best women that you could ever help to have by his side. And with all due respect, I'd knock it out of the park. That's like, what the fuck? Do you know what the clip was before what was it apparently

it was like her playing softball or something like that it was talking about softball and that's why he says i'd knock that out of her park respectfully he's still saying he would bang his wife no he if i think the conversation was around they would play uh softball and she was a softball pitcher and he was like i would if I went up against her I would knock that out of the park respectfully but fake news media cut it

and now Mark Jackson's now like the horniest dude of all time when he's actually the most Christian dude of all time that's why he got half the reason

why he got fired from the Warriors why? they would have prayer circles and stuff and he's very devout Christian and stuff I'm pretty sure

he tried to recruit guys to his church and his wife's even more devout Christian and stuff. I'm pretty sure he tried to recruit guys to his church. And his wife's like even more like devout Christian and stuff. No shit. And they would like, they would just like pass their views on like the locker room and stuff. Yeah. Like fucking like Steph Curry in like his third year. You got Klay Thompson.

You got like all these guys that are like, Jermon Green. Wow. And he was just trying to pass all his beliefs off to them. And they were like prayer circles and stuff. Like, all right, get on one knee. Hand down, man down. To God. Mama, there goes that. Mama, there goes that savior that's crazy i had no idea i honestly don't know i don't know people look i was just operating under the information i was given

dude i'm a walking snopes you're not a walking snopes dude i totally just i totally just gave our listeners all this stuff yeah but i mean you're just adding the context beforehand i don't know that's hey i guess you're kind of Snopes. You might be Snopes. Snopes dog. Give me one more Snopes then. Something about... Spread some more lies. Okay, was COVID made in the lab? Actually, COVID was made in the lab. It was. I think they actually admitted that after

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I know. I kept an eye when you ate them the one time, and I was looking for the grimace or the purse in your lips. But you kind of just went like... Yeah. Yeah, Thrive's got good gummies. Thrive are the boys, dude. They're the dogs. Love them.

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Yes, please. One over here. One over here. God, look at that chain mail. That is a crazy... That's so sick. Let's throw these on. So, what's your first name? Chris.

Chris. Chris. And then... Jesse. Jesse. Chris and Jesse. Dude, we just saw people beating the shit out of each other over there. What the hell is going on?

So that is Armored Combat Worldwide. We are a full contact armored sport. Wow. The best and easiest way we can describe it is medieval MMA. Oh, what? Dude, how far do you guys travel? We have sports or competitions all over the United States, all over the world. We just had one in Utah.

Yeah? Okay. Yeah, last weekend. That was in Sandy, Utah, I believe. It was FightCon. Are you guys driving all over the place? Are you flying all over the place? What's going on? It is whatever the person decides. We have people who will fly with their armor.

We have people who will drive. We try and get big old carpools going. How is armor getting through TSA? I got to be fairly interesting. Dude, if I get stuck behind you two, I'd be so pissed. I don't know. If I get stuck behind a fairly stuck behind you two. I'd be so pissed. I don't know. If you get stuck behind a guy

with full plate, I might be like, what's going on? Yeah, but then I would never feel safer in my entire life. If I'm on a plane with somebody in a full suit armor, I'd be like, thank God this thing's not going anywhere.

It's true. Yeah. But so I've never done it personally, but all our guys who fly, they say they never had a problem. TSA is well aware of what we do.

Really? So all our stuff is, as we tell people, don't worry if you get pulled over by the cops. It's all legal sporting equipment. Right. Sporting equipment. Sporting equipment. Yeah, that's fair. I like that. Get that from a Dix. You know, at Models. So I noticed you mentioned that you're the full contact. Are there like partial? How do you do this

partial contact? Yeah, what do you think about those pussies in partial contact? It seems pretty aggressive for anything less than full contact. I am well aware that this is not for everybody and look, if it's not for you, it's not for you. But I'm going to tell you this. It's certainly aggressive for anything less than full contact. I am well aware that this is not for everybody. And look, if it's not for you, it's not for you. But I'm going to tell you this. It's certainly not for me. I got scared watching it.

I want to tell our followers at home, it was so funny to watch. It was awesome. It's just cool. Just imagine two dudes just beating the absolute piss out of each other. Or women, too. For how long? How long do the rounds go? So our typical rounds will be between 45 seconds to a minute.

And they will usually do best of three. So if you win both, it's two rounds. If you don't, it's three rounds. With usually about a one-minute rest in between. And we do guys who do up to 90-second rounds. Wow, and how many in up to three rounds? 90 seconds? Wow. Are you the champ of the women's division? Or of the entire division?

Is there a women's division? There is. There aren't many women in this sport. Wow. Are you the champ of the women's division or of the entire division? Is there a women's division? Is there a women's division? There is. There aren't many women in this sport. So a lot of times this gentleman right across the table from me, this is who I'm fighting. Nice. I'm five foot three on a good day with boots. So you don't do weight classes? In typical competitions, we will have not only weight classes, but men's and women's divisions.

Got it. Wait, so you two are fighting? Yeah. Oh, my God. We fought last time. How does that go? What's the all-time record between you two? We don't keep track.

Yeah. Why not? Because it's no fun. We just beat each other up. So this is for the love of the game. Yeah. All of us do this because it is a hobby. Yeah.

So is it a sanctioned event? Yes. Okay. It is fully sanctioned, but when we run them, we run them a little bit looser than typical competitions. I love that. Why not run them looser when you can just beat the piss out of each other? I like that. Are you like drinking during the rest? What does it mean it's a little bit looser?

Does that just... I mean, if you want, go nuts. Drink. Wow, that's cool. What are the typical injuries? Typical injuries, actually, most of our injuries come from practice, not from fighting. So that armor is about 80 pounds, full steel, usually, and you don't feel much in it. Really? I would assume so, because are you guys, like, what kind of weapons are you using?

So I just fought with a mace and a punch shield. And mace is the one that's, like, on the string, right? No, that's a flail that's actually not legal in our sport oh so yeah we have specific guidelines yeah um a mace it's it's uh the ball kind of going to stick yeah that's it um that's not my preferred weapon of choice i in duels i like arming swords they're a lot faster uh but I just got done fixing, I call it the cleaver. It was a longer falchion that I had shortened for melees. Got it.

So it's a little bit beefy. It's going to hit a little bit harder. And it's got a D grip on it so I can punch with it too. How do you win? It depends on a melee. It's pretty much, it's two teams. Sometimes it could be three on three, five on five, 16 on 16. The largest melee I saw, I was in in myself it was about 40 on 40 the largest one i've witnessed is 150 on 150 oh my god they are they it is pure chaos and pure fun where does that happen at just

like malls or something or where do you do it at so we typically do fight and stuff like this celtic festivals ren fairs and we hold pure art and pure competitions that are just that right like we said we just had one in utah salt lake city fight con uh yep we do have fit con coming up next august too also will be our regionals nice same place salt lake city utah okay and it is it's a full competition you'll see melees there you'll see night fights you'll see duels so what you guys witnessed was kind of a crawl it was a night fight right which typically also has throws in it but we took them out for today just for people's safety yeah it's it's just pure chaos just that's where you get that mma a duel is more technique so you'll see a lot more movements with your weapons swords axes stuff like that and both duels and night fights those are your those are your point systems. Okay. So, you know, strike on anywhere on the body is one point.

A disarm is another. Yeah. And then if you fall over, that's another point. Oh, wow. Okay. What's the purses like? How much it costs? No, what's the purses like?

Can you win, like, money if you're, like, you know, the granddaddy of them all? It depends. In some places, unfortunately, like, it's illegal to do prize fights. Okay. But there are. I've been in competitions where I've heard the prize going up to 10 grand. Wow. Wow. So is this like the amateur kind of thing, and then the goal is like a Medieval Times type of deal?

Is that like somebody you guys look at as like one day, or is that just kind of more of an actor thing? So we're a little bit different from medieval times our our goal is we do have it is the world tournament that is it's kind of like our version of the olympics yeah that's where you'll see that 150 on 150 yeah so you know we hope to uh get there one day if not we just enjoy the sport how do you how do you get there like is there like a whole like ranking system and everything so we do have qualifiers so uh that one in salt lake city utah coming up that's our regionals and that's where a lot of the guys who will get picked for the team for the united states team will come from there's also you'll have lower ones where so that's actually just his job

she is the north atlantic region uh commander she will pick all our team to send to that regional championship yeah and whoever she says goes is who will be sent there to fight and then those guys can get picked to go on to the world tournament wow who's who's the guy right now or who's the guy in the uh in the country right now who's the best of the best it's uh it's always you know moving around so we do have our uh he's the guy who started the sport he's wandering around somewhere his name's andre andre sanu he is he started the sport with a couple other people about 11 years ago he brought it to america i should actually say he is one I'm gonna say more than ten gold medals over across the cross pond he is he's he's up there he's the guy yeah Wow that's kind of interesting so it I guess it obviously originated in Europe because America there's never

been any Knights that I could think of right so this sport is actually it is originated yes it originated in Europe. Right. Back in actual medieval times. So we're not reacting medieval battles. We're redoing a medieval sport in modern times. So back in the day, what countries would do, France, Europe, whatever, they would actually send their knights to these competitions to keep them fight ready in case you go to war. If no one's currently at war, your knights are just sitting around.

You've got to keep your skills sharp. Right. Has anyone ever died? No. Not that I'm aware of. How sharp are the swords? How badly can you get hurt? They are fully blunted. We have had broken bones. We've had, you know, bruises, stuff like that.

That's just territory. But it's no more dangerous than regular MMA, football, any of that. Concussions, the whole nine yards. Man, I'm trying to really put the point home, man. You guys were beating the ever-living piss out of each other. You could hear it from the other side of the field, like the smacks that were happening. It made me scared.

It was awesome. Are you fighting today? the other side of the field, like the smacks that were happening. It made me scared. It was awesome. Are you fighting today? Not today, no. Okay. She is. I just got done with the fight, but unfortunately

the hood inside of my helmet made, it worked its way down in front of my eyes, so I was fighting the whole time blind. How did it go?

Yeah, did you win? No. I got a couple hits. You know, it's kind of feeling my way in the dark. I'm actually about to go back to the tent and sew it back together. You kind of have to have a couple skills if you're going to be in this sport.

You're going to be a little bit of arts and crafts. I'm going to try sewing it back together and hopefully by the next fight I'll be good to go and I won't be blind again. Where can people find you? I have one last question. you're saying you sew it together Do you buy your own set of armor yourself or is it like a rental? You know all our stuff is we buy it ourselves. Now some people are nice enough to loan this stuff out to our new guys

How much does that cost? I think my full kit probably about five or six thousand. Wow Yeah kit uh probably about five or six thousand wow yeah i prioritize safety over everything being much smaller and having to fight guys that are you know six foot two six foot five on average sure i want to make sure that when they hit me and i and if i do have to eat it i am going to be able to go to work on monday yeah wow what do you do what do you do outside of this i so i uh run an auto shop that makes sense that's kind of cool yeah I used to be a mechanic so a little bit

of the the skill set from there crossed over into this too welding you know you ever just want to take a fucking wrench

in one of these guys heads not yet I don't know if that's legal yeah probably not outside the sanction event well as a boss have you ever thought about

just walking in full night suit and being like shit's different now oh yeah I know I do have you ever thought about just walking in full night suit and being like, shit's different now? Oh, yeah, no, I do. Have you done that? On an average day, I have my... Wow.

I usually keep all of my armor in my car. Okay. So, you know, sometimes I got to break out the helmet. Listen, our oil change times are a little too high right now.

We're going to get them down. Yeah. Or you're going to feel the wrath. And let me ask you this. From a mechanic perspective, I got sold on a higher grade synthetic oil when I got an oil change. I got screwed out of money, right? Depends what kind of car you got.

It's a Honda CRV 2011. Doesn't even have air conditioning. No air conditioning. That's kind of like the middle year. They started with 5W20, just regular. And then there was a transition year where they went to the 020. You could probably do 520. Okay.

I'm not sure what that means, but I think that means I got screwed. Did you I think that means... Nah, I mean, you can go longer on your oil chains. Ah, cool. What do you do for a living? I actually work for the New Jersey Taxation. You're the motherfucking taxing this thing? I do not do the taxes. You're the feds. I'm the guy behind the scenes helping keep everything running.

Okay, how so? You know, we transport desks, computers, pretty much. Something needs to be done that's not taxes, we do it. I love that. Anything else? I want to keep you guys all day. It's so fascinating. But I also want to watch you guys beat the shit out of each other.

So we can't keep you the whole time. Two o'clock, our next fight. Two o'clock, next fight? That's right. Do you let people just walk up? We are doing fight of night. What is up? We are doing fight of night. What is that? We're doing fight of night.

So pretty much we are given a foam buffer. That way we're not allowed to hit you with steel. Obviously you can come in the ring and you would get... Are we giving them real steel today? You can try swinging real steel on our pals. We cannot let you swing real steel at another person. There's a whole laundry list of legal reasons. But yes, if you would like to come and hit us with some of our boffers,

it's our practice equipment, totally up for it. Okay. Do you ever get some kind of weird people who seem like they have nefarious reasons for wanting to do that? Oh, yeah. We did early this morning, I think. What happened? He wanted to take it out on the Pel.

Something about, I'm not doing the dishes again. Oh, yeah think. What happened? He wanted to take it out on the Pell. Something about I'm not doing the dishes again. Oh, yeah. Where was I? I don't know. Where you were? There was a guy hitting somebody

dressed in night gear screaming about his wife. Wow. I kind of am on his side a little bit, honestly. I've kind of been there a couple times.

The dishes suck. Dishes and laundry, I would actually take it out on a fake night. Yeah, I might take it out on a little, on a fake night. Yeah, I might take it up on that offer, yeah. This is my therapy. It is fun to think about you in a therapist chair in full night gear being like,

yeah, I just don't know what's going on at home. I kind of enjoy that. The dishes suck. I hate my parents. What? I can't hear you. I just grew up not liking my parents. Okay.

Well, hey guys. Thank you so much for this. I really appreciate it. This is really cool, man. Good luck. Good luck in the regionals and nationals. Yeah, seriously. Thank you. Where can people find you? We appreciate it. Good luck with everything.

Instagram. Instagram. You know our stuff. So we're under New Jersey Leads Devils, ACW. And also on Facebook. I believe it's just Leads Devils, ACW. Okay. Under both. Perfect.

All right. Thank you. Thank you very much, guys. Thanks for having us. Have fun. Thanks for having us. Chris, good meeting you. Thanks, man.

How about that? Dude, I don't think I could possibly do it. It's one of those things. I think you're really protected. Yeah, but? Dude, I don't think I could possibly do it. It's one of those things. I think you're really protected. Yeah, but even that, I don't think... I think people say, oh, we're protected because they're used to it. You got to talk to somebody who's like, they've done it twice. I'd be like, dude, what's really going on?

And they're like, yo, it is hard. It's probably like getting tackled in football. If you're a football player, you're like, pfft. Yeah, you got tackled. Yeah. But it's like, nah, dude, it's a kill. It sucks being tackled. I'm telling you, you get a seasoned vet. They're going to tell you the same thing. I really need a guy who went there one yeah but it's like nah dude kill it sucks being that getting tackled i'm telling you get like a seasoned vet they're gonna tell you the same thing i really need a guy who

went there one time and he's like yo jujitsu is hard and all the guys are mean i did i did kickboxing for like a month did you really yeah and i loved it that was so cool and then uh and they they tried to get me to do a uh they tried to get me in the ring yeah i can't be punched. Were you doing solo kickboxing or are you against somebody? Yeah, like on the pads. On the pads. Yeah.

Yeah, and like guys would hold pads. And you also have like the other pads and stuff like that. You have it like boxing gyms and stuff. And then like you get the first thought of like fighting someone. I can't be punched. Yeah. What do you do? What's your reaction?

Do you get angry? Like do you go, I hate you? Or do you get kind of like scary? I hate... Like... I can see be punched. Yeah. What do you do? What's your reaction? Do you get angry? Like, do you go, I hate you? Or do you get kind of, like, scary? I hate, like... I can see you going, what the fuck? I get annoyed. Like, I get annoyed. Do you remember, like, my buddy, I had one buddy who used to be a big Nerple guy.

And every time we were drinking, like, he would get, like, you'd be coming back with two pitchers. You'd be like, right there. And that used to drive me up a wall. Oh, 100%. Something about being pinched drives me up a wall. Kyle, we were meant to do this podcast. That is my number one thing.

You can slap me. You can punch me. If I get pinched, there's something in me. My delicate skin. I feel my muscles form in a way where they feel strong because I'm so angry. It's animalistic. It's turning into the Hulk. Oh, dude, and that pinch will stick with me for, like, at least five minutes.

Yep. Like, you could punch me in the shoulder and be like, all right, that kind of hurt. Yeah. You know, but it'll go away in, like, 30 seconds. Dude, you pinch me. Oh. Oh, I'm ready to drop the gloves. Yeah, the pinch.

So if they pinch me first, I could fight the heavyweight contender of the MMA if he pinched me first. Yeah, I think I kind of feel the exact same way. Conor McGregor, you're up, dude, but you've got to pinch me first. Oh, I'm going to pinch you on your tiny shoulder. I don't know why he's Mike Myers from Shrek. I mean, he is. He's an annoying drunk big orange idiot.

Conor McGregor, if you're out there, I'm not scared of you, dude. I'll pinch you right back. Pinching annoys me and the other thing that would get me is when somebody would push me and I wasn't expecting like, you don't want to get pushed and you're expecting it. You can kind of stiffen up and take the push. When you get pushed and you're not expecting it and your head moves and you go like, because then you'll like a goddamn idiot and you're getting hurt.

That was the thing that always killed me. Like one of my buddies comes by. Your mouth is telling her and whiplash. You got a little whiplash and it turned you into an angry person. Yeah, I'm sitting there beating the drum. But go ahead. So wait,

I want to explore this. So you get pushed and you just go off the deep end? Well, I think you can relate to this because it's more of a tall guy thing. I think when you're smaller, you're lower to the ground. You don't get much of a shake

when you're pushed. Because I was a taller kid, my smaller buddies would like push me in the small of my back and I would like get pushed forward and the neck goes up. It's definitely a dominance thing because when the small of my back and i would like get pushed forward and the neck goes up it's definitely

a dominance thing because when the small guys try to check you and they have a they have a better center of gravity yeah so like when like you know you push like us like we're a fucking beanstalk you push us like oh it's like so it's like yeah i i all right i kind of understand that they take advantage of us i can't understand that i had one of my one of my best friends growing up was a short guy and anytime you made fun of him for being short or anything, this small ball of energy would just come and attack you viciously. Words, anger, push. He died in a car accident in 2018, so big ups to my homie Ant.

Love you, buddy, but you should have kept to yourself, man. You should have pinched me. Stop pinching me, man. You want to come on? Come on on. Whatever side you want to be on. Pick your lucky side. Oh, you're being pinched me. Stop pinching me, man. You want to come on? Come on on. Whatever side you want to be on. Pick your lucky side. Oh, yeah.

Being pinched is the worst. What's up, man? Oh, you look great. Dude, we were just talking about being pinched. By who? Anybody. Just drives us up a fucking wall. Like St. Paddy's Day pinch?

No, like I had a guy who was a big nurple guy. Gotcha, gotcha. Dude, you get me right. You get these ones. This one maybe, but you get this one, you grab on, you twist a little bit. Yeah. Dude, I'll go nuclear. It gets me every time.

I have big nipples. I mean, I get it. There's a lot of room. I get it. Getting the nurple is never, ever hard. Dude, when you have something in your hands and you're just like so... Even funnier is just when you don't get the nurple, you just rest your hand there and just make it feel awkward.

I kind of like that. Like, that's way better because, one, you don't get mad, but, two, you also don't feel comfortable. Yeah. Okay, that's fair. 100%. You put him in a nice middle ground. You can't really get rageful that way.

Yeah, but I don't think you just do that to somebody walking around in ShopRite. Somebody picking out their car. I mean, you can. You know, it's just hope to God that you know that person. The cops will be there. Yeah, for sure. Or at the very least, just go, hey, you look like you needed a touch. Yeah, but I'm the guy.

I just want you to know it's not your fault and then walk away. I swear to God I'd bawl my eyes out. I would bawl my eyes out if somebody did that to me. Yeah, just goodwill hunting anybody. Hey, it's not your fault. Don't fuck with me, man. It's not your fault. I think I would for real start lactating if somebody did that to me.

That would be a great prank. Just go around and tell people it's not your fault okay i think i would for real start lactating if somebody did that to me that would be a great prank just go around telling people it's not it's not your fault yeah and like a grocery store then running away so how are you guys enjoying the festival oh it's been awesome it's really cool how are you enjoying the festival oh not too bad not too bad over here just running the american highlander booth you know nice selling kilts yeah uh so i guess you're you're working in these uh or you kind of uh have a knowledge of these highlander games that are going on. Kind of, yeah. Like tossing the log. Yeah.

And I heard you want to get it at 12 o'clock? What do you mean? I think there's a clock out there. Yes, yes, yes. And it looks like an American clock. And you toss this log. You toss the caper. I'll splice the video in here. But you toss the log.

And if it lands at 12 o'clock, you get 12 points? Oh, that's cool. You're trying to flip it. But you toss the log, and if it lands at 12 o'clock, you get 12 points? Correct. Oh, that's cool. You're trying to flip it. This is like a 20-foot log, too. Oh, yeah. No, it's not easy. It's not easy at all. How much it weighs?

About one piece of a log cabin. That's the best way to explain it? That's like the metric system. Yeah, exactly. One piece of a log cabin. That's my new measurement of weight for everything ever. Like, what's it weigh? One piece of a, I don't know, That's the best way to explain it. That's like the metric system. Yeah, exactly. One piece of log cabin. One piece of weight for everything ever. Like, was it weight? One piece of a, I don't know, house?

Like a door? Like a log cabin door? I've gained a little weight. I've gained about one-fifteenth of a log cabin. Yeah. But even more fun is just, you know, they're doing it in kilts and, you know, they're having fun with it. Yeah, that's awesome.

It's got to be great airflow. Oh, big time. Yeah. Big time. You just wrap it around and boom, you're good to go. Do you think we should have kilts more often than, like,-to-day like it kind of oh no i i wear kilts every day yeah but then again it's my job so you know normally selling kilts and putting people in kilts is a normal thing but like yeah wearing him casually i'll say this name of the game down there

is freedom boys really you know like at the end of the day like you're just walking around yeah and they just feel comfortable how's the swamp ass better way better yeah because it's not even there like half the times i tell guys you know one thing you don't have to worry about is washing your kilt as often as you would your pants no way i'm not touching anywhere intimate it's wrapped around you yeah right so yeah so it's not like you know you're gonna get a wedge in there so yeah yeah i guess it doesn't really hold a fart like a pair of pants. It kind of just moves on. Wow, that's pretty sweet.

And you can always blame it on anybody else. You're a free ball? Sometimes. Field scandalous. I normally say I've got to rule a thumb, ask yourself where you're going to fall. Is it going to be a story or a crime? At the end of the day, at the bar with your friends,

that is one hell of a story. That's a great time. But watching your friend's Little League game, yeah, that might be a crime. You explain to that judge how that went down. I like that. But then you got guys who go, oh, well, it's not a kill if you're not free balling, to which I go, all right.

So is that a customary thing, typically, that a lot of guys that wear kilts are typically very pro free ball? Yes. Got it. Yeah, they want the boys to bat around, but I don't have the strength to tell them that it's not that big. Look, dude. I'll touch your nipple and I'll give you the strength right now.

Exactly. How long have you been in the kill game? About three and a half years. Wow. What got you into it? Took the sign off the window and said, I'm here. Ah, that was because the help wanted? The help wanted sign, yeah.

Come on. We'll learn you. We'll learn you. He's a little behind. He's a little behind. Yeah, no, no. Just pick it up with some pick. So I cracked up because my dad was like yeah just go out looking for a job that's not how it works anymore yeah and then i did that and i was like three years later i'm not

gonna tell him that it worked yeah you know but yeah no only puerto rican ecuadorian in the game selling kilts i love that how about that fantastic i feel like a reverse spanish teacher half the time everybody had a Senorita Smith. Instead, they'd come to the kilt shop to talk to Mello. Yeah. Like, here, let me help you out. Make Mello. You know, I'm not Scottish or Irish.

I'm Puerto Rican Ecuadorian. Just wear this. You know? Do you get any shit about that, about being Hispanic and this kind of nothing? Not at all. Because when you look good doing it, it doesn't matter to you. Yeah, sure. And that's really the key component to it. I like that.

You know? it doesn't matter yeah sure that's really the key component to it like that you know like you'll still eat a cake even if it was made by the wrong you know hands right sure like at the end of the day it's just how it goes down and it seems so that's like specific to ireland scotland ireland scotland wales isle of man what's our man it's an island yeah but it's a country no way yeah is it really i guess it's in the uk so there's seven celtic nations got it okay and uh those seven celtic nations kind of put together to make up like the whole celtic yeah set up and yeah like isle of man is one of them fucking wales is one of them you know scotland and ireland are the two biggest ones of them. Right. So, like, you know. But, yeah.

You ever been over there? No, unfortunately. Got to get over there. Yeah, no. I got to go drinking with those guys because they look like a lot of fun. No one works. Exactly. Honestly.

It's the greatest place in the world. Oh, man. Just the stories that come out of Ireland and the stories that come out of Scotland themselves. Yeah. Yeah, I definitely want to go drinking with those guys. Yeah. So, you mentioned it's go drinking with those guys. Yeah. So you mentioned it's the Celtic Fair.

Why are the Boston Celtics called the Celtics? Is there any difference, or are they just saying it wrong? Well, I mean, it is Boston. Yeah. Have you ever said the word chowder in Boston? True. That's a great point. True.

Yeah. They aren't known to pronounce their words correctly. Yeah, but at least, I mean, they just totally switched it over. Exactly. Yeah, they did. They Americanized it. It's like it's their words correctly. Yeah, but at least, I mean, they just totally switched it over. Yeah, they did. They Americanized it. It's like, it's their Taco Bell. But I don't really like their Taco Bell at all.

Just make it a C. I don't know. I don't know. It makes sense. It makes sense. So, yeah. But no, besides that, like, it's pretty much the business. So, this is your job.

Your job is to sell kilts and sell other Irish. Yep. And then we got two shops that we run. So, we got one in ewing one in new hope new hope does all of our like gift stuff so like we sell rings we sell candy there we sell shirts and then our ewing shop is more designed to like get guys ready for like full events and there's a whole market oh yeah no today over at the shop alone we did like three weddings that we set up just for yeah just for april so like you know

because this is also the only business where you're still getting sized up yeah to get things made for you right which is like rare to hear yeah so like i will have people who pop in the shop hey i saw this on the website just wanted to get it it's like cool nice and then i get people come in that you know hey i want my family tartan. All right, you got it, man. Yeah. So, yeah. So, like, you know, dress them up, get them ready. Hell, we even do proms every once in a while. Like, it's really just interesting to see what we dress up. Yeah. Have you seen the fashion kind of come back to kilts?

My buddy wore a kilt to the, my buddy wore a kilt to a wedding, and it was, we talked about it. Actually, funny enough, I have seen it. Like, the, what was it, a couple of weeks ago. Yeah. But he's from Brooklyn. Yeah. So, it's kind of like they do the fashion differently down there metz gala and asap rocky was wearing yes yeah yeah so he was rocking uh the tartan and so you probably see that you're like oh let's go we're gonna know do you see it like do like the does the kill community see like an uptick in kilts when like someone famous like that big doesn't like uh there's plenty of new medias out there that are just promoting kilt culture in general and even yeah wow kilt culture

in general and even then like just watching people just on even just like i said tiktok alone like showing off their kilts and seeing how you know this look is you got a bunch of guys just starting to wear them now so what goes into like a kilt culture like kind of thing like i mean i guess there's different different uh so it's like replacing either just your everyday wear with just a kilt added onto it. So whether it's just like, hey, I'm going to rock this Hawaiian shirt, this tank top, and then I'm going to wear...

There was a guy with a Hawaiian shirt with a rock kilt. Oh, I didn't see that. That was awesome. I always say to people, kilts are just a replacement for pants. Like whenever somebody tells me, hey, when can I wear this? Anytime you want. Yeah.

Literally. And even then, like uptick in kilt culture would be like something like the utility kilt. I don't know if you saw guys walking around here with like the kilts with pockets and everything like that. So those are actually more American than they are Scottish. Kind of like a cargo kilt. Correct kill correct okay so like those were like designed in 2000 like it was literally the funniest thing we all have the same story it was a guy named steve he was working in it for some company and the company came out with their dress code they told him he couldn't wear his cargo shorts he got upset decided to cut out all the inseams go back to work

and say they're all kilts they said prove it and he formed an entire company around it okay all right like i i would hate steve i'm just gonna say i would i would definitely want to be the one of my least favorite employees i would pinch steve for sure he's innovative oh no like you know at the end of the day like that was the whole idea of kilts in general too like when the scots and the irish wore them it was basically to rebel against the English too. Oh. So like the fact that he was doing it very rebellious, I was like, yeah, it's American as hell.

I can respect that, Steve. I can respect that. Is kilt culture becoming more innovative or what else can you do with a kilt? Yeah, big time. So like you could just basically upgrade whatever look you have. Like you can replace your entire black suit

with a kilt if you wanted to. You just take the top half of a suit and then just change out the kilt. It looks like a whole different suit half the time. That's the ASAP Rocky. I think he did the exact same thing. What are the key differences between a kilt and a skirt? Skirt is usually designed in

one solid piece and you skirt it up by lifting it. Is that why it's called a skirt? Correct. A kilt is in one solid piece and you skirt it up by lifting it. Is that why it's called a skirt? Correct. Wow. A kilt is usually a wraparound piece that you, once again, wrap around the midsection of your body and that's how you wear it. Okay. So that's the difference between a kilt and a skirt.

Not only that, but a kilt is also pleated in the back and flat in the front, which is known as your apron. Got it. Okay. So a skirt could be any style around it. But yeah, that's the difference between the two. That's awesome. I had no idea that skirt was literally the movement of a skirt.

The way you're doing it, that is actually called skirting. And then the kilt wraps around. I thought a kilt might have a cool one, like I kilt a man in 2008 or something. No, it's just a good joke. I kilt a man with a rock back in the 1700s in Scotland. I kilt a man on the highway and I kept driving and I went to his vigil. Yeah, who knows?

A kilt and run. Wow. What's the armband? Does that signify anything? No, that's just me being an old punk. I like it. Thanks. I like it.

Oh, yeah. And then the socks. Those wool socks? Yep. That's going to be hot. Oh, yeah. And then the socks. Those wool socks? Yep. It's going to be hot as shit, though. Not necessarily. Really? Surprisingly, wool dries fairly quickly.

Also, it doesn't get as warm as most people think. Like, I will say this. In the winter, when I wear this, my legs are fine. Really? Like, I'm never, ever cold. Yeah. Like, you wear a kilt, wool socks, you're good to go. Oh, you can go kilt in the winter, too?

Correct. It still holds up pretty well? Oh, yeah. Big time. Are there like thermal line kilts or anything? It's going over his knees. So I feel like, yeah, you would definitely be from your wool socks to your kilt bottom. So even if it just went up to my knees, I would still be warm.

Really? Yeah. No, just this right here, for some odd reason, just keeps you warm. So, yeah. You really could do like, you could recreate like that Marilyn Monroe thing. Exactly. Has anybody ever done that? Let that rip. I have. Have you really? Yes. By accident. That was a story.

Last year. No underwear. Correct. So last year we were setting up for Beer Fest in AC. OK. And we were just putting up the tent and I was wearing my black utility kilt. My one coworker was right in front of me me and all of a sudden you get those coastal winds. They hit real hard and then, you know, just Marilyn Monroe and just looked at him and said, it's a story, man. It's a story. It's a story. Not a crime. You're not a child. You're fine. You're good. We're in the city. We're in the city. This is the number one place to do it. Another city of sin. You're fine here. Exactly. What are the misconceptions of a kilt? So misconceptions of the kilt is that if you wear the wrong tartan, you're fine here exactly what are the misconceptions of a kilt so misconceptions

of the kilt is that uh if you wear the wrong tartan you're gonna offend somebody what's it called uh tartan so tartan is what you know is plaid okay ah gotcha so if you wear the wrong tartan you're gonna offend somebody but in reality that's not true at all so if we call it if we call it a plaid is that like saying the n-word to tartan? No. Okay. It's just they know you're American. It's a reach. I want to be sure, dude. I want to ask.

It's like, nice plaid. It's a yank. Yeah, it's a yank. Okay. We know you're American. All right. All right. So, but yeah, most Americans believe that if you wear like somebody else's family tartan, you're offending them.

But in reality, half the times, if you were to go to or ireland they'd be busy buying you drinks right because it's almost like wearing your favorite baseball team and somebody who also is favorite of that team going like i'm a fan too let's do this so how do you do the tart i'm sorry how do you how do you do the tarts like how do you know that it's like this is a family tart the colors the so it's normally the colors the patterns the way they're designed so like right now I'm wearing what's known as Irish National. Okay. What makes it Irish National? It's the tone of the tartan.

So it's got a Kelly green. It's got a yellow. It's got a black. It's got a white. And it's within a pattern. But there's no orange. If it was orangey, it would be Heritage of Ireland. Okay.

Oh, you said you're wearing what? So I'm wearing Irish National. Irish National. And there's a difference. So like there's multiple different styles. Are you Northern Ireland right now? Nah. Oh, okay. I're wearing what? So I'm wearing Irish National. Irish National. And there's a difference. So like there's multiple different styles. Are you Northern Ireland right now? Nah. Oh, okay.

I'm not that high. Oh, brah. Nah. Nah, it was just what was lying around the shop, so I took it. That's fair. That's fair. Very good. Yeah, no.

So like, you know, if you were wearing a utility kilt, it doesn't mean a damn thing because it's a non-traditional kilt. If you were wearing any of the Tartans that are walking around here, I can name most of those. So I can just tell you which family they're deriving from or if that person just really likes whatever they like. So we say go birds. When you see another person in that kind of kilt, do you say anything? Okay, so if somebody says go birds, the tartan I think of the closest is the Finn

McCools because it has all three of those colors that the birds would rock. In fact, I have made an Eagles kilt, Eagles utility kilt that way. Got it. When we see an Eagles fan, we say go birds. Do you guys have anything you say to your people who rock the kilts? Oh, yeah, just go birds.

It's fairly easy. That's a Phillies fan, we know. It just works out that way. There's no like, go Ireland, or go Irish? Go Ireland. There's Aaron Go Bra, which is the Irish little saying. Sláinte? Or Sláinte, yeah.

Actually, at the shop, we say Slán leat, which just means good lad. So usually when we do a shot, we'll just say, good lad, let's drink. I love that. I have one last question that I'm kind of curious about. So you mentioned about people being offended that you're wearing

kind of like a different family's pattern and such. So you're Puerto Rican and wearing an Irish kilt. Do you ever worry that would be like, if I'm like a white dude, I'm dressed like a geisha, like it kind of looks... Not at all.

Has anybody ever given you a hard time or anything no no I've seen plenty of white guys dressed like geishas it's true really where are they

I've been looking for these your costume is not our culture Philadelphia yeah obviously you're probably right go birds go birds

go birds there are a lot of burlesque shows exactly that'd be a cool way yeah I feel like your wiener sticks out you're just like go bird

there's my bird I'll do a burlesque show I'll do that shit I love that just do it I love that hop up on stage. What's your stage name? Kilty Pleasures.

Let's do this. Kilty Pleasures. Let's go. So if I drive down the street in an Impala and I have the Puerto Rican flag outside of it, you don't give a fuck?

No, because an Impala would more mean you're Mexican than Puerto Rican. You got to be waving a knife. What do Puerto Ricans drive? You got to be waving a knife. What a poor Egan's drive. Civics. Okay. With a spoiler or without the spoiler?

Sadly, without the spoiler and a loud muffler. Those are the worst. If you're going to have a loud muffler, at least have a spoiler, right? Loud muffler already sounds like a slur. You got to be careful. Dude, where can people find this? Where can people find these coats? Online or?

They can go online to our online shop, so AmericanHighlander.com or they can visit us, the shop in Ewing, Ewing, New Jersey, 186 Scotch Road or they can go over to our shop in New Hope and that is along Main Street

right behind the Welcome Center. New Hope's beautiful. New Hope's really nice, yeah. It's a good town. All right, man. Appreciate you, man. This was great, man. Thank you so much.

Thank you so much. We really appreciate it. Great meeting you too, man. Good luck with everything. Have a great day, guys. Thank you too. What's up, dude? Come in.

Will you ask people what they do for a living? You want to sit down? I only need three minutes. Three minutes, tops. Three minutes. You can all hop on. Let's tag team this. Come on. What's your first name? Ellie. You can all hop on. Yeah, come on. Let's tag team this.

Come on. What's your first name? Ellie. Ellie? Kai. Kai. Kai. Kai.

K-I-E. I like that. What is that? Native American. Sweet, dude. What tribe? Laguna. Laguna. Beach?

No, New Mexico. Oh, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet. What's your tribe? Irish, British. Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet. What's your tribe? Irish, British. White people. Ashkenazi, maybe a little bit. How are you? What do you do for a living? Good. I'm a student right now. Nice, nice. Where are you going to school? I go to school in Florida. So I go to school in St. Petersburg. So we just got hit with the hurricane. Is the school still there? How's the school looking? It's standing. You're in Tampa? No, I go to school in St. Petersburg, so we just got hit with the hurricane. Is the school still there? How's the school looking? It's standing. You're in Tampa?

No, I go to a small school. It's called Eckerd College. Got it. Are you in college still? I'm a student at TCNJ. TCNJ, okay. Definitely the Tampa of the North. Of course. That's what they say. We're the Roers. Sweet. So, dude, how's it been the last week?

It must have been nuts. Yeah, it's been intense. It's pretty hard to see the news. I know, like, even the stadium where the Rays play the Tampa Bay Rays, the roof came off. So it's been hard to see. But I think everything, there's a lot of volunteers I know right now that are helping out. You could argue that the Tampa Bay Rays stadium actually looks better than it used to now. There you go.

Yeah, they're a good, I mean, remodel. So now they have the possibility of that those owners actually have to fucking start spending on something so exactly no but the school's still there everything's good and everything your dorm room's not underwater from what i've heard it's fine when you go back i have no clue right now they're saying maybe the 18s but it could be later but you're doing online classes yeah that's kind of sick yeah it's not bad do you like being back or do you wish you were still down there um it's hard i mean i get to do stuff like i come here so it's nice to have that but it's good it's good bad. Do you like being back or do you wish you were still down there? It's hard. I mean, I get to do stuff like a come here, so it's nice to have that.

It's good. Yeah. I'm a senior, so it's hard to like my last year. And you just started during COVID, too? Yeah. Wow. Oh, my God. You've never been in school before.

This is crazy. It's hard. It's rough. Wow. That's crazy. We're powering through. We tough it out. Yeah.

So it's, yeah, it'll be, it'll work out. What are you majoring in? I'm doing anthropology and ancient studies. Sweet. sweet uh we'll get to you in a second have you have been following the lieutenant dan stuff i have dude how set how crazy is that it's insane i could never imagine that i mean like he stays in the boat the whole time it's insane did you hear about this guy yeah but you hear about the backstory yeah now it's getting a little seedy stuff coming about and now there's now there's a potentially they're stealing the GoFundMe money and stuff. Oh, God.

It's just the ultimate Florida story. It's a guy who stays in his boat. He's got one leg. He's got a crazy criminal past. Yes. He gets a crazy GoFundMe amount. He survives the hurricane in his boat in a Category 5. And now they're potentially stealing the money because a bunch of Florida influencers tried to lash themselves into this guy.

Is that what it was? Yeah, dude. It's the most typical Florida story. You're from up here, right? Yeah. So you must go down there, and you're like, Florida man, Florida woman is the most insane people. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, it's not surprising to hear, but it's sad. Yeah. But I'm not surprised. What did you think about it, though, like, leaning up to it and everything? Because, like, I was rooting for the guy. I was like, let's fucking go. That's scary. I was scared.

Nah, dude, stay in the boat. Well, yeah. Dude, batten the hatches down. His thing is, like, the boat's his whole life. Yeah. It's like, you know, if he has nothing else that he's living for, and he wants to stay in the boat. Well, yeah. Dude, batten the hatches down. His thing is like the boat's his whole life. It's like, you know, if he has nothing else that he's living for, and he wants to stay in the boat. 100%.

And people were kind of like, you got to leave, you got to leave, you got to leave. It's like, he's got one leg. He loves his boat. He loves what he did. And if he died, he died what he did love it. Yeah, but how did he get the boat? I don't know.

Getting a boat seems more difficult than a homeless guy should be able to do, from my experience. I don't think boats are that expensive down there. I feel like you can find a boat for probably like a couple hundred dollars on there. Do you know anything about Lieutenant Dan? I know nothing about boats. Do you know anything about Lieutenant Dan, though? I don't know anything about Lieutenant Dan I'm learning right now.

Oh, really? Those we're talking for is gone. Well, yeah, I mean, that's the thing. Like, no, that's so crazy. I mean, Lieutenant Dan, he's just, he's now in a long list of Florida heroes. Yeah. It's like him and Tom Brady, really. The big two. And 2001 Odyssey, the strip club.

Of course, yes, of course. Big ups. Of course, yeah. You're a senior. Yeah. You ever been to the eighth wonder of the world? 2001 Odyssey no I haven't

do people end up ever going there I don't think so it's got a giant alien spaceship on the top of the strip club really yeah

they get like suspended down from it no there used to be I think there used to be a room up there where you could go into but I think they shut it down

Tampa's an awesome place that's fun yeah evidently you've been yeah multiple times good for you. So TCNJ.

Yes. Take this one. I'm a kinesiology major. Really? Which is the study of exercise science. Am I talking to Mike more? Yeah. Yeah.

Exercise science, pretty much. I'm currently a personal trainer. I'm doing this to kind of be better. Okay. What does that possibly mean? I have a certification, but that's only going to get me so far. Got it. Yeah.

Got it. This is going to give me more opportunities. How old are your clients primarily? Are you younger jack dudes or older? So I had two clients in the past couple years just because balancing work and school is rough. Yeah. One of them was a 45-year-old doctor. Nice.

And the other was a 56-year-old nurse. Nice. And the other was a 56-year-old nurse. Did he get jacked? Did she get jacked? She lost a lot of weight and he got huge. You seem like a pretty good salesman. I'm two for two right now. Yeah, that's called steroids, folks. I was then picking steroids. That's the kinesiology.

That's awesome, dude. So you're 21, 22? I'm 23. Okay, 23. I'm 28. How come my back doesn't work anymore and can you help me? Well, that depends. Where in your back? Lower back and then everything goes away.

So lower back is like probably the most common area where back pain happens. Give me a couple remedies. So your front hip flexor muscles are likely like too tight and that's causing strain on your lower back. So if you do like yoga, cobra stretches. Oh, I'm out. I'll just die. I'm done. Yeah, no thanks. Reverse hip flexor. You'd rather die

than do yoga? I'm not going to sit there and air hump. If my back's broken, that's what it is. Dude, it's worth it. Is it really? It's totally worth it. Totally worth it. Yeah, but if my girlfriend walks in the room and I'm laying in my bed air humping, don't you think that's more of a problem than a lower back issue? If anything, it might be good worth it. Yeah, but if my girlfriend walks in the room and I'm laying in my bed air-humping, don't you think that's more of a problem than a lower back issue? If anything, it might be good. Yeah. Yeah, you might be right. You're practicing. Yeah, I was gonna say. Yeah. Do it with

some weights. Your poor girlfriend. Yeah. You don't practice. Well, that's hurtful, but I can see where you're coming from. Okay, so is that like the long-term goal? You're gonna train, open a gym? Is that like, what does that look like? It's looking like PT or something along those lines. Yeah but uh that's like something i could do in the back you know it's like a side hustle sure yeah what do you want to really do then uh i want to be a

gym teacher weirdly enough really you want to teach sex ed what's up you want to teach sex ed i mean and teach kids how to drive he just taught me sex ed the air help honestly you're already yeah you're actually crushing it right now you're getting an guess that's part of it. And teach kids how to drive. He just taught me sex ed. The air help wasn't safe. You're already, yeah, you're actually crushing it right now. You're getting an A. That's terrific. I appreciate that, yeah. Hip thrust, too. Those are also good.

Hip thrust, yeah, that's what I was thinking of. God. Why do you want to be a gym teacher? You just want to wear sweatpants? It's more stable than, like, being a personal trainer, like, because I have to, like, kind of sell myself and market myself, and I'm not really good at that. Got it. But, like, you know. You seem pretty good on the mic right now. Yeah, you market myself. I'm not really good at that. Got it. You seem pretty good on the mic right now.

Yeah, you're great. I appreciate that. I think you just got to keep going to random Celtic festivals and going on a podcast. Honestly, yeah. But a lot of it has to do with, I feel bad charging people for information like this. Got it.

Okay. That's nice. You know what? I can actually... That's really nice. I can actually... What's the word I'm thinking about? I can understand that.

Yeah. I can relate to that. There's too much TikTok shopping going on. Right. Everything is like, whoa, this blanket is so warm. It's like, okay. Yeah. Yeah.

That enough. I could easily just be like, buy my plan. Do this and do that. Yeah. Come with me as I teach you these six exercises for better glutes. Yeah. That Matt won't do because his poor girlfriend. That's right.

Calories in, calories out. That is crazy. That is crazy. Guys, what the hell? I thought we were buddies. This is crazy. Can you imagine it? We're buddies, but come on.

I thought we were really close friends. We're sitting here talking about humping. You got to put the work in. You're friends with Lieutenant Dan or whatever. Yeah, will you go visit him when you go back down? Yeah, I might as well. I'll take a picture and send it to you guys. Look who it is.

Look who I found him. He lives. Yeah. Although I think his crime was I think he hit a woman. So maybe don't go see him. That might be 20 feet. I could dress up as a guy. Yeah, it's pretty bad.

Okay, true. That might work. Not a bad move. What are you majoring in? Anthropology and ancient studies. Yeah. So I'm going to be an archaeologist. Ancient studies.

Wow. Yeah. Okay. So this is like kind of this whole fits in the wheelhouse. Sort of. Yeah. This is more historical. It's field work.

Mine's like, I like Neanderthals, like cave people. Oh, let me introduce you to one. Yeah. I have a really, I have a crazy forehead. Yeah. Actually, take, come on. One of the most insane foreheads I've ever seen. Look at this forehead.

There's got to be something different in me. It's got to be some Neanderthal. You got some DNA in there. Okay, that's somehow more hurtful than calling me a Neanderthal. No, I do too. Yeah, it's good. You're like a thawed out caveman. Lieutenant Danana, yeah, of course.

That's me. Wow, all right. Didn't expect the forehead to come out, but yeah. So, it's like the Neanderthal thing. I've always been fascinated. How did the Homo sapes, how did to come out uh but yeah so is like the neanderthal thing i've always been fascinated how did the homo sapes how did we come out on top were we just smarter or was there other stuff we were doing i i mean i'm not a professional so i don't know my opinion is that we crossbred and we just kind of bred it out with monkeys no no no dude what the hell well with neanderthals yeah yeah oh so it was it was homo sapiens versus neanderthals oh so it was Homo sapiens versus Neanderthals

I think it was like same time right so the way it worked is there was like Homo erectus Neanderthals and then Homo sapiens and as the Homo erectus were dying out Homo sapiens and Neanderthals were

combining and then eventually because Homo sapiens had bigger brain cavities, we were able to survive more. And thus, eventually, Neanderthals died out. Okay. So we banged our way to superiority.

Wow, that's kind of cool. I didn't even know that. I didn't even know there was a kind of... Was there a war going on? Or was it just kind of like you're just living your lives and it's kind of like how? It's like different. It's like an interracial marriage. Yeah, it's like.

Well, that's an enormous stretch. I don't know about that. Is that an insane thing to say? It was. So we just banged our way to superiority. How about that? So we all have a little bit neanderthal in us yeah basically i think yeah i think everyone to a degree it's very small but like i if you do like ancestry.com or like 23andme they'll give it like they'll give you a percentage wow it's pretty cool i didn't realize i thought it was just ethnicities i didn't know we had you wanted to get tested

i think the test is done i think it's i done. I think it's the proof is in the pudding. You tested out. Yeah. Oh, my God. Well, anthropology, where do you want to go and study shit? I did a study abroad this summer. I did two. I actually did one in Greece and one in Scotland.

So those are kind of my places right now. I'm interested in ancient Roman. Because you can't really do it around here, right? We don't really have ancient shit. Well, like Native American, like indigenous. Yeah, you can't really do it around here right we don't really have ancient shit well like native american like indigenous okay yeah you absolutely could but it's not my area of like interest yeah but there's so i mean there's so many directions you could go with it and the archaeological record is like so not close to being finished at all like there's so much left to be uncovered so yeah yeah there's a lot of cool

stuff to do out there i mean i i did like military roads when i was in scotland so it's just like looking at um like ancient roads that like um the jacobites would have walked on when they were doing their conquest um that was out in scotland yeah that was in scotland that was in the highlands um and then in greece we did like ancient sanctuary so i do want to ask you about one thing there's this like tartan society that's like kind of i think borderline on a conspiracy theory but people do talk about it it's like this entire civilization of giant people yeah and being a giant myself tartarians tartans or tartarians or something like that it's so funny you say that i literally just watched like 30 videos right it's crazy right you can relate to everything it's like that. The one thing is just that big mountain

that is too tall or something. There's a certain hill or mountain that looks like it's made for giants. The one that I saw that was silly yesterday, it's like all these capital buildings and it's just diagrams of digging deeper and there's a whole other big-ass door underneath.

But don't they say that the Tartan Society were the ones who built the pyramids because they were such gigantic people and then like i don't know uh america or europe or something like that they just washed away the entire history it's got some holes in its logic yeah but when you i mean you watch 30 videos so obviously it caught you um so but there is some like videos out there that you kind of can be like, I could kind of see this. Like an ancient civilization of just giant people. Because that's what we always hear with Xerxes. I think Xerxes from Mesopotamia time.

I think so, yeah. Where he was apparently this eight-foot ruler with a bunch of different piercings and everything. Yeah. I think the thing with that is, too, people relate that to David and Goliath. But it's like, Goliath was probably about, like, seven to eight feet tall. And the average person was probably, like, four to five feet tall. Yeah. So anyone's a Goliath. True. True.

So it's like, you know. Yeah, it's really, I'll believe any, if I take a gummy, I'll believe any conspiracy at any time. You can be like, hey, do you know Barack Obama's a lizard? I'm like, for sure. Cool. Yeah. Whatever.

My God. So do you ever think about studying the Tartan Society? lizard? I'm like, for sure. Cool. Whatever. My God. So do you ever think about studying the Tartan Society? No. I didn't really hear about it until now. I know that people

have concerns about giant people. Stalk your boy. You watch 30 videos. Hi, you and I can talk after this. Talk shop. Talk about your

senior thesis. Yeah, I don't know. Oh, man. So dinosaurs or more human civilization you think? Yeah, dinosaurs is paleontology. So that's different. Yeah. are more a human civilization, you think? Yeah, dinosaurs is paleontology.

So that's different. Yeah. That's a common misconception. But yeah, ancient human civilizations. Pretty cool. Cool. It's cool. I mean, yeah.

I don't know. It's interesting. Fun little artifacts. You'll probably have to keep going to school for that, right? Like a master's and stuff? I'm going to do a master's probably and then a PhD. I'm thinking about going abroad. Sweet.

Yeah. All right. Expensive. I hope to see going abroad. Sweet. Yeah. All right. Expensive. I hope to see you on the History Channel or on YouTube or something like that. You'd be like, I know her. Alien season 500. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, thank you for sitting down. We really appreciate it. Thank you so much. Great meeting you guys. This was really fun. Come on in. Where you at? Right here. Right here. Whatever you like.

Yeah. Whatever your best side for you. Come on in. Right here, right here. Yeah, whatever your best side feature is. TJ? TJ. Braylon? Braylon, what do you do here at the Celtic Festival? I just bring these.

I bring my tits. Oh. Okay, I brought mine too. Good to be here. Looks like we're working against each other. She's also the drummer of the Rowdy Bardlings, but that's like secondary. That's a side gig. That is my side gig. Side hustle.

What do you fellas do? I play nickel harp, but I raise chickens mostly. That's the two things I do. I'm the general manager of this and also the singer-guitar player for the Rowdy Bardlings is our band. The Rowdy Bardlings. The Rowdy Bardlings. How long you guys been rowdy for? Since I was a sperm. Rowdy Bardlings is our band. The Rowdy Bardlings. The Rowdy Bardlings. How long you guys been rowdy for? Since I was a sperm.

Rowdy from birth. We only made it official a couple years ago. We got the paperwork and everything. It's been a couple hours today. We started at a... You guys travel all over the country? You travel around the area? Like, what's going on?

Well, we're going back to... We're at the Connecticut Renovations Fair next weekend. Okay. And, yeah, we go wherever they pay us. We do a lot on St. Patrick's Day. Sure. In that week. I think we had eight gigs in like five days.

Oh my God. Yeah, 24. Is this your guys' full-time job? Well, I run the New Jersey Renaissance Fair, which is my main thing that pays my mortgage. TJ has about 17 jobs. I got too many side hustles. I run an MMA school in Mount Holly, and I run a comedy sword fighting show. Comedy sword fighting show?

Yeah, it's too much. I got too many. Let's explain the comedy sword fighting show. Go on. All right, so it's the Lords of Adventure. It's a token two-man comedy sword fighting show that you would see in outdoor festivals. Show, show. We're all identical twin brothers.

There's about eight of us. Okay. Because, you know, our mom got around. Sure. And, yeah. Let's go. We try to teach people how to live a life of adventure and be positive, contributing members of the world.

And you also do MMA. Have you seen the medieval MMA? Yes. They're just beating the shit out of each other. They're beating the living hell out of each other. It's so funny. Yeah. It's the sound that radiates.

It's amazing. It's awesome. Those guys are no joke. And the thing is, in the helmet, you're like breathing your own recycled air. And you got like 60 pounds of gear on so those guys are hardcore Cardio fiends. Yeah, it seems like yeah, it's awesome So what is that? What is the party like for a traveling band at festivals like how is there a big party aspect there? Do you guys just kind of do your job and head home?

it's actually for the most part most of the people you see performing at Renaissance Fairs like We go home and then like yeah we're generally old people who go to bed yeah do you corroborate the story is that the same absolutely not not seeming like a party or the group here i should i should she's the sid vicious of our group like she gets in trouble so we get in the papers i love it well you have to yeah absolutely every good press out we get it yeah all prices good press we were getting on this podcast i love that yeah that's right what do you do outside of the band? I'm a chef and a belly dancer.

Wow. What comes first? Chefing. Okay. Chefing pays the bills. I like that. And I own my own company, my own business. Oh.

Online or brick and mortar? No, no. Pop-up. Like you see here. The pop-ups with the food and the food vendors here are awesome. Tell them the name. Tell them the name. Renegade Noodle Company, Renegade Sandwich Company

out of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. And that's the belly company. No, I belly dance separately. That's the belly company. The belly company. That was cute. Because I actually thought that you were talking about

the belly company the whole time, but Renegade Noodle Company and the... And Sandwich. Sandwich Company. Nice. Yeah. Belly dancing can lead

to renegade noodles. Yeah. I'm going to figure out a way to cook, dance, and drum. Yeah, you need an outlet. It's a gateway activity. You can't just be making sandwiches and noodles for the rest of your life. You've got to belly dance, too. True.

And you've got to sing. Don't tell me what to do. Yeah, you're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. I love the paint. Thank you.

Yeah. Is this Celtic pride-ish or? Yeah, Scottish. Scottish war paint. Scottish war paint. Yeah. Yeah, the Scots are like... I'm Irish, I can say this. The Scots are

way fucking cooler than the Irish are. It depends on how... I remember how it was described to me when we were learning the Scottish accent and the Irish accent. The Irish accent is more fluid and flowing and lovely, but the Scottish accent is like, I'm gonna kick you in the face. I'm gonna give you a headbutt

if you're British coming into my country. I feel like I could get some pops in on an Irish guy if I was in a bar fight. But a Scottish guy, I would not step to a Scottish guy. Yeah, every Scottish guy, I just think of Shrek. So I really don't have a good frame of reference. I'm just going off the accent alone. It's a great film. Check it out.

Or the women. You don't want to step down. What do you do, my man? What do I do? Well, I play a obscure medieval Swedish folk instrument. I live in a weird old house in Connecticut. And I travel around in this and one other band playing music. My girlfriend thinks he might be a vampire, him and his lady.

Why so? I mean, there are literally gravestones in my basement. Okay, that's always going to happen. They were there when we got there. So he says. feng shui. And, you know, that and I suppose probably just feasting on the blood of the innocent. Yeah, those are the reasons.

I like that. You got to say young somehow. That's why he's so pale. Well, hey, careful. It's totally fine. I have my hair. It's totally hair. Is it okay to be pale?

Being pale is A-okay. Nothing wrong with that. I am getting sunburned right now as I have been all day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's crazy. Are you guys getting good material today? now as I have been all day yeah yeah yeah that's crazy are you guys getting good material today yeah it's been great

it's been phenomenal we got the guys beating the shit out of each other we got the kilt folk over here we got some other just random people and everything it's been good

speaking of material we just want to get your best give us your best story that's happened playing a festival or anything you guys have done as a group craziest wildest

I don't know why don't you guys go first I got a couple of them I feel like you probably have the best one well I Craziest, wildest? Oh, I don't know. Why don't you guys go first? No, that's true. Because I got a couple of them. I feel like you probably have the best one. Well, I beat the fucking piss out of some dude who was like talking to,

he tried to take my drumsticks and I fucking beat his ass, dude. Yeah, true. Had to do a night in county, but you know what? Made it to the show the next day. Delco Irish. Delco Vampire.

He was. No, I noticed like the ladies who work at the Renaissance Fairs can't tell you how many times in the past season they were hit on inappropriately. In the course of my work, and I started Pennsylvania Renaissance Fairs probably 15 years, 20 years, something doing this,

I've had two stalkers. One of them was Julie Varhula, and I know that was her name because she always gave me a handwritten letter at the end of the chess match in Pennsylvania every day. Oh, that's sweet. And she would run up and hand it to me and then run away giggling. And I was playing a character named Hans Tollhofer at the time, who was a German fight master.

And they would always start with like, hi, Hans. It's me, Julie Varhula again. Yeah. And then she would proceed to tell me, because my character bit was, I was selling two killings for the price of one. Yeah. Right? And so she said to me, she said, Oh, Hans, only you would understand this.

I had a dream last night where I killed and murdered my father. Sure. And you were there, and so was Walter Raleigh. Oh, Hans, how nice. Only you could understand this, Hans. It was a real person. Yeah. Now, I hate to ask this.

Was she kind of hot? No. Okay. This sounds like kind of hot. If she was kind of hot, would you have understand this, Hans. This is a real person. Yeah. No, I hate to ask this. Was she kind of hot? No. Okay. This sounds like kind of kind of behavior. Would you have been like, no, no, no. That's kind of hot stuff.

Dude, that's kind of sick, dude. People would never think that like Renaissance Faire people have groupies, all right? You do have groupies. Of course. Yeah. We're like B or C level celebrities.

Nice. And people get to know us on the circus and they come on time. I'll take these. Yeah, dude. There was another couple there too who I think legitimately wanted me to go

kill the girlfriend's dad. They're like, oh yeah, you're doing two killings for the price of one. I'm like, yes! Festival day special. Here's his address. They drew me a little map of the house. He always sleeps in his recliner at the end of the day. He always leaves the sliding glass

door open so you can go right around back. I'm like, ha ha ha like i just got two killings for the price of fun and i ran away and they have no idea that you're playing a character they kind of just i don't know i don't know i like to think that they were joking you know you could also play along but when you get to the map and the drawing i think that's when we kind of lost it's like when i got up to the house that's when it got real weird, and I was like, this is, I shouldn't be doing it. You went in for the kill. I didn't go to the house. I always thought

this was a choose-your-own-adventure for a little bit. I guess there's only one way to find out. Julie, come on over, sweetheart. She's here. He's a good actor. Julie Vajula. Give me a story. I mean, nowadays you can't really climb on people and lick their bald heads like you used to be able to. Can you believe that?

Thanks, Obama. Society sucks. I'm so over it. But yeah, it was just the kind of shenanigans that I would get into as a gypsy. Just be able to climb. You can't even say gypsy anymore, but that's okay. I understand. But yeah, it was just things like that.

And then we got letters written from wives or girlfriends or whatever. And they accidentally sent it to the guy who ran the pirate ship who didn't give a fuck. Yeah. That that was happening. Love it. They thought they were sending the letter to the head of the fair. And he laughed his ass off. Brought us in the pirate ship and went, I just want you to read it before I rip it up and throw it out. When's the last time you looked at a bald head?

Oh, God. 2012. Oh, God. 2012. If you see any bald heads, let me know because I've been hankering for a good head licking. Metal will be a salt lick for Brie Allen. Matt will hit you up in about five years. Yeah, seriously. I'll help you relapse on that. I think we gotta go play music, guys. Okay, we gotta go.

We're contracted. Folks. Thanks, guys. Also, TJ was the one that let us kind of do this. We got stuff to go play. We're contracted. Folks. No problem. Thanks, guys. Where can we hear this? Also, TJ was the one that let us kind of do this. That's right. Shout out to TJ for letting us do this. Yeah, that's one of my side hustles. All right. Hey, that's the podcast.

Celtic Festival. What do you think? I think this might have been the greatest day of my entire life. I'm coming back here every day. You don't enjoy it. You got to let yourself enjoy things, dude. That ruled. I enjoyed it, here every day. You don't enjoy it. You've got to let yourself enjoy things, dude. That ruled. I enjoyed it, but don't be like,

rah, rah, rah, rah. There's literally no penalty for just being totally over the top about everything in your life. And you need to realize, you go in and you're like, I have to perfectly rank every experience I have. 100%? Wrong. I go in, I'm like, that was the worst day ever, or it's the best day ever. Wow. Yeah. But you're always the best day guy when you're on here. No, for the most part. I have about six days a week that are the worst day of my entire life. And then I come here and I go in, I'm like, that was the worst day ever, or it's the best day ever. Wow. Yeah. But you're always the best day guy when you're on here.

No, for the most part. I have about six days a week that are the worst day of my entire life, and then I come here and I go, oh, I'm free again. No, I'm kidding. So, yeah, so that's the podcast. Are we going to be anywhere? We have Spruce Street, Harbor Park. Yeah, we are.

Coming up on Saturday. Yeah, we're going to be at Spruce Street, Harbor Park. So, I guess if you're watching this and you want to get out on Saturday, come there. I think we're going to be there around noon. Saturday the 20th we'll be there. Yes, I do. They're on the Instagram. November 2nd, I am trying to pump this one up.

November 2nd, Media Theater. I'll be there with Chip Chantry. He was in Tires. Yeah. Gina Hyena. She's been featured on the Joe Rogan podcast. All this cool stuff. So that's a fun show.

Come out. We're trying to sell it. I'm trying to make a couple beans off that. And we'll see you there November 2nd. Gina Hyena she's been featured on the Joe Rogan podcast all this cool stuff so that's a fun show come out we're trying to sell it I'm trying to make a couple beans off that and we'll see you there November 2nd dude go out to meet and go see Maddie

alright go see Maddie and support the comedy scene you're here I got nothing you have everything no I got nothing

going on the Phillies are done Mets fucking killed us RIP let's go Sixers Paul George great debut last night. Let's go Birds.

We'll worry about the Sixers after the All-Star game. Everyone knows the NBA doesn't start until the All-Star game. Yeah, for the fakes. Not everyone can go to a New Zealand Breakers versus Sixers game, dude.

What the... Is Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens like interracial dating? That was a good question. That was certainly a good question in terms of... That was a good question. Yeah, okay. Both races.

Huh? They're both races. That's right. That's not right. That's wrong. They're species. You don't... You are talking out of your ass right now.

You do not know... You know what? We'll let the listeners decide. You do not know what a race is. You have no idea. Okay, dude, and sugar's caffeine too. All right, whatever. Yes, dude.

It is. That's the podcast. We love we will uh we'll talk to you uh next week peace