WRFH/Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM - Boss Baby Purgatory | Boys Only #15

Episode Date: September 27, 2025

Nate and Storm chat with Nic Blatner about Homecoming, being tall, and unlimited hot dogs.

So I haven't gotten any sleep for the past 10 days. I don't know about you. I just kind of never get sleep anyway. I think other than last night, which was a wonderful exception, I've got, I think I got three hours. Sleep is overrated. Sleep is overrated. Sleep on the past 10 days. So if we're exhausted and you're exhausted, you're one of us because it's been homecoming week. Yep. But still, we are here bringing you the latest, the greatest.

Boys Only. What's up, everybody? We're back. The name of the song? The name of the song. The name of the song that plays. It's third call for bird call. I didn't know there would be a third call, but we did it.

In case this happens to be the first episode you're tuning in for, what are you doing? Start at the beginning. But I'm Storm Drexler. I'm Nate Gallagher. And this is our guest. Nick Blattner. Nick Blattner. Why did you say that questioningly?

Nick Blatt? I felt kind of like on the spot there. Yeah, yeah, I got you. We like to like lob ones up for our guests and then they can dunk it. So I'll hit you with a few more. But who are you like in general? Um, I'm a senior here at Hillsdale. W.

Yeah. Made it through. What's your major? Where are you from? I'm a math major. What's your icebreaker? What's your icebreaker? What's your fun fact?

I'm from Chicago. I'm not really from Chicago. I'm from Wheaton. So like Naperville? No, I'm not from Naperville. I hate those guys. Those guys suck. Yeah.

No. Same blaze. It's not the same. Eh, whatever. Do you like where you grew up? I feel like we've never talked about like Wick. Yeah. Did you mess?

Are you like a proper suburb? Do you mess crazy with Wheaton? Or it's like it's all right. It's all right. Is it like a real suburb? Like houses are right next to you behind you, like all directions. It's an actual suburb. Nate doesn't know anything about that because he's from the Bronx.

Yeah. Yeah. You know me. You know me. I'm somehow from the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Staten Island. And I live in New Jersey. I live in Long Island. No, you live everywhere, apparently just in the, in that general region of the country.

He's cooking in Hell's Kitchen. You know it. That's right. It's an okay place. Hell's kitchen is whatever. Not the restaurant. I mean like the region. love how I never been to the restaurant. I was able to get you to say that you live in Long Island.

Okay. Whatever you guys want, man. I'm just here trying to have a good time. It's given up at this point. Speaking of having a good time, questions. Oh. For Nick? For me? A lot of them. There were a lot of them. Most of them were about how tall you were. I'll probably ask a couple of those. How does it feel to have your head in the clouds? The first one, though, is not about being tall. It's just a good question. Jack asks, if you had two noses, where would the other one be. First of all, which

Jack is this? Peterson. Where would I'm saying it's like where where would you want it to be like you get to choose where this second nose is pick somewhere decent? I'm saying I'm saying like along the spine. Oh it shuts out though. You can't lay down. Does everybody else also have the same place?

No, it's just you. So you're going to look weird no matter what? Yeah. Where can you put it that you wouldn't look weird? Nowhere. Right next to your other nose. Maybe like on your feet. Maybe like on your feet somewhere, like on the top of your feet. It'll just look like it around. You can't wear it up. Yeah, but you can't wear shoes. You can't wear shoes.

What about a knee nose? So you could get on your knees and then sniff the ground. That's kind of horrific. You ever like put your nose against something really hard? That's you kneeling all the time. It would be just you slamming your nose. You can't really hide it. You can't hide it.

You just got to pick some one. That's the possibly the worst. That might be the worst place. That might be the worst place. All right, Nick, where are you putting this nose? See, if you're thinking in like usefulness, Your hand might work. Hand?

You can't close your hand. No, like on the back. Back of your hand. That way you can like reach out and smell something. I mean, I feel like smells not much affected by distance. You're going to look weird no matter what, I feel like. Is the question if I could have or the question you have? Oh, gosh, darn it.

You now have a second nose pick where it's going to be. I mean, neck wouldn't be terrible. Neck wouldn't be awful. Like on the front of your neck or like the side. It wouldn't be awful. Instead of your Adam's apple, you have another nose. Of another nose. That wouldn't be terrible.

terrible. Like that would be that would be fairly, you'd look weird, of course, but that would be fairly manageable. I would probably have to have it surgically removed. Yeah, wait. You're not allowed to have it. Oh. Can't do that.

Can't do that. Sorry, guys. Yeah. Ask my brother's question because my brother texted me earlier today. He was like, ask my question. Okay, I'll ask the question. If you're listening, shout out to my epic family back home.

Yes, the Drexasers are wonderful. They're the best. Drexasers are wonderful people. Bowie, who we all know quite well. Oh, my goodness. He came up to Hillsdale. And we all met him at StormSouse. In Atlanta.

But we asked, What's your dream concert to see anybody, whether they be alive or dead? Ooh. You can say. He's currently wearing a Billy Joel shirt. But I've already seen him. So I feel like I'd want to take it.

Also, I'd want to take advantage. Oh, you already saw him. Yeah. I'd want to take advantage of the fact that somebody's dead and you can't see them anymore. And that I haven't already seen them. Mozart. Mozart.

That's actually the right answer. That's actually a terrible pick. Are there any like really good bass players? Any of the composers are probably a bad pick? Oh, yeah, yeah. Because it's not like a performance. They're not playing the music. They just wrote it.

You can just listen to that music anytime and they're not playing it. They just composed it. And I guarantee you can find people now who play that music better. Yeah, and it's also not like a big performance. Like I would want to see somebody that's like, like Elvis. Elvis would be good. I don't know. Full Beatles would be good too.

Foyne and Queen. Fated Queens, full Beatles. Oh, I have my answer. Full metal jacket. Boston. That's a great pick. Boston. Great, great pick.

Yeah. I was going to be like, because you play bass. It's more. And so I was going to be like, you know, are any famous bass players. I mean, I can only think of one. But like, I'm not really, I don't know. I can think of the one.

You can only do so much with bass. Like, it's not that iconic is like, as iconic is electric guitar or like good drummers. It kind of is. Personally, I'm really be fan of the bass section of any song. A song has an extremely, like, tight bass section. I'm like... I agree with you.

But you need more than just bass. But you're giving Phineas from that one Finnis and Furb episode where he's trying to convince the bassist that he's important for the band. Dude, we're getting the band back together. No, it's really, you're just, playing bass, you're really just there to keep everybody together. That's kind of how I feel about drums.

For the most part. Sometimes you get cool solos and stuff like that. Like the chain, like the chain. My, it's on my bucket list. I need to perform that song at least once. My favorite bass riff of, of all time. I'm super basic.

I just like the one by clean. Another one bites the dust. It's just so good. She's so crispy. So iconic and so crispy. That's fun to play. Yeah. Next question.

Once I find it. Once you finish your seekings. Peter asks, if you got paid a million dollars for every finger or toe you cut off, how many and which would you cut off? A million dollars? I'm cutting off both of my ring toes

and both of my middle toes. Ring toes? I think all my toes might be gone. So you're going to have. three toes a foot. Three toes of foot. Yep. The bigger two and the pinky.

If you don't really need your toes. Yes, you do for balance. Then leave like two of them. I'm leaving the three because it's for better balance. Dude, I leave three. That's four million dollars. Cutting off four toes. That's four million dollars.

Thank you. Yep. In the bank. Pinkies might be going. Pinkies give your hand like 50% of its strength. My hand... I'm being serious. Like 50% of your hand strength comes through a pinky.

It's ridiculous. It's super weird. Try to grab something without your pinky. It's, like, kind of hard. Dude, you can buy an artificial toe prosthetic for like 500 bucks. Thank you. Then they're all going. Your toes don't do anything, but balance.

Every toe. I would want a toe or two. 10 mil. You know what? Every finger, too. 10 mil? 20 mil, and then I use some of that money. Get a prosthetic hand.

No, no, because using prosthetic hands are just going to be so much more. That's true. Because you actually have to be able to like articulate. I want all my finkies are like all 10 of them, but all 10 toes. I take all my fingers. I'm going to go 10 mil. I think I might be losing two fingers. Which two?

And but I can't... One mill? Not enough for a finger. Maybe all... A mill is not enough for a finger. Maybe all, but maybe two on my left hand, because I'm right-handed. No, dude, no. You don't understand, like, it's...

We don't think about it. Like, the amount you just, you just, you don't even think you just grab stuff. How often do you pick something up? Like, every day. Just anything. Not very often. That's not true. If we had Gate Guy on during this episode,

a guy's missing a finger, right, on one of his hands. Yes. Is he really? Yeah. I can't remember which one. I didn't know that. Yes. I remember that when I shook his hand.

Huh. Like a couple weeks ago. I was like, man. Interesting. And then our other friend Charlie. Like, we know. Yeah. I know multiple people who.

They live with it. Like, it's not that big of a deal. It doesn't affect them that greatly. Maybe I will lose a pinky on one finger. 11 mil. No. And then invest 10. Use the one.

Yeah. Well, next question. Zana asks, Monster or Caffeine water from Saga? Just that. That's the question. Caffeine water? I do that thing. The only reason that's even a question is because caffeine water from Saga is free.

Yeah. Once you swipe in. Here's the thing. But you already prepaid for it. Yeah. But you can get unlimited of it. You can get unlimited caffeine. Okay, so let me just...

Quality or quantity. So if you have, don't know, in Saga, there's a... When you walk in and there's, you walk forward a little bit and then look to the left, there's a machine that dispenses flavored waters, like electrolyte, different vitamins. It's really cool. This was a big thing last spring when they installed it. Because they, we, we are old. arts and so we didn't have this for most of our time here back in my day back in my day this is new last

semester it was new and honestly i have not been to talk about much this semester last semester last semester i enjoyed that a lot i used that very frequently yeah especially in the mid in like a paper writing season i would get two cups bang bang take them down at dinner the beginning of the semester i would i had i was using my metal water bottle and i'd take i'd bring it in every day at lunch instead of buying I would just fill it up with caffeine water. And then drink it throughout the day and it's plenty. You don't have to spend money on energy drinks or coffee or anything. Yeah.

So I guess I'd go with that. And we've already paid for it. So it's like just go, go. Why not? And take it, take advantage of it. Feels like a no-brainer. And yet still people stock their fridges of white monsters. I really like monsters.

It tastes good. I enjoy it. It tastes good. I enjoy it. I enjoy it. I drink six on the last. night of last semester. You're dead.

That's not humanly possible. Well, it was over the course of like 10 hours. That's still a lot. Caffeine is so good. Because I wrote my term paper all in one night. Caffeine is just the best thing. Caffeine makes me happy. It's so socially acceptable too.

Like I love that. What other drug is that socially? Exactly. None. If you're just like smoking everywhere, it's like, all right, come on, dude. If you're walking around with like a bottle of alcohol, you're like, what are we doing?

But if I have a coffee, it's like, I have a coffee. like, oh, hello. You're sophisticated. How are you doing? This is an okay thing. I agree. Speaking of liquids, Nate, you asked me before we got in here if I wanted a water. Then you put them both next to you.

Because I wanted you to fill up your big water. I didn't do that. Why not? Because you said you were going to get me a cup of water. Do you have me to go get you water? We don't have time for that. We don't have time. We don't have time.

Liam asks, what would you have done differently at Hillsdale if you did it all over again? Or is there nothing that you would do differently? In which case, that's a life well lived. Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, President General, West Pointe grad, baseball player. Major General. Yeah, a five-star general. One said, when asked you any regrets, he said that I did not play more baseball, which is a testament to a life very well lived, if you ask me, that his only regret that he didn't play more baseball. I agree. That's a testament to a life will live. So, Nick, what, you're on your Hillsdale deathbed. You're on your Hillsdale deathbed.

I hate thinking about this. What do you think? Someone asked you, what's your biggest regret here at Hillsdale? What is it? They didn't play more baseball? They didn't play more basketball. I didn't play more music. Oh.

I didn't. I've started multiple times to like start or tried multiple times to like start bands and stuff. I've been in orchestra. I'm in right now I'm in big band. I've always been in a jazz group. But I wish I had done more like leisure, casual music. And yeah. And all my bands failed.

I mean, they all failed. Did any of them get like a little bit of steam? So I, well, I played in CHP my freshman year with a band called the ambassadors, but it was very like last minute

and somebody needed to sub out so I was like, okay, I'll do it. So that fell apart because they were mostly seniors, I believe. No,

they were still a thing the next year. I just wasn't part of them. I think I can remember them being a thing. Yeah, yeah. And then I've played it, I played at Jukebox last year with the band Immigrant, started by Ryland Conley, I believe. Oh, yeah.

But that was also because Jaden, who was their bass player, dropped out. You ever played with the Theta band? Because you're a Theta man. Three Theta's in one semester. I've never played with the Theta band. No? No. There's always been a bassist who's better than me.

Like just straight up. Wait, who's their current bassist? Luca. That's understandable. He's amazing. Yeah, he's amazing. He's really, really good. Yeah.

And then I did start, like, start my own band one year that we played for Simpson Date Party. Oh. My sophomore year? Yeah, that was our freshman year. Yeah. Yes. But, again, it was so unorganized. It just didn't work out.

Yeah. That was a good time, though. It was fun. We had a blast at Simpson's a date party. And we learned that Mark Ayers can't sing. He can't remember words. He can't remember words. He can't.

He has a gorgeous voice. Sorry, correction. He can sing, but he can't remember lyrics. He has a gorgeous voice. Mark Ayers sounds like an angel. I'm sorry, Mark. An alumnus of the show, original alumnus.

Yeah, he was the pilot, he kicked it off. What are the odds he's listening right now? Fairly hot. I'm sorry, Mark. Zero. Yeah, you can't remember lyrics. Zero.

We love Mark. We love Mark. It's okay, Mark. Ava asks. New question? Yes, new question. Ava asks, how does it feel to be tall?

Now, I'm a short person, as we've discussed. I feel like a lot, actually, and I'm the shortest person on the show. Yeah. Storm is about one for a time. We have a lot of friends who are around my height, give or take, two inches, usually in the positive direction. You know, there's a five to eight.

We have a very tall campus. I'm one of the shorter people on the campus at five foot six, which is unorthodox. So you're also interested in this answer? I'm very interested in this answer. You know the one place that I, like, feel tall? Back home. No, I'll be like walking around just my every day. I'm like, I'm a normal height.

At church, I feel so much. much tall because I'm looking over everybody else if I sit in the back. Yeah. I just feel so much taller than anybody else. Well, you kind of are. What's the male United States average height? 5'10? You're almost a foot above the average male height.

Three inches off. Which is unbelievable. That's a lot. I guess, yeah. Imagine being almost a foot lower then. You'd be five feet tall and I'm 5 foot 6. So I'm over a foot taller than you. Yeah.

I'm 6.7. the average male height six foot? In America? Just in general? In general, it's lower. It's like 5'8. In America, it's probably around 6 foot. 5.10. It's 5.10.

Really? Interesting. Or right around 510. I think. If I look at 510 guy, he's short. Americans are a taller. If I look at you, I feel like you're short. It's just perspective.

Americans are a taller people in the world. It depends on the country. I think it's interesting. Like South Korea is a very short country. Well, yeah. As opposed to like Sweden. The east is very, very tall country. I think it's interesting that we have no people who are 511.

Everyone's other 5, 10, or 6 foot. That's because they are 511. They just say they're 6'5. Exactly. Andrew Harkin. Andrew Harkin's 5'1. No, he's 5'11. He has 511.

At that point, he's just 6 foot tall. Whenever we talk about height, I always have to mention. So, freshman year, we have a really good friend named Jack Baldwin. Great friend, Jack Baldwin. He's, was he 6-6? 6. No, he's 6-4. I think he's like going to be a dog than me.

Yeah, he's like, he's hovering. He's very, very tall man. I know exactly. And me and my good friend of ours, Noah, freshman year, we play pool with him in the union. And Noah and I were both shorter guys. He was like 5'7 on 5'6 as we've discussed. And we were like, Jack, you should go up to people.

And when they say, oh my gosh, how tall are you? Because this freshman year, everyone's kind of like getting to know each other. Say you're 6'1. Because you will immediately, immediately, I should start doing this. Every guy who, you. who's like around six or total, be like,

no, whoa, whoa, no you're not, bro, whoa, whoa, because we also discovered

that no offense to the ladies, they will just believe you. Yes. Like they have no metric of how tall, even if that, even if he was 6'1,

that would make them like 4, 10, they have no concept of how tall anybody is. I'm going to start doing this. And if they call my bluff, I'm going to be like, go listen to boys on them. You're a little,

then you'll know why I'm doing this. Like, because you're like the tallest non-basketball It'll just get you more listeners. I'll be like, go listen to Boys Only and you'll understand. Actually, please do this. Listen to Boys Only.

Listen. Secrets unveiled. Secrets. You're okay over there, King. No, it's been a rough weekend. It's been a rough week. I'm slowly dying. Homecoming, we should take a moment to talk about.

Let's talk about homecoming. It's going on now. Tonight is mock rock. Tonight is the big event. Mock Rock. Oh, yeah, because this is coming out on Saturday. So, mock rock is this evening. So if you are listening on the release day of this episode, if not, it doesn't really matter to you.

But if so, go to mock rock. Yes. Watch Simpson win Homecoming for a third year in a row. Yeah. But also, if you're not involved in really much stuff, still show up. It's a blast. It's a lot of fun to watch. The emcees are hilarious.

I don't know who they're going to be yet. We don't know yet. I don't think we know. But they're going to be funny no matter who it is. Hopefully it'll be Nate and Storm eventually. Next year, I'll probably. Next year. But for this year, it's going to be,

It's gonna be a lot of fun. Everyone's gonna put on a really good show. Even the people who don't try that much end up being very funny. Last year, last year was Pirates themed and Sig Kai, who's, you know, because they're, and the Greeks never try. Infamous Sigai.

Greeks never try. Put on one of the funniest mock rocks I've ever seen like because they sat there and did the Veggie Tail song, Pirates who don't do anything. For like three, four minutes. It became a little unfuny after a while,

but like the first minute was hilarious. My favorite thing is that it's always like, it's not Z. zero effort. Like they work on it. They put in a little bit of choreo. The sororities do good. Yeah, the sororities do. But especially the frats. I like, I love the frats. They don't put in zero.

They put in just a little bit. But like, for me, I'm always like, I'm either going 100 or nothing. But they're like, we're going to go 15%. And I'm like, I love that. It's a funny amount. Yeah, it is a funny amount. Yeah, it is a funny amount. I don't think of dealt as ever done one in our time year. They haven't done one. They didn't do one freshman year.

I know that. And I don't think they did one last year either. I don't. I don't, remember if they did one my freshman year. I don't think so. My guess is they will do one this year. I hope so. They showed up to everything. If I had to guess who's not going to, I don't think DSP is going to. They don't participate. Are they, are they even a team? They have not. They don't, they have not been a team. But Delt has a team and they've been at every single

event so far throughout the week. Awesome. Like, they actually were doing, like, they actually had some placements in a minute to win it two nights ago. And, um. I do the math there on how many nights ago that's they won a minute to win it. No, that was ATO. No, that was ATO. No, that was ATO. Congratulations, ATO. That was incredible. Big win. Big win.

Big win. Big win. It's good to see that. It's good to see it's not just like three people competing for the choice. Like also a couple of people are at least putting in something. Yeah, I love it so much. It's good to see. Because it gets a little boring, no offense, like fighting one other dorm for everything.

Like if Needfeld and OCC are the only competition, it's like, come on, that's boring. I want to see Olds and Mac get involved, which they always do. Olds is on the leaderboard right now. It's fun. to see other people doing well. Yeah. It is. It's a good time,

especially when we win. It's really good times. Like, you guys tried so hard. Well, I really enjoyed George's commentary at minute to win it

a few days ago when he was like, and he was like, guys, come on, we gotta beat him. We gotta beat Simpson. I was like,

yes, I love the competition. I love all this. I love it when campus really comes together to like all try to win and everyone puts in more effort.

That's always my favorite. It's good. It's good for Hillsdale. It's good for everybody. It's great for everybody. We're doing good things here. We're having a great time. I'm in the Needfield video right now.

Guys, it's time. Is it Wyatt? It's the Wyatt question. Classic question. I'm ready. Would you rather be able to teleport three feet in any direction every 24 hours or be able to summon hot dogs

but only when you are hungry? Hold on, hold on. I will restate the question if you wish. I don't understand the first. one at all. Okay. I'm going to restay the whole thing. Okay. Would you rather be able to teleport three feet in any direction every 24 hours or be able

to summon hot dogs, but only when you are hungry. Okay. So basically it's like this. I, ooh, it's from midnight to midnight in that time stretch, I can teleport three feet in any direction one time. Oh, okay. It's not like spontaneous. I thought it was every

24 hours you teleport. No, no, no, no. It's once in every 24 hour period. Once a day, I get a three foot telepath. That in a heartbeat. Are you kidding me? Summining hot dogs, that's unlimited dogs. No, but they're hot dogs. But it's gross.

But it's endless dogs. Are not that great. If it was corn dogs? Do you end world hunger? No, you have to be hungry. Yeah, and so I just get hungry. I just spawn hot dogs. They end world hungry.

I just machineed in the mouth of my hands. I just get hungry. Just don't eat for like 30 minutes for me at least. Excess of food does not solve world hunger. Yes, it do. Yes, it do. You have to go to the Middle East. Simple basic mathematics would tell me that yet, it do, in fact.

More equal better. What are you, Thanos? Look, here's all. Here's all I don't. Anytime there's, like, a door you need to get through and it's locked. Bang, other side of the door. But how often do I, I'm... Like, once a day.

Once a day. Yeah, it's about once a day. Personally, I am not, like, eager to go through many doors that are not. Party trick. Just... Yeah. I feel like it's more like a... You know, it's like...

Whereas... ...warned at the stage. Whereas... Infinite hot... That's also a great party drink. No, that's a party foul, bro. You're weinering the floor. That's a party foul.

Dude, there's no food. What do we do? I got this, guys. By the way, by the way, also, this is really important. This is just said hot dogs. There's no buns. It's no ketchup. It's just weeders.

It's just straight up. It's terrible. It doesn't even say cooked. It's just raw dogs. Yeah. If that, yeah, then that's some raw dogs. Just some raw dogs. Yeah, I think I think I'd take the teleportation.

All right, all right. Just come on now, guys. Can we please? All right, all right, all right. I really, I really, I really, I really can't. Bo, blah, boys, boys, boys. All right, all right. Every time we have a theta guy on.

Every time we have a theta gag on it gets ridiculous. It's too funny. I can't say that or like, think that and not laugh. Hey, hey, I'm glad that something we do makes you laugh. It's so funny. on you tonight. All right, what's the next question? Next question is Liam.

Liam asked. Again? Yes, dude, people just load up, do they just machine gun fire at me. Dude, I have trouble thinking of one question. Liam asks, why do you want to teach math?

Because you explain it, like, give the whole background. I'm a math major. This is known. I'm a math major. I'm a math. We talked about being a math major. Huge math guy.

Nope, but no games. I sometimes subtract. But no games. But no games. I'm limited games, but no games. Anyways, yeah, I'm a math major. I'm a classical ed minor. But I've always, since I think like seventh grade,

I've always wanted to be a teacher. And I'm good at math, so I'm going to do that. So it's less I've combined me to and more that like, you want to teach anything, but math is what you're best up. Yeah. Okay. Well, that and I think math would be. the most fun for me to teach.

Like, just the way my brain works. Like a certain grade that you want to teach? High school. Somewhere in high school. I don't really care. So, like, algebra? Yeah. Like, early.

Algebra might be my favorite. My high school had four. We did algebra, geometry, trig, and calc in that order. See, I've heard wildly different orders. We did algebra in middle school. And then high school was geometry, algebra two, pre-calc. Well, we combined trig and algebra two. That's one class

Yeah, yeah, that's what we had So I went to public school I know crazy for Hillsdale Ah, get out I don't belong No, I'm just kidding But so what we did is we had different levels I was obviously in the highest one

Because I'm decent Because big brain Obviously insane flex Anyways So I had In high school I had Algebra 2 trig Precalc and stats

I think stats is the easiest Calc was Calc 1 and Calc 2. Stats was really easy. Stats is kind of easy. It's really not... It doesn't build off of like pre-calc. All here is my friends at other colleges being like business stats is one of the hardest classes

that never taken our life. Wait, you guys did Calc 1 and 2 in high school? In the same year. That's nuts. So what you could do it was called... They were AP classes so you got college credit for them. But you could either do Calc A.B, which was only Calc 1 throughout the entire year.

Or you could do Calc B.C. which was Calc 1 first semester. Calculus before Christ. Calculus before Christ, yes. Isaac Newton in the BC era, inventing calculus with leadenance. This is the guy's Pythagrosy. Maybe calculus is the thing.

I was like, Junkler, though. I love that every time you do an impression of someone from the past, you go, oh, maybe. You've got to hit just old fart, man. Like, everyone from the past is old. It's the same voice for old.

Don't disturb my shirt. It was way that's Archimedes. Anybody who's dead has this voice in Storm's eyes. Yep. If you're dead, you're, I tell you what, son Get off my lord before I smack you with a stick. I see you.

I see you. What a great. That's a great one, though. We can tell that later. That's a story for next week. Ever later. Anyways, back to the question. I want to be a teacher.

I've always enjoyed helping other people who don't, or, I've always loved teaching people. I know that sounds kind of stupid, but. Q the background. Aw. I know. What a sweetheart. But I think it originally stemmed.

So my mom is a physical therapist. And she works with like babies. So like birth, like ages birth to three. And I don't know if I'm supposed to be saying this. But I think you may. Anyways. No, no, because I went with her a few times.

So Nate, you should probably go get some help. On her visits. And I just like love. Yeah. I mean, like helping people. I mean,

it's not like she works for the CIA. I mean, she's a physical therapist where she's babies like it's okay for the CIA. Yeah, type yeah. Yep. That's why.

It's a CIA. Wrap it up. Rav it up. CIA baby. Rav it up. Red dots appear on all of our heads. Dang. FBI babies.

They're going to come bursting through these windows and just take us out. We're done for. I said old movie. You guys ever see that movie boss baby? Yeah. I like that movie. You ever watch the TV show?

I've never seen the TV show. There's a TV show. every time anyone thinks about like, it's kind of like CIA babies and like, there was a movie

that made about that yeah, kind of made it vaguely about CIA babies but it was baby CIA though. It wasn't the CIA that was talking about babies.

Was he like an agent from heaven? Uh, yes. He was sent down. Well, well, you know, the Pope tells us

I don't remember that this was actually about purgatory and this is how purgatory is real. Oh, boss baby is a boss baby is my proof it's an analogy

for purgatory. Pergatory. Yeah. That's the episode name It's gonna be Boss Baby Pergatory No That's gonna be the name of the episode That's amazing

Because what does that mean The whole point of our The whole naming scheme for episodes Is for you to look at it and be like What on earth can that possibly I'll give you a great example Justice's episode was called TSA Castle Rock What does that mean?

That doesn't mean DoorDash King He has a little Doyle Justice had a whole story about that TSA Castle. He snuck a giant rock from his ancestral castle

through TSA. It was crazy. I couldn't believe it. Most insane. We're still a longest ever episode which was in 50 minutes. Just as you. Your longest one wasn't with Gabe?

Well, technically, but we cut it into like 30, 35. Okay. I mean, it was a three-hour episode. Yes. Yes. You were in the room that we were locked in for like four hours last year.

Jeez. You couldn't have like, I guess you don't want to break the windows. No. And also it's like very reinforced. I always invented. envisioned it as like a closed-in room where you couldn't see the outside. No, you again.

Well, those windows were shut over there through that glass. And like that one has a great across it, so you can barely really see anything. So it did kind of feel like we were, it was a little claustrophobic. It was very claustrophobic. If you go through these tiles and the ceiling, too, there's another ceiling basically, like, about two inches. Because I was like, I was like, can I climb out of here through the ceiling? And I pushed up the corners and there's another ceiling about a couple inches up there. So it is really just like, we are in a box.

Yeah. You can break the window if you need to. Yeah, Mr. Bertram said, if you guys really needed to get out there, you could have broken the window. But he's like, please, I'm glad you didn't. Yeah. I'm really glad you didn't do that.

He said that more money. I mean, really expensive to replace. Yeah. We just replaced the door handle. That was way easier. Way cheaper. Yeah. All storm.

I'm out of questions. Don't do it. No. That doesn't mean we have to end the episode. Okay, good. If we have more questions for Nicholas. Because I have a couple of things I want to talk about. Go ahead.

That was a question someone gave me today. I want a name job of them. No. I'm just kidding. Oh. It's actually that kind of sounds. Well, it's interesting. You spell it N-I-C.

Why? Yeah, why is that? Not like N-C-K or N-I-C-H. Well, N-I-C-H is. That's N-I-C-H-E. No, that's N-C-H-E. I don't like the K. That's cool.

I kind of like it. That and my name is N-C-H-O-L-A-S. But most people are. The K doesn't make sense. I know, but it doesn't make sense to me. It's for pronunciation. Also, it's kind of stupid. It's for pronunciation purpose.

It looks dumb and I hate writing. I mess with the three version. Also, three is my favorite number. If I may say this, Nate, there's no E and Nathaniel, like, right after that. Like, it's N-A-T-H. Well, Nate's kind of a whole other name. It's not at all. It's a shortening of either Nathan or Nathaniel.

Well, you know what my name is short for, right? Storming. No, Stormalina. Stormalina. We're not talking more about Stormalina. and her 28-year-old boyfriend. You're not talking about Stormolina in her 28. Rogers will all...

Oh, my gosh. Every theta. No more reference. At least 10 songs in it. 10 seconds of... 10 minutes of pure riff in the whole... If you took the time that we riffed with Aiden and Doyle and now him, it's just... It's a whole episode.

It makes it better. It's a whole episode of just riffing. And that doesn't even include the stuff that we either cut or just before we started. Yeah, it took us a while to get started with those guys because it was just too funny building up to it. Great guys. I wish I played music. I played a harp, by the way.

I'm going to drop that lower for the audience. He just started. I am learning how to play the harp. He's having trouble reading sheet music. Dude, I'm going from zero musical experience to harp. I feel like it's not the best jump. Probably not. Maybe like piano or maybe like guitar.

Or learn how to read music. I'm learning. You're kind of like molding yourself. into like the cherub stereotype. I'm trying. Like I can imagine you like with nothing on but like a diaper and like little tiny wings.

I don't love this. I don't, I don't. And like a harp. You need to buy a harp next year to keep in your room. So harps are really expensive. Like really expensive. Are you playing one of the big ones?

Yeah. Like is it bigger than you? Like taller? I think it's a smidge taller than me. I don't know how big harps are really. They're pretty large. I have like seen them across the line. You hold them by you lean them back onto yourself.

They're not that heavy. They're not that heavy, but they're tall. They're fairly sizable. Do you wear like metal things on your fingers to pluck the? Nope. No, it's like, cut. Because I've heard of people getting like cuts. Yeah.

Yeah. I think it's less cusses. It's more like blisters. See, that happens to me too when I play the upright base. Especially in jazz when you're going really fast. But I mean, you got to get used to that eventually. Yeah, yeah. You get cows.

Your fingers get used to it. Yeah. See, I love that because every time I go see the orchestra, I can always spot you immediately because you have the big gigantic games. And I'm standing. And I'm 100 feet tall. And I'm one of like three people standing.

Yeah. I'm always like, yes. Some of the people are a spot. The reason I learned to play the harp is because I want to play the liar, which is like the smaller one that like David plays. That's really the one the cherub is used. The cherub is used like the little harp.

That's like you're a little fairy boy. I don't love that. Dress up as a cherub for a toka party and bring a liar. I don't own a liar. I also couldn't play anything on a liar because they're not Heavy is a heart. Quite. It's not,

it's, you don't move it, like, just cause. So you couldn't, yeah, you need, like a dolly.

It's a, it's a, it's deliberate. You couldn't bring it to doga party. You don't just bring it. You don't just pick it up and move it. Yeah,

it's like, like a dolly, like on wheels. Oh, I see. Also, also because it's so fine. How heavy's a base? It's hollow.

So it's not that bad. Like, like, like 40 pounds? Like, like 30 pounds. Yeah. Maybe, maybe not even. 30.

No way, 30. For that, that big. It's hollow. It's fully hollow. It's completely hollow. It's made out of wood. But you're not just, no. But you're not just hauling the base.

You're hauling the case, I assume, unless you're just like just. If I'm like transporting it, yeah. I'm assuming the case adds a good 20 pounds. It's just a piece of fabric. Wait, when do we get to hear you play next? There's an orchestra concert on... Monday. No, no, no, no.

It's parents weekend, so probably like... Tomorrow. 26th of October or something like It's kind of a month away. It's a Saturday Sunday concert. Yeah. So we'll have two of them.

Throw it up on your calendars. Yeah. Go see. We're big on. Don't quote me on the dates that might be wrong. But it's parents weekend. I know that.

We love to promote campus on this podcast. We do. We love to go to the orchestra. Pull up to these events. They're great fun. It was the most beautiful sound. I have never heard a concert. I've never heard something like this.

It's, yeah. It'll be fun. We're playing some good music. how many bassists are there like upper bassists because I know Eli graduated students we have two but we

we have a bass professor who he does other stuff here but he teaches us he gives us lessons and stuff the instructor he'll play with us and then we have another alumni who plays with us so there will be four

for most concerts sometimes we have five but it's just you and Luca yeah okay because Eli graduated he's very sad yes he did That was last year. Less strumming. Yep. Yeah.

Less. Do you know who plays the harp for the orchestra? Because I see it every now and then. Not at every concert. There's like three or four of them. Are they... On the same harp at the same time? Yes.

Yes. Yep. Yep. All at the same time. Playing from other sides, actually. They're playing from both sides. They have two in front and two behind. I like that.

It's to get each... It's, yeah. Yeah. It's for each... There's like, it's not. That's not how you do it. Trust me. Dude, it's...

So I got a little. A little bit of flak. How do you play the harp? I feel like your arms on long to reach across the whole thing. From some of my friends, I caught a little flack for it because it's like,

you're playing the heart, you're a dude, you're playing the harp. It's so angelic. It is so much fun. It might be the most fun I've had doing just something random. Nate, what color strings are each nuts?

Red strings are C's, black strings are Fs. That's it? Well, those are the fifths. That's really only one you need. Isn't that like the fifths or something? Those are really only ones you need to be cut because there's not enough space

in between each of them for there to be any reason. Yeah. There's no reason to color. I mean, I guess you could color what, like the A's. Yeah. But like there's no reason.

There's no reason. It honestly makes it harder to look at. Yeah, you just need to know where your hands are. It makes it harder to look at. Having the C's in the Fs is really helpful. Because it's what? Cs are really important and then halfway is the F. So it's helpful.

I'm still learning. I've only had, what, three, four lessons now? And, you know, it's been insane to try to learn how to play this just gigantic. an arguably womanly instrument. Massive instrument. Massive, very womanly. I try to play saxophone.

A timpani? How heavy is it? Well, okay. Yeah, fair enough. Timbiz's an instrument. Tubah's pretty heavy. Tubah is not as heavy as a heart. It's pretty heavy, though.

People can carry the tuba while they play. You can't carry a harp while you play. Well, that's more because of the impracticality of it all. If you carry, like, if you made the harp easier to hold, you have to play all with two hands. Yeah. That's the issue. And you can't... I mean, no, you do need two, but, like, one of them can kind of hold the thing up as you play it.

You can't really do that with heart. You need both to be out here, which I'm putting my hands significantly far in front of my face. Yes. He's actually touching me. True. Hello. Wait, wait, wait, this is not true. This is not true.

Help me. Help me. That's the one thing with the studio. I wish we could be closer together. And, you know, I wish we could be... It's really not that bad. You're maybe two and a half feet from me. You can reach me.

I wish we could be closer to you, the audience. Yep. But we are in your ears. Week after week, we'll be there. Always. Always. Because this is boys on. No, boys.

No, no, no, no, no, no. They're not ending again. We're ending it proper this time. We're ending in a good note. Music's going to start to swell right now. Sometime right about now. And you'll hear it like picking up vaguely in the background. Third call for bird ball.

Third call for bird ball. Yeah. And I'll kind of ask me like, Nick, do you have any last words, which sounds ominous, but... Because we're about to kill you. No, please don't do this. Please don't do this. All right, any last words. Just send us off.

Final pieces of wisdom. Good luck out there. Good luck. Stay safe. Stay safe. Especially good luck to the dancers tonight. Yep. Good luck to the end of tonight.

Everyone, thank you for participating in Homecoming. Thank you for sending me questions. As always, I'm Nate Gallagher. I'm Storm Drexler. And this has been Boys Only. See ya. Thank you.