WRFH/Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM - Boys Only #4: Pressure Cooker of Liberty

Episode Date: March 11, 2025

Nate and Storm chat with Dravyn Spies about St. Patty's Day, our favorite seasons, and weird names.

It's podcast time. Woo! We're back. Radio Free Hillsdale, 101.7 FM or Spotify. Probably mostly Spotify at this point. Pretty much entirely Spotify. Featuring me, Storm Drexler. You, Nate Gallagher.

And we're back. It's Boys Only again. We're here. We're ready to rumble. Sorry about last week. Nate Bell off a Bluff. Parent weekend. Yeah, and he broke 27 Bones.

Yes. We're back. We're going to talk about it. All that and more on Boys Only. We got another guest this week because what would our show be without guests because Nate and I aren't funny at all. We are very boring. It's Draven Spees.

How you doing, Draven? I'm doing well. How are you? I'm doing great. It's so good to have you on the show, brother. It's good to be here. Well, let's not waste any time.

Let's get right into the questions. The people of the world. Now, I know I posted this story a little late. I'm sorry, we had some minor technical difficulties acquiring, Draven. Your schedule is a little bit rough for us. But we got him, and we got some questions. He's just a busy man.

He's a very busy guy. Quite busy. What with Latin midterm? and such. You in Latin right now? Second semester senior year is crazy. Well, you see, I took the 101, 2002, and then 201, and then I figured

I only have to take one extra class, so I might as well do it and get the minor. That midterm, like, slaughtered me, by the way. I was not expecting. It was not great. We'll get some questions for the people? Yep.

Well, so Jack asks, if there's one event in history, you could prevent from happening, what would it be? What, Jack, which Jack? Don't worry about it. We don't say last name. Dang it. I said that one time with Liam Brennan.

But there's so many jacks. Well, figure it out by context clues. Hmm. If there was one event in history that I could prevent from happening, it's got to be something that's like significant but like not too. I don't know, man. Wait. I mean, you know what? This has got to be a baited.

Maybe like, if we're going to like try to like go by net live saved, probably some like Chinese war. Invention of guns would probably save the most. lives. Before guns, wars were like, oh no. That's also China. 18 year war. 2,000 people died. It's like, it's just not that much death. And then it's 40 second war and it's 40 second Chinese Civil War. Eight million dead. You know what? Historically, let's go assassination of Abe Lincoln. Ooh, that's a good one. That's a great one. That's a good one. Yeah. Big Abe. I love him. Just push John Wilkes Booth off the balcony before he did anyway and he broke his leg like Brick is like before he gets the chance

to shoot. He jumped off. And he yells. Six Amper Tyrannas. Thus to tyrants. Yeah. Habits, step about you, Storm. Historical event? I don't know. Guns is like okay because I feel like someone would always come along and invent guns, you know? Yeah, also that would be like you'd have to stop inventing

gun powder, which is no fireworks. Which is really cool. I like fireworks. I like fireworks. I'm like my family's pyrotechnist guy every 4th of July. Also, I like guns. I think Good point. Guns are pretty cool. I've shot a gun before. I think it's awesome. They're pretty cool. I'd actually agree with you.

Yeah. I haven't, but I'm taking shooting sports next semester with Andrew. Oh, oh wait, I should totally do that with you. Do it with us, yeah.

Let's get it. One historical event. I think I would stop, hmm, I would stop the Louisiana purchase so that we were like, so that like France owned the whole,

all of California, right? It was basically California. No, it wasn't at all. No, it stopped at like, it was the Mississippi to... It was that far east? Yeah. Never mind.

I don't want to pronounce that. I was just trying to figure out the Fasasas, like the Dakotas. I think pretty sure that's like the Follies west of went. And that's all the way up top of it. I was trying to figure out a way to let some other nation keep California.

Spain is the last nation on California. It's Mexico. You want to prevent the Mexican-American war. I do. But then we don't own Texas. No, well, Texas can still do their own thing. But then they're their own thing. We don't own Texas.

Oh. I think that is, yeah, that would be a huge. That's not worth of us. Oh, I would go and I would send a bunch of extra troops of the Alamo. For which side? The Mexicans. No, for America.

The Mexicans. Yeah, as if Santa Ana needed more reinforcements. You know what? That's fair, because, like, essentially, like, we would have just owned it sooner. Yeah. And less lives would have been lost. This is true. That's my answer.

Do we know that? I don't know. Hypothetically. Hypothetically. Have you all, there's, I have not read this book, but my dad read a book one time he told me about it where it was, like, if during the American civil war if like I think it was like if the south had developed like the AK 47 well that's not fair well obviously but it's like that that was just a way to push the into the win and it's like what would have happened if America had been like actually split for like a long period of time and the

world would like we were still split by the time like the world crises begin to happen in the early down to hundreds and they begin to need us it would be bad everything would have started a ballpark yeah it was really really bad it would be bad that wouldn't have been good those like history what if sarahs are I think the world would have just essentially like continue to Byrne because we would have had to like figure out our... Would Germany have won World War I? That's an interesting take because they were close but they weren't close enough. With that though, because both Germany and Japan had the whole kind of like mindset like,

oh, world domination, our race is the best. So like, had we not beaten either of them, I think it would have been kind of an awkward kind of like, wow, tiebreaker. Who gets to fight America first? Blond eye or... Blonde eyes? The blonde hair and blue eyes. We think we're the best.

Japanese, we think we're the best. We're just going to sit here and twiddler thumbs. Actually, we are the best. The American people. God bless America. God bless America. No, I think Germany would have still lost World War I. I don't know about that one, man.

I don't know about two, but one, I think. They got a lot more troops. When the Russians surrendered, they pulled like a million and a half troops from that. That was, they were right there. Russia was like, you know what, this is not worth it. No, they were like Bolsheviks. Actually, it was communism happened. Dang it.

They were like, oh my God, the czars are dying back home. But they didn't know, well, the czars weren't dying of their own volition. They were just passing away peacefully in their sleep, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, something like that. Like good Ruskis. Yep. Good question, Jack, question mark last name. No need to ask me what historical event I would have been.

Oh, wait, wait, I'm sorry. Nate, go for it. I would go back in time, and I would kill. Okay. John Test, inventor of tests. John Test. John Test, inventor of tests. Somebody had to invent.

Invented tests. Why do you think they're called tests? John Test. That's crazy. Inventor of the test. And then you get your, and then you get clapped by Louie. Edwards, by Edward School. Inventor of schools.

Inventor of school. Yeah, no. Yeah. Well. But see, I think somebody would have then, like, eventually have come up with that. That's my thing with the guns. Draven, I'm lying. What you're lying about John.

John, Test and Ventura's death. Hey man, better than Andrew podcast. If you go back in time and kill him, do we cease to exist? Yes. We fade into the blackness. Yeah, we just die.

All right, well, next question. Liam asks, what do you think about St. Patrick's Day? What do I think about St. Patrick's Day? I mean, it's... I don't know, man. I don't know, man. I guess it's an excuse to get...

Coming up. Yeah. Is it like the 19th or the 20th? It's the 17th. All right, man. For somebody who's so, oh, whatever about St. Patty's Day, he seemed to know exactly when it is. I mean, yeah.

Well, I mean, I know because it's a good friend of mine's birthday. So shout out P. Ham. Oh, shout out P.ham indeed. I think it's a great excuse. I mean, I wouldn't say great. I think it's an excuse to get bilhidrantly drunk, especially if you are Irish. And where, and even if you're not.

And we're a bunch of green. and, you know. Maybe get pinched by somebody who if they're not wearing green, you get to pinching. Green is as a thing? Yeah. Yeah.

If you don't wear green, you're supposed to get pinched. You don't know that? It's like a very common thing. Yeah. And if you're not wearing orange, you get punched in the face. No, that's not.

This is the misinformation podcast for me. If I already get pinched because I weren't wearing a specific color on St. Patty's it, I feel like that would not be a good thing for the other person. Violence.

Yeah. Commit violence. Well, did you guys? You didn't have like in middle school, people would be like, my underwear is green. Okay, they wouldn't go that far. Or they'd be like, I have one green sock. And you'd like, show me.

And they'd just ran away from you. So they were lying. How it happened in middle school is before you got to the door. Like if you were doing dress down day, there was sometimes it was a theme. Like you had to wear color or whatever. Or you would not allowed. So they would check you.

You were allowed to what? Like come into the schools. You had to go back home and change into something green or put on your uniform. I'm not kidding. Oh, that's funny. Because I went to a school that had a uniform. Yeah. And so they would check you at the door.

If you didn't have a specific. The color of. Color. No, because like towards the summertime, they would be, you'd have dress and red, white, and blue. You'd have to get two of the three colors. So we had that, but it was in part of, like, say, like, homecoming week or, like, snow week. We'd have it, like, in a set week. But y'all would just have that, like, just, like, randomly.

Like around a holiday or some other event, you'd be like, oh, go, you can dress down for this one day. day. And it was awesome when you had gym that day because then you could just go ballistic on people and you cook. So say you just don't really mess with St. Patty's Day. It's like, I don't really care for it. And you just don't wear green. They're like,

you need to wear it green and support this holiday. Like, I don't really care for it. I don't want to. Well, you can't come to school then. No, they expect you to still be in school but you have to go home and either put on something green or change into your uniform. I would have been a problem. Out of a problem. out of my problem.

Just to spite them. Pink on St. Paddy's Day. I thought it was Valentine's Day, guys. You're about a month off. Wait, what other colors? Like, obviously, Valentine's Day is, like, red or pink. And Paddy's Day is green, but, like, what other holidays are associated with colors?

Halloween was, like, orange, and black. Oh, yeah, for sure. Green, white, and red for Christmas. Oh, yeah. Green white and red was a pretty common one for Christmas. Green is the first one. It's interesting. Well, I mean, I just listed them that way.

And then, um... Any like American-ish kind of holiday, like a President's Day or like a Veterans Day or something like that. That was red, white and blue. You had to get two of the three. If you don't get two of the three, you're out of there. Huge, that's called something. Spangled fan. Yeah, yeah, yeah, star spangled.

Yeah. Big. I think there was a Cammo Day one time. I can't remember. It was elementary school. No one could see anyone. No. Didn't see you at Cammo practice day, Sergeant.

Thank you. That's a good one. Thanks, Sargent. I didn't see you there. I didn't see you as a chemo practice. Thanks, Sarge. All right. Next question.

Wait, do we do like the, what's the Ben Shapiro? Next meme. I don't, I don't know that. You much, Ben? I don't know. I used to listen to Ben. I don't, I don't know. He's, I don't know. He can't fell off.

All right, man. All right. All right. You know. Yeah, yeah. It used to be good. I get my, I listen to Boys Only exclusively now. For my news.

For my news and everything at Boys Only. Yeah, of course. Max asks. How does it feel to be the heart and soul of schismatics? Oh. That's so sweet. Heart woolly. I mean, so fun fact, I guess.

I had to do it. What a moron. So I guess in jest one of the names floated for our band, Nickel Black, because well, there's six of us comprised of five white guys in one black guy. Nickel Black. But how does it feel to be the heart and soul of schismatics? I mean, shoot. I mean, if that's what I am, if that's what you think I am,

then I guess I can only say I'm flattered. I can only say it's been quite the blessing to be a part of something that I can be extremely proud of and also have a really great time just being able to create music with them. Also, we are releasing a new song tomorrow. I was going to say, I heard that you guys actually have like songs on Spotify. And I this is, it's pretty good. Like tonight at midnight? Highway Flowers comes out at midnight.

Oh my gosh, I'm listening. I listen that one about Seattle, right? That was a great song. By the time this airs, you will be able to go listen to it on Spotify. Go listen. Finish this episode. Then go listen to schismatics. What do you call on Spotify?

Just the schismatics? Just schismatics. That's another thing. There is no the, it is just schismatics. I see. That's elite. That's awesome, yeah. I'm going to put that on while I wait for Mark to get back so we can watch Invincible later.

Yeah. I'm on episode. like six. I haven't seen any of it. No, no, I am too, yeah. I haven't seen any of it. It's super good. How many supposed to be in this season?

I want to wait until they're all out and I want to watch all of them. I think also eight episodes. So good. I want to watch all of them in one go. The finale's next week. Okay. Is it?

No spoilers. I'm going to watch them all at one. In one shot. Because I like doing that. I don't want to wait. I'm impatient. That's fair. We've had a fun like Thursday nights

for the past like five weeks of gathering around and watching the new Invincible episode. That's really good thing. Yeah. All right. Well, we have the ultimate question. Always asked by Wyatt.

Wyatt, Wyatt always asked the greatest. The precedent is that Wyatt has asked really funny, like, Would You Rather questions? Yeah, boy. Yeah, yeah. Well, he has another Would You Rather for us today? Would you rather scream like a girl at random every day

or have hair grow in your mouth? This is horrible. Mine is scream like, that seems like such a no-brainer. I mean, just having like a singular hair in my mouth drives me nuts. I cannot even imagine having a hairy mouth. Like, furry? It's fur- I think it's furry.

Oh, gosh. I think it's like a furry tongue. Or is it like I occasionally get hair in my mouth? No. It's hair growing in your mouth. Oh, man. Out of where? My guns.

Probably tongue cheeks. Tongue? Oh. Probably be my guess. It's annoying enough to, oh, no, I don't know if I could do that. No. But like, I mean, how much am I screaming like a girl?

Like, is it like randomly? For like five minutes, I just belt out. That's cool. Just, hmm. Well, like just one just, ah, every day. Yeah, let's say once a day. But there is a 70% likelihood that it is like at a really inconvenient time. Yes.

I'll take, I'll still take that. Like it's in class. It always happens to be in class. You can't give me enough money even for a day to have hair growing in my mouth. Because also how in the heck are you going to be able to like dispose of that hair? Because you can't like shave it. You can't, yeah. I mean, what are you going to do?

Like shave your tongue? Oh, that's awful. That's horrible already. There are tongue scrapings. Or racks your tongue? That's even, that's somehow. worse. No, I think that if I put a razor to my tongue, that's like some of the worst pain you can There are things called like tongue scrappers. People use them. Yeah. So like that's kind of like a

razor for your tongue. It kind of helps. Some people will have bad breath. Because I have a tongue scraper. Oh. Yeah. And that is yeah. See, men of culture. I never even heard of these things before. Men of culture. It's made of copper. Maybe I need my tongue scraped. It's supposed to help with bad breath. Yeah. Clear out some of that bacteria. Well, that's all the questions. that we have. There was not too many. Hey, you guys, slackers. Yeah, can we get on it, please? Like, we had like a million questions for Gabe that one time.

We say, and we've been just downhill sense. But we say that having posted the questionnaire, like, last night. Yeah, like 12 o'clock at night, midnight. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was, poor planning. Next time we post it, we'll make sure to do it, like, give you as a whole day in advance. Yeah. Usually comes out like noon the day before.

Kind of give people some time. That leads into our, wait, do we have time for our current events section? We have more than enough. Current events. Guys, things are happening in the world. The first thing is that it's almost spring break. In fact, by the time this comes out, it will be spring break. Yeah, it'll be Saturday of spring break.

So what are you doing for spring break? Draven. Man, I'm just going to, I'm driving home. I am going to see the family. Who happens to be sick, actually, which is unfortunate because everybody here has been sick. Oh my gosh. And I've been lucky enough to avoid that. There's no wood.

I'm going to knock on, unfortunately. No wood. So I'm going to go home and then get sick immediately, it seems. You're already giving up. Spring break. Sick. Well, it's just an incubator over there with all the kids and stuff. But, yeah, I'm going to go home, relax.

We'll work on a term paper, I think, though. But nothing that, yeah, nothing too crazy. Nice. What's the, you're from Minnesota, right? What's the temperature looking like over there? Did you check? This is the fake fact section of. This is actually, yeah.

What's the state bird? It actually, the state bird is a loon. It is the loon. I think a loon calls me, Trayton. I don't know. I don't think I can do again. It was so funny. Go listen to the state facts.

The Minnesota State facts. Yes, Minnesota State facts. Needs joined by Draven's Beas to talk all about Minnesota. But is Minnesota really nice in the spring and summer? Because I don't think of that. I wouldn't say in the spring of the summer yet. You know what? It's just another kind of like unique state and the unique region that is the Midwest

be experienced. Unique seasons. Every climate, especially in the summer, it can, I mean, it can be as hot as Texas in a week. And then the, and then the day after it can be in like the 50s, though. Oh, man. That's pretty unique. But, but it's like the really, really peak, like season of Minnesota is like mid, like from like September to like beginning of October.

Unless it's like my senior year where we get like five inches of snow. In September? In the first week of October. Oh, Lord. That's terrible. Yeah. Why do they do this to us? That's just the Midwest though.

Yeah. Yeah, like fall is a pretty common peak season. I'm a big spring guy because I like the hope of like looking forward to summer. And like school like slowly kind of winding down. Where are you from? New York. Yeah. Spring like objectively sucks in this.

Because it's always just like rainy, but it's not only rainy and it's also cold. Like spring, like I played baseball in high school. School ball always sucked because it was in the spring. And it was just always cold, windy, and rainy and crappy. So like we wouldn't even get out onto the field for practice until probably like, like, end of like March. Oh, yish. Maybe start of April because it was always just raining and cold as heck and games. Swinging a bat and hitting a ball when it's like,

47. No. Oh man. Yeah, that sounds terrible. The coldest game that I played in school ball, it was 36. Like, what is this? It sucked.

Yeah, no thanks. Objectively probably one outside of like, you know, like the cold, cold, cold, like winter. But like you get that and you can't really control that. But like spring is, it just, it sucks in the middle of last. We don't really get that because we have the whole island thing going on. So we like, the temperature doesn't change. Those warm sea breezes. No.

I mean, the ocean sort of keeps you very equilibrium. It doesn't, you don't really. We don't get too, too, cool. equilibrium? It just does. Like, it's just science. Yeah. It's the opposite of the lake effect where, like, it gets freezing cold.

It doesn't do that. Because it's salt water. Are you sure it's out the Statue of Liberty's torch? It actually is. Yeah, we're warming it up, yeah. Burr. Just cooking in. Yeah.

The Statue of Liberty is totally a giant neck suit. Okay, that's a Rick and Mori reference. It is. It's got to be. I mean, I would think so. I've been inside of it before. I've been up to the crown. Oh, of course you have.

Yeah. I've always wanted. to go. Don't. Is the view just, don't. Don't. So, let me just tell the story.

So we went in, middle of July, probably like the 17th. This is like the hottest it gets. This is like, you know those days in July when you wake up and it's like, something's wrong.

Yeah. It's just you feel the heat, like even in your house. It's just bad. We went, right? And now the Statue of Liberty is made of metal. Which means when the sun hits it,

it does nothing but just heat up. It's basically, a pressure cooker. So we go in on Liberty Island. Is the the pressure cooker of Liberty? We're walking around the Libby Island. Now, it's a great time. We're just seeing the little size, the gift shop, over the water.

We took the ferry. It was super nice. We get onto the vase, and we don't want to see the elevator because the elevator up. So you go, there's the base, which is like 20 flies of stairs. And then there's the actual statue. Stone thing, right? Yes. So we didn't want to take the elevator up all the way to the top of the base because it was, like, super crowded.

And it was, like, going to take, like, 30, minutes to wait. So we just went up the stairs. So we're already a little bit winded. Yeah. You know, we're a, we're, we're a bit of a heftier family. We don't work out that much. So we're a little, we're a little winded. Now, when we get to the top of the base, we still have 80 flights of stairs left. Oh my. Oh my. My dad and my brother are like, you know what? We'll stay right here. We're going to call. We're going to stay right here. I was like that sounds like you, that sounds like fat camp actually. Yeah, like a lot of words. You are going to climb the Statue of Liberty today.

Yeah, and so my mom, my sister, myself, we went up. It is the narrowest, tallest, most, like, claustrophobic set of stairs you've ever seen in your life. It's nothing but a spiral for, like, 200 feet. It sucks. Oh, my gosh. The steps are, like, two feet tall. I'm in, like, what, eighth grade? I'm, like, maybe five feet tall at the tallest.

It was terrible. And then we went up there, and I can bear it. I barely see out the top of the crown. My mom has to, like, kind of pick me up. And I'm like, man, this is not worth it. It's boiling hot appearing this crown. There's the person sitting there like, ah, welcome to the top of the statue. They're just sweating.

And then we have to walk down, but my sister kind of got like a little bit. A little bit heat strokey. And so she was like, I might loki fall down these stairs. So my mom had to like brace her. Did you take the elevator back down? You can't. It's the stair. up, the elevator up.

Right, right, right. It was so hot, but it was a little bit worth it. It was like, it was like. Is that your only time? Yes. Oh, man. So, I've been, so, you were, so like, what's the view like then? Um, was it at least cool?

Again, I was a little bit too short to even see out of the windows of the crown. The windows of the crown are like five and a half feet off the ground. It's those things in like her, yeah, yeah, yeah. You used to be able to go on the torch. On the torch. Yeah. There's a, there's a, there's a, there's a ladder. You want to know how I know all this?

I've never been, but I played a lot of Lego Marvel superheroes. That's amazing. That's amazing. Thank you for bringing that. Yeah, and I explored the Statue of Liberty extensively. I played the Statue of Liberty episode or a level they have. You're just amazing. Yeah, of course.

What a great. But yeah, it's like okay. Also, just one thing. I think I've said this before. Storm Drexler. I was actually just talking about this. What kind of name is that? Well, we made it four episodes, but no.

further. It does not sound real. And I say that in a good way. What a cool freaking name. Storm Drexler. Thanks, man. It sounds like a spy name or something. You shouldn't reveal it into the last episode of Poison. What my real name is?

Well, yes, but also like why your alias is Storm Drexler. Oh, yeah. Well, there's a couple key reasons. You can reveal them now? Should I? I don't think so. But Draven wants to know. He brought it up.

Fine, you know what? I'll say this. It's your alias. I did gaslight my friends back home for years to believe that Storm wasn't my real name, and I was just withholding. It was like a nickname. Like Sterrit. I was like a nickname.

Like Sterrit. Exactly like Will. Wait, what? Starrot's real name is Will. Wait a minute. What? I think Sterrett's like his middle name. Yes.

Yeah. That's so funny because I had no idea. Because props would be like Will. Like, hi. And I was like, what? Yeah. Oh, that's so funny. I had no idea.

But yeah, no. No, Storm is. My real name. It's all my birth certificate. Drop the, drop their brother's names for me. My parents were just like, no, no. Drop them. I'm not dropping. I'm not docks in my whole family. Drop the brothers' names. You've got to drop. I will, I will. I accidentally dox them on the most recent episode of Off the Trails because my little brother was on off the trails.

What do you mean? Docks them. I out of them. What do you mean? I revealed them. No, my brothers, I have three little brothers. Pay attention to these names. Great dudes. Donovan, Marnix and Bowie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like left feet. No, you're supposed to say Donovan last.

because that's the regular. But that's the order. He's number two. Uh-huh. So, yeah, Donovan. Donovan, Bowie, and Marnix. Spell Marnix. M-A-R-N-I-X.

It's a Dutch name. Marnix, Drexler. Yep, that's crazy. That might be more elite in the storm. Yeah. No, it's very cool. That's crazy. What's the story behind Marnix?

I don't know. I think I remember something about my parents having like an old Dutch friend who maybe passed away. I don't even know. Who is named Marnix? Your parents are so nice. Like, why do they name you this way?

What do you mean? Why? Because it's awesome. Yeah, but it's like, oh, my son. Storm. You know, funny story, actually. I went to a, oh, what are those called? Like, I was a troublemaker in lower school.

And so they took me to one of those like little like child therapist things one time. Hilarious. And the guy was like, maybe the problem is his name. And my parents were like, what? And the therapist guy or therapist lady was like, um, It's just like a violent, a violent name. Maybe this is part of the problem. It is.

I am the story. You should consider like giving him a nickname. My parents are like, yeah, we're out of here. We're not paying for this. Yeah. None of them have nicknames. No, no. They full name drop every time they're going to call them for dinner.

Well, there's some nicknames. I don't have a nickname because I have a one syllable name. This is true. This is true. I feel like. Yeah. Yeah. Did you sound out.

I did have to count. I had to clap. There's one. syllable. I had to do the clap thing, man. Storm. Is your, is your full name, not your full name, your full first name, four or three syllables? Three. It's not Nathaniel.

No. What? Or like Nathaniel. Nathaniel. Nathaniel. Okay, just, y'all. Okay, who pronounces it the other way? I don't know, elves and Middle Earth. Nathaniel. Nathaniel. Nathaniel. No, they know. Or Irish people. Nathaniel. Nope. They usually go with Nat. Nat. Nat? I don't.

I share a name with two of the dobes people have. I share a name with Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nat King, Cole. That's, no, that's sick. Nat King Cole. Nat King Cole. He's sick. And then my queen? He's just a queen. He slays. And then Cole is up my roommate, so we're like really close to having Oh yeah. Oh, oh. Hey. You just need a king. Yeah. Give me up in there.

All right, bro. It's not Nat Storm, Cole. Get out of you. Get out. Get out. Well, what are we doing for spring break, Nate? Where are you going to Pensacola? Oh, so jealous. We're visiting the great state of Florida. I was in the Gulf of Mexico when I realized.

Sorry, sorry. I was Bobby. The Gulf of what? Yeah, what? I was in the Gulf of America. Ah, that's right. Well, this was before it was the Gulf of America. Oh, there was.

Loon call. Loon call. I was trying to be a bald eagle. Oh. Loon call. It's a really strange, bald eagle. It appears to be. debilitated baldie.

The Wilhelm scream. So you were in the Gulf of America. I was in the Gulf of America, dropping my sister off at college for the first time. She goes to college in Florida. In the Gulf. In the Gulf. In Atlanta. In Atlanta.

In Atlanta. In Atlanta. In Atlanta. In Atlanta. So, and I'm in there bobbing. Now, it's like a bath. Have you ever been in the Gulf of America? Sorry.

It's like a bath. It's just warm. It's weird. Okay. Have you never had a cold bath before? No. No, no, no, no. Okay.

Hear me out. Hear me. So whenever I use, You know, it's like hundreds of miles wide. Okay, whenever I've swam, it's in the Atlantic Ocean, which is no matter how much heating you to it is cold. Yeah. Or at the very least, like the highest, I guess it's like 60.

The Gulf is always warm. It's one of those warm current things. Okay, but I've never been, I had never been in a body of water that wasn't the Great Lakes or the Atlantic Ocean before. So I went there and I was like, this is weird. Horrific. But I'm sitting there bobbing up and down in the waves. No, I love it now.

But I'm sitting there bobbing up and the waves and I'm like, you know, wait a moment, wait a minute, wait a minute. Flow riders. Florida. You realize the artist Florida was the state. Yes. Yes.

I am stupid. I told my dad, he's like, yeah, of course it is. He's like, what's you thinking about? I don't know. I feel like everyone has that

one or two things that they realize that's super obvious. Way too late in their life. That's me with everything. Yeah. I had a friend who sincerely did not think

that reindeer were real animals. This friend of mine... Where were they from? Minnesota? Yes, and we have farms of reindeer. They're cooked. This friend of mine did not realize this until he was 19. Wow.

So he lived 19 years of his life, living in a state that has plenty of farms of reindeer. Like, no, it's fake. I'm like, you don't think that reindeer are real. No, they're just like the animal that like flies and leads up. Well, yeah, those ones are rare. The ones that live. Sanislayer rare. Right, because they're only, what, nine of them? Uh, yeah. Yes. Right, right, right, right. Yep, and they're immortal, just like St. Nick.

This is very true. Who's your favorite of the reindeer? Uh, Blitzen. Blitzin's a great one. Blitzen. Come on now. Uh, actually, comet. Comet's elite. Uh, you're a comment is elite. I'm a dancer guy. Yeah, of course you are. Wow, wow. Storm dancer over here. All right, all right. He's dancing over storm. Oh, see, it's funny because. Watch his feet move It's like a flurry It's like a storm

I'll be it I've heard them all I'll have you know I haven't heard a new Pun or joke about my name In many years What was there was The most

The second most common one Is people being like Oh don't rain on my parade And I'm like yeah I'm gonna tackle you now I'm gonna take you down I'm gonna take you down I'm gonna take you down

I'm gonna burn it down I'm gonna burn it down Well it's at least that you get your name Pronounced correctly every time. Oh, Lord, here we go with Draven. What do people pronounce your name as? Well, I have a slew of them.

Like, well, Dravine? Like, Dravon. Von? It's a lot. Yeah, it is a... Beets me. Draven?

Or Draven? Or Draven? Dravine. One of my least favorites for sure is, um, Darwin. And it's called dyslexia. Because one, it just sounds like a dumb person. Darwin.

What's up, Darwin? And also, like, you, you can read. you can read. The R is before the... It sounds like... It is in fact before the A. It sounds like an Urkel character. But one thing, one thing, one thing, one name that I wasn't entirely upset about because it was kind of sick.

I watched this sub... It was in my high school biology class. And it was a sub. And I watched this woman look down at the attendance sheet because it has my name and then like a picture of me. I watched her look down at it. Look at me. Look back down at it. Back at me.

Dragon? I lost it. I kid you not. I kid you not. That season in baseball, my nickname was Dragon. I mean, you should have crashed out.

It was sick. It was sick nickname. But like, how in the heck are you reading Dragon out of D-R-A-V-Y-N? It doesn't make any sense. Dragon. All I think you looked at it so many times.

It wasn't just like a quick mistake. No, it was like she took the time to like, I'm going to mess up this kid's name. And it wasn't even like, oh, it's an ethnic name. I hope I don't, like, how hard can Draven be? Six letters, man. Dragon. The right letters.

At least put a V in there, man. At first, at first I'm like, because usually my reaction is like, you know, it's a tough name maybe. And like, and that's another thing. It's like, people often want to make it sound more ethnic than it is. He's a black guy. It's got to be like, Drafon or something like that. It can't be Draven.

But no, my reaction was going to be, ah, no, is Draven? No, my, in that moment, my reaction was, huh, that's a new one. Nope, it's actually Draven, but yeah, that's a new nickname. Cool, man. My friend, so I told my friend about state facts and about you were all my favorite episodes to, from Minnesota, you're welcome for the compliment. And, um, he was like, he was like, who's your name? Draven. He's like, hold on, wait a minute.

And he pulled up a picture of a leak of legend's character named D-Draven. I was like, that's not what he looks like. Is it E-N or Y-N? Oh, I don't remember. Someone tried to gaslight me thinking that it was D-R-A-Y. And I was like, that's not true. No. Like, that's cap.

Drey-D-D-R-Rae. That ain't it? Drey-D-Rae. I've been called that. Yep. D-D-R-A. Affectionately, of course. Yeah. All right.

Well, Nate, Nate's telling me that he wants me to shut the heck up and we need to get out of here. I'm tired. It's almost sleep time. It is. That's his bedtime. Big nap time. It is. It's past 7 o'clock.

Well, thanks for joining Draven for this great episode of Boys Only. Thanks for having me. Yeah, man. It was really good to have you on. This was a blast. We're going to get out of here. Spring breaks next week. So I think we'll be back a few weeks from now.

And it's time for showing him the text from my friend. Thank you for showing me that text in the middle of my outro. We will see you guys next time here on Boys Only. Have a great week. See you. Thank you.