WRFH/Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM - Boys Only #7: Sage Life Advice

Episode Date: April 7, 2025

Nate and Storm chat with Henry Hansen about Simpson Smackdown, piano, and water.

You ready to rumble. I still got that announcer in me. I can't get it out. I've rumbled already. You rumbled already? I've already rumbled. Are you rumbled out? I'm rumbled.

Guys, we're back. It's me. Your favorite announcer, Vince Mxtorm. And you, Nate McSocrates? Nate McSocrates, here for another episode, post-Simpson Smackdown. To give you all the deets, tune in, lock in. It's boys only. We got a guest on this week, a member of the loving fan crowd people that gathered around for the most amazing event of the year that happened yesterday.

I guess by this point it's yesterday. Henry Hansen, how's it going, bro? Hi, I'm Henry Hansen, and I am almost retired. He's 87 years old. We brought him out here on a wheelchair. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Henry's a senior. We wanted to get him on before he went off into the great. Unknown. Gone forever. Yeah, exactly. Bye forever, pal. Yeah. But it's good to have you on the show. It's been great. I'm happy to get to chat with you for a little bit.

We got some funny questions. We have a great wrestling event that we all just watched and witnessed. That we get to talk about the debrief. Or some of us were in. My beautiful co-host, Gallagher. Hey, thank you. Hey, you're looking handsome today. You're looking handsomer. Thank you so much. We got some questions, date? We do. Start us off. Strong.

Although there's no Wyatt question this week. Are you serious? Oh, you know why? I know why. Wyatt was busy this week preparing for Simpson Smackdown. He was, we didn't have time. As one of the masked ministers of madness? I don't know what they were.

They were the luchadors. They had these green and yellow, like, gemmed masks on him and Andrew did, and it was hilarious. It was awesome. And Andrew repelled. Andrew, maybe allegedly repelled out of the window. I don't think it's Simpson. Yeah, but allegedly, of course. All the things we do are alleged.

Everything, yeah, nothing actually happens. Easily my favorite fight, though. Yeah, that was so good. I really liked that tag team and then again tag team. I liked that Socrates's Gorgias fight. You were in that one. Really? No way.

That was all right. It was a storm. I thought it was pretty good. I'm happy to say that I somehow was the worst fight. I'm very happy to say that. That was good. They were all better. No, I'm saying all of them were better.

You would be really, you were the worst fight. Me and Victor put on a good show. and everything was even better than that. People lost their minds when Dr. Church threw Victor through a table. Oh yeah. That was awesome. I loved watching them like repeatedly tried to set the table up like

because it like just wouldn't go out and then Dr. Church had to just put Victor down. I was I was in charge of get that table there and the table was fine and then we did one practice run and Dr. Church threw him into the table and it like cracked it. Oh. But I like snapped

one of the hinges but the table was fine. Yeah. I don't know how, sometime in the period where I left to go up to the booth to the, to be, I was one of the announcers for the event. I don't know how between that and the actual third or fourth fight, third fight, the rest of table just came totally undone. It was like barely hanging together. Wow. But after Dr. Dr. Church chucked him into the ground, he was happy to get back in the ring and slam Victor's head through the table one more time. It was beautiful.

It was well done. Victor signed away and he agreed to this. That's great. It was raining the whole time. made it better? I think so. I think, yeah, Simpson Smackdown. Part of the charm of it, I think, is just that it's a little bit janky.

It's so ratchet. Yeah. I mean, last year... You're fighting in it. Oh, my gosh. It's really bad. Last year, the ring was just, like, collapsing every single fight. Oh, yeah.

People would slam into poles, and they'd, like, break off, yeah. So we definitely improved the, like, infrastructure, but it still has a little bit of the, like, B-minus movie charm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. B minus is a very gracious. If it's here? Yeah. If it's,

yeah. But it's for Hillsdale. Yeah. It was a phenomenal event. Absolutely. For what we had. Chris's construction of the ring. This is unbelievable.

It didn't like move. It didn't budge. Right. Like I was so impressed. Absolutely. We had to keep that ring like structure. Because he didn't, you know, like dig. It's not, it wasn't in the ground.

Really? No. No. It was just sitting there. Like we could, we can get like 20 guys and or less than that 10 guys and like pick it up. We could also get it with 20 guys. It would just be less work. We can do that too. I like, how are we going to get that into door? They have a plan to like cut it up into quadrants and store it for next year. It was so good what's going to reuse it. Although I've heard

that next year we might paint it. That would be cool. Make it like with designs across the side. Yeah. Like a big yeah. So there's some really cool stuff in the works. If you're listening and you were at SmackDown 2, thank you so much for being there. It was a blast. Very fun to put on. And if you saw the cameo at the end. Next year's going to be even crazier. Absolutely. Tune in. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Well, let's get into these questions. We can't just talk about Smackdown the whole time. We can't. Well, later. We can keep bringing it up. We'll come back. We'll go to some questions first.

What we'll do is we'll keep circling back to Smackdown and it will invariably. All roads lead to. Some hour down. That's right. Yeah. Simpsons Smackdown for the last week has been my Roman Empire because I've just been my Roman Empire is my 15 page paper for Dr. Guyana.

It's due in one hour. It's due in, like a month. That's bad. Why am I here? No, why are you thinking about? I don't know. Do you have some like insane senior papers

coming up or something? Are you pretty much in the clear? He has to do one of these. I'm actually like pretty clear. He's Linus Maxon. I mean, I went to your senior recital for you.

It's so good, dude. Thank you, thank you. We were like, I wrote a paper on it. Did you really? Yes. Wait, that's crazy. I'll show it to you if you want later. I wrote a paper on it.

Yeah, I do. I like raved about you. I am complimented. I mean, yeah. You should be best music event I went to this year. It's, it is some of the most, like, stressful and sleep depriving work

to put together, like, an entire hour of music. Yeah. Oh, you put it together, too. You selected every work? Pretty much.

I mean, Oh my gosh. It had, it was a combination of, like, things I had been working on over the past semester. Um, but a lot of that was like,

very quick learning. So, for example, the wind quintet that opened the second half. So cool. That was probably my favorite piece. It's very awesome. I got the score to that like a month and a half ago. Like, it was probably, whoa. Is that a short time?

I don't know. I imagine that's a short time. That is, yeah. I mean, part of that is just I've been in super crunch time with music for the past year. No wonder we didn't see you for the past like four weeks. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, because I'd been applying to graduate school and stuff like that. but it's, yeah, it is

just so much work but also so rewarding to do stuff like this. It was magical, like a truly elevating experience. I love the last piece because it looked like you didn't have any like music.

You just played it off the dome. Yeah, yeah, that's kind of like my show piece. The piece is Ravel's Judo, which translates approximately to water games. So it's a lot of like very big flowing passages. Yeah. But something about that really fits my hands specifically. And so I like, when I learned it my sophomore year the first time, it just went really well and I played it for a recital and it went super well, which usually with performances, I get like super nervous and I do pretty poorly.

But it just always goes really well whenever I play it. And so I was just like, I got to put this at the end. I got to keep it with me. And I had it memorized. So it's like, yeah, I, I got to. got to do this. Wait, that's like so inspiring. Oh, yeah. Also, like, you're awesome. Like, I see you with, you play the forehanded piano with, I'm blanking on his name. Some other guy. Tom. Oh, yeah, that's right. You guys always cook.

Yeah, yeah, Tom and I did. I've seen that at least twice, I swear. Yeah, we did a thing for the choir last semester, one of the choirs. Oh, wait, yeah, I remember that. In the chapel? Yeah, yeah, there was one in the chapel. And yeah, it was like, it's a reduction of an orchestra piece, but he wrote it for piano forehand.

So me and the department economist Tom, Rice Camp. Great guy. We did that. And it was a lot of fun. But, yeah. That's sick. How do you, like, write or, like, learn how to play? Any music instrument ever?

Well, I mean, yeah, but, like, I mean, I'm tone deaf. Like, I'm, I'm, music's probably, like, the thing I'm worst at in the world, except, like, levitation. I'm actually pretty good. I'm a notation. I know that. I'll teach you sometimes. Storm is currently actually floating a couple inches above his chair.

Yeah. So it was Taco Libre as he ascended just now. So true. Anyway. How do you learn how to do that? Are you like, okay, you take left side, I take right side? It's a lot of acrobatics, that's for sure. Do you have to like go over each other?

Acrobatics? Well, yeah. You're like flipping around? Yeah, well, there are two separate parts. Usually one is a very structural low part where it has a lot of the like harmonic underlines and then one is more de facto. record of one like more melodic, a lot more active. And so you have these separate parts and you learn them on your own.

And then you play and you realize, oh, wait, I'm playing a note with my right hand higher than his left hand. And so we're going to be crossing. And it's just we, it's like most rehearsals were figuring out how to get out of each other's way for the most part. Makes sense. A lot of fun though. Yeah, that's awesome.

I like that we don't have any questions. Like we're just going to talk about, I do too. I don't know, but like, it's just being having good conversation. It's just so interesting that it's like, yeah. That's actually so sick though. All right. I'm now officially going to ask my question. Okay, okay.

We actually are going to go into questions now. So true. The weight is over. Will asks, what is your preferred brand of bottled water? Bottled water. Bottled water. I am terrible about not drinking enough water. Yeah.

Like, I cannot. When you do, is it bottled? I mean, a little bit. Usually I do the like storebot brand. Yeah. Um, whichever one that is. So I guess, Desaani. Like a Kirkland.

No, more like, Kirkland. Like if he goes to Costco. Kirkland, ah, water. What means it goes to Costco. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's sort of just like, yeah, whatever. Deer one or whatever.

Deer is not. No, but deer park. That's not something like that. I don't know. But it's just whatever like the cheapest brand I can get is at the store. Yeah. Um, but I usually, I do have a filter. So I...

Oh, that's the way to do it. A filter loser. I don't... I mean, I'm pretty stingy being a half music major. He's a Viji guy. Yeah, I don't... Eiji actually slabs, man. Don't even...

Yeah, but it's also, like, weirdly expensive. Not weirdly expensive. It's entirely expensive. 100% expensive. It's water. True. Stop making it expensive. No.

Okay. You go get your own water. Yeah. It's actually way... It is incredibly difficult to get. Go get your own water. That's actually probably true. water. But we have like plumbing.

It brings water straight to us. Yes. But it's like tap water. Well, and also you do pay for that as well. That's true. Very little. Very little. You know how Shockta was another that like utilities cost like this much? Like they don't they don't cost anything. They kind of do.

Not that much. Relative to like rent or a mortgage or taxes on your property. Yeah. Plumbing is like $30. I mean, yeah. Or if that. Speaking from experience, when you live in Texas, the month of June and July, your AC bill is going to be like half year end. Well, that's your AC.

Like, if you just, like, lights, basically, electricity is, like, very little. Like, you don't pay that much. I feel like some tap water is a lot better than another tap water. Absolutely. Like, where is the best? Here in Michigan, I don't love the tap water. It's pretty bad. It has a flavor to it.

In Georgia, where I'm from, not because I was born and raised, but I love the water. Like, I can't get it off of it. You enjoyed it when you were there. Well, I had, like, the filter you had. That was still just tap water. Like, that's, like, the only kind of filtering it is, it's, like, literally, like, what you think of when you think of a filter to get rid of any, like, I think it's, like, a chlorine remover or something.

Probably. They usually chlorinate the water, at least a little. I should know this because we had, like, an entire lab about it in chemistry once, but. Yeah, so it's that. I for glor. But even, like, other, like, even regular tap water in Georgia just tastes better. In Florida, I know it's not good. In Michigan, it's not good.

My hometown has had some issues in the past with, like, very bad things getting into the water. Oh. But, yeah, so that's why I have, that's why I have a filter in the first place. It's just like, just in case. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's go Houston. Yeah. Heck yeah.

The Long Island water was poisoned by an extremely large company that will go unnamed. Are you, is this? Is this poisoned? Not like intentional. Is this an episode of Spider-Man, like, poisoning the watershed? The Spider-Man. I'm imagining that one, have you seen Spider-Man 3?

Which is a bar one? I got like 10 minutes in. Yeah, yeah, with like Spenum and Sandman. Ten minutes in? Can it kick some juniors? I gave up because it was goofy as hell. It was so goofy. I have like a very bad thing about

if something is embarrassing or cringe, even if it's like third hand, I still feel like first-hand guilt for it. Yeah. And so I could only get through like 10 minutes of the dialogue. If that's the case, yeah. But I feel like poisoning the water

in a way that's non-lethal, it just makes it taste bad. It's an evil plot that Harry Osborne would do once he goes evil in that movie. Right. I love that scene where he's like,

or the waitress comes up to him and she's like, how's the pie? And he's like, delicious. Like everyone in that movie you just get so unbelievably goofy by the end.

They're just emoting their whole way for the movie. The classic bully McGuire walk is amazing. I like that scene in the club where he like, he'd like dancing around and like,

swinging from stuff. That movie is a gem in a weird way. Yeah. Is it true that Sony was like buying the rights to make those movies and they got offered like the rest of Marvel and they were just like no one cares about Marvel? Yeah. Way back before the MCU. Yeah.

There was a whole thing about that and they were like, dang it. Yeah. And now they're like sticklers for what they do have, which is all the Spider-Men stuff. Yeah. Although Marvel still gets some of the pie. Yes. They also have the X-Men. They do have the X-Men.

But they're going to be combining all of it. They held a better hand on the X-Men. Spider-Men have kind of let him go. Yeah, that's true. But they're combining it now because like the Deadpool 3 was part of whatever everything else. Wolverine who's at X-Men, so.

Yeah, I think, well, especially again when Sony made the purchase, which I want to say was like 99 or something. X-Men were just way bigger than the other Marvel. Yeah, for sure. which isn't necessarily the case now. And then the movie Iron Man came out and everyone was like, oh!

And then the movie the Avengers came out, which was like, okay, this is the coolest thing ever. The highest grossing movie for like a really long time. Yeah. I love the first Iron Man movie. That movie's maybe the best. An extremely good movie. Yeah.

I also, I think the very first Avengers movie is an underrated. When you look at the whole Marvel, like, a movie lineup, that one's up there. That first Avengers movie is one of the coolest team ups. I like Civil War. I know that might be a, I know you guys might look at me different. I like civil war. I think it's okay.

I haven't seen Civil War start to finish. Big battle. Have you seen the ending? Funny airport. I haven't. I was in. Where Captain America fights Iron Man? I'm sure that's cool.

Stay down. It's okay. It's not as good as some other fights. I was like, passed out in a hotel room because I was, I had just driven like five hours for a graduate audition. And it was like 10. Captain America 3 was on. It was, yeah, Civil War was on. It was the car chase scene,

which stunt-wise is very cool, but I've, like, seen enough bad CGI to be able to recognize it, where it's like any time there's a bad, like, cut in or just, like, poorly shot action scenes. It's like, yeah, this is hard to follow. Yeah. I didn't even go see Captain America for the new one.

Oh, yeah. Brave New World? Yeah. I have not seen a movie. I heard some people say it was okay. I think it was whatever. I watched the series on Disney Plus. The Falcon Lord of Soldier one?

I did not like that. I thought it was like... I thought it was boring and non-compelling. I thought it was all right. I'm a really big fan of Bucky. I like Bucky, but he was probably the only good character in the show. Get this man in arm.

Oh, you know who I liked? I thought that the guy that was the Captain America replacement and kind of turned it to be a villain. He's compelling. He's a compelling character. They could have done more with him. They should have him.

But other than that, the show just got off the rails at the end and like there was no plot really. I was like, what's going on? The only time Marvel has ever really hit with a show for me has been Moon Knight. Loki. Loki was okay. I love Loki.

I think, again, I like, what's his face? The one who plays Lightning McQueen. Owen Wilson? Yes. Oh, I forgot he's in that. Wow. Wow. Yeah, look at that, Loki.

Loki. We got to tie the world tree together. I don't know what you're doing. You guys remember when he was in Zoolander? Yes. Dude, that's one of my favorite movies all the whole time. It's so terrible. I'm behind on my cinema.

Guys, you gotta... I'm not your bro. I'm not your, and I'm not your bro. I'm going to stop subjecting the audience to our Owen Wilson voices. Yeah, you'll have to fill me in later. I need to watch more movies. Do you know who this actor is we're talking about?

I know Owen Wilson, yeah. Kucho. Sorry. Stop it. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Here's my like horrible truth is I've only seen Cars 2 of the Cars series. Oh, wow, that's diabolical.

seen cars like at least 300 times. I'm sure it's fantastic, but I also have a soft spot for cars too because of just how goofy is. That's like owning half a piston cup. How many piston cups do you have hit? Zero. I've never seen the third one,

but I've heard it like weirdly completes the trilogy. I've also actually never seen it. But the tonal shift from the first and the second one is unbelievable. Oh, my excuse me. Yeah. But the first one is nothing like the second one. It's entirely different.

Like there's no, like the first one's racing movie for the first five minutes. And then he goes out into a town in the middle of nowhere and he learns moral of the lessons. And he makes a lot of friends for the rest of the whole film. And then the last five minutes is racing again. Yeah. The second movie is spies and guns and shooting and high speed chases and bombs and subterfuge. Like it's crazy. Yeah.

Like I was like, what? They step this up. And weirdly, they both work. I just remembered I have seen another car's movie because one time my uncle was babysitting me and he rented planes. I was so hoping you would say planes. I saw planes. I saw planes.

That is. I've seen it exactly once at like age 11 or something. You big planes guy? No, but it's just such a just. It's a pole. Anytime you say planes, everyone who's seen it has to act like it's their favorite movie. Okay. I'm, again, as I said, as a shop duster.

As a child, I watched the cars at least 300 times in the show. My parents tell me, they memorized the movie. Yeah. I mean, if they're like all kids have them so many times, they learn a lot. They memorized the whole movie. My parent, they were like, I cannot stand another second of this movie.

After I finished, they didn't watch it for like 10 years. They were like weird. But did you guys ever see the shorts? Wait, wait, wait, the Mader ones? Yes. Where there's, they're wrestlers in one of them. There's one where he chases a light. I saw, I've seen that one.

I don't know the wrestlers one. Amazing. I saw the, the Tokyo Drift Mater. I'm also amazing. He's like all blue and big and he's like in a Japanese street race. It's really cool. And then the other one that we watched a bunch was the time travel one where he gets instead

of his like carburetor or whatever it is, I don't know, car terms. Instead of that he has like a clock that like when he sneezes, the clock goes really fast. Oh my gosh. It'll shoot him randomly in time. And it takes him to like the founding of Radiator Springs. Oh. And he has to like, I don't know. There's all this weird stuff.

And at the end of the thing, he's like, at the end of all of them, the only thing, He's always like, remember Lightning McQueen, you were there. And Lightning McQueen's like, what? No, I wasn't. And then it goes back and he's like there. And it comes back and he's like, yeah, you were canonically there. And there's nothing you can do about it. It's like, he writes Larry the cable.

It's just Larry the cable, man. He just bends space and town. Tomator. Yeah, man. Yeah. I love tomatoes, especially on my salad. Toomiter. Dude, the tractor tipping scene from the first cars movie.

Oh, you haven't seen the first one. Yeah. But there's a scene in the first one where they go out instead of cow tipping, they tractor tip. That's incredible. go watch the clip. It's probably like four minutes. With Frank? Yeah, with the big giant Frank. Yeah, Frank. What is that called? It's a combine. A combine.

Like cuts up the grass, I guess. It doesn't, I mean... What does it do? What's this purpose? It like collects the crops. Really? It puts them all down. That's cool. Yeah. The Long Islander is educating southerners on how farming was. Okay, I'm an air quote southerner in that regard because I'm from Atlanta.

Well, yeah. We're both. All of three of us are city boys. Very, yes, very little farming knowledge. I'm an island boy. I'm trying to make it, you know. This is who I am. But, all right, I'm going to ask the next question. Liam asks, quote, this is a direct quote from the question.

I'm going to phrase it how he phrased it. What spelled W-U-T. Would be the best man's skill to have? What car knowledge, building knowledge, finance knowledge, etc. What be the best man's skill? So you said car knowledge, building, I assume like construction. Yeah. I mean, I think it's an end of the questions.

That's a good question. I think fishing is the manliest thing you could do. Fishing is very enjoyable. That's a good thing. A lot of our guests like fishing. Yeah. I've gone fishing like twice, had a blast both times. You've been ice fishing?

No. Once fly fishing, once the like regular sit on a porch and do stuff. Yeah. Although I would say, I would say, probably anything in the vein of like mechanical trade type stuff is super good for a guy. Absolutely. Well, I'm saying, I say this probably out of like the grass is greener because I'm, you know, I've always been a suburban kid and I've always kind of been like the book

knowledge. So it's like, oh, financial knowledge. Yeah, read an e-contact book. That's not hard. Yeah. But like physical labor is something fulfilling that has not yet found a replace. in the like sedentary office society. Yeah, that's so true.

And so you have to have some kind of hobby that like gets you working like on concrete problems on tangible things because it's like a mental reset. If you're always abstracting, if you're always in a like not entirely concrete environment, if you're always like sending emails, always, you know, working on spreadsheets, accounting type stuff. That's kind of harmful. I say this is someone who's about to do 40 years of. Like spreadsheets. Your music major.

I'm also, well, that's another story from another time. But, yeah, so basically I would just say, like, do something that helps you create real things. Yeah. Not necessarily, and don't do it as a profession necessarily, because the easiest way to ruin something you love is to try to get a job doing it. Make it your work. Yeah. Yeah, I hear a lot of, like, a lot of times, like, work and do what you love. but I feel like there's something to like

even working through monotony to make the money to then fund your hobbies or your other things, which I feel like is what I'm probably going to aim for more as I grow up. Absolutely. It's so much better, which is why I'm moving towards like a career with my math major

is like to try to get a job as a pianist is just impossible while still loving music. Yeah. Wow, that's so well said. You have to sacrifice every sphere of health to be at the pinnacle of, you know, music performance. And it's just not worth it for me, at least. Yeah. It's like I realized I don't know how to stop myself from continuing to sacrifice and continuing to like neglect everything else in my life.

And so I just had to like forcefully put it into it. But yeah. Yeah, for sure. That's also inspiring. It's a little lock in. It is a lot. in. What are you going to do when you grow up, mate? I don't know. I'm like 12, bro. You're like, you're 12 years old? Yeah. That would be awesome. Oh my gosh. That would be awesome.

Quick life reset. Yeah. Invest in Bitcoin. Yeah, if I could try college again, I would mostly do the same stuff. Pretty much. Yeah, I mean, I would probably switch majors. I don't know. Really? To what? The biology. I think I would do like econ. Just really. Really? Just really. That's what I'm doing. Yeah. Really, really, like, employable stuff, which is kind of boring. But like I said, you know, you should really reserve the things you love for things you're not forced to do. Yeah.

But I am too doing econ. That's like 50% of my major. You're doing poly-econ. But if you look at the poly-econ major, I don't want to do that. No, if you look at the requirements, 50%, like around half is business stuff. You have to take more politics classes than Constitution. You're a politics major. If you are...

If you take principles of microeconomics, you're already, like, more financially well off than probably 90% of Americans. So I would consider you an economist. I proudly have never taken an economics course. I'm doing history of economic thoughts soon. I'm cooked. It's all over. My brain is so moneyified now. What do you mean history of economic thought?

Make money. That's the history. Well, you're not going to believe. Well, it's the polycompetia. It takes a long time. The goal of the major is not to eventually end up. up like running a business, which possibly is a route, but it's more like I want to learn and be very aware of how the government and our economy affect each other and that fluctuate, and that

fluctuation so that, yeah, more that direction rather than just like, I would like to be behind a cash register. Immediately employable. Yeah. Hey, everyone's employable somewhere. Yeah. This is true. There are enough jobs in this country.

In this world. In this world for everybody. You find it. Keep seeking your... It might be like a stinky job. His poo-poo job. But like you can work. You can't.

There's always, I mean, it's hard to say that right now because the job market is pretty bad. The job market is not good. I hope they'll turn around soon. I'm hoping so too. I heard this, can I keep talking or we have another question? I was going to say, I heard this funny story the other day. I think it was like a Ronald Reagan quote or something

where he was like talking to this person and this like family with their like daughter. And she was like, oh my God, I want to be the president of the United States when I grew up. And he was like, cool. Why do you want to do that? And she was like, well, I want to like help people who are like poor and like make their livelihood better with my political office. And he was like, okay, if I will say, you don't have to be the president to do that. If you want to come over to my house and cut my weeds, mow my lawn, do all this stuff today, I'll give you $50 for a couple hours of work, then you can go down to your local whatever and give that money to a homeless person to then have for like food or whatever. And she was like, wait, why doesn't the homeless

guy just go and do that work for you and get the $50? Why do you need me? And he was like, welcome to the Republican Party. He was like, yes, that's kind of what we're having fungal screech. Yeah, and the parents were like these like, the parents were obviously opposed to this ideology. They were like, yo, wait a minute. No, no. That red pilling our daughter. You got to stop red pillager. I thought that was at least interesting. Because, yeah, there is a degree. There are jobs.

That's why. They'll come back around. No matter what happens, I will still be in support of the free market because there's no world where you shouldn't be rewarded for doing a good thing. And I don't think that's possible under controlled economy. But yeah, based. Final question. Jack asks, if you had to choose one, would you go with bangs? A ponytail or pig tails.

Oh. That, oh gosh. That's tough. A ponytail or a pig tail. Probably try to like have some sort of cool man ponytail tail. A brony tail? A brony tail. Which is still pretty bad.

This is a loose, lose, lose situation. Of course, but what's the least lose? You cannot go bangs. That's bad. I can't for sure. That's bad. Don't do that. I, the thing is like, I don't have.

I don't see any like theoretical opposition to this, but any time a dude has like really long hair, it's always really unkempt and kind of greasy. And so it's like, I just imagine myself with long hair. It's like, ugh. That's so gross. When my hair gets longer, it just gets like bigger. Like I get like Afro mode.

That's cool. That's cool. Atlanta resident. Yeah. It doesn't go down for a long time. So I can't ever have like cool like hair that's down. I hate when my hair gets long. I know you do.

You're like, hey, it's nice. It's time for a haircut and you had almost no hair. I was like, I was like, what? Once it starts in the back, it will curl up. Yeah. Time to go. So you're choosing the pigtails? No, I would use the brony tail.

I think, I mean, like, Dr. Jackson puts his hair in, like, kind of a... Oh my gosh. Dr. Jackson, rumored to appear at Simpson Smackdown 3. All right, man. Sorry. It was bound to come back up. It was. Can you lock back in?

No, but, like, he has his hair, like, at least... I don't think it's technically a ponytail. It's like some kind of a... It's like he keeps it together. It's just a ponytail, but like he has really weird... A Padawan braid. No. See, that's on your face more so.

That's actually the thing that bothered me the most about the prequels. Dude, the rat tail? The rat tail. That's like you can't cut that hair forever. What? That's horrible. Yeah. Well, you eventually can.

Once you become a knight. Dude, it would suck to be a Padawan. Obie one's hair in the second. in the third movies. Really, Obi-One's hair just always. It's just amazing. Yeah.

His hair is always incredible. It doesn't matter. Like, every time he's appeared as a character. Did he carry the prequels? Ewan McGregor carried the prequels. He's like my favorite Jedi. Yeah, that's fair.

Maybe this is a hot take. I'm not sure. I like Hayden Christensen a lot. I think that his portrayal of Anakin is good and underrated. I think it's George Lucas as, well, I don't know if I should say that. No, it's fine.

I think, yeah, I think George Lucas's problem is mostly. It was a writing element that was not necessarily there. Like, obviously none of the actors are like stupid. Right. Or bad. Like, if you give them good lines and good material, they are talented. I mean, he's playing an angsty teen in that second one. All his cringe lines make sense.

I like the, I really like the movie. I really like the third one, too. Anakin in Revenge of the Sith is like, he's one of the top tier characters. He's cool. He's on his game. His hair is first. He just looks. It's cool.

A whole black robe going on. Yeah. Like he's just peak. That movie rocks. That movie is in general. It by itself does a good job of like moving us into the good part of Star Wars. Which is the originals. The originals.

I love Empire Strix Back. Maybe one of my favorite movies of all time. Yes. But that's just like a, that's such a cold take. That's icy. Have you seen, I just remembered this. So I was, I don't remember how I got down this rabbit hole, but I was on Wikipedia. which is always a very mixed sign.

Yeah, yeah. And I found from 1980, the original New York Times review of Empire Strikes Back. The original? The original. He tore it to shreds. No way.

I can't remember the guy's name, but the guy who originally wrote the review, yeah, the original New York Times review of the Empire Strikes Back, like, hated this. Do you remember like some specific

complaints? What was like his problems? A lot of it was I think this was actually a kind of common sentiment among like really hardcore film guys

is like this whole sci-fi fantasy idea isn't mature enough for like cinematic audiences all right man I think

you know what else was popular at the time? Rocky as if that's realistic at all it's some dude from Philadelphia yeah Yeah, but Rocky 3 is the only good one. Change my mind.

I like Rocky 4. I actually haven't seen that one. I've only seen the first three. I've only seen one. I, it was the dialogue, like I said before, dialogue is hard to get through for me. If it's not solid. Yeah. Yeah.

What, um, what was the other complaint? Were you going to say one other thing? Oh, yeah. Which I think is commonly recognized is that the dialogue and writing doesn't always hold up in the Star Wars. Like, it's a, with the universe you're trying to build and you've accidentally captured, like, a mainstream audience, the trying to do, like, legitimate sci-fi or fantasy dialogue really doesn't hold up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I also find that, and I only find myself saying this occasionally, but I can see how someone else would say this, it's a little bit, the pace is also sometimes a little bit. Of the originals? Five.

It's a little wonky sometimes. Take it back. It's a perfect movie. I love it to death. It's like probably my favorite. I can see someone complaining about like the pacing being a little weird. Well, it's meant to be the middle of a trilogy. Yes.

No. Okay, I get that. There won't be as much finality or like they have to set up things with ways. That's sort of like. No, that's not the point. It's like the just general pacing. Sort of like Simpson's Smackdown 2. Sort of like Simpsons SmackDown 2

The pacing was off, I don't know I really liked the pacing of Sims. I think that we got done in like an hour and change which last year was like three hours long. No, yeah, that was the biggest improvement. Equal like amount of fights. Yeah. It took forever.

The fights were too long last year. But we got it down to a science this year and people were entertained. Like by the end people were still of a fight like the last couple moves. People were still engaged in cheering. Yes. Which I was like.

Yeah, that was the biggest. Also giant crowd. We had over 300 people there. That's incredible. But dude, that was a great turnout. I was extremely pleased with the just sheer amount of love that came from the people of Hillsdale. You guys, the wonderful student body, I was proud of those guys and what they put together. And I think it was a great show.

Yeah. Yeah, no, I was really satisfied with how much it's improved. A little disappointed that I may not get to see the conclusion. Yeah, but just show up. I might have to. Yeah, I think that there's some of other alumni who are planning to come back to see that kind of conclusion. There were like two or three. I did.

I did see the alumni there. So, yeah, if there's any time to come back during like spring semester, I would say Smackdown is one of those times. Because there aren't as many, you know, like in fall, there's a couple of like celebration nights for like homecoming stuff. Exactly. Yeah. Where alumni come back, but not really as many in the spring. Yeah. Except just the end for graduation.

Of course. I like that also, I didn't know those, but the, all the funds that we got for the, food is going straight to Simpson Sendoff at the end of the year. Right on. You had to pay for the food? I didn't know that. The food was like, it was so, it was like so cheap. It was like three or four dollars for like a hot dog, chips and a drink.

It was like almost nothing. But we did raise some money, I think, which will go to Simpson Send Off, which would be awesome if you're listening. Go to Simpson Send off at the end of the year. It's always the best. April 30th or so. We're only a couple weeks out. I got an email the other day. Graduation

when this podcast released. will be 37 days away. 37 days? I can't do that math. How many days is that like in like weeks? That is a month and a week, give or take. 30 days, half November, June, March, and September. Okay, the knuckle, just do the knuckles.

Just do the knuckles. This is true. We add on other knuckles. What is it? It's just count the months on your knuckles. If it's a bump of your, if an actual knuckle has 31, if it's a dip, it does not. It goes back and forth?

Yeah. And then because, no, because actually, funnily enough, July and August lineup, because they're both, they're both back to back to back. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's so cool. I don't know that.

Human body designed. Yeah. And you got the rhyme wrong, so I would suggest learning the knuckle thing. 40 day have February, April, June, and February. Look, all the rest have 32. This is true. Me. What's that South Park skit where she's like, oh my God, not South Park, Parks and Recreation

skit where she's like, I used to book all your, I thought March 31st was not a real day. So I booked all your meetings on March 31st. And now it's March 31st and you have 500 meetings. That's hilarious. I haven't seen Parks and Rec. Another vibe, but I haven't seen much of it, but I saw that clip. Well, broken. Yeah, for sure.

But it was good to have the raging bowl out there. Luke Waters, as always, with a killer performance. That was wonderful. I am not here of my own accord. I like that we brought that back. I don't know if everybody got that. That was a reference. That was a callback.

There were a couple bits that were definitely for the like Simpson Smackdown inside. Yeah, and for the returners. Yeah, for sure. You had like seen there and have been live in there last year. Seen the Utter Taker, which was a legendary cow-themed wrestler last year who graduated. And some other good ones. And now we're sending off Taco into the sunset. So sad.

He's not leaving yet, though. He'll still be his assistant junior. He's not. I thought Stere was graduating. No. I'm not dead. That's another skit-month-day. I'm not dead.

I'm not dead yet. Bring out you dead. Yeah. I think I'll recover from this podcast one day. Potentially. It damages me, though. It does. It hurts my soul.

It hurts my soul to be with you all these times. Well, I'm having a great time, so I don't know. Yeah. You don't have to do this every week. Well, maybe I should. Yeah, bro. Bring it back on it. I'll be a substitute teacher.

I don't think we can do this. If ever I get brutally ill, I'll have you. Yeah, you're the sub. If one of us can't do that this week, you're the sub. Yeah. Well, speaking of lots and lots of time, we don't have any more left. Yeah, we're all out. How sad.

Yeah, I know. Well, it was great to have you on, Henry. Thanks so much for joining Boys Only for an episode. episode. Tell the people how much you love us and they should all come and guess as well. Yeah. Whatever Storm just said, plus also.

It's, yeah. Yeah. Great outro, man. I can tell you really rehearsed that. I just got here. I just got here. It's super rehearsed as always. We have a giant over there. Yeah, actually there's a little teleprompter right over there. Yeah, for sure. Well, thanks again for listening.

Thanks again for joining. Any last words? Before we in there. Follow your dreams, but only to the extent that you still have them as dreams. Oh my gosh.

I was expecting like some quiffy line each. Yeah, the inspirational episode. I love that. Thanks again for joining. We'll see you guys next week. Keep dreaming. See you.