WRFH/Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM - Boys Only #8: Swallowing Knives

Episode Date: April 15, 2025

Nate and Storm chat with Caleb Flodstrom about fishies, leadership, and Simpson Smackdown again (AGAIN!).

Hey guys, we're back. It's podcast time. Hardcast. I'm enunciating every single one of my syllables so that you can hear my each and every word. My name is Sotahorm Direxler. That's not the right and fast. And you? I am. You're over there.

I am Nathaniel. This show is falling apart, bro. This show is. We're on, what, have we had, episode like seven or eight or seven? This will be eight. It's falling apart. guess. I can't remember. But you are lucky listener. You're here for

that deterioration if you've gotten this far into the show. You're here for that. You're here for questions. You're here for more. You're here for boys only. We have another guest on because they love us so much. They keep coming back. It's Caleb Floodstrom. A wise, sage,

ancient... Unk. Unk. Sense-Woo looking... Uguer Sends looking. How's it going, Caleb? You know, life is good. Life is a good story. Happy to be here. Thanks for... Yeah, they're also here. Yeah, this always happens.

They're like talking and I'm like here. Three guest crazy strays to Gallagher over there. Justice came on the show like a couple weeks ago and Justice was like, yes, it's just really good to be on the show with you, Storm. Oh yeah, and Nate too. He's like, I never thought that I'd be on a show with you. Yeah. Rogo's one year from, you know, I wake up in the middle of the night and he's under my bed

and now the year later I'm doing a podcast. We don't have to talk about that. We might, maybe, I don't know. Potentially. I was a menace as a freshman. Yeah. It was quite a menace of society. Quite a detriment.

A detriment. It's a detriment to the sleep of all juniors. Oh, yeah. That's true. I had a particular lust for disturbing the sleep of juniors. That's a strange way to put it. It just, it called to me. I think I liked the way you enunciated earlier.

All right, all right. Let's get off the ASMR and just actually talk. All right. I'm going to eat these crackers real quick. Crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch. But anyway, thanks for coming on. How you doing? How's your spring semester going?

Well, spring semester is almost a funny term because, you know, I look outside the window yesterday. I'm about to go to volleyball and it's snowing in April, which has only happened twice since I've been here. But it's just like we're almost to the end, right? We're just so close. And then it just starts snowing. And then you're like, Wyatt predicted it. Really? There's one more. Wyatt said to me in early March, storm, it's going to snow in April.

And I said, no, there's no way. It always does. It did last year. Every once in a while, Wyatt Peters has something incredibly sage or prophetic that just... He does live here. No, he doesn't. Well, okay, he lives an hour from here. He lives two hours from here.

I know, I drove. All of you people. Fact checker. But, no, yeah, I guess if anyone would know, it would be him. But now, Wyatt was like, hmm. Are you angling the monitor towards? Jamie, pull up the weather. Jamie, pull up Wives hometown.

Pull up Wives at your eyes. Show me a Google image of Jason Peters' house. Yeah, Airstrike the Peters residence. I'm not sure about that one. I'm kidding. Let's get into some questions. Okay. How about that?

Starritt asks. If you could only eat one kind of fish for the rest of your life as your only source of protein. Oh. Which kind would it be? Oh. I know my answer immediately. So this is a really interesting question, and it's something I have to be a little bit confessional about.

So I'm from the Olympic Peninsula, which is the westernmost part of Washington State. So we have fresh fish from Alaska and the San Juan's all the time. Undeniably, like, fantastic eating shrimp, crab. We have dungeness crab. Dungeoness crab. Dungeoness crab. It's a delicacy around the world, and it only comes out of it. at that river, which is next to my house.

Very weird stuff. The problem is, I have never really liked seafood that much. However, you know, it's almost, it's almost kind of funny because this fish is like, A, it's hard to catch and B, it's really plain to most people. It's not something that you would order. Most people, if you're thinking of like Washington fish are going to get like a big salmon steak because it's just like, that's pristine. Yeah.

You get this big hunk of a, like, like, you get this big hunk of, like, Alaskan salmon. That's the best you got. But when I was a kid, I really liked halibut. My mom would prepare halibut well. And there's great stories. My dad, my dad caught this 250-pound halibut. And he told us the story about it when we were kids. Because this fish is like taller than he is. He's enormous, right? I mean, he came back from Alaska and said, sat on the couch for a whole day. He's like, I'm not getting up. I'm not getting up.

Because you don't, you're not like strapped into the deck like you're fishing for Marlin or something. You're, you have this short pole because if it were any longer, it would snap on. Right. The halibut is several hundred feet straight below the boat. And so you're at this point, it's just you, the pole and your lower back. Good luck. just rocking back and forth.

So by the time he was finished, I mean, he probably lost an inch of height just from his lower back and pressing to catch this fish. Pulling his spine together. But boy, was it worth it? That was like a week's worth of eating for all the Fludgesterbys.

So, oh my gosh. That sounds awesome. I don't think I've ever had halibut. I'm not sure. If it's done, if it's done right, because I've never liked, it's such a cliche thing to say, but I don't like fishy tasting fish.

Yeah. You know, no, no, true. You know exactly what I'm talking about. about. Sometimes halibut can be really, really fishy. It can either, it's on a spectrum. But I don't know. I've had good halibut as a kid. So I got to hit the generic answer, which is just I love salmon. Yeah. Big salmon guy. That's like the like the kind of the probable one that comes to mine pretty easily. I don't know if I stole yours. No. Okay. Well, are you about to give some weird puffer fish? Yeah. You look like a puffer fish enjoy. I so wish I would love to have

the chance to eat puffer fish. But, so, you're ready for this? Here's another Nate family story that you always love. You always tell me. I love the Nate family stories. I love when you start one of these stories. It's like, my brother or my dad. This is all of us.

Oh, no. So in my house, in good Italian, New York fashion, we have on Christmas Eve the feast of the seven fishes, where you cook seven different kinds of fish. It's extremely labor-intensive. It takes all day and all of us, There's five of us, and it takes all of us to make all of the fish. It is extremely annoying.

But it's pretty fun, and you get to spend time with your family and eat it all at the end. So, I have gotten the chance to eat some fairly strange fish. One of the things that my mother prepares all the time is cheese-covered flounder, which I'm not the biggest fan of. That sounds good. I don't like it that much. Wow. I really like shellfish.

Is your mom shellfish? Probably not. I like shellfish a lot but it's fish fish. Yeah. So I mean, I think that I really like

those ones that come in like the squares. Yeah. Oh, you're an ahi tuna guy? No, I mean like at the supermarket and you heat them up in the microwave. Oh, that's horrendous. The lay of fish.

Oh, that's pretty sure that most of the time, that's just cod. The lay of fish. Generic. generic little cubed, cubed fish. The cube.

There are no bones in this process slab of ham. This is an unholy meat obelisk. Unholy meat obelisk. That is 40 pounds of straight. I remember being in the airport with you and he couldn't eat any meat besides fish because it was a Friday

and you have your religious practice. and you were like, oh, well, I guess I can't eat anything. And then it was McDonald's. You spotted McDonald's, and you were like, Filet-O-Fitch at McDonald's. The first time I ever had a filet of fish, because I've never had to, like, I was never in the airport on a Friday during Lent.

Yeah. It's just, I've never had to do that. There's always been options available. The first time was actually going to spring break. Yeah. This year, I was with Bruno. And we're both Catholics who were like, Oh man

You gotta find something to eat man And we're like Mm hmm Filet of fish Did you both? Did he get one too? Yeah You said it was terrible

I remember It was alright I think that your memory Is sugar-coding The memory is easy Because you were like You got there And you were like

That was the worst I mean I covered it In a bunch of cheese So it kind of masked The I got to be real I can't remember What Bruno's actual

Last name is anymore Jalati Okay It's not Jolati He says it like that Oh because the name that we always say has replaced it. Bruno Gigily Giadi?

It's just ingrained in my brain at this point. It's fun. I love the way he introduces, like, the way he starts just speaking to you is so much fun to me. Oh, hey, man. He kind of looks you up in that. We've got to get Bruno on the show at some point.

Eventually. We've got time for that one. We've got time. He can bake in the oven for a little bit. He's a young boy. He's a young man. Go get it. I don't like fish.

Right. Okay. More of the story. Thanks for the Russian stare. We all hate fish. We all hate fish. I love salmon. We grew up eating salmon every now and then when we could, and my mom made it really well.

So I have good memories of salmon. See, yeah, I grew up with cows. Yeah. Beef cattle. I grew up to sea. Eat concrete. Citi. Concrete.

Concrete, Denny. Long Island iced tea and concrete. Oh, man. Long Island ice tea would live right now. Crunching air. Some of meat and concrete and brick and glass. Shrod's a glass. New York boy dinner.

Long Island delicacy. Especially gravelly concrete. Gotta go up in the deli. There's a lot of foods that have like the name Long Island put before them or drinks. Like what's so special? You just come up with a lot of stuff? I'm curious. I mean.

With that weird face you're making. I think it's a trade secret. I asked that question and Nate looked at me and you just like. I think that's a trade secret. I think that I can't say. I think that I have to keep it unlocked. Speaking of trade secrets being revealed, we got another question? I was literally about to do that.

I'm famous for my segways. You know, once again, we have no Wyatt question. Which is so trash. Wyatt needs to get on this. I'm going to go talk to him because he, Wyatt used to have amazing banged questions. For the first five episodes, it was just the most despicable question. Really?

So amazing. Usually like, would you rather things. It's always a would you know. Insanities. Would you Rathers are so good. It was so much fun. I think we'll take it with some, because there's three questions.

I'll do the two serious ones, and then we'll end with the silly one. Okay, sounds good. So Liam asks, how should one become a good leader? Wow. He clearly values you as a good leader. After our inspirational episode with Henry last week,

we're getting a more. That was a great episode. That was one of my favorites. Inspiring upperclassman wisdom. Yeah. Henry, Henry's great. Yeah. Love that guy.

I am going to be so sad. to part ways with Henry and Jay. But honestly, that is a, that's a great question, Liam. It's not one of those things that you, that you prepare for by yourself, right? Like, that's, it's not something that you step up to and go, this is what I'm going to do today alone, right? There's a difference, there's a difference between being a boss and a leader.

And when I was a freshman like you were in Simpson, I wanted to take a leadership role in the dorm. Because as you are now, you know, you have this beloved position in the dorm. You love the culture. You love the guys. And it all starts from wanting to take care of them. It all starts from actually having a desire to take care of your fellow man. So it starts with love. leadership starts with love. If you aren't, if it's not for that, then something is going to go wrong.

If you're stepping into a position of leadership outside of the RA position, maybe it comes a little bit more naturally. But I had this little hiccup in my brain when I was a freshman that in order to be a leader, I needed to get that RA position, when in actuality, I just needed dedication, which in that R. I was equipped to do that. The only difference being I had a title while I did it. And it gave me a unique opportunity to love my fellow man in the dorm. And honestly, Liam and everyone else listening, if you can learn to love those around you in a way that is sacrificial, people will follow you.

They just will. There's something about sacrificial love that is honestly a Christ-like example that it's one of the hardest things to do, especially when you're in college in a dorm and you're paying a buttload of money to come here. You apparently have some career to start as soon as you leave college. Apparently you have to work. There's something, some obligation there. They're telling me. And all the while, everyone outside,

the dorm is, at least when I was a freshman, you know, they're ridiculing what your dorm stands for. And all of it becomes easier if you drop the ego and remember the love. Because in reality, with guys, especially in a setting like Simpson, guys are going to get where they need to be whether you help them or not because it's not just you that's leading, right? There's no singular person pulling the sled

and there were times where I often felt that I was and every time I felt that, then things just soured, right? But really in the end, I think you'll find that functionally, like I could go into leadership, practicum, but I don't think you really want that. It's just, it all comes down to how much you love the guys. What exactly you're leading for?

What exactly you're striving for? So just learn to love the guys around you. Don't be too hard on some guys. I know there's some guys where it's just like, I want to kill that guy, right? Everybody's got problems in the dorm. There's always beef in Simpson with between at least two parties. but people will follow you if you learn to be kind and considerate and loving to your fellow man. So that's at least what I've learned having to learn to put down the ego after so long.

I was very concerned with the title, my freshman and sophomore year. And then after that, I kind of learned to let it go and things got better after that. And we showed up. And then you showed up. You're welcome. That was a fire answer, though. My junior year, my junior year was truly just magical. The fall was just magical.

The 10th homecoming win, now back to back. Like, and Simpson's reputation on campus is now just so much better. And the freshmen and sophomores won't have to know what it was like before. Because things were changed up. And I'm glad you guys don't have to go through that. Instead of having to fix things, you guys can simply improve things, which is a completely different style of leadership and work in the dorm, right? Yeah. Because you're not striving to save reputation.

You're just simply making it better. Yeah. Letting the culture of campus thrive. I mean, just seeing Smackdown on, you know, last week was just like, this is so different than. my freshman year. Yeah. So, so different. Yeah, we had football players out there.

I think they were making a little fun of us. But they were there. But they enjoyed it. They enjoyed it. They were there. I haven't seen them refer to stare at by his real name since then. He's just Taco Libre now.

Yeah. People have called me soccer tees so many times. I don't even, just like, yeah, that's me. It was awesome. For those of you don't know, Caleb here was the original inventor of the idea for Smackdown two years ago

for the first one which we held last year, which was a big success. And this one, which was even a big. success. So it's very cool to see your dream turn into an insane reality. It was so cool to see it come to life because the first year we had such a small budget that we were working with.

Sweet Shark Tank. Sweet Shark Tank. This is how the whole thing started. It was myself, Jonathan Williams, Mark Ayers, and Payton Hughes in a room. And they're pitching these ideas. We were maybe going to try and bring back Bizarre in a bigger. fashion some other events were brought up and then it came to me and I was like what if we did a w-dwee wrestling night yeah and then we started talking logistics we had so many guys in the

dorm that year who were just such unique personalities I'm sitting with two of them right now who was like oh my gosh they would be perfect for this role they would love to do it now the best part about all of it, the best part about all of it, was that a certain somebody in Central Hall said about our event that it was gay and effeminate. And we just reveled in that for a year. And this year, because, you know, we interfered with the fact that we had 250 guests show up to the first Simpson Smackdown and nobody showed up to charge a rumble, which was a problem. Which was a problem for some people. So this year, knowing what was going to happen, Charger Rumble was canceled in advance.

And we had over 340 whatever people. Can I say my fake stat again? No, you've got my fakes completely made up stat. 20,000 spectators? Yeah, we'll go with that. Yeah, 20 million people watching. Everybody showed. But yeah, we had a big.

Through the rain. We had a bigger budget. It was kind of nice. It was way more of a collective effort. The sophomores, Storm, Joe Van Cat, Alex Bure, Gallagher, Chris Van der. Chris Van Opsompson. Oh my gosh. We had a team. I hardly had to do anything this year, and I got to sit back and enjoy because last year it was stressful. Funny story. So the ring I made with Jay and a few others, it cost about $80.

Yeah. The ring this year costs like $400. Yeah. I heard that Chris was like we can keep it. And the ring you can keep it in a clean manner.

He disassembled it into four pieces and we're going to bring it back next year. But yeah. The original ring that week in April it had been raining so hard. The ground in the Simpson courtyard was basically like caving

under your footsteps. You'd step on the grass of the dirt. So I went out And Miss Wilson, if you're listening to this, I'm sorry. You probably know and you chose to ignore it because I was your best RA for two years. But. All right, man. Joey Randolph much.

I kid. I kid. I kid. I kid. that could happen. Either Miss Wilson finds me and yells at me. I hit a water line

or I hit a power line. And what happened? Triple Crown. Miss Wilson didn't find me. But I located a water pipe and nearly killed myself with electricity by hitting a power line.

I didn't know this. Yeah. I didn't want to bring it up because I was just like digging in the pouring rain at 3 in the morning. And you know, he's going to,

He's got his AirPods. That power line must have not been that deep, though. It was like right there. No, it's like six inches under the ground. They don't sink him that deep. Oh my gosh. Yeah, and it's right. And it's right next to the sidewalk, too.

Yeah. So if the guys who were cutting out the sidewalk had messed up, they would be in deep trouble. But they know where all the lines are. I didn't know where the lines are. Thank heaven. I didn't die. But as the first spectators remember of SmackDown,

I mean, I was standing. on a pillar. Yeah. That was so bad. Keep it up. It was bad. One rope. Now, given we did what we could

with the small budget, if you guys remember, the price of lumber at the time was insane. So I couldn't actually buy more wood. In fact, the wood that they used for the post this year

was the leftover of my posts. Oh, wow. I had bought a bunch of four by four for this project, and they used my old post to get it done. And it worked perfectly. Oh, so good. So great.

I'm so proud of Chris for taking that on. And I didn't really have too much of a part to play in the, securing the cameos. I was happy that we got my, my Yodel trio out there, though. Max Waters and Gate Guy. That was unbelievable. Perfect.

So great. Software LW. That's right. But yeah, props to. props to the team, especially Jonathan Storm for great commentating this year. Hey, they put me behind a mic and I just, yep, that's what I've been doing here on this show for this whole semester. Yeah, I'm a blah, blah, blah, blah. The quips during the Apple Jack fight were particularly fantastic.

I was like, what can I say about cereal? Hey, and they gave us an article in the Collegian this week. Yeah. Campus icons battle at Simpson. Look at this. I haven't read the article yet. Back to back weeks. I've ended up in the paper.

Yeah. Look, that's awesome. What a good photo of all this. For four years, I finally made the collegiate. Did they make the last spread photo of the one, or no? They should have. Because I'm going to do that every time. I wanted them to make the one of Dr. Church smashing Victor through the table as the main cover photo.

I think that would have been pretty funny. The double take on that was. I need to find if there's a photo of Klein staring down Peters while they're circling each other in the audience. I think there is. Because from where I was sitting, it was, it was a magical moment. How is this even real? We went from, let's have a dorm wrestling event to, oh my gosh, two of the English professors I've taken. Fighting each other.

Drinking whiskey. Apple cider. Apple cider. Bro just body slammed his own son. It's crazy. We have an action shot of both the proff to student body slams. Those church and Dr. Peters's ones and they're so good. The wind whipping through their hair.

It's amazing. And nobody's ribs got fractured. Yeah, yeah. That didn't, yeah. Yeah, no, we're good. We're good, we're fine. I think so. I'm all right.

That's what matters. But I just like that we've just started this new tradition and now it can move on. Can you imagine we all come back here as alums in, you know, whatever, 10 years? One year over there. Yeah, one. Next year, actually. But, but yeah. Smack down.

17. The amp up between last year and this year, we went from, you know, a little ring crumbling apart with two professor cameos to over. over five cameos a guy rappelling out the window he was not supposed to be on that third story I told him to go third floor rocket I know you can do it Andrew people lost their mind

when he opened that window I finally down I talked to him after because I had a mini heart attack because his heel got stuck his left heel got stuck in the window and I went oh no no no I was too busy reacting to the ring as was my job so I didn't really watch him

and the fact that was raining certainly only made the window sill slipperier and those white panels outside on the wall are super slick so it just yeah I was freaked out but

he made it everything's fine he made it and no one was actually injured in the making of Simpson Smackdown too till next year hey no promises for next year though how are we gonna like top it because like just we already have some money cameos the whole the whole thing is cameos

it's not a single student in this It's just prof beef. Well, what's good about recurring college events is that the new freshman class, A, has no experience. And probably a lot of the audience is going to be freshmen. B, there's also those new freshmen to perform in it. So, like, the new class will get to be new people, which is exciting for the new group of people. And also the oral tradition from the upper. Exactly.

It's spread to the lower, like hyping it up. Hype it up. New ideas, new different kinds of fights, bringing stuff back. There's virtually limitless ways you can go with this kind of event. It's not like the only way to make it better or up our game is to increase the budget. We just increase the lore, increase the epicness, increase the story. That was an unbelievable, like Jackson. Yeah, exactly.

And Dr. Jackson would be in. We're bringing him in next year. So, like, it will get hype. I can't tell you how many people have come to me and said, having the villain win is a crazy move. And yet it's so smart. Yes. The story was like super.

well done too yeah I had to call Justin the undertaker at some point and tell him about it yeah yeah Justin Peterson gone too soon last year was the win was not the winner he was the loser villain last year and he was the loser and he was the loser so bringing waters in to win it as the bad guy this year and then having nectar jackson at the cameo at the end was just I'm unimniacal yeah I'm unimpressed raging bull yeah in the in the um in the the the pre-examination for SmackDown, the way that it came about was like, I said, I don't think we can afford to have waters lose on stage again. Because he had just come off.

He had just come off the professional loss. He had an actual professional fight, which he's going to go back out here and go for it again. Yeah. And I was like, we're going to give it. We got to give him a win. He's got to get a fair fight. And his monologues were so good.

He's really good at it. He's really funny. He can rage like nobody's business. It's his voice. He's very verbose. Yeah. Very much like. No, yeah.

He's lady. He's magnanimous up there. It's fantastic. Yeah. This article's hilarious. I do want to address one of the faulty claims the article does make about Smackdown being scripted. I want to say that that's not actually entirely the case. Ironically, an extremely large part of it is ad-lib.

Part of it is ad lib, most of it even. Jonathan and I had no, as the announcers, had no idea what most of the props were going to do. Especially Dr. Peters and Dr. Klein when they had their showdown, we were genuinely like, when they were like circling the crowd and like body slamming, like standing people drinking the cider and doing whatever, we were like actually genuinely reacting. And a bunch of other effects, like, I had also been kept in the dark about some of the other, about a couple of the other fights that had been kind of like prepped by them of the other guys. So there was a lot of it which was genuinely like off the rip. It is a, I would say it's not a scripted event. It's a coordinated event. Right.

Our whole job is to make the matchups. The results. The results always are not what we expect. It's not going to be what we expect. But we gave Waters a favorable matchup and he ended up winning. Yep. So it worked out. Glorious.

And next year, it might not be a favorable matchup. Who knows? extremely unfavorable. The wrath of Dr. Jackson would be just serious. Dr. Jackson will descend upon that ring. It's going to be glorious. We got another question? Yeah.

He hacked off about Smackdown, which is great. I'll skip the other deep question which get to the silly one. Okay. Wait, wait, wait. Didn't Nick write a long, long question for this? No. If he did, he didn't send it to me. Oh.

It's dust in the wind. Oh. I'm sure he'll ask me later. Jack asks, would you swallow a knife for a hundred thousand dollars i'm going to let you determine which jack this is that's peterson yes yes yes yeah easy read easy read

but that's not that's not much of a question i don't it's a yes or no question it's a no because i don't think my esophagus could swallow a knife what if it's a folded pocket knife so if a sharp end is inside the thing don't know don't rule's lawyer this it's a knife i think i can get that down my Asophagus. Don't rules. It's a knife.

What kind of knife? Kitchen knife. Don't rule is lawyer. A kitchen? Yeah, you're done. You die. You do not. They can swallow swords.

Yeah, but that's a trained thing. They train to do that. Yes. Under the stipulation of this. It's 100 grand. How long would it take me to learn how to do that kind of thing? I don't know. If it's under a year, I could probably go for it.

Like, making 100 grand in a year is a pretty good turnaround for something like that. Especially if it's like a spare time hobby. Yeah. Six-figure. job of sword swallowing. Iron gut, they call me. It just sounds unpleasant, though. Sorry, Jack.

I'm not going to have to pass on the 100K. How about a million? What is your price for ingesting a metal object that will stay? Now that I think I'll die. Now that I think I would ever. That's what I'm saying. I think I pass away. What's your cap? Risk it for the biscuit, 10 mil.

You just die. 10 mil tax free. If it gets to your stomach, it cuts open your stomach. Freshman me. Freshman me would have taken the 100 grand. One mil. Yeah. But there is no amount of money that would be able to cancel the amount of worry I'd have for my life being over.

Yeah. Asophagus. That's my answer to that question. Asophagus. Yeah, I just cut my uvalo and half as the knife goes in. Owry, ow, y, ow, y, ow, yeah. Lung punctures. That's not how that works.

I think that aren't internal wounds. like pretty extremely bad way worse They're almost impossible to fix and tremendously worse It's amazing that we're talking about this

because I was at the academy I was doing my teaching apprenticeship and I was watching one of the lectures the seventh grade science class And they were talking about Philem Cordata They were getting into it today And one of the distinguishing features

of the phylum is that we all And we're a part of the Is that you have a pharynx which is the region of the body that has both like the esophagus and the tube that goes to at least to some respiratory capacity, as well as the actual chordate part, the cord nerve, which is our spinal cord. So this whole area, you're just cooking yourself like swallowing a knife. It's all over. Yippie.

Now, Jack, I can imagine, tilting his head back. and just being like an attack on Titan. What do you think he's Torare? Yeah. What do you think this is? No, no, bro is the armored titan. Yeah. Seems one like the colossal.

No, it's Jack Baldtrod. That's Jack Baldwin. That's a colossal. Bro's proportions. Who's the cart titan? What is the cart titan? It's a cart. Thanks for that helped me out a lot.

Spoiler. Anyway, oh, is that spoilers? No, not really. The show is like eight years old. I haven't even finished the show. Yeah, but the finale just came out. No, it didn't.

I haven't even finished the show. Like this year. No. Like two years ago, I came out. Oh. I'm not either. I'm a little freaked out by most of it, but it's all right. Yeah, I enjoyed solo leveling.

Yeah, watching solo leveling with storm was... I didn't watch it. I didn't watch it. I didn't watch it. I didn't watch it. You're currently squatting in my room watching Vinland Saga. Yeah, the new one that we just got into is we watched them of Vinland Saga. It's a series about, like, Nordic...

Vinland? Yes. No. It's Vikings and such. And, like, the initial discovery of America by the Norville. regions and Anglo-Saxons and the Danes and their initial conflicts. It's really cool. It's very well done.

It's a little goofy at times, as is all Japanese-produced media. That's just the part that I'm just worried about you. Yeah. It's a little goofy. It's hard for me to watch, and oftentimes it's hard for me to even listen to something in Japanese. Well, yeah, because it's like a big giant, like blonde hair, blue-eyed, like, enormous Anglican, or Anglican.

Anglican. Well, yeah. Anglo man. And he looks over to you, he looks over at this guy named Thor's. He goes, Torso. And you're like, all right, bro. What are we doing? It's an entire cast of people taking their own voice too seriously.

Yes. It's just so hard. It's extremely goofy. That's the best part. It's like being at feast. Oh, my God. Yeah, it is. You ever heard piano man, though?

The song by Billy Joel. Zinger Can I get an amen? New Yorker Amen East Rutherford, New Jersey I want to be in a city that sleeps

The bottom of the hill The king of the sewer Bottom of the heap Most of the worst Bottom of Bargabon Reds East East Rutherford, baby What a place to be

What a place to camp out Well speaking of Zingers Hostess? My boss's name? Your boss? What? My boss's last name is Zinger. Mr. Zinger.

He's super cool. Does he like make constant quips where he like slightly burns you? No. Well, that's unfortunate. He's just super cool. Wasted superhero name. Well, speaking of Zingers,

that's all the time we have today. Oh, yes. I was trying. Speaking of Zingers, chocolate confectionery. Speaking of Purple Elephants, we got to get out of here. Caleb, thanks for joining us.

Thanks for being on. Thank you for your wise words earlier. Yeah. Happy to be here. Totally impromptu thing. Yeah. He came to be a couple hours ago. You want to go on the show?

Yeah. Sure. That's pretty much how we do. The poll was a little last minute. Guys, please keep asking questions. Please. We're starting to get thinner and then right. I haven't think it's because of Lent and people.

Yeah. Everyone gave up Instagram. But like once it's done, download it again. Download it again. Become a slave to the media machines. Of course. The content machine keeps on. The wheel of time always burning.

You do matter to us. It's gilded fulcrum rotting from within. Do ask more would you rather for future guests. I'm going to tackle Wyatt. They are super fun questions and would have definitely loved to have one. And we're just general fun story questions. Those are also great. Yeah, story questions is good.

We had so many with Gabe. We like ran out of time with just the questions. Fortunately, we got locked in the studio. We also didn't. We literally got locked in the studio with Gabe for two hours after that. It's so funny. We're pretty bad at Kinglinglingas, aren't we? We are pretty bad.

We just kind of ramble off into the sunset. Can you imagine we like fade this episode out? Our voices is just trailing away. Let's not do that. No, I'm going to be like to do that. Let's do a real loud show. You got any last words, Caleb? Yeah, I do.

Just remember at your time at Hillsdale, there's always time to put down the homework, be with your friends, talking about poems, prayers, promises, and the things that we believe in. John Denver said that. John Denver said that and it's a heater of a line. And it will always make me remember the times that we had in Simpson together. Love it. Thank you so much. That's the end of the podcast.

See you.