WRFH/Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM - Car Tetris Everyday | Boys Only #23

Episode Date: November 23, 2025

Nate and Storm chat with Sterrett Waltrip about perilous ferryboat stories, space sci-fi, and growth as a man.

Do you have any milk? I love milk. I'm in dairy country in France. I need milk. You're French. Oh, we. We means yes in French. I only know how to say yes in French and no in German.

Do you know how to say yes? say no in French. No? No, no. Oh, no. You don't have any milk. Wait, what is yes in German? Yeah.

Oh, okay, okay. You don't have any milk for me? Yeah. Why are you German again? Nine. We're supposed to be in the French country. I hope you don't have any people under your floor thoughts. I am Starm Drexler.

All right, a bunch of points if you got who I'm supposed to be. But who are we supposed to be, Storm? I just said, I am Storm Drexler. Are we Scottish? I'm American. I'm an all-American boy next door. My name is Nate Gallagher. And this is a very special episode.

It is. Why? Boys only. Dude, it's such a great day to be here on set. Oh my gosh. So we actually have no guest this week. Yeah, no, it's just a sad. No, it's our best buddy all past.

Starr-at-Waltrip. How's it going? Good, man. How are you guys? Good. Thanks for coming on the show. Who are you? Explain yourself. Where might we know you from? Why are you? Why am I? Well, you see... A man and a woman.

Yeah, exactly. I am Starratt-at Waltrip. Glorious Golden Senior. Golden Knight. We decided I was a fisherman, not Golden Knight. Yeah, he's fisherman. Starratt's three Alexa, guys. I might be a few more elixir than that.

No. No. You might know me from being a goon and Simpson dormitory. Yes. Number one Simpson goon. Yes. Yes. One of our glorious seniors, one of the people that stayed all four years, which is goaded.

Yes. What Nate and I are going to do next year because it's awesome. Yeah. We love our culture. We love our guys. We thank you for your four years of service. Yep. Sacrifice.

It's over. Sacrifice, tears, bloodshed. It's over, Unk. This is it. You don't get a second semester. No. Bye-bye, grandpa. You're going behind the barn tonight.

Graduating fall semester. That's nefarious work, bro. Graduating so soon. We're going on WIP, your senior spring. So many guys are doing this. Yeah. What are we doing? We had two, yeah, two alumni of the show are going on WIP.

Paidon and Lewis, their own episode where we talked about sports and states for an hour. It was a great episode. It was a phenomenal. But, and then also, I think that we're going to have on soon. Yep. Stay tuned. Stay tuned. Stay tuned.

The last guest of the final guest. Lasto Rasto. You're not supposed to. Hey, if you had this far, the episode, there's a little... You got this far? A whole three minutes. If you got a whole three minutes into the episode. We've been recording for 20 minutes because we don't know how to start.

Stared, I feel like you own a lot of green clothing. And I love it. It's because he's in all black. So close. Springbok. I'm a spring box. fan yeah you are from Wisconsin well I'm also I'm a spring box and a Packers fan both of which whose colors are green and yellow oh bucks bucks are green too Milwaukee Bucks

are green I don't really watch them the Wisconsin hockey team that's so great yeah we don't have one of us he's so mean to me it's not really Lepercon I've no Irish at all in my family but uh just glorious Packers jerseys Packers Springbox and Norwegians and yeah I'm part Danish yeah I said Norwegian but close enough So close, not really. Oh, Norway. Wait, what? Norway. No, Dane's, like, originate and the Norwegian area?

No, other way around. Other way around. What? Say what the other way around would be. Explain. So, the Dane, history, me, history, I'm a history major, guys. If you don't know, I mean, I'm actually, I'm a history major. Scandinavian History 101.

Scandinavian History 101. I've heard that that was, I've heard, by the way, that that Scandinavian class is fantastic. With Dr. Stewart? Was that, was that last semester? No, it's happening right now. I've heard that that is fantastic, by the. the way. Take Dr. Stewart one credits. I've heard that they're nothing but heat. Yes, so like, I believe I'm taking one next semester. I am to museum studies, taking museum

studies with big Dr. Stewart, my goat, my king. And you're gonna be a nice little curator guy. I'd love to be man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, dude, if I had a dream job, you know, we'll do that, that'll be the first question. It'll be all, it'll be me. If you guys didn't matter what money, skills necessarily, assume you have the skills to do it, um, and time, like, doesn't matter. What is your job? Like, what's your dream? job. Mine's paleontologist. What? Paleontologists. Like Ross from Friends? No,

like someone who goes out in the fields and like digs up dinosaur bones. So like archaeologists, but for dinosaurs? For animals. Yeah. It's for like life. I think Ross from Friends is a paleontologist, to be clear. I've never seen Friends. I've also never seen Friends. Oh, okay, there it is. Well, yeah, you dig up dinosaur bones.

And then you like... Not just dinosaur bones, but yeah. Only dinosaurs. Only dinosaurs. Only them. San Diego. I don't know. Pristine rocks. Fake beaches. I can't really picture you with a little brush and like little bones. I get the dynamite. Indiana Jones hat.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I get the dynamite. Would you wear... Boom. Boom. Would you like have a hat and a whip like Indiana Jones? No, I'd go bowling. And I'd throw dynamite.

Bowling. You know, I just chuck it. Are you goblin demolitionist? Goblin machine. Goblin machine. I'd just chuck that, John. Just blow up mountains for the chance of finding a dinosaur bone. Yep.

Yeah, that's what oil is Dude, oil is dead, well, oil is dead trees Not only the dinosaurs Dead trees? Yeah Wait, actually? That's what oil is? It's most, because there was so many There's a lot more trees than there are dinosaurs But it's also dead animals

It is, it is, but like most oil Most oil comes from the carboniferous period The carboniferous? Carboniferous, like a tree There's a whole period of them where they were just like They were just thriving like crazy The oxygen content was Yeah, the oxygen content was wicked eye

in the atmosphere Oh, that's kind of cool. Yeah, the bugs were also gigantic This is where like the arthroplura comes from Like that gigantic like six foot long centipede And Kong Skull Island That's that's right That's right

Guys I'm there So what are your dream jobs? Trees, sorry, trees are mostly carbon So they would probably be good oil Trees are a lot carbon Yes Are they indeed Yes I don't know

That's why they burn so well Yeah I'm on a nature podcast Dream job Dream job You're a paleontologist Hmm I want to be your masseuse

Oh That's mine specifically That's a little bit That's a little bizarre But I'll take it Oh No I think Surprise to be sure

But a welcome one Yeah I want to be a Jedi So close Actually I guess I said that you have the skills The money and everything So yeah I guess And the midichlorian count

The midchlorians I've never been so high In an individual Do you like Do you like That's not the line I'm sorry I haven't answered

your original question. I'm sorry, Ken. You've been riffing for so long. What's your dream job? If I could figure that out, that'd be great. Because I would have a direction to go in, but I have no idea. So real. I was doing the Macquarie.

Sorry. I got mad that stormed. That's so real. Like, I feel like you get to the point where you're like, oh, I'm going through college. I don't know my direction by the time I'm a senior. Nope. Now you just don't. You're just sunk.

Yeah. Speaking of sinking. Stop riffing. Stop riffing. Stop riffing. the table. But yeah, that's such a, that's so real. I don't even know. I have two main directions that I will decide between. One is, um, the boat direction, we'll call it that. Which is awesome, by the way. And the other is like military direction. Yeah. Those are the two things I've been

interested in for the longest. Yeah. If you do the military one, are you, you're going to go to school for that as well afterward? Yeah, because I have a college degree, so I would go to officer school. Dope. Yeah. Extremely cool. Yeah. I could,

I cannot see you in the army. I wouldn't be. By the way, someone's looking at me. Yes. Yeah, that makes you very important. Nate, is looking at me.

I cannot see you in the army. Sterey could definitely see you in civil and service, yeah. You do something. You'll be there. You'll be there. You'll be around. I'll be around.

Hi, I'm Starritt. Men, this is your captain. This guy. Will Waltrip. Hi, I'm staring. This is in the corner. Hey, guys. What's up, man?

I feel like you would have like a pith helmet with one of the spikes. A pith helmet? Oh, what is it? Pith helmet? What is called? What are the green military helmets called? Helmets. So close. Like the German ones? Or the African ones? Well, the German... Well, the German ones were gray. Or like steel color. They weren't green. A pith helmet is like a tropical helmet that they would

wear in like Africa or whatever. Or the tropics. Okay, well, just one of those like green metal helmets, but then with a spike. Like, like, Vietnam helmet? Yeah. Marinerer. Yeah. Are you thinking of like the World War I German helmets with the spike? men ones, yeah. So close, not Polish. Nope. Not Polish.

I feel like you'd look awesome in that. Maybe. I don't know. I do have a blonde hair. And then like epaulettes. War time. Dude, man. You just cut the Boom Beach ad from 20, 2011, war time epaulettes to me.

But then his HQ gets destroyed anyway. It takes him so long to put on the wartime epilette. Do you know that guy's name? Oh, no, I forgot. Isn't it like hammer, like current lieutenant hammer or something? It's something awesome. Did you ever play Boom Beach? Download for free?

No. Come with a plan or leave a defeat. You told me I can't product place. It's not product place. You just said the end. You just said the line. I said the slogan. Highly underrated super sell game.

Boom Beach. Like Clash Royale made a comeback and took over everyone's psyche. But maybe we should play. Maybe we should all go back to Boom Beach. Maybe we should go. Maybe I'm trying my unk status by not having played Boom Beach. That's actually the opposite. I only played Clash Royale because all of you guys started playing it.

I did download Clash Rael for the first time since I think I was in the sixth grade or like in middle school. I downloaded Clash Rial in the airport waiting for you and Luke to come pick me up this semester, this past August. I remember this. I'm trying to get, I'm trying to see if I can get 10K trophies by the year. That's, I'm like 6.5K. So we're climbing to a lot of them. For the listeners, I will point out that the only reason that Storm had to sit in the airport for seven. hours was because he did not notify me that he had changed his flight time to like seven

hours earlier and so he texts me while i'm in chicago picking up luke jones uh hey that hey i just landed in detroit i'm like okay well i'm about seven hours away so good luck with that i did sit there he's like it's okay i got clash royale i think i got the first like four thousand trophies dude dude over the summer so i was in mississippi all summer working um at our american stories which is awesome, by the way. Oh, yeah. A connection with our radio station with WRFH. Yes. It was a great

opportunity. If you're working in the radio and you're happening with listening to this, you should check it out. It's an interesting opportunity and I had a lot of fun with it. Anyway, I'm in Mississippi. And the closest airport to Oxford, Mississippi, which is where Ole Miss is, which is where this was, is Memphis. So I went home for the 4th of July and also like to go home at the end of the summer.

So two flights out of Memphis I had all summer. Both flights canceled overnight. Oh like the night before? Yeah, I get there at the airport at like 3 p.m. And it's like, well, you're canceled. Why? To 6 a.m. tomorrow.

Wait, good luck. I couldn't tell you why. Did you just stay in the airport? So the first time I just stayed in the airport all night, it was miserable. And then the second time... You just play some clash row. The second time, I caught a flight, or I guess I should say... I caught a cold.

A train. A midnight train. A midnight train? To Georgia. To visit Storm for a night. He put me up, he put me up in his wonderful home. He posted up, dude. It was awesome. And we called a bunch of people who are like, Storm, what's up? And then it's me suddenly, whoa, what, you're in Atlanta? It was much.

Liam and Grace were like, what? It was much fun. Carter confused me with Nick. It's okay. Curtis said, hey, Nick. So close. That seems a little difficult because one is supremely tall. I mean, I'm sitting behind Storm in a frame. I mean, exactly.

It was also in a dark room. A dimly candle lit room. A dimly lit room. Just the two of us. Anyway, so yeah, that's my Memphis airport store Flight got canceled twice What were we talking about that spawned airport? I don't know, but I have a couple of questions

And so do you guys, and so I'll ask some of them See, dude, I'm getting better at these transitions, man Yeah, that was such a good transition man So earlier we were talking about the ships thing And now not everyone necessarily knows about the ships thing So Liam asks, what is it like being a captain of a ship? I know you're not technically a captain of a ship, but just explain the ship thing Big Farragman, yes

That's a big part of who you are That's true. For those who don't know, Wisconsin has a peninsula that sticks out. It's also a mitten, not just Michigan, but the thumb is significantly smaller. But anyways, at the end of the thumb, there is an island called Washington Island, and my grandfather lives on that island. And in the summers for the past four years, since I graduated high school, I have worked on the ferry boats that run between the island and the Wisconsin mainland. And I live on the island while I'm doing that, which means I've basically lived on an island for the past four years when I'm not at Hillsdale. I'm barely ever in my actual house in Milwaukee. And y'all load, like, cars and stuff. Yeah, like, how big is this thing here?

Like, you spend the operational. Yeah, there's five ferry boats. They're of different sizes. There are two that are almost identical, and the other three are, like, radically different. They're all built, like, 10 to 20 years apart. the biggest one is about 120 feet long it can hold up to 28 cars and like 150 people it's pretty big yeah for a small island it is pretty big it's kind of funny because the rest of the island is like

just like a small town there's nothing crazy going on but the ferry boats are like these big like they're all they're painted white so these big white boats and it's like what are these doing here but yeah um they actually provide a very important service and uh they're essentially a continue like a continuation of the highway because the highway ends at the ferry dock so they're they're privately run but they serve the purpose of getting people to and from the island and everything everything that gets to the island so groceries fuel um we can haul anything anything that goes on the highway basically so we haul semi trucks and fuel tankers and anything else um and it's a i like to say it's the most fun i've ever had it's also the most stressed i've ever been because it is a uh it is sometimes perilous as i'll get to but yes we've heard some of these stories and they're funny and scary yes yeah but it's also incredibly fun and it's it's for an autist like me it's self-docs self-docs right there it's fun puzzles that you get to solve every day it's like playing car

Tetris, but car Tetris It gets interesting when you get like You got like 15 cars and a semi and a fuel truck all loaded on the same boat and you got to figure out how to do it correctly Without damaging anything. That's like called, isn't that rush hour?

The little like block game? I'm not sure. Is there a school on the island or do the kids have to like come over? Yeah, there's a school. Okay. It's like that's interesting. They even have a single school bus, I think. Oh, that's nice.

That's sweet. That's kind of sweet, man. They all sit in the school bus while the ferry boat takes them. No, the island has a school boss. Okay. Yeah, there's about 1,000 people on the island, so they do have, like, their own stuff. And how long, that's actually so sick,

how long is the ferry ride? Like, an hour? It takes like 30 minutes. Okay, 30 minutes. About Fergie Millers. Furgy Millers. Roughly Fergie Millers. Yes.

Dude, our podcast is becoming more and more nonsensical. Yes. I kind of like it that way. You know, because you kind of have to be a listener. You guys invented your own, like, measurement system. What do you mean? We did. What do you mean to invent.

William. One William years. That's just the way time is. That's just the way time is, too. 60 seconds in a Millard. we're so excited to have for you guys to see us next Sylvester

it's the new word for semester Sylvester So start using that lingo guys What does 60 Millards make An Elmer? An Elmer Half an Elmer is Fergie Millards Okay yeah

All right we're not explaining this now Do you want to talk about That one story of you slamming your skull into the dock Or do you not want to talk about that? Oh yeah sure I love that story Because this is epic It's really awesome because we know what happens at the end

but not if you didn't know spoiler or stare it's fine it would be terrifying yes I am in fact here right now yeah no so it was a dark and stormy night no at 7 p.m. No it was a very

like foggy doey morning so everything was wet the foggy do you? Yes so close and so we go to get on the boat for the day and I'm with my crew it's just it's always it's always three guys so like a captain and two deck hands which is

what I am. And so I'm with the other two guys and there's a bunch of things you have to do to like start the boat up and get ready and whatever. But, uh, so captain's up in like the pilot house starting the engines and everything, getting everything ready. Yeah. And, uh, it was my job to go and get the big power cord that runs from the boat to the shore power so that there can be, you know, electricity to the boat, even the engines aren't on while it's like docked or whatever. Yeah. And so I jump off the boat to go get the power cord which i should add that's the way before this happened that we normally got on and off the boats is jumping off the side uh which you can probably guess questionable safety questionable that is and um so it being a particularly wet morning i went to jump

off and my back foot slipped the foot that i was jumping off with so i got like you know half power and so i i feel my foot so i i jump slip a little bit bit and I feel my foot hit the side of the metal dock not the top so I felt something solid and then it just went down and I went down and I slammed my face against the skull the metal dock um and luckily did not get knocked out or anything I just fell in the water and swam back up and then I was like oh what do I do now so I was kind of sitting there for a while and then the other crew member who was also a captain he just wasn't captain the boat that day named Craig like leaned over the side Craig big dog yeah big dog he leaned over the side to be like where the hell

is he where's the power cord where is bro and he like looks the direction of the power cord doesn't see me looks back the other way sees my white hair in the water because my hair gets really blonde in the summers because of the sun or whatever yeah and so he's like oh crap so he like I see him turn around and he told me later that he ran up to the pilot house and was like, do not start the other engine, please. And so captain stays up there and Craig comes back down and guides me to where the ladder is on the side of the dock to get out.

But I was very lucky because if one of two things that happened, I would have been dead for sure. If I had gotten knocked out, I would have died. And if it had been winter and not summer, I would have died. Um, there's a story of another guy, I don't know if it was a crew member or just a person that, uh, slipped and fell off the dock or off a boat during winter, during winter. And he died because when you fall in the water, when it's that cold, um, shock. Yeah, your body like reflexively, because like the cold shock like reflexively like breathes in. But if you're underwater, all you get is water. Oh, that's what we like. Sheesh, man. Sorry, that's a little dark. No, brutal. Danger. Yeah. Yeah, so the water's dangerous, as we learned from the... Don't go in the water!

As we learned from the Edmund Fitzgerald, which... That's seven... Your mom thinks that all water's dangerous. They almost made it to... They almost made it to Whitefish Bay. It was so close. They put 16 more miles behind you. Oh, my goodness.

But yeah, and there is another story where I almost lost my eye doing an oil change on one of the boats. Love this. Yeah. Please come back to us in one piece. That's right. I almost lost an eye once on a, um... I lost something once.

What is, what is that? My mother has these flowers. She's gonna kill me if not knowing the name of them. You gotta like, you gotta put them on sticks. Oh, orchids? Orchids. Yeah, orchids. Yeah, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was looking out our window,

and on our windows, uh, sill is a bunch of orchids because she likes flowers, because she's my mom. And so, but I like, I just kind of, I don't know why I was doing this, but like, I, like, dropped my head down, like, chin to chest. Okay. And the one of the spikes, like

the sticks that the organs are on. Oh, smacked you upside of the eye. It like came it was like hard hit me in like the eyebrow. Ooh, so if it had been like, you know, an inch less than a centimeter lower. You would have been Tom Aspinald. Yeah. Ouch. Yeah. Yeah.

Yes. Liam has another question. Your history major. How many questions does Liam get? I feel like this two two to me. He asks, he asked three. I'm only asking to. Okay. Yeah. Because we're already 22 minutes in that. I'll get some other questions, too. How should we approach history at Hillsdale? That's actually a good question. It's a good question. It's a loaded question. Yeah, and I'm a history major, so that's fair. How should we approach history at Hillsdale? I think

a lot of the professors that I like do a good job of that. Um, I think Dr. Stewart does a great job. Um, Dr. Yost, Dr. Stewart, uh, Vincent and I'm blanking. There's one other that I took those really good. Gerke. I haven't taken a Gurkie yet. Smith? Berzer?

Berzer. A squad. All good. All good. All good. All good. All good. Yost does a particularly good job of looking at stories of people, which is like my

favorite. That's why I'm a history major. It's because I like looking at the reasons why things happen. and the reasons behind them are always people and their motivations, why they do things, their backgrounds, especially. And I think being a liberal arts school

means not just learning about historical events and continuity and change over time sort of things, but also we're really about the why. and Dr. Jennings does a good job of that In his

Yeah, yeah He talked a lot about the little stories That make up the battles Oh yeah for sure He's not a history prof But he is He's my favorite professor He's a student of history as we all should be

Yes yes Yes For all the listeners I recommend taking a Dr. Jennings class Extremely goaded They're amazing But Yeah that's basically

My main point stories of it. Don't focus too much on the big and the broad because you can get that information anywhere. You can get it from any textbook. You can get it from Wikipedia. But the professors here do a really good job of individualizing it,

showing you like the real reasons behind things. That's why I'm in radio. That's why I like radio. Yeah. People, you know, because radio is under the journalism department, which is a fantastic department, by the way. The collusion's so good. We're awesome.

We're a great department, objectively. And everyone's like, oh, you do radio? Like, do you like the news? Like, what news source do you watch? I'm like, I don't, I don't care about news. He goes, news is everywhere and news is, it's just, I'm snapping really, really fast, but I'm not going to snap because that would mess up the audio. But, like, it's bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, it's so fast and so just senseless.

And questionably accurate, depending on where you look, yes. Really, you should get all your news from boys only. Yes, we are the arborers of truth. Exactly. But, you know, the thing that I like the most is people. I like people. I like persons. Yeah.

you know on this show we focus on the guys that was a big thing when we pitched the show way back a year ago at this point was we really wanted to be like a rotating guest show like we want to talk to lots of lots of people get different experiences get different stories because you know you can do the same two people every week talk about be funny yeah but talking about like nature or something ridiculous yeah or something silly yeah off the trails yeah we love off the trails dear friend of the show man yeah I listen to that one I've never watched it's all right it's It's pretty good. I like that one. It's great.

It's a great show. Yeah. But it's the people early to make it. Make any industry, really. True. Yes. So we're going to cycle back to military slash boats. How I like to do these questions is serious, unsurious?

Okay. We're going to cycle back. Thanks for telling us. Of course. I always, I will always, I will always let you know before I do something storm. I appreciate it. This is not true. Are you right?

Put that one time. Put that one time. That thing that happened that one time. Ah. Anyway. But Caleb asks, and yes, it's flush. Yes. If you were to captain any ship or tank at any battle, what vehicle and what battle?

I'm taking one of those tiny Italian tanks in Ethiopia. I want that thing so bad. Pizza, pasta, pampas, pampan, and I'm just blasting people with, like, arrows. They're shooting at, boom, boom, boom. My head's being like, hey, I'm going to get you. Any ship or any tank in any battle. Oh, that's such a difficult. question.

Any battle ever. Honestly. Name one battle. Name five battles. I would probably want to do, I forget the name of the show. I should know this. But the

Lord Nelson's ship at Trafalgar. I don't know that. Trafalgar. Oh, Halifax. Is that the name of it? No. That's Gandalf course.

So close. That's Shadowfax. What's Halifax? Oh, that's the city in Canada. Correct. Dang it. So close. The city in Canada.

What was the Sons there? Napoleonic. The Napoleonic Wars? It was around 1805 or so probably the third war of the French Revolution, third coalition. War of the third coalition.

Dr. Stewart will probably yell at me for not knowing that. Oh yes, definitely. Dr. Stewart is our number one fan. I'm in his French Revolution class. He listens to every episode. I hope so. I'd love to have him on if you ever take him to Storm. He's a great guy, he's really cool.

Wait, I've technically taken him now because he's currently subbing for my Dr. Gamble class. Oh. We should get Dr. Stewart on the podcast. Sure, dude, yeah. We need to do more profs. Oh, the HMS of Victory. The victory?

Yeah. That's kind of hard. What was the big thing with that battle? Oh, this is such a cool maneuver that they did. Explain what they did. Because then they run it into...

I can't remember exactly what happened. I think that the British ran... Because it's broadside warfare at that point, right? Yeah, yeah. So you're firing at each other. You're both parallel. But I think it was at that battle.

Nelson ran his ships into Napoleon's ships. It's called Crossing the T. It's where your guns can fire on like, their bow or stern. Wow. Super risky.

He like went between the Spanish ships instead of going like in front of them. Yeah, super risky but paid off. Yeah. Except he died. Except he died. At that battle. Well, he got like, he got mortally wounded actually. Yeah, yeah.

But he died on the ship moves. Oh no, don't give up the ship is the other guy. That's a different guy. That's, uh, the Scottish one, right? The Scottish pirate. The Scottish Revolution. I have no idea. Don't give up John Edward Jones or something like that.

Not John Jones. Something, something Jones. Was it to the parties? I don't know. I don't know anything. I don't know anything. I don't know anything. No, if it was going to be a tank though, because he has like ship or tank, I would probably pick like, I don't know.

It'd be cool to be in one of the British tanks in World War I. You're just like rolling up on a bunch of Germans that have never seen a tank before. You're in an armored box. You're like, hey guys. That is awesome, yeah. World War I's a good one because everything you do in World War I if it's a new innovation,

everyone else is like, what is that? And then you get to kill them because they don't know what it is. Exactly. His name is John Paul Jones, by the way. He also, I don't think he was the one

who said give up the ship. No, don't give up the ship. But he was a Scottish pirate during the Revolutionary War. Very dope. He's a very famous. Low-key hero. Awesome.

He's not even American. He's Scottish. He fought for us, though. He's like, oh, get in the boat. You ever seen that clip where it's like Shane Gillis? Yes. Talk about the

Get in the boot We're getting them at Christmas We gotta have Shane Gillis on here some time Yeah, that would be awesome dude, yeah Get him a WRFH

That's right That's right Yes Goodness All right Next question Next meme Next meme

I quite don't I want to introduce this guy Because I think He's your friend From Homestorm Oh who is it William Oh yeah Will

Will Burns Yep He asks This is extremely This is extremely loaded question Again What is the

Difference Between Boyhood and Manhood And when did you make that shift who says I have I was gonna add that on but I didn't want to be rude if you think you have

but I'm just gonna I was gonna let you just kind of yeah I'm not gonna say that I have yeah I don't think I have we're still in college yeah it's the only become a man we're boy man dang it this isn't men only

this is boys only I mean boys that is one of the things that I've come to love about Simpson is the idea of the boy man and we don't always get it right but I like the idea

and I like that we strive for it. Yeah, me too. But I think there's an over-stated importance behind becoming a man in the sense that a lot of people say that in the sense that you are leaving the boy completely behind, and I don't think that's a good thing necessarily. I don't think you ever lose the inner child because that's where a lot of your joy and happiness comes from.

yeah um and would i say i'm more mature than when i first got here yes um do i feel more like an adult also yes i feel like unc i feel old my back my oh my back oh my three concussions in college oh my my my concussion from rcuddy oh my knees concussions in college it was two it was two i thought it was three two and a half half half i don't know how's that work Half a concussion. Former Mexican? It's called a bonk. How does that work?

What? Today, it's a clip. It's a clip. Former Mexican? Former Mexican? Bro's meaming on the podcast. Dude, that's all we do all the time. True.

Entire podcast. But I don't have an amazing answer for this. What was the first part of the question? What is the difference between boyhood and manhood? Oh, the difference. Yeah. Well, I think the biggest difference is that being a man requires that you, you take responsibility and more than anything understand responsibilities and obligations

because a lot of people like to forget that there are obligations that you have to the institutions that you are a part of and I don't mean that in like a Hillsdale College as an institution type of way I mean like friendship is an institution family is an institution brother brotherhood is a institution in this sense and those are a all three things that you have obligations to and responsibilities to. And being a boy, you're sort of carefree, for the most part. Some people don't have that experience. But, yeah, being a man and turning into a man, or just an adult in general,

because women experiences too, is just you have a lot more responsibilities and obligations. and you start to discover that there are things that you should do and not everything is something you have to do and you can neglect those things and not do them but there are things that are good to do and you should do them and being a man is about finding those finding the good if you will the good finding I think that their boyhood and manhood

as a certified professional boy I think and I hope that they are two facets or two different stages of the same thing. Yes. And I think about the word growth like and becoming a man. It's not that you're not a boy anymore.

It's that you are a boy but in a different way now and with the full responsibility set of that but from the same place. Like that growth started there, it's not something to be cast aside or left behind ever at any point in your life. You just take on more. But you keep that boy within you

and you keep that spirit moving forward you never you never lose your past it stays with you yeah unless you have like amnesia or something i forked go i for sure if you have dementia share if you have dementia hey look at trees have the same roots that they have when they were saplings they have more roots dude that they have the same i'm 14 and that's deep man all right brother god forbid a mother i said mother i meant say brother god forget god forbid Yeah, ba-ba-b-b-b-b-me-b-b-all right, next one. So, Brendan Burnham. Yes.

Do you think sharpness or smite is a better thing to have on your nether-right sword? Sharpness or what? Smite. I'm not a huge Minecraft guy. I hate to say it. Sharpness. Yeah, sharpness. I'm going to go with sharpness, though, if I would I remember from playing Minecraft. Smite sounds cooler.

In any setting, except Minecraft, Smite is cooler. But the word, smite makes me think of, like, paladins. It just lights the thing on fire. Just lights the thing on fire. It's smart you now. You got a what? It means kill or slay. Is that from Life of Brian?

No, it's from, what is that from? It might be from Game of Thrones. No way. No, it's no way. What's that clip from? It's definitely not Life of Brian. But I feel like it's Monty Python. Could be Holy Grail.

Could be Holy Grail. I love Holy Grail. I love that movie so much. I feel like it's not a, the Holy Hand Grenade. The Holy Hand Grenade. You can't read 20 pieces. That'll take forever.

I look he was like, dude. It's like, what's going? on what is this so yeah sharpness sharpness is just it's it's smite again it's it's sounds cool but it's just lights the thing on fire it's like it's okay you know it's fine all right nerd next question all right man henry henry hanson which one webster

okay best waffle house run memory because we are known for the waft the waft we have started doing these um I don't actually remember how the first waffle house run started uh we all Austin I think Austin Justin suggested it because he found out there was one in Toledo and was like, guys, over fall break, let's all go. And we did. And it was a blast. Did you actually go to that first one? Yeah. Oh, yeah, I didn't remember. Because it was after that I like went by myself because I just went on a journey. A quest. And I acquired the nickname the Waffle King. The Waffle King. The Waf got me grunk. No, I actually, my favorite Waffle House memory is with Luke Jones.

and Lewis Thune after a rugby game at, I think it was at Western Michigan. Getting Wafloss on the way back. Yes. Did you guys win that game? We did.

Yeah. And that was the one where I like got a cut right above my eye. Oh, I remember that one. And I get taken out of the game. A blood sub. They really be nerfed you at rugby. That's the coolest name for like anything ever, dude.

A blood sub. A blood sub. It's not really what that is. A blood sub. blood sub is like if you have literally too much blood and you're like I like I like to think I have too much blood in my body I like to keep it that way actually well that I have too much blood I'm more than I need this more than I need a surplus on the way back from from the rugby game yeah remember that time he got Chipotle and then came with us to get more Chipotle that Jones did yes yeah it was

awesome my favorite Waffle House memory is also with Jones but it wasn't it was just on the way from Waffle House in the car Jones and I just bopped to some good ox and it was a lot of fun. Put Jones on Oxby. Big Post Malone fans over there. I like posts a lot. And so does Jones. We bonded over that when we became roommates.

Yeah. It's so sweet, guys. Put on a lot of post. It's so sweet guys. I remember last year for Presball, we were suiting up. We had like the suit up montage. And he was like playing post in the speaker.

It was just infinite vibes. Yeah. Yeah. Main call bonded over being short. Mm-hmm. And having two couches. Yep. You got to find something.

Two whole double-decky couch. Yes. Upper Decky. Nope. Just a double-ducky couch. Yep. Yep. Austin asks,

arguably the predanator of the Waffle House run. True. If you were to be a pirate captain, what would you call your boat and what design would your flag have other than just a Jolly Roger? Because I understand that piracy,

the Jolly Roger is not, like, they wouldn't just roll with that thing on. No. They'd drop it. And like reveal. Aha. Which is way more tough.

Yes. Well, because you don't want to be like, it's like driving around with a blood-stained car. It's like, Hi, guys. Yeah, trust me. I'm a pirate.

You should definitely go over here. No, because they would, like, they would only run up the black flag if they were going to, like, kill everybody. Most of the time, they just wanted to, like, capture ships and not actually kill anyone because it's way easier. Is it, like, which pirate ship would I name? What would you name it?

Yeah. Because I want the flying. You can also give it like a myth. I want the flying gun. You can give it one mythical power. Ooh. Okay. One mythical power.

Yeah. Doesn't have to necessarily be from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, but like, yeah, because the Crackin is pretty cool. The Krakhan. Summon it. Release. I mean, if I could, like, teleport my pirate ship.

It can go into fog banks and come out of other fog. Yeah. Not, like, teleportism, like, hop around constantly. But, like, if I could just take it from, like, one corner of the world to another. Oh, yes. Go rob some places in, like, the Caribbean. And, like, the Caribbean authorities are, like, on my tail. So I just dip out and go to, like, France or something.

Rob some French guy. Elite location switch. Hey, man. If you're going to rob someone, rob a Frenchman. I'm going to go, the SS Stratosphere. Oh, yeah, name it too. Oh, um. The wall.

The wall. Trip on the wall. The stair. I don't know. The reet. The reet. I actually don't know. I would have to think about that.

SS Stratosphere and mine's the flying ship from Peter Pan. Yeah, I do. The flying is so cool, dude. I want to just sail on clouds. I know it's a curse, but the whole undead thing. Oh. From the pearl. The black pearl.

Oh, yeah, your sailors are just undead and stuff. The whole thing is undead. Yeah. But in a cool way. Would you want you like skeleton ship or like a ghost ship? More, so the ship itself is more flying Dutchmanee, but the crew is not weird, gross, like, fish people. But skeletons and undeadies. I don't know why he has fish people as.

So they're becoming part of the ship. The ship's an aquatic creature. You prefer like the black pearl. Black pearl people, but like the concept of the flying dogs. Dutchman. Right. Well, the Dutchman organ is unbelievably cool. Oh, yeah, it's so tough. And he plays it. What happened to CGI, man?

That is so good. That is maybe the best we've ever seen. And it just got worse. They tried to do too much. That's why. I think so. Davey Jones is very intentional. Everything he does is very intentional. Yeah. He doesn't move a lot. He's like Thanos. Afraid to get wet.

I'll tell you, Thanos is also really well done in the CGI. He moves fantastically. He's like one of the only good... He's not difficult to CGM. like recent CGI-I characters or like even performance like,

Gallum was also good Gallum was good but that was a wide look at like that whole like 2004 era of movies with like Lord of the Rings Pirates of the Caribbean they just knew what they were doing

I like yeah and then they make Calypso and they make it really big in the third one I like the way smog moves also in the Hobbit movies oh my gosh

I like the smog moves oh they change his design he's originally a four a four like leg and wings on the back dragon. But then he becomes a Drake. He becomes a Drake, which is the technical term for... I like fully a full quadrupedal creature,

a dragon, within wings. A full dragon. A full dragon. I like that more than like arms and wings a part of. But Smog looks pretty dang cool when he, he like... Makes him more expressive. That's, that's the said that they said the reason was

because he's more expressive. Yeah. That's awesome. I have to say, I'm not a big dragon guy. Like, in terms of, like, mystical fantasy, creatures, they're not my favorite. What's your goat? Like, what's your number one take?

They're so cool. They're probably top of three. Yeah. Yep, that's right. That's right. You get six seconds to answer. Oh, dear. I think they're up there with...

One. I was thinking, I like deep sea leviathons. No, that scares me so much. It scares me. Like, the Cracken is just one of the coolest. But like any kind of leviathons, like, Ukatoa.

The sea is so much scare than we give it credit for food. It is miles deep. You're just done. Just done. Like there's just things out there. It's the closest thing we have to like avoid on our planet. Yeah. Yeah, it's...

Like even space. Like space is not as scary as the sea. Because there's nothing in it. Oh my god, in physics class, Dr. Dolce was a few weeks ago. You were there. We're talking about how like there's some of these moons in our solar system. Yeah, they have like oceans. They have more water inside them than the Earth.

I think it's either Iowa or Europa. There's several things. Several of them. But I mean the one that is most famous rather going on water. It's just rock and then there's an ocean inside of it. It's like, it's like, it's like, all more water than is on earth. I was like, what? There's also an entire water planet

that ticks. That ticks? Yeah. Like, like, the signs of the show there's a ticking sound on the... TikTok, go to the clock, to the potty, don't stop, sorry. There's a ticking sound, and every tick actually represents a year on Earth. What? Or an hour on Earth. Clock planet. Yeah.

One elmer. These humongous waves that come by, too. Oh. So he's talking about interstellar. How long did that take you? How long did that take you, man? I couldn't tell if you're being serious, but then I got it. There actually are planets that are just oceans. Like, they're in the habitable zone where the water's liquid. Camino.

Yes, actually exactly like Camino. It's just the entire planet is just water. Cloning facility. Unbelievable. How do they live on that thing? How do they build that? That's my question. How do they build that thing?

Camino? Yes. I don't know, bro. It's fiction. I understand that they're aquatic creatures. Oh, yeah, the Caminoans are evolved. Aquatic. Yeah, they're aquatic.

They have those, like, bird things that also swim. that they've been living on for years. But where did they get the materials to build that if it's all ocean? Yeah. Probably just got it from underwater. Well, there also might be land. Yeah.

Is there actually land on that planet somewhere? Did they discuss that in the like expanding universe? No, it's just a water planet. It's not just water, which is insane. Yeah. Well, there has to be laid under at the bottom. Well, yeah, there's a bed, a seabed. It's just, you can swim directly through the core.

That's you can do a boo. You can do that. Remember that? That's where they went. It's always a big of fish. There's always, we're allowed so that scene probably scares you the most

in Star Wars when there's the giant aquatic creatures down there I hate that dude I hate because I hate not being able to see because I hate not being able to see things like things like things can sneak up on me I don't like that at all so that little one with like

the one that looks like Sid the sloth you know what I'm talking about in the fan of Venice with its lot of teeth coming out and it like blends into the side of the wall and it comes out the first second or third crocodileic jaw

and like the thing that they when they settle in a cave and it goes like and it goes like and then there's like the really big fat one that eats everything else yeah eat everything else

I think my favorite like mystical or like fantasy creature is vampires they are cool they're deaderistic very cool

I mean yes like do you guys know anything about Warhammer yes so there are vampires and Warhammer and those are probably

like my favorite like it or like version of vampires. What makes them different? Because they're, like, their royalty. They're from the Von Karstein family. Yeah. Which what vampires are?

Yeah. Dead no way. We know. Not that I'm an aristocrat, but they're just, I don't know, there's something about them. Yeah. Do the ones in Warhammer have all the weaknesses of traditional vampires, like running water, sunlight? Not running water?

Yeah, it's the running water, garlic, sunlight, wooden stakes, silver. I mean, there's a couple other things. All right, all right. Just to be fair to vampires. You can get killed by a wooden stick through the heart, too. Yeah. Just to clarify that.

Like, you're not, it's not really a weakness. That's everybody. Like, anything catches a wooden steak through the heart. It's probably dead. Yeah. Unless it has multiple hearts. Ooh. Like space marines from Warhammer 40K.

Yep. Or space commits. I love it. Like, Star Wars is almost there. But I like when fantasy and science fiction combine. And it's like, you know, we have science fiction, whatever, that's cool. But what if also it's futuristic and it's fantasy? I like Star Wars.

I just, I can't. I like Star Wars so much. So everything about it. I like Star Wars a lot. The Swords. The Swords. It's full fantasy. The Swords.

The Swords. I like Star Trek and Warhammer 40K better than Star Wars. Because they are, like, Star Wars is all about like action. This is a take you are allowed to have. Yes. I'm not, I disagree, but I'm not objective. Especially the movies are all about like just action. They're action films, their space operas, whereas Star Trek predominantly is TV shows.

Like the movies are not even my favorite part about Star Trek. The best part is the TV show, TV episodes that explore, like, philosophical questions. Rise of Khan. Yeah, that's a good one. There's an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation where one of the main characters who's an android actually is supposed to get reassigned and disassembled by some scientist. because he wants to create a thousand replicas of him. And the question is, are they allowed to do that, even though he doesn't want to go through it

because he's not a, like, quote-unquote, sentient being? And then they get into, well, what is the definition of a sentient being? That's awesome. That's so cool. That's what I like about Star Trek, because it mixes the action and the lasers and whatever with actual moral problems. That was the best Star Trek defense I've heard. like as to it yeah that's just you know i think people who are like star trek is better

star wars better whatever is like it's they're they're fundamentally different things this is true and that's it's okay you can have both you can have your you can have your cake and eat it too with this particular and i do like both for different reasons i would just say that i prefer if i if i did pick one i prefer star trek but more recently like since i've been in college i've been getting into warhammer 40k warham is just insane i don't have the balls to just dive into that It's crazy that it started as like a tabletop game and it's now expanded into like just so many video games, so many books, video games. And the funny thing is there isn't even, there really isn't even a movie or TV show about it and it's still one of the most popular, like, franchises in the world.

God Emperor of Mankind. Yes. Hardest title ever exists. God Emperor of Mankind. He's still kicking somehow. Isn't that like his whole thing? His whole thing is he still kicking. That he never dies?

They call him the corpse. because he's like basically he's mostly dead but he's like alive because of it's called the golden throne and it keeps hanging on but he projects a psychic beacon to all the empire and protects them that's so nice yeah I like my laser sword it's so cool man it's a lazy also like part of it is that fascinates me so much is the this is super nerdy the production of early of the first three star movies is so cool yes like they had to have seven people operate job the process seven whole dudes the process of making those is fascinating and like George Lucas is just

an incredible interesting person maybe not the best at like not the best writer maybe certainly one of the best productionists sure certainly fantastic for sure at putting on something right I wish the dialogue was a little better sometimes some of the dialogue is not awesome yeah but you can see what he's trying to do yes he's just again he's he has a base a much better productionist I think than I don't know. I think those original three are pretty well written. I think the prequels are not as good, not as good, not as well written as the originals. Yeah.

In terms of just dialogue. But Revenge of the Sith is my favorite story. But Revenge of the Sith is so good. It is really good. It's really good. I don't think it beats Empire. My bottom is Attack of the Clones. Really?

It's not ridiculous. It's, I don't know. I always find the movie so stiff. Of the six score. Yes. I always find it so stiff. Yeah. You know what I mean?

Like it's just moving from one plot point to another. Would you say it insists upon itself? It insists. It insists upon itself. It insists. It's a great reference. It insists upon itself. Yes.

It has a lot to have explained. It's insistent. I did not care for Star Wars 2. Attack of the Clothes. Someone recently told me, like, their professor gave them, like, a bad grade on something and commented about how the essay, like, insisted upon itself and that the professor,

and that he didn't, he refused to accept the insistence or something like that. I was like, who was like, who wants to accept the insistence? like crazy work from an undergrad professor that's awesome that's something you say to like a doctorate student I know

I would go to his office to be like I had a lot to say I was in distance yeah can move to the next question this is our final question oh no

and it's Wyatt oh yes this is glorious very bizarre Wyatt you always asks would you rather questions would you rather

confuse onions with socks which I don't know what that means or sneeze at four times volume I'm taking the onions with socks man whoa

let's let's just Let's unpack this a little bit. I'm gonna go with socks. I'm gonna go with sneeze at four times volume because I already sneeze really loud anyway. Confuse onions with socks. You can become like, like, the super sneezing.

You're exploding your drummer guy. Yeah. I hate that guy. Black bolt from Marvel. I hate that guy. Does that in the movie theater. Yeah. Can we do one more question?

That's a ridiculous question. What? No, no. It's the final question. I'm, wait. Wait, can we tell? I'm so confused about the onion sock thing.

I do either do why. Oh, wait, wait. So, it is every time I look at a sock. it's an onion to me. Yep. So I get my burger with onions on it. There's just a sock in my burger? No, there's, no, you, no, yeah.

You think it's a sock. I'm like, oh, but then I like investigate and it's actually an onion. Yeah. But I'll give you like first glance. Like, what was that? Oh, it's my dog. Rats.

Also, why does that never listen to a single episode of the show? He just sends these things and just lobbing them into the city from behind the walls. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think, hmm. Yeah, that's a little bit

That's a funny conversation starting Like, oh, that's a sock in my burger I'm like, what are you talking about? Yeah, so well, at least someone sees you And you're like, yeah, this is an onion And then someone sees you and it's like And then you explain to them, oh, I'm about to sneeze But like cover your ears

Because you're going to be launched back 14 feet With not, it's volume, it's not power So it's just someone cranked it up Yes, all right. Alright. One more question. One more question. Next question. Give the people what they want. Give me what I want. All right. I'll give you what you want. Pick a good one. I've asked the good ones. We're getting to the bottom. We're getting we're getting some interesting stuff. Pick Patrick's question. I wouldn't say bottom tier. It's all my questions. All the questions you guys said. We love all of our wonderful fans. I asked them all. Yeah. If some of them, off camera maybe. But anyway, Grant. Grant. Blatner. All right, give me Grant Blatt.

What is it like being a Packers fan? He is once. He should know. All the Bladners? Being a Packers fan... I would ask one more question. I'm glad you asked one because it's about the Packers. Being a Packers fan is good because it's awesome.

Only having like three quarterbacks in 20 years. I love that. We don't have to go through like the revolving door of quarterbacks. it's also incredibly disappointing because we only have like one Super Bowl in the past 20 years and I get frustrated

every weekend because the Packers I want them to do well but Jordan Love has a Cowboys fan You are not a Cowboys fan What are you talking about

You're from Atlanta You're a Falcons fan bro I don't have to I'm the Falcons suck bro All right bandwagon Bandwagon over here What the hell No brother

I like a cowboy He actually, hold on. Admitting instead to be a Cowboys fan is... That's actually crazy. It's actually not Madagin.

It's the opposite. No, we're not doing well right now. What's the worst? My whole mom's side is from Texas. Oh, that's right. And my grandpa, like, loves the Cowboys.

Oh, we were having that... Is that... I'm not Madaghan. I like Cowboys a lot. That was a very interesting conversation. It was. I also don't really follow

the NFL that closely. I like, I like college football a lot more. Um, which is, speaking of college football, go listen to the poor man in front. More importantly, go listen to

us the next episode that's already out if you're behind and binging these it's out it's there because click on it just do it right what or if you're listening to this fresh it's it's brand new wait we'll see you we'll see you soon wait wait wait and the reason i say that is because we are out of time we are brutally out of time rudely out of time i demanded another top 10 people who are out of time numbers one two and three right us thanks for coming on stare this is a lot of fun Thank you for having me. Well, this is my first podcast I've been on. Thank you guys for having me.

I enjoyed it. Cha-cha, real smooth. Boom-b-bum. I hope everyone who made it this far, if there is anyone, has a good rest of their day. Heck yeah. This has been boys only.

I've been Storm Drexler. I've been Ed Gallagher. I've been Starrat-Waltrow. And we'll see you guys in the next one. Bye, bye, bye, bye. Thank you. You know, You know,