WRFH/Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM - Wardrobe Mount Doom | Boys Only #25

Episode Date: January 17, 2026

Nate and Storm chat with Austin Piecuch, the Olds Oligarch himself, about future homecoming themes, enriching academia, and the mythological pie story.

I can't believe they renewed us for a third Sylvester. Dude, we have never been more back. And that's crazy because last Sylvester, we were so, so back. We're upswing. We're upswing. The 1% shot is flying across the court and it's looking like it might go in. We're not upswing. Storm, what are we?

We are boys only. Welcome back to another season of Bo, Bo, Boys, Boys Only with me, Nate Gallagher. And you Storm Drexler And you I'm Austin Peku Woo New permanent host

Oh I'm just kidding No the guest this week Is the great Austin Peku Please introduce yourself to the crowd So I'm Austin You might know me from I think now SABs kind of become my big thing

Freshman year was probably just being like a simpsonite Being like old's lobby resident Is the A and SAB Is the A and SAB for Austin Unfortunately not Maybe one day, though. Student Austin board. Activities.

Student Austin board. Student Awesome board. Yeah. Let's go SAB. Yeah, but I've done a lot of different things on campus, so I think there's a lot of ways people could know me. But, yeah, I'm excited to be here. You're a pretty ubiquitous figure. You're one of the everyone knows that guy, people.

You're one of the Mr. Hillsdale's. Outstanding senior man next year. Austin Peku. You heard of here first. Outstanding senior man. We've had people come on this show and give predictions for people that will win things such as Simpson Dormitory winning or Simpson residence, excuse me.

Winning homecoming. Danny Doyle came in the show and he was like, I'm going to give him the trophy again. He was like, I can't wait to give you guys the trophy tomorrow. Can you say that before we wanted? We were like, can you say. Is that allowed? The system is corrupt.

Austin Peku is winning man of the year, whatever it is. Outstanding senior man next year. Well, you know what we do? I'll vote for you. I'll vote for you. I'll vote for you. Oh, yeah, I haven't voted yet. Can we vote?

No, we can't. We can't. Oh, we can't? The seniors only kind of thing. Okay, okay. seniors only. That's next season. I'm putting my money though on Jay Willey taking that.

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Jonathan will be great. Beloved alumni or alumnus? Alumnus. Alumner. Alum. Of this wonderful show that we call them.

We have questions. You guys came out in force with the questions for the season opener. We're going to start with Grace Brennan. First question of the year is a girl? It's not quite a question. It's more of a statement. It's literally the first one on the list. She just wants the first word.

Hold up. Is it going to be about serial? bar? Maybe. And it's less of a question, it's more of a statement. I want you to respond to this. Stop making me sign up for SAB events. I knew it was going to be that. Okay, so I've talked to her like twice this week and both times were actually only one time was a sign up for an SAB event. I was trying to get her to do ski trip. The other time... That's an SAB trip. Yes, but that was once. The other time

was we were talking at a cereal bar and I was trying to convince her that Lucky Charms is better than Captain Crunch. everyone was on the Captain Crunch train It was crazy I don't like Okay full disclosure I don't like cereal that much I was never a breakfast person

My family we just don't do it We are all like You guys just grab a bagel and cream cheese to go That was the worst New York accent impression of all time You didn't hit any of the things A bagel Listen

That's Minnesota Listen Lucky Charms Has gone down in my ratings The marshmallows are dry And then when they get milked They're weird I don't know, I don't like them.

It's two different cereals. It's like, it's too mixed. I don't like not knowing what's going to be in my mouth. I like cocoa puffs. I like cocoa puffs. That's a good choice. Now here's the thing, though. When you're looking at Lucky Charms, this is what I was telling everyone.

You have to look at it as like as a whole. Like it's got a good sweet cereal. It's the grains itself, that's not the best part. The marshmallows definitely take the cake there, but you mix it together. Like then it's great when it's all together there. Oh, man. There's too much going on though. Every time I take a bottle of liquid jar, I'm like, whoa.

Oh. I actually prefer. Oh, my. I prefer Special K. Special K. That is a grandma cereal all the way. I actually prefer a raisin brand. I'm a real hipster in that regard.

I really like the cocoa puff steak. I really like cinnamon toast crunch. I overrated in my opinion. Honeynut Cheerios is the number one all the way. Perhaps the most overrated cereal of all time. It's just the greatest for a reason. It's the OG. It's the goat.

It's the best sweet cereal. It's simple. It's not oversweeting you. It's delicious. Well, okay, but grits versus cereal? Grits? Versus cereal.

Every day. Dude, they're so good. Nate probably would not have said that before he visited me and my mom made him southern grits. That would be a stupid. Although, again, I've heard a couple times now that I did not have them necessarily like, did she not put cheese in mine or something like that?

Well, there's a lot of things you can do. Like, when I was little... I didn't customize them in like the right way. You can customize them crazy style. You can put like freaking chives in them. Oh, man. You can put like hot sauce in them, bacon bits, sausage.

I was just so green to it. I was like, I just want base. And so, like, I've been told that you got the base, but, like, you got to plus it up. Have you had Southern Grits before? No, I haven't. I was going to ask you. What makes it, like, distinct from?

There's some way we make them, because I, I try to him here at the dining hall when I first got here at Hillsdale. I'm terrible. They're, like, watered down. They're watery. I don't even know what it is. But I don't know, men. Southern women just have this secret, have this sixth sense.

That's the grit sense. They just know how to do it. I love it. shrimp and grits is big in the south. You go to any like coastal South City. Shout out Storm's mom. Shout out Storm's mom. Yeah, yeah.

My mom makes the stupid good food. Every time I go home, I'm like, I've never. I had that pasta when we, when I had to have that layover in Atlanta. Yeah. Oh my gosh. That was great. There's always just something delicious in my house. I had to take a layover in Atlanta because when I was coming back last summer from

Mississippi, my flight got canceled out of Memphis, but they had a redirect flight to Atlanta that night and I was like, hey, storm. Can I just like? He texted me. and he was like, can I crash tonight? I'm like, yes. Crash? And because he lives like five, ten minutes from the airport.

Oh, that's perfect. So I'm like, hey, and he's like, yeah, of course. And his mom had this, they had this pasta. Oh my gosh, man. It was so good. I ate all of it. And the words of scar, that's what friends are for. In the words of scar, please get off of this mountain.

I throw you into these water buffalo. What are you going to say? I was just saying just southern cooking in general is superior. Like anywhere in that, like, just bottom part. You know what is more prevalent here than the Catholic Protestant debate? Prevalent? Prevalent? Sorry.

Mispronunciations. That's what now. But what's more prevalent here than the Catholic Protestant divide? The great state divide. We have talked about this again. So we're not talking about it, but I'm just saying. We've talked about this on so many episodes. Most note will be the Payton and Lewis episode.

If you're a foodie out there, you know where it to be. If you're a foodie out there, travel. You know, if you're a person, correction, if you're a person out there, travel. If you're a person out there, travel. Travel. Everyone should travel. It's one of my favorite things to do. If you listen to a wonderful podcast,

co-hosted by Storm, a call Off the Trails. It's all about traveling, getting out there in the world. This is the first time you've talked about my other podcast with praise in your voice rather than...

It's always praise. Except that... Well, we won't talk about it, but there's a special... There's a special... Coming up off the trails if you guys listen to my other podcast. Yeah, about a month

in three months. In about three months. So just hold on for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, well, we'll get another question queued up. I always take forever to these. Thanks Grace for making us talk about grits.

Yeah. Yeah. That wasn't her question at all. She didn't ask a question. It was just a statement. How did you get into SAB? Yeah. I think I owe that to, I mean, if people remember like Abby Richardson, Josiah Goda, they both were at a, I knew Abby

previously, and they were both doing like a pop-up event for hiring. And so they were both like pitching to me to join it. And I was, I was already working for 1844, which was great. But they were making it sound. really good and I was like, you know what, maybe I'll apply, see if I can get it. And I did. And I knew Ingrid, who was doing the applications and everything. So I was like, okay, this is looking pretty good. And then I got the job. I was like, oh, let's go for it. Yeah. And then after that, it's just been amazing. When did you get hired? Because you were, it was definitely last year you were working.

Yes. So you got hired freshman year? Like hired. I got hired fall of sophomore year. Yes, because, and I worked at the last event. So I did, what was it? Whatever the final... The gingerbread wars. Okay. Yeah. So I did that and then I did all the rest of the spring. I remember at one time I, uh, this is a funny story.

It's, it's February, maybe January still. Freezing cold outside, but it's like one of those freezing where it's like the sun is totally out. Yeah. So it's like a weird kind of freezing. And I'm coming back from one of my morning class to go to the union. And I see outside of like the downstairs area, Austin with just a blank table and a cup of coffee just out there. I'm like, what are you doing? And he's like, I'm tabling for SAP.

They had you out there with a coffee and a dream, man. You didn't say anything on it. That's SAB hazing. I'll show you the picture afterwards. It's a completely blank table. It was so funny. It's like, they just had Austin standing outside. Wait, okay.

I have no memory of him. Hazing him. Outdoors? It was so funny. My God. Does SAB haze you at all? No, we don't. That's the sad thing.

There's been no hazing for the new people. So I've been talking to some people on SAB and I want to get them to I want to get us to actually plan something out for the new hires. Yes. Because we're going to be hiring probably like four new people or more this year.

So it's like if we can pay those. No, because we have other plans. We do have other plans. We have desires. What are your guys' plans? You'll find out. If you listen to more boys only, we have probably discussed this. It's a plan for for this fall.

Oh, what? Yeah. Okay, I haven't listened to the Doyle episodes. Yeah. Okay, listen to that episode. It's a great episode. It's a fellow SAD member.

I was trying to catch up on a ton of them over break. Well, I appreciate that. Yeah, that classic. Oh, no. What do I do? Listen to people talk. Wait, do podcasts have vods?

No. No. It's not, but it's a video on demand. Okay. What is it? POD. If you're listening to the pod. Isn't every podcast,

podcast on demand? Is that where the suffix podcast comes from or the prefix? No. What does it mean? I saw a video about this. Like on the web. Either way, if you're on backlog,

there's like 200 episodes and you're listening to this one, episode, what is this, 25? Hey, man. You're years in advance. You're years, years, decades away. We thank you for listening to the ancient episodes

from all the way back in 2026. This means a lot. What on earth are we doing? Who knows? We're self-plugging for the future? And it's like, a future year, reach out to me. Right now, if you have my number,

text me. If you don't, you don't know me well enough. I'll give you the number right now, actually. No, no. Right now. We found them. By the way, are you cast them we docks all your information on the, yeah, on the, just as all good.

We have to put down your social security. Put everything in the description. You're all gone. Your Venmo, just a go. You can put my Venmo on it. Library card. If you can put my Venmo in the description, I would greatly appreciate it.

Put your $2.99. Nice have reason. Student ID. You're all good. Student ID. All right. You and McNamara, beloved friend. Oh, boy.

How can I be as beautiful as you? Oh, that's so sweet. Because it's the hair. Dude, is it the hair? It's the hair. It's always the hair. It's the hair. It's the sweater, too.

So my hair and clothing journey has come a long way. It's journey. Well, it's hilarious because, so I went to, like, a public elementary school. And, you know, there it's like, you're wearing whatever, it's great. Your mom's dressing you. It's elementary school. Sure.

Then we went from there to a, I went to a private Catholic classical school. So I was wearing the uniform from middle school all the way to high school. And then I come here and suddenly I'm like looking back to my wardrobe and I'm like, I literally have nothing. It's like my shirts are just like solid color, nothing on them shirts. Like there's no personality to it whatsoever. And I'm like, I need to pick up my wardrobe.

So every year that I've been at Hillsdale, I have been like, slowly, like, seeing what other people wear. I mean, I was lucky to live with Luke. He's in a freshman year. Luke has a fantastic wardrobe. Yeah. And I realized, like, wow, you can have, like, a lot of different polos. And that's actually, like, a good look.

So I bought more polos. And then I saw people with the Tweed jackets. So now this semester I have a tweet jacket, I'm going to be wearing more often. Dude. He's officially become a member of the quarter zip community. Yeah, you're wearing a quarter zip right now. I've been wearing this last semester. I like it.

The red one. I got a new blue one, though, Christmas. So I will be ripping that one. And there's the classic Austin blue puffer. That is true. Classic Austin Blue jacket. Apparently the classic outfit is me with my, what's it called? The red and shoe.

What's the fabric called? It's red and black. Flannel? Flannel. That is, that is awesome. That's classic Austin jacu. That's the Austin look. It's khaki pants, the flannel.

The hat from freshman year. That was so, so crusty, dude. I loved that. Raggy hat. It's not in the dorm. It's not in the dorm. It's not my house. I think Waters took it.

It burned it. I would be surprised. Cast into the fires of Mordor. Probably a good call. It's Luke Waters. He's over in Mount Doom. I was there. Austin Beeku's hat out.

I can't do it. Cast it into the fire. There was one hat that was bullied out of me freshman year. Because I had my black hat that said spectrum health on it. Oh, I remember that hat. It was great. Yeah. The amount of comments I got from you guys about it.

It was enough to drive me not to wear it anymore. And I look back on that. I'm like, you know what? That was probably a good idea. Yeah, you got to, I mean, I'm also a wardrobe nightmare. The one hat to rule them all. Yeah, I'm a wardrobe nightmare. If you ever see me out in public, it's not great.

I have three pairs of pants total across all genres of pants. I've got a solid three. I've got a pair of jeans, a pair of sweatpants. And a khakis. And a khaki, a gene and a sweatpants. I also have some suit pants. That's about where I'm at, but I just got another pair of jeans for Christmas. I'm super excited.

Dude, a new pair of jeans. Great feeling. That's true. Yeah. One of the best. That's what my dad knows to get me like every year for Christmas. It's a new pair of jeans. Just one more.

Always happy. There you go. Yeah. And this next question is great because this is a fantastic callback to the second? No, to the third ever episode of Boys Only. We were a wee young podcast. Who is it? In the year of our Lord 2025.

the dark winter. Max asks. Oh my gosh. Would you ever sit above the Olds cord guard with a fishing rod that has a ring on the end? Olds ice fishing. This is episode three material, Max Cody from way back in America. Anonymous ice fishing. Yeah.

No. Easy question. No. I'm a junior. I am not sitting foot anywhere near old. Tell not to Luke Jones. It's true. Dang, man.

Wait at just full docs, Jones. That's insane. You're so lucky he doesn't listen to this podcast, dude. The amount of times you've just thrown him under the bus. And then we'll tell about it later. I'm like, what? I'm on the internet? Like, bro.

Okay, so I've built up this reputation that I've been in Olds many times. This is completely false. Freshman here wasn't false. There's more Olds questions coming up like Red Hat. Okay, first of all, I was only in olds that I can remember like three times. And then also like Oldsville. It cannot be that few. You're the old's oligarch.

You got a name for the old's oligarch. Write that down. The only time before that I was in old was my sister was moving in and I helped her move in. So that's like the only other time. That doesn't really count though. Yeah, but like besides that, four times that I've been in the dorm. Okay, well maybe it exponentially increases when you like go into olds depending on how many women are with you when you enter the building. That shouldn't matter.

We'll talk about that one story later because there's a question about that story. Yes, the one you were all thinking of. That's a later question. I'll ask it. I'll ask it right now. Who asked it? I gotta find their question. This is Henry.

Henry says, tell us about the pie story. Yeah. Tell the pie story. I mean, this story's gotten mythologized so much. And I almost want to let it. There's legends surrounding it. There's kind of is, bro. Like the amount of people that, I mean, literally, Joe, like, there was a bunch of new freshmen early last semester.

And he, like, dathered them all around a table in the lobby. And he just started telling the story to everyone. as if it was like this great thing. I'm sure I was there. I love telling the story other people. But yeah, so I mean, where do we start? This was, shoot, what was the event called? The ho-down.

Yeah, it was just like Hillsville Houdown. This is fall freshman year, 2023. It was like, the block, ho-down. Whatever it was. There was food there. Got food. Food was great. Line dancing.

Line-dance was great. But of course, they have the pie contest. That was awesome. And then there was leftover pies. There was leftover pies. And, you know, well, I'm not going to take the story from you at all, but we're all freshman guys here, and, you know, we're meeting women for the first time. Ever.

Ever. We've never seen girls before. What is this? I mean, I said my sister. I've never seen a woman in my life. And we're, and we're like trying to figure out, you know, what's the play, kind of how to interact here, and we look over. Well, okay, so to preface that, I've been friends with these girls for, like, I'd already

met them early in the semester. I knew who they were. Like, this wasn't a just cold idea out of nowhere. It was like, I need these people. That would have been insane. And so, well, yeah, so basically I'll say the line. Yes. They had extra pie because only a couple slices had been taken out.

And so I was like, well, guys, why don't we take the pie back to old and eat it there? Why don't we take it back to old and eat the pie there? There's no utensils at the pie. the, I mean, like, I think food had already been put away or something, so there's no utensils, no more plates. It's like, and now you have a pie. And so we're at this event. And we see Austin walking away with nine women. It was not nine women.

It was not nine women. The NAS school took Austin back to holds. 30 women. And now it's just all dudes. And we're like, no rats. We're like, what teachers your ways since then. What a maneuver for insane play. That is, there's two times that I've eaten pie.

at Olds. And funny as... What? I don't go to Olds at Orton. Two times, that's not often at all. But the second time, I did bring Luke Jones a piece of pie. Because I had extra pie. Did you request it specifically? No, he was walking. He was walking back from a different dorm. And I ran into him as I was walking back.

Oh, piece of pie, bro. And so I gave him a piece of pie. So I wanted to be nice to him. The name was a Luke Jones piece of pie. Jones eaten pie. I mean, Luke Jones, we'll have Jones on the podcast, especially but Jones has his own pie story. Jones has his own pie story. It's a classic.

I wonder if some of these ladies will be listening to this episode because I've told a lot of them that you are on this week. You know where they see it on Instagram and... Well, you know, it's fine. It's like a lot of freshman year. I wonder what they're going to think about this though, that this has been Simpson mythologized.

This is being passed down. There's legend here. Like, there's circumcision. Is it thundering outside? Like, what's going on? That was a clear night. You would remember, wouldn't you? I remember it distinctly.

Ah, yes. The old's courtyard, eating pie under the stars. Surrounded by 200 women. The campfire raged. I pulled the pie from the fire forged. I can't let the store grow too big, but it is also fun when everyone looks at you like a hero. A hero. A hero is a strong world.

A legend, man. I'll give you a legend. The pie legend, bro. My gosh. Liam asks, what is the store? stupidest thing you did in your childhood that you can talk about ever

I ran into a wall and broke my head open when I was five that was pretty stupid is I like all you brick no they call me brick because of my haircut and facial structure so way back in Peru I'm in Peru

I was I was four when I was in Peru did we specify Peru late minute edition do people know I mean I think most people probably know that you're an immigrant right well not I'm not I'm illegal. I didn't say you're illegal.

Hey, they get the job done. I didn't say that you're illegal. That's also what's assumed, though. Everyone here assumes that I'm illegal. So sad. I'm like, guys, I'm just like you. Really? I promise.

I don't talk about that. Even though I'm only 50% to a collegiate education with an illegal immigrant. No, what, like, what are you about you guys? Storm, I feel like you did a lot of really weird, silly stuff as a kid. Like, I don't know, with four brothers.

I had one brother, and we did a bunch of dumb stuff. With, like, three others, Yeah. Dude, man, that's a recipe for disaster. We got up to no good. What is they stupidest? Yeah. What do we do that was really dumb?

Well, we always had a trampoline as long as I can remember in the backyard. One of the really, really big wide ones, and we didn't have a net on it forever. Oh, man. There was at one point where we were all jumping, and we were just, like, seeing how far off the trampoline we could jump. It's also right below our deck. So, and you've been to our house, that back deck when we were little and weighed less, we would jump off the back deck

and drop like 12 feet down under the trampoline which is kind of a lot when you're a tiny little dude but I just remember one time we propelled Bowie my littlest brother like oh was it Bowie or Monarch

I think it was Bowie like really far and you know we have that little like creek bed with all those stones in it and his head just bashed open and the, that was pretty dumb we launched him over into the rocks there was nowhere that he could have landed

that it would have been okay and I think there was a babysitter there and so she calls my parents during a nice dinner or out on a date and she's like hey your son's head's broken open and bleeding everywhere and they're like

great this is a regular Drexler household insurance like that's like the very mild story in terms of our people kill Bowie people dying left and right it was a war zone there's originally been seven Drexler's we've lost three

we've lost three we're down to us we've lost three of the Drexler boys we're the survivors yeah yeah I think for me I mean I've done a lot of stupid things but the thing so I'm the only my my only brother is like 14 years older than me so I didn't get the experience of like

having the brothers that you guys are like conniving with doing stuff I haven't like broken any bones or anything so I don't have crazy stories like that I think a funny one that people will enjoy is I don't know if you guys had this stage when you were a kid when you were like I kind of had like this brief like cooking stage I was like I wanted to learn how to like make something new it kind of coincide with my scientist stage

yeah yeah currently yeah so I had this idea that I thought was like the greatest thing ever, which was I loved pancakes. Who doesn't? And I loved pickles. Oh no. You're a yeah, no. Uh-oh.

Thumbs down. Auto thumbs down from Nate. What makes it worse is, right, as a kid, you can just be very, like, obstinate. Like, when someone tells you, like, you're wrong about something, like, you don't want to be wrong. So I probably just convinced myself of this and told everyone that the pickle pancake combo was delicious.

And my family will not let me live that down. They will remind me every time. They were all back for Christmas. The whole family was back. And they reminded me then, as they do every single year, they're like, remember when you were a kid? And you were trying to tell us all that a pickle and a pancake was a delicious combo. And I'm like, you know what? I was wrong.

I'm sorry. But it will never be forgotten. So did you just nuke breakfast that week? Dude, I don't know. Breakfast. I have had some, like, crazy breakfast before. Maybe you could make the batter with some, like, relish in it. Look, I will love my son dearly.

Be easy with my son. If I wake up and he's in the kitchen, Dad, I woke up early to make breakfast, and there's a pickle and a pancake. He is not my son anymore. Disowned? You're gone. Mr. Peku has the patience of a saint.

Oh, very patient. He's the one who taught me how to make pancakes. I'm not with pickles in them. No, no, not like that. Son, I told you one thing. Don't put a pickle in it. It's not hard. Starts crying in the kitchen.

He ruined everything. He ruined my whole breakfast. By the end of the pancake It has a pickle in the middle Dang it That's horrible Oh man Vinegar doesn't make a lot of things better

It makes some things better A little bit Not not sweet things No I don't like I can't do vinegar I can't do vinegar I can barely smell it So you don't like sal dressing? Depends, Caesar's great

Caesar dressing is great Coming around on a ranch Ranch is okay It's alright Yeah But yeah But yeah I'll like vinegar vinegar vinaette More and more

I'm gonna hear of blue cheese I'm more of a blue cheese guy I would have never said that a year ago I'm gonna have to take more time on that one I just I can't get over the fact that I'm eating mold like I'm literally eating mold You know? I just hide I can't I don't it's gonna take me more time

I'm sure I'll come around it's just I need more time I don't know if I knew that it was mold but I still like it Yeah I just learned that no it's mold I mean the fact that But it's like it has to be okay mold Like a good mold It's mold man I don't know dude there's something about that I don't know mold is one of those things that can kill you

without you ever knowing it killed you. Yeah. It's not so weird. Like, cheese, like, you leave a carton of milk out, just out. It will become the most rancid, horrific thing ever. But you leave that milk out in, like, the right way, and suddenly it's Parmesan cheese? It's a delicious cheese.

How does this happen? Who discovered this? Who said, leave that milk out there, and you, you leave that milk out in a cave. And for some reason, the cave guys, one is the good one? Dude, cheese is good. Yeah, dude. I don't know.

You should know. You're like Italian. Yeah, no, okay, I'm not that much. We don't make cheese. I do know someone who owns chickens, though, on Long Island. They own chickens. What does that have through with cheese? They're in Italian.

Okay. You're about to sound like, you don't. Cheese does not come from chickens, right? No, I didn't know that. The other day I was discussing someone with someone a protein that is called, like, hen egg white. Hen egg white. It's not just egg whites? No, because it's found in, it's a, they, they,

found it from egg whites. So they called it hen egg white. One of my new favorite slang terms is that we've kind of started using at home and I kind of want to bring here is in the hen house. Like whenever women are just talking ad nauseum with each other. Can we talk about that? There's a group of women

just talking at naught. They're just together and talking. Me and my friends like to be like, look with those hens in the hen house over there. That's, I don't know about that one. Can we call an audible on that one? I'll get a 30 second time out before we discuss that one. Just I don't have to discuss it. It's one of my favorite linguists. That is

That is good lingo Sacking it for going to sleep Remember women don't listen to this show at all Definitely not Yes they do man The first question I asked was from I mean she's not gonna listen to it But I mean

She will ask the question And not listen to it Dude that's why That's why every single episode He's never heard a single episode A few episodes ago He's never listened He's like dude

I hope the questions are good I can't listen to the show Because he doesn't have Spotify or podcast He has no means of accessing Did he ask a question? question this week? Oh yeah, of course. We'll get there. We'll get there. Thank God. Liam actually has another question and it's

great. Did your views of homecoming change after becoming an SAB member? Because you had what? You had two homecoming wins before SAB. When you were pure Simpson, when you were a true Simpson I like a guy we actually liked. That's crazy. You were two homecoming wins. Wow. What a stray. I'm joking. We love our SAB people. I mean, we all know that

I specifically rigged homecoming this year. You and Doyle. Yeah. Yeah. We were We were behind the scenes. It was, no one has figured it out yet on the team. So I think I'm clear there. But yeah, no, anyway, my views on it changed. No, I still love it. It's still great.

Like, how does it change? Like, is it love? Is there some behind the scenes now kind of knowledge that you have that you look upon it differently? Yeah, because like that was something we talk about with Doyle. Sure. I think the stressful side is, because it's hard to like, there's just so much hype around the event. And this happens with a lot of our big events anyway. But it's like, we have to make sure that everything works perfectly and that it's going to just easily go into.

So, like, trivia. Trivia is the hard one to do. With trivia a minute to one. Thank you. Especially minute to want up. Trivia was really good. But like those two especially, they just require a lot of planning. Like with Minute to Win It, we went the day before.

And basically, like, for a theater play, you know how you have like your tech week when you're going through everything on the stage. You know what it feels like. But we did that with Minute to Win it. literally bringing the stuff out because we're like we want to make sure we know how this is so it goes smooth because the hardest thing is just people find it really easy to complain about things oh my gosh you guys get crazy heat for like high key no reason out here so we're really trying to make sure that's like everything's just as easy as possible so people don't have to worry about worry about it and we aren't going to be catching flame from anyone but I think that hasn't taken

away from me and join it though which I think part of me was worried that I would be doing all the work and not getting to like kind of feel the same vibe as everything. But I don't know. I think that's helped being in Simpson. If I wasn't in Simpson, I think it'd be easier to kind of separate myself from like the student experience. But being in Simpson, seeing everyone excited with it and getting to put on the events and know what's coming and excited to see what people do. I mean, the fact that we like we plan the theme and then waiting to see like, okay, I know what it is. What's Simpson going to do?

What are we going to like, how are we going to put that together? How are we going to rise to the challenge? Excellent. By the way, probably my favorite of the three we've had. Well, okay, so I heard, though, that people had, this is the craziest thing ever, that, like, we hadn't even picked the theme. And people were calling that it was going to be, um, shit, what even was space? Yeah, people were calling that was going to be space.

It was like before we had even met to discuss it. Yeah, that's what Jonathan told me. How far ahead did you guys decide it? We do it like a semester. So, like, this, the end of this semester. You'll figure out the one for the fall. We're going to plan everything for the fall. Yeah.

Okay. No, that's good. I think we can call it because it's like, what are themes that like, like, I've heard talk that Wild West is coming up and maybe that's ruining it for you guys. Love Wild West. If I'm calling this now, but that's a really common one. That's super easy. Wild West or maybe some kind of like a jungle theme or maybe some kind of like a jungle theme or maybe some kind of like.

Jungle theme. No, they have to say those for every garden party. Not not, not, not, not jungle necessarily, but like some kind of like an exploration. theme, like, something like that. Yeah. You know, like a safari or something like that. I don't know. I'm just thinking of other themes.

Wild West, though, is dead on. You guys are having the next two years. I'm going to call that right now. It's in the next two years, yeah. Wild West is the next two years. I hope it's this fall because I want to be here for it. Yeah, Wild West would be awesome. It's funny, though, because there's always just so much debate about it.

Like, when we're me and we're, like, going through, everyone's pitching their ideas and everything. So for us, it's like, there's all these things on the table. Right. But it's just weird for everyone to, like, know what the outcome's already going to be. It makes sense. So are those popular ones that all like kind of just win out naturally.

But in the moment we're like, there's no way anyone could guess this because we just debated for like 30 minutes. Yeah. It was going to be. And then you come out and everyone's been talking about for already a year. Exactly.

Yeah. Come on. Hang it. Yeah. Flip the table. Are there any other kind of niche ones that you can think of that I'm just trying to think of like. Like you could do like this.

Okay, call me a little selfish because I really wanted this one because it'd be really fun for me. Yeah. But like chip to New York or NYC. Because there's so many songs. That is cool. Yeah.

There's so many songs. There's so much trivia. New York. The theme, yeah. Like just a theme of, or even just the city, like big city theme. That'd be cool. In general. It'd be really fun from me because whoever gets me on their trivia team just kind of wins.

Yes. Because I live there. There's a lot of New Yorkers, though, right? No. You, Jimenez. What if we... Is that it? Yeah.

Who's going to be here next year? Because Sean and Emma are graduating this year. Oh, interesting. Okay. Yeah. So, like, it's me and Angel. There's one other person. Did you actually do, like, beach theme, it's up.

point. Be, oh, that's, yeah, that's coming up to. Beach is coming up. Beach is, well, we can talk about why the beach doesn't work later. I guess,

there's a certain thing that happened with Pye-Fi freshman year. Why would Beach not work? Every single. Yeah, uh-uh. Okay, well, maybe. Maybe, a mock rock would be a little strange.

Yeah, we'll, we'll, we'll consider that when I said that. Yeah, A-TU's gonna bring a bunch of sand onto the thing. Dang it. Come on, guys. Stop.

Please stop doing this. SIGs would be funny there no matter what it is I enjoy Sigs Mock Rock I always do That was on the Yost right Yes we are the pirates who don't do anything So great Incredible work

Yeah I mean it'll be cool especially if We keep the same amount of participation As we kind of had this This year Then it'd be great I mean to see like groups like Delt coming out and put an effort in Delt was so

insanely good Delt was ridiculous I legitimately thought they should play. So I remember telling Doyle that when we were, because we were, me, Doyle, George were all on the same side. We were technically supposed to be spread out. Yeah. We're like, ah, we're just gonna. No, no, no one's

paying attention. Yeah. George Brown. Legend. Yeah. What a, what a, what a, what a sacrifice, bro. Put your body on the line for the team. Real. And he has to get stand up and put your own stand in the corner for another 35 minutes after that. 15 broken ribs. Oh my gosh, I'm dying. That was a fall. That was a high up. I was like the six. wrong with that ladder. He got up, man, and he jumped. I was so impressed.

Let ATO do mock rock. That's what I say. Let ATO do mock rock. Just do mock rock. Just be like, please don't destroy the entire basketball. Every year someone says, you know what, what if we just destroy the floor? What do we just break stuff is our mock rock? How does it happen every single year? Shout out Galloway last year. We had to just break the floor with the boats. pulling the floor. I don't think they should have won mock rock. One mock rock. Placed maybe.

Their whole thing wasn't a dance. But it's not a prop making competition. That's true. The sandworm was insane. Insane. No, it was. But the thing is, there's always new... The sandworm, to me, was cooler than the freaking...

The ships? Oh, definitely. Oh, no, for sure. I think, though, because there's always new judges, it's like, as students were able to recognize when... Patterns and, yeah. Like, a bit that's been used again and again. So we're like, okay, not as impressive.

Whereas judges were seeing... all for the first time are blown away. Yeah. That's a great point. Because I think the first time you see it, you're like, oh my gosh, this is so cool. But then you remember, you're like, okay, well, this is basically what they did already. So. Much better execution in the ships, A, because they didn't mess up the floor.

And it was all being carried. Yeah, which is somehow, like, I don't know how they had the guy up there. They had freaking John, I think that guy's name is. They had someone up there with his like Paula Trady da Hare. It was unreal. It was so cool. It was sick. Well, guys.

You finally at last. come to the Wyatt question gosh so soon would you rather would you rather quadruple the amount of I heard them talking about this actually at lunch now I'm realizing this is the question would you rather quadruple the amount of trash on earth

or Russian roulette launch to the smallest current active nuclear bomb to an arbitrary location whoa so some point on earth gets nuked with the smallest active nuclear bomb which is still extremely large nuclear weapon is it is it Russian

Rulet as in the weapon might not launch? No. Rushmurlet as in the weapon will launch. It's just random where it ends up. Where does it go? Okay. Smallest weapon on Earth blows up some more random on Earth. Could also blow up the ocean.

Yeah, quadruple a mountain. Okay, two thirds of the surface of the planet is ocean. So I'm going to, I'll take my chances with, yeah, I'll take my chance. Quadruple the amount of trash. That's a lot. Quadruple and the amount of trash is insane. That ruins the ocean.

The Great Atlantic Garbage Patch is going to just be the Atlantic Ocean. Yeah. Yeah. Like, quadruple is ridiculous. I distrificial. I dislike trash more than I like, can you imagine you choose it and it's like Chicago?

Oh my gosh. Or New York gone. And you're like, someone... The city is gone. You can risk it. If it hits Chicago, then like my home and Holland would get... You're done. Yeah, because even the smallest nuclear bomb, though, has drift.

Yeah. Right. So like, you can hit Kansas. Maybe it should hit Kansas. Probably it ought to hit Kansas. But it won't probably. I hope it will. Topeka is gone.

Oh no. We lost three. people and eight million cows but it would probably hit the ocean do you agree with the nuke? I don't want to agree with the nuke. What is the chance it hits America? Listen, they, why it has gotten me to say crazy thing, crazy immoral things

in this podcast, I said I would kick a baby on this show. The shrimp because of the stupid hypotheticals he keeps giving us. The shrimp slavery. Shrimp slavery. Shrimp's enslaved for life. I have had to say that I would support animal cruelty that I would kick children. I would not do these things. That you would commit Raccoon insurance fraud.

In the face of saving, I'd commit raccoon insurance fraud, but in the face of saving this planet, I will launch a small nuclear warhead into a random location on planet Earth. Hopefully, Kansas. Yeah, I think it would be important because the- Stop barking on Kansas. Hopefully the Atlantic Ocean. If you multiply the garbage, it's going to affect so many more people. It would.

That's going to just have like... Okay, wait, wait, wait. Does it suddenly just go and pop out of the trash? Like, your trash can, if it's full, goes, boom, and it slows out? So, you ever seen hair? Harry Potter? I have seen Harry Potter. So like, you know that like room where there's like all the goblets?

The room of the barring. And they're like popping out of each other. It's like that. When they're like multiplies. It's like that. So it's like four. So every piece of trash kind of like wringles like and then just explodes. Every guy currently driving a trash truck would,

a trash truck would die immediately. So that's already casualties to consider. The trash is not an option. You can't. Yeah. You're killing people now and you're going to, you're going to just, you're just. There's a chance they could land like. Okay.

What if I Google right now? Can I go like pick a random? place on Earth and we'll see what happens. We all pick the warhead. And now... What is it laying? Just pick a random place on Earth. We don't have to pick the warhead.

Let's see where it lands. Or wait, I'll go to the Maps app and I'll just like spin the globe and then... And then tap it. So, okay, we launch a random nuclear war... What is the smallest warhead in the world? I don't know.

Okay, why has my maps up freaking out? Here we go. You're not talking to the mic store. Spin the globe a couple times around. Whoa, whoa, whoa, I've eyes closed. Bang. Oh. Sahara. Sahara Africa.

That's great. We're in North Sudan. That's maybe the perfect place on, like, land. Looks like everyone in Dongola, Sudan is dead. Dongola, that's the capital of Sudan. Oh! That's not true. I believe, I'm pretty sure that that is the capital.

Yeah, South Nile, below Egypt, in the Libyan desert. If you're in Dongola, sorry, man. Desert is better than... City. But your sacrifice, Dongolan, saves the world from quadruple trash. What Donga basically does. just did was they said, oh, there's this huge bomb falling. Let me fly

through a wormhole and put it into maybe space somewhere. Maybe space somewhere. And then fall, question mark, even though there's no gravity in a wormhole theoretically, back into Manhattan. You're talking about iron. And then we're going to go get shwarma. And we're going to get shwama. Thanks, Dongola. On their dime, we're going to get shwarmone.

Your dongleon sacrifice has allowed us to obtain the shirma we so questionfully desired. In a restaurant, clean, with a normal amount of trash. Shwarm is so, good. Have you had trauma? I haven't had it. I was going to ask it.

How about kebab? Is it worth it? You had kebab? No, it's a... It's like, don't, don't, don't, don't vote me, bro. How about Eero? I love Mediterranean food so much.

You know what? Okay, so when I was in Maryland over the summer, going door to door in Maryland. Dude, there's so many... You want to tell us about that? You want to tell us about some of that? You're like, what your job?

Was this your summer experience? Yeah, so I, this past summer, I did door-to-to-door pest control. It was, it sounds, always from the I'm like, dude, you're playing into your stereotype. He's kicking indoors and sprangio with rain in the face.

Anyway. Boom. Ah! I got you. And then he ran away. It was awesome. You run away. Sorry.

But I think the funniest thing about the whole experience was I was in, we were one of the smaller offices, but there were still about like 27 of us. I was the only, in the like basically entire office of all the salesmen, the managers, I was the only not only the only non-Morman

I was the only one who had not gone out on a mission all of these guys had gone on a mission to like other parts of the world and so everyone was like a few years older than me because they had all done that but we were the same same year in school

but yeah so all Mormons and that was just a crazy experience because they're all from like did you know Mormon pest control Mormons are fascinating but no, because I remember one time you were out like in the rain. You just called me from like the curb. Oh, did I really?

And you were like, hey, man, I can't afford lunch. I did not say that. I didn't on a curb in the rain. I did not say. I could not afford lunch. Oh my God. It's the saddest thing. I'm like, I'm like, at work.

Like, I can't really talk right now. I was not wanting for money while I was out there. I would take like 30 minute breaks on my day because we were working, we were out walking for like eight or nine hours a day. So I'd take the 30 minute break and I was like, you know what? I want to talk to people. So I called a bunch of people. I talked to you.

I talked to Luke Jones. You called me in like August. I did you? Did you? I swear. I probably, I might have tried to call you. I don't know if I'm trying to remember our conversation.

I was already back at. I didn't know. I'm pretty, you call me because I was already back at Hillsdale early for my, for my summer thing. Yes. And I got a call from you.

I was like, I got so excited. Yeah, I remember that. I picked it up. I kicked my feet. That was in my gosh. I was laughing like,

like, yeah, yeah. But it was, yeah, no, that was so much. No,

I really appreciated that. That was awesome. Yeah. But it was, I love your intentionality, man. You go out of your way to make people remember that you care about them. You're lucky like a great person. You're like actually a good person.

I love that. My problem is I always forget to when I'm not like seeing people everywhere, I have just a really hard time like remembering to be like, oh yeah, I need to reach out to like this person, this person. That's so real. Like when I'm here,

I love talking to people for hours. Then once I'm home, I'm like, shoot. I totally forgot to call this person. Yeah, who exists? He's a person. Who? That's why Luke Jones is great to call because he will always pick up the phone.

You did. Dude, what's up? Hi. I will also usually pick up the phone. I'm pretty good about that unless I'm literally actively sleeping. You've picked up every time I've called you when we've not been to hells though.

Unless I'm actively sleeping or like I'm watching a movie, I'll be like, and I'll just text back like I can't call right now where I'm sleeping. I was looking up. So I had a list of stories from over the summer. Oh my, you wrote them down. You would.

Because again, he's intentional. Well, just a few, because this was, yeah, these are fun. Mr. Intention. So one of them was one of my buddies, he had this thing. He called it the Turtle intro. Because now the reason for that was when you're knocking on someone's door, especially like in Maryland, they're used to a lot of door to door guys because you don't realize, but there's so many door to door stuff.

Like security, windows, pest control. Not to mention there's all the brands within that. So like they're getting, who knows how many people are not going out of the door. Yeah, that too. Mormons. Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses people. I saw them out there too. Oh my God.

I have a Jehovah's Witness. Dude, you should have had a fist fight with the Jehovah's Witness people for like turf. Had a turf war with the Jehovah's Witness. They're actually not in pest control. They're in a lawn. This is our side of the town. But anyway, so this was the intro that he called the Turtle intro was meant to like kind of shock people so that they'd be like willing to listen to you. Because that's what you need.

You need people to just not shut the door and like... You need to immediately be personal. Yeah, yeah. So the way of Witt was just basically like you knock on the door. Or wait, do we want to roll right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We are the people. We're a couple.

We live in the... I want to be the guy. Oh, I can kind of do a decent woman boys. All right, I'll be the woman, I guess. That was easy enough. Sorry, Dad, for listening. So we're inside. We're hanging out.

Yeah, so I'm going to knock. I don't know if you'll hear it. Oh, who's that? Honey, go get the door. I will. Can you come with me, though? You know, I'm scared of talking to people alone. Of course.

Hello there, sweetie. Hey, guys. How's it going? Terrible. Are we old? I don't know. Sorry about my wife. My wife has a bus cat.

Don't worry. She's okay. How can we help you, young man? Yeah, well, so my name's Austin. Just down the road, I've got a truck. Like that movie, Austin Powers. Sorry. Yeah, no, I like that movie.

I love that movie. Just down the road, I've got a truck that's full of 100 turtles. How many can I put you guys down for? What? Oh, excuse me? young, I don't know about any choice. I don't know if they'll fit in well with all our hairs. I don't think so.

I don't got none of those left either. I got out of those hairs left. That's actually really good because I'd be like, what? Usually that's the reaction. People would like, what? And then I just like, ah, no, I'm just kidding. I'm out here with Moxie. I'm taking care of two of your neighbors, John and Elizabeth just down the road.

That's good. And then you just hit it. Yeah. Oh my gosh. If I can fit you guys in, we're getting it done for dirt cheap. Oh. We can put you. You have it right here? Yeah.

I'll sign you go. Put them on the Amex card. I'm becoming older and more older and more it's my accent it's withered Wojack yes dear I write the thing yeah yeah yeah but I love to using that I only used it like two times but it was great for like Cairns especially people who came out hot and were like upset

that you were there like what are you doing it? There's crying kids boiling stove yeah exactly I'm like dude I got a truck down there we've got a hundred turtles how many I can put you down for and they're like what the heck some people would like laugh and be like what the heck is this other people just made them even more mad and they would just shut the door right on you. Slap the door in your face off the turtle.

Those people aren't buying anything anyway, man. Those are miserable people. Also, another thing that was really funny is, so there's a ton of Indians out in Maryland. Oh, man. They all have a WhatsApp group chat. No matter where you go. Every Indian guy in Maryland.

Every community had a WhatsApp group chat. And if you could get on that group chat, if they could add you onto it, so my boss, oh, you're going to be rich. on to one. And so people were like, hey, there's this person going around. He's like, yeah, yeah, that's me. I'm just doing pest control. Your neighbors, blah, blah, blah, or like, I got them to sign up and everything. That is a great strategy, by the way. Yeah. Like, people you know

have also done this. Yep, yeah, yeah. People are immediately, oh, I'm comfortable. That's one of the number one ways. Yeah, I'm comfortable with you now immediately because you've been with people I trust. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, that's why in our intros, usually, they wanted us to like name drop a neighbor or something, which would sometimes work. Other times people would be like, I hate that guy anyway. Oh, you worked with Timmy. Where's the Hatfield and the McCoy? Timmy Lettuce, I hate that guy.

Timmy Lettis. He's the worst. I'm John Tomato. He's Timmy Lettuce. We have beef. We have chicken also, if you want that in your salad. Yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck. Please continue the story before we keep doing this.

Well, I think one of the hardest things when I was out there was funny enough, and I know you guys are going to clown me for this, whenever I had to do my whole pitch in Spanish, That's awesome A little bit But it's so much harder Oh my gosh Can you give us a pitch in Spanish

Wait say No because it's chopped up It's bad I haven't done it so much Can you say I'm Austin Piku And this is boys only in Spanish Uh You tango

Ostenegu Wheness I like Austin Piku I'm sorry Austin Piku This is Um Chico Chico Solo Yeah like Chico Solo

Chico solo We get to say boys only The name of the podcast is in English. It is, but I'm asking him to say in Spanish. It would be boys only anyway. It's a proper, yeah. Boys only. True.

It'd be three words he'd say in Spanish, rest would just be English. Chico solo. No, but my... We should change the name of the podcast. Chico solo. Chico solo. Yeah, no, my Spanish is terrible.

That's why I finally got done with 201 last semester. Which was great. Prof. Blanco, great prof. Awesome. But I was like, you know what? I'm done with Spanish. Profé Blanco? Professor White?

Yeah. Guess what? He's also Mormon. Why do you? Which is great. Why don't we have so many clue characters here? Yeah, we just got out of

grammar class, Professor Green. And we talked about Spanish and Mormons. We didn't talk about Mormons. He spoke a little bit of Spanish enough to make me question whether he was like a little bit more fluent than he let on.

I think he is more fluent than he's a smart guy. I think he's a smart guy. He certainly does not know Mandarin. Take a class with Dr. Or not Dr. Professor Green. Professor Green. Take class with Professor Green. Yeah, he's awesome.

Really interesting guy. I always hear good things about him. No's a lot of random stuff and he fits my interest. Child cognition this morning with all the, how kids below the age of three can learn like three languages. If you talk about multiple languages, they can learn them and categorize them. So their brains will somehow separate Spanish, English,

and like, you know, whatever else they learn. So we're going to game that system. And me and my wife are each going to learn one unique foreign language. And then we're both going to obviously know English. So we're going to, our kids are going to be max. We're gonna max the stats. Like, wives can have to know some Asian kind of a language.

I'll take, I don't know. Wossa from like Southern Africa. Warsaw? Which is one of those click languages. Yeah, really? Gosa. Yeah. It's not all clicks.

People think the clicklings are all clicks. It's not all clicks. But then it's not fun. But it's not, but they just, they're not all. It's like saying all of us is just saying the word letter B. Like that's not our entire language. Like we do bruh. We have that noise, BR, but it's like, that's not the whole language.

Brow, dude. Yeah. My siblings were lucky because when we were in Peru, it was English and the home, Spanish outside. So they are all by the way. Oh, wow. And you really got the short end of the stick. Well, here's the thing. My sister, Sophia, not only did she learn Spanish outside, English in the home,

she went to a school that was based off of a German model. So they were learning German. So she picked up German. And then because she already knew a lot and was just good at languages, I don't even remember when she picked these up, but she eventually learned French. She knows Italian. She picked up... Dude, I can parol franca.

I paroled it today. What did you want to say? She also got a Woloff, which is a dialect in Senegal. Yes. And she's learning Arabic. So she's going to have seven languages under her belt.

One for each finger. Insane. Septal. One for each finger. Almost there. Septalingual. That is insanely impressive. It is.

That's Dr. Fincher levels of language knowing. I know. Except he knows all like the era. He knows every language. He knows like Arabic. That dude knows Aramaic. That's unreal.

That's unreal. That's insane. That's literally Jesus' language. Like he, that's insane. Didn't they speak Greek? No. What? At least partially?

No. It was like, in the area of the world were Greek and Arabic as well, but like, Not Arabic. Arabic. Arabic had, yeah. So it was, Aramaic was like generally speaking like the language of like just the people, just kind of every day.

Greek was a lot of the time the governmental, governmental language. And then obviously it's, They're Jews. Because Hebrew is the religious language. Some of the apostles' writings were in Greek. Yes, because a lot of them were Greek. Or educated.

If you were an educated person, you would speak Greek. But Jesus was probably not at least a massively well-educated individual. No. Like in the traditional sense. So he would have spoken Arabic. There's some of it in the Gospels. Hepha. So tough.

Be opened. It's Aramaic. My sister wants to learn Aramaic. Really? I really, I want her to learn it so she can talk Aramaic. because I think it's cool. That is tough. Sorry, this is one of my like,

no, no, no, yeah. Autistic passion things. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I love languages. What did you take name? Latin. Me too. I'm really rusty.

I got a Latin minor here. Did you really? Mm-hmm. I did the three classes and then, like, got it. And then they were like, if you do 320, so get the minor. And I just did it.

That's how they get you. It sucked. They're always like, it's, I'm so mad. The class was not fun. I'm so mad that I could not get, so I placed out of 101. Yeah.

I placed into 102. Which actually screws you over. Which hurts me because it's not that you need to take the three like regular language like requirement classes and then another one. You just have to do four. You have to total. So if you start at 100, if you start at 102, I have to take two extra classes. Let's take it two extra beyond that instead of one extra.

So 101 if you're trying to go for a quick language minor is actually the best place. Well, that's actually three because it's four credits for 101. Yes. So I would need the three. Yes, it is. And the extra plus the one anyway. So I'd have to take like three or four extra classes for the last. Whereas I just slid into 320, did very okay, and then I got the minor.

Yeah. Yeah. Dang. I'm a little upset about that. What are you in a minor in? Classical education. Okay. I was thinking about psychology also, but, man. Yeah.

Yeah. Keep my, keep my, keep my minor yet. No, I'm not going to get a minor. Really? Just English major? Hell, yeah. Dude, I went on my whole, my development of, like, what my major is going to be has been crazy. Tell us about it.

I came in wanting to be a philosophy major. Because Red Plato in high school, I was like, this is dope. I want to do this. I literally went up to Dr. Cole on the dessert, the freshman dessert faculty dessert one. And I was like, how do I become you? Yes. It was literally what I asked him. And I still haven't taken up for a class, which is kind of sad.

But I was dead set on going philosophy. And then later down the road, I talked to Luke Hollister. And I got the idea about doing like a more like, like having something that's more abstract and tying that was something that's more practical. So then that got me on the track for like this only lasts for like a week of being philosophy and like biology to have like a practical and abstract side. Just like that would be really cool. And then I was like, I don't really want to do bio because that's a lot of work. Tell me about it. I had a phase with bio.

It is a lot of work. And I was not good at it in high school. So I was like, you know what? Let's drift and do psychology instead. And I remember justice. And so I was asking him like, dude, who do I take? What do I do for all of that? And then I haven't really found out the reason why I made the switch to English.

I think there's a lot of stuff. I liked my English classes. I think I have to owe it to Michael Hogget and Charlie Casal that they like, seeing English majors and be like, wow, those guys are really smart. And they know so much. And they're all English majors. So I was like, well, I guess I might as well go there. Then I hopped on the English train. It is the performative major.

As a history major, I will counter to you. are Michael Hogget and Charlie Gasol smart people who are English majors or are they smart because they are English majors? I don't know. I think they're just two really smart people who happened to be English majors. I count on with Dr. Peters. I also. Yeah.

He's wicked. Although Dr. Gurkie might be the single smartest person I've ever met. Have you? You, Storm, just stop, just stop, bite the bullet, just do it. Just take a Gurk class. I'm not a history major. I thought you used to minor. No. Audit a class or just take one.

I'm a political economy major, which includes history. Dude, you need to. Just, you need to. You need to take one. He's the most, it's almost crushing. Like, you, because you, you listen to him talking, you're like, you are just, like, another level. So many levels above me in everything.

No, I'm going to take probably by the time I graduate four gherty classes. He's, he's phenomenal. He's utterly phenomenal. I think in another life, like, a slightly parallel universe, I would be. Have you done Republic with them? I did Republic with Calvert, who is my life, like, inspiration. Like, he's who I want to be when I grew up, Dr. Calvert. Yeah, wonderful wife and family.

Kids who love him, grandkids who are just wonderful if I got to meet his granddaughter, briefly, wonderful little kid. Little Calvert. And then just, like, does something he loves, gets to travel the world because of it, make enough money to kind of support himself and his family. Good Catholic, Christian man. Just perfect life, dude. He's just maxes.

Just winning. We're sweaters. I want to be him when I grew up, man. Just simple life. It's content. Storm wants to be Donald Trump when he grows up. I do not want, well... No, I don't want to be Donald Trump.

Just for the money. We can be... I don't want to be the second LGBTQ president. Dog what? Son. Huh? We don't have to talk about that here. I guess we can.

This is boys only. I think everyone in college, I think if you come into college and you're like, this is one of the major I want to be, And you're just, that majority, all four years. I mean, good for you. But I feel like you've lost a little something. You've lost a little bit of the journey.

The frantic search for what you're actually going to study. No, no, no. Because it shouldn't be, it's not frantic. It's fanatic. Is that a word, right? Fanatical? Yes. Like, like, you want, like, it's driven so intently.

Long, passionate adherence to something. Like, you should have a fanatical desire to be like, I want to do what is right. Like, what is the best thing. Yes. So it's not frantic. because it's not like, ah, it's not panicky. It's not time constraint.

It's just desperate searching. Yes, it's like I need to do the most right thing. Like I shopped through a bunch of different majors. I ended up on history. I was originally going to be a double history and English. Real glad I switched away from that. Mamma me. I wish you would have done that, dude.

Then we would have had English classes. I would have had to take three million glasses. That is my great regret with my major is that I don't have you guys in any of my higher level classes. Yeah. It's unfortunate. I'm stuck with like Jones. And one more time under the bus for Jones. No, we love him dearly.

We love them so much. Part of me, if I had the money to, it would definitely take another two years here and just pick up a history major. Not here. If I had to do more college, I can't Midwest. I'm sorry, I know that you love the Midwest,

and we're not going to talk about state versus state here. But I can't do more Midwest, man. I can't do it. I want to go out west. You want to come to law school with us in the South? I don't want to do law school. Neither do I. No, but I mean, ideally, are you going to do graduate school, Austin?

Dude, I... Like, what is your end game? Yeah, so the end game that I tell everyone, because I want something to be able to tell people, is curriculum development. Like, that's, like, the end goal. That's so good, dude. That's a good one.

Thank you. But that could be, that could be grad school. Doesn't necessarily have to be. Probably would be, though. So we'll see. There's, I mean, Hillsdale's got the great classical ed program. Pick up the class ed minor. it's not that many classes.

I'm doing a philosophy of ed this semester. I'm probably going to do Children's Lit. It's like six total classes. I just don't really want to... Good. I don't really want to take it with English Green. It's so good. Take it with Professor Green.

Or Professor or Dr. Condit, who have also heard great things about that class. So whoever teaches it, you're cooking. The entire education department is just fire. Are you in the same boat as me where you don't have that much left to do? Like, that you have to do? I have very little to do as well. I...

Yes, but I've also... I didn't frontloaded. It just ended up this way for me, at least. I just am, like, out of jeans. Did you bring in a lot of credits? No, zero. What? I brought in some and in frontloaded, and now I'm like...

All I have to do is just get more credits. Like, I don't... Like, my major's almost done. But I'm saying, like... So is my minor. Are you going to have a senior year with, like, 12 and 12? If that. Like, I could be part-time if I think I wanted to.

That's crazy. I'm not quite there. I was... I would, but I lose my scholarship. Yes. Oh, I know, right. It's not. economically worth it to do that.

Yeah. But I will be, I'll probably be like 14, 14, 14? Years old. Something like that. No, 14 is a fantastic. I haven't had that few credits since freshman year. I mean, that's gonna be cake. I had 13 credits last semester at the start. It was glorious.

And I was like, this is too easy. So I added on math and deductive. How was that? It was good. I thought I did great in the class. Not so much. Because I did not. because I did great in all of my other classes.

I had my first guy Tano class last semester. Which one? Reformation. Yes. Yes. That is his thing. It was so good. Such a great class.

But I was so worried by the end because he gives us so much time to do our research paper. You never do it. Well, no, I was doing it. But, like, I really got working hard on it with, like, a month. And that was too late. Yeah. It was. It was like, as I was like tried, just the research, I could have done.

done just a research for the month and then planned it out for the next month. And then probably had to go back, do more research after that. Like, I was like, oh my gosh, I needed so much more time. And so I was worried about my paper not being great. And then the exam was, the exam was, there's just so much information. And I just felt like, I was like, I don't know if I'm answering your question so fully because there's so much we learned. It's so rich. Like his, classes are so rich. One of my favorite ever class I've taken here was Renaissance with him last spring. Thank you. So many good things, by the one. Oh my gosh, dude. It was so, we were just pluming, just the absolute depths.

And it got really turned around a little bit sometimes, but, like, at least for me, because I was just like, there's so much information. But I cited a painting in my paper. Really? Because I was like, I don't know what else. He let me, like, something that's really interesting about Dr. Extern also is he's like such a,

I don't know if you guys are going to get this reference. He's such like a student of the game. Like, he's, like, at least from my experience of him, he's like, dude, go find something. new. Like, I don't want you to be all crusty with like, you're, like, dude, go go get it. Like, go get it. Like, he let me

use, um, like, translation services because like, some of the stuff was in a town. It was just untranslated because people had written about it and no one. I translated it to English. Yeah, like it was so in the depths that no one, and he was like, dude, go find that, go get it. And so that's,

it's such a boon to research. A great research help. Like, the fact that he, he was probably doing this for your office hours, like putting in the sources in email as you guys are talking about it. Yes. And then you leave and he sends the email and you're like, just have everything you were talking about. Yeah. It's so helpful. Also, if you go, if you take a doctor, gottenable class, go early, the early as you possibly can to talk about your paper topic with him because he will, he did this for me. He's like, somebody started this message. Hey, Nate,

was just looking around, found this really cool thing about what you, we talked about. Here it is. Take a look at it. I'm like, oh my gosh, dude. That's a lifesaver right now. Thank you so much. just randomly giving me a free source. I'm like, dude, oh my gosh, you're the best. Do you know that Gaetano and Gerke were in school together at the same time? I did. I'm like, how could Hillesdale handle that? And the Kipers.

Really? Both of the Kipers. Oh my gosh. Yeah. And, oh my gosh. English, he has 300 kids. Oh, no, he's younger than that. He was in the school at the same time.

Dr. Lindley. Lindley, I think was also in school at the same time as them. 300 children. He does have 300 children. Is that crazy how, like, kids, people that we know now, I say kids, none of us are kids, but like people that we know now could wind up being the professors that end up teaching here. Not it. I love the place, just I can't live here.

Yeah. I wish this place was in the Carolinas, man. That would make my life so much easier. You should start a school over there. No. Start a, no. You should join Liam Brennan and Nick Blatner and start a, go start a Hillsdale in the south. Sure, I'd love to.

Yeah. Roswell George Put that on your 2026 bingo card Roswell George Roswell George William Liam

Struggles my inch What a great bingo card I made a 2026 Bingo card Just so things I think are gonna happen this year Me and a couple friends back home made them

Yeah And we all came up with funny I'm not gonna say mine We all came up with funny free spaces I want to see Your Bingo card

If I can I will show it to you after the show I have some insane things on it. Like famous old public figures die. Like movies that are going to come out are good or are bad. Friends that I know

that are couples, break up, get together, get divorced, explode and die. I have tons of just predictions. Get divorced. I do have one. One married couple I think is going to get divorced this year. I will not disclose this information. Oh my gosh. I have another couple of things going to get married this year. Well, we have one that we know is going to get married this year.

Hey. Hey. Good for them. Well, I don't know if we're talking about that. no we will. But good for them. You know you are. But yeah, I think 2026 is set up to be by far, like, just set up. We could be bad. The best year of our lives. We could be set up. That's my, that's my opinion coming in. We're set up, first of all, for the most crazy movie lineup ever. Like, we have, like, all these movies in one year are going to be insane. And you know what else would be insane? This podcast. And another full year of it, because we are coming up in two or three weeks on a full

a year of Boys Home Month. February 2nd. Around February 2nd was Waffle House Story Night. Mark's new poster. What a great poster. What a great poster. But we are poised for a phenomenal year. We are the last full year of college. You know, senior spring will be like, you know, the send-off.

We'll have a great time. But these two semesters are going to be really, really good. I just get the sense. And I don't know. Everyone's going to get married. Everyone's going to get married the next five years. We have our future. All of us.

You, Austin, Peku, and you, the listener. And you, listening to this show right now. Yes, you sitting there. Your soulmate is right around the corner. You sitting there in your car. And you just might meet him. Or her. No, no, no, you just might meet him listening to him on boys only.

Austin Peku? No, me. Yeah. Finally. after decades. Well, we're back. We're looking forward to... Actually, we're not back.

We're leaving now. We're leaving now. But we're looking forward to a great year with you guys, the audience, and you, Austin. Thanks for on the show. Hold on concluding remarks from Austin. Well, thank you guys for having me here.

I've been thinking about this for a while. I mean, once Nate told me about the invitation, I was like, this is going to be great. So thank you so much. I was glad to be a part of this. Hope you had a good time. And hope you, right now, with me inside your ears,

is having a good time, too. We'll see you next week. Thank you all for listening. questions later see ya