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The Mental Health Day

• Team T4 • Episode 35

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Ever felt your job was shadowing your self-esteem, that the fear of being replaced was nibbling away at your mental health? Well, we've been there too, and this week, we're pouring it all out. Join us as we take you on our mental health break journey and shed light on the detrimental effects of work stress. Also, we'll share our past experiences from the trenches of GameStop and how it all played out on our mental stage.

Our personal life is no secret to you and in this spirit, we bring you Ryne's recent viral win. His Halloween trick pranked his kids and fetched him a massive 3 million views! Relish in his joy and learn about the fine line between passion and obsession. Then, brace yourselves for a hilarious account of his son's ambitious request for a dirt bike and the daily parenting banter about kids' baffling vocabulary.

We've got a hefty dose of laughter coming your way as we decode the slang term 'Riz', recently added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Reminisce with us about our teenage years and the lingo we used. We also touch upon our sport-enthusiast side with a funny anecdote about Ryne's son attempting to juggle basketball and wrestling. To wrap things up, we reflect on our podcast journey and sketch out our future plans, including some unheard interviews we might release. So tune in, laugh with us, and let's navigate the complexities of life together.
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D:

On your break today, me and Ryan over in the studio coming back from our hiatus, calling in last week. We talk about a mental health day and Ryan brings his son to not talk on the mic. Alright time to clock out for lunch. Welcome to PaydE Lunch and thanks for spending your break with us. I'm Heavy D with me. As always, Ryan, we're back. We called in last week.

Ryno:

We did call in last week, which is incredibly necessary.

D:

I feel like yeah, we've yet to do that. We had a lot of people reach out and stuff about us not being at work.

Ryno:

This was the first time in 33, 34 weeks 34 weeks, I think. I feel like we had an ample amount of PTO saved up. We probably didn't actually call in. That was a pre-planned day.

D:

Yeah, there was a lot of stuff going on. We were both having mental health weekends.

Ryno:

It felt like Mental health months.

D:

Yeah, my dad was sick in the hospital and your family was going through shit, and it's been a trying, trying time.

Ryno:

We're through it for the most part now. It took some time. I've had my anxiety medication, so there's that. Your sideic is not hurting today. My sideic is not hurting, I think it's because I've just been running so much. I'm actually proper.

D:

Everything is out right now. So it actually feels or it's just numb you don't have to worry about it.

Ryno:

It's probably that too. I mean I would go with numb. If I could just make it numb all the time without heavy medication, I'd do that One thing that we have not done Clear mouth row here is since since our last episode, one of our guests.

Ryno:

I wanted to give them a spotlight and definitely call out the wonderful event that they threw Psycho silico. Yeah, Mr Tyler Payne, here a few episodes back, done his big premiere over in Virginia for the premiere of Silico Solutions. I was actually lucky enough to be able to go over there and review that as a VIP and let me tell you that was one hell of an experience.

D:

Man, I didn't get to go but like living vicariously through you, and it's like I was like please send me all the shit so I can see everything.

Ryno:

I loved I've got some signs or some posters that he signed for us. It's like quit your fucking job and like it's phenomenal and you fucking loved it right. Oh, I loved every minute of it and he's like what do you want me signed to? I was like definitely done, paid lunch. He's like oh, I got you and it's like that's pretty little silver mark God.

D:

I love him, I love him.

Ryno:

He's fantastic, he's fantastic. So the whole entire event went great. Just kind of give a quick, you know kind of drive by. And what happened there? Drive by Drive by boys in the hood. He had everything set up at a small very. You can hear them like kids are playing.

D:

I was like I'm sure Ryan's son wanted to, wanted to come see what the podcast was like and he kind of wanted to come be on the podcast and really he just wanted to come by with my kids. I think he's like sitting here for like two minutes and was gone.

Ryno:

I'm sitting and trying to go through a train of thought and I heard touch down.

D:

We have a good time.

Ryno:

But this little theater it was perfect, the way you had everything set up ahead of balcony and things for the VIP If they wanted to go up there. I had a ground label for everybody else.

D:

For horror man. It's like premium. It's perfect.

Ryno:

It feels like you could get killed in that movie. So it kind of, you know, works out perfectly. Definitely not going to get into the film because that's his baby and he's definitely getting it taken on the road, but the whole entire experience was phenomenal. I think it was about an hour and 20 minutes.

D:

Yeah, and he got the, he got the. Like people showed up and it's awesome.

Ryno:

And now, he's standing oh parts, I think it was really kind of set him off. There's parts where he's like man, people's going to cringe and people laughed and they kind of set him off. He's like huh. Yeah, I'm like dude, whether you know, whether you know that you're doing this or not. I was like there's a couple of times where he gave off evil dead vibes, it's like yeah, I was like there's some camp in here and it works perfectly.

Ryno:

I can't wait to get out and see it. I know he's got one coming up. I want to say it's in Tennessee, coming up over the next month or so.

D:

Unpaid lunch on the road.

Ryno:

I would love to go. I mean, I would love to go and say something how cool would it be to go and actually sit up and do a show there?

D:

Why can't we?

Ryno:

I don't know, tyler, if you're listening to this. Let's make this happen. The one part, redemption story here. This is not a numbered episode in our catalog.

D:

Oh yeah, I kind of want it forgotten about. I think I'm going to eat some shit here.

Ryno:

Yeah, yeah, eat the crow, I mean the chicken was better than eating the shit, so I will say that. But, micah, if you're listening, what you got at this time meaning apologize. I did get my food this time and we had some conversations. I hope Micah doesn't mind me using him here, but they had a food trick set up and this was the same food truck that I'd kind of really what's a good word for it?

Ryno:

You know what man we were growing at the time right, we were growing and I was whatever was called over there. I was going through a negative spree there.

D:

Yeah.

Ryno:

They had everything set up. You know you get your VIP ticket. You got a shirt that was custom made for you. You know what up? Kate designs phenomenal work. That was awesome, oh yeah.

D:

Yeah, she's. She's fucking awesome. No, I'm gonna work on it.

Ryno:

Okay, kate, that was awesome.

Ryno:

Go out and get in food at the truck and I walk up and we lock eyes. I've been in my car and he's like I honestly didn't expect you to be here. I was like I'm all for a good redemption story and you know I wanted to give you a second chance. He said well, I'm glad. He said I just want to let you know that I never thought the million years that the guy that took my GameStop preorders that I looked up to would be my first hater. For my own personal business is like damn that hurt.

D:

Ouch, that hurt really bad. Well, I mean, we weren't, we were uh, we didn't call the name of it out, right, no?

Ryno:

no, but it's fucking. It was pre-implied.

D:

It's okay, this is our retraction.

Ryno:

Like I said, this is retraction. I loved the food. The food was phenomenal. We've even had conversations on the side thereafter and he's even said that he would like to come on and talk, yeah, about his truck and things like that, and I'm sure it'd be a pretty funny conversation.

D:

I might be crazy, but I'm pretty sure I played magic against him. You have Right, oh yeah.

Ryno:

From what I understand, a man prefers the pioneer format.

D:

Yeah, but I've back in the day like I'm not like yeah but I think you might have come to hob and played and like I played in a cab, Like yeah.

Ryno:

Oh yeah. But Micah retraction food was fantastic, man I've. I'm definitely going to hit up the business again sometime. Bring the show some chicken?

D:

Yeah, bring it on.

Ryno:

Well, I mean, there's literally a kitchen right there.

D:

What would?

Ryno:

you cook with unpaid lunch. But the whole entire experience is phenomenal. They done a Q and A. After I didn't get a chance to stay because, like we kind of alluded to a minute ago, I had some stuff going on with the family. I was even surprised I was able to go because we had a death in the family and was kind of working through things like that.

D:

Well, you were kind of in the middle of like, in that zone where nobody does anything but sit around and cry you know what I mean and there was nothing to do.

Ryno:

But I needed it, I needed the decompression to get out, because I'm the type of person that you know. It kind of ties directly into the episode.

D:

Yeah, you were like man, I don't really want to miss, should I go? And it's like everything. I was like, well, you're not going to do anything tonight. What are you missing out on?

Ryno:

You know I'm the type of person when I don't I agree, but I agree with it in a different way. People go through the process of mourning and crying and things like that and I try to go straight up like Autobot, like turn into like this big, huge, freak machine. That's like I can show her everyone's burden, make sure everyone's okay, make sure.

D:

You preach into the choir baby.

Ryno:

Yeah, I try to beat it rock and then, easily about two years later, I have an implosion. I don't share anything.

D:

Remember that time my best friend died and I didn't deal with it.

Ryno:

You've still not dealt with that.

D:

That's okay, it'll all come to a head.

Ryno:

You'll probably have a heart attack, yeah.

D:

All the stress is going to build up. That's good.

Ryno:

That and all the grease.

D:

That's what you need, right, wes. Wes in studio needs all his friends to die.

Ryno:

I think he was asleep when you called on him, right there, yeah.

D:

Wes is the, wes is the the the laborer of the crew. Um, he's always shows up like covered in grease or covered in oil. I mean right under, like man, my back hurts. I'm sitting in my desk all day. Yep, my back hurts cause I've been under a truck. That's fine.

Ryno:

I think I figured out why mine's been hurting so bad is we were doing like fall ball on Sundays, like fall baseball the last let's see weekend. Before last we did something, but to the last three weekends it's not launched and miraculously I don't hurt, so maybe it's just riding the staff of pictures now.

D:

Yeah.

Ryno:

You're about to be 40. Don't do that anymore. Let somebody else do it. I'm nearly as bad as what I had been, but you know my digress. But it kind of a good old fashioned segue transition to kind of what we're going to talk about. What are you doing?

D:

I don't know where my phone is. Did you lose your phone? I had some shit I need to look up and I don't know what I did with it.

Ryno:

I don't know.

D:

I don't know, it's fun.

Ryno:

I don't know.

D:

I don't know, I'm gonna send somebody after it. Wes is on. Wes is on the job. Why?

Ryno:

are you in there? Smite my kid and tell him to shut up. Ah, they're good yeah.

D:

I know you love to hit kids.

Ryno:

We'll give you free ride. Uh so there you go. We got a phone. So main thing we want to talk about today and I've kind of been talking to my former colleagues. We still work for the same company but not in the same department anymore, but we've been talking about it. October is national depression and mental health screening month.

D:

Shout out our, our mental health. Particularly, it was Wes.

Ryno:

Wes and the mental health maniac oh my God, that's literally what we had to take last week off. Like it was, it was literally a mental health weekend. Like we even came down here and like we stood outside and was like should we shoot this episode? We're like, fuck it, we're leaving.

D:

Man, I just couldn't. Like I was in such a terrible mindset and like I was, and and like I knew that I was going to feel even worse, because I knew you were going to want to carry the show, and you know what I mean.

D:

Because I knew you, you knew that I was having a bad day you was going through it at that point but then you were having a terrible weekend, so like I felt guilty about, like thinking you were going to have to carry the show. And that's the way our minds work. We all just apologize to everybody.

Ryno:

Thank God knows, I have no problem here myself talk my family gives me shit for that all the time. Um, but that was kind of the thing that me and him had talked about is how, you know, we transitioned from a big, huge department at work where we were really the main pivot points. Uh, he was the main data guy, I was the main process direction guy and we were basically over like 140 people. We would put in 55, 60 air work weeks. I even had one of my directors pull me in his office one day.

Ryno:

He's like why are you here right now? I was like I've got to get stuff done. He's like you, I know you worked 50 hours this week. I was like, yeah, but this has got to be done. He's like you're a terrible father. I'm going to tell you why, oh God. And he went through and just like skewered me Like I was crying like a child, like a baby, in his office and the man has no emotion. He's just like an Android. He's like you're a bad father, you're missing. You know everything that went on at home and still this day I consider one of the best leaders I've ever had.

D:

Yeah.

Ryno:

Work, coaching, sports, it don't matter, I mean, he doesn't people, well, but when he does people, he cuts you to the core. But it's kind of he. He kind of hit me with something, and he said the same thing to Chris, which is the colleague I'm talking about, and this is something that we've always kind of kept in the back of our minds. Is it like a little slogan that we have? That's basically, you're always replaceable at work, you're irreplaceable at home.

Ryno:

You preaching baby. So that's what, now that I'm in my own department and I don't have 150 people and he's doing analytics and he's just literally going through, you know, pulling reports and metrics and things like that, we realized we were not as needed as we thought we were.

D:

Yeah.

Ryno:

And that was kind of the big thing is we were like God, you know, if something was to happen us tomorrow, this beast wouldn't keep rolling. Well, it just turns out, they just shut the damn thing down. Oh shit, right, it wouldn't keep rolling, but they didn't care, they didn't care and that that that would kind of really shook both of us to our core is we thought we were so damn important.

D:

Yeah, your job is will replace you tomorrow, right, but your family's not going to and that really plays into. You know what we're all about?

Ryno:

Yeah, Well, our our whole, entire self-worth was tied into this department.

D:

Yeah, oh yeah.

Ryno:

Everything. It was like it was like our calling card and like there was so many like me and him were getting fights all the time because we were so stressed out and then last cry about it later on, like it was just. It was a very stressful endeavor, took a long time to get through all of it, but that was Die young if you keep that pace. So 100% like. There were some days like that. There's this job and when I worked at GameStop. It's the only two times in my life I've ever been so stressed. I've had nosebleeds from work. Yeah, and that is.

D:

You were a hard person to be around when you worked at GameStop. It was a miserable, miserable job yeah. You hated it every, every single. The only time you liked it was you liked midnight launches like yeah, I've thrived off of that.

Ryno:

And and Madden.

D:

Oh yeah.

Ryno:

You kind of sports release. I had the time of my life with that and then one week a year when they sent you on the opposite side of the country to go play shit and they fed you all the time.

D:

They didn't do that, though. The last like two or three years, remember that was like.

Ryno:

That last year they wasn't going to send us across country, they were going to send us to Indy. It's like nope. We were going to go to Indianapolis and like, fuck, I can drive there, that ain't fun. Um, it was just a different type of work and I've, I've, I've, but I've learned over time with my own mental health journey, as I have this and we've kind of talked about for this irrational fear of losing my job and not being able to provide for my family.

D:

And for me, like knowing the kind of employee you are. It's so irrational, though, that like they shut down a department that you worked in and still kept you around, yeah.

Ryno:

So like it's for me they kept most of us. They kept a lot of us around for that. But like I was afraid that I was going to get transitioned and something I would really hate and me and Chris were really taken care of yeah, we really were. I think there was some skepticism going into those moves, but we proved very quickly that we were valuable enough to be able to play with that.

D:

But the only thing that stays the same in the cost in our world is everything changes.

Ryno:

It's only constant Um, which is funny, like you were talking about. You know, it's funny that you feel that way because this, this and this. The reason I feel that way is because I was conditioned that way. Oh yeah, and I think I've suppressed this. But I look back at it now and, like my manager even you know, admitted to it later on One of the first main leaders that I had in GameStop. He would almost kind of tell you that he is a king manipulator.

Ryno:

Oh he will find people that he knows that are eager.

D:

I got fucking, did my interview. No, no, you didn't meet this guy but he was always very hungry.

Ryno:

He was. He was hungry to find people that were eager to please people pleasers. Oh, okay, because he knew that he could manipulate that Even said that he's like when you tell me one time as a leader, he's to find those people, he said because they're going to find people pleasers. Yeah yeah, they're going to work so hard for you to go add a boy and pat him on the head that that will call you a few times a day to get your approval, your sense of approval.

D:

Sounds awful.

Ryno:

He did that and he found that in me and he told me that later on. He said I knew that I had you and I could have done whatever I needed to do.

D:

Oh yeah.

Ryno:

To squeeze as much talent.

D:

That's so funny that I just randomly brought that up earlier without knowing that you were going to say that he did.

Ryno:

Like I think I've suppressed that. At times like that I try to bury that deep down. Yeah, but in turn I think that's what created my complex, because I was so eager to please him that if something happened and failed, I'm not only just letting my family down, I was letting down him.

D:

Yeah.

Ryno:

And he knew that, like at one point, before we found that we were expecting Asher, he had us set up to move away to. Oh yeah, we were going to move to Nashville, first door.

D:

I remember that just about did it and then we found out that week prior that she was pregnant and we're like we ain't going to have support network and we can't go because shout out Larry because he was going to be like mixed in that deal somewhere out, like he was going to try to do Norton, I guess, or something was going to happen.

Ryno:

So at that point in time I was not actually a store manager yet. I'm still an assistant manager in waiting like waiting for a year. So that was kind of and that's the ones that you usually wanted to leverage. Yeah from a mental health perspective and I have really that oppressive thumb on site. This person knows they're like you can't see it, but I'm like see any of this table is that's like the worst kind of management.

D:

Yeah, it's like it's exploitative, it's just completely manipulative.

Ryno:

Yeah, all the way to its core 100%. That was the way that it was set up, because they knew and that's thing to, especially when they got around the summer months. They knew people that were hungry for a store would do anything that could get one before the end of July hit because August is when you went on that trip. Yeah that's what everybody really wanted.

Ryno:

Obviously, they wanted to pay and shit like that, but they wanted that sure that plane ticket to LA or Vegas or wherever it was that year. I know San Antonio and we were there a couple times.

D:

That's wild, though that's, that's so like, that's so well, like I mean, at one point it's almost cringy.

Ryno:

It was listed as the number two worst company. This is when I worked there, and I want to say 16. It was the number two worst company to work for in the continental US.

D:

Isn't it funny that it's still that bad of a company, but like now, it's like they had a resurgence because we maimed them back into existence. Yeah, it's our fault that they're still there. It is because they were going to bankrupt right. That's why it was so low.

Ryno:

They were going to bank the whole that whole shit.

D:

Maybe we'll have somebody on smarter than us one day and they can talk about that whole shit.

Ryno:

Let's not understand stock market or anything.

D:

I think shout out Cody Prater. I'm pretty sure he.

Ryno:

I could see Cody. Yeah, I think he's screwed with some of that. Speaking of mental health and I'm going to a slight segue here because I think this is fantastic- I'm not, so you so happy from a mental perspective because of all the additional work that you've been doing outside of this podcast.

D:

Oh yeah, yeah, I think I figured out what I have to do to not be depressed All the time, and it's just constantly be doing something. You gotta be busy.

Ryno:

Yeah, like, and that's funny because, like your entire life, you've been the laziest human being out there. So, fucking lazy dude. I don't do it. It turns out what makes you a better person is not being lazy.

D:

I'm still like. I'm still like I just want to see on the couch today. But content has to get made. Let's record like three things this week.

Ryno:

I think, yeah, this is what the fourth, yeah, the third or the fourth. Like we went to the game on Friday night I didn't get a chance to see you up in the booth, but like you kept sending me pictures and stuff, I'm like I know he's in his element right now. This is perfect, yeah, you've been positively beaming. Yeah, like you've been a different human being.

D:

Yeah, I think maybe also it goes hand in hand what we always talk about, about doing something you love. Yeah you know, and and creative spark, yeah well, and making contents, you know, something we should have been doing for a long time, something, something we love doing this little like my wife hates me right now like thoroughly.

Ryno:

But I'm telling you like, and for those that don't follow social media or me and dusty your ad but too many kids, the spirit, halloween, and there's this stupid red demon that jumps out and scares everybody. Goes by and I saw it like project out and jump. My kids hadn't came around the corner yet. They were over there looking at Beetlejuice shit. And then we're coming around, not matter for Christmas, and that allow big juice and the thing was retracting back is twice. Yeah it's twice. No okay.

Ryno:

No nobody got there. It was retracting and coming back down. I was like I am getting my phone out. This is a good opportunity. Film a video it's like a 27 second video of it scaring the bejesus out of Asher and Ember, it was hilarious.

D:

What made it funny was Asher like chest puffed, like he was a bad ass because, like, like it wasn't going to scare him. And then, boy, he scooted boots and hit the ground.

Ryno:

Well, he chest puffed and then, when he'd come up off the ground, he's holding his chest, he's clutching it and Ember like if you freeze, frame her, she just purely mortar.

D:

She reacted exactly like a little girl.

Ryno:

Her eyes should react Just the same as a four year old, I'm like I'm going to put this shit on Tik Tok. I'm just going to see what happens, throw a couple of hashtags. I've been kind of like playing around with the algorithm and kind of see how it works. I was like, oh cool, this thing got like a thousand views, yeah, three thousand, wake up, seven thousand, went to bed that night and it was like 15. I was like this went pretty quick, this almost as viral as the one that we put on our unpaid launch and unfortunately I ripped that one off of somebody. Don't tell them, but uh, it's fine Short, but we posted that one in an image.

Ryno:

And I'm paid lunch, I'm paid lunch Plugged on. So it was going through the same trajectory as that and I was like, well, I'm going to bed, we'll see what happens if we get up in the morning. It's, you know, cup, tens of thousands. You know I might have something here. Get the next morning it's like 103,000. I was like, yeah, hey, this might keep going. Go to bed the next night. Wake up 700 K. My area is like 600 K. I was like if this hits a million, I'm going to crack up Like a 25 second video of my kids getting scared to death. Go to bed that night at seven 60. Wake up the next morning at 1.6 million. I was like what?

D:

the fuck happened and it's perfect timing to and it was everything like you sent it to me and, uh, I sent it to like five or six people because I legitimately Like out of context, thought it was funny.

Ryno:

You know, you don't, you don't know.

D:

I mean, like, I was like I was like this is funny, I would watch this video anyway. Yeah, and everybody I sent it to like was, like I said to people who don't know, your kid you know my mom don't know your kid.

Ryno:

So then all of a sudden, like before you hit the record button a minute ago, I just refreshed it again and I posted this a week ago and it just hit 3 million views. I was like that small video and me just going through and just being a little bit obsessive, compulsive and refreshing ever so often and seeing how many likes and stuff's coming. Yeah, it's literally got me through my week this week.

D:

Yeah.

Ryno:

It's insane, but like it really kind of fueled the week and I was like this is just, I feel like something I've done creatively paid off.

D:

and then there's like fine lines too. That's like you don't want to watch it too much because you don't want to get like yeah, are you getting close to the obsession line? Oh no, I'm already there. I'm long that obsession line. Oh shit, it's blown up. It's like I'll be sitting there.

Ryno:

I'm like hey, Brittany, she's like, if you say another word, about this stupid.

D:

He likes it, she's like it's good.

Ryno:

It's good baby. I'm glad. I'm glad it does. It's awesome. I'm trying to support you. It was like and now it's like. Now I'm like trying to recreate it and try to have something else. She's like now I just feel like you're exploiting your children for creative gain. I'm like I am what do you mean? What do you think LeBron's doing? Why, why else do you have kids?

D:

man, what do you mean? I want my kids to make it. Not because I want my kids success, because I want to be rich from my kids success.

Ryno:

Well, it's like my son. He's smart enough already. I mean, he knows how social media works. He's like listen, I'm in that video, so if we blow up, we make money off of it.

D:

I want he will 100% say you're a list of shit that he wants. He would 100% say you're free money.

Ryno:

He will Britney Spears yeah.

D:

He was like I'm not getting any of this money from my. Oh, these royalties.

Ryno:

Nope, Soon as that Nope, he's like yep, I need a Eastern hot fire bat for baseball. I need some new wrestling shoes. I need an E pad. I want a dirt bike. You're giving me this like I'm Santa Claus.

D:

Hey, listen can I tell you something? Can I tell you something about the dirt bike thing?

Ryno:

What's that?

D:

I think your son might down a dirt bike. He can't ride a bicycle. I said what I said. I think you're somebody down a dirt bike.

Ryno:

I think you would. Yeah, I think I don't want to get him one.

D:

Yeah, I think he would go really fast and then would stop.

Ryno:

I pulled him out of a creek on a bicycle. He wrecked off of her bridge.

D:

Well, he's just like, um, no, he has no fear mode sometimes and like, I think, like my, my niece, julie has a four wheeler. My dad bought her and it's really powerful and really fast, and um, and she has no fear. So when she like takes turns, she takes turns at like full blast and it goes up on two wheels. She just don't care.

Ryno:

Well, the main reason he wants a dirt bike right now is he wants to do willies. Well, sure, I'm gonna hit that.

D:

I don't want to fucking. I've been. I've been a little boy before. I know why he wants a dirt bike.

Ryno:

He literally doesn't say hey, I want to go trail riding, I want to go to this, I want to hang out with friends. Like I just want that dirt bike so I can do willies yeah.

D:

So you can get off some sick jumps and do willies on it. What that's what you do on a dirt bike. You know what people on TV do on dirt bikes Hit, jumps and do willies.

Ryno:

So you know what I'm telling you today. And he got pissed, and then what's?

D:

funny, you bite my scooter.

Ryno:

No, I tell him, I said dude now in Chile. Ad on grand theft, photo five it's perfect for all the jumps that you want to do Get up, take your dirt bike up there, ride your willies out. You can do some virtual riding, and he's. He just gave me a look and walked away.

D:

You jump off the base of it, jump straight into the, jump straight into the military base.

Ryno:

Still, a jet Came back. Three hours later he's playing grand theft auto. He's off the mountain I'm chilling on ride his dirt bike.

D:

Oh, are our kids playing GTA together? Cause Gabby plays too.

Ryno:

I don't think so Are they randomly just playing GTA together? I still think they kind of hate each other and they don't talk to each other unless it's wrestling season.

D:

I know, but it's kind of like this, like mutual, like like I think he might pull you out of a flaming house and then cuss out of the whole time. He's like doing it. You know what I mean? I can see Jesus. Why'd you get stuck in there? What an idiot. It's because you want to say why. It's because like I don't know If we mentioned it or not it's because she's a.

Ryno:

She's a teacher's pet and oh yeah, he calls her a narc. Yeah, narc she is.

D:

That's funny, she is yeah.

Ryno:

Yeah, he's like I don't want to be in her class. I'm like I'd say, dad, she's, she's shush girl. I'm like what is?

D:

she just cheat off over though.

Ryno:

That's what I told him. I mean he, he's getting good grades and stuff he's doing fine, it's just he's a turd.

D:

Yeah, I didn't mean. I didn't mean how you kidding he's off my kid. I just meant, like you know, I have to do any work if he just hangs up behind her.

Ryno:

No, you watch what'll end up crazy. He's like 15 years from now, we're going to be father in laws. It's going to be awkward.

D:

Man, I feel like I'm going to hurt your feelings if I say anything here.

Ryno:

No, I'm just, I'm just bringing him in here.

D:

I feel like that would be the most awkward. That'd be great if we bring them both in here and talk about that. That'd be awesome.

Ryno:

It's going to ruin their whole, their whole wrestling. Awkward podcast.

D:

It probably would not even be fun, because they just sit here.

Ryno:

They probably would. But speaking of that, which is kind of funny, we were talking about this last night and I kind of put it on social media. We've been talking about it, but my. God, these kids vocabulary these days? No cat, oh man, it's not in the cat part. Like I had to ask three different people before my phone finally got charged enough to figure out what the fuck Riz means. What's that mean I'm apparently it's short for charisma, or something like that.

D:

Riz is short for charisma. Yeah, I find out that's cool.

Ryno:

Basically, when you're saying you're raising someone, you're putting the moves on them. That's what I understand.

D:

Keisha.

Ryno:

I'm getting a nod out of Keisha. Did you know that was yes he didn't know. If I kept saying Riz, long enough, where was you going to go? He's gonna go to Urban Dictionary, wasn't he?

D:

Because that's where I was at all night last night he has because he has a son who talks in that.

Ryno:

Well, that's it Like they're. They're at that teenage age right now, my nine year old's thinking that he's that cool.

D:

Yeah, he literally. Hunter talks that way. He talks in that language. I don't know what he's saying most of the time. Asher, come here, Children, children, children. It's gonna scream into the night. Children Paging, Asher.

Ryno:

Johnson. Paging Asher Johnson, I want to see how you explain this.

D:

Your family's ready to go at the front. Did you ever get called at Walmart? Yes, you ever shop, and how many times did your mom go to the front desk and be like it wasn't my mom, it was my grandmother.

Ryno:

They just God I was super loud. I told you to go get him, not put the fear of God into him. Jesus Christ.

D:

He's walked into the kitchen and yelled his name. Come here real quick, all right Into the mic. You're gonna be on the episode. Say hi, everybody, hi.

Ryno:

Okay, so I want you to explain what Ria's is.

D:

It's like pickup lines.

Ryno:

Pickup lines, basically putting the moves on a girl or a guy.

D:

Gabby, do you know what Ria's is? Yeah, she, she's kind of get that either.

Ryno:

So is that what it is? It's basically just pick up lines but, the moves like give us an example of Reyes. No, I guess now, but then we can talk about that, that's, that's, that's 100% why I had to start like re is a no cap.

D:

He knows what Reyes is.

Ryno:

Come here, come here. No, cap no, cap no. I don't know what Reyes is. Explain what Reyes is.

D:

I'm putting on a hot mic. He can't do it. Everybody can talk into a mic.

Ryno:

No way. Like the mic goes in that direction, hands go over the face.

D:

Hunter, who will walk into a room and have any conversation with any person. Every put a mic in front of him. He's like I don't know.

Ryno:

He's not going to explain it.

D:

Everybody's embarrassed. Everybody in the room is embarrassed.

Ryno:

Yeah, him and one of his buddies. They were fighting back and forth. I don't know if it's over like TikTok content or what, but like I get a message from one of Ashley's friends like, tell them, stop trying to stall my reyes, I put on all the reyes work I put on all these girls. I'm like he has a girlfriend. Dude Like what are you talking about? He's like he's trying to raise up all my women. I'm gonna lose it.

Ryno:

I'm gonna lose it. So then I have to message his dad. I'm like, is he legit? Mad Like he's messaging me he's mad, or not, they're fine. And then his dad messes me back. He's like. I don't know if he's real mad or not, but I had to take his phone from him because by the time I got in there he's pissed after he's talking about it. I was like Jesus Cause we don't know what reyes is. Yeah, I was like I do.

D:

He's taking all my resume in raspberries. He talking about raspberries, what does he mean?

Ryno:

So yeah, Urban Dictionary is my friend right now.

D:

Yeah, um, I think every parent has looked up a word in the Urban.

Ryno:

Dictionary. It gets worse when they hit towards the teenage years, the middle school right before high school. It's a train.

D:

Yeah, clay and Hunter can have a whole conversation in the car and it's like a whole different language.

Ryno:

I don't understand what they're talking about, but I guarantee you, if any of these kids are in high school, you will never catch them dead. Say the word reyes. Oh, I think it's like that, that middle school age, like transitioning into that.

D:

I don't know.

Ryno:

It's been a frigging train right.

D:

I have friends that hang out in high schools.

Ryno:

Oh, my God what.

D:

What he pulled up Urban Dictionary for reyes.

Ryno:

I was right Is charisma Watch. I did look that up.

D:

Merriam.

Ryno:

Webster added 690 new words to dictionary this year, and reyes is one of them, so raises an official word. Now that's sad. It's short for charisma and simply means an ability to charm and woo a person.

D:

Yeah.

Ryno:

It's pronounced well, reyes, just like it's spelled, or as easy. What Bottom one You're raising them up. You're raising them up. Reyes describes someone's verbal swagger. You know what kind of sucks employed while flirting. What kind of sucks is like there's someone to host a Reyes Academy.

Ryno:

I got to get on, you think like a hop right Like because it's, it's, it's hop and reyes are not that much different, pretty much the same thing, except when you say something's hyped up it's a little bit different, whereas reyes is like flat out, like straight up, insinuated, flirting Sure.

D:

Yeah, yeah, but I don't. I mean, is it, does it lay hard on flirting, or can it be like? Can I reyes you up? I? Don't know, what do you think? No, hunter says, that's sus.

Ryno:

Hunter says that's sus. No, hunter came in like by the doors like no, you ain't raising nobody man. It was like it was sus.

D:

No, don't do it Sus. Is that right, sus no cap. He hates people that say sus no cap I know it.

Ryno:

He says no, cap no sus.

D:

Hey bro, Remember you can't be pretty and smart.

Ryno:

Oh god, which one are you?

D:

Oh, I think you know you're smart enough.

Ryno:

I feel like what you need a hot mic.

D:

I just have to bring all the kids in here and just put a hot when you get like a lapel pin, mike.

Ryno:

Well, here's the thing, though. Right now, as long as they're across the threshold and they're in the kitchen, they have the balls to talk.

D:

We bring them in here and they're like no, get that back away. Go into studio. We had something hanging up. We'll just have them all replace us for a whole episode. I mean, I'm 100 can be for KC and Asher and Clay and.

Ryno:

Gabby he's they would blow up.

D:

Oh, it'd be awesome. They do such a better job than we would be able to sustain it because what do we talk about?

Ryno:

They probably talk about what our kids do 9% time, yeah, and what we have to do at work to not make us not have your lives to pay for what our freaking kids are doing. Yeah, I mean am I wrong?

D:

It's what life is we need kids.

Ryno:

It's like literally your job and everything you do is to make sure they're not making you miserable.

D:

We need to collab with Clayson and and and and Jake Raddads yeah, the Raddads podcast. I think we cast a lot for them, too much for them, but I think we I mean we still have a good time. I pulled Clayson out of the mud one time, so he he owes me some fields.

Ryno:

Yeah, I didn't know they had a podcast. Yeah, and I love Clayson. Yeah.

D:

And Jake. They they go to church together and they started. I used to play cards with Jake Sexton, yeah.

Ryno:

Okay.

D:

Yeah.

Ryno:

Yeah.

D:

Yeah, I play cards with Jake and then I've done Clayson. Check it out what's the name of the road up here when the flood happened Raddads.

Ryno:

Raddads.

D:

Yeah, I think it's Instagrams at Raddads. I think I'll confirm that for sure before the episode is over. Yeah, it's pretty cool. They've done really well. I mean, they've done better than we did when we started. We know we're doing. I don't know what I'm doing, so, uh, rad dad round table. Sorry, I left part of it off. Rad dad round table. That's what it's at. Rad dad round table. I think I got a new episode, so we'll connect up with them.

Ryno:

Yeah, I know we're getting ready to transition to that part of the year where weekend sports is going to be nuts.

D:

Yeah.

Ryno:

So like that's going to be another drain on mental health is trying to figure out how to fit everything yeah.

D:

Yeah, we're going to start doing better. So I had a um like a week off, which was it was pretty cool. Um like no sports Cause Gabby's basketball ended and Clay's football ended and wrestling Don't start till next week. Wrestling will start the next week, but signups for tomorrow.

Ryno:

Signups for tomorrow, and then that's when they was checking on day Cause we were. They were flirting around with the idea.

D:

It's coming out to the podcast, coming out tomorrow, so podcast, so it's today, today Exactly. Signups are today.

Ryno:

So, um, you know we were going to try to open mats and stuff like that and try to get, potentially get the kids ready for a tournament two weeks from now. Some of them went to go. I don't know if that's still what we're going to do and we're kind of jockeying for a new practice room location.

D:

For the sake of good podcasting. Uh, remind me to tell you later somebody I talked to about it earlier.

Ryno:

Sweet All right, dig that.

D:

Just do it. It's not going to make any sense to anybody on here, so no but that's fantastic.

Ryno:

Um, but we're trying to get everything worked out there. And my sons wanting to play basketball and wrestle at the same time, which I think is damn near impossible, not going to happen Uh, so you could do it, I don't know Like Kate and done it last year was still like a state wrestling champ, but the kid had been wrestling for like three or four, since he's like four or five years old, so you'd like four or five years of experience and even as good as Kate. He has even admitted when he came back from basketball, what I was one day. That's kind of cracked me up as everybody talk about they're like man let him play basketball.

Ryno:

It's going to get him in great shape. I'm like you don't know what you're talking about.

D:

So wrestling's what's going to get him in shape. He's going to get in shape.

Ryno:

So and that's staying like even Kate and played a full basketball season, running every day in practice, running every day in games. And he came in towards the back end of wrestling season and he said I am not in shape.

D:

Yeah, you know what was my mind. Well, you would think that it would. You would think that it would put you in shape, but it just doesn't. Wow, uh, not, especially not like wrestling does like was it the office? The office episode when he's like, uh, uh, what's his name? I can Robert California. It's like he's like I can, he's like I can, uh, I can do four hours of cardio three times a week, he's like, or I can roll around with with Todd once a month and he's like uh yeah, it's just grapple for a while.

Ryno:

Well, it's the things like I've tried to explain to everybody. They're like I'll, basketball is the best shape that you can be and I'm like you don't know what kind of shape you're into. You have someone that's your same amount of weight on top of you, trying to push your face into a mat, and you're fighting for your life.

D:

And I don't think I knew um.

Ryno:

I didn't until last year. They always used to say there is no shape like wrestling shape. I was like that's horseshit.

D:

That conditioning too, and you wouldn't think that, because it's three minute segments that are like like the the fastest, it goes by so quick, and like the kids are so dead.

Ryno:

Like what's boxing in UFC and these guys are winded in one minute and our freaking armchair warriors are back here. It's like fuck, I could fight that match yeah. Three rounds and nothing Me. I run five miles outside. It's different, yeah, it's different.

D:

And we've seen we've seen last year that cardio is what makes the difference. Right and in in, like in the wrestlers, like just outlasting people cause, especially cause the tournaments take like all fucking day, like you're there forever and the kids are like if it's one match but yeah, like if they go six matches over the course of six or seven hours you're having to wait, kind of cool them down and ramp them back up, get back into it.

Ryno:

So we got that to look forward to coming up and juggling multiple different sports holiday season. So 100%, everybody keep that in mind. Don't let work stress you out to the point you're going to bring your shit home to your family.

D:

Don't do it. Are you worth it? It's not man I went. I went through a job change. Uh, we've not really got to talk about it much, but like I mean IT now work and uh, it's totally different than then then been on the phones Like, and I've not done anything but cost inter work for six years.

D:

Six years or more Is all I've done is cost inter work and like, and it's still cost inter work. But, like you know, it's help desk, it's not which, and it's so different than, like, everybody else taking phone calls and, uh, I'm grateful for that. Yeah, I mean just that's nice to not not fucking do that huge change.

Ryno:

Um, you can feel it too, Like when you come home. It's like I've told people before when you're not in a stressful environment and you come home and you, just you can feel like the stress like kind of just throw off of you, Like weight is literally being lifted off your, your body. That's why, in a way, I hated work at home.

D:

Yeah Me well, it was going to kill me.

Ryno:

It was the same way man Like that one out. I know we've talked about this before and I'm just rambling again, but that 40 minute drive home is my time for that stress to roll off my body and just hit, you know, hit windows lock on your computer and then walk three feet over. I don't know how people do it.

D:

Well, yeah, and I don't think I always struggle with like again we've, we've done it. I don't know if we've had a whole dedicated work from home episode.

Ryno:

Uh, we've kind of handed that.

D:

Yeah, we've all over the place, but um I struggled with like just knowing Coming up in the future.

Ryno:

Yeah.

D:

Just knowing shit had to be done.

Ryno:

Yeah.

D:

Like knowing, like I'm sitting at my desk and working and, uh, just knowing shit had to be done. I know he's done that, like he's worked from home a lot and and she fucking never quit. So you know, knowing that you've got a bunch of stuff like at home and you're at home, right, so it's like that's the problem.

Ryno:

That's so that, right, there is the juggling hack and we won't get too far to this cause. We can use this in another episode, but knowing that that bed is five feet away is a struggle.

D:

Well, you know, you know, I mean you don't know that I clocked in and went back. Oh, when you worked at home, you went back to bed.

Ryno:

I just went back to fucking bed, and if I was to try to do that, my phone would just blow up yeah, like there's no possible way that I could do yeah Different to me and use that.

D:

I don't give a fuck.

Ryno:

Yeah.

D:

But that's.

Ryno:

I will admit this. Like there's been time like 90% of my day is done through an application I don't know. A lot of people know what it's called. It's like so a lot of minds communication. So like there's times where I'm doing really had to be in front of the computer. I can have a phone in front of me. Like my back was blown out of work. I was laying in the floor on a heating pad with my phone over top of my head Topping up messages, because that was 90% of what I done.

Ryno:

You know, just responding and corresponding to people, but check on your funny friends yeah. Check people are from the depression side. Yeah, I immediately think of Robin Williams.

D:

People are people are sad. Yo, the thing I've learned in life is that people are sad in general. You know what I mean. Like everybody's, like people put on a face and put on a show and it's like at some point or another, somebody else has been through the struggles. And something I learned I'm rarely ever serious on this podcast or out but something I learned a long time ago is I like Problem shame myself, like my problems are not as big as other people's problems. But somebody a long time ago told me not a long time ago, but just since I've started figuring it out is Problems, your problems are still your problems, you know, no matter how big they are, because everybody else deals with shit, you know, and everybody's got problems and other people don't have. But but yeah, that's, I'm not gonna be serious anymore.

Ryno:

Yeah, I feel bad.

D:

Yeah, I feel fucking awful that heavy place yeah that's what I feel like. That's that's for a different time, different podcast.

Ryno:

Wrapping things up. Um, we're gonna try to make some changes to our format in the upcoming weeks. You want to speak to that Um Kind of rose, right into all the socials and everything else.

D:

Yeah, I really think we're gonna start doing. I know we talked about it. We probably talked about for 30 weeks. We have we've talked about for 30 weeks but now we have been lazy. Again with the laziness, but now we have the capability we want to change recording schedule and stuff. But we're gonna start doing video On the podcast. I'm gonna try to record all the episodes and have shorts and stuff instead of just the normal shorts. We do be actual shorts of us in them. None of us are very pretty, except you know.

Ryno:

I think it's what makes it great for the internet. They're like God Listen, he's fucking shut of human beings in our hair Just look, let me the back of keys head this is all the picture will be.

D:

That's all that's there. But yeah, hopefully we'll have that going soon. We can get us. We can get on video. It's not as complicated as we all imagined it was.

Ryno:

We're just lazy when on these other endeavors. It's kind of your confidence, know what you need to do.

D:

I gotta be forced, I have to be forced to do things. Yeah, like in order and like I have to be forced to learn them, like I had no other option and it was like I'll just figure out how to learn this and I figure how to do this, and, and so that's what we're gonna do and we'll and we'll hopefully be go live. We're gonna try to go live when we record. We can't do for the full time because we have potty mouths and and we'll get, we'll get banned.

Ryno:

But we'll definitely. I'm paid lunch on tiktok. We're gonna go live. I'm probably more pre-show than anything is really yeah the episode and we're going just kind of chat and talk.

D:

Tonight was pretty chill pre-show. I think we had a lot of the kids here. Sometimes pre-show always feels different. It is always like who's here, like some nights will have like 25 people Shout out oh gee, monroe, he's working tonight. That boy just needs to quit his job. That's how we feel about it. Amen. He's like he's a. He's a trooper, though he works fighting the health issues he had. I'd be like no, slight me on, slight me on disability work ethic on that kid's phenomenal.

D:

It's nuts man yeah he's a way better person than any of us. That's. That's all right. Yeah, yeah, but hopefully we'll have that in the future. We're gonna change some of that stuff up and just just the whole thing is just to make everything better for everybody else.

Ryno:

What kind of even like tonight, like he's over working the board, yep, kind of give us some you know reps behind that. Now we can kind of solidify that approach. But, as always, unpaid lunch we're gonna try to also take some of these shorts and reels and things like that and apply that to the Facebook's YouTube now that we figured out, we're on it and all these other wonderful social media platforms at unpaid lunch.

Ryno:

We're gonna try to get that material on there and, as always, definitely. I mean, if you're listening to this, you're already going through your preferred Audio platform for podcasting, so continue to follow. Download.

D:

All that good she is and definitely check us out on patreon. We do post a decent amount of exclusive content on there and just cool stuff and definitely.

Ryno:

I think that's gonna pick up Too, once we get video.

D:

Yeah, oh yeah, and that's kind of, that's kind of why I want to do it is I kind of want to get, I Kind of just want to get you know all of it together, the video and everything, and I want people to be, a people to be, I'd additional, like Additional segments and things like that that we've kind of wanted to embark on and people to be able to see what we do and and kind of see.

D:

Kind of see everything that goes on. You know, I know we post pictures and we post random videos and stuff and but it's not necessarily Try to give you more. Yeah, you don't necessarily get the whole thing. So shout out to all our patrons appreciate everybody. Everybody's sticking with us. You know, through the, through these 30, 35, 36 weeks that we've been doing this and having a great time.

Ryno:

I keep seeing this thing on this mat right here, Nothing that's a toothpick.

D:

Yeah, I don't know what you're doing.

Ryno:

You keep fucking touching something. I'm trying to manifest a toothpick.

D:

I know freaking mad every time you do it, I reach over and touch it to you like it might be there. Because I think you're pushing it around. I'm glad we're not on video. This would be awesome. I also just want people to see this sick play mat.

Ryno:

That's amazing.

D:

Yeah, guys, that was a good show. Yeah it was a good show. You didn't. You did really. You had a lot of stuff on your mind today that you wanted to, and it was awesome. An ashore was here and everybody did really good.

Ryno:

It was a good thing about having a week off. All of a sudden, like sometimes even in this, like this Can trigger anxiety.

D:

Oh yeah, depression and it's like it like creators blog Well you know I both kind of got into a thing where we were like Thinking of this as like an obligation. Yeah that we were doing and I think we kind of got out of that where, like you, got to be just I think us taking a week off is the greatest thing.

Ryno:

I think we need to do that probably about once a quarter. Yeah, it's good.

D:

I think it's a good reason yeah we probably need to do, but you know, we'll just have a pre-record episode. We were just behind this time and didn't have one.

Ryno:

Life kind of hitting it. We'll have it really hard, really yeah.

D:

I've got some interviews and stuff that nobody's heard yet, that some people Asked me not to release yet, so I'm gonna wait and see if they want me to, if they're ready for me to release them. David, looks like. No, no, not mine, but hopefully. Hopefully we'll get those out and that's what we'll do. Um, um, you got anything else?

Ryno:

No, I'm gonna get this get home to put him in bed. I know he ain't got school tomorrow, but I gotta get his sleep fixed again. This last week's killed us all.

D:

All right guys, remember that nobody's stopping you from quitting your job, um, but you you.