workcast pt2

The speaker discusses various topics including their experience golfing, their struggles with puzzles, the process of creating interview questions for a podcast, their love for Warhammer, and their passion for Star Wars. They also mention their tendency to procrastinate and their fascination with moral choices in video games. I don't know if I would want people watching me golf like I've had people drive up behind me but like you know like in golf they have like you're teeing off and there's a gallery of people in front of you I'd take one of those people out so fast. I'd tee off and be like can everyone stand behind me please? Almost knocked Tyler out golfing. I've almost been knocked out twice now golfing. Brock was teeing off too one time and it went straight past my head. I was teeing off and you just walked by and I was like oh just stop. I did also tell you to tee off. There you go. Break the chair. You broke the chair? No. I think it does that. It's like a right hook. It's like a right hook. What's going on with the puzzle? I'm looking at it. I feel like there's not enough edge pieces to fill this gap. It's going to be anxiety. I think you may have put too many in this area. But they fit. I know that's the problem. That's what I'm struggling with right now. There's a lot of pieces that look like they fit but then they go to something else. I don't know. This is why I don't do puzzles man. I've done a puzzle. I've done a puzzle. We've got a brown table. Half the pieces are different variations of brown. I'm going to be like Jenga or something like that. That was quite... We were both building parts and I was looking at one of his pieces and one of my pieces. When I looked up at him I was like bring that up here. There you go. Dude he connected these two pieces I swear. I tried like 10 times. It never connected. And I'm like how did I not see that bro? How did I not see that bro? No more puzzles. The puzzle might be out. I'm going to ask you guys some questions if that's okay. You guys set this up and you started doing it. You have people on but you guys pre-planned questions. What kind of inspires those questions? Are they things that you want to learn from people? Or are they just things that you think most people will be interested in learning? What's your process for coming up with questions? I think when they brought me on as a guest they could ask me what about your knowledge or your life do you want us to bring as a question. And I think each person is going to bring something different and I think that's the point of having different guests on. And for you when you had me you were knowledgeable about music. I thought I was just thinking of some things. Okay what can I ask him that he can kind of dig into. I don't want to ask you and you're like yes. I want you to have something that you can unpack and that can lead to another question. So beyond the yes or no it's like and why. I try to look for the things that most people don't know already. You do a lot but there's a lot of things that go into what you do. That most people don't know like budgets and like the personal life and seniors and your relationships. Just what people don't know and what people want to know. That's why they watch the podcast. Okay gotcha. I just want to talk about stuff people want to talk about. Like they're excited to talk about. Because like a lot of people don't get interviewed that much. And when it happens it feels good. Because when I got interviewed for my commitment to Midland it felt good. Because you know it's the first time that happened. It's the first time that happened. Yeah that recognition. Got what they all said. Pretty much. Are you more the go with the flow kind of guy? Or are you more of the planner? It depends. I plan out questions more often than not. But like I procrastinate a lot too. And then I also am kind of more go with the flow. It just depends. Also whenever you're talking like a question will hit me. And I'm like when's the time I can talk. Your eyebrows float up. I'm like okay. That's the hardest part for me. Trying to figure out when to ask that question. And you're not interrupting. You're on that perfect pause. I hear that's a challenge. There's an art to podcasting. I didn't realize how difficult it was. I'd be ready to ask a question and then Chelsea starts going before me. And I'm like hold up. We're trying to balance between a formal interview podcast. And that Burt Kreischer two days one day podcast. You talked about some more serious things. And then you also talked about Warhammer 40k. We want to find a balance between things that you enjoy. And things that are more on the serious side. Or personal side. I got you. I'm just trying to hit the whole rounded person. My idea is the interview can be for the older audience. And then that second half is for the high schoolers and the college kids. Absolutely. I got it. Honestly, having to keep a conversation going. Make it interesting so people keep watching. It's harder than it looks. Especially when you know you're getting recorded. Do you ever find yourself thinking about what you're about to say? Just to make sure you're not going to say something else. I've done that so many times. I know I say this without sounding like an idiot. I was going to ask about Warhammer. How do I ask about Warhammer? You know what you're going to ask. How do I know that? My best friend was in Chicago. He's a therapist out there. He's like, why do you like Warhammer so much? I'm like, we can't. I need to sit you down for an hour. To explain to you why I like Warhammer. There's so many facets and elements. He's like, just tell me the basic story. I'm like, I can't. It's too big. I showed him the video of how I got started. What is this thing? It's four hours long. He doesn't even scratch the surface. There's over 200 books about this world. Henry Cavill is out there. He's going to be making a TV series about it. I'm super stoked about that. I'm really sad about The Witcher. I love The Witcher. I love The Witcher. I'm really sad about The Witcher. I love that. I'm excited to see some more people get invested in our world. I forget who the... Who's the bard in The Witcher show? Dandelion, I think is the name of the character. The actor, they were talking to Henry Cavill and him about Warhammer in general. You come to find out, they're playing Warhammer off stage when they're not active. They're just like... Henry Cavill plays custodians, which are kind of like the emperor's guard in the elite unit. The Necrons, their big thing is they use technology so advanced it just feels like magic to everyone else. They have what they call reanimation protocols where they can come back to life. That's a play in the game. Their units don't shoot very well, but they can always come back to life. It's just interesting to me what makes each army work and what are their failings. How do they use them? At the same time, these two professional actors are on a set of a multi-billion dollar production and they're rolling dice in the back. You have to know, some producers piss in the background. Can you keep the dice down, please? Some sound guy with a boob looking back at you with a side-eye. I love that idea. I'm like, sorry. I love things like that can build a world. Things that build a whole universe around entertainment like Star Wars and things like that. It's not just you watch a movie and it's like, oh, that was an interesting movie. You watch a movie and then you watch the next one and then you watch the show and then you can play a game. There's so much that goes into building an entire universe and keeping that continuity of it all in the series. I think those things are really fun. Somebody told me, I don't remember who it was recently, and they're like, I've never seen a Star Wars movie and I was like, oh my gosh. Because I've seen all the movies and I've played the games and it goes so deep for me and then they're like, oh, I haven't even touched it. You feel like you get to bring them into your world. Yeah. You get to share that with them. I remember taking someone to see their first Star Wars film and it was one of those where it was Rogue One which I think is a phenomenal Star Wars film. Probably one of the best recent ones because I was not a fan of the most recent trilogy. I found myself at times watching them more than I watched the film because I wanted them to have that same, oh my god, experience that I did. I have to learn more about this. I think when we get to share that with people, it's so powerful. I remember he was like, it's just okay. And I was just like, screw you. We are not friends anymore. I let you in. How? There was guns. There was supplies. It's all there. It's space magic, man. They didn't even talk about dumbass midichlorians, but they were there. I don't know. It's just interesting to me. Yeah, I think we go back to all those experiences. I remember playing, oh shoot, what was the game where you get to play as Starkiller. I forget what those are. Force Unleashed. It was the ultimate power fantasy. You're like, I can kill anything and anyone. And you're like, am I going to be a good guy or a bad guy? I have such a moral quandary about that, even in video games today, where I'm like, I have to play a good character before I can play a bad character. I'm playing Drupal 3 right now and I'm like a saint, except I make mistakes playing as a saint and I'm like, how much of a bad person do I have to be to get the most ultimate good outcome? That's why The Witcher 3 was so hard for me. I don't know if you've played that game, but some things that seem like the obvious good choice are definitely the wrong answer in the long run. You're like, this sucks. I find myself doing that. It's a sign of issues with probably ADHD. I don't know. I've been told by my friend who's a therapist. I'm like, I'm fine. I can get super focused. There's jokes about autistic kids in trains and how they know everything about them. I get that same way every six months about a particular topic. I learn everything I can about that topic and then I just change. I'm like, that's dead to me. What's the new thing? It's not even that I learn at all. I get bored of learning it so I try and find something new to learn. The Warhammer I've had around on my docket for two and a half years I've been learning about it. There's something special about a media that just has really good world building. Yeah. What is it? A new Disney film or TV series? Percy Jackson. I think for a lot of kids I think probably your guys' age and younger I think those were pretty formative. For me it was the Harry Potter books and those films but by the time they got the films done I was very much an adult. You kind of feel disconnected from those worlds a little bit. I think that's what the modern theme is, is just playing on that nostalgia or feeling like a little kid. You can see it in Indiana Jones coming out and stuff like that. I think we're pretty fatigued on that. I think it's just not working as well as it used to anymore. I agree. I think that's why people are going back to that. Things that make us feel like we can escape but are grounded in human existence and tendencies I think are really powerful. You see the Tolkien series. They made The Hobbit which is a hundred and some page book into a nine hour adventure. I watched every single one of those. The effects that you have that these writers or these authors have on these worlds is so powerful. Tolkien I really like reading Tolkien books but who was it? C.S. Lewis. He and C.S. Lewis had a kind of ongoing fight. C.S. Lewis did the Narnia stuff. If you get really into the Tolkien world, he literally put in Santa Claus because C.S. Lewis wouldn't put in any book. You can think of Sauron, Saruman, Gollum and all that and just know that Santa Claus exists in the universe. Something so human and something so interesting. You have to think about what reflections of his experiences are present in those books. Those characters and those ideals and stuff come from someone or somewhere and we carry those a lot with us. I just find it interesting. Are you guys off of school now? For a little bit of time or do you guys have to go back here pretty fast? I'm supposed to be back right now but the last two days have been snow days so I keep having to drive back. I have to be there early because for a little while I was doing track so I had to do some track stuff and I'm also an RA on campus so I have to be back before everybody just to get set up for move-ins. Has that been pretty easy so far? The training is long but I've done it for almost two years now so it's pretty easy for me now. It's just more of a chore. Especially now, I keep having to drive back home and then back to campus all the time because we're so early and I still want to see all my friends before they go back to college. They're a little bit farther away than I am. That's good. Some of my friends in college were RAs and some of them loved it and some of them hated it. It's worth it. It's the money. But when you're breaking up a party or when you're... We had one guy so the RAs in Hastings College at the time were set right across opposite the bathroom so we had a bathroom on every floor of our dorms and the RAs were always across the hall from the bathroom. We had a kid so drunk one time that he went into the RAs room and pissed in their garbage can and then passed out on the floor and it's around his ankles. Luckily the RA woke up early and found him So the RAs didn't have their rooms locked it was a policy at the time It changed pretty immediately after that. It was something else. There were some fun moments at Hastings College. I will tell you my favorite dorm thing. I lived my senior year I went to school for five years and we lived in these apartments which are kind of the modern style dorms now where four people and then two bathrooms and a kitchen or something like that. It's called suite style housing when I was doing it. So we lived there and the people underneath us, the floor underneath us, were all football linemen and they were all really good guys. They would host parties pretty almost every Friday when they didn't play a game. So it was winter and I was working overnights at a hotel and so I would just come home and there was one weekend I didn't have to work because my boss was like just take the weekend and I was like absolutely so I was like okay we're going to party we're just going to have a good time. So we went to their party and we were like we just weren't having fun and so we just left and went back upstairs and started talking and all of a sudden we hear this big brawl breaking out and one guy is crying and screaming and just punching and how the suite style parts were set up is they had these staircases in the center and there were these four foot wide alleys to get into each dorm or each room and so they were pushed up against the railing towards the stairs so one of them could have fallen through and one of the guys goes how dare you? How could you do that? Why did you have sex on my bed? We have a window room! I'm so drunk! Like they were just so drunk and so one of the guys had sex with his girlfriend on the other roommate's bed when they had an empty roommate, one of the beds was empty and so we started a tradition with my friend group all of us who were there because we could not stop laughing about this, like we de-escalated it but we could not stop laughing about it so we have this tradition where when we all get together one of us has a sticky note that says Boom Boom Room on it and we hide it in their we hide it in their luggage and so when they go home we all search our luggage as best we can to see who's got the Boom Boom Room sticker and that has just been a fun, fun little thing but yeah Just the amount of tears that that man had, like the look of betrayal, how could you do that? He had the Boom Boom Room So I'm gonna ask, like you get during college now, like how pot was pretty prevalent when I was there but it seems like the mentality towards marijuana has kind of like lessened, like even when I was in school and in college it felt like it was still kind of like taboo to do it, does it feel like, I'm not gonna ask you if you guys do it because I don't feel like we need to get into that here, but do you feel like it's way more acceptable now than is it kind of like on the same level as drinking like underage drinking, do you feel? Yeah I started to find it's almost like getting like less taboo Yeah? It's just like, people are like, oh do you smoke? It's very casual It's like you do what you know I know a lot of people who say it's like better for you than drinking Yeah, that's part of it, that's why it's like less taboo, it's because it has health benefits, like Peruvian health benefits around it, so there's kind of more of a justification than drinking underage, you know I just, like I was in theater still, I was around a lot of people that did pot, but it wasn't something that I particularly cared for, but it was one of those that, I'm just kind of curious about how that mentality has shifted, because it seems like your generation has a little bit more emphasis placed on health and physical wellness, like there was a study coming out I forget who it was by, but they said that millennials, sorry not millennials, but what are you guys, Gen Z whatever your generation, not mine actually is spending way less money on food you guys are eating less but they also noticed that your spending habits are very different than ours you don't go out to eat nearly as much but you're also not buying as many groceries as a generation, and you're literally just not eating as much, but they also found that you guys are spending a lot more money on health and wellness products as a generation, versus like millennials like me and so it's just one of those where I'm like because of that supposed health benefit or proven health benefit because of the proven health benefit, versus the known health risks with drinking I was just kind of curious is that way more acceptable than when I was in school, because I just think there's more information out about it now and that kind of stuff, so just kind of curious about it especially nowadays, I mean like you drive one block and there's a smoke shop on the corner and like is it legal in Nebraska now? or is there like strains of it that are illegal, or how do they get around that because there's like Shades of Green I think is right next to Shadow Lake Center or whatever that is, like how do they get around that? A lot of it's under the counter kind of stuff like there's this place in Council Bluffs and like everybody goes there and they don't even check IDs like you just buy it, they don't care it's all under the counter it's a scratch register, nothing ever sees got it pretty knowledgeable about that I would tell you that my little brother sold pot for a while so I know a little bit of that world but it's just not as much as you know, as someone else, but I'm just kind of curious about it, because it just seems like it's it's become way more socially acceptable than when I was a kid I feel like it's like a social thing is it? I don't really dabble at all but I don't feel like you know you get together and we're going to a snowboard or whatever it's kind of like an excuse to hang out I guess is it the central activity do you think or do you think it's like a supplemental activity like drinking I think is usually like the main activity you drink and you talk but like when I view marijuana like from my perspective or my experiences with it, it always felt like a secondary or supplemental experience like they were watching movies and they would get high and just kind of enjoy the movie or like food or things like that do you feel like it's more of a central experience like drinking now or do you think it's more of like a supplemental I think supplemental yeah unless you're getting like really blasted yeah I think it's more like a supplemental ok I have a question for you guys, what does G-Y-A-T mean Jack is it grow your ass thick is it? that makes sense but I thought it was just like an exclamation ok so like large butt ok got it I started using it as just an exclamation ok got it I love that it's kind of funny as well ok I heard a middle school student say it and I knew that it wasn't good I just didn't know what it actually meant yeah I never even thought about that that would make sense got it I'm just kind of curious yeah I think it's worked it's way into the vernacular yeah it's going to be in the dictionary probably, I mean language changes it evolves alright it's 8 o'clock 8 o'clock ok I should probably wrap up you guys have any last things for me no we appreciate you coming on yeah thanks it's been fun, appreciate it alright I'm going to go drive home and snow yeah you too bud that was Shed Talking, thank you for listening everybody