Basement Bar: Beers & Babble
1UP Games: Justin McKinnon!
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Very old friend and previous boss taught me everything I know is with a hardware repair, Justin McKinnon, the owner of OneUp Games. Welcome. - Yeah, welcome. I appreciate it. I'm excited to be here. - Heck yeah, we're excited to have you for sure. - Yup. Normally, when we start this podcast, we like to talk about what you recently been watching, what you've been listening to and everything like that. If you want to start us out, like what you've been watching on TV or listening to music-wise or podcast-wise, or what you've been doing recently. - Lately, I've been listening to a lot of audio books. So-- - Yeah, there you go. - Principles of Persuasion by Kaldini. That's what I'm about halfway through right now. That's been really interesting. - Just like stuff like that, like self-help books type of deal there. - Yeah, mostly business-related. - Nice. - I finished clockwork, which was really interesting about automating and just getting systems in place for the business to kind of run itself. - Hell yeah, yeah. Bring it in the robots. - Yeah. (laughing) - No, that's cool, man. That's, yeah, I listened to two audio books too in the last couple of weeks. The Anxious Generation, which I think I talked about last time. And then I'm almost finished with the Go Giver marriage. The, I love the Go Giver series. It's a great business book back in 2008, Bob Berg, the Go Giver, it's real cool. But then they do Go Giver leadership and Go Giver this says and they came out with Go Giver marriage. I was like, "Oh hell yeah." Gotta listen to that one. - Nice. - Is there a website that you guys normally get this on or do you like pay for it? - Audible. - Audible, yeah. I've been doing the same thing. - Is that like, do you pay for it up front or do you pay by full? - It's 15 bucks a month. - Oh, that's cool. - Yeah. - You get a free, you get one credit per month for a book, but then you can also buy more books. - Wow, okay. Sounds good. - I did the subscription, but I found that I wouldn't listen to a book in an entire month. And then you end up spending more for the subscription than if you were to just buy the book outright. - There you go. - So something to watch out for. 'Cause it might be 20 bucks for the book. And you know, if you're not gonna for sure get through it in an entire month, then yeah. - You're paying $30 for a $20 book. Yeah, that makes sense. - Yeah, I don't do much audio book listening to, would I kind of wanna dig into that realm a little bit, but I do listen to a shit ton of music and you just showed me. - Oh yeah, I just introduced them to Epica. We were listening to the classical conspiracy 2009 album when they were in Prague. - Yeah, that's sweet. - That's cool. - That's my type of music. That's what I listened to like that. Yes, Genesis type, like feel, you know? And when he showed me that I was like, "Oh God, this is sweet." Yeah, like polyphonic spree type shit, I like that stuff. And that's who I've been listening to recently is polyphonic. - Oh really? - Yeah, I love them, so. - That's fun, they're good stuff, but. - So welcome Justin, Jesus, who are you? What do you do? How do you know Eddie? Like, we brought you here. - Yeah, we played in a band back in the day. - Yeah, that's where we met. It was this like avant garde jazz band where we only had one rehearsal. And we practiced playing the cowboy bebop theme song. - Nice. - 'Cause you played bass, right? - Yeah. - Yeah, when I was playing sax, I think was it Kristen Maynard? Was that the connection, playing trumpet or something? - Oh, honestly, I don't even remember. It's been so long. - Yeah, yeah, that was '06, '07, something like that. - That was the first time you guys met that. - Might have even been old. - Five, oh yeah, maybe it was sooner. - Yeah. - Yeah, we've known each other a long, long time. - Yeah, very well, holy smokes. What else do you do? Like, that's how you met Eddie. So what did that take you? - Yeah. - 'Cause it's usually when you meet 'em, it leaves you somewhere. - Yeah, yeah, so I did the band thing for a while and I kind of realized that I didn't like to practice and it was a lot of work. - Yeah, yeah. - Yeah, I feel that. - So kind of plateaued with that. And then I realized that once I got into fixing stuff, like you kind of develop that analytical mindset where you, when you troubleshoot something and you problem solve and all of that kind of just builds up and once you really understand the approach for that, you can fix almost anything and it's not something you have to practice, it's just something that you understand and you do. And so that's one of the reasons that I really like that. Like even with soldering, you don't have to solder every day. Like once you understand the techniques, then you can just do it. - Nice. - Yeah, yeah. - 'Cause you worked for American Games and American, American, American Amusements. - American Amusements, yeah, beforehand. All the old, you're like the leading pinball machine, old school arcade game expert in Michigan, right? - There's a lot of old timers that have been doing it longer than I have, but there's a lot of unique things that I've fixed as well. So right now in my shop, I've got a pinball machine called the Rotation 8. And it's a sit town cocktail cabinet. And when you push start, the whole play field rotates to whichever player is sitting in front of it. - Oh, that's wild. - Yeah, so they're really rare. And not only do you have all the normal pinball stuff that wears out and goes bad, then you also have that whole rotation mechanism that it's completely unique to that machine. So the guy down in Ann Arbor, they had me come out there for a house call for it. He tried some of the old timers and they wouldn't even come out to look at it. - Oh, crazy. - Just because they're like, yeah, that's something special. I wouldn't even know how to do, 'cause you're like that, wow. - I've always admired that about Justin where he never backed down from a challenge seriously. Like, yeah, there'd be some crazy stuff that would have walked in the shop. And he's like, oh, no, yeah, we can figure this out. We got this, pull up the schematics and stuff and like look at it. They're like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's this thing right here. And then go at her and get it fixed. Might take a couple hours, but, you know, get her going. We need to have you, I gotta have you come look at the golden T back there. The power supply went out. Then I tried to replace it and then it went again. So I was like, oh, cool. There's some mounts in there. Sounds great. (laughing) I was like, I need Justin. - He did say that a while back. He's like, I'm happy. I'm the show and I'm gonna recruit him to come back and look at it. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll pay, yeah, we'll pay it for sure. - Oh, yeah. - We need that. - Yeah, I fixed a lot of those in my day. So hopefully there's anything too crazy. - The worst part is that the key when I bought it, they didn't have the keys. So we have to like drill out the keyhole in the back to get it open. 'Cause I was reaching through the coin slot, getting all that. That was probably my first mistake. (laughing) - So I bought the John Wick pinball machine a couple months ago and I apparently took the keys home and they went through the wash and I didn't realize it. - Oh no. - And we needed to get in there. So I ended up using a flathead screwdriver and my belt knife and I forced the lock open and we ended up just re-kicking it. - There we go. - We might be able to just use some brute force and get that open. - Oh, yeah. - Yeah. - Actually take a look at it, yeah. - Get a fix 'cause I love "Golden Team" man. That's a fun game. - Oh yeah. - Yeah. - How old, what year is that one? - That, I think it's 2003 to something like that. - Yeah. - Yeah. - It was working for like a month and it was great. We had it right here and then yeah, then it died. - Just gotta shut the bed. - It moved over there. (laughing) - We're like, and till later. - The graveyard corner. - Yup, yup. - Yeah, but the foos bone, yeah. - Now you see him nowadays and it's like, you just got the ball and all your controls and then it's like a flat screen TV. - Yeah. - It's like brand new. - Yeah, they're not the old CRTs. - Yeah. - So it's all probably just like, I don't know, settings-wise on a damn TV. Now that's like a real machine. - Yeah, yeah, really. There's like three knobs to control the color and the vertical lines and all that. Get the, yeah, fun stuff. - It is fun. - It's good. - So fix the machines that led you to what? - Yeah, so when I worked for American Amusements, I was the lead bench technician and it was pinball machines, arcade game, jukeboxes, shuffleboard tables, some crazy stuff even. And I really liked it 'cause it was like, you'd show up to this random bar or campground or whatever and like, yeah, this thing's broken. And never worked on one of those before. No schematics, the company's been out of business for 10 years and so like the same thing, you just analytic approach and go through it and troubleshoot it and use any prior resources. They're kind of like tools in your belt or whatever and you figure it out. - Start from the beginning. - Yeah, a lot of those are fairly similar as far as like how the circuits go, you know? It's, there's not a lot of deviation, there's some into when you get into the custom things but a lot of it's pretty straightforward. Not like today, there's so much in these phones and computers and everything. I remember doing the iPhone 6S backlight, the like spec of dust size filter that you'd have to, oh, Jesus, yeah, those things get too tiny sometimes. - Yep. - That's why I pass them all to you. It's like, it doesn't work. - Yeah, I know I fixed his iPhone or his Apple watch two weeks ago and he smashed it again this weekend. I was like, oh great, that sounds great. - I didn't even know how I did it either. I walked up and I was like, yeah, it's right here. And I said, oh, it's just completely cracked. I went up to Eddie, I was like, I want to cry right now. He's like, it's okay, it's okay. Get you again. - Yeah, I fucking knew it again. - Yeah, even though I hate repairing these, I'm like, I'm sorry. (laughing) I didn't mean it. - I feel the same way with iPads. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - You're like, when you're like, shit. - Again, not again. - Never fun. - No. - Yeah, like the one day I remember I was working at the shop in Bay City and doing an iPad, I think it was a charge port. And I'm soldering the charge port back on and I slipped and stabbed the battery. And the battery caught fire and I was like, shit, shit, shit. I went out to the parking lot and put it in the parking lot. And Justin was like, you know, what the fuck? You need to, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, I know I'm sorry, I'm an asshole, whatever. Literally two days later, you just hear, shit, shit, shit. 'Cause he fucking stabbed the battery. (laughing) And I was like, see, he's like, all right, all right. I'm sorry. (laughing) - Battery fires, fun times. - That's crazy. (laughing) - Oh yeah, good job, you gotta be, you gotta be careful. - Make it, I was gonna say, oh man. - So you, great times, you own a business. - I do, yep, so we've been in business since 2013. I opened up the second store out in Saginaw in 2020. - Yeah, that store is real nice too. - And the redo to the base city is, I mean, both of them, like you moved from your original location and now your stores are just gorgeous. That first one wasn't bad, but these new ones are real nice. (laughing) - We were pretty crunched for space. We were trying to carry some new product lines and I think I'm real good at finding optimal ways to fit things in there. And I couldn't figure out anything else to do with it. We just needed more space, so it was time to move. We got into the eSports, so we do a lot of different events there. We do different tournaments every single weekend than we've been doing Dungeons and Dragons and board game nights and stuff like that. - That's sweet, yeah, yeah, Colin loves going. Every time Saturday, he likes going and playing the tournaments there in base city. - Okay, awesome. - Yeah, yeah, one a few times. Anytime it's Mario Kart, that dude takes it home. - Nice, yeah, nice. - 'Cause he's on eSports in high school. - Yeah, I'm actually doing Mario Kart and stuff. So he's like, "Oh yeah, I'm gonna go hustle the kids "at one up." (laughing) - It's like, "Hell yeah, you are." (laughing) - It's my point. - Yeah, but yeah, you guys, you got like Warhammer in there now and figurines and board games. One of the biggest selections of board games in the area too, yeah, it's massive, it's super cool. - So you have two open then? - Two slips, okay. - I only knew about the one, that's sweet. - Yeah, there are Green Acres Plaza there by the Kroger and Saginaw. - Oh, nice, nice. Good shit, that's awesome. No, I love your shop, that's awesome. - Thanks. - That's good stuff. And when did you start there? Like, how old were you when you did that? - I would have been 27, I believe. - Okay, okay. - So you just, and that's when you left the America Enterprise, or Entertainment's Amusement. - Yeah, so I worked-- (laughing) - I figured it wasn't-- - I worked the job while I was doing the startup for the first year. So I was doing probably 80 hours a week between the two. - Geez. - So yeah, it was a lot of work and just trying to grow it and build it, figure out things as I went along. - Nice. - One of the things looking back on it is I put so much emphasis on being the best technician that I could, which obviously, I mean, that was why I went into it. I enjoy fixing things, but there was probably a few areas where I could have been a better owner, and there's some stuff that, in hindsight, I overlooked, so I'm trying to get some of my focus shifted and really, really focus on that now. - That's awesome. - That's cool. - I mean, yeah, to grow, to understand that and grow and just become a better person, like, that's super cool, man. I'm proud of you, that's awesome. - That really is really cool. - 'Cause it's gotta be different from doing your own thing and knowing how to do everything, and now you're at the top. Now, you want everybody to be able to do that stuff. That's really cool. - Yeah, two stores and the whole staff, sales associates, repair technicians, and even like you said earlier, Eddie, about something random would come in, and I'd fix it, but, I mean, you get so many random things like, you can't teach everybody to fix completely random things. - Yeah, so that's one of the things that's been a letter, a little of a struggle is to be able to say, if it's something that only I can personally do, then maybe it's not worth our time to be able to have somebody else that's trainable, to be able to handle that, then if they can handle it, then it makes sense. - Yeah, yeah, making systems and that duplicatability, that's a great way to be able to pass it on so that it's not so relying on you, and you can enjoy fun things, like your family, and vacations and stuff, and not have to work with you. - And pockets, yeah, to be here instead of, yeah, absolutely, yeah, your kids have to be big now, it's been a while, how old are they now? - My stepson is 15. - Holy cow. - And then my older boys are 11 and eight, and we've got a three-year-old now as well. - Oh wow, congrats, man, that's awesome. - Yeah, I always think about you when I drive by, I'm like, oh shit, I wonder how him and Val are doing, man. - Yeah, we're good, yeah, yeah. - I know, I haven't seen it, you've been helping out in Saginaw, and I don't venture out that too much, and so we pop into Bay City once in a while and just haven't seen you around in a bit. So Mark a few times, though. - Nice. - Yeah, Marky Mark. - Was it difficult when you did open up that second store to like, I don't know, like schedule your time differently? You know, 'cause instead of just having one main project, you had to split the difference? - We had a pretty good team when it came down to that point, so I felt pretty comfortable leaving them to be able to pretty much manage the Bay City store without me, and I'd still check and we still got inner store communication. We do a lot of vendor orders where they'd ship to Saginaw and we'd kind of balance the inventory out, spread it to Bay City. So there was still plenty of communication. I just wasn't boots on the ground as much over there, and I spent most of my time in Saginaw. - Well, that's good that you had that crew there. You know what I mean? So you're focusing-- - Yeah, 'cause they're running well in Bay City, so that's cool. So now with all this free time, what do you like doing? What do you have? Do you have any fun hobbies or any vacation things you like to do or? - We usually do a decent amount of camping, so we go to the Bay City State Park a couple times a year with my wife's family. So they've got all their aunts and uncles and cousins, like all these kids that all get together. - Well, I've probably eight campsites all next to each other. - Oh, wow. - Hell yeah. - Yeah, taking like a whole list. - Yeah, it's a cool time. - Yeah, that's disgusting, man. Camping that camper out front, that's Spencer's. - Yeah, I just picked that up recently. So me and the lady got that, and then I owned a Jeep Compass at the time, and I'm like, "Shit, I need something to haul that." So then I had to go out and buy a truck, you know? - You have to be able to tow it. - Yeah, it was fun though. The day we picked up that-- - Literally cart before the horse. - Yeah, it really was, it really was. But my dad's got a nice truck, and I was like, "Yeah, I really want this," you know? But a lot of he's like, "Fine, you can use my truck," but just start looking, you know? And luckily that fell in my lap a couple of weeks later. But it was funny when I picked up that trailer, we picked it up from, I think Bloomington Hills down in Detroit, or down near Detroit anyway. And I took it straight to the state park. I didn't even go home, nothing like that. We picked it up and went straight camping. - Nice, break it in. - Yeah, enjoy it immediately. I was like, "I've never owned a trailer before," but my girl's parents have done it their whole lives, you know? And I've gone camping with them enough to know how to deal with the trailer, and now I'm pretty good at it. I like it. - Yeah, it's real nice. - He's been doing work on the inside and remodeling certain things, yeah? - It's pretty. - Yeah, that's awesome. - Got it up and running now. I know it was funny this weekend, Eddie didn't, well, he told me the next morning, but we had the TV going. I was watching the office while I was falling asleep 'cause we did this whole camp out thing here. And he was like, "Yeah, I was walking by to go to my car "and I saw the office." And I was like, "Oh shit, I like this episode." And he stayed there like watching it for like five minutes outside my chair. - I was trying to not be that creepy, but it was still kind of creepy, just like staring through their window, watching them. - I mean, you could-- - I mean, it starts falling out. (laughing) - Yeah, nose on the bed. Like, how did this nose prank get here, man? I'm sorry, you had the office on. - It's got the beard print afterwards. - Yeah, yeah. (laughing) That was funny. You couldn't see us, so that's good. - Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I wasn't. - Yeah, I wasn't trying it, and it wasn't moving, so-- - Yeah, yeah. (laughing) - It was good. It was all good. I was probably slumped, 'cause it takes me about 20 seconds to fall asleep after drinking like that, but-- - Right. - Oh man, this weekend was wild. We had a whole, like I told you, it just camped out party thing and-- - Yeah, we'll get Smeagfest, man. - Yeah, it was crazy. - We'll get there. That's the last call, a Smeagfest. - Yeah, it was wild. - Speaking of drinking, about that time. - I think it is about that time. - Beardweed! - Beardweed, huh? (clinking) - Beard. - I'd have a bear. (upbeat music) ♪ Beard of the week ♪ (upbeat music) - The 5G around my brain. That's the, like the old school speakers. You remember the cell phones that, (humming) (laughing) Every time I get a phone call, you knew you were about to get a call beforehand. - Yeah, I would start kicking in. - All right. Beardweed! Okay, this week, we have Sam Adams. Samuel, Adams, Oktoberfest. It's a 5.3% ABV, 16 IBU. It's one of my favorite beers. Cheers! - Cheers, huh? - Yeah, I like this Oktoberfest. Usually, I love it, but I just like it this year. - Ooh, yeah. - Yeah. - I feel like it's a little different. I don't know why. - A little bit, I'm gonna go 4.75. - Oh, so you really like it, huh? - Oh yeah, it's one of my absolute favorite beers, but it's not as full this year. - Yeah, I know. - Yeah, and even the, the brewmaster of Sam Adams came out and was like, we're sorry, we're gonna sell it at a discounted price. - Yeah, no, really. - Yeah, he's like, we fucked up. Sorry, like, but yeah, not bad. - It's still really good, yeah. - Get it from Ideal Party Store, where all the fancy beers can be found. You can see Ideal on Johnson and Salzburg. That's where we got the keg this weekend, too. - Yeah, yeah. - They were very, very nice. Gave us good price on the keg. - I just got a bottle of Basil Hayden's dark rye from there. - Oh, did you? - Oh, yeah. - Oh, yeah. - Yeah, yeah, we love the folks over at Ideal, but yeah. - They do carry a lot of good stuff in there. They're starting to get more and more and more in the Bay City Store, too. Like they're starting to go-- - Oh, the one on Salzburg? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know we've tried almost everything in Johnson Street. We drank them out of it, so we gotta go over to see the folks at Salzburg start getting all their stuff. - Yeah, that's where we usually go. - Is it? - And then Corcanale and Saginaw, they've got a really good selection, too. - Yes, they do. - Corcanale is great. - It's just, it's a ways out there. - Have you ever been, don't they have one in Midland, too? 'Cause I think I was right down the street when I lived there. I thought they had a Corcanale. - They do have one out there. I tried to go out there once, and apparently we were there too early and they weren't open yet. - Oh, really? So we ended up just going to the one in Saginaw. - It's definitely way smaller than the one in Saginaw. It's just like this little, yeah. Just this little thing, they don't, I'm not gonna say they don't carry as much, but it's just smaller stores, so smaller selection type of do. They can't fit everything on the shelves, but-- - Makes sense. - I like the one in Saginaw, that's a good one. - What are you giving it? - This is a flat four for me. - Flat four for you? - Yeah, I like it. It would be a four or five if it was last year, but-- - Oh. - What about you, Justin? - I'd say probably a four or two, four or two. - Yeah. - All right. - Take care. - It was pretty good, though. - Yeah, yeah, it's not bad. It's not bad. I can have two trade-os or not coming out to say hello. - Oh, yeah, 100%. Now, give me on those cherry-weets and I'm done, man. - See, I don't care for the cherry-wheat. - Really? - Yeah, I'm not a cherry-wheat guy. - Yeah, and I don't-- - I like the-- - With the snack, they give you the two marshino cherries at the bottom, man, I love it. - Yeah. - You get a snack, you don't even have to order dinner, you know? (laughing) - It depends how many beers you have, but-- - Yeah. - It works like that. - Yeah, it's good for one. Any more than that, it gets too sweet. - Yeah, that's very true, too. - Yeah. - It's a good starter beer for me. - Well, after a beer-to-week, we have beer trivia! (upbeat music) - That's right, ladies and gentlemen. ♪ The basement bar beers in battle ♪ ♪ Bring to you ♪ ♪ Meaty ♪ ♪ Trivia ♪ (audience cheering) - All right, you'll be good at this 'cause I suck at these questions, they really do. - We'll see. - I still haven't gotten one to write, I don't think. - Yeah, so I'm gonna ask the question, and then first person to shout out the right answer wins. - All right. - What do you win? - You win a sip of beer. (laughing) Sorry, we're not that cool, we don't have-- (laughing) - What is the strongest beer? The strongest ABV beer in the world. - Is it a stout? - No, I know, but-- - Oh, wow. - I was a bourbon age, bourbon beer aged out. What is it? - No, never mind, answer, go ahead. (laughing) 'Cause I didn't know. - What's the name, what's the name of it? What's the name of the beer? - Oh, like you actually wanna know the name? - Yeah, what's the strongest beer in the world? - Okay. - Do you have an answer? - Yeah, I don't know. - I'm gonna say Rebeas? - No. - Mm. - You don't know? - No. - It's Snake Venom. - Oh, okay. - Adley named Snake Venom by Scottish Brewery Broommeister. - That's a hard one, dude. - Yeah, it is a 67.5% ABV. - Wow. - It's 135 proof beer. (laughing) - Yeah. - That's insane. - Goes through a brewing process focused on concentrating alcohol, plus some added ethanol. (laughing) For reference, most spirits like vodka and stuff are like 40%. - Yeah. - The 67.5. - That's crazy. - Yup, it's a Scottish, Scottish beer. - So that's a beer spiked with more alcohol. - Yeah. - I don't like a cocktail. - Yeah, yeah. - How does that even count? - Yeah. - Yup, that's ridiculous. - The Snake Venom. - Oh, I try it. - Oh yeah. - I try a sip. Did you imagine the house in the bottle that you'd be hammered? - Yeah. - That's like put it in a shock glass and go, here you go, here's your beer. You know, you're fine after that, Jesus. - Yeah. Speaking of trying stuff, Justin always get me to try stuff. - Yeah. - Either at the store or parties at his house or whatever, he'd just come up and be like, here, taste this. And it would be literally the hottest fucking thing in the world. - Oh really? - It's like-- - Big spice guy, huh? - Yeah, he'd like brought me a chip one time and it had some like red dust on it. And he's like, hey, try this chip, and it's really good. And I was like, what is it? As I take a bite, he goes volcano dust. And I was like, the fuck is that? And I just started crying, and he's like, oh, it's so good. And he's eating handfuls of that shit. - Oh my God. - Yeah, there's dudes. - Five different peppers all mixed together as it is. - Yeah, this dude's an animal. He can eat literally the hottest, still just like eat habanero. It's like, he's crazy, man. - And your asshole's still intact after that, like-- - I'm starting to get old. - Oh, man. (laughing) - Oh, it's getting a little worn down. - Finally catching up. - That's crazy. Have you ever been to the pepper palace? - No, I haven't. - Oh, you would love it. Especially the little taste testers, I give you a little spoon. Fuck. After like one thing of the, I think it was like the bomb or something like that. - Oh yeah, I've had that before. - Like shit in my fucking pants. And now I was like, oh my God. I got a goal. - Dave's insanity sauce put me out for 45 minutes. - Oh, I did the suicide challenge out at Sporty's Wing Shack. And so you'd sit down, you got to sign a waiver. And so I'm drinking a beer-- - You go right there, you just leave, man. Come on. - And so yeah, I signed the waiver and I'm drinking a beer and I'm watching the guy going to the back room. And so he's got like an arm full of different sauces. And so there was Dave's insanity sauce and like a gallon of Tabasco sauce and a bunch of stuff that I didn't even recognize. And so I start casually eating them because I enjoy spicy food. And compared to like the blazing wings of Buffalo Wild Wings, I'd be able to eat like eight or 10 of them before, you know, it starts to water my eyes a little bit. - The blazing you mean? - Yeah, the blazing. - Eight or 10 of them? - Yeah. - Jesus. - That scares me out. - Yeah. - I don't think he has any. - He's not even flavoring that, it's just anger. (laughing) - Sorry, go. So yeah. So I'm casually eating these things and I'm in five and I'm in pain. I'm just tears are running down my face at this point. So I ate one more, I'm like, I ate six, I'm done. Out of 11, I can't do this. So they give you a little shot of dish soap because the capsaicin is so concentrated in those oils that if you just use regular soap and you wash your hand, you know, you go pee afterwards that that heat is just going to stick to your skin. - Oh my God. (laughing) - Jesus. Now I see where the waiver comes in. - That would be the shittiest hot but all right. You're just like, yeah. - They're just like, yeah. And on the bottom in the fine print of the waiver, it says, if you're penis ears. - Don't touch your dick. - Yeah. (laughing) - It'd be like number one on the list. (laughing) - That's crazy. - Don't touch your eyes, don't touch your dick. - If you die, it's not my fault. - Yeah. - Don't touch your dick. - That'd be number two on the list. (laughing) - I love it. - So you're supposed to eat 11? That was the challenge? - That's the challenge. - Wow. - Yeah. - I hope there's a prize. Oh, you get them for free? - You get a free t-shirt. - Oh, nice. - I think they like put your picture on the wall or something. - Nice. - So yeah, I did that. And then I ended up dry heaving. - Oh no. - I threw up until there's nothing left. - Jesus. - And so I'm on show over this toilet for like 45 minutes. - Oh, you know. - And then we went to my wife, Val's Christmas party at her mom's house. - Right at her. - She was super pissed off 'cause I look like shit. I've been throwing up for the last 45 minutes. And then the next morning I woke up and it felt like I was pissing lava. - Oh. Oh. - See, I figured you would be out of anybody, the one person to like actually complete that whole challenge. So that's wild that you only made it to six. And that's still like bad ass. - Yeah, that's cool. - Has anybody ever beat it? Were there any photos on the wall? - There was a decent amount of people on the wall. - They cheated. So I mean, if I would have tried to competitively eat him where I was just quickly scarfing him down before that heat had a chance to build up, maybe I could have done it. But I wasn't necessarily there to try to be on the wall. - Oh, you're just trying to get some food. Yeah. And you just had to go crazy. Some came over you and you're like, "No, I got it. Don't worry. I know we have the party later. Give me the fucking-- - Suicide. It sounds delicious. - Yeah. - That doesn't sound like it a herd of it. That's crazy. - That's awesome. - Yeah. - I'm terrified because we have the fantasy football league I'm doing one. And they think that the loser out of everybody, all 12, has to do our eight. I think there's eight in this one. Has to do the blazing challenge. - Okay. - And I'm not going to lie, I'm 0 and 2 right now and I'm fucking scared. Because if I got to go to beat-ups and eat these goddamn blazing wings, I'm going to bring my own gallon of milk, you know? Have one and be like, "I did it. I did it." - Yeah. - Take team. - Yeah. - Yeah. - There you go. - I can't be a call. - Celebrity shot. - And you're like, "You know what? I'm hungry. Yeah, sure why not?" That's just crazy. - Yeah. - I can't do it. Well, you know what? Scratch that. I can do spicy. I just don't want to like kill my mouth. Like, is there anything in there? Any nerves? Are you just fucking, you just go for it? - I feel like I still have a good amount of taste buds. - That's crazy. That's crazy. - Yeah, you must cause, as far as food goes, every St. Patty's Day, you would make this Irish stew bringing in for everybody in. - Corn beef and cabbage. - Oh, yeah. - Yeah, hell yeah. Yeah, it was good stuff. - The classic. - Yeah. - So yeah, I try to bring that into work every year. In 2021, I went to New York for a week for a micro soldering classic. - Nice. - I've had rehab. - Oh, you did that? - Yeah. - Fuck yeah. We were looking into that when I was working at media reload, we looked into going out there and the owner was like, well, I'll send one of you. And I was like, wow, I don't want to go alone to New York. Like, so we just, we didn't. But that looked super cool. Like it was a whole, whole, you tell me, yeah, yeah, yeah. What happened? - Well, so the corn beef and cabbage, that was the only year that I wasn't there for it. So going alone, I was in an Irish pub in corn beef and cabbage, that was a little disappointing. - Nice. - Yeah, but yeah, it was a really amazing experience. You go through iPhone and iPad schematics and go through a lot of the troubleshooting steps and a lot of the signature issues. And then you'll have to replace some of these chips and repair some of these broken wires. So with a lot of them with how small those components are, even under a microscope, it's challenging. - Yeah. - You'll have to run jumper wires that's thinner than human hair, just to replace some of these connections. - Yeesh. - So, yeah, it was an awesome experience. - Yeah. - Rebuilding the traces, so I always hated that. - That'd be like the reason I'm bald, if I went to one of those, I can't deal with that stress like that. - But the troubleshooting, actually being able to learn to read the schematics and learn that, that's invaluable. That's, you know, 90% of the problem is trying to figure out what the fuck the problem is. Fixing it most of the time is easy, you know, but figuring out what the shit it is is tricky. So that's super cool. - Yeah, yeah. - So that was iPhone and iPad focused. So it kind of like connected the dots for me for a lot of the issues of unrelated repairs that we were running into. So then all that knowledge I was able to kind of cross over into game console repair, and that's made a huge difference for a lot of stuff that was unrepairable or annoying to troubleshoot. - Yeah, it just kind of clicked and makes sense. And so we've offered a whole new range of repairs because of that. - Hell yeah. - You just opened up a question for me though. I do want to take it back. Do you have anything that has ever come to you that you were like, absolutely no? Like, is there anything that I could take to you right now? And you're like, I'm not dealing with it. I'm not like repairing it or I know you're-- - Do you have a line? - Do you have a line? - Where's the line? - Do you have like an Xbox that's covered in cat piss? 'Cause I'm absolutely not working on it. - Yeah, well, anything like that, yeah. - That's sucked. We had one come in, and we needed a reflow, and then we cleaned the shit out of it, but still you put it on that reflow machine where it heats it up, reflow the solder bombs underneath, and it just the whole fucking store reeked. It was so bad. So yeah, nope, not, yeah. - All right. - So anything gross, disgusting like that, you know. - Cockroaches is the other thing. There's a couple times a year where heart buildings or whatever, they get into season, and you have to tote all of the stuff coming in to seal it just to make sure that those things don't overrun and infest your store. - Yeah, yeah, throw a rag of alcohol into a plastic bag, double bag it, leave it overnight, and then that fucking kills everything. But if you don't do that, then they're everywhere, and then it's a pin in the dick trying to get it out. - Of course. - Dude, it sucks. There was one time we were working on a TV at over the other store, and Connor opened the back and it just went like a sea of fucking stores. - Cockroaches came through, he literally dropped the TV, walked the fuck out of the store, and there was that. He was like, "This is your problem." And I was like, "What the fuck?" - Burn it down. - Yeah, dude, it sucked so bad. - That's crazy. - It was all that shit coming out of Flint, man. - Yeah. - There's a lot from Burton and Flint. There were so many cockroaches. - I believe that, yeah. - No, thank you. - But like, this isn't working. It's 'cause you got to fucking, yeah, your console's infested with cockroaches. - It's all the lead water. - Oh, no. - I think it was about a month ago we had somebody bring something into Saginaw, and it was an Xbox that it didn't turn on, and a cockroach literally crawled out of the vent, and the dude smashed it on the counter, and Mark was working, and he's like, "Yeah, man, I'm not gonna buy this." (laughing) And he tried to argue with him. That wasn't a cockroach, that was a spider. - He's like, "I'm looking at it." (laughing) - Jesus. - That's gross. - That's wild. - Two different sides to it. They're either completely denying that there's no way that there was bugs in my system, or, "Oh, yeah, that makes sense. My roommate's got cockroaches." Like, no, your roommate doesn't have cockroaches. - You have cockroaches. (laughing) - Oh, that's gross. - That's gross. - What's the most difficult thing that ever came in? What was something that, like, it took you forever or was, it just wasn't, something, what was the most challenging repair do you think you ever had? - So, when I got back for my pad rehab, and I was trying to translate those board level skills to game councils, we've been seeing more issues with PlayStation 5s where they get the blue light of death, and so there's a whole extra set of diagnostic tools that have been developed that you can pull SISCON codes, like a board level error codes off of. - Using, like, the pie with a UART thing and hooking the-- - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a pain in the dick, yeah. - Yeah, okay. So, yeah, just trying to understand, like, whether it's even fixable, so there was a lot of repairs that I spent a lot of time troubleshooting to be sure that it was not fixable. So, it was worth it in the long run, because now I have a record of all of the stuff that all of my tax now was a waste of time and to not waste any effort into it, but getting to that point, there was a lot of days where at the end of it, it was like, "Man, I fucking spent five hours working on this thing." - Oh, geez. - And nothing, nothing to show for it. - That sucks. - That's tough. - Yeah. - That's the, I just couldn't, I wouldn't be, I'm not a good troubleshooter with shit like that, yep. - Well, and I know what we've been talking about repairs a lot 'cause that's fun, that's like to meet the gritty, but you guys have everything else with the board games and the video games and some of the cool shit that came in, I remember it was almost a complete collection of like the Sword Art, or no, the dot hacks. The dot hacks came in and like all these rare games and everything, you guys, what's your favorite old game? Like old school game, what do you go to when you're gonna be playing something retro? - If I had to pick one single all time greatest favorite, that would be Earthbound for Super Nintendo. - Hell yeah. - I'd beat that game probably six different times between the original console, the original cartridge as a kid. - Yeah. - Emulators, I found a website that lets you play old PC games online, so I was dinking around with it. - Oh nice. - And then I realized that they had a new Oregon Trail that came out a couple years ago. - Really? - Yeah. - That's crazy. - I wanna play that. - That sounds awesome. I put probably too many hours into it and all of my people died of dysentery. (laughing) - That's awesome. - I've got on our living room TV, if you don't touch it for so much time, slideshow comes on of pictures or whatever. And, excuse me, I threw a couple memes in there, and one of them is Oregon Trail, and it's like you have died of the Rona. (laughing) But then, well, during 2020, it was fun. - That is awesome. - Yeah, what about you? What's your favorite old school game? - Old school game, if I'm playing with people, Super Smash Bros, Melee, specifically. - Yeah, Melee. - Melee. - Melee, my opinion's the best. - Yeah, yeah. - Love it. - Oh, man. Other than that, just solo game. - That's how young he is, that's his old school. (laughing) - I mean, you can take it back to arcade games, but I'm just saying, that's what I grew up on, so if anybody's like, yo, we're just trying to throw it back a little bit, you wanna come and play Melee? I'm like, fuck yeah, I'll be there, I don't care who it is, you know? Let me get Martha, let me wreck your shit. You know, I don't know, my Mars skills would never go away, but geez, if I'm playing by myself, this isn't old at all, but I love me some Skyrim, if I'm playing alone. - Okay, fair enough. - I love that style, I love that style game, that's why I'm really into Valheim right now, you know? - Nice. - The newer, like, Viking-aged, old-timey. I like moving it back, but that's a good game. - I think I've played all of 10 minutes of Skyrim. - Really? - Yeah, I don't even know how many hours it's allowed. - Yeah, I love me some Skyrim, especially when they came out with a remastered version, like, fuck you. - Yes, I was like, let's run it. - Right? - Let's run it, it took me back to my childhood, I loved it, but. - Oh, yeah. - Did you ever play that in VR? - Mm-mm. - I heard it was really cool. - Really? - Valheim? - No, Skyrim. - Oh, in VR, do that be wild? - Yeah, it'd be crazy. - Yeah, I remember the videos when Oculus, like, the prototype Oculus, where they're standing in that fucking circle. - Oh, the circle. - Thingy, had their move. - Yeah, yeah, they were doing it with Skyrim, that looked badass, yeah. - Yeah, that's insane. That'd be terrifying, you know what I mean? - I think it'd be terrifying where you play for a while, and then you take your headset off and you realize that it's the next day. - Oh. - Is it right? Do you used to do that shit when World of Warcraft first came out? Like, it was, I distinctly remember being at Craig's house, and I think it was, I don't know, 9.30, 10 o'clock at night, and his dad was like, hey, go to bed by 12. And we're like, all right. And so, we fucking were playing World of Warcraft, and then, at one point, Craig looked over, he's like, oh shit, it's 12.30, we need to go to bed. And so, we fucking, we shut the game down or whatever, and then we go out of his room to use the bathroom, and the fucking son hits us, I went, dude, it's noon 30. - Like, we fucking, we played for over, like, 14 hours, and he was like, oh my God, like, that was crazy. Yeah, dude, that was crazy. When that game first came out, that was the game changer. That was, it was, oh, it was wild, you lose, you know, marriages were destroyed from that fucking game, like. Yeah, but I'm not gonna lie, like, while classing, you have to grind in that game. That is a lot of grinding game. Yeah, I hate it. When the custom servers came out, the toxic wow, I was completely glad to throw $70 at that shit, and I immediately get a Phoenix, and all the fucking things, I was like, yes, and you just run around, and you're like, I don't have to fucking kill gold balls for 17 hours, I can just play the game. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but as far as old school, like, old games, my absolute favorite arcade game is Galaga. Nice. I love Galaga. It makes me very angry that Matt Mays is better than me at Galaga, but I fucking love Galaga. And then console game is Castlevania III. Okay. The tunes love the tunes, man. Hell yeah, nice. Yeah, yeah. What's your favorite arcade game? Ooh, 1942. Oh, there you go. Top down airplane game. Okay, yeah, yeah. That's sweet. I've always enjoyed that one. Yeah, oh. That's cool. What about you? I like my classic Pac-Man. Pac-Man's good. I love that fucking giant Pac-Man when we're in Vegas. Oh, yeah, that's sweet. It sucks, it was like $5 to play it, but it literally took up a wall, and you're just like staring here. It was so hard to play. When it's that fucking big, it's so hard to play, but it was super cool. 'Cause it was like 2 in the morning, and we're just proper hammered. We're getting it. Go walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk. Yeah. You're like, fuck. Yeah, fuck. Yeah, that was cool. Could you imagine Miss Pac-Man on that thing? You know how she moves faster. Oh, yeah. You're like, fuck, fuck. That'd be fun, but Galaga is a good one too. Oh, yeah. Oh, man, that's fun. We went to a place underneath a brewery in Minnesota, and it's under Blackstack Brewery, but I can't remember the name of this arcade, but basically you just, you play, or you pay, I think it's like 20 bucks, and they have this tap thing where you pay by the ounce, you know? So you can try a whole bunch of different beers and just pay per ounce. Was it euphoria or only thing? Yeah, you go up to the drive. I've seen those for like, it's a whole wall of beer, and you just walk up and it's kind of like a fucking god. Yogurt Yeti, but for beer. Yeah. Yeah, they have a lot of those in Minnesota. That's awesome. But this one is really cool because you just tap your card, you know, and then you just pay what the balance is on the card, but you pay 20 bucks to get into this place, they have a whole bunch of old arcade games, and it's just free. You just walk up and play it. Free play, yeah. It's just, you know. Pay the cover charge on your free play. Yeah, those, I like those. That's fun. Especially with the beer and everything, and I think we stayed there for like nine hours one day, and we came out, and it was dark, and we went, oh, shit, we have a baseball game in 30 minutes. We got to get to it, and it's like an hour away. So why don't we start heading there, you know? Yeah, see, there you go. There's some old times. There's some old times. There's some old town, Saginaw. You can do a barcade. Yeah, like your license out there. Yeah, yeah. That'd be wild. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we don't have a lot of those self-poor beer things in Michigan, so it's not a bad thing. Well, it's probably because there'd be too many of us just sitting underneath it, like Barney. It doesn't matter you've got to pay for it. Pay by the ounce. The lineup would be a bitch, but all that. Hey, while you're up, I'd have a beer. All right, I'll get you a beer. Shit, why not? Well, what do you think is about that time? I think it is. I'm excited to hear some funny beer stories. Dang, dang, dang, dang, dang. Last call for alcohol. Oh. This is the last call for alcohol this evening. Drink up, drink up, drink up, and order again. This is the last call for alcohol. Yeah, yeah, no, I get it. I always pissed because the fucking keg-- you guys killed the keg on me, which we can-- yeah. Last call, man, it was Sunday. And we got-- we brought the TV back out for the fucking-- oh, anyway, yeah, so we had Smeagfest this weekend, but it was three-day bash. And Sunday, we brought the TV back out to watch the Lions. We were watching from the pool and shit, and I went to go get a beer, and it's just-- and I was like, these motherfuckers. Because I tapped out-- I don't remember killing a keg, though. Yeah, I tapped out early Saturday night. And you guys-- well, I'll let you tell that portion, but it was fantastic. And we had-- we probably had 60, 70 people show up. I thought there was going to be more. But we had a great turnout. We had a three-day bash, man. Friday got everything set up, got the keg grater going, got all the games out, and just hanging out waiting. And then a bunch of people showed up probably 5.36 o'clock. We got the fire going, the music going. Do we smash pizza? I forgot that. You brought-- you showed up with seven or eight pizzas. Eight pizzas on Friday night. Fucking went ham on that shit. Oh, it was good. Yeah, we got that. We're-- yeah, sent around the fire. We made some s'mores and stuff, and just jamming out. And then everybody pieced out on me at like 11.30 midnight. Oh, on Friday. Yeah, on Friday. And I was like, fuck, I'm white ass awake. So I ended up hanging out by myself by the fire, just jamming two till three o'clock in the morning. And then I finally went to bed, and I just passed out in the chair and the recliner upstairs. Didn't even make it to the bed. No, no, no. Just passed out in the recliner watching Rick and Morty. Yeah. And yeah, because Colin was asleep on the couch, and he got up at like 5.30 to go pee. And he was like, because he told me the next morning, he's like, why was Rick and Morty just playing on the TV? I was like, because I thought that's why I wanted to go to sleep to. Yeah. Why not? Yeah, excuse me. Yeah, a little shout out to him, a little resentment. Yeah, yeah. And then Saturday, Saturdays when it started. Yeah. Because I went to bed at 3.30, and this asshole woke me up at 8, and then-- 7.30 to be executive. Yeah, yeah, really. Because he's like, oh, we got to fucking be back here at 9. We got to set this shit up. We got to do that. And I was just like, oh my god, I need food. Yeah. I need coffee and food. Yeah. So he dropped us back off at home. We should shave shower, grabbed a few things. Came on back. We set up the speakers outside, brought the TV outside onto the deck, and then had the U of M. Yeah, we had the U of M game playing, and then the MSU game, back to back, grilled up a bunch of hot dogs. Everybody brought food. There was so much food. Those fucking Swedish meatballs went hard. Yeah. They were so good. Yeah. Yeah, got a shout out to Gary and the GBA. So you have those beans were bad ass. Yeah, big beans. Yeah, Derek brought the-- Jason Buffalo dip. Jason Buffalo dip. I couldn't have any of the Buffalo dip. No, you couldn't. But the case, absolutely, that was good. Yeah, there's so much good food. Fucking took a hot dog and put case over it. Oh, my, I was in love. I was hammered a thousand. Oh, yeah. Yeah, because we had some food like that. Oh, I got to tell ya. Genuine, glass tender, kegorator. They borrowed it from work. They just have them. And you can just take them if you want to. I was like, hell yeah. So we brought the kegorator out, and ideal gave us a half barrel. And then we had one on reserve. Because again, we thought there were going to be more people. But we only ended up going through one. But it was super cool. Because we had the gate open for the first time. That's the first time that gates ever really been open. Right. People were parking up in the grass. And we had golf cart where ferrying them out. We'd go out, drive out there, load their coolers or tents or whatever they had, and then fucking bring them on back. Yeah, it was really good. Yeah, it was so much fun. But we took all your shit. Yeah. I figured out like the second time I went out there, and I filled it up. And I was just like, all right, so you guys up there and took off with their shit. I was like, yeah. I was like, maybe we need like an attachment to, you know, like a trailer on it or something. Yeah, it was pretty funny. It was badass. It was, I had a few people from work come out. That was a lot of cool. We had Andy, who was on last week's episode. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He came out and Sarah, the pickleball girls, came out. Yeah. It was good fucking time. The band played that I can't. I'm going to throw all those photos up on the website. But they fucking killed it. I was surprised that there was enough room for the band there on the deck. I was kind of worried originally when we were talking about it. But we had good, yeah. I mean, we played at White's Bar before, too. So, I mean, that's a really small stage, you know, and you've got to fit on it. So, you know, we can fit anywhere. It's just comfortable to be spread out. We had to sneak fast banner and the chapter four banner underneath. And that was lights. Yeah. You got to take that bar light and use that. OK. And those were, yeah, I busted out my laser lights and the bar light that I used to do from DJ. And I haven't turned them on in like nine or 10 years. And it was cool because they danced all over the trees in the back and everything. And the band kicks up and they start playing. And everybody's sitting around the deck and out back. And after each song, the fucking trailer park started cheering. There were a few people out there like, yeah, it was a blast. But band gets done. And what were you doing throughout the day? Because I was hustling around. I was taking care of certain things. And what were you? How was your Saturday? I mean, I was making sure people are right. And now it's coming down here. We had a UFC night afterwards, you know. A bunch of the guys and ladies came down here. And we were watching UFC that my boss picked up for us. And so we were down here doing that. Now I was running around shit, grabbing more beer, probably. Shout out to Caleb, man. Yeah, dude. He made the meatballs and shit. Yeah. Meatballs, many, many-- He's a good guy, real good guy. Yeah, real quick. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, after I knew I was in the hot tub in the pool because I got kicked out of the hot tub. And as I got out of the hot tub, I fell straight back into it. [LAUGHTER] And so then I got back out. And then we were playing beer darts. And beer darts didn't happen to like 3 o'clock in the morning. Yeah, I tapped out at this point. I stayed away for the UFC fight we're watching down here. And then that was like 1.32 o'clock. I went outside and there were like 10 people crammed into the 6 person hot tub. Yeah. [LAUGHTER] And I was like, OK, all right. Well, I'm going to fuck off and go to sleep now. But these assholes were louder shit till 6 o'clock in the morning. So I didn't really do a lot of sleep. But yeah. So what happened after I passed? Well, I'm going to tell you all the way up so I forgot. OK. I remember. So Caleb, the guy who routed me balls and everything like that, he doesn't drink. So for beer darts, everyone has a beer. And I bought him some diet do. So he had a diet do out there, right? So he's not drunk and I'm hammered. And he throws a dart and it hits my other boss, Derek's beer. And I get all excited because I'm like, fuck yeah, make that fucker drink. And I go up and I give him a high five. And his high five was so damn strong that I turned around and just fucking ate grass. I didn't like-- I don't know if my body just told me not to. But the only thing that hit the-- my face hit the ground first, like not my hands. And I like got back up. And he was like, you just ate grass from a high five? And he goes, the power. I was like, what? Oh man, it was crazy. That's the last bit of shit I remember. The beer darts is crazy because you drink. I mean, you can get up to like seven, eight beers in 30 minutes. If people just keep on hitting your beer with the dart because as soon as they do, you got to either drink it down until it stops coming out or you got to kill it if it's the second puncture. And yeah, that game got me just right. And I remember falling asleep by the fire and then I hit up with my trailer. I heard Raj and Randy came out. Yeah, they came out with jarts. You know the lawn darts? OK. So normally you play with a real dart. And Raj is like, yep, this is mine. And threw it straight through my can. I'm like, shit. So like before I even got ready to play, I had to delete a beer. I was like, fuck. It was funny, though, they were throwing those around. And yeah, it seems like a dangerous game, but I promised no one got poked. Luckily, I do remember looking down and there was a dart like by my shoe. And I was like, didn't you flinch, bitch? Dennis did hit Colin in the leg, but he had jeans on. Oh, that's right. I didn't stab him. That's right. I did forget about that. Metal tip or play. Oh, yeah, metal hole really. Let's go through a beer can. Because the rule is, if it does get lodged in your shin, you got to wait until somebody can take a photo before you can pull it out. Yeah, that's true. That's true. We have to have to have that. It didn't happen. Yeah, exactly. You can't just be like, I've got stabbed in the side. But did you? Because normally if you, oh, guys got like a knife mark, you're like, all right, let me see it. Like bullshit. So someone's like, yeah, I got stabbed by a dart. And they're like, bet. And you're like, pitchers here, bitch. I swear to God, it was sticking out of my leg, right? Yeah. With a smile and a thumbs up. And then you're like, all right, fuck it. No, but yeah, that's my beer store. So that was fun. That was fun. I mean, you guys, that was it. You remember beer darts. And then after that, we just went to bed. Was that the only time you fell down? No. No, I had a total of three spills out of Saturday. Yeah, no wonder your source. Yeah, yeah. My ass hurts. My back hurts. And your fingers tore up. Yeah, I don't know. Well, I think that happened through playing. Yeah, from playing drums. Yeah, yeah. Because I got, you know, blister and then-- It's fucking hit him hard. These tips hurt. And I think I was-- I think I hit a rim shot. And I just, I have yet to get feeling back. But that's OK. Oh, yeah, I tore my fucking knuckle off. Oh, yeah, you played like a pool, too. Playing pool, there's like this edge on the pool. And when I don't pay attention, because I do it like once a month because I'm fucking stupid. So I go through, but I follow through. And then when I do that, I just-- And then that edge just shears the top of my knuckle off. Yeah, so that was fun. Because I held it. And then Dennis is like, you OK? I was like, nope, if I let go, it's going to start shooting blood. And he's like, when did you hit? I said the pool table. He's like, no. So I let it go. And it started streaming down. He went, ha! And it's like, grabbed it again, went and watched it and fucking. You did safety gloves. Yeah, really. Yeah, really. And he fucking cut gloves. Yeah. You're the only one who's ever cut their finger out. I know. And I do it literally all the time. Yeah. It's stupid. You always find it. But Raj hooked me up, got me-- well, Libby did first. She put some Band-aids. And Raj was like, no, no, no, let me get you good Band-aids. And they got me this fucking rap thing. Yeah. And then I came back down to my fingers all fucking wrapped and stinted. And I was like, all right. So then I grabbed the pool stick with the other two fingers and kept playing. Dennis is like, you're a champ. I still beat him. So-- [LAUGHING] That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. So do you have a last car store? It looks like you do. Sorry. I know we've been-- Yeah. Oh, it's good. So we go to the Renaissance Festival twice a year, my wife and I. So we do one week on where we take the kids. And so when everybody gets dressed up, I throw a kilt on and get some turkey legs. Nice. Kids have a fun time. And then we go a second time and we do the pub crawl. Nice. So if you've never done the pub crawl at the Renaissance Festival, it's a hilarious curated experience. It's awesome. It's definitely worth the price. Do they only do that like one specific weekend or one night or-- They do it at-- I think it's noon 2 and 4 o'clock. So all the time? Yeah. Every single day that it's open, they do it. Oh, wow. Nice, sweet. So I haven't been there since 2008 as the last time. And I don't think they had that then. They just had turkey legs and beer and jousting. It was still fun. But I've heard it's gotten way better. Yeah, it's kind of commercialized. They've really grown a lot. They charge for parking now. Oh, wow. And the amount of people that come there, it's insane compared to what it used to be. OK. That's good, though. Get it going. This year was a bit calm for me. Two years ago, we did a work pub crawl. Oh. So we had this giant group of all these people from one up. And I pre-gamed. And then I pre-gamed some more. And then we did the pub crawl. And you do-- I think it's five bars in like an hour. Wow. Damn. Yeah. And then so we got some follow-up drinks. And I was feeling real good by this point. So we're sitting around by the jousting. And like, man, I could really go for a cigar. And somebody pulls out a vape. And do you know one of these? Oh, no. Oh, no. Nobody said anything. They give me this vape. I take a big drag of it. That was weird. It didn't taste like anything. Did I hit this wrong? And so I take another really big drag of it. And yeah, it turns out that that was not a nicotine. Ah, yes. So I haven't smoked since I was probably 14 years old. So yeah, I got super messed up. The rest of that night was not good from what I remember. And I don't remember most of it. Oh, man. Yeah, yeah. I could not do the cross-fade like that. I am the projectile vomiting there. Yeah, yeah, the one time I did that, that was-- yep. Nope. Yeah. Damn Christine, Christine or titty wheat. So I stick to beer. Yeah, yeah, beer and I have a good relationship. Oh, man. That's funny, though. Yeah. Yeah, the Renfest, man. I worked with a guy at Best Buy that, like, that was his thing. Like, he would like live there every September, every year. Him and his wife would go all the time. And he was, yeah, again, it's been hella long since I've been there. I would love to. I would love to go back. But yeah, look into that next year. Yeah, Tiffany doesn't really do the medieval stuff. So I'm going to have to find friends. Maybe I'll hit you right if you take along with us. Oh, yeah, that would be great. Bye. That sounds fun. Man, this was a good time. This is great. Thank you so much for coming on. Absolutely. Yeah, I appreciate you guys having me. Oh, yeah. Yeah, here. Go ahead. I know we've talked about it the whole time, but formally plug one-up games. Yeah, so one-up games and repairs. We've got two locations in Bay City and Saginaw. We sell video games, board games, Warhammer, and different accessories like that. We do events. We do e-sports and board game and Warhammer tabletop events. Our Saginaw location, we do pinball tournaments every Thursday at 6 o'clock. That's nice. And yeah, we even do house calls for any kind of IT or pinball, arcade, computer-related repairs like that as well. Yeah, yeah, if you have an old arcade machine or jukebox machine or anything, man. Justin's the one to call one-up games. Saginaw and Bay City. Heck yeah. Thanks to Ideal Party Store. Thank you to the 989 network. You can find all the media companion, the photos and everything from the Smeek Festival beyond 989.network. 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