1 - 13 Boy Scouts in a Porta-Potty

During this episode, we discuss how we met, why we are starting this podcast, and how 13 Boy Scouts could fit in a porta-potty.

As promised the link to the video.

https://youtu.be/GBxwYSyZ340?si=Nwcm4weCxiJft7aC

Transcript

 So I don't know what. Are we just doing an intro or what? Oh shit, yeah, we're starting? Yeah, were we supposed to like cut it? Or, 

what do you want to be like, Hey, this is Kyler. Yeah, exactly.  That's a good question, because we could just end with a song. Who else am I with? Wait, what? What do you mean end with a song? Yeah, just have it just be like,  read the story.  You read the story, you mean the, sorry. It's time to turn the page. and we just start talking.

Or we could, if we have guests, we can say, hi, I'm Kyler. Hi, I'm Tyler.  This is,  Oh, you mean just start talking? Make a Wish Foundation.  Just start  You mean just start talking, like, just right into it? Yeah, we could, but we should probably do an intro. I don't know, maybe for the first one.  Yeah. So they at least know who we are.

Instead of just random talking. Exactly. Like, who is this, the voice of God? It could be. This could be what it sounds like, and if that's as best as it gets, I mean  Sucks to be them, dude, that podcast episode, Joe Rogan's that you had me listen to gnarly, right? Crazy. I haven't finished it yet. Oh, well, they start talking about how they believe that it's possible that AI is what all these aliens things are.

Yeah. And how they like coming back to perfect themselves. Yeah. What I thought was crazy was when she brought in that comment of like, well,  We most abductions happened during the daytime.  Yeah. And I was like,  I don't know what story she's been reading, but she's obviously done her, her, her homework. Yeah, I don't know anything about that.

That was smart of you to get a drink. That was one thing that I was going to grab and I forgot. I'm sorry, that was an asshole move of me. No, it's not that bad. Cause I have a, I have a water bottle in the fridge. I'm just too lazy to go get it. See, I was really tired and I was just like, I, I'm going to be boring on the podcast if I don't get a drink right now cause I'm so tired.

Yeah. So you were telling me about How you broke your bed.  Well, I'm at that point in my life where you know, the car seat warmers aren't for warming me up. They're to help my back pain.  Well, sometimes in bed, I have to roll over to the other side to, you know, to help my shoulder pain. And apparently, I am big enough that that now causes my bed to break.

It snapped right in the middle. Yeah, so yeah, that, I was telling you that I broke my bed too, and I had to tell you this story, because I was trying to be attractive. So I was trying to be Kyler just like on all fours,  doggy style, bending his back down, like trying to put his belly button to the mattress with his butt in the air.

Okay, so first of all, since people can't see us, I've gotta articulate that  In order for my belly button to touch the mattress.  There's no movement! I  don't have to arch my back at all.

  Oh my gosh. So, so  I'm trying to be attractive, but it's not what you think. I  wasn't I wasn't just I wasn't just laying on the bed If I recall correctly maddie was trying to get ready and she was standing in the closet And I was in our bathroom and this was when we lived in spanish fork at the time and I ran from the bathroom And tried to like, Superman onto the bed in like the mudflat pose. 

But when I landed on the bed, I went right through it was  Oh my god, it was awful. Your story's way better than mine. I mean, I just rolled. Yeah, I mean I started counting calories again today because I realized that I'm starting to tip the scales and three bills is a little too much than I want to be. Oh, man.

So yeah, I'm not too far behind for me just rolling over and breaking my bed. Well, maybe that's one of the updates we do on our podcast is how our calorie counting's going. Oh, geez. For real. Oh, man, but how do you be a parent and not gain weight? Like, it's,  you're tired all the time. Huh. You have to have caffeine and everything that has caffeine.

Basically has a shiz ton of calories. Yeah, I mean it, it's tough. I, like, the last couple days since I didn't go on a work trip this weekend, I just decided, hey, you know what, I'm just going to start walking again. Because when you get winded, just like getting out of bed,  or like walking up a flight of stairs, you realize, hey, you know what, I should probably change some things if I want to live to see  You know, long enough to see my kids have their own kids.

Yeah. But I just start walking two miles a day. Yeah. Sucks. Because I'm fat. But. Well. Eventually I'll get fit.  One of these days. Yeah. We gotta do it. I, yeah, I mean, that's something that's important. I think that's really what I think you and I are both on the same page with is the fact that  change.

is essential and we don't have to stay in the same states that we are. While sometimes we might fall back to them, there's a way to get through it. And I think it's really important with kids, right? Like, we want to be there for their future. We want to be able to see them have kids and them have kids and so on and so forth and be able to have good strong memories and be able to actually participate with them and not just sit back.

And that looks different for everybody. It can relate to you and your profession. It can relate to you and religion. Health, right? Your physical journeys that you're going through. And I think that's why you and I have been such good friends for so long. Is we are constantly thinking of ways that we can get better.

And then we laugh so hard at ourselves when we fail. Or do stupid shit, right? And so I think that's why we're starting the podcast. To just talk about that journey that we've gone through in so many different aspects of our lives. Yeah, I mean, so much change. And the cool thing about change is that it's fluid.

Like if you, if you,  if you block yourself in or damn yourself into a certain cubby hole, then you just get overwhelmed with things. And you don't get to really live life and feel the free flowing feelings of being where exactly where you need to be when you're supposed to be somewhere. And it's, it's cool to feel the perspective shift as you learn more things and allow things to kind of flow through you.

You're better able to, to take each day like a new page of a book. Yeah, a hundred percent. Becca and I were  Spending time on Instagram as as do parents who have a newborn and there's not much movement that can happen because you're holding the baby. But one of these reels that I saw, it says parenting is, is just a change of perspective.

When you look at it as there's only 20 times the tooth fairy is going to come.  There's only 13 first days of school, right? Your experiences with your children are limited. And while it might seem like it's going to be forever and it can be exhausting.  There's really not that many opportunities or experiences you get.

And so being able to be fully present in your child's life  is so important because you're not going to get it back. Time goes. And the same with our health, right? Like, we only have an X amount of time that we're going to be on here, on Earth and alive.  If there's something else after this, I don't know.

We don't know.  But, I want to be able to be around as long as I can. And in order to do that,  We need to be we need to be in better shape so we can be with our kids for as long as possible Yeah, it's true. That sucks  I I saw something on social media somewhere where I was like, you can either Be fat and have a hard life or go to the gym and have a hard life choose your heart yeah, and it was like just kept on going about different things that are like Yeah, you know eating healthy sucks, but so does being fat and trying to put on a pair of pants So it's like choose which heart do you want to have?

Funny thing so becca introduced sumo wrestling to read  you know putting pillows up your shirts and hitting each other and he wanted to introduce that to me I thought you meant legit sumo wrestling. Oh, no I was like what they're on youtube watching sumo wrestling You guys are watching a thing for guys and 600  to 9, 000 pound guys and thongs grabbing each other and pushing each other out of circles.

So I started doing this with Reed and he's like, starts breathing heavy. He's like, wow, being fat is hard. I'm like, yeah, man, it is. I get it.  I'm waiting to, I rolled over in my bed last night and broke my bed.  Oh my gosh. Oh, that's good. That's too good.  So then You were telling me about your wife's missionary experience. 

Yeah, we'll talk about it another day, another day, another day. But that is an interesting topic perspectives. And I think that'd be a good route for us to go for people to get a little bit of an understanding of who we are, where we met each other, our backgrounds, where we started. And then that will kind of just guide our journey throughout our upcoming podcast episodes discussing how our perspectives changed throughout the years and the different experiences that we've had.

So Kyler,  how old were we when we met each other? Oh God. I mean, I feel like we were,  I mean, if you ask me, I always say that we are 11, but realistically we're probably what, like 13. Yeah, like 12 or 13 something. Yeah, somewhere in there. I always say 11 because it's easier for me to math it  Yeah, I don't know why it is, but I just say oh, yeah, I've known him for like 20 21 years.

Yeah. Yeah, we've known each other long enough that our age is legal to drink.  Oh my gosh  Dude we're old. That's a long time, bro. Yeah, we're not that old like two decades Yeah, like we can say decades and put an S at the end of it. Yeah, that's that's like our friendship is old Yeah, yeah, that's weird That's really weird.

Yeah, so Kyler and I met believe it or not, Kyler might remember it differently. Like, I kind of, like, had seen him in middle school, and like, I knew of him, but I didn't really know him very well. I was a nerd.  I'm not gonna respond to that. But Kyler was a part of a, were you auditioning at the same time, or were you already on staff? 

I was already on staff. Okay, so Kyler was on staff at a camp called Timberline. And this is really where our journey began as the Islers. So some of you are probably wondering, like, what is the Isler perspective? Well, this is going to bring light on that. So, I was applying and interviewing to be a part of a youth leadership camp called Timberline.

And Kyler was there as part of reviewing candidates.  Yeah, yeah, basically just I was brand new to, I think I'd only been in staff if it wasn't my first year, it would have been my second year. I think it was my second year on staff. And it was just, I'd gone through it when I was 11 or 12 and it's just a week long leadership training course where you just learn how to be a better leader.

I mean as best of a leader as you can as a kid. And then and then I got lucky enough to chose chosen to go back in and teach more, you know, 12 and 13 year olds. And I did that. We did that for years, but  yeah, that's where we met being on staff together. Yeah, it was wild. We did that, I think, five or six years together as staff and we were able to lead together.

Like Kyler said, you know, being so young and the participants are coming up are like 12 years, 13 years old as well. So, you know, it's kids leading kids, but I think that's kind of where the beauty in that camp came from. And really guided Kyler and I's lives in so many different aspects that we've honestly still carried throughout our lives and the connections that we made there still last.

So it's, it's quite cool. But with Kyler's name and Tyler being so similar, they just started lumping us together as one. They just called us the Eylers. And so both of us would go and do most things together just because it was easier for everybody. Well, and you, and it was, and it was stupid proof for us.

You just said Islers and both of us would show up, so. Yeah. It made it easy for everyone. Yeah. Yeah, it was, it was a lot of fun. We, we had a, a little tiff at the end of one of the, the years. Back when I was a senior patrol leader. Yeah, exactly. And Kyler ditched us all to go hang out with a girl and left all the cleanup duties.

To Jeff and I so there was a little bit of, yeah, there were my assistants and patrol leaders and they did freaking phenomenal. Yeah, it was a great day at work. I was, I was a pro at a, what was it? A dishing out all the responsibilities on everyone else attempting to delegate. No, it was delegation at its best.

I mean, I. I delegated everything. I didn't do diddly other than just take credit for it.  Yeah, but it made it easy leading from the top like that.  Although it burned a lot of old burn, both my friendships with you and Jeff. Yeah, but it came back, we came back and it's strong, right? Yeah. But we have a lot of cool stories about Timberline that we'll get into over the time that we're  chatting on here and letting people get to know us.

It's kind of exciting. Yeah, I agree. A lot of fun going on there. A lot of funny stories that we'll share.  Weird stories probably to others, but it'll be a good laugh for us. So you'll probably hear us cackle a little bit Yeah, especially like going back with all the glowstick wars. You guys will learn about those.

Those were so fun. Epic I forgot about those. Epic glowstick wars. Oh my gosh. Gnarly scars.  Oh my gosh I remember running through the trees trying to hide in a tree branch waiting on my eyeball I don't know how I can see today. Yeah, I mean we've got a lot of crazy stories that and the port a potty story, Yeah that you can still find on YouTube Is it still on youtube still on youtube?

Yeah, that'd be funny. We'll have to link it Yeah, i'll have medias But i'm the crazy one who runs at the party and just screams Ah, and I like fold in half as i'm trying to get into the I can't believe how many people we fit in that thing I don't know. I did a break The toilet paper holder broke. Oh, did it?

Yeah. I never, I mean, yeah, man. Yeah. And a lot of times, a lot of good times and we'll we'll bounce all over this thing. Yeah. We'll tell you about all of our different experiences, both growing up. I mean, Tyler went to a private school charter, charter school. Sorry. It's a little bit, a little bit more pinky in the air per se.

No charter school is a public school that Is trash, but people think it's private and special and fancy, but really, well, you all had to wear the same uniform. So that's why, that's why you had to wear like polo shirts, the same colors and khakis. But honestly, I missed on most of my classes. Most of my professors are not professor teachers.

Yeah. They said if I brought them a Pepsi, I could just leave and come back. It didn't matter. So you know how I graduated high school. I brought Pepsi's to my teachers and I didn't go to class. Yeah. And then I went to a public school  Both of our experiences growing up through life and now being fathers of families and yeah,  our journey teaching people in other countries.

Kyler lived in Africa and I lived in Chile. We'll kind of talk about some stories from there, how our perspective has changed throughout our journey from that time to now where our headspace was then. It's going to be a lot of fun guys. And we're excited to go on this journey with you. We just kind of wanted a time.

You know once a week or so for Kyler and I to just sit around and BS and you guys can listen if you want to if you don't that's fine We're still gonna have fun over here. And yeah, either way it's gonna be a riot. Yeah But if you're excited to listen to us, go ahead follow the Eiler perspective and Tell your friends about it if you had a good good listen and We're excited.

Yeah, absolutely. Can't wait to Get get to talk more with you guys, man. I'm so excited that we have that  Platform software, it's gonna take away our ums and our uhs. Do I say it a lot? Yeah, both of us are really yeah I know I said like a lot, but I don't know Wow. Yeah, maybe it's time for me to go back to public speaking Same I noticed myself saying that I listen to you and then you said exactly.

Oh, man Okay, our podcast is gonna be cut in half time wise when we delete those.                             Yeah, it'll be great  All right till next time