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"Derby, Cats, and Nerd Sh*T" with Taryn Oliver · Caught on the Mike...

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_00: Warning due to some language and subject matter, listener discretion is advised.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_02: Everybody has that one amazing friend.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_02: You know the one.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_02: The one you can't put on speakerphones because you never know what is going to come out of their mouth next.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_02: And you would never censor them because everything that comes out of their mouth is so shocking yet amazing.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_02: Today on the podcast, I have that friend that I was lucky enough to make through my wife.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_02: Those in our inner circle say that she's the female version of me and I'm the male version of her.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_02: But I'm going to leave that up to you to determine that.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_02: After nearly a month off of podcasting, I'm back.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_02: And today I have a very special guest by the name of Taryn Oliver.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_02: And I can't warn you enough.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_02: Listener discretion is advised.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_02: Ladies and gentlemen, this is Caught on the Mic.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_02: Taryn Oliver, thank you for joining the show today.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_02: It is my pleasure to have you on.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_02: How are you?
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just fucking dandy.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_02: That is one of my favorite things about you is the fact that we have to turn the volume down anytime we open up Snapchat and we see a snap from Taryn, but it's amazing.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_02: It makes my life complete, complete and total unfilteredness.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_02: But thanks for being on the show.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_02: I wanted to give you an opportunity.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_02: Why don't you tell everybody your origin story?
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_02: Tell everybody a little bit about yourself.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_01: Here's here's the origin story of the the one and only Taryn Oliver.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um basically, I I knew your wife was the woman that I emulated as a child.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_01: She's a teenager when I was a child.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_01: And I've just tried my very hardest to be everything your wife would be proud of.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my gosh, don't let her hear that.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_01: When my mom hears that, she's gonna go, God damn it.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_01: She's right.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_02: She's right.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_01: She's fucking Jen Ebler is who she is.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_02: Oh man, don't let don't let Jen hear that, though.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, shit, she'll run with that for days.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I know she will.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it's funny is that um she always tells me that she married me.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_02: Not to genderize this, yeah, not to genderize this in any any way, shape, or form.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_02: But we've been told by several people that you're the female version of me and I'm the male version of you.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_01: Is that is I feel the same.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_02: Kind of interacting with one another.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_02: It's like, yeah, maybe maybe they got a point, you know.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you know what's funny is this is like our first time we've ever really talked.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_01: I've talked to you through your wife on Snapchat, and then you've talked to me through your live streams.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_01: This is our first time having a conversation.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_02: Hi, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I I think we met one other time at uh uh one of the roller derby competitions in Omaha.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I don't remember that, but sure.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_02: We'll bring that full circle here in a little bit.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_02: Let's let's expand upon that.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_02: Let's tell a little bit, everybody, a little bit about where you grew up and kind of what brought you to where you're at right now.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm from the the good old town of Auburn, Nebraska.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_01: That was a cat.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_01: We're I'm in his space.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_01: This is his closet.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_01: I'm in my closet so that like the sound doesn't echo so much, but like I don't know.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_01: Can you this is his space?
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_02: I think we said we were gonna talk about cats at some point too today.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_01: They're they're just fucking chaos, and that's this is the first five minutes of this thing, and you're already interrupting me.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_02: Fuck what I don't even know what I was saying, but but you you said you you said you were from Auburn, Nebraska.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's all I've gotten out.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, yeah, I'm from Auburn, Nebraska.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_01: Um uh I grew up there.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_01: Uh then I moved to college in Kearney.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_01: Fucking loved that place, it was the greatest.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um, then I got a job in North Platte, and let me tell you, I did not love North Platte.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Carney was a place for young people and single people to do fun young single people things.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_01: North Platte, you needed to move here when you're married or dating somebody.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_01: You did not want to move here as a single person, it was life ruining, but here we are.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I I've kind of I've got a similar analogy.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_02: So I lived in Omaha for 15 years, and what is it now, six years ago?
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_02: I moved to Lincoln, and I've had kind of a similar adjustment trying to adjust to Lincoln because I went to high school in a small town, but after I got out of high school, I did a couple of years of college in a small town, and then I moved to Omaha.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_02: So having Omaha being my home base for 15 years, coming to Lincoln, it's like, man, it's in a lot of ways, it's kind of like I moved back to the small town.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I don't relate.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like Lincoln has a lot more stuff than a lot more, but yeah, I could see that because I'm like, man, I don't oh, Lincoln would be such a fun place to live as a young person.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_02: Well, it's the college, it's the college and the bars and everything else.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_01: That's how Carney is, though.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_01: But now going back to Carney to go and party and shit and drink and stuff, I'm like, I'm the old lady that just wants to relive her glory college days.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, Northpad has steadily become my home, though.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_01: I do love it.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_02: Your educational path brought you to Carney.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_02: So you're you're a school teacher now, correct?
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_01: Correct.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_01: I teach elementary PE.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my gosh, how is that?
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_01: Um, oh my god, you're asking me today, and I had a shitty day.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_01: And I walked, I walked out of the I walked out of the gym this afternoon, and I looked at somebody, I was like, God, I fucking hate kids.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god, why do I do this?
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_01: But like most of the time, most of the time, I'm like, I had a pretty good day.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_01: It was a good day.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_01: Some days I like had a great day.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_01: Today was one of those days where I was like, why the fuck did I become a teacher?
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_01: Like it was it's really shitty weather outside.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_01: So my afternoon classes are kindergarten, first, and second grade.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_01: And because it was shitty weather, they had indoor recesses, so they didn't go outside and run or do any sort of releasing of energy.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_01: And on those shitty days, you need to pray for all school teachers because they they need they need all of your love and support on those shitty rainy days.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_01: Like, call the schools and be like, hey, does anybody need any ice cream, any coffee?
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_01: Let me get you something.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_01: I'll I'll sneak a bottle of brown liquor in your car if you let me know which one's yours.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_01: That's what you need to do to help out teachers.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_02: Your dad's uh a wrestling coach, right?
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_02: High school wrestling coach.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_02: Yep.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_02: So he he's a teacher, also, correct?
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he teaches the broad term would be social studies, but he's world cultures and criminal justice and who the fuck else knows.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_02: Just from your observation from when you were a kid to where you're a teacher now, how what's the difference?
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_02: Like, what's the difference in the approach and what's the difference in the kids generationally?
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: My dad teaches teenagers.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I taught high school health my very first year of teaching.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_01: That was the fucking worst.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_01: I hate teenagers.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I part of me, like on TikTok, I love them because I feel like they're like changing the world, they're they're not like adults, but another part of me is like, fuck teenagers, the youths of today are unpleasant.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I like how they fight for shit, but I'm also like, shut the fuck up, just sit down, don't do this in class.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_02: So, how much of that, just you know, not to go off on a totally separate tangent, but how much of that is them actually sporting a sense of activism versus just sporting the sense of activism?
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_02: How much is how much is legitimate activism versus how much is it just a a gesture because it's socially relevant?
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I'd say that um most of it is is genuine, but they they don't have the capacity for balancing it.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_01: Like in the middle of of class when nothing's going wrong and they should be just sitting there listening to the teacher and following directions, now's not the time to stand up and um announce your support for your candidate and how shitty you think the other one is or whatever.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_01: Not that that happens, but that's kind of like how they think.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_01: They just don't they don't have that sense of this is the good time for this kind of idea.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_01: That's just because their brains aren't developed yet.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_02: They they don't understand the whole uh cognitive dissonance, if you will.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_01: But I do I do genuinely think that teenagers are like they genuinely have they have so much energy, so they they care very passionately about shit.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_01: Whereas like us old people who've been jaded by life and have other things that we have to care about, or like our cats or children, I guess, we're just like uh you fight the fight.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_02: Kind of bringing things back full circle.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_02: You're in North Platte and you belong to an organization flat flat rock roller derby, correct?
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_01: Flat rock roller derby, yes, yes.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_02: Um what brought you to that?
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, moving toward North Platte.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_01: Actually, I'll tell you.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_01: Um, the movie, did you do you remember the movie Um Whip It with um the actress that plays uh Ellen?
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_01: Well, Elliot Page now.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um he at the time was Ellen Page, um, but he he he played in this movie um about roller derby and joining roller derby and how I mean he just made it look so cool.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, I I want to play roller derby.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_01: And when I looked it into it in Carney thinking this is a college town, they should 100% have roller derby.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_01: And they did, but I couldn't find them.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and so I moved to North Platte thinking, oh, roller derby, you know, it's in the back of my mind, just kind of like a pipe dream, like how that how cool that would be.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_01: And then um my first Friday of my um first year teaching, we went out to three margaritas, me and a bunch of um teacher pals went out for margaritas after work.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_01: And um they they were talking, and I just kind of heard roller derby off on the corner of a table far down the line of all the other teachers.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_01: And I went, did you just did you just say roller derby?
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_01: North Pilot has a roller derby team, then pulled out my phone, found them on Facebook, and I I followed them and I I you know when I the posts that I found, they were talking about like um open houses, not tryouts, but like open houses, and I was like, Oh shit, I just missed one.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I went, I went um to the next open house, which would have been so this was August.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_01: The following April, they had an open house.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_01: I went to it and I was like, this is my shit.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_01: This this is what I fucking want to do.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_01: These bitches rock.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: And that was in April of 2015, and uh been playing ever since.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_02: So, so did you have a natural acclimation to skating before you did that?
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_01: Well, let me tell you, as a 90s baby, um, well, 90s 90s child, I should say, um, one of my favorite things to do was put on some shorty short cutoff jeans and a sweatshirt, like a Nebraska sweatshirt and my rollerblades.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_01: And um, me and this girl Darien, we would go roller skating around the neighborhood.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_01: And she used to live in this house with this real steep driveway, and we were thought we were the baddest bitches on the block, and we'd go skating down that motherfucking driveway, and we're like we're all tucked up and going down and just like fuck yes.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_01: Except for we were like nine years old, so we were just like, Yeah, we didn't say fuck, but so yes, we really did.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_01: We thought we were the baddest bitches in the world, we thought we were so cool, we thought we were so hot, and I'll tell you what, we fucking were, we really were.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_01: I don't even care what anybody said, we so were.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_02: So for somebody that's a complete and total dumbass and has no idea how um a roller derby game is played, explain explain roller derby for an idiot.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_01: I'll try to keep this.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I'll talk to you like you're a kindergartner.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_01: Except for I'll except for I'll say fuck a lot.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_01: Um okay.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: So there are five people on your team, um, and there's five people on the other team.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_01: Gotta have things even.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_01: Um, four of those people are blockers, and one of those persons is called the jammer, and the jammer is the one who scores the points.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_01: And when it starts, um, both jammers line up behind the jam line.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and the blockers make up a group of people called the pack.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_01: And your job as a jammer um is to get through the pack and to go around on a lap.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_01: And the next time that you come up to the pack, every opposing player that you pass um gets your team one point.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so there's some there's some nuance and strategy to it, but um basically once you get through the pack, um, if the other person, the other jammer hasn't gotten out, if you do something where you touch your hips, um, you do something called calling off the jam.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_01: And so then what you would do is you would earn your team four points for passing the four blockers and the other person um doesn't get any points.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_01: But if you don't call off the jam, it only lasts for two minutes.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_01: But I'll tell you what, if you have to play roller derby for two minutes at a time, you're gonna be fucking tired.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_01: That's you don't think two minutes is a long time until you're playing fucking roller derby.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_01: Then it's then it's a fucking uh hour-long game.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_01: Like each jam lasts an hour in your brain.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_01: Two minutes of playtime has some of us like laying down on the floor having a heart attack.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_02: I have never been to a competition before.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know jack shit about it until the first time we came and watched you.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_02: And and it was a lot of fun.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_02: It was a good time, it was a very good time.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_01: I do remember that game.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I remember that that was probably um not the shittiest I've ever played, but um real shitty for how much I hyped that up in my head.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_01: Um, because it was a game played in Omaha and I was like, or was it Lincoln?
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_02: It was Omaha.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_01: It was Omaha.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_02: Is it Ralston?
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_01: Um, in my head, I was like, oh man, there's a bunch of people from hometown that know me.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_01: They're gonna come and watch me.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_01: I can't wait to show them how good I am at roller derby or how hard I work, and god damn it, I look like shit.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_01: I was on my ass more times in that game than I um probably have ever been.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_01: Um I remember there were several times that we went for two minutes.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and oh god, I remember skating off the track several times, going, oh, someone else go.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_01: I was so embarrassed by how many people came to watch me.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_01: I played so bad.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_02: Do you do you think that was just something in your head though?
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_02: Do you think you trumped it up to be worse than what it actually was?
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_01: I do know it wasn't a great game.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_01: To me, it was a terrible game, but to people that don't know what roller derby is or how it's played, they were probably like, I don't know, this is just fun.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_02: You know, being a former musician, I will tell you that every show that I played to a packed house was the best show I ever played, and every show I played to an empty house was the absolute fucking worst show that I've ever played.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_02: So there there is something about the mind playing tricks on you.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_02: So maybe you hyped yourself up and it was just more in your head that it was it was worse than what it was actually was.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I can tell you not a single person who came to watch um me knew what the hell they were watching.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_01: So they they couldn't say whether I did good or bad.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_01: I just personally know I didn't, it wasn't my ter my most terrible game.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but you know, it I have done better.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_01: One of my best games though was at a packed house um here in North Platte.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_01: And that's the thing.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so we were at the Ralston Arena in Omaha, and obviously that's a huge area, and um, it was a pretty full arena, like not full, but there was a lot of people there for just um coming to watch roller derby.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um but the thing is, like, you know, I I can I talk shit about North Platte at the beginning, but it's one of those things where it's like you talk shit about the place that you live in because that's your hometown and you it's what's my hometown now, you know?
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I I have grown to love it.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_01: But one of the things that's like so unique and special about North Platte is that um whenever we have a home bout and we before COVID, we would fill in the stadium or in the stadium, our event center, um, with like 500 people.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_01: I think one time we squeezed in 600 people.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_01: There wasn't seating for everybody.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_01: People were standing, we probably um shouldn't have done that, but we did it anyway.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_01: Um and the other team came out and they were like saw how many people were in the crowd and they're like, is it always like this?
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_01: And we're like, yeah, we always sell out our events when we go to other people's events, like in their towns, they get maybe 50 people.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_01: And we were like, we've consistently at all our home bounce had to turn people away because we just don't have the room for people to come in.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: That is something that's like really unique, and like I really hope that when COVID allows us and like we can come back, that North Platte will still be like, yeah, we love roller derby, we love watching these girls beat the shit out of each other, we love having drinks and watching bitches beat the shit out of other bitches.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_01: This is great.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: Like, they have no idea what the fuck they're watching, right?
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_01: But they love to come and watch it.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_02: Uh don't underestimate it.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_02: I think people have been sitting on their ass for a year now.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_02: I think they're itching for any kind.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_02: I I think people would pay to go to a bar and watch paint dry at this point.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I tell you, I fucking would.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_02: I know, like we can we can only take the kids shopping so many fucking times because there's nothing else to do.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_01: Let's head up on over to Walmart.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_02: That's our entertainment for the month.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_02: Put on your Sunday best, kids.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_02: It's Walmart time.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_02: So, how have you adapted as an educator in the time of COVID?
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I've gotten used to wearing a mask a lot, right?
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um, which really it feels weird walking into school without it now.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um, at the beginning, it really wasn't a nuisance because I would wear it all the time.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_01: Um but I'll tell you the thing is that it's really annoying to tell kids every class, every day, put your mask on, put your mask on, put your fucking mask on, you fuckhead.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_01: Um which I say under my breath in my mask, which which is one of the nice things is like they can't see my mouth moving.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_01: So when I say, Jesus fucking Christ, just sit the fuck down.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_01: They don't know that I said that.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_01: They just hear me say, All right, find your seats, let's get started.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_02: So you're vaccinated then.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yes, thanks the Lord Jesus, I am.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we got our first shots this weekend.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_02: I was lethargic as shit.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't have any other side effects, but I was just lethargic for a day and a half.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_01: Which which one did you get?
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_02: Pfizer.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_01: Pfizer, yeah.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um, my brother got Pfizer.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_01: No, my sister-in-law got Pfizer.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_01: My brother and I both got Moderna.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_01: My dad got his Johnson and Johnson.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know about my mom yet, what she's gonna get.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_01: But that Moderna shot, oh my god, those side effects.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_01: The first one, my arm was sore and I had a little headache.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and it felt like a hangover headache.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_01: Like I woke up thinking I had a hangover, and I was like, Jesus Christ, what did you do last night, Taryn?
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_01: And then I went, Oh, we don't go out and drink anymore.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_01: So what the fuck was it?
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, I got a shot.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_01: My arm was sore as shit that first one.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_01: But that that second round, oh my god, that knocked me on my ass.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so I woke up Sunday morning, so we got it Sunday morning, but I woke up Sunday morning with the worst migraine headache, and I was freaking out kind of internally.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_02: I'm thinking, what the fuck?
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_02: I'm supposed to get this vaccine today at 11:30.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_02: What if I have COVID?
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I don't know how many days I've woken up and thought that I've had COVID over the course of the past year, and how much of it is just psychosomatic, you know, or it's just like, oh, I just coughed funny, you know.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_02: I'm feeling a little warm.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, I was in the sun all fucking day.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_02: Like so.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I've had um well I had a cold for a while.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_01: I felt all the drainage coming down.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_01: And so then it would give me a cough.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: And so then I had like not a lots of not a coughing fit, but I'd have to cough to clear my throat.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_01: And oh my God, listening to kids say, Go, Ved, go, Ved, quit saying that.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna get in trouble.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_01: They're gonna send me home.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_01: They're gonna make me go home.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_01: And really, I'm just got snot in the back of my throat.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_01: Leave me alone.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's it's it's kind of hell, especially if you have any kind of allergies whatsoever.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, it's springtime, so it's all allergies all the time now, man.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_02: We've we've touched the roller derby, we've touched school.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_02: So, what kind of things are you doing to occupy yourself in a post-COVID world?
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_01: You mean in in in the COVID times now?
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_02: The COVID times, yes.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_01: In the COVID times, what am I doing?
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_01: Because I'm pretty for sure that all I do is I come home, I eat dinner that I don't make, I pick up from a restaurant, a fast food place.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um, because I just don't have the energy to make food anymore.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_01: I've given up.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_01: I'm tired of it.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_01: So I come home, I eat, I watch YouTube videos, I lay with my cat, and then I go to bed.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_01: That's pretty much that's pretty much my my 90% day.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_02: I I think that's most people's day.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_02: You know, you just you just get up and you kind of it's it's groundhog day for everybody.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_01: Really, it is.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_02: The only change is the weather.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_02: So I don't know.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_02: Hopefully, hopefully the uh the country's majority vaccinated by mid-May, like it is being discussed, and we can return to a state of normalcy sometime this summer.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I cannot wait.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: I cannot wait.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I just if I have to listen to one more person talk about conspiracy theories about the vaccine, I will lose my brain.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_01: My brain will just shit out my asshole.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: That's what it will do.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_01: I'm so sick of listening to the the conspiracy theories.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_01: Although I will say my favorite one is the um that it has a microchip in there for tracking you.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_02: Oh and you know the the irony of that one is that everybody that says that is posting it from their cell phone on their free social media site.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_02: It's like motherfucker, the the your tracking device is in your hands, like and you're not interesting enough to be tracked in the first place.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: This thing, this thing knows more about you than probably you know about you.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, yes, the algorithms are real.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_02: I think I've talked about it and you know, endless delight.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_02: The the the social dilemma.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_02: If you haven't watched the social dilemma on Netflix, you have to watch that documentary.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_02: If you don't watch any other documentaries this year, watch that one.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_02: But for sure.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_01: My mom told me to watch that, and I was like, no, only because my mom told me to do it, and I was like, I don't really want to do what you tell me to do, mom.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_02: I'm telling you to watch it, but you you will it the funny thing is, the funny thing is, is you'll like think about it for like five minutes.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_02: It's like, man, maybe I should delete half my social media, and you'll get it'll get in your head for about half a day, and then you're like, nah, fuck, it's too fun.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_01: I know, like I that is that's one of the things I was like, mom, I I grew up.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_01: Um, my teenage years, my formative years for establishing what my adult adult life was gonna be like was um getting addicted to social media.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_01: So I don't really know how you expect me to function as an adult without it.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_02: So so did you ever have a MySpace, or was that before your time?
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_01: That was right in my prime time.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_01: That was MySpace was um my middle school to um freshman sophomore years of of high school.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_01: That that shit.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, those, those uh, you know, ranking your top 10 friends.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_02: The the glittery pages that you could make for yourselves.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, changing the backgrounds of the pages, finding those, those um, oh, what do they call them?
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I don't know, but basically learning the coat, learning how to coach to create this.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I never understood.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, what the fuck is this thing?
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, copy, paste, put it here.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, how many web developers did MySpace create?
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_02: As somebody that was in active in the music industry at the peak of MySpace, like that totally changed the music industry.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_02: And I have, and this could be a totally separate, totally separate podcast in and of itself, but I believe the downfall of the conventional music industry kind of goes hand in hand with the downfall of MySpace.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_02: I got a bunch of nutty conspiracy theories about that, even though I'm not really a conspiracy theory guy.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_02: Ooh, yeah, yeah.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_02: Instant gratification society.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_02: That's that's what we've become because of social media, and it all started with MySpace, but I still stand for it.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I I remember when Facebook started to get really um popular in Auburn.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I was I was I was all about MySpace, an MSM Messenger, but we'll circle back to that.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um, MySpace was my shit.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_01: I was I was all in on MySpace, and people were like, You should come over to Facebook, it's really cool, it's really fun.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_01: Da-da-da-da-da.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_01: And it was like, nothing will beat MySpace.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_01: And then I moved over, I just signed up one day for Facebook.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it was in 2007.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I was a junior in high school, and I haven't I haven't been able to leave it ever since.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_02: The biggest mass exodus of MySpace, I think, took place around 2008 and 2009.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_02: And that's when Facebook went more public.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_02: If you remember, Facebook, you had to be a part of a certain educational institution in order to have a Facebook page, and you'd had to be invited by somebody else when they first launched it out.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_02: So, like, like nowadays, anybody can sign up for a Facebook page, but uh originally it was for educational networking.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I thought it was for um finding single chicks that they could that's what that's what my space was for.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I thought I thought that's why the the Mark Zuckerberg created it anyways.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_02: Well, no, he he he created it as a ranking, and realistically, Mark Zuckerberg didn't didn't create it, he was a partner in it.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_02: He used the one but but he took credit for it.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_02: It was the Winklevoss brothers, I believe, that created it.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I really should watch um what was this the social network or yeah yeah yeah about Facebook before I start talking like I know anything about Facebook's history.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_02: Well, JT's in it, so I mean he plays so it's obviously super accurate, yeah.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, JT JT plays Sean Parker, the guy that invented Napster.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_01: So oh god, what a what a throwback there, yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_02: So speaking of throwbacks, let's tie this to other things that we normally chat about.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_02: Let's chat about some nerd shit.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_02: So so uh you've been you've watched WandaVision.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_02: I have not watched a single episode, and because of social networking, I feel like I've watched it all because of everything people are over-sharing on TikTok, on Twitter, on Facebook.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_02: So was it like I couldn't get past the first episode?
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_02: Is that a me problem or what?
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_01: That's definitely, I do think it's a you problem, but a lot of people had that problem.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_01: Um, see, I I saw, I didn't I try not to watch trailers because um I feel like that has a lot of spoilers in it.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but the little brief clips that I got, it definitely informed me that this was like a mystery.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_01: And then that first episode, I finished it and I went, what the fuck is this?
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, I can't just end it here and not know why the fuck they're doing this to Wanda and Vision.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I wasn't gonna let them do my girl Wanda like this without like me watching it to make sure that like this was just the first episode, which it was.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_01: It was the first two episodes were like, What the fuck?
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_01: Even my my friend scares, I play roller derby with her.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_01: Her full derby name is intensive scare, but call her scares.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um uh, I was with her this weekend and we watched um, she'd watched the first two episodes and started the third one and never finished it.
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, that's when it changes.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_01: That's like when you start going, oh fuck, this is not a sitcom, this is a fucking show.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_01: You you you ended it, but you left before the party got started.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_01: Get to the get to the party.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_02: So the popular theory online is that WandaVision is the first in kind of a trilogy of multiverse movies, so it's Wandavision and Spider-Man 3, and then Doctor Strange Multiverse of Madness.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_02: And that's why the whole Evan Peters as Pietro threw everybody off because they thought they thought he was going to be the Fox Universe, Quicksilver coming over to Marvel Universe.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_02: Because for those that don't know, Disney bought Fox a year and a half ago so they can start, they got free reign.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_02: X-Men's gonna be joining the Avengers here pretty soon.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_02: You're you know, those universes are gonna be merging at some point in time, whether they reboot it or they carry certain things over.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_02: And then there's rumors that you know, all three Spider-Men are gonna be in the Spider-Man 3.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_02: So you got Tobey McGuire and uh Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland, and then because I don't know.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_01: There's if there's if there's one thing that I learned from Wandavision, it's don't fall for the fan theories.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_01: Like, okay, so the first episode, the first two episodes came out for Wandavision, and I was like, what the fuck's going on?
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_01: There's gotta be some Easter eggs hitting here.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_01: So I went on YouTube and I started watching it, and then I started like watching like Screen Crush and New Rock Stars, and I really fell in love with watching New Rock Stars recap of each episode.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but they really just like the fan theories are gonna be so wrong.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_01: Like I appreciate because I don't I didn't ever read comic books as a kid, I didn't have access to that kind of stuff.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and so like I don't know the comic book history.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_01: So I do like going to YouTube and getting like the background stories of like the House of M and learning that this is kind of loosely based off of it, and um that there's a character named Mephisto who's like the M or the Marvel's um version of the devil, and yeah, and that um you know that in in the comic books, Wanda really did have twins named Tommy and Billy.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_01: Like I like learning the history of like the comic books, but um like all of the the little hints that they thought like would lead up to Mephisto, which I also really think that the producers of the MCU really trolled us really fucking hard um at every possible opportunity um on this series.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_01: So I part of me is like I think the the producers know that fans who know the comics and are on YouTube are looking for these Easter eggs that might tell us what's going on, and they just put shit in there as red herrings to fuck with us.
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_01: And I love that, but I hate that.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_02: Give you a fair counterpoint here.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_02: When you hear that Alfred Molina, who played Doc Ock in the Sam Rame Spider-Man films, just got cast as Doc Ock in Spider-Man 3, and that Jamie Foxx, who played Electro in the Andrew Garfield Spider-Man films, just got cast as Electro in Spider-Man 3, and then you hear that Sam Rami is directing Doctor Strange 2.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_02: So you gotta kind of read, you can't really fault the fans because the breadcrumbs are leading you there to a certain degree.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, see, that's I mean, there was I'll tell you what, in WandaVision, there was a shit ton of details that led to us thinking that um Senor Scratchy, um Agatha's rabbit was something more sinister, which I think it was, they just didn't fit it into the story, and that Mephisto was going to show up.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_01: Like I really think that they like to give you clues to tell you what's going on, but I also think they like to give you red herrings to fuck with you too.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_01: So I do think they're all about they like laying the Easter eggs because I think they like the attention that it gets the films when there's like these interesting little snippets and these Easter eggs in there that fans find and it gets a buzz going about the show and the movies and stuff.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_01: But I also think they know that they can fuck with us as much as they want to.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_02: So do you think that some of those fan theories are eventually gonna pay off to some degree though?
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, I do too.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I just I don't I'm so I feel like we so we just finished WandaVision and we've got this big picture of Wanda and and her role in the in the universe, yeah.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but we don't know how big the universe is.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_01: Like I I think we just saw this little itty bitty speck in this in this huge giant universe, and there's just so many places the MCU is gonna go, and this is just step number one.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_02: Do you do you think as as somebody that's followed MCU through their movies, uh do you think they have to do something extreme at this point in order to top endgame?
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_02: Because if there was ever an ultimate payoff to any type of series whatsoever, like endgame was the ultimate series finale, if there ever was one.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_02: So they they almost have to do something extreme to like keep people's interest, because a lot of the the movies that they've announced are kind of real second tier, like they took the Guardians of the Galaxy kind of roll of the dice because nobody knew who the fuck Guardians of the Galaxy were before that movie came out.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_02: Like comic book fans did, but the general public didn't.
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_02: But I mean, like having things like The Eternals and Shang Chi and some of the other movies that they've announced, um, you know, I don't know.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_02: It's just I I feel like they ha almost have to do something extreme.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_01: I personally um I just love the comic book movies.
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_01: Like I love the MCU, and I think as long as they keep having good stories and good writers and good effects, that I'll watch any of the movies.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_02: Like if they start like if they start making them like um Disney sequels before Disney sequels were good, you know, like the straight to video, Simba's Pride, Lion King 2 bullshit.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, if they start doing that shit, then it's gonna be uh a pain in my if they're I'm gonna hate it, but I'm still gonna watch them.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_01: I really am.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_01: I watched all those dis I watched all those terrible Disney movies that went straight to DVD or P Chi.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_02: We got we got kids.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_02: I'm sure we've got a bunch of those movies.
• 36:51
  SPEAKER_02: So, yeah, goals for 2021, 2022.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_02: Where where does Taryn Oliver see herself in the next year?
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my god.
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_01: I'll tell you what, I thought 2020 was gonna be my fucking year.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_01: I went into that year um with this idea that I had um someone on my team who was kind of shitty to me, um, who on roller derby who made me feel really shitty about how I played and how out of shape I was.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_01: And I was kicking my own ass and I was getting in shape, I was losing weight, and I was ready for that bout that we were gonna have in in North Platte, and I was fucking ready for it.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_01: I'll tell you, I had been working my ass off.
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_01: I was getting so good, and then the weekend that we were supposed to have our bout, that was the weekend that the world shut down.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_01: And so they made us cancel our bout.
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_01: And ever since then, I'm just like, fuck, I don't care what tomorrow brings.
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_01: I'll just wake up tomorrow and do it.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_02: Your circadian rhythm got totally thrown off, right?
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I don't know.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_01: I just I I don't have I feel like there's nothing to look forward to yet.
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_01: Like I just I'm still like holding my breath.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_01: Like, can I look forward to this?
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_01: Probably not, because I looked forward to um like I really thought that that thing was gonna end, like COVID was gonna be done and over with in March of last year.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_01: And I really thought I felt bad for all those spring birthdays and spring weddings that got canceled, and I was like, oh, it's all right, we'll have it all ready by the summer.
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_01: Things will be ready in time for summer.
• 38:29
  SPEAKER_01: And then summer came around and my birthday got canceled, and everything else got canceled, and I mean, and then we're still in the middle of it.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_01: So I I I've taken my my resolution this year was don't fucking plan anything.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_01: Don't don't fucking look forward to anything, just wake up in the morning and do whatever you're supposed to do each day.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think I think you your your story is kind of a common story for for a lot of people.
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I mean, it was I very similar for me too.
• 38:59
  SPEAKER_02: Like it was like 2020 was gonna be my bitch, you know, and uh I was I was gonna get shit done, and it felt like even after COVID, once we were starting to rebound a little bit, it's like something else would come along, and it's like, uh well, here's a new surge in cases or something along those lines.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_02: It's like it feels like we're kind of in groundhog day and we're just back to square one.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_02: But I will offer you this like the fact that there's vaccines and a plan in place to distribute vaccines and everything along those lines, take the politics out of this because this is not a political issue, it's a public health issue.
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_02: Yep, and anybody that politicizes it's a fucking idiot.
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_01: But fucking idiot.
• 39:40
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, take all that, take all that out of out of pocket, like you know, there's some light at the end of the tunnel, and you know, I wouldn't I would encourage you just like I I tell a lot of my friends, it's like just treat tomorrow or treat every day as if it were New Year's Day.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_02: Like it, it's it's you you can you can start again tomorrow.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_02: You can start again tomorrow.
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't get shit done today, but you can start again tomorrow.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_02: And I have to tell myself that too, because trust me, I get right I get discouraged too pretty pretty easily.
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_01: But well, I I my plans for 2021 is I'll tell you one plan I won't have.
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not getting another fucking cat.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_02: You speak pretty you speak pretty fondly of your cats.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_02: You have just one.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I have two! Oh my god, two was a mistake.
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_01: Two was an absolute mistake.
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_01: And if they were if they were nice to each other, I don't think it would be that bad, but I think they I think one of them loves me so much that he doesn't want the other one to have anything to do with me.
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_01: And then all I yeah, all I hear all night is them fucking fighting.
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_01: Oh god, they're they are not I I love them so much, but they are not my people.
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_01: Hi, I see you.
• 40:59
  SPEAKER_01: You're sitting on my computer.
• 41:02
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I tell you what, uh, so I'm gonna I'm gonna wrap this up here in just a few seconds, but I do want to tell uh a Taryn Oliver story in a way that you've impacted my life and you don't even know it.
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_02: So when you went to UNK, you worked with the wrestling team in some capacity, correct?
• 41:20
  SPEAKER_01: Correct.
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_01: Do you want me to explain that?
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, please do.
• 41:24
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so um I when I got to Carney, my freshman year, I went up to um coach um Bauer, Mark Bauer.
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_01: Um, he was the head wrestling coach, and I was like, hey, do you need any help?
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_01: And he's like, sure.
• 41:38
  SPEAKER_01: And I basically just became his bitch for the next four or five years.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I did whatever he asked me to do, um, whenever he asked me to do it.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_01: Um and as long as it took me, like it was um some days were like like 16, 20 hour days, it felt like um running tournaments, getting shit set up, calling people, um, answering his emails, um, running errands, basically just kicking my ass left and right.
• 42:08
  SPEAKER_01: But it was it was fun to be around the wrestlers.
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_01: Um, that was probably that was why I did it.
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, hey, wrestlers.
• 42:19
  SPEAKER_02: So, so anybody that knows me knows like I I've I've never been a football guy.
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_02: I played a little bit of basketball in high school, I sucked.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but I've always been into martial arts, like that's uh that's always been something consistent throughout my entire life.
• 42:34
  SPEAKER_02: So, as a byproduct of that, I'm a huge fan of MMA, I'm a huge fan of the UFC.
• 42:40
  SPEAKER_02: And one of UFC's champions was on your wrestling team, uh, Kamaro Utzman, uh, the Nigerian nightmare.
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_02: So there was one day he was he was in one of his fights, and I just kind of, you know, I I always kind of do a little recap on Facebook because my buddies and I like to talk about it, and I tagged him in it.
• 43:01
  SPEAKER_02: What I didn't realize is that I tagged his personal page because he's friends with you.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_02: And he ended up liking my status, and I shit my pants.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, what the hell just happened?
• 43:16
  SPEAKER_02: UFC champion just liked my status, and I was like, oh shit, this is his personal page.
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_02: This isn't like his fan page, this is his personal page.
• 43:27
  SPEAKER_02: So any commentary on that?
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_01: He probably doesn't even remember me, um, other than just like, because he was a bit, he was a little bit older than me.
• 43:37
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I we both I do remember this.
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_01: We both worked in the laundry room, um, washing athletes' laundry in the industrial washer and dryers that we had.
• 43:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, I I bet if he if you said, Oh, Taryn Oliver, she used to work for Coach Bauer, he'd be like, Oh, yeah, okay, yeah.
• 43:59
  SPEAKER_02: But I that but it was just hilarious.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, this is insane.
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_01: But this is this is not what I was expecting.
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_02: Right, right, right.
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_02: Well, and and thing is, is if I've uh I've learned anything from my little podcasting journey, it's that anything's possible.
• 44:15
  SPEAKER_02: Like I I played music for you know close to 20 years, and I got to open up for all of my favorite bands over that span of time.
• 44:24
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you know, I worked my ass off.
• 44:26
  SPEAKER_02: I I can't say that I was good or not, but I worked my ass off enough to where I got to be put in some pretty awesome spots.
• 44:34
  SPEAKER_02: But I've made more connections in the past six months and have traded more texts with people semi-celebrity type people because I'm a podcaster than I did when I was in all 20 years in my music business.
• 44:47
  SPEAKER_02: So it's just a weird thing, it's a weird construct.
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_02: Weird.
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_02: So it is weird, weird, it is weird.
• 44:54
  SPEAKER_02: So thank you very much for doing this.
• 44:57
  SPEAKER_02: This was a lot of fun just to sit and bullshit a little bit.
• 45:00
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, hell yeah.
• 45:02
  SPEAKER_02: So uh you're just you're just gonna have to uh swing by the house sometime, and we'll have to do this in person.
• 45:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm a fully vaccinated person.
• 45:10
  SPEAKER_01: I can be in the same room as another fully vaccinated person.
• 45:13
  SPEAKER_01: I gotta get in that mindset now.
• 45:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, absolutely.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_02: We all do, we all do.
• 45:18
  SPEAKER_02: We gotta be a bit more optimistic.
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the vaccines coming.
• 45:22
  SPEAKER_01: We can start living our lives again.
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, ma'am.
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, ma'am.
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_02: Once again, I want to thank our friend Taryn Oliver for being on the show today.
• 45:31
  SPEAKER_02: That was a lot of fun, and we really covered the gamut as far as topics go.
• 45:37
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not gonna lie, friends, I feel like the Welcome Back Cotter theme song is playing in my head right now.
• 45:45
  SPEAKER_02: I have not been able to create an episode for over a month, and it's been killing me.
• 45:50
  SPEAKER_02: So if you're listening right now, thank you very much for being patient and sticking with me.
• 45:55
  SPEAKER_02: And as always, I have my two big asks that I ask every episode.
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_02: First one being, please leave a five-star review on the Apple Podcast app or on any podcast app that allows you to leave reviews.
• 46:09
  SPEAKER_02: My second ask is please share our social media.
• 46:13
  SPEAKER_02: Whether it be Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, whatever, let's grow that audience so I can create more content for all of you.
• 46:22
  SPEAKER_02: I'm always looking for new and exciting guests, so feel free to drop me a line at caughtonthemic at gmail.com.
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_02: This has been Caught on the Mike with Michael Clark.
• 46:33
  SPEAKER_02: Until next time.
• 46:35
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.