Last Time We Almost Got In A Fist Fight, Travis Wild Best Buy Stories : IFS Highlight

0:00 Just the other day, I got had by an AI video. I'm like, fucking look at this guy. I sent it to Hidalgo. He's like, dude, that dude's AI, 100%.

0:08 I'm like, are you kidding me?

0:09 Was he musty, or what was he doing?

0:11 He was a very oddly shaped individual. Just jacking it.

0:15 Tyler, look at this guy.

0:16 No, he was doing electrical work, and he just was a.

0:18 Very weirdly shaped individual.

0:20 And then Tyler had sent me that same video, but he was with the original guy.

0:24 And then.

0:25 Because the first video I saw of the guy wasn't that video. And then I was like, oh, okay, this is totally it.

0:31 He looks weird. But, yeah.

0:33 Yeah.

0:33 It doesn't just happen to old people, you know? No.

0:35 We'll talk about it in a couple, whenever from now, a couple days from now, how long this podcast will go. But I got a Justin Herbert one. AI screwed me over. Because it was like an unbelievable quote, but still a believable quote. It was, I'm winning on the, it was unbelievable. off the field, I'm winning. So it doesn't really matter what happens on the field.

0:57 Oh, like it was like a video, like an interview or something?

0:58 Yeah, and it's him and the presser because those ones are really good. When it's him and the presser and like they got the, behind him, they got his voice and everything. And I was like, I don't think he said this. And I clicked on it and it was so good. And it was shared by someone that also like was not like a troll account. I was like, they clearly believed it too. So, but I was like, it's not completely crazy because maybe it's just like he's down out. He's 0-6. He's hating life, but he still looks over. He's like, well, I got Madison Beer, though.

1:23 I got that going on. So that's why I was like, I could believe, she's a looker, so I could believe if you are 0 and 6, you look over, fuck, I hate my life, and Madison Beer's like, you know what? Things aren't good on the off field. So I could believe that, but I didn't 100%, but it got me. I wasn't right away. So that's the most recent one that got me.

1:42 Honestly, that would be so much more believable than the legitimate story that i learned about today about the guy that had an altercation with his fucking lineman or something and went and got a gat out of his vehicle like it's fucking grand theft auto pvp mode or something i was so mind blown by that like i i just cannot even believe that that person.

1:58 Would do that i i can That's just so crazy to me.

2:04 Like obviously weird people, you know, definitely NFL ones also.

2:08 Cause I feel like a lot of them just have like brain damage, like CTE. So then it's just like, is those underlining? I mean, there's so many cases of like NFL players make millions of dollars and then they just go and fucking beat up their wife or whatever.

2:20 The off season or they just.

2:22 Like get caught with all these.

2:23 People or like just gun charges and stuff. And it's like, yeah, like they're playing gangster even though they have like their whole life out of them with all these meals like it just doesn't make sense at all but uh yeah i i think you shared it in nfl chat and i'm just like man like are you fucking kidding me like like that is literally like you're in like grade five and like this person just said something so i'm gonna push them like that's that type of behavior where it's like you are so unintelligent to the level that you're just gonna go caveman mode and i'm just gonna muscle this person because i'm upset with them instead of just defaulting to words yeah i've been there totally in like in like primary school right like like 100 like.

3:02 18 the last time i did it when i was 18 years old was the last time i called someone out to have a fight and i remember like a.

3:09 Fight club okay like yeah yeah i definitely had a different mindset i was like i can't solve things away even though there's many times i would love to just solve it out in a fight you know i would just love to duke it out but It was a guy called me out and.

3:21 I had a work issue with him and he was like rubbing stuff with my.

3:25 Was this at Best Buy?

3:26 It was at Best Buy, of course.

3:27 Oh, yeah.

3:29 And I have no problem talking about it because we ended up being okay. I don't even think he was remembered. He was such like a aloof, kind of a doofus guy at times, but a very nice guy. And I remember me and this girl had like, not even a fling, but it was like a will-they-won't-they sort of situation. Didn't work out. And it was for the best because we decided, you know, let's be friends, right? But he's not taking that angle. He's on social media, on Twitter. He's taking the angle that, you know, I'm just like... I can't remember what happened.

3:56 Like, in direct tweets? Or, like, at you?

3:58 Is he just, like, making tweets? Like, can you imagine being this person that does X, Y, Z?

4:02 No.

4:02 Or is it, like, actually, like, dropping names in online tweets?

4:07 This is if I speak, so I have no problem sharing this, right? Okay. Not one of my best moments here. So, I.

4:14 So.

4:16 oh how do we do this how do we let it go about this so i fuck we're gonna go down a big memory lane here but let's set up the story this is where we go with i speak so a friend is gonna be moving away and then i was uh and it was this was a girl and we were very close and we were just friends at that point and i was upset and i think there was a double things of i had a bad breakup so i was in a bad space and i definitely that was one thing where i was just looking for whatever, looking for some connection, which I found, but then I was looking for a relationship connection, because this relationship went really bad. And then I was upset by her moving, and I remember one of the guys at Best Buy was like, oh, you're just so upset. Do

4:54 you think you like her? And I never thought that way before, but then it started that inception thing of like, maybe I do. So then we kind of talked about it and everything, and then what fucked me up was, and this is where I was in the wrong, but I wasn't. I, my mother, was dating somebody at Best Buy.

5:11 They were dating before... And they met and they were dating at Swish LA and then Swish LA closed. So he's looking for a job right around the time. Of course, we work at Best Buy together in the same department selling TVs. Awkward as hell. Even when they broke up, it was awkward. We still worked at Best Buy. Yeah.

5:30 Are you serious? Oh, yeah. No, no, I'm serious.

5:33 Oh, my gosh.

5:34 We worked together.

5:34 How did I not know this?

5:36 Oh, yeah. So this will be a good little topic here. So, yeah, they met and then we're working. And I remember he probably won't see this, but you never know because now I see him. I'll see him tomorrow night. You know why I'll see him tomorrow night?

5:47 Oh, no.

5:48 Because his kids go to the same school my kids go to now because he was younger than my mom. So all the time I see this guy, I see him every school event because he's part pack. I see him all the time.

5:57 You might as well just become friends at this point.

5:59 Your circles are so intertwined.

6:01 I didn't mind the guy. We were fine. It was a situation where I tried to give him a chance. I remember we went to go see Dredd, and we went to Freddy's Brew Pub, and this is our first, like, hey, okay, he's been dating my mom for a while, so, like, I'm going to get to know him. Seems cool.

6:14 You're, like, what, 18, 19 at this time?

6:16 Yeah, yeah, 18, 19. Exactly, right? Like, not even 20 yet, right? But I'm like, okay, she likes him. I work with him, so I see him all the time. And he was not a bad guy. No problems with it.

6:24 Yeah.

6:25 And we were same department full time all the time.

6:27 That's just wild dynamic.

6:28 Yeah. His best friend worked there too. It was a wild dynamic. You know how much shit I would get at people at work? Oh, yeah.

6:35 I would imagine.

6:35 Low hanging fruit.

6:37 Low hanging fruit.

6:38 And luckily at that time I had so much relationship drama going on. It didn't matter. But I was like, yeah, he's dating my mom. And one of my friends, Eric, would always be making jokes about.

6:46 Yeah, as expected.

6:47 And that's why I was never mad, because I was like, well, I'd be doing those too, right? So anyway, before we get back to the drama, we went to go with Siege Red, and I remember we went to Fray's Brew Pub, the theater beside the theater. We got some nachos, we shared them, and it was just one of those of, we had nothing to talk about. It was like, you sit down, you look at the menu, you order, you eat.

7:07 So let's say we were there for about half an hour. I'd say about five minutes after, we were really out of material. And then it was like, we're just trying to like, find anything, like, and you talk about work, and then, like, after it wasn't, like, awful, it's just like, okay, clearly we're not, like, we can't be, like, friendly that way, and that's fine, there's people in life where it's like, okay, we just can't talk like that, so that's okay, but anyway, so this guy, so we were talking about this, there was, like, a sense of, like, maybe we like each other, maybe we don't, I floated it out there, and even to the point where she was thinking about Damien, so that's okay, if she's thinking about it, then there must be something there, right,

7:42 because I opened up that conversation, And she said, let me think about it. So, okay. It's not direct. No, there might be something going on there. Right. And then why I got like it in my head like that. Oh, I think she does like me. That guy said, Hey, I was in the break room and I heard if she wasn't moving that she would definitely be with you.

7:58 So I was like, Oh shit. I learned later that he misheard that information. And then, cause I went up to him and I said, you remember when you told me that, did it actually sound like this? He's like, Oh yeah, maybe. And for me, 18 skyrocket like ruining a friend relationship where now son i think this friend might like me and i think i might like her and now i'm getting someone else to being told like oh yeah i think she really likes you i'm like i'm my mind is fucked up so this whole summer the summer of um 2012 starts where she's there she has an end date she's moving to australia right so it's one of these things and she came back but so it's like okay what's gonna happen there yeah yeah yeah and the we eventually decide, okay, that's not going

8:38 to happen. And more so on her side, which it's fine. I respected it. And then eventually came around. I was like, yeah, once I was not depressed anymore after breakup, I was like, yeah, this would never worked as like a dating thing. And eventually, and it was very weird. It was a very weird dynamic where, and this is where again, Kirkland, very strange world, very small world. So what's going on? Me and Eric, the same friend I talked about, hopefully you didn't mind I name drop him. We go to Kelly O's. We used to go to Kelly O's almost every night after close.

9:04 Cause we worked at Best Buy from 10. We'd be off at 11. I had money to blow and nothing to do. And if I'm not going out, we go to Kelly O's and he's closing. And one of my best friends, we talk all the time. And then there's a girl, I won't say her name to my side, great looking girl. And, but she, she sat down, we joked a little bit and then we, she went back to her dinner and there was no way of like, I missed the opportunity.

9:26 Like, Wait, she just came and sat with you?

9:29 No, no, no. It's like the tables are like– it was so busy. It's like we're here and there's a table like right beside us where they're eating. So like with the two arms like. But it was something where something happened. We made a joke. I can't remember what it was. And then I missed the shot to like ask her, like even continue that. And it was awkward.

9:43 So I remember walking out. I'm like, okay, I got it. And I only did this move once. And luckily I met Emily. The rest is history. I'm very happy. But if I didn't meet Emily, I was going to use this move a lot more where I paid for her meal and i left the phone number on the receipt and guaranteed i've given other people that advice and it's worked every time because no matter what the person's going to be intrigued of like all right they bought me dinner like let's let's see what happens so i meet this person what what.

10:10 Just totally remembered something else it's totally not related but like similar carry on i'll find it send it to you later OK.

10:17 Oh, OK. This is an off air thing. Can't be shared on air.

10:21 Like it could.

10:22 But it's like it's like a skit that you just reminded me of. But you always bring it up.

10:27 If it if it's wrong, we can cancel. We can edit it out and then I'll save it.

10:30 So it's not wrong. It's hilarious. Like it is. It is good.

10:33 Cancel curriculum. But anyway, so this happens and I'm like, OK. And this girl text me back. We're talking back and forth. Yet we go on a date. And it's all going well. And then eventually I found out this would not work because she was a big party animal at that time. And that's fine, right? But this is in the stage where it's just like date and see what's happening. I'm in the break room. It's always happening in the break room.

10:51 And I'm talking to one of my friends at the time there, Johnny, talking about this girl. And he's like, that sounds a lot like this person. It says the name. I'm like, oh yeah, really? And then he brings up the Facebook thing. And I'm like, oh yeah, that's her. So the friend girl that's going to Australia, she's also here.

11:09 And she's like, You went on a date with her? And I have no idea how they know each other. They used to be best friends. They are no longer best friends after fighting over a dude. So finally, I'm like, okay. I had this bad breakup. This maybe, you know, friendship turned relationship. That's not happening. So I meet this new girl.

11:24 I'm like, okay, man, this is going to happen. And then, of course, and me and her are still friends at this point. Of course, at this point, she's like, oh, you're dating her? Like, you do want to date with her? And it's like, I can't win. So it's like, because now she, like, I'm dating this former friend that she hates.

11:38 So I continue to do this. Because I kind of had the mindset of like, well, you said nothing's happening. So, of course, Kirkland, a birthday party's coming up. I don't know if I've told this story before. I think I've told it a little bit where my uncle left that town. He found out eventually I threw massive parties. And he's like, yeah.

11:52 A few years later, he's like, yeah, I know what you did. I'm like, okay. I figured. He was a cool uncle. That's fine. But anyway, so he had a big house. I threw one party. It was a low-key party. And then one of my friends, Nick Velka, who lived in Dylan's place before Dylan moved in, the Custer Dome.

12:07 Me and Kyle were part of it.

12:08 That same building?

12:09 Yeah, there's me and Kyle recorded a podcast, a rant, rave, repeat podcast in the Custer Dome before Dylan lived there.

12:16 That is crazy.

12:17 And Dylan met Nick Valka before when they were like showing him. There's so many things that are happening. So anyways, he had a dream. He's like, I had a dream. We had the birthday party. He was just hanging out. And I remember everyone worked the next day. So it was a low-key birthday party. And it was me and this girl's birthday. Very similar.

12:33 Days apart.

12:34 So we did it together. So he had a dream. And he's like, I had a dream that you had another party. And it was just like a rage or a banger and stuff. I'm like, oh, yeah. My uncle's not back for a little while. We could do it. We did this. And this was a situation where no one worked the next day. Emily was at this party.

12:49 I'll let Emily tell the story one day. She. Lots of drinks had by Emily. I'll just say Emily was doing some snow angels on the ground. You know, definitely in a party mode. But everybody was gone. And this was a situation where now I'm watch... I got to watch this household. But what I do, because at this point, I'm like, okay, I'm a little shit disturber.

13:05 I invite friend girl and then Kelly O's girl to the same party. And I know they dislike each other. And I remember, because I'm like, at that time, a little salty, right? Of being told, like, yeah, maybe we should just stay friends. Like, okay, I thought there could have been something there. And then at the end of the day, like I said, she was right. But this is happening. And I remember... She walks in and same thing. Oh, you invited her. I just remember, which I'm still friends with this lady. That was just her voice in those situations.

13:28 She was never like that all the time. Like you invite her like, yeah. And I remember like, uh, there's stuff going on. She came over, her birthday is coming soon. We're talking. I mean, her went upstairs and you know, nothing like crazy happened, but you know, some, some good stuff was happening. And then she had to go. And I remember I got back in the hot tub and I'll show that girl came to me and just like, again, just like, So what's going on there? And I just remember I kept my cool and I wasn't, I don't drink.

13:56 I wasn't drunk. And I just remember in front of everybody being like, you got no right saying anything. I can do whatever I want. And I'm such an idiot. And then I went underwater in the hot tub to avoid talking to her. I was like, you got no right. I can date her. You said we shouldn't date. So I'm moving on. And then I went under the water.

14:17 And then when I came to the water, she was gone. Later on, she goes to make out with one of my friends to get back at me. It was touche. And later on, I was like, that's a good move. But then we got in a big fight the next day. I remember my favorite line I've ever said in a fight situation. She wakes up and she slept over. Of course, she slept in my bed. So that was awkward, too.

14:33 So she wakes up and she tells me about the situation about my friend. And I'm a little mad about it because it definitely was like she's just doing to get back at me. So it's like, OK, cool. And then she's like. she was looking for something. And then I said, Oh, well, do you know where your phone is?

14:47 And she's like, Oh yeah, I got that. And she found thing. I'm like, okay, well, do you know, let's say she was looking for a shoe. She found the shoe. Okay. Well then do you know where your phone is? She's like, yeah. I'm like, well, do you know where your wallet is? Yeah. And then I go, do you know where your keys are?

14:58 And she goes, yeah. And then I go, okay, good. You have everything that you need to get the fuck out. And that it was a cold line and it broke our friendship for a little bit. We all figured it out. So anyways, eventually this guy, Zach, I can't remember what I did to bring his like haste, but he was just chirping at me. And maybe that's just all he wanted.

15:17 He bringing up all this drama, everything like that. And here's where it comes down to. And this is where I was a loser and I was just mad depressed. This person knew I wanted a dog, the Australian girl. So I can't wait. When I move out of my house, I'm going to get a dog. So she bought me a gigantic, huge stuffy that was a dog for my birthday.

15:37 And this is why I was getting lots of mixed signals here. We're not dating, but it's a massive like, OK, what's going on here? But I get this big stuffy, right? And this is in the age where I'm young. I'm on social media. And that's why I don't want my kids to be on it. And one day while we're in this stage where we're hating each other, not talking, I just tweet a picture of of the dog at my uncle's place, like the stuffy dog and it's by our fireplace. And the caption was just something like, Oh, wouldn't it be a shame in this like caught a blaze or something like that. Right. Uh, like I'm just insinuating that I'm going to burn this dog. She follows me on Twitter. I know she's stuffy dog, stuffy dog.

16:12 I'm insinuating that I'm going to get rid of the stuffy. I know she can see it. And that's where he brought up. He's like, Oh, well at least I'm not on Twitter being a loser. Uh, Saying I'm going to burn a stuffy. He was right though. He was right. But I was like, so I go into his DMs and we were chirping each other all night. And this was the last time I ever challenged someone to a fight.

16:28 I was like, all right, you name a place. And I knew I could have fucked this guy up. This guy was not doing anything. So he's like, I'm not doing that. I'm, I'm too old for that. And he was younger than me. He was like 72. I'm too, I'm too old for that. I wouldn't do that. And then eventually my friend that I talk about Erica several times when I get into work the next day, he was like, Hey, I saw the tweets. You can't be doing that stuff. You're becoming an adult. And he's like older than me. He's not like older, but he's like about maybe 10 years older than me. So he was in his 30s. I was in my early 20s or about to be early 20s. And he's like, you can't be doing that.

16:56 You're a wise sage.

16:59 Yes, he was. He was wise about many things. And he's like, you can't do that. Like, maybe that's what you did in school. And I was kind of like, yeah, I guess so. But I was still, like, at high school. And that's what you would do back in high school, middle school. Like, you'd scuff it up. And I was like, yeah, I guess I can't do that. And for everybody, I did not burn the stuffy. I did eventually have to get rid of it. Because once Emily and I started dating and she knew the other person, she's like, You're getting rid of that stuffy. Yeah, that'd be weird. I held onto the stuffy for quite a while. Because I used to use it.

17:26 Without telling her? Without telling Emily? No, she knew.

17:29 She was at the birthday, Emily. So she knew it was from this person.

17:31 It was in the room.

17:32 No, there's no way you could hide the stuffy, Kirkland. It was massive.

17:35 But she was like, oh, you better get rid of this.

17:36 Yeah, she was. And then once, no, I didn't hit her. It was still the end of the bed. It was still like, I did put on the ground like a way, but it was so big, you'd still like see its paw.

17:44 Or whatever.

17:45 So then once we moved in, she's like, you're getting rid of this. And I'm like, oh, well, could I give it to my sister? At this point, she's younger. She's like, you're getting rid of it. So like, OK, that's fair.

17:51 You're burning it. I saw those tweets.

17:53 Yeah, live on there. And because I don't think they were like the closest. I don't even hate you. They were their closest friends. I was like, and again, I was like, yeah, that was that was the right call. Got to get rid of it. But that was the last time I ever challenged them to a fight with someone's chirping at Twitter. And they had all the ammunition.

18:06 They were completely right because they were there for all this. And that's where this he was a shit disturber. And that's where I was like, all right, I just want to fucking fight. Can we fight? Can we do this? Because clearly he's winning the mental battle right now so I can win the physical battle. But then there was– and then what was so weird, it was like months later, he like picked– I was walking the parking lot of Best Buy. He didn't work there. He pulled over. He was like, hey, you going home? I'm like, yeah. He's like, you want a ride?

18:30 I'm like, yeah.

18:30 It's like he completely forgot anything ever happened. This is a guy, hopefully he doesn't mind me saying, his arm was numb for about two to three weeks. cause he got so drunk, he fell asleep on his arm like this and he slept on it for 10 hours and he went to the doctors and he slept on the wrong way. We're like, yeah, you're not going to get active use in this right arm for about two to three weeks. So he was working at Best Buy where he, cause all he had to do was stand at a desk and watch security, which is like, this is your security guy. He doesn't even have his right arm. Um, and then when stuff like that happened, I was like, okay, he was just a dumb, you know, I won't say dumb, but it's a silly guy that was just getting the

19:06 best of me. But, uh, Yeah, so that was the last time ever when I was around 18. And now it hasn't, other than obviously Geek First, because Geek First, we've had to go to Duke's many times, but that's contracts, you know, that's other things. But Superman Mike says, God damn, this is good material for a future TV Studios project. Mike, I have the treatment written for my 2012 to 2013 era.

19:27 I definitely want to make a rom-com about my Best Buy era. There was just so much stuff going on.

19:33 Your mom's boyfriend. Who are we going to cast for that?

19:37 Oh, someone who looks like Where's Waldo. Like, that's what he looked like. He used to do that a lot. So, oh, yeah. There was just so many good, like, it was high school 2.0, again, at Best Buy. And, yeah, that's what happened. But, hey. after the fact, everyone was all friends. There was because I remember, too, for a while we weren't friends, me and the Australian girl. And then almost like a month or two before she left, there was some person at work that was a huge asshole to her. And I called him out in front of a bunch of people and we weren't even like friendly, but I was like, okay, this is like, you're just being a complete dick. And then after that, we like, she thanked me, we got lunch and it was like nothing ever happened. We're like, okay,

20:13 that was like, shouldn't have done that, which was good. It was a good early experience because it was these things of like, you see them all the time in movies and stuff of friends, maybe dating or not dating. And it did teach me a lot of like, okay, if anything, like, because me and Emily were friends before we started dating. And I think that helped because it was like, okay, I had an experience already. Let's, take this slower let's just be honest with stuff where i felt like in the uh like i said in the past when someone else told me oh yeah she said she totally did you now i'm okay i need to hear this car information because of the team i got well i got the upper hand now because someone overheard

20:43 what she said and now i.

20:45 Got a hit going on yeah i got a bite on the hook yeah.

20:47 Where i was like oh he oh he missed her where she said like a variation of that of like a maybe something so yeah it's.

20:53 So funny like looking back on like just like high school like when that would happen right especially like in high school because like you are just in the same kind of social, like, there'd be different cliques, but, like, you're seeing the same people every day.

21:05 It's like you're working, right? So then it's just.

21:08 Friend groups or people you think, like, like who and, you know, like, whatever. People like other people. People know about all that. Just those whole dynamics and just those games of, like, talking to people and then, like, making moves.

21:21 I don't know.

21:21 It's just, it seems like forever ago. Maybe I'm just feeling like an old man now.

21:25 No, it feels like it more and more as, uh, life goes on and everything, but.

21:29 Like the fighting thing.

21:30 I mean, definitely like in elementary school, I feel like there's definitely some wrestling and scraps and whatnot that would just happen. Cause that's just natural youth evolution.

21:39 I feel maybe it's more of a guy thing than girls for sure. But, uh.

21:43 Honestly, it probably would have been, like, sports was, like, the last time I really felt that, where, like, I just want to fuck this guy up right now. Like, I played a lot of hockey, for sure.

21:51 Even, like, soccer.

21:52 I remember, like, certain soccer tournaments. Like, there was just teams that you just knew it was going to be chippy. It's like, oh, man, we're playing fucking.

21:57 Yeah. I don't even know. We're playing.

22:00 merit or vernon or something like that like oh man those fuckers like they like they're just lesser it was the west side for us yeah actually honestly it was always rutland rutland was always the the rivals.

22:12 Now bush was just like that was the hood yeah i remember them always being like thinking of plans to crash parties and all this type of stuff and that's what's so funny like when i talk about dating stuff i was so young but then at that time in high school my friends would explain to me some of these plans like the jog friends i'd be like this is fucking dumb. This is what you guys are doing in your free time. Like, why, why are you doing this? Like, this doesn't matter. Like, why are we rivaling with Mountbush? Oh, cause this, this is like.

22:34 Well, it's just at the time, right? It feels like the most important thing ever.

22:38 See, I didn't have that. I didn't have that. Cause I hated school. Maybe. So that's why I wasn't like, yeah, I'm fucking rocking the Rutland flag.

22:43 It's like a team mentality thing, right? Especially if it's like a sports thing. It's like, well, this is our team. We're team Rutland. So then we got a fucking, we got our jackets. We're going to look out for each other or whatnot. As if it's like, greece or something you know or like the outsiders like how there is just like that type of level fortunately i've never been.

23:00 To that party got like beat up because he was like wrong it wasn't supposed to be there and i was like bushry parties were.

23:05 Just notorious for like even people from mount bushry would be just like pepper spraying each other and fucking yeah there was a wild story actually i will tell this because i i didn't go to this school but uh so there's like a bush party at mount bushry i live on the west side of a whole life so mount bushry is like the high school, but because I was French immersion, I went to Kelowna.

23:23 So it was kind of, it was interesting. Cause I like, I grew up on the West side.

23:26 So all my sports were like the West side kids, but I went to Kelowna for school. So then I like friends from Kelowna. I was just intermingling, intermingling.

23:35 But then I would hear about these parties.

23:36 Cause I like go play soccer or hockey, whatever these guys from West side, going to Mount Bush street. And, uh, it's a fucking wild story. So there was like a Bush party. This guy came up, I don't know. Probably some loser guy. And he just fucking pepper sprayed bear mace into a crowd of people. So then, of course, everyone that got pepper... They just fucking gang beat this kid.

23:59 Absolutely just stomped him.

24:00 It was brutal.

24:01 And then he leaves, comes back with his dad. His dad, probably a total piece of shit. Just starts beating up kids. I'm not even kidding. This fucking elderly man. I don't know how old he was, but he was definitely an adult because his dad.

24:12 Older than these kids at the party.

24:14 Yeah, like, full-on, like, violence to children. So the next day, I heard, well, maybe not next day, but when they were at school, guy comes, like, drop off his kid. Police were just, like, waiting for him right there. They just, like, arrested the guy right then and there. There was, like, a whole ordeal. And, like, I would just always be, probably wasn't that often, but in my mind, it just felt like it was often. I would just be hearing these stories from Mount Boucherie, and I'm like, man, our bush parties are, like, so tame.

24:38 Like, everybody loves everybody. Like, it's just so different. So, yeah, I'm pretty fortunate I was.

24:43 in those circles as opposed to the Mount Bushiri ones.

24:46 Yeah.

24:47 I feel like there was something there that I was going to add on to your story, but no, it's some wild.

24:52 I feel like there's always.

24:54 hidden dlcs when it comes to the best buy stories i think i know it all and then you tell me some random thing about like oh yeah this guy that i worked with dated my mom for a while it's like are you fucking kidding how did i not know this this this whole.

25:04 Time yeah and that's why because i always people always say that too right when like screenwriters right now where it's like oh if you make some based on your life it's like oh is that interesting it's like no i'm not saying my whole life i'm saying this particular two years where i worked at because even high school like i said i didn't get into this type of stuff but these two years where is it best buy just A bunch of stuff just always going on, even though it was like the workplace employee things, right? So maybe one time I'll have to do a Best Buy follow-up, so I'll try to transcribe my whole time there because we had this boss that got fired halfway through, and he was up to some shady stuff with employees. He

25:38 was doing stuff like he showed up two hours late to open the fucking store. And people are just standing outside like employees waiting with the customers while this guy is like, oh, I work today.

25:47 The Dane Cook skit. Do you remember when he was going to work at the movie store?

25:51 He was the man. He was the guy at the store. Not just like the boom. He was the CEO, not CEO, but whatever, the main supervisor. And yeah, the best part was there's just tons of stuff with the work stuff. People getting fired for doing shady things as far as like giving away TVs for certain amounts. And it's just like using someone having like, dozens of credit cards on their account to not get caught and stuff it was like there was just it was a big learning curve in life and business for some reason i thought it was just gonna be like a boring whatever nine to five sort of job right and then and then yeah that's obviously where i met emily and i met kyle and.

26:28 That's funny yeah it i feel like white spot was that for me like that was my first job like in high school that's actually where i met shay too funny enough but like I feel like I worked there for a long time, but it was probably less than two years, like, all said and done. And I feel like that was just one of the most important, like, jobs that I had. Like, especially at that age, like, turning into kind of an adult and just learning, like, stress management, working, like, kitchen rush and all that. But then also just, like, working with people that aren't just, like, your age and just the whole dynamics of that.

27:03 Yeah, very.

27:04 important job at that stage of my life um i always said it was my least favorite job like at the time but then when i look like looking back on it like man what an important step in my evolution of a human that job.

27:16 Oh yeah no because i think about all the time like if i didn't get accepted there it's like my whole life would be completed because even then too like when you're in high school i went to like a couple high school parties and rutland was not my vibe i've always said this before like when i met i think they all went this i can't remember wait did Saris go to your school or no? Okay. So yeah, maybe it wasn't that, but it was, it was Kyle.

27:38 And then Nick Falco, the guy that used to live at Dylan's cousin's own place, like him and a couple other people. When I met them at Best Buy and they all went to, I can't remember. It was KSS or something. What was it in between us? If it was Rutland, Mount Bush, it was more like around KLO, not the.

27:53 Religious school, not the religious school. No, there's KCS.

27:57 Yeah.

27:58 Kelowna Christian School, Immaculata was another Christian school, but I think he went to KSS, actually.

28:03 I think it's KSS, yeah. And that's where I went. Okay, there you go. Oh, and that's where Ty went.

28:07 Yeah.

28:08 Okay, well, there you go. Well, there you go, and that's where I just vied with everyone way more as far as the Rutland type were not my type of people.

28:16 KSS was the best, man.

28:17 It sounds like it. It sounds like it, but that's where I remember at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm not like a, party or not going out or whatnot it was just then once i got my crowd at best buy it's like oh i was going out all the time to the point where emily was like i'm done going out because she had already done it.

28:30 She's that's interesting yeah it's all about the the people that you're doing it with yeah.

28:34 Because the actual event itself because yeah then i was going to level i was going to the casino yeah it was always backs flashbacks was saturday casino was friday and then level was thursday i think.

28:46 What an expensive weekend for you i.

28:48 Had nothing to do and then sometimes kelly was after but friday was sapphire but the kss crew kyle and did not like sapphire so we didn't go to sapphire which was fine because i went there a couple times it was not uh not my vibe very dude broey there when you were there just a lot of just a lot of girls dancing a lot of dudes in the corner like like staring like what the fuck's going on here like what why is this vibe like this and There'd be a lot of shovers on the dance floor. Um, but yeah, so yeah, no, like, and I still have friends from Rutland, but they were, it was just that whole group was not my vibe. So I was like, Oh, I went to, I went to the wrong place. Cause I vibe with all your, you know, crew a lot more. And, uh,

29:25 but yeah, that's where, yeah, it was the, the people go into those situations. Cause that's what made fun. And again, like I never, they asked me about it, but that was always a big thing in Rutland of like, Oh, you should drink or you're going to drink where like people like, oh, you don't drink. And then it almost got to the point where it was too nice, where I got annoyed by them because they would always be like, oh, I wish I didn't drink. You're so good. I don't need that. I'm not trying to be like a fucking preacher on your doorstep. Like, I don't need like, go ahead and take your drink. But they like look at me like I'm going to judge them. It's like, no, you can do whatever. I just don't do that.

29:53 And that's where it was like people get uneasy.

29:54 Right.

29:54 When they're like.

29:55 Yes.

29:55 Cause they're like kind of putting their guard down of like getting intoxicated.

29:59 I don't fuck either.

30:00 Yeah.

30:00 What's this? Oh, good for you. Yeah. I wish I didn't either. Yeah.

30:04 I don't touch human skin.

30:06 Yeah.

30:06 Oh, I know.

30:07 I get that. Cause most people, especially at that age when they're younger, just getting in the clubs, it's like, Oh, I'm taking as much as I could.

30:12 Everyone's insecure, you know?

30:13 Yeah. A hundred percent. Yeah. So, but yeah, no, that was a much, much better crew. Uh, once I met everyone there and yeah. And then like I said, man, Emily and they said it's, it's, Honestly, nowadays I don't, but the what-ifs I always think about, that is the biggest one of Best Buy. If I don't end up homeless in the Yukon and come back and be like, oh, I got to get an official job. And even then, Best Buy was so fucked up, they hired me as a full-time home theater sales employee. There's only two of us.

30:40 There's the manager and then two of us. The manager who I was trying to sleep with never happened. I did find out she was maybe having an affair with somebody, so I thought I had a shot, but I was worried about my job. Now, granted, again, the whole spectrum... I was happy I didn't do it because I met Emily, but the friend that was wise all the time was telling me, like, you should go take a shot. She was my boss, so I was like, no, I can't do that. I'm going to lose my job. This job paid me nothing. I should have tried to take a shot.

31:03 I thought I had a shot, too, because one time she said something I couldn't remember, but then I told my friend. He's like, yeah, that's fucking weird. I'm like, right?

31:10 Do you want to fuck me is what she said to you?

31:12 Yeah, just slid me a note. Anything with that, huh? It's in Scary Movie 1 when he's showing Sydney the photos, like, Can you just take a look at this one again? It's him in the laundry. No, not good for you. Try this one again. Yeah, yeah. What about this angle? No, okay. We'll call you if we hear anything. But no, they hired me as a full-time sales. And I thought that was what I always wanted was to be in the gaming section, DVD section, walking around, helping people. And I did that sometimes. And then I get called on the radio.

31:42 But my boss would be like, stop fucking doing that. That's not your job. Even though home theater had video games and DVDs, really all they.

31:48 Wanted you to do is just– On the radio in front of the customers. Stop fucking doing that.

31:54 No, but like all– the home theater stuff for DVDs and games was really just make sure there's not games and stuff on the floor and then come back and sell TVs. And it was– And I had no experience. I was a fucking landscaper and they hired me as a full-time sales employee.

32:07 It was super weird.

32:09 Where my mom's boyfriend was a manager at Swiss Chalet and he got hired as a part-time home theater. So I was above him. It made no sense. It was just such a shit show. It was like I said, there was a comedy of error. So if GDS ever blows up, yeah, I would love to cast a bunch of young actors and have them do these stories. And like I said, there's There's action. I've told this story before.

32:33 At one point, I was almost getting run over by an ex because their current boyfriend saw me and was like, oh, we're going to take this guy out. And I had to bike ride for my life. That's what it felt like, man. I did think I was going to die. I just remember being like, I got to get to Jess' house. And I did. But the whole time, I got to get to Jess' house. I got to get to Jess' house.

32:51 And fuck, man.

32:53 The wildest part about that story for me is the epilogue where you're actually like, hanging with this guy at one point he's driving you home and he's like.

33:03 No no they're like two separate guys two separate two separate guys the quick the i'll give the elevator pitch seeing this girl or sorry again scumbag travis she is a boyfriend i'm pursuing the whole time because i know she doesn't like this boyfriend she breaks up with this boyfriend me and her start to see each other and then randomly just calls me we can't do this anymore i find out she's dating another guy at best buy like their boyfriend girlfriend not seeing each other And then what happens is, though, they eventually break up. He comes to me. I've told you the story of the awkward Kelly O'Brien's dinner because I was in Kelly O'Brien's where he's asking all these questions. Now he– the next person

33:38 she starts to date lived across– this is, again, the small world. The boyfriend, her new boyfriend, boyfriend three, lives across from where I live with my mom. We live in a townhouse area with, like, eight houses. And it's one house. It's, like, across the street. And then two over is where she's dating this guy. And to get to work, I have to bike past that fucking house.

33:57 And I remember one late night I did it. And this was after I, like, shared my side of the story. And then everyone was like, oh, fuck, Travis was right. I had to text to back it up. That's where I don't know if it's her idea or his idea. I remember I'm biking to work. I'm working or I'm coming home from work because I'm working the night shift.

34:12 And I remember I see them. I lock eyes with them both and they're getting in their car. And then the lights turn on and I'm like, oh, fuck. And I turn around and he cuts me off because he like my house is over there. He goes this way. So I'm not going to drive. And I was feeling like this was not a good situation already of just like we lock eyes. They get in the car immediately and the engine roars. I can't make it to my house.

34:34 And if I feel like, and even if he doesn't run me over, I think he might beat the shit out of me. And I don't know. I don't know if I could take this guy. I've not, I don't know much about him. I knew of him. We actually went to fucking middle school and high school, but I've not seen him in years. And I was like, I don't know if he's going to just fuck me up with a weapon or something. So it's not even playing around.

34:51 So I was like, I got to go in this alley. And then, yeah, I'm biking. And it's like, I got to get to my Jeff's, my friend's Jeff's house, which is a checkpoint. But, Cause I don't know what happened. I just don't think I would've made it to the house. And maybe here's the thing. They could have just been fucking with me the whole time. Right. But I was not taking that chance. I was not taking the chance of like, I've never.

35:07 I've been air on the side of caution.

35:09 Yeah. I've been like beat up, but like this guy, what I remember from his track record was very much like a, he might like fuck you up completely. And I don't know if I could take them, but like, if I can't, yeah, take all those pants. Uh, but like, I don't know if I can take them, but if I can't take them, it's, it's not going to go well.

35:25 So it's like, okay, I know. And it's nighttime. He's got a car, I got a bike, but, uh.

35:30 No, that's not, I mean, yes, good, good to fill everybody that doesn't know that story. And, but I was talking about when I think it was the Kelly O's guy. Cause then you drive you home after, and then he's like, watch this.

35:39 And he's like, revs his.

35:39 Engine, drives me home, but drop me off. It's like, ah, You know, she's seeing that guy over there. I'm like, yeah, yeah, I've heard that. And like, you want to fuck with him? I'm like, sure, man. I'm like, sure, because he was really into it. I'm like, sure, I guess. And then he's just like, he pulls up a little bit. And, yeah, he starts revving the engine as loud as possible. I'm just doing the awkward laugh. I say, yeah, let's do it one more time.

36:07 And we're like.

36:11 And I think that's what got me almost run over. Cause I bet you, they looked at a fucking window and all I see is me in the past. So this is why from their point of view, I, I, they don't need to run me over, but I could be like, this guy's fucking a creep. What's he doing? And like I said, when he said like, Oh, you want to fuck with them? I was like, Oh, like, I guess, but like, and I didn't even know what he, I think I thought he was just literally getting like spin out once and go, I thought he was going to be go breaks and then go. I was like, okay, I wouldn't do that, but okay, fine. I thought we'd be on the move to stop the car right in front of the house and just like rev the engine and like do the brakes. I was like, oh my God,

36:48 I'm going to, this is not good. And I remember telling everybody's story and, uh, I don't know what happened.

36:53 Let's do it again. I love that part too.

36:56 Yeah. But I understood he was like, he was coping. He found out his girlfriend was cheating on him with me. And I was like, I understood a little bit, you know? And especially too, at that point, I'm like, I am young. So it was like, there's probably like, Oh, I'm up for a venture. Like, and I didn't think like if he was in a situation where it's like, Oh, let's fuck up the house. No, I could tell like this guy, like, Honestly, I wasn't expecting the rev the engine part. That was weird.

37:18 He's going to pull out a fucking rocket launcher at the back of his car and blow someone up.

37:22 Yeah, he's not that level.

37:23 Yeah, what I know from the guy is like, oh, this is just like a heartbroken dude, which we've all been in. He seems like a very nice, quiet guy, so I don't think it's going to be that. You know, sometimes they say it's a nice, quiet guy.

37:31 That's a dangerous one.

37:32 Yeah, so I don't know whatever actually happened to that guy.

37:36 I hope he's doing all right. I have the clip.

37:39 It's two minutes. I don't know if you want to watch it. It's from Shameless, which I found out.

37:44 I've never seen that show.

37:44 Is it worth it?

37:45 Let's see.

37:46 I think you've seen it before. I think I've shared it in the past. It's pretty funny, but this is specifically to tie this back. This is when you told me your play, which, you know, fair enough. I definitely respect the play of writing your phone number on the bill that you paid for someone.

38:02 Yes, that one, yeah.

38:02 You know, that's also called Paying It Forward. I don't know if you've ever seen that movie. Really powerful movie. I remember watching it as a kid. totally fucked me up because it's got a really sad ending but oh.

38:10 But the idea is like numbers there right they were trying no but.

38:13 Like the idea of paying it forward like let's say i'm going to tim's and it's like hey i want to pay for the guys i want to i think i did that to taylor specifically actually i.

38:20 Got him you did the drive-thru yeah yeah exactly.

38:23 I'm like hey this guy's gonna pay for my meal so i don't have to pay right now this guy's a.

38:27 Convicted felon on the run you better call cops.

38:29 Call the cops do not let this guy leave.

38:33 The drive-thru i heard a woman in a shrunk okay see you bye just.

38:39 Drop some heavy stuff on them.

38:41 Yeah what did he get for me yeah hey how's it going.

38:48 Yeah i'm here for my drink he's so happy if someone were to tell you he's a fucked up serial killer it'd come off as super creepy too because he's just a generally nice person but if like oh this guy's a killer you know so