August 29, 2025 • 22 mins
The Midlife Crisisses are taking a break! On our "season finale", Tyson Apostol (@tysonapostol) Bradley Hasemeyer (@bhaz) and William Drumm (@williamdrumm) discuss what's next for them in the future, what they've gotten out of the podcast so far, and the admiration they've had for the community and their support through our struggles with midlife.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're going to put a pause on Midlife Crisis is
the podcast? Consider it a season finale.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
When we started it, like I was in coal crisis,
it's so interesting for me to look back when we
first started.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
The ambiguity of the midlife Crisis is okay. I think
it was more so just a matter of, you know,
the value of community.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
What's up, everybody? This is midlife Crisis is three compadres, amigos, friends. Yeah,
all of that, all of it, all of it. We're
all here. I'm Tyson Apostle. Bradley's the voice you just
heard wearing the upside down voles hat.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah. Yeah, University of Tennessee, what's up? Go balls, go balls, valls. Sorry, yeah,
it's sure for volunteers. We send a bunch of volunteers
to the Alamo. That's the that's the history of why.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Oh okay, I thought it was that way. I thought
it was voles like digging wheat, like moles, weavils.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Voles, Oh yeah, like bowl weavils.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, no, I think a mammal.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, that's what I used to trap when I was
a mammal trapper. A vole, yeah, big into voles. They're
like mice. With short little tails.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Is it an E S V O L E S.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And William is our resident whole expert.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Trapping them, measuring them, getting pea samples, poops apples. I
remember that all the above.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
That was your job.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I got so good at handling voles. Did they just
grab them? They would try, but with my tactile skills
in handling volesh behind the neck, pinch them by the
right behind the neck. They trying to bite me, but
I got it handled. When I started, I would wear
(01:46):
like thick gloves so I wouldn't bite me. But then
by the end didn't email gloves. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
And if they turn around, that's a vole reversal.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yes. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Were they ferocious? Were they asked ferocious as you said
right there or not that ferocious?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
They were ferocious? Yeah, they were the most ferocious out
of all the small mammals that we trapped. Pikasi, why
did you trap them?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Again?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I think it's Pika okay, like Pikachu, like Pikachu.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, never it is based on I mean a Pikachu's
does seem like it's kind of based on a pika.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Huh. Now that you look now, climate change study because
a lot of these animals are really sensitive to the
amount of snowfall in the winter because they need like
a certain amount to be warm. Basically, they can burrow
under in the winter, so the snowfall decreases, then they
die basically. Wow, So we did all these mapping studies
(02:44):
of population in the alpine to see how climate change
is affecting them.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Okay, so what what all were the rodents that you
can handle?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Voles, yep, mice, pikas, marmot, badgers, No way, dude, Marmots
and badgers are huge, especially mars. We see marmots all
the time, yelling matches with them.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah, you have a yelling match with them.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, they do scream at you.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Huh yeah, definitely, that's hilarious. What else? What else? There
was some other small ones shrews, poor guys, man.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
You tried to tame them.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Well, they're tabolism is like crazy fast because they're so little,
like their hearts, so they would almost always have them
so much because they they need to eat all the
time because they're metabolism. So if they're in the trap
for you know, half a day or something, then.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
So every time you caught a shrew, you minused one
from your from.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
From the study.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Is this a trap and kill or a trap and study?
I'm not sure what it's evolved into.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Wow, we didn't catch too many of them.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, thank goodness. That means they're either not a wili.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
We use these little things called Sherman traps, which are
they're like a foot long square metal box kind of
thing where they go in and get stuck in there.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
There's like a piece of metal angled and they walk
through and then it falls behind them.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Okay, so it's pretty small. But we did catch a
pika in one one time, which was like so funny
because they're as big as the trap was so heavy.
Picked it up and yeah, there was a pika in there.
And then we also did separate traps for pikas and
that was so cool because to catch them, like we'd
have to hike up into the alpine and we would
(04:34):
just collect all the beautiful wild flowers and uses big
like the cutest animals.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
They're like a small guinea pig size.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Guinea pig size eating some food.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, we I love seeing those in a high mountain Utah.
We'd see them all the time. They chirp, they chirp,
a little bit. Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, So we had different traps for them, and then
we would like gass them with like from aldehyde kind
of stuff or passed out because they were really sensitive
to being handled that couldn't really be handled. So we'd
guess what happened. They would die If you handle them,
they'd die.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
They would handle them while they were sleeping there chill, okay,
so but they'd freak out so much that they would
die wild hand.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Wow, I mean the most informative episodes. Yeah, for everyone listening,
you thought you were coming from the midlife crisis tea.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
This is midlife crisis. This is what we're this is
what we're excited about.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
This is what we're going to talk about now. Yes,
tell me about the mammals you trap.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yes, I want to tell you guys something. I saw
this face tape on Instagram that you put over your
wrinkles and in the morning, your wrinkles are smoothed out.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Okay, and I bought some.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It works right when you wake up, pull it off,
your face looks baby smooth, and then your wrinkles settle
back in. And but I've only been doing it a
couple of days, so I was like, maydi it tranger.
So it just like, so I have one on right
here that you can't even see because it's clear, but
I put them on at night and it sticks, so
(06:19):
I think it it discourages you from making faces in
your sleep or like digging in the wrinkles more. But
it also because you put it on, it sticks down
into the crevices and pulls everything out flat.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
That's what I was wondering, Like it pops.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yes, yes, that's what I feel like it's doing. And
so when you pull that tape off in the morning,
oh my god, I look like ten years younger. But
then within literally minutes, I look forty six again. But
it's only been two days that I've tried it, so
I was like, I'm going to try it longer and
then maybe there's a yeah. So that's what I've been
(06:57):
because I don't want to get botox. I don't think
I ever will get botox. That's my jam. I know
lots of friends that do it, and that's cool, but
I feel like I would notice that I look different
doing that, and that would bother me, like not being
able to wiggle my forehead or whatever the things you
can't do.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
What about ozempic. They're saying that ozempic removed like three
or four years off of.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
How you just shove it in your face and push them,
just like.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
The fat shot by itself. I don't know. It's it's
it's turning out to be like a miracle drug. It
sounds like like.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
But it also gives you osteoporosis, does it? I think so.
I think there's some side effects that.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Are always some sort of cratch. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah, so you can look great, but you can't stand up.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
But they're also using it because I mean, that's what
it does is to not want to eat. Yeah. Yeah,
so that's pretty interesting. I feel like if we live
for twenty more years, there's going to be some insane
medicine that will keep us young forever.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
But you can't. You can also just not eat, and
it's the same thing as being on ozempic.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Right, No, there's there's more to it. I don't know.
I just I saw a study on social media that
said that they, yeah, people who get the ozmpic shot,
their biological age is reduced by like three and a
half years or something.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah, but people get the yeah, and it is like
obese people who are like yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Oh, all of a sudden, my life expectancy went from
forty two to fifty one.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Right. I don't know. They're gonna come out with some
crazy stuff though. I also heard they have a pill
now for near sightedness that's coming out to fix your
near sightedness. Have heard that.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
That's exciting.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Another news too. I think I said this on the podcast.
A pill that regrows your teeth just pretty insane.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
That's what I need.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I didn't know that regrows your teeth yeap, what like,
how does that work?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I have no idea they get longer.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I don't know if I would need my teeth to
get long.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Is this just like, is this just.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Like kids sitting around being like what other pills could
we come up with? Because I was like, want to
increase your wingspan so that you're better at basket?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
It'll your fingers you can palm a.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Basketball, Want to make your feet bigger? I mean, I
haven't read any of the studies, so yeah, I don't
know either, but I could come up with a lot
of pill ideas for a lot of things.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
That's it. Everyone wants the fountain of youth, Yeah, that's it.
That since the beginning of time, people have been looking
for that element of either live forever or just like
try to milk it, live as long as you can.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I don't mind. I'm fine looking forty I'm fine looking
my age forty six. I just don't want to look
older than my age.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Well here's the thing, though, I think I think there's
been like a shift. I think I sent you guys
the video. It was like nineteen eighty two prom and
it was like on VHS and it was someone's like,
I just came across this, wh does everyone here look
like I should be asking them about what? How should
I file my taxes this year? Not? Did you turn
your math homework in?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
It was like how old people looked then?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Right?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
So like now that we're not going to look like
our parents do at their age because they were living
a different life. Do you know what I'm saying? Like
at forty I look different than forty five. Forty five
I looked different than my dad did at forty five.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Oh for sure. But part of that is our attitude
and are are I mean our lifestyles too? But also
like would your dad wear an upside down balls hat
at forty two? Likes of holes he.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Would because he loved those critters, but not Avalls. Yeah. Yeah,
But I just don't think that what we what we're
looking ahead to is going to be the same. I
think we're still going to be. Like I feel like
it looked pretty good for fifty I feel like it
looked pretty good for fifty five. Like I kind of think.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
That's going to take He said that to them too.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
They probably did. Yeah, they probably did because their parents.
I mean, my grandpa was ninety three when he died.
He looked like a hun undred ninety three. Just there
were wars during that generation. There was you know, depending
on how old you were, there was a great depression
in that era. Like there was a lot of life lived.
You know, our our biggest issue. I mean, we've had
some big things. Nine to eleven obviously, right, that's a
(11:15):
big one.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I don't think I didn't get any wrinkles over any
of those so far that I know.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
No, no direct core COVID was a big one.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
But that's pretty much how I lived my life anyways before.
So it was just like, all right, everybody says they
want the same life of me, Let's see if you
can handle it.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
With everyone mask up, just like Tyson.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, my dad has looked the same since he was
like forty five. He's almost eighty now, see yeah, looking
pictures of him, I'm like, Gene has not changed.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
How old?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
How old are you?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Then?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
The same Gene has the jeens.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Oh I like that.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Goodeen Pool like classic jokes growing up Sweeney, I know
that whole thing.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Yeah, yeah, that blew up. I sure did. Maybe just
one more person in the room, guys, just one more
to kind of say, maybe we adjust this a little, yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Should we?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, well brings us to our topic. All of those
were well and good and midlife midlife in nature, it.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Is mid like it's all crazy. You wake up, you
don't know what the day is going to have.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
We're going to put a pause on midlife Crisis is
the podcast. Consider it a season finale for now. We
may be back. We don't know what our lives will
hold for us in the future, but for now, we're busy.
We're all focusing on different things. We're all uh, you know,
in different stages of our lives, and all three of
(12:49):
us thought it best to push pause for now. So goodbye.
William's parents are number one listeners.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
But shout out to forgetting the good genes on the
last episode, getting a shout out that's very fitting.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yeah, yeah, anything you guys want to say to the
audience before we shut this down for an undisclosed amount
of time.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah, William, you had like some ideas of kind of
like where we were and where we are.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, and also just what you guys have I don't
know gained from the podcast or learned from in this
last season of the show, because for me when we
started it, like I was in full crisis mode, like
full midlife crisis mode. I'd been divorced a few months ago,
Like I didn't know where I was going, what I
was doing. I mean, I was depressed. And it's so
(13:44):
interesting for me to look back to when we first
started to where I'm at now, and just like for
anybody else who's going through kind of traumatic midlife events,
just looking back at how it does get better. It's
like there were so many times last year where it
was just so dark for me and I didn't like
really see a light, or if I did, it was
(14:07):
always overshadowed. And time is just like the thing that
heals the most. So there's all these things that we
can do to get better, and it's all important, but
really like time heals, and that's that's a fact. So yeah,
it's just really interesting looking at where I was when
we started doing this. I think it was last October
(14:30):
to now, and I'm not going through my day every
day hating life. I was talking to my mom a
few months ago and I was like, I think I'm
like starting to maybe be like excited about life again.
So that was great. And I do credit like the
stuff that I did as far as exercise and and my.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Meds, but exercise, diet and sleep, and.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
It's also like mental health and being okay, Like it's
a marathon. It's never a sprint, and I always forget that.
I always try to like pack way too much in
do everything I can when I'm depressed or down, instead
of like doing that stuff consistently, so I don't get
to that point. So I think that's another big in
(15:19):
addition to like time heels, it's like it's a marathon,
like you're not doing those small things consistently is much
more important than like trying to do like a big
rush to make yourself better.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yeah, the last thing you need is a sprint to
the finish line in life.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yeah, especially when you're exhausted and already beat up.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Well you're not trying to look younger and live as
long as possible. Yeah, finish life first, guys.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, ah, did you win though? Did you win?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Not so sure? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
It is crazy to think about where we were back
in October. Obviously, Tyson, you've done a bunch of stuff too.
I was thinking we didn't. We had not gotten our
dog yet, and the show is a big reason for that.
Guys were both just like, get the dog. Got to
get the dog, just go for it. And you guys
were both like, you got to go for it, mostly
because I think you realized it was going to be
a lot of responsibility for me and you had none
(16:11):
on your own shoulders, and you're just quick to say, yeah,
let's let's try to push them under the water a
little bit. Yeah, yeah, get a dog.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
You should get a dog. Well, I think you guys
were all saying how much you wanted a dog and
how much dogs were an important part of your family
or something. So then I have of course agreed.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, Coursey.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Will prove, we'll listen to it. But if you want
a dog and you think it's for the best, then yes,
you should get your dog.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yeah, And that was part of the impetus too. Like
you guys were around when my best friend his son
tragically passed away. That was something that we dealt with together.
I got my tattoo.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Wait, mid life crisis is tattoo. William got a bunch.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I got a new one yesterday. Whoa going is the seahorse? General?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
My smoking a cigar. He's got his bazooka might be
my favorite one.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Dun dun, dun, dun, dun dun. Yeah, it's marking marking time.
I think one of my takeaways will be, uh, if
you're going to buy something new, it should be your
new favorite. Yes, and also your mom's rule, tyson, buy
(17:27):
one new, get rid of too, trying to keep that
in mind. Those are some fun zingers and takeaways that
I think will be a major part of my ongoing life,
hopefully for our listeners as well. But I think I
think part of it, too is just the ambiguity of
the midlife crisis, is okay. I think we never set
out to solve it. We never set out to fix anyone,
(17:50):
including ourselves. I think it was more so just a
matter of you know, the value of community, whether that's
virtual through listening on a podcast or actual, like you know,
we're virtually actual in person, and encouraging people to move
through any kind of midlife, whether you're in the crisis
yet or not, to do it in company of others.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yeah, and definitely except where we're at and make the
most of it, and you know, make steps forward if
in progress somewhere is progress, whether or not you think
it necessarily pertains to what you want from life, like
who knows, like learning how to paint if you want
(18:33):
to do that at some point, whether or not you
think it's ever going to lead to anything, could possibly
lead to something.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
And so.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah, I think my takeaways are that we're all going
through something, whether it's small or big, and we're all
navigating life and we're all just for the most part,
trying our hardest and doing our best, and so be
understanding and forgeting of others as also you would want
(19:02):
people to be understanding and forgiving of you.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah, definitely. So yeah, I turned forty two while we
were filming this.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Oh yeah, that's right, And I do you feel.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Like I became a lot more midlife during the course
of this last.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
The podcast or turning forty.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
No, I think turning forty and then also just like
realizing more than ever that like prioritizing your health as
you get older is just so important, and how you
just have to take care of yourself so you can
take care of your family and your friends, like everything
that you want to do. I heard I heard a
(19:41):
quote the other day it's like you've got a hundred
problems until you've got a health problem, and then you've
only got one problem.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Yeah, I saw I saw something like that on Instagram
as well as like that's that's really good.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yeah, but then when you get healthy again, those one hundred.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Problems because you have the hospital bills, fifty problems.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Damn.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
This was not what I wanted. I thought everything would do,
just a hard reset, hard reset, better, I'm better better, bankruptcy, Yeah,
meeting with your lawyer?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Wait what.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
So Okay, Well, it sounds like we've given some pretty
good advice along the way here, and I personally want
to thank everyone who tuned in for tuning in and
don't be afraid or shy to reach out on social media.
Our midlife crisis Instagram is still alive and well and
(20:39):
we can be reached there, and uh yeah, that's it, William.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I want to say thank you to Bradley and Tyson
because like for me, this was very therapeutic. Like we
said earlier, it was way cheaper than a therapist, and
I got a ton out of it by talking about
stuff that don't really talk about with anybody with you
two guys and the community here. So a lot of
you guys who have listened probably know me better than
(21:08):
a lot of my friends. So that's so true. It's
been awesome, and hopefully we'll kick it back again. Like
I was saying, with how different my life was when
we started doing this to now, I'm really interested in
seeing what happens with all of us. So I think
it would be really great if we can kick this
back up again a little later on and see how
(21:31):
things have changed since then, see how much worse for
where or better for where we are. And yeah, just
thank you to you guys and to everybody who's listened.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Agreed, agreed, Bradly, any closing words or you already said
everything you wanted.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
To say, Well, I've never said everything I want to say.
I'm just some of the things I can always talk no,
I think. Yeah, community is key. Find it. It's not
going to find you. You got to be proactive about it.
You got to come up with it. Whether it's texting
or creating a podcast or friends from the gym, whatever.
(22:08):
Just find people. We need people, and especially at this
point in our life. It's harder than ever but more
important than ever, which is usually the case for those
types of things.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
So especially for us types of work from home.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah yeah, that's all three of us. Yeah yeah, all right,
midlife crisis is listeners. Thank you again so much for
the love and support and hopefully we will be back
in the future.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Much love, see keep on crisis thing
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Best of luck, keep going
We're going to put a pause on Midlife Crisis is
the podcast? Consider it a season finale.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
When we started it, like I was in coal crisis,
it's so interesting for me to look back when we
first started.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
The ambiguity of the midlife Crisis is okay. I think
it was more so just a matter of, you know,
the value of community.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
What's up, everybody? This is midlife Crisis is three compadres, amigos, friends. Yeah,
all of that, all of it, all of it. We're
all here. I'm Tyson Apostle. Bradley's the voice you just
heard wearing the upside down voles hat.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah. Yeah, University of Tennessee, what's up? Go balls, go balls, valls. Sorry, yeah,
it's sure for volunteers. We send a bunch of volunteers
to the Alamo. That's the that's the history of why.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Oh okay, I thought it was that way. I thought
it was voles like digging wheat, like moles, weavils.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Voles, Oh yeah, like bowl weavils.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, no, I think a mammal.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, that's what I used to trap when I was
a mammal trapper. A vole, yeah, big into voles. They're
like mice. With short little tails.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Is it an E S V O L E S.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And William is our resident whole expert.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Trapping them, measuring them, getting pea samples, poops apples. I
remember that all the above.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
That was your job.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I got so good at handling voles. Did they just
grab them? They would try, but with my tactile skills
in handling volesh behind the neck, pinch them by the
right behind the neck. They trying to bite me, but
I got it handled. When I started, I would wear
(01:46):
like thick gloves so I wouldn't bite me. But then
by the end didn't email gloves. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
And if they turn around, that's a vole reversal.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yes. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Were they ferocious? Were they asked ferocious as you said
right there or not that ferocious?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
They were ferocious? Yeah, they were the most ferocious out
of all the small mammals that we trapped. Pikasi, why
did you trap them?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Again?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I think it's Pika okay, like Pikachu, like Pikachu.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, never it is based on I mean a Pikachu's
does seem like it's kind of based on a pika.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Huh. Now that you look now, climate change study because
a lot of these animals are really sensitive to the
amount of snowfall in the winter because they need like
a certain amount to be warm. Basically, they can burrow
under in the winter, so the snowfall decreases, then they
die basically. Wow, So we did all these mapping studies
(02:44):
of population in the alpine to see how climate change
is affecting them.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Okay, so what what all were the rodents that you
can handle?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Voles, yep, mice, pikas, marmot, badgers, No way, dude, Marmots
and badgers are huge, especially mars. We see marmots all
the time, yelling matches with them.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah, you have a yelling match with them.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, they do scream at you.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Huh yeah, definitely, that's hilarious. What else? What else? There
was some other small ones shrews, poor guys, man.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
You tried to tame them.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Well, they're tabolism is like crazy fast because they're so little,
like their hearts, so they would almost always have them
so much because they they need to eat all the
time because they're metabolism. So if they're in the trap
for you know, half a day or something, then.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
So every time you caught a shrew, you minused one
from your from.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
From the study.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Is this a trap and kill or a trap and study?
I'm not sure what it's evolved into.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Wow, we didn't catch too many of them.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, thank goodness. That means they're either not a wili.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
We use these little things called Sherman traps, which are
they're like a foot long square metal box kind of
thing where they go in and get stuck in there.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
There's like a piece of metal angled and they walk
through and then it falls behind them.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Okay, so it's pretty small. But we did catch a
pika in one one time, which was like so funny
because they're as big as the trap was so heavy.
Picked it up and yeah, there was a pika in there.
And then we also did separate traps for pikas and
that was so cool because to catch them, like we'd
have to hike up into the alpine and we would
(04:34):
just collect all the beautiful wild flowers and uses big
like the cutest animals.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
They're like a small guinea pig size.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Guinea pig size eating some food.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, we I love seeing those in a high mountain Utah.
We'd see them all the time. They chirp, they chirp,
a little bit. Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, So we had different traps for them, and then
we would like gass them with like from aldehyde kind
of stuff or passed out because they were really sensitive
to being handled that couldn't really be handled. So we'd
guess what happened. They would die If you handle them,
they'd die.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
They would handle them while they were sleeping there chill, okay,
so but they'd freak out so much that they would
die wild hand.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Wow, I mean the most informative episodes. Yeah, for everyone listening,
you thought you were coming from the midlife crisis tea.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
This is midlife crisis. This is what we're this is
what we're excited about.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
This is what we're going to talk about now. Yes,
tell me about the mammals you trap.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yes, I want to tell you guys something. I saw
this face tape on Instagram that you put over your
wrinkles and in the morning, your wrinkles are smoothed out.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Okay, and I bought some.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It works right when you wake up, pull it off,
your face looks baby smooth, and then your wrinkles settle
back in. And but I've only been doing it a
couple of days, so I was like, maydi it tranger.
So it just like, so I have one on right
here that you can't even see because it's clear, but
I put them on at night and it sticks, so
(06:19):
I think it it discourages you from making faces in
your sleep or like digging in the wrinkles more. But
it also because you put it on, it sticks down
into the crevices and pulls everything out flat.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
That's what I was wondering, Like it pops.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yes, yes, that's what I feel like it's doing. And
so when you pull that tape off in the morning,
oh my god, I look like ten years younger. But
then within literally minutes, I look forty six again. But
it's only been two days that I've tried it, so
I was like, I'm going to try it longer and
then maybe there's a yeah. So that's what I've been
(06:57):
because I don't want to get botox. I don't think
I ever will get botox. That's my jam. I know
lots of friends that do it, and that's cool, but
I feel like I would notice that I look different
doing that, and that would bother me, like not being
able to wiggle my forehead or whatever the things you
can't do.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
What about ozempic. They're saying that ozempic removed like three
or four years off of.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
How you just shove it in your face and push them,
just like.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
The fat shot by itself. I don't know. It's it's
it's turning out to be like a miracle drug. It
sounds like like.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
But it also gives you osteoporosis, does it? I think so.
I think there's some side effects that.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Are always some sort of cratch. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah, so you can look great, but you can't stand up.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
But they're also using it because I mean, that's what
it does is to not want to eat. Yeah. Yeah,
so that's pretty interesting. I feel like if we live
for twenty more years, there's going to be some insane
medicine that will keep us young forever.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
But you can't. You can also just not eat, and
it's the same thing as being on ozempic.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Right, No, there's there's more to it. I don't know.
I just I saw a study on social media that
said that they, yeah, people who get the ozmpic shot,
their biological age is reduced by like three and a
half years or something.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah, but people get the yeah, and it is like
obese people who are like yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Oh, all of a sudden, my life expectancy went from
forty two to fifty one.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Right. I don't know. They're gonna come out with some
crazy stuff though. I also heard they have a pill
now for near sightedness that's coming out to fix your
near sightedness. Have heard that.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
That's exciting.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Another news too. I think I said this on the podcast.
A pill that regrows your teeth just pretty insane.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
That's what I need.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I didn't know that regrows your teeth yeap, what like,
how does that work?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I have no idea they get longer.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I don't know if I would need my teeth to
get long.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Is this just like, is this just.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Like kids sitting around being like what other pills could
we come up with? Because I was like, want to
increase your wingspan so that you're better at basket?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
It'll your fingers you can palm a.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Basketball, Want to make your feet bigger? I mean, I
haven't read any of the studies, so yeah, I don't
know either, but I could come up with a lot
of pill ideas for a lot of things.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
That's it. Everyone wants the fountain of youth, Yeah, that's it.
That since the beginning of time, people have been looking
for that element of either live forever or just like
try to milk it, live as long as you can.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I don't mind. I'm fine looking forty I'm fine looking
my age forty six. I just don't want to look
older than my age.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Well here's the thing, though, I think I think there's
been like a shift. I think I sent you guys
the video. It was like nineteen eighty two prom and
it was like on VHS and it was someone's like,
I just came across this, wh does everyone here look
like I should be asking them about what? How should
I file my taxes this year? Not? Did you turn
your math homework in?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
It was like how old people looked then?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Right?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
So like now that we're not going to look like
our parents do at their age because they were living
a different life. Do you know what I'm saying? Like
at forty I look different than forty five. Forty five
I looked different than my dad did at forty five.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Oh for sure. But part of that is our attitude
and are are I mean our lifestyles too? But also
like would your dad wear an upside down balls hat
at forty two? Likes of holes he.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Would because he loved those critters, but not Avalls. Yeah. Yeah,
But I just don't think that what we what we're
looking ahead to is going to be the same. I
think we're still going to be. Like I feel like
it looked pretty good for fifty I feel like it
looked pretty good for fifty five. Like I kind of think.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
That's going to take He said that to them too.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
They probably did. Yeah, they probably did because their parents.
I mean, my grandpa was ninety three when he died.
He looked like a hun undred ninety three. Just there
were wars during that generation. There was you know, depending
on how old you were, there was a great depression
in that era. Like there was a lot of life lived.
You know, our our biggest issue. I mean, we've had
some big things. Nine to eleven obviously, right, that's a
(11:15):
big one.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I don't think I didn't get any wrinkles over any
of those so far that I know.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
No, no direct core COVID was a big one.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
But that's pretty much how I lived my life anyways before.
So it was just like, all right, everybody says they
want the same life of me, Let's see if you
can handle it.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
With everyone mask up, just like Tyson.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, my dad has looked the same since he was
like forty five. He's almost eighty now, see yeah, looking
pictures of him, I'm like, Gene has not changed.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
How old?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
How old are you?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Then?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
The same Gene has the jeens.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Oh I like that.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Goodeen Pool like classic jokes growing up Sweeney, I know
that whole thing.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Yeah, yeah, that blew up. I sure did. Maybe just
one more person in the room, guys, just one more
to kind of say, maybe we adjust this a little, yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Should we?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, well brings us to our topic. All of those
were well and good and midlife midlife in nature, it.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Is mid like it's all crazy. You wake up, you
don't know what the day is going to have.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
We're going to put a pause on midlife Crisis is
the podcast. Consider it a season finale for now. We
may be back. We don't know what our lives will
hold for us in the future, but for now, we're busy.
We're all focusing on different things. We're all uh, you know,
in different stages of our lives, and all three of
(12:49):
us thought it best to push pause for now. So goodbye.
William's parents are number one listeners.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
But shout out to forgetting the good genes on the
last episode, getting a shout out that's very fitting.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yeah, yeah, anything you guys want to say to the
audience before we shut this down for an undisclosed amount
of time.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah, William, you had like some ideas of kind of
like where we were and where we are.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, and also just what you guys have I don't
know gained from the podcast or learned from in this
last season of the show, because for me when we
started it, like I was in full crisis mode, like
full midlife crisis mode. I'd been divorced a few months ago,
Like I didn't know where I was going, what I
was doing. I mean, I was depressed. And it's so
(13:44):
interesting for me to look back to when we first
started to where I'm at now, and just like for
anybody else who's going through kind of traumatic midlife events,
just looking back at how it does get better. It's
like there were so many times last year where it
was just so dark for me and I didn't like
really see a light, or if I did, it was
(14:07):
always overshadowed. And time is just like the thing that
heals the most. So there's all these things that we
can do to get better, and it's all important, but
really like time heals, and that's that's a fact. So yeah,
it's just really interesting looking at where I was when
we started doing this. I think it was last October
(14:30):
to now, and I'm not going through my day every
day hating life. I was talking to my mom a
few months ago and I was like, I think I'm
like starting to maybe be like excited about life again.
So that was great. And I do credit like the
stuff that I did as far as exercise and and my.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Meds, but exercise, diet and sleep, and.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
It's also like mental health and being okay, Like it's
a marathon. It's never a sprint, and I always forget that.
I always try to like pack way too much in
do everything I can when I'm depressed or down, instead
of like doing that stuff consistently, so I don't get
to that point. So I think that's another big in
(15:19):
addition to like time heels, it's like it's a marathon,
like you're not doing those small things consistently is much
more important than like trying to do like a big
rush to make yourself better.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yeah, the last thing you need is a sprint to
the finish line in life.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yeah, especially when you're exhausted and already beat up.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Well you're not trying to look younger and live as
long as possible. Yeah, finish life first, guys.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, ah, did you win though? Did you win?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Not so sure? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
It is crazy to think about where we were back
in October. Obviously, Tyson, you've done a bunch of stuff too.
I was thinking we didn't. We had not gotten our
dog yet, and the show is a big reason for that.
Guys were both just like, get the dog. Got to
get the dog, just go for it. And you guys
were both like, you got to go for it, mostly
because I think you realized it was going to be
a lot of responsibility for me and you had none
(16:11):
on your own shoulders, and you're just quick to say, yeah,
let's let's try to push them under the water a
little bit. Yeah, yeah, get a dog.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
You should get a dog. Well, I think you guys
were all saying how much you wanted a dog and
how much dogs were an important part of your family
or something. So then I have of course agreed.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, Coursey.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Will prove, we'll listen to it. But if you want
a dog and you think it's for the best, then yes,
you should get your dog.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yeah, And that was part of the impetus too. Like
you guys were around when my best friend his son
tragically passed away. That was something that we dealt with together.
I got my tattoo.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Wait, mid life crisis is tattoo. William got a bunch.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I got a new one yesterday. Whoa going is the seahorse? General?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
My smoking a cigar. He's got his bazooka might be
my favorite one.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Dun dun, dun, dun, dun dun. Yeah, it's marking marking time.
I think one of my takeaways will be, uh, if
you're going to buy something new, it should be your
new favorite. Yes, and also your mom's rule, tyson, buy
(17:27):
one new, get rid of too, trying to keep that
in mind. Those are some fun zingers and takeaways that
I think will be a major part of my ongoing life,
hopefully for our listeners as well. But I think I
think part of it, too is just the ambiguity of
the midlife crisis, is okay. I think we never set
out to solve it. We never set out to fix anyone,
(17:50):
including ourselves. I think it was more so just a
matter of you know, the value of community, whether that's
virtual through listening on a podcast or actual, like you know,
we're virtually actual in person, and encouraging people to move
through any kind of midlife, whether you're in the crisis
yet or not, to do it in company of others.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yeah, and definitely except where we're at and make the
most of it, and you know, make steps forward if
in progress somewhere is progress, whether or not you think
it necessarily pertains to what you want from life, like
who knows, like learning how to paint if you want
(18:33):
to do that at some point, whether or not you
think it's ever going to lead to anything, could possibly
lead to something.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
And so.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah, I think my takeaways are that we're all going
through something, whether it's small or big, and we're all
navigating life and we're all just for the most part,
trying our hardest and doing our best, and so be
understanding and forgeting of others as also you would want
(19:02):
people to be understanding and forgiving of you.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah, definitely. So yeah, I turned forty two while we
were filming this.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Oh yeah, that's right, And I do you feel.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Like I became a lot more midlife during the course
of this last.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
The podcast or turning forty.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
No, I think turning forty and then also just like
realizing more than ever that like prioritizing your health as
you get older is just so important, and how you
just have to take care of yourself so you can
take care of your family and your friends, like everything
that you want to do. I heard I heard a
(19:41):
quote the other day it's like you've got a hundred
problems until you've got a health problem, and then you've
only got one problem.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Yeah, I saw I saw something like that on Instagram
as well as like that's that's really good.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yeah, but then when you get healthy again, those one hundred.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Problems because you have the hospital bills, fifty problems.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Damn.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
This was not what I wanted. I thought everything would do,
just a hard reset, hard reset, better, I'm better better, bankruptcy, Yeah,
meeting with your lawyer?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Wait what.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
So Okay, Well, it sounds like we've given some pretty
good advice along the way here, and I personally want
to thank everyone who tuned in for tuning in and
don't be afraid or shy to reach out on social media.
Our midlife crisis Instagram is still alive and well and
(20:39):
we can be reached there, and uh yeah, that's it, William.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I want to say thank you to Bradley and Tyson
because like for me, this was very therapeutic. Like we
said earlier, it was way cheaper than a therapist, and
I got a ton out of it by talking about
stuff that don't really talk about with anybody with you
two guys and the community here. So a lot of
you guys who have listened probably know me better than
(21:08):
a lot of my friends. So that's so true. It's
been awesome, and hopefully we'll kick it back again. Like
I was saying, with how different my life was when
we started doing this to now, I'm really interested in
seeing what happens with all of us. So I think
it would be really great if we can kick this
back up again a little later on and see how
(21:31):
things have changed since then, see how much worse for
where or better for where we are. And yeah, just
thank you to you guys and to everybody who's listened.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Agreed, agreed, Bradly, any closing words or you already said
everything you wanted.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
To say, Well, I've never said everything I want to say.
I'm just some of the things I can always talk no,
I think. Yeah, community is key. Find it. It's not
going to find you. You got to be proactive about it.
You got to come up with it. Whether it's texting
or creating a podcast or friends from the gym, whatever.
(22:08):
Just find people. We need people, and especially at this
point in our life. It's harder than ever but more
important than ever, which is usually the case for those
types of things.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
So especially for us types of work from home.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah yeah, that's all three of us. Yeah yeah, all right,
midlife crisis is listeners. Thank you again so much for
the love and support and hopefully we will be back
in the future.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Much love, see keep on crisis thing
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Best of luck, keep going
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