Ten Thousand Losses - MPreg Mailbag

Episode Date: November 5, 2024

It's time for the spookiest mailbag episode of 10kL you've ever listened to...one that mentions MPreg. Don't know what that is? Good. There is still a chance for you. Find out bonus episodes and Discord at: https://www.patreon.com/tenthousandlosses  Follow us on Twitter: Podcast: https://twitter.com/tenklossespod Liam: https://twitter.com/notliamanders0n Tom: https://twitter.com/tohickontpain  Shoot a message or leave us a voicemail (leave your name and pronouns): 267-371-7218

He is actually going to eject a fan. Because bad things happen in Philadelphia, bad things. The fan jumped into the penalty box area. The joy it is to come to Philadelphia and stand here and dodge an ice ball. We, the Dallas Cowboys, have assassinated John Cooney. And we're live. We're live. And we're good for tomorrow, too.

Yes. Awesome. You'll see. You'll see. The episode will already maybe come out. I don't know. We're You'll see. You'll see. The episode will already maybe come out? I don't know. We're live on Halloween! Yes!

Spooky. Spooky. It's very spooky. There's skellingtons outside right now. No, there's a kid dressed as a skeleton. I'm terrified. Are you also peeing your pants? There's nothing left to pee. Oh, fair enough.

It's just all empty. You try to pee and a flag comes out that just says bang on it. It's just like a puff of air. It's like a can of condensed air. We've made it. How far do we make it before the pee jokes? 45 seconds.

Very good. How far do we make it before the p jokes uh 45 seconds oh very good well done us how far do we make it before your audio cuts out what the fuck not even three minutes you you fucking froze i didn't do anything that time you just said p and then nothing fucking jesus christ don't even bother restarting it. Leave it. No, I'm not restarting it. I'm not doing this. We recorded like 18 hours of WTYP yesterday and we had to restart like four times.

It was fucking horrible, dude. Yeah. As soon as you hit minute three, it just crashed. Just over. Yeah. So I was like, oh, well, we just hit a minute this time. 48 seconds or thereabouts. Yeah. Yeah. So I was like, oh, well, we just hit a minute this time. 48 seconds or thereabouts. Yeah.

Yeah. How are you doing, Tom? I'm doing good. I got a long weekend ahead of me. Thinking about rewatching Battlestar Galactica. Oh, boy. Did you ever watch that? I did not, but I've heard good things.

Ooh, ooh, ooh. Yes. Do it. Start with the miniseries, ooh, ooh. Yes. Do it. Start with the miniseries, which is like two episodes. Then watch. It's very good. It's very... If you like authenticity in your military sci-fi...

Oh, is that called hard sci-fi? I don't know enough about the literary... So it's definitely like like if star wars is like so soft it's it's fantasy right and then what would be really hard sci-fi the expanse is pretty hard um i mean even then you know they're still they still have to get around you know some stuff but uh i would say bsg is closer to the harder side of the spectrum yeah and they have faster and light but like it's cool like the when there's dog fights they actually kind of obey newtonian physics and stuff like that so it's it's pretty sick and like you don't have

the bridge on like the top of the ship like in star trek right where it's like let's put all the commanding officers on the top in this thing that could easily get blown up they have it deep in the bowels of the ship so that's pretty cool but whatever that's my that's my uh hyper focus right now um good how are you how are you doing i'm good man uh i uh today at work we had a party for the seniors that I work with. And I made them punch and they got lit. Did they party hard? They fucking do. They really do.

They really know how to party. Well, these are the ones that are well pickled, right? They're the ones that survived. They didn't fucking die young. I think that's a good point. Yeah. They're hardened to the core. Yeah. Yeah, they're hardened to the core. Yeah, that's, yeah, so if your grandma has a birthday party, invite Liam. He'll bring the riot punch.

Yes, I will. I will be happy to. We'll have all her friends dancing on the table. Yeah, we will. That's not a joke. Fuck you. Yeah. Nah, yeah, that's, dude, like drunk grandmas.

Amazing, right? nah yeah that's that's uh dude like drunk grandmas amazing right my my grandma would would you know it didn't take much but she was up there but man there were some there were some interesting shit that would that would be said oh god like the slur kind of interesting or just no no my grandma wasn't like that. Oh, good. Although the joke I made about the Brazil nuts, the other WTP, that one did come out. But I was like, you know better than that, Graham. Right. Come on. You know that.

You can't say that. Right. And you're not even someone who says that word. So like, knock it the fuck off. Yeah, exactly. I think that was just. Well, she's she was the woman who I apologize. I said this before.

She would tell me she wouldn't read the curse words in the book and i would say well how do you know their curse words if you don't read them and she's like i don't read them and i think she just kept digging in just to fuck with me good for her yeah yeah um yeah shoutsouts out to Tom's late grandma. Tom's grandma. Yes. So let's see. Hello.

Hello. Hi, Tom. Welcome to your Halloween episode of 10,000 Scares. So just the 2024 Phillies, huh? Ooh. Shit. Shit. Let me scroll. huh? Ooh. Shit, shit. Let me scroll. Let me scroll.

There we go. All right. Yeah, there are both ends of the bar there. Well done. Yeah. The only Philadelphia ghost podcast. Yeah, we're actually doing this from beyond the grave. That exists in the afterlife.

Ooh. Ooh. Yeah, we're actually doing this from beyond the grave. That exists in the afterlife. I'm your host, Tom Payne. My pronouns are he. Tom Payne. Tom the Payne. That sinners suffer in hell. Okay, bud. And I'm Liam McAnderson, but scary. Yeah.

Pronouncing him. And we don't have any guests, but we have an announcement. This will probably already have already happened by the time this episode drops due to this weird compressed timeline of us recording about three times three days three times in three days spending about almost a whole work day together i think once the time comes out we're going to do a live stream it's on the it's on it's going to be for patrons it's also going to be a bonus episode uh sorry yeah so if that's what you want it but i guess please don't cancel though football part three is coming jordan this is you're blown out a little bit but

am i blown out already a little bit yeah that's bizarre oh that's probably because you keep licking the microphone oh that's erotic. Yeah, I have a spooky setup. Yeah, you're in the dark entirely. Well, I did bump up the gain yesterday because Roz couldn't hear me. How do I sound now? Good. You sound good. I probably need to upgrade

the mic. This old one that John from Pittsburgh sent me. Oh, yes, yes, yes. It's service. It's definitely better than this one, the Gamer Mike, but I think it's starting to maybe die. I don't know. Or the XLR cable.

It's probably an XLR cable. Yeah. Those things are delicate. Yeah. They are. Just like my emotions. That's true. They're like a boy. Um, yeah.

So we're going to have this live stream. Um, we're going to pick up game two of the Northeast Catholic Falcons. And this time we have a masterful play caller. Me. Liam. Hell yeah. I can't wait, dude. Yeah.

Yeah. So you're going to, you're going to call the shots and then I'm going to throw the picks. I think we're six interceptions last time it was it was pathetic if you want to listen to that you're gonna have to go to patreon.com slash 10 000 listens or not because it'll be over yeah well i am gonna post it there oh that'll be fun yeah so you can listen to it because if it's just us talking then it's fine nobody gives a shit no one gives a shit yeah it's going to be a youtube link so people can watch the game oh that yeah that makes sense okay because that will actually be somewhat engaging as opposed to just us talking about a game that no one could see which would actually be equally funny yeah it would be funny for like we like someone like

like drew somehow describe the action like somehow was able to create it. If you, if you have any voicemails or messages, you want to send us two, six, seven, three, seven, one,

seven, two, one, eight. Give us your name and pronouns. You do that. You can message it. We got a lot of messages.

Yeah. This is a, this is a mailbag episode. We're doing the mailbag. We're clearing up the mailbag. You know, we'll, we'll,

we'll touch on one or two quick things and then we'll go right to the mailbag. Yeah. You want to talk about the thing? The World Series? Yeah, we can talk about the World Series. I mean, fuck the Yankees, right? It's always fuck the Yankees. Sorry, Zach.

Yeah, I don't give it. That was like a real mid-World Series. The Dodgers were clearly a superior team and the Yankees really, the bats started waking up way too late. Yeah. Uh, I mean, they,

they won game four, what, 11 to four and then, uh, went up five, nothing. And then due to a series of what I can only describe as horrific incompetence,

they bombed themselves out of the game. Yeah, and they got close. I think in the seventh inning, they left a runner on second or third. Just yet. Very, very pathetic. The Dodgers win. I guess they can say they've redeemed themselves from the fraudulent 2020 World Series, which isn't real. The short-season World Series does not count, in my opinion.

No. Mickey Mouse ring. Yeah. So there you go. Still, I hate Freddie Freeman. Yeah, me too. Stupid fucking face. He is not a human built on this earth yeah i just i just hate this is all

shucks grin it's an all shock screen and i hate that yeah i know me too we uh yeah so i mean now baseball's over we could you know now we can focus on good sports like football yeah yeah yeah yeah so eagles eagles beat uh what's it called uh the bangles pretty handily yeah that was that was good yeah uh that was that was a good game that the offense looked like the same office seemed seemed like it was clicking uh apparently they basically uh according to rumors jalen uh jalen uh made some comments to the coaching staff. It was basically like, hey, we got to fix this. We got to run more run-play options, which was terrific. The O-line likes it.

I have no complaints. Yeah. Let's do the shit that I'm good at and then also the offensive line, which I think – I know that you're on the practice squad. Yeah. Yeah. The checks are nice. it is um the they just like to run forward and hit guys it's the only passing play you can do that on so um it's it's it's nice um we're gonna have the um the Jags in town and I saw on the Inquirer that Doug Peterson

has not been to the Philly Special statue. I don't think I would go if I had been dismissed sort of that legally. I think it was our first year we were recording. But I think we were both like, hey, give him another

year. Yeah, my thing was he was sort of ordered to first year we were recording but i think we were both like yeah give him another year yeah my my thing was he was sort of ordered to to to uh tank and then when he did they fired him and and you know me man i don't believe in tanking um you play to win the game but i i i am not a fan of tanking i thought they made him a pariah unfairly yeah yeah he's the fall guy. Overall, the Eagles are a decently run football team. By and large, yes. The Jahan Dotson trade looks pretty bad, huh? Now, huh? Jesus.

I've been drinking. Yeah. Halloween party, right? Yeah. Nice. The riot punch left over from the... You have no idea, man. Yeah. But, um,

yeah. So, uh, another new Sixers are one in three. The Sixers are, are absolute, uh, butthole. Yeah.

The temple owls lost, uh, a winnable game against ECU. Thanks to like three fucking turnovers in the second half. Yep. Well done. I think, I think you gotta start thinking about staying Drayton leaving. You gotta, you gotta, yeah, half. Yep. Well done, assholes. I think you got to start

thinking about Stan Drayton leaving. You got to. Yeah, it's time. I mean, there's still a chance for them to be bowl eligible. It's time. And what's the other one I wanted to hit? The Flyers suck. The Flyers are garbage, but they did beat my beloved Boston Bruins.

Well, there you go. My beloved Boston Bruins are fucking up real bad go. Like that. The, my beloved Boston Bruins are, are, uh, fucking up real bad. Hang on. I got to text you something. Hmm.

Uh, these are the army helmets. Oh, Saturday. Yeah. I texted you. All right. Wait for it to appear.

Okay. Um, why are we doing? I don't care. I love it. Full coffee. I don't care. I love it. I, I am a sucker for skull and crossbones you know this that should be the navy it should be the navy but i am i'm a big fan air force is gonna die out there i just a little i don't like my armies and

goals you know because of the implication yeah i hear you count the teeth or their 14 teeth um no uh i mean overall it is a kind of sick design that's like going for like a murdered outlook i i like it a lot um i mean i don't know why our service academies play football but apparently they're good at this year yeah um it's crazy how though every guy on army's name is army do you ever think about that yeah it is it is wild how that happens yeah hell i just got all those guys yeah it's like you you joined the military oh yeah i'm john army and that's my buddy the jack army yeah you just get assigned the name it's like you're a fucking spartan in the in the was the cryptea or whatever the fuck it was like yeah weird barracks all right yep you're you're just john

army now um congratulations congratulations uh oh you know i just remember too uh temple basketball gambling scandal plot thickens yeah there was a guy on Basketball who's no longer on the team. I believe he has transferred who was throwing games. Yeah. And, yeah, it looks like – and there was a – And the coach is going to be suspended. I believe that was over something related to recruiting. Yes. Yeah.

That's the cost of doing business. At least they're trying to recruit. Lynn Greer III will be suspended for the first nine games of the season. And Al's assistant coach Chris Clark will be away from the team for the same timeline, separate and unrelated. Greer committed NCAA rules violations while at St. Joe's. And Clark is being suspended until December 11th for providing impermissible benefits to student-athletes. Yeah, I'm trying to get some impermissible benefits.

If you know what I mean. Yeah, I'm trying to get. All right. You get ready to get into the mailbag? Yeah, man. I'm ready. All right. We will start with DMs first.

I apologize. Some of these are a little, you know. Edited for clarity. Oh, no. I wasn't going to say that. But we will edit them for clarity as we read. Do you want to take turns reading? Yeah, man. All right.

I'll start off. We've got we got Roisin. So, hey, Tom. Yay, Liam. Cleveland and exile Roisin. She her. Want to start off with a hearty go birds. Big ups. Thank you.

Big ups to the Eagles for extending their suffering. The Browns, their apologists, who are now dwindling a number. Now they realize that they finally realized, what the rest of us did the whole time, that the serial rapist they've been capable of on the team is a shit football player in addition to a shit human being. Yeah. What a billion dollars well spent.

Absolutely. I would also like to thank the Oregon Ducks for a good night's sleep. Nice that a team that isn't the Michigan Wolverines can beat them. Hopefully the Buckeyes can give me a few more nice, quiet Saturday nights in the pit of hell season, except for the game at Penn State, where I hope a giant meteor flattens Beaver Stadium with everyone inside of it. That's Saturday.

I'm excited for that game. Then Rasheen talks about the Packers thrash the Carves. Jordan Love is playing back again, but less confident in Braden Narveson after posting 44-bar brick. And at time of writing, ALCS

Game 1 kicks off tonight. We're really behind on this, huh? Yeah, we were supposed to do it last week. I'm really sorry. You're scrappy, Cleveland Guardians. We're supposed to on this, huh? Yeah, we were supposed to do it last week. I'm really sorry. Yeah, so you're scrappy Cleveland Guardians. We're supposed to square off against the evil and the A's shit. So I'm sorry.

Sorry, yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of hope in here. I don't want to bring it up. I feel like it's going to be like... I didn't realize it was a 76-year drought. That sucks. That's fucking tough, dude. I feel like it's going to be like, oh, they can hope they break. I didn't realize it was a 76 year drought. That sucks. That's fucking tough, dude.

That is tough. Go birds. Go pack. Go fuck the Browns. Fuck the Yankees. Fuck Ohio State. Fuck Penn State and go Guardians Cleveland against the world. Baby, let's fucking go.

I forgot to add a fuck the Yankees. You did. Yeah. Still fuck the Yankees. Still fuck the Yankees. Yeah. All right. Well, all right. Well, thank you.

Thank you, Rasheen for that, for that update. Uh, we did do a wellness check on Rasheen and she, uh, she is, is still with us.

Um, obviously disappointed, but, um, yeah, it was a point of his Yankees fans. I bet because, uh,

how they do that. Fuck you, Zach Hecht. They shit and pissed. They did, all over themselves, all over everybody else. All right, we got Charlie's union recap. Bible? Yeah, do you want to?

Yeah, I got it. Yeah. Do you want me to do his voice? If you want. I can't. Charlie, he, him here. As warned in the voicemail, this is a Philadelphia Union season review. In brief words, quote, it stunk, close quote.

It stinks. But in longer, it was, the long version is, it was predictable and maddening in equal measures. The 2024 Philadelphia Union went 9, 15, and 10 in league with 62 dupes for and 55 dupes against. I don't know what the hell that means. A round of 16 beat down by Pachua and Kankaf? I know what that is. Yeah.

A fourth place finish in the League's Cup at a perfect zero wins and zero losses in the U.S. Open Cup. The most likely excuse that it's going to be brought up up will be the long absence of starting goalkeeper Andre Blake. The Union only got one win in 15 games without, and the backups did let up some easy goals. However, the Union had three goalless draws, up a goal and a man at home to Montreal, up two goals to Chicago, and had halftime leads against Montreal Toronto.

This doesn't include last-minute goals that cost the Union ties, one against Cincinnati and Miami, one where the Union had a two-player advantage are you fucking kidding me sorry wayne these are all winnable gains of the backup keeper if the union took two of these games they would be in the playing game for the playoffs the reality is that running the same roster from uh it actually says roaster and i was gonna put out for that one but 22 from back-to-back seasons could drop off at the end of 2023 hasn't worked. This may be an issue with the system that was developed by Ernst Tanner, sporting director, and being managed by Jim Curtin game-to-game.

It is possible that both center-backs and right-back regressed, or the team overly expected that the defensive midfielder would clean up any mistakes. But the team did give up more shots and more goals this season than last year and most since 2015. The offense is fine, but it's still too reliant on set pieces to score and got goals when they were multiple goals.

But late in games, couldn't find the tying or winning goal in most games. Dude, this is so grim. Yeah. Despite the positive goal difference, won nearly all their games by multiple goals, and lost nearly all by one goal. This may give management the false impression, oh no, the Union are only one player away, this fucking thing.

We're making another deep playoff run again, and the major departures this year have already been replaced. fan base wants a big move in the offseason they want a big name to draw attention towards the team and help them win a trophy cristiano ronaldo where you at actually i don't want to sign the rapist no the owners don't want that i think the realistic option is to boost the back line with a more athletic center back more midfield depth and a reliable mls veteran to have leadership in the field that can play more minutes and close out games these are the cheaper options as well but most likely the union will try to lowball the players who are out of a contract this year they want to bring another offensive player they will have to sell one of the two designated players to free up the roster spot

unless one is available and fit the culture well the union are probably not going to do that we shall see as always fuck all the teams that made the playoffs except salt lake for the bym boys so the bym boys can be happy and take mls cup to the jack-in-the-box sale of later fellas oh this keeps going oh this is a different message okay yeah yeah charlie i am so sorry yeah i uh it sucks like and it seems like um i i don't know if the super super parks owned by the team or if it's owned by chester county or something else. I think it's owned by Chester County, but I'll look it up in a second. I'm seeing stuff on the

union Reddit, like the food quality is going downhill. They're really trying to nickel and dime. It's like fucking CBP, dude. Yeah. Come on. That fucking sucks. Let's try to find... Who's a footballer who's not a piece of shit?

None. They're all garbage. Who's the guy on the British team? They're owned by a real estate developer in Wilmington. Oh, okay. Let's get one of those nice

English guys and we'll abduct them. Sounds good to me. Sounds good to me, okay. Yeah. Let's get one of those nice English guys and we'll abduct them. Sounds good to me. Sounds good to me, man. We're going to go abduct Harry Kane. Okay. Yeah, we can do that. He's a soccer player. He's not going to really play. It shouldn't be that hard, right? No, yeah.

I love watching your face go in and out of the light. clarity, basically. Yeah, as the color changes. I'm doing this lights out. It was literally just for a bit that didn't even make it on. Embarrassing, frankly. I was trying to find dark mode.

Dark mode. Yeah. Next voicemail is no name, but this was a text message. So it wasn't a voicemail. So no name uh but this was a text message um so it wasn't a voicemail so next text message no name donald trump's plan to increase taxes on imports weight costs they're fucking texting the goddamn voicemail line with political shit please leave us alone we already know who we're voting for we've made it very clear donald j i would rather shoot myself than vote for that asshole. Some large food corporations are admitting to overcharging

customers. Kamala Harris, if you are as communist as they say you are, you will literally nationalize a giant. Yeah, please. Make your dad the Secretary of state it's like what I would do

with my dad yeah oh my god can you imagine oh man Anderson revenge revenge every grievance

every there's a lot of them yeah we're we're starting a malice paper that yeah what's what's the

the congressional register it's now a malice it's a Trotskyist yeah paper the world socialist website um all right those fucking freaks yeah and sometimes they do they do hit the mark i know i will say i know i do i do appreciate a website that is coded in a way that... Like the 1995. It works. I don't need scripts to have shit load and shrink.

API calls to nowhere. Yeah, just text on the screen. Let's do it. HTML. Shit that I can code. Let's do it. All right. So we actually have our next real message. The next two are actually just from the same person.

So, hey, Tommy, Liam, it's Erich, you're her. And y'all were talking on your most recent episode about failed podcasts. And yeah, I can confirm as the creator of a failed podcast myself. I'm sorry. We're sorry. Yeah. That what it looks like is a one episode that gets 30 listens, a second episode recorded, but not edited because something came up in real life and a permanent

maybe I'll get back to it, get back around to it eventually feeling towards it. That I understand that has happened in the past. Yeah. You got to push through it. Oh, also, following my last thing, I think a big reason

podcast fails in this isn't necessarily not finding an audience because while i only got a couple of listens in my first episode i was mainly doing it for fun the big problem was finding the time and creative energy for the script writing script writing what what is that what's a script i don't know what that is we have a note a notice yeah yeah thank you for that by the way yeah i gotta find a new font for it although the although the i don't even like hit copy copy like and match formatting like paste and match formatting like so all the text messages are copied straight out of fucking google voice

in the google voice font amazing yeah uh and scheduling with a friend who was co-hosting who lived several times in his way yeah that does that does suck that's the worst part is trying to like arrange uh social bonus episodes or trying to get somebody that's the worst part fuck you jordan for sickos yeah beloved friend of the show yeah genuine like sweetheart like a nice guy absolute fucking amazing family man i've we. We've talked at length like off the record like about like his kids

and stuff like that and he's like so like caring towards them and everything. Yeah, fuck you. Yeah, exactly. Being consistent, keeping up is way harder

than getting started. Yeah, it is. And it's also the barrier that probably hits first. Yeah, so you have to push through that barrier. Yeah. And everything in life,

things are going to ebb and flow and pushing, pushing, pushing through the ebb is what's going to get you back to the flow. Don't listen to him. He's an asshole.

Yeah. Yeah. Just you're going to suck for a while. So just accept, embrace the suck. Yeah. That's how I feel about it yeah i feel about it i feel like

i feel like too at least for us i think we did like a pilot episode first yeah and i don't even know if we ever published it gauge reactions i think yeah we might it was like 35 minutes long or something yeah and it was 800 megabytes yeah oh god my wife sent me a video and then it was just at full volume oh boy yeah edit that out i mean i don't care don't give a shit and that's well now now people won't have no fucking idea what i'm talking we're talking about yeah it's true um i i think that that's it right like continue on our discussion it's just like ross and i had that abortive podcast i went nowhere but a lot of it is just you're just gonna suck you're not your jokes aren't gonna land you're not gonna be that

fun like the first episode of there's your problem is with just nova and roz is basically i like some of the early ones though because i'm not on it exactly right no uh the there's one about new jersey and there's one about septa i think yeah those are real or those are like within the first 20 yeah yeah those those are those just stand out in my mind as being pretty good but a lot of the bits the bits originated in there yeah yeah it's kind of it's kind of weird though like going back to your old old work yeah and re-listening to it yeah i try not to yeah It is an odd feeling. I don't like it. Finding old stories and shit I wrote.

It's like, fuck. So I publish Mpreg fic on AO3. Bet you weren't ready for that joke. I appreciate it, though. Thanks, man. Yeah. Who's Mpreg? Who's getting the Preg? Not me and not you. Thanks, man. Yeah. Who's Mpreg? Who's getting the preg?

Not me and not you. So I guess Rods. You're the one who wrote that one. Jesus, man. That's like a... You set the standard. I will never acknowledge the fan fiction except for the jokes. No.

We're that weird... That weird... Something awful thread. So what? Bitches about me? Yeah. Doing a podcast with you Um, where that weird, that weird, uh, something awful, Fred, where someone bitches, bitches about me. Yeah. Doing a podcast with you.

And they're like, well, he's a communist and he's an anarchist. Why would they do podcasts together? Because we're friends. Because we're friends. Um, shut the fuck up. Uh,

all right. We got, um, all right, you can read this one. Uh, someone did a conceptual crossover between my little pony. Well, there's your problem. this one. Someone did a conceptual crossover between My Little Pony and Well, There's Your Problem.

Jesus Christ. Are you going to pull up? Is it sexual or just... The shit that goes on in the human mind, man. Enjoy that. Open link in incognito window. Hey, you're going to want to open that oh it just says well there well there it says arrow 404 oh thank god um all right hold up uh

did you already read am i on uh baba no it's you no I on Bobby? Number seven. Are we on number six? Yeah. No, no, no. You read number seven. All right. Hey, Tom. Yay, Liam. Lol, Yankees. Ha. Yankees still suck. Fuck the Yankees. Soto's leaving the Bronx. Yankees out. Fuck Wednesday, too. Bobby from Western Maryland. Fuck the Yankees man imagining the

joker doing that the fucking mark hamill joker yeah yeah yeah yeah oh that's too much um wait no this isn't this doesn't have me in it i'm gonna i'm gonna hit you this isn't tom pain torture fan fiction they're not torture. I gotta write that. No, not me. It's a dead name for somebody. It's a dead name for somebody. I'm not gonna say it. Okay, yes. I believe I saw that.

Yeah, okay. I'm kind of... You know what? No, I don't want fanfiction of me. I do see Lord of the rings fanfic that you wrote yeah right from the ones my mom wrote at least it's for for kids that's nice yeah yeah it's good well you gotta know you know when legolas you know really bored that pregnancy well yeah yeah he did we're all proud of him. What the fuck?

This is a... I know the one you're talking about. Ghostbusters one? Oh, no. I don't know that one. I don't think this one is sexual. It's just an implied polycule. Okay. I mean, that makes sense. So it's a script of you guys

in Ghostbusters. Actually, I kind of like that. And your van's in there, too. Aw. I miss that fucking thing. Oh, my God. There's a lot. Keep it together, Tom.

I mean, we've done this before. We've looked at these before, but there's more now. I don't want to. All right, well, let's get the voicemails. How do we do that? We got our first voicemail. It's from Name Redacted. Okay.

All right. Their phone number, though, if you want to find their actual name, is 4-1- No. All right. Let's listen to Name Redacted. Hey, Tom. Yay, Liam. This is Name Redacted.

He, him. Because I'm pretty sure a few of my kids listen listen to the pod oh no uh so i'm a coach in the general area and i figured you guys would appreciate a little niche sports scandal story uh considering all of our philly teams currently absolutely hate us and never want us to feel joy again yes uh so the notre dame men's swim team just had their best year of all time last year and even produced an Olympian. Vibes are at an all-time high going into this year as they were ready to really challenge some traditional powerhouses. Then a story comes out last month that their men's team got in trouble for gambling. Now, I agree with both of you that gambling is becoming way too popular,

and I see it with my teenage athletes. I've been coaching for over 12 years, and I've never heard 15-year-olds discussing over-unders before. Oh, that's great. I figured the Notre Dame team got caught placing some bets on the NFL or the NBA, and that's where it gets interesting. It turns out the team was running their own internal sportsbook where they bet on their own swimming races.

They were exchanging thousands of dollars per meet on all types of bets. Now that is stupid, but where it gets really dark is the process. They were literally placing bets on which swimmers on the women's team would cry after their races. What the fuck?

What? because the only time swimming is in the national news is giant scandals like coaches and the misuse of money. So if you're interested, I'll give you all another voicemail about how all the different ways that our NGO is completely fucking up the sport as well. Anyway, love the pod. Talk to y'all soon. Peace. Well, thank you, Name Redacted. You definitely called back in. Dude, that's... Yeah. I have

heard my students talk about gambling, too. That's grim, dude. I mean, it's not hard to get past it. Age restriction on there. It's very easy. And I'm sure the fucking companies know that, but yeah, the Notre Dame thing,

it is kind of funny. A lot of times, unless it's the actual Olympics, you don't hear about these sports in a positive way. You know what I mean? It's like swimming, anything that's not the big four. You only hear negative stuff. I've only ever heard negative things about like the national

nationals women's soccer league i've never heard anything positive no me either the only time they talk about is when there's a scandal i mean the wmba is really starting to get like nice press coverage but i was i was about to i was literally about to say you read my mind um yeah they're starting to get that, which is great. But earlier on, there was a lot of negative shit, too. And there's still stuff that comes up. But that's fucking Notre Dame. Unbelievable, man.

Yeah, of course, the fucking athletic director's name is Pete Bevilacqua. I wonder if he's related to is Pete Bevilacqua. I wonder if it was related to Cardinal Bevilacqua or Bevacqua. I'm sorry. Bevacqua. My bad. Yeah. No,

that's that, that fucking, that fucking sucks. The over on, you should not know these things. No, you shouldn't. You shouldn't.

Thanks. So thanks for calling in name redacted. Appreciate that. We got two voicemails from Postman Wookie. They kind of tie in because there's a hang-up that happened. It's three minutes, everybody. It's three minutes. You have three minutes.

Right. Probably try and keep it under that just for brevity's sake. But yes, that's how long the voicemail is. So their phone even times it. You don't have to get calling again. All right. Anyway, here's PostmanWookie1. Hey, guys.

It's PostmanWookie once again calling from North Carolina. Pronouns he, him. Sorry, I haven't done an arena ball update in a little bit between Hurricane Helene there and where I am in North Carolina, it's kind of like on the outer edge of where things got affected, but we weren't too bad. But I do have friends and family in Nashville

and the surrounding area, and no one's dead, but a lot of displacement going on. Specifically, I got one friend with three young kids they had to like walk three miles in ankle deep water down I-40 just to get out of the neighboring town

anyways I'm safe just wanted to do a quick arena ball update on the big three leagues looks like the National Arena League home of your Harrisburg Stampede and Carolina Cobras of the Big Three Leagues. Looks like the National Arena League, home of your Harrisburg Stampede and Carolina Cobras. They will be officially announcing their

schedule for 2025 on Monday, October 14th. Looks like they are locked in at 12 teams, with the latest addition being Beaumont, Texas. The team that was supposed to have been head coached by Jacoby Jones before his untimely passing this past July.

The IFL, they've been pretty quiet on their end of the postseason. They're adding a team in Fishers, Indiana, a suburb of Indianapolis called the Freight, called the Fishers Freight. However, they've got three existing teams that are kind of in flux right now. The former dynasty of Sioux Falls Storm was going through a fuzzle with their arena lease, and they were possibly going to have to take a year off. The Crystal Fighters, which is owned by the Germain dealership family, who used to be a NASCAR in Texas.

They were trying to sell the team and were going to move to another Dallas suburb in Allen. But it sounds like the sale isn't going to go through and that team might be going bust. And then finally, the Duke City Gladiators in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Oh, hell yeah. They struggled financially in bringing people into their stands the last few years. Sounds like they might finally be done. So it looks like they ran 16 teams last year, losing two, gaining one, so they'll end up with 15 next year.

And finally, the anti-pope AFL, the AF1, they were supposed to have been at 12 teams, but the 12th team, the Arizona Bandits, sounds like it hasn't gone through. So it looks like they just might be stuck at 11 teams. It's really late in the offseason for them to really bet any more teams.

They just have their big league meetings in Chicago and several known fuck-off teams from various leagues were posted. I think they were already in. All right, let's see. We've got the second one. Postman Wookiee, I know I've got to run late,

or run long with the previous call there. But anyways, but yeah, anti-Pope AFL, the F1. Looks like they're going to be capped off at 11 teams for next year. Just the fact of the matter is that it's late in the offseason, and there's really no additional teams to add that are really worth a damn. They had their big league beaten and had several good-ass teams from various other leagues, former leagues, trying to make their case to

be in this new AF, not AFL, but some that were posting like they were in, even though they were just like in a meeting or in classes on how to properly run teams. One of the funniest ones I know of was the North Texas Bulls, who were cut from

the National Arena League last season. And then cover from the league. We're known for having very dangerous league, or very dangerous field conditions in the past, in like 2021 and 2022. They were trying to use inflatable

walls at one point, and I want to say it was them. They had a player, or had a lineman break his leg because the fucking turf came up on the field. But anyways, keep up the laughs. Rest in peace, Philadelphia Phillies.

Hey. Why are Philadelphia sports so disappointing this year? Yeah. David Tepper can go fuck himself. Yeah, fuck Penn himself. And yeah, fuck Penn State. Hell yeah.

Have a good one, guys. All right. Thanks. Thanks, Wookie. Appreciate the update. Yeah, that you were saying like getting cut from a league.

That's good. No, you just don't have a league. You're not part of our league anymore. Your whole organization needs to fucking cut. Be a nerd. Thanks, Connor and Wookie. Stay,

I guess, well, it's warmer today. Stay warm in that sick-ass truck that I can't remember the name of. You already told me what it was. I just can't remember. The Grumman's. Yeah. You doing all right? Yeah, I was scratching my ear.

All right. We got a Minnesota Henry. Hello, Minnesota Henry. I think this is a new caller. Let's listen. Yay, Liam and yippee, Tom. Henry from Minnesota here. Pronouns he, him.

First, I'd like to thank you for saying that I was well-spoken in my last message. Oh, he's a new caller, isn't he, Tom? I found that you said that in my personal discord channel Where I put all of the nice things that people say about me Anyway today I'm talking about The college of Gustavus Adolphus Because for one of my I have no opinion on their normal sports teams

Other than when they order pizza for me From my other job They don't tip very well Other than the tennis team they do fine Anyway the actual reason I'm talking about it order pizza for me from my other job. They don't tip very well. Other than the tennis team, they do fine. Anyway, the actual reason I'm talking about it is because my roommate is the coach for the college's League of Legends esports team.

While I would never condone playing League of Legends, the team is currently undefeated in the National Association of Collegiate Esports and ACE. We're going 2-1 versus some college that has an eagle mascot. That does not narrow that down. The name of anywhere.

2-0 versus Maryville University, who apparently immediately after losing that game dropped out of the league completely. And then 3-0 to Mankato. My roommate was very happy about this. And when asked if he was proud of the students, he's quoted as saying, of course I am. I raised them. They're my flesh and blood.

They came out of my pussy. So, I think things will be going well. I want sports news to come in the future, I suppose, so long as you keep letting me get away with it. Anyway, hopefully you fellows have a good day, and fuck Penn State. Fuck Penn State. Yeah, go Gusties with it. Anyway, hopefully you fellas have a good day and fuck Penn State. Fuck Penn State. Yeah, go Gusties.

Oh my god, if you know I can't say her name on the air, that's insane. But yeah, I actually do know someone who went there. The tiny little liberal arts school, I believe, in Minnesota. Named after a very interesting

guy, I guess. They have a whole song about him, Samaton. Actually, that song fucks. That's a great power, man. Yeah. Like 30 years. They got up to a lot of shit that 30 years. They sure did. We made it count.

And immediately just shit the bed. Back smaller than pre-Golden Age borders. Like, just, yep, no, no more Pomeranian for you. No. You can't have that. Nope.

You get Finland, and that's it. And that's, I mean, who wants Finland, right? Yeah. Yeah, fair enough. The three Finns listening to this are very upset. Yeah, no, sorry. I'm Swedish. You deserve what you get. What's their curse?

Satana? If you think I have any idea, you're out of your damn mind. Vito. They love their fucking doubled up consonants. Yeah, Vito. I think that means pussy. But they use it to mean like anything. It's like Italian saying cazzo. It's cock,

but you can just say whatever. Alright, so we got two more voicemails left. Sorry, Charlie, I cut your last one out. Forgive me, bud. We kind of covered it in your podcast mailbag.

Text message. text message. There we go. Discord message. God damn it. It is late. Okay. Yeah. I get up at 630 in the morning.

It is late. So, yeah, we got Wayne. I got to upload. We got Wayne. And again, Wayne, I'm sorry. I just really want to listen to this one because it's a little delicious let's listen to this one please

hey Tommy, hey Liam, it's Lane from SEM yesterday the New York Mets were eliminated by the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-5 sorry buddy but I'm not the series matchup is going to be the two most dislikable teams in all of baseball,

based on the World Series title. The New York Yankees are no longer the Dodgers. Anyway, the Eagles had a really good performance yesterday over the Derps, known as the New York Giants. 28-3. Also showed how the Atlanta Falcons could hold for that score. As previously said, Rutgers lost their third straight game at the Stockton. Everybody started to wonder if it's time for Cristiano to go.

So, all good stuff. They call it a rational season. Can't come to them. As always, go Rutgers. As previously stated, fuck Seton Hall. What did he say? Did he say fuck Seton Hall?

I thought he said fuck sea world but fuck seton hall is pretty good too yeah uh let me see where they uh it says in the voicemail transcript uh fox eight ball nope not it right that's not it uh yeah uh maybe fuck baseball uh that's that's a good guess. I wouldn't... You know what? I'm going to really rub this in the Mets fans. You guys would have beat the Yankees. What do you think? Yeah, I think so. I think they beat the

Yankees. Oh, I think so. Yeah. I think you guys would have had it. Imagine that. Imagine the parade. Imagine winning the World Series over the fucking Yankees. And just lording it over those fucking pricks. Yeah. But guess what?

You get nothing. Nothing. You get nothing. It's all or nothing. And you didn't do it. Just like we didn't do it. We're all on the same couch now. But you know what?

You know what? When we lost to the Diamondbacks last year? Yes. We went to Game 7. We didn't do that. Game six. Couldn't even pull that one off. Sorry, guys.

Don't ask me where the Phillies live. Yeah, please. God, this year. Don't ask me who eliminated the Phillies. We didn't go to a game five, did we? No, we went to four. Yeah shit yeah i'm real i'm real i'm really just i'm dangling off the edge here um has set in at only 50 minutes yeah it's it's dark in here yeah try to turn on a light bud if i turn on the the only light within my reach it's this one and it's like way too bright oh okay

ah uh he's he's dead folks yeah no it's fine i like the spooky atmosphere even though no one's gonna see this um it's releasing your video yeah it's gonna have the picture that i drew um uh from yesterday all right um did you see that? Were you there for that? Yes. Last voicemail we have here is Maggie. Let's listen. Hey, Tom, this is Maggie. She heard calling in from Washington, D.C.

Long time listener, first time caller. I want to talk about my beloved D.C. United, who after a disappointing rebuild year where we missed out on the playoffs, front office announced their end of the season roster decisions for who's not getting their contract extended, who is going to get extended, et cetera. And this front office has gone and let go of all four goalkeepers on the roster. Oh, wow.

39% of the squad is now on the roster. Oh, wow. 39% of the squad is now gone. We have no goalies. Oh, Jesus. We have four midfielders. I have no fucking idea where this team is going. I have never seen a team get gutted this bad in all my years of watching. That is pretty bad. So I want to ask you guys,

other than the start of the Sixers process years, what is the worst you've seen a Philly team get gutted in the off season? Ooh. The 11 birds, maybe. Birds. Is that when we. Chip Kelly.

Chip Kelly. Ooh. Yeah, that might be. That might be. Let me think about this. Sixers regularly have some turnover. Yeah.

Oh, no, the 2012 Birds, where they ended up firing. Yeah, where they went from like 10-6 to 8-8 to 4-12. Yeah. Who was the... This was Andy Reid, so the transition away from Andy Reid. Yeah, to Chip Kelly, yeah. We did draft Fletcher Cox that year.

Yeah. Oh, that's right, we did. We ran Trent Edwards, dude. Yeah, that was a good draft, Fletcher Cox, Nick Foles. Yep. Marvin McNutt. Oh, oh shit that's a name i haven't heard in forever oh you want to remember some guys real quick yeah remember some guys yeah uh fucking evan mathis was on this team evan mathis oh it's you know it's nice they do uh

whoever does the wiki pages shows you who left. Vinnie Curry, dude. God damn. Vinnie Curry. No, we did lose a lot of guys between 2011 and 2012. Cedric Thornton. Yeah, we lost a lot of guys. Yeah, that's my vote. When the Phillies started to break up,

I mean, that was a little slow though yeah the regression yeah some of those guys were still we're still like because like Ryan Howard's played well until it was something like 2016 something like that so he was playing with some of the guys on the team now still yep I think he was playing with Nola and maybe Reese. I can't remember 100%. The Flyers did like a big... Didn't they strip the team for parts a couple years ago? Yeah.

I don't think we've ever had, to my memory, the sort of breaking up the bulls kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where it's literally just every single possible trade piece is gone. Right. Though, you know, I'll say this. Ruben Amaro Jr. did this

at the Phillies. There's a reason he, you know, everyone makes fun of him for being a bad GM and he gets to look at shit shit about it even though he's a decent announcer he just talks too much like he's a little too wordy yeah but I you know he says some shit that's interesting and it's cool seeing like a former you know GM talk about the game

someone who's also a player too but he he really and you can only even trade for picks in baseball, but he just traded a team for a spare part. Like over time, he traded a lot of prospects, a lot of shitty trades. So he kind of did that to the farm system over his tenure for nothing, for absolutely nothing, like barely anything at all.

So, yeah, that's a good question. And thanks for calling in, Maggie. Appreciate it. Yeah, that's, I'm sure if we missed anyone, Maggie. Appreciate it. Yeah. I'm sure if we missed anyone, let us know. Sound off in the comments. Doing all right? Yeah. All right. You ready

to get out of here? I am, dude. I'm tired. Today marked me out. Yeah. It's a long one. I actually took a nap. So shouts out. Let me do it. You long one. I actually took a nap. So shouts out. Let me do it. You do it. Patrick, Sean, Mike, Kate, Charlie, Luke, Kyle, Chucklebird, Cat.

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but it would be funny if you gave us no name and your pronouns. I think Name Redacted did that oh well well done name redacted yeah i need to have something to refer to you i need some word or i'll start assigning uh old english pronouns to you real big fan of of uh yeet which is the dual first person program of course yeet means uh we too all right oh okay yeah also because it sounds like yeet obviously all right well yeah of course yeah uh dm and follow us i'm at taking tf and he's at not liam anderson with a zero because i'm late uh at taking losses pod patreon.com slash 10 000 losses for bonus episodes uh all the past ones and access to our discord where you can interact

with people like wayne and charlie and me you could tell us what you would do with john middleton's betas yeah especially if it's gonna you see how much more money we could find in there yeah just shaking his dick for pennies enough money for juan soto please yeah please yeah we'll have to we'll talk more about like philly's offseason shit uh maybe we'll get somebody on talk about that but uh yeah uh we'll also be there'll be a live stream probably on there because that'll be the latest bonus um of of me probably throwing eight picks yeah me telling him to do it yeah throw the pick no it's a strategic interception yeah exactly it's doing the strategic 12 and on the field shit yeah

exactly yeah we want to get them in the real bad field position. I'm sure there is probably a weird like, oh yeah, if we turn it over now like they'll get the ball back. Giants did that like last week. Giants did that like last week against the Steelers, dude. Oh, that fucking, that fucking, how about that? How about that fucking swinging gate bullshit? That was

sad. Look that up. That was pathetic um anyway uh other podcasts wtyp guess who was on that you you were yeah i was on that um what a stupid episode it was terrific yeah i think it'll be fine they they the the hogs love the dumb shit they do the hogs can't lose man yeah you can't lose when when when tom's on then i destroy any semblance of flow you know that's it's just beautiful all right i listen to like i'm doing it right now listen to brigham and moni trash future beyond the breakers radio free tote bag no guys no mayors kill james bond hell of a way to dad tipping pitches who am i forgetting

uh sickos sickos obviously they put sickos in there yeah uh i think that's is tipping pitches, who am I forgetting? Sickos. Sickos, obviously. They put Sickos in there. Yeah. I think that is... Oh, Self-Worst. Self-Worst? Yeah. What is that? It's like Self-Worst, but Self-Worst.

Oh, okay. I was on it in like March. Okay. Yeah, well, if we're on a podcast once, I guess New England Beer Reviews. I'm not sure if they're still doing that. They're not still doing it, I don't think. Go listen to the one where I'm going to listen

to how fucking insanely drunk I am. Turt. Yeah, all right. Have a happy Halloween. Spooky Halloween. You must retreat into a coffin's laboratory. Bye. Bye, everybody. No one likes us, we don't care. We're from Philly, fucking Philly.

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