Ten Thousand Losses - That's Not Actionable

Episode Date: September 3, 2024

The boys are back to discuss the upcoming saizons de la football, their appearance at the DNC, how the Phillies might be back, and listen to some listener messages.   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. Joy it is to come to Philadelphia and stand here and dodge an ice ball. We, the Dallas Cowboys, had a sense of making time to do it. And we are live. We're live. We're live here in Chicago waiting for our chance to go on stage at the DNC.

Yeah, we're the special guest, you motherfuckers. Yep. They brought us on. They kidnapped us, threw us through bags over our heads. They did the Levitico technique or whatever it is from the movie Clockwork Orange.

Clockwork Orange, bud. Yeah, and yeah, we love the Democratic Party completely and utterly utterly it has no flaws um we are coconut pilled and we do not just fall out the coconut tree yeah we we've got the and we're we're putting our our hands over our ears like children when people protest outside yes la la la la la la la la yes those people should be beaten with sticks why why would you for those who don't know there's there's there's people outside of the nc who are saying

the names of palestinian children who were murdered and the some of the some of the people walking into the nc were like laughing there's a guy who's laughing there's a woman who like holds her ears up or holds her hands over her ears and is sticking her tongue out. What compels you? If you don't want to react, just don't react. Why act like

that doesn't make any sense? It's pathetic. It's just pathetic. Don Lemon is claiming that the special guest is George W. Bush. pathetic. Don Lemon is claiming that the special guest is George W. Bush. Oh, oh, oh.

I will shit and piss. Oh, no. I fucking hate it here. Hey, hey hey you guys miss me yet oh please please now pull out the old w the old w mask i had oh my god what was no that you know what because we were talking before we started we hit record saying like taylor swift which i don't i don't think it would be but that would be that would be like a surprise right makes sense but uh george w bush hey remember this guy you fucking hate remember remember this guy that enabled everything that set the stage in place for Trump, for this weird rightward turn of like trad cath weirdos, of trad wife, like mom bloggers. Guillotine. All said to the guillotine all said to the guillotine breeding guys like jd vance um that this is this is this is where we're at and we talked about like yeah like you we have like fucking car lists you

integralists they're all in the gop now how are you people even real yeah please we said this last time the paradox interactive company was a mistake. Anyone who's owned those games. You know what? I'm going to have to go into the Gulag, but you know what? Throw us all in. The Tom education camp. Throw us all in the Gulag. Yeah.

Yeah. If you have a thousand hours in Hearts of Iron 4. Yeah, you're going into the Gulag. Go in the Gulag. Yeah. Face the wall. But I was able to play as a Soviet. Very nice.

Face the wall. Very nice. Face the wall. Yeah wall that's too damn bad son oh my god George W. Bush would absolutely be the right that'll be what they do that will be what they do just it's coming watch me hit this draft

mission accomplished really it's a question of this is our children learning Just watch me hit this draft. Mission accomplished. Really, it's a question of this. Is our children learning? Don't make me relive Bush Tale. I guess the Gen Z brain doesn't understand it. They don't understand. Like, this is where we're starting to feel old.

Like, this. Just, if I see the font of the fucking terrorism scale i start just like ah my civil liberties yes you had you had five of them but they never went below orange what's the point it's like a fucking jack bauer font like like 24 starts coming on i gotta order for the terrorists to stop the Duke Like oh Just how fucking insane Everything in that era was Freedom fries Oh my god yes I said that on Twitter a couple weeks ago

But like I legitimately got yelled at by a lunch lady Like we're not calling them french fries anymore It's like Me being fucking me I was like Well you know we wouldn't have independence without the french We wouldn't I independence without the French. We wouldn't. I mean, that's true.

And she didn't say shit back to me. Coward. Coward. 100%. Thank you, General Lafayette. The only good nobleman who's ever lived. Probably a few others. Peter Krupp. No, just him.

Krupp Hocken? Was he a prince? I'm not sure. Yeah. Anyway, so... Yeah, we're here on the eve of the DNC final day. It's like the Olympics. Never ends, man.

It never ends. I saw that... And I don't know if this was... Like, Laura Loomer was posting that... Some real gruesome shit, yeah. They're going gonna do a live abortion on stage i hope so no i hope so i hope so i hope someone believes it because actually you would be nice so you could see that it's not a fucking giant baby coming out thank you right exactly them doing a cannibal corpse song to it like actually there there's a surprise guest.

It's Cannibal Corp. Oh my God, look how thick his neck is. We're going as one, abortion on stage. Get Gwar to come out too. That'd be fun. That'd be good, yeah.'m sure they have a sense of humor um now but alas um wait we are not in chicago we're we're in the philadelphia area um and yeah um never never been to chicago that's i gotta like chicago a lot yeah i've heard i've heard

nothing but good things um it's a cool town. Some say the second city. Some do say that. Some say the devil is dead. Some say the devil went down to Georgia. Benghazi ain't going away. We just melt everyone's brains. We're just Twitter references. We're just going to free associate.

We're not doing that. No, you don't want to do that. No, I don't want to do that. That sounds like my idea of hell. Oh, God. They're going to do therapeutic techniques from the 80s on me um when i say disappointment you say eagles ready disappointment eagles i guess yeah eagles birds go birds i'll talk about that birds birds falcons or these catholic falcons oh yeah speaking of that we had a live stream last night Birds. Go birds. Want to talk about that? Birds. Falcons. Northeast Catholic Falcons. Speaking of that, we had a live stream last night.

It went well for what you said. Yeah, I threw nine picks in two games. That's not so good. No. So I did the first game as North Catholic, and then I did the second game as Temple. My Temple dynasty, where I got into the first round of the college football playoffs and lost to Texas Tech at home 7-35.

Ooh. At Texas Tech. Fair enough. I'm not shocked. It's because I don't really have a good quarterback. That problem's going to be solved soon. I got a recorded quarterback with 95

speed. I'm going to run the option until they die. So, yeah. And you can kill your players in this game. You can literally run them until their bodies wear out and they get an injury. Right. Nice.

Oh, college football is back on Saturday. Yeah, week zero, right? The doubling kickoff, yep. Florida State, Georgia Tech, Saturday at noon. Which is weird, because you would think Notre Dame would be involved. I think they're going next year. Yeah, they were there last year. Or was it?

Do you think Georgia Tech's going to bring the Ramblin' Wreck all the way over? You know they are. I mean, they should. They should make a show of it. Maybe they have it converted to left hand drive That's fun, I like that I like that a lot actually But there's only one that works Just keep fixing it so that might not be a good idea

But that would be nice It would be funny at least Alright so hello, welcome to the episode of 10,000 Losses The only Philadelphia sports podcast that exists I'm your host Tom Payne, my pronouns are he, him And with me is my co-host, yay. Liam, hi. My pronouns are also he and him. And

yeah, no guests. This is going to be a pretty trim one, folks. There's nothing happening. It's that last week before college football and the NFL starts in two weeks. It's just that weird. This is the slowest part of the year for sports

because you don't really have any offseason. You could talk about the draft and shit like that and basketball. There's nothing. We're just in that lull. The lull. The calm before the storm. Where the Eagles show up to ruin our lives again.

Preseason football that no one watches is so boring. I haven't watched the game. I don't watch pre I watched the I watched a little bit of the first one. And I was like, this is stupid. Watch Kenny Pickett suck. Yeah, exactly. The we do have an announcement, though. If you're a patron, we now have a discord. Well, it's against all of Liam's advice. It's set up. It's got channels and shit. If you are on Patreon, the website,

not the app. I gotta say something about that app too in a second. You can link your Discord and it will automatically add you and you're pre-vetted. So just go ahead and it'll give you a flare with your your tier everyone gets like the same permissions whatever like there's no there's no secret forum for for the north catholic tier members although i've thought about it

right um just be like like eight people and mill it around yeah and and like one of them's active so right uh yeah just charlie talking to himself the whole time for charlie you're doing the lord's work son yeah um so yeah and that's where the live stream was last night in the future i will be able to to uh do live streams from my ps if i'm a ps5 game i can push it up to YouTube. So I know there was a couple of people who said that they wanted to be able to watch it. Well, that will be possible in the future.

So I'll try to do another one next month, see what happens. Yeah, we got like at the peak, 14, 15 people. That's a good job. Yeah, it's not bad for just random bullshit. Anyway, so yeah, it's not bad for um just random bullshit anyway um so yeah that's on that's on patreon um and if you are have the ios if you have the ios app don't subscribe no do not do that

to us through the through that app because we won't see any of that money it'll go it'll go to uh apple yep yeah so do it through the web browser please don't do it through the apps because we won't see any of that money, it'll go to Apple. Yeah. So do it through the web browser. Please. Don't do it through the app. You could do it on your phone. Just do it through the browser. It's so fucking greedy, dude. Yeah.

And Patreon, every year, decides to do something stupid. Although, in this case, it's Apple. It's Apple's fault, yeah. Yeah. But Patreon sucks. We know know it you know it it's yeah we we hate it as much as you do trust us it's really the only game in town that works so um and let's see what else uh yeah we've got uh we've got some some bonuses in the in the in the works we've rescheduled that second that second one.

So that should be with us soon-ish. We hope. Next week should, maybe. Fingers crossed. No one's power goes out. Maybe. Maybe. And yeah, we already have our next one planned and scheduled. I think that's going to be fun.

Hope you like it. If you don't, you should go fuck yourself. Yeah, I got to reach out to the boys and get them to figure out a date for that. Voicemails. Call in. 2673717218. Give us your name and pronouns. If you're a patron, you can also

go to the podcast mailbag on the Discord. And you can submit your questions there. Put your whole tamussi into this, huh? Yeah. And yeah, I had three hours of relative clarity where I wasn't zoned out. I was getting dopamine from it, I guess. That executive dysfunction is no joke.

Yeah. I have been unmedicated since the start of the month. Oh, fuck you, CVS, by the way. Yeah. The person who talked to me at CVS was so insulting that I wish I could have recorded the conversation and posted it. I'm not a Karen type of person, but when you treat me like I'm an asshole because you lost a script. Trying to get my meds, right. And then tell me you didn't send a script.

I'm showing you like, well, this is interesting because here's from my doctor saying they sent you three scripts. Well, no, they didn't. I was like, okay. Okay. Whatever you want. Yeah, fuck you. Not enough energy to do that. So anyway, yeah.

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quick updates on the sports that we follow because this is sports podcast allegedly um phillies not in hell anymore but still in purgatory not great oh they're winning right now and they won last night and uh what was it i forget who that uh marcia that tried to stare down bryce and then the Yeah, it's like, it doesn't really work when, one, it's not the playoffs. Two, we beat you last year. Three, we're beating you now.

Right. Yeah, good job, buddy. Cool. I like Bryce playing it off like, it's nothing, I don't care. He's the maddest any human being's ever been, frankly, and he's going to take a bat to the dude's uh front teeth but yeah yeah i'm not yeah i'm not i'm not mad i'm not mad um but yeah good

good good job playing i don't think he actually i he probably holds the guy in contempt i mean yeah i would too Yeah Yeah, but Yeah, so the Phillies are doing better Hooray, maybe Who's to say? Yeah, we'll see what goes on Let's see, what's the score? We're up 1-0 Yep, 1-0 right now

Second So, yeah, who scored? Oh, Nick Castellanos There we go Oh, no, Trey Turner scored Castellanos Oh no Trey Turner scored Castellanos drove him in Oh okay This kid

So it's funny we trade for Austin Hayes right He gets hurt like a week later because he's cursed Because the Phillies are cursed And Weston Wilson gets pulled up And damn he's pretty good. He hits for the cycle. Yeah.

So he's the 10th Philly to ever hit for the cycle. I got very excited. My wife was like, what does that mean? Tom's wife. Be excited. He hit a single, double, triple. Triple home run. Yeah, not in that order.

I think natural cycles are very rare. Yeah. I mean, cycles are one of the rarest things. I mean, they're more rare than perfect games, I think natural cycles are very rare. Cycles are one of the rarest things. They're more rare than perfect games, I believe. They're definitely more rare than no-hitters.

Look it up. Yeah. This is good. 400 times. For the cycle? Yeah. About as uncommon as a no hitter okay yeah because there's only like 40 perfect games or something like that yeah there's oh there's more yeah so 325 no hitters okay so there's more cycles but they are about as rare

yeah yeah so it's so it's yeah it's about that that similar type of feat um the google ai said the natural cycle has only been hit 15 okay right yeah that's that's rarer than a perfect game then yeah and then you have the home run cycle which is the grand slam cycle yeah you hit a one run home run two home run etc. Oh, that's sick. Yeah. Has there ever been a natural home-run cycle? I'm not sure. It has never occurred in MLB.

Oh, you lied to me. The home-run cycle, yeah. It has never occurred in Major League Baseball, but it has happened in minor leagues. That makes sense, because everything happens at some point. Yeah, and the closest someone's came was Scooter Gennett of the Reds in 2017. How far did he get? He hit four home runs against St. Louis Cardinals at Grand Slam in the third inning,

a two-run home run in the fourth, a solo home run in the sixth inning, and then another two-run home run in the eighth inning. Oh, almost. He had an opportunity for a three-run home run in the first inning, but drove in one run with a single on that at-bat. Damn it. So close. So close.

All right. That's interesting. I love a good stat. So we got something interesting I saw. I guess I didn't say it to you. I thought I did. So Bradledge, who if you if you don't know who bradledge is you're definitely a zoomer uh but he was the guy who closed out the

2008 world series um he had the perfect season in terms of saves he had no no um no blown saves uh he's an archaeologist now that's fucking cool uh not's an archaeologist now. That's fucking cool. Not only an archaeologist, but he studies the Etruscans, which those who know me well know that I am a little bit of an Etruscan head. You are. I've always found them interesting. And I've been trying to flesh out a grammar of their language

for conlanging purposes. It's one of my projects I've been working on for a couple of years. Yeah. Yeah. So Brad Lidge did that. And one of the things in the article that I thought was interesting is that he's Brad Lidge has spoken about he's a Christian. Like they all talk about their religion, but he's not a young Earth creationist. And who was it? Some of the players used to needle him in the locker room and go, you know the Earth's only 6,000 years old. Brad, he's like, well, actually, it's not. It's four and a half billion years old.

You can tell by the layers. They would just do it to annoy him. So it's like, all right, but hey, you got a perfect save season. So, you know, maybe,

maybe that's what got him ready to go. Um, but I, I think it's funny. I think that's funny. Yeah. That's, that's let's yo guys,

let's go bug the nerd before the game. Um, yeah. So shouts out Brad Lidge, uh, Philly legend forever. And apparently very good archaeologist yeah apparently yeah and oh and part of the article was like no one knows who i am in italy so no

one gives a shit it's not they don't even know they're like well i was really good at baseball though like oh okay well that's cool but they don't there's no like like oh wow Yeah yeah yeah You're you know a legend It's you know They just don't I mean It's not like it's LeBron James coming over Um Yeah so shouts out Bradledge Oh yeah man

Eagles coming up the first real game Is in Rio on the 6th of September Yeah against the Packers Against the Packers yeah Recording this on the 6th of september against the packers against the packers yeah uh recording this on the 22nd of august so that's that's two two weeks ish away we're getting close actually it's almost two weeks exactly friday night is that game going to be available locally like through whatever okay it's not gonna yeah i'm not gonna buy a fucking peacock or bullshit whatever it is oh it's no it's exclusively on peacock that's right gonna, you know, I'm not gonna buy a fucking peacock or bullshit, whatever it is. Oh, it's, no, it's exclusively on peacock, that's right.

Oh, fuck you. Sorry, dude, I forgot it was exclusively on peacock. And the Braves tied it too, so we, we fucking, I fucking hate baseball. God damn it. This is all Harry Roseman's fault. Harry Roseman, you smooth-talking son of a bitch. And speaking of smooth-talking, uh, so... I closed the fucking article why

do i do that why do you do that yeah so uh the eagles traded a can of beans for uh johan dotson yeah who uh formerly played for uh slurs commanders yeah and they're not the slurs. The commanders. Yeah. I would say they're not the slurs anymore. Before that, the – Penn State. Who? The Hitler-y Lions. Yeah. I was – just to this side. We'll get to college football in a second.

But I was – one of the things I asked last week, if you didn't listen last week, is I need a power five or power four or whatever. At Minnesota, baby. Yeah. We actually have a voicemail suggesting Minnesota as well. Team to root for. I was like, let me just double check this Joe

Pa thing. It would be the most logical, right? You went there, yes. There's testimony in court where Joe Pa was like, one of the coaches tells Joe

Pah and he's like I can't handle this shit I got a football team to run right exactly like oh there's no fucking way ever no redemption no way tear his statue back down right exactly I'm going to see Penn State

play Bowling Green on the 7th, the day after the Eagles play. And I just want to see Bowling Green State beat the opposite doors off Penn State. Yeah, shouts out for... Shouts out Bowling Green State Falcons. Yeah, go Falcons. Go Falcons. Yeah, so he traded, let's see. What did we trade him for?

Fourth and a seventh, I think. So, alright. So, like, a couple MREs. Yeah. The stuff we had kicking around in the back. Yeah. I gotta check my MREs to see if they're due for refresh, because that's real tasty. I get to eat them. Ooh. Have you ever had

an MRE? Yeah, I have. I get the pizza one. Very good. It's not bad. Yeah, a fifth and... And some snacks. Yeah, a fifth and some snacks. He was a first round pick.

Never really took off in the commander. So I guess we'll see how he does here. Who could blame them because they suck. Yeah. Um, I guess playing for Carson Wentz and Sam Howell didn't really, uh, didn't really help him learn. So now he'll be on the real tutelage of Jalen Hurts. And plus, if you want to learn from some guys, we got them, you know,

AJ Brown, Smith, like we got some good wide receiver court we that that's the skill positions this year are scary yeah genuinely scary just hope the defense can hold up their end of the bargain yeah that's that's that's what i'm i'm most worried about is as defense um and uh yeah we'll. We'll do a more in-depth look at the birds next week right before after we know what the roster is going to be.

We'll take a look at those guys. The last preseason games against the Vikings Vikings no one gives a shit about preseason so right um Temple Owls have a bit of a um uh I guess a quarterback uh competition going on I don't know if they've decided yet um Stan Drayton has not given out the single digit numbers yet I thought he gave them out on the defense Did he? I thought he did I heard that he was delaying it because he doesn't feel comfortable

I'm like oh my god this is going to be a bad year isn't it? Yeah oh we're fucking hoes dude We're going to lose to Oklahoma by 90 points I saw the article I saw the headline I didn't read it I think I go find it,

was talking about how the group of five is going to basically become the minor leagues for the power five. Yeah. I mean, that's basically true. And especially with like how the transfer portal is. Yep. Which, you know, since I am a head coach now, I completely flipped my views on the ability of players to play for wherever they want. Yes.

And I think it's bad. Okay. No, it's... Yeah, just because I lost half of the owls my first season because my coach prestige was too low. Oh, buddy. Yeah. I got like a handful of guys from that first season. It's 2026.

Oh, buddy. Yeah, we'll see. Yeah, so we'll see if it was Forrest Brock, which that's a hell of a name, versus Evan Simon, late of Rutgers. Late of Rutgers, yes. Yeah, he was the Rutgers backup quarterback for four years.

I fucking hate it here, dude. He's still a junior, which is... I fucking hate it so much. How are you... How does the red shirt work if you're... I don't fucking know. How are you a red shirt junior and you were a backup for four years?

Maybe injury year. Maybe injury year. Okay, yeah, that could be. This guy's gonna, like, I here yeah well i mean he's this i mean he's old enough to be like start having kids and shit like you're still in college he's doing he's doing the meat plan yeah seven years of college down the drain might as well join the fucking peace corps oh man i uh i identify with that so much more than you realize uh um yeah so we'll see what happens plenty of people would go to college for seven years you know what they call them doctors um i took five years don't worry about it oh i gotta i gotta so we had to do a personal

development or a professional development thing yesterday and yeah someone got there well i told you about this i'll get to this for the listeners someone got their doctorate from um not not an r1 school high research activity um they got their Ed.D. from one of the local teacher schools. And I am being snobbish here. But those schools do not challenge you. You're paying and doing the minimum. They teach you shit, like they they're not it's not like you went to temple right it's not like you went to penn um or cornell's school of

education right you went to we know where you went yeah we know i'm not gonna say where it is but yeah it's it's one of those you know local schools. It's not even Arcadia. No. Beaver College. Yeah. And now you're expecting everyone who's known you for the last decent number of years to start calling you doctor. I'm not calling you a doctor. No.

You're not a doctor. I mean, you have an ID. Yes. You do have a doctorate. I'm not calling you a doctor. I know who an edd yes you do have a doctorate i'm not calling you doctor i know who you are right we have that familiarity i'm not i wouldn't i wouldn't call you i wouldn't if i was friends with my physician i wouldn't call him doc i call my psychiatrist doc to to as a power move i i always every doctor i deal with i call doc okay yeah so i call my physician doc. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so I call my physician Doc. But if I was friends with him, I would not call him Doc.

I would call him his name. Right. You're not a real doctor is what we're saying. Yeah. Now, if I say, go back to Temple and get my EDD, Temple, I would be a doctor. You would be a doctor. And you would have to call me Dr. Tom. I'm not doing that.

I'm not doing that. I'm not doing that. Well, you're familiar with me. I'm going to demote you. You're just Mr. Tom now. I can't even be Major Tom? No. My dad used to only sign himself as William C. Anderson Esquire when he was mad. He'd be like, William C. Anderson Esquire.

That's a good flex. I imagine myself at the CVS getting an argument. You want to look that up under Tom Payne, PhD. Yeah. I'll wait. You go ahead.

What do you have? You have your farm day? How much do you make here at the CVS? $12? Oh. I know. They are treated like shit. They are treated like shit. And there was even a point in the conversation where I go, listen, I know you're crazy busy.

I'm just trying to figure this out. Right. And then they skull fucked you. Yeah. Yeah. So I even, like, I'm not an asshole. If anyone's ever seen me deal with people

in the service capacity, I have the utmost empathy for that because I've worked that shit. Anyway, where were we talking about? Temple? Well, actually, if I go get my ID from Temple, I could be a graduate walk-on. Yeah, there you go. Alright, let graduate walk on. So there you go.

All right, let's do this. You can't be worse than the current roster. Yeah, no. Yeah. Although I was thinking though, if we do be Oklahoma,

Oklahoma. Yes, of course. Just, just, just imagine EJ Warner. Oh yeah. Fuck you,

buddy. Enjoy rice. Yeah. Rice, rice, fucking house. The worst of the owls yes they bring shame to us yeah i like i like the fau's owls logo much better yes me too it's a much cuter owl

owls are pretty cute um they scare the shit out of me all the time except for the barn owl barn owls guy yeah yeah yeah that's what I'm talking about What's the one with the ghost looking face? Creepiest Owl It's the Oh, I got a picture of it, what's it called? I won't say what it is But it's like

It's fucking name is like Night Demon or some shit in Latin Oh Jesus, I don't like that Scary, is it Barnau? Barnau. We'll send out talk with Hoot and Holler, the Barn Brothers. Hoot and Holler, baby.

I look forward to... Yes, Barnau. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I look forward to us getting out there and losing on national television. Yeah, that's going to... We lost 55-0 to fucking SMU, dude. We are...

We are not in a good spot as a program. No. We are faithful, though. We are faithful to our beloved Temple Wells. We have to be. I really think if they get a stadium of their own in North Philly, that would be nice

that would be better for the for the attendance at least for the attendance yeah I don't I just I they said that years ago of like the link is the subway right away that is true it's not that far and it's a commuter school so like it's kind of irrelevant

as long as they're like like if they take like the land they have and put it right next to the regional rail station. I'm just thinking about what's convenient for me, Liam. Oh, okay. So I could just hop on the regional rail, go to Temple, get drunk, argue with a 19-year-old, right? Yeah.

Yeah. None of you have respect anymore. I went to the... You got this new library and everything. I do. I do. I was on UMass's campus. We are stretching this one out, folks.

I was on UMass's campus with my dad a few years ago because he went to UMass for undergrad. Finished out undergrad at UMass. And he was like, man, that was a hole. That was a lot. That was a lot. That was grass. That was grass. This library is very confusing to me.

Because he went in the 60s. Yeah, yeah. The W.E.B. DuBois library, the super tall one, wasn't built when he was there. Was it like many college libraries of that time? Just horror, like really, really old. Yeah, falling apart. Never power washed Brutalism? No, no, no, no, no.

It was just an old ass library. Old ass library. It was a Paley library. I don't hate every Brutalist thing. I like Paley. It was dirty though. Of course it was dirty. We went to Temple, dude.

Paley library it was dirty though yeah of course it was dirty we went to temple dude i i uh paley paley library uh that is where like i just would sit there and and you know because i was a commuter even though it was not that they didn't live that far but yeah like that was like where i being a commuter actually made me able to study between classes. Right. I saw a guy go into diabetic shock. That sounds about right. On the floor, and he was just writhing on the floor. He was a kid who was in one of my classes, too. He writhed on the floor for about 30 seconds.

I was like, that's not normal. Nope. Yeah. And I got to watch them take the glucose thing down the throat. They just shoot glucose down your throat. Yeah. And then he like snapped out of it. It's crazy how quick, like once you get the blood sugar back, it's like, holy shit, what was happening? So that's my memory of Paley Library.

That tracks. Yeah. I haven't seen... I've seen images of the new one. I haven't been walking around Temple's campus. I really haven't had a reason to. Yeah, exactly. They keep trying to get me to come for

Homecoming, and they also keep trying to get me to come for homecoming, and they also keep trying to get me to come for the Temple Rome stuff. Oh, fun. And they're like, hey, do you want to come to Rome? Like, here's like a...

And I was like, that's actually not a bad deal. I would, but... I would, yeah. They have a new campus in Rome. Apparently. Yes, they do. Yeah. Um,

I get those emails. Yeah. Um, even though you didn't graduate, I guess you still get the, the emails. I get a lot of emails from Temple athletic department. Yeah.

I get the practice emails pretty frequently. They're like, please give us money. I'm like, I went to you for like a semester and a half. Leave me alone. I love the Drexel ones, which is, it's all, it's please give us money. I'm like, I went to you for like a semester and a half. Leave me alone. I love the Drexel ones, which is it's all money. It's all give us money.

It's so much money. Money. The buzz there. You arouse the microphone. The electrons were. Hell yeah. Yeah. You were showing you were showing

the... I don't know. What's an electron joke? A positive? I don't know. Yeah, I'll show you an ionic bond. Thank you. You want to move on to voicemails? Yeah. Well, yeah, Charlie's got

the union suck Last night Before we do that I have a DM that I forgot to share Last episode From friend of the show Nicky Howdy fellas Nicky here

My pronouns are he him Thank you jackass I'm finally out of hibernation which means I started playing Red Dead Redemption 2. You never see the voice you didn't like, huh? I do like that voice. I do like Arthur Morgan's voice. Partner, I was waiting until I'd upgraded my PC. It was definitely worth it, even though the fucker keeps crashing when I ride around sand and knee too quickly.

I'm here to offer my formal support of Tom and his recent pants-shitting incident in Ireland. It happened to me recently, too. We're going to form a support group. Oh, boy. I had the flu for about a week, and then when walking back to my apartment, I let one out right into my jeans. And you know when you shit your pants in in australia it flies into your face because they're upside down and uh it turns out levi's jeans we're going to censor that no free promos really are the best since they held their own incredibly well i was lucky enough that i was

about a one minute walk from my apartment but the walk up the stairs was pretty paranoia inducing the worst part of the whole ordeal was that in my infinite wisdom, I neglected to take my wallet out of my jeans before I rose to them at about 190 degrees in freedom units. And so was that like 90 Celsius? It completely ruined my perfectly aged leather wallet and completely ruined all the cards I had, including a blockbuster gift card I bought from the last one in

Australia. That's sad. I can confirm the jeans had a will. I actually washed them twice because, frankly, I am otherwise completely opposed to washing denim in hot water. Part of me is glad that no one saw me and noticed what happened, including my flatmates. I told

one person, and now I am telling an auditorium of people across the world. Yeah, but we don't know what you look like. We only know what you sound like. Yeah, exactly. The point being, critical support to Tom from the Australian 10K Losses Foreign Correspondent. Look after yourselves, drink plenty of water, go birds, and fuck Penn State.

That's right. Yeah. We do love. You guys got to stop shitting your pants. Yeah, but we do love a good pants shitting story. We do. Yeah. You guys got to stop shitting your pants. But we do love a good pants shitting story. We do. If we want to form some solidarity around that, go ahead.

I got to say since I got back from Ireland, I have been eating a single well, the Nature Valley, whatever, granola bars. I've been eating one a day like the packet. Suddenly, diarrhea is not a factor anymore. calabars. I'm eating one a day, like the packet. Right. And suddenly

diarrhea is not a factor anymore. Good. So I think I wasn't getting enough fiber a lot of a lot of these incidents over the years. Right. That makes sense. Alright, we got four. Got hardened up. Yeah, got hardened up that shit.

Yeah, that's what I'm trying to do. That's what I'm trying to shit real hard uh huh um alright I'm not gonna explore that riff um yeah I'm trying to shit with a

boner dude are you not trying to shit with do you guys not shit boners is that just me wait wait hold on wait that's not what we do oh boy it's like pouring bacon grease down it's like I don't give a shit I'm not a landlord

oh man so we were down to shore for that week you just uh we just did the laundry every day it's like fuck it I'm not paying for this exactly whoop and it goes air conditioner to 62 yep I'm not paying for this. Exactly. And it goes. Air conditioner to 62. Yep, I already paid for this. Fuck you.

Alright, yeah, we got four voicemails today. So let's go through them in order. First up is Wayne. Hey, Tom. Hey, Liam. It's Wayne. Pronouns be him. Been a bit since I last called.

The Olympics wrapped up last night and, of course, every stopper under the sun is now pressing about satanic symbols that aren't even really there yet again.

I've been playing college football 45 on a regular basis pretty much since I bought since I finally upgraded my Xbox. And on my break today, I finally signed DFL Osnabrück stickers

all over the corner of 1st and Hudson Streets in Hoboken. So, yeah, that's the football soccer sector. You'll find them in those weird places. And anyway, we've got two weeks until the college football season starts. I'm not going to talk about the Nets series against the Mariners because that's all we're going to talk about tonight.

Anyway, Joe Rutgers and Buckland State. Alright, thank you, Wayne. Thanks, Wayne. Next one, it's John from Pittsburgh. And let me take a look. I do believe John sent me a text

saying what he was going to say at the end. So I'm going to hit play. It's the potty man. And let's hear what he has to say. Hi, Jens Dillon. John from Pittsburgh. He, him.

Wanted to give Jens a call. Up top, a few of the lighter notes out of the way because I got something serious to bring to Ian's attention. One, myself and Patrick are both over our concussions from being in a grown man, beating the crap out of each other jiu-jitsu tournament. Both of us being in our mid-30s trying to strangle other dads of two in our mid-30s. It's a great hobby. Highly suggest it. There was a silver medal achieved and we will do better next time, of course. If you ever want to hear about the difference in different divisions of jiu-jitsu and rule sets, I'm happy to do a 30-part series for you. Next up, Tom, definitely root for Pitt. Of course, I would say that.

Hail to Pitt, always. Now, what I wanted to bring to the end's attention is the recent event that happened at the crossfit games um it's very saddening to see this but and and honestly for for those of us who follow some of this atrocious sport um we uh kind of saw it coming and unfortunately um there was a death at the recent CrossFit Games, which is an international competition. And Serbian CrossFit athlete Lazar Ducic drowned in an open water swim. And we're very sad that a great athlete, also always known as being friendly and smiling towards everyone, had to be victim to CrossFit's lack of safety within their competition. I believe that safety for the athletes should always be a top priority of any sport. And unfortunately, many of the athletic organizations that we have today do not think about this.

Just for context, the event was a 3.5-kilometer run and then followed by an open water swim. If you've ever seen cross-footitter swim, not a good thing. A couple of competitors have had issues in the past, including former champ Matt Frazier, who almost drowned in an event a few years back. I'd love to hear Yen's opinion on the situation and really where we're going in the lack of safety in a lot of our amateur and professional sports. He got cut off here, but he did text us and saying he just wanted to say thanks, fellas. Hail to Pitt. Fuck Penn State.

So, yeah, we were talking about this drowning fit, this drowning, and you... One of the things, it's sort of not like a popularly known way of drowning is you look like you're swimming, right? Yeah. And most people know that drowning doesn't look like drowning, right?

Right. But you're swimming and you black out while you're swimming. Right. You're underwater and you black out. And it's not like I'm panicking. It's you just black out and then you sink to the bottom and you drown. Right. And –

Not having safety measures in place for this is inexcusable yeah there's there there was no there was no way to monitor like like if there was someone monitoring this they they could have got them right right with with a with a safety boat right there um this this isn't something like new there there are right open water swims that have safety measures in place. I have been on the safety side of it. There's a race to Delaware, to Fort Delaware, the island, at Peapatch Island, from Delaware City to Fort Delaware, and I've done the safety boat. And you are watching, you are assigned the swimmers in a certain sector and you you watch

them right this is not hard this is basic right you know this is something that you just have a briefing in the morning and you do it um the it really is um fucking inexcusable it is yeah um i know that they're investigating the the death still um i i don't know if there's been a update since since it happened but um yeah like how long did he say the the the run was it was like 3.5 miles, but I'm not sure. Yeah. So you're already pretty exhausted from that. Right. Exactly.

Let me see. Triathlon. What's the triathlon order? Yeah. Triathlon usually does swimming first, right? I thought so, but I'm not sure. Yeah. Yeah.

Usually it's swimming first. You don't use your legs as much. And you're able to avoid the exact scenario. That's why you swim first. So you're not running three and a half fucking miles

as fast as you can and then dropping dead in the water. Right. Yeah. So it's, it's really fucking stupid. And it's, and it's,

and it's really unnecessary. It's unnecessary. It's unconscionable that they, they did not have the proper safety things in place and that they were having them. And that's, and it's like the whole crossfit milieu, milieu is having like, we're,

we're a little edgier, you know, we're a little toughergier you know we're a little tougher we're all fucking libertarians we have a bonus one of a bonus out there about CrossFit go listen to that with a very

someone has a very similar voice to John from Pittsburgh yeah yeah it's fucked up I'm i'm i'm upset about that and right that they don't yeah they don't care like you know sports not caring about the safety of their athletes like like right just open open hostility yeah um yeah it's fucked up and uh yeah hopefully his family gets gets justice and and all that. Maybe we just just

f*** everyone who's in charge of the CrossFit Games. Maybe we do that. Yeah, you'll probably get a significant portion of the January 6th guys that went on on charge too. Damn it, I've got to bleep something out now. Oh, you poor

man. I know. Alright, do you have any other thoughts on... No, I've got to bleep something out now. Oh, you poor man. Oh, no. All right. Do you have any other thoughts? No, I don't. Okay. We got another sad email from Charlie, but this is about the union. Hey, guys.

Yay, Liam. Hey, Tom. This is Charlie from Roxborough. He, him. I'm going to recap the entire union run of the League's Cup. They got to the semifinal and lost again. Got boathoused in the semifinal again, this time by Columbus at Columbus. It's probably going to end almost exactly the same way, but I don't know who they're going to play in the third place game.

I don't really care particularly who they're going to play because it doesn't matter. If they do start the season off with a complicated action, again, it's only going to put them behind the eight ball because they're not going to get the depth and they're not going to get any kind of big name player to come in and kind of turn it around. The other problem is in the middle of the tournament, they sold their best defensive player after already selling their best offensive player, but at least they got a guy to come in and step up and replace. At least get the goals.

But Jose Martinez is going to Corinthians in the Brazilian League. He left in the middle of the tournament. He did at least get a penalty kick send-off against Mazatlan in the quarterfinals, but it doesn't feel like the ownership is going to do anything, especially after they had their malice struggle session in the middle of the tournament where they painfully had to explain, we're not going to sign anybody because it's going to ruin our team dynamic. If Sugarman, Tanner,

McDermott, and the entire uh management ownership class of the philadelphia union uh want to be malice uh they should just take a page from the japanese red faction go out go down the cabin in the middle of the woods and all die uh that's not actionable well Charlie is not an employee of this podcast his views do not represent the views of 10,000 losses yes they do sorry buddy

well actually it, it's too cute, but LLC DBA 10,000 losses. International LLC Incorporated. It doesn't fit on the page. GMBH, SRL. What's the British version?

I forget. I don't know what it used to be. Like a stock corporation or something, they call it. Yeah. We're a joint stock company. Yeah, we were involved in the Isthmus of Panama fucking, the Darien scheme. Yeah, you guys remember the Darien scheme?

That was awesome, baby. That's the reason Scotland's part of the UK. Sorry about that. Oh, you skipped one. Oh, I did skip one. I skipped Kate. How can I do that? We're going to save the best for last.

So let's listen to Kate. Hey, this is Kate from Minnesota. And Liam is 100% right. You should go for the Gophers. We've got a nice rouser, which I am not going to sing for you. But it is a hardy rouser. It's part of the Big Ten, which now has, I don't know, 14 teams in it. It's a lot of fun.

I am a season ticket holder now and going to be going to all their home games, probably going to Illinois because we usually try to take a road trip. Yeah, they're just a fun team. Row the boat is a whole big thing. And, yeah, got to go with the Big Ten because that way you get to still pay attention to Rutgers. And there's no other reason to pay attention to Rutgers. All right. Big Ten team.

All right. All right. Fuck Penn State because of Joe Pah. And hope you guys are having a lovely time. Bye. Thank you, Kate. I appreciate it. Yeah, they got cool colors although it is kind of like almost close

to the uh to the washington uh commanders no you should root for minnesota dude they're fun yeah i'll uh i'll investigate let's see all-time big 10 records they're six and ten against penn state yeah they're lovable losers fuck you man yeah't. Yeah. There's no way I could like a really good team. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. That's there. They're on the list. It's like Pitt, Minnesota are kind of the two I'm thinking of.

But yeah, please. I haven't decided yet. So please call. Call. Yeah. Let me know what you think. Who I should who I should root for. Something I forgot to mention I was thinking about the Olympics, I was thinking about the CrossFit death

was shouts out to alright, what's her name? My wife said it perfectly and I can't remember it. Oh, the boxer? Yeah. The Iman Khalaf. Yeah. Shouts out to finally getting J.K. Rowling to shut the fuck up. I hope you win so much fucking money that she has to go back to being a fucking waitress. Fuck her.

Exactly. And, and, and hopefully she gets the criminal charges part, which I doubt rich people don't ever see jail time, but God damn it. It would be so much fun to see. It would be nice.

That like, wouldn't it be nice if you were in prison, prison abolition, but JK Rowling does last. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah,

we still have to have a couple gulags laying around um yeah maybe you can write a fantasy story on uh on the back of uh I don't know the the graham crackers you get in jail and about how the the jail

the jail is gay or something um yeah I see how you've how those house elves feel about slavery after you have to do some forced labor for 20 years for causing death threats against a woman who did nothing wrong except be good at boxing. And yeah, fuck you. And I know Elon Musk is in that lawsuit, too.

He shit-pounced sand and so on and so forth. God damn, it would be so nice, too, if they got Elon Musk. Can he just OD on Ketamine already? I'd just love to see that. All right. I want to start wrapping up. I want to shout out to our North Catholic, to your patrons, Patrick, Sean, Mike, Kate, Charlie, Luke, Kyle, Chuck, Bert, and Kat. No new

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