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Are you guys ready for the no man's land in the sports calendar after the Super Bowl? Hey, combine or I'd jump off the roof. NFL draft? Or I strangle myself. This is what it is. Not no man's land for us, yeah. Not bad for a fat guy. Roll sound.

TG 169. I have stationed out about this. Action. You know about Spinoleinstein Station about Spinole Station Station about Hoos your nation

Who's your nation about this Not a local podcast Oh this thing's on No no no no Not at all Not at all just discussing Josh Allen Comps

and And local media Before we got on here Wait I thought they didn't talk about sports Like, that's their whole thing is they don't talk about sports, but Josh, they just said Josh Allen's the new John Elway. So what is that? Wait.

Wait, CJ Stroud's just Charlie Batch with Braves. Wait. My man Charlie Batch, he even quote tweeted a few. He's like, how did that catch strays of this? Bro, I love that he was on. I'm like, we still got Batch, though. We still got Charlie Batch on Twitter. Like, that made me happy.

like he's still tapped in. Yeah, I would have took offense to that too, man. Charlie Batch would have won that game easily. Dude, Charlie Batch elbow sleeves in the pocket. Thanks so many Thanksgiving's. So many Thanksgiving. I've seen many of Charlie Batch games where he had to fill in where he would just show up in the most unlikely way.

2012 at Baltimore goes on the road. He's winning with guys like Jonathan Dwires is running back and shit. Hey, wait, wait, where is, is Dwyer? from Georgia Tech? Yeah. Where's Charlie Bash from? Eastern Michigan. Yeah.

Oh! There's just nothing I'll give me more hype than that, dude. Oh, start. Just pulled it out. TG 169. Stationing out. 169.

Yeah, we're going to go ahead. We're all 169. These guys, L.O.L. on Instagram, these guys L.O.L. on YouTube. to continue to grow the show and I appreciate

the phone call. Local sports radio popping off in indie today because the Hoosers playing in the title game tonight.

So you got to imagine what those phone calls are like. Yeah, I just, I don't know, James V. I don't know if,

I don't know if they win tonight. Kurt Shennetti. I mean, he might go to the NFL. What else says you have to prove? I appreciate the phone call.

Yeah, so anyways, don't really know with that. Pittsburgh or 169. Yeah. Pittsburgh or

Sigsberg. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh,

jeez. Kind of surprised that you're not down in Miami. Yeah. Me too. A little bit.

I kind of can't walk around though because my leg. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? Oh, yeah.

Guys had a commission. Had a few people hit me up about that. Good. Going to Miami for the game? No, about your fucking leg. That's so crazy. Yeah, it's probably because I'm just joking around on everything

and people think I'm serious, but. I had a cyst in my knee and I got it removed. And I think it's because I sit like an idiot. I think that's why. Like, it all came back to me. Like, a little bit of lactic acid built up there. I couldn't do my phone sit anymore. And I was like, I got to get surgery.

That's the only thing I got going. The only way I'm comfortable is the phone sit. The phone gargoyle catcher squat. You sound like a cat. Damn, you remember that. Oh, yeah. That's crazy. TG origin story time.

TG origin story time. I was like, that's the coolest way for you to say that I sit like a pussy. That's the coolest way. Like, everybody's got to have a black roommate at least. least once just to gas you up a little bit. I was like, thanks, Doug. So was he a teammate, a roommate, or both? Yeah, all three from Chicago.

Yeah, and I'd always sit in the middle of the floor. Yeah. Like the gayest guy you've ever seen. And he'd be like, man, you sit like a cat. And I was like, you're right. I do. A cool, sleek black cat. Thank you.

Is that Dre? Yeah. Man, that's a throwback there. I remember Dre being around every now and then. Remember those days. Tall DB, good get. Good get for the hounds. Alpha dogs.

What? Those things on? Dude, I went to I went to Aill Emporium. Which one? Which one? The one up north on the, Northside of Indy off Allisonville.

Why is it called that, though? Because, like, I'm always, like, for some reason I talk about Ale Emporium seven times a week, and everyone's like, what are you talking about? And I'm like, there's this restaurant. It is, it is interesting. What's an Emporium?

Maybe I'm just too dumb. An Emporium is like a... I'm thinking, like, some castle, large retail store selling a wide variety of goods. Okay, all right. Yeah. Does it make sense for food and the drink they got there.

But by the way, this place every time that I, I mean, I don't go there that often. It's probably like, once a quarter. Two times a week. No,

that's just me in six years. Every time you go there, it's just like expanded somehow. Like, I'm texting my buddy. I'm like, yeah, which,

which, because from my old reference, I'm like, which side are you on? He's like, the new side. I walk into what I think is the new side.

There's an even newer. side. Yeah. How does this even happen? You're just consuming the entire strip mall. Exactly. Wait, which,

you went to the one on the south side? North side. Okay. Because the south side's the same way. They're just breaking down walls, taking over Mexican restaurants, Nailsons, great clips.

I just keep churning, dude. Open floor plan strip mall. It's just a big Ale Emporium Barn now. I'm like, all right. It's crazy these places like this, that because I'm pretty sure that it's not a local podcast,

but I'm pretty sure that ale is only an Indiana thing, if I'm correct? Like, I think they only have Indianapolis in the wider area where Ale Emporiums are. But I'm sure that every place, no matter where you live, has these kinds of bars, sports bars, restaurants that's like the spot. And everybody wants to go there for the game, for the wings, right? I mean, it's unbelievable.

I thought it was Saturday. the bills and the Broncos are playing but I'm like yeah, I didn't know, it's not like the Colts are playing or hell even if like the Bengals or the Bears or even maybe the Steelers, I would see, you know what I mean?

Like so Bill's and Broncos are in their playing. I'm like, yeah, I'll walk in. I'm sure I'd be able to get a spot fairly easily. You know, won't be too crazy. There had to have been like 685 people in there. No joke.

There's three locations. Greenwood Fisher's Indianapolis, not local podcast. We're not from Indiana, obviously. But I know exactly what you mean. I walked in. I just stumbled in there. I kind of forgot it was like game day Sunday.

We walk in there. Obviously, there's no weight to sit because they have 7,000 seats available. It's a stadium in Ale Emporium. We sit down. The Steelers are playing. It was like a few weeks ago. And it was just, I don't know why.

It was just a most well-behaved bar I've ever been to in my life. People were like quiet using manners. I was like, did we walk in on like grandparents day or something? Dude, it was. Yeah, that's, that's interesting because I didn't, like, we were watching all the turnovers that were in that Bill's Broncos game. I mean, he had some loud ball calls going throughout the place. Bo, ball, ball, ball, blah.

That's so funny to do that in a bar. Every time. Dude, you could a, you could. Football guys watching a game at a bar doing all the same stuff they do on the sideline. Run! Oh my God. Scream! I could have believed it though, man.

I mean, it was like this is, I genuinely started thinking I was like, man, I think that if it was 2 a.m. on Christmas morning, A. and Poor Am, if they chose to have their doors open, there'd be like 700 people in there. Well, it's just, they just got it, man. Some places just got it. They're never not going to have it either. They're never going out of business, man. They just got it. crazy.

And golly, I mean, it was good. I had some fat stats I threw up there, some spicy garlic hermonecki wings. Come on. Handful of beers, but. Well, I got to see. What they got going on for dessert? That's how I, it's how I analyze a menu at a restaurant. I'm like, what's going on with dessert?

I didn't really dive into the dessert. I didn't really dive into the dessert too much. But, I mean, I will say this, it was so crazy packed in there. that I ordered the spicy garlic hermonecki wings with a side of fries, never got the fries. Didn't say a word either. And it was so busy that, yeah, I just didn't even, I just chalked it up. Hey, we'll save me some cows.

We'll take that L. Still paid for him, though. Hey, sometimes you got to take an L. Sometimes you deserve it. Sometimes you deserve it. What are you going to do? What are you going to do? Oh, miss, actually, these never came out.

So can you take these off? Yeah, it'd be another 45 minutes until your check comes back out. I'm good. I'm good. Here's $50. Just shut up forever. Bye.

Didn't get the prize, man. There was a situation, though, where... Situation, how about this? Situation. No, but station, I'm at a lot. Purdue played at 6. And so we were trying to get... You know how it is?

You're trying to get the TV situation. set up. So one of my buddies, he's not, he's, he's different to where he, you know, he's not going to care about trying to put this poor waitress in a weird spot because she doesn't know how to operate the 8 million TVs that are at Aylumpurium, right? So he's straight up, you know, kind of makes a scene about it. And she's like, yeah, I'm sorry, they're already pre-programmed. Hit him with the pre-programmed. Good move. Good. That's a great manager. Whoever that manager is. Hey, if you got somebody complaining about the TVs, tell him he can't change and pre-programmed. Boom. All the problems, salt, no more stress. Dude, I was the guy. Can't argue that.

Can't argue it. I know. I got nothing to do with the TV. Bro, I'd be in the 8,000s looking for channels. Just 30 guys with goatees waiting on me. I'm in Latino pop music. I'm like, hold on! Like doing all.

I don't even know if I'm pressing. We're going the right way with the, I don't know. You start getting into some sketchy territory, too. Not Latino pop music. All of a sudden you start getting Latino milk loves some. I'm like, still? That's still on TV? Damn.

Latino milk. I'm like, God, the most descriptive four words you could ever use. Who's ever name in the porn titles, bro? You are great at your job. But. Yeah. They always One of my buddies

He used to do You know when you're I mean I still would think it was funny But back in the day When you had everybody had Comcast or direct TV or whatever Yeah you'd be flipping through the channels You'd be like yeah let's see You're asking him to change

Hey dude I think I think the Pacers are on TNT Yeah let me see I'll get fired up here All of a sudden he'd be like I don't know Big Booty Latino Bounce off you go through those I was like God

That's a funny bit. Don't talk about Jordan Reeser like that. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, keep that bit alive. You're in a hotel. Hotels always have them. I'm like, you guys are scumbags, man.

Oh, shit. I'm just looking for WRTV 6. And I'm getting... I still haven't told... I still haven't told him that the, the, Boston boys from these guys' lives specifically asked about whether or not he was going to be there. Hey, don't worry because he doesn't care that they said that.

He can go a whole life without knowing. Not local, not local. Not a podcast for six guys. Not a podcast for six guys. We're just the opposite of every live, local. Yeah, dude. Yeah, I can't wait to get that talk one day by like a manager. Hey, you want to make sure your podcast is like relatable to a lot of different people.

No, we just go for like white guys that are 32 and we know them by name. And we went to grade school with them. That's our like thing. We know of our entire life. Yeah. Hey, you know what? If you try to appeal to everybody, you're appealing to nobody. You told me that literally like maybe.

in 2016 and I was like damn he's kind of got a point I think about that when I'm like on the stair step where I'm like remember Joey said that that one time damn and I swear it was passed down from your dad or something that's only a dad thing or maybe you made it up

I don't know yeah you're so right though about past ball calls we weren't doing past ball calls but I mean the amount of times Josh Allen fumbled there was plenty of go, get him,

get him, there's plenty of that going on, which was insane. It was really like energetic at a bar because there were

a couple of Bill's fans randomly, and I think like one table of Broncos fans somehow, maybe left over

from the Peyton days or some shit being an indie. But, I mean, I didn't ask them their origin. You know,

don't really care. So whatever, but, you know, it's not like it was packed with either team. It's just,

it's just guys who are football fans, man. You see, ball, you yell ball. Ball! I would like that a lot. You know, like if the whole bar

was doing past ball calls, that's what we do at the clubhouse bar for sure. You bring your girl the clubhouse bar? I can't even hear. Wee. What is everyone doing? It was so funny, yeah, because two of my buddies who are there brought their wives. Oh my God, bro.

I mean, what kind of trouble are you in to bring your wife into that situation? We're talking X's and O's, hon. Yeah, I don't think it was trouble so much as situationally, you know, like, Yeah, yeah, yeah. One of them, one of them have two very young kids, and so it's like any chance they can to have a babysitter, you know, they'll both go out wherever, it don't matter. And then one of them doesn't have kids. So it's like they're just always hanging out.

Yeah, sure, we'll stop by. We'll go see what's going on. We'll hang with the friends. It could be burby girls too. Maybe. Maybe. Yeah, we got a lot of, I don't know what else you got going on, but we got a lot of,

a lot of emails to get to. Always 17 things. I forget to bring up on this podcast, but we'll keep forgetting them. That's all right. That's what we do. You know where to find us every Tuesday, live, not local.

All right. This is from Wayland. Football is over. Damn, he's right. Hey guys Wayland from Long Island First time emailer Medium time listener

Oh Okay Now that the Super Bowl is over Are you guys ready for the No Man's Land and the sports calendar That stretch between Super Bowl and March Madness Is not for the week At least we have the Olympics

Where I'll be super into it for The first three days before I inevitably lose interest Shout out USA hockey though Not a Purdue pod obviously But do the boymakers have a legit shot At cutting down the nets this year SmackMass with the Brian Erlacker jersey, my dad bought me when I was 11, even though I had no idea who he was. Nor am I a Bears fan, but I thought his last name was super cool. I love the show, guys. Keep making Tuesdays the best day of the week. Wayland.

Sick man. I had the Erlacker jersey too, bro. I had it too. Really? I did know who he was, but it was Navy. It was a Navy, just a classic Navy Bears joint. you had that like you bought it or you got it for Christmas or something Christmas I think it was nine remember that year and I think it was like 2001 2002 when the bears randomly popped off and like Mike Brown would just have a pick six every week thought about that four hundred yesterday Brian Rallacher was like the best player in the league he I think he was either scoop and score or pick six like 95 yards to the house down the sideline against the falcons in Atlanta I was like this guy's best dude ever. He's badass.

That Mike Brown run. Nobody talks about that. I'm like, I swear to God, every week he had a 97-yard interception return. I was like, how are they so good? Yeah. And the Bears had been asked for a long time. And so then all of a sudden, you know, whenever the bears get good, like right now, it's always a big thing.

You always feel like it's a big deal. People go crazy. And so that was one of those years. And Earl Acker was popping off. And I was like, this guy's awesome, man. Yeah, Brian Erlacker, fake name. Most linebacker name of all time. It's up there.

How is he so good? Every week. How's he so good? And then he used to be number 11 safety. He was on all the Nike commercials. Remembering all the guys that were sick in the pros went back to high school for the Nike commercial? Oh, my God.

All cry. Best campaign ever. Mike Vic with the headband and the Vicks on, just like chilling in the seat. Number seven with the high school jersey. I was like, dude, you can't do this to my brain. Troy Palomalo just wrecking dudes. No books and hand.

Just wrecking dudes in the hallway for some reason. Oh my God. What high school? What was that high school called? Wasn't somebody crazy the coach? Who was the coach? I think it was Jimmy Johnson, maybe. There was somebody like random in the bleachers too that I was like, why is he there?

Something happened. 2006, briscoe high. Oh, God. I know there's a good song in the background too that you probably remember. Beem. Beem, be, be, be, bim, bim, bim, bim, bha. Oh, you mean the song that's in every high school football movie. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, exactly. Hey, if you don't, if you, if you do anything with high school football, commercial, movie, TV show, and that's not in it, why even make it? Doesn't make sense to me. Yeah, is Vic, Erlacker, dude, when they're walking past the girls in the hallway and they're, that is, come on. I'm trying to play this here I'll give you a play by play because I know you're not going to be able to hear it I don't want to sign to Facebook

Yeah, take it They could embed it on Can you play it on your phone Or what do you mean? Can I play it on my phone Like I don't watch it before bed every night When it wasn't already up on my phone To rest

Gonna go to the place That's the best God that just makes you want to go to like a Texas high school football game August 27th Friday night lights Turned up That's all you got

Jimmy Johnson the teacher Is the song playing? I can't hear the song Oh yeah they had that like character to be named later who's just an actor He wasn't a player, but he's like the freshman. I think he won the games. Oh, is Don Shula.

Don Shula! Was the big head coach. There's like an Easter egg at the end. Dionne Sanders is in the crowd. So you got Troy P. Erlacker, Vic. Jimmy Johnson, Don Shula. Jimmy Johnson, the teacher. That's so funny.

Matt liner holding a clipboard. I just got the chills, dude. I can't feel my legs. Oh dude, yeah, halfback pass to win it. Deon's in the crowd, yeah. Is this T.O? Oh, who's the mascot? Turn it around. The mascot, there's a reveal.

They take their head off, the mascot head off. That is the best thing. Oh my God. The way that people come up I can't even describe it Who's the mascot? You got to find the mascot I know I know I know I know it's gonna Terry Bradshaw

Oh LT Dude it's Lee Corso Look up in the eagle head Everything makes sense God whoever is dicing up that commercial Step forward We need to kiss Imagine how fun

That writer's room would be Oh wait wait wait wait wait Lee rain Free reign Free reign And he takes off the mascot head. It's because Lee Corso dude because he does the game picks. He does the

headgear. They just have, they can't have availability for every person in the world. LT's the running back. That's like when you get drunk with your homies and make a commercial and they made it. 42 cross, be open, Brian. Mike Vick

says that. Oh my God. If Mike Vick said that to me, I would fall and I'd bury myself alive. In the huddle with his face mask? In the, in the The picture, hey, the picture at the end, the snapshot, flash, and they're all doing something so cool. Erlacker, coin toss, we can take them. They're like five feet tall.

We'll embed it. Got that commercial. Briscoe high, oh my God. I'll do anything to go to briscoe high. Oh, my God. Holy shit. Red, unies. Hey, we need to.

fine. We need to do a deep dive. That's the next jerseys. Next TG Live, me and you, Briscoe High football jersey. Yeah, you walk into Tj.L. TG. Live with a Mike Vic Briscoe high jersey on. Tomlinson Briscoe? Oh my God.

Somebody walks in with the eagle mascot costume on. What's up? Yeah, I'm here for the show. I'd be like, ah! That is the fucking best. Matt Liner, it was in there. Backup QB. Oh, dude. That's what wins it. That's what wins it is the person who in the

writer's room came in and was just like, yo, Matt Liner's a rookie, have him holding the clipboard on the sideline. He's a Nike athlete. Just have him in there. Doesn't even have to say anything. No lines. Just cut to him holding a clipboard. Oh, my God, Matt Liner. Nike really undefeated with their commercials. Like the basketball freestyle one. Like I, like, I, like, I see. still think about that every day. Is that the one with the second coming? No, it's like all the guys are like dribbling

the balls and stuff and like Jason like, you know, it's like Wait, is that, that's the shit that we always parody Pete. Vince Carter. They're all doing streetball stuff. I was like, God, dang, man.

And you like couldn't really tell who they were a little bit because they didn't have their jerseys on. But it was like, like Ray Allen and you're like, what? Hey, hey again. No words. If you're not talking, it's a good video. If you're not talking, it's the best video I've ever seen.

Golden rule of videos. Didn't your brother-in-law say that? He said that like about that office video that we did. Yeah, he said something. That changed my life. He said something. He was like, cool. I forget what the words he said, but I was like,

damn man I think we did some 16 views but Nike commercials if you go down that if you go down there I will

I won't cry for any reason in my personal life but if I watch like a Jordan commercial uh oh

tears rolling down my face every I cry if you play the Michael Jordan commercial of it's not about shoes I'm starting to tear up right now

at the very end that kid And MJ's there. Do do do do. All the normal people doing the Michael Jordan stuff that one guy does the cradle. Oh, yeah. Just like an erect, Jim. It's not about the shoes.

And then he's there at the game. Oh, my God. Like proud of the kid. Tears. Hey, generations. Just passing down. Generations. Not about that.

Generation. All right. Let's try to answer Waylon's questions here. Oh, whoops. I forgot we were doing a podcast. Now Super Bowl is over. You guys, yeah, this is literally just what me and Ben talked about on the way to Chicago.

What? Are you guys ready for the no man's land in the sports calendar after the Super Bowl? Hey, combine or I'd jump off the roof. NFL drafts or I strangle myself. It's just what it is. Not no man's land for us. Yeah, we got the combine, we got the 40s.

We got the three cones. drill ready to go. And then that's a fun time because it's like lower expectations. Like you can get into like basketball. College of Hoops are starting to heat up a little bit. You know, Purdue will have like a big game. February 17th against Michigan at Mackey. Not like I'm not the schedule or anything.

What is? February 17th is what day of the week? Tuesday. So that's kind of late. Dude, I love college basketball on Tuesday. I love that. I know. It gets you through.

But then you're going to the game. when you're like, what? It's kind of lit for a Tuesday, though. I'm like, this is kind of sick, bro. Well, it's lit beforehand.

Like, me and my friend will be in Harry's beforehand at that game. And then it's like, this is a Tuesday at 5 o'clock and everybody's just like getting drinks at Harry's? What the fuck? It's like Friday.

Amazing to think about that. You know, half time comes. You're like, shit, I got to drive home later. It's freezing. Half time comes. Hey, Purdue's winning. Everything you want is happening.

What's wrong, bro? Nothing. It's over. Don't want to drive home. Drive home sad, sad. You got to drop your homie off, then you have to drive home by yourself. Hey, no music in the car. No, that's when you turn on.

It's not about shoes. Yeah, winter Olympics, I don't know, weird. Winter Olympics, I've never been able to get into that. I hate to be that. guy, but I'm like, who cares? I don't give a shit about skiing, dude. I don't know. Like, I never see it at any other time.

Why would I like it all the sudden? Yeah. Like, go USA, I think. I don't know. Not a Purdue pod. Do the boy the makers have a legit shot at cutting down the debts this year? I'd say, yeah. I mean, you got Brad Smith, best point guard in the country,

top three player in the country. They've rounded out all of their deficiencies from last year. Oscar Clough hitting the glass. You got depth coming off the bench. Just how the bracket breaks down and, you know, catching heat the right time. Like if Fletcher lawyer could be just absolutely flamethrower from three in the tournament. That's obviously a huge feather in the cap. But yeah, I mean, Michigan's really good.

Arizona's really good. Yukon's really good. Duke's really good. you know, the usual suspects, but chances are you probably not going to have to play them until the Final Four or the National Championship. So get there and then anything can happen. Now Sports Podcast. No women listening anymore. Hey, that's a question. No, it's a really good analysis.

I honestly was like, he read up. He did his homework on Purdue. I know. I know. I know. but uh... bro dove in but

did he did he read the emails before him? I do like how Purdue is like top three every year for some reason it feels good I'm like this is Midwest Gonzaga

like you know what I mean like they're always like in it and they're dangerous they always have a 7-5 guy and I'm like all right I kind of like Purdue and they're Nike it's the only reason I like him Nike

Great colors. National Championship being Adidas versus Adidas and how I kind of don't care. We got some DMs about that on these guys LOL. Whoa. What are we doing? It's hard to get into it.

And I did see that clip that IU, I don't know if it's through Mendoza or just if Adidas did it for him, but they like decked them out with a whole, they did one of those things where they surprised them with a whole care package for each player of all this Adita stuff and part of me was like

I wonder how many of those guys are kind of like cool I guess it's just sucks that it's going to be like that forever Nike is an Olymporium but it's just yeah they should be Adita

should be just blowing up right now because of this game like they should everything all in they should It should, every Adidas athlete of all time should be there. Like, it should be one of those things. But, um, makes it makes a lot of sense. Fernando Mendoza, Adidas.

God, it does. But, yeah. The jerseys are so loose. Yeah. Yep. Let's go to Kyle. Kyle says, we. Hey.

Hey, guys, love the show. First time a long time. I got this work meeting scheduled on my calendar with a prospect named Weet, W-I-E-T. We. I burst out laughing since I innately read it and the girl voice from the show. Not sure if that's how you pronounce it, this name or not. But if you do, and especially if the call is with a ditsy girl,

then there's no way I'm going to be able to hold it together. Anyway, come back to KC soon. You guys are the best. Kyle. Sit from my Motorola razor that my parents finally got me at the end of high school after they were cool. Yeah. True. I got the razor too late.

And it wasn't even a good phone. It was such, it was such a hot girl phone though. I was like, of course you have the razor. Okay. Just chewing gum so loudly. Wait. Wait. My burnt orange razor, we.

My mom had a pink one. And those were fire. Something happened with my phone. I can't remember, but we did a little sim card switch. So I had a pink razor for like four days. That's kind of cool. You probably hated it. It was a wild little alternate.

Yeah, it was a wild little alternate. I don't know. I don't think I hated it. I thought it was like, oh shit. Nobody else has this. Pink Razor? Junior era high school? What's up?

Yeah, just pop my sim in. How easy is that, by the way? that you could just switch. It was my, I know. Yeah. The old trade in the phones, that was like a, that was like an underground industry for a few guys. I was sprint,

so I was jealous of you guys. I was like, damn, they can just like, plug and play. Mitch Kavalski and Evan Whiteca, I thought that they're running like narcos. Like, oh,

they had, there were the phone guys. Phone guys, man. And then people would bring them to them. They'd switch it out. what you have that they were on that it was insane

yeah no but it was my freshman year so part of me was like this is different but the part of me was like and Burkart's going to

shove me into a locker so that's cool that's pink razor pussy I'd get a pink pink razor right now bro

hello Motel. Yeah. I love Kansas City, man. Had a few great shows out in Kansas City. We've talked about that. We should go there. Kind of, yeah, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Nashville.

There's a few that are... Same guy? There's a few that are on the, on the jacket. Kansas City, bro. I'd live there in five seconds. I'd live anywhere in five seconds. You basically do. I mean, you're just a nomad, you know?

It's fine with me. From Mike. Dip in at the casino. What up, boys. New listener first time email. No question. Thought you'd appreciate this story. I'm a UPS driver, and there was this smoke show who worked at a UPS store.

After a couple of years, I asked her out, and we went to an Indian casino about an hour and a half away. I decided, F it, first day, if it doesn't work out, it doesn't work. I'm thrown in a dip. She didn't care. She then asked me if I knew. where Tom Brady went to school, Michigan, easy. Because it was around the NFL playoffs in 2017.

Ended up coming home up a few hundred. Eight years later, we're married with a three-year-old, and the rule is if she ever gets a player's college correct, when I ask, I can never ask her again, and I have to take her out to dinner wherever she wants. Love the show, fellas. Multiple people have shown me their ringed doorbell camera of me delivering and legit laughing out loud both times.

It was listening to you, boys. Sent from my Samsung, Blackjack. too. Wow. That's a great story. What a love story, Mike. I'd be so in on that game. If I get the college right, you have to take me out to dinner. Oh my God. That'd be so much fun to do. That is. Would never get sick of that. Keep things interesting in the relationship. Man, good on you though. I'm a big believer in that. I'm a big believer in the you just said, you know what? I'm going to be me. And if it goes down, if she likes it. Cool. then we're already a few steps ahead.

And it worked out for you. You just get all that stuff over with. You wait eight months into the relationship to break out that, oh, yeah, I dip occasionally from time to time. Wait, big thing. I don't know. Blah, blah, blah. You got to cross that bridge. Then everybody's pissed off.

First time you just come out with it. Hey, I know where I stand. Sky activity. Be yourself on the first day. big guy activity right there. You either go up in flames or you're just yourself. Yep. And you know, and then you know,

she can work with me. I can work with this. But then... I don't think there's just not a girl in the history of the world that's been herself on the first day. Then comes out the feeling out process of, yeah. Is she okay with this because she wants to make sure that I'm all good?

Or is she really okay with this? I love dudes, man. First day, yeah, I wore a hat with a fish hook on it. She still likes me. I'm like, wow. Hell yeah. You just give me a little John Gruden there. I love dudes, man.

Finally, we got the title of the podcast, I love dudes. Come a man. I love dudes, man. I love dudes, man. Dude's man, bro. Appreciate that, Mike. Thanks for being a listener. Appreciate the fun, the kind of words there, Mike.

I hate radio. From Cole. Fandual AFC, Draft Kings, NFC. Nice. Yeah, for sure. Oh, my God. That's a sweet.

Sweet spot. Nailed it. Sweet spot. And that's kind of some untapped territory. We haven't, we haven't gone into that yet. So, nailed it. All right, from Cole. Hey, guys, love the show. Cole from Iowa here. Just turn 31 and playoff football season has arrived. As I get older, I see the boys less and less. We're all married or I've moved away from the town. We all met, got close. However, there's nothing better and keeps the boys juiced up more than placing a parlay that everyone contributes to. Before kickoff while you're enjoying your morning coffee, you wait for the biggest de gin and the green. group to text, what's the play, boys? Immediately things get stirring. Four buds each picking two legs to create eight-leg masterpiece, not to win double the money or a couple hundred dollars,

but life-changing money only. Sometimes millions. Has it ever hit? No. But the potential on bantering back and forth with the boys, even though you're miles apart can't be matched. Just have to make it to the three o'clock games. And if you're lucky enough, all of it riding on Sunday night football, just to watch Derek Henry shit the bed and lose us thousands. Question for you guys in the clubhouse. What are some things you guys enjoyed doing to keep old buds in touch for that much needed quality bro time? Nick Siriani and AJ Brown. Kiss already.

Oh, geez. This guy. Yeah, no shit. I think you might have inspired that. I think we put that out on these guys L-O-L-L on Instagram. Guys are like, geez, I'm so sick of hearing about it, man. Just do it already. Ben, that's probably pretty foreign territory, everything like Cole just mentioned in that.

That happens way more than my friend group chat. Not to that extent because luckily for us, we all, there's only like one, maybe two that don't live within like a 25 minute radius of each other. So we can all get together pretty regularly, thank God. But yeah, actually, what's your, what are some things that you enjoy to keep in touch with buddies? because I don't even know if that exists in your life. I just don't. I don't. None of my friends.

Like, I don't know. Just me and my friends are like, we just know what it is. Like I could run into them tomorrow and it would just be like, just pick up where we left off literally 15 years ago. Like, just doesn't, we don't really need to do that. But if there is something, it'd be like, I saw something and I'd like DM them like a, you know, somebody's cleats or something like, yo, dude, remember this shit? Like, dude, I haven't talked to somebody in like 15 years

and I was just like, I sent him, a Burger King came out with the, like the SpongeBob crabby paddy. Yeah. But like, in high school, we were like, bro, the crabby patty is the Wendy's. Oh, Wendy's Burger. If there's a parallel to the sponge, the crabby Patty, it's a Wendy's.

And we're all like so locked in on that. And Burger King came out with it. And I haven't talked to this dude in like 15 years, send it to him. I was like, they got all wrong dog. And he was like, it's Wendy's for sure. Well, we won't talk for another 30 years. But like, that's just all, that's all I'm doing. It's all we need.

Yeah, it's true. If you, if you get hit from Ben with something like that, that there's no text involved, like copy in the text. It's just like a picture of something or like a link of something. that that that that that means like that that's a big old bro hug from Ben yeah there you go mm-hmm uh yeah I mean for us like like I said we're always getting together and shit it is very important to us but oh that's what we do we call them uh we call them board meetings and so like once every four or five months or every six months we'll try to do it yeah maybe

like twice a year. Used to be even more, but we'll call them board meetings and we'll get like the back room at a steakhouse and we'll all get together and it'll be like eight or nine of us. And we'll just have this huge boardroom type table. And we'll always joke with the waitresses coming in and out that it's like our quarter one board meeting. And essentially that's how we tell our wives that we're like, you know, being productive and not just being total idiots.

So we call them board meetings and we try to do them. like I said, probably about twice a year or so. But it was fun. We always joke about like bringing in actual like line graphs and shit. What are those easels with like the rip off paper? Yeah. Like actually fully dressing. Usually like that would be funny.

We'll throw on a decent outfit because it is. It'll be like at like Capitol Grill or Tony Steakhouse and it's like nice steakhouses, right? You can't just show up looking like shit. Yeah. But we're like, do we need to? We should actually like. suits like pocket watches like do the whole thing one time but the problem is that like you know you always have one like Andy Ward's not doing that you know oh damn it yeah damn it I would love that

that's how you can get me to go man I just give me a theme I'm a girl the board meeting board meeting's a big one for us cool it's always fun pretty sick get in the back room at a restaurant always like you always feel a little intimidated walking in into the like the birthday party room, you know? And when you're not in that room, you're like, losers having a birthday. What? You know, and there's like a bunch of people in there,

you're like, they're so annoying. What's so funny, though, yeah, is that like, I do, I know what you mean, like, because I get a little intimidated, not intimidated, but I feel so bad because, you know, we'll walk past and there'll be a group of, like, actual business guys. who are there on like a conference

who are in there like 40s or 50s and I'm like oh yeah sorry we got this one it's just the biggest group of idiots you've ever met in your life young professionals yeah right bro

94 beers on the table oh smells like shit in there god damn you can imagine the smell in the room uh huh yeah we're like

We talk about like, we talk about like bringing cigarettes back just for the board meeting. We're like, can we get this smoky as fuck in here? Like, basically let's just turn it into madmen. Like, we'll dress up. We'll smoke cigarettes in there, have nothing but whiskey. Mm-hmm. Yep. Like when you're in fifth grade and you have to deliver a message to the eighth grade room and you're like,

it's like a different type of heat inside. You're like, whoa. Yo, I got to get out of here. There's like a kid you've never seen. The teacher's like just, you're like, this is what you guys do? There's like music playing.

You're like, damn, you guys play music? Oh shit. Yeah, that's how the waitresses feel walking into the board meeting. We got to get out of here quick.

Hey, they got to bring somebody with them. It's like a girl server. She's got to bring a guy to help. I'm not going to there by my seat. So, no. Then inevitably, like, half of everybody's girls are bad at them the next morning, you know. Oh, my God.

Stayed a little too late at the board meeting. Smell a little too smoky at the board meeting. Had too much fun without them. That's the real answer. We know this. We know this. I love dudes, man. This is from Sam, first time caller.

Hey, Sam, I appreciate that you call back anytime. Dude, we got to keep that going. I love that. He says, guys, as IU prepares for the National Championship, the discourse on social media has exposed one main thing. The Miami fan base is powered by millennials who walked into a Stephen Barry's at the mall in 2003 and walked out of Miami fans

simply based on the $12 hoodie. parentheses, I had one. My question as a long-time listener, first-time caller, is what schools gained the most fans simply off of merch, soul, Merge, soul that Stephen Barry's in the early 2000s? My assumption from Sam would be Miami, Duke, and North Carolina.

And yes, I also had Starberries. Strong, strong schools from our childhood. Also, everybody's first favorite running back, Clinton Portis. God dang, man. I was like, that dude, bro, it's just so cool. Breaking tackles, long runs.

28? 28 is such a crispy running back number. Everything you could want out of a running back 2001 Clint Portis. God, dang, he was nice. And you can't get any better than that. Willis McGa. He was like, oh!

Like, that's a guy you create on the game for sure. Two two bar Pfizer plus oh my God he was nasty but yeah

um honestly Stephen Barry's it was kind of tough Stephen Barry's you did no no I miss it yeah

like missed oh miss oh miss not not past tense okay um I only went a few times but I would hear

like stories about it. It was only on like the north side or maybe there was a location I didn't know about but everybody's talking about Stephen Barry's. Yo, they got all the shirts. It's cheap. They sold starberries there. And the one thing I really wanted there that I never saw or it was like a myth was like they would sell

every college, all night, every cool college and local college like baseball jackets. Yes. And I was like, God damn. I want one of those so bad. And they even had like you indie ones like black ones they had like alternate colors and i was like god i one of those so bad but i like didn't i could never get there like i didn't have like i didn't know where it was and it was like too far away to go to in high school my mom wasn't going to just take me there so it was always like a and then they then for some reason they just like went out of business i was like god damn yeah it could be the $15 shoes and the $12 hoodies probably not much overhead there

Oh, they were like the originators of the two for 40 hoodie with the colleges. Even cheaper than that, bro. It would be like two for 25 or something. Like it was crazy. And they looked so good. I was like, where did you, Michigan State hoodie? Where'd you get that Stephen Barry? What?

Yeah, my uncle had one of those baseball jacks to talk about North Carolina. Sick. God dang. What color was it light blue? No, it was mainly black with like flavors. with like flavors of baby blue and white. They knew what they were doing with the black. They were going black for black's sake on stuff before that was a thing.

It's a really good point by saying because like when you're when you're that young so much. And me and my brother-in-law joke about this and how we're excited for our boys to hopefully do this. Like when you're young, it doesn't matter what team you like or like what team your dad likes. like you just want the coolest players, the coolest looking jerseys, the coolest looking logo. Like that's all that matters. You know? And so we're always like, I can't wait until Frank and Ted are like seven and eight. And they just want like the running back on the Vikings, whoever that is then.

You know what I mean? Like just whatever. Because that's, I mean, that's how it was for us. But yeah, with Stephen. But to a lot of people's credit, you know, like you get those when you're that young. and you fall in love with the logo and then you fall in love with the team you're like shit

yeah this is sick oh I'm a North Carolina fan now you know yeah I got no problem with that those are really three really good ones from him Duke Miami and North Carolina Texas yeah Texas

throw a house state in there and I know that it's local it's like not too far away but something about that block oh with the colors or you know what I mean untouchable dude they're so good every year or two. Tressel vest.

Cool schools. Cool schools. I don't know. I'm trying to think of like, I didn't see it too often. But I can see a world where like Florida State would pop in there. Florida. Yeah. I remember where everybody thought that like that wasn't going to work out and then Florida

just blew the doors off over. Remember that? In the Fiesta Bowl. Is that it? Yeah. Ted Ginnery turned the opening kick. God dang, man Such a sick matchup

Tostitos, you are looking live Oh, that's funny We got from Bailey Clubhouse commoner here Says Stephen Barry's Fellas, this has never been a local podcast But I was listening to a station this morning And Stefan Marbury's name got brought up

Got me thinking about how there was once a store in Castleton Greenwood could never that I swear sold a ton of his shoes so I looked it up and all I could find is the name Stephen Barry's. Was this the place? You guys might know. Soundboard recommendation. God damn it, Donald!

If you know, you know. Yep. Oh, we know. That's crazy though. It was in Castleton. It was like, it was so exclusive. And you're right, Greenwood could never hold that down. And it's funny like you mentioned. Yeah, it's like, it's not a common enough place.

like the Nike store or lids or something even it's not a common enough place where you can tell your mom or your dad they'd be like are you just making someplace up what the hell are you talking about I'm not doing the research to find that mm-hmm you know I felt like a lot of older people knew about it too like for some reason my mom knew about Stephen Barry's and I was like oh you you okay because it was cheap cheap yep that's what I was about to say you go in there and get some some good deals for everybody What a move by Marbury, though, putting all his shoes in there. People were really buying a lot of those because they're 15.

And they are kind of dope. Marbury, All Star Game, 2001, 3 late in the game with like 30 seconds left. I was like, Marbury and Steve Francis, same guy. God. Let's go to Liam. Early life sporting events. Hey, guys, Liam here. First time emailer.

Recently started listening to this show a couple months ago. Big fan. Thanks, bro. Glad to have you. Anyways, what was the earliest sporting event in your lives that you guys can remember attending? For example, I'm from Boston, and my earliest sporting event memory was going to the Celtics game with my dad when they were playing the Chicago Bowls in 2011 with Prime Derek Rose absolutely cooking them. Anyway, slap my ass with the ice cold water out of a backyard hose on a hot summer day. Sent from my Motorola DinaTac 8,000X.

Did you make that up? Did you make that up? that's insane um jeez 2011 man so we're ancient to you Liam

Ben was like about to graduate from college in 2011 2011 bro I went to college during the Civil War what are you talking

first game I went to Stanford Cal bands on the field God I wish me and my dad would have left years before that even happened we would have left in the first quarter oh the band out of the field oh shit we were trying to beat traffic stupid

no the first game I went to that I can actually remember was an IU Purdue game I have no idea why but my me and my dad were just like let's just go to the because it was like a rivalry game I have no idea why we went but we sat bucket litter yeah bucket game we sat in the top row at I used

stadium, like the top, I think it's because I wanted to. Because when you're a kid, you're like, let's see how high up we can go. And we went up there. We just watched the game. I was like, all right, yeah. Oh, that's a good day with Coach P. 98, 98, probably 1990. Everything in my life happened in 1998 for some reason.

It's a good year, man. Elway finally broke through. That's the first game I really remember, though. that I thought of when he asked this question was Packers, Broncos, Super Bowl. I'm like, that's the first game. I was, like, kind of excited to watch and I knew it was going on. But the first game I went too, saw Alive, was the IU-Purdue joint blooming thing. First game, I remember watching that, yeah, similar.

First game on TV that I already have spots of like, oh, shit, was Rams Titans in Atlanta. Kevin, that's so basement with you at the hangar, bro. Oh, yeah. I just got random shit. Keep going. My basement in my house, as you guys know, I'm sure you follow, you know, everything that I do is just down here in my basement. So I got wardrobe changes.

I got random shit, dude. He knows. What the hangar is so funny, dog. But yeah, okay, so Rams Titans. I remember that Super Bowl. We were in our neighbor Chad Oceaners basement. I just remember the commercials were so, like, nothing was better than late 90s.

Super Bowl commercials. Nothing, dude. Laughing are ass off, bro. My dad, his buddies that were there, like me as a six-year-old, I mean, just insane. Bangers. The beer commercials?

Bangers. Every single one of them, you cannot miss it. And they always delivered, too. I'm pretty sure that was the debut of Terry Tate off of Sondybacker. Dang, man. Everything was just so well done.

funny and like kind of risky. Yeah. What? All right. Damn. This is the Super Bowl. Like, I get it now.

I kind of went on a little, I kind of went on a little rabbit hole on that here recently because one of the videos I have to do for a fan duel coming up is around the Super Bowl. And so like I brainstormed a couple ideas. And I wanted to parody the what that commercial because it's like the 25th anniversary this year of that commercial airing. And we did it. We should probably repost that, honestly.

People would hate it. Man Cave would kill us. But I loved it. I thought it was hilarious. But I went back and was like watching that commercial, the real one. And I'm like, dude, nobody's doing shit like this now. I know. I know.

Like what is even happening in that commercial? Like it's just marketing for them to be like, yeah, there's just guys and this is what guys do. And we're a beer company. And people are going to be talking about it. genius. It's a good risk too because it was like, who knows if it'll work

but it banged. And people were answering the phone like that for years after. Maybe still are. Dude, hey, if answering machines

are still a thing, I guarantee there'd be somebody we went to high school with even my dad maybe that would have that. La! Leave a message after the beep. So catchy.

The end of the commercial. That's what she's doing. be chilling having a bud God dang that was cool true true

the next day everybody at like at school what was your favorite Super Bowl commercial choke that person that's crazy no the worst is

I watch the today's show every day you know it's always on in my house and God the way we all we are well established that like news people make everything just so annoying and dorky. Holy shit.

The way they talk about Super Bowl commercials. Wow. And they start rolling them out like on the Today Show starting like right now. So you get like little snippets of one. I'm good. God dang. Wow. This is describe with a gift what you think about this.

Oh my God. hilarious first game I remember vividly going to is my 10th birthday Wrigley Field Pops took me first time having first time going to Wrigley

Sammy Sosa got thrown out on the bottom of the first inning for arguing a strike call Mm Had a beer First time Ten years old Got drunk with my dad

Yeah it's great time We and my dad crushed 32 beers. I pissed my pants. Never forget it. Oh, dude, it was so funny. Like, we're the big, you know, I was the biggest Sammy Sosa fan, you know, like, my dad, my dad got us tickets down the right field line so we can see Sammy sprint out, right? You know, we watch Sammy right there. Whole thing.

He's got his Sosa jersey on. I've got my little Sosa jersey on. jersey on 10th birthday top of the first ending you know game starting Sammy sprints out he does his thing you know goes crazy holy shit oh my god biggest legs

for bottom half the ending gets tossed we don't see him the rest of the game I hated when that would happen it did seem like every time you went to a game and you wanted to see that guy he wasn't playing yeah yeah he's not playing I got got with the

with the original load man management. It's just a guy getting tossed. Oh, G. Lode, man. It got tossed on purpose. Didn't want to play. Should heard hurt? Yeah. Probably. Is your dad? I know your dad still has that Sosa jersey. Oh, that's mine now. Oh, why don't you, do you wear that? No, for it for sure. I was wearing it on the 4th of July.

That's sick, man. So, because it's not, you know how like baseball jerseys now through Fanatics and all that shit. They're just not made the same. It's like screen printed stuff with like, no, dude, this is like a legit, majestic, thick as shit polyester.

Everything stitched, huge Cubs logo on the chest. Red, white, blue. I'm like, this is, this Fourth of July.

But whatever happened in majestic, man, bring them back. It was like, it was like your mom sewed that jersey. Like, there was just so much love and like, everything was just so legit.

and big and popping off the jersey. Majestic. Come on. Insane name. They did it right. Hey, it doesn't look good. It looks majestic.

Put some respect on majestic for once. But, hey, so like when Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa, not an old sports podcast, were like going for the record, you wanted Sammy Sosa? Or what?

Yeah. I wanted Mark McGuire I know it doesn't matter but I was team McGuire I don't know why probably because probably because his nickname was Big Mac and I really like Big Macs but

just what an era you know yeah I mean yeah I'd get somebody who has no ties we'd want Mark McGuire but obviously grew up in a Cubs house you know Sammy Sosso's the coolest MF around the planet. Like his little hop, dude.

The hop. Dude, nothing, like that was as a kid when, because, you know, and even still, like a lot of people, even still sometimes, like, if a fly ball is hit, you know, you're kind of like, oh, maybe, you know. But you had a guy that, like, told you? If he did the hop, if you did the hop, like 99.8% of the time, it was gone. There would be one time a year or so we're like, he would do it and it would be get the right at the wall.

They get robbed. You know what I mean? Like that. But, I mean, if Sammy did the hop, that thing was going like 450 feet. That's crazy how even he knew. Because I'd be like, ah, but you get a hold of one. I mean, Sammy, Sammy, he had no doubters, man. God, that's so sick.

Like Brennaman said in the playoff game, Sammy playing long ball. And I mean, the long ball. No doubters. When they would hit home runs in the upper deck of the baseball same, I was like how on earth?

Just cracking them. Dude, I'll send you. Hey, hey. I'm an up-becoming a rock band that plays a lot of covers and it's all former baseball players are called the No Doubters. You got to, you got to, what's the band?

Who's the lead singer? Is it Barry Bonds? Barry Bonds, lead singer? No, Barry, Barry's like, on the drums? Barry's coming in with like, he adds a little bit of, like, he's coming in with like a saxophone or something, if they need a little bit of that, you know? Yeah.

I'm glad this is a baseball podcast again. That was fun. Hey, we're getting ready to once, hey, football's over, so we're flipping over to combine and pitchers and catchers. Spring training unies in baseball, blowing my mind every year still. Like when they used to be a little different, you know? Just so spring break. Exactly. Why did Joe King design all of these one day on PCB?

I know. I'm like, damn, it's like mid-spring break. Should we go? The Mets are playing like two blocks away. Should we go to the game? They're wearing those cool. Yeah. To wear the green jerseys.

Because it's St. Patrick's State. They're wearing the green jerseys. So spring break of baseball to do that. Yeah, we'll just put a different bill, different color bill on this like Yankees hat. They would never do it in the regular season. But spring training. Yeah. Fuck it.

Yeah. We're all doing something a little wild on spring. break there. Feel freaky with it. Oh, shit. All right. Majestic baseball spring training, jersey. Next on the list.

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