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Episode Date: December 2, 2025

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I mean, if your kid's going to die, like, that would be the best way. Spoken as a father of two, I don't really think there is a best way. Okay, but if you had to pick, it's not your kid. Okay, my kid, my kid guys, how do you want them to die? I want an eagle to pick them up, fly over Lucas Oil Stadium, and drop them through the open end zone. Not bad for a fat guy. T, TG 162. TG 162 live in the end purrie.

I think it's actually Christmas from Jill's bass, when Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to you. I don't think it's over yet. Christmas time is here. Yeah, it's cold.

I got the Santa hat on, and it's three weeks away from these guys live. These guys live, Chicago, December 22nd. Or your heat. Bring your girl I think I

I think I kind of Half drunkenly TikTok purchased Something something that I will plan on wearing Wait To these guys love If you bought it on TikTok That means it's not going to ship until 4th of July

Yeah You can do that? I'm like Yeah First time they got me It was a surprise Well yeah I mean if it gets here

I want to wear it to these guys But It was putting the daughter down. You know, it was our third Thanksgiving of the weekend. So I had some red wine. That five sides. And was rocking her and putting her down. She was asleep.

I was just doing the old scroll. And I saw. And I go. I clicked on her. And it was like, you know, $25. I was like, scary when something's $25. Is it real?

I don't know. Got to find out. Maybe not. almost pulled Trigg on that one jersey I sent you. You're like I'm too white to wear that. Mitchell and Ness dropped like the sickest NFL street looking jerseys of all time. Almost about the Calvin Johnson one.

They actually got Troy Polymalu to model them. Huh? Was it fake? Anytime Troy, Paul Mollu models anything, I'm like, was he actually there? Like the Old Spice commercials? I'm like, he did that? Yeah.

Well, that's, I saw that when he said it to me, and those were the first two things that popped to my head. One, wow, they got Troy. Paloano. Two? I definitely can't wear that. My dream. You could wear it. I couldn't. But after Sunday evening, I want nothing to do with the Pittsburgh Steelers. What do you mean by that? Can you tell us a little something? We've reached the point of apathy. We've reached the point of indifference. I saw that performance on Sunday at Pittsburgh. And after Josh Allen got shoved into the end zone by three of his offensive linemen when he was stopped at the five-yard line, I turned the game off. I went upstairs and I spent time with my family because I realized I'm done investing myself into an organization in a team that doesn't want to better itself.

They want to be stubborn. They want to be arrogant. And I just don't care anymore. So yes, while I follow along, will I keep up with the times? Yeah. but am I going to be waving the terrible towel expecting a different outcome? No, because this is who the Pittsburgh Steelers are now. They are a arrogant, dumbfounded, no answer, no solution, mediocre franchise with no heart.

And it's sad to see. Bye, bye, Tomlin. Do you boo him last night? I booed from my living room. Guess you got to find a new team, dude. I are Tomlin from the living room. No, I don't find a new team. I won't find a new team.

I'll just take a break and sit back. I'd be like that, be like that, that, that, that, that gift of that, uh, superhero guy, the kid,

not Captain America, but it's the, it's a bad version of Captain America from the boys. Or he's sitting in the movie theater and all the lights are flashing and he's just straight face. That's just going to be watching this debacle. That has now become what the standard is. this is the new standard.

The new standard is going into after post-thexgiving football into December and your legs completely come out from underneath you and you're an embarrassment to your fans and you're an embarrassment to the history of the Pittsburgh Steelers. This is who they are now.

This is what they do. Until the NFL drafts. You gone to that? We're going to that. Yeah. Probably. You have a draft? Faith.

The North Shellers! Yeah. Wait, sellers? Not a sports podcast, but the dude from South Carolina? Yeah. See the number one QB? I mean, I don't even know who's the number one QB right now.

I don't think there's any good player in college football right now. I'm like, the guy's like 6-5, he's like 240. He runs like a 4-5, 4-40-yard dash. He's got a cannon. Like, that's just how you got to do it. You got to get somebody like that. And then you just got to be like, hey, well, at the very least, we can rely on you to like make something.

happen and you build around them. But you don't let Mike Tomlin come anywhere near it. You don't sign up for him to have his hands on that rebuild and a young quarterback because we've seen what he does with quarterbacks. Handcuffs are on. Steelers. Lane Kiffin? I want to be surprised if he'll have Lane made the jump.

He's done it before. It's been one year. Next year, next year have somehow have Mike T. return and have it be his last year and then Lane does one year at LSU and then goes to Steelers. We're officially at that time of the year where you feel like you just need to drink a gallon of orange juice

and sit in a hot shower for when you wake up. Sexy sick boys, so while. Every morning. Hey, what's up? On the phone. What's going on? Every morning. Ever been hotter?

Hey. wake up like you just got hit by a bus and you need ice cold no pulp oj and you got to take a hot shower and then put on a puffer jacket because you're always just kind of cold scarf in the house god dude say sleeping in sweats oh oh yo it's tough i got to be i got to be in a real bad spot to sleep in sweats it's real hot but sometimes it just feels good like i do it probably four times a year i know you're dead here you're dead here hit you with this when you're younger. Hey, the old. It's let you sweat it out. Oh, and you got a fever or something? Layer up. That was a wild time.

The first time you sweat out a fever in your bed, I don't know what's wrong. I'm just saying it. Just keep my head hurt. Alcohol, 10 hours wake up. Did I piss myself? You wake up feeling so good, though. Yeah, I'm like, oh, it's over.

It's over. I got proof that it's over. We don't know, though. You don't know, though, because sometimes you can jump the gun, and sometimes you can have that cold and you're like man all right cool like sweats out all right you try to get into a shower again and then you get out of the shower you feel sick again sick yeah dude false alarm false alarm sick i've had a lot of those nights where you just sweat so much you don't know if you wet the bed or if that's your sweat the whole bed soaked my dad used to do that

all the time you know like peak sick sick when you were you were actually really sick like you're freezing cold like fourth through like eighth grade you know that's every air where everybody there's a bad bug that goes through the entire school and you get it you get it and you're laying there and you're shivering and he's like come on let's get hoodie sweats come on you go let's get some of those thick socks you got it i'm like i don't know i don't that sounds like i'll be really hot i got a fever no you got sweat it out yeah so that's what always reminds me of whenever you said sleep it with sweatpants on i'm like even if it is cold and i'm just feeling good and i'm trying to cozy up if i'm in bed and i got sweats on i'm like sick sick um sick

Big thick socks, dude. I was always bare feet like in the winter. Bare feet, wood floor. I'm like, some socks on B. Some socks on B are going to get sick. And I was like, how am I going to get sick from having bare feet? It just made no sense to me. I know.

But the temperature of my feet control the rest of my body and my mood. Like if my feet are cold, I'm like a horrible person to be around. Get some socks on B. Sucks on B. Well, we know Coach P, he's a big slip guy. Slip God. Yeah. Slip even back in the day.

Like before he was, before he was grandpa, Coach P. He was always doing that. Sweat, slippers. I remember you post pictures when you guys would celebrate Christmas on like February 10th. That's the best Christmas ever. Coach P would be in khakis, a button-up shirt slips. Mm-hmm. This is in his house, probably the most.

cozy guy in the history of the world. khakis on, though. I cannot get comfy and khakis. I don't know. But he's rocking. You must have those dockers or something that, like, have the you know, you just randomly buy pants that stretch. Thank God. You never know. Like,

it's always so random. You buy pants. You're like, oh, these are the stretchy ones. These are my favorite pants. By your fault. Do you remember what got me for a while was that marketing by dockers to where, like, he'd spill something on it and it would just drip right off? Whoa. I think I was like 11 years old and I was even putting that on my Christmas list.

What happened to that? They still do it. But is it kind of fake? I had to be. Like they'd show it slow motion and the water would just like a backboard. Water would fall on it. Bang. See ya.

It's nice. But then I was like, is it just water? Or is it coffee? Hey, get away from the computer. Dude, cats and computers. Oh my God. Get computers. Go.

Let's go. I just want another. Why do they like rubbing their faces on the corner of computers? I don't know. Maybe it's warm. Maybe that's another thing that I feel like may be false, but I grew up thinking it because my dad told me when birds, it'd be cold and birds would be on the power line. Because it's warm?

Yeah. They're just charging. Yeah. Well, I mean, because they are fake. So that's what they have to. That's what they have to use to charge on. Power lines because they're cold. I mean, at least that's what my dad told me.

I just thought it was a good spot. Right. You know, like good perch. You could see everything. We had some power lines behind our house when birds would hop up there. I'd be like, all right, we got a crowd. Kind of a flex, because not other animals can do that. It is super unfair when you think about birds and how they can fly.

I'm like, they got everybody. Like, if you had to pick an animal, like, you're a cheetah, jaguar. I'm like, dude, I don't know. Like a... How about a hawk? Oh, a hawk. Dude, just gone. Flying through?

It's unfair. It's something right out of water. Such good hunters. Yeah. I mean, eagles and hawks, they will, like, there's some that are big enough that if you have a child that's small enough, people would be like, you need to keep that baby inside. Had your kid pass away? The American way. I mean, if your kid's going to die, like, that would be the best way.

Spoken as a father of two, I don't really think there is a best way. Okay. but if you had to pick, it's not your kid. Okay, my kid dies. How do you want them to die? I want an eagle to pick him up, fly over Lucas Oil Stadium, and drop them through the open end zone. And have it fall right into,

or the middle of a PAT, and the kicker just acts, just winds up. It kicks the baby. That'd be so sick. Like, if my kid dies, like, make it something cool, at least. He's going to die. All right. I mean, just drop him on the 50.

Drop him on Jim Harbaugh's helmet in the middle of the Colesfield. Hey, he shanks it. It's not even good. It's, you got that, uh, the Eric Collins guy on the call from the Hornets. Just loosen his mind. Can I get Greg Regs for on that call real quick? Rick wouldn't be on the call. He'd recap it afterwards on the postgame show.

Speaking of babies. Saw one dropped in at the 50. We'll have that and a whole lot more. I don't know. Come over to this. We got to make a quick at the end. Speaking of infants. And this is, and the infancy of his career the first time he's done that.

Speaking of infancy, how about the baby shank from the 50 yard line? Not bad. Not bad for a fat guy. Speaking, hey, merch, Benedictmerch.com. Get all your, these guys, clubhouse. Station out about this? Hey, wait a minute. Oh.

Station out about that? You're so sexy. So sexy. I do love our merch, man. That'd be so funny. Yeah, I would love to have people get that on Christmas morning and open it up. What a gift. And say that.

And then have everybody else in the hell and be like, the hell are you talking about? It's all, uh, actually dropping. Clubhouse info only. 50% off merch. Whoa. 50% off.

That's a real Cyber Monday deal. That's what I'm saying. Benedictmerch.com. Get you the details. We'll post it. You'll see it. That's a real Cyber Monday deal. Can't pass that up.

Get it for the live show. Where it's a live show. And this, unlike my deal, is real. It's not a perhaps fake ship in four months. Dude. Sometimes I buy stuff and I forget about it.

Yeah. Not real big on tracking it, you know? It's just buy and, all right, well, now the ball's in my court. I feel like you're, to it when it gets here. I feel like you're always let down by the tracking. You know,

because the package will say, this is expected tomorrow from 12 to 445. And they're like, wow, cool, all right. That's not far away at all. I could do that. and then the next night you're laying in bed and you're like, wait a second, I don't get a package.

You go back to your email and you check the same email. Tracking to arrive tomorrow. Between 12 at 4.45. What happened? Not very accurate. I kind of wish there was 24-hour shipping, you know? Like, they always, they take the night off, but like, why aren't we delivering all night?

Why don't we have drones? I thought that was a thing. I know. I don't have drones that'll pick it up and fly it through. I bet there's probably like air traffic. private control problems. The birds, man. You remember last year when they had those

those red orbs that were taken over the sky in like New Jersey? I don't think. I don't think so. I don't know. There's so much stuff out there that I see and I think that can be a problem. And then I just keep scrolling.

And then I don't forget about it. Never is. Like I was kind of convinced Atlas 31 I was coming Two days before Halloween What's that? It was this Unidentifiable object

That was coming through The solar system Or these these telescopes picked it up And they couldn't figure out what it is Like it didn't seem like it was An asteroid or a rock And it kind of had a shape that's I don't know

That might be something God I pray for that Just please blow this thing up See, I don't because everybody in their mind thinks that in a situation like that, they'll be the one to survive. Yeah, they'll be Tom Cruise and War of the Worlds. They'll be, uh, they'll be Bit Affleck and Armageddon. I'm like, that will not be me. I'll be one of the first ones that the aliens will come down.

I'm gone. I think you got a little fight in you, bro. I think you're underestimating. I just think that everybody thinks that. way, you know? Like, hey, I'll be the movie will be about me. Chances are, probably not. Absolutely not.

Dead on site. Dead. I got no bunker. No. I always kind of want to build one, though. You know? I would just do what Midwest families do when there's a tornado warning. Just like going to the basement in a bathroom.

This is the best times, dude, wouldn't he have a tornado warning? Oh, there's no windows down here. Maybe they wouldn't know. How is that helping? There's a tornado you go in the basement? You're good. This crappy basement? It doesn't go.

It doesn't. They don't go. They don't like dip down like that. Are we sure? I mean. Has anybody ever really been safe from a tornado? I was in my basement. I just trust in Randy Ellis or whoever from channel.

I saw somebody say get in a ditch on the side of the road. Uh-huh. You saw that in your textbook? Yeah. Guy like in a ditch. Hey, how about when you? I don't know. How about when you'd be on the right?

How about when you'd be on the road And there would be a really horrible storm going Your dad's driving You know There's that thought of like We might actually have to ditch this We might have to pull over and get in the ditch Yeah

I don't even think my dad Has pulled over on the side of the road And waited for the rain to slow down You know there's cars that knew that Yeah I think my dad's pushing through Dude windshield wipers Yeah

You saw 10 and 2 Windshield Wipers Dude, the rain coming down so hard. Just turn on... You can't even hear the radio. Just turn on, there's no easy way out. Just blast that. Starts getting real when you see cars pulling over.

Not worth it. You know, hey, you get a little break from an overpass. Dude, I live for that two seconds. It goes so fast, man. It's the best, though. Just complete silence. I'm like, kind of moves in slow motion. Nobody talks about it.

that you see the overpass coming and you're like oh yeah you're really looking forward to it and then you hit it and then it's gone yeah when there's two so a double-sided one double bridge yeah get thrown down in a ditch dude like uh I mean yeah like how deep is the right amount of of depth any ditch just anything with a little the little tiny hill on the side of the road. There's no way. A tornado is going to be like, oh, I can't get by that.

A tornado? It's just either, hey, comes down to it's just either your time or it's not. Let the gods aside. Yeah. Have you done any, have you done any shopping?

Absolutely not. I've been asking, though. I've been asking around. What do you want? What do you want? Letting him fly. What do you want? What's on your?

list. What is that? New coach for the Steelers? Come on. New coach, new owner, new mindset. We get a new Gulch.

How about a new philosophy? I put it in my notes or do I put it in my. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. See, now when you get to 32, Christmas,

it becomes you, you put off, you don't know, you have no clue what to do, what to put on your list. And then all of a sudden, you're sitting there one night in bed when you don't have anything else to do.

Maybe you've had some wine. And you just all of a sudden, 12 things appear on a combined list. You're like, all right, I guess this will do. I don't know. It's got to come to you. And then you can't force it. And then when you're buying, it's the same thing. So it comes down to two nights.

The night that you just kind of black out and put everything on your list. And then the night you kind of black out, you're like, all right, I'm just getting the card out. We're doing it all. That's a fun night. You barely, you don't ever really regret that. No. When you just ball out, you're never like, ah, I shouldn't. So it's interesting, though, though, for dads of our generation is that, you know, like our dads, dads of the prior generations, you know, when it came to shopping for kids for Christmas, the mom would have to actively go out.

Right? and the mom will go out and get a bunch of stuff and the dad's wouldn't know. Now, I'm like thinking, have we gotten anything for the kids yet? I was like, yeah, I'm pretty much done. How? Because she's just online.

Just like, do, do, do, do, do, do. Is she sure? Do the kids make a list? Like, that's what, like, how do you know when the kids don't have a list? I mean, I think, I'm like, you know what they like? Like, I guarantee if we go upstairs after this.

And you guys, hey, Frank, what are you on for Christmas? he'd be um spy stuff and monster trucks spy stuff spidey stuff oh love spy i thought he was all in on being a spy i love spiky that's what i'm talking about spicy stuff and monster trucks and what's his other thing that he really did too but like yeah we'll just tell you that general idea general idea and then you kind of you can get freaky with it and some interest interested to see like his reaction you know mirabella and baby dish what is it baby dolls wow Dush You say it like that?

Oh yeah Talks solely with their lips I got two like Trump babies Hey both A lips I saw I saw TikTok that was like Top toys from the 90s

Like top five toys Dude and I had three of them I was like what Not a reminiscent pop but what were they I can't remember all five Because I scrolled to it really fast But when I was scrolling because it was a long TikTok I'm like I can't three minutes

you know so I was like let me just see the pit so the first one was that street shark that like was big and he could like control its fin and it would open its mouth what would it do though? Oh it's like an action figure I was all about it okay the second one or his third or something on the list was Beanie Babies Oh yeah were you up up into Beanie Babies? Yeah I think we I mean my mom definitely and then because of my

my mom, they'd be cool ones, you know, they'd have like the alternate brand ones, you know, the really unique ones out in the wild. Not Y, not Y. No, TY. Okay, I was like, you're going. No, I'm saying. They had ones that were like more regular in the rotation, then all of a sudden they came out with a crazy color way.

Yeah. And those are the ones that don't look those up. You ever have a, dude, have you ever have a beanie baby and look it up on the internet now that you don't want to, don't ruin your day. Yep, yep. Beanie babies is big. I looked up like a dog that I have. had that I slept with every night. Pop tags immediately.

Looked it up on the internet. It's like $3,500 now. I'm like, I slobbered all over that thing and that's this much money. Dude, do you remember when McDonald's had the beating babies? Were they full size of the many? I can't remember. McDonald's always cashes in so hard on the toys to get people to come to the rest of it. The Happy Meal toys were banging. Remember the watches that were like Power Ranger watches? It was like a competition. You know, my aunts and my grandma. my mom. We would like hunt down different McDonald's for these Beanie babies.

They were peak late 90s. They always killed. Yeah. And they always had the movie tie-ins. Sometimes Burger King would steal some movies. Yeah. I've got. Oh, Burger King got them. Star Wars was always Burger King. It was the ones, I think McDonald's had to deal with Disney. Because Burger King would

have Shrek stuff. How did McDonald's that Snags Fred? Burger King would have Star Wars. And so, in the early 2000s when they were doing the prequels and everything, Yeah, they would have like mini lightsabers or like Had you getting a Darth Vader toy Like in your BK, what was it, a mighty kids meal or something?

I forget what they called them. Yeah, I think you're right. Happy meal. Mighty kids. Yeah. Best day your life. Put the crown on like LeBron. The crown was nice.

BK did a great job of BK so NFC. I know. I love them too. Burger King is so Fox in the NFC. McDonald's is the most AFC. I never even thought of it in my life. McDonald's is like the 2007 Colts and Patriots. Just, oh my God.

Just so. Superstar studded. Just so AFC. Everybody's watching it. So CBS. Yeah. Burger King. Some are all bad.

Oh, yeah. Yep. The dark side. Getting a little freaky. Yeah. Every now and then there's a little like, I don't know, Cleetus might come out of nowhere and tackle Terry Bradshaw. Okay.

Burger King might do something wild like that. Burking got ice age. Now they have floats with ice cream out. Okay. I didn't know you guys could do that. Burger King, NFC, McDonald's, AFC, Gatorade AFC, Powerade NFC.

That old Powerade bottle. Never forget when they rebranded. Powerade rebranded and it looked like almost like the Riddler question mark. I was like, where did that come from? Yeah. Yeah. They got serious all the same.

sudden. They went from like Collegian to like Thriller laugh. What's some more AFC NSEs? I know we've done this before. I could do this

in our own conversation for the rest of my life. Oh, we said one in a podcast not too long ago. Ooh. Huh. Subway AFC

Penn Station NFC? It's not. It's very AFC. Or do you go Jimmy Johns? I think Jimmy Jones is the next best thing up there with Subway. I think, is there another competitor? I think, I mean, yeah, Jersey Mikes.

Jersey Mikes, XFL. Yeah, yeah, Jersey Mikes, XFL. I think Subway's AFC. I think Jimmy Jones is NFC. It's giving me a little AFC vibe, though, but it has to be NFC. because somebody's just so like, it's so AFC. It's bright.

Oh, I think we did pop. I think we did pizza. I think Papa Johns is AFC and like Pizza Hut's NFC. It is. Damn, but Pizza Hut is kind of AFC-ish. It's like, is that one's not as clear to me. Maybe, me. Some are people.

You're right though. Pizza huts like the Seahawks. They were AFC. Now they're NFC. Still have those memories. You're right, but it's just not as clear as McDonald's Burger King Xbox and PlayStation That's a tough one bro

I got roasted on Twitter for that I put I said PlayStation was I think I said Xbox was AFC And people were like dude Hey You lost it I was like

But then I thought about it I was like they're kind of right But I don't know why I thought I think Xbox is AFC I think it's because that NFL flavor game they had I think PlayStation is AFC because I think

it's been around longer. It's more of the standard. In my mind, the AFC, and then the NFC is just the funky bunch. NFC brought Fox NFL football

pregame show into the mix in the 90s, whereas the AFC and the NFL and CBS already were going. Yeah, it's, yeah, yeah. Yeah. That's just, yeah. That's just how.

I break it down. But, you know, let us know the comments. Apple tweet out of C. Ooh, Android NFC. AFC is a little bit more like superior a little bit, you know, just in all of these typically.

And I think it is like that in real life. Is it? Well, I don't, yeah, I don't. We probably could just be geographically where this gets us. Like we grew up in an AFC area. We grew up with Peyton Manning. Chicago Bears right there.

But it doesn't really feel... When you're in Chicago, are you thinking, this feels a little NFC-ish. Yeah. Yeah, because it's a little, like, windy, cold. Yeah.

It's so funny. AFC and NFC towns. You go to Chicago, I'm like, you guys are kind of mean. Come to Indianapolis? That's nice. Passport Yards. AFC.

AFC South. NFC North. It's a rough and tumble bunch. So wild. Went to Baltimore. Felt the little NFC of them. to be in the AFC. I can see Baltimore being an NFC.

Something about the purple. Kind of like purple doesn't belong in the purple and black. I'm like, that's NFC. That's NFC words. It doesn't seem like it. But it's like the Washington was in the AFC. I'd be like I got to flee the country. This just doesn't

not feel right. They're the most NFC team of all time to me. Yeah. Just everything. the things that come up conjure in my mind right when I think of Washington is just the blue NFC logo

just right next to it and then playing like the Giants or Eagles every single week steak NFC chicken AFC whoa yo

can we hit the comments for this I know you got one in your head right now really steak it's tough It's dark. It's specialty. Chicken, chicken, light, lean, chicken, chicken everywhere.

AFC. Hmm. Interesting. You'd think the other way? I'd never thought about it in that way. Hey. Dude, this might be it. Okay.

This might be the one. Superman, AFC, Batman NFC. Oh. Yeah? That's good. Yeah, okay. That all matches.

It does. It does. Bright, blue, red, yellow, and AFC. Dark, shadowy, mean, mysterious. Cold. Cold. Yeah. That's it.

I like it. It's good. The clubhouse. Oh, my head feels like I'm about to explode. Holy Lord. Here we go. Ready. Let's go to Matt.

Do you know about the Tava on Austin mixtape? Benny and Joey, new member of the clubhouse here, and I got to say, love the show. As a guy who started his career in radio, I cannot stress to you how many stations you know about this and, okay, type guys I used to work with. The one that stands out was my old boss that hit me with, okay, after I broke a station tent at a little league opening day. He proceeded to send a company white email blaming me, and I sulked the subway to eat lunch alone while around here by counting crows played over the speaker. Talk about a low point. Rano, were you getting the chocolate chip cooks at Subway? What song is he talking about?

I'm really trying to paint this picture. Let's just, we'll just, Counting Crows is like... Here, you can't have set up all along. All right, all right, all right, all right. Anywho, my buddies and I were recently talking about how Elite the Reebok NFL jersey run was in the early 2000s. Something about the designs, the NFL equipment tag on the collar, the mesh, and the silky sleeves that just hit different standouts for us were Black Bingles, Chad Johnson,

Teal, Seahawks, Sean Alexander, White Niners, T.O. Red Cardinals, Larry Fitz, any variation of Falcons, Mike Vick. I was wondering if you guys had any favorites from that era and or any jerseys he always wanted, but never ended up grabbing. Slat my ass harder than Ligaribund, punch Byron to Hout from Boise Estate.

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Is it a small phone That kind of looks like a switch Oh yeah Yeah you flip it up Like as if you're in like a street fight Yeah One of the biggest guys At our high school had that phone

I thought it was so funny Biggest guy Smallest phone Why you talk about Jake Coles I click that Dang, dude, close One year older than you though One year older than me

Yeah So class of 11? No Plus of 10 Yeah Biggest guy Bro Don't be throwing

Patrick off under the bus Like that No Damn Like Like muscular Like Yeah

And like big and muscular Too Oh Isn't that funny, though? That crack me up, dude. Put free shouts for having no worse. No, local pod. Never has been.

Gosh, yeah. Me and been the whole time before the show, we probably should just do that. We were just making fun of all the local sports people, and we're crying, laughing. Ah, ah, the Colts loves when we please. Send me your reaction and get for them only. we'll play him on the post game show.

Come to my golf outing. Yeah, I mean, the early 2000, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's NFL for us. That's our, is the question, dude, right here. That's our childhood. I'll read the white T.O. I love when, been looking for that. Like, there's, there's teams in my mind that obviously, you think more of them, you think of them more often in their color way. You think of the Steelers, you think black jersey.

You think of the 49ers, you think either like Cardinal Red or that crimson they had in the T.O. era. You know, when I think of, you know, when I think of now, like when I think of the Cowboys, you think of white jersey. You know what I mean? But what I'm saying is I like when people go with the alternate. When they go with, somebody shows up and has like a crispy white Heinz Ward Steeler jersey on. Oh, all right. White jerseys is underrated. It wants a home team

For the home color Get the white Yeah They're looking for that white T0-09ers And it just It doesn't hit for some reason I can't like find a good one

But Reebok just did the The uni's better Like you see the Steelers Reebok jerseys Compared to the Steelers Nike jerseys It's like Oh my God

If you can't see that Like the stripes are like Really big They're super bold Trap's really big The letters on the back Of the jersey are super big Yeah

Nike did it. I think it's a fanatics thing. Like they did it with baseball. Palomalu would be just so wide and fat. Yeah, it's almost like dealt to dealt. Yeah. And the letters were real thick. Same with the Titans. Like you look at the Titans when they had the light blue on the top of the shoulders.

It was like real thin near the end in the Nike era. But when they had Reebok, the Eddie George light blue was like all over his shoulder. It just seemed more real. Right. And yeah, it just seems more simply put, the holes in the jersey just seems more football. That's what it is. Dude, that was a great. I'll never forget you saying that. I mean, it's football jersey's got to have holes in. What are we doing? Mesh. Yeah. It's a mesh jersey.

You can't tell me the material they're wearing now on the field isn't hotter than just a mesh journey. Oh, yeah, for sure. It's got to be way like more. And I think they did that. I mean, I sure they did a fair bunch of different. reasons, but I think one of the reasons they did it is for marketability and to sell, like, they wanted to sell jerseys like that. So they made them on the field like that because they were like, I think people want to wear more of like, you know, it's a jersey that almost is just kind of like a shirt because there's no holes and everything. I'm like, no, you're wrong. You were way wrong. Dead wrong. Dude, when I'm going to a football game or a football watch party or I want to have

a hoodie on and I want, I want mesh, baby. Silk on the top. Get one our pick. Right on my neck. That makes me want to go out and rush for $250 in a turkey bowl. Yep, that jersey. This new stuff, though, I just... I'm like, I can't even wear it to Thanksgiving. I'm going to get it messed up. It looks bad.

But yeah, Jersey, we always... I always wanted that I haven't gotten Black Priest Holmes. I don't know why. I don't know what I'm waiting for, but it's really that one. Dude, I tell you, it sounds so much of Jersey, but from this era, the Reebok apparel NFL era there was a jacket a sideline jacket hot jacket

there was a sideline jacket I think it was 06 or 07 that I thought was so sick they had kind of it almost seemed kind of like diamonds like a diamond shape so they'd have your team logo and then there was like a stripe going across

like a thick stripe not a thick stripe just one color solid stripe going across and then everything else they had like little almost like snowflakes or diamonds this was like what the coaches would be around the sideline

it was more so like the inactive guys like you wouldn't see a coach in them but you know like when Bob when Bob Sanders wouldn't be playing for the six time that year he'd be in the RCA dome and he'd have one of these a Colts one on

God with like the Reebok NFA Reebok Colts Beanie that kind of had a bill mm-hmm like with all of any side of them Yeah, yeah.

Man. I wanted that jacket so badly, but it was pretty pricey. Nobody's looking cooler than a guy on an NFL team that's injured. I know. They just know exactly what to wear. And it's almost like, did they put you in that to sell it? Right. Because it's always like the coolest guy on the teams hurt for a game.

They keep showing them on the sideline from TV. And you're, God damn. Where do you get that hat? Yeah. You're immediately going online. And you buy it. You're so dumb. Telling your parents at that time.

Yeah, 06. like, I want that. Good luck trying to find it. Those hats, like, we were talking about this before, like quarterbacks would go to the sideline, immediately put on the team hat. And I tried to do it in a CYO game. You just brought a team hat, Redskins,

because we were the Warriors. It's like, would I just put that, you know, put that on the sidelines? Coach immediately. I know. I was like, what am I doing? Shrimp up. Just wanted to be a pro, man.

Sorry. Well, pros do it. Oh, yeah. Hey, when you try to unbuckle your chin strap like Donovan McNabb during practice under center. Coach rips you apart. Just want to be like McNabb.

It's want to be like cold pepper. Let one hang down. We didn't have the right chin straps, though, so it would just be like, ding. Yeah. Chab and your chin strap would get all out of whack. That was so bad. The worst shin straps in the history of the world.

That's from Luke in the world. The title, Pocadots. What's up, Ben and Joey? haven't rowed for a while, but I figured this past week's episode was a sign. The high school I went to in West Virginia used to be in the same conference as the Pocca dots. Ironically enough, the 2018-2019 season, we went one and nine in our second to last game of the season. We went to Pocca and played the 10-0 dots in their closest regular season game at that point of the season. We lost 14 to 9 compared to their other wins that were scores of 49 to 6, 62 to 36, 45 to 27.

It felt like a win. No moral wins. their best player who went on to play for Marshall and was a part of the 22 Marshall upset against Notre Dame was injured but I tend to leave that out when telling the story of how we almost beat the best team in our conference

slap my ass well I tell my brother how he doesn't have any idea how lucky he is to play for the same high school I played for and be eight and two going into the playoffs this year when we went one in ten my last year I'm a washed up JV player

that should not be talking sent for my PSP welcome Luke welcome back Luke that's who we want yeah I remember and we were talking about those high school names and I said yeah my dad I didn't thank you for confirming

because I was one of those things I was like dad like I think that's very cool you're probably full shit what which for which one because he would travel to West Virginia a lot for work and there was a town called poca their high school name was dots

that's such a thing a dad would make up right so it's so hard to be like I believe that there was a town poca but obviously the dad joke is lying right up on a platter you know their high school mascot is right No way that could be true

That crushed Yeah But thank you for confirming And yeah that is so weird Like how ebbs and flows with You know you have high schools Like one of the teams that you were on It'll be like three and seven

Or like two and eight Just so bad Senior night You know the coach tries to rally something together Like what do they contribute You care so much You really do We're so glad that you're out of here

But I have to give a speech and honor all you guys and give you like a football with your name on it. It means so much. We sucked. I'm like, how are we so bad all the time? Coming from a high school that was dominant for 40 years. We step in there. Right when I got there.

That's a really tough pill to swallow. But yeah, like ebbs and flows. Then all of a sudden we all leave. Now they're going back to state like every other year. Yep. Every time. Every time. I don't know.

He happens every time. Let's go to E.J. E.J. says, museum gift shop. First time, long time. I have a good icebreaker for the clubhouse to use over the holiday season where they're stuck chatting with that one family member who you kind of know but don't really need something to talk about. Quote, if your life was a museum,

what would be in the gift shop on the way out? Since this is not a reminiscent podcast, this is what I would want people to buy on the wall. out of my museum. Dye Dr. Pepper, Livestrong bracelet. Zinn, grab a free East Bay magazine at the door. I smugged my ass with an underarmor lanyard

while rocking a blue Nike, Rex Grossman, Florida, Jersey, while rocking Cincinnati basketball shorts, white color. With the team issued Jordan basketball shoes on the feet, can only wear them in public after the season because you can't wear the game shoes outside. At risk losing your stick on the bottom, obviously. I love that. E.J.

Sit from the high school library computer during your free period. after browsing ESPN.com for some hot takes to share with the boys at lunch. Dude, when the computers would block up on ESPN, what the hell was that about? You go to ESPN.com in computer. Yeah. Or just if you had a English class or something that had computers in them, get on the internet.

It was so fun to go to ESPN, man, when you, like, weren't supposed to. You felt connected to the world. I know you're like, is there everybody playing that? Is there like a soccer game going on in Germany? Just a see. I miss any breaking news. Yeah. You can see like the live, like just the scoreboard that says like, you know, whatever.

Ooh, you check that on like during March Madness. Oh, well that all. When your teacher returned on the TV during like seventh period during March Madness. Dude, they started cracking down hard on that. I know. It was like a two year period where I was like, anything goes. Yeah. We can just watch stuff.

I remember I was in middle school and I had some cool teachers. And like, they would. They would end of the day, you know, from 220 to 245. That FCBS up there. You can be able to see the little box scores. Yes. You can bring your brackets out, you know. They're like, hey, as long as we're kind of free time, work on something if you want to,

but just as long as we're old tame. Stay quiet and we can put it on. I think that's just an Indiana thing. They're not doing that. Like in, like, I don't know, Oklahoma. You think they're watching basketball like that? I'm probably just watching like Sam Bradford highlights.

There's Adrian Peterson on high school. But then I remember, yeah, when you got to high school, that was over. It was like if they even sniff you talking about a bracket. And I thought it'd be, we'd be like more willing to do it in high school. No. Cooler teachers,

like more guy teachers. Older kids that can handle something, you would think? Did we even have? have TVs in our high school rooms. Yeah. Like our, like, eighth grade had cool, better TVs. They had better TVs.

I remember when we had a TV in the corner of a room, I'd be like, dude, we're kind of bawling out. What up, Center Grove? What you got on that else, dude? The ones that we got tech. The ones where we went to grade school, they were, they were like 34 inch. Yeah, they were like 34 inches. That were like the bubble screen.

Zenith, dude, the Z. That's the coolest Z ever. Great, great branding. That fact that we can remember that. Zenith. But then we got to high school, man, those shits have been in there since 1983. 15 inch TV. It was 1983, dude.

TV or a microwave in the phone. Hey, a lot of this. Sting won't, yeah. Jay, during Channel 1, I was always so locked into Channel 1, though, for some reason, just watching the hell out of it. Just because it was something on TV. Again, you're like, what? We're in school? They cut to like the sports segment on Channel 1.

Yeah. Yeah. It always be the weirdest story. One time I remember Kevin Love was on it. Yeah. I think everybody remembers that channel one episode. Kevin Love like broke a backboard. I was like, oh, he's going to be number one.

Yeah, but then you're like, damn, they're doing that out there. I know. It's over. That dude's in high school breaking backboards. Luke Keekely, 54 tackler. Okay, yeah, I know. I'm screwed. I'm trying to steal money for pizza.

students in all-American? I don't even have a car. I've got a ring going on at the school for money to get the extra cheese sauces for the pizza on Wednesday. Jesus, that dude's going to UCLA. I'm trying to debate if I want to buy the class ring or not. Guy talked me into it downstairs in the cafeteria. Did you ever have a letter jacket, not a high school podcast? The most high school question ever.

Just got to remind everybody No I thought they were so lame Oh ours sucked Oh yeah they were ugly The color way was horrible But I'm like who's hey Who's buying this

But honestly like During that era I'm like who really just has a letter jacket Like is this a movie Who's wearing it? I always wanted one I thought it was cool It was like yeah

I mean it's you should I think when I was a kid And I saw somebody with a letter jacket and it was just decked. Yeah. Just so many little things, all down the arm. It was just crazy. I was like, that's kind of cool.

When they came and talked to you, I promised to keep. I'm wearing that. How much was the letter jacket? One of the lug rings who's been in the backfield for the 30th year in a row. Yeah. Three sport athletes. He's got wrestling. They got stuff on the, you know what's real?

And they got stuff on the back of their letter jacket. No, I thought it was cool. Just our color way sucked. What was? Like a red chest and then like nasty blue lily navy sleeves. I was like, we have great colors. We can't make a navy on the inside white sleeves. White on the out.

Red right there. White. Like, what are we doing? What a pretty versatile jacket when you think about it though. Like you can throw that thing on like that's your winter coat. Yeah. It doesn't really get old.

You know, he's had that jacket forever. It's like not one of those. How much was it? It was pretty price. It had to be $350. It was pretty pricing because, because yeah, it was all stitched and like personalized and everything.

Did it have last names on the back? I think on the sleeve. Just bonnage. On the sleeve? I think maybe. No. Oh, left pack. Chest plate.

Yeah. Chest plate slid in there in cursive. Yeah. I can imagine that like when our parents are in high school. Oh, yeah. Like letter jackets were probably hot. And that's when girl, can I wear your letter? Wow.

The letterman and the cheerleader. Yeah. He asked, this is funny. This is an interesting, this is an interesting topic starter. If there's a museum about you, what would be in the gift shop to purchase? There's a museum of me. What would be in the gift shop? Dang, man.

Boy, you probably know better than I do. Yeah, that'd be Pepsi'd be pepsid box, black box of red wine. Bunch of them. Cookie cakes. Ooh, now we're talking. Like, yeah, okay. Yeah. I think it, yeah.

Black Jordan hats. Every day wear. Every day. Black Jordan hats and. I think that just might be it right there. Probably like custom terrible towels or something, but fuck the Steelers right now. I hate the Steelers right now. I think it's a black jordan hat.

Jordan. Just one thing on display in a case, lights, clear case. But it's a gift shop so people can purchase. Okay. Yeah. But that like the display. The display of mine. Mine. Yeah. That's all beat on. Jordan symbol on the black hat. All beat up. Oh yeah. You ever re-up on that or have you had the same? No, I re-ups. I got the first one in 17. Remember that? And then I re-uped in 21. So I guess it should be due for a re-up here in 25. But I mean, I like this one. It's good. It's got some life to it still. Real flexible, real. You could fly over with a car.

Just durable for anything. Matches with everything. All good. Yeah. Like you said, it would be like on a like a dummy head, you know, in a glass case. Now one would be on there. But then behind it would just be a whole wall of all the different sizes for people to buy that they wanted. Yeah, I'm trying to think about mine is.

For me, it probably just be. all the hair I've lost over the years. Sina box. A tis? Rortissary chicken. Yeah. Artissary chicken for sure. The sandals you wore to the derby.

Oh. Those were, I thought about that the other day. Those were at, man, what a rough day. Didn't care. Didn't care.

It's so funny. Bloody sandals. Pig with Herbie. All of us, Bent's feet. just out. Oh, was I wearing bare feet?

You had the sandals, bro. Okay, okay, okay. You had your full fit and then just thongs. Oh,

like that. Okay. To. Hook toe. Just a cut off toe in a glass box. Jam. That's what mine is.

That middle toe. Doing its own thing. Why would I ever do that? I don't know. I think my shoes are too small or something. You'd have a lot of jerseys, too. It'd be like,

instead of a wall of, hats. It'd just be a wall of jerseys. From Jacob. Jacob. Jacob. Christmas game. Y'all hit the Christmas game on the head and didn't even realize it. New York Jets and Green uniforms and Bills and Red uniforms. Sent for my Quickfire with the fucked up touchscreen. Quickfire?

Yeah, I remember Quickfire. Another white tech guy had every phone. Where is he now? Guys from your high school, where are they now? I don't even want to know. Probably has like four kids. kids. Poor kids are just in the ground. What was he? Oh, that's sick. Yeah.

Another slide up. You got the flip-up keyboard. You're doing a thing. I also got, thanks for confirming that, Jacob, Jacob, Jacob. But I also got a message from, I think Adam, somebody on Instagram,

a clubhouse ball knower. He messaged me and he said, Not a reminiscent podcast, but Christmas is Bill's Cowboys. Cowboys because they have the star and the star goes on the top of the tree. Pretty good. I said that is that is damn good right there. That is damn good.

What was the Christmas matchup that a homie just said in the previous email? Bills and red, Jets and Green. What was ours? It was Jets. Chiefs or something? No, we didn't do Chiefs. I think we did that. But you made the point.

I think we kept bills in there because we had red and spending money paying bills. It might be bills, Cowboys, then. I like that. The star. It's festive. Hey, Cowboys get a little wild. Wrap some Christmas lights around your stuff. Oh, God.

Can we do that now? Huh? Just get a little festive. It doesn't have to be around logos. Nobody's ever done that. They need to do that, like, how the Rose Bowl does it with their helmet. Like, can we get Purdue with some lights? everybody's yeah everybody everybody

goes to the rose bowl and puts some sort of rose variation in their helmet or in their jersey hey you play on Christmas who plays on Christmas this year like college games no the NFL has three games on Christmas I think the Cowboys play on Christmas this year Merry Christmas To

Dallas at Washington Detroit at Minnesota Denver at Kansas City Dude There's so many options there The Vikings horns What was the last? Dallas with the lights wrapped around Denver and Kansas City

Hey put a Santa hat on the Bronco Come on Such a good idea NFL's too like a business to do that I know It's more of an NCA They're getting They're hopping off that a little bit

All right this from Alec This is Caleb Haney Did you guys ever have a weed kid on the football team that was Loki pretty good but hardly ever showed up to breakfast. He had a kid that I swear could have went to the league but he was too busy smoking weed in his basement. He was totally the kid that showed up to the function and you kind of liked them but you knew you couldn't get too close.

Maybe you hung out with them one time and one time only and felt bad about it afterwards like your life was spiraling out of control. Happy Thanksgiving guys. Just want to say this podcast plus espresso has really helped me get through some tough times over the years. But just taking me back to a simpler time. Okay. Alec.

Thanks, Alec. here for you bro. Caleb Haney, though, that did trigger me a little bit because he was the quarterback that replaced Jay Cutler in the 2010 NFC championship game when the Bears were hosted in the Packers. And I was as a Steelers fan, I was watching that game. I was really hoping for the Bears to pull that out because I felt that the Bears were obviously the better matchup for us in Super Bowl 45.

However, Caleb Haney was not able to get it done. He threw a pick six to BJ Roger to crush all of our hopes. dreams. So the Bears would have played the Steelers that year in the Super Bowl? Bears hosted the Packers in Chicago for the NFC championship game. And we played the Jets later that night. And Jay Keller took himself out with like a sprained MCL in like the second quarter. You got to play through that, man.

That was the talk. NFC championship? That was all the talk. Erlacker called him out. Yeah. Such a J-Coller thing to do. He's almost like Lane Kiffin. It's like, what do you expect?

Damn, dog. It's the NFC championship. Brace that thing. Oh, do what you got to do. Right. Erlecker call him out. Dude, that's like the highest. Yeah.

Oh, man. Erlecker calls you out. That's like your dad saying something. Maybe more important than your dad. So I'll never forget. Caleb Haney. Because I think we would have wax the Bears and the Super Bowl. Dealers, Bears, Super Bowls?

Yeah. The darkest game a little time. Yeah, what match? Bears would have had to have worn their Navy jerseys. The Steelers would have had to have gone white. for it to have a chance, right? The Steelers went black and the Bears went white with Navy pants.

Ew. Yeah. No, I would think that would work. Bears Navy. All right, let's finish up here with Andrew. Andrew says recream Christmas, orange Syracuse jersey. That might be it.

Wait, do we answer his question? Oh, fuck, we didn't even talk about that. We got a weak kid on the team that's hot. Dude, that's like a staple in American high school football. The kid that is so good, but just can't. and get it together. And just doesn't care. And the coaches are afraid of them.

Like the coaches won't even say anything to them. And you're thinking, hey, buck up here. We need this guy. And also, he needs some help. I don't know if we had one. We did. You did in your class? On my team.

He wasn't like he needed help. Like, he wasn't in a bad way. He was just classic, like, didn't give a shit. Would F anybody up? And all the coaches were scared of them. but he was like our best defensive player. Yeah, would like roll up,

you know, we'd all supposed to be there at a certain time, you know, back at the blockhouse at the locker room by a certain time on Friday. Uh-huh. You'd just blow that off. Did care.

Are you talking about Mason Nickel like that? Dude. Now I'm scared. Now he's going to come after me. Oh, dude. I got a funnier story about that because I played with him in college. Oh, I don't know.

That's, it was crazy. I know that story Mason it was hard Hey your dog This gets back to you It's all respect Well now it is

Yes I am afraid of you But I wish we had a kid like that I was praying for somebody So good Yeah He was just the classic like Can't tame him bro We'd be doing sprints

And the coaches would get on anybody else Who like was loafing But he would just Literally trot And they wouldn't say shit to him You're just When you're good You're good

Never have had that kind of ability ever. No. From Andrew. Recreem Christmas Orange Syracuse jersey. That's the clubhouse winner of jerseys.

If someone pulls up in a Riquine on the 22nd. Orange. Yeah. On the 22nd, you're taking it, dude. These guys sitting here waiting for the pending snowstorm

and watching Game Day in Ann Arbor. Tuned in on some Andy Williams Christmas album and all is right in the world. Oof. That is good right there, man. Wait, set the scene. My dad, hey, the bucket, or not the bucket game, the game, best weather for the game ever. That was great.

Holy cow. Not a lot of snow. Game sucked, but like the weather was. Perfect. Oh. My dad kept a bunch of old stuff at his basement and recently gave it all to me to sort through. Most of it's junk, but I found what I consider the high point in my youth sports career. Never felt more swagged out than my seventh grade junior Rams football picture, circa 1997.

Dope jersey number, baggy ass sleeves, white mid-socks, and the piece de resistance, the cowboy collar neck roll. The weird thing about the charging ram helmet in this picture is that our team never wore those helmets. We had gold, Notre Dame style helmets. Just a thought of clubhouse needed to see this work of art. Now that this is a middle school reminiscent podcast or anything, but what was the worst style choice you made during middle school or high school? I wore Lee Pipes, wide leg jeans with so much denim that looked like I was wearing a giant hula hoop around my house. ankles. My guess is Ben Puka's shell necklace. Joey, unironically wearing a big

Johnson t-shirt that your parents didn't know that you had wore under your sweatshirt until you got to the bus stop and then showed it off to all your friends. Svag my ass harder than my seventh grade football fit. Andy sent a picture. Oh, dude, you are you are 97 football right there. That looks good. Yeah. That looks that. I can get up there.

I mess up to Zoom. Benwell. You look like you're ready to hit. You look like you're ready for Oklahoma Drew. That should be in a magazine. Dude, that's a good middle linebacker right there. 56, yeah. Holt.

Gloves. Great posture in the football stance for the picture. Yeah. Yeah, that's weird going with the gold. The ram helmet is cool. So sick. That was just a picture day helmet. For the fridge.

So much better than just a plain gold one. that's funny you mentioned that your worst style decision when you were growing up Andrew God I had a lot I went through a lot of different phases

my sister dude if she was here she would roast my ass I had a lot of different like I don't know I was just you're at that age and you're kind of just trying to like test things out

you're trying to figure out who you are what works you know I did not I was the opposite I kind of I know I'm jealous of that I just had streamlined nothing too over the top or like minimal.

It was just normal stuff. I had no era where I was like popping out with some like new shit. I went like freshman year high school. I went hardcore like everything super baggy. Baggiest jeans, baggiest shorts, Jordan sweatsuits like all that. Not bad though. I mean, you can't, you're not roasting that. No, but then, like, it took a hard turn in my middle high school years where I was trying to, like, be fashionable.

Skinny jeans, cardigans. I was kind of in, though. Fake glasses. You know, like a vest with like a long-sleeved shirt. I was that guy. I did that. The fake glasses was crazy. I know.

Looks good. It was like, I was like 16 or 17. Just like right in the heat of, you don't know who the hell you are. You're just trying to do any. If a girl says she likes that, that becomes your personality the next day. That is one thing me and you definitely do. If a girl says she likes anything, boom. It's me for the next year.

Dedicating my life to it. I literally work for Purdue now because my wife went there. I like it when you like have a beard, me the next day. I've always had it. It's always been like. I don't know anything happen so quickly. You don't even know. You just screw overnight.

I don't know. It's weird. It's weird. But then towards senior year, I started to reel myself back in and did, I think it's probably because I started playing football again. Can't be doing that shit. People will roast your ass. So I kind of, you know, got back in to just your standard sweats, hoodies, black jacket.

Athletic wear. Athletic wear. Athletic wear. In an athletic wear our whole lives. Kind of haven't left since, but now like I'll mix in. Like, now just, I don't know. A little bit of flavor, but definitely still your. basics, you know, the core.

And I've been there since probably about 2015, 2016. I like you here. I know who I am. You know? What about you? It's always about the feel. I never really had, right now I'm in the era of buying things I wanted when I was like in that age.

Yeah, fun. So I'm like every jersey I've ever wanted buying it now. Hell yeah. That's kind of, that's all I got. But back then I was kind of just like. like normal everything's normal. I didn't like really, I didn't have enough money to buy stuff. Ben was, he was the ultimate, like, just the standard.

Like, he was the running back. He was the cool guy. He never did anything to make himself look dumb. Like he just, you knew you were getting like a white waffle shirt, probably like a Colorado Rockies hat or something, you know. Lanyard all that. Lanyard, Long, George. and shorts.

Normal. Yeah, there you go. Like just your standard, when you think of like, besides Travis Kelsey, what do you think of like an 08 or 09 jock? It's him.

Yeah, no crazy hair cut. Just, yeah. See, because I think you had, you know, your sisters and like your dad

would give you so much shit if you tried any of that. But I was the oldest. And my dad was a young dad. And so my dad was like, branch out, Joe, be who you want to be.

You know, encouraging. me to like try different things like that. I'll never forget turtleneck. Kind of nice. I still got him. Still got the TN. You know, this time of the season?

Sorry. This time of the year? You know. It's a good look. He's right. Ternalek is fine. Andrew, I don't know how you knew this. We hit the nail on the head.

Pretty close. Turlikes are hot. Unironically wearing a big Johnson. So it wasn't Big Johnson. but it was a shirt that said it was like an Italian theme shirt had like the flags on it shit and it said if you like my meatballs

then you gotta love my sausage you wore that yeah oh my god like on some weird shit like like the Italian fest that was there an occasion no it was like it was one of those shirts you pull out

for like a party when you were 18 dressed down day at school there you fit on never really never really prepared for dressed out Some people would ball out. We're like, oh, I got this for my birthday. Yeah.

I never had designated clothes for dress down day. I was just like. What? After your birthday or Christmas, you didn't have that one's the one. I never really had a fit like that. Like, I can't wait to wear this. Or I'd be like embarrassed to wear it kind of, you know? Like.

Yeah, because people would come downstairs and your sister would be like, you're really going to wear that the first day back to school? Okay. It's like, I thought we all agreed when I bought this. This was cool. And now I wear it. and now it's not cool. Yeah.

See, I understand so much, I understand your psychology so much I've been knowing you this much for this long. And it all makes sense. But you understand where I'm coming from, where I didn't have that. I ran the house.

Oh, yeah, I get it. Yeah. With a dad who didn't give me shit. You were popping off. Hey, yeah. Come on. Be, let's do it.

And so I did. Yeah, but the, the meatball sausage. It was just, yeah, I was 18. And I saw it at the Italian Fest. of course, I was like,

too. And so, you know, I would wear it to like random house parties and shit. That's not bad for a house party. Yeah, just 18 year old shit. Nothing crazy.

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