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Episode Date: January 21, 2025

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Yeah Little little news on my end Signed a deal with Fandul Let's go. So going to be going to be with the boys and gals at Fandul. Going to be making vids and cooking up some parlays,

cooking up some parlays. But yeah, I'm on the Fandul roster, Fandul Squad this year. So Clubhouse, you'll be seeing stuff for me. Stuff from Fandual Sportsbook. And,

yeah, super excited about it. So started, signed, it right before the end of last year and it officially kicked in. Top of 25, circled back and made sure that we had all the eyes dotted and teased crossed. And yeah, there we go. So, pumped about it and you'll be seeing that coming up here in 2025, calendar year. promo code station. How about this?

Dude, maybe I'll get into betting. I don't think it's, it's not like a, I'm not, they didn't want me to like try to get people to sign up or anything like that because hey everybody's already signed up for a fan duel and somehow you're not which everybody who listens to this show definitely is but somehow you're not go ahead and go sign up um but yeah they just want me to like make stuff for him and be on the roster and all that so that's what i'm doing for a second right when he said fan duel for a second the first thing that popped in my head was fathead remember Remember that company? I was like, oh, dude, you're working for fathead? I wanted a fadhead so bad, man. They got you, too. My dad went in. My dad went in randomly just surprised us when we were in high school.

Showed up one day. And there he had a fathead of Big Ben and Troy Palomalo. I can't. I remember seeing those. It's so perfect because that's all I wanted on my wall growing up was just that. And a whole ass company was like, yeah, we'll do that. And dude, you ever browse their website? site. When I was a kid, that's like all I did, all I did is a kid was when the NFL

draft was happening and you go on like Madden 2002.com, they had all the like new draft people in their uniforms. Do you remember doing that? That was the most fun, bro. Steelers would just get Brian St. Pierre and I'd just look at them on like Madden.com and be like, oh, that's what does he look like. That was a little before me. think. I didn't do that. I did browse and like what you're talking about, though. Maybe not fathead, but any team store, Nike.com, shit that just knew I wasn't going to be getting. Oh, wow. It was so expensive. I'm like, how is that $70? I'll never get it. But damn. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So new dates, huh? New dates, babe. We out here. More coming too. And hopefully we can

get a little more TG live on the road as well. Yeah, fingers crossed. Kind of got that cooking a little bit, you know, you know, you know. So, uh, hey, the lions. Mm. Not sports five cast, but, uh, nobody shocked, right? I don't know. I kind of, I kind of feel bad.

I thought that they got over the hump. Kind of feel bad. I think they're finally, I think this is it. Nah, never. Who knows? But I was like, you guys are disappointed. Like, I don't know. Just duh every time.

But, yeah, you do kind of feel bad a little bit for everybody. You know, like, coach is crying and shit. You're like, damn. Stadium is jumping. I mean, I know that it's, I know that it's the Lions and you can resort back to that. But, man, I really was. I was in, I thought. I wanted Lions,

Ravens so bad. Sick as Super Bowl of all time. Colors would be great. God, that's all I'm thinking about. Really pop. Now at this point, all right, you got commanders, Eagles, Chiefs, bills? It's just going to be Chiefs. It's just going to be Chiefs Eagles again. You know it.

Chiefs. I know. You always do know it deep down who it's going to be. But you always pretend, and you always like entertained, like, oh, what if those two teams were in? They're never in it, bro. It's always just the two best teams. And it's going to be, this is how the Philly Washington game is going to go. Like, it's always just going to be just out of reach for Washington. Not a sports podcast, but like it's always going to be like they score to get within nine.

And you're like, oh, maybe if they just get this stop on 3rd and 8, it's going to be, the whole game is just, going to be, if they just get the stop on third and six. I just can't. I can't with their unies, dude. I can't get past it. Right. Those uniforms aren't worth being in a Super Bowl. They should automatically be disqualified.

It was almost cooler when they were the Washington football team. Remember that? Dude, that was so sick. Yeah, because they just went with just absolutely just plain ass. It was like, it was like they mixed Alabama and Florida State. It was just like a plain ass maroon helmet, number on it. Gold pants. Kind of sick.

I was like, is that St. Barnabas? But I can't. Dude, those jerseys can't be in a Super Bowl. I think the best option, the best option that would be if Washington made it, it would just be, man, pray to God that they can wear the, the burgundy jersey with the gold pants and the green pants. The gold pants pop. That's the only thing.

Love that. Because the, the, the, the burgundy jersey is the only one that, like, doesn't have a bunch of bullshit on it. Like, the white with the, they got also shit on the shoulders. So many, such an East Bay jersey. Dude, what? You know, that would be the only hope. And then it's obviously going to be the chiefs. Like, I love Buffalo.

Buffalo is awesome to both of us. My mom loves Josh Allen. I got my mom a Josh Allen graphic crewneck for Christmas. And a Josh Allen ornament. Jealous. I mean, who doesn't? Yeah. Just your boy.

Josh Allen's everybody's boy. Totally. And but you just know they're not going to beat the Chiefs, dude. Like, they just, they, the Chiefs just, they're that villain in the sports movie that just are always, they, they're just laughing at you because they know they can just like put their head, their hand on their helmet and watch you try to like fight your way through. And they're just going to win. You just know that's what's going to happen. And they weren't as annoying this year, which I kind of like. They have such a mind fuck over the bills, you know?

Yeah, true. Mind control. So if the chief, if it's Chiefs Washington, that's really bad. Ew. I can't. I can't watch. I can't watch. It's like when it was Georgia, Alabama that one time.

Oh. I'm like, what are you doing? The only hope would be for Chiefs to go white jersey, white pants, regular helmet, and the commanders to go. what I just mentioned, burgundy top. Oh, not bad. Yeah.

Still bad. Bad. But if that's what we're given, I mean, best option. Chiefs all white is nice. Chiefs all white and all red. I always did on Madden.

I was like, oh, yeah. When I started really doing all red a lot, like when Jamal Charles was the old red. Yeah, dude. Yeah. But then they were like, color rush,

we're doing all red. I was like, we've been doing all red. We've been, we're doing all red in 2003, babe. Priest Holmes and all red Stop.

I can't even remember that really, but that, yeah. No, I don't think that they did. I don't think they did either. That's a little too much. A little too much for me, dude. Overstimulated. Right, because they were, they were going to put Trent Green and red on red.

They were like, okay. Too white, too white, too white, too white, too white, too white. Too white. Too white. Yeah, dude. Super Bowl, not a sports podcast. There's our breakdown. Not a sports podcast.

But that was the most sports that we've gotten in a while. Yeah. I don't know. Sometimes we open the show and we just don't really know what the hell is going on or where we're going to go. Nobody does ever. Nobody does ever. So we just resort into it. You know what I was thinking about today.

I was thinking, and I might do a video on this actually. But just you could literally map out your entire year of conversations. you can map them out starting right now. Like every month, for every month that you're in, you talk to somebody in March, it's going to be the same shit every single year. Talk to somebody in July, same shit. You know it's coming. You can at least get in the ballpark of generally what I'm going to be talking about

each month that I see somebody. Mm-hmm. What's next month? So February, you know, to be big on, uh, Almost through. Yeah, just January and February. I always forget that you hate this part of the year so much, bro. January, February, let's just get through it, you know.

Shortest month, thank God. And then, hey, we're on the other side. Just a bunch of that, you know. And then you get to March and you're talking about college basketball. Oh, my God. I don't know. Man, I thought that the cold weather was going to be done last month, you know, because it's always inevitably cold in March.

It's going to be warm. Mm-hmm. round and round we go. This is the most depressing. This month is so depressing I had to buy YouTube TV. I was like, Jesus Christ, bro. They got me, dude. 10-day free trial.

I was like, it's day 11. Haven't canceled it. Hold the trick. Haven't canceled it. What are we doing out here? What's your go-to? What's your go-to? You already know ESPN is just on the entire day.

Just watching like the us, just whatever. Grand Slam tennis is on, just pops on at 11 p.m. I'm like, perfect. Did it branch out at all? Not one bit. I went to NFL Network when there was something they were doing like one of those stories on ESPN, not a sports podcast, but you know, every time they do a story on ESPN, it's like the most, it's like the saddest thing you've ever seen in your life. It's like before a game. Here I go, oh my God. While they got to interview this guy with cerebral palsy and everything's so dark. I'm like,

The music? I'm like, I can't do this right now. I went over to NFL Network. It was something, it was something like just as bad. Tough. Got it, though, dude. We got channels.

Good for you. You know what? It's really, it's a freeing thing. Like, you know, because if I'm watching something on Netflix before I go to bed,

I don't just leave it on Netflix because I'm a TV sleeper, right? I'm a TV sleeper. So I'm going to leave it on Netflix. I'm like, I still feel disconnect. to the world when I leave it on Netflix or HBO. Got to be.

It's so true. I don't know how you can just throw a movie on though. You know, I got to have something live on all the time. So I'm like, oh, this is happening now, you know?

Right. I got to be like tuned in. Like, as much as we all hate commercials, I need that comfort of, this is actual TV going on right now. I know. If there was to be breaking news,

I would be in on it. You know. wake up at 2 a.m. and it'd be right there. Oh, wow. Okay. Dude, I kind of think people aren't like that. Probably not. It's insane when you talk to people about their sleeping habits and patterns and shit.

And then when you look within and you're thinking, man, I am a totally different freak altogether. I think I do it. I don't know how you sleep. I don't know how there are people that sleep with the TV off. Everyone does. I can't handle it I'm like dude it's too dark and I like need something going I need something on dude

Mine starts to race bro I go into a dark place When you wake up and you hear a little bit of fuck A little bit of Scott Van Pelt on like six volume I'm like put me to sleep SPP Yeah I got my sleeping buddy It's perfect it's like yeah dude we just want to be at a sleepover That's what it is Just us pretending like we're spending night at our homies

house. It's just ESPN in the background. Now, that was always the worst kind of pressure, though, when you have sleepovers, because inevitably, every other person there didn't want to sleep with the TV on. And so then you're the one that you're like, damn, I'm in the minority, so I guess I just got to flip this shit off and try to figure this out. I was like, you can't tough it out. Like, keep the TV on. We're having fun. Like, come on, keep the party alive, you know what I mean? Oh, yeah, right. You turn the TV off. It's this time for church. And like, you're getting scared, bro.

You've ever been scared at your friend's house? Yeah, dude. It's like the scariest thing of all time. I'm like setting up stuffed animals to like block the view. I'm like, just turn the TV on. We don't have to do this, man. So scared at night at my friends. Just me and Sam Patterson just shaking.

Like his mom wasn't down. The room next is so weird. Bro, every single time. Like, David Heckwin's basement. bro. Big ass basement. So scary, man. Probably. He's a hardcore sleep TV on guy, a TV off guy. And so I'm like,

why don't you just die? You got a window down here in your basement that looks up. Like, I'm just going to be thinking this whole time that somebody's going to jump down in there, you know, and be right here looking at me, ready to break in. I feel like everyone's trying to break in my house every time I'm in here. Every time I leave the house, I feel like 13 people go try to unlock my door. for what? Every time I look at a window, I expect a clown to look through the window.

Like, why do I think this? Did your cousins fuck with you or something when you were young? Everybody always fucked with me all the time. Because you're the, I mean, you're kind of the baby of it all, right? And I would kind of, and I would, but I would think about doing that to them. Like any chance I had a, any time I had a chance to scare somebody I'd try to do it. And I'm like, this is going to happen to me. Like, we had this, like, half wall in our old house.

Like, my mom would be, like, washing dishes. Like, you know, those, like, yeah. And I would, like, crawl under the wall where you couldn't see. I would just raise up, dude, when she was doing dishes, scare this shit out of her and walk away. Like, that was every day. No one gets more scared more easily than mom. Ooh.

Ah! My mom was used to it by then. But it was just like, you ever try to scare your dad and he just gets mad at you and ruins it? Oh yeah. I could see you. Half of my life. I was like, oh, we're not having fun.

All right, never mind. Damn. Just thought I'd pop up behind a door real quick, but never mind. Dude, I could, I could look my mom dead in the eye and say, hey, I'm going to pop around this corner in about three minutes and yell at you. Just so you know. I could do that and then I would do it and she would still jump and kind of piss herself a little bit. Jesus Christ.

You know how like ladies get to the phase in their life where if they get scared, if they get excited, if they sneeze too hard, they like, I'd peat a little. Yeah, every time you laugh. Like, what are you guys doing? Dude, you turn, ladies turn 30. They just start pissing themselves four times a day. Like, God, dang. Oh my God, that's so funny. You need to use the restroom.

What? Yeah, dude. What if dudes did that? That's like my, like, my sister, too, should do it all the time. I'll really get her going. She's like, stop. Stop. I'm going to pee for real?

You can't hold that? Just going to a comedy show. Every single lady's wearing a diaper. What's up? Yeah, that's the new thing. Instead of wanting to kill, it's like you just want to make, You just make them piss. I didn't kill up there, but I made a couple ladies piss.

Oh my God, bro. Now it's getting weird. Oh, dude. You know what I was thinking about this weekend? Biches be pissing. What's up? Is just how, like, how much shitty beer and how many stupid games I would have been playing on this exact weekend.

like 12 years ago. You know that weekend right after you get back from Christmas break in college? Tough week, bro. Then you get that three-day weekend, right? And you got used to be able to be the conference championships or the divisional round, whatever. You got NFL playoffs on. It's like a super cold, always super snowy Sunday. You're like, hey, I mean, we got tomorrow off.

And so it's just you, three of your best friends, a random. a random chick or two, and you're sitting on the shittiest couch ever in a living room with a giant box TV, just hammering bushlights. 62-inch box TV. Bring that shit back. I kind of miss those days walking into a living room. There's just a huge-ass box TV. You could live in that thing.

Yeah. It's a size of like a porta-potty. Just wanted to smack the side of it all the time. God, dang it. I know. And why were they like, I never touched one? Because like your parents had places. Huh?

They just showed up places? No, like I never, like I was too like scared. I felt like if I was touched it, it like wouldn't work or something. Those were so big, bro. Dude, it was, you know that weekend though? That's under the radar really, really underrated weekend. The first three day weekend back from break. It's January.

Everybody's depressed. three feet of snow on the ground. You're like, well, might as well just drink all this and bullshit for eight hours. It's such a weird time in your life where you can just do that the whole day. Maybe work out in the morning, then I guess we're just hanging out all day. We're just getting drunk. What? Yeah, we're just doing Edward 40 hands on the couch.

I actually did that one time. Maybe we'll get snowed in. You ever think about that in the back of your head? What if we get snowed in? We're just stuck here forever. Totally. That probably happened. And then you're like, holy shit, I'm watching this awesome at the time.

I'm watching this awesome Patriots Ravens game on Sunday night. I don't have anything to do tomorrow. You still got a case left in the fridge. Everything's perfect. Some donados here soon. No, they can't make it to your house. That's the thing. You got to eat the stuff in the house because it's too snowy.

Frozen pizzas. Mm-hmm. If they have them. The, uh, damn. The takitos. If you're lucky, bro. In a college house, you never know. You might just be eating like a huge bag of frosted Cheerios.

It's just survival mode. Somebody who whips out like a bunch of bacon. They're like, this has just been in the back of the freezer for like two months. A bunch of deer meat that one of the like dudes in the house is a hunter guy, you know? You're just like, I guess we're eating venison tonight. I don't know. We're just trying to stay alive, dude. No, but you just wrap.

It's like pizza rolls and that bacon and all of a sudden you're wrapping the pizza rolls and the bacon. Oh my God. Remember when we? Yeah, it just turns into the best now of your life. Hey, hey, hey. It actually did happen to me, dude.

Oh, yeah. It's like a, it's like a ride of passage. And then you, you know, it's always like, there's always a random kind of group, you know? It's like you and three of your best buddies who are probably like roommates. And then like, you know, like I said, like his girl, then her friend that doesn't really come around

much and then like a random wild card you know it'd be like if you were having people over and then i showed up like i'm pretty sure that love the wild card one or two times or i was just like all of a sudden i'm like i guess there's always a girl there that's like extremely uncomfortable and you're like why is why is angela here who brought her like little did she know she's going to stay with us for two days hey and then all of a sudden of course like one of your boys is like you know i'm trying to make it happen. Like, I don't know. Now I got this weird pressure.

I don't know, dude. I don't know if she's feeling it. Dude, and then all of a sudden you're like, does she like him? Right. Are they dating now? No, like that night, you're like, oh my God, she wants nothing to do with Jason, bro.

I don't know. Why is he trying to pull that? And then like two hours later, you're like, is it working? Hey, and then, you know, middle of all this, the girlfriend of your buddy has you and him in the kitchen

and she's like she doesn't like she does not like Jason and you're just you're just making jokes the whole time so then you're in the middle of it and you're like God do I tell him or do I just like now it's gonna be really weird

if we're getting snowed in who knows how long we're gonna be here but you're like telling him but he's not listening you know you look over at him and he's your boy so you can just like do this like, and he'll know.

But he just keeps going. Like, he's like looking you off and shit. You're like, dude, what the fuck get. But Angela, yeah, she's like too, she's like too nice and shy to just like, right. I'm like, don't do this to her, bro. She like reads books.

Come on. Like, she would be at home reading with her family right now, like under candlelight. And you're doing this. But it starts working, bro. And you're like, how is he doing this? And then her. friend that's like protecting her gets like too drunk and she's like whatever right but then no no then that friend starts to get kind of weirdly overprotective and pissed you're like just let it happen

like hey you did your duty if she wasn't feeling it at first apparently she is now so just like it's okay it's always a girl hey do you like jason or what the fuck's going on what do you look hey the couple gets in a fight oh my god that's the worst dude and we're too we're too we're We're trapped in a house. We can't go anywhere. We just got to listen to you fight. You ever listen to a fight? Oh, my God.

I'm like, how are you guys doing this in here? This needs to be a, we could legitimately write a full-ass 90-minute comedy about just this. Snowden. College Snowden. Snowden. They were just called Snowden.

It's just all of these characters all happening. It's essentially the Chinese restaurant episode of Seinfeld. Like, nothing happens with so much. much happens all in this random time that this group of six people got together for a snow day on Martin Luther King Day, circa 2013. Kind of sad. Like, all that shit happens and you can't wait to leave, but you end up staying through it.

And then when it's actually time to leave, snow's melted. Kind of sad. It's over. Yeah, for sure. You know, it's never going to happen again. Never. I'm never going to. Yeah, dude.

That sucks. That's always in the back of my head during it. Like anytime something fun happens I'm like this is never going to happen again damn What just came to my mind was that Super Bowl party we had in your apartment lobby Oh I was like this is kind of lit and it's never going to happen again

That was that was a good one I don't know why either because it was so unconventional I was like we're doing this here Like oh your parents are here other there's like kind of bitches Here like your boys are here I was like This is kind of sick. I'm just going to talk to Mr. Molanero about like salsa for two hours. Can't wait.

But I was like, oh, this is going to be like, yeah, this is a memory and it's never going to happen again. Hey, it's 2.30 in the morning. All that theme song is just on repeat on the TV. You pull it up on YouTube on your Xbox. You pull it up on YouTube. of that Hey, Angela and Jason starting to dance a little bit.

You're like, oh. Yeah, but it's like so late. You're like, you guys are up. Like, you're having a moment, you know, and the night's about the end. You're like, it's just the weirdest, like, time in the night. And everything's funny.

Everything's, like, hidden. Everything's good. And you wake up in the morning and it's still like on the TV. And you're like, what were we doing, bro? You have that moment of clarity. You're like, why am I sleeping under a table? Yeah, everything on your body hurts. The last YouTube video you watch is still on the TV and you're like, 50 funniest things Amanda Binds ever did.

No, it's just the, it's just like the Blue Man group, just like one of their faces. Just like pause on there. You're watching Stomp. You're like, remember? Stomp the musical? You're like really into it with your boys. then all of a sudden everybody just passed out and you wake up and you're like, what the fuck were we on?

Dude, the way people would disappear. I mean, just absolutely into thin air, bro. That is something I'll never forget. People would just fucking Houdini from a party. You would sit, you in this situation snowed in. You're all staying there. It's, it's, you know, eight of you or whatever. And then slowly but surely, starting at like 1.

1.30 all of a sudden. And like you would look one second, look at the TV, look back. Gone. One person just completely vanished into thin air. How does that happen? I'm like, who picked you up? Dude, people would call friends of friends to pick them up in the morning. No, not even.

I'm talking like while it's still going on. Oh. Either like, either they're just tired and they want to go to bed or maybe they're like going to hook up or maybe they're going to smoke or whatever it was. Just like you'd be in the living room on the shitty couches with the box TV. and you'd be playing the videos and you'd be like joking and everything having fun. Also, you're the only one. Half the room's gone.

Huh? You're the only one there. It's so true though. I'm like, where'd he go? Like, is he out, is he on the side yard doing something weird? What was the first spots you always tried? I always look outside and look at like on the side of the yard. It's like, is someone smoking or something?

Mine was garage. First, every time I'd hit the garage. I always thought there'd be people like in the backyard, like by the, by the sliding door or something. It's always a place to like meet up and talk. I'm like, there's nobody out here. Right. If the kitchen was like disconnected from the main room where all that shit was going down, probably the kitchen first. But usually it was right there.

So you can just kind of like peek behind. If no one was in the kitchen, sink's just running or some shit. Like, what the fuck? Then go to the garage. Chips in the sink. Go out to the back back. back door, see what was going on out there. Scorn on.

Scuron. I hear station out about this with a flashlight. Just need a fox at every party. Station out about this? Scuron. God, a fox at every party would be great. Jason and Angela, like kind of in the corner a little bit. Scorn on.

Stationed out about you two? Oh shit Snowed in bro Snowed in Yeah like Someone would You'd change outfits halfway through Like if it was your house

Like all of a sudden like it hit middle of the night And like you'd just go all of a sudden You'd come out with like a fucking Ray Allen Jesus shuttles wear jersey on Always just change into what you really wanted to wear Might as well Yeah we're doing it. We're fucking around.

Check this shit out. Oh. Your house. It was always great having people over at your house because you didn't have to. It was just home field, bro. Home game. Where whatever I want. Don't to like think about like when are we leaving, when we go and whatever I want, dude.

It's so true, dude. Yeah. It's, it literally is like a football game. Think about it. If you're at your house, you're fucking telling people crank that shit. Let's go. Get that going, man. Doesn't matter.

Music. Turn up the TV. Let's fucking go. If you're on the road at somebody's house, man, you're just trying to, like, stay composed, stay calm. All right, this shit's a little too loud. Like, I got to take a time out. I got to go outside and regain myself a little bit.

That's so funny. Yeah, I was always a little bit worried about the noise. Like, you're playing on the road. And I'd be like, is it too loud? Like, did they tell their neighbors? Yeah, are we going to get in trouble? Is there going to be a knock? Did I hear a knock?

It never had. happened did it. Not anywhere I went. Maybe I just didn't go to like banging enough parties, but I never had a cop or anything come and fucking knock on the door. I don't think I did either. But yeah, the mid-party

change. Big moment. I was doing this thing for a minute where I didn't matter where I was. If we were playing at home, we were playing on the road, I would take a shower mid-party for some reason. You find somebody else's shower and go hop in there? Yeah. Just weird. Hey, sometimes, hey, that's half time.

You got to make adjustments. I don't know why, but I feel like I need to like take a shower right now. And I would just, it was just such an adventure. I would see their like their mom's like body wash. I'd be like, oh, this is what we're using here? Would you ask or would you just go rogue? Yeah, no. They'd always be like, hell yeah.

You know, somebody's hosting a house party and like they feel like they need to like cater to everybody. I'd be like, yo, can I take a shower real quick? They'd be like, oh my God, yeah, here's a towel. Like, they'd be so cool. I'd be like, I just kind of want to, I just kind of want to get a little refresh. See, I feel like the house parties I would go to, it'd be like Andy Ward's.

He'd be like, the fuck do you want to take a shower for it? Still would, though. Still would. Dude, you know, when people are drunk, they're like real nice, too. The fuck. Like, make it a thing in front of everybody. Like, all right, sorry.

geez, I don't want to. I was just, I, no, shut up, dude. You got to go outside. Never mind. I'm leaving. Never left. Yeah, when somebody would make like a food run, you know? Never came back. Nobody's making food runs, bro.

Snowed in, but there's just steak and shake, like three blocks away. It's fine. It's always steak and shake. Gone forever. You're like, did they get into a wreck? Like, am I liable? What the fuck's going on? They definitely died.

Just turns out that steak and shake, of course, it's two in the morning. So, of course, they're going to take three hours. And then they smoked while they're out there too. Oh, okay. Has anything ever taken longer than the steak and Jake drive-thru? It almost hits me like seven times while I'm in it. Like, I'm leaving. Like seven times I'm like, should I go?

I might go. I might leave. That's another, hey, we got snowed in. And then we got just an episode of just, the drive-through, and it's just sitting and just from order to fucking getting your order. It's a good time, though. 23-minute long sitcom right there. It's a good time in that drive-thru.

Heated, in the car's heated. You know what I mean? You're feeling cozy. You want to get back to the party, though, huh? Do you ever get caught in a situation where, like, randomly, it was just you and then some other that you, you weren't really that tight with? And you're like, why am I on the fucking steak and shake drive-thru? with insert name.

I don't want to put anybody on the boss. Somebody's older brother. You're like, yeah. I don't like, why am I in this drive through with Ray Stallings? You have like a weird relationship with them. The whole rest of your life.

Good guy, but. Huh? The whole rest of your life, you're just like, what's up? Remember that one time? It's like every time you pass them in the hallway.

You're like, we're kind of boys forever now. Yeah. We got two frisco melts at 2 a.m. at steak and shake. Took 40 minutes. I'm going to be in your wedding. Almost. It's almost like that bachelor party,

bachelor party bond that you have. You know, with like the brother-in-law and the bachelor party that you're on. Long story. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Like you're always bonded by that shit forever.

You're always in that group chat somewhere deep down, you know? Just like that drive-thru with Ray Stallings. It's a good moment. Damn, I haven't been stuck in a drive-thru in a long time. Then when you get back, yeah, you're like, you think that you're like, yeah, we're boys now. And then all of a sudden, like, I start kind of being a dick to you still just to like impress some chick. You're like, bro, the frisco melts. What do you, like, I told you about my mom.

Remember our night? I told you how much I like the 98 Pacers and we like bonded over Chris Mullen. You remember that? Dude. Why are you doing? Why are you putting me on blast like this? We're drive-thru buddies. Drive-thru, boys.

It's always steak and shaker. It's always that weird, like, local pizza place that's open until 4 a.m. For no reason. You're just so, so hungry late night. Big cahoonas. Stake and shaking McDonald's. That was it. Big cahunas, bro.

They're like, no, man, it's all good. The Galloways own this. Will they give us a pizza? Just one pizza? It's 3 a.m. Just one pizza, dude. Just, you're like begging them and shit. Right.

As if you're just like going to go up there and be like, just say the name of the school that you go to. They're going to like, oh, great. Here's our largest pizza, fresh and ready and two orders of breadsticks and cheesy bread too. And our new wing, wing bites that were. Yeah, wing bites. They're never just wings. It's just wing bites. It's just like popcorn chicken.

You're like, all right. So good. Actually, so bad. I mean, for you, yeah, but. But they're open inside, too, for some reason. So you, like, pull up and go inside. You're like, I didn't know anything was open at 4 a.m. Why is it so weird in here?

It doesn't look like a real, like, restaurant. Whole time, Jason's just tweaking because he's like, man, I think Angela might leave. I got to get back because I'm close, dude. I'm close to making this happen. You're like, no, you're not. they come out of the same room the next morning. Oh, dude. Wow.

It happened. It's like this story forever. You did? Bro. I don't know how you did that, dog. She was not feeling you. Old Jay House pulled it together. That's so good.

Let's get into some clubhouse. We got a good amount. Go ahead and goal getting to clubhouse now. Go ahead and goal. This is from Matthew. He just says, drinking. Hey guys, big fan of the show.

Hell yeah. Since it's not a sports show, I was wondering if there's any drinks you liked in your younger days that your friends thought were weird or gross. I went to visit a friend when he was in grad school in North Carolina, and his local friends turned me on to Mountain Dew with Captain Morgan. Tastes like keeline pie. Don't knock it till you've tried it.

Brought the recipe back home when my boys roasted me because it sounded gross. of them. Anything weird you like to drink? Slapped my ass with my high school O-line coach who called conditioning drills, quote, opportunity and repeatedly yelled, exaggerate the technique while we were on the blocking sled. God, what a great coach, man.

He was probably a thorough-ass coach. Opportunities. Coach is just making every shitty thing a positive. It was so funny. Weird drinks. For a minute, there was like a liquor store, by like my college apartment or townhouse or

whatever. So many townhouses in college. God. But they had MD 2020s. You know what those are? And it was like a whole bunch of different colors. You know you're kind of drawn to it.

We were hooked on those for like three weeks until we realized they were straight poison. They were so thick, dude. I don't even know what they were. Like I didn't even know what alcohol was in that. I was just like, it's just like a cool blue drink. Were they tasty? Yeah, it wasn't bad. But like, it was weird. Like glass bottle felt kind of weird. Thick glass. I was like, I don't know what the, I don't know what this is. It was a weird

like feeling, but it was good and it was blue. It's like, yo, I think I might get that green one tonight, dude. I might get that green MD 2020 for the Super Bowl. Go birds. Always kind of scary with a glass bottle. It's like, do I have a problem? Glass bottles themselves. I'm like, it just seems like a little too, like extra, you know? Like Snapple with the glass bottle?

When you're a kid, you're like, is this 30 bucks? I don't know. In the back of my head, I was just like, am I going to have to fight somebody? Because if this thing's, thing breaks, Like, we got a whole situation on our hands. Like, even if it falls out of your car door and breaks on the parking lot, I'm like, I feel like I got to clean this up. It's a big liability.

I don't know. Trying to think of stuff that people have thought was nasty, but one that was big for us. It's probably big. I mean, I don't think it's breaking ground at all. But the. Green apple burnettes with Mountain Dew. God, girls love Burnets, dude. It ended up just tasting like a Jolly Rancher, kind of.

Like a green apple jolly rancher. Just trying to figure out the two liquors and the other thing that would just make it taste like candy or dessert. For sure. Just want this to taste like candy. That's all. Yeah. Yeah. That was a big go-to for like a month.

Yeah. And then it was like... You get sick of it. Yeah, everybody was just like, holy shit. Everybody's puking. Like, still stupid shit. It's bad off the burnettes, man. Tastes good, but then fucking bye-bye, Bertie.

Yep, glass bottle. How many times have I broken a full glass bottle of alcohol on the ground and dropped it? And it just shatters. And I'm like, I think I did that four times. Just ruin the whole entire party. Thanks for the email. Matthew, uh, from John. Jeff Van Gundy's Diet Coke can.

Says, my dudes just wanted to tell everyone that Benny's comedy performance is top tier. He really knows how to appeal to a whole crowd. It's a star comedian and has a flawless performance down in New Jersey. Bro, I love you. It's so fresh to your comedians do new material and not the same old current events or certain topical jokes like politics or race. Benny, your energy levels are amazing. Oh my gosh. guy was practically doing

a Van Dam split on stage. He performed a super theatrical performance using his whole stage as a prop and was very engaging with the audience and the crowdwork was hysterico. Also, the mean greets before and after he went on stage were heartwarming and friendly and funny. It's great that he loves and truly appreciates his fans. He was born for the role of making people laugh.

Damn. Pro, who wrote that? It's my dog. Our friend John. He's my mom. He's a regular commentary. He's a regular commenter. Oh, dude. John's a real one. real one. Since I'm bragging about Benny so much, here's a question for Joey. I'm married and have a 16-month-old. Can we have a Molinaro minute about what ticks you off about these new-age

millennial mothers? Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, slap my ass in Morse code. Oh, wow. I actually did Morse code. He's got the lines down there. He came up to me after the New Jersey show and he's like, bro, I always email in. I love you guys. But I haven't emailed lately because I can't think of a good slap my ass. And I'm like, bro, just let it fly. It doesn't matter. He goes, no, it matters, bro. I appreciate that.

Yeah, I appreciate that. Beep, beep, beep, beep. Look, look, look. How does he spell it? Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. It looks like Braille, bro.

I can't believe he read that. The foresight. Mullenero Minute about what takes you off about New Age millennial mothers. Yeah, man, I don't want to do it, dude. Everybody loves a minute or just do it. Do a minute about something else. I'd say this is the thing.

I'd say this is the thing that I think this generation deals with that no other generation has obviously had to before them is everybody's online. Everybody's in Facebook groups. Everybody's following Instagram influencers and TikTok. influencers. And so automatically, these people who don't live, like, real lives as compared to, like, what my wife lives with her two kids and raising them, they have all these opinions. They put you down. They make you feel bad. So then all of a sudden, you have, you know, your wife who's sitting there and just like, are we doing the right thing? I don't know if this is

right. Well, this person said this. And I don't know. I just feel like we're being judged. And this is, but it's like, no, just listen, you keep them alive. You love them. You hug them. You feed them. Right? You care for them. We don't need to. get into all this shit about like, well, I just don't like how like when sometimes they lay on their belly and they shouldn't do that. You know what? The Egyptians, it's like Seth Rogen and knocked up. You know, God forbid that the Egyptians raise their babies and they didn't read the baby books, you know, that that's always been my whole thing. It's like, we have this vast history of humankind that has made it through raising their babies out in the fucking woods off leaves and

berries and meat over a fire. And now because you lay your baby down and not the right sleep sack on their belly with a fucking teddy bear in the corner of their crib, all of a sudden your wife thinks that she's the worst mother of all time. So that's what bothers me. Is this whole community that everybody has, I went over a little bit. Nah, dude. Keep going. Keep going.

Where it's judgey. And if your wife or somebody says something in there that's similar to a situation that you're going on and it's happening with your kid. And then all of a sudden people come in, I wouldn't do that. I don't think that's right. I don't know that. Bro, everybody's an idiot. Well, you're not their parent. And this isn't your situation.

So why don't you just shut the fuck up? Yeah. Mullenard's back. Mullenard's back. Mullenard's back. Dude, every week. We got to hit Moulinard every week. That's funny,

because the next email is from Christopher and it says, where's the minute? Yep. Yep. So, fellas. Glad you both returned safely from your travel adventures.

Yeah, a lot of people I saw were noticing that got a lot of comments and messages about my situation. with Frank and you almost getting salt in half last week. So what a time, dude. Right when I thought, yeah, right when I was like, there's nothing fun happening in my life. I almost get sliced in half by an elevator.

I'm like, up, there it was. Nice. Yeah, like, I definitely, I, let me put this out. I definitely don't wish you would have died. But like, if that's how it would have gone. Makes sense. You can say it, bro. If I'm dying, it's, it's me getting chopped in half by an elevator.

Like, you'd be like, oh shit. He died how? Elevator? Ah, yeah. Hell yeah. Chris says, Ben, you crushed you at your show and your opener. Asia was also hilarious. Asia Shardney.

A couple of questions. A couple of questions for Joey. Any chance for getting STEM sent updates from you in 2025, perhaps even a joint show from both of you. Could we make that happen? I'd probably fly anywhere in the continental U.S. for that. I'm looking at it right now. I definitely, me and Ben, like you mentioned, off the top, you know, we did that show

and Indy together and it was fun. And we think that there's a handful of other spots definitely, you know, in the Midwest or just in certain regions that we think would be fun to do at these guys' show. So keep it out for that. As for me, I don't know yet. Like, I'm working on a few different things. and I just don't know. I don't know.

Hopefully. But I don't have an answer for you right now on that. Two was kind of expecting a minute on this last week's pod. So maybe we can get two minutes this week. The Steelers flame out. Bro, do it again. Would it have sung any less had they gone two and two or three one over the last four games than bowed out in a competitive game to a good Baltimore squad?

Or is an L&L no matter of the circumstances for you? Says some stuff about the Mets. Yeah, being a Mets fan's tough. Slam my ass with the all-white clubhouse hat I now have, which fairs perfectly with the all-white clubhouse hoodie. It has me seriously contemplating a legal name change to Casper the Thirsty Ghost. Keep up the great word, Chris. Sent from my iPhone.

Kept that for Ben. Crazy. Crazy flex when you were like, what year was it? 2010? Sent from my iPhone, email? Yeah. Okay. It was like that for tweets sometimes, too.

Sent from my iPhone on tweets? Or did it just say like tweeted from iPhone, tweeted from Android? Oh, tweeted from iPhone. Yeah. That's what it was. Yeah, that got me a couple times. And the old, like some people were trying to hit me up or, you know, get plans together. Well, you know, what happened, man?

My phone was dead. Meanwhile, I'm tweeting just most random bullshit in like 2013. Sent from iPhone. Two seconds later. Whoops. Sorry about that. Man, the Steelers flame out. It's go, bro.

You got 59 seconds. You got a whole lifetime to talk about that. I would just say that that is now what is expected out of the Pittsburgh Steelers. I'd say that that is now what is accepted as the standard. I'd say now the organization has clearly, clearly made it known. that their idea of stability and doing it their way is far more important than getting new voices and maybe a change in the building when it just clearly isn't working. I see a whole bunch of shit about, you know, it's always, it's never Mike Tomlin's fault,

right? It's always the roster. It's always such and such. It's always the quarterback. It's always this. People forget he lost on the road to Tim Tebow in 2011. He got his ass kicked by Blake Bortles at Pittsburgh after having a buy in 27. team with probably his last best chance to get to a Super Bowl with that team.

Prime Big Ben, Prime Levion Bell, Prime Antonio Brown. Blake Portles, though, dude. And it's not only the playoff disappointments, haven't had a playoff win in eight years, continuing, you know, going on now, haven't gotten out of the first round and been won and done in the last six, gotten outscored 73 to nothing in the first quarter of those games. It's not just that. It's like you said, it's a flame out.

It's not just all of a sudden they get to the playoffs. right in a hot hand and they lose. 2018, they lost four of their last six. 2019, they lost their last three. 2020, they lost five of their last six. This year, they lost their last five. Jesus. It's just absolutely mind-numbing that we continue to do this over and over again.

And then the same shit happens every single off-season. Sometimes before the even game is even over, it happens where all of a sudden, Mike Tomlin's minions, Mike Tomlin's PR firm, comes out hard and heavy. Before the game's even over, dude, making excuses, saying, oh, the grass isn't greener.

And this whole idea about, well, they'd have to find somebody better. What the fuck is he done in the last decade? That's so goddamn good. You know, and it's not just Mike Tomlin too. Fine. Put that on Art Rooney. Put it on the ownership. I put it on the ownership.

You're going to sit there on your hands and be happy, Mary, with the same old shit. That's on you, man. You don't have the ability the wherewithal to look around you and say, you know what? This isn't working. Our approach with the stability isn't working. This going 10 and 7 every year and just drafting 21st and not having the capital to be able to make a difference on our roster isn't working. And you're just going

to sit there and continuously to run it back and run it back because your idea of feeling so much smarter than everybody else and bringing stability to the organization is more important to you than anything else? My ass, dude. So, you know what? I told my family, I'm done investing in the Steelers. No way, dude.

I'm done investing my money. I'm done traveling to anything with it. I'm done purchasing anything involved because the message has been sent loud and clearly what is more important to this organization? It is to have the national media and to have all of Mike Tomlin's buddies sit there and be able to say,

well, you just don't get how good you have it. Really? Because I was just going to keep going on for 20 years, 15 years from now. Mike Thomas is still going to get his ass handed to him because he just refuses. Has too much pride and too much arrogance to just bow out for a couple of years and go four and 13 or three and 14 now. Has too much pride. So we just have to middle around because it's more important to be right in the middle

and just stability and consistent. It's bullshit, dude. This is exhausting. So like I dropped this minute here on it. I haven't said much about it. I haven't really tweeted much about it. But there it is. Like for the time being right now,

I'm done investing so much pride and care. Dude, did you just break up with the Steelers? Did you? Did you just break up with the Steelers? Are you guys just talking now? We're definitely on a break. Oh,

what's up, new bitches? Who's the next team, bro? You got any teams? Well, I mean, I already, no, I just like, it's now my, now my investment and my investment,

my time and care just shifted to other ones that I already like. Like, I'm super excited right now about Purdue basketball. I love to be able to watch them. Let's go. They got a big game on Tuesday and on Friday, you know, like, I love that. Like, I'm excited about the Cubs and their ownership sucks too. But, you know, that's coming up. Hard launch. Purdue basketball. Every year. And it's, I mean, no matter, it's like, you think that, you know, okay, last year after this, at this time, the same shit happened and all the national media people said the same shit. And then now we go, we run this out. And our Rooney even says, yeah, it's time to start winning some playoff games. So then this whole year comes and you don't do anything with, you don't make a step further. You actually get worse.

You flame out at the end of the year instead of winning your last three like last year. And you get your ass absolutely handed to you by your arch rival in embarrassing fashion. The guys were quitting. The defense quit. They absolutely quit. And the third quarter in the second quarter, they quit. sorry dude Molnard overtime here for it babe all right let's get to some

good stuff from Tim Alan Iverson's shooting sleeve bro we got to clip that Tim says Anthony Calhoun Michael Grady same guy Chris Hagan JMV same guy Lawrence Fishburn

Forrest Whitaker same guy Hagen and J.M.V. That's good, man. Same thing. Lawrence and Forrest, yeah. Copy paste. Calhoun and Michael Grady? No.

Just too bald black, dude. Same guy. Michael Grady might be the coolest guy that's ever lived. I can't believe how cool he was. I actually didn't even want to talk to him. He was so cool. I was like, I'm not worthy of talking to you. Bro, did you know that he was calling the Lakers' Wolves game on Christmas Day or whatever that was?

No way. Yeah. On ESPN? Like, play-by-play? Yeah. What? He's in that rotation on ESPN to do NBA games, play-by-play. No way, bro.

He's the full-time voice for the Timberwolves. But you know how Mike Breen does the Knicks games, but then he's, He also does the national ESPN games. Oh, wow. Grady's like that, too. That's so sick. His voice is like meant for that, though. God, dang.

Smooth. Tim says, Anyway, Jen, sitting in the cube trying to pretend to work this last hour. What's one sports moment you saw live, you'll never forget. For me, it was seeing Westbrook put up 53 points on the Pacers on 39 shots. Slat my ass with Ben's gold chain while. I watch Brian Dawkins pump up videos on YouTube that make you want to run through a brick wall. Got a goal. Cheers.

John, always Broncos logo, same guy. John Elway's Broncos. There go, same guy. Same guy. 100%. Brian Dawkins crawling out of the tunnel, though, bro. That's got to be top 10, like most. I'd be like, all right.

Yeah, so it's over. It's one of those. Like, if you're on his team, you're like, dude, thank God. he's on our team. For a thank God. There's only a couple times I've played on teams where I'm like, thank God that guy's on our team. Because whoa.

Because I don't even want to like see him. For sure. What was the question? Oh, sports moment live. Tashon Prince Block Reggie Miller. Never going to forget that. Whole stadium was confused. Why didn't he just dunk it?

Still thinking about it to this day. God dang, dude. that's a tough one that one is crazy that one was like oh my god I don't even want to talk about it we're going to get sad now

that was the year bro germane O'Neill headband headband arm band Jamain O'Neill with the shocks the J70 shocks dude he was like Rich friend had those where we grew up those are 160

shocks bombers wasn't it wasn't even allowed to look at those No. It was one of those, yeah, you'd be in the store. You just walk by him and your mom just go, uh-uh. Brother, yellow? Oh, insane. Insane.

He was really good, too. Like, underappreciated good. Oh, yeah, for sure. Like, started on the All-Star team, like during that era with Ivers. I was like, yo. And we got, that was a squad. Yeah, when Tashon Prince blocked Reggie Miller. Stunk it!

I don't know. He never dunked it. When Reggie Miller dunked it, it was like, I had a party at my house. Yeah, that's pretty good. That's one that's up there for me. I saw the Manning, like, shovel pass to James Mungro to, like, break the record. The RCA-A-Dom.

Yeah, dude, I was like, oh, shit, he did it. Was that guy there? He was next to us. staple. But I was kind of, honestly, I was impressed that everybody knew that that counted as a pass. Because it was so close.

The whole stadium went crazy that. I was like, all right, yeah. I think at that point, just anything that left Manning's hand at all was they were going to go crazy. Bro, sick. RCA dome. Never forget.

I'd probably say the Gordon Hayward three-quarter shot. You were there? Yeah, I was right behind that bucket. Oh. I didn't see that until like two years ago because I think I was just like listening to it or something

or I was like at the library when it happened. They're like, oh, it was so close. But I was like, was it really that close, bro? That should have gone in. Dude, me and me and my dad were there and that was, we were right behind that basket. Probably like, yeah, they had the band of the student section and then we were probably like 10 rows behind them.

So that basket's coming right at us. And yeah, I mean, like, when it hit the backboard, there was an audible like, because you were like, holy shit, it's going in. And then it just ricocheted out. God. So cool. And then as quick as that like, oh, my God. Then it just went out of the building.

Yeah. Because it's like, oh, everyone was reading for Butler. Everybody. Biggest fucking Butler fan of your life. Everybody was that night. You know, like, I walked out of there depressed because I just, you're so. bought in and invested in Butler beating Duke and the whole local Hoosier's Story, you know.

Dude, was that, that was the national championship? Yeah. Buzzer beater, if that would have gone in, yo. Best game ever. Ever. I don't know, that Villanova one was pretty sexy, though. Yeah, that wasn't a live one, but I remember exactly where I was watching that shit.

Bro, that might have been like the smoothest, like we got this buzzer beater of all time. Like, what? I was at, yeah, I was. at, yeah, I was in my college house. Jordan Reister sitting there watching on a giant ass box TV, flat screen TV. 78 inches, just of Villanova. Taking up the whole room.

Had to go around it to get to the kitchen. It was so nonchalant, like, yep, probably best. It's kind of not even impressive anymore because it was so casual, you know? Right. Like, you just, yeah, I think everybody who kind of was like, that's going in. It was too perfect. Dude, even the coach, the Villanova coach was like, no shit. Okay, bro.

The Villanova, Jay Wright kind of raked it. He kind of. It was so crazy. It was so casual. I was like, oh, you guys knew. Oh, you just knew. Okay. All right.

Not bad for a buzzer beater. That's insane. Not bad for a buzzer bidder. Yeah. Then write to a Sports Illustrated commercial. next second that has Villanova is your 2000 just immediately after. I'm like, God, they got that shit on the block. Coolest shit I'll never forget with that kind of stuff. After the Cubs won the World Series, like that commercial break after the final out, all that

coming back for the trophy presentation, first thing, this is Sports Center commercial. And it's like, it says the date of the actual date it is. And they have one of those boards in the kitchen that's like a chalkboard that's like days since the Cubs won it all. Ooh. And Jay Harris just walked up to it, erased it, and just put zero. And there's like people partied in the background and just walked away. Oh my God. I got to see that, bro.

Why does this is SportsCenter commercials kind of make me like cry a little bit? They're just so sick. From Austin. JV. Cover 2 Robber. Other than being produced. Juctile puked on and nearly dying in the first few weeks. I hope 2025 is off to a good start for the burpee boys. Random thing I missed and thought you guys might relate. The price check scanners that were randomly placed all over Walmart. When I'd go grocery shopping with my parents as a kid, I would spend the

entire time grabbing shit out of the car and running across the store to scan it and entertain myself. Do you guys ever do that? Also, I picked up on the weirdest habit from listening to Ben on espresso. Whenever I drop something, make a mistake, or do something weird in public, I always make the Siegel screech sound, Ben does, mainly during the cringe moment of the week's segment. Just wanted to let you know that it's catching on and my wife still wants to know why I started doing that, but I won't tell her. Gotta be a part of the kiss club to know, baby. Dude, love you.

Yeah. I didn't really ever do the scan thing like that. I feel like I couldn't have figured it out. It was useful like 10% of the time. Like when you really didn't know how much something was, I can usually figure it out. But like, then all of a sudden you think about,

oh, I wonder if there's one of those price scan things around here. And there actually is. But sometimes that wouldn't even tell you. And I'd be like, fuck this whole thing. Yeah, I feel like those are just,

just inevitably, we're going to be like a fine nearest employee. Bro. You're like, right. I'm like, why am I here? Why am I here?

from Brad. Peyton Manning with helmet on. These guys, listen to you all talking about Peyton Manning last week, reminded me of that picture of him with his foot in a therapy pool looking at his iPad, but also with the Broncos helmet on. Was that a real picture or am I dreaming? Possibly the funniest thing of all time? Unreal.

Slap my ass with the Jordan 45 jersey on, got at Foot Locker at 95. Gene shorts, gold chain with Bulls charm, while going to school late due to getting my braces on that morning. Red and black rubber band. because also Louisville Cardinals fan. Not obsessed with sports or reminiscing at all, much like your podcast.

You guys are legendary. Stationable by just line in your intro-outro team, iconic. I love this guy. That email. Dude, that fit that you just talked about? That's a lot of red and black. I'm kind of afraid you're going to stomp my ass, dude. I'd be scared to you.

You're a bully. You're a bully. You are Orange J's? Jordan 45, Jersey. That's so crazy. crazy. Yeah, I get it. Helmots on. Keep them snapped up, boys. You know, just when you're doing everything in high school, helmets on, I'm like, I look like such a dork, dude. Especially seven on seven. You wearing like a cutoff shorts and your helmet was on. I was like, dude, I'm a nerd.

I don't want to play anymore. Biggest sin of all time. Yeah. Going out for pregame warmups when you could just be rocking your undershirt, maybe your game pants on. But other than that, maybe just shorts like you're just getting loose got to have the fucking helmet on and you couldn't unbuckle it ever like can I just let these hang like what's the big deal got to be strapped up dork dork shit but uh Michael Jordan 45 Jersey I don't know why people don't have more of those because I I had one when I was a kid and I didn't like it because I was like it's not 23 I thought It was like fake. But looking back, dude, that shit would bang.

45 for no reason. What was the reason? I know you're a Michael Jordan historian. What was the reason? I don't really know. But I think someone stole his jersey or something before the game. So he had to wear 40. I don't know.

It was something weird, dude. See, I think my dad lied to me. You know, when you grow up and like you figure out looking back to like, oh, my dad was just full of shit. Yeah. What do you say? I can't wait. I'm pretty sure he said something about like he was 45 because it's like almost two times.

It's like double what 23 was and he's coming back like two times better or some shit. I don't know. It might have been something like that. I might be wrong. And that was another time he was number like 10 or something or 13, 12. And that might have been because he got his jersey stolen. But the 45 thing, I just never understood that. That's.

Oh, the mic got me. Oh, no. It's all good. A month. No tape job coming up. 110. 1-10 mic out. Okay.

Fuck. Sorry. It's all good. Yeah, you figure out your dad didn't invent everything. And then also, like, he would just make shit up to you, you know? You're asking about it when you're a kid. He just, like, comes up with some story he thinks would, like, resonate the most with you. It always hits.

You're like, oh, yeah, okay. That's why that's why that's called that. That's why the station knows about that. All right. Let's go ahead and go get out of here. Go see Benny on the road. Yep. Be on the right after my 2025 shit.

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