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Episode Date: November 11, 2025

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Foot temperature just having the wax football eraser. Remember when you sharpen your pencil so much? It was like this big. So everybody has normal pencils in class and you're just like... It was kind of a weird flex, dude. I was like, wow, man. How do they? That's impressive.

Not bad for a fat guy. T2-T2-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-E-Fty-9. 159. Feeling fine. Yeah. That's right. You see it on YouTube Clubhouse. Oh,

oh, oh, oh, who spent all day, spent all day putting up the decorations. It's snowing and indie. No way.

The most dreamy snow, fat flakes, just subtly falling. You can see them clear as day. I saw some pics, dude. Got so sad. It's collecting on the ground already.

Yeah, and of course, by this weekend, It's going to be 68 degrees again. You hit one of these yet? Oh, yeah, for Frank. Yeah. They're a fastball at your car door?

Yeah. Showed that snowball. That snowball life. He was excited about it. He had the oven mitts, though, which those aren't really useful. Because you can't, especially when you're three, the low dexterity and everything, I mean, he's kind of tough. He couldn't. I would pack one up.

I'd hand it to him. Yeah. And I'd try to balance it on his oven mat and then it would just fall off. You make the perfect snowball, bro. When you're like when you were younger, you made the perfect one. You're like,

if I hit somebody with this, they'd die. I was back out there. I felt like I was, I felt like I was Derek Jeter turning two. I know. And I would never hit the target I wanted to hit, though.

I'd have the perfect snowball, the perfect tree lined up. And then I was just hit, I'd like throw it and like hit, go in the fucking other. snow. I'd be like, God. I felt like I was dropping down to a knee, Miguel Tehada. Just right there. Web jams in the snow. A little sidearm. You know how every time quarterbacks now, which is a lot of them, they drop that arm angle down. It looks like

their turn and double play out there. Are they playing quarterback or they playing shortstop? Rich Gannon, first one. Not sports podcast, not a nostalgic podcast, not a holiday podcast. Why would you think that? Why would you think this is any of those three things? Look at us right now in the eyes. Why would you think this is a holiday, nostalgic, or sports podcast? Tell me right now. Yeah, got the tree up, got the decor up. Everything's feeling good, looking good. What'd you have on? Is a dad workout? Dad workout of the year? Every time this year, it's a dad workout of the year. You're going up and down the steps. You're bringing the boxes up and down and up and down. Then you got to attack

you got to attack the big one. You got to attack the tree box. I did that the other day. I got the tree out. It's not up, but it's out. That's a hall. That's a big old bitch there. Holy Lord.

It's just a tackling dummy. That one tackling dummy your team had that like stood upright. It's just that. You had to drag that across the field. Same thing. Love those. They were kind of like a a top and they'd come back on their own.

Your coach would be like, let's hit Bertha. It's always, always had a name. Let's hit Gilly. He said like Gilden across the front or something. We're all thinking that in some crazy nickname they came up with somehow. Not just like everything else is shortened the name they see. Big Bertha. Line up.

Coach, does this have a meeting? Or meaning? Where'd you get Gilly from? Like, what's the origin from there? Right in your face, Gilden. You see that? You hit that right between the eye and the L. His fingers when he's shown you.

You hit that right between the eye and the L. Coach fingers. Oh, man. It's the same way to the fake Christmas tree. That's just training to set up your house for Christmas. that's all I thought when we were hitting gilly. I was like, this is just, this is just for me when I'm 35. Man, I couldn't decide how I wanted to attack it.

You know, because I would pull, I would pull the box out of our crawl space or our little attic room or whatever it is down here in our basement, our crawl space room. So I'd pull it out of that room. But then once I faced the stairs, I was thinking, do I try to push? Do I try to sled this? Ooh. Risky.

Do I try to go on set hut here and just keep driving, get a good pop in and keep driving? Low man wins. That did not work. Were you home alone? No. That's kind of what made it. You know, it was such a dad morning, man, because I had like the kids. They were on the steps.

They wanted to be involved. What are you doing, Daddy? What is, Daddy? Want to be involved. They're just in the way. So I'm kind of like, you know, you got a little bit of that dad heat and you're kind of just like,

all right, need you out of the way. But you're not mad at them because you're like, oh, this is memories, you know. It's a happiest thing you can do, yeah. And, but yeah, the pushing did not work. I had to just throw my back out for the 16th time. You went downstairs backwards? No, I pulled it.

I pulled it up the stairs. And so my body was, basically just like a C. I was just shaped like a C with all the pressure and everything in my lower back, yanking this thing up. But we got it up there and got everything, you know, did my duty. And then I took my sweatshirt and my shirt off because I was sweating. Dude, what were you listening to? How many tunes?

Christmas songs going on? Just a little Christmas essentials. Fired up the Yule log. Oh, on YouTube I forgot about that. Yeah, dude. I don't know why last Christmas just, man, every year,

every year that goes by that first time or two that you listen to last Christmas when it's time. Last Christmas, I gave you my heart. It's the best one, bro. Just so passionate, man. I know. It's so magical.

It really, it really shot up the charts. for me. Like when I was a kid when I was a kid I didn't even think about that song last like five years of my life I'm like that's number one Mariah Carey who dude?

Last Christmas I gave you my God it's so good my favorite part is when they're kind of talking through it well it's been a year it doesn't surprise me but I know

face on a love with the firmness I love when songs like talk sing. It's like, wow, so relatable. You know, it's like he's talking to you. And you can remember those lyrics so well because they're just talking. Always, I picture myself in a car

when I'm listening to that. Snow just plopping down. Slushy ground, busy intersection, billions of cars. cars. Just trying to go to the mall. That's all. Hey, turtle neck. Mm-hmm. Can't even breathe. Strangling you. Can't even breathe. Face, face Christmas red. Always way too hot during Christmas, you know. Dress warm, can't be too warm. You get in a hot car with all the layers on? I was literally thinking about this yesterday. I said, I said to myself,

I got to bring this up. because we're officially, we're officially to that point. Not a Christmas pod. It was, it was, you know, me and the kids went down south for football Sunday and we're getting all bundled up and everything

because it was only like 30 degrees in Indianapolis. And so I'm feeling good because I literally said to Rai, I said, ah, finally made it to the point of the year where I can accessorize with my Steelers fit a little bit. You know?

I got the sweats. I got the new hoodie. I got the starter jacket over it. You're feeling it. The starter letter jacket. I'm feeling good, man. I'm ready to go. Cozy NFL guy walking down the street.

Oh. Sit in the car for three and a half minutes on the way down there, sweating my ass off. Oh, my God. Do I have a seat warmer on? Right. I got to turn this down. a few notches. I need to take my jacket off while I'm driving. Dude, do you ever pull that off? I've almost wrecked my car, flipped off a bridge because I was trying to take my sweatshirt off while I was driving.

It's just like, I don't know. I guess if this is how I go out, this is how I go out, but I got to take this thing. It's way too hot. You do. It's it's 30 degrees outside. Dude, you roll the windows all the way down. I can't take it. There's a no uncomfortable hotness like that hotness when it's 30 degrees you've got your fit on the sun is blaring on you

you have to have the heat on because it's so cold it's the sun it's the sun dude when you're hot in your car and it's like and then the sun goes right in your face and somehow it's 92 degrees all of a sudden you're like

is it even cold outside anymore how is the sun this hot my neck and back never been sweatier didn't stand a chance like you can take my neck and my back

on July 31st 2008 doing two days for high school football and compare it to yesterday wearing a starter jacket and a hoodie on a 30 degree day

in the front seat of my car doesn't even doesn't even compare you don't even want your coffee anymore you know it's like a full hot coffee you're like but yeah

Yeah, yeah. You're so hot and uncomfortable. You have a little bit of that coffee makes you even more hot. You're like, am I sick? All of a sudden, just one nostril works. You're like, what the? What is happening here? I was just trying to wear my starter letter jacket.

Jeez. Like, yeah. Michael Pittman. Kyle Pitts. Overall, overall, Rex Grossman. I'm trying to think of something I can't jacket I was wearing

Pittsburgh Steelers I'm trying to think of a cool one Who's the guy with a cool name? Like chill I don't know I don't know either Yeah We're your your

podcast is still working we just each needed to take six seconds to solely focus on a name that has to do with the only one that came to my head the only one that came to my head I should have worn less clothes wish I would have thought of that Terrell Pryor. Goddha.

Hey, let's end up on that one. We'll see you after the break. Here's the next Johnson Schmitty. Ben's flying back tomorrow. I really will. If you're like, let's do that video, I'm on a flight. Oh, man.

you went to the you went to that debacle the debacle at Sofi The slaughtering at Sofa It was so much fun bro I didn't go to the game I just went before the game Like I thought you said you went to the game

Well I did go to the game but I wasn't in the stadium You know what I mean So like where the fans line up to go into the stadium We were like out there Palm Trees Big Sofi thing UFO Stadium behind us All the Steelers fans walk in all the Chargers fans walking in.

There's like a, bro, there's a Steelers like pre-shift meeting before this, before we went in. It was like 900 Steelers fans just like huddled together. I was like, are they doing pre-shed? You roll silverware, you're gonna be on the bar, you take the 30s. I was like, what are they talking about, dude? I think they're, were they praying? Maybe it's an LA Steelers thing? It was crazy.

But they were probably, it's probably, it's probably 80, 20 Steelers fans there. Everybody I saw. Yeah, that worked out real well. Whatever they were doing, didn't do it hard enough. Nope, no. I don't have a minute for this

because it's just, it's the same thing. I don't have a minute for it. It's the same thing every year. It's the same thing. I can't even get mad about it because people will ask me in my opinion going into the season, yeah, I'm excited about Rogers.

It'll be interesting, you know, whatever. Ask me when we're four and one. No, yeah, I mean, yeah, it's cool, but, you know, a long way to go. Ask me after he beat the colds. All right. I mean, sick, but like, it's a long way to go. And then here you go. Three out of four.

Terrible losses. Terrible performances by the defense. Can't get off the field. Offense can't pick up a third down. It's just so clear as day that there just needs to be a change or changes. of some kind because they change the roster every offseason

and obviously that's not working. So what's left to do? I think we know the answer to that. We'll see how it plays out but I'm going to say it's going to be not very Merry Christmas for Steelers Nation. Nation know about this?

Steelers Nation, how about that? It was a good time though. Steelers fans. Who's the guy that wears a big yellow cape? Oh my God. I know there's probably a lot of guys like that, but it seemed like this guy was like the final boss of Steelers fans. I was like, oh, that's their guy.

Like, that's their, I don't know. Me and my buddy went to the Purdue Ohio State game over the weekend. And the whole time, we were just looking for the big, the big nut. Oh. Like the, that's their guy? Yeah, you know, the big, the big bald old guy. Oh. The fat bald old guy that paints one half of his face,

silver and the other half of his face red or scarlet or whatever, scarlet and gray? Hey, let me Google Big Nut real quick. Jeez, geez. If you put the in there, that should mix out a few of the yeah, there he is, there's the guy. We were just looking for him the whole time.

You find him? Every fan base has a guy that you're like, that's the guy. No, no, we didn't see him. He thought he should. saw somebody. He thought he saw someone that was him, but it was just another, like, fat, bald old guy. Because he's like, but his face wasn't painted. I was like, dude, that shit's way too pristine. He's not going to do that in like 30 minutes. No, that's like, that's a, I don't even know when he does that. He has to wake up at like 7 a.m. Make up at 7, honey, let's go. Can you imagine that routine?

Maybe that's, dude, maybe that's just like his existence. Maybe he just got it tattooed like that. Like, you know, some people just get their whole arm tattooed black? Yeah, a lot of people do that. Right? Like, that's what you went with? Couldn't decide. Maybe the big nut just, hey, straight up, spray paint. Spray paint the ink.

Like maybe they have some instrument now for tattoos. It doesn't have to be a needle. They can just spray it on you like that. and he's just fully like, yeah, Walmart on Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio, just the big nut in there, Scarlett and Grayface. You're out of my metallic! Like, he's getting on bad. Big nut.

And I never see, I mean, there's never, like, there's never anybody it's seemingly that he's there with. Like, Big Nuts just chilling in the front row with the camera on with ESPN. Solo. Respect it way more. You know, that dude doesn't have a family, a wife. He's just Ohio State. Wakes up in the morning, just Ohio State news.

It's all he does. Everything's Ohio State. You think his house, all Ohio State. Yeah, that's one of those commercials you'd see on ESPN or something where they're promoting like college football coming up or they go to somebody's house and that quite literally is how everything is in their home. You're like, no way that that's real. No, it is.

Washington State flag guy. Go in his house? Just like shaggy crimson carpet with a logo on it. I'm the flag guy. Yep. Still doesn't believe me that it's real. Still doesn't believe me. I'm just playing along with it.

I'm like, there's no chance. Did I texted you about it though? The guy at a football game. who wears some sort of headgear that's not a ball cap or like a beanie. Like, you know, if that guy's in your section, you better be on lookout. He's going to be a problem.

The best problem. It's always the guy with like the old football, like the old leather football helmet on, you know? No face. Not even one of those. Like, you know, they have those hard hats. Basically, that's what it is. Like if you're in the section with a guy who either has a football helmet

or the construction hard hat that is painted his school's colors, watch out, head on a swivel. You're going to be giving a lot of high fives. That's a high five guy. He's standing up constantly. He's trying to get your section to stand up. Leading cheers. Yep.

When do you see the wave really hit at a football game, Like that guy's starting the wave. I saw a guy just conduct a wave like you'd never believe. Like at an old RCA dome Colts game. He had the whole section just locked in, dialed. No, you know, you don't do. Three, two, one. And he just watched it wrap around the whole stadium.

I was like, oh my God. Everybody catching on. Like it took like maybe five times for the whole stadium. It would be like wave, wave, wave, wave, wave. Never been more in sync. Yeah, there was like a weird energy. A weird energy like buzz going on in the stadium when you realize. Because it did.

It would take three or four rounds to go through and you'd be like, oh wait, wait, wait, wait. Is it coming around to us? It's going around to us. You couldn't, as a kid, like watching that happen and then being part of it. And then you watch it all the way around. Bro, they used to have that on video games. Like they used to have it on like NFL game day with like Trail Davis on cover.

It's like they have the wave on that? What happened? Yeah, it doesn't come around. I feel like I don't see it too much anymore. I feel like people are out on the wave. Dude, can we go to a two lane game and just be like, I came here for the wave? Got to do it the whole time, right?

That'd be so sick. But the wave, though, it's like, you know, you only get like two go-rounds of that. Wait, like good ones. You don't want to keep trying to keep it going. I think you nail it You get it down You nail it one time

You bring it back around for the second time Of like wow We really did it And then after that I think it's just gotta die down Yeah it does I guess I got sad Like when I saw it die I was like ah

Man You can't keep waving too long Everybody does this noise When is that the noise of a wave Because you keep waving too long Then it's you know. It's the guy that keeps,

it's the guy that tries to keep the chant going one last longer, you know what I mean, one more time. Or it's a guy who like tries to keep, uh, the long clap going, you know,

like getting the last clap. Yeah, it's a little too much. Just get in, get out. Get in, get out. That last clap at church though.

I'd be the guy. When we're clapping for something at church, I would never stop. In one time. It just kept going for like 30 minutes. And I think I was the difference maker. Like we were giving out awards in church and I'm not stopping. Then it started again.

I'd be like, see? Dude, I was just most proud moment of my life. I think the whole church clap for like 40 minutes. All the classes were like 10 minutes long. It was great. Please hold your applause until the end. Please, please. Hold your applause until the very end.

Yeah. church class It is fun That like Those guys though That wear those construction hats And the helmets Just the most unhinged guys ever

But they will at least like stand up And remove their Their helmet for honoring the veterans Who are standing up They're always bald They never have hair Just to put it right back on later Be like

Fucking kill him! Now please take off your hats for a moment of silence For your veterans Hard hat underneath the arm A little bit of hair left Still still messed up on top Holding his beer like this Thank you

Put it back on Fuck the commanders Right after Oh the best The best The best the best part of waking up Let's get to the club

These guys live Don't forget Didn't mention it off the top December 22nd Getting ready to be close two month away Six weeks or so Six weeks or so And

Yeah I don't know I might just I might wear the Santa wig and everything I might just fucking dress as Santa Who knows Perfect with fun Steeler Santa these guys live. Santa know about this?

Okay. Oh shit. All right. Got a lot to get to the team these guys Gmail.com. You're going to go back a little ways to Joel. Joel says riddle me this. I want Benny, not Joey, Benny, to explain what it means when alignment declares himself as an eligible receiver.

Why the hell does this happen and why does it matter? Something I've never been able to wrap my head around. Slap my ass with the Super Bowl 32 John Elway School folder I got from the Scholastic Book Fair. I bought with what was supposed to be my lunch money. Classic move there. Classic move. Wait, what poster was it? I can probably scrum around for some buddies or some change to get food enough to eat.

I really want this folder though. Super Bowl 32 John Elway School folder. Oh, man. Scholastic Book Fair I know I can think I know that picture God I love those Broncos unis for that Super Bowl Did you ever that reminds me Because that's what I would do

Do you ever do one of those borrow slips Like you forget your lunch and you got to borrow I never want to be in that hole And I never wanted to fill out that slip I just never did it I'd rather go hungry for four weeks straight Then get a borrow slip borrow slip my poor ew

yeah dude I would suffer so where we went to school that would happen you know if you didn't if you forgot your lunch money or your lunch ticket that was always me I would always forget my lunch ticket you know it would be in my pants from the day before

or just be on the counter because I my mom put it out there and I forgot to snag it when I was running out the door will always forget my lunch ticket and I never packed my lunch hardly. And so there would be times where I'd be like, well, here are my options here. I could not eat, so I'm not going to do that. I'm in seventh grade and I'm starving. Two, I could try to go out in the office and call my mom or dad to see if they could run me by,

you know, my lunch ticket back here. Not going to do that because then that's admitting defeat and my mom would be pissed. So mad. Or three, I can just do what we call a borrow slip. I didn't know it was an option. It's just basically an IOU. You know? It's like they would establish a line of credit for kids.

So sometimes I had to do the borrow slip because I was like, shit. Like I, it's just, that's all I have is my options. Mrs. Cagley, I'm sorry. But I got to do, I got to do borrow slip. But there is instances like this at the book fair where maybe folks did throw me 275 or whatever it was for a hot lunch I'm like you see one of those sick things maybe a box those pencils

maybe a poster somehow was in your budget like dang I guess a worst case scenario I do have a borrow slip available to me posters are like 10 bucks at the book fair though I'm like honestly who rich kids all over the place in there but I'm like I don't I'm there's not a chance

in the world my mind would give me money for this. No. And she's not there to like kind of navigate my buying. What? Big basketball eraser, this big on top of your pencil. It's like a pencil weight.

Like it almost, it's almost like making your wrist stronger. You know how heavy those things were? And those erasers sucked. Dude. Oh, dude. Those erase wax. Straight ripping your paper.

Turn it over and try to erase. Second, you do one. Okay. You lose that, like, by the end of the day, too, though. A big, dumb football or basketball eraser on top of your pencil. Just didn't erase one thing. What a scam. And then you always, we always, I remember there's one specific type of worksheet that we worked on.

It was like gray paper. You know what I'm talking? It was like real, like it was not like you had your good worksheet paper that was white. it was like your your phonics you know or like something and then you had your gray it was always math it was like newspaper and you try to erase on that good luck babe the thinnest i mean yeah the thinnest it would turn your eraser gray too and you'd be like gha then you'd have to do this on your hand to like get your eraser back to normal how it's already the hardest thing i've ever done the math problems and now I can't even write or erase on the, like, what are we doing?

I'm six. Hey, Hyper kid. Hyper kid always gnawing on it. By the end of the week, it's like half of a football because Hyper kid just has to gnaw on something, you know? Yeah. Dude, what? Old foot tapper.

Foot tapper just having the wax football eraser. Remember when you sharp in your arm, pencil so much it was like this big. Just be like so everybody has normal pencils in class and you're just like it was kind of a weird flex dude I was like wow man how do they that's

impressive. Zach's had that pencil for like four weeks like he's not losing these short pencil guy literally just the the cone of the pencil and then the eraser forever I'm like did you buy him like you got serious like control you got great risk control think about how insane like yeah that's

how old we are though is that we we went to schools and with had classrooms where you would get up go to that ringing pencil sharpener ass shaken what it was so embarrassing I always sharpened my pencil though because it was like I got to get up and do something I can't just sit here here right now. It's either that or a Kleenex. Like, let's give it a goal with the pencil. Let's give it a go. And like sometimes it wouldn't hit right in there.

Oh yeah. I hated that. It like, it like only shrug in like the side. He'd be like what? Or you caught and see you really have to really? Bro, this is my Green Bay Packers pencil. Like I can't just be wasting my green, this is like I'm in my playoff era with the pencils.

I can't be just like grind in this thing. It was nice. Different classrooms you knew. It's a pretty smooth pencil sharpener there. Mr. Eger Myers class? Pretty smooth. Yeah.

You go to that one class. Mr. C's. I don't know if it's because of the location. I don't know if it's because it's by like the cubbies or we put our shit and the walls harder over there. I don't know, but it doesn't work as well. Yeah, I'm not going to, I'm not going to sharpen my pencil in this class.

I'm holding out because Mr. Kidwell's got a mechanical one on his desk. He talked about the... Didn't work. Just in the middle of class, dude. Just in the middle of a test. You're just standing there. Doesn't work again.

I might have to empty it. Take the thing off. Bang it in the trash can. Lift the trash can up. Sharp A, you miss. Yeah. All over. My bad.

I'll get it. You're doing a. all this during a test. Gotta go back. It was crazy. I think, I think, not even during a test. I think during like

Mr. Kidwell trying to teach dude. So the Spanish Armana Yeah. Spanish Armada came through and, bro. You don't even need your pencil

right now. You did have to kind of time that out. Yeah, that was. You know, if you get, if you get Hyper Mountain Duke kid, you'd be like, okay, that kid's definitely just messing with Mrs. Barton. He's trying to make the teacher cry today.

And you're rooting for him. Kid in class and made the teacher cry. Oh, I always felt bad. I always felt bad. But I was like, we needed to shave 10 minutes off and you did your job. All right, can you answer this question here? I don't think I can.

But I think they just, it depends on where they're on the line of scrimmage. If they're in like, tight end on the line and there is a receiver off the line like out there wide you know I'm talking about hey coach hands then he's eligible but I don't think you can be like a guard

and release downfield I think you got to be at the end of the line of scrimmage so the rest can see like if you're on or off the ball yeah it's oh he didn't want me to answer so no no good job do it good job yeah he said he said he wanted it from your perspective because I think he knows that I'm a nerd like that.

Let's go to John. 2015 Thursday night football color rush. What's up, boys? Fourth time emailer. A little under a year-long listener. I know this isn't a reminiscent sports nostalgia holiday or local pod, so my question will not make sense, but what is one single-season team that isn't your favorite team that you really liked?

For me being a diehard Spurs fan, I would have to say the 0607 Denver Nuggets with AI, Mello, Marcus Camby, Kenyon, Martin, and J.R. Smith. Slop my ass with Chris Johnson's hand as he does the Chapa City juke dance after ripping a 74-yard run. Sent from my Sony Erickson W380.

Got a pick? No, no pick. That's a second Erickson we've had in I think as many weeks. That's the second touchdown in as many weeks. Yeah, that Nuggets team, wow.

Don't want to get in a fight with that team. Scary team. Silk jerseys. High tempers, silk jerseys, long shorts. They got each other's backs, bro. That was a fun team to play with on 2K. Team that you really like. That's just not your favorite team.

Really like that. You know that we're doing like we're kind of NBA. The Golden State Warriors team. that went pretty far in the playoffs and Baron Davis it's like Rose and Dunk it I think on Andre Carolinko maybe

it's just like one of those sneaky playoff teams that you like you knew wasn't going to win the championship but they were like hot at the time can't remember what year but Clubhouse knows what I'm talking about yeah that was what was it was they call

I think they're like the we believe warriors or something or they had like when Golden State was Golden State dude. They had the logo, navy blue, like orange. Yeah, that mascot they had. It was almost like the N1 guy. Yeah. That was the coolest warrior state. Man, they were so bad. 0-607. 0-6-07. Yeah, they were the 8th seed. They beat the one seed. Stephen Jackson probably. I forget who else was on that team.

Baron Davis, Stephen Jackson. Matt Barnes probably. Yeah, good call. That was. Everybody can get, yeah, everybody can get down with that. That made me think, too. I was like, I remember when George Mason made the run to the final four in Indy, I was all aboard.

Put George Mason on the map forever. Every time you hear George Mason anything, you're just like, man, they did it. That was, that's the most Cinderella thing I've ever seen in my life. God, dang. I was invested. I was invested. Can you even imagine if they would have won that whole thing? Like, is that even fair?

You know? It's crazy. I liked, it was like 2000. Still same about that time. It was like 2007. Yeah, I think it was a 2007 Cleveland at the time, Cleveland Indians. They had like Grady Seismore. and

some good end of the podcast names right here coming up. I think Johnny Peralta was on that team. Sick baseball name. Right? Yeah. I forgot. I can't forget who or I can't remember

who else at this point. But they were like, Cleveland had sucked for so long my entire childhood. And then all of a sudden Grady Seismore was a center fielder, lefty, like one of those classic like five tool just did it all

cool name Grady Sysmore and they just had like a hot summer the tigers had the same shit too there was a summer of like 06 that the tigers and the Indians were going back and forth and I was like man usually they suck and they're actually really good and it's kind of fun to watch

because they're in the American League you know and so I was like yeah like obviously I'm a Cubs fan but like I like watching those guys like those are fun teams to watch I'm trying to think if they're a football version of this. Oklahoma State with Des Bryant.

Like, they're just sick, dude. Oh, you know what I mean? The knockoff, like, a big team. They're, like, kind of like number nine in the country. You know, they're not going to move up anymore. They'll probably get beat again. But you're like, yo, this team is just so sick.

All right. The uniforms, Des Bryant. Yeah, quarterback was dope, too. I forget who it was. wore one sleeve. I was like, this is my squad. I got to beat them

on the video game forever. Yeah, kind of in a similar light, Texas Tech. Crabtree, Texas Tech. Air raid. Couldn't wait to play with them.

Dude, after that, after they beat Texas, I was them on the video game all night. I was like, I don't care if Graham Harold's slow. Like,

I'm throwing 50 times. I'm booting out. I'm hitting them deep. If I get sacked, get sacked. Guns up. Dude. That's funny because, yeah, game day went back to Texas Tech this past weekend. And so a bunch of people were reminiscent and remembering about that Texas, Texas Tech game.

And I was like, yeah, you don't know how much that changed lives for boys that were like 12 to 17 years old. I remember where I was in who I was with. Yeah. Yeah. In my living room for some reason. Not like it was a big TV is. And I was just chilling with like Michael Nicol. And we were like, bro, if they come back and win this, this is crazy.

And they did, we're like, what? All right, let's go to Taco Bell. I don't know what we're doing, but. It was Halloween weekend, too. It might have been on Halloween. Oh, scream masks in the crowd. I couldn't believe it. How do you not go out of bounds?

Right? God, this wig is itchy. There's some good ones, though. Fun question. We haven't got that. Dude, we could talk about that question all day. Is there an NFL team? One more.

Is there an NFL team that you're like, oh, wait, wait, wait. I remember when Russell Wilson wasn't super, super corny. Like when Russell Wilson was a rookie and Seattle had those new uniforms and Marshawn Lynch and, you know, their defense was the beginning of Legion of Boom. I remember me and DJ Dionne were like, Seattle's pretty sick to watch. like this is this is different they go about it in a different way you know like in a league of mannings and bradies you had Seattle that was just yeah pinching the mouth new uniforms russell wilson fun team niners were kind of like that too with harball oh yeah fun team fun squad hey vikings farve to sydney rise that team

Like, dude, that was, and they had Adrian Peterson? Oh, my God. Like, when an old quarterback walks into a new situation, I'm like, could go good or bad, but you, like, hope the best so much. Sidney Rice, man. I just think of, I just think of that Brad Favre team, just him wearing the baggiest, most regular gray t-shirt underneath his pads.

I wonder if it was even Vikings equipment. You know what I mean? I don't think so. You think it was just like something like his wife slept or like his girl slept in the night before. And he's like, I got, I need a shirt for under my pads. Just a big gray t-shirt. I think he just got him from like coals or like fucking Ollie's or something. Allies.

Good stuff cheap. Cool logo for Allies, by the way. Let's go to James. Holiday. Howl they. What up guys? We'll love to hear your thoughts on who would win. in a final four to be the ultimate huntie.

Who is a potential dark horse? One seed Christmas hunting versus four seed Easter hunting. Two seed Halloween hunting versus three seed Valentine's Huntie. P.S. Thanksgiving, Huntie just missed the big dance and is in the Huntie, NIT. Sent from my Palm Pilot. Ooh, Jimmy. Palm Pilot.

With the little stick. Whenever they tried to get the stick going. Yeah, I was like, I don't know. Cool in theory. I was never forget Steve Jobs. He was like, we can't have one of the movies that was made about him. But they try to get some shit like that.

One of those, he's like, no, dude, you need to be able to just do it all with the thumb so you can have your other hand. He's like, if you have one of those sticks, then you have to hold it and then you're useless. It's like some visionary stuff. I saw a guy. on a plane when I was boarding a plane

when I was like in fourth grade. He was sitting first class with the stick. I was like, he's got to be a millionaire. Right. I guess there's certain instances. Wow, this is a fun little tourney here, James. I'll go first here, Ben.

I think that Easter hunting would knock off Christmas hunting. I was thinking the same thing. I was thinking he's the worst one, right? when I heard that. I don't want to, dude, I don't want to run into Easter hunting ever. Like that is a, that's a disaster. The pastel, he's all ready to get on the Easter egg hunt.

Hi, Auntie. I hid something for you. Like, it's a depressing holiday. And then Huntie's just trying to like, I don't know, man. It's just, you know what I'm saying? He's trying too hard to make it fun, and it's not it. Right. I think Easter Hunty would knock off Christmas Hunty because, you know, Christmas

hunty, or if you're around Christmas Hunty, everybody else is in holly jolly, probably having wine, you're a little drunk, there's presents, there's games going on. You can hit and miss with Christmas Hunty. But I just feel like Easter, you're planted. You're planted next to the dude. And, and, and, and, and he is really trying to make an impact. Probably trying to, like, lead the prayer and shit. Like, can you be my jelly bean?

You bring me so much almond joy. Hey. Now give me Hershey kiss. Oh, man. all while wearing pink the lightest khaki pants with the brightest pink or yellow shirt

pink shirt red face kind of some like razor bumps on his neck and stuff you're like god dang dude can't get away from this guy today that's it I think Easter Huntie takes it

I do too I do too. Halloween versus Valentine's though. Valentine's Auntie's a different species on a... I mean, Valentine's Day is Hunty's entire being. It's his Super Bowl. Genetic makeup. Valentine's Hunty. I was...

It's why he... Yeah, it's why he exists. It's bigger than any day known to man. Be Day, Hunty? Did you say my name? I was thinking with Easter Hunty too. Like I don't need honey

ham. I have honey. You are my honey ham. Auntie. He kind of looks like a ham with his pink and red. Oh yeah. His whole complexion is ham. Will you be my butterball? Oh dude, boat shoes.

Boat shoes, Argyle socks. Yeah, the socks that are so loud underneath his pants, you know? Remember when that was the thing? I got so upset when I, oh my God, the trend was like wear funny socks. I was like,

I hate this, man. Yeah, I fell into that. It was hard not to because it was like, that was the only thing they sold. I was like, can I just wear black dress socks now? You know?

It was hard not to wear like funny socks. And like I was into elite socks too. So I was like, I guess it's kind of the same thing. I swear I wore elite socks to a wedding one time now. Oh, yeah. I think I put it on my Instagram too. Like early BP Instagram.

Like I raised up like the my my like suit that I was wearing for a wedding and had elite socks on just in the front seat of a car, took a picture of it. Yeah. I wish I knew what the caption was. Man, everybody's done that though. Swoosh. It was probably like. uh-huh honey or just hey yep probably yeah that sounds right

oh shit uh old BP captions Easter Easter hunting though yeah no it's not it's not just random super loud like it's he definitely has Easter eggs on his socks Matchup of that. Yeah, Easter versus Valentine's. I think the four seed brings it home. I think we're, I think we settled on that pretty. Pretty quickly.

From Jacob. Sick day. Listen to the last episode. Jacob, Jacob, Jacob. Jacob. God, I don't even remember that origin story at this point. I don't either. Oh, no.

Oh, it's when he, he'd be hosting a post-game show and the callers would be calling in. and they'd be getting real worked up and going crazy. And, you know, when you're the host and you have the all-being power to just cut them off. Ooh. Jacob, Jacob, Jacob, Jacob, while the guy's still kind of like going on. Jacob. Listening to the last episode, when y'all were talking about being sick as a kid, how me thinking of my sick day story.

In first grade, as every first-grade boy never wants to go to school, I would always try to fake it. My go-to move would be to put the thermometer to the lamplight, would read like 130 and considering I wasn't dead, my mom would know I was faking and send me to school. So fast forward, and I tell her I'm sick, and she's not going for it and sends me to school. Well, now it's time to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

And as we were saying it, I throw up all over the place. Love the pod, guys. Need Benny to come to Louisiana for a show. Sent from iPhone, Louisiana. I'd go down to Louisiana for a show with BP. that'd be fun what club do they have down there that's like one thing about New Orleans

I can never find like what's their club yeah um so you ended up being sick who just happenstance yeah Jacob puked

like faked it got caught by his mom and ended up working out yeah and it was nice during the pledge bro that's like the first thing the pledge always made me so mad in school

I don't even want to be here Now we got to stand up and do all this But you throw up during the pledge, bro, you're out of there It's pretty much like Inconvenient for your mom She just dropped you off She might still be on the way home actually She might still be in the car

But it's a good time to throw up You know We were talking timing Like any later than the pledge Like you might as well stay at school Like it's over Your mom just so happy To be rid of your ass

finally have you at school for seven and a half hours. So happy to drop the kids off. Dude, right to T.J. Max after that, I just want to know what my mom did after she dropped us off at school. I'm like, you got a free day. Amazing.

Yeah, I would think about that too. That's all I would think about it at school. I was like, what is my mom doing right now? Because, you know, she's like your best friend kind of, like, when you're like early in life.

Yeah. What the hell's my mom doing? She's probably like watching like CBS. Like, you wonder if she's like making cookies or something. like what is she doing? Yeah. Running errands, but like 918 in the morning.

What's my mom doing right now? Yeah. It's interesting. You're like that world doesn't even exist. It's like NPC. Uh-huh. Like mom is just auto simming. She's just simulating until the day's over.

Just sitting at home. Charging. She definitely threw a couple naps down for sure. But I'm like, that's probably when like you drop the kids off at school. But when you drop the kids off at school. But when you. drop the kids off at school. It's still like 8 a.m.

I'm like, what are you doing from, like stores open at 9? Like that's a weird, weird seven hours. Probably the best seven hours of their lives on it. Right. That's when you put the decorations up and stuff, I guess. Sure.

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, we do that with Frank right now. He only goes to school for like two and a half hours. And it is like a nice, like, ah, okay. I might stop and get myself. a coffee. Make sure I do a little something, you know. I need a treat for this. Yeah. I did want to get to

Let's see. Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Sorry. Here we go. It's from John. I need these guys advice ASAP. What up? So not like this high school reminiscing pod, but I need some advice for my 20-year high school reunion approaching this month. Not only do I not want to go, I'm making myself go because I do feel guilty if I'm healthy and live locally not to make it. I'm having some bad anxiety thinking about entering the event and having to pass by anyone I graduated with or having it at a local bar. So I will be face to face with little to no room. Do you need to say hi to everyone now since we're adults, even if you never talk to them in high school?

My graduating class was 150 kids, so everyone knows everyone's name. But to put into context, say I was at a random grocery store and it's years after. after high school and I ran into the person that I'd never really talk to, I'd probably acknowledge the person and be like, oh, hey, how you doing? But now what happens when you're in a room with dozens of those people? Is it weird to just talk or walk right past them and just go to the same three people you always talk to? How would you guys handle the situation?

Am I over analyzing it too much? Slat my ass with a $125 hardcover yearbook that all our parents really bought for themselves because it's still sitting next to an encyclopedia and a 2000 world almanac of your childhood home. from Hotmail email. Dude, everybody had the almanac and the encyclopedias. That's insane.

Thanks, John. Okay. Yeah. I still think it, you know, I think you might be surprised, though. Because I was going to say, well, just don't go.

Probably check in with them on Facebook. See what's going on. You're not missing anything. Two, you could be surprised because I've been, to a 10-year high school reunion of my wife's. And she ended up, like, actually having more conversation with people that we didn't,

like, go to the pregame with that maybe she had class with in, like, sixth period. Because you do actually have stuff to talk about in a weird way because it's like, hey, we've never talked. We don't typically talk. So, yeah, tell me about your. family. Tell me about your life. Tell me about what you do. Tell me what I mean. Yeah, probably don't talk to the group you came with too much. Because you don't want to feel like a jerk either, you know, sitting by like all the people

that you're still friends with from your, like spread it out. Talk to everybody, I think. Because they're thinking the same thing. Right. Everybody's, everybody is. Everybody is. Oh, they're freaking out. That's actually like the highest pressure. That's a, that's the most anxiety ever is probably a high school reunion because it's like that's that's trouble then everybody's free now you ever been to one

I think a lot of us went to like our five year one because it's pretty like close to the time you graduate I went and it was cool I mean yeah it was fun like a lot of people that I haven't seen in like seven year like five years yeah it's dope like oh my god like I don't even see you on the internet you're here

How'd you even know about this? Station didn't even know about this. But I remember it being cool. Like it wasn't, it wasn't weird. It was at a bar, though, just like he's talking about. You kind of want to talk to a girl, but you don't. Yeah, you got a 20 coming up. I don't think we do, really, though.

Like, you know what I mean? Like, is there one? Like, when do they stop? And who's putting those together? Like, who's organizing? that. It's supposed to be the class president, but it's like, who even remembers? If you were the class president, would you remember? I would be like, oh shit, I guess that wasn't me. You got to organize the whole thing just because, just out of the love of the game.

All right. See, yeah, Mucky Duck. Bring something to defend yourself with. Yeah, your high school school reunion's always at a place that at the time that you grew up or what it were of that age, it's like, oh, yeah, that was a regular place. And then by the time, that it's time for your reunions. You're like, I probably shouldn't go there anymore. Yeah, I need to bring my gun. You have a gun in your car. I mean, just, you know.

Haven't been to peppers in a while. Brass knuckles in your cargo short pocket. What's up? Just in case. High school reunion places, yeah, they're all like, they're all at places that you can still somehow smoke inside. Yeah. Or like, at least people just do.

High school reunion. Not going to wear my good shoes because the floor is really sticky there. Everybody, you're like, oh, my God. We really got to do this. All right. Damn. Yeah, so maybe just don't go, John. I was going to say that, but I didn't want to cop out.

Go for the bit. Go for the bit. Yeah. Let's go to Eric here. running the goddamn vacuum. What up, fellas? Just a thought and a bit of nostalgia. But can you recall times when you were gaming hard on NCAA dynasty or NBA Live

and your mom just roared into the room running the vacuum cleaner? My mom would just get to work running the vacuum over and over and over again in front of the gigantic 35-inch tube TV I was playing PS2 on. And I would get so pissed off and scream at the top of my lungs for her to quit. she didn't care. Flash forward to 2025, and I am now the chump running the vacuum while my kids scream over

not hearing your shows on their iPads. Talk about full circle. Much love, fellas. Eric from Pittsburgh. And you just don't care either. Like your mom just did not care one single bit about what was on TV. No.

The magnitude of the situation. You could have been watching a movie with a girl. Your mom. Oh, yo! Oh, my God. And then you kind of feel like lazy because you're not like helping. You're just sitting there.

She's cleaning, working. Like, I'm a piece of shit. Hey, legs up. Legs up. Dude, better these. I'm glad you at least got that. I didn't get that. I just got feet.

Feet. Dude, when she'd hit your ankle. Kind of hurt, dude. Out for two weeks. He had to sit out at your game. How'd you get hurt? Never a more look of determination on someone's eye than a mom attacking the broom does.

She's vacuuming. Under the desk, picking up trash cans. It's going crazy. You're right, too. Didn't give it damn, dude. Like, I'm pretty sure you could have been hooking up with that girl. But as long as your feet were on the ground and she had a clear path, good to goal.

Feet up. That's so funny The image of you trying to kiss a girl with your feet out straight She wouldn't care As long as there's nothing She had vacuum blinders on Locked in, dude That daredevil hits your ankle up

Why can't you play in the game on Sunday against St. Luke? I'm on the... Right on the bone, right on the ball of the ankle bone Do you ever have an injury like that? We're like, I don't know, dude. Practice is not looking good for me today. Like when you had like a household injury. It wasn't like a on field injury.

I remember one time I almost didn't go to practice because I dropped a jelly jar on my toe. I was like, I really can't walk though. Dude, all my friends were making fun of me. And I was like, no, but like honestly, like it smashed my toe. Like, I have no balance. Still practice.

You get a bad enough of a stubbed pinky toe on the coffee table. All the sudden, that thing's purple, swelling up, going down the side of your foot, you're like, I may have, I may have fractured this sucker. Yeah. Like, you're going to see it on the bottom line of ESPN, mole and arrow out two weeks, fractured toe. Coffee table. Frantasy's coffee table. Got to call your coach Oh, he's going to be so mad

I got to call Coach Kirkoff Tell him I fractured my pinky tone On the coffee table And then you go through all that in your head And you're like, I can practice There's no way in how I'm calling him Yeah, because you're like, part of me He's not going to believe me

So I would literally have to like Take my sock off and shit and show them And I don't want to do that, it's weird You gotta bring the coffee table in This one bringing the coffee table to the gym Yeah this right here Dude praying to God when you call him

That his wife answers And you can just talk to her And then she relays the message to him You don't have to see him until it's healed Yeah right No chance man No chance Calling your coach's house phone

Oh nothing but trouble dude Yeah I don't I feel you though Eric I uh I too. I'm a big vac. My mom must have just rubbed off on me because it's one of my perks, or not one of my perks. It's one of my pet peeves.

I cannot stand. You know, we have all hardwood floors on our main level, as you know, BP. And so with the kids, you know, they're eating bars and,

you know, peanut butter cheese crackers. I mean, I got a vacuum like six times a day because it doesn't just like blend in with the carpet. You just see it everywhere on the hardwood floor. So I'm constantly vacuum. me. It drives me nuts, dude.

And literally my mom, yeah, my kid. Dude, I can hear Spiting his missing friends. Don't care. Pick up your crackers then. Yeah, you got us. Got to got to get that out. I don't talk to them. I don't talk to them like that. Dice and vacuum. I do love, yeah.

And it's like, it will. It will change your life, man. A good vacuum? She was like, we need to invest in a different vacuum. I'm like, really, it's all the same. Get a new one. I'm like, damn. It's got lights.

It's got like headlights on it. Under the table. It's seen where I'm going. It's thin. You don't, you're not running into stuff, running into chairs. You're not bumping it. Like an old school vacuum we used to use. Oh, yeah.

Those things were like thick. I'm like, this has like a V8 inside of it. Big wide head. I can't even fit this under the dining room chair. Vacuuming in the dining room. Good Lord. Oh, dude. I'm so, I'm so bad about it.

I like, Riley, it's, so I'm not because it's such a guy thing to do. Like, a girl will remove the chairs, pull them back away, put them on top of the table, whatever, and they just go with them. Nope, I'm just literally. I'll blast those chairs over. I don't give a shit. They're all nicked up. Like at the bottom.

All scraped up. My husband doesn't move the chairs when he vacuums. Nope. Never will. Like we don't eat in here anyway We don't eat in here There's nothing on the ground But when you like

When you go over a spot like on the carpet Where you're like there's nothing here And you go over it and you hear all the stuff Go up into the vacuum It's like You're like oh You get a good one Yeah it's a good feeling

You're always a good swipe And you try to recreate it Come back though Yeah you bring it back And you see a nice little pathway All clear Yeah Yeah, bitch.

I'm like, does somebody drop like a cup of sprinkles? Like, what could that have been? All right, let's finish with Andrew here. I always try to get to some of the first timers. And this is one of them. Andrew says, come on, Blue. What's up, gentlemen? Love the show.

Day 1 listener, first time emailing. I want to see if either of you have any stories about getting into it with a ref. One of my fun facts is that every member of my immediate family has been thrown out of a game. Not proud, kind of proud. My dad was thrown out of one of his adult softball games for fighting. My mom was thrown out of one of her, one of my sister's softball games for arguing with an ump. Sister was thrown out a softball game for spiking a player while rounding first. And I was ejected from a travel ball attorney for saying, no way, after being tagged out and a slide at home. Still think I was safe to this day. My guess is that Benny knew coach P

would give him hell for chirping a ref and Joey knew in his heart that he would umpire one day. so he stayed cool. Anyway, keep up the good word. Can't wait to listen every week? Slam my ass with a slider dog at Progressive Field while my dad yells, I don't want to swivel from the parking lot of the ball fields because he's not allowed in the stands.

Andrew. Send a picture, too, if you want to check that out. It's hot dog, pimento, mac and cheese, and fruit loops. Name for the Guardian's colorful mascot. Slider Dog. Man, what an interesting combo there. I guess a little bit of savory and sweet. I don't know if the fruit loops are sweet enough

but a lot of savory going on there A shavery going on there Station about to Station about to slider dog I got it I got it Good looking Yeah How do you put fruit loops on anything

I know The way I just want to eat Two and a half bowls of fruit loops It's cereal really is just amazing But I can because of the sugars getting into it with a ref. Yeah, I mean, mostly, I don't know, I was always too scared because even though I had a bad temper,

I just like, I don't know, I was always weird about how it looked to other people. Like, I would disappoint my parents. I don't want to be seen. I was like, that's like some shit that like bad kid does. I don't want to be bad kid. I don't want to be bad kid. And plus, I know I don't know what I'm talking about.

like how would you ever know what you're talking about more than a ref it's just all for not like he's got the final say no matter what why you even why even trying dude yeah I mean closest I ever got was I I've told the story here before I think but I like slam like smack the hardwood floor with my hand and then like threw the ball back with some force or something yeah it was a little like it wasn't

I wasn't mean to like launch it at him, but it was just a little like attitude, you know. Probably mad at yourself. Yeah. I always did stuff like unknowingly. Like I grabbed the rim, grab the rim before a game and I couldn't play. I was like, that's a rule? That's the most politi shit I've ever heard before a game tag for being an idiot. I was like, I was like they do this all the time.

Like I've seen people dunk in warmups. Like, what are you talking about? you can't grab the rim before the game starts I'm like how would I ever know that they didn't tech they didn't tee you up or like make you they you just literally like we're disqualified it might have been for the first half

or maybe I couldn't maybe my coach was mad at me for the first half and I couldn't play the first half or maybe I think I got a tech and then I couldn't play for the first half because my coach was like nah dog I was like might as well this I don't know I don't want to play in the second half now so

yeah that or I remember remember like for a streak, like growing up playing AAU, I think there was like five games in a row bro. I was fouling out. Like what a horror, like, got four fouls, be careful. And I'd foul. Oh my God, I got fouled out again. Like, I'm a lost cause, dude.

It almost, you know, it's funny about that is it almost felt like it would coincide with like your conduct grid. Oh my God. You remember how we were talking about? There would be like some weeks where you go on like a run like three weeks in a row. you're like, dude, I'm picking up four checks by Tuesday. Like, what is going on?

They're catching me at the worst times. I cannot catch a break. Feel like a bad, dude. You go to school talking too much. Flip your card. Same night. You got a game you foul out. You're like, I'm worthless.

But it's the same kind of feeling. Yeah, you'd be like, dude, no way. Yeah, you'd feel like a little, a little, you know, like a questionable block charge call or then like a little reach in that maybe you like, you get the ball, but you get a little bit of the hand and they get you for it. What are we doing? Falling out. You just felt like you disappointed your team, you're everybody

in the crowd. I can't play. I'm too much of an idiot. Sorry, I'm just going to sit on this bench and I cannot come in anymore. I'm too stupid. Thanks for coming. Also, I hated in those days how lazy the refs were when you clearly

be like a maroon team and they just call you red. That drove me nuts I can't be the only one I hated that I was like it's not that big of a deal 23 red Like this is not red dog

You're so colorblind Get it right I'm not doing the I'm not doing the royal blue And the maroons It's just Okay man Sorry Joey Crawford

I didn't I didn't mind Burgundy But what's the day Yeah but like I swear always always it would be for our school we grew up red like it's not red one more syllable is making it hard for you i know it got me too

i'm like you have no respect for us like we don't even exist you're and call this red all right what happens when we play st jude yeah i forget what they would do though it calls maroon it was kind of crazy playing st jude because it was red against maroon.

Like you, like, that's kind of, it's kind of annoying. Right. You didn't have home and away, you know, you had that, that's why St. Jude would always, dude, whoever's run in St. Jude's like,

athletic associate, I don't know, but they'd have black jerseys. Sometimes teams would, like, randomly on the north side would have white jerseys because they knew.

Like, we're a Navy team, but there's 20,000 Navy teams. Why don't we just have all white jerseys? Because we'll always be different. Like, we'll just be away all the time. And then once the one time St. Jude had black football jerseys.

I was like, there's no. I had a freak out on the side. I was like, I got to transfer. That school is nasty, dude. Here's a crazy story for you, not a local sports podcast. Seventh grade, we're playing St. Jude at Ron Collie. Big deal. That's a slapper, dude.

Neutral, neutral site game for the south side rivalry of Jude Barnabas. Gamefield? Game field. 56 before Cadet? I don't remember that far back. But so anyways, we show up, right? And we're in just like our classic maroon get-ups. We see St. Jude down the other way and they're in their classic get-ups.

Red? And all of a sudden, they go down there. Red jersey's yellow pants? They went classic for a minute. And I was like, what happened? Then all of a sudden, they like disappeared to like, you know, go do like another walkthrough or something. at their field, which is right by the game field of Ron Collie. Dudes come back in their black jerseys.

It's so crazy to me. I'm like, you guys have alternates? We don't even have the same colored helmets. I knew we were getting blasted at that point. I was like, no, this is going to be a long day. Brandon Petrie ran for like 225 yards. Can we talk about that? Dude, it was a stud.

It was, it was horrible. horrible, dude. Like that, the eighth grade girl that I was dating at the time was definitely there. And I was like, she likes these guys so much better than me. That's a tough feeling when the team steals your girl. Like, we suck, man. We've got like stupid, stupid, like face masks. And these dudes are, like, running for 70-yard touchdowns on us.

One guy on our team has a maroon helmet, doesn't play. They're probably like, why is he doing that? It was brutal. Our quarterback's over 24. It was a real dark day. I'm pretty sure like the Steelers lost to the Falcons that day too. So it was just like. Just do that really,

I hated playing football games growing up on Sundays because like your team would dictate your mood. No, but like the game was going on at the same time or something. So then like we would wrap up that I'd go and they'd be playing in Atlanta. I'm like, really going to lose to the Falcons in Atlanta after we just got our ass kicked that I got broken up with. It really did feel like you did want to ask on AIM that night. Are you going to break up with me because we lost the St. Jude?

No, like Petrie would like comment on her away message or something. I'm like, it's over. It's over. It's over. Dude had 225 and three TDs today. It's over. When didn't Brandon Petrie have 235 yards? Name one game.

Shining new toy. shiny new toy and it is not me. All right, let's end with Will. Favorite college mascot. I know. And I think they came out with black pants too. Yeah, even crazier. Full black get up white helmets still that had the St. Jude like logo on at the crest or whatever.

They always went the extra mile and they did the logo on the helmet. I was like, you guys are legit, man. Evan Rudder just tearing you guys apart. Oh, God. I was bruised black and bloodied after that one. With a hurt ego, too. Vacuum foot. Will says,

fellas, longtime listener, first I've emailed or not a sports podcast, but I was curious to see what are the most random college mascots you can think of. Got a good one for you. I graduated from Presbyterian College in South Carolina with our mascot being the blue hose.

Need to bring back the March Madness bracket of just mascots. And I think we make a run at the final four. Not a Panthers podcast, but keep pounding. Sent from my Blackberry after playing Brickbreaker for two hours while watching Akron and Northern Illinois on Thursday night. Ooh. Northern Illinois on Thursdays was nice. Yeah, you're right.

They were kind of up there with, well, with them being Mack, it would be you'd have Northern Illinois. beating the shit out of somebody on like Wednesday in November. And then the next night you would have the Big East night on Thursday night that we talked about last week. Oof. What a weekday primer to get you going for the weekend. Remember when Ball State was like going crazy?

They were like undefeated or something. And they played Northern Illinois like a showdown on a Thursday. Garrett Wolf, N.I.U. Who's the guy that got the receiver for? for Ball State that got paralyzed or like seriously Oh my God Oh he was good

I forget his name He was nasty though And the coach for ball state Was the Brady Hoke Who's the next coach at Michigan Weird days of Michigan Under that tenure Adidas

Adidas era Don't bring it up Ball State Wide receiver Injuries 2008. Were they playing IU when that happened? Because Ball State took down IU a couple

times and it was like, what? Dude, his name was Dante Love. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was against Indiana on September 20th, 2008. Career ending cervical spine fracture and spinal cord injury. I thought that was just amazing

when Ball State would go up to Bloomington and beat them. I'd be like, they have to feel so cool on that trip back. Yeah, we just beat the Big Ten school. Taking girls. Ball so hard. Ball State. Kind of a tough name.

If you're not from Indiana, Ball State. Sick. Yeah. Never really thought about that just because we've known in our whole lives. Exactly.

But like another person here's Ball State. It's like when you hear a lot of different schools, like I heard somebody commenting on the high school names around here that was from Chicago and they're like, you have dope high school names. And I was like, what are you talking about? They're like, bro.

You just got a high school called Kathouse. Cathedral? That's sick. And I was like, oh. And they're like Ben Davis. It's just a dude's name. I was like, oh shit, all right. We got cool names.

You got one called Cascade. I was like, yo, oh my God, you're right. Like, if you really, there's some cool names. Beach Grove. He was saying, I was like, I never even thought like, he was thinking Beach, like B, E, A, C.H. Oh, yeah. I was like, all right.

Yeah, that's kind of cool, too. all right? Yeah. A Bishop Chittard. That's kind of crazy. It's hard to say, like if you don't know, you don't say shitar. They say like chatter and. Chattered, yeah, but at the same time, I'm like, that sounds like a school that would play

modern age in California. On ESPN, yeah. We do have good. Yeah, Indiana's cool high school names, I guess. Carmel? Bro, come on. I want to keep going on this. There's got to be one more we're missing.

Some of those Vigo schools. What do you mean? Oh, yeah. West Vigo. I'm like, where is that? Yeah. Hey, Western Boon. They just go by Webo.

Hey, Snyder. I'm like, I don't want to play them ever. That sounds crazy. Yeah. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Crown Point. That's so sad. That's a good one.

Crown point. I'm like, is that like a liquor or a high school? My God. Yep. That's funny. Mascots. Random mascots. I mean, we've talked about this on here before.

Can I go back to Frankfurt? They're just the hot dogs. That's awesome. Is he talking about like the actual mascot guy? or just the nickname. I don't know. I bet it could probably go either way. Oh, dude, I'll never forget one, man.

My dad is going to get such a kick out of this. I was like seven years old. And my dad at the time for his work, he had a lot of like business in the West Virginia, Western PA, kind of that portion of the country. So he had to travel out there and do work fairly often. I'll never get that there was a town called polka.

And he said that their high school was literally the dots. Oh, my God. See, we need more of that. Dots? Dude, can you imagine rocking a hooded sweatshirt when it's cold outside before school? It says dots football on it. I'd be like, I need that. The polka dots.

Come on. Yeah. Speedway Spark plugs. That's the one. That's real nice. Plugs right here. Small. Not going to be too many.

Not going to be too many spark plugs, I bet, around the country. Sick name. It's always the ones that like coincide with the high school name. Where they're from. Yeah. Yeah. Speedway. Polka.

Frankfurt. Yep. Yep. Yep. He's got to get creative. The Coastal Carolina, I still can't pronounce. Chanticleers? Oh my God.

I don't know what that is either. I guarantee I'm not saying it right. But I feel like that's just how it looks when it's spelled. Yeah. I don't know. I'm not going to chanticleers. Shanta clears? That's a tough one.

Just be the coastal Carolina Isaiah Likelies because I know he went to school there. They've got that turf. Oh, that reminds me. I got a, thanks for the question, Will. I appreciate you being here. That reminds me, I got a handful of messages on Instagram and I think some comments on YouTube. I think my dad said it too.

They're like, Politi's Boise State for our topic last week about what college are you? That's cool. They're like the blue turf. Man, when we're, Boise State was the only team with Blue Turf? That was. And they would play at a certain time too.

And they were in the, were they in the, they'd play like on a weekend, a weeknight too sometimes. Yeah, they were among those. Fun playing out Boise State like on the game. You'd be like, oh. Like,

and for a second in my head, I'd be like, did the game do it? Like, did the game have the balls? Did they go the extra mile to make Boise State's turf blue? Are they going to make it green and like not try? Right.

Right, right. No, they would. They would every time. I was a little sketched out that. I was like, if they don't make Boise States turf blow out, I'm not playing this anymore. Team these guys at gmail.com. Good stuff. Good stuff.

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