THESE GUYS! - VASECTOMY HOOPS + NFL WEDDINGS + RICH KID BASEMENTS + BABY SHOWER HUNTY

Episode Date: March 24, 2026

We draft the best available places to watch March Madness, from sitting on frozen peas after a perfectly timed vasectomy to a high school classroom with a substitute teacher. Plus we look back at a Pittsburgh Steelers themed wedding where Ed Hochuli should have been the officiant and try to pinpoint the exact moment your childhood sports dreams died. Do we talk about Kyler Murray or the best numbers in each sport? NO cuz this isn’t a sports podcast. Do we talk about fumbled lent promises? NO cuz this isn’t a catholic podcast. Do we talk about rich kid basements NO cuz this isn’t a reminiscent podcast 😌📬 *SUPPORT THE SHOW*Hit us up on the email line: [e-mail]🎧 *Listen to the full pod*https://open.spotify.com/show/0DCF4F4r78p0eXiD3fyh2Lhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/these-guys/id1649757408🍻 *Follow us on Instagram*These Guys! https://www.instagram.com/theseguyslolBenedict Polizzi https://www.instagram.com/benedictpolizziJoey Mulinaro https://www.instagram.com/joeymulinaro🧢 *50% OFF ALL MERCH with code BALD at checkout*https://www.benedictmerch.com00:01:22 - Diet and Fat Stats00:02:18 - Papa Johns Pizza Commercials00:03:39 - NFL Themed Weddings00:06:34 - Pittsburgh Steelers Fight Song00:08:45 - Wedding Cookie Tables00:11:16 - NFL Referee Ed Hochuli00:12:55 - Christian Ponder Vikings00:13:47 - Arch Manning Texas Football00:14:55 - Elementary School Classrooms00:18:22 - Celebrity Crush Bracket00:20:45 - Las Vegas Stadium Swim00:23:54 - Jake Plummer Broncos00:25:48 - Big Ten College Bars00:27:53 - Beefsteak Dinners00:32:19 - Vasectomy Recovery00:35:52 - Post-College Buddy Houses00:37:00 - Awkward Zoom Calls00:40:45 - Kyler Murray Cardinals00:43:41 - Best Sports Jersey Numbers00:48:15 - NFL Jersey Number Rules00:49:31 - Rich Kid Friend Houses00:51:00 - Indiana University Basketball Jerseys00:52:50 - Long Road Trips00:55:13 - Childhood Sports Dreams00:59:37 - Co-ed Baby Showers01:08:19 - Joe Rogan Podcast01:11:59 - Best NBA Jam Duos

Every Zoom call. Yep, sounds good. Yep. All right. Anything else? No. I'll get it on my end. Circle back next week.

All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right.

Gets off. It shuts his laptop. Thank fucking Christ. Oh my God. I hate these fucking people. Right. With a laptop shuts. Oh my God.

Was it still on it? Not bad for a fat guy. What up? Clubhouse. This is Benny Plytzie. Joey Mulanaro. On this week's These Guys, we talk about Ed Hoculie officiating your wedding, your rich friend's basement, the best numbers for each sport,

the day your dreams died, and Mel's best available places to watch March Madness. Is it at stadium swim while you pee in the pool? I don't know. Let's start the shock. T-T-T-G-178. Oh, God. 178 and feeling great. Time to appreciate this white shirt because God knows what's going to happen to this with this coffee.

These guys. Hot start. Hey, Johnson, you were, man, what was going on? You were, you were, you were doing a tour of, uh, tour to snacks, toward to dessert. Tour to snacks or tour to fats. Oh my God, did they do this? This is the whole podcast. Literally turned this off.

Can you feel so? Uh, yeah, fat stats, fat overload. Uh, since January 1st, no carbs, no shug. And this weekend's the weekend. Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Guns blazing. Mm-hmm. All dessert, 72 hours.

Might pass out during this podcast. You were Graham Harrell and Michael Crabtree. Guns up. Yep. Went to Portilloes, drove an hour. ate the whole cake, but just the sides in the top. Oh,

God, come on. Mm. All the icing. Did you get an Italian beef? I love portillos. Man, I'm not even thinking about real food. I did find this really good pizza place out here, though.

The pizza was so good. It almost tasted like dessert. It's called Sunnies. I thought about you said, I found this really good pizza place out here. It's called Papa Johns. Literally, it was a toss-up, bro. I was like, try this new spot.

Yeah, trying new things when you know you got like a, like a, like a major like pizza place that's been holding down your heart since you're like five years old. It's kind of tough. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's like that with anything. It's like that with music. It's like that with fashion. It's like that with food, man.

You get something. You're like, why? Why go elsewhere? I know what I like. I tried it, man. It was good. Put the barata on there. cheese on the pizza. You ever do that?

No. Yeah, I know. Me neither. It's a four. I'm like, should I do that? Should I do that? With the hot honey? Never done it. No gas. Took me by storm. Ran it back two days in a row. Well, I'm happy for you. I know it's always a big weekend for you. It's not over yet. Oh. Yeah.

Dude, I went to I went to the most Pittsburgh wedding of all time this weekend. Wow. Everybody wearing like construction hats. Just walked in, 97 yellow hats.

Yeah, everybody's just dressed like steely McBeam. They're all sitting on beams. No, no like chairs. Everybody, everybody in the wedding gets a gift. It's just an end. Bill or something.

Uh-huh. Okay, so it wasn't that Pittsburgh, I guess. But it was pretty close. It was pretty close, man. It was really felt like a continuation of last week's episode. And we came up with the NFL restaurant. NFL wedding? It was pretty much as an NFL wedding.

Ring bearer, Brian or Lacker. Here they go again. This podcast is annoying. Literally change it. Okay, this is three weeks in a row. And they just dream up to their NFL, NFL world. Yeah, we do. We do.

So funny. NFL wedding. Who's the priest? Can I tell you a little bit about it? Dude. Do you really have to ask? 31. 33 on the Ravens, if you know, ball.

Come on. Can I tell you a little bit about it, though? Yeah. I think I think Clubhouse will appreciate it. you know, I know not everybody is from Pittsburgh or as a Stiller fan out there who listens to us. But it's like I said, the same variation of an NFL restaurant, NFL life. Like, so we get there and everything, every chair at all the tables at the reception hall, all have a terrible towel on them. This is just your wedding, bro.

What are you talking about? A custom, terrible towel for everybody there said, here. we go and then it has uh pretty much the same font too and i had uh their names and the date of the wedding so then when they're doing and this is nice it was a little bit of a throwback because i feel like we've talked about this before but not everybody nowadays does the the the the wedding party intros where it's like each couple you know gets their little intro please give it up for and they did that and so it was a nice little throwback because i haven't seen seen in a while because usually it's just like they don't even

the wedding party doesn't even walk in at all it's just the bride and the groom or like all the guys walk in at the same time all the girls walking at the same time so it felt like a little bit of a throwback there but then when it got to the newlyweds all of a sudden the DJ cut the music and then you just hear oh mama I'm in here for my life from a long

oh mother long oh Oh, dude, I get chills right now. Oh, my God. Hang man is coming down. And he timed it out to her. He was just like, and now's the time you've all been waiting for. Oh, mama, I can't. Everybody's rising to their feet.

DJ times it up perfectly. DJ times it up perfectly where it comes to the park. Because you know about Renegade, right, at the Steelers at Hines. I actually had no idea, but I get on. You don't know about Renegade? You know about Renegade. I didn't know it was a Steelers thing. I just knew the song.

So every game when the Steelers' defense needs it after, you know, a touchdown right before things kick off or like on a timeout when it's a big third down coming up or any time when the Steelers need, it's like that possession of the game when they need some, they need some magic, you know, they really need to get everybody fired up. They crank on the sticks. Like Adam Sandler said big day, they tank out the sticks. They get Renegade going. And so all of a sudden the screen goes black at Heinz.

And everybody knows when the screen goes black, you could feel it. And then the, oh, my mom, I'm in fearful. And everybody starts going crazy. And then it builds up, right? And so it builds up to the part, hangman is coming down from the gallows and I don't have very long beat. And then the screen, everybody goes nuts. The jig is up.

The news is out. And everybody in the stadium is waving their terrible towels. And that's what happened at the wedding, dude. They built it up. He's like, for Donnie and Sarah Shetrick! And it was, yeah! And everybody was waving their custom terrible towels, man. It felt like I was ready.

I was ready to freak. I was ready to strap up and rush the passer, man. I was full on ready to go, James Hey. Dude, I mean, I was just waiting like I literally was like, it's dark. I felt it all right there. So it was insane. They had a Pittsburgh cookie table, dude.

An L-shaped. It was nothing but all these custom cookies. Every cookie you could possibly think of. And on all the, what the cookies were laying on were all the gold bridges that Pittsburgh has. Oh, my God. Like little tiny gold bridges that they were all laying. It was insane.

Famous famous, was there a way? Yeah. This guy. Dang. What you got to do? What kind of guy do you have to be? to convince your wife to have a Steelers wedding, you know?

Oh, but that's crazy. That's the best part is the bride. She had better. That was part of the joke from the, from the officiant. He was like, when I asked him, you know,

some special things about, about Sarah. And he ended. He was like, and she has better Steelers tickets than me. She has like lower level sealers tickets. That's why. Why do you want to marry her?

She's my person and beautiful. Very smart, outgoing. And I want to be in Section 12. 13. Yeah. So yeah, dude, I was in my own little slice of heaven. Hey, walking up to the bar with my custom terrible towel tucked into my pants like I was at the game. In your back pocket.

No, literally. You look around a bunch of other dudes where you had the same too. I was like, we're just at a game in March. This is great. Did they play anything? Did they play an old game or anything? God, I love that. Just a week seven game.

Just on the projector screen? Yeah. It wouldn't have been bad. I wouldn't have been surprised. I wouldn't have been surprised that happened at all. But yeah, like throughout the night, like, you know, at weddings when people are giving speeches and shit and like sometimes, you know, people will either like clap or they'll like clink their, cling their glasses.

Everybody instead would just wave their towel. That was like the signature. the signature thing. I felt so at home. It was so awesome. Big shout out to Donnie football and Sarah, the newlyweds there for having me.

But great weekend on Johnstown, PA. And just celebrating Steeler style. It was freaking great. More people should do that. More NFL weddings. We've got NFL restaurants. NFL weddings. Bring priest homes.

God. Just imagine if he was just doing it every. That's like his side job. Just does every wedding. Chewes' wedding? If it's not a priest who's doing it, the offician is just like Ed Hoculie. Ref shirt on the altar? They tap the mic before they start doing the...

We've gathered here today. The seek at the same cadence. Yeah, echo. I pronounce you. I'm now to, now, two, now, two. Husband and wife, life, wife, wife. Hey, the big joke. You know the big joke from him would be, you know, it would be like,

and later tonight, a legal contact. Oh, just kidding. Not illegal anymore. Call stance. Play on the field. Stans. Oh, man.

Dude, no, ring bear is not Brian Erlacker. Ring bearer is Devin Hester. Mm-hmm. Coming down the aisle. You got to carry this one, dude. I know nothing about weddings. Been to six wasn't present. Me, mine included.

For real. Where was he? Dude, you know how like the, I'm trying to think of a, he was a quarterback that just always hand it off, run heavy offense. God. Hey, hey, hey, hey.

2012 Christian Ponder. He's always the one who's given the bride away. He hands the bride to the, like, her room. Dad walks her down the aisle, gives her to Christian Ponder, Ponder, answer. Okay. All right.

We won't do this every week, just the last three weeks because we just get on a, we get on a runaway train. And sometimes that's like a train. Come on. Michael's up. Yeah. Or Anthony Thomas, depending on who you like. Right, right, right, right, right, right.

Yeah, so that's what went on in my world. And back to regularly scheduled programming on the fin. and and Ben's having fat stats weekend and that's great might try the big arch don't know we'll see we'll see hey McDonald's uh when's the arch manning commercial coming it's right there I thought they would when I saw that was what it was called I was like

oh he's like that's going to be the first thing that we're going to see got to think outside the box oh God come on A happy mailbox. We'll see. Yeah. Should we hop in to Mel's Best Available since we didn't do it last week? Let's do it.

Let's do it. Yep, it's good time. Hoping to Mel's Best Available. This week we're going to do Mel's Best Available Places to Watch March Madness. NTA attorney, you're watching some ball. The games are on. You're with the boys.

You're with the crew. You're having fun. The weather's nice. Best places to watch. I started with the months. Ben, I'm going to let you start this one off. Wait, did I do smells, though? I think it's your turn.

No, we started with smells and then I did months. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Best place to watch March Madness. For me, taking it off the board. Mm-hmm. Like that classroom when you're, like, growing up. You got a teacher. Kind of cool, played sports.

Let's throw it on mute You know Games are on We're not gonna take all the focus way But they're working on them We're in groups You know when you're in groups Nothing's getting done

That's probably so worksheet Yeah Throw the 512 on Oh Man This is like This is one of the first ones In this segment

That we've done that That really hurts me That you took that away Just hits a little different In a classroom Because you're not supposed to be doing it Exactly

But I don't even, like, what's that conversation like with the principal and the teacher that's just like, you know, don't turn. Like, what do they say there? What's that communication? Like, or is it all in the teacher's hands? Like, we're throwing games on. Like, sometimes it was even the nerdy teacher that had nothing to do, didn't even fill out a bracket, had that game on. Yeah, I think, I think it always just kind of had to come down. It's like, it's like a governing body where it's like you'd have like federal and like state by state.

I think it would, you know, kind of the federal overall, it was kind of like frowned upon, you know, the priest, not the, could be the priest, the principal being the federal where they're kind of like, hey, let's not make this a big thing. But then state by state, classroom by classroom, the different teachers, hey, some are a little bit more laxed. Some are hardcore. So I'm not letting that fly. I think it's a teacher by teacher instance. You have a substitute teacher? It's a lock. There's games.

Oh my God. They love it. Submute teachers love nothing more than March Madden's first round. Throw them on. Why are they playing at 2 p.m.? I don't know, but I love it. Hey, and you know what really is a kicker here with this, is that it doesn't matter if you get 10 minutes right before school lets out where it's on

and you're getting to see the box score where you can check your bracket. Oh, my God. Okay, so we're watching this. Oh, my God. 6-11, oh, it doesn't matter if you get that for just 10 minutes, or if you get a teacher that lets it fly for 40 minutes in a group setting, just getting it on. Yeah.

It's like, this is, this is tops. This is insane. Just seeing anything but like a stupid VHS movie or weird science movie on your TV. Like, whoa, like we have ESPN. We have TBS. All those wild channels. We have true TV. Yeah.

Hey, you say, some of those old, old TVs that you're like, ah, that picture's not going to be coming in real good. Might have to give it a little. Smack on a TV.

Isn't that so satisfying when it's a little statician? You just fucking open, open hand smack the shit out of it. And it goes back to normal. Start here. Nike shocks squeaking all over a court in your home room. You're like, Whoa.

Didn't know this could happen. That's insane. Really, really great call for number one there. The first time you see your crush watching a basketball game, you're like, she fell out a bracket. Oh, she has older brothers. She filled out of bracket, yeah. So did you have Michigan State win or?

Trying to make small talk. All you know is ball. Trying to make small talk when all you know is ball. Yeah. So you had cats in the final four? or what? Oh, I just call them cats. It's really Arizona.

But what's up? What did you get on the vocab test? Oh, okay. You had Nova going far too. Yeah. No. B.A. All caps.

Ville. You said Louisville? All day. All day. Cats are the K. Kansas State, maybe. Could be. Yeah, Kentucky, just UK, all caps.

Hey, Gonzaga, Zags. Every second. The biggest letters you've ever seen, Z-A-G-S. Michigan State. Sparty, all-Caps. I'd do this. It's not my first rodeo, baby. Been filling out brackets for a hot minute.

It's only your second year. I feel like it was never a rainy day when that happened either. All-capped, C-U-S-E. Oh my God It was never rainy Bro It was the best day of all time When your teacher lets you put basketball on

It's never rained on the first day of the tournament Especially when you get to watch it in the classroom But in that day You had the best recess of all time too You were just coming off a recess high Then Damn I'm so jealous That's off the board

So jealous that's off the board Zona Zona Zona Zaggs in the title game You're like I probably won't happen but can you imagine

I'd do anything for that Yukon Yeah Yeah Um Okay Mel's best available School off the board

Tough Mel's best available Places to watch March Madness I'm gonna go with one that I haven't experienced yet, but I feel like has got to just be tops.

And that's stadium swim in Las Vegas. Oh my God. Is this the biggest weekend for that? Has to me. Dude, I went on a bachelor party in Vegas, and it was the opening weekend of college football. And we had a reservation at Stadium Swim at, like, 9 a.m. in like our own little cabana pool thing.

And I mean, you're just, I don't even, I can't even remember to tell you how many TVs there are up there. They have like five or six giant, like I probably 80 feet long. I mean, these things are just like movie screens up there. But then off to the side of those that each have their own, just like probably the biggest TV that would ever be in any of your houses all right there. And then you're in Las Vegas on a rooftop and a pool, Like your own little cabana private section

And you get the West Coast timing where it's Yeah, I mean on the East Coast they're tipping off at noon Get 9 10 a.m. first tip for the first round of those games 9 a.m. getting a tan Okay Mixie in hand Watching Lehigh peeing in the pool Sitting in an inner tube

Peel all over you nobody knows It's good. Watching the 8-9 TCU Seaton Hall game that happens every year? Glued to the screen. Deep down, you don't care at all, your face. You got the buddy next to you who swears he's got some insight on the eight seed? Why they're going to be a tough out? Get blasted by 20.

Good call, sass. All of a sudden, bro, knows about TCU basketball. Like, it's the back of his hand. You look at his Twitter name. His Twitter name, all of a sudden, it's horned. He's like, what? He's got a burner, horny for horn frogs. Four.

Horny four. Packed in, packed the Ladani and Tallinn's in Jersey. I'm like, dude, you don't even. Oh, dude. Horny four frogs. Like, it's, you know, mid-March in Vegas, so, you know, it's not going to be hope. You wouldn't think that it would be like 96.

It'd probably just be like a solid, like, Desert 88. Desert 88. Nothing wrong with that. You're feeling great, man. See somebody there, you know. One of those where you're like, I think I don't even need sunscreen.

Three hours later, you're Mr. Crabs. Oh, my God. Somebody presses down on your shoulder, their fingerprints there for the next two hours. Yeah. It's always a magical day, too, and something like that happens. Oh, yeah.

There's like a Bro, who's in that? Is that? Isn't that cabana over there? Where, where? Is that Jake Plummer? There's just always something like, isn't he like a photographer now or something?

I don't know, but he's right next to us. You'll never guess. Drunk picture with Jake Plummer. Accidentally takes it on his burner account. Yeah. There's just like six guys wearing Larry Bird, Indiana State jerseys. Dude. And they take them off and they're just.

It looks like they're still wearing them. They're so, like, pale. The contrast from, like, burnt arms, the pale body. Like, your buddy couldn't wait to wear the Larry Bird Indiana State jersey. You're like, oh, yeah, I'm sure you'll be the only one. You get there's like seven other guys. So many. Hey, hey, did you bring the LeBron St. Vincent's one, too?

Oh, okay. I'm going to be so different with this jersey. 36 guys wearing the same one. That was like gonna be his That was gonna be his end to talk to girls Oh Are you from there There's every guy wearing the same area

Indiana State Wait Wait is that fake Wait Wait Oh yeah bro you got your Michael Jordan Space Jam one too Sick

Nice All right now I'm just shitting on it But that would be my number that I mean I think best available we're talking after that school day I got to go with that I think that would be absolutely insane pretty good uh what's next next I don't really know how to describe this but it's just when you're watching a tournament game and you're in college it just has like a different feel like when you're on a college campus or you're at a bar on college campus just feels like everybody's a little more dialed in like for no

reason at all, everybody's more hype to watch the games when you're in college. I don't know, it's because like the school you go to is in it. Never even experienced that once in my life. But, uh, I don't know. It just feels like more of like a at a bar,

maybe like outside of a bar, you know, you're outside of a bar watching a TV that's on inside of a bar while you're waiting to go in and you just got like a group of people going crazy when they like hit a shot or something. I feel like girls are more invested too in college. So, like, they're in.

Yeah. Everybody's just dialed. Yeah. I mean, you don't have anything to do. Rooftop college bar. Sit in nine games on? Even just being at somebody, even just being at like the beat up ass house that you always go to

with the couch that has like 17,000 stains on it, but you can't wait to sit there on it and watch the TV. Because, again, it's like Thursday at 1 p.m. You're like, dude, two years ago, I was an econ. Now we're now doing this. Yeah. Hell no.

I'm not going to class tomorrow. Shots going 1 p.m. All I need is any excuse to drink in college. Bang. 1 p.m. tip. You're weird, that weird room in your friend's house that has the couch that you're talking about,

but then it has a couch elevated behind it. Stadium seating. Yeah. Black lights. You're like, this is the weirdest room I've ever been in, but turn the game on. Turn the game on that box TV and give me a rumplement shot.

I don't care. Whoa. Change your breath for the rest of your life. That's pretty good. That's an all-encompassing one. But yeah, I can't go wrong with that. All right, best available for me. Here's one that I do go to that I have experience and then I will explain to the clubhouse.

Best available places to watch NCAA tournament. It's got to be beefsteak in Indianapolis. Whoa. What's this? Not local pod, but we have this event in Indy where the first Thursday of March Madness every year. Harry and Izzy's in St. Elmo downtown, you know, like sister restaurants. They shut those places down and you have to have a reservation like two, three months in advance. And you pay up front and you can get a table.

But then when you get there, it starts like 11 a.m. And it goes until like 4.30 p.m. So you get like that first half of the day of all those games. And it's all you can eat prime rib, all you can eat French fries, all you can eat shrimp cocktail, and all you can drink of anything you want. Bro, that's just... When there's all you can eat at restaurants that caliber, I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Like, it's not all you can eat.

What's like the cutoff limit? No, they just keep coming. all day literally like it's to the point to where you don't even have to ask they'll just show up and they'll just keep bringing more to you I just got I can't believe until I see it just shrimp cocktail yeah

hey a whole plate and it's they're like slices of prime rib and they come on these little like brisketa bread things you know and they're all it's just a platter of them and I bring them to you and you just house the prime rib you stack the bread everybody tries to get a super tall stack of the bread, you know?

These guys behind us this year, they literally built, they had candles inside. They, like, built a house. It's like, the hell is going on here. But you'll see that all over the place, dude. And it is just absolutely unbelievable. Taking red wine out. The first year, my father-in-law invited me. I was like, wait, so what is this?

Like, beef steak? What? I don't, I'm so confused. He was like, it's the best. You just got to come. I was like, all right. show up and I yeah it was mindblood for like the first two hours I was like okay so this is like our fifth round of prime rib like we're probably done soon like now it just it doesn't ever stop

and I was like so I can just like I can get like a mixed drink and then like a bucket of beers for the table and like I don't have to like no I just can't it can't be computed in my head I just can't figure that out it's crazy it is it is a it is a it is a it is a it is a hearty and all the games are on every screen there's different games like they roll they roll TVs like it's at school like when your like when your teacher would roll the TV set in they roll TVs into different places at Harry and Izzy's in St. Elmo because you know they don't have TVs and all the places there but everywhere you are you want to watch the games that day so they just set up these TVs at different places that are never typically there how long were you there just got home

from like 11 to 5 that day you can go in between you can bounce back and forth go say with some people to say in Elmo check in get a drink of the bar walk back of the Harry and Izzy's oh I would never stop

I would take so many laps boom boom boom it's insane yeah it's like a tree wearing is it jersees no dude that's what's funny is it's like

it's a lot of like more middle age and like business guys, a lot of people working for like company things, networking things, or just like, I mean, it's fairly pricey. So it's a lot of rolled up sleeves, a lot of like QZ slacks, that kind of thing. But now I was, mm-hmm. But now I had, I just had blue jeans and a Purdue crew neck on. I was like, let's roll.

Yeah. So number four, best available. For the second one for me, number four overall beef steak, Indianapolis. Not a local pod. Nah, why'd we do that? All right. Next one for me. I've never done this, but it's got to be, it's got to be top tier.

The vasectomy March Madness? Maybe one day. But that's got to be like the, maybe the number one thing that a guy can. do. Like you're done and that's it. There's a reason they advertise. There's a reason they advertise the way they do for it. Just three days on the couch.

God, dang, man. Just sit on a bag of peas. Can't have a kid ever again. Wife can't get mad. You guys agreed on this. You knew it was going to happen.

Boom. Locked in. Yeah. I think for that one, kids need to be at, like kids need to be old notes and be at. school. You can't be chopping with little toddlers, little kids running around still because then

if you're out of commission and you're just sitting there on peas and watching hoops and probably drinking and eating like shit, then your wife's like, what the hell? Wouldn't be right. Nah. But she knows what's going on. First, second grade or older, like at school, boom. They're out of there, bro. They're out.

And you're just on the couch with no excuse but to sit there? Sorry, can't move, honey. Something Hunty would never do. Oh, my God. Wouldn't even cross his computer brain. Auntie. I never. I don't take days off for you, Auntie.

I never chop, chop for you. Lifetime supply. Gosh. Huntie doesn't even The Hunty doesn't even sniff a bracket. Doesn't even sniff watching hoops on a day game. Absolutely not. Has no idea what channel it's on.

That's a good call though, man. Yeah. It's, man, we used to work in, we used to work at the station. The amount that that would just take over everything we heard, every assignment that was given to us from like the end of January up until, hey, hey, hey. should remember we got to come up with something funny we got to come up with something

fennie because we're doing the doing the the snip snip okay okay what a procedure something funny maybe Dan can maybe he can be like yelling at the screen while he's sitting on bees or something funny oh my god just kill me Oh, shit.

All right. Three for BP, all really good. Third one for me. Six best available coming off the board before we flip over to the next branch of Mel's best. You know, I'm going to say, you said a college house. You said the college experience. I'm going to say my third best available has got to be. That point you're like a single buddy's house that can be like a safe haven that has like three plus TVs that he could roll into one room.

But I'm talking I'm talking single buddy when you guys are all like 30. And so like two out of the two out of three of you are married. This guy's house though, he's the single guy and he's got the setup and you guys can go there and it's not being out at a bar to where your wife's like seriously like you're just going to be. be like getting drunk and being stupid at a bar. But like you're still having beers over at your buddy's house. They probably called off work or like working from home on that Friday of March Madness. And it's like yeah, just come over.

Like I'll get my, I'll get three or four TVs in here. Like, you know, got beers. I got a call. I got a call at 1245 that I have to be on. But I don't have to really say anything. Why is that every call? Nobody's saying anything. Nobody's talking for 40 minutes.

I just got to be on it. I just got to check in and let him know. Yep. Who's talking? It's literally five guys in a chairroom going like this. Every Zoom call. Yep, sounds good. Yep.

All right. Anything else? Nope. I'll get it on my end. Circle back next week. All right. All right. All right.

All right. All right. All right. All right. Gets off. It shuts his laptop. Thank fucking Christ. Oh my God.

I hate these fucking people. right with the laptop shots oh my God, was it still on it? What a move. And you're like, what did you even, what'd you even do? What do you even work for? What's your position at the company?

Nobody knows anything. Nobody knows. It's not real. Yeah, I know what you mean, though. Like that house, safe place. Yeah, we're just going to. It's kind of my dream to be that guy. for the boys.

Like, I want to be single guy that the married guys can get like, yeah, just come here and chill. No pressure. Do whatever you got to do. It's just that it's a very fine line, but you get to that point in your life. Yeah, because like you said, that college experience, you mentioned, that's a great one. But you have the option going on the bars. You get nothing tying you down.

It's Thursday at noon. You're in the shitty beat up room. You're with all 22. Maybe you're talking to different girls or whatever. Nothing matters. But then you get to that point where, you do like it's like you can't you have to walk a finer line and it has to be something that is still fun but something that's not like oh my god here we go and so you need that place you need

that place i love that place man it's a great place i'm kind of you know it's crazy to say i'm kind of running out running out spots like that yeah wow everybody all my all my all my all my boys are either married or are like in the process or I mean I'm there's a there's a couple that but it's kind of time the time's kind of tick the sand dial is kind of running out man oh uh oh might have to come out to L.A. Yo, I got the spot. I'm always going to be the safe safe place. Nothing going on here bro.

Absolutely nothing going on. It's a game on TV and nothing else. Not even any chairs probably. Nope. I'm like, Brian, he's not, he's not even drinking.

He doesn't even, he doesn't even know the games on. Yeah, dang. That's the safe house. Your homie's safe house. Six. Good pig.

Six. Yeah. All right, Mel's best available. Let us know in the comments on YouTube. These guys, L-O-L or, hit us up on Instagram.

These guys are well on there too. I love seeing what you guys got. The responses we had for the college land last week were really great. I think my favorite one I saw, I can't remember who was from. But the boom heron tattoo shop. That's what it should be

in Columbus, dude. Cut away and it's like so hard. It's a close up on somebody getting a tattoo and then a wide shot and it's just boom heron. Terrell prior. That would be fucking sick. What a squad. Yeah.

Really, really great one. But there's, there's some other. I saw a you where it's like Miami has a club and like Greg Olson's performing. Like really, really good stuff. Really, really good stuff.

So yeah, let us know Mel's best available places to watch March Madness. TG 178. Let us know. All right. What else you got? You got any drip and tripping this week? Let us know.

Snit's Christmas. There we go. 4036. Not really any dripping or triven. I mean, I could always come up with something, but didn't have anything written down. No big Jersey news. No big uni news.

I think I got one that's kind of in that light for you that I wanted to get to last week that we didn't. What's up? Tripping or tripping, Kyler Murray on the Vikings. What's going on over there? I hate it when teams have like 95 quarterbacks. scares me.

Because like, there's just going to be, like, nobody's going to be the guy ever over there. Do I, is that dripping or something like that? Aesthetically?

Yeah, it could be, it could be that or it could just be like the idea of like him with justice, whatever you want it to be. It is kind of dripping.

Kyler Murray is a, a dripping QB. He's got the look. I know he looks like little and there's a whole, all that. like meme but like dude at heart Kyle Murray is a baseball guy

and baseball guys know how to dress like he's always looking good not doing too much before the game with all that but he's always got it on looks good on field looks great on field always has a good number what number is he with a Viking oh I don't know what he's with the Vikings I don't know I don't know I don't know if he would but that's what he was

Arizona I'm not sure I've never even seen a number one the Vikings. I'm just imagining Kyler Murray like three days before Christmas and the Vikings home game when they're wearing their all icy white

alternate uniform. Black visor. Dude, I think he's number one on the Vikings. That is cold. White sleeves, purple jersey, Kyler Murray. I think he's got a little more in the tank, man. Don't think it's over.

Career resurrected. it. KOC. I mean, I think it's dripping. I'm going to go tripping on it. I'm going to go dripping on it. I'm going to go dripping. I will.

I think it is too. Is this a Vikings podcast? But Vikings Christmas Eve podcast? That's for sure. How would you guys describe your podcast, Vikings Christmas Eve? Enough said. Say less. If you don't get it, we don't want you here.

No, we do want you here. But you'll get it. Real quick, real quick, real quick. What is Kyler Murray's Instagram? name because I think it might be... K-1. Oh! Not that I...

Not that I envy that. Not that I envy that. Not that I might change my name and try to get that. Just changing your legal name to get a cool Instagram name, wouldn't put it past me. Hey, talking about best numbers

in each sport. This came up in my DMs. Uh-huh. Like best, best like college football number, best college basketball number, best NBA number best you want should we should we get into that real quick yeah let's do a little number talk all right yeah what we're going to start with shout out let's let's talk with

college football oh man how do we geez soul I know it's like what position what yeah I'm started to think about it and I was like I want to save this for the pod but is it number one in every sport my mom had trained me to hate number one Who did? She would, my mom. She would never, ever, when it came time to, like, be able to choose your numbers and everything, she would never let me choose number one. I didn't even really know, like, how powerful it was until, I think Greg Conley got it.

And I was like, uh, uh, number one. Mike Connolly? Mike Connolly, my bad, my bad, my bad. Yeah, Greg Oden, you mixed them together. Same guy? Not at all. Not a local podcast. college football

man there's a few that are ringing around up there for some reason man number zero in college football kind of looking good these days I don't think it has a historic factor though I don't think it needs to like for NFL it does but for college is kind of like

there's some number zero's around that I'm like oh god that is a Perfect number. Just for whatever position. I haven't seen a number zero quarterback yet, but that'd be wild. I don't know. I kind of like it. The two I was going to go with for college football was either going to be seven or ten.

Ten. Because I feel like they just, it's very versatile. Like it could. Seven, so college. Seven, you could have, you know, you think LSDB, you know, and you're like, okay. You got that. But then also it could be a dope quarterback. Seven wide receiver.

You know, what's up? 10 the same way, though. 10 could be a dope linebacker, could be a safety, could be a receiver, could be a running back. 10 is so underrated when people are talking about numbers. Nobody ever talks about 10. Everybody's all 12, team 12, 12, 12's all 12.

10? Ooh, QB number 10? Mm-hmm. Real deal. Mm-hmm. Yeah, so that would be my picks for college football. Pretty good. College basketball?

God, you lead the way here. I got no clue. Nothing jumps out to me. One. One college basketball, point guard. God dang. Hey, kind of a reverse college football effect here. One, when it's like a big man who can slam.

Oh, that's like, it should be like not allowed. When a big guy's number one throwing it down. Wasn't Kenyon Martin? wasn't Kenyon Martin one? I think he was six. In college? Same kind of thing though. Same kind of thing though where it's like that little number on a dude that's like 611,

the most athletic dude on the floor. Yeah, I think a little differently when Kenyon Martin number, I'm an idiot. Googling things that are not paying attention. Yeah, he's number four on Cincinnati. Four. that's. When Amari Stadamire, this is NBA, not college basketball,

but he changed his number from 32 to 1. I was like, yeah, Marr-Stadmire, he had a few years there where it was like, best player of all time. So with like shades on, I was like, this is like not right, bro. Yeah, let me just wear these literal, like, stunner shades. In games? Number one.

Yeah, let me just throw these shades on. Play in them. I was so wild when we were making a player on NBA live and they had the sunglasses I was like dude what like out of nowhere just like

all right bet yeah he did it dude I think NFL to me it's either 12 or 16 really 16

I don't know I think it's just Montana the 16 just like when I think of like I think of classic NFL 16 Not because Charlie Batch

That's the thing that You go all these different Also like 32 pops in my head I know 32 32 so league 28 28 28 28 NFL 28's NFL

28's that's what I think That's what I was thinking too Yeah Yeah It's just like Growing up Best running back Yeah

Growing up, it was just like, God dang. The running back's 28. Your team's screwed, man. Best player on Madden. Over. Bro, even like when we played a team growing up and the running back was 28, I'm like, this guy knows ball, dude.

Like, he knows how to play. Hey, would have the back pad. Oh, my God. Here we go. Fourth grade. You already got that? Backpad was spats. Okay, so he's just going to dice us up today.

All right. Well, he's subscribed to the East Bay Magazine. He's got a rich person mailbox. We get it. His dad owns an HVAC company. Cool. His mom's the daughter of a guy who owns all the car dealerships in town. He's got a screened in porch.

Okay. He's got a TV in his kitchen. What else he doesn't want to talk about? He's got name brand orange juice. Just all that shit. He's got mini-gatoratorial. in the fridge on deck. Oh, he's got the Gatorade All-Stars.

Yeah, this, this dude. He's got a game room in his basement. When people had game rooms, I was like, I don't even have a game. You got a whole room? When you go to that kid's house and his basement was nicer than your living room.

Oh, yeah. Finished. Carpet, burber. You're like, Never seen a wider carpet. Pets aren't allowed down here. Also, the decorations was almost like, did you guys just put this up?

Oh, yeah, they did. Like, if I just went and pushed it over, would it all just like crumble and fall down? What's going on? Fresh plant in the corner. I have a plant, dude. It'd be like a framed IU jersey. What?

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We just got the, oh, really? Yeah. Tom Coverdale's my uncle. Yeah, last week we had them all over here. Bracey Wright was here. My dad literally, like, goes out to eat with Bob night all the time.

Yeah. Yeah, the dude who, the dude who's coaching my A.A.U. team this summer. AJ Moyet. You're like, oh, my God, that block he had against Duke. I mean, I'm not even I you guy, but that was crazy. I'll start talking yourself into it. I can't hang out for too long. What's up?

I got training in the morning with Jared Jeffries. Hey, but then you're like, you're like, so why do you have a frame? Jeff's some margin jersey down here too. What's going on? That's a big fox right there for you. She's going on. My older brother's best. friends of them. Well, who's your older brother? Tom Zipikovsky.

So their whole podcast is just like naming people? I don't get it. Wait. Oh, dude. Hey, you know what? Had to drive back from Johnstown, PA today. Johnstown here. All right, all right, all right. Yeah, it's like six and a half hours. So you got to find some stuff to listen to, right? reached a point

Hey, fellas will now reached a point in the ride All of a sudden the wife got her headphones out Uh-oh Uh-oh, free for all Anything goes Put them on I was like

Okay Guess we're not hanging out You are my cohort anymore Okay Guess we're not hanging out It's so funny Like you would ever put headphones on like in front of her, you know? Like, God forbid, the fuss would be just insurmountable.

You'd never hear the end of it. Just like, I'm just like driving by myself now. Okay. We haven't talked in two hours. Oh, God forbid. I listen to a little Roscoe Dash. Not even that, dude. I just want to listen to my fucking Star Wars podcast. Literally anything. Yeah, anything. Couldn't imagine doing that. That's not. never been done. Yeah. No. Nope.

Nope. Nope. It hasn't. So it hasn't. Driving by myself. So like, okay, I guess I just won't talk to anybody. You're literally

two inches away. I can feel your body heat. It's actually overwhelming. Oh, shit. All right. Let's get to the clubhouse before they just stop emailing us because we only get to like two every week. He tells it out.

It is. Hey, they want the truth to come here. Team these guys at gmail.com. Hey, we just get rolling on stuff. We get rolling on naming IU basketball players, right?

Let us roll. Let us roll. Yeah, okay. Mm-hmm. Okay. You want us to talk about that? Okay. I don't know.

We'll talk about Bracey Wright. The people will email, you know, they don't know. Oh, that is. All right. You do know. You all know. That was just a character.

It's all good. All right. Let's go to, it's got a mic. He says the dream is dead. I don't know. Fellas, second time emailing.

I told you boys a story of my wife's first day going to the casino and me dipping and rattling off college or NFL players. If you remember, the deal was if she ever got one right,

I had to take her out to eat wherever she wanted. And I could never ask another player's college. Wow. you can probably guess it happened. I'm a Seahawks fan. So obviously we were watching the Super Bowl and J.S.N. was in the locker room getting checked

and Cup kept making plays. I obviously asked her what school Cup went to. No, she didn't guess it correctly, but she asked why he was getting all the love and not the dude with the cool name, J.S.N. I said he's getting checked for a concussion and obviously asked what school though. And she said, the Ohio State clearly. I looked at her in shock and she said there's no I was right. Fast forward to today, we got a sitter.

and went out for breakfast and shopping. It was a sad day. My question for, is the most peaceful, like, happy morning, no kids out to breakfast. Sad day, dude. It's too bad.

It says, my question for you, boys, is when did all your hopes and dreams disappear in an instant? And should I study up on where these guys went to high school and create a new game? Much love, fellas. And RIP to the Purdue goat. But Rondale Moore, absolutely.

Rest in peace, buddy. Sent from my East Bay Magazine in the bathroom we used to read while pooping. Some good stuff in that magazine. Thanks, Mike. Sorry to hear that. You had a good run, though. You had a really good run. Glad we could be part of that journey.

Wow. Journey, shocky. When did the dream die? That's the question. When did all your hopes and dreams disappear in an instant? When we played manual freshman year and one of their guys on varsity had to play for the freshman team and he jumped over me and I thought I could jump high. I was like, wow. I just looked in the air and saw his ass all the way up there.

I was like, that's going to be it for me. It's been a good run, Coachbee. It's been a good run. I was like, okay, can't jump that high. just realized it. Yeah. I think mine died when I saw that Bryce Harper hit like 782 his like sophomore year of high school in Nevada with like 36 home runs. And I was like, oh.

So that's how good people are. Yeah. It's always when you see the hard numbers. You're like, I did the, dude, it's like when you have like, when people are like, yo, if you feel like a sickness or something, don't look it up on WebMD. Just maybe worse. Yeah. Like when you think you're good at football in high school, don't go to rivals.com and look up Maurice Jones Drew's squat max. I was like 590 pounds.

We don't even have that many weights in our weight room. we really don't even have a weight room. Yeah, yeah. And he's just. That's a great call. Yeah, because as soon as I saw that, my mentality changed forever, I was like, I mean, like, hey, but, you know, players develop at different times. I was like, 7.82. I mean, I'm like, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, just

scratching to try to get 310 in high school. Like, dude, it's just, wow. Their 40s were listed on there? I was like, oh my God,

that's ridiculous. I need to start building computers or something. I would just hit a three to go up one against Florida. Four seconds left. It's madness. That's why they call it madness. Thanks, Mike. Now we're sad too,

bud. I'm just kidding. Love you. This is from Brian. Best damn sports show, period. So what's up, girls? Having my first born at the end of March. Hey, congrats, buddy. I was in full hunty mode yesterday at the baby shower,

quarter zip, gray dress pants, and accepting gifts from a bunch of women. After he received about 25 gifts, I stopped to think that I have got him nothing. And the only items on my list for him, I have our Colorado Avalanche, 1996. jersey with a Stanley Cup logo and he can grow into it. And a Michigan State football jersey from 2003, not a sports podcast or a pro shop podcast.

Anyway, since I'm a Humpty, send me back to 2007 so I can time travel and redeem myself by being at a friend's house, taking a Nerf football and sending it an absolute screamer at his dad who is a dick and knock his fat ass out of his lazy boy while he's watching TV, steal a jack's pizza from his freezer and leave. Tell Ben Nebraska is already losing week one, 273 in the first half, and it's cloudy at Spartan Stadium. God. Sent from Hanty's iPad. I can just smell the Michigan

coming off that email. Week one, Labor Day weekend, cloudy and rainy. Ready for that game already. Wait, Michigan State plays Nebraska week one? Yeah, I feel like that.

I don't know, maybe. Kind of a banger. In the rain? Probably weirdly be on like Sunday night. Oh, wow, Iowa just upset Florida. Oh, shit. A little bit of breaking news that you're already going to see, but Florida Gators, there will be no repeat champion.

Down go the Gators. I will chop, chop. Yo, you see those superodcasters that everybody thought was lost? Oh, my God. Halfway through, I was like, is that us? I was watching out like, yeah, that's us. I'm like, that dude looks more and more like me every second. I told a couple of the guys who message us.

I was just like, it's just me and Johnson if we kept working at the station. Would have been better off. That would have been us. That would have been us. But those kids are good, man. That was really fun to watch. I was hype. That's like the only one I've watched all the way through.

I was like, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I showed Rye because I was like, people kept tag. Every time I would check these guys or my Instagram. it's you and so I

we're driving out to PA and I was like I just look up high point broadcasters it's like you're just going to know exactly what it is the second you look at it

she did she was like oh it's because people think he looks like yes people think that yeah but then like she watched the entire thing

and of course she was like why am I getting emotional like they're so sweet so yeah those kids are stars that's great

um dude Yeah, who knows if you I highly doubt you'll ever experience this Never say never But I you know I've done the baby shower thing obviously Tough tough to

Tough to beat and the huntie list there No other guys Maybe your wife's dad comes You know He ain't making it Comes to pick up the gifts or something I don't know He's like he's dropping off like the catering

Something but other than that just you, man. And the cackies are on. Man, you've never looked more haunty. You have to. Just, yeah. Thank you for being here. Thank you for being here.

Shaking your wife's friend's hands. Hi. How are you? Weird hugs. Oh. These hugs. Hey, day. Like.

Can't have any personality, nothing. Nothing cool ever. Ass so far out. Wives pregnant. Like, you can't drink. Like, what are you going to do? Hi. What are you going to do?

You're going to be the dad in front of all of her best friends, her sisters and shit, her mom or grandma. You're going to be the dad, the guy that she's bringing a child into the earth with just have downing like five Mikhailob Ultras. come down there's a good look wearing a Donovan McNabb jersey Hey But it's that throwback

Like light blue one with the gold shoulders So it's like hey what It's a boy It's like are we not revealing Oh shit sorry Camo pants on Niccolo Bultra's in your cargo Pockets clanking around

Yeah I'm like super excited for her But she's kind of like married a piece of shit swish or sweet behind your ear Hey sunglasses on the back of your head Sunglass is on the back of your head He's like kind of a dick But whatever

It's like what she likes so On your phone the whole time And I looked at their baby registry And there's like three different posters of priest homes that are on there? Who's priest homes? And why does the baby need a poster of priest homes? Yeah, I think it's, I think it's like his.

He's like a big cheat. I don't really know. He said he wanted a baby Michael Myers mask. Wouldn't that like suffocate the baby? I asked him about it. And all he said back was fuck it. Just the worst guy. Yeah, I mean, that's it.

Like if you're not full hunting at a baby shop, for your baby, if you're not full hunting, you're just automatically, you just look like the biggest asshole. You got to go full in, man. You got to turn the circuits on. I. The night before your baby shower as a new dad. Plug it in. Especially the firstborn.

Yeah, that's like you got to do the software update, man. You got to install that shit overnight, fully plugged in all night. Yes, I wanted to install Loading Doing Doing improved iOS More like I love you

And all our friends Like love you now Oh my God They can't get enough He looks so cute You look good You look good Hey when you're opening up the gifts

Because the mom and dad They got to sit there and like open up the gifts together Poster on a million This has all the jokes Just all the shit that's working Firing them off

You know if it's a little girl You know And there's like a pink like I have daddy's world I am mama's girl But I have daddy's world Uh-oh Oh shit

Arizona's beating the shit out of Utah State It's gonna be a tough matchup if we beat Texas Shut up That's like I want I went that Those like leave the segways right there to be like I like Mark Norman a lot I think Mark Norman's super funny

Who doesn't But he was on He was on road I don't know recently and so on the drive back I was like I'll fire that up by like Mark Norman and I just noticed as I'm listening like I pick up like Joe Rogan like his segways and shit are so weird because he'll be like joking about something he'll be like they'll be like kind of laughing let me joking and I'd be like but I knew a guy that he'd killed himself doing that jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge like he'll he'll like segue to like the weirdest thing

you're like, what the fuck? Like, why you bringing the shit up? So I noticed that, like, that's why I want that to be for, like, we'll be just some other shit. And then I go into full, like, breakdown mode of. That's going to be a tough matchup next week. For us.

Us. Oh, shit. All right. Let's go to, uh, this is from nachos. Wow. So it says, best NBA. jam duo for the pod. Hey, mofos.

Best NBA jam team duo of all time. Both passed from the video games and present. Smack my ass with an ice cold orange Julius from the mall food court. Your pal G. Spice. Sit from an iPhone 8 with a crack screen and a super chunky leopard print outer box. Outer box is running the world.

Remember that? I never gave in. I was like, I'd rather crack my screen than have that on my phone. No, that's the least thing. you would ever do. I know that. It was so like...

Can you get over the name? Yeah. I don't think I ever did it either. Too thick. Ew. Carrying around a bar of soap. What was the... What was the worst?

The otter box are those ones that had the little loop in the bag so you could slide your finger into it. The whole pop socket. Oh my God. The pop socket? Wow. Never. I'll never forget if you had a pop socket.

For God about that What was he? Like could that suction to anything Or was it just a pop out So you could hold Have something to hold on to Just so And I just like keep dropping my phone

It was really for girls Yeah And you like sit your phone up horizontally And like watch stuff I'm like who's watching stuff on their phone That way ever Hmm I'm sure on an airplane

Good luck I'd rather just fall asleep and like try to figure out the Wi-Fi situation here actually. You know what that was? The girls who had the pop socket were the same girls who had to have the crew next to the long-sleeved shirts that had holes for their thumbs. What was so weird. I remember getting a long-sleeve shirt that had those holes one time.

I was like, you'd expect me to? That just completely, it was like it flipped in a day's time. all of a sudden one day in 2008 everything was fine next day it came to school I was like you know Marianne why why are your thumbs doing that

I just like I feel weird I don't know what to do with like my thumb like my thumb just like out what yeah like every other day your life girls hands are so fake cold all the time so fake cold oh man one day they're all just

Jordan holes, okay. Whatever. All right. Best NBA Jam team of all time past and present. I mean, I can't remember off the top of my head, but I feel like Penny Hardaway

and Shaq were probably pretty good. I never really played that game ever. Like I rented it when I like made the comeback NBA Jam. It was fun. But for some reason I kept playing, you know you find a guy in a video game that's like not supposed to be good, but he's like really good.

Yeah, yeah. I kept being the magic. And I think I was Shaq, but I wouldn't pick Penny Hardaway, and I'd pick Nick Anderson. He was killing for me. So for some reason, that's like my weird combo. I can't believe you even brought up the magic. Well, I feel like I was always the go-to. But yeah, I mean, Nick Anderson, it's worse combos to have, that's for sure.

Nick A. Not a local pod, but I feel like having, like Reggie Miller and one of the Davis brothers is pretty solid because he was just hitting everything. Reginald 3s on NBA Jam were nice. I'd always pick Jalen Rose and get my ass beat, then play. Then I'd get like Rick Smiths and then lose again. President? Jeez.

The amount that I don't know jack shit about the NBA. I don't know. I mean, you could probably go like Deeran Fox and Wimbenyama from San Antonio would probably be pretty solid. I was thinking that too, but I couldn't think of another Spurs guard. From like our era, I mean, I feel like NBA Jam, they would have to just be Chris Paul and Blake Griffin or Chris Paul and DeAndre Jordan. Clay Griffin would be insane on that game. Nash Stadamire?

Yeah. Yeah. That's pretty damn good. I'd always try to Williams Weber my way in there, but never really worked out how I wanted. Yeah, I can see that. Kobe Shack. Kobe on video games was unbelievable. unbelievably good.

God, dang. They always gave him a special superpower. Yeah, it was just better, like, it was what everybody

was good at, but then he was just better at it. Yeah. And he could do it all. He had the, he had the, the flying emoji,

he had the three emoji, he had the hand, everything. Like, would always hit game winners, too. All right, let's finish up with,

uh, God dang. So hard to... Let's go to James. James says Lent. What's up guys in Clubhouse? Coorts. Having grown up Catholic

and it being Lent right now got me thinking of how... When I was in elementary school, a kid attempted to give up going to the bathroom for Lent and eventually wet himself in class. You guys or a classmate ever intend to give up something crazy for Lent? If not, what was your go-to? Jimmy.

P.S. Come. Come to a live show in St. Louis. There'd be plenty of Mark McGuire and Marshall Falk jerse in the crowd. Sent from the self-checkout tablet at Texas Roadhouse. Never forget. Never forget I did a show in St. Louis and wore up Marshall Fogg jersey. And no, like, everybody hated it because like the little Rams left.

I was like, dude, no. But like, can we just talk about what? Okay. You don't want me. Yeah. Be thankful for what you. you had? Sorry. St. Louis. Yeah, I know we both performed there.

Like, good crowds, good, good fun shows. So St. Louis could be, St. Louis could be good. Working on a little, that's a good little, working on a little, a little sum in the future. Keep an eye out, you know. We've still got some stuff to be set in stone and really make it happen. But working on a little, little sum or other.

So keep that in the back of the mind for a few months from now. man giving up that's funny I'm trying to I'm trying to picture this kid who gave up going to the bathroom was like funny Joe King kid or it was just like weird kid who honestly thought that he could give up peeing

God that is so funny really committed though you gotta love that true I mean yeah the fact that he's just like I can't just pisses himself I mean, hats off. He's about it.

Weird. Or hardest thing I ever, I gave up TV one year and really, really committed. And I think I was, I was in third grade. Damn. Because we went on spring break to

Florida. And I was like, all right, I'm not watching TV. Like American Idol was on and stuff, I would literally sit the other way. My whole family would watch it and I'd sit the other way. Wow.

Like, they were like, bro, You can watch it. It's cool. We won't like, it's good. Yeah. And I was like, no. Like, I'm not giving it.

But I did. Did cheat. And I snuck. I snuck like a couple looks because the Cubs were playing on WGN. I just couldn't stop watching it. And I was like, I'm way. I'm like, I'm cheating on land with the Cubs on WGN in Florida. It was just like one of those.

Florida days, there's nothing going on for some reason. We were watching WGN and the Cubs game as I was like, damn it's music to my ears, man. Oh, Cubs on WGN slap so hard. I miss it. What happened? Probably

probably Chip Carey and Steve Stone on the call. Laying on the ground. Never watch WGN Cubs unless you're on the ground, on the carpet. Yeah, That is some fine memories watching that back in the day.

That's for sure. Yeah, early, early way. You know, early in the season, too, it's probably like 42 degrees of regular. You're down in Florida. You're like, the hell is even. Okay. TV, man, that's tough.

I'm trying to think. Dude, I, bad cats. Like, I never, ever felt fault through any of it. You know? Like, it would be like maybe a week. week strong, two weeks, two weeks max. And I was like, I mean, I'm going over to Jordan's house tonight. I'm just not supposed to have Dr. Pepper. Like what? What? I stayed committed, bro. I don't know what was going on. I think because my dad was really about one. Yeah. And he was like,

no chocolate. Yo, you're trying to do it with me? And I was like, yeah, let's do it. Like, I'm down. But we would do that thing. And I think it's cheating. But every Sunday, we would like do the thing And I think that like differs in different families. It does. Hey, it's kind of like the teacher. You got some that relax about it. You got some that are like, what are we doing this? We're giving it up or not?

So Monday through Saturday, I was holding strong, though, chocolate. Sunday rolled around after church with my dad. What's up? Donuts. Chocolate all day. Candy. Interesting. Yeah.

Yeah, we always kind of went back in front. fourth on that. Yeah, I think sometimes it's like my mom would try or some of you've tried to be like Sunday though. And I was like, hey, but then other times you'd be like Sunday. No. What? Yeah, you can never get a read on it. I was like, oh, okay. Oh, good. No chocolate. Okay. Okay. Now you're mad at me because I asked, but we did it last year. Okay. I feel like a big one growing up would always be like, you know, giving up like the computer, you know, like giving up my My space or AIM or something. The whole computer.

Yeah. You know? You'd be like, oh, shit. Okay. So we're just not talking for a month because, like, you're not on AIM? No AIM. Ooh, that would, that could take you out. That could take you out of the leaderboard.

Just like permanent away message up. Lent to White Hearts. BBL. Be back later. For the young. I see a bunch of class of 29 and 28 follow us on Instagram. Cool. Appreciate it.

But BBL at one point to our lexicon meant be back later. Yo, that long away message on there was devastating sometimes. When your crush would go to Florida, throw the away message up for like two and a half weeks. I was like, she ever coming back? Just check and see if that yellow note was right by the name. first thing. Is that yellow note? Yeah. Some people were never online.

I'd be like, you see, you see it come down, and then like either signs off or like you hit him up and then the yellow note would go back up for what? I'm like, are you playing with me? And I'm like, what kind of internet do you have? I was just like checking down

here on my dad's work laptop and yeah. You just throw an away message up for all time. Like once I sign off, like I might not ever come back on. That's the type of internet I'm working with. Maybe you'll connect.

Yeah, no weird shit that I can remember. No, like. You ever give some up and you know, you know you're not going to, like, I don't even like that anyway. Kind of game the system.

Yeah. Yeah. You're like, I'm going to give a sour candy. It's like I get that once a month anyways You know Cool so I just won't ask my mom that one time at Meyer Okay

Still might be tough I live in a Hershey kiss house anyway Talking back We got those I'm giving up being mean to my sister Okay How do you even quantify that? Shut up

I know What is so weird Yeah it's almost over. And actually, uh, it's over because, uh,

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