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Episode 146 - Bring Back Steroids in Baseball
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We wanna see players hit 70 homers in a year again.
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Sunday Card Ripping and Live Streams
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I got it going. It's all good.
00:00:04
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Ah, man.
00:00:07
Speaker
How's everyone's Sunday going? Not too shabby. Not too shabby. What about yours? It's not bad. Just been doing nothing but ripping cards all day.
00:00:25
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Hell yeah, brother.
00:00:30
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Oh, man.
00:00:32
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Sorry I subjected you guys to that last night. i felt I felt pretty bad. no don't feel bad at all. It's kind of fun. It's kind of fun to watch. Yeah, um I think I mentioned it on on the show a couple weeks ago, but I started doing like live streams to sell cards, and last night ah we hung out at Mike's, but it wasn't really much of hanging out for the first hour and a half because we were doing a live stream to sell cards for the first like hour and a half.
00:01:02
Speaker
i felt I felt really bad when Alessandra came home and you guys basically just sat in the kitchen like talking quietly while we were just yelling in the living room.
00:01:14
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You guys were whispering, eating your dinner. We're like, all right, guys, we're live for $2. $2. Everyone get your bids in. it was, no, honestly, it was an experience.
00:01:26
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So how many people are tuning into that? um probably like 12 we we average like just over double digits if we pay to promote it uh which we have been um but yeah usually like i think the last couple have had like over a hundred people like pop in and out because people will just like click on it see who's in it see what they're doing and then like leave immediately if they're not really feeling it and so we had about 11 consistently with our peak being like 16.
00:01:59
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And last time was like the first time we've like been in the green after, after selling, which was nice. Uh, we've, we've really eaten some shit on, on some of these streams. Um,
00:02:13
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but Even with the promotion, the paid promotion factored in? Oh, yeah. um You were in the green? Yep. Green by like $10. So we we take that. All right. It's like, you know what? have ah Have a good time and get $10. Yeah.
00:02:27
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yeah That seems like a fair trade to me. Yeah. the The worst one, we've we've been down $70 before, o which ah was absolutely brutal. Yeah.
00:02:42
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Yeah, it wasn't ah it wasn't a bad wasn't a bad one last night. We're to try and keep it going. ah Keep striking while we're hot. I've been pulling some crazy cards, like a lot of short print, ah like number to 50 type cards. I pulled an autograph of one of like the top prospects in the MLB.
00:03:01
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so I'm hoping to get Jack Caglione on the Royals. Okay. Yeah. so Drafted by the Red Sox. Really? I didn't even realize he was drafted by the Sox. We drafted him in like the second round.
00:03:14
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And apparently, don't know, something happened where it was like we weren't the like, he was expected to go to a certain team who was going to pay him like over slot in the second round.
00:03:28
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And we weren't. And then they couldn't come to like an agreement. So then he just went back to Florida. then hit, like, fucking 30 home runs or something his junior year, and then went, like, eighth yeah overall to the Royals.
00:03:43
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So, yeah. Yeah, but I pulled his on-card auto, like, Friday, which, or Saturday, which was pretty sick. On Friday, um i hit one of, like, the biggest football cards you can pull right now. Like, ah and it's called, like, a downtown. OJ Rookie?
00:04:00
Speaker
Yeah, it's an yeah OJ Rookie. Massive card. Yeah. But no, it's called the Downtown from the Optics series. It has um jeffson Jefferson and J.J. McCarthy on it.
00:04:13
Speaker
And right now, ungraded, just raw, it goes for like $1,100. And then if you do get it graded, it could be like $2,500. Where do you go to get it graded?
00:04:27
Speaker
You have to send in to like... It's just like shipping in the mail, right? Yeah, it's PSA usually. um They do the ah grading process. So you can go through a couple. like PSA ends up taking like six months or something like that or three months, somewhere in between that time frame ah to grade it.
00:04:46
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But there's like other ones that are a little bit less... want to say less known, but less sought after. PSA is like the the gold standard when it comes to grading. But ah I don't know.
00:04:58
Speaker
I think I might just sell it as is because it's still like $1,200 possibly. Jeez. Hell yeah. Make that money. And then all of that's just going to right back into cards.
00:05:09
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so
00:05:13
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Buy more packs, baby. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. It's all about the the thrill of opening the packs. yeah that's it's just Yeah, it's just the dopamine hit that you get from that's right from possibly thinking that there's something good in it when there's usually just absolutely nothing, just just garbage.
00:05:32
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like Psychological studies have shown that like the the dopamine rush from gambling isn't from winning. It's just from the the act of gambling itself. It's the possibility that you could win.
00:05:46
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So it's the thrill. That's pretty cool. That's pretty much what card opening is. Yeah, that's that's how I justify it. is you know It's just like I've replaced gambling with this, and at least at the end of the day, I'm never losing technically.
00:06:02
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I come out with something, even if it is like cards that aren't worth anything. It's still something that's like representative representative of my money there.
00:06:14
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Right. That's fair. That's fair.
00:06:17
Speaker
yeah How was the setup? The setup? Oh, at like that we used last night ah at your place? yeah It was good. um I don't know. um They said the music was too low, which I thought it was pretty loud in the room, but it was too low.
00:06:32
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we were cranking it. Damn. Yeah. so we could fix that We could fix that for next time. What did you guys have playing in the background? We did a little dedication to our good friend, big Third Eye Blind fan. So we just kind of we kind of ran through the the collection there of Third Eye Blind.
00:06:49
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we got We got through a a solid like hour and Yeah. There you go. and We ran through the collection of Third Eye Blind. Which was, I felt like a good a good ah match to what you guys were trying to do, you know?
00:07:08
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I don't listen to a lot of third-eyed blinds, so I don't know if that is or or isn't. I can't can't really say, but yeah, sure.
00:07:17
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So, yeah, it was ah it was an interesting experience to watch. um It was pretty cool. i see I see why people get into it, you know. And maybe I'll hop on the app and and the go ahead and bid on some other things that may interest me.
00:07:34
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I don't think you should. I'm going to be honest, I've put two people on to whatnot in the past week and a half, and I think they've both become incredibly addicted to buying stuff, and it's starting to worry me.
00:07:49
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ah Yeah, that's also why, ah again, that's why I don't have DraftKings downloaded on my phone.
00:07:58
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I know exactly how that's going to happen. but Yeah.
00:08:03
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You know, it's fun. It's just it's all about the dopamine rush you can get. That's really it. um Real quickly, Nick, is Mike dropping out for you at all? Or is that just me?
00:08:16
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ah Like his audio? Yeah. Not really. Okay. Because there's been a couple times where like Mike has been speaking and it's just completely stopped. So that's probably not good. is Yeah, I haven't noticed that.
00:08:31
Speaker
okay Well, not ideal, I will say. Not ideal, but it's alright.
00:08:38
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If it keeps happening, let me know, and I'll take a look in my hand see what I can do. Yeah.
00:08:46
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Oh, man.
The Controversial Enhanced Games
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Have you guys seen anything on the Enhanced Games?
00:08:53
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What is this? It's like ah the Olympics, except we let people do whatever they want in terms of performance-enhancing drugs. Yeah. and I think they get like a cash bonus if they break like a world record or or something like that.
00:09:09
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Wait a minute. Is that currently happening? I don't know when it is. i wanted i like I want to watch it when it happens. But yeah, that's but that's the premise. So wait, this is unofficial Olympic Games from and the participants or people who are basically known performance enhancing drug users?
00:09:31
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No, no, they're like known athletes who have retired from competing in like the real Olympics and are just going into like, they're just doing their sport but on steroids, basically.
00:09:47
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what no i never heard of any of this yeah uh the headquarters unsurprisingly are in the cayman islands so pretty sure can't be like sued or or investigated by anybody um but actually okay it's in the first games will be in may 2026 so it seems like everyone has ah a year to train for it you got to give people like a a bit of time to really yeah get used to the gills Yeah, the the um the creator of it is this like businessman from Australia who sees the IOC, which is like the governing body of the Olympics, um as corrupt and anti-science.
00:10:28
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They say they're an anti-science police force.
00:10:33
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ah Okay. Yeah, I mean, I get it. He's like, they don't pay athletes enough and that like the and Olympics include many sports that don't matter, which is like fair enough, but... like I feel like this also, not that it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, but like, I feel like you don't have to. Bullshit justification. Like that's, it's like, no, I'm pretty sure like the entire concede of not letting people use performance enhancing drugs is that it's like awful for you.
00:11:03
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And they don't want you to like have to sacrifice your long-term health to compete in a sport, you know, like I, Like all these dudes on gear who are just like straight up weightlifters and that's all they're doing is bodybuilding. These guys like drop dead at 37. Yeah.
00:11:20
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yeah It's awful for your heart. And that's like, well, it's, it was the COVID-19 vaccine. That's right. Yeah. Thanks Pfizer. Yeah. Yeah.
00:11:31
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Thanks a lot. Moderna. Couldn't possibly be the fact that they were fucking juiced all hell. So that's what, that's what I'm wondering is the first, I'm wondering who the athlete, like the first athlete to die from this will be.
00:11:42
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i think it's inevitable. if like It's a million dollar it's an a million dollar prize if you break a world record while on steroids during these like Olympics. But will it count? No. not so the real it just It's not going to count at all towards the real like world records or whatever. But they're saying like if you beat a certain time or if you lift a certain ah weight or whatever...
00:12:03
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While, during these games, like, while, like, incredibly juiced up, the the founder, who's, like, a i don't know if he's a high millionaire like, a billionaire, said he'll he'd pay you a million dollars if you do it.
00:12:14
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That's the cash prize. Do we, uh, do we have any names of athletes who are participating? Did they release, uh, release couple, a couple of roster spots here, or...
00:12:26
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Yeah, so I could... i could um These are all people that I don't really know because I don't follow like Olympic athletes that heavily unless they're American. ah But James Magnuson, who's medaled in the games before, is coming out of retirement to break the 50-meter freestyle world record.
00:12:43
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um
00:12:46
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k Christian Golomiv from Greece um has unofficially broken the record, but... no, he actually won the prize last month. ah but for him Good for him. he He has the million. What did he break?
00:13:01
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The 50 meter freestyle world record. so I think it's a lot of swimming. I haven't seen any other games. I've really only seen swimming um as like the game. like That's the only thing. I don't know what else they're doing. i don't know if they're to shot put or like javelin or something like that. But swimming is the one that I've seen the most where it's all these swimmers are getting juiced up to swim, which I feel like... I'd love to see team sports in here. yeah You get a basketball team of all guys who have like had the height-lengthening surgery.
00:13:38
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yeah Yeah, they're now 6'7". They're all now six foot seven yeah yeah they're all six foot seven with there. bad. the ah the amount of fall all over themselves the amount of paul george injuries you would see yeah in that in that olympic games would be pretty bad You've seen a lot of Kevin Ware type shit where they're just jumping up for a rebound and their femur is just... It's snapping in half.
00:14:03
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Damn, they're hosting this shit in... They're hosting this shit in Vegas next year. We should go. It's the end of May. intrigued. I'm intrigued. So yeah, the these are the events.
00:14:15
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There's 50 meter and 100 meter freestyle, 50 meter and 100 meter ah butterfly for swimming, The 100 meter sprint for track and field and then the 110 meter hurdles.
00:14:30
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And then this I think would be the most apt for actually doing steroids, but the snatch and then the clean and jerk lifts. are Those are the five events or six events or whatever.
00:14:47
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intrigued. I think we should. I think we got to check it out. Whoa, you could you could apply to... Mike, do you want to do you want to compete in this? and I'm not a regular shape.
00:15:00
Speaker
Whoa. and That doesn't matter. we have a year to get you on steroids and get you into like pretty good shape. Can you jump? We could probably get you in for the hurdles.
00:15:11
Speaker
Yeah, I probably hurdle. Alright, so let's do that. going to have to get in shape and then and then start using... No, no, no. You start using to get in shape and then you just keep using to get even bigger.
00:15:28
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No, but that's worse. and No, but that's worse because i want to ah want to get in shape before I'm using because that way when I wean off of it, I'm still healthy.
00:15:38
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I don't want the PEDs to get me healthy because then when I hop off, I'm just dead, you know? No, but then you'll be a million dollars richer if you break a world record.
00:15:50
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and And potentially dead. Yeah, but that's like the risk you take. It's a trade-off.
00:15:57
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No? like am i i feel like I feel like we got something here. I think we need to do more research. yeah
00:16:06
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I don't know. I do feel like they should be used like they should let baseball players use steroids again.
00:16:14
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Yeah. That was good era. that was a good era That was a good time. but Let a guy like Barry Bonds juice up and then also get the torpedo bat. i I think he's hitting 95 homers a year.
00:16:26
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Easy. right Easy. and like At like 60. Yeah. grow or older yeah No problem. I like to see. so But I feel like the this' um enhanced games, like that there's no like home run derby or dunk contest or anything. It's just...
00:16:46
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yeah It's just the lamest Olympic events that no one cares about. It's like yeah the decathlon except they're slightly more ripped than the normal athletes but their times aren't as good.
00:16:59
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I can't really speak as ah being you know not that great of shape here but wouldn't being overly muscular like kind of hurt you in the water?
00:17:12
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um i would think that so. I don't think so. But wouldn't I just like, don't know, like, wouldn't you be a little less buoyant with more muscle mass? don't think the goal would be to get to put on as much muscle as possible because it's still like helps your endurance.
00:17:30
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Yeah, that's fair. Muscular strength. You know what I mean? Yeah. So it's like you can just go full tilt in the pool. <unk>t i don't drink down at all I don't think putting a dunk contest in there really adds any value because unless you're measuring like how hard you're dunking, like what is what is the extra value it brings like playing basketball juiced up? like What does it actually do?
00:17:58
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Your vertical might be stronger. stronger Right, but that's, you know, the vertical leap. Yeah, but then they they'll just do that in the long jump, whatever. You what saying? Like, I feel like it doesn't add anything in a lot of team sports, right? Like, what is it going to do if you if you did soccer or basketball, you know?
00:18:19
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Yeah, I feel like... How about football? Yeah. You got, like, 11, like, Sean Taylors just running around out there. and That would be sweet. That would be sweet. Yeah. can people leads off i was going to say, instead of like a dunk contest, you do an Oklahoma drill.
00:18:36
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Mike, do you know what an Oklahoma drill is? I do. I do. Okay. So you just do that. That is the, like the test of, uh, of strength there. It's just one head on car collision.
00:18:49
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See who wins out, which i don't know if you guys heard this by the way, but a kid died doing this like last week. uh yeah but it was like for rugby is of don't know if you guys have i've i've gotten it on my instagram feed uh like on the reels and stuff but um i've been seeing it more more recently where they they're recording the uh like the rugby scrums where they're going one-on-one with each other just hitting a hole and it's just oh you know just a violent violent collision
00:19:21
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And obviously all the reels that are popping off are the ones where one of the dudes gets knocked out. I feel like an Oklahoma drill is like dangerous enough on its own while wearing a helmet and pads.
00:19:33
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um So to like transfer that to a sport where you're not wearing that type of equipment, it doesn't seem like a good idea. I also don't know like how that helps you with being a better rugby player, like that drill.
00:19:48
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Yeah, I mean, i guess it's just prepping you for, like, if you're the ball carrier, like, running through someone, and then if you're on defense. like There's no, like, inside linebacker who has to, like, split the gap and fucking, like, no you know, crack some dude in the backfield. like that's it's all It's all open field tackles in rugby, it feels like.
00:20:11
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So, yeah, it is kind of a... An unnecessary drill. It just seems very dangerous for no reason to be doing that. Yeah. I don't know.
00:20:23
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That's, yeah. That's wild. I don't know. I'm intrigued to see it. I mean, they're going to blow these times out of the water. There's no doubt about it. But I'm intrigued by how much they're going to break these records.
00:20:35
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Yeah. Well, speaking of... I'd love to see, like, the ping pong event, except everyone's just done crystal meth.
00:20:46
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Now we're talking. I think that would be that would be incredible what I'd be looking for. yeah Or darts. That'd be another one. My god, that dart would go through the freaking board.
00:20:58
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Yeah. I mean, pickleball, you already have people. i don't know if you guys have seen like pro pickleball shit, but like It seems like those dudes are like always mad.
00:21:10
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So now you're adding extra testosterone into an event where people already seem like they're pissed off playing a little... don't know. And you could just be ripping shots at like 150 miles an hour. Well, it's a very masculine sport, pickleball. That is true.
00:21:27
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as As a pickleball pro myself, it is incredibly masculine. It's just kind of a part of the game at that point.
00:21:36
Speaker
Isn't pickleball just like tennis-sized ping pong?
00:21:43
Speaker
Pretty much. Yeah, it's it's tennis for people who can't play tennis.
00:21:49
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Or don't feel like putting in like years of work to figure out how to play. It's it's much more accessible than tennis, for sure. um So I think that's kind of the idea. But like I've noticed that you you get a lot of... like
00:22:07
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As far as professional pickleball goes, you get a lot of like former tennis players who were like pretty good, but like not that great. They were 60s, 70s in the world, and it's like, alright, I'm just going to pickleball, and then they were like the number one ranked pickleball player in the world.
00:22:27
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That's wild. Jack Sock would be an example of that. ah Damn. I didn't realize he made the transition to Yep. Fair enough, I guess. Clint Frazier, formerly of the Yankees, he's now a pro pickleball player.
00:22:44
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Bouchard, the Canadian tennis player, I believe she is um professional pickleball player. Wow. I thought she was better. I mean, maybe I just thought she was better than she was. She washed out ah very young.
00:22:57
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Damn. think she had some injuries. yeah That's tough. Yep.
00:23:05
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Yep.
00:23:07
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Well, speaking of, a I mean, going back to the enhanced games and the Oklahoma drill, speaking of ah head trauma and Instagram, it's time for real the week.
Reel of the Week: Cheese Rolling
00:23:21
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Bringing it back. Let's go. right. So I got, I got something for you guys. Let's go.
00:23:29
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I'm so glad we're doing a real of the week again.
00:23:33
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All right.
00:23:40
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don't know if you guys have seen this. It got really popular a couple weeks ago, but I wanted to bring it up because I think someone in here has a similar experience with what these guys are doing.
00:23:53
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Let me play it for you guys.
00:24:11
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That was bad. I didn't realize I had to click the button. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'll replay it. um' I'm a Discord rookie.
00:24:23
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Everyone's in the stream now? oh you know what I think I did see this, though, but just just replay it. Yeah, I got you. This is from the the Cheese Wheel thing? Yeah. When
00:24:34
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did go with
00:24:53
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ah i'm I'm a little confused. About what? ah ah who has Who has experience in that? Yeah, didn't didn't you trace ah and you chase some cheese down a hill once?
00:25:09
Speaker
No? I chased some cheese down a hill once. i thought you I thought you did some like cheese event before. i i've For our viewers, if you guys don't know what that was, it's a huge festival in England where ah bunch people...
00:25:23
Speaker
like basically do a pilgrimage to this hill. Um, they roll a wheel of cheese down the hill and like whoever's the first to the bottom of the hill wins a, like, I think they just win the cheese wheel. I don't think they win anything else.
00:25:38
Speaker
I think it's like what' bragging rights type situation. Yeah. Yeah. um And for the audio listeners, obviously, I think you only heard a remixed version of One Republic there, ah The Fray.
00:25:51
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um i believe that's The Fray. Yeah. It was this one guy basically getting so far airborne that he hit like a T-pose, like he was Jesus on the cross, and then landing on his head.
00:26:08
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Seems like halfway through there, he intentionally launches himself up with the intention of like doing a backflip and like landing on his feet. ah Halfway through, it felt intentional when he launches himself up. But it's like with how much speed he's got going down that hill, I don't know what the plan was there.
00:26:27
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um Yes, it didn't. it didn't look fun, ah but is there, like is there like a coolest, is there like a constellation prize for like coolest wipeout?
00:26:40
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Uh, I don't think so. Maybe, maybe it's the fact that he kind of blew up on Instagram. I'm like, that reel was like everywhere for the week after the cheese rolling thing. Um, but yeah, Mike, I thought, I thought you had done something similar to this, which is why I wanted to bring it up, but I guess I was wrong. How do you, how do you know this? Like, how do I know this?
00:27:01
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Oh, Brian told me that you had done something similar to this. So I was like, oh, I could bring this up because I think it'd be fun. So ah ah have done a cheese event. Yes. I did not run down a hill chasing a cheese.
00:27:14
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ah So it's not similar. But yes, I have done a cheese roll. Yes, I have done those. Okay. So what did you organize the event? What's that? You were the organizer.
00:27:26
Speaker
I was not the organizer of the event. but essentially when You took out like big life insurance policies on all of the contestants and placed very sharp, jagged rocks on the hill.
00:27:39
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so did So did we look up the background of this tradition that these people are doing? Like, I want to know the story. Like, why are they? Like, why does this happen? Yeah, like, first of all, why do they continue it?
00:27:53
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Obviously, because it's tradition, I guess. But like, where did this originate? Where is it? Why are they doing it? Like, I need answers. and Well, let let me look that up for you. ah It's kind of, while while I do that, it's kind of akin to the, Nick, I don't know, this is ah this is a deep pull, but that murder ball thing Atticus brought up that one time, ah don't know if you remember that, but I guess another town, there's a different town in England, they do this thing called murder ball, where It's basically the whole town congregates in the middle of the city on one road, and they just have a ball in the middle of the thing.
00:28:31
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Someone kicks the ball up, and whoever has the ball at the end of the day, like when the sun goes down, like wins like a prize. So for the whole day, it's a bunch of people trying to protect the ball, and they will fist fight each other damn to make sure that they have the ball.
00:28:52
Speaker
It looked crazy. um You know that like ah short story, The Lottery?
00:28:59
Speaker
No. no No, we're like, ah like these people in this town, they all like draw numbers and then, oh, very vague. Like what's happening? Yeah. I've seen that. And they all like stone someone to death. Yep. I've seen that. That's what that, that would have been a much more enticing title murder ball. ah I would have been fucking psyched to read that in English class. It was like the lottery. I don't
00:29:25
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Yeah. um you Do you guys know about the polio in Siena? It's basically like the seven neighborhoods. Is it seven? Like the seven neighborhoods that make up the city of Siena do this.
00:29:41
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it's It's tradition. They do this horse race in the center of the town it's only three laps, but the rules are like there are no rules. So like these dudes are just getting brashed out. It's insane. Yeah.
00:29:53
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Yeah, it's like a big tradition thing. Yeah, you should you should look it up. It's a huge tradition tradition thing. Take it seriously. And the rules are there are no rules. You have to all three laps and come first for whatever the hell they went out.
00:30:06
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It's nuts. It seems to me that like Europe as a country i mean as a continent is just completely washed and they have nothing better to do and they're just bored. And so they have to come up with these...
00:30:19
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violent events to keep themselves satisfied like uh running of the bulls you know that's another one yeah when does yeah it kind of it kind of poses the question like when how long until tradition died like how long like you said like the running of the bulls is how long they've been doing that i mean they have to been doing that since the 1500s hundreds and hundreds of years like like let's just put a number it would say 50 of the king the spade whatever whatever How long do we have to do these things until tradition dies? Like, when is somebody going to stop doing it or host it or whatever the case is, you know? Well, there were probably like tons of other events ah in that vein that also took place around the time that the running of the bullets was established, but there was much lamer and it didn't stand the test of time.
00:31:10
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You know I mean? Yeah, I guess so. It's like we all we have the running of the ferrets in April. didn't It didn't have any staying power. Yeah, it just didn't work. It didn't work.
00:31:23
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ah So it seems like with the cheese rolling thing, there's not like a real reason why this started. It's been around, I guess, for 600 years, they think.
00:31:37
Speaker
The only first... like The first written evidence was in a message from 1826, back even further. Yeah. ah goals it goes like back even further
00:31:49
Speaker
It just seems like there's there's two possible origins, they say. First was maintaining grazing rights on the common, which I can't even tell you what that means.
00:32:02
Speaker
I don't know if that's like fighting for farmland or some shit like that. I mentioned the common means commonwealth, and is that like the town? you know Yeah. you can So, okay, sure.
00:32:14
Speaker
We can figure that out. And then the second one was they might have been doing it for religions, like religious purposes of like there was some sort of custom of rolling objects down the hill and...
00:32:31
Speaker
It's supposed to be like a fertility right to encourage the fruits of harvest. that's That's what they have written here. but Well, here's my idea, right? So, like, the Green Bay Packers, they've got, like, a 40,000-person wait list for season tickets, right?
00:32:45
Speaker
Yeah. Let's make these people earn it, you know? Let's start rolling the cheese wheel down the hill. Yeah. And may the best man win.
00:32:55
Speaker
Yeah. That actually makes... I think that makes the most sense. but Let... they Yeah. Yeah. They love cheese up in Wisconsin. they could They could figure this shit out.
00:33:06
Speaker
mean, going to call yourself a cheese head. Like, fucking earn it. Yeah. A little hungry game style, you know? Natural selection at its finest.
00:33:17
Speaker
I like it. i like it. I think I don't really see how else they can figure out how to handle those 40,000 season ticket holes, you know?
00:33:29
Speaker
Surprisingly, there haven't been any recorded deaths.
00:33:35
Speaker
record Recorded? Recorded, yeah. I can't i can't i find... well you know Big Cheese has the media. That's never going to show up in the news. This guy... says it weapon arent the rug gee This guy, Stephen Guide.
00:33:51
Speaker
Such an English name. He's won it 21 times. My God. 1991, he did a triple crown. He won all three. Or I guess... Oh, yeah, no. All three... Get out of here. All three men's downhill races. that's They had three men's... It was set up for three men's and one women's race.
00:34:12
Speaker
And he won all three, completing the triple crown and getting his 21st ever win. So you know what he has to do next. You know this, right? He's going to have to do the enhanced games.
00:34:27
Speaker
He's going to have... He's like, that's going to have to be a category. Like, he's going to have to participate. Yeah, the enhanced cheese wheel rolling down the hill. Get these guys all juiced up so you can get down the fastest.
00:34:40
Speaker
Exactly. maybe Maybe grease up that cheese wheel a little so it's a little slippery, you know?
00:34:47
Speaker
I like it. ah look I think we could do that. Try to see if anyone's ever won more than 21 times. I mean, that's like an incredible... Chris Anderson. Chris Anderson has won 22 times. 23, actually. Yeah,
00:35:04
Speaker
yeah he's won a ah record 23 times. This is... don't know if he has a job. It just says he used to be in the Army. And now... believe he played for the Nuggets. for Yeah. ah I mean, he's like six ten So I would think that that that reach...
00:35:25
Speaker
really helps helps you out yeah you know how like um there's like weird people that do like um you know they host a website where it's like you're the best like sixth grade basketball players in the country i i think they have that in england for the the cheese wheel competition god i hope so and god let's find it
00:35:50
Speaker
man i would I would love that. There's like betting odds on all of that. It's like, it's basically only like the English cheeseburger.
00:36:01
Speaker
Oh, God, I'd love it. Damn, American Cooper Cummings set the fastest record for race time at 13 seconds. Jeez. That's awesome.
00:36:12
Speaker
So do you just have to make it down the hill, or is it timed on capturing the block of cheese? You just have to make it a rule you have to make it there first. like You have to be the first person down the hill to win.
00:36:23
Speaker
So the cheese really doesn't matter. No, I think i think you're just following the cheese. Okay. I feel like this would be much more entertaining if you had to like capture the the block of cheese. Yeah.
00:36:40
Speaker
I think they should do a reverse thing where it's kind of like Plinko, where everyone's lined up on the middle of the hill, and then they release like 80 cheese wheels.
00:36:51
Speaker
And whoever doesn't get taken out keeps advancing to the next round. Because these things pick up a lot of speed. The cheese picks up like almost terminal velocity going down the hill. It's like a 50% slope.
00:37:06
Speaker
so It's picking up a lot of speed. If anyone, you know, if you get hit by it, you get eliminated. Hopefully you don't die. But like, I think that's how it should be done.
00:37:18
Speaker
Now, the runners left like at the end. They should run the race down the hill. Because like 15,000 people show up to this every year. That's too much. yeah I think you got to weed out the crowd.
00:37:32
Speaker
I think we should host this event and I think we should so we should start it to start to see if this is a quality hill. We should do it at Wakely School in our hometown.
00:37:45
Speaker
Because you know at the end of Wakely how that has that huge hill where it's the baseball fields down there. i think I think that's what we got to do. I think everybody's got to run down. We're going to time it and see how well we do.
00:38:00
Speaker
I think that would be um a massive liability to bring all those English people into the border. And a border problem, but that's a separate thing.
00:38:13
Speaker
But, you know, we could start with, you know, townies, you know, a couple townies, you know, a couple maybe people who want to prove a point, and we'll take it from there.
00:38:25
Speaker
Let's give it a shot. I think we should do that.
00:38:29
Speaker
We should host the event. We
00:38:34
Speaker
you should host it. I like it. Might be a good way to weed out a lot of people we don't like. Right, right. Let's, you know... Kind of like what Nick said earlier. You know, leave a couple rocks at the bottom of the... ah Leave some rocks.
00:38:50
Speaker
Yeah. But also safe, because zero reported deaths. So... I feel like there's definitely some deaths. Maybe Wikipedia... and I'm going to look this up just in a separate search.
00:39:06
Speaker
Because there's no chance. Incognito browser for the... Yeah.
00:39:13
Speaker
Jeez. We're going incognito for this one. So what did you have to do for that cheese thing, Mike? Like, was it... So you have to... It's ah it's a... Again, it's a tradition thing, but...
00:39:28
Speaker
You wouldn't get it. Yeah, you wouldn't get it. You wouldn't understand. um they They wrapped the cheese around this rope, and at the end of the rope is like just like a piece of wood to place your hand, and you have to you have to roll it.
00:39:47
Speaker
And basically, the farthest who rolls it wins the cheese, but there's like an out-of-bounds mark stuff, you know? So that's basically what it is. So we we would go on to the... They did it at the soccer field at the Pawnee Club, and right on the foul line there, we roll it, if it goes over the foul line, it's off, and then who's ever the last wins it. But it's it's a it's definitely a Pawnee setup, but that shit's heavy.
00:40:13
Speaker
they said You need a wind-up. You really Have you seen them do it? Like when the Pawnee Club, like when they did four day feast or something? Like these dudes, i'm tough I mean, they're dramatic, but they're like, they're throwing their back. Like half of them are like flopping on the floor after they throw it. But this shit's heavy.
00:40:36
Speaker
But they they still do it in Italy. I've seen it. um But they do it on the main street. So, like, you know, we're doing it in grass, and grass will naturally slow it down. But these guys are still doing it on the roads. Like, this shit goes for... It goes a long distance.
00:40:51
Speaker
So... That's pretty... Did you you want a prize, though, right, for winning it? Or did you just participate? I just participated, but the winner the winner wins the cheese. Hmm.
00:41:02
Speaker
Like, the actual wheel, which is probably... ah It's been beat to shit. It's been thrown in the street for three hours. It's wrapped. It's wrapped. It's good. It got to be at least it has to be at least 25 to 30 pound shoes.
00:41:24
Speaker
Has to be. The cheese wheel I got for my birthday last year was 14 pounds. And it was like a ah medium size. I would say medium size. So this one is is the big one. It has to be at least 25 to 30 pounds.
00:41:37
Speaker
I feel like they should probably give you something else for that. But, you know, fair enough.
00:41:43
Speaker
that's the That's the thing, though. You you win the cheese. Yeah, I guess. and There was a video of me throwing it. don't know where the hell that video ever is. but Yeah, you've deleted it because ah you've only threw it like five feet.
00:41:59
Speaker
you You had the shortest throw in the competition. Yeah, they kicked me out. yeah Yeah, you were exiled from the small village.
00:42:10
Speaker
Yeah, no, I was... I had to go to... none school, you know, as my shaming work on work on the farm for three months. No, I threw it at a good distance.
00:42:23
Speaker
Obviously it wasn't the farthest, but I just wanted to be inbounds and I was inbounds and I was, I was happy. i was happy. I was inbounds, you know, didn't disqualify myself. I gotta, I gotta to search around. See if get that.
00:42:35
Speaker
Yeah. All right. Well, I mean, yeah that's, that's pretty cool.
00:42:42
Speaker
Is it, is it cool? I mean, I think, you know, I'm trying to be nice, man.
00:42:48
Speaker
We should do it. you If you guys want to do it, let me know. We'll do it. Alright. Maybe. Holy shit, I do have it. Oh yeah, show show us. You to send it to you? No, no just just put it up to the camera.
00:43:03
Speaker
I would kind of take too much work to for you to send it and then me to play it. No, well I'll send it to you guys a group.
00:43:13
Speaker
I'll just put it to the camera so we can see it as well. This way that our audience can see it. Alright, hold on. It was a far distance.
00:43:26
Speaker
Wow. Yeah,
00:43:31
Speaker
it rolled. Okay. It rolled. It stayed in bounds. I was okay with that. What was the farthest throw? like what was the farthest throw
00:43:42
Speaker
I don't know what the farthest throw is because like they don't measure it on ah with a tape measure or anything, but they just they they put a cone. So if you saw the cone, that will point which who threw it the farthest.
00:43:55
Speaker
Oh, okay. where's just wondering But ah if you guys, I know you've been to the Cup, Vic. They have the tape measures in every box of court because they want to see who's the closest.
00:44:08
Speaker
Jesus. That little cone there. yeah that's that on Yeah, you got close to the cone. You weren't that far away. All things considered, i think that was a pretty nice throw. yeah not bad for It's respectable.
00:44:21
Speaker
There's a lot of pressure. yeah Were you watching like ah like YouTube videos of of Bush throwing out the first pitch at the 2001 World Series?
00:44:35
Speaker
No, I did not. Maybe that's what I needed to get over the hump. you know Yeah. You know, with that that in mind, the that style of format for the cheese thing, um we should have that for the enhanced games. i don't know if you guys have said that, but now now after watching that video, it's like, we should let these juiced up dudes.
00:44:51
Speaker
And you know what? No out of bounds. No out of bounds. Fuck it. Just throw it as far as you can, wherever it lands. We'll get the tape measure out. well We'll determine the distance. But I want to see those dudes hock it like a length of a football field or some shit.
00:45:07
Speaker
Hell yeah. No, let's do it. I like it. I want to see it like, um you know, like the, what's that? The third or fourth hole at a farming Barry where it's over the road. i want I want to see people lugging it into the street.
00:45:25
Speaker
once Aiming.
00:45:28
Speaker
artist That's what they should have in the enhanced games to longest drive.
00:45:35
Speaker
They're doing shit like swimming. like They need to be doing shit that actually shows your power. but Just take them to a top golf and just let them rip it. That's what I'm saying. like Longest drive, home run derby, Oklahoma drill.
00:45:48
Speaker
um Maybe for basketball, you could do like setting a screen. you go. That how muscular are, guess. How strong you are.
00:45:59
Speaker
um soccer a header maybe you know maybe get the neck muscles uh going
Gaming and Tech Mishaps
00:46:05
Speaker
don't know our hardest slide tackle studs up see if you could break someone's leg with with the you know What was the name of that NFL video game? Was it Blitz?
00:46:16
Speaker
what was the one oh No, it's not Blitz. it's something It was something unlicensed. It was a like intentionally you're breaking dudes' bones or something that. You could kill people.
00:46:27
Speaker
yeah ah so Essentially. essentially yes Something like Gridiron? gri iron aw man i got it I had that game for the PSP. I loved playing it. you could you could if you got If your guy got hurt, you could take steroids on the sideline to get him back in the game right away.
00:46:42
Speaker
They hit you with a needle. I remember that.
00:46:47
Speaker
Yeah, it was a blitz. Yeah, you're right. It was unlicensed. It could be blitzed too. Because there there was a game called NFL Blitz and I just know it's not that game. Right. no but That was like an NFL street type of game.
00:47:02
Speaker
Oh no, Mike, you're right. It's called Blitz it's called blitz the League. wow Yeah, okay. I thought Blitz was in there. Yeah, thought Blitz was there. Yeah, that game was so sick. They should bring that back.
00:47:15
Speaker
Yeah, remaster that. we We're going to need that. Yeah. you could play You could play it on the Wii? oh Oh, no, no. it was supposed to be it was supposed to be on the Wii, but they canceled it. I was about to say, how would you play on the fucking Wii? Just as much as as you could play Call of Duty on the Wii. Because, yes, they that was a thing.
00:47:37
Speaker
They canceled it because of woke.
00:47:42
Speaker
Yeah. this This agenda that's going on crazy. Yeah. It's it's fucking nuts. I don't have much on this for the Nintendo stuff, but just a little side note. um They package the Switch 2 so poorly that when you open the box, it's the screen is literally right there under the first layer of box.
00:48:04
Speaker
There's no like foam padding on top of it. and so There were GameStops across the country that were stapling the receipts of the box and inadvertently stapling the receipts into the screen.
00:48:16
Speaker
oh Because Nintendo packaged them so poorly.
00:48:21
Speaker
I you know what? At least you got your receipt right there. Yeah, I'd be like, hey, I'm going to have to return this. Yeah. um I heard they didn't do as much sales as they were hoping for.
00:48:34
Speaker
I'm wondering if that's just like... um Like a causality of like, there's so much hype around it that people are like, well, I'm not going to get one. So I'm not going to preorder it right now. Wait till it, you know i mean? it's like, everyone's like, oh, it's so hyped and it's going to be sold out. So why would I go after it?
00:48:51
Speaker
I'll just wait until they do the next release. Maybe. Cause that's like my mode of thinking. Like I don't need the switch to, I i barely play my switch like now. It's like, why would I even go and buy the second one?
00:49:07
Speaker
if it's going to be What games are even like... I feel like there's not a lot of games even available right now. Yeah, I don't think there's many... There's no titles available for... I think there's like three games for Switch 2 right now.
00:49:19
Speaker
so
00:49:21
Speaker
Unless you're like really, really fucking into Mario Kart. I don't really yeah see why you're like going to bend it. That only lasts a long time. yeah yeah Yeah, exactly.
00:49:34
Speaker
Yeah, there's only... It looks like Zelda. Well, like there's a couple games being upgraded for the Switch, too. But right now, it's literally Mario Kart World, Kirby Air Riders, Donkey Kong Bonanza, Fast Fusion, and then like a bunch of other... i guess Yakuza 0 is pretty cool. but like ah There's like 10, 20 games, but none of them so like a half of them seem like shit I just would never play.
00:50:05
Speaker
right And some of them aren't even... like Kirby the Forgotten Land is not out until August. Mario Party is not out until late July. um Yeah, so maybe it's less than that. because some of these like The Donkey Kong one isn't available until July 17th.
00:50:21
Speaker
So yeah, I don't think there's a reason to buy it now.
00:50:26
Speaker
ah This is kind of an unrelated topic, but did you guys see that video of that... um that like a news helicopter pilot in l LA ah talking about, he he was like, like in a live stream, ah just filming like the, the protest in LA and you didn't realize he was like live on air.
00:50:50
Speaker
And he, he was just talking about how like his marriage is like breaking apart.
00:50:57
Speaker
Yeah. And then ah people were like, ah we're like quote tweeting it with like a whitest kids, you know, sketch. Oh, yeah. yeah Yeah. No, i know what you you're talking about. Yeah.
00:51:09
Speaker
We're like ah Trevor's like the the pilot and he's he's on air ah like filming some like, ah i don't know, some some like a high speed car chase. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then he's like he notices like his wife's car.
00:51:23
Speaker
he's like, I thought she was supposed to be out of town.
00:51:29
Speaker
Yeah. So. and then And then people were ah talking about how Trevor Moore was killed by the CIA. Yeah, that's right. Which probably he was too powerful.
00:51:40
Speaker
Yeah. He knew so many things.
00:51:45
Speaker
All right. Well, let's ah let's wrap this one up here on some would you rather questions.
Light-hearted 'Would You Rather' Segment
00:51:51
Speaker
This is Mike's favorite subject or ah favorite segment or whatever.
00:51:57
Speaker
understand that Mike's got himself in some hot water before. with this ah He has. ah put this out there the The questions get progressively the question itself. I'm saying the quality of the question.
00:52:11
Speaker
it's just They're not great. No, no, they're great questions. Mike just doesn't know how to answer things. it's the host let's let's breeze Let's breeze through these. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you know, there's four.
00:52:22
Speaker
So let's, you know. Let's breeze through these. Okay. So we're going start off light, guys. If your partner were to cheat on you, would you rather the person look almost exactly like you or nothing like you?
00:52:35
Speaker
Nothing.
00:52:41
Speaker
I'd go to nothing like
00:52:44
Speaker
I think I'm going exactly like me. Is there a reason for that? Well, it's just like, you know, it's like, you just can't get enough of me.
00:52:58
Speaker
it's It's one of those things. All right. but Fair enough.
00:53:04
Speaker
All right. a Second question. For a million dollars, would you rather fight a chimpanzee to the death or kill your entire body weight's worth of fire ants in under a day?
00:53:20
Speaker
Say the question again. What? Would you rather fight a chimpanzee to the death, or kill your entire body weight's worth of fire ants in under a day? I'm killing the fire ants with a flamethrower.
00:53:35
Speaker
You know, one big can of Raid, or... Yeah, I don't know how you would fight ants hand-to-hand combat. fighting chimpanzee at that. That's also, like, too personal for me, you know?
00:53:46
Speaker
Like, that's... Yeah, they're a little bit more sentient than ah than an ant. Like, even if I succeeded, I would be, like, haunted by it. But, like, the fire ants, I'd look back, like, call my son and be like, that was fucking sick.
00:53:59
Speaker
Just, you know, one big magnet. Or one big, uh, what's it called? Magifying glass. you know I was going to say fight the chimpanzee, but I think Nick persuaded me to go with the fire ants.
00:54:14
Speaker
Yeah, fighting a chimpanzee would crazy move. don't think live with myself choking the the chimpanzee out. also don't know if any one of us would be able to fight a chimpanzee one-on-one.
00:54:26
Speaker
Also, that too. You could just get your ass kicked. like Yeah, we would be able to fight it, but we're not going to win it. yeah At least it's not like a fucking like gorilla.
00:54:38
Speaker
or you know
00:54:40
Speaker
Yeah, 100 dudes or 100 gorillas, you know? Yeah. Or whatever it was. It was it was a one gorilla versus 100 people. I think 100 people versus 100 gorillas would... I think they'd make light work.
00:54:56
Speaker
Unless we have guns, you know, or or spears at the very least. Oh, yeah. They're making light work us. think on that one. Alright, and then ah last last one.
00:55:06
Speaker
We'll wrap up the episode with this. Would you rather piss out a kiwi or shit out a watermelon?
00:55:15
Speaker
What I, passing a kidney stone? What the hell? How do you piss out a kiwi? that's I think either of those are killing you. yeah about bottlebo I'm going shit out of water, bottle because that that and hole is designated for solids to come out.
00:55:31
Speaker
Okay. I'm not peeing out of kiwi. That hole is not designated for solids. Like, that's crazy. That would hurt. I think it hurts either way.
00:55:42
Speaker
yeah Well, yeah, but I mean, at least at least my body's naturally, it's exiting a natural exit only hole, you know?
00:55:54
Speaker
um go I'm going with the watermelon. It's only exit only if you choose. like if you You could make it entrance as well if you wanted to. ah Yeah, that's ah that's personal preference. but yeah It's designed for exit only.
00:56:06
Speaker
Yeah, you know it's it's Pride Month. You don't have to you know yeah let's not to shame anybody here, Mike. yeah you know there's no There's no shame in it. It's it's it's multi-purpose. It's designed to exit. Could be entered. you know Exactly.
00:56:20
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going with the watermelon. Yeah, I'd probably go a watermelon too. I think both of these are killing you.
00:56:29
Speaker
Yeah, i mean, your intestines will be destroyed. There's no question. yeah I think the cucumber probably results in less blood loss.
00:56:41
Speaker
ah just I just, think, I think either way you're dead. I just, I don't think. Yeah, maybe you're not alive enough to feel the wall. You don't die. I'll i'll add the stipulation. You don't die either way.
00:56:52
Speaker
you just have to pass one of them. And yeah, I suppose the watermelon because like passing like a kidney stone stone the size of like a pea is like the most excruciating thing you could possibly imagine.
00:57:10
Speaker
so So for a cucumber is like
00:57:16
Speaker
Was it a cucumber or a kiwi? No, it was a kiwi. But yeah, I mean, I that feel like it's still horrendous. Still horrendous. Yeah. I don't think it makes that much of a difference, to be honest. Not quite as bad. It's not as long. It's not as long.
00:57:28
Speaker
Yeah. ah But still pretty, you know? so Still pretty wide. yeah Yeah. Still bulky. Still girthy, you know? yeah Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to watermelon. All right.
00:57:40
Speaker
Hey, fair enough. those ones Those ones weren't bad. Those ones weren't bad. Yeah, I had to make these like three minutes before the episode. I didn't have time to research and really get after it on on them. but um I'm having fun with the but the wood, rather.
00:57:55
Speaker
yeah You don't any more? Nah, I had a fourth one, but it's not that good. That one, I think, was the best one to end on. Okay, fair enough. But, you know, next week next week I'll have some more. I'll have some heat.
00:58:08
Speaker
I'll have some stuff that really gets Mike sweating. You know, the good stuff. You know, the real good stuff. I think we should continue to end on some would-you-rathers, you know, but the past couple would-you-rathers, they weren't there, you know? No, I think they were there. You're just you're just too scared to answer. No, I answered. I think you guys just hammered me on the watch, you know?
00:58:32
Speaker
Well, I mean, yeah. But, you know, it is what it is. Another successful episode down, boys. We're going wrap this one up, guys. Thanks for listening. Remember to like, subscribe, and leave a review.
00:58:47
Speaker
um Follow us on all socials and YouTube as well, where we post our full episodes with visuals. um And yeah, ah that's pretty much it. See you guys next week.
00:59:00
Speaker
Peace.