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Episode 136 - Wicked Games
19 Plays27 days ago
Sir, a second Torpedo bat has hit the Swingers club
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Transcript
Peter Frampton & Music Preferences
00:00:00
Speaker
Peter Frampton? You better fucking believe it's Peter Frampton. Absolutely. You don't like a little 14 minutes of do you feel like I do? Yeah, but I prefer it. I don't think we have 14 minutes to waste here.
00:00:12
Speaker
I prefer it with the synth. Yeah. No, you're talking. I'm sure he gets into the synth at some point. It's a talk box. You guys get it. Get a grip. But we're almost there. Hold on. What
00:00:27
Speaker
but if we work a little into our intro? little talk box? Yeah. I mean, I think that's completely up to Mike. Hold on.
00:00:38
Speaker
I know we don't have time, but... It's the part where he goes, do you feel like I do?
00:00:46
Speaker
Yeah. Did just say, i want to fuck you? Hell yeah. Let's go. Frampton, you're So wrong.
Intro/Outro Music Debate
00:00:55
Speaker
Dude's getting as horny as R. Kelly would at those concerts. Yeah.
00:01:00
Speaker
That's him eating the box. That's him eating the box. i'll do Oh, shit. Oh, God. Beautiful, beautiful. All right, let's roll into it. Hit us with the intro music.
00:01:12
Speaker
All right. And then I'm going to hit you with ah my two intro musics. you're two to intro i sent you I send in the in the chat. I know. I have. I think that works. I listened the first 30 seconds. I think that works better as an outro.
00:01:26
Speaker
Okay. We'll go with the we go the original. is outro The new intro music that Mike has created. Well, do okay. Now, do you want to play the regular intro music? And then we could play. No, no. We're just going to play the new one, I guess. It doesn't matter. Just.
00:01:41
Speaker
Okay. It's still these perfect.
00:01:46
Speaker
Yeah, kept the siren in there. That's for me and me. This is the one from last.
00:02:09
Speaker
Alright guys, sound sound off in the comments on ah which intro you think is better. going to vote that one. just on and It needs some work. yeah should needs It needs work, but it's fine.
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Speaker
thank you You can go ahead. That's... that's ah
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Speaker
That's our new motto for this podcast.
Torpedo Bats in Baseball
00:02:28
Speaker
It needs work. needs a little work. It's fine. It's the story of our lives. I'll tell you um ahll tell you what doesn't need work if we're just going to dive into it. Let's just dive into it.
00:02:40
Speaker
If we know it doesn't need work is these torpedo bats. Do guys know about these torpedo bats? You're hitting hard on this right away. You have a a problem with it? Well, so you are you for or against the torpedo bats? So I did my research on him last night because if you don't know, tomorrow is opening day at PNC Park in Pittsburgh and the Pirates play the Yankees for the next three days.
00:03:03
Speaker
yeah And as you all know, the Yankees hit like 15 home runs in what, the first three games? They are on pace for 900 home runs. Obviously, that's not going to happen, but never.
00:03:14
Speaker
They are technically on pace for 900 home runs right now. So I looked up this this physics of this torpedo bat because I'm like, I don't want to get torched at home, ah you know, opening opening series, you know? um son, like this is up to him.
00:03:32
Speaker
like yeah like he's He's pitching he's pitching saturday days's like Saturday's game. yeah no hiching it Listen, the last thing I want to see is the Pirates lose 14-3. I want to see the Pirates lose It's Mitch Keller, then Mike Slobonic. That's the three starters for this weekend, guys. That's right. Come out and see me Sunday, 1.35 p.m.
00:03:54
Speaker
um Listen, here's the deal. i When it comes to the torpedo bat, I understand it. It makes sense. You know what I'm saying? what they What they did with it and what they're trying to accomplish. Because at the end of the day,
00:04:08
Speaker
Baseball, we want to see some action, right? And they made it a pitcher's game for a very long time. Now they're making it more of a hitter's game. So now we want the home runs. We want the action. We want the long balls.
Standardizing Torpedo Bats
00:04:19
Speaker
I'm okay with the torpedo bat, but either...
00:04:23
Speaker
I don't like this. Well, you can use it if you want or don't use it if you want. I need the MLB to come out and be like, guys, we're going to do this. No, no, no, no. Yeah. but of this i don't want I don't want to like, I don't know. I don't want to kill your argument in the middle of it.
00:04:36
Speaker
The only reason I'm saying no, which I did, because there's like reasons behind it. Like Stanton tried using this bat in September last year and like he fucked up his elbows. Like, so I don't think something like Aaron judge doesn't use it because he doesn't need to use it.
00:04:51
Speaker
Yeah. So I think there's like a reason why they can't like, I think it can fuck with your swing a little bit. I think that people are I feel like that's just, people are used to a more top heavy bat and they have to adjust.
00:05:05
Speaker
Right. And it's probably a thing for, you know, what the size of the hitter and the length of their arms and everything like that. But these bats are supposed to be tailored to each hitter.
00:05:17
Speaker
Right. Like the set, the the the barrel size and position depends on who's swinging the bat. Right. It gets custom made for you.
Economics of MLB & Torpedo Bats
00:05:26
Speaker
Yeah. but But but that's why, like, OK, if they can't like all or nothing as a trial. But like, that's why I kind of wish like I know that they kind of dipped in it a little bit last season, but I kind of wish the MLB was like, look, take spring training to feel it out.
00:05:43
Speaker
And then we'll come up with a decision if we want to trial this for half a season and vote on the all-star break if we want to continue to use this bat for the rest of the season. But you're forcing everyone to to use the bat when some people don't want to use the bat.
00:05:57
Speaker
Right. I think what you're you're assuming that it automatically makes the hitter better, right? Well, it's a better... Doesn't the physics provide it a better chance of contact?
00:06:09
Speaker
It shifts the sweet spot of the bat, right? And theoretically, you can get a better hit out of it, right? you You're increasing your chance. But...
00:06:23
Speaker
What you're also doing is you're taking a lot of that wood weight away from the end of the bat, right? Because I think, who is it that that's commenting now that was a former pitcher? um Damn, I can't remember his name.
00:06:39
Speaker
But anyways, the comment that they were making when they were talking about the torpedo bats um on the MLB network was, if I'm a pitcher and I see somebody with a torpedo bat, I know that the top end of their bat is not going to be as strong. It's not going to be as solid of a hit.
00:06:56
Speaker
And so I'm going to start pitching them away more, right? And so it's like it's only a matter of time before people figure out the weaknesses of this style of bat. And they start pitching around it, and it's not as effective anymore.
00:07:08
Speaker
It's just, it's another skill-based thing. yeah Ever since we've been able to um fully customize bats in MLB, people have been trying a whole shitload of different things with the sizes and shapes of all parts of the bat, including the handle. So it's like, this is just another iteration.
00:07:26
Speaker
and And end of the day, like, the guy still has to put contact on the ball here. Yeah, you still got to hit. It's still, yeah, like... Just because they've, and and it's it's barely saying altered. They've, they've just changed the style of, you know, of how the bats, you know, the composite of the bat,
Humor in Baseball Strategies
00:07:42
Speaker
it's still within legal parameters. It's not like it's, you know, a new thing. Like it's always, i don't know, just, just for me, it it doesn't,
00:07:53
Speaker
I think it makes sense to like all or nothing it, you know i'm saying? Like if people feel comfortable with it, let them keep swinging with it. If people don't feel comfortable with it, don't let them swing it. I don't know. Like it's a it look, it feels like a strategic choice to me, right?
00:08:08
Speaker
Like it's just something that you try out and it's not going to work for everybody. And that's why you don't have to force it on everybody. Yeah. But that's why I feel like they should gave it a solid trial run and collect data and analysis off of it into spring training instead of just being like... Well, they did.
00:08:24
Speaker
The Yankees hitters used it throughout spring training, and they were like yeah, we're going to keep... like The couple guys who are using the bats now were like, yeah, we're going to keep using these things. And now, after seeing the first three games by the Yanks, a bunch of other teams have been ordering the bats. Alex Bregman ordered one, and he had a home run tonight for the Sox.
00:08:42
Speaker
But why... But I'm just confused on why everybody, like, why the do the Yankees have, like, the upper advantage on it? Like, were they the first ones to use it? They worked with a company called Driveline, and this company works with a lot of and other MLB teams. it's all and It's just an analytics-based company, and these guys have helped create the bat.
00:09:05
Speaker
So this was available to pretty much everyone who wanted to try it. The Yanks were just the first team to really like unroll, like, like roll out these bats. So did they have to pay for it to try it Like, of course, yeah yeah I think they have. They hired someone specific like i I'm sure they hired someone from driveline on their own staff.
00:09:23
Speaker
Yeah. So, I mean, but like anyone could have done that. That's not just it's not all the clubs that not all the clubs have a payroll like the Yankees do. Well, then they don't hold on. Hold on. Don't act like none of these guys like the Yankees. Hey, you know what saying?
00:09:38
Speaker
How rich is the Pirates owner? Yeah, but he's a don't. that We know that. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. Don't act like he ran out of hot dog buns on dollar hot dog day. we yeah Again, not to defend any of these fucking owners, but the Yankees are literally middle of the pack on how much their owners are worth compared to the team.
00:09:59
Speaker
I swear to God, the Steinbrenners are like 17th in ownership, how much they actually have money like how much money they actually have and how much the team is worth. Pull up the data because I'm intrigued to see that because I would imagine that they're like top five.
00:10:12
Speaker
Steinbrenners would have to be top five. No, no, no. The Yankees are probably the most expensive you know value-based franchise in the MLB. The Steinbrenners themselves do not make money because they don't have any other businesses outside of the Yankees.
00:10:26
Speaker
All these other owners are billionaires who bought teams to make more money. The Steinbrenners only have the Yankees. Yeah, but how? ah No, I understand that. But how much money are they? How much money are they making compared to how much they're putting back in?
00:10:39
Speaker
That's what I want to know. Like, we know Bob Nutting, the owner of the Pirates, is making a huge amount of money off the Pirates and then putting nothing in. Yeah, well, that's the thing. It's the Yankees are only like that's all they have is that they're putting it back into the team.
00:10:53
Speaker
and we're And we're talking about this like this is some crazy um expensive contract for these wood bats. It really can't be that expensive yeah the grand scheme of things. so Compared to what they're spending on the players and what they're spending on on concessions and what they're spending on the actual infrastructure for the stadium, ain't no way. But in fairness to the integrity of the game, how come the MLB didn't like pick up this tab for all the clubs and make it available? Because it's ah it's an outside consulting company.
00:11:21
Speaker
Everyone has access to the outside consulting company. Everyone has the money to go pay this outside consulting company. Just other, no other teams were doing it until the Yankees started, I guess.
00:11:32
Speaker
And other teams, I think we're doing this before working with
Personal Baseball Experiences
00:11:35
Speaker
driveline. This just happens to be the first time that everyone's getting to see the true potential of the, the, um,
00:11:43
Speaker
What's it called? The torpedo bats. Yeah. And i mean, by that notion, why doesn't the MLB cover the salaries of all the baseball players? No, come on. No, that's too far. Seriously, if you want to want to play that game, right? Like it's everybody has the ability to spend the budget that they have on whatever it is that they want to do within the rules of the game.
00:12:06
Speaker
That's it. And these people decided to spend theirs on bats and it worked out. I guarantee you there have been tons of other things that have been tried by other teams to get that small advantage and it didn't work. This one just happened to work. Yeah.
00:12:17
Speaker
Also, Bob Nutting is worth 1.1 billion house. Dine Brenner 1.5 billion. It puts them middle of the pack. When you look at some of these numbers, like Steve Cohen, $20 billion. dollars Who's Steve Cohen on? What team? The Mets.
00:12:31
Speaker
The Mets guy. that's why and And he's just a Mets fan who bought the team to put money into the fucking Mets. hes Well, that at that at this point, he's the richest owner in the MLB. He has $20 billion. dollars He's like, fuck it. I'm just going to spend... you know He's doing what... like I don't want to say what rich people should do, but like it's what I would do if I was a billionaire.
00:12:50
Speaker
I would buy my favorite sports team and just... do a bunch... like That's why he signed Soto to fucking $800 million. dollars He's like, I want this guy on my team. He wants a ring. yeah Yeah. I get shit that I would do. and He's playing video games. Because it's just not about the money, boys. He's spending the money to get the ring.
00:13:07
Speaker
He also did... He also did cut payroll like two years ago when he spent a bunch of money. was like, damn, we kind of fucking suck. And then traded Verlander and Scherzer because they were making too much money. But that's besides the point.
00:13:20
Speaker
Either way, Steinberger and Bob Nutting essentially worth around the same. So it's not a lack of money issue. This is just a lack of investment. Yeah.
00:13:30
Speaker
And that's that's on Bob Nutting. That's not on... you know I can't believe that we said the word nutting this many times. know. haven't made a joke. I know. We're adults, bro. We're almost 30. Get it together.
00:13:41
Speaker
you're You're sitting in your living room right now wearing a robe next to a teddy bear wearing those glasses, and you're saying you're an adult? Yeah, you're not an adult. This is what adults do. No, it's not. No, it's not.
00:13:52
Speaker
This is what they do. I smoke a cigar right now. I don't care. Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure the the rest of your roommates in that apartment would love that. The bear included. It's hilarious.
00:14:03
Speaker
Listen, i just don't want to see the pirates get thrashed, number one. Number two, i can get down and you guys are going to 100% disagree, but um i'm gonna you guys are gonna hundred percent disagree but like Yeah, as an as average baseball fan, like nobody wants to see the Yankees do this shit.
00:14:18
Speaker
you know i don't want to watch the Yankees bomb 15 home runs. cares? they I'm telling you, by the end of the year, everyone is going to be using these bats. Everyone that wants to use them. Again, going back to point yeah or pitch yeah our point. Or pitchers figure it out, and then it doesn't it's not effective anymore. That's what I was just saying.
00:14:35
Speaker
Yeah, so it doesn't matter. What they really should be doing is allowing all the players to use steroids. Yes. Bring back the Barry Pons era. I want to see 75 home runs a year by one guy. I want to see 100%.
00:14:48
Speaker
I'm all for allowing the most, don't want to say dirty tactics, but batters get to use steroids. Pitchers get to use whatever. Rosin, spit, whatever that whatever they can do to manipulate the ball.
00:15:02
Speaker
We should be showing the best product possible. I want to see steroid fights on the field. Yeah. I think it all went downhill when they stopped letting him chew tobacco on the field, but that's just my opinion. They still chew tobacco.
00:15:15
Speaker
Oh, I thought they banned it. thought they stopped that. mean, maybe like when you step onto the field, but those dudes are packing lips. Yeah, okay, but they're they're packing, you know. They're packing tiny stuff. I'm talking about, I'm talking about, I want a big male pouch, you know, fat lip of like i also loose leaf in there, you know. I think one of the biggest reasons why they don't do that anymore is because they know how bad it is for you. Yeah, hold on. What is it like?
00:15:40
Speaker
In the last five months, let's say, where did this obsession with Zins and tobacco come from? It's not an obsession. It's an addiction. ah you Okay.
00:15:52
Speaker
Where did this come from? Did somebody introduce this to you and you were just like, where has this been all my life?
00:16:01
Speaker
Yeah, that's that's. Yeah, that's. Robbie Devers is still packing a big lip. I'm telling you That's lot. That's a lot lot. That's what I'm saying. Players are still doing it. It's not banned from the field. I just think a lot of people know, like, how fucking bad it is for you in the long term effects.
00:16:16
Speaker
You know, yeah it's not that bad. I took a six milligrams in and I like sweated for 25 minutes. It's not that bad. Wow. You just didn't want it bad enough. You didn't want the nicotine that bad.
00:16:30
Speaker
That's right. You know what? What are you going to do? Austin, how how much how many homers do you think you would hit with ah with a torpedo bat? you know That's a good question. if you were if you i mean You still are in your prime, you know but if you were in your prime...
00:16:45
Speaker
If I was in my prime, i'm many ding area because I could sit here and be like, oh, I'd absolutely, you know, knock 10 homers if I had 30 swings.
00:16:56
Speaker
But the people that play baseball with me that may or may not listen to this know that that's not true. Although. go ahead. I think it I think I would get a better chance because i never used to hit it off the end of the bat.
00:17:12
Speaker
I always used to find the sweet spot. I was just never strong enough to get it over the fence consistently. Because i look at me. um i'm not I'm not average height.
Baseball Day Out Planning
00:17:20
Speaker
I'm fucking 5'6", We're both 5'8", buddy.
00:17:25
Speaker
Although i got an extra... What did you say? so We're both 5'8". we're're We're both 5'8". That's right. sorry Plus 2, 5'10". But you know what? I got an extra 30 pounds on me now. Maybe it's possible.
00:17:36
Speaker
Listen, what's your career stats all time Oh, I don't track that shit, bro. ah comedy many How many homers you hit? How many dingers? Come on. Oh, in high school, I never hit a home run.
00:17:48
Speaker
i was in I was an oppo taco contact. Not even ah an inside the park?
00:17:55
Speaker
I think freshman year, I might have done that. But ah the the most recent home run that I've hit was a but's in like a softball league. That was about it.
00:18:06
Speaker
Let me tell you, if I was playing baseball and i had torpedo bat, I'm hitting two home runs. And on the second home run, I'm pulling a hammy and they're pulling me out of there. So I don't think you're making contact once. Get the fuck out of here. thinking I'm making contact. I'm making contact. Because I'm telling you right now, if we were to all face live pitching. All right. Hold on. Hold on. Okay. Yeah. If we're facing Paul Schoen, nobody's hitting it. One second. Mike, I watched you swing the bat at my fucking birthday party at the batting cages at the the goat car track, you are not hitting a home. You're not getting the ball pass first, let alone two home runs. Oh, I'm to two home runs.
00:18:42
Speaker
You're not getting the ball pass first base. I'm in two home runs. I watched you swing the bat, buddy. You're lucky if that gets rolled back to the pitcher. Mike's got the the cartoon where he puts the arm up and then it like sags, a muscle sags.
00:18:56
Speaker
like sky point i'm hitting I'm hitting two and I'm pulling a hammy on the second run around. i think I think if we were to face live pitching and not even saying and MLB, I think if someone were throwing the ball like 70 plus to the three of us, Austin would obviously do the best.
00:19:11
Speaker
But I think I would be lucky just to foul the ball off. Let's go to Austin, next time you're back in town, let's go to the ye olde local baseball fields and let's let's pop some off and see what... I i would do it. Let's pop some off. You have no idea how much I would love to do that.
00:19:28
Speaker
Like, no running. Let's just pop them off. See what happens. there is There is nobody that I can do that with here, and I used to love doing that. Just pulling out the L screen and go take a couple of swings. Somebody stands in the outfield. They collect the balls. I would love to do that.
00:19:45
Speaker
Right here, buddy. You can go to the I'm not going to dox them, but me and *** would do that all the time freshman year of college. I think we've done it a couple times too, Austin. I think we've gone to the cages. I did too because we were on the team together, but it's just like miss doing that.
00:20:00
Speaker
I would rather do that than go to batting cages. I would rather go go the three of us or whatever it is and just pop some off. You know what I'm saying? We're going to record the whole thing. We're going to make it into a video.
00:20:12
Speaker
i love that. It's going to be sick. um like um You guys ever watch the Bat Bros? No. Maybe I've seen them. They test all the bats and stuff see how far they get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:20:25
Speaker
Yeah, they did one recently where it was like he's going to had to try to hit a home run from every speed from like, you know, 50 to 100 miles an hour or something like that.
00:20:36
Speaker
But they did it. I don't think we have anything like this near us where it's like the equivalent of a golf in indoor golf range. But for baseball.
00:20:46
Speaker
Oh, no, no, dude. The cage at the go-kart track does that. Oh, it does? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude, it's crazy how good that one is. It's pretty accurate. It's get as cheap as hell, dude.
00:20:58
Speaker
Yeah, it actually is. Hey, we have a free ride. We have a free go. Yeah, we have a couple of free drives. Yeah, we just got to go next time you're up. Do we? i don't know if you do. i don't you miss We went on my birthday. I don't think you were able to make it.
00:21:11
Speaker
Yeah. And it took us so long to wait. We paid for X amount of go rounds and yeah they didn't get one. So like, I still get email. We walked in, we walked in at like seven 30. They close at nine. We walked in seven 30. No one was in there. it was a Friday night.
00:21:23
Speaker
So we're like, fuck it. Let's get four races. We'll just go back to back to back. And then we'll go hit the goat. Like we'll go to the batting cages. And after our first race, 40 people walked in. ah Literally. 40 people walked in and they did the rest of the races. the We didn't get back on the track.
00:21:40
Speaker
Boys. So we just spent the rest of the time in the batting cages and it was a good time, but we didn't get back on the track at all. it kind of sucked. Boys, listen to me right now. We need to plan a day where I'll come up to CT and we'll spend during the day. We'll go to the field. We'll hit some balls. We'll field.
00:21:58
Speaker
We'll grab a couple of dogs and then we go to we go to the go karts at night.
Swingers Club & Societal Norms
00:22:04
Speaker
And then we could go to a little bar after. Oh, my God. We have a brewery. And then and then the following month, we go to New York and we do the the the nine nine nine challenge.
00:22:15
Speaker
Is that a... What the hell is that? Nine innings? Nine beers and nine shots or something like that? No, Nine innings, yeah nine beers, yeah nine dogs.
00:22:26
Speaker
Oh, my God. You want to see me throw up? That's exactly how I throw up. That's the point. Fuck it. Let's do it. We have to do it. I think that would be so fun. I can't see Vic getting past one and a half beers, but let's do it. No, because fucking hate beer. I'm going to have one. I want another Yankees-Red Sox.
00:22:44
Speaker
No score until the 18th inning. No, I can't handle that again, dude. I killed myself. Also, they wouldn't allow that. They wouldn't, oh no. With the but the new runner on base rule.
00:22:56
Speaker
And the pitch clock. The pitch clock, all of that. like I think that game would still take like four hours. That was a once in a lifetime game. I don't think we'll ever get that again.
00:23:06
Speaker
We got back at 5 a.m. Yeah. And then I worked at 7. That's crazy. I slept. I slept for 30 minutes. and i went to work yeah Okay. You guys ever this this is still crazy to me. um You guys ever sleep for like an unnatural like a naturally short period of time.
00:23:25
Speaker
Like you're up all night and then you can only sleep an hour. You can only sleep 30 minutes and you're like, I'm going to be so tired. And then you do that and you feel best sleep of your life, and sleep of your life. You wake up and you're fully energized, ready to go.
00:23:39
Speaker
Yeah, no, that night I woke up, went to work, worked for eight hours, and then I had to go see like my friend was like in a show at like 7 p.m. that night. And I was like, well, I don't want to go to bed now.
00:23:52
Speaker
Like if I go to bed now, I probably will miss the show. So I just stayed up. I basically stayed up until midnight. That's great And then went to bed. You started seeing shit. Yeah, I was hallucinating.
00:24:03
Speaker
You didn't even go anywhere that night. Yeah. Yeah, I imagined the play just in front of me Yeah, you've just been sitting in your car the entire time after your shift. But the problem is with doing that is once you like you do that two hours of sleep and you do what you have to do and you settle in,
00:24:21
Speaker
Once you're home, it's over. Dude, you're knocked out. You're done for the rest of the day once you sit down. Oh, yeah. Once your body knows that it's in like a safe place, that it can fall asleep, out.
00:24:32
Speaker
Yeah, usually that's behind the wheel for me. Oh, that's dark. That's dark. That is so dark. Wow. Jesus Christ. Wow.
00:24:43
Speaker
I love that. just name I'm just saying. just saying. Not, not, I don't love that. Sorry. i love the idea. No, he loves it. No, he loves it. He said it. He said it. It's recorded. It's true. Whatever. Spending a whole day doing baseball shit. Yeah. Yeah. That sounds amazing. Dude, that batting cage at the the car track though, you could make it throw like, there's like four levels. It's like slow, medium, whatever, like four different levels. And then they also can throw you different pitches.
00:25:10
Speaker
So you could be like, yeah, I want a curve ball. Or I want like a change up or I want like a slider. no and i think i think We tried the curveball and because I was like, oh, it's going to go a little bit slower. And it was awful.
00:25:21
Speaker
yeah It was hitting the floor like 75 miles an hour. Yeah, it was hitting the floor pretty quick. yeah was trying I was trying to rip a splitter. It wasn't working. but Yeah, we'll do that.
00:25:33
Speaker
It'll be great. yeah I love it. Let's do it. I'm genuinely excited about that. Yeah, no, we should do it. Why Speaking of swinging the bat, though, you guys see the Swingers Club in Plymouth that closed down? Oh, my God. You know what? is What is this?
00:25:49
Speaker
I don't know. I think it's hilarious. You send it to me. Yeah. So basically, it was a lounge for couples who wanted to you know enjoy life, spice things up and meet other like minded couples ah in in one town over from where we are, Plymouth, Connecticut.
00:26:08
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um and they set up shop directly next to a Baptist church
Swingers Clubs & Population Dynamics
00:26:13
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and it just instantly got like complaints from the church. They were like, yeah, we do not want this.
00:26:19
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We do not want this next to our, I'm trying to look up the direct quote while you bring that up. Cause it's a great direct direct quote. um'm um I'm looking it up to like, I don't know what is, I just can't believe like, what's the market for that?
00:26:35
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What, what, Who do you think is going to those places? Clearly, clearly somebody. Somebody had to have sat down and said, There's enough people that I know that swing that this makes sense, that I want to do this.
00:26:51
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Right? So the so yeah reverend of the church said, ah this is a quote, I saw cars coming in and was wondering what this was. There's only one business I could think of that meets on weekends from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. m where people formally dress and going in.
00:27:07
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This type of business is supposed to be away from churches, schools, daycares, that kind of thing. And they're obviously not. But go OK, you know, why does it have to be away from church?
00:27:20
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It's a zoning regulation. It's adult UCI zoning and stuff. So like church, like, you know, protected places or churches, you know, out of the sight of kids. I get I kind of get that, I guess. You know, half the people in that church were like, well, I'm to tell you this. I'm going to tell you this. Hold on.
00:27:40
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I'm looking up the the population of Plymouth right now because it's not a big town. we it's It's a small town. We all know it. yeah um Population. Let's see. Come on. Population is 11,600. 11,600. There 200 members club.
00:27:53
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eleven thousand six hundred yeah there are two hundred members of the club That's a lot. That's way more than I thought. listen, people people it was just be more people drive. If there's something that is you know appealing to them, they will go if it's worth it. do you know This is a culture.
00:28:14
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But you know, like i i worked with somebody um at the hospital. their name right now. No, I'm not going to say their name. That that swung? no no no that didn't swing. But I worked with somebody at the hospital and we were talking about Line dancing. Right. And I brought up Cadillac Ranch and she was like, oh, I never went been to the Cadillac Ranch. She was like, but when I was younger, I used to drive all the way out to the small town called Wolcott to go to illusions.
00:28:41
Speaker
And I was like, excuse me. And I was like, and where were you living? And she was living the other side of the state. So people will drive far if it's for something they enjoy. And you're telling me this is a private member club.
00:28:53
Speaker
You're probably getting a lot of enjoyment at that that at that club. Yeah. Listen, you're you're a private member. No questions asked. You pay your dues. You get you get what you need to get. I mean, what's the what's the problem with it?
00:29:04
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Maybe there's a shortage. Maybe people need more swingers clubs. Yeah, I didn't. I literally did not know you could just make like, you know i'm saying i didn't know you could just make a building. That's like, yeah, this is for swingers.
00:29:16
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can start a business for relatively anything. Yeah, but listen, they probably didn't advertise it as that. They just advertised it as a social club. and that's just And that's just what it becomes. It's called Wicked Fun Club.
00:29:27
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Okay. and And on paper, we don't know what that means, right? But, you know... Yeah, but have you have to ah apply to the town. You have to get a permit. And so they probably just...
00:29:40
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Label it as a social club. Members say they're due. Yeah, we're no different than a chess club, a book club, or any other private club. Think about What happens behind closed doors is our business and nobody else's business because we're not harming anyone.
00:29:53
Speaker
They're doing the opposite. Yeah. Yeah, in fact. Well, depending on what you like. Right, right. They probably have different rooms for that. Yeah. Right? I saw the picture that you sent, though, and all the the furniture was black leather.
00:30:07
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Yeah. Kind of reminiscent of another room, but oh you we don't have to get into that. Oh, yeah. Leather. I mean, easy thing to clean, you know?
00:30:21
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Exactly. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. But I'm just saying, i mean, i get the zoning regulation. I understand that. But like, they they could just move their business. there's You can go to ah a swingers club as a single.
00:30:35
Speaker
why Yeah, because there's probably pretty taboo. But that's probably. Yeah, but there's probably couples that want the single. You know what i'm saying? like No, no. They're saying like, oh, oh, oh, you're saying like Cucks. OK.
00:30:50
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Is that swinging, though? I thought it was a couple. and That's what I thought, too. But I guess there's a little bit more of a gray area. There's a loose term to define. You know I'm Yeah.
00:31:02
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Interesting. Interesting.
00:31:04
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So how did baseball batting cages go cart track swingers club? Listen, man, we can get it all done in a day. Exactly. I'd be a little tired by the end of the day, but you know, listen for 200 bucks.
00:31:17
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We become members of a quarter of dollars. ah Yeah. Hold on. I'm not paying 200. How much was it? How much was Oh, you said 200 members. I'm sorry. two hundred members Okay. Listen, a man, I'm bougie now. I only do 100 per backshot.
00:31:33
Speaker
yeah that's the dumbest shit i you gotta you gotta you gotta reach mike why can't you just play into the bit man what is what is this good bit what yeah what is this it's what is it is it your ego is it an an internalized homophobia dude come on what but it's a hypothetical situation that will never happen you can't just be like yeah i would let someone get 50 on me i don't know yeah It's never going to happen.
00:31:58
Speaker
Just play into the bid. Or maybe it might. and Maybe might. You never know. and you know If we put it out there, somebody may offer. yeah Who's got that kind of money?
00:32:09
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Who cares? yeah the The owner of ah one of the sign renters? You're telling me that if the the owner gets fun club of the Wicked Fun Club hit you up and said, per?
00:32:21
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under k per You think they got a Facebook page? Or what's his name? Bob Nutting? Is that? Yeah. Yo, this place looks. Oh, no. This place looks crazy. I'm watching the video of them like going through the rooms and like the hallway is completely lit red. And then it just shows one just one one room with just a singular double bed. Nothing else in it.
00:32:45
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Oh, my God.
Podcast Editing & TikTok Success
00:32:46
Speaker
Nice. Nice. Listen, you gotta have feng shui, you know, that's not feng shui. Nice.
00:32:56
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It's completely functional for what they needed to do. you know? Yeah. I love that. Oh yeah. It's like, it's literally directly next to a ah church. yeah It's like on top of as I still believe that their main audience probably attends that church.
00:33:13
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I'm sure a couple, you know, it's not, Come on. The pastor was like, oh, I saw a couple of people going in there dressed up. That can only mean that pastor has definitely been in there. He probably has.
00:33:26
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Right. How else you know what's going on? And then somebody was like, hey, I know you. And he's like, we got to shut this place down. but We got to shut it down right now. They're like, Reverend? Yeah.
00:33:39
Speaker
This is all alleged, by the way. yeah Yeah. Allegedly. Innocent to prove guilty. Just move the club. Just move the club. Call it a I mean, I don't think you need to. Yeah. I don't know how this became. actually, you know what? Move the church.
00:33:52
Speaker
Why do you they have to concede? Why do they have to That's right. That's right. Take it to court.
00:33:59
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Take it to court.
00:34:02
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ah do we Your honor, they will not let me have my sex club. That is wrong on me. and My business needs to move.
00:34:13
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We make more money than them. ah We pay our taxes. Yeah, the church certainly isn't. That's right. Are we going to represent the club? Did we just slowly become their lawyer? I would love to represent them in the court of law.
00:34:31
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slowly become their lawyer i would i would love i would love to represent them in in the court of law What a story that would be that the three of us are motivated by this story. We go to law school for four years.
00:34:45
Speaker
No law school. You don't have to have a law of degree to represent someone in the court. Yeah. Just do it. Plus with the court system, it's probably going to take longer than four years until it goes to trial. So we got time. We got time to get our degrees. Jesus Christ.
00:34:58
Speaker
Okay. At least if if they go to court, can we at least show up to the case? No. like How about this? not You show up. You do a special edition. We'll send you out like a little journalist and and you show up and you cover it for us. Yeah.
00:35:11
Speaker
We'll pay for somebody to to record the whole thing for you. Yeah. You get a firsthand account.
00:35:19
Speaker
Hold on. I got to ask now because I've seen it a couple of times. I thought liquid death was in white cans. What is that one? They do flavored liquid death. This is that severed lime. Oh, it's sparkling.
00:35:31
Speaker
Yeah. I can't believe i still can't believe that's your water of choice. Yeah, this is like the the dude that we saw in the video the other day with his morning routine where he has like the Saratoga water.
00:35:44
Speaker
Like, don't you have a Brita filter? Saratoga is delicious, number one. Number two, but I would not waste that delicious water on my face. Well, if it's like that pure, like why wouldn't you?
00:35:56
Speaker
Yeah, but hold on. That's not what I was asking though. Why do you have, why don't you just use like a little Brita filter? Don't you want to? This one's sparkling. want to protect the environment? This is sparkling. And the can is 100% recyclable.
00:36:09
Speaker
So in fact, this can be, can become another can. Yes, it can. So I'm, I'm helping. yeah You know what? You are. i i stand corrected.
00:36:21
Speaker
Thank you. The sparkling water makes sense to me, right? But the the regular water out of a can, what are we doing? Do you guys remember that commercial? Did you guys ever see it? i think it was Bud Light commercial where it was like, yeah, I got it in the can.
00:36:36
Speaker
you know Do you guys ever see that commercial? need you guys to pull up that that commercial and watch it. it was very It was like a popular commercial where they were like... ah ah they're like, oh it was, it was, I don't remember, it was the guy was like, I didn't really want to, I didn't really want to do it at the company party, but then one thing led to another, and there I was, getting it in the can, and stuff like that, and these people just go on accounts, like, talk about in the can, and it's a commercial.
00:37:02
Speaker
It was really funny. Somebody clipped that, clipped that one part where Mike was talking about getting it in the can. Yeah. I'll superimpose it back with yeah the back shots video. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. If I send it to Victor, can we, can we listen to it?
00:37:18
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We'll stitch it all together when we were talking about the swingers club. And it sort sounds like he was there. You, you, you guys don't understand what I can and can't do with his editing software. We can, we can make that happen.
00:37:30
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Absolutely. I would love to see that happen. Yeah. I'm going to send it to Victor. I'm not going to play it. No, we're going to play it. It's hard for. All right. You got to understand what goes well on an audio medium and what doesn't
Morgan Wallen's SNL Appearance
00:37:42
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go well. But it's it's about it's the listening portion. It's not the audio. It's not the not the audience needs to listen to. We can't just yeah have. It's going to sound like it's going to sound like it's like shit if I play it through the mic.
00:37:55
Speaker
No, I thought you could pull it up on the computer. I can't. Well, what the fuck kind of podcast is this? I don't know, man. I'm just saying we can't we can't play video. Why don't you think we haven't we haven't done real of the week for a month and a half because we can't play videos on this thing.
00:38:11
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We did real the week a couple weeks ago. to Yeah. And I didn't put the real of the week in the episode. I skipped over it. Oh, yeah, you did. Yeah, you did. Yeah. Yeah.
00:38:23
Speaker
You know, all this talking about clipping and stuff, though, is really going to suck when TikTok gets banned in five days. It's happening. I feel like it's got to happen. I asked you guys just a couple weeks ago if it was getting banned. You're like, no, it's saved. It's saved. And now you're like, oh, shit. you know Yeah, because I didn't.
00:38:39
Speaker
i Again, i do you think I think this far ahead? You asked us in like February, like, oh, is TikTok getting banned again? And I was like, yeah I don't know, probably not. But now people put a definite date on it.
00:38:52
Speaker
They're saying the Tuesday the 8th or whatever. And now it's like, OK, yeah, it's probably getting banned again.
00:38:58
Speaker
Speaking of timely. Sorry. Sorry. i Go ahead. No, no, no, no. It's just going to be a stupid thing about like, yeah, it's probably going to end up being another ploy. Like the first one where, you know, they send out a little notification saying, Oh, like it's saved again. Thank you. You know, yeahp thanks to your glorious emperor. you guys can use Tik TOK.
00:39:17
Speaker
Speaking of people, honestly, oh I'm sorry, I don't mean to cut. I don't mean to the step on you here, but we've been doing pretty well on TikTok, guys. I'm going to be honest. We've broken we've broken our views barrier to get to the next views barrier.
00:39:30
Speaker
maybe it um I mean, the what what are these barriers? So we were stuck at like 800 views right now. We're stuck at twelve hundred views. Not bad. That's not bad. That's a lot more than I would think.
00:39:41
Speaker
That's what I'm saying. we're We're hitting those. We're getting like 60, 70 likes on an average video. When we put out a good one, like I had one or well we had one, I should say, like a couple of days ago that went like to like 120 likes. beautiful.
00:39:53
Speaker
but um yeah That's huge. I was like, hey, we you know you know, we got some motion. Yeah, we got some motion. Triple digits. Yeah, like this one right now, 1360, 71 likes. about Adam Sandler from a couple weeks ago.
00:40:07
Speaker
Not bad. Yeah. just want to take this moment to say how much we appreciate all the people that go out there and like our videos. Thank you. see you. We see you. We appreciate it. Yeah. we We have a lot of recurring, you know, sometimes I'll recognize the names of the people liking our videos. Those are probably followers or whatever, but hey, you know, we, we take those.
00:40:26
Speaker
We got to start shouting them out. Yeah. Get them on guests as a podcast. I honestly was thinking about doing like having a portion of our podcast be on TikTok live because that's how you gain like hundreds of followers like in like an instant.
00:40:43
Speaker
If you just use their life because they try and promote it. So if we just went live like this, but with like TikTok, like if we just took this and put it on TikTok for like a half hour, like our shooting the shit portion of the pod, but like while we're warming up,
00:40:58
Speaker
Yeah, that's not a bad idea. Yeah. We'll try it if it if it doesn't get banned in the next week. We'll try it. Yeah, I mean, we'd have to probably put tape around Mike's mouth or something like that. Yeah. um i'm I'm saying this because this is what I've been told, but some people are here for me.
00:41:14
Speaker
I'm just going to throw that out there. I'm just going to throw it there. I'm going to say I'm not that guy. You know, I'm not that kind of guy. But Victor told me. People do love you. I don't think you want to know the reason why people.
00:41:25
Speaker
no, don't tell me. It's going to hurt my feelings. Exactly. Don't tell me. Thank you all. Thank you all. Shout out to you guys. But don't tell me why. money yeah there's there's a reason but you know just keep what didn't just keep doing what you're doing is what i'll say yeah i want to i want to talk about watched this video a couple hours before we we recorded but we talked we were talking yesterday about like people that the public is like scrutinizing and and some people are for obvious reasons or not but i want to talk about why
00:42:01
Speaker
You guys know about this. Why is Morgan Wallen getting so much flack for just finishing up the Saturday Night Live? Like, why is this getting such bigger attention than it really needs? Honestly, I don't really get it. It is like kind of faux pas for him to like just walk off stage without like greeting anybody.
00:42:19
Speaker
no one's ever really done that before. ah But who really gives a shit? I don't know. Who cares? And I think they took his his god country his God's country comment out of way out of context. That find weird.
00:42:33
Speaker
It does seem like kind at... it does seem like kind of a dig at like I'm sure it's a double meaning, but also think SNL is very much a liberal-leaning show. and New York is kind of seen, at least to probably many parts of, the you know i don't want to stereotype, but Southern and Midwest states as like a godless country, or like you know part you know pretty much like the wild, wild West, but in an opposite way.
00:43:05
Speaker
So I don't really give a shit. Like, I don't, what he did was whatever, who cares? Like you don't, he clearly was there. The only thing I will like knock him for is like selling the merch afterwards. I think that's like kind of a grift to like post an Instagram story and then,
00:43:21
Speaker
like ah immediately just put it all on t-shirts and hats be yeah, buy the merch, guys. Like I said a cool thing that picked traction up, you know, like buy. have done that all the time. People have exploited and used it.
00:43:32
Speaker
Yeah, but i again, I think that's wrong. No, I understand that's That's what I'm saying. I think when people do it, it's stupid. Like if anything, that like you should get flack for that. This is just like one of those things that like if he wasn't if he wasn't famous, nobody would be giving him money.
00:43:48
Speaker
flack for it. Right. Like I'm sure I would be the same way if I went to the middle of, you know, East Bumble fuck and I had to stay there and I didn't agree with what people were saying there, but I had to do it.
00:44:00
Speaker
Right. yeah And then I was just, I wanted to get back to New York, you know, and I made a post on Snapchat, like get me to God's country. I don't, but I think they took, I'm sorry. I think they took God's country. I think they took that comment out of context. It doesn't, it doesn't mean it's political.
00:44:16
Speaker
I think they took that out of context. I mean, you can, but like it was political. i do think like there is like a backhanded sentiment to it. Also, by the way, doing that while about to board your private jet.
00:44:28
Speaker
Yeah, that's his country. It's also fucking hilarious. Yeah. Yeah. Again, ah to go on your private, like. I don't know if it's like a morality thing, because I saw that he chose not to participate in one of the sketches. I don't know why, but usually the musical guest sometimes, you know, usually the musical guest gets integrated in a sketch, at least one or two sometimes, you know? Yep. um And he chose not to do it. I don't remember what the sketch, I didn't watch the episode. I don't know what the sketch was, but they had Joe Jonas fill in.
00:44:57
Speaker
so Yeah, I heard that. I heard that. Maybe it was like a music centric thing where they needed a a music guy or something. Yeah. Yeah. You could have just a different cast member at that point. You know what i mean? um But yeah, like, i don't know. Like it just, it seems like if you want to take a shot at SNL or whatever, by like posting that, why'd you even go on the show?
00:45:18
Speaker
I think he's the money. It's the promotion of his new album in the promotion. Yeah, of course. But it's like, I don't, again, like I get doing that. It's just like, it just feels a little bit cheap. so like If you really had like morals and you really thought that like this was a godless place or whatever, like you you really thought like SNL was like ah a shitty thing, like a shitty show or whatever. But I don't think it was like that. Don't go on it don't know. That's why I think the context is- To give him credit, you have to do a week.
00:45:46
Speaker
You know i'm saying? like You're not just going Saturday Night Live just on Saturday. You do a buildup. You do rehearsals. So we could have gotten there on Thursday and be like, oh all these people fucking suck. Like this play, the show sucks.
00:45:57
Speaker
I only did this because, you know, I thought it would be a good opportunity. And now I'm realizing that I was wrong for doing this again. it's It's such a nothing burger. The only thing I would give him flack for is fucking selling merch saying, get me to God's
Morgan Wallen & Public Perception
00:46:12
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country or whatever. I think people have done worse. and No big deal.
00:46:15
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Yeah. Morgan has done worse by saying the N word. I mean, like, yeah, well, that's, you know, like, and that's, that's probably why this is such a big deal for some people's. Yeah, I see it online all the time. People hate this guy for for that.
00:46:31
Speaker
And I get it. Well, as one should get hate for that, right? He deserved to. Yeah, he deserves to get hate for that. I don't know. It's just weird to. don't know if you if you don't like the guy, just stop talking about him.
00:46:45
Speaker
Yeah. Well, the people that probably don't like him are the ones that are watching SNL. Yeah. So they're hypercritical. And then he does something like that. So like, why invite him? Right. Like, it's a two way street. Like, why invite him if you're not if you i mean don't agree with it? And then why? Yeah, it's the same thing. Because it's again, I don't think they don't agree with like, I don't think they don't agree with him.
00:47:10
Speaker
I don't think they really care. He clearly something happened for him to feel some type of way about it, but I don't really. If I was the off, like, yeah, if I was the head of SNL, I would be like, this is great.
00:47:25
Speaker
Yeah. More attention towards the show. hundred percent. Are you kidding me Like people are going to go back and watch that episode now and they'll probably watch the next one. Right. Like that's why this is just the thing. It's for the people. Like the people have a problem with it. Nobody else does.
00:47:38
Speaker
Yeah. maybe Maybe they're trying to piece to you know that that audience that doesn't really tune in much. you know Oh, it wasn't planned. yeah they didn't Yeah, that would have to be something they would plan with Morgan Wallen. They definitely did not plan that.
00:47:55
Speaker
yeah Then why? and I don't think they care. They still get decent numbers anyway. I don't think they really are trying to attract fans from outside of their fan base. I think they're It's a popular enough show to keep going. like I don't think they need... Yeah, but it's a dying breed. I think the show will die. really. We're on season 50. Ever.
00:48:16
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No, I know, but I'm saying like the the ratings have trended downward. You know, like it's it's not as popular as it was. Like, will it continue? Yes. But it's not it' not as much traction as as once was.
00:48:32
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I don't think that that show will ever die. um don't think it'll ever die, but I don't think it's as lucrative as what it was. No, who cares? The people that run it are rich as it is.
00:48:42
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But it's like, what other show does that? What other show has that platform, right? on a regular basis with popular, you know, hosts and no I get it. It's one of a kind, you know?
00:48:56
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Yeah. you never I think if anything, the ratings kind of just look steady. You're telling me that the ratings are the same now as when Adam Sandler was on there.
00:49:09
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Eddie Murphy was on there. So hold on. Let me look at the composite, like the composite rankings.
00:49:16
Speaker
David Spade was on there. Dan Aykroyd was on there. John Belushi was on there. They're getting the same ratings. Yo, yo, we get it. We know you know the people. Yeah. Mikey Madison was on there. You know, Dua Lipa. ah She was the one who played Enora.
00:49:34
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and north She was the host with Morgan Wallen. Yeah. You know, all the people who are five-time five-time host club. You what I'm saying?
00:49:46
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we should We should host an event like that. Mike, are you wearing anything under that robe? Would you like to find out? Yeah, you want to show us?
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00:49:57
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I could show you at the ah swingers only club.
00:50:01
Speaker
That's fine. Damn baby. hot damn I don't know. I just think it's dumb. I think they took the, the God's country comment out of context. And I don't really know why we're giving an attention. If you don't like him, don't listen to him. Don't listen to his music.
00:50:13
Speaker
ah He's still paying, paying the price and the repercussions of, his actions in the words that he said from years ago because he still doesn't uh attend country music awards and this and that um so but like if you if you i still feel like that's like a choice he just did a massive song with like post malone and like little like he did a song with little baby a couple years ago like it's not like the it's not like he was canceled like No, he wasn't canceled. But what I'm saying is like selling out arenas. like No, that's the thing is that like he doesn't have to go to he doesn't have to do Saturday Night Live. He doesn't have to attend these award shows. He's clearly doing just fine.
00:50:51
Speaker
But like if somebody if there was a big issue with him, is just like don't and don't invite him. But it works hand in hand. Saturday Night Live wants the viewers and he wants to promote the audience. Again, I do think you're mit he caused the drama here.
00:51:05
Speaker
I do you think you're missing the point. a little But there's no drama to cause. It's nothing. We're making a drama. No one's ever walked off. Again, I think it's dumb to talk about it, but no one's ever walked. like I can see why people are like, oh, what he did was disrespectful. I think it's stupid to think that. It's not disrespectful.
00:51:23
Speaker
No one's ever walked off the stage like that. But is there something that says like you have to stick around? ah don't know. Being courteous to a bunch of other people who worked on the show that you're on right now.
00:51:36
Speaker
I'm just saying, like where is it where is it written that you have to stick around for the full ending? Yeah, but you know that that's not... It's not even just the full... and It's not like he didn't stick around for the cast party or something like that. He just didn't shake anyone's hand and then just immediately walked off. He said who he said like thanks to Mikey, because she's the host, and he was directly next to her.
00:51:55
Speaker
And then he just walked off the stage. He didn't say anything to the cast members. It's a little bit weird, no? Yeah. It's standoffish, yeah, but like I want to be... i don't know. I just want to be offended by it. like He's just a weird dude. I don't think the cast members are offended by it either, but it is just like, ah oh that's a weird thing, and that's why it's getting so much traction.
00:52:16
Speaker
How much does a God's Country t-shirt cost? I'm going to say $60. I'm going to say 55. No, I'm going to say 24. That's hilarious. I'm going to say 24. Mike, when was the last time you bought a t-shirt? $45. Are you for real?
00:52:32
Speaker
Yeah. It's probably sold out. And that's why I said, No, it's pre-ordered, so you could keep ordering it, and then I'm sure they just ship whatever quantity they have or whatnot. That's why I said, I think the worst thing about this whole thing is that he's just making money off of it.
00:52:46
Speaker
I bet you two days from now, two days from now, that shirt's going to be $60. You know what we need to bring? It's going to be $60. That's right. It's going to be $60.
00:52:56
Speaker
You should buy it right now for $45 as this dealer. Yeah, Mike, if you want it, get it now. Yeah, that's what I'm going to tell you. That's it. You know what we need to bring back? Whoa.
00:53:07
Speaker
NASCAR jackets. We need to bring back the NASCAR jackets. People have been bringing those back, man. And they're doing it with like F1. They're doing like Ferrari jackets. They have them like McLaren jackets.
00:53:18
Speaker
that's That's kind of back in the lexicon, I would say. Well, I feel like for F1, that stuff wasn't really available as it is now. But still, like the Ferrari jacket, dude, one of the craziest jackets I've ever seen was a NASCAR jacket.
00:53:31
Speaker
This girl at a party I was at was wearing... the team Viagra jacket. Nice. I think I still have a photo of it because it was so fucking cool. By the way, like in my opinion, those jackets only look good on females.
00:53:48
Speaker
I don't like to see a guy in a NASCAR jacket. Yeah. like i can't pull I can't pull that. You know what happened? But that's not a real racing team. No, but it's fucking cool. You're talking about bringing back racing jackets. She's bringing them back.
00:54:03
Speaker
Also, in a similar light, The um astronaut jackets, like with like the NASA patch. Oh, no. I don't know. No, those are awful.
00:54:13
Speaker
um la Are you saying like a bomber jacket? Yeah, the bomber. Bomber jackets are fine. I thought you werere talking about like what Logic wore on that like album cover whatever. No, no, no, no, no.
00:54:25
Speaker
No, that's overdone. i don't. He ruined that for me. Whatever happened to Logic? He's still around. He's still doing it. That's the guy who got a lot of hate for, I would say, not good reasons.
00:54:40
Speaker
He is corny. I don't like his music, you know, whatever. But, like, I do think he kind of gets a little bit more hate than he deserves. I used to love Logic. Truly.
00:54:50
Speaker
Like I used to love listening to to to his music, but he's just one of those people that I think he made his money and now he just doesn't really put this effort in. Yeah, think he just, ah he I don't even think he does like that much music anymore. i think he's just chilling.
00:55:03
Speaker
Yeah. Just look at all of these. Just look at this jacket. Come on, guys. Yeah, it's cool. But again, you could be, this stuff like that has been back in like the fashion like This stuff is trendy. You could just buy that and start wearing it. Yeah, but it's still it's less about... it's less For me, it's less about the trending, and just more about like the nostalgia. like you know like like i've seen I've been to races you know and stuff like that. you know like It's fun.
00:55:30
Speaker
Those jackets are like a symbol of something. Hey, and Austin says it only looks good females wear it, and I'm a little hurt by that. I think it's true. Mike, you're effeminate. you can make You can pull it My buddy Randy has the most beautiful Hooters NASCAR jacket. I mean, you just know he's there.
00:55:46
Speaker
You know what I'm saying? commands attention when he wears it. I think, not for nothing, I don't want a big UPS logo on my chest. You know what i mean? Why wouldn't you?
00:55:57
Speaker
I mean, look it's beautiful. Look at it. to me To me, it's tacky. yeah but ah but austin i'm not wearing it to go out to the outback you know what i'm saying i'm not wearing it are you wearing the outbet you where are you wearing it to i also will say i kind of agree with austin you did show kind of a mid jacket you did oh compared to the other ones this one's beautiful the white like i will show you a a really nice racing jacket i do like I do like Ferraris for the F1. But I've always liked Ferrari's colors and how they do it I mean, every every Ferrari jacket's fire, but they put out one this year that's unavailable.
00:56:33
Speaker
It's already sold out.
00:56:36
Speaker
Yeah, but see, Europe different
Personal Jacket Preferences
00:56:38
Speaker
is different. Is that just like the zip-up? Yeah, it's the zip-up, but it's fresh. No, I know. It's great.
00:56:48
Speaker
You have stuff like this. You have like... like That's a little bit cooler. Mike, I rock with. that I just think Europe just puts too many sponsors on their stuff, though.
00:56:59
Speaker
Way too many sponsors. Brother, go back to that UPS thing. Yeah, don't even tell me that NASCAR does not use it. I'm just not use the sponsor network. They're putting anything in like they're putting whatever they can on the car.
00:57:15
Speaker
Have you ever seen some of these cars and how many sponsors they have? There's only three patches that are sponsors. The rest are actually like either NASCAR or UPS related.
00:57:28
Speaker
UPS still a sponsor. NASCAR debatably also kind of, it's also a sponsor. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's the league. Bring it back up. Bring up the thing again. You're telling me you're going to buy ah an MLB jersey and it's not going to have the MLB patch? Of course it is. It's the league. You have to. It's not in big, bold letters across the entire thing. Yeah, it's a small little patch, probably this size. On the back of the neck.
00:57:54
Speaker
Yeah. ah Again, that's like the same exact amount. here and Here's the other thing, too. It looks like you work for UPS. Yeah. I will also say I don't like the brown that much. You know what? You know what it is? I don't like the brown going into the white.
00:58:06
Speaker
I think if the jacket was brown itself, like the UPS brown, and then had like white stuff, you know, like the the trim was white, that would look a lot better.
00:58:18
Speaker
You know what I'm hearing? I'm hearing that we need to design our own. We need to make laundry in the basement racing jackets. Right. That would be sick. We could be like the T-Birds. Oh, my God. That'd be so great.
00:58:31
Speaker
The T-Birds. The T-Birds. Oh, you mean like those those fighter jet pilots? No, like Grease. Oh, never mind. can get the jackets like that. It'd be great. you know what I was thinking? I'm all right.
00:58:42
Speaker
I was thinking like the Pep Boys logo. Oh, wait. Hold on. Hold on. I got to show you guys something. I to show you guys something. Okay, so here's another one. Tell me that's not a great idea.
00:58:54
Speaker
It is a beautiful idea. Here's another one with a ridiculous amount of ah sponsors on it.
00:59:03
Speaker
Mike, tell at the same time. I can't hear you guys right now, but that is much better. Yeah, it's it's a little better. Really? i thought a white i thought the white was popping. i don't like the yellow. the white is not popping.
00:59:14
Speaker
All right. So I bought this at a thrift store or at a thrift event this weekend. Okay. Is that a leather vest? yeah What are you doing with that? What are you doing with that?
00:59:26
Speaker
you don't part you You don't belong to a motorcycle club. That's kind of tough. When are you going to wear that, though? he's cloud pipe These These colors. You're wearing a patch. These colors. don't I want to see you wear that out in public. when You know what I'm to do?
00:59:41
Speaker
I'm going to turn the colors into the trans flag colors. so These colors don't run. and I stand by that. Vic, you wear that with like a hoodie.
00:59:53
Speaker
i think and I would respect it. Look at this thing. I mean, it's cool as hell. you it's um but I'm fucking stone cold Steve Austin. It's not. You're putting it good use, brother. You're not putting it good. Hang it to the rafters, dude.
01:00:06
Speaker
Hang it. I told you I'm going to I'm going to change the patches on this thing. Oh, listen, if you change those patches to be something more you totally in support. Yeah. Oh, Austin, hold on. i got I bought something specifically for Austin as well. I'm going to show you guys. no but i'll go I'll go fuck myself. That's fine. No big deal.
01:00:26
Speaker
Yeah. No. but Hey, Austin, I bought something for you and you only. Let me go get it and show everybody. And don't be jealous, you know, sometimes.
Thrifted Leather Vest & Fashion Humor
01:00:34
Speaker
But we we do have to. when So I got ah my bad.
01:00:39
Speaker
No, you're good. Go ahead. Go ahead. I got myself a matching shirt. Kind of. It's not the exact same, but it's similar in style. OK. I can't fit into it yet. So my goal is. to be in shape by the time the date of what the shirt says comes.
01:00:53
Speaker
Beautiful. And I feel like we could wear these together. Okay. I'll go fuck myself. No. oh my God.
01:01:06
Speaker
You want to be a New Yorker, buddy? I got you. Wait, hold on. Did you buy multiple of those? No, I have a different one. let me let me Let me see if it's... I had it in the dryer this morning. Wait, this is getting worse and worse. Stop pulling.
Denim Tradition in Canada
01:01:21
Speaker
I bought that one for you. That is hilarious. I'll be right back. This is getting worse and worse, the shit he's just pulling out. This is getting... He bought a motorcycle, Jack? A vest?
01:01:35
Speaker
That's the kind of shit that you find a thrift shop. You find the the police stuff. You you find the FDNY stuff, biker stuff. yeah I'm surprised you didn't get a like a little denim vest.
01:01:47
Speaker
Well, I wanted to bring up when we all did denim on denim when we went to that, went on that trip to Canada. and Why have we, why have we not continued that? Well, I mean, you know, we did it for the, we did it for the pick.
01:01:59
Speaker
Are you saying why didn't we go back to the thrift shops? Yeah. No, I'm saying why haven't why have not we done a denim on it? ah It appears my mom has stolen my laundry, probably to fold it for me, which is very nice.
01:02:11
Speaker
appreciate that, though.
9-11 Shirts Mix-up
01:02:12
Speaker
But for the audio listeners, i don't know if you guys told them why I stepped away, but they're two 9-11 shirts. One's for Austin, one's for me.
01:02:24
Speaker
but You bought those for the wrong reasons, dog. What do you mean? Oh, God. You bought a motorcycle vest. What are you going to do with that?
Motorcycle Vest & Plans
01:02:33
Speaker
I'm going wear it. What do you do with it, Mike? You wear it.
01:02:38
Speaker
Don't yuck his yum, okay? and Stop with that shit. The yucking, the yumming.
01:02:44
Speaker
Oh, that's a big one. Wait, who whose face is it? have no clue. Did somebody draw that? like I think someone drew them. Wow. Yeah. So I got that for myself. It's a little slim, but hopefully by the date.
01:02:57
Speaker
It's good target. Yeah. Good target. Good target. 24th anniversary. oh that was the wrong That was a wrong for that. That's a wrong phrase for that. I mean, like it's a good goal.
01:03:09
Speaker
Yeah, it's a good goal. I thought he was going to be like, you know you know I'm going to wear this you know you know when your wedding comes because that's the that's the goal. not going to wear this wedding. I'm not saying wear at his wedding, but I thought it was something that was like, oh, like I'm going to fit in this by the time your wedding comes.
01:03:31
Speaker
I'm going to fit into that by the time your bachelor party comes. I'll tell you that. Hey, uh, you got five months. i mean Fuck. Five months. Not for the bachelor party. I'm talking about for, for nine 11. Okay.
01:03:43
Speaker
yeah okay Yeah. I was like, man, I do not have the money. trip No, that won't be until next year. Yeah. Okay. That's what, that's what I thought. and Don't, and don't,
01:03:54
Speaker
Don't go anywhere crazy. why You're telling me I can't go to Miami. Oh, oh, you're saying first, but I thought you meant in the shirt. i was like, oh, when you were crazy, what, what kind what do you want to do? What do you want to do for your
Bachelor Party Plans Out West
01:04:05
Speaker
best? do you want to do? Where, where are we going? What's your thoughts? are we dropping boys?
01:04:08
Speaker
Boys. you here we trust call First of all, we're going out West. I only want, I only want one thing and it may be that we need to go out West to do it. Okay.
01:04:19
Speaker
Um, No, they have the Swinger Club in Plymouth. Don't worry about it. We don't have to go. I mean, Western Connecticut. Yeah, we'll take you there. That's not a problem. Yeah, we got you. You're right.
Foldable Korean BBQ Table Idea
01:04:30
Speaker
I saw i saw an ad today for a foldable Korean barbecue table. Dude, we just bring one of those. Dude, I built one. I have one built in the backyard. Do you really? Yes, I built it myself. It's shitty. It looks awful, but I built it. on about the looks as long as it tastes good.
01:04:44
Speaker
Exactly. It works. We bring it to the Swingers Club. We're good to go. Exactly. But yeah, no, I did see that same ad too. It got me thinking maybe. you know Yeah.
Private Poker Room Wishlist
01:04:53
Speaker
So we're going, we're going out West.
01:04:55
Speaker
So, so I'm saying that what I want is probably easier to get out West where I want, a the boys and I to get a private room like at a hotel somewhere maybe.
01:05:11
Speaker
right and Go on. I know where we can some private rooms. Just one double bed or what's the deal? I want a private room I want a full poker table service.
01:05:27
Speaker
I want a professional poker table. i want I want a professional dealer. i want somebody to like like a a waiter or waitress to serve us drinks.
01:05:38
Speaker
Right. We can bring the alcohol. I just want somebody to like, you know, be able to serve it. I need like six dudes off Craigslist for this right now. and And I want, I want like, um, I want to be able to like, you know, get a little get up on, have a little cigar um just yeah and just play a nice professional private game of poker with the boys with little drinks and everything like that.
01:06:02
Speaker
And now if we have to go out West to do it and we can fill it with other activities, fine. But that's what I want. I want like the full professional poker treatment. Yeah. I'm sure there's places around in our area that do it too. I mean, I'm all down for the adventure, you know, and the adventure is a good thing, but I don't, I, I imagine that it's also accessible around here as well, but obviously out West is more for gamblers, you know, more for the, for the experience.
01:06:28
Speaker
I'm trying to figure out how we can get this done. Like not
Legalities of Private Poker Games
01:06:32
Speaker
for nothing. I want this to be something that I wouldn't normally get at home. Oh no, a hundred percent. No, but you want, you want the real deal. Real deal.
01:06:41
Speaker
Oh my God. What? I'm just like looking up, like if you could do this and it was basically some people are like, yeah, like, like casinos will allow you to do private, like, cause like games like that.
01:06:52
Speaker
You need to have, you need to have racks. Yeah, so that's the thing. I think that there are there are private groups that employ the same people that work at the casinos that you could then just bring them out and pay them a certain rate for four hours or five hours or whatever it is. you know How would you even Google that?
01:07:16
Speaker
Like private casino dealers? private Yeah, hire a poker dealer. Yeah.
01:07:23
Speaker
You type in private poker game and they're like that's illegal. Yeah. Please enter your age before before entering the website. That'd be pretty cool. It would be.
01:07:34
Speaker
I don't know how to play Hold'em, but I could always learn. Oh, you could actually do the Casino Parties LLC. Yep. Poker Night and Party a Events, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut.
01:07:45
Speaker
There go. So we don't even have to go that far. Yeah. We can go to New Jersey. Yeah. But Austin wants to go. Yeah. We could do it here, but Austin wants to go out West. We got to, we got to, if Austin wants to go out West, we go. I just like, like, don't get me wrong. Going out to Vegas is, is cool and everything like that. You got to bring five G's at least.
01:08:05
Speaker
No, but I want, I just want like, and don't want craziness. You know what i mean? I want, I want to have a nice calm experience.
01:08:17
Speaker
You know?
Poker-themed Trip Location Suggestions
01:08:18
Speaker
at theing um um sending me close hold for that I'm going to keep on dancing at the Pink Pony Club. have a good idea. I'm not going to say it, though. don't say and Don't say it.
01:08:31
Speaker
oh I bet you we could do it in Texas. Go to Austin. I think you could do it in Montreal. Oh, um baby.
01:08:43
Speaker
Now that sounds nice. Yeah. yeah I hate to break it to you boys.
Outro & Listener Feedback
01:08:51
Speaker
i gotta go. Yeah, it's, it's 1117. It's little late.
01:08:55
Speaker
Let's, let's end this episode on a nice potential, um possibility of new outro music. Yeah. Mike, you have something to play for us? Uh, yeah, he's already sent it to me. I have it.
01:09:09
Speaker
Oh, okay. Very nice. You know, very rough for, for those, for those listening, please. We want your feedback.
01:09:19
Speaker
Yeah. um I thought you were going to say more. was like, a feedback on what? I was like, oh, is he going to do the whole outro here? I don't have to do it this week. He's like, we would like your feedback. And I'm just like, on what?
01:09:31
Speaker
Oh, no. Listen, i already know, Mike, going to give you shit for whatever plays regardless. So that's why I got to solicit other people's feedback. yeah and yeah hey listen i'll do the outro listen another great episode boys always good to talk to you everybody please like comment subscribe rate whatever it is on all the different platforms that this is out on we love talking to you we'll see you next time that was beautiful think we should i think we should hire you for all the outros i think so too