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Speaker: From a makeshift recording studio in Brooklyn, welcome to The Grocery Stick with Jessica and Francis. Shut the front door. That is not what we agreed upon. Francis and Jessica. Meh, ignore that.
Speaker: We're Brooklynites and friends. We're here to talk, laugh, commiserate, and argue about all things travel sports-related, kid-related, and plain old life-related. It's Francis and Jessica, or I quit.
Speaker: Shh.
Speaker: Episode 55. The the what is this? The first is this the first? No, this is the second episode we were switching to every other week.
Speaker: you yeah summer Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We refuse to take the summer break because I'm so worried it'll be another five years. Actually, no. If we take another extended summer break, this is never happening again. Yeah, that's probably true. Yeah, that's probably true.
Speaker: So so every every two weeks in the first shout out, my friend, listener, Uncle Dan, his wife, superstar ballerina isabelle Isabella Boylston.
Speaker: They had their baby boy, oh Magnus Jajin Shin. Oh. Friday the 26th. Congratulations. They had my kidney stone surgery. That's i remember.
Speaker: oh yeah. And so congratulations to them. Amazing. And if they're listening, congratulations. They're going to be great parents. They live in the building. Can't wait to babysit. You're so full of shit. You're not going babysit.
Speaker: Stop that. You just got that. you're and you're just You're becoming an empty nester. Believe me. I'm done with the diaper. You're definitely not going to babysit. If they have kids, i am do not call me to come over. and maybe but Maybe Elaine, but do not call me to do stuff. I did my stuff.
Speaker: and like Oh, my dad, you you can grandpa Fran can drive the kid to hockey. I'm like, no. Dude. Good luck. Not like some of the other fathers we know who are like who missed the hockey with. I miss it with my kid.
Speaker: Yeah. But not with my grandkid. Yeah. Oh, no, I would do it with my grandkid. Oh, no. Yeah. yeah I mean, but you want to do the tying skates and all that kind of bullshit again? Yeah. If I can, if I don't have like heavy arthritis in my fingers by that time for you. Yeah, I would totally do it. I mean, i don't want to do it every day. Although, you know, I mean, look that's what happens. If I was, you know, living close. But if I was living close and, yeah you know, they needed me to do it for, you know, whatever period of time. i mean, not forever. Nothing lasts forever. i want to be like Calum's grandparents. They just kind of pop in, pop out.
Speaker: Yeah, no, I think I would. i would do it if they needed me to. You're a better person than me. but we knew that But we knew that already. There's been a long line of evidence for that. long line of evidence that.
Speaker: Yes. So anyways, congrats to them. Yeah, that's amazing. Fantastic. um Coach Brian and and his wife, they're having theirs there first in August. So we'll congratulate them. In Yeah. In August, baby. God damn. It's going to be hot ass. Bad hockey birthday.
Speaker: Hot ass pregnancy. Oh, yeah. It's terrible. Should have been a January, February baby. August still good. You know what? Sam's birthday wasn't great for hockey either. It was tryouts every single year. yeah Oh, in the spring? Mm-hmm. April, May.
Speaker: Mm-hmm. Yeah. That's still a good birthday. Yeah, I mean, it's good if you don't have to go to tryouts on your birthday. Okay, fair enough. But like but you want an early year birthday, right? Like, you know my kids end of October. Yeah, first quarter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I mean, he's got a good birthday in terms of that. But, yeah now i you know, he's only nine days earlier than me. Yeah. so yeah and And mine was always on, like, Passover.
Speaker: Spring baby. Damn, shit. Yeah, it sucked. good either. No cake for me. for me. It was always some, like, shitty matzo meal cake. and I was was like, fuck you. That's it. Fuck you. That's gross. It not great. It did not make me happy.
Speaker: Yeah, I can imagine. ah you and i By the way, you and i I don't know if you made that bet on Calci, but you and I lost. I know, motherfucker. Motherfucking rent freeze.
Speaker: Dude, it's such bullshit, though. He's just like, he's just fucking with landlords to make sure that Qataris can come in and fucking buy up everything. We knew. okay It's a big plan. when I saw the headline, when I saw the headline that one of the so the the board is nine members, right?
Speaker: Nine members, I think it is. And one of the and then it was like six appointed by Mamdani. So like, oh, fuck, it stacked. Yeah. And then three represent landlords and one of them quit.
Speaker: The day before the vote, was like, oh, fuck, we are screwed because that person quit and she went on this rant about like it's totally rigged and I'm like, I'm off. I'm not wasting my time with this anymore. And and when that happened, I was like, oh, it's too late for us to cash out. where It's going to zero. And sure enough, the next day they voted seven.
Speaker: Two, seven, one without her. But again, I still think is like it is rigged in the sense that they could, from a political standpoint, they could have done 0.1% a year.
Speaker: You and I win the bet. Right. And then he still looks good politically. That's basically zero. Yeah. Go fuck yourself. So anyways. Yeah, no, I hate him. I hate him. And after that, I was like, you what?
Speaker: Fuck Kalshi. Fuck Kalshi. I'm done. I'm closing my account. I'm not doing any more predictive betting. Yeah. I won some money. i lost some money. i probably left slightly ahead, but I'm just like pissed off because I think all these bets are so rigged.
Speaker: Yeah, I'm sure they are. And there was an article about PolyMarkets, the other predictive marketplace. Yeah. And they got busted paying creators to fake accounts and fake like screenshots or something that of winnings. oh so the creators or the people who have posted on Instagram and wherever else, TikTok, that they've won like millions of dollars in Polymarket. Fake!
Speaker: hu Why are we surprised? I'm not surprised. Because everything's rigged and everybody's full of shit. It's it's just like I'm over it. Yeah.
Speaker: Anyways, so that's all right. Let me tick that off. That is our Cal sheet update on freeze the rent. Yeah. um How do you cash out? ah You just go in and you just withdraw to whatever account that you originally funded it and and you just close account.
Speaker: Do you know that my username is sporting.crab1508?
Speaker: You chose that? I did i did not choose it. yeah i give it to Yeah, they just kind of gave it. oh out right now that you Now that you have said that, let me see what they gave me.
Speaker: That's really funny. Sporting.crab1508. I just saw it now i because I just went in. I was like, I got to see what this looks like, what I have in here.
Speaker: Where do you see that? So I went into my portfolio. Ah, yes. Oh, mine's called sudden.gopher2875. See? What fuck? How random is that?
Speaker: I'm sporting crabbing your sudden gopher. That's fucking funny. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. That's really funny. Losers. Yeah. Taking my $90 that's left in there and getting out, getting out of town. Dude, I have $13.21.
Speaker: But I don't see a button to withdraw. Oh, okay. Go to the main menu. Go back up to the very main homepage. Yeah. And the hamburger menu. Top left. There's no hamburger menu. Yeah.
Speaker: Oh, the left. Got it. Top left hamburger menu. Right. and Yeah. we do Manage. Oh, manage funds. Oh, withdraw. Withdraw. Got it. Yeah. Um, okay.
Speaker: So we got fucked on that. Thanks to Francis. Yeah. Terrible. Uh, paid back dot app that we, that I talked to you about has been doing wonders for me. I keep getting these like 10 to $20, uh, Delta credits.
Speaker: Uh, delta credits Okay. ah Every time the price goes down and all these flights are pre-booked for college visits and everything else. Freaking awesome. That's cool. So like that trip I talked about earlier about going to Portugal.
Speaker: i was like, it's really expensive booking this fast this early for Christmas. But I told my wife, who cares? Yeah. Book it. i mean, we'll find a decent window. We'll book it. And we know that if the price falls in the next coming few months, we'll get that credit back, which we'll use next year anyways on more college visits. And then and then we don't have to, like, play this cat and mouse game every day about, like, clear the cash, beat the robots. When should I book? Blah, blah, blah, blah. Let's just.
Speaker: That's cool. So that's been good. i don't know if you've booked anything yet, but that's been really good. ah No, because I totally forgot about it. Because you know what? I didn't write it down. So I'm going to write it. Paidback.app. Didn't I give you an invite to get my $5 from you? Did you? I don't know if you did. I'll send another one. Send another one. I'm going to another one. So I get my $5 and you get your $5. Send it right now.
Speaker: Okay. Hang on. Everybody. Paidback.app. It's on the thing called the interweb. The interweb. The interweb.
Speaker: Way back when. Okay. Dashboard. oh Fuckers logged me out. Okay, well.
Speaker: I'm not going to waste our listeners' time on me trying to log Yeah, it's all good. I'm going to send it to you as soon as we get off this call.
Speaker: Okay. So there's that. And then. What else we got? Oh, do you remember reading The Alchemist? um I do remember. Yes, a very long time ago. And then I think my son read it in high school.
Speaker: i I don't know what but triggered it I reread it recently. It's small enough to reread it. Yeah. I mean, honestly, I was surprised. It was one of the flights I got on. And then I was like, oh, hey, I'm going to take this little book with me. And I actually read it in three hours. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker: Wow. It's that easy of read. like I was like, oh, shit, the fly hasn't done yet. i finished. Anyways, then I looked up the internet. I thought it was a fairly entertaining book. Right. What's the moral story? I don't know. Try be optimistic. Be the Zen master. Look for omens, whatever. Right.
Speaker: And there's a shitload of hate on the Internet, as you know. Well, I mean, everybody hates everything. so But like, I think i but I was expecting to find all these positive comments about the uplifting of views of the world from the alchemist. Yeah. And it's filled with freaking hate. Like this is a stupid book and this guy wrote it in Portuguese or something like Or was it at first? It was, yeah. It was translated. It was translated and it's horseshit. I can't believe how successful this got.
Speaker: I'm like, guys, it's a simple fucking book. Well, and and there's a simple you know solution to that. Don't read it. Don't fucking read it. know. I couldn't believe it. Like, how about shut your pie hole, stop complaining, and just don't read the book? Oh, there are plot holes. I mean, listen, listen, listen, listen. I get it. It's a book.
Speaker: Use your imagination. but people don't have imagination because what they have is everything provided for them. Right, right, right. and So they don't know how to use it anymore. was like, well, look at my kids. like, you read this book. It's a good moral story. You go trotting off looking for this treasure, blah, blah, blah. Sometimes it's right in front of you. Yeah. like You know, be happy what you have and kind of blessings. Be grateful.
Speaker: It's about gratitude. Yes. It's about gratitude. And, you know, like, so there's a profound lack of gratitude in today's society. So I'm not surprised that people were just like great time yeah going off on that book. So I was, you know, and and and to be honest,
Speaker: Yeah. If it's like if the book, the meaning of the book and the plot are not gifted to people like on a silver platter, right like they don't want to use their brains to figure out what it is. They're not looking to be like self something that's quizzical. They want information just fed to them because. yeah Instant gratification is a real thing. yeah And so, you know, I find that I'm more attracted now, you know, to people. You could tell the difference, I think, to people that read versus people that don't read. oh
Speaker: totally. Right. It's just it's like, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I want people who are able to think. But those people, those same people who aren't able to use their imagination are also not able to think critically. Right. It's kind of like a snowball effect.
Speaker: And so that's how you dumb down society. And here we are. Yeah. No. No. But that's what even part even though part of me feels when I see like these freshman course picks for kids in college.
Speaker: And I think, there's like so much of this humanities BS. Let's just get right to the math and everything else. I'm like, no, actually, you know what? especially in today's world where they're just like all faced with tech and trying to get to the end game right away and they want formulas for everything. Yeah. yeah Some of this humanities reading pretty good.
Speaker: yeah read a soul Yeah. Read a goddamn book and don't know. Yeah. Yeah. And learn some stuff. and Yeah. Yeah. A hundred percent. A hundred percent. I wouldn't be so rigid. Like some schools at Columbia have like this crazy rigid core curriculum, which is a little overboard, I think. But, but,
Speaker: I get it. Like the element of teaching about philosophy and all these other great humanities related subjects worth its weight in gold.
Speaker: Yeah, I agree. 40, 50, 50, 60 of working That's what makes people think critically. Yeah. Is the reading. Totally. The reading, the philosophy, the sociology, the anthropology. Like all of those things are what make you into a critical thinker. I mean, yeah, you could do science and math all the time and they're extremely important, but they're very fact driven, right? yeah They are exactly what they are. There's no, there's no variation in what you're learning.
Speaker: Yeah. Right. now Unless, unless you're of the highest math student and you're able to figure out, you know, like quantum problems that nobody's able to figure out. And then there's creativity in that. Right. And there's some kind of like interpretive thought process there.
Speaker: But otherwise, it's very straightforward. Well, I mean, and I don't know where this comes from. Maybe you're born with it, but like the whole EQ thing is like, You're probably born with some element of some level of EQ and then has to be developed.
Speaker: And again, that's through the reading and through these humanities courses, which and if you just sit in front of a computer all day and just do formulas and coding, you lose all sense of EQ. Right. I see it all the time.
Speaker: Well, yeah. I mean, you know, there are parts of your brain you don't use. When you don't use it, you lose it. It's not like, it's not a saying just because it's the saying, right? I mean, it's the same thing like physically with your body, same thing with your mind.
Speaker: You don't use it, you'll lose it. Yeah. mean, there are some chemical circumstances where it does affect the way that you think and brain capacity whatever, but all that notwithstanding, right? If you're just kind of using one half of your brain.
Speaker: It's like the creative part. Yeah. Right. You need to use the creative part in order. Right. Exactly. Exactly. Which is why music is really great. Yes. Playing instruments, doing artwork, drawing, do even doodling. Because it's like, you know. Right. Anything.
Speaker: Anything. Yeah. Yeah. Anything other than this fucking thing. fuck i know. Like, oh my God. I look at my screen time and even though it's outrageous, it's only outrageous because I read all my news on the phone, right? I read news.
Speaker: I'm not be doing any social media stuff anymore. Like I haven't posted. I post a story here and there once in while on Instagram. The last actual post is from like 2023 or something. Yeah. So ancient.
Speaker: um But yeah, like your your banking apps, you're nearing your news, stock stuff, it's all on the phone. Yeah. So my screen time is high, probably like six hours a day, which is a lot. But like said, it's not social media stuff. It's just being productive.
Speaker: ah Yeah. Or even like writing notes, right? You're already notes up open and you're typing stuff away. um so Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I use I use mine for my alarm clock. So my screen time is like jacked up. Wait, wait, wait. Are you still using that? Was it was it again? I'm not using the elephant. You're not using the elephants anymore? No, I'm using just the regular. I got cheap. I got cheap about it. You don't want to the one dollar. Dude, it wasn't a dollar. It was thirty seven dollars a year.
Speaker: what the fuck oh that's thirty seven no The other one that I hated was a dollar, which like sucks. I was like, I don't want to do this. So I didn't, yeah I don't use it. But yeah, just the regular clock in the iPhone at this point is what I'm saying. Any other redeeming features of the alarm for $37? The Elephant?
Speaker: Yeah, yeah it it was ease of use. It never it just it it. I mean, I say never, but maybe it failed once. Yeah. You know, where I've had a failure rate on the clock for Apple at a much higher rate than one time. Right. So i tell my kids they got to set two alarms, two or three alarms. hmm.
Speaker: And then doesn't fail. if you set one, it's bound to fail. Yeah. At least once. Right. I mean, that's just the way don't why. It's really weird. Yeah. I don't know. strange. It's happening everybody I know.
Speaker: i don't know a single person that hasn't had that alarm not go off. We can just set one. I also really liked the dimming quality on that app. It was it got very, very dim, um which was great. Like the clock on the iPhone doesn't get quite yeah as dim. It turns red at night. It's red. It's still kind of bright. Yeah, it's fine. bud it's like,
Speaker: But anyway, all that to say, you know, my phone is on late all night long. So I already have, you know, between five and eight hours of. Oh, yeah. Just that screen time. That homepage thing. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah. Whatever. I mean, it comes up as utility. So it's not a big deal. like see how reads I think so. I think it comes up as utility so that it doesn't read as social media. And I'm not really on social media that much either.
Speaker: I get know some of my like rescue news from Instagram and then I'm on two groups or three groups and Facebook. Are you not picking fights anybody anymore? Oh, no. I did. Well, I did yesterday on Next Door.
Speaker: oh Next Door now? Yeah. ipa so So something. So there's something happened at Poetica in my neighborhood. OK. Do you know the story about Poetica? The coffee shop?
Speaker: Yeah. The very This the Dan Goldman thing you told me about. Yeah. The very one. Yeah. You know, he's got like nine locations. Was that the one? OK. But that the location you used, not the one that Dan Goldman No, I think I think the one that he went to and I'm not 100 percent sure, but I think the one that he went to, I thought was in Williamsburg. Yeah, but I'm not positive. So there So there is four in my area. It's a very far lefty.
Speaker: owner he's he's a in a coffee shop He's basically an Uzbekistani socialist. Oh, I see. A Muslim socialist. So Uzbek, Muslim, social. Pro-Palestine, for sure. Yeah, totally. Like, he had changed the graphic for his Poetica sign in the window in the shadow of the Poetica, you know, logo, the writing, because it says Poetica, but the shadow is in, it says Poetica in Arabic.
Speaker: Ah, OK. Right. So that was one of the shifts after October 7th was that he had gone from just being like a coffee shop ah to being like a promoter. Yeah. Making a politically promoter.
Speaker: Yeah. Situation. OK. But so there's one in my neighborhood um not far from the subway yeah station. and Yeah. you know, it's actually a very smart location. It's like a half a block away. Okay. So he gets a lot of foot traffic is how he gets that business. Yeah. um All that to say something was going on yesterday where like cops were there. emt were there. They wouldn't, weren't letting anybody in You know, there's something had happened. And so I got a call from someone saying, Hey, try and try and look online and see what happened. Right.
Speaker: Cause they weren't answering any questions. And so so, I went on next door just to see if anybody yeah had posted anything. Nothing. But instead what I run into is these stupid fucking posts about like dogs peeing and pooping outside. Okay. Okay.
Speaker: And so, you know, a lot of these people have some serious cognitive dissonance yeah about a lot. Well, a lot of things. Right. I mean, it's just like it's so fucking ridiculous. It's like a total mental illness, I think, cognitive dissonance. Yeah. um And it is it is ah documented psychiatry, you know, phenomenon, so to speak.
Speaker: OK. um But so this one of these people had posted about how, you know, she gets really upset walking on the concrete with the notion that there might be some, you know, pee or poo stains outside. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: Okay. And I just wrote back to i was like, wow, that's your biggest concern about walking outside? You couldn't let it go. No. Oh God, no. Absolutely not. Come on, you couldn't let it go? No, no, because I was like, you know what, fuck you. I'm like, fuck you, that's so stupid. Because you know what? This is like part of the dumbing down of society. Like, it's like, really? Like, are you are you sick? Like, that's your concern? But OK, but like you walk in the subway. Hold on. You walk in the subway. There's human shit all over the place. That's your concern is like dog pee.
Speaker: Really? And by the way, urine's sterile. So get a grip. Like, leave it alone. Okay. But, you know, and I hear you. I hear you, Jessica. It's so stupid. You know, I mean, this might not be completely relevant, but, you know, we teach our kids when they're young, sticks and stones, blah, blah, blah, blah. Oh, no, that's not the same thing. Name calling, I don't care. You can call me whatever you want. Okay, but, okay. No, this is just stupid. But my thing is like, this is societally dumb. You possibly react to every stupid thing people say. Oh, no, I don't. Not everything.
Speaker: and but this But this one tweaked you because of because you're a dog owner. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And because, you know, like, you know, she says shit like, you know, keep your dogs inside to go to the bathroom. It's like, they're not cats. Well, that's fucking stupid. But saying like this is dumb. But if I walk down the street, if you didn't know me and I walk down the street and motherfucking dogs.
Speaker: and there's stupid shit. I'd laugh at you. I would laugh at you like psychotically loud. I would laugh. Would you have tossed me and respond or just like shake your head let me walk by a crazy old man? I would fucking laugh so loud and obnoxiously, terrorizingly.
Speaker: But what would i do Because I wouldn't know you. Psychotically. That's fine. But someone would, you know, you but that's you. A lot of people know. Really? Yeah, of course. Do you think someone react? Yeah, totally.
Speaker: totally yeah yeah absolutely i mean i've gotten into fights in the park over over less what are you serious yeah i thought we were supposed to be more zen in our old age well i'm not because of where i live I guess. I mean, I am when I'm out of here. Like when I'm not here, I definitely am. Really? And when I'm home, I think I am. it's a New York thing. You know, but when I'm out, I'm like, yeah like I'm constantly, I feel like I'm constantly on guard for one thing or another, especially if I'm out walking the dogs because we've been, you know, attacked by other dogs with frequency. yeah
Speaker: um So I'm always alert. And yeah. And but my the majority of my arguments are about like. OK. So wait. Time on time. Our kids have been playing hockey a long time.
Speaker: Are you telling me you have never gone to a tournament, a camp of some sort, sat there while somebody made a remark about your son on the ice? Oh, no, no. You can't make a remark about my son on the ice. Oh, so you would like turn around go, fuck you, asshole. That's my son. And like, oh, no, actually what I would do is I would have done this. I did this once. Yeah. Two moms. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah yeah They were they were sitting in front of me. Yeah.
Speaker: And they were speaking disparagingly about like a handful of kids. Yeah. yeah Right. and and And it doesn't and it actually doesn't matter who the kid is. Yeah. Right. Yeah. But like I just leaned over and I tapped them on the shoulder and I said, I just want you to know, one, everybody can hear you speaking. yeah I said, that's the first thing. And I said, secondly, I said, in this environment, perhaps consider speaking disparaging disparagingly about other people's children would be disrespectful and warrant someone coming up to you and starting a fight with you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, so those two things right there. Right. I was like, and third, I said, if you've never played this game, yeah you shouldn't be saying anything at all. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. And that was it. What'd they say? They just kind of doied. They just kind of looked at me like, what the, because, you know, they didn't know that anybody was listening or anybody could hear them. Probably. It happens like incessantly. Right. Yeah. All the time. All the time. People bitch about other people's kids all the time. All the time. I used to make fun of ah of he that he shall not be named on this podcast. you know I'm talking about. Crazy hockey goalie dad. And every time somebody ah who I don't speak to anymore, but who every time somebody says something about his kid, he would go into a fit of age. I'm like, dude, you can't go through. like People talk bad about people all the time at work, at school, like whatever. You cannot go ape shit.
Speaker: Yeah. i said, I said, because I said, when you do that, actually you're making your kid weaker, not because he can hear it, where but it's like, everyone turns around and goes, oh that kid, the dad's always got to defend him all the time. I said, you need to be able to shake, just shake it off. Killer Swift. Yeah.
Speaker: I think, you know, let it go. think it's hard. People say shit. I don't But but okay think about hockey. People in life will talk shit about people all the time. And if you do, if you're a celebrity, and need to react to everyone talking shit about you every day. Oh, my God. like you You can go crazy. Right. Yeah. at Some more. You say, OK, whatever. There are angry people.
Speaker: There are happy people. and I've been there when someone's like, oh look at that. Look at that number 22. And he's like fucking selfish. And these scar he should have passed that pup. I just laugh. like I just smile to myself. Okay, well, hey, at least you noticed my kid. Right. Fucking walk off. Because like, obviously, there's no perfect player. Every kid makes mistakes. So who cares? Right. Right. And people who say shit about other kids, usually, you know, like in life, if you're talking shit about other than else, you're really more unhappy about yourself.
Speaker: Yes. This and you just whatever the word is, you're projecting or whatever it is on on other people. And it's easier to talk bad about them to make yourself feel good than it is to just look inward at yourself and say, hey,
Speaker: my kid could improve or maybe I should say nothing. Yeah. that'll just play But I, you know what? At the same time, I think that when it comes to kids, depending on how old they are, yeah it is your job as their parent to step in. If someone, if an if an adult, that's the kid but if you're just talking amongst, no, but even if they're talking amongst themselves, here's the thing, right?
Speaker: There's a lot of entitlement involved in just having random conversations and speaking disparagingly about children. True. About children, right? You want to talk about adults, that's fine. Adults, they overhear you, they can defend themselves, whatever. yeah Maybe they've earned your ire whatever that is. Yeah. But a kid who's playing hockey, even if he sucks.
Speaker: Yeah. let's just say hypothetically is the worst player you've ever seen. Yeah. Adults talking disparagingly, speaking disparagingly about that kid in public in front of other people is an entitlement that should be checked at the door. Don't do it.
Speaker: Okay. It doesn't, it's, it's first, it's wrong. Number one. Yeah. Yeah. Number two, you're not fucking scouts. Your parents shut your mouth. Yeah. But, okay but, but, Everyone's free to express an opinion. 100%. And to me, then part of this is like but hold listen is like yeah. But hold on, hold on If you want express an opinion, everybody else has an opinion also. True. And so if you express it out loud yeah and a parent, yeah that kid's parent or otherwise, comes and expresses their opinion about your opinion, yeah you lose any ground to stand on. you get You have nothing to stand on. Yeah, but, me okay, but, and, i'm you know, people to people, and maybe if you said something about their kid and that kid, blah, blah, blah, maybe you're like, okay, whatever. Okay. Maybe they fight back. I don't know. But part of my thing is like when people are talking in their own conversations, even if you overhear it, my thing is like you don't really have to react because this is no different to me. And I know the children involved, but this is no different from how crazy it is now where if I'm talking to you and I tell you a dirty joke.
Speaker: Yeah. And we are where the we we work at the same company and I tell you a dirty joke. Yeah. Somebody walks by. Yeah. And hears it. Yeah. And complains HR. I fucking get fired. Yeah. like, what? Hang on a second. I'm getting fired for a dirty joke that you overheard that i was telling to Jessica, who's not offended. Right. But the bigger. So but I'm so this is the entitlement thing. Right. I'm talking about the much bigger picture.
Speaker: Yeah. Right. So the dirty joke, yeah although i it wouldn't bother me. Yeah. Right. The environment in which you say things yeah is where it has bleed over. If we were outside, right, walking to the car, like that would be an opportunity to tell me the joke. Standing inside at the coffee machine, maybe not.
Speaker: Right. I feel the same way about parents who speak disparagingly about other players, other kids. But listen there's a time and place you don't know you were there. But it's impulse control. Also, you don't have to do it then.
Speaker: Okay. As your friend, like impulse control, I'm saying to you, you could have impulse control and pretend you didn't hear it and keep walking. Right. So in that circumstance, though, right, like I said, like for me, it wouldn't bother me.
Speaker: i I would probably lift your joke, put it in my pocket and use it later. Like that's me. Right. Yeah. You have these other people who I know. Like it's but it's it's a lot of it's behavior driven.
Speaker: Right. My point is, is I think that if it's involving kids, you shut your fucking mouth. Yeah. You time and place it. You shelf it. That's definitely true. You put a pin in it. feel you You go back later.
Speaker: Dirty joke. We're all adults here. Right. So yeah it's different. So. So back to your next door argument. Oh, yeah. They're assholes. Oh, they're idiots. Nothing. I haven't even got back to check. I don't care. i just was like, you know, it's just one of those things where I was just like, yeah, I don't think I don't think that you're seeing this. That's like people going, oh, my God, I have a pet cow, but I'm going to go to the store and buy a pound of ground beef.
Speaker: cognitive Cognitive dissonance. Right.
Speaker: See, i mean, it's like I hear you. hear you. OK. OK. So just one fight. on It's not even a fight. I'm sure she I'm sure she responded, but I don't give i don't give enough of a shit to go back in and bother because the people on in our podcast because we could use more listeners. Yeah, seriously. I know.
Speaker: I know. Well, maybe she'll search me up on Instagram. I don't care. Maybe she'll search me up on Instagram and find the link in my profile. Who knows? But like, yeah like whatever. Yeah, I don't care. Be angry. Be angry that I call you out on your shit. I don't care. You know what? If you're going to post dumb shit in public, then you deserve to get shit posted back at you in public. I do think that in my older age, I do stop myself often.
Speaker: I feel prone Just sticking my nose. don't know what it is. I'm bored. It's like the nosy, the nosy, like bored lady, old lady on the street who has to complain about the color everyone's door and their brownstone to 311. I think that's funny though. I love that shit. I think it's so funny. I know, but like, I just thought myself, cause like the other day when I was in the, this is what I was, I didn't tell you story. I was really, was like, I kept trying to tell you and forgot.
Speaker: I'm in line at this brand new food, like high end food court. Where? In Vancouver. Oh, okay. Thanks. I need context. It's Time Out.
Speaker: Time Out has all these different. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. They have one here, too. they opened one in Vancouver. and i Yeah, yeah, yeah. came there and it was like a week into it. So it wasn't running that smoothly. But anyways, I'm at the coffee shop. And this lady comes up behind me and she's asking the guy, i feel bad for this guy, but she's asking the guy, do you have, looking the menu and then she's older. She probably couldn't read it, but she was like, do you have matcha latte or just coffee?
Speaker: She asked. And the line is like 30 people deep, right? Because yeah it's so stupid the way they set it up, but like time out. You have food vendors and then you have like one or two drink people. So not everyone wants coffee. It's come this one guy. Yeah, that's lame. That's silly.
Speaker: So the line is deep. She interrupts the guy. He's tryinging coffee. Do you have matcha latte or just coffee? And he says, yes, we have matcha latte. Okay. And the lady, she can't help herself. And she's like, okay.
Speaker: Okay, thank you. But I don't see it on the menu. I only see coffee. Right. He's like, okay. I understand. Well, we have tea and we have coffee so we can make you matcha latte. She's probably worried about the cost because there's no price listed. no I don't even think that. Okay. So then he keeps going and then she's like, but wait.
Speaker: So you have matcha latte. He says, yes. Jesus Christ. But I only see coffee on the menu. I would leave. understand. I would leave. i'd feel Same thing again. No. We have tea. and We have matcha tea. We have coffee. Did anybody intervene on this person's behalf? I was behind me. And I was with my dad. and this ah And this is my thing about like, you know, related to your argument. I was like, she did it four times, Jessica. And I was this close to like, fuck, lady.
Speaker: You want do you want a matcha latte? Yes. He said, yes. Get the fucking line. or much Was she older? Yes. OK, that's why i didn't say anything. Yeah. OK, so nuance and context. Right. yeah Very important. They're always very important. Yes. And so in that moment, I probably would have intervened and asked her if I could help her.
Speaker: Be like, can I help you? No, and I've done it a million times. Dude, I catch people like fainting all the fucking time. Literally. It's really bizarre. It's such a bizarre phenomenon. It's so weird. Oh my God. i have to interject for one second. Speaking of weird phenomenons. Do you know that I've got shit on by birds four times in two weeks? You've been by lottery ticket. That's good luck That's what everybody tells me. That's really good I have to go buy a lottery ticket.
Speaker: Four Fucking times. When was the last time you got, when was the fourth time you got shit weekend. And you didn't buy a ticket the same day? it wasn't it wasn't available to me in the same day. I couldn't do it. Come on, lady.
Speaker: but Oh, my God. You missed your chance. No, I don't think so. I think it, like, builds up over time. I think it's like a force field. I think it's like a bird shit force field. Yeah. But dude, I'm i'm not kidding. i was just standing there talking, having a conversation. I had my glasses on my head. And next thing I knew, I was like, wait a minute.
Speaker: I think I just got shat on again. and I take the glasses off my head and it's like running down side of my sunglasses, a little sprinkle on my on my shoulder and in my hair. and i was just like, damn.
Speaker: I got shit on my leg. I got shit on twice my head and once on my foot. Where were you? Oh, I was at Mass Mocha up in North Adams, Massachusetts for Solid Sound this weekend, the Wilco Festival.
Speaker: I don't know what it was. i have no idea. I didn't see anything. i don't know. God. I don't know. All right. Well, today, you're going to start recording. You've been making quite a lottery ticket. No, I know. I know. Actually, you know what? I think you could do it online. Isn't there an app for that now? Yeah.
Speaker: No, don't do do it because they yeah they charge 10% to deposit money. Dicks. That's their commission. That's so rude. exchange for not charging you for getting the tickets. I'm like, I don't think that's worth 10%. No, I don't think it's worth 10% either. That's lame. All right, I'll just go to the store. But I got to go to a different store. I don't want to go to my corner store.
Speaker: but don' Anyways, thought it was pretty funny. Do you have matcha latte or just coffee? I'm like, oh my God. like Yeah. I don't know. And he was looking visibly upset. Was she not hearing him?
Speaker: Maybe? She heard him. I don't know what her thing was like. If it's not on the menu... Well, she's older. She's probably like, I don't know how much it is. i don't know why she just didn't say, okay, how much is it? maybe what That's what I'm saying.
Speaker: Like, obviously we all know that it's not on the board. I mean, some people are pedantic. Like if it's not on the board, seriously like we have it. i know. well people don't But people don't understand the concept of off-menu items. flip side The flip side also related to the story is that when I was in London with Elaine, she woke it one morning and she was like, I would like a matcha latte. like, great. How hard can that be to find? So we walk out and we're in the Kensington area, which is where all the shops are. yeah And she goes to four different coffee shops.
Speaker: And they're like, that's crazy. was like, what? That's crazy. I wonder why she couldn't find one. i wonder why that is. yeah i guess because the British do two things. They do coffee. They do tea and they yeah three and they do beer. But matcha is so in right now.
Speaker: It's disgusting. It's how in it is. I agree with you on that. It's it's literally everywhere. I'm tired of seeing it. Yeah. For the record, my wife's been drinking it when it was not in fashion. Yeah, same. I've been drinking it for many, many years. In fashion, it's like, what the fuck, people? Yeah. It's in everything.
Speaker: I just wonder why they, like, four places. Of four places, they wouldn't have that. British style. Looked at her funny like, no. Yeah, those are my favorite moments. And we have like, you know, typical English breakfast. Tea. There's no fucking matcha latte. Yeah, no, yeah no. maybe Maybe they have a vendetta against the Japanese. We don't carry matcha because we hate Japan. I was like, Elena, of course they do. you I'm buying black coffee. I see latte on the thing. How hard can it be to make a matcha latte?
Speaker: Well, but you have to have the right tools to make a good matcha latte, right? You need to whisk it. As I learned. Right. You need to dissolve the powder whisk it into the perfect consistency. We finally, guess what? We finally we finally walked into a place that was titled matcha. That's a good giveaway. And all they had was green tea, matcha, whatever, concoctions. Well, that's good.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Figured it out. finally they found it. like Okay. but and then But, you know, when I was going to all different coffee shops, man, let me tell you, the Brits make a mean breakfast. Yeah. Tell me. Oh, my God. The bacon, the sausage, the eggs, the the beans. Oh, yeah. the toast. Oh, yeah. The beans. Oh, my God.
Speaker: That looks so good. I kept walking by like. Baked beans. That looks really good. Baked beans. Baked beans. They eat beans for breakfast. I digress. It's a very high protein, by the way, scenario between the beans, the eggs, the and the breakfast meats.
Speaker: Eggs? No, the meats are bad for you. Yeah, but they're high protein. I said protein. i didn I didn't say low fat high protein. I just said high That's true. That's very true. That's very true. Didn't say it was good diet food.
Speaker: um We never got around to talking since we were on this topic. You you've traveled a bit in last couple weeks, including your bird shit travel. Yeah. any Any funny stories?
Speaker: Any mishaps? um Any arguments? No. think that i think that I think that ah music festivals are really interesting.
Speaker: Yeah. Did you go to one? Yeah, that's where I was this weekend. Oh. Yeah, tell about that. Mass Mocha, which is, you know, it used to be an old, don't know if it was a munitions factory or like, I think something else. They did the electric factory.
Speaker: For munitions, something. Oh, okay. And so it was one of those, like, rundown, dilapidated spots, you know, not unlike the Navy Yard here, ye right? Where someone saw potential and they basically um rehabbed the entire place and made into...
Speaker: a museum, right? So it's like, um, a lot of like artists are able to go and have studios and exhibits and, yeah and then what they have is they've got this big open, these big open areas where they, for this particular event, they set up stages.
Speaker: And so there's three stages, okay two smaller ones and a main stage and we'll go the band Just in case those who are not familiar. Yes. Chicago-based band. Great Yeah, Jeff Tweedy. Yeah, Jeff Tweedy. So every other year they do this, and they've been doing this for 15 years, I think. Okay. like all Like every other year for 15 years. Yeah.
Speaker: um At least it was every other year. I'm not sure if it's every year now. I don't know. Because it's a much bigger yeah situation than it had been. yeah um And so they curate they basically curate this weekend where they handpick bands that they think are up and coming, you know that they enjoy.
Speaker: They do these talks. They do previews, like movie previews. They do like all this stuff. Yeah. and they have a, you know, food trucks outside, like when you're in the menu.
Speaker: This year they sold a thousand more tickets. Holy shit. That's a lot. It was a lot of it was a lot of people. they couldn't handle it.
Speaker: I think the infrastructure yeah ah was a little bit taxed yeah with the amount of people that they had. yeah right. um You know, as for the food trucks, you know, the first day, which was Friday, you know, they like the doors opened at like three.
Speaker: And so by the time I went to go eat, the majority of the vegetarian, vegan stuff was sold out. And so, you know, I ended up having, you know, I had a bagel for breakfast. I had snacks in the car. Yeah. yeah And then we got to the venue and I had like I don't had some snack, which was fine. you know what it was? It was a donut. I had a donut.
Speaker: yeah They were like mini. They were tiny little mini. Is that a vegan? is that vegan? It was vegetarian. It was fine. i You know, I try and be like flexible yeah yeah when I'm away, a little bit more flexible yeah because otherwise I just don't eat. right yeah And I can't not eat. It makes like i don't feel good. yeah Right. Like I don't feel good. And they didn't have any pretzels. Right. Otherwise I would have okay, I'll have a bag of pretzels. It'll fill my stomach. I'll be fine for a little while.
Speaker: So they basically sold out of like a ton of stuff, but there was one, there was this baked potato truck that did these stuffed baked potatoes. Nice. So I had that. ah shared it with Eric. Okay. But like, it wasn't enough.
Speaker: Yeah. Like it just was like taxed. And then the following day, yeah you know, you just kind of like, you were able to really see the influx of people on Saturday because they also sold like day tickets, right? Like a lot of people, the people who came on Friday were the three day pass holders, which was us. And then you saw a lot of people with Saturday bracelets for the day on Saturday who are more local, who probably drove in.
Speaker: Okay. But the parking, the parking was abysmal. Like, yeah you know, you park on people's lawns for 20 bucks. Right. yeah You know, like a mile away. um On Saturday, you know, we were there with Eric's cousin and his girlfriend. And on Saturday, I was just like, I'm leaving to go eat.
Speaker: Yeah. i was like, I'm going, like, I'm not doing this. I need like an actual meal and this is not working for me. And so there's a place called public like walking distance. So we went there and it was nice, you know, a reprieve air conditioner, like really hot.
Speaker: um A lot of political T-shirts. Really? Yeah. So like, you know, Wilco is a political band. I didn't know that. They're very, you know, like anti-ice, um you know, liberal.
Speaker: and I wouldn't call them super progressive. I would call them liberal. would explain why at a music festival you wouldn't think necessarily that all the vegan food sells out for the stuff. 100%. 100%. But it's because of the audience. Like in most other places, I don't have this problem. Right.
Speaker: Normally it's like, have at it, lady. Yeah. Yeah. They're like, oh, you want a fucking plate of vegetables? Knock yourself out. I'm not fucking going for the vegan shit. They had a really nice looking bratwurst tent, actually. Oh, yeah. Oh, man. Yeah, they did. A really nice looking bratwurst tent. They had some really good looking burgers. Target audience.
Speaker: Yeah. because It was a lot of like, yeah you know, and and it's interesting because, you know, like, I'm a moderate. Yeah. But I have like these dietary things that I adhere
Speaker: But like all the political t-shirts like read banned books in Florida. Like I was like, who why why would you fucking wear that? Yeah. Like Interesting. Like why is that your choice?
Speaker: Like I wore a Wilco T-shirt, like an old, like a vintage Wilco T-shirt on Saturday. yeah But I'm looking around and I'm like, like why the political T-shirts? Like why why? Why does everything have to have this infusion of like politics everywhere? I just want to go. i don't want to eat some food. I want to have a fucking beer with a Grillo's pickle in it. I want a beer and a spear. And I want to listen to some music.
Speaker: You can't these days. No, no. And at some point there was a there was a band that everybody else that I was with was interested in. I didn't know them. OK. And they were on the main stage and we walk in and he's project they're projecting this huge Palestinian flag behind them. And I just walked in. I was like, nope.
Speaker: And I turn around and I left. I'm not going to hang out with the indoctrinated lot. I'm not doing this. I'm like not doing this. And so I left. this You know, Jeff. okay So Jeff Tweedy.
Speaker: I only know who's also Jewish, by the way. Oh, OK. Yeah. His wife's Jewish. I think he converted and his kids are Jewish. Because he wrote the sort of short jingle for the Myers Brothers family podcast.
Speaker: Okay. Which I love, right? It's like they give you celebrities and they only want to know about your your family vacations as a child growing up. So it's a really fun thing. And, n you know, obviously Seth Meyers, you know, talk show host and then his brother Josh.
Speaker: less well-known but still well-known. he askeded I don't think I know him actually speaking of less well-known. He was on that show. Oh wait which one is which one who was he on that 70s show? Well he looks just like Seth Meyers.
Speaker: You know he he he played the boyfriend you know, they talk, they get talk exactly the same. All right. I'll have to know Long haired guy. And he came late in the seasons, I think for, i gotta to look them up you're going to hear clicking. Cause now I'm looking about but yeah click away. Um, and like, he's a V like, they I mean, funny like Seth Meyers is, you know, real new Yorker and whatever, blah, blah. And then, but and they're not Jewish. You know, people think they're Jewish. They're not Jewish.
Speaker: Right. And ah so the brother Josh is like, he's married to an equestrian. He's super vegan. And I wouldn't say far lefty, but yeah I just attribute everyone who's vegan, unlike you, who's health related. Yes. But most that most vegans by choice are like crunchy, far lefty people. Yes, very much. And so he's one of those people. And then jeff and then he they always tell Jeff Tweedy, Jeff Tweedy, Jeff Tweedy, Jeff Tweedy, every episode, Jeff Tweedy.
Speaker: Are they obsessed they're obsessed with Jeff Tweedy? i guess they're buds, Wilco, far lefties. Oh, okay. That kind of thing. It's interesting. I don't know that Tweedy's quote, like, you know, ultra progressive, like pin right pinned to the left. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. um i don't I don't know about that. I mean, I do know that he's, you know, he's a Democrat.
Speaker: Yeah. But like the Democratic Party, like we've talked about, is not the same Democratic Party as it was five years ago. So, I don't know where he would i don't know where you would sit yeah you know i would imagine he's probably somewhere in the middle Yeah, he's probably a moderate. slightly you know Slightly disenfranchised like the rest of us who thought yeah yeah you know who have have noticed that the party that we're registered to are you know no longer our moral compass.
Speaker: Do you think that's why Gavin Newsom is chasing so hard for this billionaire's tax? Because he realizes the only way to get to the front of the line for the next presidential race in 2028 is to court the far lefties. Yes. Even though he probably would have been a moderate to begin with. I, you know, i don't think Gavin Newsom is a moderate at all. No, I don't think so at all. I think that his moderate his progressive policies have, you know, fucking ruined California. Actually, I think. No shit. Yeah. I did not know. Yeah. And I think that the people that he's aligned himself with, like specifically Karen Bass, who is the mayor of L.A. she's a fucking shithead. Like she's terrible. You know, like during the wildfire, she was on vacation.
Speaker: that's that's right You know, yeah and she didn't she didn't abandon her vacation to come home and like, yeah you know, be a part of saving L.A. Like she just was like, oh, sure. Someone else can handle it. Click. Yeah.
Speaker: You know, she also doesn't address the Skid Row problem down there, which if you see videos of Skid Row in l L.A., it's just gotten out of fucking control. Yeah. Just out of control. um But, you know, California is a blue state, just like New York.
Speaker: yeahp And, you know, in terms of the populace, where it's most populated is blue and probably the less populated areas are red, just like here. Yeah. um And i think that the alignment that he's placed himself with. Yep.
Speaker: Right. Is inclusive of i think that he's probably smart enough to recognize that if he wants to further his political gains, that he needs to pin further towards the left than he actually was. Yeah. and i don't think it's that far of a reach for him.
Speaker: um Okay. Yeah, I think he's done a shitty job in California. I think... I defer to you. Yeah, and I think that, you know, Karen Bass is the most abysmal politician in all of California, even worse than Gavin Newsom. Before Newsom, was it Schwarzenegger?
Speaker: Yeah. Or no, it was someone else before that, and then it was Schwarzenegger. Don't actually know, to be honest with you. I'm not sure. I feel like... I'm not good at that anymore. I feel it was Arnold. Arnold.
Speaker: I feel like it was too, who was an amazing governor. Yeah, I know. i know. um let me i think people view Arnold as like when Bloomberg ran New York.
Speaker: Totally. right It doesn't matter which side of the party you are. You're you're but everyone's a moderate. You want to be pro business, pro whatever. Just like, you know, people do your thing. Let's just have an efficient, safe environment for people to to live. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, the the governor right before Newsom was Jerry Brown.
Speaker: Who the fuck is that? Right. Obviously. Yeah. So Schwarzenegger was before Brown. Well, like, but like way before Brown. Hold on. I'm getting a list of California governors right now.
Speaker: Let's see. Where is he? So. Oh, yeah. So Gavin Newsom is now. Yeah. Jerry Brown was 2011 to 2019. Schwarzenegger 2003 to Was that long ago Yeah. shit Yeah.
Speaker: damn Yeah. Oh, this is great because you can click on them and you can like get their party affiliations and everything else in their biography. Oh, this is super cool. So Arnold was governor from 03 to 11.
Speaker: Interesting. Yeah. yeah That tracks. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that tracks. Check out this site. I'm sending this to you. It's the Governor's Gallery. Yeah. Those are those are the same years that were probably that probably Bloomberg was mayor of New York. Well, let me see if i if at the Governor's Gallery and cuo does New York. Governor of New York at that point as well. Oh, no, it's only California.
Speaker: But I just sent it to you because it's a very interesting website. They should do this for every state. Yeah. This is very cool. It goes all the way back. Yeah. Yeah. to like, let's say the earliest, 1849.
Speaker: o Literally every single governor that has ever touched that's the office in California and the first ladies and first partner partners. There is useful information on the interweb.
Speaker: Yeah. I mean, when you, you know, you can use the interweb for good, right? It can be used for good. Yeah. I mean, it's actually contains tons of awesome information. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, by the way, speaking of, I'll have to switch this up a little bit. It's okay.
Speaker: Hockey. That amazing story you brought up, Jackson cover. Right? Ottawa. Yeah, I know. I know. From the Cayman. Yeah, from Cayman. Earlier? I don't know what round. is to be there I just saw the photo of him. i mean Great story, right? just kid Grand Cayman plays roller hockey. Yeah.
Speaker: I mean, there's a story to tell the kids. Like, hey. You can do anything. have it, you have it. Right. flip side is, unfortunately for a lot of kids, if you don't have it, I'm sorry. At some point you peak. Yeah. but Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: Here's a kid, five years of... He just started skating five years ago, right? Ice skating. And before that, just played roller hockey in Grand Canyon. Yeah, but he had all the fundamentals. But he had all the fundamentals, and now here you are his head to the NHL. Wow, shit. Bananas. That's even a crazier story than than like the PK Subban family, for example, where the parents are from Fiji and they moved to Toronto, but they care of course the kids grew up playing hockey. yeah and And then three brothers or four brothers all end up in the NHL. Yeah, but Jackson did not...
Speaker: this kid's like still in the freaking Caribbean. Yeah. You know, his parents still live in Grand Cayman. That's amazing. That's what a, what a story. Right. Love those crazy. And he's, ah he's apparently a really nice kid too. He, um, gotta be friend of Sam's knows him. Yeah. And I think he knows him well. Yeah. Cause he's a huge roller guy who plays hockey, who plays ice also hasn't had that quite that same transition. yeah yeah yeah yeah Um, but yeah, and my understanding is that Sam's friend knows him.
Speaker: That's huge. That says he's a really nice kid. Yeah. Like super, super nice kid. I mean, it's awesome to see surprises like that. Then there was like ah this Caleb Malotra.
Speaker: I don't know this kid. Okay. So he goes number three overall. Vancouver Canucks draft him. His father, NHL guy, is the new head coach for the Vancouver Canucks.
Speaker: Oh, well, that's not a Nepo baby problem. Well, somebody like, oh, how awesome is that? like We are in that age now. Like even um what's his face in Montreal?
Speaker: He's got two or three sons coming up that are about to enter college ranks and probably get drafted. Right. What's his name again? was i I can see his face.
Speaker: He coached mid-Fairfield. Anyways, anyways. it'll It'll come to me. It'll be random, but it'll come to me. I know. So anyway, so like, so it's, we're in that age now where it's all the NHL guys that, you know, grew up in our age are now coaching and their kids are about to enter and NHL, you know, draft rankings. Anyway, so, so at first I'm like, that's freaking awesome. And I was thinking to myself, like, you know what?
Speaker: I get it on the surface. Father, son sounds like a great idea. Right. But that was like, but from a practical standpoint, you that you have to assume that, listen, this kid even third overall, if Vancouver didn't take him, someone else was gonna take him. He is that good. Right.
Speaker: As a first rounder. But, but my point was just, okay, You're going to have to work twice as hard on the on the team. And your dad, who's a coach, is going to have to be twice as hard on you just to show everyone that it's fair. But is it?
Speaker: No, I think it will be. i mean, I think at that level, i don't think it's that. I think people at that level... I don't know. I've seen so much. The coaches that we've seen in Newtaki, double A, triple A, that's different. as I think we get to the pro ranks. Oh, no. I think that's part of the human condition. i think that's just ah a smaller example of part of the human condition, which is you immediately have a tendency to favor what's yours.
Speaker: No, no, no. Listen, I've seen coaches, I've seen coaches like that, they cut their kid fast. Yeah, don't know. They're like, sorry. And they're extra hard. Okay, let's just go. But out of the gate, you will have mostly have to work twice as hard, okay, to prove to people that you're being treated fairly. youre You have had to treat your son be ah twice as hard as him to show when it's fair is fair. Right. time but but but but but Whatever. So based on that,
Speaker: alone like don't draft your son right let him play for another coach at the nhl team he's that good he's that competitive his uncle is steve nash okay okay and so it's in the family yeah this kid's really really really talented and deserves to be there why would you draft him well i don't know and why would you want to go skate for your father i mean Yeah, I know. I mean, even, you know, put it more under the spotlight. Like, what's wrong with you that you can't not be with your parents?
Speaker: Well, no, I mean, whoever, you know, when you at that level, I mean, agent advising, you're not getting drafted by them. But you have the right of refusal. You can say no. ah Yes. You can be like, you know what? I want to be able to like go make an impact for myself somewhere else. little different from the Sedin twins who came across the Vancouver, for example, together as well. Like what are the odds of that happening? That's clearly a bunch of side deals. Like guys, guys, guys, guys we really want to you know, draft the Sedin twins. They really want to play together. Nobody take them. Please give them to us. Yeah. As opposed to the Hughes brothers who keep saying they want to play it together. Right.
Speaker: And like, I don't think that's going happen. Maybe. It's stupid. Maybe at but point. But then you had like the Kachuk. He got traded from Ottawa to Florida to play with his brother. I'm like, God, listen, dude, you're not going get down the cup of that team anymore. That's over. So like, good luck to you. I just think it's interesting. Like, i you know, I think all the sibling relationships yes are kind of really interesting. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah. Just find it. I personally would think it would be more fun to play against my dad and his team. Yeah. Than to play for him. Well, I just, you know, I mean, I would want to be able to separate myself from yeah from that nepotism um type yeah scenario. Like, I just wouldn't want anybody to ever say to me, yeah you know, it was such a nepotistic move for your dad to draft you. You want to hear the conspiracy theory? Yeah. That was like...
Speaker: They could get around the salary cap, they're saying, by paying, overpaying the father as a coach. Yeah. Who can then hand the money to his kid. Sure. I can. Well, that's. Yeah. And just keep paying him. the me I'm like, OK, that's real. I understand that. And that's probably and that could happen. But I can guarantee you if they tried that within the first year, the NHL shutting that loophole down and like penalizing somehow. how do they But how would they even know? They wouldn't know.
Speaker: No, it's so easy. are talking about? They wouldn't know. Like maybe it's going, maybe he's putting it into a separate account and saving it. You don't know. no, no. no The point is, the point is if ah if the going rate for a coach is $5 million yeah and you pay him $20 million,
Speaker: You know, like, why are you paying this coach $20 million and he's paying $5? Are they paying him $20 million? And who? Are they paying the, like, what are they paying the dad, right? So the question. I don't know what it but it's not hard. It's not transparent. But an entry-level contract is under a million dollars. I know.
Speaker: That's what I'm saying. But my point So if wanted to eventually pay him, if they wanted to eventually pay, let's say, Caleb in a couple years, let's say two, three years, he's off the entry level contract, and they wanted to pay him $10 million because he's that good, and they don't have the cap space. Yeah, I wasn't really about... And they gave the $10 million to the coach,
Speaker: who's going to hand it to his kid. My thing is like, it's so transparent. Like if every coach in the and NHL is being being paid five and I suddenly paying you 20, I know where that money going. Yeah, but I don't think that. I think that people who are smart don't make it that obvious.
Speaker: You find a different way to do it. yeah How else would you do it? But you know what? You can like for the moment, you know what? You can do a couple million dollars a year. I mean, maybe you're not paying him 10 million dollars a year right now. Right. You you do it for a couple of years. You see how it shakes out. But like if you funneled another two million dollars to his dad, let's just say hypothetically, just two million extra bucks.
Speaker: Right. Now he just puts that into a separate account on his own tax return. It sits there. It collects interest whatever. And then at some point he funnels it to his kid. It doesn't need to be immediate.
Speaker: Oh, yeah, yeah. understand that. but There's a long play. think I think, okay, sure. I think it'd be a lot of trouble. and And because all the contracts are public. Well, I think it's risky. I don't know if it'd be a lot of trouble. It's pretty easy to say.
Speaker: Nice try. Yeah. I mean, I don't, you know, I don't think. You're better off doing the injured reserve thing that the Las Vegas Golden Knights keep doing with all their older players. So funny. to put guy injury reserve first and not play him, not pay him. And then suddenly the playoffs, you're back. Yeah. Like that's easier trick to play. But yeah, anyway, I thought that was pretty funny. mean, maybe people should just stop fucking around and just be forthright and just follow a rule. One, just one rule. Yeah. It doesn't even need to be all of them. Just pick one and follow it.
Speaker: Well, on that happy note. Always on the happiest. You know what time it is. No, I don't want to do the joke. Now we're in. is time for the mind benders that we test you with every podcast. Yeah, well, I'm feeling a little post-weekend, a little THC-like brain deadness. Well, I'm going to start you off little doggy one since that's near and dear to your heart. Yes, always. I'm assuming all the dogs at home are okay. Okay.
Speaker: Yeah, they're fine. Good. What did the three-legged dog say when you walked into a saloon?
Speaker: What did the three-legged dog say when you walked into a saloon?
Speaker: to
Speaker: so No. When I tell you this answer, you're going like, come on, Francis. Come on. I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.
Speaker: I'm just going to sit here and shake my head. Country Western dog joke. What did the three-legged dog say when he walked into a saloon? I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.
Speaker: du that's it That's a play on words with a vernacular I don't even use. Okay. Okay. This one's easier for you. What state is known for its tiny beverages?
Speaker: Tiny beverages? What state is known for its tiny beverages?
Speaker: Tiny beverages?
Speaker: ah Wait, wait. Oh, judges will allow it. Minnesota? Yeah, Minnesota. Minnesota. Very good. Another one. It took me. I had to run through the song in my head, by the way.
Speaker: oh did you? Yeah. Good. Good for you. what I'm glad you know your states of America. I just know them because of the song. I'm not even going to lie about it or like have any pretense over it.
Speaker: And they're alphabetical, which is even better. Okay. Okay. And since I was in for surgery on Friday. Yes. How is your, how is your bladder? Yeah. and you're ki I don't know, to be honest. Okay. I don't know, but the procedure is without a stent is way better. i bet. Yeah. I could say. Yeah. From a recovery standpoint.
Speaker: um And, and, yeah.
Speaker: interestingly enough they were willing to let me walk out of the or r really on my own no way yeah why why listen when i went in there they're like i got in how'd you get here oh i walked here from home i live seven blocks away oh that must be fun but about trippy trippy trippy when you come out of the surgery is there anything you'd like to eat or drink i was like well I usually have coffee in the morning, so I didn't have coffee this morning.
Speaker: And I thought on a, i like on a lark, there's like no fucking way we're giving you coffee. You're here for kidney surgery. i was like, I would love coffee and some pretzels. No problem. like, what? And then when I came out and I woke up, coffee and pretzels right next to me. Dude.
Speaker: That's your, that's your facility fee right there. It's all about catering apparently. I mean, okay. And so then I was like, wow. And then I woke up and like how you feel? I'm like, I feel okay. Blah, blah, blah. You can get my walk around. Okay. You look good. You can get change and you can leave. I'm like,
Speaker: No shit. don't need an escort. Off you go. Wow. Fuck. Wow. I didn't have to sneak. You didn't have to sneak out and nobody had to come. My daughter was coming anyways. Right. And I was like, damn.
Speaker: Cool. I don't know what's changed. Yeah. I don't know. Maybe they saw you walking around and realized that you weren't a fall risk. Maybe. And I'll tell you what's changed, though. As of January, yeah they make you prepay for the surgery. I told you.
Speaker: shit. I told you. So I signed in. i signed in bla Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then the very last step before I go in, you have not paid the estimate of your thing. Please click here and swipe your credit card. And I look at lady. Oh,
Speaker: I didn't have to do this like years ago. said I'm sorry. As of January, anything above $2,000, your share, you have to prepay. And then we'll credit you back after your insurance. So I had to pay $7,000.
Speaker: That's insane. Before I could walk into the ER. And also, by the way, it's bullshit because a lot of people who have health insurance don't have $7,000 that they can throw on a card. I know. I know. so i was like, they rely on the insurance. that is brand they rely yeah They rely on the insurance to pay.
Speaker: yeah The majority of it because they pay into it. And then you pay whatever you're, you know. And the seven grand is the estimated responsibility after the insurance has paid them 15 already.
Speaker: That's crazy. Right? Yeah, that's crazy. I know. Yeah, I got some serious issues. Like this is where I feel more progressive, you know, like the health insurance business. I mean, this is a the whole discussion for another yeah episode. But yeah like the health insurance business really should be revamped. There are so many systems in place in this country that really need to be revamped. They don't need to be obliterated. They just need to be revised.
Speaker: So it's all kind of a scam. But at the same time, i was like, I need the surgery. So like, here, take my seven grand. I'll deal with it later. Well, that's it. You're kind of your captive audience at that point. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Crazy. Yeah. um OK. Anyway, sorry. yeah I digress. we did All right. One more.
Speaker: Why are nurses always running out of red crayons? What? Why are nurses always running out of red crayons?
Speaker: Red crayons.
Speaker: dude i think reallytomp means stay on All I keep thinking about, by the way, before you give the answer, because I don't know the answer, but yes all I keep thinking about close to it is like old nurse hats.
Speaker: They used to have the red cross on the front. I keep redrawing the red cross on the front. I know that's not it. I thought you were going honestly, I thought you were going to get it. Because the answer is because they often have to draw blood.
Speaker: Oh, that's kind of funny. Yeah, no, it is. I was definitely not thinking about it that way. i thought you were going to tell me, I'm thinking about blood. I can't get it. The judges would have given it to you. No, and you know what? I'm so like ADHD probably that like once once I start thinking about one thing, it's really hard for me to deviate out of that.
Speaker: That was actually an interesting thing with the red cross. Yeah, the red like drawing the red crosses on their hats. I'm always running out of red crayons because they often have to draw. That's kind of funny. but but pop but but bob That's actually a good one.
Speaker: i like that one. There you go. I do. I like that one. Thank you. All right. Everybody, thank you. Episode 55. Been a pleasure. i me a couple of weeks Go to the beach.
Speaker: Congratulations to the newborn baby. And yes, go to the beach because the heat wave is coming. Yeah, get your vitamin D. Vitamin Natural vitamin D. Tis the season. That's it. Laters. Bye.
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