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Episode 126 - We Bring The Boom
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Pouring out 5 Big Booms for your brother...
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Introduction and Episode Welcome
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome back guys. We've probably been talking about for like five minutes by the time I've edited this thing, but it's episode 126 of Laundry
00:00:10
Speaker
What do you mean? Probably, we need to, you know, we got to talk about, you know, yeah, exactly. So we did our warmups. All right.
Costco Food Court Adventures
00:00:21
Speaker
It's weird to start with, with, uh, with real of the week. Um, but I wanted to do, I wanted to show this video, especially after, um, I went to Costco this week and you know, I went to the food court, got myself the chicken bake.
00:00:29
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in the Basement.
00:00:37
Speaker
They still got the food court? Yeah, Costco, of course. Hot dogs are still like $1.50. Yeah. They're never changing the price. No, it's not about the price. I thought they were taking out the food courts. No, they could never. You know how many people would riot? I being one of them? Yeah. So I got myself a chicken bake. And as I was going to check out, or once I clicked on it, right?
00:01:07
Speaker
A pop-up showed up that asked if I wanted to add the double chunk chocolate cookie to it. And I'm like, that has to be a marketing tactic based off these guys. Are we giving it a boom? We're giving it, the chicken bake definitely gets a boom for me. I'll tell you that. You know, I haven't had the chicken bake yet, but I did have the chicken sandwich.
00:01:32
Speaker
that they offer there, and what a mistake that was because I didn't have the water. Oh. Ooh. Was it like Popeye biscuit kind of deal, or? Is that dry? It was a big, like, ciabatta slice. And you know how some breads, they have, like, the dusting of flour on the top from when they bake it? Mine was loaded with that.
00:02:01
Speaker
And I was sitting in the front seat and people were waiting for me to finish my sandwich before we could drive off.
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Speaker
And so I'm just chowing down on this thing. And I'm being like, I was struggling. I was coughing up little flour dust and everything. It was not a good experience. So won't be getting that again, going back to over liable with $1.50 hot dog. Yeah, well, I definitely suggest trying the chicken bake if you've never had it. It is 800 calories. So it's probably just a meal by itself. Well, but it is delicious. And so obviously that got me. Oh, go ahead.
00:02:38
Speaker
No, no, I'm just saying I'm a member of BJ's, not Costco, but I was under the impression that Costco was just doing the hot dog, the pizza, maybe a cheeseburger. When did they start doing chicken salad sandwiches or chicken sandwiches or bakes? When did somebody say, let's go to Costco for dinner? This is changing.
00:03:02
Speaker
The chicken bake's been around for a while. They've been rotating sandwiches in and out. It used to be like a roast beef sandwich. What? Yeah, they used to do some different things there. Come on. Also, to be fair, Mike, this isn't like Cheesecake Factory. They got like four things on the menu. Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. But I thought the four things was hot dog, pizza slice, a whole pizza, and like a hamburger. No. I don't think they've ever had a hamburger. Does BJ's offer anything?
00:03:33
Speaker
No. No, they don't. Yeah, not surprising. All right. Anyway.
Viral Video and Costco Guys
00:03:39
Speaker
So obviously that question of asking me if I wanted a chocolate chunk cookie came from these guys. And Mike, I know, Austin, you said you've seen this. Mike, do you know who the Costco guys are? Have you seen this? Yeah, I've I don't know if I've seen this specific video, but I have seen them. And I guess they were on Jimmy Fallon a couple of weeks ago, a couple of months ago or something. So yeah, so I saw some videos from there, too.
00:04:06
Speaker
I was gonna say, do you know what their shtick is? Like what they do? They give it a boom. That's right. That's the Rizzler. That's the Rizzler. He's different from the Costco guys, but he's in their like universe. He's like their. They have their own like aura and universe about them. Apparently now there's copycats and everything. So I know about this. Yes. Have I seen this video specifically? I'm not sure.
00:04:31
Speaker
Okay. So this, this went viral this week. Obviously these guys are like famous and they've been famous for a few months, but this specific like video went viral this week. And when I, like, this is what inspired me to get the chicken bake. When I went there, it's, you know, it's funny that the cookie thing popped up, but this is what inspired me this week. I'm gonna play it. Oh God. So sorry to hear about your brother that passed away. He gets five big bones. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom.
00:05:01
Speaker
Wait a minute. It's like that's the equivalent of having like if you were serving in the military and you have them come to the funeral and they shoot off the gun. It's the same. You're comparing that to the 21 gun salute. Yeah, you get it's the thing that's yeah of the same five. Wait a minute. It's of the same caliber. What are you talking about?
00:05:31
Speaker
Now let me ask you this. Did somebody pay for that? Was this a cameo? Yeah, I think that was a cameo. Someone definitely paid for that. So somebody paid, I'm going to say at least $100. Definitely more. Somebody paid at least $100 to get these guys to do a video dedicated to their dead brother. Yeah. And out of that, they got five booms. Mike, I'm going to tell you, it cost them $250.
00:06:00
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that's a
00:06:21
Speaker
their brother is going to live in infamy that that's going to that's going to live on forever until he's in the upper echelon of people that have received five plus booms until tiktok dies in the sin that deletes all the videos in the server it's not going to guess what buddy it's back up
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Speaker
Big
Millennials and TikTok Irony
00:06:41
Speaker
47 day before coming in clutch. What's your thoughts? Yeah. Yeah, it's it's hilarious. I mean, it's ironic that everyone is celebrating Trump for bringing it back. Like even the notification said like, oh, we thank Donald Trump for his help in reviving the the tick tock, whatever. It's like that man's the dude who put all this shit in motion in 2020. He's the one that wanted it banned. And he definitely asked them to put his name in that message. Yeah.
00:07:08
Speaker
A hundred percent. But it's it's super ridiculous. Like that's that is if that isn't the most politics thing in the world. Let me create a problem that I can solve later so that I can look good. All right. Next topic before this episode becomes all this. Oh, stop it. Stop it. Go, go, go, go. Michael, you need to have what we were saying is you need to have. Yes. Stop it. What we're saying is America.
00:07:37
Speaker
We're saying that those five booms will now live on in TikTok history and forever solidify that man's life as one of the greats.
00:07:49
Speaker
Side side. Oh, are we millennials? No, I think we missed the cut, don't we? I miss a couple of the last year. You might be Gen Xers because there's like Gen Z is the guys below us. Gen Alpha is like the new. No, we're not Gen X. I thought we made the I think I think we made the quick millennials. Quick Google. Yeah, but if you look on Google, everybody has a different version, but.
00:08:14
Speaker
Most suggest that we are in the millennial category making the cut. We're Gen Y and millennials. Yeah. We're both. Well, yeah, it's the one thing because Zoomers and Gen Z are the year after us in 97 Gen X is the guys before millennials. Sixty five days. So we're. Yeah. So we're millennials. Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah. How does that how does that make you guys feel? Has no bearing on my life.
00:08:45
Speaker
, you guys did you guys have your golden year
00:09:04
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and Mike will be 29 on the 20. It's like your birthday, the day of your birthday in the year that you turn that age. So your 14th birthday was on your, or is it 13th? Am I getting the days wrong here? 13th, baby. That was close. He's a 13. So you turned your, when you were 13, that was your golden year. Cause you were 13 on the 13th. Peaked way too early.
00:09:29
Speaker
I feel like I peaked way too early. That's way too early to have a golden year. Yeah. Earlier than me, honestly. I peaked in high school. Well, we know that. Yeah, I know. I said it out loud. Everybody knows. What are you going to do? But yeah, this is going to be my golden year. How was your golden year, Victor? Did you feel any different? Did you know that it was your golden year? God, man.
00:09:53
Speaker
It's gonna bring the vibes down, but I think it was the most depressing year I've had on earth, to be honest. I think it was my worst year. 2023, right? Yeah, yeah, that was probably the worst year for me there. So not that golden. Well, then maybe we can get like a mulligan on that one. I hope so. I hope I don't have a worse year than that one.
00:10:20
Speaker
That would suck. I mean, like, like we sub that out and your your golden year is some other year. Yeah, like 31 or. Well, maybe 30, hopefully 30. Yeah, which is not that far off that far. Eight. I know that everybody says like, you know, when the new year comes, they're like, oh, this year was a bad year, this and that, but like.
00:10:43
Speaker
I get that. Twenty twenty four for me. Not it. Not it. I think there was one highlight out of all of it. But so I'm hoping the golden year really spikes that up, you know. OK, well, what was the highlight? My vacation to Italy for two weeks. They're not joining the podcast that happened at the end of twenty twenty four. That wasn't a highlight for you, bud.
00:11:06
Speaker
You know what if you want to get technical we Austin and I were not technically full-time until 2025. That's fair That is true. Yeah, that is true. So if you don't say this If you don't say this next year, yeah, sorry buddy your vision for the pod really isn't cutting it Yeah, it's not aligned with our with our core values their core value
00:11:31
Speaker
We started having we started having corporate meetings. Yeah, we have a Monday. Was it like a Monday wake up or something like that? I don't know. I've never been. Yeah, it comes. I hate Monday. Wake up. So I don't know where we want to start, but I do in front of me have Oprah cards. OK, I got I got to ask you a quick question.
00:11:50
Speaker
Listen turn turn off just a tad bit a little bit little you're a little so I think the mic was away from my face Much better. All right. Wait, hold on. Hold on speak speak like very sensually softly into the mic Like did you uh, did you rebuy these Oprah cards for this? Oh It did so did you did you never have them in the first place? Oh
00:12:15
Speaker
They are. I'll tell you what, they are not in these four walls. I don't know where they are. They're not in these four walls, but Amazon Prime is a beautiful thing because did I tell you guys this one time I ordered underwear at 1 a.m. and it showed up at my door at 9 a.m. You know, that's the thing.
00:12:32
Speaker
Listen, I'm middle class, dog. I don't get these luxuries. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? That is available to every person that wants to buy a $5 pack of hangers for their closet. They can be overnighted to them by like four in the morning. OK, so listen to this, right? So this is what I don't understand. Because isn't every company, like all Fortune 500 companies, they're trying to reduce their carbon footprint, OK?
00:12:59
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is the
00:13:17
Speaker
two of those packs came in in the morning at nine AM and two of them came at 10 o'clock at night are we supposed to reduce our carbon footprint couldn't they all come either early in the morning or late at night there was no importance to me what time the next day they got there you know but like I thought we were all supposed to be reducing our carbon footprint and Amazon Prime's
00:13:38
Speaker
Vision is just like get it out here. You know, I bet you they wanted to ship all of them at in the morning But the two that they gave you were the only ones they had like not in like a massive palette somewhere deeper in the warehouse But I got it from the same that's what confused me because like I got them from the same like Amazon page like it's the same exact it was just you know what the difference was the color the colors were the difference and
00:14:03
Speaker
What are you laughing at? I'm just saying. This is this is the most like I'm I'm I'm feeding into the comments right now. This is the most bro. Let's have a podcast topic I've ever heard in my life. No, but I want to talk about seriously if like if we're supposed to reduce carbon footprint.
00:14:21
Speaker
But Amazon's vision is to literally get everybody what they want as soon as they can. Like, isn't that the exact opposite? Were you satisfied? I think what we should do, hold on, is we should have a little session. Everybody, put your camera down at your at your table. We'll write out what we think the supply chain was from the time Mike ordered till when it got there. And maybe we could draw separate little arrows for each one. And I think that the audience would really enjoy that.
00:14:52
Speaker
You know that vision board of Charlie from it's always sunny when he's trying to like just put everything that's gonna be awesome like about an hour. So it started in Seattle. That's right. And before we know it, we have a whole new supply chain system designed for Apple optimized, we get new jobs, we become executives, we make more money than we've ever, ever needed in our lives. And it all came from this mic. It all came from your idea. Yeah.
00:15:18
Speaker
And then we start a space program or we buy a social media platform or we fly to a certain Island in the Caribbean or, or opportunities are endless.
00:15:31
Speaker
Yeah, or we we say that a very popular social media platform is stealing government secrets. And then a couple of years later, we step in and say that it's not right before it's about to get banned. Quick. Change the topic. Change the topic. Listen, as long as you know, you got to be able to have fun with this, Michael. Come on.
00:15:53
Speaker
because you're all going to shit on me after the fact. But listen, let me tell you something. When we're all executives of this new of this new job, can we get bar carts in our offices like they did in the 60s? Like I want to have a martini at 10 a.m. while I'm while we like are talking about our branding. I mean, you technically can do that from your home if you wanted to. You can. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I guess technically could be all we all could have a martini at 10 a.m. if we wanted to.
00:16:18
Speaker
And then, you know, like go out to dinner for, you know, or go out to lunch, like leave the office for lunch and then just like knock them back. I think that'd be pretty sick. You should have should have worked in the fifties and the sixties.
00:16:30
Speaker
I'm rewatching Mad Men. Great show, by the way. Is that what started this? Yeah, I'm rewatching it. I remember the big details, but I don't remember the small details that lead up to it. So I'm rewatching it. And I'm just like, first of all, god, everybody smokes like a chimney. I'm watching it, and I'm like, that couch has to reek. I mean, that couch just has to reek of just cigarette smoke. But I'm also like, god damn, he just walked into the office, and he's pouring whiskey. I'm like, that's sweet.
00:16:59
Speaker
You can start doing that. You should start bringing that back. Bring a bottle of whiskey to your office, like leave your bedroom before work and just, you know, little two-ounceer or whatever, little ice cube. Sit down for your whatever, your little meeting with your boss on Zoom and, you know, just say it's iced tea. Pull out a couple of sigs on the Zoom. Yeah, there's really nothing stopping you from smoking inside your apartment.
00:17:29
Speaker
I agree. I wonder how that would go over if you just pulled out, you know, a SIG or like your vape and you're just going at it on the zoom. I wonder what they would say. What are they going to do? Fire me. I don't know. Probably not. I don't think they could fire you for smoking an e-cig on a work meeting. Maybe drink. Definitely drink.
00:17:58
Speaker
Yeah, so how about how about we get to the the unsolicited life advice so the new segment we're trying on the pod First up you got him first
Parking Lot Etiquette Advice
00:18:07
Speaker
up. It's me. This is this is my week So, uh, what what is okay? Is this brand new we started this week? Yeah, somebody knows this is brand new So my my life advice for you guys is keep every single business card you ever get and
00:18:26
Speaker
That's true. The reason for that is when you hit a parked car in a parking lot or on a street, you know, anywhere. This is genius. You get out, you write on the back, hey, my bad, I hate your car. And you stick that little business card on the windshield. This is. And then you leave. So that way did not know this is where this is. So that way, if someone watches you hit that parked car, they'd be like, oh, they gave the info. Yeah, this is this is glorious.
00:18:57
Speaker
It's, you know. Exactly. Where could this go wrong? But the only problem is how many people are really handing out business cards these days? Physical business cards. If you go to my local bagel shop, the whole wall has stacks. And I mean stacks of business cards. You just start taking them. So you're not talking about like one-on-one interactions. You go in, you pick up somebody's business card, you walk out. Yeah.
00:19:24
Speaker
Okay, cool. You make it their problem. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, I love that. So they pulled it. Have you put it to the test? No, I have not. I haven't hit any cars. I'm just that good. You've never gotten to a car accident. No, the only time I've ever gone to like, um, well, actually, yes, but wasn't that bad. Uh, I've gone to a,
00:19:50
Speaker
a small fender bender and the guy wanted to beat me up because his like six month old baby was in the car that they just got back from the hospital. So that one was bad. But you know that no repercussions they didn't focus on that person. I had a very similar interaction. I never saw the child so I couldn't confirm whether or not they were like pulling one over on me. Yeah.
00:20:17
Speaker
but did one of those things where I was at a stoplight and I like the light turned green and the car started to move forward and so I had like let off the brakes or something like that and when I was changing the radio station I knocked my wallet and so I went down to pick it up like I saw people were moving I let my foot off the brake went down to pick it up came back up the guy was trying to turn left so he stopped and I like hit him at like five miles an hour or like three miles an hour whatever it is
00:20:47
Speaker
gets out of the car. He's like, you hit me, I got my kid in my car. We got, you know, like, what are you doing, you idiot, all this stuff, you know, yada, yada, yada. And I was like, dude, I don't know what you want me to do. I don't see any damage to your car. I don't have any damage on my car. How do you want to figure this out? And he's back and forth, back and forth. And I was like, you know what, I got 50 bucks in my wallet. And he's like, that works. And I grabbed it and he goes,
00:21:13
Speaker
And I was like, did you even have a kid in the car? So I knew the kid was in the car because I could hear them crying. Oh, you upset that child. Yeah. Also shows that that father valued his child's life at 50 bucks. So that's pretty nuts.
00:21:30
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, I didn't I killed a kid. I just know it's just you know, like you ruined their day for like, you know, whatever. Yeah, 50 bucks seems pretty good. Yeah. Hey, 50 bucks is 50 bucks. I do want to I do want to say that what happened to Austin was exactly what happened to me, though. I didn't like, you know, it was just the
00:21:51
Speaker
Invicted it ramming. Yeah Yeah, exactly. It was it was literally a light contact where there was no damage on either vehicle. So Wasn't that big of a deal? Okay, all right For the authorities out there just in case they're yeah, you know Allegedly, but that's uh, but yeah, that's my life advice for for you guys just in case you ever get into a little fender bender when you know, I
00:22:19
Speaker
I mean, I was gonna say, you know, it's probably not good to say it, but like, have you guys ever, you know, I won't say hit and run, but like,
00:22:28
Speaker
Hit and run. No, I have not been in that situation. Yeah, I have. I have not. You have. For what? I didn't. I was not the hit and a runner, but somebody hit me and ran. Oh, OK. That's. Oh, OK. Different. We thought you just committed. Yeah, I was saying. Did you? Sorry. I committed. Confessed. Yeah. No, no, no, no. I was not the hitter and runner. I was the hitty and runny. Damn, that sucks. Was that on the Jeep?
00:22:57
Speaker
No, that was in my dad's old truck. And thank God I was in that old truck because that thing that sucker was full metal. There was no damage on that. That car, that that other car was wrecked and they drove off. And I was like, that's your fault. Like mine was spotless, dude. It was so spotless. Damn. They were trying to I was going down a hill in the rain. And they were trying to take a left. OK. And so.
00:23:26
Speaker
They thought they could beat me. So in the heavy rain, so they decided to gun it. I obviously lock it up in the truck because it was a standard. It was a back wheel drive. So I lock it up and I'm hydro planning at this point because I'm slamming on the brake. I'm down shifting. He bone them.
00:23:44
Speaker
which is there, which will be their fault. We both look at each other. I look in the front and they look at the side and they book it. So I'm like, I was just like, you're not getting away. So I was I was telling him I was telling him and I lost him behind a school bus. And that's when I was like, I gave up. I drove home. And then I realized and then I realized I drove home that my front license plate was gone. And for a hot second, I was like, it's stuck on that car. I was like, it's stuck on that car and they have all my information. They're going to come to my house.
00:24:14
Speaker
So I drove back to the scene and it was actually, it was there on like the road or something like that. But this car cut me off, essentially in the rain, booked it. And then I tried to catch him. It didn't work. I don't think they would have shown up at your house. Listen, people are crazy. OK, people are nuts. You don't know what people are doing. Well, that's why you got to exercise your two way.
00:24:37
Speaker
Listen, not more than ever, baby. More guns on the streets, the answer. I mean, I don't understand what the problem is. Yeah, more is important. Protecting your home, your loved ones. That's who's not. The the the I think we need a mashup for this episode of Mike twerking three times and then like on repetition, having more guns on the street is the answer.
00:25:03
Speaker
and then give it five booms at the end. Yeah. And then taps. That's all that's all mashup right there. Who needs an intro when you have that? I love it. That's funny. OK, that was great life advice. Thank you. Appreciate that. Awesome. What do you have? You want me to go first with my Oprah cards or you want to go with what you have? No, you you you you you. All right. So I picked out I picked out seven.
00:25:34
Speaker
that I think can work. I feel like we all could have a pretty good response on most of these. So in no order, I will start from the top and it says, what's the most fun party you ever attended? I don't think I can say mine. Can you give us details without giving us full details?
00:26:04
Speaker
I can tell you that it ended in a Italian mobster kind of position from my parents. Mike, you were involved. Really? Vic was also involved, but Vic only dropped this off at the end. That was the most fun party you ever attended?
00:26:29
Speaker
I want to say now that is the best. Yeah, that's the best story that I think I've ever gotten from like youth partying.
00:26:39
Speaker
We've told that on the pod. We've talked about that. No, we didn't. Did we not? I thought we did. I don't think we've got it. You're thinking about something else. On the pod. And that's OK. But I'll say two things that I did not puke in that girl's car that night. Yes, you did. That's confirmed. No, you did. Did not puke in her car. No, you did. And number two, it was very much a Godfather scene the next day. And I was scared shitless.
00:27:05
Speaker
I will say that there was at one point where Mike put a glass, a beer glass in a vice grip and decided it would be a good idea to shatter it. Yeah. And then I'd also like to say that Mike decided it would be a good idea to jump into a car that was on blocks.
00:27:28
Speaker
in a garage, because we were in a garage. I mean, where else would we be? Yeah, a car that they had been like restoring. And I think that had a lot of sentimental value to them. I do. Due to like some circumstances, you know, I don't really want to even speak on, but I think we all understand. I personally didn't know the car was on blocks. Just just going to go ahead and throw that out there. Even if it wasn't on blocks, you still decided to jump in there. I did. I got Mike got like
00:27:56
Speaker
cartoon pulled out of that car by the scruff of his neck. Somebody just went in there with their big hand, grabbed him, and was like, nope. He was a state champion wrestler in high school. Yeah, he asserted his dominance that day, for sure. Yeah, that was a big one for me. That was funny. I know we can't give more context than that because I feel like it's too much detail, but. I'll let you guys say it at my funeral. Yeah.
00:28:27
Speaker
Mine's actually a wedding. Mine's actually a wedding. Two of them. One was here in Connecticut, and the other one was a family wedding in Canada. And it was just one of those that was all night. The room was reserved till 4 AM.
00:28:49
Speaker
At midnight, they opened up a side room and they're cooking breakfast. The music was good. The food was good. Just, you know, being with all the family and everything. So I know I don't know if the cards alluding to like college party, house party, but if we're talking parties in general, I think two of the best memories of a party I've had is actually been weddings and I've thoroughly enjoyed.
00:29:14
Speaker
One of them, the other one, we all know, was somebody from high school that I went to the party. And there was other people there that we knew. And I ended up dancing with a wife. And a person who I was with ended up dancing with the husband. And then that got a little dicey. I don't know if you guys remember that or not. Two basketballs were being thrown around, if you know what I'm saying.
00:29:43
Speaker
And then I had to leave, so. That was Mike's first experience with infidelity. Yeah. With swinging. With swinging. You're right. You're right. With swinging. This was before the pineapple was big. You know what I'm saying? Like, this was before the pineapple, so. Yeah, OK. Can somebody explain it to me? What is that? What's the pineapple? I don't know. It's like a symbol of, like, if you have a pineapple in your home or something like that, it's like you're cool swinging or whatever, I guess.
00:30:10
Speaker
But it has to be upside. Yeah, it's the upside down. I don't really know. Oh, it used to be like. Like the star on the home, you know, some people put like a star in the front, like whatever, like on the siding of the house or something like that. I don't know about that. That's what I thought. That's what I've heard. My parents had a star on the front of their house for the longest time. And we're Catholic. We don't do that, you know. Yeah, to your knowledge.
00:30:40
Speaker
I like this conspiracy theory, but I won't talk more about it. I thought, I thought this, it used to be the star and now it's the pineapple. I could be wrong. Let me, again, let's Google it. But yeah, it's an upside down pineapple. Like if you have that in your home or whatever, if you display it, um, okay. All right. Makes sense.
00:31:05
Speaker
I mean, it doesn't make sense, but, you know, yeah, I guess I want to know the wire, the significance of it. Mike's having Mike's having deep thoughts right now about whether or not his parents are swingers. No, asshole. Thank you. OK, it says not so much, not so much. Not so much. Yeah, what's not so much the the star meeting the swinging?
00:31:31
Speaker
OK, thank you, because that one we would have had to talk about that one. Let me let me check the pineapple, though. While he's doing that, Mike, I've seen that bear behind you move at least three times now. My roommate, what are you going to do, you know? He's saying. Yeah, the pineapple is confirmed aside.
00:31:56
Speaker
It's confirmed. Yeah. If you like wear it on cruises or something, you wear like a little pineapple pin. That's what I heard that cruises are the biggest place. Yeah. So it sounds like we got to go on a cruise 2025. Also, uh, uh, nursing homes. I've heard that those are pretty active and there's nothing that the nurses could do about it too. You just got to let it happen.
00:32:25
Speaker
Mm hmm. What? Mm hmm. It's true. It's a phrase that somebody should. You should phrase that a little better, but it sounds pretty predatory when you said it like that. No, but I've heard that. I've heard there's nothing they can do about it. And there's nothing they can do. They got to sit there and watch legally. This is OK. Vic, what was your most fun time you've ever attended?
Memorable Party Stories
00:32:53
Speaker
No, no, man, I don't party. I'm pretty. Yeah, but not fun. I mean, I went to college, but I don't know. I didn't really have that much fun. There was that one time. Yeah, I was going to say there's one time we hosted a party at the condo that had like 90 people.
00:33:11
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But that wasn't even. We talked about that before. Yeah, that wasn't even really fun. That was more anxiety inducing. That night was also like an incredible like it was just a massive blur because I was incredibly drunk. But but yeah, I guess that was pretty fun until Austin drove me to get McDonald's at five thirty in the morning. The next like. Yeah, that's because that's when the last person left was five thirty in the morning. What? Yeah, they cleared out and then we did up late. Remember pulling all nighters?
00:33:41
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I'll tell you what, rarely have I pulled an all-nighter. I used to do it all the time, man, all the time. I used to do it first on, like in high school or whatever, if I had my friends stay over. Exactly. But college-wise, I did not care about my classes enough to pull an all-nighter to study. Yeah, I always value my sleep more. But I think the closest that I've gotten is maybe an hour of sleep.
00:34:10
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And I was it. And those are like the weird scenarios where like you get an hour of sleeping, you think you're gonna be dead tired. And then you wake up and you're like, I feel more energized than I've ever been in my life. Yeah, I've had one of those bare minimum hours you need of sleep to be a functioning adult. I figured it out in the past couple years what I need. What's the bare minimum hours that you guys need to wake up the next day and be a functioning adult? Six.
00:34:35
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This is a four and a half is like literally. I mean, I'm angry about it, but like I could I could be a person. Yeah, nobody loves it, but mine's probably between mines between four and five. Obviously, I would rather not get four and get more. But if if I get four, I can. Function. OK, you need six, dog, that's that's crazy. I'm I never got past that phase in my life where
00:35:04
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If I go to bed and I don't set an alarm, I don't naturally wake up at like when it's time for work or whatever. I need an alarm. Otherwise, I'll sleep in to like. 11 o'clock. Oh. Yep. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Honestly, I I I don't see it as a burden at this point. The fact that like so many people have sleep problems, right? I.
00:35:33
Speaker
I am not one of those people by any means. And okay, quick caveat. Do you guys dream often? No, yeah, I have I have of recent but no. Normally I rarely every single night I dream every single night. That's good. I don't know what it is. Do you have a dream book?
00:36:00
Speaker
No, I tried to do that one time. I couldn't do it. Like you would like you have to wake up. You have to tell yourself you're going to wake up after a dream and then you get up and you write about it and then go back to bed. It just seems like bad sleep. No, no, no, no, no. What it is is it's like it's almost like a dictionary in a sense, but it's like if you have a dream about something certain, you go in the book. And so like if you dreaming, for an example, about a butterfly,
00:36:25
Speaker
you know, book, you go under butterfly, and it could give you some scenarios like butterfly leaving butterfly coming, you know, like this and that. And then it could kind of tell you like, the synopsis of your dream based off that, again, I don't know the validity of it. But there's like a dream book, if you're dreaming of something specific, you go in the book and kind of look it up to see what that kind of signifies. Interesting.
00:36:51
Speaker
So no, not about writing down your dreams. I want to by the time I wake up, I don't remember any of that anyways. Yeah, I did try it. It doesn't make sense when you write it down either. Yeah, I tried that like 3 a.m. like, oh, you sent an alarm to like write like wake up, like write down what you were dreaming and then you go back to bed. And I think it lasted one night. I woke up at 3 a.m. I was like, this is fucking stupid. I just went back to bed and never did it again.
00:37:18
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Yeah, I don't I don't care enough about the dreams themselves to to write it all down Unless I'm like a like an author and it's a good book premise or something like that. What am I doing? Go back to bed. Yeah Next topic I have and I like this one off the rip because you guys will know why it says what's the funniest advice your mother ever gave you and
00:37:49
Speaker
You guys know my story I'm gonna say I gotta hear yours first. Yeah, I don't I'm gonna be real I don't really have much funny advice for my mom because usually she's pretty like sage and like Yeah, that's it. That's what I'm saying. I don't there's no Yeah, I got nothing for that one
00:38:11
Speaker
I would love to write a book about the shit my mother says or she's put me through. I mean, what is what is what is the give me the top two that come to your head right now? Well, advice or like just things that she's done or said that I'm just so I just just west. Start with advice and we'll go from there. So when we were kids. I'll explain. So when we were kids, we never had TVs in our room, right? We had the TV in the living room and that was it.
00:38:41
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As we got older and my mother was always, my parents were against like TVs in the room. The room is where you sleep, you know, like you, this and that you're going to be distracted all night. You're not going to sleep. Then when we got older, my sister went out to college, whatever the case is.
00:38:56
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as we're getting older, a birthday gift from my parents and my sister was just a really small flat screen TV, like a 22-incher and a Roku stick. And I was like, and for years, I was like, I almost spent 19 or something for years, I was like, mom, you were anti-TV in the room. And she's like, well, when you, you know, you're dating now and this and that, she goes, you know, when you have the TV in the room,
00:39:25
Speaker
then we all know what you're doing while you're in the room. If there's no TV in the room, then what are you guys doing in there? You know what I'm saying? So she goes, it's better to have the TV in the room so you guys could watch TV instead of doing other things. And I was like, that's the dumbest shit I ever heard in my life. You say, Mom, have you ever heard of Netflix and chill? Yeah.
00:39:45
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They turn that you turn the TV up to make sure no one can hear what you're doing. Yeah, exactly. Covering your tracks now. So that's funny, which is wild because if if anybody ever thought that I was going to do that in the same hallway as where my father was, they're fucking crazy. So that never happened regardless. But that was her thought process. She was like, oh, if you have a TV in the room, you're not going to be doing other things. You're going to be watching TV. And I was like, where you get this math like this isn't adding up.
00:40:15
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It's mom math. It is literally girl math. So I'm sure Pam's given you some. But Pam's sentimental. Both my parents are very practical, pragmatic people. They don't give funny advice. They're just like, put your money in a 401k, son. I'd be like, mom, I'm on my way.
00:40:45
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Yeah, I'd be like, Mom, I'm having, you know, me and my girlfriend, we just had a fight about this. And this is when I was in like high school. Mom, me and my girlfriend had a fight about this. You should be like break up with her. Easy. Break up with her. That's a good solution right there. You should be having problems as a kid in high school. Your problems should be school. Break up with her. Break up with her. Come out to dinner with us at the San Marino tonight. That's right. That's right. For like the sixth time this week.
00:41:16
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Yeah, yeah, that's exactly how I imagine that would go down. Yeah, that's fun times. All right, next card. Have you ever been ghosted? Yeah. Are we going to go into deets on that? Are we just going to say yes or no and move on?
00:41:37
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I'm probably probably yes and move on. Yeah. Yes. I've been on both ends. So let's just keep it rolling. Let's. Oh, OK. Oh, Vic has something he wants to say, but he's not going to say. No, I have nothing I want to say. I just told you I just keep it rolling. Let's keep moving. I got to say if I if I have ever in my life.
00:42:02
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Like it's been unintentional for the most part You know me. I'm not like oh, so you know if you ghosted anybody Yeah, this is me on like okay Okay on the other end because this says have you been ghosted and you're like, oh if I got ghosted it's unintentional like okay Yeah If I got ghosted I'm sure it was a mistake, you know Just lost my number or something. Yeah
00:42:31
Speaker
No, you know me, I'm notoriously bad for texting. Yeah, you didn't respond to what I sent yesterday.
00:42:37
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Yeah, three straight days. We didn't know if you were coming on the podcast. I know you didn't. You didn't text us at all today. I sent you something yesterday asking you like a real question. You didn't respond. But you did comment about my Trump thing. I sent to the group chat. I thought that was fucked up, but it is. So here's here's how it goes. This is my brain, right? You guys send a text and I see it and I'm like, OK, but usually 99 percent of the time it's like I'm doing something. I'm washing the dishes. I'm out driving around running an errand or something like that. And I'm like, I'll respond.
00:43:07
Speaker
And I put it down. I never respond. I don't remember those text messages until I come back to it again. And then if I'm in a position where I'm free, I'll respond. And that's why I'll probably hit you up on the Trump thing and then come back to it later on. It's like that's how my brain works.
00:43:24
Speaker
Not good for friendships, but here we are. I'm just going to start emphasizing my text like four hours later and hope that you just do that. I'm just going to question everything like after 10 minutes probably. Anyways, yeah. When you were young, what did you want to be when you grew up?
00:44:07
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and I was like, damn, I guess I don't want to be a lawyer. I remember that guy. I'm not trying to be that depressed. I hope that guy's all right, man. That was like, again, 13 years ago. No, not that long. But you know, it was a while. No, I don't remember his name.
00:44:07
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of baseball guy
00:44:26
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Was he a lawyer? Remember that? Yeah, he was a lawyer in town. I think like they found an office in town. I believe so. Oh, God, I'm sure we could find out who it was. To be fair, I wouldn't want to be a lawyer in our hometown either. Yeah. But that dude probably saved a lot of careers, a lot of kids, a lot of money. Yeah, certainly changed my life. I'll tell you that.
00:44:50
Speaker
whole different direction. Dude, I was watching like suits at the time when they came. I was like, dude, this shit's so sick. Like Harvey and Mike just fuck around and they drink again, like Mad Men shit. They're just drinking in the office. They're like, they're coming to court and they're fucking owning people so hard. Like they win every single case. I was like, this shit looks awesome. And then that guy was like, yeah, pretty much I don't see my kids. My wife hates me. I hate her. My job sucks.
00:45:18
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And that dude had a rough day. Yeah. And it was like all before nine a.m. Victor's career, his lawyer path was looking more like Better Call Saul. After that, he was like, yeah, that kind of sucks. That sounded I mean, Better Call Saul looks way cooler than what that guy was talking like. That dude really, really hated being a lawyer. I think they asked him to leave. I'm not mistaken. I don't think he did all four sessions. I can't imagine that he did. Well, like.
00:45:48
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Why would they do that? Yeah. Cause they also had a teacher, like not supervised, but like a teacher was in the classroom with him. Just like chilling and like listening to like the career day speech or whatever. And I think after like the second or third one, they're like, yeah, I think we got to get this guy out the building. Smart. Yeah. Cause they did them all at the same time, right? Yeah. And they just had a teacher in each one.
00:46:13
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Yeah, so other than that, I didn't really have I didn't have any other career aspirations. That dude kind of killed them. When I was 16, I was like, fuck, I don't know what to do with my life. This is all I wanted. That's hilarious. That's why I'm here today. I. I did not want to be a lawyer after having two parents that were. I was I just want to play for the Yankees, man. But I can. Yeah, we could tell. Fucking look at the outfit. You're not even a New Yorker, bro.
00:46:43
Speaker
Yeah. OK, hold on. Was that was that the local poker game the other night? And they said that it's possible to be it's possible to be a New Yorker, even if you're not born. OK, but they said the key word was possible. It wasn't definite. You know what I'm saying? Like you're you're like you're like awaiting the citizenship for it. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So so what's what's their definition of it? What do you got to do?
00:47:13
Speaker
You know, that was a really good question. I don't, I didn't ask. I just took it as, as hope. So, you know, I'm going to continue to audition. I'll continue to rep, you know, and, uh, I'll get more, more, you know, bagels and sandwiches, the hockey way. And, you know, just do my part. Yell at random people on the street. God bless America.
00:47:37
Speaker
Yeah, one day, one day. And I don't know if I'll go some, you know, like through some massive transformation, but I'm sure you guys will know when it hits, you know? Yeah. Do you, do you have any plans or like think about like leaving New York at any point as you grow older? No. Like you think you're going to stay there the whole time? Yeah. Well, I mean, obviously there's other factors, you know, but.
00:48:02
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, depending upon how ambitious I am, I'll, you know, I try to have other places that I can go to, but this will be like the main place. Be be loves it here. Yeah. All right. So, I mean, hey, that's a little bit more cred. I feel like you can't you definitely cannot be like a New Yorker if you have thoughts of being like, all right, one day I'll move out of the city or like, yeah, you know, like this is fun, but like 10 years I'm moving back to Connecticut or some shit like that. You know what I mean? Yeah.
00:48:33
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But you hear from people all the time that are like, you know, New York's their hometown. They're like, one day I'm going to make it one day. I'm going to make it out of this city. So maybe I need that to have that kind of mentality. You know, one day, one day I'm going to make it to Westchester County. You know what I'm saying? It's going to happen one day. Another one day. One day I'll see Albany, you know.
00:48:54
Speaker
Yeah, another COVID we'll hit and I'll buy up more property in southeast Connecticut there or southwest Connecticut. Costco is a beautiful city in Connecticut. I got to make it there one day. One day I'll escape this concrete prison. Remember when like, you know, because I'm watching Mad Men, but like,
00:49:13
Speaker
Upstate was where was that you know you got your summer home up there That's where you did is that like still a thing in New York like are you gonna get your summer home upstate and like hang out? You know I think it's more I think it's more Pennsylvania hmm seems to be yeah, that's interesting
00:49:33
Speaker
Let me tell you something about the east side of Pennsylvania, and I'm not saying this in a bad way, but the east side of Pennsylvania ain't it? I don't know where the luxury is. Maybe the Poconos, maybe the Poconos, but where's the luxury in that? You got to get your plot right on the Hershey Park camping lot. That's it. That's prime Pennsylvania right there.
00:49:56
Speaker
It's living in Scranton, you know? Is that Scranton? No, Scranton's like way more north. Hershey's more south central. Wilkes-Barre Scranton's northeast. Let me tell you, besides that Chick-fil-A, they're very much there. Well, they got the Dunder Mifflin paper company. What are you talking about? Yep. It's been out of business for how long, though? I thought they were coming back with some sort of show, but, you know, maybe I got got by some fake news.
00:50:26
Speaker
I do like how if you have a contract with Dunder Mifflin that you could call them direct and get a real person instead of going through automated systems.
Celebrity Encounters
00:50:36
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That's right. Beautiful. What time are we at? How much more time we have for topics? We're at an hour, hour 12. There's some stuff to cut throughout. We're probably at like a 55-minute episode, probably an hour.
00:50:54
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So, all right. So what, one more? Yeah, if you want to, I'm going to give us one more close out and then. All right, I'm going to say these three, I have three left, but I'll read you all three. You tell me which one you guys want to tackle. OK, the first one is in what era would you like to have grown up?
00:51:19
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The second one is which of your personality traits would you like to change? And the third one is which celebrity would you most like to see in person?
00:51:31
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We go with the third one. Yeah, let's go with the third one. I'm really curious about your answers to that one. Well, we know that Victor saw Gareth Bale at Yankee Stadium and punched me in the arm because they didn't get a picture with him. I think it was Mike's fault. It was not my fault. But what I was going to say was not my fault. I would love I mean, I would love to meet Elon Musk for certain sorts of reasons.
00:52:00
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for certain sorts of reasons. I'm truly not picking up what you're putting down there, but... Interesting. Yeah. Austin, who would you... Interesting. Which celebrity would you most like to see in person? You know, I'm blanking real hard right now, but my movie guy... I am a big movie buff. I'd really like to meet...
00:52:28
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For some reason, and I'm going to say this now, Jack Nicholson comes to mind. Classic. Pretty cool. Yeah. Do was in my dream the other day. Here we go. Back to dreaming. So he's clearly at the top of mind for me. I'd love to be Jack Nicholson. He just seems like an absolute riot. That dude probably still does coke, right? Yeah, probably. It's Hollywood. Interesting. I party with Jack Nicholson for sure.
00:52:55
Speaker
That and I want to see, speaking of Coke, Bruno Mars and Anderson Pock. Okay. That would love to meet them. Yeah. Silk Sonic. That'd be pretty sick. Seems like it would be just a great time. All right, Mike, let's hear it. I don't know if I, I don't know if I have a good one. I don't know. You know me. I don't want you to watch a lot of movies and stuff like that. I'm not really into the, uh,
00:53:20
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Into that kind of stuff, you know, but No, uh, no political figures. Yeah, not like I'm not somebody that just saved your your tiktok presence. I mean i'll say this just in a uh, what happened? Mark andrew just dropped the two-point conversion to tie the game with like a minute 30 left Ooh Ooh
00:53:49
Speaker
Wait, Vic, are you are you in playoffs for any yearly? No, no, no. All that stuff's over. Oh. Mike, that's when you're supposed to play the little air horn sound. It's like my failed attempts at taps. I don't know. I just feel like.
00:54:12
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Like I don't have a specific political figure I'd like to meet, but I feel like if you love or hate a politician, like you, uh, if you had a chance to meet one, I would do it. You know, like if I had a chance to meet the Pope.
00:54:27
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I, why wouldn't I, you know what I'm saying? Like if I had a chance to meet a president, even if I didn't agree with, with their campaign, a presidency, like that's still an honor and a privilege. You know what I'm saying? So I would, I would take it up on that. You know, I know Mike's real answer that he's just forgetting right now. What is it? John Mayer.
00:54:48
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I would meet John, I would meet John, but I feel like he would hit me with a lot of deep inner psychology that would give me a massive headache at the end, you know? So you're saying he's pretentious.
00:55:01
Speaker
I don't know what that means, but I'm going to go with no. Did you see that interview that he did with Shawn Mendes? I think it was on Sirius XM. It was a fantastic interview. But after I watched it, I was like, my brain hurts because they went so deep into things that I was just like, which is like, I have more answers. What do you mean, like into like the technical aspects of music or philosophy? Like what are we talking about? Like philosophy, like dating life, like
00:55:31
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like them talking about like therapy and then like music and stuff. And I was just like, it was a fantastic interview. You got to listen to it. But I was also like, that was a lot deeper than I really was getting at. I was like, wow.
00:55:46
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Just saying, I haven't listened to it, but maybe I should. I haven't listened to John Mayer in forever, but he is also known publicly as being a pretty pretentious dude. So maybe though. He said in an interview straight up, they were like, they're like, oh, how come like, you know, you used to date all these superstars, Jessica Simpson, Taylor Swift, blah, blah, blah.
00:56:09
Speaker
like what happened like this and that and he was just straight up like in an interview like Google me like it's pretty easy to find out like why those didn't work out and a lot of it was on me that's what he said you know so is it better to be a self-aware pretentious person or to just be pretentious
00:56:30
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I don't know, but I think it has to do with when you're young or younger and in fame. I think it's very easy to get in that. And then once you're an established vet and you kind of figure yourself out and then you take a step back, you're like, that probably could have avoided a lot of those things.
00:56:48
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Like in sports too, sports does that, you know what I'm saying? Guys come in, they think they're the best and then they either get humbled or something happens or they take a step back and then they're like, maybe I shouldn't have been an asshole, you know? Look at Tyree Kyle, Tyree kill. Was on the Chiefs, was winning games.
00:57:08
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you know, was complaining that what was he complaining about that he wasn't number one or whatever cases went to Miami was ready to make a championship. Guess what? That was the worst decision you ever made.
00:57:19
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Well, what I'll say for Tyreek is that that was a bluff of wanting to be traded. And then she's like, oh, fuck it. We'll just do it. He didn't want to be traded. It was all bluff to get paid more. I talk about this with a with a coworker when I worked at the hospital. He's a huge dolphins fan, but he's also a huge sports guys like these guys don't care about the the the trophy anymore. They just care about making the bag. They just care about their personal success more than the overall goal.
00:57:49
Speaker
Well, fair, but at the same time, like, is a Super Bowl ring going to keep you paid for the rest of your life when you're not playing anymore? It used to, but I guess now it doesn't. No. It'll get you a good contract, won't it? Yeah, that's what I would think. Depends on what you like. Depends on, you know, how like good of a player you are. Like what what makes
00:58:19
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if we're talking baseball because that's really all I know. If we're talking like Shohei Otani or we're talking what's his name that just got a really good contract? Juan Soto. Juan Soto. What's so what's so valuable about those players that makes them worth that much money? Well Shohei is probably a like a top five top three hitter and maybe a top ten pitcher in baseball in one player. So he's kind of worth, you know,
00:58:50
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I think the real answer is $700 million or whatever. So there isn't there isn't a reason why they should make that much money. It's insane. I mean, yes and no is what I'll say, because if the players aren't making the money, then the owners are making the money and I'd rather that money go to like the athletes on the field than the guys in the box. Yeah, I could get down with that. Yeah.
00:59:16
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Yeah, I guess that's true. I mean, I guess I was thinking that if you were the type of player that like proves that you can get to playoffs, proves that you can get to the World Series or whatever it is that the ultimate, you know, playoff title is depending upon the sport, that would make you more valuable, thereby incentivizing you to get to that point so you can have that on your rap sheet and then make more money in your next contract. But it's not always like that because sometimes they pay rookies crazy amounts of money
00:59:45
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specifically just because they're popular and they'll put asses in seats. You know what I mean? Yeah. So if that's what people value more, then yeah, who cares? I don't want to I don't want to ring. I don't need a ring. You know, I don't need a ring to make 500 million dollars. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. For a lot of I mean, for a lot of people. Yeah, the ring doesn't really matter because all that really matters at the end of the day is like how you're going to get paid. Like that money is still coming to you no matter what. You might as well go grab the biggest contract you can get.
01:00:14
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Like there are a bunch of guys in like sports that will take a better offer from a worse team rather than a worse offer from a better team because at the end of the day, they want to make the most money. But it used to it used to not be like that. It used to be they would take less knowing that they had a chance of winning because that was the ultimate goal was winning. Now the ultimate goal is making that money. Yeah, which is fair. I mean, listen, you know, that's that's just how the game is grown.
01:00:43
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Well, and the only reason that people can pay out, like shell out that much money is because things have gotten so expensive. You know, the food that they're charging, the ticket prices that they're charging, like, yeah, it's not season ticket holders are paying out the ass like. That's the only reason that those contracts are so high is because people continue to do that. So where's your line? You know what I mean? Eventually that has to stop. Eventually people are going to be getting paid a billion dollars in the contract and people are going to be like,
01:01:13
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where did that even come from, right? And what am I doing? Why am I paying hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of dollars per ticket? I think you start to kind of knock out like the everyday like, like, you know, middle-class like fan starts to, you know, they stop going to the games and all these games end up being like corporate events. Like for the national championship tomorrow between Ohio State and Notre Dame,
01:01:42
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There were 500 tickets allotted to the student section for each team. And the stadium, I think, holds like 70 or 80,000 people. And so 1000 of that is like the kids who are like on campus, like the actual students. And then the other 79,000 or just whoever's rich enough to buy the next ticket, you know what I'm saying? Like, it shouldn't be like that, but no.
01:02:10
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It is because we pay, there are still people who will pay the exorbitant amount of money to like go there. And then there's also corporate donors that will, you know, pay for ads or whatever, like shell out the money because they want to have the business opportunity or the branding opportunity to be like, yeah, we were at our company was at the, the national championship game or some shit like that. You know what I mean? Yeah.
01:02:34
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And then so then. God. And then when you have the regular average fan driven to like stay home and they're watching on TV, they could just be peppered with fucking ads. So now your ads like either way, the companies or the teams or whatever the businesses of that of it all are still winning. Doesn't matter if they're filling the seats or not, because if you're an average fan, just being like, all right, well, I'll just catch us on TV.
01:03:02
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Now you're just being force fed ads that they're also making money on. Yep. So they don't really care whether you show up or not. If you're watching the game in any capacity, they're making money off of you. Yep. And in some instances, they're probably making more money. Yeah. But yeah, so Mike, to get back to you, I would.
01:03:23
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I wouldn't care. It seems like the time of team loyalty and I want to play for my team so that my team can make it to the championship.
01:03:34
Speaker
That's not a thing right now. So you're telling me, as a diehard Yankees fan, if the Yankees offered you, let's say, 1 million to stay on the team to help build a world champion, but the Pirates offered you 8 million, knowing you're going to lose on a Pirates team, you're going to Pittsburgh instead of staying at home where you love. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a yinzer now, baby. That's so why. I'm a yinzer. Let's fucking go.
01:04:01
Speaker
that's the
01:04:27
Speaker
To be a part of something that is potentially winning and you would take more money to be a sub par 500 team Money, so I would I would I would love to play for the Yankees. I love to have that experience If it was the first go around and I had the option between the Yankees and the you know And some other team I would probably take the Yankees, right?
01:04:50
Speaker
But if I have that experience and somebody's offering me eight times the money to do something else, absolutely. I'm going there because I got to look out for me, you know, and I know that the way that the teams are nowadays. They're going to kick me to the curb the next time they find somebody that's even slightly better than me at like a reasonable price. So you're a figure to them in your your.
01:05:17
Speaker
you're saying no to a luxurious rooftop apartment on the Upper East Side for four-bedroom, three-bath in Green Tree, Pennsylvania. I think that's the wildest thing. I think that's the wildest thing. Vic's been there. You know what the outskirts look like? You know, you ain't living downtown. You ain't living in Penn Hills. You live in a green tree, OK? That's fine.
01:05:41
Speaker
I live in Green Tree for five years to collect my 40 million dollars and then move to where I really want to live. Yeah. That's the stupidest thing ever. If you had made the numbers a little bit close, like a million and like three million. Yeah, you know, now we're now we're talking. That's not that big of a gap, but one to eight million. But these are the gaps, you know, higher proportion that guys are leaving for. Like, yeah, these guys are just collecting the bag, you know. Yeah, that's fine.
01:06:10
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, you want to talk about ridiculousness with Juan Soto, like we're talking like a $10 million difference on like a $750 million contract deal. To me, that's where it starts to be like, OK, it doesn't really matter at this point. It's just where you want to be. But most of us aren't in that position. Most of us will never be in that position. First of all, I'm yeah, I was going to say I'm not even a $1 million position. So.
01:06:39
Speaker
But so, so for, for me, like, Oh, should I do 750 million or 745 million? That tells me that Juan Soto just likes the money. Yeah. Right. And to be fair, his contract can get up to like 810 million. So like, it does end up being like a $50 million difference, but you know, end of the day, it's still.
01:06:59
Speaker
the the
01:07:22
Speaker
I don't understand. I just don't understand. There's no loyalty. I don't understand it. And now play us the exit music this way.
Athletes: Loyalty vs Paycheck
01:07:29
Speaker
Listen, listen, get us out of this. Listen, hold on. OK, go ahead. It's. It doesn't really matter like whether he wants to win or lose. He took the I mean, listen, taking the bag is, you know.
01:07:45
Speaker
So you're telling me what I was going to hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I lost my original point when I opened Spotify and typed in Dave Matthews. My original point that I was going to say was these teams treat you like an asset as well. You are just a replace like they could replace you instantly like Austin was saying. So, yeah, if there's no loyalty from them. Or, you know, you could be traded at any moment. You could be, you know, cut at any moment. There's no loyalty. Why should you display loyalty to them?
01:08:16
Speaker
Especially in like this case with the Yankees. He only played there for a year. Why does he have to display loyalty to the Yanks? Right. It's not like he like grew up in the farm system or whatever.
01:08:26
Speaker
And say he's as good as he is, right? I don't care if I'm going to some schmuck team, like, if I'm going to the Mets, and I'm that good, I could be drawing other people in other good players that want to play with me to go to that team to all of a sudden, we're a competitive team within five years, and we're winning World Series. And I'm making $200 million more on my full contract than I was with the Yankees.
01:08:51
Speaker
But you could have won a World Series sooner if you took less money and stay with the Yankees. They're a win now team. This is what I'm saying, is that they're taking more money
01:09:01
Speaker
to be a loser. If you listen, man, I think if you're making that I think if you're making that much money, you're not a loser. I'll tell you that sports to be a winner. You want to play sports to win the ultimate thing. So at the end of the day, if you're taking more money, he has the potential of being a loser, because the other thing I'll tell you this is he also already has a ring. He won it in 2019.
01:09:27
Speaker
No, I understand that, but what I'm saying is- So he's already reached the pinnacle. Why the fuck does he care? Don't you want to do it more than once? We talk about all the time Big Ben could have won more than two. But what if he was the guy that just wanted the bag? You know, we wanted him to get more rings. Yeah. Football, especially, like, are you kidding me? Like, if somebody offered me $200 million more on a contract,
01:09:50
Speaker
And I knew that at any given point at any given game, when I'm ramming my head against the other helmet of another guy who wants to kill me, and I could get CTE like that, or I could break my leg like that. My career could be over tomorrow. Of course, I'm going to sign the contract that gives me more money, right? Because I've got a 10 year window where I'm actually a viable athlete.
01:10:14
Speaker
You just gotta think like us, Mike. You gotta think business minded. You gotta be forward thinking. You're too caught up in the emotions, dude. You gotta be on the grind mindset, man. That's right. They don't make them like they used to, you know what I'm saying?
01:10:31
Speaker
They also don't pay them like they used to. They get paid a lot more. It's easier to make those decisions when like everyone's making like $2 million throughout the league. But like Austin said, when the difference is like $50, $100, $200 million, I don't think there's going to be one athlete who will be like, yeah, I'm going to turn down $50 million to stay here and win a championship.
01:10:55
Speaker
I'll say this I'll say this last point and I know we're just beating a dead horse but we got to get out of this episode but I'll say this point is that if I'm a fan let's say of the mats if I'm a fan of the mats Juan Soto gets this contract and I pay money like we talked about paying an exuberant amount of money to be in the seats
01:11:14
Speaker
Now because of his contract, how much is a hot dog gonna cost? 17 bucks? How much is a beer gonna cost? 25? All to see an average team on the field? I would be so upset. I would be so upset knowing that you have a stud of a player who's won a World Series before.
01:11:29
Speaker
And then I now have to pay more in tickets, in concessions, this and that, to supplement his contract to find out that I'm not going to get the ultimate goal as a fan, because at the end of the day, the fans want to win. This is an entertainment business. We want to be entertained to win. Well, then you're getting into the ethics of the team, of the managers of the team, not on the players. If they want to decide to charge more money, then that's their fault.
01:11:57
Speaker
right? And they're not about their fans in the first place. So it's up to you. Or you could be like the rest of us and pay $12 a month and watch the game on your TV.
Closing and Social Media Reminders
01:12:07
Speaker
And you know, not pay those crazy fees. Or even better, you go to Costco, you buy $5, you know, five dogs at $1.50 each, you smuggle those shits in. That's right. And you're already off to a great start.
01:12:21
Speaker
I'm gonna tell you something right now. I'm not giving the Pirates $12.99 to watch that trash on the field on my TV. That's bullshit. Play us out of here. Hey, the space fan. What's that? What's that? Okay. Okay. I got it. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know what song you wanted. Bob Nutting sell the team the space between
01:12:37
Speaker
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