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Bear With Us, Episode 3: Will Bruin podcast finally has a name
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It took us three episodes to finally get here, but we finally have a name for Will Bruin’s podcast. From henceforth it shall be dubbed “Bear with us.” We liked the double-entendre and thought it was playful enough without being overly punny.
Anyway, we talked about the Sounders’ chances in the playoffs, Will’s experience in the broadcast booth and did our best to avoid talking about Jonathan Campbell’s Instagram feed (we failed). We also brought back one of our favorite segments: #AskWillBruin. It’s an advice segment, and if you’d like to submit your own query please email us at nosaudietis@gmail.com.
Musics: "Bumped into Bigfoot" - Bedford; "Cutthroat" - prod. by Syndrome
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Transcript
Naming the Podcast
00:00:17
Speaker
Welcome back to the latest episode of the Will Bruin podcast. I think we finally have a name.
00:00:25
Speaker
We're gonna name it this episode for sure. And so I'm gonna do the formal introduction.
00:00:34
Speaker
Pour yourself a nice glass of milk. It's time for the Will Bruin podcast. Does that sound good? That sounds great. You love it? Okay. Yeah. Chocolate milk isn't good. Don't get me started on the milk thing again. So these are the name suggestions I think that we've settled on. These three, we got What's Bruin, Bear Necessities, and Bear With Us. Admittedly,
00:01:00
Speaker
Three puns. I don't know. Are you feeling OK about fun? Yeah, I'm fine with puns. You know, time. It's been a while since our last episode. You know, I've just thought about it. You know, it's been just racking my brain. Right. This has been number one priority for me. It has cares about my ACL. So we have a name. So what do we think? I like bear with us like it. That's good. I like it. Like, do you actually like it that much or are you just tied with what's brewing? But OK, that's a good.
00:01:30
Speaker
I like bear with us. I think it was, you know, like you said, a double entendre. Entendre? Yeah. Entendre. Yeah. So I mean, I like it. Yeah. Don't don't fact check me. But I think it works. Yeah. No, I like that one. OK. I'd like to hear what people think. Yeah. People should definitely feel free. This is the one thing we can get people to like can always be renamed.
00:01:52
Speaker
Yeah, we haven't submitted to the Podcasts of America exactly dot org dot org registry yet. So It's been a while. It has been I know I don't
Will Bruin on Sounders Broadcast
00:02:04
Speaker
even a long time. We recorded in the boy I do know this in the meantime since we last recorded You were on the broadcast for the sounders and you did I was hearing for the yeah rapids game, right? Yeah What'd you guys think of that? Do you let even listen?
00:02:18
Speaker
Yeah, you didn't push the podcast at all. Well, I tried to and they they cut it out. Yeah. Oh, yeah. There's a seven second delay that I was told. So every time it would come back to me, I would have seven seconds to be like tune into the soon to be named podcast. And then they'd cut it out, though. Yeah. You can work in like, you know, like George Morris really have a good game down the way, just like me on the podcast. Right. It's very true. It's very true. I didn't think about that. Yeah. You get to weave it in next time. Next time. Yeah.
00:02:46
Speaker
Is there that's a good question you want there to be a next time? Yeah, it was whatever I'll be 30 at the end of this month. So I still got a good a good five years in me and then we'll think about that later Okay, you know, he doesn't even look at me anymore. No, I'm just kidding Just looks the other way now gun for his job, you know, you know is it doggy dog out here the same age, right?
00:03:13
Speaker
I think so yeah I think we're pretty close I might be maybe a little older because I know he was he was good friends with or he might actually he's a little older
00:03:22
Speaker
It was 2009, but he came out early. Yeah. Yeah. He was good friends with Kofi Sarcody and he was my roommate, my first my rookie year in in Houston. So that's our little connection. That was the Akron. Yep. Yep. They always beat us in Indiana, the college cup. So you guys. That's when Kayla Porter was coaching there. Oh, yeah. That was the first recruiting stuff I got was from Akron and Kayla Porter. You're like, who's this? You took the words right out of my mouth. I was like, I want to go to a
00:03:52
Speaker
Yeah, that I mean I didn't really take soccer that serious so I was like I'm gonna go to a big school and Have fun and whatever totally on the map for soccer No, he actually Caleb actually put him on the map for soccer, right? Yeah, like when you would have been getting letters, I think that's when they started Yeah, they started getting good recruits. They got they did a good job there. I
00:04:14
Speaker
Yeah, Teal Broombury was another one of that. Just combine our last names. Teal Broombury. Broombury, Broombury. Yeah, Teal. No, me and Teal are same age. Yeah, he was good there. Okay. So, yeah, you did the show, you did the broadcast. What was the weirdest part of that? Were you hours and hours of prep that you have a whole, I know, hour of white used to have this big sheet with all those notes. That was you, I bet.
00:04:40
Speaker
that
00:05:00
Speaker
had a
00:05:17
Speaker
It was that's another thing got my own room, baby. This is broadcast travel. Let's go. Yeah, you treated like a king I know the idea that is kind of a funny idea that it's like the idea that you would make you in like Keith Costin Yeah, he wishes But a king bed. Yeah one bed you and Clint Dempsey in a room. Yeah, no, of course. Yeah, of course their players no problem Yeah, exactly
00:05:40
Speaker
No, it was cool. Yeah. That was fun. It was it was fun working with Keith. Keith is great. I think he's one of the best in the business. So he made it easy on me. I wish he would have given me a little few more slam dunks, but I pulled him aside after and had to talk with him with that. I bet. I've been there. Yeah. Keith, what are you doing to give me slam dunks? You got to make me look good. Right.
00:06:02
Speaker
Did you have a colored guy? I can't remember if you had a color guy. I mean, you were the color guy. Yeah, I was the color guy. Yeah, Michelle, let's go. And how was that? I didn't really I mean, aside like during the broadcast, I don't interact with her that much. But before she was she was great. We all three took took the car down there together trying to find parking was fun because, you know, there's like viruses or whatever in the parking lot, the plague or whatever.
00:06:26
Speaker
Yeah, something I don't even know but they had fireworks after because it was delayed from the 4th of July one So it was fun. It's fun. There's experience Do you think you watched the game like did you have to get out of? Player mode when you were watching it or like how what was the mindset of like to get into so here's the thing I'm obviously still a sounders player, so
00:06:49
Speaker
Have to say things based on look I'm still part of the team going into treatment and rehab the next day Yeah, so and it wasn't it was a tough game to call I'm sure the players would say it was a tough game to play as well, but You know loss right? Yeah, and just in general remake a rescheduled game You know it
00:07:11
Speaker
international guy's gone his international weekend it was a lackluster game but you know i think i did i was spinning the positives for it
00:07:20
Speaker
Yeah, although you did, I feel like you had a couple moments where you were okay with criticizing elements of the game. Yeah, I mean, there's constructive criticism and then there's just criticism of just saying it. So I always, always, like I've done this so many times, I've done it once, err on the side of constructive criticism or try to
00:07:42
Speaker
Spin in a different way say look Colorado did this well, which forced this to happen? So it was fun. Maybe it's something I look at down down the road, but you know I'm I'm excited to get back out on the field next year. We tended to work in any simplest of finishes
00:07:59
Speaker
no no no no i was uh yeah i had some other things i worked in there but i'll just i'll keep that to myself okay inside jokes with other guys was it easier or tougher to watch uh a guy with a really bad bleach job score twice on your team
00:08:16
Speaker
Yeah, that was tough. I couldn't tell if he had a mustache too with that bleach. I didn't know what was going on there. Yeah. He did bleach the mustache too. But to be fair, I said his name a lot because it was fun to say his name and I could actually pronounce it pretty well. So I was pretty pumped on that.
00:08:32
Speaker
And so you had mentioned that you do the pregame interview, which is different than what we as the media normally do. No, we had pregame show. Oh, pregame show. Yeah. And I didn't know this going there. I thought I was just going to show up, call the game with Keith, and leave. And there was a pregame show, a postgame show, everything. So we did a little kind of rehearsal for the pregame show. And I was like, my heart was pumping. I was like, oh, god, oh, god. And then we did the real one. It was easy.
00:09:02
Speaker
I would imagine that the calling the game in something like yourself, I'm guessing was a little easier because you're in, you're reacting to things in real time as opposed to having to sit there and banter with another person. Yeah, for sure. It was definitely easier to talk about the game, but I don't like listening to myself. So I feel like I was monotone probably like I am right now at times, but, um,
00:09:28
Speaker
But you know, it was fun and it's definitely something I would look and do it again. Just like with soccer, you gotta practice at it. Have you actually gone back and watched the broadcast? No, definitely not. Maybe if the game was better, I would have gone back and do it, but I couldn't sit through it.
00:09:49
Speaker
Again, do you think your experience on this show has helped you? I think this show has propelled me into the unknown. Exactly. It's basically you guys. Thank you guys. Yeah, right. That's what we were digging for. This whole time, we've just been rooting around for that. And roll the credits now. Right.
Sounders' Postseason Prospects
00:10:07
Speaker
So the Sounders now are going into the postseason for an 11th straight year. Obviously, that's very exciting. They ended up at the number two seed in the West, fourth overall, which I think given the way the season went, feels like a pretty good place to be, even if it didn't always feel like it was smooth and like exactly how we would have won. Yeah, well, I think that's pretty good on our team for
00:10:34
Speaker
People thinking like oh, maybe the season season didn't go that well. We still got second in the West right? That's pretty good but that just shows the standards that we we hold ourselves to and You know, I think with it now being single elimination number two season huge
00:10:49
Speaker
Yeah, that number two it's it's a much bigger deal to be the number two seed this year It feels like then it would have been another any previous years all of a sudden you're looking at Not it's I wouldn't say it's likely that if the centers keep winning that they will never have to go on the road But there's a plausible path to playing four straight road games. I'm a home game Yeah, I was gonna say road games what? But yes, you're right. You've seen you've covered the league long enough. You've seen teams that get in and
00:11:18
Speaker
Like at the end of the year, they always make good runs I've been part of teams that have snuck into the playoffs back when it was two legs where he always had a home game That have made it to MLS Cup. So if we take care of our business, we're to see there's only what is it Atlanta? New York New York and LFC. Yeah, cuz we beat Philly in points that would only hosted other and that's so there's only two from the Great from the east I would host it. So I think I mean it's there for us and
00:11:47
Speaker
Do you have a pretty good sense of what the mood is around the team right now? Yeah, I think guys are more confident in ourselves guys know that we're a really good team You know and it's just it literally comes down to it's single elimination now. There's there's no messing around It's like you got to take care of your business and you always say in the regular season take care of your business at home now It's playoffs. It's it's no different take care of your business at home and you'll just keep advancing and see what happens
00:12:12
Speaker
So the one of the things I noticed about this team you if it feels like there's been a lot of close games It's because there have been a lot of close games Something like 25 of the 34 games have been decided by one gore less, which is oh Yeah, when you told me that's that I didn't I didn't believe it. What'd you what about you look at? Do you think about that?
00:12:33
Speaker
No, I was just like, what? But that's that's crazy. I think that shows that this the character of this team is like, hey, we can grind out games. And I think that's going to go really far in the playoffs. What's even crazier is that 12 of the 16 wins were by one goal. Yeah, that's you know, I think that's an awesome stat for for our team. I think that shows when when it's tough and it's 85th minute and we're up one nothing, we can grind it out. And you need that in the playoffs, especially in this league.
00:13:01
Speaker
Yeah, you know, I kind of talked myself into this at the end of the season, and it sounds like you probably agree that playing all these close games, well, maybe not ideal from a viewing standpoint or even when you're living through it on a date, you don't want to have to stress about every game. No, no. But on the other hand, once the playoffs come, every game is going to be that way, or most games are going to be that way anyway. So now that I've been watching the games, not being part of it,
00:13:28
Speaker
I feel the stress that you guys go through. I feel the stress that my parents go through when I'm playing. It's just like I always use a downplay. Like, oh, it's not a big deal because when you're playing, you don't think about you just play. And when you're part of the group traveling or at home or whatever, it's all about the game. It's no big deal. And now I feel the stress sitting there. I got pits. I'm like, oh, God, come on. Let's let's pull this one out. But
00:13:50
Speaker
It's it's crazy and you know Sounders love drama and we love coming out on the top on drama. So I think that that suits us So i'm guessing you don't feel those nerves almost at all when you're playing beyond the getting out on the field No, yeah anticipation and then once you're on the field it's it's a whole different like it's a whole different beast watching it knowing I can't do anything about it right um as opposed to like
00:14:12
Speaker
When you're getting ready for a game, you don't think about it. You're getting ready. What do I need to do? Twenty four hours before the game to lead up. What do I need to eat here? What do I need to do here? And then you get to the locker room, figure out what you're going to do. Now you got to figure out what you're going to wear these days. Someone's always. Yeah, gosh, it's crazy. And then once you're obviously warming up, you don't think about anything. It's just another routine.
00:14:39
Speaker
So when you're on the bench, as opposed to when you're watching from the stand, is that still a lot different? Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's definitely not nearly as stressful. You're watching the game, like for me as a center forward, I'm watching what the other center backs are doing, how they're playing that game specifically, where if I sub in, where I can get on the ball, what I can do, just things like that. And so do you. So now that you're coming into the I guess this is probably the first time you've gone into a postseason knowing that you're not going to be playing.
00:15:09
Speaker
Yes, so what is your like what's going through? Are you nervous? Are you going to this? Are you like what's your your mindset? Honestly, it doesn't really it feels different this year because it's single elimination. It doesn't really feel and normally the season ends after my birthday. My birthday is the 24th of October and the last game is usually like around Halloween or the first playoff games usually around Halloween. Right. So for it to be early October and starting playoffs that that feels different. So it's just a weird year in general.
00:15:37
Speaker
So on the other hand, on the other side of the spectrum, LFC has kind of been the polar opposite of sounders in that they have they've only played I think it's something like 17 one goal games. Yeah. They've only won for one goal games. They've got a plus 44 goal difference, which is really a product of them blowing teams out, right? Yeah. Yeah. Getting a lot of PKs. Getting a lot of how it is. Do you do you like if you're the are you if you're them,
00:16:08
Speaker
What do you think the mindset is going into this playoff? Is it we're just going to roll through this or is it like, geez, now we have to back this up in the playoffs? I'd be worried because you haven't really been tested. You know, you roll through the season. You're like, oh, we're flying high. We're on top.
00:16:23
Speaker
But you know when you face adversity if you don't face it in the season you facing the playoffs Who's gonna come through like who what team's gonna show up and I think it's what's kind of ironic about this is that? The side of the way the playoffs worked out is the side of the bracket that are on is they're gonna face either Minnesota or LA Galaxy on a second round Yeah, you think either those teams are scared of them? Well, those two teams are something like 2-0 and two against them They haven't beat they haven't beat either one of those teams this year. Well, I mean I
00:16:51
Speaker
It's crazy how it works out play for two weeks Three we can end up with a three week. Yeah, they have another week off after this one Yeah, well, no, they would play because we play Saturday and then the next round's either Wednesday Thursday, right? Okay, so I guess it's not three weeks But right and then after that the conference finals will be the following Saturday or whatever that we make sure Extra time to think about it, you know, let it simmer. I don't know what the mood is there but I
LAFC Playoff Challenges
00:17:17
Speaker
Yeah, well, I don't know how long how bad it is but um, but you know, it's They're a new team there. They flew through the season I'm interested personally. I think it's gonna be tough for him because Maybe they're not gonna get all the same calls they got during the season. I
00:17:39
Speaker
Could get hockey refs Hey, I'm off and when playoffs happen let teams play and then the cupcake teams find it hard and we'll see what happens
00:17:50
Speaker
So Carlos Villa at the same time, so they end up setting the points record. Carlos Villa sets the goals record with I think a hat trick in the season finale. Quite a way to do it. But that's two years in a row now that the goals record has been set and two years in a row. And I guess three times in the last, no, three years in a row that the points record has been set. I mean, I don't know, just what do you make of that?
00:18:17
Speaker
I just think it shows the quality that's coming into the league from top to bottom on rosters, the teams that are coming in. So I think it's good for the league.
00:18:28
Speaker
You know, at the same time, it brings excitement. More goals is more excitement for for fans and and for teams and stuff. So I think it's it's good. But I would like to see what the number of P.K.s were for for each of them in the past two years. I mean, it's I think I'd say it's pretty high because they because Joseph Martinez and Coswell, they take the P.K.s for their team. Right. So.
00:18:48
Speaker
No, I think Vella did actually set the record for most non-PK goals in the season also. Well, then that's a totally different. But still, it was like he had like nine PKs. Yeah, but still, like most goals in a season non-PK, you got to respect that. Right. And he he scored some goals to like curlers from outside 18. Yeah, he's very attractive. You know, just make him go right.
00:19:10
Speaker
This is much easier said than done, huh? That is a funny thing like as a and you're not a defender So maybe you don't really think about you don't actually have to worry But you watch him and you think you know, he's going left. It's like it's like Robin, right? It's like, you know, he's gonna go left It's like when preppy played, you know, he's going left. He's gonna chop you you can't stop it He does just watch sit there and watch go. Yeah, that's that's my move. Yeah, preppy That's preppy originated that move
00:19:38
Speaker
Yeah, that's I mean, it's been it is and it is also kind of funny that that when left footers are very left foot dominant. Yeah. No one sits there and says if only he had a right. Yeah, it's crazy. That's actually a very good point. And because I guess majority of people are right foot. People are if he had a left foot. Right. Exactly. Although Jordan, I'll say this.
Jordan Morris' Left Foot Improvement
00:20:00
Speaker
Jordan Morris has turned his left foot from a joke into a legitimate weapon.
00:20:06
Speaker
I never thought his left foot was a joke, but either. But he just seemed to not want to use. Yeah, I think he's got confidence with it now. And maybe because I'm going through the same thing with the knee, like you just focus more on your weaker foot because you're focusing more on stabilization and planting on your right and things like that. And I think his left foot has been just as good as the right foot this year. It's been like I even told him, like some of his crosses and some of his left have been amazing.
00:20:33
Speaker
Yeah, he's hit some, I mean, he's something like half of his assists or with his left foot. Good for him. Yeah, good for him. Have you any other observations you've seen? Don't expect that from my left when I come back. No. Half my goals will be for my left. Right. Have you ever felt like you're a particularly one foot dominant player?
00:20:55
Speaker
Um, at times I feel like as I've gotten older, I've definitely gotten better with my left. Um, I think it's just like, like same with Jordan, our, our body types and our, you know, dominant shorts, right. People don't expect our left to be good, but they're both pretty good.
00:21:13
Speaker
Anything else you guys are shaking your head like I don't believe you exactly Doesn't matter right or left of your thigh head. Yeah anything forehead That would be a good header Forehead I guess yeah, so like you said it could have said like chin or face or something. Yeah, that would hurt but I
00:21:37
Speaker
It would hurt. So you're going into this. You look at this playoff series. What do you see? I know you love facing F.C. Dallas, right? This has got to be if you were you must be kind of hurting not to be playing in this. You still playing F.C. Yeah, no, it's fun. I like. Well, with their new staff, I don't think there is like riled up as they used to be. They used to just annoy the shit out of me.
00:22:01
Speaker
There aren't a lot of leftovers. I guess yeah, and I think they're a lot calmer now on that on that aspect, but I Haven't you know I played I played them in Dallas before I got injured They were way more chill, and then you hate the you never hate no I you hated the play I not the staff is what bugged me oh My god, they would never shut up
00:22:25
Speaker
all the time after games, always talking. It's like, guys, just shut the F up, like hold yourself to higher standard. And I think they're doing a lot better job of that now. But it's like that was the joke among teams in the league. It's like, oh, you don't want to be like F.C. Dallas bench. So you've got to chirping during the games.
00:22:46
Speaker
Yeah, like it was a free-for-all. I don't remember any like particular incident. Yeah, and just like after game like God forbid they've they're like the staff of a player that's never committed a foul but always has been fouled.
00:23:04
Speaker
So do you look what do you think of this matchup? Is this a good matchup from the Saunders? I think it's a sneaky matchup I think we have to we cannot take it for granted because I think they're gonna defend in a low block and then they're gonna try to spring their their Fast guys and then they've got the Cobra can't really pronounce his last name. Oh, Dracek I think he's been in good form. So I think we have to watch out for him, but I
00:23:28
Speaker
You know, I think if we keep possession, make them defend long for long spells, they're going to lose interest in defending. Just thinking about the counter and then we should get some opportunities.
00:23:38
Speaker
And is that a, you think this is a good matchup for the sounders in a, like, if you have to pick one of the, cause I would look at that Western conference and I don't see one team that I think that's who I want to play. Yeah. That's how I was this year. I was, I looked at him and I'm like, there's not really a team. I don't want to play at home. Um, you know, I think we were pretty comfortable with anybody we got and we just have to make sure we take care of business. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah. This, I, I'm not going to try to prompt his name either, but Cobra, there you go.
Cobra's Czech Republic Debut
00:24:08
Speaker
Great story. He I guess he's 31 or he's about to turn 31. He made his debut for Czech Republic this last week. Oh, that was his debut. It was his debut and he scores the game winner against England, which is like the first time getting a few assists to in a game before. He's I mean, he's been on fire for Dallas, but he's been. Yeah, I think he's been on fire for Dallas, but he's been. But that's I mean, that's quite a story.
00:24:35
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, confidence for a striker is number one. So I think him coming in with confidence, it'll be dangerous for us, but we just got to make sure we always got somebody near him, especially in the box.
00:24:47
Speaker
Any other players that you look at like a barrios or anyone like that? Yeah, he can speed kill. So he can always hurt you. It could be a nonchalant play. And then they just pound one out clearance over the top and he's in behind. So that's somebody always got to watch out for to always find. Yeah, always find somewhere. But but like I said, we're going over all that right now. And I think we should be all right.
00:25:12
Speaker
So switching gears a little bit into the U.S. national team, I'm just curious, did you happen to watch the game again? I did. Yeah, I did watch the game. It's a tough game, but, you know, Canada, we're up for it. You could tell that they they really wanted to win. I think that whole federation has improved tremendously in the last few years. They've got quality players now. They got speed pace.
00:25:42
Speaker
They're a better team than they were and you know, it was a tough game for us I mean, it seems like they in some ways Canada's been Like I'm I guess maybe I'm less surprised that the u.s. Lost to Canada and more surprised That's the first time in 30 odd years. I know when I saw that I was like what it was like 34 years or something That's a crazy stat, but
US National Team's Tactical Focus
00:26:03
Speaker
you know
00:26:24
Speaker
I don't really ask too much about it from the guys, but I mean, I've read some things online about, you know, how he just is preaching system, system, system. You know, it's international level. Everybody has a system. Everybody's seen their system. So you're not reinventing the wheel. But, you know, I think results are the only thing that matters on the international level. You can try to say that we're implementing this and that and this and that. But if you don't win, you're out.
00:26:52
Speaker
I mean, I think that's one of the interesting because this is something that the United States has been struggling with for a long time. This idea that either you want to have a style and really there's not a lot of countries that play with a style national team level because it's so hard to implement a style.
00:27:08
Speaker
each player pool for every country is so different that you can't you have to be able to adapt your style to the player pool and the players you want to call in you can't have your style and say I'm gonna only call these players in because they fit my style there could be players that are better that maybe don't fit into your
00:27:24
Speaker
right your formation, but you need to call them in. I mean, if you have a generational star, yeah, you build your team run. Exactly. It's like, where does where does Polisic Polisic fit in in the system? You know what I mean? Is he the number 10? Is he a wide guy? And, you know, that's why I think you have to be able to adapt and change. But at the same time, I'm just on the podcast. Right. So.
00:27:52
Speaker
Yeah, all right. Well that seems like a good place to call this a Segment we're gonna come back and we're gonna do a couple other Bits that we are gonna try out. We're gonna bring back. Ask. We'll brew and get some Oh nice ask you some other questions. Okay, and yeah, you're listening to Bear with us bear with us
00:28:20
Speaker
Welcome back to... What are we going with again? Bear with us. I guess I should introduce myself. Why? Why at this point? Yeah. I'm going to do it anyway. Jeremiah, Lichen is doing production for us. Yeah. And of course, Will Bruin. You know Will Bruin. You know that voice. Some people do. That monotone voice. Yeah. That is not monotone. Okay. Thanks. Thanks, guys.
00:28:47
Speaker
So we have, we want to try out a new segment. I wanted to run it by you. We haven't talked about this at all. Okay. So the segment idea we have is what's up with Johnny Football in which we look at Johnny Football's Instagram feed and we comment on it. What do you think? No, I'm not doing this. I'm not doing it. No, not doing it. It's been getting to his head that we've been talking about him in the last.
00:29:11
Speaker
Yeah, I'm not doing it again because it'll just make us head too big and the Instagram will be Yeah, that's why I can't take it serious So we're just not doing it anymore. I'm done. I'm done. All right Well, plus I'm playing in a fantasy football this week. So oh, yeah, it's not happening. Who's your who's your cornerstone player on your fan civil team? Oh My homes and McCaffrey are my two my two
00:29:38
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I fell into Deshaun Watson this year. I feel very lucky. Oh, man. Wow, you fell into him. Yeah, that's a high octane offense. I got Will Fuller. Had him on the bench when he put up 54 points. I know. I mean, we're going to turn into a fantasy football. I had my best. I had something. I must have had a record for the first week. I had like 10 guys that had insane weeks. Nice. Nice. He has a 10 man bench. Wow. Yeah, that's crazy.
00:30:05
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Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, anyway, I'm really sad that that segment didn't work out. Yeah, no, it's just not happening. Didn't really stick. All right. So, uh, we do have what we love this segment. Ask Will Bruin, where we ask you to dispense advice to listeners and random people on Yahoo answers. Okay.
00:30:27
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So we're gonna start, we didn't get some real questions, but we wanted to start with this wonderful question that our friend Emily Cummings found for us on Yahoo Answers. Oh, this'll be funny.
00:30:37
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My ex-boyfriend's brother recently passed away tragically. I was very close to him and his entire family and considered him a friend and like a little brother. I really want to get a tattoo to remember him. However, my current boyfriend is upset because it makes him uncomfortable. He's basically told me that if I get it, he'll break up with me and that's even if I don't get it, he's still upset that I even considered it. I don't know what I should do.
00:31:02
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Talk about a dilemma. Yeah. What's the background on these people? I don't know. Like, how old are they? I can only assume... I can only assume... 20? Yeah, I can only assume, like, you're gonna get mad because she wants to get tattoo of an ex-boyfriend. Ex-boyfriend's brother. Brother. Oh, not even ex-boyfriend. I had another level. Yeah, that's like... Just calm down, it's not that big of a deal.
00:31:27
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Yeah, I don't actually feel I kind of feel like the fact that it's your ex if it's your ex-boyfriend's brother. It's just like a friend Yeah, like here's thing like like the ex-boyfriend if they would have started dating after she had the tattoo He would never have known nor would he have cared right? But now he's like, oh you can't be associated with your ex-boyfriend
00:31:45
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Right. Her ex-boyfriend's brother died. If she wants to get a tattoo, she can get a tattoo. Yeah, exactly. I kind of think that this guy is probably not worth keeping around. Stage five clinger, maybe. Yeah, because if he's worried about you getting a... What's next? What's next, you know? Exactly. This is just the problem of the day. Kids these days. Kids. I can't keep up with them. Right.
00:32:09
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I can't either. So, kids and their tattoos. Man. Yeah. Do you have any tattoos? I know. I have one. You do? Yeah. You see it anywhere? No. It's on my finger. Oh. Under the wedding band. That's a huge tattoo. No, it's my ex-girlfriend. No, I'm just kidding. It's my wife's initials.
00:32:31
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on his ring finger because I've already lost one ring and I'm not good about keeping track of things so she was like well now you can't lose it I know that's what I tried to get you guys to do wait you haven't seen mine yet have you no okay now yeah
00:32:49
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so are you a do you take are you a leave the ring on at all times guys no i that's why the tattoo is like i prefer the tattoo i'd rather really not wear my ring that much but because i always take it off for practice games blah blah whatever do you take it out when you go to bed yeah yeah so
00:33:07
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Yeah, I actually am sometimes embarrassed at how I will be out. I guess I wouldn't say I'm embarrassed, but every now and then I'll become self aware of the fact that I'm not wearing my ring because I don't wear it. Yeah. Well, it's gotten more comfortable now that I mean, we've been married longer now. It's just like I wear it more often. I guess I just wasn't used to wearing it at the beginning, but whatever.
00:33:29
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That is kind of a downside. I have a very heavy metal ring, and that is one of the downsides is that you feel that weighing you down. Just weighing you down into the earth. Exactly, which is not an analogy. No, no, never. Exactly not. Hence why I've lost one or two, but whatever. One or two? No, just one.
Home Equity Loan for Renovation?
00:33:52
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Alright, so this one is from Matt Wood. This is actual advice he wants. I need to redo my bathroom. It's rotting out and I need the studs replaced. That was bathroom.
00:34:03
Speaker
rotting out. I know. Should I take out a home equity loan to pay for it? Or do you know any good inexpensive contractors? I do not recommend taking out a home equity loan. I don't know the significance of this remodel, how big the bathroom is, how much needs to be taken, but it seems like a whole needs to be completely redone.
00:34:26
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I'm sure you can find a contract. I don't have any contractors on on call Unfortunately, and I guess a cheap contractor probably cheats like oxymoron. Yeah Yeah for something like this I feel like you'd want to spend you'd want to actually find a good contractor as opposed to a cheap contractor But and I'm sure they can work with you on financing and stuff It's not like I don't think you need to take out a whole I don't think they're gonna say hey give us I mean I
00:34:51
Speaker
I've never dealt with one personally, but I don't think they'd say, Hey, give me 80 grand right now before we do anything or whatever it's called. The cost is is that most contractors will work with. Yeah, they'll take a financing plan or something. Check up front. Yeah. But it can be daunting to deal with. Absolutely. And I guess home equity loans are always a question of like,
00:35:13
Speaker
How much equity do you actually have in that house? I just have never been a big fan of like taking more out than your mortgage. You would not fit in the baby boomer. You clearly are not a baby boomer because that's what the baby boomer variation is built on. I'm a millennial. Let's go millennial. And in ruining the world economy, don't get me wrong. Your equity is coming to you. Why would you want to just keep taking out of it?
00:35:40
Speaker
It's money in your pocket. It's money in your pocket right now. How did you do this mom? Gosh, no, never get me sir. Definitely not we don't know these contractors, but if anyone wants a sponsor, yeah Oh, yeah, we can we can get a lot of things going here or if you're a contractor you can also send Matt a tweet
00:36:05
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at firewood113 is his uh firewood113 it sounds like he's got like everything he needs just without doing the remodel himself exactly all right so this is a question from dave clart and it's it's vaguely about
00:36:23
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dressing up for Halloween. If you do the Sounders have a Halloween party? No. Have you ever been on a team that had a Halloween? No, because like I said earlier, the regular season, yeah, it's usually playoffs. I in Houston, I played a game in Chicago on Halloween. Obviously, we won the playing game. One of the only charters I've ever taken at Houston was flying back for a midweek game. It was a Saturday to like a Tuesday or Wednesday game. That's fun.
00:36:52
Speaker
I don't think we went on to MLS Cup that year, but. Who's counting? Exactly. This has been 2013? 2012 and 13 were my two. Yeah. Okay. But anyway, I was curious if the Sounders had a Halloween party. Yeah. In theory. If the Sounders had a Halloween party,
00:37:18
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would there be any would you want to dress up as a soccer related or maybe no chance no chance yeah you're going as far that's yeah there's no upside i'm thinking about pennywise this year but you know i'm going now this is my first halloween with a kid and we're going to go to my brother's neighborhood where it's like um they have a bunch of kids trick-or-treating and everything and i feel like if i'm walking around as like pennywise i might scare some kids
00:37:55
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he's too young to really like when i scare him now he laughs yeah like i sneak up behind him and go boom and he just starts laughing so maybe don't like chase kids but i think you can deal with with wearing the scary car and like the red balloon and stuff yeah okay just be creepy just by staying there with like a balloon perfect yeah cool right yeah yeah
00:38:10
Speaker
So like what's the like is that too much no that's my question to you guys like no I don't think you need it I think that's fine
00:38:16
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Yeah, so I guess my my so I got two questions now that I think about it. Are you a fan of going to the neighborhood that you know that you are going to go to the neighborhood that you know is the most activity or do you feel some need to trick or cheat in your neighborhood, assuming there's some Halloween scene? So this is my third year here in Seattle and first two years we lived in Ballard neighborhood. Thought we'd have a lot of trick or treaters, none.
00:38:46
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None crazy. So now we're in North Beacon Hill first year in this house So I'm thinking are we gonna get trick-or-treaters initial thought is I don't think so, but you never know and Like I thought we'd get trick-or-treaters in Ballard. We'll probably get a bunch in North Beacon Hill now But we're gonna we're going to my brother's house in North Bend. So they're oh they're gonna have a lot of trick-or-treaters Yeah, just their neighborhood is very cookie cutter like they're gonna have like what we grew up in what I grew up in Taking kids around so
00:39:28
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the wrong people might take it. Homeless people might come from the tents on the 90 interchange and take all of our candy. So I don't know, probably not, but we'll put the lights on because we have cameras where we can see so we can kind of gauge the amount, but we'll probably end up leading candy upstairs or something because there's a deck in the front.
00:39:37
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Are you gonna leave a bowl of candy out or are you gonna go dark?
00:39:50
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Yeah, I mean for what it's worth I don't know that I think you can probably Most of the candy if the candy is taken is probably gonna be by Kids as would be you would hope you would hope you would hope it is Halloween you'd like so the other Halloween question I have for you is where do you come down on? If you are so you and your wife for instance, we're going to a Halloween party and
00:40:12
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without Liam. Without Liam. Okay. Are you thinking you should have some sort of theme to your like, are you like collaborating on what you guys are dressing as or is it two independent people going to my initial thought is two independent people. We're going to do our own thing.
00:40:30
Speaker
But circle back to Liam's part of it. We're thinking about like Wizard of Oz this year. So all three of you is. So she says I would be the 10 man with no heart. I think that's a little cruel. But would she be Dorothy? Apparently, yeah. OK. I said she'd be the wicked witch. But, you know, we both agreed that Liam would be the lion just because it's cute. Right. Yeah. Now he's not a coward or anything, but he would just be the cute lion cute. And we could say he'd look like our dog and stuff and just make it a whole ordeal. So.
00:40:59
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I suppose you could do Toto. I suppose. Yeah, I suppose. But yeah, I don't know if we're going to bring her. Yeah. Fair enough. Fair enough. All right. So this is one I had never really considered as controversial, but apparently this is a thing people worry about.
00:41:18
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This is from Bill Jones. He says, when I travel, it is acceptable to roll my luggage on sidewalks outside of hotels and airports.
Etiquette of Rolling Luggage on Sidewalks
00:41:25
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I feel like it's a complete, it's completely rude, especially on brick or cobblestone. I don't, I honestly don't even know where he's coming from, but this is a thing he's asking. But my wife can pack a really heavy bag and sometimes my arm needs a brick. I mean, I'll let you answer, but for me,
00:41:41
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If you got rollers on your bag, roll the bag. Let's dissect this for a second. Is it really loud? Is this bag really loud or something? It's got wheels. Is he worried about ruining the sidewalk? The sidewalk?
00:41:57
Speaker
That's yeah, so let me tell you about my last flight I took yes, and then you tell me if you think rolling bags are good or not So we took a flight back from st. Louis who are in st. Louis this past weekend Took a flight back 625 a.m. Left st. Louis. This is with Liam with the seven-month-old kid. What did you do in the airport?
00:42:19
Speaker
Four five we just like for 30. Oh my god. Yeah, but we got into Seattle nine o'clock. I had the whole day Exactly. It was either that or a really late one and Liam's not dealing with the late one serves the lesser two evils, but anyways I'm wheeling two bags. She's pushing the the stroller with the dog You think I'm gonna carry one of those bags because of the sidewalk. No, I
00:42:46
Speaker
No. Do you think I give two flying F's what anybody thinks about me rolling my bags around?
00:42:52
Speaker
Yeah, I can only I yeah, I'm going to roll my bags everywhere always if they have wheels like I I definitely have carried. I have a backpacking backpack that I sometimes travel with. And so a backpacking backpack like a like a big, you know, like when you go back, I know what you mean, but just sounded funny. But if I have rollers, I'm using the rollers. That's the whole point. Yes. Like you've already given in. If you got the rollers, you bought a suitcase with wheels.
00:43:22
Speaker
Yeah, that's weird. A backpacking backpack. I felt like it was... I think in my head I convinced myself that I would have more... A backpacking wheeling backpack.
00:43:29
Speaker
Huh? I feel like I would have more, like I could carry other car seats. But what you're saying is if they designed a backpack and a backpack for backpacking with wheels, you would use the wheels. So if you had a backpacking backpack without wheels, but then they invented wheels for the backpacking backpack, would you roll your backpacking backpack? If I had already bought the wheels, that's a good question.
00:43:59
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That's a good question. They're all thoughts. They're all good thoughts. All right. So this one. Oh, yeah.
00:44:09
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. This one's from Sam. Sure. He another another construction. People assume, apparently, that you are very into that you're handy. They might have you. You don't think I am. I think you probably are. But I think they also may have you confused with Cam Weaver, former sounders. I play with Cam in Houston. I know. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's right. I know, Cam. It's not that handy.
00:44:44
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know where exactly but somewhere I remember in Houston He was always like so I room with him for a year and he was always on the phone with this Construction company called it this dad was running his dad was running it here while he was in Oh, so this was not something he got into in retirement. This was no. Yeah, this is what he had. Yeah. Yeah
00:45:03
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So we do know a contractor this is all coming back
00:45:05
Speaker
Speaking of his whole Instagram was him constructing his house. You seem to know a lot of players that use Instagram, too. You know, I guess that's a theme. At least it makes me look like the handyman. Speaking of Instagram, Brad Evans totally stood us up.
00:45:18
Speaker
He did, yeah, he promised me he'd be on. We tried to put some dates on, but he's got real life interviews he has to do. Real life interviews, he's got an interview at Home Depot is my understanding. Yeah, so he can be my contractor. Great, exactly. Speaking of former teammates, I just have to, Bobby Boswell must have been quite- Oh, he was clown, yeah, he was a great guy. I don't know where that came from. Yeah, I was gonna say, that's a curve ball right there. Yeah. But he was, you hit it right on that, he was a hoot.
00:45:47
Speaker
Well, I hear that farewell video where they showed all his, like, funny goals. Yeah, yeah. That sums up Bobby. All his, like, clips of him saying... He was on double day two, apparently. Yeah.
00:45:57
Speaker
Nickelodeon. That was his real climate flame. Yeah, exactly. That and his randomly winning defender of the year one year, apparently. Yeah, well, it happens. Yeah. All right. So Sam Schur has a contract question. He says he's going to rebuild his mom's deck shortly. Oh, geez. And he wants to he wants to know if he should go with the longer lasting, probably better resale. And I have to add this more expensive treks decking or in his opinion, the far better looking cedar.
00:46:25
Speaker
And if he does go with Cedar, he wants to know if you should use nails or screws.
00:46:30
Speaker
It feels kind of obvious. You have a cedar deck, don't you? I do. I'm going to say treks. Yeah. I have to admit, if I were to do it all over again, I think I'd do a treks. Yeah. Brad Evans, if he gets that job, he can probably get him a discount. He can get him a great discount. He'll get him a great discount. It's like the best discount you could ever find. But no one's using nails anymore, right? Like that's not... Yeah, he's screws, yeah. Everyone's using screw bad ideas. I don't know. Maybe we should ask Cam Weaver.
00:46:57
Speaker
Cam Weaver probably has very strong opinions on this, but I'll add a little note about about using cedar is So I made the very bad miscalculation of deciding to refinish my deck Right at the end of summer. Yeah, apparently I picked the last sunny Day ever day ever Yeah Most of the time summer lasts well into September
00:47:28
Speaker
How long have you been in Seattle again? I know. Again, it's been one year. I know. I did Labor Day. I thought Labor Day weekend. I thought I'd have at least one. This year will be different. He's been here three years. He knew not to. And I already. I've already built eight decks of treks. Right. Yeah. And so anyway, I'm half I have a halfway painted unfinished deck instead of. Sounds glorious. Soaking up. That sounds awesome. Rain for the whole season. It does look kind of nice stripped.
00:47:58
Speaker
okay yeah right exactly that's what you don't have a choice i don't really have a choice i did clear everything off but yeah i think trex is definitely more expensive yeah but it's probably a smart investment
00:48:14
Speaker
Anything that you never need to replace is a smart investment. You're just hoping what, you're not going to be there when it goes or what? Right. That's, I mean, that's the thing is like, I mean, he's only been here one year. So I mean, exactly. I would think the Cedar still has a good 10 to 15 year life. Really?
00:48:36
Speaker
As long as you like don't leave it exposed for a whole year like I'm about to do. Yeah. I was going to say, how do you not keep a deck exposed? You know, tarpid, tarpid, tarpid. I don't think he's stained it in the first place. No, I did stain it. Oh, wow. We got first. Staining it does. That's another thing that tracks you don't have to worry about staining it. I know. I stained up my fence and I was just like, this sucks. It does. It's a big fence. It really sucks. It took me a while. And then I.
00:49:03
Speaker
I know. I really should have used treks. Eh, whatever. You live and learn. You live and learn. I tore my ACL during my standing process. So like half my, I feel your pain because half my fence was stained. The other half wasn't stained. That was a real shame. Yeah. And then I had to wait like, oh gosh, this stupid knee. And then I finished it.
00:49:23
Speaker
You did. Yeah, of course. Of course, I finished it. You can't leave a job undone halfway. I have a choice. What am I supposed to do? I can't stand it. Instead of he could he could be painting right now. Yeah, exactly. It's not raining. It's not raining. It's beautiful.
Hawaii Trip Dilemma with a Young Child
00:49:43
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It's beautiful outside. He's lying to you, people. It's 95 degrees and sunny. Well, in Hawaii, right.
00:49:54
Speaker
Let's that's what we got. Oh, no, I've got one more question for you. Oh, sweet. I want to hear what people think. It's a dilemma I've been dealing with. Speaking of Hawaii. Oh, yeah. I'm supposed to go. So my wife and I went to Hawaii last offseason, like for a baby moon. Now the little monsters here. And when I say little, I mean gigantic monster. Yeah. 20 pounds. I see. Seven months. Seven months. Yeah. Yeah.
00:50:22
Speaker
Yes, and missing a lot of meals. No, he makes sure he eats every meal But yeah, so we're going to Hawaii We have it preliminary booked We have until like three weeks before to cancel if we want flights are already booked, but we can get like credits on the airline or whatever I'm getting cold feet. I don't I don't know if I want to go because Sleeping habits. It's a week
00:50:49
Speaker
It's a whole week and we already talked to let this ambulance pass or whatever it is.
00:50:57
Speaker
But we already talked to the hotel, they're going to put a crib and everything in the room and we're trying to like finagle them to upgrade to a suite or whatever for not as expensive as they want. But it's like, do we go? Because we were in St. Louis, he didn't sleep well. And it's two hours ahead of Seattle and Hawaii's two hours before Seattle. And it's just like just in three of you.
00:51:22
Speaker
Yeah, three of us. It's like, do I really want to make a vacation where he's just like having a cow every night? Or do I just take the risk, say he'll be nine months, he'll be all right? I mean, this is my I mean, that's a tough one, because I think if I was in your shoes, what comes apparent? Yeah, these are the dilemma I deal with. I don't I kind of feel like. At that age, it's because it's a it's it's kind of a
00:51:52
Speaker
a tough one because on one hand, obviously he's not going to remember it. Yeah, it's a trip just for you guys. But it's like, does anybody have recommendations of things you can buy that they'll sleep in like at the pool or something? I'm the worst at that. You know what I mean? Because we'll be at the pool. He'll he'll be on one nap by then. We can just have a nap at the pool. But like at night, we don't want him crying and like interrupting our neighbors and like interrupting their vacation. So this is like this is why you get another room.
00:52:22
Speaker
and another wing hire Brad Evans to be the name. But here's the thing. He might have his Home Depot job by that time. You can take a week off. OK, well, I don't know. He seems like he's very busy at Home Depot doing treks decks. I mean, I I was I have to admit, like I'm inclined on one hand, I'm inclined to say you just go, you bite the bullet. That's what my wife says. And you just see what happens. You see what happens because you'll never know until you try it. Right. And I'm the stressful dad.
00:52:52
Speaker
But if you're really worried about, I mean, I would say there's a very good chance you're not going to sleep well. And I guess it depends on how big he sleeps great through the night here in Seattle. Like he will put him down at seven. He sleeps until six in the morning. Maybe he'll get up for like a little bit jealous. But here's something like do we just bring like his.
00:53:12
Speaker
Like his mattress sheet, so he like thinks like, oh, this is my bed. Like it smells like me. I have no good advice for giving your kids. Nice. Thank you. Yeah. My kids do not sleep. Nice. The only thing that I would consider is if you cancel your trip because you're worried about him not sleeping, it's going to get easier for you in the future to cancel trips that you want. Right. I see what you're saying. Yeah. Is that in a precedent? Yeah.
00:53:35
Speaker
I think we're gonna go but it's just me like His longest flight he's been on is four hours and that's like pushing it and this is a five-hour flight I'll tell you my wife my wife is very so we're we're planning a trip to Cancun this summer this next spring I mean and she's really worried about the long flight. Yeah And I kind of just feel like
00:53:58
Speaker
Well, here's the thing we've only like we just bought two seats Like I'm thinking about calling the airline and be like just give us that third seat so we have a whole row Because he's still under two you don't have to buy a seat for him, but he's like a seven-year-old's body Not really, but he's huge. I mean if you can afford that extra seat That's pretty sweet because it's I don't want to yeah broadcast per diem, baby. Let's go $50. Let's go. Oh
00:54:26
Speaker
You get a better per diem as a broadcaster than as a no, I didn't get a per diem. Actually, I got and I can't remember. I don't think I got a per diem because they're like, oh, you're you're a player. You can just expense it. Yeah. Well, no, not expensive. Like it's broadcast like you're not part of our broadcast and the head producer like paid for everything. So interesting. Well, like paid for dinners and meals and stuff for me. So it's not like I like. Yeah.
00:54:54
Speaker
I'm sure I would have got pretty. Did you get paid like a contractor rate for the hit? I get paid. No, of course not. Oh. Oh, so I think if I'm in your shoes, I do the trip and if I can afford the extra seat, which sounds like you can't. So do you buy the extra seat or do you just upgrade to premium, not first class premium?
00:55:19
Speaker
What's the extra leg room? Four inches extra leg room. No, having the extra seats is a big deal. I know. It's more expensive. Could you put the baby seat in that seat? Yeah. We could put the baby seat in the extra seat. Oh yeah. Okay.
00:55:32
Speaker
Yeah, because that extra seat makes a huge I mean, it's a huge like I will it's like a game changer It's a game changer for sure. It's a game changer because like i've done the i've definitely done flights with an extra seat and with I waited as long as I could do that extra seat But I definitely know that we have but it keeps going up in price because people keep taking like seats on maui flights, right? Exactly. I would I would buy that extra seat that that'll make that'll just make your life so much easier You don't have to worry about like
00:56:01
Speaker
Because you get so can I get your credit card number? Huh? Can I get your credit card number? I know you guys have all those miles. I haven't been flying for six months. I got no miles. I need to email Alaska. Be like, hey, look, I told my ACL, please give me status. That's a team run.
00:56:26
Speaker
Not gonna go there. We pay for bags every flight we take on Delta. Yeah. You guys pay for bags? Yes, we do. Oh jeez! Do you know who I am? Keep your $25 bag fee. No, not like the players. The players don't pay like the club pays for bags. Right. But it's just like, they're a sponsor. Why are they paying for bags? That's a good question. Unless they're paying the club like way more money than bags would cost. I don't know. You'd like to think.
00:56:56
Speaker
These are things I don't know, but right. Anyways, it's been a fun one. It has been a fun one. Been a long time since we had this one. Yeah. Well, one of these days we're going to do it so that we did it again at optimism. Yeah, we're going to do other ones. This just like easiest for all of us right now. It's a good setup, you know, by all of us, I mean me.
00:57:18
Speaker
Yeah Yeah, your brainchild if you don't like the podcast make sure you're still listening just bear with us We're almost done. There you go. You guys like that one? Hey It's a good sign off. Yeah, that's a good one. All right, so That's it. I'm Jeremiah Shan. That's Lickett. This is Will Bruin. All right. Hello. Bye. Bye. Let me know about Hawaii
00:58:07
Speaker
against the game, and can this be the start of such a game?