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A Solid 4 Beer Thoughts - Big College Games And Jobs
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In this episode we talk about observations from the college basketball tourney from over the weekend. Where is your bracket? As Jeff says: it's all chalk, whatever that means. We also talk about job hunting in today's market. As always this week in history with Lynk and Joke Of The Week from Brett. Pop a cold one and enjoy!
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Podcast Introduction and Interaction
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A solid four beer thoughts. Pop a cold one and get interactive with us on YouTube, Facebook, or Instagram. Wow.
Humor in a Cold Meat Locker
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We're broadcasting live Jeff's mom's meat locker.
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who i' who hey i don't know if you guys know this but we we're recording oh i love it distract love and love it to solid fourbe yeah for solid bearers at gmail dot com so' your thoughts um we're broadcasting live from jeff's mom's meat locker cold as shit down here. Feels good. Dress for it, Tommy. How long have we been doing this in the winter? It's not winter anymore. It's 80 fucking degrees outside.
00:00:48
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It's seven feet below the ah like earth level, so it's going to be chilly. It's always going to be cold? Yeah. Is that like a cave where it's a constant 60? Correct. okay got it Anyhow, watch out for the stalagmites and the stalactites, boys. Tonight, it's ah geology in ah and and uh jeff's mom's basement and uh we're going to talk about ah like yeah you ever got your rocks off in jeff's mom's basement that's a dumb question whoa frozen rocks we won't talk about that come on i have scruples
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What's that got to do with it?
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Scruples. Wasn't that like an 80s TV show miniseries or something? Let's
Episode Topics: Sports and Jobs
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just go joke of the week. and good start Hey, by the way, this week we're going to talk about Link's observations from the Final Four over the weekend. I got a couple.
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Link's been looking for a job, which got me thinking not long ago I was looking for a job. ah but We can't talk about that, Tom. We're going to talk about job stuff. So we're going do all that tonight, and it'll be a fun conversation.
Weekend Adventures and Maintenance
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But more importantly, Jeff, did you do anything good over the weekend? Went down the lake house. No. Opened up the lake house. Winter time. What are you doing that shit for? i was gorgeous down there.
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um Got some shit done, clean gutters. and When you say open up, what yeah what what does ah what what does that of? So when we shut it down, we winterize the house, we drain all the the lines, the incoming lines.
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Got some taps underneath the house, drain it. so I tap that. shit So shit doesn't freeze and... Go down there, clean gutters. He's married to your sister, you sick son of bitch. Turn the water on, cut grass. Grass wouldn't actually are grass.
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You cut grass already? Yeah. He cut us grass here too. I cut my grass here too yesterday. He didn't golf yesterday because he had to cut grass. Several people have been cutting grass. Pretty fucking annoying. Loser.
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Probably didn't need to, but we're going get down there probably another two or three weeks. By that time, it'll be knee high. But I was very surprised at the amount of spring foliage up here seemed to be a lot more than down down there there. Really? We changed can we spru sprung earlier. We sprung earlier than they did. It so it seemed like anyway. Yeah.
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yeah I wish I didn't do that, but I think it's a ah family history thing for me. I think know but Kentucky is ah late bloomers down there. Yes, I heard they're late bloomers.
Spring Nature and Humor
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yeahp and thing so did Some of those incestual flowers take longer to bloom, right?
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I think. And they have five limbs. They have six limbs. You've got watch those cousin flowers. And crossed eyes. Sorry, screw that up. I've got the cross-eyed flower. Indiana's got black-eyed Susan. Kentucky's got cross-eyed Susan. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:03:32
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Cross-eyed Mary's. ah Thank you, Jethro Tull. But they both have pussy willows, right? Ask her for a friend. Probably. So, yeah, but ah we left out Friday, I don't know, about
Travel and Traffic Tales
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one or so. Some of them shaved.
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About one or so to head down there. Traffic is just an MF-er. We get south of Greenwood on 65 South, and it's just like, what the hell? Spring break. Exactly. Spring break. It's spring break traffic. I go, oh, damn, I forgot all about that. Whoa. Who?
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It's been 10 years. Nobody. ah Bill. Bill. Bill. My passenger pass Bill. Dick. Dick said it. Mm-hmm. and There you go. So that was about it for me.
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Laco. A lot of basketball. A lot of basketball. Watched all the basketball, huh? Other than that, i don't know, hung out on Brett's ah back patio we Friday afternoon. right now good Good weather.
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ah affected opinion some day drinking Got all my hair blowed off, pretty
Balancing Day Drinking and Work
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much. What time did you boys start? Windy. Lunchtime. Up at the watering hole. Well, Rick was with us, so was about 5.01. Yes.
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So, yeah. That was about it. I didn't use i didn't get the extracurricular. I just got lunch. Really? Well, got job. don't know. Yeah. know. Downside of having a job. Yep.
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So you only took an hour of lunch, right? Correct. So it's 25 minutes to get there your office, 25 minutes back to the office. So you ate lunch in 10 minutes? That's pretty goddamn good. No, no, no.
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That's not how that works.
Home Renovation Challenges
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I was out in the territory. Oh, you were selling? Have you seen him eat a sausage at lunchtime, Jeff? Yeah. One bite, dude. I was out my territory.
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Yeah. Just closer to the bar than the office. Beating bushes. Oh, yeah. Shaking hands. Kissing babies. Shaking babies, kissing hands, whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah Nothing exciting. Whatever. Brett and Ed.
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ah Not an exciting weekend, but I did do something. This is a first for me in my career. Left-handed? Happened today. now I've done that before. Took little longer.
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And my elbow hurt the next day. Tinnitus? That wasn't it. That was not it. ah I used a paint gun, paint sprayer for the first time in my career today. All right. Really?
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On a windy ass day? So you're a paint sprayer that's in my garage? You've never used it? No. That one's much nicer than the piece of shit I have in my house. You used it outside today? didn't you get It belongs to you. you can Because I had one in my garage also. Okay. All right. No, we are redoing our cabinets. Okay. Okay. yeah which Which we've done that before. Uh-huh.
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Did it roller brush? Yep. Dude, a paint sprayer. Easy peasy. Quicker. you masks club ah Wow. Yeah. no what we We took the doors off, put them out in the garage. ah I sprayed them out there. yep Nice. like, okay, this seems to be fairly effective. Yeah. And i don't even know how to use it yet. Sure. Because, you know, there's there's a learning curve. Yeah, sure. yeah stuff I can help you on that.
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Okay. Well, apparently. On how to spray it. Seriously, I've sold the shit for a while. Yeah. So, pretty impressed. If you're doing some shit. Get a paint spray. That's probably. And this one's cheap. It's not even.
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The one you have is actually pretty good sprayer. Right. This one's lower end. I'm like, okay, that's pretty impressive. Yeah. I got a low end one, too, that we use on interior stuff from time to time. It's just a bitch cleaning it.
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It is. Because you got to take it all apart. Take all the pieces out of it. That's the worst part. yeah Well, hate it. I don't know. we'll We'll see tomorrow when it clogs up when I try to use it again. You got to take it all apart. I just put acetone in the yeah in the container, rain it for like spray it three, four minutes. like yeah I'm sure this fine. It will be.
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It will be. and then as long as you leave that acetone in there and don't open up any lines that are going into it, it'll stay sealed. open up that acetone.
Museum Visit and Relaxing Weekend
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Wow. But that's not going to happen tonight. There you go. Awesome.
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Tommy? Sorry, can add one more thing? You can add all you'd like while I try to read your recount my weekend. I went to the museum today at the track. I thought that's what you were going to say to begin with when you said a first. I did too. Actually, also, I did two firsts in one day. Who knew?
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And? So the new newly redone, right? pretty Renovated. I'm not a museum guy. Sure. I'll just start there. The walking through and reading stuff, that's just not a skill. of Sure. I get impatient. like, okay, whatever. We never learned to There's a lot of truth to that. um They have a presentation in the beginning that is very, very good.
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ah Well done. Highly recommend at least going to check it out. Nice. awesome It was... If you were in the old one, which was... antiquated and and almost haphazard yeah it's like we let's throw some cars in here we got a random car here and here's a car next to it from 100 years earlier um had it sectioned off kind of in years and it was well done yeah i thought there was a lot of good stuff to it highly recommend uh getting a chance to go all right what was that ticket price
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It's $25. Okay. It's not bad. I don't know if I'd pay that because I got in for free, my brother. But actually, having been through it, I would pay $25 just watch that video. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like a four or five minute thing. It is cool.
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So were there for the ribbon? They did the ribbon cutting today. It was a soft open yesterday. Yeah. Honest truth here. I had no idea today was the first day. I had no clue. That's funny. And then ah ah Doug Bowles is in the back of our room with when the video's up there.
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prep President of IMS and IndyCar, for those who don't know. And my brother's like, oh, yeah, it's Doug Bold. I'm like, yeah, that that's cool he's here. like, and then after I learned it was day one, I'm like, okay, that makes sense. That's why he's here. Yeah, he's he's probably walking through a bunch of people. So you you mentioned the soft open. Brett was looking for the hard open. Yes, he got it. Just saying.
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Yeah, I went to the can a few times. I did not find the hard open. He got the Roger Ward. Yeah. Anyhow, not weekend was good. was looking for the Dick O'Malley.
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The Bettenhausen. We didn't do much. Tom, did you get the Vukovic this weekend? I didn't. um We just got... Jesus. I settled for the Tony Stewart. What about the Dick Trickle?
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God, no. There we go. ah There we go. That has never been no a concern of mine. Dude smoking cigarettes while he's driving a NASCAR. It's pretty awesome. Well, if your name's Dick Trickle, you got to do something. You can do whatever you want to yeah, we just, we did typical stuff on Saturday. Went out to the watering hole Saturday night. Then Sunday, we literally at 2 o'clock, she asked me if I was going to stay in my pajamas all day. Is there yin-ray in there, Brett? And I said, well, it's supposed to rain today, so what do we got to do?
Paint Color Choices
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So we did some stuff around the house. So it's pajamas like shorts and a t-shirt? No, it's like pajama pants. Pajama pants and a t-shirt.
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Like what? SpongeBob square pants? Pajama pants? What are we talking here? Like like Christmas type. Jeff, it's not this isn't your story. This isn't where I need all the details. That's question. or give all the details.
00:11:12
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They're just regular blue and black. I'm fucking interested in your weekend and what the hell happened. And you're being a dick to me. I'm not being a dick at all. They're just blue and black pajama pants. That's it.
00:11:25
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There go. i put a bunch of put a bunch of colors on the wall as we try to decide what color we're painting the downstairs. and So how do you do that? do you just That's the worst thing ever. There's a big swipe. because How do you tell?
00:11:36
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Because you can't you you can't tell with a little bitty fucking splitter. That's part of my week. That's the problem. And so you buy samples, and the samples are like $8.00. And then you just, and in our case, we bought actually 20 of them, two gallons of what we thought we were going to use. And then then we put them on the wall and it's like, Oh, yeah I'll buy the other guy. Both of those fucking suck. I'll buy the leftovers. i thought you said It's a grain of white. So yeah, you can use them somewhere, but we're not going use them. Um, we so we went through that with floor this weekend. We're we're looking at a little, whatever. I'm like, here's the deal, Mary. We're not going to, sorry. Here's the deal. Current wife.
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Yeah. We're not going figure this out from the sample. We're buying a box of each. yep We're taking a home. We're laying it out. And then return what you don't use. Return in the one that we don't use. That's the only way to tell. You've got to have enough of a sample to know if you're going yeah to like it. um and Especially when you're doing.
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It's if we do our. Exact same way I have sex. I'm like, you can't judge on this small sample. yeah You need to lay this out. We want one color in the kitchen and dining room, and we want another color in the living room, and those are big-ass rooms. Sure, yeah. And a two-inch by two-inch square of color doesn't really tell you shit. Yeah, and how dries and all that Yeah, everything. And the white we hate, and the gray we hate. So we're back to square back to your pajama pants. that leads us to the district. Anyhow, so that's pretty much my weekend.
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Watched a couple movies, but that's okay. Anyhow. Now it's time for the overpropagant part of the show. This Week in History.
Humorous History: Alaska Purchase
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Way back 1867. Tom, pay attention. Alaska. The United States stole Alaska from Russia.
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this or industry ah way back eighteen sixty seven yes tom pay attention i pay attention alaska the united states toy alaska from russia Yep. ru socke roweski Russia decided it would be too difficult to defend that territory if a war broke out.
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So the old U.S. Secretary of State, William Seward, and seward negotiated the deal. ah The U.S. actually wrote a check. I didn't realize this. Of course, they didn't have digital currency back then. and They couldn't take ownership like for 21 days until that cleared.
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Check had to clear the bank, but wrote a check to Russia for 7.2 mil just over. above So that dude, Seward, is carrying around a checkbook for the United States of America. like He was a secretary of state. Of course he was. yeah just I would scratch this out for 7.2.
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Once he figured out. Who's got a feather? I need to sign this thing. Once you figure out at just over 660,000 square miles, he was only paying per mile,
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personal mile ah ten like under eleven bucks per square mile for that so yeah Anyway, I'm pretty sure the U.S. also threw in a couple a few cases of vodka as well to Russia, which apparently the Russians drank before the signing of that deal. Apparently. This sounds like a great deal. yeah Yeah. Wait, 70? You meant 7.2? They're like, yeah. okay We're not good with decimals. We went to Ben Davis. Boris, Boris, do the math on this. More vodka, please. More vodka. Okay. Anyway. that your Russian accent? I don't know. i didn't really even try. kind I didn't really even try.
00:15:04
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Could have been a Austrian. thought it was more Slavic. Northern Russia. northern northern russia I mean, Slavic. That's close enough. Hey, this week in history, 1891, the Wrigley Company is
Wrigley Company Evolution
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founded. The company initially manufactured and sold soap.
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I didn't know that. They went from soap to gum? Yep. No, not so fast. There, Mr. mr Tom. Took a minute. it Start out with soap. Can't put that shit in your mouth. Apparently what they decided. my mom did. I bet she did. If you say the F word at Ralphie's house, you get soap. They didn't take the F word.
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ah So, yeah, start out with soap. And as an incentive to buyers, they began giving away baking powder and eventually cookbooks. Well, what happened was baking powder camee but it became a little more ah ah popular than the soap did.
00:16:05
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So, okay fuck it. Let's s switch to baking powder. but So what did they do? As an incentive to give to buy their baking powder, they started giving away chewing gum. Fuck it, that's working. And guess what? Chewing gum became way more popular than the baking powder. That's crazy. That all happened within about a two and a half years. I knew they started soap. I didn't know i did why or that transition. That's crazy. yeah That's nuts. So anyway, um but but but but so yeah, 1893, the company decided to manufacture gum full time.
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but And then they bought the cups. Yes. What's a pack? of I think a five-stick pack of Wrigley Spearman is like, it used to be like $0.50. $0.20. Yeah, I'm going back a little bit. It was $0.20. Right now, I think it's like $0.75 or something. It's like $1. I have no idea. I didn't look that up. And I think they put four pieces of gum in there now, not five. Probably. Just like Girl Scout cookies. Well, you can't buy. I don't know if you can just find the little bitty packs. Yeah, you can. I buy them still. Everything was a plenty pack there for a while. I still like juicy food. The 64. Largest manufacturer of chewing gum in the entire world.
00:17:14
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kidding. Currently sells its products in approximately 180 countries. ah They have about 50% of all gum sales in the United States and Europe. Holy smokes. The problem with Juicy Fruit is that the flavor does not last near long enough. gum does.
00:17:31
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Yeah, but... Spearmint and... Spearmint and the other one. Okay, does it last longer than two minutes? Yeah. No. No, you're foolish. going to go out get you a piece and put it in your mouth. Okay, we'll wait on you. We'll see how long it lasts. Hey, can you bring Double Mint twins down here too? Hang on. Hang on. This Saturday night, before you start going at put a piece of gum in your mouth. ha ha.
00:17:53
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and See if the flavor's still there when you get done. And have Mary tell you if it's still good. That'll tell you two minutes later. If you still got flavor in your mouth, you're you it's two minutes. That way you don't have to think about baseball. This tastes like yeast.
00:18:05
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ah Wow. so yeah You did not just say that. He did. oh He just said that. Yeah, it started out. So that was 1891 when they opened. We're not recording yet, are we? Mm-mm. 1893 is when they Spearmint and Juicy Fruit were launched. Then, yeah, not until 1914, Doublemint Gum, Orbit, Freedent. Man, they make all kinds of. I didn't air i didn know they did Orbit. and yeah probably fri Probably bought them out.
00:18:32
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Big Red, extra sugar-free gum in 1984. 1994 is Winter Fresh. Yep. Yeah, so there you go. That's the modern-day yeast equivalent.
00:18:43
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Sure. Winter Fresh. Wow. Yeah. Sure. Matt, whatever that's it. That is not it. It's not it. Three years ago, this week in history. Yes.
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You did say that. You dick. Go ahead.
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What happened three
Missed Polar Bear Opportunity
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three years ago ago? Somebody in a solid four podcast had a chance to buy a stuffed polar bear and choked. And didn't. Yeah. How much was that polar bear?
00:19:17
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$21,000 Canadian dollars. So $18,000 U.S. And after the tariffs get placed on it or taken off of it, it's probably down to $12,000 now. You could probably go buy that bear for $12,000 now. This is pre-tariff. It might have gotten worse. don't know. They're going to tariff the shit out of that. Yeah, so it might have gotten worse. It's going to a $40,000 polar bear. Regret that to this day. Honest to goodness, sir, regret that. Strap that polar bear to the top of that Buick.
00:19:41
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Hell yeah. Bring it on down. Hold the hand out the window, holding it on there just to make sure. I would touch the hand so we could say reaching out. Touching you. the Play that song all the way home. Also, period dress occurred three years ago today. Right here on this podcast. Jesus.
00:19:59
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After my trip to Connor Prairie. Yes. Yep. And how it all starts going downhill so fast. And that's this week. It is.
Val Kilmer Remembrance
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Period dress. So before we get into the next part, Jeff pointed out when we first got here, yeah an icon in the 80s and 90s movies passed yesterday at the ripe young age of 65 years old.
00:20:24
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Some liked him as Iceman and that's right Hop Gun. Iceman. Some people liked him as Batman. No. Wasn't a big fan. Nope. But ah Val Kilmer was in a lot of shit. He's in some Lion movie.
00:20:37
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Yeah. ah Out of Africa or something. Yeah, where the lines ate people in the village? Yeah. i don't think he was out of Africa. But anyway, didn't matter. Yeah. yeah he was He was good in that movie. Yeah.
00:20:48
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And he was exceptional. He was a lot of shit. He was a great actor. He was exceptional. He was great in Top Gun, man. Yeah, he was. Tombstone. Tombstone. Oh, yeah. That's probably is it's probably his most.
00:20:59
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Yeah. that's That's probably my most watched. Whenever that's on, we'll be sitting here on a Saturday. Come on, Jeff. Scrolling through shit. And that comes on. Yeah. We're watching it. She goes, really, Jeff? We just watched this last week and, oh, okay, but this part is the best. Yeah, we just reenacted this in the bedroom last night. We have to do this again.
00:21:18
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That and Caddyshack. Got it. I'll do Huckleberry. He was good at it. Very good at that, Too bad. All right. So over the weekend. Gene Hackman also a couple weeks ago. Oh, yeah. We talked about that. did We did? Yeah. A little bit. Oh, I just did. I don't know if we ever heard. Did we ever hear the rest of the story on that?
00:21:39
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No. and The carbon monoxide poisoning deal? Yeah. I don't know. Dementia or Alzheimer's. I don't know. Paul Harvey, did we hear the rest of the story? I don't know. know I never heard because ah it was just. I don't think it's come out completely yet, but it didn't it didn't sound good. Yeah. Well, we'll Google it. But yeah, the the ah sudden death of him and his wife and his dog.
00:21:57
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Aren't all deaths really sudden? Like, doesn't the heart just stop and then you're dead? Like, they're all they're all pretty sudden. Yeah, but I don't think it's... Some of you see coming, though. Yeah, sometimes you see it coming. But the ending is very sudden.
00:22:09
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I don't know. Hopefully. Sometimes, yeah. Okay. Not always.
00:22:15
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if you... This could get to be a really dark conversation. All right, so joke of the week. so Joke, joke, joke, joke, joke. So over the weekend, the yeah we it was it was
NCAA Final Four Insights
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established. The NCAA basketball has established the final four teams that going playing for a national title this coming weekend.
00:22:35
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And Link had some, reached out to everybody. Just thoughts. And said, I had some thoughts. lot chalk out there, right, Jeff? It's all chalk. was chalky. Chalky chalk. It was chalky chalk. All the number ones. All number ones.
00:22:47
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But I got a question for you three boys. boy.
00:22:54
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have you ever lost 20 straight bets in a row? When you texted us, it was at 12. It was at 12 straight bets. Tom's lost 20 fantasy football league games in a row. It was 19. Okay. Sorry, tough guy. That's harder to talk about. Don't exaggerate things.
00:23:12
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Fuck you. And the thing is, these bets... You got an F you, Link. Yeah, that's all right. I didn't take favorites. Fuck you, Link. Is this all college basketball? All college basketball. Men's college basketball. From Thursday, the first weekend, Thursday did fairly well.
00:23:28
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Friday is when my demise started. Man, and still doing welling women's college basketball, I'm just saying. You're just killing it? Yeah. Not killing it, but I'm doing it. Doing okay? Yeah.
00:23:39
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So it's just like... But what were you betting on? Were you just betting on game lines were you doing all this parlay shit with Joe's going to have 42 points and 27 blocks? No, no, no, no, no. I do very few parlays because they're so... Gambling's hard enough. And parlays are hard enough to hit by them. It sounds like it is. It is for me. It is. So yeah, they were just seeing... I made a stupid bet on Sunday. Tennessee was playing Houston to go to the Final Four. They were down by 13 points.
00:24:07
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They were getting plus... 30 to 1. Yeah. I'll throw five bucks on that. If they come back and win, it's good money. That's worth a roll of dice. I bet $5 almost every bet. But if you did that 20 times. You lost $100 over the weekend. It's just $100.
00:24:24
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I'm going to be done with gambling here after. i know you're not. You liar. No, I mean, I'll start back up when football starts, but I'm not betting anything else. You're not going to bet all summer long? I figured out I'm not real good it. was going to say, so like in two and a half months. You'll be talking about baseball. back and You'll be like, No, I will not bet baseball. You'll be like, all right. I might bet the Masters next week. Oh, those white socks. I might bet the Masters next week. But outside of that, I'm done. Well, if you would have bet on all number one teams getting into the Final Four, probably should have done that.
00:24:58
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From the beginning. Covering the spread?
00:25:01
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I don't know. Just money line them. So it's only the second time ever that that has happened. Did you know that? Well, next year will be the third. 2014? What do you mean next year? Is that when 2008. year from here on out, it'll probably be that. Kansas, Memphis, North Carolina, and UCLA. Yeah.
00:25:18
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So, yeah, only a second time ever. So per ah Pool Genius, um since 1985,
00:25:27
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1985 is when they expanded to 64 teams. Now I get they're like 68 whatever the hell they're at now. But since the current structure, so to speak, 156 total Final Four spots have been available.
00:25:45
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Number one seeds have accounted for 62 of those 156. So 40% of the time, you have a number one seed in the final four. Not all a number one seeds. Sure, sure, sure.
00:25:55
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So which means on average, every year, there's basically 1.6 number one seeds. Yeah. So if you don't have... I'd almost think that'd be higher. I would, too. You would. Yeah, if you're...
00:26:08
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So if you're filling out your bracket next and you don't have at least one and probably two in your final four, you're probably out. This is pre-NIL numbers. Right. But still.
00:26:19
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um So that was ah that was one thing I had. So also, ah but but upsets. Not very many upsets this year. But in tech, so the article i was reading considered an upset if you were a five seed difference to the team that you... Plus or minus. Yeah, not not an eight versus nine a nine. Eight, nine. yeah But you had to be a five seed. Ten, sevens, not an ups. Okay. You had be a five seed difference. ah So upsets every year. so that's 11, six and 12, five and higher. Correct. okay
00:26:50
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um so Or if you get to the second round. You're a higher seed, you win, and now it could be and even greater. Average upsets for per year, eight and a half. Least amount of upsets ever. 2007, there was only three.
00:27:06
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The most in 2021 and 2022, there were 14 upsets. Holy crap. That was probably five of a five-ranking difference. Five-seed difference.
00:27:16
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This year, there was at least no just one, wasn't there? No. It might have been four were to five. There were four. okay Okay. I can tell you there were four. Okay. Thank you. drake Drake, Missouri. That's on an 11-6. There were two 12-5s.
00:27:31
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Clemson got their ass kicked. Clemson got beat by McNeese or McNeese State. Yeah. i state The state's optional. Yeah. It's in parentheses. Turns out McNeese isn't even a state. Yeah. know It's not. Who knew? Who knew?
00:27:45
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um Colorado State beat Memphis. That was So those were two 12-5s. And then Arkansas beat St. John's. So a 10-2. Yeah. right yeah That was probably the biggest upset yeah of the tournament.
00:27:59
Speaker
I mean, yeah, it's Cal. I get that. The head coach of Arkansas. But... that yeah So, yeah, there's but there was four this year and there's no obviously no chance. Even coming up to this past weekend, I don't think there was any chance. out of There could have been a three that made it. Michigan State was a three three or two. They had no chance. There were two.
00:28:18
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They had no chance in that game. could won the game. They're blown out early. You say this about anybody. If they hit a shot here or there, can say that about any game for the most part. So here's here's the here's the other thing. So not just throwing facts out. this This was Thursday night.
00:28:35
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course, I'm jobless right now, so I don't give a shit how late I have to stay up. Are you? Thursday night. Well, when you had a job, you probably didn't care a whole bunch. True that. Did you? True that. Okay.
00:28:46
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ah The game's Thursday night, Friday morning didn't get over until almost 1 a.m. m Eastern. east Eastern time. that's time That's stupid. Friday night, same thing. Yeah.
00:28:59
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In fact, ah this past weekend, I noticed the... to to to do The games played in San Francisco were the early games.
00:29:11
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The games played in Indianapolis. are you thrilled The Purdue game didn't start. is It did not even tip off until 12-28.
00:29:20
Speaker
Why? It tipped off. Why? Who plans out? Yeah. Who plans out? 1028. Did I say 12? Yeah, he said 1028. thought it was 10 o'clock. It didn't get done until like 1250. twelve fifty Yeah. 1 o'clock in the freaking morning on the east side. Why were the West Coast games early?
00:29:36
Speaker
I don't know. That's my whole point. yeah I realized it because I was like, where's where are these games you get play? He's like, wait, these are in San Francisco, and it started at like freaking 6 or 7 o'clock Eastern time. Yeah, so that's like 9 a.m. for those guys. I'm like, what the freak? I think it's 7 o'clock because I was like okay, it's 4 o'clock out there. right But the second game didn't start until like almost 10.30 by the time you, whatever. yeah i mean, commercials and everything.
00:30:00
Speaker
so and And so I started looking up. ah there There are four time zones in the lower 48 states, right? So there's eastern, central, mountain, and Pacific as you go east to west. 80% of the population live in the eastern and central time zones. 80%. 80%. But yet they're catering to ti los angeles to the left coast. The mountain Pacific time zones consists of nineteen and a half percent of the united states like here's the other point five percent
00:30:32
Speaker
Straight up, you. Straight up in you. like Straight up in you. It just kind of pissed me off. i was like, ah so I'm staying up till one o'clock in the morning. Oh, yeah.
00:30:45
Speaker
and And you're catering, not catering, but oh no shit you eight out of 10 people live in the eastern and central time zones. Those West Coast towns, they shut down early. it's It's got to be, obviously, money. I mean, obviously, they're doing it for money. but But a so something in their studies have said, start the games at this time. East Coast people, I don't know why. I'm with you, Link. I don't get it. A Purdue game in Indianapolis should not end at frickin' 1 a.m. on a Friday, Saturday morning. They played in Indianapolis. The NFL has West Coast games late like normal.
00:31:20
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. you know yeah why why How hard is it to figure out? Yeah. I don't get it. I just don't get it. I mean, and it doesn't seem to me like I mean, there are other times I watch a game and I'm like, Ooh, it's, it's kind of late, but I mean, college basketball, I'm like,
00:31:37
Speaker
I don't know. I just didn't get why why the games, one, started so dang late in the Eastern time zone, and two, got then got over. Because you start late, you're going to get over late. So they had, what, ah two games on Saturday, two games on Sunday, yep right? Yep.
00:31:51
Speaker
And the games, guess each day didn't start until 3.30? three three Sunday was a little bit earlier. three i sundays a little bit whatever yeah saturday Saturdays later. Start it two hours earlier, get both games in. where Everybody can see them. and that makes sense Anyway, yeah just a couple things i I kind of noticed. I watched very little of this whole... I watched a little bit of the Michigan State for a while. I like Izzo.
00:32:16
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I actually, i you kid, I like Purdue's coach. I think Matt Perry's a hell of a coach. He's done a great job for a bunch of years. Outside of Izzo, the best coach in Big Ten. and ah Outside of last year in the tournament.
00:32:30
Speaker
but i But I digress. He made it to the final final game. He got beat by... ah Sorry, two years ago. When was it? That's when he was 16-1. That was Now that was an upset. an upset But this tournament will never be the same as what we grew up with the tournament as being. As far as upsets. Because of NIL. Cinderella. And because of the portal and all that stuff. yeah And it just it sucks, man.
00:32:59
Speaker
And it's not good because not everybody has a chance anymore.
Impact of NIL and Transfer Portal on Sports
00:33:05
Speaker
right And I'm not saying that 16 ever had a chance to beat one. It's happened twice. Twice in the last 10 years. Syracuse once, Purdue once, right?
00:33:14
Speaker
And occasionally a gets through and beats. But that's not going to happen again. It's just not going to happen. Because... I have four guys on on my starting five. They're now making $3 million dollars a year.
00:33:29
Speaker
you at small school, you have one guy that's making maybe a million, whatever. Not even that. It's just not going to happen anymore. And then he's going to get plucked this year to go up. It's so sad.
00:33:45
Speaker
ah so i so say Oh, that's another thing. to There's what, 2,200, 2,300 kids. two hundred twenty three hundred kids Just in men's basketball, in the portal. Yeah, we talked about that's why so So the stats I said last week were not accurate. There's 300-plus teams.
00:34:01
Speaker
So there's basically 5,000 kids in the U.S. s on a men's D1 basketball scholarship. And almost half of them are in are in the portal. Are out.
00:34:15
Speaker
Yep. Yep. Who wants to even be part? I don't know. That's it that's messed up. So there's Hunter Dickinson who played for Michigan. He's played for a couple different teams.
00:34:27
Speaker
Big, tall, white. They say he's kind of a dick. I watched him play at Michigan. Is that his name? Yeah. It is. He has be. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's probably a son also. And a hunter. He he applied for... He's not a gatherer. He applied for at the end of... So like two weeks ago, applied for another year of eligibility, and he received it.
00:34:50
Speaker
This will be his seventh year of playing college basketball. He's a 25-year-old playing college basketball. 98-year-old kid. Yeah. He's going retire from the...
00:35:02
Speaker
He's going to go somewhere, hopefully IU. I'd like to see him at IU. And he's going to make he's goingnna make a hell of a lot more than what he could. Well, it's just like that girl in a – At what point does that become ridiculous? I mean – It's already ridiculous. It's already over the point.
00:35:18
Speaker
Well, you're not there. You're not. we College is for education. mean we we As a so society, um we we value athletics so much more no than what i know what actually fucking matters in life. It is so aggravating. Get on with your life and don't make the, this is not your career. The student athlete thing. Turn it into that as a fucking. I will say that's not on the kid. That's on the system.
00:35:42
Speaker
Correct. Don't disagree. Kids got a chance. Some of it is on the kid because I'm like, hey, you committed go to Michigan or whatever school. yeah Honor that commitment. Right. A coach might leave. whatever I get there's some some nuance to that.
00:35:57
Speaker
But you're now going to you're you're a I'm going to say you're you're a prostitute at best. Correct. You're just going to the highest bidder. yeah and Do you blame him?
00:36:08
Speaker
I do not blame the kid. I do not at all. I don't, but at some point... There's got to be some level of you loyalty.
00:36:18
Speaker
Yes. You can't always jump to what you think is a better situation in right life. Wait a second. That's all gone. That's all gone. you're Hold on. You're you're making $300,000 at St. John's.
00:36:31
Speaker
Let's just say St. John's. good basketball Let's say my current job. where Wherever. And go like one of one nineteenth of that Okay, whatever that number is. and somebody It's $38,000, Jeff. You got a pay raise.
00:36:45
Speaker
I did. Yeah. Somebody's offering you you were making $300,000. Somebody's offering you $1.2. Yep. As a 19-year-old kid. Yep. That's life-changing money. not saying it's not.
00:36:57
Speaker
That's why the system's messed up. I don't disagree with that. Yeah, I don't disagree that. I'm not disputing that. I'm saying under the current system, If I'm a kid, fuck, I'm going to throw myself out there at free agency. Yeah, but I still contend that a lot of these kids that are making this money in college, when they get done playing college ball, there's still going to be a handful of them that aren't going to make it to the NBA. They're going to have to go find a job. The only difference is they've got $5 million in their bank. They're going to have $10 million in the bank, whatever that number is. And that's the difference. Yeah.
00:37:34
Speaker
That's why they're holding on so long, like your 25-year-old kid and all that stuff. And the majority of these kids come from ah mid to lower income families. For sure. for sure So why why would you say no?
00:37:50
Speaker
yeah Oh, sure. i just like i guess the romantic in me likes that loyalty shit. The winning. The college, the amateur, the athlete. I want to have my senior day at the school I've spent three, four years with. And in those days those days are gone. Those days are gone, unfortunately. They're gone. And the tournament's gone forever the way we knew it back in the day.
00:38:11
Speaker
And the problem with the portal is the timing. yeah they they have They have to in there they have to ah enter the portal at a certain time. It's right in the middle of frigging NCAA tournament. yeah How stupid. That's why they're going to phase it out. then the pressure And the pressure is also on the coaches because now they need to recruit. They need to get kids knowing, hey, I'm moving from this school to their school. But.
00:38:36
Speaker
I'm still in the tournament. Yeah. so But the shit, might all the all the good kids are out there in a portal. I want some of those guys. Yeah. And i I can't because I'm still coaching the tournament. But yeah wait a minute. The portal. Portal's active. What do I do? A portal's active. I mean.
00:38:51
Speaker
you had shouldn't be You had Kevin Willard from yeah the the coach of Maryland this year in the Sweet 16. He was already gone to Villanova. I know. he was or He signed two weeks ago with Villanova. I mean, so it's – I get the loyalty thing, Brett, and the romance of that and and all that. Hey, I'm going to play here for four years, and yeah we're going eventually get a good team and win a title, we yada, yada, yada. But those days – So I've learned through the tournament there's still kind of two schools that – do that. Purdue.
00:39:22
Speaker
And Michigan State. Yeah. And I'm an IU guy through and through. Yep. Hate Purdue. Yep. I don't dislike anything going on with Purdue basketball. Yep. Matt Painter is crushing it.
00:39:35
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And,
00:39:38
Speaker
me So we start he's turned that program around. i mean, they're consistent. It's consistency. Yeah, before he took over, he had a couple – Katie was good, but at the end of it, like Bobby Knight at the end of it, he wasn't so good. And Painter had a couple of, air quote, bad seasons, and people wouldn't run him out, and years later. He almost took a job in Missouri. Yeah, two years later, he's in the fight of four. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever.
00:40:05
Speaker
Yeah, it's it's it's just nuts. Speaking of IU, didn't I see something last week? They had zero scholarship kids on their team. Like they had they didn't have team. They got rid of everybody. They literally, everybody won the portal. just signed somebody yesterday. New new coach coach came in, for those who don't know.
00:40:21
Speaker
So got a new coach this year, i don't know, announced few weeks ago. And literally within about a week or a week and a half, yeah he has no kids to report to him because literally doesn't have a team. Link, I like to talk about this, oh okay but I will.
00:40:38
Speaker
I still have college eli eligibility oh at Indiana. If anybody needs a five-foot-three. Point guard. Point guard. Not shooting guard. Not shooting guard.
00:40:49
Speaker
he can he can He can distribute. He's available. He can distribute. Wow. I'll keep that in mind. We ready for joke of the week? Man, it must be a good joke. You've asked that three times. He's excited about it. He's not great this week. Uh-oh.
00:41:03
Speaker
Wow. All right. So the next thing we're going to talk about tonight. Yes. Job hunting. Ooh. So Link's been job hunting recently. Yeah, I have. How's that going? Well, I was forced. I was forced to job hunt. theres There is a difference. so And that was the thing you brought up when I
Job Hunting and Networking
00:41:20
Speaker
suggested that. If it wasn't different, you couldn't talk about it. Well, and and part of the reason why we brought this up is because on kind of two sides of the spectrum right now, um Jeff obviously owns his own business. Brett is in a management role.
00:41:33
Speaker
ah Link recently lost his job. I spent years in management. anybody seen my job, by the way? Anybody? No. Okay. I see your baseball. I spent years in management. Do you need me to buy that beer for you? For about the last year, I haven't been in management. So I was in the job search market as well.
00:41:53
Speaker
um And so much is different. yeah And that's, I think that is the amazing part. And when you think about some of the things people say, you hear people say, oh, there's jobs everywhere. Oh, everybody's hiring. You can get a job tomorrow.
00:42:11
Speaker
Maybe. um So what has been your experience, Link, over these last several weeks as you started that process? Um, my experience has been so it it really goes back to the old thing. It's it's all who you know, right?
00:42:30
Speaker
So all three conversations I have going on right now. Right. all connections, somebody who either works at that company now, uh, or know somebody who, who is hiring or whatever. So I talked somebody and they're they're like, well, we may not have anything, but, uh, I'm good friends with this owner over here of this other company. I'll, I'll send him your resume. Okay, cool.
00:42:52
Speaker
So it literally is all who, you know, it really is. I mean, I, I didn't once go online and go, go to the, you know, Yeah, monsters. Monsters search jobs. Indeed.
00:43:04
Speaker
Yeah, they're probably not. I don't even know if it is. No, it's just, you know, ah a few people knew what was going on at my old company. And, you know, word word gets around the block. And once it does, I mean, some some people hit me up. and other And other people, I hit them up. I'm like, hey, i don't know if you've heard yet or not, but yeah let go. They downsize, whatever you want to call it. So, um but...
00:43:28
Speaker
It's just, I haven't really been through this process in my entire life. Right. I haven't gone through interviews, phone interviews, face to face.
00:43:41
Speaker
just never have. I've sent my resume out. I mean, first job, I was 16 frigging years old. My next door neighbor basically knocked on my door and said, Hey, there's a job opening right here. Gave me a job. Quit playing basketball. Yeah, literally. going to go out here. Quit playing basketball.
00:43:57
Speaker
Quit tearing my shit up. You've got to work. So, yeah, 16 years old, next-door neighbor, worked at the the Motor Speedway, got job, worked there for 34 years. ah My next real big boy job, next-door neighbor, worked at a roofing company and said, hey, they're looking they're looking for people. Okay, cool. yeah Great.
00:44:15
Speaker
So, anyway, never had to interview, never had to – I'm not very good at, insert joke here, I'm not very good at selling myself. No, you eat. I mean, I'm not one of those that toots my own horn. Not a networker.
00:44:28
Speaker
Not at all. you know and then i'll kind And then my my wife is has worked in HR. She's the best at it. And done all kinds of, insert joke here, that's what i said. Is she your current wife? I think she is, yeah, I'm pretty sure. okay like My current wife. Unless he doesn't find a job. and yeah Yeah, she made me a dick. Ha, ha, ha.
00:44:47
Speaker
ah So, yeah, being kept man. But she is. She's very. ah She has interviewed a lot on both sides. She's been on both sides of the interview process a lot.
00:44:59
Speaker
So I'll get off a phone call and she'll be like, oh, did you talk about this? Did you tell him this? You'd tell him that. Oh, don't forget to send an email. Hey, you didn't hear from him. Call him it within 24 hours or 40. And I'm like, holy crap, this is exhausting. It's a lot of work. This is exhausting. Yeah.
00:45:18
Speaker
Like I'm literally trying to get somebody to go, okay, that was a good 45 minute conversation. Yeah. We'll, we'll think about sending you, giving you an offer. It's, it's just, it's, it's it is sales it's so it's, it's all sales. And so last summer when, when I was unemployed,
00:45:34
Speaker
I was trying not to do the same thing. And I think that's what extended my unemployment window. You were looking for something different? A different career path? Something different.
00:45:47
Speaker
And if you deviate from what you're currently doing... There is no translation between company to company. they They can't. You can see it. Right. Because you're like, oh, well, that's exactly what I do. I just don't do it in that industry. is Yeah, true. So then. So a lot of jobs that you're like, well, I could I could do that because I'm smart enough to learn the nuances of doing the same thing somewhere else.
00:46:15
Speaker
Other companies don't necessarily share your enthusiasm. Right. And then you get interviews and you're like, and you feel like it went really, really well. And then crickets. and Yep. Crickets. And they disappear. They don't say yes. They don't say no. They just don't say anything. You're like, I think the conversation went well. But, yeah and that's what makes me crazy because for years I hired people and everybody I interviewed got an answer.
00:46:38
Speaker
Yes or no, they got an answer. And that has gone away, 100%. hundred percent But does that have to do with the position that you were hiring for and the position that he is looking for? I think i think you' sellary i don't be i think the salary difference, you you're not and I mean, not to be a dick, you're looking for a warm body that's going to show up. No, not always.
00:47:00
Speaker
uh you were though yeah i mean in a lot of cases it's going to show up on time no you didn't the ten dollar an hour people i didn't deal with that wasn't that wasn't my job that won your higher that wasn't my hire my hire were store managers 12 dollars an hour baby we're store managers so they were you know 50 50 50 ish a year so that's yeah that i mean they're the 10 and 12 an hour people they were what they were you know you so i But i do think I do think it's different. And I mean, even the jobs I was applying to, we these weren't 10, 12, 100-hour jobs. so
00:47:36
Speaker
But the lack of feedback yeah is ridiculous. yeah Well, and legally, the feedback becomes so limited. Exactly. Which is so stupid. Yeah, because they don't want to expose themselves to discrimination. yeah What do you mean by that legally? I'm... I've not been in the market. I can't give details.
00:47:57
Speaker
You're just not a fan. I can't tell you why you didn't get the job. Ah, gotcha. like I might really want to coach you and go, hey, man, we asked this question and you went this way on it. Just so extreme, right? Right. But you can't give that level. It's almost like ah ah like a checking a reference is the same way.
00:48:18
Speaker
Mm-hmm. You get, hey, worked here from this date to this date, made this much money, left on amicable terms, whatever. References are a joke. They are a joke. Who's going to put references? Link hates me. My brother-in-law hates me.
00:48:36
Speaker
ah Please contact him. i i didn't even put him on her I've called like three references in my career, yeah and they were all like, oh, ah best person ever. yeah This gal, she's a go-getter. Golf all three guard knows, yeah, and hire her, right.
00:48:54
Speaker
You're not going to turn in a bad reference. you're not and and not yeah Back in the day, you used to be able to call people's previous employers and get real answers. detail. yeah More detail. But you you can't do that anymore. Now it's X's and O's. X's and O's. Correct. but I thought I remember. You would know this, Tom, better than would.
00:49:12
Speaker
They could not. So you call the previous employer. They could not tell you the reason why they were. they can tell They can tell you. And i don't even know if they can do. Are you rehirable anymore? But they used to be able to tell you how long they worked there. Hire date, fire date or gone date. simple facts. And if they were rehirable.
00:49:30
Speaker
yeah And that was it. You cannot. That's not a thing. Not even that's gone away. So that's no big deal. the ah No big deal. The the thing. the thing i So previous. ah or My current former job.
00:49:44
Speaker
is a was a roofing company. So I have interviewed with another roofing company, and and that was pretty transferable. I mean, that you know, the transition from one to another. is like different Different role with the the new one, um but same skill set, same commercial roofing, blah, blah, blah.
00:50:05
Speaker
But another one is actually with a kitchen ventilation system company. Right. um Commercial, yeah. Totally, totally totally different career path, industry and everything.
00:50:19
Speaker
So I found that almost every question that they asked me, I was like, oh, well, yeah, well, here's your answer. But now I have to relate it just like you were saying. Now I have to relate it to your industry and how how i the answer that I just gave you. correct is going to be good for your company and your team, yeah your position that I am talking to you about, ye because they have no flipping clue. No, you have no clue who I am. The only good thing is, like I said, I know somebody who currently works there and he went and talked to the, my hiring manager basically like, Hey man, uh, yeah, you you need to hire this guy. Right. So, um, so anyway, that ah if it wasn't for that, they'd be like, who is this clown? Well, and but that stuff makes a difference, right? Because that's how people get jobs. That is how people get jobs. It's all referral based.
00:51:11
Speaker
I told my kids heading to college, I'm like, if I could change one thing in my career. Grow your network early. Six foot two. No, be in the NBA, bitch. You wouldn't even know me.
00:51:24
Speaker
I'd be Randy Whitman showing up at Riggie. it would be network. It's not what you know. It really isn't.
00:51:37
Speaker
It really isn't. Grow your network early. I mean, as long as you're good you know at and what you do, networking is absolutely where it's at. If you if you're trainable, if you're teachable, suck at it. Horrible at it.
00:51:49
Speaker
so like Networking? Horrible. Horrible Says the guy everywhere you go knows 27 people. was going to say, that surprises the out of me i've drawn I've grown into it, but I'm horrible at it.
00:52:01
Speaker
It's uncomfortable. his His whole network goes to one Central West side bar. i mean it's it's yeah He knows everybody in that bar. Other than that. so He's terrible.
00:52:11
Speaker
yeah Yeah. But anyway, and I don't know. it's it is It is... But it's it's the world. I mean, in that realm, the world has changed considerably over the years. And with with the advent of online job boards, you know, the the day of the newspaper and one ads and all, long gone. yeah ah It's totally different. you don't You don't have paper applications How do you acquire a job? It's all online.
00:52:38
Speaker
Yeah, how you get a job is totally different. Sometimes don't even fill out an application to get a... Did you, like, fill out application? you have to fill out an application before you get hired. Before you get hired. So, yeah yes, I so i actually just... So you go through the whole process, and then, like, one of the last steps of the process is, oh, by the way, can fill out this application? But now it's online, right? And you're just doing a DocuSign? Yeah. Maybe. I just got an offer this morning.
00:53:03
Speaker
So they sent me the the offer letter and an application and then something for a background check. They need some more information. so Funny, just today, no, I had to print it off and fill it out with a pen.
00:53:14
Speaker
Yeah, it was a PDF. You couldn't type it in? No, it wasn't even an edible PDF. I think mine is just a PDF attachment. Did you say edible? Editable. That's tough word to say. I thought he said edible also. Editable is a tough word to Editable.
00:53:32
Speaker
So he got an offer, right? So we're going to have all new equipment down here. Yep. Link's living large. Expand Jeff's mom's basement little bit. Fat cat. Fat cat's a Russ over there.
00:53:44
Speaker
What you talking about? We're going to blow out this wall. We're get rid of the mousetraps. All this shit. We're upgrading everything. Put in a fucking heater. Tart Glenn bobblehead gets upgraded to Peyton Manning bobblehead. Ha, ha, ha, ha,
00:54:00
Speaker
It's all going to happen. Sure. what sos Unbelievable. so ah But when we were talking through this, ah like ah one of the text things was, hey, what's the difference when you're interviewing for a job when you need a job versus ah when you're just dipping your toe in the water, on less pressure dipping your pen in the company ink? It is it is pressure.
00:54:22
Speaker
I tell you what i mean there is what. I mean, when the first couple of weeks went by, i yeah So i I wasn't in the... Well, it's only been two to three weeks, right? I think it'll he twelve weeks and it'll be three weeks this Friday, okay I think. Maybe four. It might be hitting a month. I'd have to look it up.
00:54:40
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I think it's four, is actually. yeah So, um i mean I mean, basically, I'd only been there three and a half years. They gave me like a month's worth of pay. Sure. But, you know, I mean, we we had some money. put it i'm not i I said it earlier this week. I said, I'm not on my get on my hands and knees and pray, you know, hey, somebody please give get and beg for a job. Go sell a car or whatever. I'm not to that point yet. Glad you said sell a car. And I'm not. And not the wife.
00:55:06
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I'm not ready to accept. This is fucking Uber. Not ready to accept the first job offer that comes my way. sure right Thank you for that. so i'm not i'm i'm I'm getting there. right we're We're doing fine. you know I can still take my turn and in oh no line biber buy the beer. That was me last summer. You're still going on a hockey trip. what i want to When I left my job last summer, I was like, first four weeks, I was like, eh, it'll be all right. It'll be all right.
00:55:34
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But then after you go through... unanswered resume unanswered resume yeah interview interview no answer no answer no response unanswered resume it's the waiting yeah by time you get to that six that sixth the eighth week that's why tom petty never got a job that was the worst part yeah um but the net baby had the worst part though because then you then you start like questioning everything you're you're just like yes fuck you know because you just start losing your mind a little bit just get that And that's that I got it right away. Every every day that goes by is like you start questioning yourself three or four day span in your mental capacity. Exactly. When you don't have a job and you need one.
00:56:17
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And you start thinking about it. They're like, ah oh, yeah, I need to email that link guy and set up the next set of the interviews. But. Their sense of urgency and your sense urgency are totally different. When a week goes by and you haven't heard anything yet, I'm like, what the frick is going on? I'll say that this hurts me personally on the other side when it's like...
00:56:40
Speaker
Here's what should happen, because I know i want somebody to start tomorrow, right? Perfect world. And the company just. Oh, gosh. The process. Can't. Drag, drag. Just steps on their own dick over and over and over. lot of companies. And suddenly, like, oh, we lost you.
00:56:59
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But good, good, good. We should have. Right. we yeah Because you were the dumb fucks. sort of strung you along, not intentionally, just on our own ignorance. Yeah. And you're like, you know, I'm better than this.
00:57:13
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Yeah. And at some point, that's what I would want for everybody going through the job process going, you know what? Yeah, no I don't deserve this. But from the company. Go ahead, Link. I was going to say, the just as ah on the opposite of that, the company that I got the offer from this morning. So today is Wednesday as of recording time.
00:57:35
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They were contacted by somebody else that I talked to. He was like, ah yeah, we I don't know if we have anything that fits you, but I know the the guy that runs this roofing company.
00:57:46
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I'll send him your information. So he sends them to him on last Tuesday, yeah about a week ago. Dude hits me up the next day. i go in Thursday. So two days after he gets my resume, naked i'm I'm in his office having an interview with him. Recklessly open.
00:58:03
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He hits me up the that afternoon. I go in the following Tuesday, which was just yesterday, and got an offer today. So eight days later. Yeah, yeah. let's That's the way it should work. That's the way it should work.
00:58:19
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I agree. Interviewing sucks. Two face-to-face conversations about 45 to minutes each. That's reasonable. you You should know me by then. don't know if I'm a tool or not. You really don't. I get it. As a small business owner, though, that's it. You've got to make sure that that hire is correct because I'm going to invest...
00:58:39
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X amount of dollars in you as a new hire. Sure. And if I don't get this right, and in a year and a half, I got to. And for a smaller company, that's a bigger hit than a large company. But for you just sitting a week or a week and a half on that, you't going to you're not going to know me any better. Correct. By not communicating with me for a week and a half. but they might be waiting interview to interview other people.
00:59:01
Speaker
Yeah, it's true. the i they They aren't. I just know. Yeah, in this situation, you do know. But they may but as as an applicant, when you are going for a position, you assume you're part of a pool of people. Of like 500 people. remain yeah Well, it may be six, but it doesn't matter.
00:59:20
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But you you assume you're part of a group of people. And you're trying to outshine a bunch of people. You don't even know who they are, what their qualifications are, or anything else. I don't know my competition. that That's one of my most common questions. yeah Like, hey, how many people are interviewing? I'm like, we get a lot of applicants for this stuff, right? Yeah.
00:59:39
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You're one of two. Right. I mean, just you just can't. Yeah, you can't tell them that. You can't play that. Well, legally, I mean, there's just so much shit. There is There is so much more than there used to be. It's crazy. yeah But I'll say going through an interview process sucks. Yeah.
00:59:56
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Being on the other side of it sucks. I mean, it's not fun for anybody. um And don't know, man. Yeah, but the the difference, like we said, it's just pressure. Because when you don't have a job yeah and you got yeah you get down to the point, you're like, shit, I i need i need i need money. I just need ah payroll. yeah I need to be on somebody's payroll right now. I'll say this is one thing your current wife has done very well.
01:00:21
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yeah We don't want to talk about that online. We we wait we can wait till after this. Whoa, that's my sister's role you're talking about. Okay, Valentine's Day is next year. Okay. it's always the way wrote wrote the era But there's a...
01:00:36
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holyo there's a um And I don't think there will be people like us moving forward, meaning Link worked for the Speedway for 30+. Jeff's in his own role for 30. I'm 17 years of mine, but whatever.
01:00:52
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um I did work somewhere for 14.
Job Security Anecdotes
01:00:55
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Yeah. I was going to bring that up. but I mean. we Which is still a lot. I mean, 14 years. People. People.
01:01:02
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people ah Your current wife job hopped year to year to year for for a bunch of years. And she just because if you're in your current situation, you're getting a I'll just ah stereotype a three to five percent raise. Right.
01:01:18
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If you job hop, you might get a 10 to 12 percent. rate Correct. And then you job hop again and you get another 10 12. But if you're networking, people are looking for you.
01:01:30
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You're not looking. That's where I saw it. But this was also years ago. yeah i mean, this was earlier in her career. And and she did. she She was to the point where she would start working a job and she would decide whether she liked it or not. If she didn't like her her job or manager or for whatever reason. Yeah.
01:01:47
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She'd go freaking find another job. I'd give more power to her. Good on her. I wish I had that skill. Life's too short. And that's what she did. Life's too short to be in miserable ass. She's like, I'm i'm not happy, moving on. Because they'll fire your ass tomorrow. And not think twice. And not even think twice about it. You will be the joke at the Christmas party you this year.
01:02:07
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yeah so Well, we
Pre-made Cocktails Discussion
01:02:09
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had the Christmas party, Tom, and then they fired people two weeks later. So you'll be the joke at the Christmas party this year. The steak was very good, and it was a great Christmas party.
01:02:19
Speaker
Hey, sorry, we're going to have to cut little out of your supper. Last supper. You should have drank two more old fashions there. had my fill. should just taken the bottle home with you. But yeah, about two weeks or so after they spent probably $10,000, I'm guessing. They couldn't afford to pay after that Christmas party. No shit. Spend your salary on the Christmas party. Now, if we get rid of Link on this date, we should be okay for the Christmas party. Yep.
01:02:47
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So where are we at on time, just real quick? I'm going a complete different direction. Let's do it. This is the first time this has happened ever. yeah Yeah. Is it really? No. No, it's not. We're at your whim.
01:03:01
Speaker
So these pre-jomos but polar but the pre-drink canned stuff. brother in law This is totally different. My brother-in-law, Bill, was down at the lake. pre I said pre-made. it's I thought you said pre-drink. I was like, what?
01:03:17
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Pre-made. I thought I said pre yeah pre-mixed. i Did I say pre-drink? He gets so angry. I love how you guys can't date. Yeah, you know, shit. So some of these pre-made drinks yes now I guess are pretty fucking solid. He said that the old-fashioned.
01:03:33
Speaker
Yeah. I've not seen it anywhere. I'm not. I go, they make pre-made old-fashioned drinks? And he goes, yeah, they have for a couple years. go, tells you how far I am behind. Are they old-fashioned mix and then you add your bourbon or they got the bourbon in It's pre-made.
01:03:50
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It's the whole thing. he pour Who else came in a can that weekend, Jeff? Hmm. I'm just like, really? but You see all the seltzers. You see all the other shit out yeah there. High noon's not bad.
01:04:03
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Yeah, and it's vodka. I don't think that's a seltzer. I think high noon's vodka and juice. Yeah, it's vodka and juice, but it doesn't have that seltzer. It's not seltzer. just vodka. but No, my but my point being is when he started talking about old-fashioned, old-fashioned is a pretty damn good drink. It's supposed to be made a certain way. We were down in Kentucky, we were down at the lake, and we went up to this local restaurant bar.
01:04:26
Speaker
Blocky makes a good Yeah, he makes a great one. yeah And so the bartender at at the end of our night, rick and i are Bill and I, we were sitting there at the bar and Rick goes... ah ah Bill goes. Bill goes. Bill said, I'll have a four roses old-fashioned. I go, you know what? Give me one of those also. I hope Bill doesn't listen to his blog. This blog cast...
01:04:52
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i this blog cast You boys doing a blog tonight? We probably should explain that a little bit. well That's okay. Go ahead, Jerry. So she's sitting there making it, and she puts in the bitter, she puts in this, she puts in the big ice cube, and she pours in the bourbon, and she stirs it like five times. With her finger?
01:05:10
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No, with her finger. Like you just did? big, long silver spoon. Tom wouldn't eat that drink. Oh, my God. ah surely started tom would need that drink
01:05:22
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ah Oh my gosh. Sweetened it up. So I'm like, uh, you're supposed to stir that 22 times. And she looked at me, we we'd been there for a couple hours. So built up a rapport with her and she goes, you're, you're, she goes, what the hell are you talking about? i go yeah, you guys, I, I thought the way you make one of these is you got to stir it 22 times is the exact number. She goes,
01:05:43
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the hell you talking about she goes i'm stirring it this many times if you want to stir more than that here's the spoon here's the spoon go do it yeah use your finger my my point being is these pre-made rick said that that pre-made or bill you can just call him rick it's okay no No, no, no. no no no no no no So you see. that Those pre-made drinks are absolutely unbelievable. I go, really?
01:06:11
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They're that good? He goes. so I think some of them probably are. They're they're just bound to be. You just got to look for, because some of them are just like a malt beverage-like thing, flavored malt beverage. Based, yes. Cult 46, yes. So like those buzz balls, have you seen those?
01:06:27
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I've seen them. Yeah, so all of those, they're all different flavors and stuff, but there're they're like a wine malt something, and they're flavored and whatever. So those probably whatever, they probably taste good, but probably not great quality.
01:06:44
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There are companies that make pre-made Cosmopolitan, pre-made Old Fashions, pre-made this, pre-made that, and for what they charge for some of those,
01:06:55
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they better be pretty fucking
Future Plans and Cultural Jokes
01:06:57
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good. Yeah, yeah, Because they're not cheap. and So rank of four is 20 bucks or whatever? Yeah, probably more than Because I've seen just like a bottle that's like $8 or $9.
01:07:08
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And it's good for like two drinks. So at the price point, it's got to be better than just... a Smirnoff ice, right? So I don't know, never tried them, never. can't remember the brand name. That's what Jackson, our buddy Jackson used to sell, that stuff. I can't, I can't remember the name. There are companies that make everything that goes in the cocktail without the liquor And you just and then you add you add the liquor and you put put it in there, you stir it up and boom, you got a Mai Tai or whatever. That's how slow I am, excuse me. I mean, Rick said this and for him, who i mean, Bill, who's a connoisseur.
01:07:49
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He's a connoisseur of alcohol. Kind of like me. of last yeah yeah ah you like You've been in total one, Jeff. I just went there this morning to pick up that. They've got all that stuff. Okay. Yeah, they've got all that stuff. so i don't There's a whole. but You just got to go. Yeah, would amazed. There's a whole aisle of stuff. I mean, I know what the seltzers are. I know what. No, no, no. There's a whole section of that stuff. yeah Is it really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Huh.
01:08:13
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And you would be amazed at all the different choices. And the people there at Total Wine. know their shit. Seem to. yeah they're like And very helpful. Oh my god. Over the top. Like Disneyland level.
01:08:26
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If you want it. But if you say hey I'm just looking or Also back off. If they don't have the answer they get on the little walkie talkie thing. and they're They're great. now They are great at that point. Yep.
01:08:37
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Yep.
01:08:39
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all right sorry Sorry for the diversion. You were diversive. Oh, by the way, guys, i got to guess what? Next week? no I just found out. oh g I'm going to bring some ah very special oh rum for you fellas to from china taste. no These boys need to Uber out I'm going to taste a little China.
01:09:00
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They're going to be very special. so yeah Get ready for it. Look forward to that. Don't don't pre-drink before you get here. Awkward. Don't tailgate. Well, that's our first thing that's our first night of the golf league. next they oh saving sos right getting It's Take it easy. Weather permitting, obviously. Go. Take it easy.
01:09:19
Speaker
Golf league starts next week. Oh, big week? Yeah. ah Linko, so you start golf league and we're going to Frozen Four. oh yeah. The day after. Nice. For the next day. Yeah. He'll regulate. That's going to be a big week. Regulators. out Mount up.
01:09:35
Speaker
Awesome. And yeah, then hockey trip the week after that. Yeah. so Where's that hockey trip? Seattle, Vancouver. Okay. Yep. So you are gone leaving Thursday?
01:09:46
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ah Tuesday. Tuesday. Coming back late Thursday night. We'll figure that out later. figure it out. We'll figure it out. That's not on-air discussion. You got us up? Not yet. No, I need to talk to you about that. We'll figure that out. The sub is, yeah, there's like five people missing in the golf league. We'll figure that out. Tom will play. Tom will play. We'll pay Tom to play. I'll play.
01:10:09
Speaker
Sure. I'll play. Anyhow, all right. yeah Ladies and gentlemen, you have waited patiently now It is time for joe show Joke of the Come on, B-Box. Where you at, B-Box? I'm glad he's spitting on his own microphone. All right.
01:10:34
Speaker
So this week, we're going to... He doesn't even have the phone in his face. He's going solo on this. We're going to different... Really? memory here. It's time to go solo. Different route here.
01:10:50
Speaker
This is a dating advice joke the week. Okay. So if... If we were dating. If. And I've been married for 30-some odd years. Yes. Oh, Christ. If you weren't with your current wife and you're out on a date. Come on. In Utah.
01:11:06
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In Salt Lake City. Damn, Tom, that is a great thing. Soaking. We'd be soaking. Because what? Because, yeah. Yeah. In Utah. Got it. If you're out on a date. This makes sense. I would totally. totally Now or now where our brains are going in the right
01:11:23
Speaker
So what does it say about you in Utah if you go on a date and you remember, first date, and you remember the color What does it mean if you remember the color your date's eyes?
01:11:42
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have any but you go left continue i was i was concentrating on guy in youah what he's concentrating on you that shitting with what iss but got just stay if i smell animal un keep talking what does it mean if you remember the color of your dates i
01:12:04
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What does it mean in Utah if you remember the color of your date's eyes? Well, guess out loud, Luke. Okay, well, you didn't you probably didn't get none that night.
01:12:18
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Probably true. Probably true.
01:12:21
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I got nothing. I got something, but I... think that's the best answer. You're not going to go with it? No. You said you got something. No. Really? My brother-in-law's here. I can't say that. You're on a date, Jeff. It has nothing to do with stop to my sister. Laughter.
01:12:39
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so if youtah In Utah. If you remember the color of your date's eyes, she got small titties. Wow.
01:12:49
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That's what he said.
Podcast Wrap-Up
01:12:51
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That's truth.
01:12:55
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01:13:01
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don't know. Anyhow, every week you can get the solid four of your thoughts wisdom. Can I? Can I really? can every single week, guaranteed. Without fail.
01:13:13
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So be sure to join us. Is that posted more? Yeah, don't even want to talk about it. I think it was. So anyhow, until next week, I'm Tom. I'm your Huckleberry. I'm Old Blue Eyes. I'm Frozen Four Bound, bitch.
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