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A Solid 4 Beer Thoughts We're Back! Welcome To 2025!
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Well we took 2 weeks off and the world didn't end so we came back! We hope you all had a great holiday, we will talk about our last 2 weeks and Christmas and NYE fun as well as college football playoffs and what the hell Colts?
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Podcast Intro and Social Media Engagement
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A solid four beer thoughts. Papa Coldwell and hit interactive with us on YouTube, Facebook, X, or Instagram. Welcome 2025. Here we are. I know you thought we weren't coming back, but you can wish and hope and dream. You can wish and hope and dream, but no, more like a bad penny.
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Holiday Scheduling Challenges and Humor
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We're gonna tonight talk about the holiday that was and what we did while we were gone and all that good stuff. I don't know about you guys, but did you guys feel at any point over the last two weeks, just a little off because we didn't
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The weeks were a little weird. It was different. It actually was. Yeah, I totally agree. I totally agree. Best two weeks of my career. I think it was weird because when the holiday fell, fell on a Wednesday, you know? So it's, are you working Monday, Tuesday? Are you working Thursday, Friday? What a mess. Podcast, blah, blah, blah. Should have seen the looks I got at the family Christmas when I said, you know,
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I know we had a holiday o
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Really? There's nothing biblical about December 25th. It's true. That's made up.
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That's a best guess. Got a lot of pushback from the religious part of my family. And I'm like, no, but what was the pushback? What are you talking about? They say it's a factual date. It's never been proven. It's always been a... It wasn't even a calendar. Even some religious scholars actually say that wasn't his real birthday. Exactly, exactly. So what's the big deal? It wasn't a big deal. It was just the sideways look at the, you know, the uncomfortable moments. So you do that with intent?
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So the moral of the story is don't invite Tom to any parties. Can I not answer that question? Mr. Buzz Kill. We know the answer. You don't have to answer that question. Let me tell you one thing about Christmas. Mr. Buzz Killington. Well the reason it came up was because the family Christmas happened like the Friday after Christmas.
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So while everybody's sitting there talking about it because they changed it twice and I was like that's when they celebrated Jesus second birthday I was like, you know, it really doesn't matter if we celebrate on the other side of his family So yeah, you have to have two birthdays exactly. I think his parents were divorced No, they never got married. I mean, that's true. You ever get married. Yeah, they were married
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He just didn't tap that yeah We went downhill quick, I'm sorry God Wow, that's awesome love that
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Yes, please move on so welcome back to a solid four podcast.
Yearly Reflections and Historical Anecdotes
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I'm so glad everybody's here That's awesome. Are we going this week first? Yeah. Well, yeah, we probably should because probably ramble What did you do last weekend is gonna turn into what did you do? I'm gonna change mine to what did you do last year? Yeah. Yeah. There you go. That's a good idea
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Utah this is not a joke by the way the mom Utah joins the Union 1897 this week in history jokes that included the new state of Utah started confusing all the citizens across the United States
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Yes. Cue it up. Oh, it's time.
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So it only took a year before everybody was like, what the fuck is Utah have to do with this joke? That's quicker than the government. It's just the joke. Go tap your sister. Utahans were glad Poland came around.
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50 years later. Something like that. Jokes. So welcome to the party, Utah. Oh, 1912, this week in history. So what, 16 years later, New Mexico joins the union. Welcome to the party. We're just cranking them out there. Oh yeah. That's a busy time frame. This week in history 1933, construction begins on the Golden Gate Bridge. This week in history 1994,
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Why? Nancy Kerrigan is attacked. Was that this week? Yeah, 1994. Damn. So that would have been, I thought that was at the Olympics that happened. No. No, it was a trial. It was a trial. Trial. Trial, yeah. Or like a competition. Like a training facility competition. Trials had already happened. I thought, yeah, okay. Yeah, I don't think it was anything of real importance. They just knew she was going to be there at that time.
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So, yeah. What did this ask you? And your boy went in there and took a whack. Ghoulouly, right? It was Ghoulouly's buddy. Ghoulouly's buddy. Ghoulouly was behind it. What was that big point? He sure was. I forget what that guy's name. Tanya claimed that she didn't know anything about it, but they had all kinds of proof that she knew.
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She did. Well, she had a lot of that trailer park in her. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Can't take the trailer park out of the woman. You know what she's saying? You sure put it in her, though. A lot in her. Trailer to the left, trailer to the right, trailer behind her. Yeah, she's pulling a trailer all in her. She's also a train conductor for a period of time before she became a figure skater, I believe. This week in history 20 ought seven.
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Apple debuts the iPhone. Steve Jobs shows a demonstration of the iPhone at the old Mac World Convention in San Francisco that year. So there you go. I wonder what Apple stock was in 2007? Probably not a lot. I wouldn't think so. Anyway, that's us again.
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A lot of paper in 2025. Apparently, wow. We need a new trash bag. It's not even a year old. Potato chips. No, it's not even a year old. It's good. These chips or something. Still works. Durable. So the iPod was out before the iPhone, is that correct? Yeah, yeah, yeah. iPod was first. That was the thing, too. Yeah. That was it. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's how the Walkman should have been 20 years ago. Correct. The iBait was way, way, way before that. So, yeah.
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Wow It was the master device that they used back then back in the day Holy goodness. All right. Well, we are all right back at it
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So Jeff, how was your last couple of weeks? It was good. Is that all you got? Yes, it was good. Did you go down the lake? Did you fly anywhere? No, this weekend we were. No, it was the holidays. People coming over Christmas Eve, the whole family family. It's kind of
Family Gatherings and Holiday Excitement
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cool. We had a shit ton of people. It's all my side of the family. But what was cool about it is there's great nieces and nephews that are like,
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Four or five. Oh, there you go. Under the age of 10. Oh, perfect. You know, so that was all about. Absolutely. How much greatness have they done in their lives? But at the age of 10? Yeah. Yeah. But he can't be that great. Odd term. No, but I've always struggled with that.
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Yeah. Just, uh, the excitement that they had, I mean, they were running into our bedroom and there's, there's a big bay window in there and they're like, can we open the curtains to see if Santa Claus is coming? Yeah, you could open those curtains. Oh yeah. Why is this plastic dog bone buzzer? They actually did get into drawers and they pulled out all, that's why I said to honey, you must've hit that well.
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So outside of that, New Year's Eve had a few people over and low keyed that. Did the current wife get a new dog bone for Christmas? Yes, she did. Good for her. Interstocking. I didn't know that's where you usually put those things. I'm editing hard here.
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I can't even believe you entertained. You started this. Wow. Wow. So we talked about, you know, how the holiday falls on a Wednesday and it's just, it's kind of screwy. Yeah. Just kind of screws things up when it falls on a, on a Wednesday. But yeah, it was good. It was a good time. Then we had snowmageddon a couple of days ago. So yeah, that was good.
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Awesome. That was easy. You done? I'm done. I didn't do anything exciting. I'm actually okay with it in the middle of the week. I like it. Because I took the couple days after Christmas off and then the couple days the next week before New Year's. So I had like over a full week off. But I think that opinion changes based on your PTO that you have available. Correct.
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You know what I mean? That's true. You can schedule it and actually it's very, it works out very favorably because you already have holidays built in and you don't burn as mint, whatever. And then it's no big deal. But if you don't have PTO and you're trying to,
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figure out where to take it, not take it, whatever different. Obviously I had,
PTO Policies and Personal Time Off
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but for you, you've got unlimited PTO because you just go to work or don't. So much more common thing, unlimited PTO is studies are ridiculous. People actually take less time, significantly less.
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Uh, not a joke. I have taken way less time because my old job, you got so much and you were forced to use it. So I'm like, fuck it. I'm using it. That used to take a whole month of December. Oh yeah. Pretty much. I'd take like almost three weeks off in a row. You're going to carry it over. Use these days. So anyway.
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But I mean, yeah, just normal stuff, Christmas Eve at current wife's family, Christmas Day at my family. Then the Northern Irish Twin, her birthday is the day after Christmas. Oh, happy birthday, Northern Irish Twin. So she got a late start. We basically went out for pizza, King Dough, if you've ever heard of King Dough's.
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It was good. I would go back. You would? Yeah, I'd go back. It's pizza. It's pizza. But it was good. So it's got to be good because it was up in Fisher's. There was one in Carmel. I would argue, have you ever had pizza? I think there's levels, but I've never had a pizza where I'm like, that's the best pizza I've ever had. And I have had that for equivalent foods for like a steak or pasta or something like that.
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Yeah. I've had something that I've kind of like, I'm not going to say this was the best I've ever had at my house for a reason, but I'd go back. I mean, we got, you know, some, some, uh, wings for an appetizer and whatever the appetizers were good, you know, just, uh, tongue and chip showed up with Mia and just, yeah, it's just a fun, fun evening. So yeah. Awesome. And then, uh,
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I've had some pretty darn good pizza.
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Went up to Wilson's Farm Market in Cicero on the 31. So I dropped the family off at the pizza place. And then I ran up to Wilson's. They got two apple pies, yeah. Did you steal one from the husband again this time? Was that the place that happened? No, no, no, no. That was out of Pennsylvania. That was actually at an Amish farm. A real true blue Amish farm. Made the old lady go in the house and make a new one.
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No, this is just a farmer's market. It's an Amish farmer's market. But so didn't tell Alex or Blocky that we were doing that or that I was doing that. So in the middle of dinner, I go, hey, so we haven't talked about going for ice cream or anything, any dessert afterwards, whatever. I said, Alex, what what would you want?
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Any dessert, what would you want? She's like, probably apple pie. I was like, cool. I've got two of them in the car for you. So yeah, that was kind of cool. But anyway, mama Corolla's yesterday.
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So over there. So, uh, did that. So we, we were trying to go 22 pounds almost 21. We were trying to go over Christmas break, but we couldn't get any reservations. We couldn't get in there. So this was the first day that worked for everybody. And so that was technically our family. Yeah.
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out christmas dinner going out type of thing so so again just you know just hanging out attacking restaurant little little good little restaurant yeah it's fun time cool so nothing too exciting shitload of football yeah and uh yeah that's about it yeah so here you go awesome
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You're
Family Travel Adventures
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up. Oh, it's me. It's you You had the most exciting two weeks of everybody. Did I well you weren't you went places and what did I did I you went on an adventure? learned a lot about family dynamics traveling to Florida in a car and
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You had figured that out? Or the dynamics changed. I'll just say that, yes to all that. We did have Kylie's boyfriend with us, which is great that he was able to go. So Big Cat was technically like 20 hours away from school.
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Well, on vacation, wasn't he? You drove 10 hours south, right? And that's some bitch, man. So we're at, I don't know if it's, I think it's universal. He loves water rights. So it's, I don't know, 60 degrees, 65 maybe.
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And it's fairly overcast this day. Cold by Florida standards. Kylie's boyfriend and Matthew's like, I want to do this. It's the equivalent of, I think it used to be called Whitewater Canyon at Kings Island. It has the circular boat. You could never find the man in it.
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But he's there. Keep doing this with your finger. There was a camel spitting at us on this ride, somehow. And Matthew's like, hey, I want to do this ride. I'm like, yeah, I'm out. And then I'm like, man, how many more chances am I going to get to do this? I'm like.
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That'll get you every time dude. Here we go. Yep. Gotta make memories. Oh my God. It was a disaster. We get absolutely soaked. Yeah. Cause now your feet and socks are wet. So those dryers, are they heated?
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Oh yeah. So are they just there? I mean, you know, it, it pumps out warm air. Does it? Okay. I didn't, we paid the five bucks to stand in the dryer. I've seen those big human tires. You get it, you get out of the water ride and they got these, you stand in them and there's all these little, little hut. Yeah. It fits for people. Back to the future when he, we got all wet and the jacket like dried him off.
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Nobody? Took his hat and jacked it off? That really wasn't a joke. I mean, back to the future. Which ones? The one where he went, I think is two. Three's when they're in the old west. Gotcha. Anyway. But yeah, you stand in there and it just blows air on you. Really? You dry off. So it costs, you put like a quarter in the slot or whatever? You put a credit card in there. I actually don't even know what it costs. I didn't look. I'm like, hell with it, we're doing it.
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So when did you buy the new Shaq socks? Shaq socks. So that came up, right? So say that fast five times. We're an hour removed from that ride. Sure. It's fairly, I don't know. Everything's pretty okay. Getting there. Yeah. Poor Dave had, I think his underwear, he had some chafage issues going on. That sucks.
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the socks oh my god I'm like I can't take this cuz they don't get air yeah I gotta go buy some new socks so we go to Harry Potter world I'm like they have to have socks here somewhere seventeen dollars for a pair of socks I'm like you know what
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That's not, that's not unreasonable. Universal or whatever. So did not. I said no. Oh, you said no. I said no. I said, I'm not paying $70 for Harry Potter socks. I said, because we've been to universal a decent amount. I'm like, I'm pretty sure in Simpson's land they have socks. So I'm going to get some Homer socks. I'm getting socks. I'll wear those more than once. Correct. Correct.
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Not that far, whatever. Get there and the financial gods were smiling on me because they had a three pack of not full length socks, but what do you call them? Crew. Yeah, whatever. For $17. Oh, so you got three for the price of one? One for each of us. Yeah. Yeah. So that was probably the best thing that happened to me. Universal was those socks.
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But your shoes were still wet, were they not? That's okay. It's weird. It is weird. Actually put a napkin in the, like as a layer in between for like 30, 40 minutes that soaked up some of it. You couldn't find any Wonder Bread sacks or anything? No, no, could not. No tampons either. You know what would help also? You weren't playing in snow.
00:18:46
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What would help with the napkin? A period dress? Yeah, probably would have. Just saying. I think somebody in our party might have had that on.
00:18:57
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Wow. There were some tense moments at times. You didn't go to Snow White World for that, did you? Wow. It's easy to spot when she's on hers. Why is Rudolph in the Snow White? Oh, never mind. Never mind. That's Olaf. Olaf, yes. So anyway.
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Yeah, so I know it was uh, I made a bunch of notes about how crazy it is to pay 10 million dollars to bust your ass like We drove whatever you get there and Hey, we're getting up at 6 30 and like He just drove 10 hours stuck in traffic for for this one because you had to do a trip and
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No, oh this was a family fake. Yeah, I just assumed. I'm sorry. It was a pleasure trip So this
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and
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And you haul ass there and like, you know, you're passing people. Oh, yeah, I can still maneuver pretty okay in a crowd like knocking old ladies over. But then it just stops. It's like, OK, now we wait for an hour. It's a lot like driving on four sixty five at eight o'clock in the morning. I mean, that I know you would that that model, the fact that it's
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it's flourished for so long is crazy to me. So do they still have fast passings or whatever they call them? That you can pay extra for. Does it kind of skip some of that line? Basically to skip the line or get to the front of a line, I think it was $175 per person.
00:21:03
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Gosh, per day. And you're like, socks are expensive. Right. Right. Might've been, I could have got 10 pair of Harry Potter. It might've been 135, but when that's times five, right? It's crazy. I could see if you're a solo person, why it makes, it does make sense. Cause it would save you a ton of time for sure.
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Yeah, but the beauty of that day is not only did we get there at the ass crack, we left at whatever the opposite of the ass crack is. Taint crack. I don't know. Yeah. The tank around the world. Yeah. Taint crack. Yeah. We get out of that bitch at midnight 30. They were they were pushing you out so they could close. Yeah. Milk milk lemonade around the corner. So yeah, we saw everything. You went to Uranus fudge factory. Yeah.
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Wow. We did. I will say current wife got these cool, uh, temporary tattoo things that, uh, allowed you to track your drinking around the world in Epcot. Really? Yep. So it's like, it's like Mexico check. Um, Canada check USA check is just a little, uh, little map or whatever. Yeah. Just a little check boxes with the country country's name. Huh?
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That was that was kind of cool I ended up driving home Because I did not I mean we rented a car so I didn't want to put Matthew or in a bad situation So instead of a check, what'd you put in Czechoslovakia? So there's plenty room for a check mark
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Yeah, technically, there's all kinds of checks. So I think there's I think there's 12 countries and Epcot and We got a a drink either took a sip or whatever from essentially all of them. We skipped China Oh, I don't know why but we did they don't have anything good in China. Oh Good like a good Godzilla shit in Japan. No, I bet they did. Yeah How much you guys been there?
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120 bucks on Godzilla merchandise. Matthew got a pretty nice shirt. He's like, I don't know dad. I'm like, yeah, I'm not buying you $17. Let's get three. Get the Godzilla shirt. Let's get three. We've already spent $6,000 to get through the gate. I mean, we might as well. That's how that plays.
00:23:32
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That's how I'm saying that the business model, the fact that so many of us buy into it, like, well, if we're here, of course you're getting the $45 stuffed Mickey Mouse and the $30 Mickey. Yeah. And you're always in line at the food places behind the family, trying to figure out how to buy their food the most affordably. Now you can take your own food in.
00:23:58
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Oh, you can? Yeah, I had no clue. I've been there a bunch of times. Yeah, I had no idea. You can take your own food in there. I said that too. I'm like, when did that start? And, uh, current wife's like, no way forever ago. No way kidding me. No, they obviously have locked. So you can like walk in with a cooler. No, no, not cooler, but, uh,
00:24:19
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An insulated backpack or whatever. Yeah, you can't you can't bring a rolling shit. I don't know if you play maybe you can I don't know people come in with kids with strollers and stuff. So yeah, I mean you could put something in a stroller I was just shocked that you bring your own food. Yes, you could say I Did spend a shit ton of money on alcohol, but sure that's why we went
00:24:43
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Hey, going back to our last episode, we need to stall a little bit more because I think Pat McPhee is on his way.
Dream Guest and Listener Engagement
00:24:48
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So we said we're going to have him as a guest. Yeah, yeah, they did. Yeah, I guess he's going down. I got a phone call actually a couple of days after you posted that last episode. I got a phone call. Oh, Hey man. Hey, you, you really haven't Pat McPhee on next year. I was like, are you for Oakland? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:25:10
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Yep, sure did. Not a joke. There's a chance he comes on this year. We don't know. We haven't heard from him. Anything's possible. He said, well, you guys sounded pretty serious. Like you're going to have him on. He's still struggling a little bit. He might need the publicity. He can use the solid four. Yeah. I'm sure he's not talking to him now.
00:25:29
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We'll send him an email. We'll send him an email. Yeah. See if he's got free. I think he's on his way. So other than that, the holidays were good. I'm with link. I liked the Wednesday thing. I agree with your statement about PTO. Um, but I don't know middle of the week, it, it makes the whole week. Yes. Easy. All, all low key two weeks in a row. Yes. Makes two weeks in a row. A hell of a lot easier for sure. For sure. Tommy, Tommy.
00:25:57
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Holidays, it happened. Nothing out of the ordinary, really. I was doing orange biscuits. Orange cinnamon rolls. Let me give you some info that you can use next year at Christmas. You know what I didn't do? I never rolled by your house to see your lights. I didn't either. I meant to do that. Well, if you got, okay, so they're still up. They're just not on. So if you all want to make a trip by... Oh, yeah, I'm in. I'm in the horn a couple times. Let me know. I'll plug them in.
00:26:24
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I don't care. I'm not taking them down until the snow melts. So tomorrow night, if we wouldn't have got this storm, they would have already been down football zone. Who's playing tomorrow? One game Thursday, one game Friday. There you go. So we did a lot of scholars believe, uh, the shortstop for North central was born in the spring. Okay.
00:26:51
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There's a contingent that believes it's early September, but most folks believe Jesus was born in the spring, December 25th. So the Catholic Church decided Pope Julius, the first to make it December 25th. That's in the fourth century. It coincided with a pagan celebration. Oh nice, it's called Saturnalia.
00:27:18
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I don't know what it's called, but yeah, we'll go with that. I just fucking told you. That's what I said, we'll go with that.
Christmas Traditions and Historical Insights
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Which the Catholic church, a lot of their holy days of obligation, they put up against the pagans trying to convert people. That was how it all began. Anyhow. No biblical reference, by the way, to when Jesus was there.
00:27:41
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Anyhow, so we did Christmas Eve, typical, went to church once a year. Well, you go Easter as well. Oh yeah, sometimes. Jeff's checking his earphones. I'll go the whole time of the year. Did you say church? Yeah, church. Really?
00:27:59
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I do it as a family thing. And the wall stood up. What about the windows? They know how I roll. God knows how he rolls. So we did church and then after church on Christmas Eve for the last couple years we've been going to Rick's Cafe for dinner.
00:28:21
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So we did that and then you go home and do the typical Christmas Eve stuff. What's typical? Do you open one present? Do you open all of them? No, so everybody gets Christmas pajamas and an ornament. We start doing that. I hate the Christmas pajamas. So the Christmas pajama thing's a pain in the ass. Okay, so let's be honest. It can be. And the reason is, if you're not planning that shit October, early November, by the time you get around to it, because you keep putting it off,
00:28:50
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You're gonna find like jank shit that you know that you're trying to put shit together to make it look you're getting When you're buying when you're buying when you're buying pajamas for
00:29:05
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six people to all match. You got to pretty much take care of that early. Yes. So you also have Irish twins? Uh, no, but I do have a stepdaughter who has my other grandson. So yeah. Oh, okay. So, so we were, we were kind of, we got it together. It was fine. Uh, so we did the Christmas pajamas and the ornaments. We always do that on Christmas Eve.
00:29:27
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When the kids were younger, we did let them open one other present, but now that's gone away. Yeah, we don't do that anymore. But then we, another one that might shock you, and this is a family tradition that's been around since I was a kid. We always read the, no, we read the birth of Christ out of the Bible. And then we read twice the night before Christmas.
00:29:50
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Very Charlie Brownish. Yeah, we do that every we've done that every year since I was my mom used to read it and We've done that every year since I was little and that was just something that we've always done and Again, not struck by lightning as I was reading the Bible, which was equally awesome
00:30:08
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heard some thunder in the background though the rolling thunder actually as cold as it was outside he was playing thunderstruck yeah wow greedy there's that night drink uh where's my rum yes uh rum and eggnog on christmas eve for sure oh okay okay so here we go now we're getting to it we did not we did not leave uh cookies out for santa claus which i was reminded the next morning
00:30:29
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how we failed at that, and I said, well, children. You leave that vibrating dog bone out? I was like, that's your job, so why, I mean, I. Yeah, that's on you. Yeah, that's on you. Absolutely. Because every, and we did, I left this out, but during the day on Christmas Eve, because we always bake a bunch of cookies, kids always have to decorate some cookies, right? Well, now they're 16 and 14, it's like, what do you mean I got a decorating kit? Well, you said the girl decorated with you. The girl's into it, the girl's into it.
00:31:00
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The boy's like, you mean I got to put down Fortnite, come back, right? So he's, he's about two cookies in and gives up. The girl does like half a dozen.
00:31:10
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So we had cookies decorated and all that stuff. And then we didn't even put them out, but yeah. And then, uh, do Christmas morning, all the normal opening presents and whatnot. And then Christmas day, we don't do shit. What time you get up Christmas morning? Uh, when the kids get out of bed. Well, and that this year it was actually earlier than it has been for a long time. Um, even when they were little,
00:31:37
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They were never the kids that were like, send clothes, never. It was like a couple of years when they were little, it was like, we need to get their asses up because I'm not waiting until noon to do this shit.
00:31:50
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and then this year they were everybody was up like seven ish probably something like that i was up earlier because i'm always up early but they were up about seven and going at it so i was doing her thing yeah i think we were closer to nine o'clock this year yeah well you're gonna you're gonna say something about eggnog right
00:32:08
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Oh yeah. Oh yeah, you had eggnog on Christmas. I sure did. You just posted a picture of an empty eggnog cup. I sure did. I was, uh, I was at Target, uh, I don't know, a day or two before and just had a whole cartload of shit, stocking stuffers and all kinds of stuff. Would buy the milk section. I was like,
00:32:27
Speaker
Fuckin' A. Mm? Eggnog. Yeah. Say it like, I don't know. Fuckin' Eggnog. Seven or eight cartons, half gallons, whatever. You bought them all? No. Oh. No, just one. Just need one. Yeah, that's all you need. Just one. That's all you need. Yeah, but for like, I would probably say four out of five days. I just have like a little, like a little bourbon glass. Yeah, that's usually what I do. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's for some, yeah.
00:32:54
Speaker
Yeah, I went to mix bourbon cream I believe with my eggnog and after like the fifth class I'm like Well, it's a little like Clark Griswold Marty It was so heavy One for four or five days and it's like a treat
00:33:23
Speaker
Well, I got my four or five days over in one day. So apple pie, five days worth of eggnog. What else? What else do you eat? Mama Corolla's. Mama Corolla's. Italian. Damn, man. Pizza. What about New Year's Eve? Anybody do anything fun? Oh, you stayed home. Stayed home, had a few people over. Played some games. You guys do anything? We were invited to two or three different places. Stayed home.
00:33:46
Speaker
ended up staying home. I kind of left it up to a current wife. I swear we were going to go do something.
New Year's and Festive Reflections
00:33:53
Speaker
And it got, and I was, cause I was even talking to one of the Irish twins about it and she's like, no, I think mom wants to go out. I was like, you know, I'll let her decide. So the day before I go, so what are we doing tomorrow night? She goes,
00:34:06
Speaker
Honestly, I really don't want to do anything. I'm like, what? I said, I thought you, I thought she goes, no, I just want to stay home. I just want to sit on this bidet and ring the new year. So yeah, we sit forward on this bidet. We blocky and Alex were there. We played games. Can you went out with some friends? So yeah, just four of us. We literally played cards until probably about two o'clock in the morning.
00:34:34
Speaker
It's about 11 45 or so. We turned on the ball, the countdown, cause we'd been watching football and other stuff and watch. I don't know. I don't even know what we were watching, but Nance goes, can we turn it on the countdown? I was like, Oh shit, it is 15 minutes. Wow. Now's the countdown. About five minutes after 12, start playing games again. Next thing you know, it's like two o'clock in the morning. We're like, okay, time for bed. Yeah. Wow. Happy new year. That's all we, that's all we did when you Disney did.
00:35:02
Speaker
No, I did not make it to midnight first year in a bunch of years. Yep. Well, we were at Disney from six 30 a.m. the day before. But we got back at the tank track, which is which seriously what time tank tank crack is one a.m.
00:35:19
Speaker
6.30 to 1 a.m. inside the park. Various parks, but yes. And then the next day was Universal. And the amount of people, I've been to Universal a ton. The line of cars to get into Universal at like 8 p.m. that night was astounding. Because they're having a new year. And we were all tired anyway, I'm like,
00:35:49
Speaker
We're leaving, right? We're not doing this. Going to happen. We're not staying for this. Where'd you guys stay down there? You on property or you off? Off. Okay. Like just down the road or? Yeah, we stayed at Jack's, which was slightly off property. Jack's condos. Got it.
00:36:09
Speaker
Okay, I'm sure you've stayed there a few times you might stay there today But yeah, so went back to the hotel it got some beers and
00:36:25
Speaker
For some reason got modellos. I have no idea. Oh because It was either that or by a 12-pack It might knew we're only gonna be we're leaving the next morning. So you got a six-pack modello Okay, no bottle opener. Oh, dude. Yeah, I've been gosh darn it and I can't do the trick back you guys You don't have an edge on a counter the back of the door the back of the door door hands I'm not the seat belt door hinge on it or the little
00:36:51
Speaker
Or the where the thing catches top of the door hinge, okay, okay or Teeth I could have just asked the front desk When I to Colorado Springs many many years ago I had a computer training class out there for my former job. Mm-hmm
00:37:14
Speaker
After class, went out to dinner, was like, you know what? I'm going to be here for three nights. Like, let me go grab a case of beer. Got some beer, had a fridge in the room, blah, blah, blah. Go back, get my boxers, grab a beer, hop in bed. Fucking thing. There's no bottle over there. I was like, are you freaking kidding me? Oh, today, Satan.
00:37:38
Speaker
Anyway, oh I saw man, I'm like, I sure saw him not going out now. So yeah, that's how I figured out the door here. I was like, what can I do? Yeah, so I opened my- Now those hounds are great because they're usually metal door frames and where the little thing on the knob catches in the hole there, you can stick a, you can pop it in there too. It sounds like he's talking about sex. That's nice. Stick it in that hole right there and pop it. Especially with the sound effect. Because all that fake wood on the fake wood and stuff. Oh I've got fake wood.
00:38:06
Speaker
Desk or whatever you always tears. I mean it'll work, but it you leave marks So yeah, we went to the bar on New Year's Eve The karaoke guy was retiring that was his farewell Yeah
00:38:28
Speaker
He's done. He's all over it. And so we went up there and... Sing a swan song? Yep. I hung out with him and his wife.
00:38:38
Speaker
And now the end is neat. It's his birthday. But honestly, it was a good time. It was a good time. Elvis's birthdays. Elvis did a version of it. How would he have been today? Ninety. That's right. Ninety years old. Yep. Yep. Yep.
00:39:01
Speaker
Well, once again, life cut short. All right. So that brings us to, he lived pretty hard. What else has been going on? Well, I mean, so cool. It's wrapped up. There's, yeah, we got, we've got stuff, fantasy football, wrapped up. We're at the end of the NFL season. So we got wildcard playoffs this weekend, college football playoffs going on. I don't know. Dame is not in the playoffs. Notre Dame is
00:39:25
Speaker
Fucking hammered rush in it. They are hammering Ohio State. Yeah, I hate fucking hate Ohio State, right? I think it's gonna be Ohio State Notre Dame and Notre Dame beats Penn State. I think so. Yeah
00:39:41
Speaker
James James Franklin the head coach Penn State. This is the game that he just pisses away Just he can't handle a big game situation. Actually, you know, today's defense must be Unbelievable. Oh, they're pretty damn those guys. They're stuck to their studs that lineman you studs e-lineman that killed IU
00:39:58
Speaker
Yeah, but I think they're a defensive court Al Golden. I think he's probably gonna be in the NFL next year. Yeah. He was a coach of the jets years ago. He's a bad-ass. That's when he went by his hyphenated name, right? Yes. Shower. Yes. That's what I thought. After the game, after the game. They cannot, Notre Dame cannot throw the football.
00:40:25
Speaker
they cannot do it. They, they, they, they are not a good passing team and the other team knows that Georgia knew that and they still couldn't stop them. Still couldn't stop them. I watched part of that game out of Georgia. I mean, I guess we can talk about that. If we want to, I had to watch most of that game at wrestling practice because that game, like we, we structured our drive home. Yep.
00:40:51
Speaker
kind of see that game and then the game doesn't happen because of the dumbass stuff. There's just all that shit, man. Come on. And if, I'm gonna talk out my ass here because I don't know enough of the details, but I did read this. If you're taking something down to get it fixed that is put in place to protect people,
00:41:17
Speaker
Maybe throw a substitute in there of some sort. I'm not saying that totally changes everything whatever helps During your probably your second doesn't hurt biggest night. Yeah of the year that particular city I mean they got marty girl, which I think is like a week But I mean New Year's Eve come on man. Yeah, that's be better just be better
00:41:43
Speaker
I think it was a trial run for trying to see what they could get away with during Super Bowl week, but we'll see what happens.
00:42:03
Speaker
chinks in his armor last year or two. I was kind of looking like a little cross-eyed. A little racist aggressive there. What? No, I mean, I don't care. Kinks? Chinks? What do you call them? It's actually in armor. It's actually called a chink in armor because it's armor. Which is why I use that term. It's not called taints.
00:42:28
Speaker
No. Okay. Well, you learned something new every day. Yeah. Okay. Anyway, it's a whole different other place. Yeah. That's the, uh, that's the end of the day. I think I could kill. He's was at two spots of vulnerability. I know my mythology. I'm just saying.
00:42:49
Speaker
Now, I don't know if he was really the guy for that program that you and I have basically followed since we were kids, right? But dude, this year, I know the Northern Illinois game was a little slip of the... That might have been...
00:43:07
Speaker
The motivating factor. Absolutely. The game we went to, they didn't look spectacular. They took care of business two weeks after. In Miami, Ohio. And they took care of business. It was a boring game. I mean, it just was. And honestly, the beginning of that game, it looked like Miami was going to handle them.
Football Reflections: Notre Dame and Colts
00:43:32
Speaker
I'm with you, Lincoln. When douchebag Brian Kelly left out of there, and we've seen what he's done down there at LSU so far, not to go deep into the weeds here, but the players wanted Marcus Freeman. And when they announced him, there's a shot in the locker room where he's announced and he comes in, and the team just went effing nuts. I mean, it was genuine. It wasn't fake.
00:44:00
Speaker
TikTok crap. They generally love this guy. Last year, the year before, new coach, second year coach last year, made some mistakes, blah, blah, blah. This year, I don't think he's seen enough. He's been in enough big games. He's beat, Notre Dame has beat a top 25 team every month this year. And they're the only team.
00:44:22
Speaker
I think the stat was they beat more top 25 teams this year than they have in the past decade. I can believe that also. Actually, they haven't even played this year. Boys, just saying. Ooh, good call. Haven't played this year. Good call. This season. This season, yes. Gotcha. It's like Jim Mercy walking in the locker room at the end of their last game, eight, nine season. You know, they barely beat a shitty ass Jaguar team and he goes,
00:44:49
Speaker
Down there, well, you guys fought hard, you did this, you know, blah, blah, blah, I'm so proud of you. And hey, we're 1-0 in 2025. I'm like, are you fucking kidding me? Did he say that? That's exactly what he said. That's hilarious. That fucking clown. 1-0. I'm like, are you, like you said earlier, Brett, are you talking to a fourth grade CYO team here? So the New York, the New York football giants have averaged 14 points per game through the entire season. And the Colts let them put a 40 burger on them.
00:45:19
Speaker
Are you kidding me? And then you're going to have that conversation about squeaking by the fucking Jacksonville Jack. If they win that Giants game, are the Colts in the playoffs or cause they weren't in, but they had to cause Denver one hour because Kansas city said everybody. Yeah. Yep.
00:45:37
Speaker
Yep. Which then made the bingles not, not get in. Right. So yeah, correct. So did we really want the Colts? I mean, yeah, we do. No, we, we do as a fan. Do you want them to get to playoffs? Yes. You want them to be embarrassed at that level?
00:45:52
Speaker
on national TV beyond what we see week to week, negative. It's bad enough, it's bad enough. I absolutely want them in the playoffs, every year. No question. I don't disagree with that. Just like the, so for me, IU fan, the IU Notre Dame game, which by the way wasn't close, the score was 27-17 final, but let's be real, it was a 27 to three game is what it was. That was a garbage time.
00:46:20
Speaker
And there's a lot of people, IU fans I know is like, oh, IU played Notre Dame closer than Georgia. I'm like, not really. If you watched the game, technically, score wise, okay, sure. But anyway, but for me, Colts fan, I guess my point is the way the first round of college football playoffs played out,
00:46:47
Speaker
is the way it should play out. All of the favorites won, and most of those games were three score games, and that's how it's structured, because the parody, no different than ending the NFL, the top four versus the bottom eight, there's a significant difference. With the top four and the college football lost, every team that got it by lost. Lost.
00:47:13
Speaker
Correct, but they got that by because they won their conference, right? So so that they need to work on you you you had the group that I think is that was probably the top eight which Ohio State fell I think to eight maybe yep, yep, Ohio State was Top five team the whole year. Yes. So whatever the timing of their loss affected sure. Yeah
00:47:35
Speaker
and Notre Dame will never be in that fourth slot. Because they're independent. But I just think the difference between once you get to the 12th and 13th ranked team in the country or in the NFL playoffs versus the top three or four, the difference can be fairly significant. And that's how it played out. It isn't usually a thing anymore. It just doesn't seem pretty rare. During regular season, you might get one.
00:48:04
Speaker
When you've got weeks to prepare, I don't think it happens. Just like Notre Dame was licking their wounds after the Southern Illinois game, that was a monumental moment for that program to beat Notre Dame. So dichotomy of the... Yep. And so then I heard today that Northern Illinois is joining the Mountain West Conference.
00:48:27
Speaker
Northern Illinois is up in obviously I heard today. They are joining the Mountain West. I was going with you, which is different than UCLA being in the big 10. I mean, yeah, USC, UCLA, I mean, those schools are big money, big, big school. And I, and I, you as a ball state, I mean,
00:48:51
Speaker
Well, okay. So in local terms Butler was that 15 years ago. Yeah, big east. Yeah. Yeah. When they went to the big east, right? Everybody's like, what's Butler doing? I mean, Butler leapfrogged a couple conferences. Prior to that they were in the, were they in the horizon?
00:49:08
Speaker
Just the way it is now. I mean yeah, it is and it's going to keep changing. Yeah, it's going to keep physical location. Yeah You weren't saying it does I'm just reiterating that yeah, it's it's money. It's Whatever you want call it whatever conference works best for my team or my school. That's where we're going I don't care where the frick they're located and we're located and
00:49:32
Speaker
But the geographical location is how conferences work. Exactly. That's why the conferences have the names that they have. Yeah. I think for football, it's probably not a big deal because you're only playing 12 games. What eight of them are conference games at one game a week. But, but in, in basketball, that's really going to be affected. Right. Uh, more rigorous schedule. You've got 30, 28 games, however many they play in a season. That's,
00:50:02
Speaker
That's where you need to be more regional. Well, and you throw in some minor sports in there. Like I think girls volleyball plays like 30 ish games. Um, there was, we were talking about something at the bar the other day. Notre Dame is in the big 10 and hockey hockey. Yes. That's what it was. Yeah. And they're in the ACC, I think in everything else. Yeah. Got to play four ACC games in football. Right.
00:50:29
Speaker
But they keep all the, so. And there was their negotiation. Every team that won the second round, they got 14 million. 14 million. That they split with their conference. Right. Not Notre Dame. Not Notre Dame. They keep all that. I don't know what this, if you win this week, what that is. I'm gonna guess it's probably 25, Bill, would be my guess. They won Bingo, is what happened. Yes, yes. They called out B6 and Freeman was like, Bingo! Bingo!
00:50:58
Speaker
14 million to you, sir. Yeah. So yeah, excited about it. It's, uh, gonna be a fun weekend of college college and professional football. It will be, it'll be awesome. How do the Colts not make major changes? I don't get it. I mean, they get, so what, um, can, can I ask you a question here for you? Did you watch the Jags game Colts Jags? Yes. Yeah, I did. It was fucking agonizing. Yeah.
00:51:29
Speaker
Everything about, okay, first of all, again, AR doesn't play. Dump. Let's just move on from that. Can we? Yeah. I don't know if he can. Right. But it kind of needs to happen. Somebody told, I thought I heard he, um, there's a team interested in him. Not as a star. Not as a star. Let's go. Got the deal. San Francisco. Oh, that's Vegas.
00:51:48
Speaker
Yeah it was. It was agonizing.
00:51:57
Speaker
Isn't that where Garoppolo's at? Because he got hurt this year. He's a second stringer, someone. Yeah, he's the Raiders. He's the Raiders. Is it? Garoppolo's at the Raiders, I'm pretty sure. That must be who's interested. Not as a starter, though. Well, he can't be a starter.
00:52:13
Speaker
No, he's not. Yeah. For more than five consecutive games. But to keep, to keep Steichen as your head coach and to keep, uh, what's his face as your GM, uh, I don't get it. Yeah. Cause that's where the problems are. The defense is what the defense was. I mean, they had some shitty games and they had some actually fairly decent games, but instead they go, yeah, yeah, we're going to part ways with, uh,
00:52:41
Speaker
Coward my Bradley. Yeah with Gus Bradley. They they cut Gus Bradley. They cut him. Don't disagree with that decision. No at all. Correct. Don't disagree. Correct. However, I think I think move on. Let's move on.
00:52:55
Speaker
I think that was simply to pacify people because early in the season. Defense was a joke. Defense was a disaster. And I think that was the, I don't know, just something to put out there, right? So the reality is, is that
00:53:14
Speaker
Whether you want to say Gus Bradley was a problem or not is kind of hard to say because ultimately that decision to have Gus Bradley as the defensive coordinator came from. Yeah. Hire up. Why does hire up make a bad hiring decision and get to keep his job while they fire the bad hiring decision?
00:53:35
Speaker
and higher up also has repeatedly made bad decisions. Higher up was actually, so they kept Bradley before when they brought Steichen in. They basically, from what I understood, that was from Ursae. Ursae, no, we're going to keep Gus because he liked his defensive package, not giving up the big plays.
00:54:02
Speaker
So that, that's an article I read this week. They were like, that's the way Ben, but don't break. Yes. So apparently her say liked that. And so they're like, nope, we're going to keep him as, as a defensive coordinator. So it was back up the Rams, Rams. That was it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So apparently the Rams are Anthony Richardson. So yeah. Oh,
00:54:22
Speaker
meant you went to the Raiders. Yes. That's what it was. Yeah. Yeah. Forever. So anyway, but how, how you don't get rid of a frigging Bradley and Steichen. I don't get, not Brad, why did he keep saying Ballard, Ballard, Bradley, whatever. I honestly, I don't think Steichen's really the problem. He seriously does. I think Ballard's the problem. I think it's the problem. Steichen's also the issue. Steichen calls the plays, right?
00:54:51
Speaker
Yeah. Well, Jim, Bob, cooter and him, but which, come on, how's that really your name? Exactly. Exactly. Go, go by, uh, Jim. So if JBC, JBC, JBC, J cooter. So, so according to, you know, JV cooter,
00:55:09
Speaker
Unfortunately, I listen to a lot of talking heads, local talking head, radio, sports talk radio. And they have said that Steichen's the biggest part of probably, I guess Richardson and Jonathan Taylor, two of the worst missing meetings, showing up late for meetings, missing medical events where you need to go for treatments, whatever.
00:55:31
Speaker
Steichen didn't discipline. Do you really think that Richardson had a bad back the last two weeks? No, I said that when he didn't play Sunday. I was like, what are we doing here? Yeah, why are we not on the field? It's tough to discipline. He's sore.
00:55:52
Speaker
multi-million dollar bet is when his ass would be sore at my house. There's a part of him that's sore. When there's probably some directive that you have to play a person. From who? The owner? Yeah, probably. I don't know. I'm just saying. Okay. So Jim, Mersey's been around it for a long, long, long, a lot of years. Been around it for a long time. Can,
00:56:21
Speaker
Get all your words out back to this week in history. He's not a quarterback in the NFL. No, there's no amount of time next year. There's no amount of anything this dude can do that. He is an NFL quarterback. I will. That's fine. I'm going to counter that. Bring it. Okay. I would think with some work, some significant work,
00:56:46
Speaker
I mean, he could throw ball 50 yards at eight, right? He can do that. He's athletic, but he misses the 10 yard pass. Yep. How Marcus Russell could be on his knee and throw the ball 70 fucking yards. Oh, that's a good call. Most, most, most of the times I haven't seen a play where you draw it up and the quarterback's on his knee throwing the ball 70 yards. How can you throw the ball for me to you? I don't know how you can't do that. How do you improve on that?
00:57:09
Speaker
So he's been there. Steichen is allegedly quarterback whisperer. I think it goes back to the one thing that you talked about. Well, first I'll review the fact that you said he had the same stats as, uh,
00:57:24
Speaker
Josh Allen, when his rookie year, but they remind that. Yeah, there's one week he played really well. And you're like, he's comparable to Josh Allen. So that was early on. It was early on. I must have had my blue colored glasses on. You must have. You must have. I mean, I think it was after a win. But the reality is. It was the one game he played. You also said, though, I mean, you've talked about toughness and discipline and everything else.
00:57:52
Speaker
I think Richardson's biggest problem is discipline. A hundred percent. I think if he was held to a standard, just like you talk about missing meetings and all that stuff, I think if somebody got in his ass and told him, this is how it's going to go. Because if you think about it on the Colts, there's nobody on that offense with a C on their shirt that has been in that organization
00:58:21
Speaker
in that role long enough to hold him accountable. You know what I mean? You bring in Flacco who's... Ryan Kelly. Okay, but at the same time, those guys are not going to hold him accountable. I would say they should. They should. That to me screams lack of... Agreed.
00:58:40
Speaker
Team leadership. That's a hundred percent team leadership and the coach has to drive that as well as the general manager as well as the players because that comes from the top down. That's pulling those guys into the locker room and saying look I can do it or you can do it. Now it's a team and it's better when it's you guys than if it's me because if it's me it's a different conversation.
00:59:05
Speaker
No different than corporate America. Yeah, because that the higher up you go the way that conversation changes and That whole the whole meeting thing the whole being on time thing all of that stuff Comes from the other guy standing up to their guy who's supposed to be the guy They protect the guy that's getting the job done every week blah blah blah blah blah blah
00:59:29
Speaker
Be the fuck here, because we're here and you need to be here. But that starts from the top and trickles down. Real quick here, like our quarterback, AR five, he's got a C on his shirt. He's a fucking captain. I don't know how. I don't know how. How does that even happen? That's culture. That is culture. That is from the top down. That's people wanting somebody to be somebody.
00:59:57
Speaker
I would be interested to know how many second year quarterbacks earned that C. Six. You mean name them? Yeah. Because realistically, the first couple of years of a quarterback, you don't know. Dude in Washington, you're just his name. Jayden Daniels. Yeah. Stud. There's one. 100% stud.
01:00:21
Speaker
But you don't know until you're in the second or third year whether they're really that, that level, right? You don't, you just don't know. And especially if you take last year removed where he, what, two games? Five. Five games? Five. Five games and out. Not consecutive though. Yeah, but what makes him a leader? You know, what makes him a captain? Nothing. Just because he's a quarterback. Because he's under center. Who gives a shit? Come on. It started in high school, it started in college. This is, this is,
01:00:51
Speaker
This guy's not going to get any better. He was not an accurate passer in high school, not an accurate passer in college, not an accurate passer in 17 of the 30 some odd games he should have been playing. Not held to a standard of showing up on that. Nothing's going to change on that front. This is why I'm going back to Steichen on this. So as much as it hurts me to say this, if
01:01:13
Speaker
Richardson played for Belichick. You think that shit happens on his team? Look, look, go back to Tony Dungy. Tony Dungy wasn't like a hard ass, but he was a coach that I think of any coach who was successful at what they do. And, and, and they expect a certain standard. And if you don't, they, they let you know. And you're in the fucking dog house or you're on the sidelines.
01:01:39
Speaker
Right next to him, you're not playing. You can pick six not successful NFL coaches that wouldn't put up with that shot. You know what I mean? You just don't, there are things you don't put up with. But go ahead, you're not cool with that. Go ahead. I didn't know that's where you're going, but whether you're successful or not, that's just a standard. That's an expectation when you're on a team. I'm gonna tell you it's getting tougher and tougher to hold people to a standard. I'll just say that.
01:02:09
Speaker
because of the juice box generation kids that are coming up? Yeah. I'll just say in general, it's going to get worse. I'm guessing. Oh, it's only going to get worse. I mean, right. Do you hear what Nick? Well, within IL it's, it's all right. As those quote unquote kids, as they come up through the professional ranks, become millionaires prior to. Yeah. Yeah. It is only going to get worse. So I'm going to throw a positive in here with the football thing. There you go.
01:02:39
Speaker
The freaking Detroit Lions and their coach, you know how many kids are on IR on the Detroit Lions? They've got four or five. 12 on the defense. 15 total. Oh wow. 12 on the defense. And they lost arguably their best defensive player for the year, halfway through the season. And those dudes just keep rolling. That guy that got his laughed at at his press conference three years ago when he took over,
01:03:08
Speaker
Now those dudes are freaking fun to watch. Yeah He got destroyed oh, yeah He's gonna bite kneecaps or whatever you're gonna knock us down where you get back up and bite you on the way up Yep, all that Turns out in the building for an interview before they hired Frank, right? Oh
01:03:36
Speaker
That's our general manager. There's other teams that probably passed on him too. I can't imagine. If he says that at a press conference, I'm sure something in an interview, you'd be like, Oh man, that's kind of concerning. So Nick Cronin just, we were talking about, can you coach these kids, Nick Cronin, who's fairly well known NCAA basketball coach. He's now out at UCLA, which is now in the big 10.
01:04:02
Speaker
They played Nebraska last night. UCLA's decent team got beat by Nebraska, who's a decent team. Post game conference he goes, Nick Kern goes, we're soft. I can't be the toughest guy every day in practice. I can't be the toughest guy every day at the game. He goes, I cannot coach kids that are delusional.
01:04:26
Speaker
He actually said that's strong. That's calling out your team. That's calling out your team. Big time. I say that is desperate. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because I'm sure he said that a thousand, whatever. That's crazy. And that's, that's, that, I think it's your point, link. That's, I think that's where we're at. Are these kids going to be cut? Why, why did same and get out of it? I mean, well, I mean, he got out of it just like that.
01:04:49
Speaker
Yeah, and and I think you're gonna see more of that the head coach Miami basketball Same thing. He's like hey like his statement was It's okay. He almost seemed exhausted and that's almost what he said. He's like, I'm tired. I've held this thing together He's like two years ago. We were in the final four. Mm-hmm
01:05:08
Speaker
and that year after the aid of my players transferred
01:05:26
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But you still only have 1% of them that are gonna go to the NFL. So now you're gonna have- Which is why the kids chase the money in college, though. Correct, but- That's generational changing. It could be. I mean, could be. Quinn Ewers is making $3 to $4 million a year. Could be. And there's rumors that he's gonna come back next year to a different team who's going to pay him even more.
01:05:50
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So rumors can't come out yet, because he's still playing. But yeah. Because they got Arch Manning sitting behind him that's making, he's sitting behind. He's making more than the starting quarterback is. I think his last name's Manning. I get that, but still, I mean, it's just, it's nuts. Where's it going to end? That is my dream is that the Colts draft Arch Manning and Peyton becomes the GM. Peyton would want no part of that.
01:06:19
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Why would he? He's making damn good money now. Uh, if he gets to be around his nephew. Did you see where he was at all day? Did you see where he was at? I think he'd be on about that. Was he painting? No. Was he in somebody's taint? Was he debating? He was debating Manning. No, he was out of Denver. He wasn't tatting, man. He was out of Denver watching Broncos play. That's where he was at. Why wouldn't you be? Yeah.
01:06:44
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Yeah, why not? I think if he's got any chance of coming back in the NFL. It's gonna be with the Broncos not with Colts I know it does it does that'd be dumb. Okay in Utah. Are we risk? Yeah, we are. I'm confused. Well, Utah was 1896 was
01:07:03
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Long time ago. Starting in 1897. This is very episode. It's kind of crazy that you would have a gynecologist and a genealogist in Utah, but that's how our joke starts. In Utah, what is the difference between those two professions? A gynecologist, sorry, let me say it differently. First, yeah, I'll go with a genealogist first and a gynecologist second. What's the difference between those two?
01:07:33
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They're spelling. There's the obvious. They've got some similar letters. They all have the ist. Genealogist. Which I think that somebody looks at rocks. No, no, no. I know that. That's a geologist. Sorry. In Indiana, what's the difference between them?
01:07:58
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Rock doctor. Rock doctor. Rock doctor. Rock doctor. Rock doctor.
01:08:23
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What's the difference between a genealogist and a gynecologist? That was close in Utah. A genealogist traces family history. Okay. You're so close, man. Keep talking through that. Work it out in your head. And a rock doctor. And a twat doctor.
01:08:44
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Mm-hmm. Nope. Okay rock doctor a twat doctor and a tank doctor walk into the bar at 1 a.m. What did they say? difference is yes, yep Genealogist looks at the family tree Gynecologist looks at the family bush and
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01:09:38
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