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#32: Life Was Better in 2000s
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#32: Life Was Better in 2000s
What’s up people? Jessica enlightens us all about dog foster care, while Francis romanticizes NYC/West Coast life in the early 2000s. Predictive markets has become a hot topic and the house always wins - was Venezuela technically invaded? World Juniors hockey was a complete bust for Team USA and Canada but congratulations to Sweden for the win!
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Podcast Introduction
00:00:01
Speaker
go From a makeshift recording studio in Brooklyn, welcome to The Grocery Stick with Jessica and Francis. Shut the front door. That is not what we agreed upon. Francis and Jessica. Meh, ignore that.
00:00:13
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We're Brooklynites and friends. We're here to talk, laugh, commiserate, and argue about all things travel sports-related, kid-related, and plain old life-related. It's Francis and Jessica, or I quit.
00:00:23
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Shh.
Jessica's Dog Adventures
00:00:25
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If I hear jiggling, jingling. Yeah, yeah. The dog behind you. yeah yeah why is it or Why is there a jingling dog behind you? So Caesar's, ah he has tags. So he has a rabies tag on his collar. Oh, okay. And, you know, I got him a tag presumptuously. Actually, there's nothing presumptuous about it. He's living with me. He's a keeper. He a tag that has his name and has my phone number on it. Hey, hey, hey. Hey. And Eric's phone number on it. That's awesome. he's Well, he's not mine. What's a great way to start episode 32? happy way.
00:00:58
Speaker
Yeah, he still belongs to the rescue, technically, but, you know. That's awesome. i family loves him. Is this the same dog you were referring to in our last episode? Probably. where Where Eric and the family were getting attached to. Oh, no, that was the other one.
00:01:17
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And i love her. do. She didn't go back because she was beginning to go a little frantic with Mojo. Well, she drove him bananas. But moreover, she she I'm not her long-term foster. Okay. you know, she, the long and short of it is they needed a foster. i put my hand up in an emergency yeah situation. Yeah.
00:01:38
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Right. Over the course of like two days, they interviewed me, did a home tour, the whole deal. They wanted to give her to me. i needed 24 hours just to get my stuff together so that I had a space for her to be. That's right. And in the interim, they gave her to somebody else. And so she's been with a different person. was she found a home. That's good.
00:01:55
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But she, no, it's a still a foster situation. It's foster Yeah, so she, um when she comes here to visit, you know, my family, like, loves her. We love her. Yeah. She drives Mojo a
Challenges in Dog Adoption
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little bit bananas. How do dogs react that to that, you think?
00:02:09
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Being bumped around? Well, they never... Not ideal, but better than nothing. Well, it's certainly better than being in a shelter and it's certainly better than being dead. Right. So, absolutely you know, um I think when they get bounced around from home to home, that way there's a ah feeling of instability and insecurity. And so they never really quite relax.
00:02:29
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yeah There's something called a 3-3-3 rule in dog rescue. It's like three days to decompress, three weeks to understand routines, and then within three months, you'll really understand who they are as dogs. They come out of their shell and they get relaxed. like that. 3-3-3 rule.
00:02:44
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Yeah. That's awesome. And so people, you know, a lot of people don't know that rule. And so, you know, they adopt a dog from a shelter and within 24 hours they're like, because it's bad fit, bad fit, bad fit. And they bring the dog back and return the dog to the shelter. Okay. um You know, because everybody lives in a society that has this immediate gratification now.
00:03:05
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And oh yo nobody wants to give anything anytime anymore. Everything needs to be instant. you know oh i'm gonna rescue you and you're gonna be the best dog like right away because i gave you a home you know nobody works that way not people don't work that way no um like adopting kids exactly exactly but i have i have a guy at my house right now uh came up from georgia okay wow long yeah southern dog Yeah, well, you know, I'm networked with a bunch of different rescues all over the
Rescue Stories
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country. And one of them is Gwinnett, Georgia. Okay.
00:03:42
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Gwinnett County. And so there's this woman, Grace, that you know I've been in contact with, and she posted ah the need for a foster for two Labradors.
00:03:56
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Yeah. Immediate emergency, right? They were both ah evidence, live evidence in a court case. Okay. Yeah. In cruelty case. Oh. um They were both kenneled in shelter for 15 months as evidence.
00:04:11
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Yeah. Which means they didn't get any exercise. They don't go to the dog yard. Right. you know They maybe get an hour out, you know, a week maybe because they're evidence. Right. So you protect the integrity of the evidence. Yeah. for The prosecution.
00:04:25
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um And basically, the when he was found, his body score was a one out of nine, which is oh my god on death's door. yeah stars Starved practically to death.
00:04:38
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um So the case ends. I have no idea what the result was of the case itself. But the case ends and the judge releases him as evidence and the other dog. And the shelter then tells the people that have been working with them that they're giving them 48 hours to find rescue. Okay, so clearly the person lost the case because otherwise if you win the case, the dog goes back to you. No, no, no, no, no. Not in
Veterinary Care for Rescued Dogs
00:05:05
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that kind of... Oh, no matter what. No, no, no. The dog would never go back to a filthy case like that where he basically starved the dog. He or she starved the dog practically to death.
00:05:13
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And the other one um they believe was heavily sexually assaulted, actually. And this is... oo and yeah I didn't want to get into that. No, we won't. We won't. I'm just saying, but i'm just saying like if you have a dog who's in in a shelter care for life evidence, you don't give them. They never go back.
00:05:31
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The shelter would sooner euthanize them than send them back. This is not the dog... you posted on Instagram about like, we can need to find this dog, that other thing. No, that's different one. That one's still missing.
00:05:43
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Yeah. In action. Trying to find. Yeah. Okay. This one, this, this guy, he, um, so I put my hand up basically. They were like, we need an emergency. And I was blessed. We need more people in the world. Like you. so Thank you Thank you for doing you and your family. That's not, I know it's not easy. It is not easy. There's a lot of disruption.
00:05:59
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you have a, Or do you have Mojo already? God bless Mojo too for playing Yeah, he's a good boy. He's such a good boy. That's awesome. Yeah. and Yeah, yeah. So basically, you know, i they I said to their, I was like, I'm in New York. If you can transport them to me, I'll take them. Right. I said, I can't take both. I could take one.
00:06:18
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Right. so they arranged transport and there was a network. It was like the Underground Railroad and ah car to car. I love that. Yeah, they they drove him up. It's like bootlegging alcohol back in the Prohibition, but you're bootlegging dogs around the country. For real. Totally true. Good for you. good for all Thank you to all the people out there who participated in transporting this dog to Jessica.
00:06:38
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That's awesome. and And to all the fosters who raised their hands because it isn't easy. and you know it It's a very transient lifestyle, which you know people don't like. They like stability.
00:06:49
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Transient. I mean, it's your cost. Yeah. No one's helping you pay for food and whatever else, right? The rescue who pulls him, they're supposed to pay for the for the essentials like food, vet care. okay now like i mean, i you know i don't get hung Food, whatever, right? But what you don't want is medical costs because those things skyrocket. Right. and And I have a feeling that this guy is going to have some high medical cost. Yeah. um Yeah. He's got some lumps and bumps on him. I bet, you know, like I told you, my vet stopped by this morning because, you know, he hasn't been vetted. He's been here for a little while and ah he just looked at the lumps and bumps and he was like, yeah, we should really aspirate that. By the way, I didn't even know that did house calls.
00:07:31
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but My vet does. my vt holy shit yeah My vet is a home vet and he does not have a brick and mortar office. So he, um his, you know, all of his stuff, he works out of his house. So concierge medicine yeah for pets. Oh yeah. He's, and he is, he must be busy. I bet you he's busy. He is busy, but he's the best. Yeah. I mean, i've I've known vets all my life. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, and he is the best. He saved Mojo's life while we were Iceland. missed your calling as vet. Yeah. And people tell
Career Reflections
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me that all the time. They tell me that I missed calling as a vet and I missed my calling as a doctor. It's too late. You know, I'd make a great lawyer. How be a vet?
00:08:10
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I was actually supposed to go to law school and I had my acceptance letter. who was sitting at my table and I had to make my deposit yeah and I could not write the check. I did yeah not want to be a lawyer.
00:08:21
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I just did not want to be a lawyer. And so I didn't write the check. I mean, in retrospect, I probably should have just did it because i could have used it for a million other things. But at the time I didn't have that realization. so And so here we Now I foster dogs. Yeah.
00:08:36
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I shouldn't say this. The law thing. It's funny. i was I was walking around like, you know, every time i meet a hockey kid who's slightly problematic, especially yeah especially at prep school, one of their parents is a lawyer. Yeah, I'm not surprised.
00:08:53
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no One of their parents is a lawyer and every time their kid gets in trouble, it's not their fault. It's like they pull out the lawsuit threat. Hey. Right. And then whoever gets slipped on the carpet and move on, like, hey, this kid never learns. like, hmm.
00:09:06
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Yeah. i You know, I think that at some point I, you know, I just looked at it and thought, you know what, I don't want to be a part of this litigious society that's been created.
00:09:16
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it's yeah then It's just not something, you know what it is? Yeah, but you know, in hindsight. It's not happy work. it's Yeah, it's funny, right? I mean, okay, so it could be, right? Because you could, I mean.
00:09:29
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If you're suing people all the time, obviously it's not very happy work. Okay, and divorce work not work. But you contracts, real estate law. Yeah, I would guess real estate law, if you know if you did it congruously with you know your real estate license, it could be lucrative and it could yeah maybe be fun if that's what you love, right? Financial planning,
00:09:49
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Yeah, I mean. Anyways. Yeah, I don't know. you didn't because then we wouldn't have met. So here we are. You know what? We probably still would have met. Are you suing me for something? No, I'm thinking the hockey the hockey piece yeah hockeys hockey still would have linked. Although i don't know if i you know if I went to law school where you know in California, which is where I was going to law school.
00:10:11
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I don't know that I would have back. So I have no idea. Yeah. I don't know about that. I didn't love living in California though, but it also, it was, yeah, it was in my twenties and I didn't have kids and I didn't know anybody. Like I moved out there, not having any friends or knowing anybody there. So it was a really hard social construct for me.
00:10:31
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Oh, okay. I spent a lot alone. I was just talking to, um a neighbor this morning who's from the West Coast. And i was just telling her, like oh she's a much younger than us. I was like, man, you know, like New York in the early to mid two thousand which is probably similar to the West Coast, LA, sort of before the great the the global financial crisis and i whatever, and sorry to all my friends, before the lefties took over, yeah really took go over and became
Technology and Society
00:11:03
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self-righteous. I'm like, you know, and maybe we're just old, right? But there's like this romanticized, I think, almost golden era-like version
00:11:15
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And I, you know, I'm from the West Coast, that you where you grow up and it's like, wow, it's awesome. As a young person, you go there, things are happening, you know, on the West Coast. In Vancouver, people are making movies. Yeah. People are happy.
00:11:28
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You live your life. ah It's hard to explain. I've seen several posts about this. But anyways, and and now, it was just like, yeah, it was just like a time where you could, I guess the sky's the limit, potential everywhere.
00:11:44
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But it was there was a feel-good moment right from that early 2000s era that doesn't exist anymore. Now you go to these cities and it's like there's bums, there's high crimes, people smoking pot everywhere, blah, blah, blah. It's everybody's unhappy and angry. The left coast has become very self-righteous. And sanctimonious.
00:12:05
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Yeah, and so it's not even fun anymore. Like you can't you can't go out, have fun, enjoy your life, be cool. And now it's just like everyone's got a camera in your face trying to like capture you doing something stupid and cancel you. Well, I mean, you know, so here's here's a thought, right? So when you distill all of that down to you know, one basic thing, I think it's distilled down to control.
00:12:31
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Everybody wants to control everybody else. Everybody wants to control the narrative. Everybody wants to control the news. Everybody wants to control, control, control. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. right If someone didn't want to control what you're doing or how your outcome is, they wouldn't record you randomly in the street. Yeah. like It's all about control. Yeah.
00:12:49
Speaker
And it's stupid. Should we blame, should we be like angry old people and blame smartphones? Because that's 2007. Well. The birth of the iPhone. Yeah, know. And then everything kind of goes downhill from there. holy shit. Yeah, I think, you know what, I think that a lot of things can be attributed to the birth of smartphones and social media. Ooh.
00:13:07
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um You know, the dissemination of information and the dissemination of propaganda is so easy. Now with AI, people don't know what's real. They don't know what's not real anymore. Yeah. um You know, with social networking, you know, it started out as this, oh, my God, I could be connected. i have connectivity to all the people that I don't know all the time.
00:13:26
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But that's also devolved into a very ah negative space with a lot of online bullying. Yeah. Yeah. Just people like, you know, you would never say the things to my face that you would say to me online. Oh, God. That's like the best. Right. Writing hate and everything. And they see you. Hey, Jessica, what's happening? That's exactly it's what are talking about? Right. And online, you're the angriest, shittiest person.
00:13:50
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Right. and And effectively, really, what that does is it makes everybody completely full of shit. Right. Yeah. Agreed. Everybody's full of shit. Like if if you have something to say to me and you think that you would write it to me on some social media post, you should be able to say that exact thing verbatim to my face and stand with it with conviction. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like have a conviction behind it. Like if you think I'm a fucking asshole, you should be able to say that to my face. Yeah.
00:14:15
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Yeah. With conviction. Yeah. People don't do that. Instead, they write it online and then they see you and they smile and they grin fuck you. And they're like, oh hi, it's so good to see you. yeah And then you go on your way and they grumble about what an asshole you are. like Yeah. Yeah. yeah Yeah.
00:14:32
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It's so disingenuous. like Totally. The connectivity that people have, it is so, it's wonderfully disingenuous. Yeah. Because the concept of it is so great and the reality of it is so dour.
00:14:46
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Indeed. I would agree with that. So the internet is evil. Well, the internet is great for information if you use it for good. god Everything else in, I think,
00:14:58
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human-wise technology, everything starts off with the best intentions. And then somehow humans manage to make it for like nefarious purposes. Right. Because really, we're the scourge of the earth. We're the only ones who have like this you know higher level of consciousness where we make these choices. And they're not instinctive. They're literally choices.
Ethics in Betting and Markets
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i Over the holiday break, I introduced my kids to... um these this new concepts of predictive markets. I don't know if you know this. Kalshi's been advertising that crazy. i think Polymarket is another one. Fanatics is trying to get into it.
00:15:33
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But it's a derivative. What is that? Kalshi? What is it? Kalshi, yeah. It's a derivative. Okay, so take the betting aside. But essentially, it's your crowdsourcing
00:15:48
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thats information. crowdsourcing information at its at its core. You're thinking that that people have the inside track on a lot of information. Okay.
00:15:59
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And then you see throw it up. But like basic things like the weather, right? but anything Politics, economic data, company earnings. Okay. Of course there's sports in there, but but you you're essentially saying that you could crowdsource the accurate outcome of a situation.
00:16:19
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Now you throw in money, because obviously money puts your money where your mouth is. right If people start betting on these outcomes, that eventually you'll get the right outcome because of money being involved.
00:16:32
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and of And of course you get upsets here and there, but in general, it's conceptually it's very good, I think. But once you throw money into it and people betting, the the thing I have a problem with is that people are allowed to bet on the harm of others. Sure. That's nefarious. Again, which is like human, like you can bet on happy things. Like, is it going to rain today or not going to rain today? Right. Is it, right is, you know, okay, sure. Is someone, some team going to win this border? But then it gets down to like, even political stuff.
00:17:00
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So it came up because right because Maduro being arrested, there's this's one thing called Polymarket, I think, which is a little bit odd place because I think most people are anonymous on that site and using crypto to place their bets. But somebody somebody had placed, I think, $10,000 worth of bets when the bet the the outcomes were unknown. So they priced in cents. I think it was like one cent or 10 cents per contract.
00:17:31
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if you think of a contract, it pays out a dollar. If you win, it pays out a dollar. So this person paid 10 cents, which is a 10% probability. But it was like Maduro being captured or I think Venezuela being invaded or something like right?
00:17:43
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And so then the next morning, like Maduro gets kidnapped or whatever you want to call it, brought to the US. So this person turns 10 grand into like 400,000, right? It pays out. Okay, but but I just saw article saying that Polymarket The house always wins, right? Polymarket. the debt was What is the definition of Venezuela being invaded?
00:18:04
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Is it an outright war? Is it capture of the president? I don't know. Well, I think invasion is armies on shores. I i know. So now an argument over like, we're not paying you because Venezuela wasn't invaded.
00:18:19
Speaker
We just kidnapped their president. I'm like, I don't know, dude. You killed 72 people to get to him. yeah that Sounds like an invasion to me. See, I don't think that's an invasion. I think that's an operation. and And I think that an invasion, you know, historically, now, of course, definitions change all the time because people change them, right? yeah But, you know, in in the World Wars, let's start with, the invasions were by land, sea, air.
00:18:47
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Right. Right. And and and mass, no but you got not ah not a Not a unit of, of you know, 10 people. If you think about, I think, what did say? 150 different aircraft, naval ships. I mean, they it looks like a war. you've You've amassed a whole bunch of military equipment off the shore of the country. You come in, you kidnap, the you extract or rendition the president and his wife.
00:19:17
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Right. Well, okay. I'm going to interrupt. That sounds like an invasion. If you take the concept of having, you know, vessels offshore, then you can accuse so many other countries also of potential invasion invasion. No, but I mean, you know, we're not talking like, we're not talking few submarines underground hiding. We're talking about like, there's a clear and present, your presence offshore of a country is clear. If you had If you had, i mean, and okay, maybe I'll put it this way. If we had 150 naval ships, Russian ships, in the harbor, in the New York Harbor.
00:19:58
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Right. Okay. All right. and And they're just sitting there. like you were anne that And then they come in and they kidnap Mamdani. They kidnap the mayor and his wife. yeah And they take him to Russia for to face charges. Let's just say whatever, right?
00:20:13
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Yeah. ah That's invasion. They came in the middle of the night. They grabbed a political leader. They took him away. They had to kill 72 people. I think that's an invasion. I'll give you invasion. I'll give you invasion. It's not a war. But they definitely... Okay, then what's the difference in that particular circumstance with Maduro with kidnap versus apprehension?
00:20:37
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and because I'll tell you the difference. Because if Maduro is traveling to the U.S., for the UN and you grab him on your soil because of charges, that's an arrest. It's like Interpol, right? You go to a country with extradition treaty, you get nabbed at the airport, right? But we went to their country. I'm not saying it's wrong, by the way. People get mad at me. I'm not saying it's wrong. yeah no other bit But in the cover of darkness, military...
00:21:08
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enters the country unsanctioned. You wouldn't allow it. You didn't cross. You he didn't go to the airport and you cross through immigration. that Hey, come on in. It was like you enter the airspace. You jam their radar signals so that they didn't can't tell there.
00:21:22
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You shoot 72 guards or whatever en route to grabbing the guy before he runs into the safe room. And then you extract them and you bring them into the US. That sounds like an invasion. Anyways. Yeah. More importantly, I was like, the house always wins.
00:21:34
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The poly market should pay. it inside information? Of course the person who bet on that had inside information. Think about that a second, right? Obviously. Well, that was my face when you first said it. I was like, seriously? I know. It's like somebody on the inside bet on that, right? That's just coincidental. I mean, right? Like you just happened to pull Venezuela and Maduro out of your butt to bet on the following day.
00:21:59
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But to bet. this an any So I introduce my kids to it because I want them to understand data science, technology, not so much the betting aspect of it, but just the you know the future of for our kids and employment after college and hockey and everything else. It's like, you're in the real world with AI and all the technology out there.
00:22:20
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he kind of need to understand how data science is being used to... to derive outcomes right and and operate in the world, right? yeah So that's why I introduced it to them.
00:22:32
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but then then But then the natural question is, hey, hey so who's who gets to sit there and create the contract? Like who is there throwing up a question saying, will Maduro or will Venezuela be invaded by whatever, January, middle of January, end of the month?
00:22:52
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Yes or no. Like someone has to sit there and create that contract, throw it up on the website. People have to be looking for it and then make those bets. Yeah. Yeah. so on all sides to me, it's like it's an inside job.
00:23:08
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Right. Because that's not so. I don't think it is such common knowledge as opposed to like what let's bet in the weather. Let's bet on.
00:23:19
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how many times an important person says the word blank, right, in their speech. That's that's just different, fun, trivia stuff. This is like betting on the harm of people.
00:23:32
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Yeah.
Apps as Banks Explained
00:23:33
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Yeah. I don't, I mean, I don't, yeah, I don't like that either. It's interesting, but Fanatics is getting into it, I think, obviously from the sports angle. And so these these prediction market apps are getting around this,
00:23:47
Speaker
traditional gambling laws. Yeah. Because they're, you know, like all things technology, well, we're not gambling. We're predictive markets. Right. And we're using money as a way to gauge confidence in an outcome.
00:24:02
Speaker
That's just. It's not betting. It's betting. Of course it's betting. just It's like I said, it's just redefining a definition. It's it's rewording it. It's it's it's rewriting language. I know. so so So same thing, right? same Same concept, you know, outside of New York, for example, some big cities, but it's like Uber comes in, nobody needs a TLC license or a taxi license. You have a car, you have the app, you can pick up people and then you have problems and then you have the license. So it's the same thing like, hey, we're not betting, but at some point there's going so much money involved. Yeah.
00:24:32
Speaker
The government's definitely coming in and saying, hey, this is betting. Yeah, for sure. and it's ah And, you know, you need licenses for that. And I think even beyond that, I teach my kids that all these companies, whether it's Starbucks or with the app or these prediction markets, any app that makes you download or deposit money.
00:24:55
Speaker
Yeah. It's basically a bank. Yes. And again, not following the banking rules. So CalShit will pay you 3.25% on your cash balances.
00:25:06
Speaker
That's even more like a bank. Right. Because they're using your money and they're paying you interest. Right. Whereas like Starbucks... You got to a little money on the app. They don't even pay you interest. No, they're just holding cash. And they're earning interest on your money in the bank. So it's even more egregious where any, which is why I hate that New York City parking app because they make you deposit money to you. hate it. Why can't you just charge me because every time I park? Because the city's criminal because they're total fucking criminal. like Yeah.
00:25:37
Speaker
Why don't you just let me do my fucking Apple Pay every time I want to pay for something? Same thing, deposit money. bla but but but bla but Everything, everything, everything, deposit money. All these non-bank banks exist.
00:25:51
Speaker
ah Well, you know why they do it. You know why they do it, right? they Specifically like EasyPass in particular. They do it because if they allow you to incur charges, people don't pay.
00:26:03
Speaker
Right. no definite yeah Exactly. right The thing about Starbucks is you don't need to bank $25 in my app. yeah Just let me Apple Pay every single time I order something just like Seamless or just like any other app where it's a one-time, one-off transaction. Agreed.
00:26:19
Speaker
Well, some math geek on at the company is going to say to you, well, but we give you rewards. We give you two to one rewards if you put money in versus charge your credit card, which we allow you And then there's an imputed cost. So we're not paying you interest directly, but we're implying some form return on your money because you get free shit. The business arguments. But people like me, right? I make my coffee at home every day. The only time that I really go and get Starbucks is if I'm at hockey or volleyball on a tournament, you know, out of town, Or once a year, holiday time, I will go to a Starbucks in the city or here, whatever, and get a peppermint chocolate mocha. It's like the one bullshit drink I drink literally one time a year. But outside of that experience, I don't buy Starbucks that much. So for them to bank, 25 bucks every single time I want to go buy a coffee. I used to go a lot.
00:27:17
Speaker
i used to go a lot. But you know me, black coffee. Black coffee, black coffee, black coffee. So it's like... Same. Then I can be like, you know That's stupid. Just go to the neighborhood joint. Just buy it. And I stopped long time ago putting money into the Starbucks app and just charging my, ah they can there's an option to just charge your credit card yeah instead of instead of depositing money. yeah But of course you get half the points. I don't care about the points. I don't care about the free drink. like I just want to get my coffee and go. And you don't use it enough to get points.
00:27:44
Speaker
even when I had it I don't I don't pay attention to it I'm like yeah and it's my bad you just you know again teaching my kids all these different company models that ask you to deposit money it was kind of genius like you earn money on from someone else's money we fall for it you do have to have a base product that's attractive enough for me to want to put money in right for example as as opposed to like utilities like parking and and easy pass where they just get you no matter what, right? You're out of options. Yeah, you don't have choice about that. But so anyway, so i just, you know, it's a good case studies for younger kids to understand as they come into the world and work because ai as we know, is stealing all these basic
AI and Its Impact on Jobs
00:28:27
Speaker
entry-level jobs. So if you don't know how to use the ai or come up ideas like this,
00:28:32
Speaker
ah you're going have a tough time finding work in the future, in the next 10, 20 years. It's really hard. Yeah. it's really hard. Yeah, I know. I believe it. I believe it. Yeah, I see i see ads for Calci all the time. yeah. They're so aggressive. You know, but specifically, like, advertise the one that shows betting on the weather in the morning. And I'm just like, honestly, like i have no interest in in doing that. yeah Okay, so I'm testing it out. I bet ah yesterday
00:29:02
Speaker
on the next government shut down will the government shut down again the end of the month i was like hell yes yeah of course they will and so but but And obviously I'm late to the game because all these contracts started at some point for a penny. Right. Whatever it is. i I think I bought, I think I paid 24 cents. Okay. For that $1 payout. So that's a 20. So it's basically telling you 24.
00:29:26
Speaker
The market is saying 24% probability that the government shuts down again. Yeah. At the next deadline, which just end of January. yeah.
00:29:38
Speaker
A day later, um' it's flat. I also made simultaneously a bet yesterday that the U.S. would... Here, it's not technicality. That the U.S. would take a part of Greenland.
00:29:54
Speaker
Yeah. Fucking Greenland. Take a piece of Greenland. Sorry, not a part. Take a piece of Greenland. I know what technicality answer is yes. But again, like I paid... must have paid like...
00:30:07
Speaker
33 cents or something like that. I'm up 5% today. Wow. but Okay. I mean, it's just newsflip. And to me, it's more of a joke. It's I don't think we're taking any part of it, but screw it. If there's rhetoric around it and it grows to 50 cents, I'm out.
00:30:21
Speaker
And I take my 20 cents and run to the hills. But, uh, It's it interesting that all that stuff is up and running on these predictive markets. yeah but you know it just It cheapens everything that's going on. yeah Everything becomes a joke. It becomes father. Nothing's serious then. like you know that's like you know i recently um you know had a so i have breast mammograms you know and and and MRIs every six months because I had breast cancer.
00:30:50
Speaker
And stage one B, like it was, you know, easy treatment, no, whatever, very early, but they monitor me closely for a couple of things. And I had my MRI like last week or whatever. And they were like, okay, we see something that is, you know, by RADS four, which is highly suspicious of cancer. Okay.
00:31:11
Speaker
Like okay a new cancer. like early yeah Yeah. Yeah. So the first time I had breast cancer was left side. This was on the right side. Okay. Okay. And you know what? Like you could totally, I would have bet, I would have bet money that it was.
00:31:25
Speaker
So I to go for a breast and MRI guided biopsy, right? I would have bet money that it was. So like on CalShe, right? yeah a Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bet that it was. right But it wasn't. And it would it would have it cheapens the experience. It cheapens yeah yeah and makes a mockery of... Well, that's my point. like you can't You really should be betting on big picture, fun, quote unquote, stuff. not right but Not on people's health outcomes, not on invasions and attacks and all this kind of weird shit, annexing a country. Like, come on, really? It just makes everything into a joke. Yeah.
00:31:58
Speaker
You know how it devolves very quickly, right? It's the insider thing. So like, hey, guys, we can make a lot of money creating havoc somewhere. Right. Attacking somebody, attacking a country, attacking a person.
00:32:12
Speaker
Say we're going to do it. Almost do it. Make our own bet. Cash out. Then don't do it. or Or do it. I mean, I don't know. what but But like those outcomes... It almost becomes self-fulfilling when there's too much money involved, right? all right.
00:32:26
Speaker
Anyway, so. yeah just I just hate ah the the overall cheapening of yeah of life experiences. g Agreed. Agreed. And again, you know, that it's it's very dehumanizing.
00:32:37
Speaker
Yeah. Of, of ever you know, all across the board, right? Because now you've made, you've you've so Maduro, like I'm no fan of Maduro. like Yeah, yeah. You know, fine. Yeah. um But now what they've done by placing these bets is they've dehumanized him. Like he's no longer a person. i know like He's a bad person.
00:32:54
Speaker
He's a terrible person. But now he's no longer a person. He's just a commodity. yeah Which is weird. People, i mean, we're not sticking our heads in the sand. So it's technology. People go look at it. Kalshi, Polymarkets, Fanatics at some point. There's going to be more. lot of people are getting involved in it. It's there to stay.
00:33:11
Speaker
i can't see it being shut down. So like crypto, people need to learn about it, how to use it. It's just weird to me. Or just be an outside observer. Or don't participate. Right. Don't participate.
00:33:24
Speaker
you know Know that it exists. you know Even existentially, it's there. But like you don't need to be a participant in it. Yeah. Okay.
World Junior Hockey Tournament Recap
00:33:31
Speaker
Let's switch to World Junior Hockey. Can't ignore that.
00:33:35
Speaker
Hockey is such a big part of our lives. You're laughing. i'm kind of laughing. People are... am laughing. People in America who didn't even make... We said goodbye early, thanks to Finland. And then the Canadians couldn't even get their butts out of the, what was it? Was it the semifinal or the quarterfinal?
00:33:53
Speaker
Yeah. To Sweden. Anyways, major upsets. Canada, US, not in the medals. Oh, Canada won the bronze in the end because they beat Finland. And Sweden won the gold.
00:34:05
Speaker
And is it Chechia or Czechia? Chechia. Congratulations to them. But like, hey, I mean, i think Chechia has beaten Canada three times in middle rounds in the last three years. Yeah.
00:34:22
Speaker
Of course, the U.S. won gold last year. But ah you know he's a small these are much smaller nations yeah with ah with a smaller amount of talent. to And it's whatever, hard work, grit, determination.
00:34:35
Speaker
and They deserve those wins because they earned them. And I don't know if it's the ego of America and the u and Canada in terms of hockey that they think they just kind of waltz in yeah and beat the shit out everybody didn' win their medals.
00:34:53
Speaker
ah But on the heels of that, right On the heels of that, you and I as as hockey parents, on the heels of that, the critics are saying, listen, the number of registrations in Canada, for sure, I'm sure it's the same in America, which are falling at the youth level, yeah ah is the source of the so-called lack of talent, lack of drive, lack of resilience in the hockey world. And and sure, like you and I both know, we're on the cusp of it. It's probably only going to get it only getting get worse.
00:35:26
Speaker
the commercialization of youth hockey, right? Everything from from from, I mean, it's funny, right? From five years old, six years old, it's a business.
00:35:39
Speaker
Well, yeah, I mean, and and primarily it's a business. And I mean, okay, let's think about all the sports out there, right? You have the racket sports, you have golf, you've always, we'd be hard pressed to find another sport That is so expensive, right?
00:35:57
Speaker
What am I missing? yeah Maybe horses, if you ride. Yeah, definitely horses are more expensive. It's a different, but that's a different kind of sport also. There's ah there's much more longevity. It's not a team sport. Right, but there's a longevity to that. People who ride horses ride for the for their lives. there's no college sport.
00:36:14
Speaker
you know and and there's no there's no there's no college I think there is. Is there path riding horses? But it's Olympic. I don't, i don't you know, so there's Olympic. There might be college. I don't actually know. i think college sports in America ultimately...
00:36:38
Speaker
drives the entire commercialization of youth sports right because once again there's money involved scholarships money potentially pro careers for certain sports like basketball football and hockey right not much not and not not anything else really um um So, yes.
The Cost of Youth Hockey
00:36:59
Speaker
now but for So for the non-hockey friends. oh Yeah, go ahead. Wait, wait, wait.
00:37:04
Speaker
National Collegiate Equestrian Association. NCAA Equestrian Schools. Oh, okay. So it does exist. So it's like Auburn, Baylor, Barrie. Bridgewater, Brown. Do they get D1, D3 categories? I've never heard of them. They do. They get D1, D3 categories. ok so the so ball Dartmouth, Cornell, College of Charleston, Delaware State, Fresno. But we know from our earlier episodes. when we're dividing up the money, it's football, basketball, hockey. Totally. Totally. But I actually, I didn't realize that it was actually like an NCAA thing. Yeah. yeah and you to be yeah um So it does exist.
00:37:42
Speaker
But we do the math as parents and you just say, okay, so for the non-hockey people, friends we have, ah and they have, they all have kids doing different sports. um Okay.
00:37:55
Speaker
You're out for a typical sort of like 10 to 12 year old. You're out $600 to $1,000 a year for skates. Yeah.
00:38:06
Speaker
Those skates have interchangeable blades. Again, we know kids who have one set, which is kind of suicidal, I think, if you're not fussy. You can have one set. All the way to kids who have like 10 or 12 sets. Yeah. Like it's somewhere in the middle. Those blades are $200 pair.
00:38:23
Speaker
And the newer Bauer ones break pretty easily, actually. Right. And then, right, we've broken couple of that. and then yeah And then, and you see it on actually funny, you see it on TV now, NHL, like so many guys now, like do that the the blade pops out or breaks and they're like trying to crawl back to the bench, right? yeah That's never happened before. It's a recent phenomenon, right? right And so that's 200 bucks each.
00:38:43
Speaker
You got to pay 20 bucks to sharpen them. They probably last two or three games or practices. Yeah. Well, so it also depends on the age group, right? The older you get, the tougher they are on the skates, the more pressure from their weight they put in to the you know to the hollow on the ice. And so you know the younger kids, they don't have their shades sharpened quite as frequently. Sure.
00:39:06
Speaker
Okay. And the risk breakage is actually less too for the same reasons. and But say know then sticks are $200 to $400 a piece at the youth level. i don't know how many kid sticks your kid breaks a year. Oh, my God. So much. So a lot now that he's older.
00:39:23
Speaker
Yeah. I think mine goes to, let's just say, maybe we average out between like 8 18, 10 years sure worth of breaking sticks. You know, my kid probably goes to 3 4 a season.
00:39:34
Speaker
Yeah, i would I would argue that mine has already broken four Yeah, I know playing who have broken three in one game. That's a few thousand dollars more. Maybe five sticks he broke.
00:39:47
Speaker
Yeah. Right? Yeah, he just broke one last night of practice. Oh, there you go. You're hitting a real sore point for me right now. Ah, listen. Every time we're in the stands and a kid breaks a stick, doesn't matter which side of the vet, every parent goes, ooh.
00:39:59
Speaker
That's pretty funny. I know. all the parents on both sides and go, oh, ouch, whose kid is that? That's 400 bucks down the team right there. Right there. Totally. Totally. And that's just the equipment, right?
00:40:14
Speaker
and then And then the team fees, which really... I mean, even our kids at at the at the basic AA youth level, we paid like five grand for team fee.
00:40:26
Speaker
I don't remember. was a lot less than AAA. AAA was like... Oh, AAA didn't. It's like 10, 12. They're trying to take you before the flying in the hotels and everything else. Yeah, there's a team. It's 14. Yeah.
00:40:40
Speaker
yeah Wow. 14? Mm-hmm.
00:40:43
Speaker
At least it was last year when I checked. Yeah. So I mean. $14,000 for the season. Let's say. so Oh, So at a if your kid is to old and playing serious youth hockey.
00:40:57
Speaker
We're blowing like 30 grand a year. I think, I feel like some of the Cyclone's parents at one point did this math on one of our seasons. And i think they got a number that was like $40,000 all in yeah between the organization, the the equipment, sticks.
00:41:16
Speaker
um It was gas, tolls, hotels, food. So many ancillary costs. At that travel point, we didn't fly, so there was you know there wasn't that expense. yeah But then you also have to take in all the lessons, the skating, yep right like you know extra practice fees you know when they were able to get extra ice. Well, and it's all year round now. Yeah.
00:41:42
Speaker
Did that $40,000 include private lessons in the summer? Not in the summer, no. It was literally just the season itself, which makes it even worse because it was from the end of August until March.
00:41:54
Speaker
Okay, and then from March to like August, we're playing spring tournaments, summer tournaments. right That's right. We're getting sucked into the college camps, exposure camps. That's right. Five to 800 bucks a piece. That's right. You impute the time value for one parent to go with the kid every time.
00:42:13
Speaker
I mean, it's and also okay. Yeah, and up until my kid was 16, he went to hockey sleepaway camp for three weeks in July. why i Right, right. And so... Yeah, which, you know, was like his home away from home. Why do people... Why why are people shocked? There are videos of parents getting into a fucking fights. They're so high-strung. Oh, did you see that? Was it Clanko that posted that one yesterday? there's like every week. Yeah, every week there's a new one. Like there was a mom who walked up to the to the guy sitting down and pointed at his face. He was like, sit the fuck down and shut your fucking mouth or something like that. Right. So you throw in like your high-strung parent, your you're working class, whatever else it is, and you're you're struggling to pay this 40 grand for whatever freaking outcome you think is going happen. We talked about it before. like yeah You don't do this at the youth level thinking your kid's going have a payout. like like You just do it because you love the sport. Right.
00:43:02
Speaker
You know, that they're high, strong. And then you throw into the fact that at, what, 12, 13, hockey is a physical sport. people Kids are starting to hit each other. Fight. There's intent to injure. There's fighting. There's you know that's a whole thing. Oh, you could hit my kid. like And people take personal offense. You throw that into it, into the mix. And of course, there's parents angry and fighting all the time. yeah And that's part of the reason why I used to film. Because when you film,
00:43:31
Speaker
Yeah. People tend to stay away from you and it won't get into fights with you because they don't want to be on camera. That's right. Right. Fine. Right. Or stand in the corner, not up in the stands where people get go ape shit. And that was me. Right.
00:43:44
Speaker
Right. but That was me. Stand in the corner. And oftentimes I would put my AirPods in. If I was standing by myself, I'd have my AirPods in and the volume on what I was listening to would be just high enough to drown out all the people, but just low enough for me to be able to hear the whistles. Right. Right. Right. It's like it was like this area of expertise that I ended up having to foster because I would get into fights with people yeah because they would come at me or they would see something and I would just turn around and look at them like with this look on my face like what the fuck is wrong with you? Yeah. Then they would come at me again. And it's just like, OK, there was a you remember the the lady Islanders game.
00:44:22
Speaker
Do you know that when in... Because we were eight and they were fighting. Well, because there was... So they were fighting already, but there was a dad. There was a dad in the stands, a Lady Islander's dad, who, like, came after me. And I didn't even do anything. Oh, really? Oh, shit. Oh, yeah. I was standing with Daniela. Oh, my God. That's crazy. And I hadn't even done anything. Like, I was talking to somebody else. I turned around and I was talking to somebody else. And he was, like, eavesdropping or whatever. And I wasn't saying anything anything anything disparagingly about the game. Right, right, right, right. I was talking about something completely different. Yeah. And he what he came at me. Yeah, looking for a fight, looking to be offended. I've met friends who are like that. was like, dude, take a chill pill. like if someone's talking I've heard people talk about it about my kid on the ice. Yeah, I hate that. different count That's the kind of stuff that I'm like, you know what? Stop.
00:45:07
Speaker
But we're adults. I mean, you we're adults. Right. People say shit all time. You tell me you can't ignore that. Like, whatever, man. Like people. Yeah. the negativity. It's like you just got to walk away. Yeah. Ignore it. What are you going to a fight with a parent because they said something bad about your kid. I mean, whatever. Well, you know what I think? I think though, you know, i okay. So how am I going to put this eloquently?
00:45:31
Speaker
No, we're not about eloquence here. Just
Parenting in Sports
00:45:33
Speaker
spit it out. So I think that parents who speak disparagingly about any kids on the ice are fucked up. yeah They're fucked up. yeah and And those are likely the people who have never skated. They've absolutely never played hockey. People who have, people who have can be constructive about what's wrong with the youre right Well, that's the thing. It's a different conversation. There's a constructive way to say it. and It's like, hey, that kid should pass should have passed it. That was a good play there. Yeah. but Right. Sure. IQ stuff. It's a different conversation. So you know the difference yeah between someone who has no fucking idea what they're talking about yeah in terms of the game and then someone who would have who does have an idea of what they're talking about. Yeah. And so you know there have been times where I've heard, specifically hockey moms,
00:46:16
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. You're like, you know what? You guys need to shut the fuck up because unless you've played this game, you have no idea how hard it is. Well, the stupid game. Hockey mom, hockey dad, hockey sibling, whatever. The dumb comments are always like, that kid's not better than my kid.
00:46:38
Speaker
Right. But that got nothing to do with it. Well, one, it has nothing to do with it. in And two, right. Unless you are someone ingrained in coaching this yeah sport, you don't know that actually. But even that's not constructive. Even for a coach to say that, it's like, hey, you're a youth hockey coach. You're trying to develop players. Everybody peaks at a certain yes stage. I get it.
00:46:58
Speaker
i understand we're in New York or other big cities. People are competitive about their kids. Yeah. and and and they can't accept the fact that their kid might peak earlier than another kid. Or their kid is mediocre at one thing and better at something else. Yeah, but but but you're focused on, I think that you're focused on your kid, what they're doing, what they're not doing. You want to yell at them, go ahead, yell at That's your prerogative, that's your kid.
00:47:19
Speaker
you know, kind of thing. It's not, that kid's not better than my kid. Why is he on the first line? Why he the third That kind of bullshit is what, you know, breeds negativity. And then they say in front of their kids and their kids take it to the locker room. Ah, come on. So, so when you, as you're, as you're unfurling this and saying, if there is a specific somebody who comes to mind yeah who used to do this all the time, and I would respond with you, you know what, first of all, first line, second line, third line,
00:47:47
Speaker
there's nothing standard about it number one yeah number two they could be line matching because they've researched the other team exactly like you have no idea like i said you have no idea what the reasoning is additionally like it doesn't fucking matter yeah yeah yeah like how why did you take that to the fucking bank remember the parents some of the parents who had like watches in their hand they would like so i did that i did that one time Did you? I did. i did that one time last year. yeah the reason I did it one time last year is because um we drove four hours yeah to go to a game.
00:48:22
Speaker
Yeah. and Sam wasn't playing. And I was like, okay. All of our kids have been through that. It's okay. And so he finally goes on and gets one shift. Yeah. And it was, you know, he's he's a short shifter. I mean, he's, you know, sure people talk about shift management, like Sam's really good with his shift management.
00:48:41
Speaker
And he, you know, he skated for like, don't know, it was like 40 seconds, which was fine. I just wanted to see how long he was going out for. And then he didn't get another shift the whole game. Right, right. Not for any, you know, like, have no idea why. No, you know. I have no idea why, but I was like, you know, I'm just going to see how long his shift management is today.
Respecting Coaching Decisions
00:49:00
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. So I wanted to see if he was going to... Okay, but that's... Okay, that's... But I guess for me, it's like... It's not totalized time. I mean... I know, and that's for your knowledge and whatever it is you want talk about. But there are parents out there when they're like eight or ten who are measuring and then going to the coach and saying, hey, that kid got...
00:49:16
Speaker
you know, 12 minutes on the ice. My kid got seven and a half. My kid scored two goals. That kid scored no goals. What kind of... And it's no wonder like coaches don't want to coach. Right. But you know, level but you have to wonder then it also at that point, like, are those the parents that get the reputation of being total dicks or are those the parents? Yeah. Because, because, okay. Or are those the parents who get what they want invariably because they have opened their mouth so wide? Yeah. yeah so that he' squeaking all way that's it and And that's why people have to manage some of the best coaches will sit down parents and be like, listen, I'm coaching the team.
00:49:50
Speaker
right? If you come to me, like whatever, 24 hour rule, it's fun thing. If you come to me talking about anything to do with ice time, your kid's off the team or you're off the team. right Like, sure. And I think young coaches should and should listen to that and say, you need to set that expectation right away.
00:50:04
Speaker
And then, and then like all kids complain. once i used to tell my kid all the time, hey, dude, last I'm not saying coaches make the right decisions all the time, but what I'm saying is that the intent is no coach wakes up in the morning and says, how am I going to fuck this team today?
00:50:19
Speaker
And how am I going to lose this game today? Every coach wants to win. Every coach has the best intentions. And then based on, they're human, based on whatever inputs they have and whatever sensitivities they have, they put the kids out on the ice. And so even if you are,
00:50:36
Speaker
a person who played college hockey or pro hockey as a parent and you have a kid there and you you think your kid is being short shifted or something else. Like, again, like you're not seeing what the coach is seeing.
00:50:49
Speaker
And, you know, you talk to my wife and some other people, like when you're sitting elevated at an ice and you're like, oh shit, you could have made that pass. could have made that pass. I'm like, listen, when you're on the ice, so stand on the ice level and you're a kid,
00:51:02
Speaker
and everyone is bigger than you or the same size as you. I said, you don't see that yeah passing lane. You got a helmet on, got a helmet on, so you're blind, you have no peripheral vision, people are coming at you, and and that's why the smartest kids with good hockey IQ and who are aware stand out as they get older because you realize at the speed of the game that is played today, yeah to be that smart of a playmaker is freaking hard. It's Right. hard right when You have to be on 100% of the time. Totally. Mentally in order to to find the gaps and the holes and the lanes for sure. Totally, right? so You have to be thinking about it all the time. Taking this long, windy path and the fact that World Juniors, Canada, and U.S. suck. Because, i don't know, they can't find – that's kind of bullshit. They can't find enough players.
00:51:52
Speaker
They're finding fewer players, but they're still finding enough top-end talent that if you can't win these tournaments, I'm sorry. Right. Like, well the coaching decision, selfishness, so there's no resilience. There's no – There's no lack of talent.
00:52:07
Speaker
that's not i tell you That's not the thing. There's no lack of talent at that at that level. yeah you know And I think that enrollment numbers are bullshit because you know this is a level where it doesn't have anything to do with the up-and-coming youth hockey players.
00:52:19
Speaker
Right. I mean, you want to talk about that five years from now? Sure, you want to use that as a decision. Maybe that'll fly then, but it doesn't fly now. Having kids that are 18, it's like we know the talent pool. We've known the talent pool for 10 years. There's still enough talented kids to...
00:52:35
Speaker
Yeah. and And I'll tell you, a lot of the talented kids that I see or that I've seen, they never even got ah you know a shot at tryouts for World Juniors. So, you know, I know they picked the best of the best, but there's something wrong with... well Oh, you know, like the Olympic rosters we've seen. Yeah. It's very subjective. Yeah. Conor Bedard doesn't make the Canadian team like, well, come on, dude, are you kidding me? Political.
00:52:58
Speaker
Very political. political everything Everything in youth hockey, and and I think overall probably in in many youth sports, it's political. yeah know If you're not shooting the right feathers and you know telling people what they want to hear, then you know you're not you're not going to be there on the list.
00:53:14
Speaker
You didn't watch it, right There was this great sequence where you're like, hey, these guys are NHL draft picks. I don't buy this. like Some of my friends are like, oh, you know they're They're only 18, 19 years old. They're kids. They're making bad decisions. I'm like, ah yeah, okay. But these kids have had 10 years of winning, constant winning and support and development. And they're to the best of the best, right? There was this one sequence. I got to Okay. So it's Canada versus Sweden. Okay. And I couldn't stop laughing.
00:53:44
Speaker
Canada's down. You can see they're starting to panic. There's like five or six minutes left. They're really starting to panic because we've seen our kids. when If you're a team and you have a system and you play the system, you're calm, you keep passing the puck, great, right?
Analyzing Canada's Hockey Performance
00:53:56
Speaker
You start to panic, shit devolves. People start doing one-on-one stuff. Totally. Taking stupid shots from like bad angles. Yep.
00:54:03
Speaker
Really dumb decisions. But this one takes the cake. I mean, this one takes the cake. So Sweden's in front our net. They take a shot. The puck bounces off. Yeah.
00:54:14
Speaker
Excuse me. and And one of our Canadian players cross-checks a guy in front net. It's like the puck's already not even there anymore. You're you're not trying to save a goal. Cross-check. Penalty. Penalty. Sure. Okay, fine.
00:54:27
Speaker
Dude, that's a bad decision. We're losing the game. We're down a goal. Like, that's just terrible. Okay. But, fine. He goes to the box. Then, on the power play, Sweden, too many men on the ice.
00:54:40
Speaker
That's the, I don't, we had that call this weekend and I was like, what? what I'm like, yeah what? Okay. Too many, many nights. So now Canada, lucky break for you. Your dumbass move met by another dumbass move. Sure.
00:54:54
Speaker
Okay. Four and four. Fantastic. Nope. Next face-off, Canadian guy decides to put his hand on the puck. He falls down the face-off, put his hand on the puck. Hand pass? Did he hand pass it?
00:55:06
Speaker
Delay of game, right? the Delay of game, sure. So, boop. I'm like, you just got off a stupid penalty. And then now you take another, even more dumbass penalty. Like, you're in the face-off circle. How long would you say his hand was on the puck?
00:55:20
Speaker
Half a second. But it doesn't matter because you you fall down. You put it there. It wasn't like a hand like a visible hand pass. It was like you covered the puck with your hand. What the fuck are you doing? Anyway, don't even start it. Like, there's a 19-year-old NHL draft pick, right?
00:55:35
Speaker
Okay. Well, two minutes. Then they they go. Then you okay they scored. They actually scored four on four to tie the game.
00:55:47
Speaker
and And then more penalties. And that's it's just dumb ass move after another dumb ass move to the point where the Canadian side takes ah abuse of official penalty. Yeah. I'm like, come on, guys.
00:56:03
Speaker
Right. Like, And then there's a coach like, hey, take control of your... Oh, my God. i mean, don't even give step. Anyways, you miss a lot of craziness.
00:56:13
Speaker
Yeah. That's the excitement. I think the part of the excitement of watching hockey, I think, to certain extent, is like watching, you know, goals don't go in unless people make mistakes, right? That's the thing. We understand that. And so that's part of the game. And people shouldn't like... There was one guy in the shootout.
00:56:30
Speaker
Was it Finland, USA? Yeah. I think so. Shootout. Oh no. me finency Anyways, it was a game of shootout and the guy, okay he whiffed, like he tried to make a move and he lost control of the puck. was like, oh dude, if this next one goes in against you, i think it was Finland, Sweden. Yeah.
00:56:50
Speaker
Finland, Sweden. You're like, i don't know how you forgive yourself for for like, you didn't get a shot off. And luckily the guy missed. So, okay. So it wasn't his fault that they lost, but like, geez, yeah. Finland, Sweden game. I think those kinds of moments, like, holy shit.
00:57:04
Speaker
Mm-mm. Right? Yeah, those those are the right ones. It was entertaining. It was a very entertaining. Congratulations to Sweden. Well-deserved win, ah for sure. um Yeah, it was a good re-entry to January, to 2026.
00:57:22
Speaker
2026. While you were saving dogs, I was laughing at people making mistakes on the ice on TV. Yeah, see that?
00:57:31
Speaker
Yeah, i don't know why I don't know why this year. I just didn't have any interest in watching it. I also didn't want to pay i didn't want to pay for it. Yeah. like yeah it wasn't Oh, yeah yeah, yeah. Sorry, that's the other beef. like Yeah, I didn't want to pay watch for it. You can't watch it anymore unless you pay for it. I pay for enough to watch my own kid play.
00:57:49
Speaker
I can't subscribe to every single service that wants to show me like great hockey. I just can't do it. Yeah, so and before we end episode 32, Did you have any hockey into mid-January oh yeah with your kid?
00:58:05
Speaker
No games. No, no, we did. Oh, you did that game? that we had Tournament? No, we had two games this past weekend. Okay. Okay. Successful? Wins? So on Saturday, we lost 1-0.
00:58:18
Speaker
But the worst part about it is one of our defensemen got tomahawked on his arm, broke his wrist, and finished his season. Oh, my God. Sorry hear that. Yeah, was really terrible. Really nice kid, too. feel really bad. Damn That's, yeah. that No penalty.
00:58:33
Speaker
They didn't, like, four refs on the ice. you know, it's like, no penalty. Nobody saw it happen. Everybody else saw it happen. Yeah. um You know, which is, of course, you know, suspect, right? Like, how the four, what are the four of you watching?
00:58:48
Speaker
Like, what are the four refs watching? What are watching if you're not seeing a stick come overhead and come down on some kid, you know, where then he's, you know, immediately after writhing on the ice with his lone glove sitting in the middle of the ice, like...
00:59:02
Speaker
So yeah, so that sucked. um Yeah. ah That's the one aspect of hockey as youth sport that the injury thing. Yeah. my People get injured playing all sorts of sports because of overuse, right? Yeah. But hockey is unique in the sense that your kid can be injured season-ending, career-ending injury through no fault their own because somebody decides to cross-check them from behind into the boards, for example, right? It's like, mean that's the part that...
00:59:33
Speaker
that. As a parent, it's hard to deal with, right? for you right And and you know and it's that's not a skill move, right? that's i mean i always yeah feel like anger yeah I always feel like the kids that that take that path, they're either unable to like regulate themselves emotionally or they lack skill, so they go for the brute force route.
00:59:53
Speaker
um Yeah, it was just it was bad. you know Ambulance called. he like yeah He fainted in the in the lobby. like Just bad. Yeah. Yeah. It's bad. um All right. Well, that was a good hour of ah shooting the shit in the new year of
New Year's Jokes and Resolutions
01:00:10
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2026. What
01:00:13
Speaker
ah where we didn't do, what I forgot to do because I wasn't prepared for our New Year's episode, which was last week, ah was any New Year's related dad jokes.
01:00:26
Speaker
Yeah. Wonderful. have to make up for lost time, people. Bear with me here. Wonderful. Are you ready? oh I guess yes I will have to be wowed 2026. I have no choice but to be wowed.
01:00:39
Speaker
Okay. Here's one. here's one Here's a good one. Why should you stand on just your left foot during the New Year's Eve countdown?
01:00:51
Speaker
Why should you? Wait, wait, wait. See, I'm so out of this. Wait. What happened to the music? What happened to the music? Why should you stand on just your left foot during the New Year's Eve countdown?
01:01:09
Speaker
Do-do-do-do. Terrible at this. I'm terrible at these. you start the New Year on the right foot. Oh, yeah. Come on.
01:01:20
Speaker
That's a boo from Jessica. No, bad one. Sorry. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. Okay. I know. How about this one? How about one? What's a teacher's favorite New Year's resolution?
01:01:34
Speaker
This is near and dear to our children. Is it really? We're still in school. What is a teacher's favorite New Year's resolution? To actually start doing their job.
01:01:47
Speaker
Teach. Close. Close. give more A's. Oh, see? Right? Right? Yeah, there you go. going to the gym. It's only last for couple of weeks and then people going to give up. So that's so that's funny that you should say that because on like a parting note, that's why I avoid the gym. I avoid the gym for the first yeah weeks of the year. because Oh.
01:02:08
Speaker
It makes me mad. oh yeah yeah hate it. but it's exactly like at that week three At week three, i think it kind of yeah calms down a bit. By the end of January, for sure. yeah you're done You're done. On that happy note, if you are listening to us at the gym, keep on going. Keep on trucking. Motivate.
01:02:28
Speaker
Motivate yourself. Go. Stick with it. 30 days make a good habit. It's 30 days to make a habit. all right Thanks, everyone, for listening. you Catch you later. Bye. Bye.
01:02:41
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