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#35: Can You Pronounce Xoloitzcuintli
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#35: Can You Pronounce Xoloitzcuintli?
Francis annoys Jessica as he tries an episode of speaking like a left coasterrrrr? and we revisit the proposed USA Hockey National Development League with its unintended consequences for parents. Swimcloud is a rare app that’s actually fair to families. Meanwhile, Francis’ iPhone thinks he’s in distress because he loves watching marriage humor on the Gram. Jessica calls out a hater and teaches us how to pronounce “Xoloitzcuintli”.
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Transcript
Introduction and Show Dynamics
00:00:02
Speaker
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
Speaker
We're Brooklynites and friends.
Podcast Focus and Themes
00:00:15
Speaker
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.
00:00:25
Speaker
Okay, so I'll just flip you the bird again. One more middle finger from Jessica.
Nostalgia and Media Across Generations
00:00:30
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Actually, I'll give you two. edit Double the trouble. Double the trouble. And her microphone works.
00:00:36
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double What was it? Double the pleasure, double the fun. Was that the Wrigley's double mint gum tagline? Double the pleasure, double the fun. Every time there was a twin in the commercial. Those were good commercials. Yeah, no, it was smart. You know, very smart ad campaign.
00:00:50
Speaker
It's obviously it stuck with me. There were a lot that stuck with me. I, you know, i i Sam will in the morning sometimes be like, come up when he's still in bed. mean, come on. All right, I'll come up.
00:01:02
Speaker
So I go up and he's like, here, come sit. I want to show you all the stuff that I sent you on Instagram that you don't look at. Which of course it's like, well, I didn't look at it. So, all right, fine. If that's what makes you happy, we'll do that. So I leaned down and always like, move over, move over bacon. There's something, something leaner sizzling. He was like, what? So I pulled up the ad on YouTube.
00:01:27
Speaker
He said, wow, you guys had some crazy advertisement advertisements back then. That's funny. Oh, yeah, yeah. All the prel ads. You didn't care about being canceled back then. You can put anything you want.
00:01:37
Speaker
Well, it's so funny because we were we were watching some clips from All in the Family after the news about Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner. yes. And, you know, my kids had never seen it because it's not aired anymore.
00:01:49
Speaker
Yeah. Right? You have to really, you know, kind of look for it or pay for it. It's just… Yep. And he was dying. It was so funny and so inappropriate, just like Blazing Saddles.
00:02:01
Speaker
yeah We watched Blazing Saddles with them and their faces the whole time were the O-face. Oh! yeah I mean, horrified and it's not even that long ago, to be honest. No, it's not. Right. But it's long enough. I mean, if you look at the current climate of, you know, being correctness, like it's yeah it's come a very long way. Yeah. I mean, even maybe too far.
00:02:22
Speaker
You know, and I can't use the word retarded to mean, you know, ridiculous. It is funny. People get offended by it's a No, no, no. When you meet like 30-somethings and I think, hey, oh have you watched Entourage? And it was a great show. And it was ah it was like a golden era of LA.
00:02:37
Speaker
And they just kind of stare at you blankly like, what? Yeah. What's Entourage? I guess that was early two thousand s I was like, yeah, okay. HBO, early 2000s. If you're mid-30s now, you were 15, you were probably watching cartoons still and not really watching HBO anymore.
00:02:53
Speaker
Oh, dude, I wish my 15-year-old was watching cartoons. Oh, I mean, these days. oh Dude, the stuff she watches is... If you're in the mid-30s, are you still a millennial? I guess you're the youngest of the millennials.
00:03:07
Speaker
I guess so. Because the oldest millennials are definitely in their 40s. Yeah, I would think. Okay, so wait, let me try something.
Cafe Stories and Communication Difficulties
00:03:14
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So when you meet someone like this,
00:03:18
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Hey, Jessica, how was your day going? do you really speak to people that way? do you, did you have fun walking the dogs this morning? Was it cold outside?
00:03:32
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so i'm Like, oh my God, I can't believe what just happened. Have you ever seen that clip from that TV show when he goes into the coffee shop? Who is it? It's Ron. What's his name? Ron. ah I forgot his name. That's my favorite. One of my favorite. favorite One of my favorite clips ever. That's one of my favorite scenes. Why are you speaking like that?
00:03:50
Speaker
I bumped into someone like this before, rear very recently. This hurts my brain to talk like this. But I had a neighbor. she was my age, from L.A., and she would speak like this to me all the time in the elevator.
00:04:07
Speaker
and it would drive my kids crazy. yeah it drives me bananas. It makes my kids crazy, too. But the day, went into Cafe Kitsune to look for a tote bag.
00:04:19
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And then when I asked for help from the customer service person.
00:04:27
Speaker
I'm hanging up. he gave me this is annoying weird. um I wonder if I can do the whole episode like this. It actually hurts. I went to the. It's hurting me. Excuse me. Do you have this bag in different sizes? Because i saw it on the website.
00:04:40
Speaker
It comes in three sizes and this is a large and I like to compare it with the medium. And then I got the stare, the blank stare. Oh yeah. i It's weird. The blank stare and you don't know whether they heard you or not, right? Totally. So you say it again. And they just blank.
00:04:56
Speaker
what's What's the word? Vapid. Vapid. there Vapid, right? Good word. Yeah. SAT word. And they look at me and say, I don't know. So can you check? i I guess so. Can you just wait here for a minute?
00:05:12
Speaker
I'll be back. and You're killing me today. Here's the, I think this is the medium. I'm not quite sure. No, but, and then I'll go to coffee shops. Like that scene. Well, that's what you do you do. You definitely go to coffee shops. I do not. I go to the coffee shop and order, and I have favorites, which is awesome. They know me.
00:05:31
Speaker
Black coffee. Boom. Who? you Reveal your sources. Who? And out it goes. Who? Which one? Who does it? Oh, Bien Cui. Ah. They know me.
00:05:42
Speaker
ah What's that other place that I used to go to? all Daily Provisions? Right. Coming a mile away. But you know what? I heard they're really slow with everything. Black coffee. Yeah. You can't be slow with black coffee. They make it give it to you right there. Yes, everything else is very slow. Food, fancy drinks, but...
00:06:00
Speaker
I'll go to other coffee. Every once a while, there's a long line. I'll go to a blank street coffee or something. I love blank street. and And it's the same scene. Hi.
00:06:12
Speaker
What can I get for you today? morning. Black coffee. What kind of milk would you like in that? I'm good with black coffee. I said black. How about, did you want any sweetener with that? Oh my God.
00:06:26
Speaker
I'm good with black coffee. Cinnamon powder. You're hurting my soul right now. If I wanted any of those things, I would have ordered.
00:06:39
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like oh my God, what even is that? my God. does your daughter talk like that? She does not speak that way.
00:06:49
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i have a, I have a, I need a moment. Will you excuse me for a moment? I will pause this. I will pause this for you. Thank you.
Teaching Kids Self-Advocacy
00:07:00
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Like, is everything okay with Mojo? Yeah, Mojo. Mojo's a... um Did he get his treat? He's very verbal when he wants to fulfill him the destiny of his breakfast routine. squeaky wheel gets the grease. Well, you know what?
00:07:17
Speaker
There's um a gentleman who's part of our village with our kids, right? Like he takes a village and he always tells them that they need to speak up and advocate for themselves. And the saying that he uses, which was imparted unto him by his father was, or is, ah closed mouths do not get fed.
00:07:37
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ah I mean, it's true. All those sayings are true, but it's a fine line between
00:07:46
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self-advocating and getting what you want versus you're driving me crazy because all you do is complain. I love the tenacity. I love tenacity. just want them to do it with somebody else. Just don't do it with me. Well, it's, it's you know, so go back to the coaching thing, right?
00:08:05
Speaker
You talk to your kids and you want them to self-advocate with the coaches, but at the same time, it's like, hey, You can't go to the, there are some kids that go to the coach after every practice. Hey coach, coach, did I do well today?
00:08:17
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Did i do well? Did I do good? Should I improve something? What can tell me can you give me a feedback? was like, fuck. Those are needy people though. I mean, those are people that need consistent and constant validation. But there's a line between self-advocacy and being annoying.
00:08:33
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Yeah, that's not self-advocacy though. Self-advocacy would be, hey, coach, I only got one shift today. yeah Can we talk about why and what I need to do to get more time?
00:08:45
Speaker
That's self-advocacy. I think you can't do that. I think if you do that, it's it's very transactional. Yeah, it might be. Tell me what to do so I can get more ice as opposed to coach. I'm looking, so you're high school player.
00:08:57
Speaker
I really want to play college hockey. You've played college hockey. Tell me what I need to work on to improve my game. Right. That's it. Yeah, that could be it Yeah. and I mean, it's just an example, right? Yeah, no, fair enough, fair enough. but You know, rather than, hey, you know, going up to a coach every single time practice ends or every single whistle and being like, what do I need to do? What do I need to do? yeah, yeah. I see it all the time. Not just hockey, other sports. I get parents in the garage. Yeah.
00:09:21
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Francis, I see Evan shooting pucks all day in the garage, every minute in the gym. You know, my kid's not getting court time, field time, whatever it is.
00:09:33
Speaker
You talk to the coach? I'm like, no. I'm no, no. nope no you don't get stuck You don't talk to the coach. no Your kid doesn't talk to the coach about playing time. No.
00:09:45
Speaker
No matter how good you are, it's like, This is my favorite saying to every kid and even parents. No coach wakes up in the morning thinking, how the fuck can I lose a game today?
00:09:57
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Yeah. what trial What bad decision can I make
Critique of Education Systems
00:10:02
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to lose a game? yeah now And I tell them, I'm not saying the coach is making the right decisions. yeah We're all human. But no one wakes up saying, I'm not playing that kid. They're the best kid in the team. I'm not playing that kid because I'm going lose the game today. drive mean No one does that, right? so So when you look at a kid who's not getting playing time, I usually tell the parents, look, i don't I'm not an expert. i don't I don't see what they see.
00:10:27
Speaker
But whatever they see, your kid's not being useful. Because if you're useful, you're getting playing time. Obviously, because you want to win. right So if you're if you' even if you think you're scoring 10 million goals, and but you could be a defensive liability in your own zone, whatever it is, right? i That's when you go to the coach and say, coach.
00:10:46
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right Not about ice time. I'm about field time. I'm trying to constantly improve my game. Do you have feedback for me? Like that's, that's ah I think, an ah an amazingly constructive conversation to have. But the education system that our kids have grown up in now is like that. yeah price it's And that's why you see lot of them struggling in college, where where you go from, oh, you got a B in this test, you want an A? No problem. Come to my student hours. I'll give you four more assignments. And if you do those, you'll get an A. Oh, you want to make ah a makeup test or- Retake the test. Or retake the test. but And so they get into this mode of like, it's okay.
00:11:25
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There's always a way to get it. Then every once in a while, they'll meet to an old school teacher who's like, hey, midterm, final. You got two chances. Right. That's it. Right? Yeah. And people are like, what? i like and And I was trying to explain to my kids, but you know, that's real life. If I put you on on a desk, on a trading desk, and I give you a client- And you fuck up that client.
00:11:48
Speaker
You don't get to call the client and say, i need to do over. Hi, Mr. CEO. I made a mistake yesterday. do you think I can try that again?
00:12:00
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Click. Right. No, you got one shot and you better make it work right and be smart about it. And so I think that's hopefully in college, that's the training they are getting is that you got a lot of times when you're called to perform, you've got one shot.
00:12:17
Speaker
right And it better be your best shot. And if it isn't, that's cool. we don't we have We all have bad days. Learn and don't make the mistake again. Right. Well, the learn part is the is the integral part of this conversation, right? Yeah. Make a mistake. Fine. You're human. Humans make mistakes all the time. Very imperfect, right? Yeah.
00:12:36
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So you make a mistake. the The difference between learning from it and not learning from it are you catastrophic, right? You learn from it. You move forward. You don't learn from it. You make the same mistake over and over and over again.
00:12:49
Speaker
It leaves you in the same place. Okay. So let's go back to, speaking of that, let's go back to last episode when you asked me about that, what I thought about the U.S. national team, or national, not national team, the league national league development program. What is it? DL league, right? as yeah yeah Yeah. Right. Development league, which is supposed to lead into the best players that go into the national team development program. Right.
00:13:15
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And I spoke to a coach, a younger coach, and I think is that there's a difference between,
Politics in Sports Development
00:13:21
Speaker
oh you got to go. Oh, my God. I'm going to kill him today. Pause. This is so not him. I don't know what's happening. Sorry.
00:13:27
Speaker
Okay, we're back. So this young coach I spoke to you about that program, does he doesn't have kids. Right. So I think there's a little nuance here.
00:13:40
Speaker
He's right in the sense that, yes, it's about time USA Hockey takes back control over developing, let's just say in a perfect world, no politics, no nothing, the best talent they can find across the nation. Sure.
00:13:55
Speaker
And feed it into the National Team Development Program. Great. Fantastic. Because... I guess by now, stupid, they finally noticed that there are a lot of coaches out there that are taking advantage of families.
00:14:09
Speaker
If you pay $20,000 and move halfway around the country, you can play on the number one team or top five team in the nation and we'll get your kid to juniors and college and and then you know you do it and then your kid's on the fourth line or riding the pine not playing. Like, what? You're not developing my kid. right And you have this upheaval for families and kids, especially families who who can't really afford to pay these exorbitant fees. right so So yes, I think that's great. And he was pointing out like, hey, it's about time you do this because it's done in Europe and used to be done in Canada. Canada's obviously come drifted a bit towards the USA model where there was a lot of pay to play.
00:14:49
Speaker
right And I said, okay, from that perspective, 100% agree with agree with It being a good program. I say, except as a parent, i can tell you, I can tell you, okay, for the bottom 95%, let me laugh at that again, like who cares, right? But within the top 5%, your national development program is only going to take the top 0.1%.
00:15:14
Speaker
So the other 4.9% who are really good, will play juniors, might be able to get to college. What do they do? They end up in the hands of these coaches still charging you $20,000 and feeding you lines to develop your kid. But now I think it's exacerbated. Now in the real world, let's just say the problem is exacerbated because now there is this, let's assume it's free.
00:15:38
Speaker
right There is a free program for the top 0.1% of the nation's hockey players and Humans are selecting those people.
00:15:50
Speaker
As soon as I put a human in there. It's a caste system. It's like money is changing hands. Politics is being paid. Favors are being called. like It's a caste system.
00:16:01
Speaker
and i was And I was using the the New York State Festival thing that you, you know, your son, my son, I go, it's the exact same thing. they I go, look, i don't know how many teams going to have nationally. Maybe it's 16 teams, like 16 teams, 20 teams across the nation.
00:16:16
Speaker
Playing each other, supposedly the highest. i'm like In New York already, there's a shitstorm about the 80 players, right? Like the 10 goalies and 30 defensemen and then 40 to 50 forwards that they invite, quote unquote, right? The skinny Atlas and then do the festival. They choose the national team, right? There's already so much shit around that invitation list. As you and I talked about in earlier episodes,
00:16:43
Speaker
Can you imagine what that shitstorm would be like if that team is actually a feeder into the national team development program? Oh my God. yeah Like between the Gulls and BK and Junior Sabres and the 7-8 New York teams that fight for that.
00:17:07
Speaker
I mean, it's i just I said, I just think it's mayhem if you do this program separately as opposed to saying... Right. All of hockey is under USA hockey. Right. No outside leagues allowed.
00:17:21
Speaker
Right. Okay. And we're going to, I know it takes a lot of work, but we're going to filter it nationally, create the program. It's fluid. Kids go up and down.
00:17:31
Speaker
Right. i Again, I know this sounds idealistic, but kids can go up and down and we will, There will always be anomalies, but for like 99.5% of you, instead of 95% of for 99.5% of you, we will find the right model for you play. Right. And if it's play, develop, play,
00:17:45
Speaker
we will find the right model for you to play right and if it's play play develop create the best players and then whoever rises to the top at 15 and 17, you get to go play, don't know, USHL and go to college.
00:18:02
Speaker
Good for you. Right. That should be conceptually the system. Right. Not just who can, have like you said, Who can pay more for development? Who can buy a team? Who can fly around? Blah, blah, blah. Who can go to the but know but you know camps for 800 bucks per camp times hotel time? i Think about the families that can never afford that. Yeah, yeah.
00:18:25
Speaker
Agreed. Agreed. Right? Right.
Youth Sports Recruitment Apps
00:18:27
Speaker
Anyway, so I was just like, I said, anyways, I said, listen, I get it. It's idealistic. It has to start somewhere. So I agree they should do it. Well, I think there are holes in that. But at the same time, I think that overall that idea is the most equitable yeah for kids. That is true.
00:18:43
Speaker
It's not, you know, because it's not about like everything, everything is made to be about the politics of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so, you know, by making everything so political literally all the time, everything is political all the time now. i know. making It sucks all the joy, all the intensity, all of the drive out of it. Because once you realize that the bottom line is is is political, yeah you kind of kind of throw your hands up a little bit and you're like, okay, what's the fucking point?
00:19:13
Speaker
like Okay, so so I had lunch with my dear friend Ashley, who listens to the paska podcast once in a while. So thank you. Thank you very much, Ashley. And his kids swim. Yeah. And he showed me it some amazing, I mean, there are some good there are some good people who want to support youth sports.
00:19:30
Speaker
Yeah. And not make an endless profit from us. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. and he showed me this amazing app called SwimCloud. Mm-hmm.
00:19:42
Speaker
You post video. It's a recruitment app, right? From both sides. Coaches use it to look at your, I guess, assuming you have a national registry of times, swim meets, everything's official. all goes in there. I mean, just like our our elite prospects, for example, right? All the scores and stats. and Okay, fine.
00:20:00
Speaker
But they can use it to recruit, contact players. Players can submit video, There's some analysis of the stroke and everything to help them improve. Anyways, so you're like, okay, this is like that crappy thing. i They'll probably hate me for saying this, but NCSA, which seems to like permeate every freaking youth sport they can find. and They do. They literally do. And just like they're vultures, right? Because it's like every package is $3,000, $4,000, $5,000. I think recently they launched
00:20:34
Speaker
like $1,600 $1,700 packet. I'm like, guys, what what are you talking about? just like and And their system is so simplistic. Just to like put a profile up and like and email a coach or see which coaches have seen me. That's highway robbery. Okay, so SwimCloud, and like again, because swimming, thank you, Ashley, for short sharing this with me. You have your times.
00:20:56
Speaker
You put your profile up. And you get a ah score, a power rating. Right. Okay. And you can look at the schools that maybe you want to go to or just search for the schools that you might match up with. And every school has like a ah power rating. And if you can meet this power rating, the coach is basically saying you were fast enough or good enough to potentially be recruited by our school. So then you make contact and they meet you, you meet them and they watch you swim. and Okay, fine. That's fantastic.
00:21:24
Speaker
And then if you're off, you sort of know, okay, what do I have to improve to get within the range of recruitment, right? yeah What a powerful tool. You'll never guess... This is better than the dad joke. You'll never guess how much that costs, the player.
00:21:41
Speaker
Take a guess. $500. five hundred dollars Okay. one-time lifetime fee. That's crazy. fifty bucks once it used to be twenty seven wow 50 bucks that covers your entire lifetime as a competitive swimmer. That's nuts.
00:22:00
Speaker
That's so smart. And you can do, and then and I was like snooping around the website. If you're the coach, it's like 500 bucks. But I'm like, think about that number, right? We're paying elite prospects, like whatever, 150. I don't pay them.
00:22:14
Speaker
Right. I mean, but if you want like if you want to set up that neutral zone, another like couple hundred bucks. Like everyone, Hockey Journal, couple hundred bucks, USHR, hockey. like No, I don't do it. get the same kind of functionality in hockey, you would literally, which includes paying NCSA, you'd have to pay thousands Every year, yeah by the way, as opposed to $49.99 once in your life.
00:22:39
Speaker
Yeah. And I mean, and you also you you also have to add on to that, you know, just because and in terms of money.
Financial Aspects of Youth Sports
00:22:47
Speaker
Yeah. How all of the ranks.
00:22:51
Speaker
Mm hmm. now have different affiliations with different broadcasters yeah i know right between like you know what like live barn a flow tv black bear right all different and so if if one of the events that your kid is playing in is in a rink that has a you know a broadcast scenario that you're not a member of or you're not paying a monthly fee of it'll cost you a month's worth Of watching.
00:23:20
Speaker
yeah. A month's worth of of fees, rather, in order to watch like a single weekend. to want you Absolutely. Yeah. Right? And if you're there in person, they're still charging you a gate fee. That's right. They're making you pay to get in. Well, that which is what I'm going to have with volleyball, too. because they season right. Because the season starts next weekend.
00:23:36
Speaker
Oh, yes. You have a big tournament coming up. Yeah. Yeah. The tournament season's beginning. I mean, her season started in October, but the tournaments don't start until January.
00:23:46
Speaker
And so they run like January to like June, maybe. It's a long season. come out Thank you, SwimCloud, for taking care of the kids. Oh, yes. Move on. Yeah, brilliant.
00:23:59
Speaker
Brilliant. um So what's on the horizon? Volleyball. Yeah, but i was just I was bringing it up because you were talking about how like they make you pay ent entry fees. Right.
00:24:09
Speaker
Same deal, right? It's the same thing for volleyball. In volleyball, you walk in, or they do it beforehand, and you have to pay 50 bucks in order to enter yeah the convention center all weekend. In wristband system? Yeah.
00:24:22
Speaker
No, it's actually on the phone, so you have to open it and scan Okay, well, there's some tech involved in that as opposed the hockey bullshit wristband. It's 1975 and you go into a nightclub and they're like, oh, here, put this tape. I actually don't mind the USHL events when they give out the stuff because they give you the lanyard that you can wear. Yeah, yeah.
00:24:41
Speaker
Sure. You know, put it in your pocket, whatever. But it's not a permanent affixed, you know, item to your body for the whole weekend. Yeah. I hate wearing the but the bracelets. Hate the bracelets.
00:24:52
Speaker
I mean, again, it's insulting. it's like, ah I've already paid thousands. Now you want 30 bucks for me to watch my kid play. Right. As a shitty ass paper wristband that I'm going to lose or it's going to rip off when I'm in the shower. Like, what the hell hell's going on here for the weekend? Like, come on, guys. Yeah. I like that. The lanyard's awesome or on the phone. Yeah. Yeah. It's fine. But it's, it's, you know, the idea that you pay is, I mean, figure what's the entry fee for a team like $2,000, maybe a little bit less. Yeah. And you get, let's just say for bra volleyball in particular, like teams.
00:25:24
Speaker
Yeah. Maybe more. Right. Because there's an AM m wave and a PM wave. And so let's say it's 60 teams, right? 30 play in the morning. Cause there's normally they build around 15, 20 courts in a convention center.
00:25:35
Speaker
Yeah. So just by virtual, like virtually by math alone, you have to assume that there's at least 60 or more teams that are invited to these things or get into these tournaments. So at that rate, if they're paying $2,000 each team to enter, right?
00:25:49
Speaker
Right. right Let's just be conservative. It's like 120 grand. They're making tons of money. They don't need to charge parents. But they charge, they don't charge the family. They charge each an adult, each person. Yeah.
00:26:03
Speaker
So if, if but all of us went to go watch her play, it would cost me $120 get in for the weekend. Additionally, Which is nuts. And then they don't let you bring in food to the convention center and they make you buy all the shit food that they have there. Well, I know. That too. so it just It just adds up. and And it's like, could you give one free wristband per player? Because there's usually one parent with them. Right. Sure. You want to charge a second parent? Okay. Like, there are nuances, right? But come on. oh grace. There's no grace. Okay.
00:26:33
Speaker
ah It's such a money machine. All of these youth sports in that way are such a money machine that they don't give anybody grace. All the way to the top. Yeah. And you and i both know that now that our, for example, that our boys are basically aged out of the college camps.
00:26:49
Speaker
Yeah. I think definitely within the last two to three years of those camps, it's been so diluted. So diluted. That when people go to them and you talk to them, they go, oh my God, I don't know what the hell is going on there. Like, sure, the coaches showed up, they get paid. But they don't coach. They're not paying attention. just standing around. And then, and then, again, there's no offense to the lower level players because everyone has their level, but you're like, this is a college camp. It's billed as a college recruitment camp.
00:27:20
Speaker
And they're clearly single A, double A players. Hang in here. ah so then you So then you look like a rock star, but you know in your heart that's not the highest level of play. right Because like your a kid, my kid, you're you're in defense and sure, you can get you can get assists and you're managing the power play and everything. But if you're going end to end...
00:27:41
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Which a lot of them do. Which you do. it we That's not a real camp. No. Because you know that if you're playing at the highest levels of your league currently in club or prep. Yeah. You need to use system. You can't do that. No. You need to be in a system. Yeah. You can't get past the red line or even the first blue line before getting killed. Right. So – and you're like, oh my god. Did I really pay for this?
00:28:02
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yeah Very expensive ice in the spring and summer. Well, it's not only the ice, right? It's the travel. It's time off of work. It's the hotel fees. It's the food. You know, I mean, it's it's it's more than just the, what is it, like $800 or $900 for a lot of these, like, two or three day camps. Some of them more. I mean, there are definitely, like, you did that one, where was it, in New Hampshire?
00:28:29
Speaker
The one that Mike also went to What was that one? You guys asked, you asked if I wanted to go and we missed it. We didn't do it. It was Dartmouth camp. No, it wasn't Dartmouth. It was the other one that I was not familiar with.
00:28:45
Speaker
Yeah. You and Mike went or Mike went separately with his kids. I mean, I do like as the last time that Mike and Arion and Evan went to a camp together. Holy shit. That might've been like a lot. It was really small.
00:28:59
Speaker
Really small? Not a lot of kids. three Oh, that must have been before prep school. even started I don't know. um It might have been. me Yeah, maybe. That's it.
00:29:10
Speaker
That's it. That's the one. don't found it. But yeah, it was like small, very tight. Yeah. Dirty kids kind of thing. So you think, you hope. But again, like you can't stop. it's not invite only and all that stuff, you can't stop anyone from, so you get like a smattering of skill levels and it's educational. Like the first couple of times you go, that if you really don't know what recruiting looks like, they do give nice talks. Like the Harvard Academy, did that they do give nice talks in between the ice. Like, yeah hey guys, this is what normally happens and yeah how you get noticed. We want good people, we want good students.
00:29:46
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It's a process. We watch you play. You know, you don't get recruited like over after one ice session. It's like six to ten sessions and and all that of stuff. so So the first time you do it, yeah, it's nice, right? yeah Young kids understand that kind of stuff.
00:29:59
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um And ironically, I was thinking about the Ironically, the bigger camps seem to be more competitive than the smaller camps.
00:30:11
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Right? It's kind of counterintuitive. think smaller camp, more attention, 800 bucks, If you really want to go, you really want to be there and impress. Right. Right? like And sure, some people don't know. I mean, I remember when early on when Evan was 11, I let him – we had didn't have anything to do in the summer, so I let him play weekend of spring spring weekend league at Chelsea Piers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he played up with the 15s, 14th and 15th. Right.
00:30:43
Speaker
And he was – And all these kids, all parents are like, wow, that kid's going all the way. And I just started laughing. was like, you guys have no clue. Sheltered lifestyle. Sheltered, shelter sheltered, sheltered. Big fish, small pie. You have no clue what's out there. We know. yep I've seen it. And i was like, I love my kid, but trust me, he's not going to the show.
00:31:05
Speaker
He might not even make college roster. like I said, you know, the talent pool is so deep. And people like what? Your kid is 11, 15. Trust me. trust me I go, trust me, this is weekend league. You have no idea what's out there.
00:31:18
Speaker
ah You don't know what you don't know. Right.
Parental Guidance in Sports
00:31:20
Speaker
Right. So yeah you get those people. but i'm like and but But in general, you get to 14, 15, you sort of know what's out there. if you're going to blow 800 bucks on a college camp, you should have an inkling of whether you have a reasonable shot at going to play college right or genius right yeah i don't i don't really think that um i don't think that any of them get that kind of feedback yeah which is unfortunate right which is kind of unfortunate because well it's a business model well kind of but it's but it's not to put down my thing is that you're not doing that to put down the player like it's constructive hey dude
00:32:03
Speaker
do you Do you honestly want to play college hockey? Yes. Okay. So you're 14. And in two years, the junior drafts are coming around the corner.
00:32:14
Speaker
And, you know, if you're six foot two, you need to be 210 pounds of muscle. You need to train in the gym every day. but but So it's a job. If you really, really want this for yourself,
00:32:27
Speaker
We just want to let you know it's a full-time job. And off you go, right? Yeah. So I think that's the guidance I would have loved. Even if we didn't want to chase college at like 11 or 12, it would have been nice for someone to sit down and say, okay, your kids are, you know, you pay for fun from six to 10.
00:32:48
Speaker
Right. Now it's getting expensive and you're traveling and you want to play tier one hockey. And now we're going to give you, don't know I mean, it's not the right time for an advisor, but when whereas some parent group, coach, GM of the organization sits down and okay, guys, here is the path to juniors in college hockey for the parents who don't know. And most parents don't know. Right. right yeah Even the parents who play don't know because the system has changed dramatically.
00:33:16
Speaker
from 20, 30 years ago when they played. so and And here are the guideposts and here are the markers and here's what you can do.
Restaurant Ordering Humour
00:33:23
Speaker
If you want to be crazy move to Buffalo, you can be crazy move to Buffalo, right? And Detroit. If you want to do it closer to home, here are the teams that are close to home. And then I didn't know this, like if the coach hadn't found us at Liberty Bell, I would have known the whole prep school circuit right existed, right?
00:33:42
Speaker
Oh, it's interesting to know because I do want my kid to go to his life after hockey in college and yeah okay, this this is ah this is a a path that has its pros and cons, just like club right and everything. yeah So I think that's that's what parents should be paying for. going to pay for something, like pay for that three-hour session the lay of the land of really what you need to look out for good parts, bad parts, and then off you go. We just armed you with information and now you can go decide for your family what's right for you and what's not right for you. Right. Right.
00:34:17
Speaker
Success stories everywhere. Right. Just like our buddy Bobby C who went to prep school and decided, you know, hockey's not going to cut it and now he's going to row crew at Like, what an amazing family decision. And the kid arrived it at himself because he's armed with information.
00:34:35
Speaker
Right. So I think that's, you know, ultimately what should happen. Anyways, i don't even know how we got this topic again. i have no idea. Wait, i have something really, okay. So it was a good day, coffee.
00:34:49
Speaker
Do you want sugar? Do you want milk? Do you want cinnamon powder? Okay. If I said black, I meant black. It's really weird. It happens at restaurants too, by the way. It does. Do you want cream? Black drip coffee.
00:35:02
Speaker
Yeah. Do you want the cream? No. Black drip coffee. You want sugar? Black drip coffee. I do not. I said black. Then they bring it. I know. Take that. Take that. I don't want that. Black.
00:35:13
Speaker
If I said drip coffee. I know. You can bring it. Black drip coffee. I know. I don't know how else to say it. Okay. I digress. Then I had the oatmeal. Okay.
00:35:25
Speaker
And I think the secret to eating my oatmeal now is I buy something yummy like a breakfast sandwich. I take a bite, then I gobble down three spoons of oatmeal,
00:35:38
Speaker
When the flavor of the sandwich is still in my mouth. And then another bite the sandwich, take another three spoons full. and it's gone. i mean before're eating two breakfast So you're eating two breakfasts at one time to drown out the taste of the oatmeal.
00:35:51
Speaker
Which I will then save for lunch. So I'll eat a third of it maybe while I'm eating my oatmeal. That's so funny. Why don't you just doctor it up so you actually enjoy it No, because the only way for me to enjoy the oatmeal is to add a Well, hey, don't eat it, first of all. Yeah.
00:36:10
Speaker
And then second, add a lot of brown sugar, which is not good for me. No, but maple syrup. You can do maple syrup or honey. Yeah, it's still sugar. I'm just trying to like – Or agave. But they're all low glycemic compared to brown sugar.
00:36:21
Speaker
I'm just trying to game my cholesterol. hopefully in the next 60 days so i can do my physical and then pass it and go, ha-ha, and go with the
Healthy Eating Challenges
00:36:31
Speaker
fried chicken bubble tea. A little bit of of low glycemic sweetener will not hurt you.
00:36:36
Speaker
really? And it certainly wouldn't hurt your cholesterol and it would make it more pleasant to eat it. You say that, right? but I do say that. we just said For a while, I was drinking this honey citrus mint tea from Starbucks, which I love. love it too.
00:36:53
Speaker
The medicine ball. but yet Thank you very much. The medicine ball. I think I swear to God started gaining weight drinking that Sure, it's sugar. day Of course. Because the honey and the lemonade. Yes.
00:37:05
Speaker
Yes, because it's extra, extra sugar. But what I'm saying, I'm not saying drown oatmeal. What I'm saying is make it so that it tastes like something other than cardboard. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Even, by the way, even if you put um like a little bit of honey or agave or maple syrup into it and then put something like cinnamon in it, like put some like good baking spices in it, yeah it makes, it changes the whole game.
00:37:31
Speaker
Like I wouldn't eat it plain. When I go, when I go and I get it from Starbucks because you know, like I don't eat a lot of the things there. Yeah. yeah I'll get the oatmeal and they'll say, do you want the brown sugar? Do you want the dried fruit? Do you want the nuts? I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.
00:37:44
Speaker
And you know what? like At the end of the day, if you put in the dried fruit, like the cranberries or raisins or whatever it is you know that like suits your palate, yeahp it still lends itself to being not like cardboard. Yeah. I'll have to experiment. There are ways.
00:37:59
Speaker
and You're funny. You're funny. Biting a sandwich just killed the cardboard flavor of a plain oatmeal. did You don't need to suffer eating plain oatmeal. Oh, my God. Yeah. You remember how I said our phones are listening to us? We all know that.
00:38:14
Speaker
Yeah. and then And then I showed you how to how to look at your Instagram algorithm. Yep. Which I'm totally going to do. Yeah, I'm totally going to do that. So. I do it while I'm away.
00:38:25
Speaker
So it's it's fun to just it and everything. Anyways, it's on the reels in case and people are listening to they want and how to know
Social Media Reflections
00:38:30
Speaker
do it. Go your reels, top right, click the three hamburger button and and then you'll see your algorithm. But so I don't know if my phone thinks I'm distressed. Oh God, so i don't even like where this is going right now. Because my algorithm is like, it's golf tips.
00:38:47
Speaker
It says mental toughness, which I'm looking at all time for, you know, sports, I've been in sports and everything. Right. It's funny stuff. and marriage maybe it comes in Maybe it comes under this category. Marriage comedy is a category.
00:39:01
Speaker
i i love it. It's funny. I may have sent this video to you. There's this... this is um There's this is video, or I think there's similar videos going around, but there's a couple, they're married couple and they're buying fruit and the wife is picking fruit, like oranges or apples that she's putting the bag.
00:39:17
Speaker
Right. And she's not looking at the husband. The husband takes the apple she just put in the bag. Yeah. And he takes it out and hands it to her. And she looks at it and she shakes her head and puts it back in the pile.
00:39:31
Speaker
And then she puts another good one in her bag. He goes back in the bag, takes it out, the one she just put in and gives it her. And she's like, no. And it just keeps on going. It's so funny. Oh, my God. It's so funny. i was laughing so hard. I showed Lane. We were both laughing so hard because the the the man's face is like, he knows what's happening. He's just like this sheepish look on his face and and the wife is serious like, no. That's so funny. And then there's another one I just said to people where there is this couple on the motorcycle and she's on the back, the wife's on the back and she's trying to throw this garbage bag into this bin and it's
00:40:08
Speaker
The bin is too, she thinks it's too far. So she gets off the back of the bike, the motorbike, and you would think she would just throw it in the thing. yeah No. She moves the trash can closer to the bike, gets back on the bike because she really feels like she wants to toss it into the bin. Sure.
00:40:30
Speaker
She's gone off the bike, moved the bin closer, gets back on the bike, she tosses it, and it's over the bin to where it was originally. Yeah. Nice. That's like people in the park when they throw their dog poop at the dumpster. I don't know how they miss it, but they do all the time. But it's so it's but's it's marriage it's li's marriage comedy. And it's like, what would you do And you just got laugh. It's pretty funny. this All couples, we all know this, right? like you People, we do funny things back and forth to annoy each other in the moment, but actually it's pretty funny.
00:40:59
Speaker
That is funny. Okay. So I'm going to play something like suddenly on my feed, yeah I'm getting this, which Which can only, can only think my phone thinks I'm facing some kind of marriage trauma or something, right?
00:41:15
Speaker
Okay, listen' listen to this, listen to this, listen to this. Can you hear that?
00:41:22
Speaker
What am I saying?
00:41:25
Speaker
Wait, going to put the the microphone on the phone, up to the microphone. Okay. lot of women, masculine men... there's one thing that drains a man faster than anything else in a relationship and most women do it every single day without realizing it's not about what you're saying it's how you're saying oh yes the affect voice a lot of women don't realize they've stopped using that soft warm voice with their man yeah everything comes out sharp so it's our fault nagging about that bringing up what he didn't do. And when was the last time you said something genuinely positive, not sarcastic, not backhanded, just appreciative. Most of the time it's 90% critical and maybe 10% positive if that.
00:42:04
Speaker
And then we wonder why he seems distant or checked out yeah that constant negativity. It's draining. Yeah. draining oh my god anyways and this is the count that there's an account that says every video there's like every single video is another woman it must be ai is another woman talking about how you know you have to be soft and you have to be at home and make sure you have his slippers at the door And a pipe. I i sort of laid this out. I don't know what's going on, but my phone thinks I'm in distress because it keeps showing this shit about coming home. and and And like, if you, all these women, if you want to keep a good man, it's like you got, yeah, anyways, I'm going to share this with you later on.
00:42:51
Speaker
I was laughing so hard. it so funny. i don't know who produces this stuff, but unbelievable. Unbelievable. I mean, just. it's You know know what? The majority of stuff I see on my feed is complete and total bullshit anyway.
00:43:04
Speaker
Like, you know, i i had this thought the other day that I was just going to sign out of everything for a couple weeks and see if my life becomes exponentially better. oh it Because it does. when i When I sign out and I don't look at it, it totally does. hundred percent.
00:43:21
Speaker
thousand percent. Yeah. yeah i guarantee it gets better. right even on i I think I haven't posted on Instagram like an actual post post for years. Yeah. Every once in a while I see something funny or I do something with the kids and I post it on stories because I know it it disappears in 24 hours. So it's just to share it with some close friends. Yeah. And and just move on.
00:43:42
Speaker
Right. and And I had a thought. I think think I'm going to I don't really want to delete the account because there's some funny shit out there. But I'm happy to delete delete all my posts right and just kind of disappear. And already I'm not, and I don't, i do and you're more active than me. i don't I don't have a Twitter account. I don't have a, what's it?
00:44:02
Speaker
What's the one that Instagram launched? thread Threads. Threads. My daughter was sending me TikTok. I'm like, I can't play it. I don't have TikTok app. I can't play it. Threads is as bad as It has to be. It's the same people. It's such a drag. It's so racist, anti-Semitic. Oh, is it really? Yeah, It's like everybody's insulting everybody else all time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can't do anything right. You can't do anything good. Right. All I use my Threads account for is to post dogs that are on euthanasia lists. Literally. I don't do anything else. That's awesome.
00:44:37
Speaker
Sometimes I comment on other people's stuff, like if you know like so like yeah news or whatever. But most times, it's on my feed in particular, it's all rescue work. That's all it is. right Right.
00:44:49
Speaker
nobody but see But that's kind of like... That's probably the best way to use something, an app like that, right? Getting news out en masse quickly to help people, you know, help the dogs. Yeah, that's it. And you don't need the peanut gallery. No, but the commentary people make, it's like, what? Like there's this one woman who harasses me and her username is OG. Any review? OG Maya Fox is her username on both Instagram and threads and I have no problem putting it out there. yeah yeah She comes onto my threads and she's like, you need to hashtag. You don't do enough.
00:45:27
Speaker
You blah, blah, blah. And she goes on and on you You don't get enough comments. And she goes on and on and on. cares And I'm not nice. Like, I'm not nice because I don't want to be nice. You know what? I don't have to be nice to you. You come on my thread and you're abusive when I'm i don't work for any of these people. I do it because it's important to me. That is weird, right? People do do that. they say the teacher They're trying to tell you what to do. is Again, she's like the worst. I blocked her on everything. Whatever it is.
00:45:56
Speaker
self-righteousness like hey i'm doing it's i mean nothing from our podcast like we have one listener i don't care yeah i don't care either i can't believe you don't to your i'm like it's okay dude i i have a great conversation with my friend jessica that's right other people my god sister still i'm like stelle i'm so happy you listen to this you don't have to shit no i love it because like it's like hearing your voice we live so far away right and we miss each other and it's like hearing your voice i'm like that's fantastic yeah it's lovely And she give me comments. I love it. give me comments after every Tuesday episode we we launch. And the next day she'll me comments. Oh, I agree on this. And oh, what about this? I'm like, fantastic.
00:46:33
Speaker
Our one listener engaging with us. Thank you. i don't do it for popularity. I know, exactly. And I don't and i don't post dogs for popularity. Like, I don't do it. You know what? i Listen, lady, I don't do it for you.
00:46:45
Speaker
Like, that's not that's not my ah objective. I don't do it to make her happy. This OG Maya Fox bitch. She is a bitch. I'm just like the last comment before I blocked her, I called her a twat and then I fucking vanished. I was like, you're a twat.
00:47:01
Speaker
Go GFYS. Jessica, you can't do that. It's mean to people. you know who talks like this? Which is really crazy because I like her a lot. who what She does this in every interview and it's really freaking annoying. who And she's our age, so I don't know why she does this.
00:47:21
Speaker
It's just funny. I thought if I sent my daughter to cal school in California for college, she would come back talking like this. Daddy, what even is the that? She might come back that way anyway just because of how they all speak. When I tell you this name of the person and then you go to interviews, you're like, oh, fuck. She does talk like that. And I feel sorry for her now. Who?
00:47:42
Speaker
Maya Rudolph. Oh, no. know. My favorite person. My favorite person. She got on some podcasts recently.
00:47:52
Speaker
i think it was the Amy Poehler one, the new one, a Good Hang. And they were talking about stuff. And every, my God. I was like, I really wanted to say, please, don't you have me?
00:48:07
Speaker
You're in Hollywood. You have PR people. You have media training. How can they let you go to every interview? And every sentence was, you know, when I was a child, I have really great parents. And and they supported everything I did.
00:48:23
Speaker
It hurts. I don't know. It hurts. And then kind of fell into Hollywood. my God. And I got some really good feedback on SNL. And I was like, Maya,
00:48:35
Speaker
again none my business but seriously lady you do this for a living it's bad don't like it that was bummer now i've ruined it forever i i will never not hear it now and i go shit i can't unhear what he fucking just said to me yeah i will never not know now now i'm just gonna be i won't be able to listen to her anymore Oh, no. I know. It's terrible. tough. All right. Well, now I'm just going to actively avoid her. Sorry.
00:49:04
Speaker
Sorry. Because I need to. Hey, I had a question. Yeah. Go ahead. No, sorry. I interrupted you. No, after you. I was going to say it's like really bad speech impediments. Sometimes I just need to turn it off. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:49:15
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure. um ah Yeah, what were you just going to ask? I'm sorry. going to ask you something hold totally out of left field. Yeah. Yeah.
00:49:27
Speaker
It's really cold today. Oh my God, it's freezing. That's why it took me so long to walk the dogs. I was like, I got up, I couldn't go outside. I was like, don't want do this. I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this. My life-changing question for you. Oh, yes.
Dogs and Cold Weather
00:49:41
Speaker
Do dogs feel the cold? Yes, absolutely. A hundred thousand percent. Yes. So when I see my neighbors, dress their dogs in like funny sweaters. It's because they need it. For real. Yeah. Because so, okay. So here's a clarity thing, right? Yes.
00:49:57
Speaker
So Mojo. Yes. Mojo is double coated, which means. Okay. He has his hair. Yeah. Underneath. He has a whole, like a whole second layer. Oh. Of, of like, um, it's kind of like softer hair and inflation hair. Right. Okay. Okay.
00:50:16
Speaker
Caesar yeah is a single-coated dog. Okay. Caesar has a very thin hair coat, short, and nothing else. Oh, so he's shivering. So he when I take him out in this weather without a sweater or a jacket, he literally spends the whole time with his ears pinned back shivering. Oh, really? Mm-hmm.
00:50:36
Speaker
So they do feel the cold. Yeah. Oh, 100,000%. Yes, definitely feel the cold. Because, you know, fish don't feel cold. Yeah. Yeah, but they also live in in an environment that's generally not warm. I mean, water technically is not hot. you know their land yeah Will the land dog refuse to go outside because too cold? Yes. So my other foster dog, yeah August, yeah when she would hat and she'd have to go more frequently. Okay. And I would put her harness on yeah and I would open the door and she would look at me like I was bananas.
00:51:09
Speaker
Right. And I'd have to pull her out of the house and we would walk like three houses down. She would pee and poop right in the street and then run right back home. Oh, wow. If she hated being outside, if it was cold, she did not want anything to do with it.
00:51:24
Speaker
Obviously not a Northeast dog. Okay. And she's also short hair, a single coat. She's like a pit bull probably Boston Terrier. You can't tell by looking at the dog. It's the by the breed. No, you can tell. i mean, you know, it can be breed driven. Like there are factual information about dogs, like dogs that are retriever dogs. Like all of those dogs have double coats because they're water dogs. And so they're insulated so that when they're in the water. Okay, but you wouldn't find that particular type of breed dog, one with double coat, one without.
00:51:57
Speaker
It's like if you're that breed, you have double coat. Yeah. I mean, but you also have mixes, right? so yeah yeah So you can have a mix that has a dominant breed in it where you would end up having a double coat. Like ah today there was weird. There's ah a dog I saw and granted this could be total bullshit. I've never seen it before, like ever, but there was a dog I saw a photo of who was a pit bull, but had really long hair because there was like some like weird thing.
00:52:23
Speaker
genetic anomaly yeah um for the hair growth. and And it's not impossible. I mean, it happens all the time. Genetics is a wild, funny thing. sure So it's possible, but I've never, I had never heard of it before, but he looked ridiculous. It was really funny.
00:52:38
Speaker
And then, yeah and then there's Cholo Esquincles. So Cholo Esquincle is a breed of dog. It's a Mexican hairless dog. Yeah. I'm not even kidding.
00:52:49
Speaker
Say that fast to me again. Jolo Squincle. Holy shit. I'll send it to you so that you can it to me you can you can see what it's spelled like. Okay. um And there's one. I've seen them before. we had roommates in l a when we lived there that um they had one.
00:53:06
Speaker
And he was adorable. um and you won His name was Cholo, just so we're clear. Okay. Okay. So there's one in my neighborhood and I see this woman walking her dog and he has no hair. Oh, wow. None.
00:53:22
Speaker
And I saw, I saw them the other day yeah and she has him in a full suit because he's freezing. Yeah. Right. So, okay. Yeah. Okay. So they do feel the cool. or Yeah. I guess that makes sense. I should know that because they definitely feel the heat.
00:53:38
Speaker
Right. In the summer. Oh yeah. A hundred percent. Yeah, totally. Totally, totally, totally. okay I'm sending it to you right now. and So you have like the all the information so you know that I'm not full of crap.
00:53:51
Speaker
You're full of crap. You're full of crap. I'm full of crap. We're all full of crap. it's okay With this, i am not full of crap. With this, you will see how not full of crap I am. Send it over. I did. I just i texted it to you. And you'll see a photo of it. There should be a photo that comes up and there's an illustration. okay And then if you look it up and you look up photos, you will see what I'm talking about.
00:54:14
Speaker
and Interesting. You know, I i love, ah we're so English centric here, obviously in America. i love it when I travel. to Asia or Europe and you see dogs that respond to foreign language commands. totally Like Chinese commands, total Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish. And it's a simple thing and obviously if you grew up in that area, of course you'll learn a foreign language. Whatever you the sound of the command is, the sound of the command is, right? But it's just its this likes funny when you come from North America and you go across and you hear these dogs respond to like Chinese commands, like, oh, shit, yeah. Well, you know, there are dogs in in shelters yeah right that get you know fostered or adopted out.
00:55:03
Speaker
And they think that they're disobedient. like They just don't listen. their commands that they are Spanish. their commands that they know are in spanish Or in German. Right. Damn, how do you figure that out? Right. Well, so there have been funny videos where people have figured it out. But, you know, it's like if you have a dog that's not listening to you, try try us you know a sit or, you know, I think sit is pretty common.
00:55:27
Speaker
Try sit in almost any other language and see if it sticks. And if it sticks, then you'll know that their owners were not English speakers. Right. That's funny. I think that's like in the Fall Guy, the movie Fall Guy. never saw that. No. Oh my God. i love Emily Blunt.
00:55:42
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And shit. I'm so bad with names. Yeah, I am too now. a Fall Guy. it's says What's his face? a Everyone loves him. I want to say Glenn Powell, but just because he's on my head.
00:55:56
Speaker
Because he's kind of always in my brain. Can you hear my thing? He lives there rent free. No, it's Ryan Gosling. Oh, Ryan Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt. They have really good chemistry. my God. And the dog. There's a German shepherd. think he responds to.
00:56:10
Speaker
ah is it French or German? Yeah, a lot of trainers use German. The Fall Guy. Yeah, it's like a, it's a, um what is it? What they call A rehash or remake of of Lee
Pop Culture in Media
00:56:24
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Majors, the Fall Guy. Remember when we were kids?
00:56:26
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Do you remember watching that TV show? He had the cameo at the very end. Anyway, it's pretty funny. You should watch it. it's in a i mean You would love it. ah It's rom-com. but I would love it then.
00:56:37
Speaker
For sure. think it's Peacock. I don't think I have that one. I think I have 800 of them. and I'm not sure that I have that one. um I have them all except for Paramount. I don't know why I can't get into that one.
00:56:50
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don't think i have Paramount. But i don't I don't have cable TV anymore, so it kind of sucks for sports once in a while. I can't watch something. um Okay. Well, ah that's pretty good for
Episode Preview and Conclusion
00:57:03
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today. yeah usual And I didn't even get to bring up what I wanted to bring up. oh shit. What did you want to bring up? So I wanted to bring up the NCDC NIL.
00:57:11
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Oh, fuck. I know. I saw that. And I do want to talk about that. and We should talk about it next time. It's been an hour. yeah we'll talk about it in the next one. We need to talk about it. But I think i think we need to talk about it i think it needs to come up.
00:57:24
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In 30 seconds. Go. Well, no, I don't want to talk about it now. 30 seconds is like silly. You like it or not like it? Thumbs up or thumbs down? You know. never that easy. It's not that easy. Never that easy. I think I feel like I feel like they're trying to bribe people to come to NCDC. Yeah.
00:57:43
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That's what I feel like. Because I feel like when they added 16 or whatever it was, new teams, people yeah had an exodus and they were like, no, i don't want to do that anymore. But I think it's like, I feel like it's a bribery tactic. It's like, come here. Come here. Play here. My daughter will hate this because every time we talk about hockey, she's like kind of fast forwards the podcast. Sorry. We'll get like minutes anyway, so it's okay.
00:58:05
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But our next episode, we talk about, yeah know deep dive. I don't think it's like that. I don't think it's like that. I think because a lot of the teams are picking up but from the EHLs. from the other pay-to-play leagues and they're tired of that. So they're bringing them into the fold. I agree with you. It dilutes the talent.
00:58:19
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I don't think people generally leave the top five to 10 teams, but it's interesting because, you know, it's a recognition that an NIL exists and there's some money and compete. And ah I think, we'll we'll end with this and and we'll do the dad jokes and we'll talk about more. I think that if you are a bottom level USHL or NAL player, you're not getting ice time. You're a very good player, you're getting ice time.
00:58:45
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If you come to the NCDC, which means that you, and you're good enough to get recruited for college, which helps NCDC. right you have a chance to like win a thousand bucks a week as player of the week. Yeah. Or 5,000 bucks. Sure. Part of a team that wins a championship. Like you can look at it as a incentive money, but it's some incentive, like you're going play and there's again some money. yeah And sure. It's not a lot. Hopefully it grows the sponsorship, but that's a way to sort of for NCDC anyways, to circumvent or attract players because
00:59:19
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Aren't they the only, they're the only tuition-free junior league that's not sanctioned, that's not officially USA Hockey, right? I think so. I'd have to look that up to be sure. think that's what it is. USHL, yes. Obviously, NAL, yes.
00:59:34
Speaker
Then it's NCDC. Those are only three tuition free. And then, sorry, hear And then and everything else is pay to play. Okay, anyways, let's get to the dad jokes and then you can go deal with a whiny dog.
00:59:45
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Another whiny dog. All right. How come the Hulk doesn't lose his pants when he transforms?
00:59:56
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That's really loud. need one of these. see you found the Jeopardy sound. Yeah. and I need to invest in one of those pop filters. Well, what would the pop filter do for you on with that?
01:00:08
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All these hard sounds that come out of our... You know that the thing, that that that screen they put in front of their microphone? Yeah, i had one. I didn't think it made much of a difference. How come the Hulk doesn't lose his pants?
01:00:22
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pants when he transforms? How come the Hulk doesn't lose his pants when he transforms? So I'm not answering the question because soon as you mentioned pants and the Hulk, all that came into my head were like penis things. No, it's not a dirty joke. I know it's a dad joke, but I immediately went You're going to like this one because this has got some good wordplay. How come the Hulk doesn't lose his pants when he transforms?
01:00:47
Speaker
Because... the experiment altered his genes that's funny that's very that's very good right yeah that's very cute it could still probably apply to like penis okay okay this next one's bad but i have to say it i have to say it this is bad uh only because music runs in your family it does deeply so this is a know this is a loosely related thing to you. What concert costs just 45 cents to attend?
01:01:24
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What concert costs just 48 cents? Sorry, 45 cents to attend. 48 cents. What concert costs just 45 cents?
01:01:34
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To attend? To attend? Like, oh my God. Jessica. what would You should know this. I should know this. I have no idea though.
01:01:46
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50 Cent featuring Nickelback. That's so fucked up.
01:01:51
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That one gets a big move. I would it's never. Holy shit. That was so bad. Neither one of those guys came into my head, by the way. what i was going That's genius. 50 Cent. That's funny. 50 Cent featuring Nickelback. That is very funny.
01:02:06
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Okay, wait. Here's a bonus one, which was really bad that I want to scratch off really quickly, but I couldn't get rid of it. What's Forrest Gump's email password? you look you can actually hum me Can you hear me scratching it off? Oh, there it is. hear that I'm scratching it off.
01:02:22
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What is his password? What's Forrest Gump's email password? What's Forrest Gump's email password? Hmm.
01:02:36
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Jenny. Jenny. It should be. It should be, Jenny. Okay, what is this famous what is one of the most famous quotes out of that people make fun of in Forrest? Life is like a box of chocolates. Okay.
01:02:49
Speaker
They say run, Forrest, run. Run, Forrest, run. The password is oneforest1. one That's terrible. Terrible. Absolutely horrific. I know. See, as I scratched it off. Anyways, that was the bonus. I'm so glad that one scratched off.
01:03:02
Speaker
Oh, there's some good ones coming. Oh, my God. I saw some. I was preparing for today. was like, oh, these are some good ones. Next week, next week. All right. Okay. So, NCDC NIL program. $250,000 up for grabs. That's going be one of the first things we talk about on episode 36 next week. But this is 35.
01:03:24
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Thank you, everyone, for listening. Thank Go do your dog stuff. Oh, I'm doing it all day God bless you, Jessica Silver. I'll take every blessing that's offered. Thank you. There you go See ya. Bye.
01:03:39
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