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#38: Watch Out For Those Uggs
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#38: Watch Out For Those Uggs
It’s funny how everything moves slower but friendlier once you leave NYC. Jessica recounts how she was bullied in her Uggs. Francis makes the mistake of asking Jessica who she’s currently fighting with on the internet :) And what’s with the NIL payments to NCDC players as they look to standardize team resources across the nation? Jessica keeps chugging along and guessing the dad jokes!
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Introduction and Themes
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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.
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We're Brooklynites and friends. We're here to talk, laugh, commiserate, and
Unpreparedness and Humor
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argue about all things travel sports-related, kid-related, and plain old life-related. It's Francis and Jessica, or I quit.
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Shh. Boom. Episode 38. As usual, we are unprepared. Woo. Well, there's a good reason to be unprepared. Hair on fire.
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But here we are. My hair is definitely on fire. Episode 38. thirty eight We got pick where we left off.
Granola vs Oatmeal Debate
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First of all, i still haven't ordered more oatmeal.
00:00:46
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Because you don't want to. There's nothing subliminal about it. I am going to. I am going to. i Lies. Lies. i have a physical coming up next week. I'm going to fail it for sure. Well, then don't bother with the fucking oatmeal. No, I got to get on that horse. no It's in your head on that horse. It's in your head. It's in your head. Have fat-free yogurt with like fruit.
00:01:10
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Is that going to help me reduce my cholesterol? You know what? If you do granola, it is oats. And then you don't have to suffer with like that shitty, maybe bland oatmeal that you force yourself to eat. yeah okay But it is oat-based.
00:01:23
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So you'd get oats in a little bit of a different way. And then it's a little sweetened with mostly maple syrup. but it's like a it's But they're natural sugars. It's maple syrup and honey.
00:01:33
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And if you find the right one. I highly recommend, actually, Michelle's. Do you know Michelle's granola? I not. i'll try it i'll try anything holy shit is it really is that good we do the almond one yeah it is unreal really out of this world unreal granola okay and and i never thought i would say that like for me like granola is like a hippie thing yeah hippies eat granola right like or like like i don't know hence the term granola food co-op members at Park Slope eat granola right there's definitely a ah stigma in my brain where granola belongs yeah okay I'll try it Michelle shot I'll give it mic a shout out to Michelle's because two L's or one it is I think two okay I think it I will send you a link for it so you know what it looks like because it will be easy to miss because it is not flashy packaging do have to to Whole Foods for this
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You may. Actually, they might have it
Chaotic NYC Experiences
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at, was it Jubilee? What the hell is that market? Dumbo Market. No, the one that I used to go to during the pandemic when I lived over there. What? The the one that I. Brooklyn Fair.
00:02:43
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Brooklyn Fair. Yeah. They'll have it there. Okay. I can do that. Nice. I would bet my, i would, well, it was funny. I was going to say my left nut, but I don't have a left nut. So I'll bet someone else's left nut that they have it there.
00:02:57
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I don't have a left nut. don't need know that. It's okay. Yeah. I don't know how that was just coming out. It's like when you like totally respond to somebody and you're like, suck my dick, but it's like, don't have a dick. I mean, I've got like a theoretical, but yeah, don't. friends visit from Florida. They're fellow hockey family. Yeah. Yeah.
00:03:13
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And it kind of like they went to the Colbert show first time, I think, in New York. Or one of the first times in New York. Stayed in Midtown. Their daughter is working here. sign is on hockey team with Evan.
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And I picked him up, went out for dinner. Oh, we were we had a game at Lawrenceville. We took the train, New Jersey Transit, back to the Penn Station. Okay. I
Adjusting to Slower Paces
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was just laughing. Oh, Penn Station, not bad. Port Authority's pretty bad. Penn Station's okay. Just stick to me. And we get off of the train, up the escalator, and the first thing we hear is, suck my dick.
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See? See? See? Welcome to New I'm telling you. I am telling you Life is better in Tampa. Welcome to New York. York.
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We have friends that live in Tampa also and they come up to visit and they just look at and they're like, what the hell's happening here? Oh my God. I'm like, it's the most excitement that you're going to get all year. So just settle in for the ride. The only explain it to people who never been here, I tell all my friends, like when you know that Star Wars scene in the early ones, like when they get out there to the whatever airport and it's just like total mayhem.
00:04:23
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Yes. All these creatures, like just hustling and bustling and trying to, do you need a ride? Do you need a Oh my God. I hate those guys. they do you know where You know where the worst of that is, though? it's like that, yeah.
00:04:35
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At Costco in Brooklyn. What? Oh, my God. Is it
Odd Encounters in Brooklyn
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like that? They all wait by the exit. And they har harass everybody who walks out of that store because they— Do ride from Costco? Right.
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Like, I guess they presume people show up, you know, by car because it's the city still, right? Yeah. Show up by car and need a car to leave with all their crap. No way. People go there in their own cars. Well, you would think— they're hauling shit cars.
00:05:01
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Right, you would think, right? Oh, it's interesting. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's so annoying. It is. Hey, think about that for a second. It is daunting, I think, if you're first-timer here.
00:05:14
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And you're not a savvy traveler, let's say. Sure. Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're not a paranoid savvy traveler. And you come here and it's just fucking bombarding you. Yellow cabs, people trying to look for cars, black, you know, you're looking for Uber. And you come out and everyone's like, need a taxi? Need taxi? Hey, come on. you Need taxi? Right. And they don't leave you alone. You say, no, and no, no. I mean, we're locals. And they harass. I'm like, just fuck off, dude. I don't need car.
00:05:38
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Right. Jesus Christ. know. They're so annoying. everything's just coming at you. Coming at you. Right? No, that's terrible. Hmm. No, I hate it. It's like overwhelming. It's overstimulating. doesn't need to be that way.
00:05:51
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No, and it shouldn't be that way at all. know. Forget need. Why is it like that? okay so but So then when you and I travel for hockey, And we get a little bit paranoid. And I was like, rush Evan to the restaurant. Oh my God. Like, dude, there's nobody here. Right. I was still in New York mode. Like, relax. Once you leave New York, everything's very peaceful. It's slow. And friendly. Yes. And slow. Yes. But I, but you know what? It's really hard.
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to show up in a place like I'm going to Minneapolis on Thursday. Right. Yeah. And the last time I went to Minneapolis, like I just move like my natural cadence, but it's my natural cadence because I live here. Right. Like it's just, so when I go to other places, it literally takes me the entire trip to come out of that cadence and just take a breath. I'm totally the asshole.
00:06:41
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But it's not intentional. I know, but you're the asshole. You look around,
Online Arguments and Anti-Semitic Tropes
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who's the asshole? You're the asshole. I'm the asshole. like I naturally walk faster. Even in the city here, i know when it's tourist season, oh my God.
00:06:55
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Yeah. I suffer. I suffer at the hands of people who are slow walking or standing around or stopping short on sidewalks. like I am just the most, that's when I get impatient. Yeah.
00:07:06
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You can walk slow, but just get out of my way. Yeah, I hear you. On my worst day, I don't like, you know what? Post surgeries, I've walked faster than some of the tourists I've gotten stuck behind.
00:07:19
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Like walking out of the hospital. but i believe that. you just get When you leave New York City, you have to get used to going into a coffee shop or grocery store and They're going to talk to you.
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Hey, man, how's it going? What's happening today? Where are you headed? Yeah. And like genuine questions. Yeah. Yeah. Order black coffee and walk out. Can't do that. Well, you can. No, no, no. You're right. You can't. you did Because I went into a caribou coffee. Yeah. like It was crazy early drop off the last time I was there. And there's a caribou coffee not far from the rink.
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and it was the only place open. yeah like They open at like 5.30 because that's the that's the spot in Minneapolis. It's Caribou. It's not Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts. It's Caribou.
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And I go in and there's nobody there and the guy behind the counter is you know, it's like so cliche, but he's like dressed in a plaid flannel shirt. you know, he's got like the beard and you know he's wearing like um a thicker wool baseball hat, you know, the whole deal. and I walk up and he's just like good morning and i was just like really good morning i was like it is a good morning and you know you immediately i think match the energy that's it because it's like if you don't match the energy you're the asshole oh yeah but it's when you're when you're in line it's okay but when you're fifth in line and you're trying to go and yeah and the person first like So, you know, this morning I woke up and went outside. Totally. And someone had turned my trash can over. Can you believe it? Dang it.
00:08:52
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I had to go down there and pick that up, put that back in the garage. Right. And then, of course, I want to jump in and be like, you think that's bad. right you think that's bad. Let me tell you what happens to my garbage cans where I live. Exactly. Oh, my God. Yeah, I hear you in that. um Anyways, I wish you smooth travels to Minneapolis. Yeah. You know, I said to a friend of mine, I said, what's the over under on getting caught in the middle of an ice raid right now as I'm like walking around? they're gone, man. Yeah. On to next city.
00:09:23
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Off to the next city. They'd be gone. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think they're ever actually gone, though. They should have been the Super Bowl. ah You know what? I wouldn't be surprised if they were at the Super Bowl. i think they officially said they weren't going to be at the Super Bowl. i think because people were worried, right? Yeah, people were worried. I think, yeah.
00:09:39
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But if you're worried... Maybe that's the problem. maybe they i
Societal Issues and Middle East Conflicts
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i I don't want to dive too deep into this because there's some real polarizing opinions. We got something more po have more polarizing. that um In the transition of walking and assholes, you had something left over from last episode that you didn't get a chance to talk about.
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So I go, I'm walking towards the subway yeah from my house to go meet friends for dinner and drinks. and yeah And I hadn't seen, I like, I don't see these friends. One of them, i literally see maybe once a year if I get lucky.
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she just lives up in New York state a little bit further away. and you know, and, and over the years, like we hadn't really been tight, kind of friendly, like, Hey, hi. But now like when we go out,
00:10:30
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you know We have um ah you know another friend who is a really great facilitator at that planning and getting people together. you know She's like the gatherer. Let's get everyone together. Let's go out. right yeah you know and And when you have someone like that in your life, you're like, thank God. Because otherwise I'd probably never see anybody. yes It's amazing.
00:10:50
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And she's amazing. um So anyway, so i ah get dressed and it's 11 degrees, like super crazy cold. So I'm wearing, i don't own Uggs.
00:11:04
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I don't like them. But this particular night, I borrowed a pair from another member of my family. Cool. Because woman fuzzy man They are, but you know it's kind of funny that i when I wear them, if I wear them with like smart wools or wool hiking socks, they make my feet cold.
00:11:26
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What? Cold. Come on. I go to the rink wearing them. I'm freezing. What? I know. And it's funny because I have this pair of snow boots yeah that, you know, they look like hiking boots, but they're taller.
00:11:39
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You know, they're super insulated. They're like winter hikers, right? Yeah, yeah, And they're made by a company called VASQ, which is a V-A-S-Q-U-E. Oh, okay. Which is a company who builds outdoor gear, like serious outdoor gear. Mm-hmm.
00:11:56
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A friend of mine had them. She said they were really warm. I found them on sale, like clearance, whatever. I bought them. I've had them maybe seven, eight years, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. My feet are never cold in those boots. Oh, man. So that's the bar. That's awesome. Right? That's the bar. And so anything that doesn't meet that bar is a crappy ass pair shoes.
00:12:17
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So anyway, I'm wearing these Uggs, but they're kind of new and I'm trying to be really careful. who Right? So I'm walking and... Lazy ass people only shoveled like a shovel. Right. On this long strip of road. Sidewalk going to the subway. And so person's walking up the shoveled strip yeah towards me.
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and this person's a little bit bigger than me. Okay. Truth be told, kind of an androgynous type of look. Like I can't really tell whether it's a male or a female. I just don't really know. Not that it matters, but it's a bigger body structure than mine.
00:12:57
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And so I opt to move off to the side because this person is not like we're playing chicken at this. Yeah, yeah right. someone Someone's got to give way. Someone's got to look at one person. Right. And I don't need to be the jerk. I want to preserve the integrity of the shoes that I've borrowed. i don't want to be stepped on. I don't want to be pushed into slush or whatever. So I gently step off to the side and wait for this person to go. This fucking person looks at me, looks me up and down, looks at my shoes or the shoes that I've borrowed and starts laughing.
00:13:31
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What fuck? Right. And so this person who is androgynous, as they're laughing, I realize has braces on their teeth. So now I can't even figure out if it's an adult or a child. Like, I really can't even figure it out. yeah And so I opted not to say anything in case it was someone who was under the age of 18 because then I'm just the abuser.
00:13:51
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Yeah. But I sat there and i was like, what the fuck was that? And why are you laughing? what Are you sure they're laughing at you? Yeah, totally. 100%. Yeah, like, look at me and laugh. day It's a they. Yeah, it's they. i don't know. It was very strange. They'd laughing at you. And I've never seen that person. that person, by the way, yeah wearing brand new white leather sneakers.
00:14:13
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In the fucking snow? In the fucking snow. The fuck? No wonder they were playing chicken and wouldn't move off. But then laughing at me was the pinnacle of, what's your problem? Laughing, but no no words, just laughing.
00:14:26
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And then what? chuck Kept walking? Yeah, I kept walking. Oh, okay. And then I kept walking. No altercation. I was just like, because I, you know, first of all, it wasn't worth it, but I was just like, wow. No Long Island Jessica altercation. What the are you looking at? it And it kind of lived a little rent-free in my head yeah until I got onto the train and, you know, opened phone and was, you know, reading my book. But I was just like, what the hell? What was that? What? What?
00:14:50
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It was not great. It was not great. And then I regretted not saying anything. Yeah. And then I thought, damn, Jessica, you getting old or what? You're getting old and soft on me. You definitely would have said something. Yeah, I was like, stop investing in this. Just stop. Stop investing in this. This is stupid. The person's, were you know, like a total idiot. Just leave it alone. And so...
00:15:09
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It could be one of the people you argue with on the internet. It could have been. It could have been. I'm in a really good one right now on Threads. Are you really? Yeah. What's the new one? What's today's argument? this guy, like, he posted some bullshit about, you know, in Deuteronomy, like, biblical bullshit, right? What the Which like, funny about how Jews, you know, believe in taxing, but Muslims don't believe in... Islam doesn't tax their brethren and, like, all this dumb bullshit. What the fuck? What kind of bullshit is that? Oh, it was so stupid. It's like the passage, the way that he embellished what the passage is interpreted to mean. And I'm no biblical scholar, believe me.
00:15:47
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But I'm also someone who's heavily motivated for truth. And so i take that shit and I pop it right into an AI. And I'm like, what does this mean? yeah you know And so like I come back with...
00:16:01
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You know, the fact that he really just, he twisted the interpretation to suit his narrative about how Jews are money hungry. Like old stupid tropes, right? yeah And so i i went in and I was just, I laughed. I was like, ha ha. And I said, wow you, you, you know, like ridiculous Jew hating,
00:16:27
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You know, like I just kind of went off on this thing and I was like, I'll give you this, though. You're pretty creative. Is he anonymous again? No, sos he's not anonymous. He's showing his face. I don't know if it's a Muslim. No, he's not. And I don't know if it's his face or not his face, because, you know, like I don't have my face on my profiles either. Yeah.
00:16:44
Speaker
Another white guy being angry for Muslims that he's not part of. So he doesn't understand shit and he's making up stuff. is that what's going on here? Yeah, pretty much. I mean, but they all do it. All these virile anti-Semites all do the same thing.
00:16:57
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They literally do the same thing. They do dumbasses. First of all, like so dumb. Every time I hear that thing about the money thing, listen, sure. Muslims don't charge interest on their loans. not allowed to by Sharia law.
00:17:11
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OK, so all they do is they sell things at a discount to embed the interest in it. That's exactly right. That's exactly right. I work for a Muslim bank. I know this. It's like, we can't charge interest on this loan, a dollar, right? They owe a 6% interest, $1.06. So we just take the 6% out of the dollar and give them like 94 or 93 and change to get the 6% interest back.
00:17:32
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back interest back What the fuck are you talking about? You can play with numbers all you want. And it never needs to look... It doesn't always necessarily look at face value as what it is in reality, right? But what I wrote to him
Perception of Racism and Media Influence
00:17:46
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was simply anti-Semitic drivel. You rabid Jew haters are creative, though I'll give you that. And he wrote back another victim card.
00:17:53
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And so I wrote back, ha ha, ha, victim card, that's all you have, more deflection. You don't peddle in facts. You dole out old played out anti-Semitic tropes because you can't back anything up with real life. You do know that smart, motivated, non-racist people can look up the BS you throw out and verify that it's crap, right?
00:18:08
Speaker
And he hasn't responded. course not. He needs to run for mayor. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, and I don't, it's hard to tell, you know, if these guys are, you know, like, uh,
00:18:20
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Some eight-year-old kid. Yeah. Or, you know. I don't know what she just said to me. Right. Right. Right. What's that word she used? I've never seen that word before. Totally. But it's like another victim card. It's like I didn't say anything about that made me into a victim. I mean, honestly, these days, you could just be AI Yeah.
00:18:40
Speaker
Oh, totally. people are deranged. Totally deranged. It's like the cause du jour.
Likeability in Success
00:18:54
Speaker
Not a word about Iran, but you know iran like but it's like these people. God, the way they hang on this. Are they still out there? They haven't moved on something else? It's still pro-Palestine? No, they're well, they're all ignoring. They're all totally ignoring the protests and the murders by the mullahs in Iran. Right. All the hangings and the executions. They're ignoring it because it doesn't fit their narrative. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. About, you know, supremacy and colonization and all their bullshit. Yeah, because yeah. Because Iran is, in fact, colonized by Islam. Yeah. so So, mean, these are all Persians trying to fight for their rights. Yeah. I think they don't know how to protest on behalf of the...
00:19:30
Speaker
And Zoroastrians. Downtrodden Iranians who been shot and killed. they know they No, they don't want to protest. not You know what? During the Grammys, not a single fucking word from anybody about Iran.
00:19:46
Speaker
Nothing. But they all wore anti-ice pins. Right. And they all wore the red hand, the yeah you know pro-Palestinian red hand, which is just endorsing murder and genocide. Yeah, totally. And they're like idiots. Right. It's like the there's no there's no bottom to the dumb and the indoctrination. Is it weird? We shouldn't. We won't talk about it. Is it weird that the far left, the left, which I always thought of as supporting all causes, yeah has gone anti-Jew?
00:20:20
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No, I mean, it's on the far left and on the far right. Right. But the far left, the thing about the far left is, you know, this has been an infiltration in higher education institutions for the most part.
00:20:33
Speaker
Right. So, you know, you've got a ton of money. being donated and funneled through ah so many of the universities from Qatar. And then you have this as a teaching tool, right? This pro-Palestinian narrative, this anti-Israel rhetoric.
00:20:53
Speaker
You know, this is where you get your oppressed and oppressor narrative from. it's because they're poor, right? If the Palestinians were as... big and strong a territory as the Israelis. There wouldn't be this outrage, right, for them. But let's talk about why they're poor. Yeah.
00:21:08
Speaker
Why are they poor? Well, no one's helping them. No? None of their fellow Muslim nations are helping them. Right. Well, that's but for a whole other reason. Okay. The reason that they're poor is because any money that's been followed, like yeah all filed into, let's say, Gaza. Let's leave let's even leave the West Bank out. Sure, sure, sure, sure. Let's just talk about Gaza.
00:21:28
Speaker
Any money that's been flowing into Gaza has been interrupted by Hamas. Oh, it's been stolen by them. Right. Totally. And so, you know, Hamas' leaders living the life of luxury in Qatar, billions and billions of dollars in savings and accounts, right? Yeah. That's why they're poor. They're poor because they've elected this government that now they can't get rid of.
00:21:49
Speaker
Yeah. Right? No matter how hard they wanted to try it. But although, you know, a lot of polls suggest that they don't want to get rid of them in its entirety, you know, the public in its entirety, know, It's like Iraq, right? It's like you don't like Saddam Hussein, but the reality is he was able to keep all those crazies like ISIS away, right? And have yeah order, even if yeah you was on the wrong side of it, there was still some order. Right.
00:22:16
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Now there's no order. Right. It was the same thing with Afghanistan. Yeah. yeah It's the same thing. and and And the common thread, oftentimes the common thread is the infiltration and colonization by Islam.
00:22:30
Speaker
Right. But the Palestinian- Syria, Lebanon, you got Lebanon too. Yeah, people are upset for Palestine, whatever other places, because they're poor. They're not. They're not poor because of what the
Hockey and Youth Sports Transition
00:22:42
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so-called, quote-unquote, oppressor is doing. It's because their own government's stealing the money and putting the pockets in disappearing. Correct. So, like, go look at them. Right. for but But the white people here- The white people here who are protesting, the far lefties, they're always protesting for these, the underdog, quote unquote, the underdog. The oppressed. Without really understanding the issues.
00:23:01
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And well, because a lot of them, a lot of them are miseducated. They have the Internet available to them and will never verify anything yeah because they take they eat it with a spoon. It's just like you feed it to them. They'll eat with a spoon, right? They're convinced that they're right. They're convinced that they know what they're talking about and they're convinced that they can change the world. So those three things together are a distinct recipe for a veritable shit show, which it's become.
00:23:26
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Yeah, we don't. But but and the sanctimony, the the bullshit, the bullshit. They want to change the world and everything. But if I buy you an air ticket to Palestine, will you go?
00:23:36
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No, they wouldn't. No, no, no, no. I'm going home to my apartment and pay my mom and dad. That's right. That's right. Yeah, I mean, they don't, what you know, that that's that's the you know where the whole entire um theory of walking the walk and talking the talk comes in, right? Totally. you guys are going to talk the talk, but not one of them ever would walk the walk.
00:23:58
Speaker
Yeah. And furthermore, none of them would even go and walk the walk in Israel to see if all of that shit they've been told is true. It's too convenient. is I mean, oh how convenient to protest in New York City? I mean, fuck, they're not doing shit. Yeah, but this is this is part of like the bigger picture.
00:24:15
Speaker
i think that this is part of a, um you know, and and there have been, don't know if there's studies, but there definitely been observations that it all boils down to a war on the West because, Getting the progressives and the left to go against Israel or to go against the United States government, essentially going against democracy, essentially going against Western values. That's exactly what happened in Iran in 1979 when the mullahs were able to um dethrone the Shah and take over and have the entire land become under Sharia law. So there is there there are examples for this. Right, right.
00:25:00
Speaker
you know instead of sitting there and going oh wait maybe i should go check that out and see what the parallels are and what the you know similarities are instead they fight back and they depend they defend you know you know the the palestinians in their right to you know fight back but right They're fighting against the wrong people. They're fighting against the wrong thing. And the reason that the Arab neighbors won't help them isn't because they hate them. It's because they've tried in the past to help them. And the Palestinians have gone on rampant murdering sprees and trying to take over countries. They did it in Egypt. They did it in Lebanon. They've tried to do it in Syria. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:25:44
Speaker
You know, and this is all historically documented. It's not bullshit. It's not drivel. It's not trope. It's literal history. And so when people talk about refugees, you know, and taking them as refugees, those countries are like, no.
00:25:56
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As a matter of fact. Yeah, yeah. No, no, exactly. Egypt. They've all said no. Egypt reinforced their huge concrete wall between Sinai and Gaza. They don't want anything to do with it. I mean, that's typical. I talk about all the That's Zion. Like, if your neighbors...
00:26:09
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Neighboring
Opportunities and Career Adaptability
00:26:10
Speaker
Muslim countries don't want to you. Look, that's a sign, dude. Right, right. You're undesirable everywhere. Don't go picking on like Israel. They're undesirable to everybody. Sorry to say that. And they're infantilized by the general public in the world because... news cycles pass them by well Well, you know, it's like, oh, you got to keep raising money for them. oh look at them. They're sleeping in tents. Oh, they're so downtrodden. I haven't seen any news articles about it anymore recently. They have indefinite refugee status. Right, right, right. Which is insane.
00:26:43
Speaker
That's crazy. Wait, indefinite refugee status us where? Here? Generally. Palestinians. Yeah, but who's taking them? Well, I don't know who's thinking that. Not America these days. I'm going to tell you that. Well, they did, though. During the war, they fucking did. They let a ton of Palestinian people in on the West Coast. Hmm.
00:27:01
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I mean, you know, blue states in particular, red states wouldn't take them. Red states are busing or busing illegal immigrants out by the busloads typically, right? Dropping them off in blue states yeah and, you know, yeah harbor cities. But, like, yeah, the world is so upside down. We live in, like, an inverted reality. There's a truth inversion that happens all over the place right now that is just so upsetting. Well, it's like an elastic band, right? Everything. like So you get in these extremes and everywhere around the world you see these, like, hyper-conservative leaders getting elected.
00:27:31
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in In reaction to what's going on the world. And then whatever, 10 years, 20 years, when we're when we're recording podcast episode number 1450. It'd be the opposite. Yeah. One happy globe. Globalization is back. All the other conservative leaders are dead. And who the who hell knows, right? Yeah, don't know. of tick tock along the way. I don't know. I kind of, I fear for the future because, you know, there's so much hatred actually now on the far left and on the far right. And there's not enough representation in the middle anymore.
00:28:05
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I think that's happened before, though. I mean, history does repeat itself. And it has happened before. And then it resolves itself. And then because these are these are all reactions, right? Every time you see some far left, far right, you know, take power, it's in a reaction to the other side. Right. Right.
00:28:20
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so Every action has an opposite reaction. Yeah, you you you you gave you eventually reach some equilibrium where down the middle becomes the more plausible solution to a lot of problems, right? and Yeah, it depends on how many people they can polarize in the interim.
00:28:36
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Yeah. Right? And race baiting and race identity politics, yeah you know, really aid in that polarization process. yes And I would argue that, you know, you got people on the right Yeah. Who, you know, peddle in identity politics. And you have a ton of people now on the far left, the ultra progressives who really only peddle in identity politics. Right.
00:29:01
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You know, i mean, Bernie Sanders does. does. Yeah, yeah. All these guys. know, Mom Donnie totally does. Right. There's like, there's this democratic socialist movement that, you know, peddle.
00:29:12
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Very heavily in identity politics. And when people believe all of it and they start to listen and they start to identify with it is when you get that polarization. And I don't know actually how much footing you can regain as that starts to really ramp up.
00:29:32
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it's It's hard to convince people to give up the convictions that they've developed. And I think especially when it comes to differences in race. Yeah. You know, did you ever see Avenue Q on Broadway? I loved Avenue Q. Wasn't it great? Oh, my God. That was so funny. Do you remember the song Everyone's a Little Bit Racist?
00:29:51
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Yeah. Yeah. Right. So i think yeah I think that's a really applicable, yeah you know, soundtrack to this. What a short-lived yeah That show was so wanted by kids watch that. It was same so funny. Same. i wanted i wanted to bring the kids also. my God. But I feel like, wasn't it COVID that put it down?
00:30:08
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no No. Was it before that? It was gone well before that. Oh. What a shame. It was so good. weird because it was well-loved show. Oh my God, it was so good. Very entertaining, very funny. Oh, so funny. Yeah.
00:30:19
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Was that considered off-Broadway? No, it was Broadway. It was Broadway, right? Yeah, it was on Broadway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Yeah, Eric and I saw It was so great. Like, we still talk about it now. And it's just such a shame that we never got the kids, you know. That was the one where that one puppet was like purpose, purpose, turned into propose. Yes. And he freaked out. Yes.
00:30:40
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Yeah. It was great. It was like the ultimate, you know, combination between Sesame Street and the Muppets. Yeah. Dirty puppets. Yeah. It was so good. It was good. Oh, man. Yeah. So anyway, everyone's a little bit racist is where i was what I'm getting at. oh i I would 100% agree. Even the people would disagree. That's totally true. Yeah, it's true. i but Again, it's not I think people have to like teach my kids, like there's it's the intention that matters.
00:31:06
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It's just like with comedians. You can say something funny, it might be a little bit racist, but your intention is to be funny and say a joke, it's okay, we can all laugh about it because everyone has stereotypes in their head and blah, blah, blah. it's if you're using it intentionally to hurt somebody, then you're at a different level of racism. Yeah. I just, I think that the, you know, as the audience for it, yeah I think sometimes it's a little, that that water is a little muddied. And I think that um intention can be masked. Yeah.
00:31:37
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Yeah. Right. like You can mask you could mask true racism and call it intention. Yeah. Be like, oh, no, I was just joking. But, you know, like my my grandparents used to tell me yeah when I was a kid, they had the saying and they said, you know, the truth is ingest. J-E-S-T. Right. And so when you're joking around with someone and you're like, oh, you're so fucking stupid. And you're like, ha, ha, ha, just kidding. Like, no.
00:32:04
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No. You had to think that in order to actually have that cross your lips. And then once it's out there, you can't take it back. Right. A lot it's also performative these days because the internet, it was like, I can't just see something normal or down the middle and get clicks and eyeballs. Right. that's why there's no authenticity. I need to be like outrageously racist or sexist or something to get people on my channel. Right. And the more they argue and the more they stay on my channel, the better it is for me. Right. You know, that sort of thing, right? Well, you know, it's like I thought that way originally when I started to listen and watch Burt Kreischer. Do know Burt Kreischer? Oh, yeah. He tells a great story a long time ago about his...
00:32:44
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which ended up being fake, ah his fake high school trip to Russia. Okay. That was great story. Right. But that's you know that's kind of like to my point. Yeah. Right? Like you just don't really know yeah yeah what's real and what's not. Is he still around? Oh, God, yes. Really? Oh, God, yes. haven't seen him anywhere. around. Absolutely. I was just watching some kind of clip ah um of him the other day with Sam. Because he Sam thinks he's funny as hell.
00:33:10
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And he can be funny as hell. I mean, some of his stuff is just like, dude, seriously. Yeah. Yeah. Come on, man. So outrageous. So outrageous. But he's a good storyteller.
00:33:20
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He is. and And his laugh and is entertaining. Yes, yes, yes. And the way that he engages is yeah entertaining. And all those things are great. yeah you know But the first time I think, I think it was the first time i saw a clip of him. Yeah. like i My immediate reaction was, ugh, what the fuck? Yeah. Yeah.
00:33:40
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Because I couldn't tell. There's good life lesson in all this for people, right? Especially young people. Yeah. Likeability, relatability, and likability. Mm-hmm.
00:33:52
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very, very sort of like, what's the word? Underappreciated. Yeah. I don't feel understand, like, especially in this day and age, but the whole fairness thing, people have no idea. Like, you can be the dumbest ass on the planet in a company, but if you, everybody loves you because you're just a happy person, jokes, like, rah, rah,
00:34:12
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There's a place for you in every organization. Yeah. Okay. A lot of those guys, every time see someone like, oh, that person's not better than me. But that person's more likable than you. That's right. want to be around them. That's right. And that's what matters. Yeah. A lot of times. That's exactly right. That's really successful trait to nurture, if you could, in a young person is the likability. Right. That's exactly
Parenting and Resilience
00:34:33
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right.
00:34:33
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Yeah. Changes everything. Yeah. And and it you know what? And it changes, your degree of likability will change amongst the people you're around. Sure. Right. So it's got to be the right place too. Right. I mean, I have a self-fulfilling, like the more like, ah even if your cause is complete evil, if you're likable, right.
00:34:52
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People are following you. And then the more people that follow you, the more likable you become. And I just kind of blows up. That's how all these like cult followers or whatever bullshit goes on in the world. Like, how How did everyone fall for that? Like this person got charisma. Well, I think there are you know, a lot of pundits that fit that bill. Oh, yeah. You know, like Candace Owens. Sure. Rogan. And this is a really crazy, stupid shit. or Charismatic. But ultimately, they're the like the most racist of all of them. Yeah. yeah You know, and just doing the most rhetoric and and frankly, some of the most dangerous. Oh, yeah.
00:35:23
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People. um yeah Yeah. Like they fit that bill. right Because when they first hit the scene, their like ability factor was like yeah through the roof. yeah People oh yeah loved all of them. And then that's the draw, right? Bring them all in and then make sure you go with your message, which is subversive and yeah you know an underhanded. Jessica, do you have something happier to discuss today? Yeah, I don't even know how this came up, to be honest.
00:35:51
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i don't know. we We fell down this rabbit hole. I think it was it all started with the the crazy they person who laughs at your boots. Yeah.
00:36:02
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And oh, that's my fault. My fault. Oh, you it. are arguing with? It's my fault. I said, who are you arguing with today? then you went down to the sky about the anti-Jewish stuff and then we sort of rolled on to it. So sorry, everybody. So sorry, one listener. That's my fault.
00:36:18
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Right. It is your fault. ok it's all your fault we was it It's all your fault. It's fault. all your fault. Let's bore my daughter even more. Yes, I love boring her. That's perfect. After that the hate-filled or hatred-filled or whatever focused argument we just talked about, let's not talk about hockey. hey Yes, let's do it. Near and dear to your heart and my heart. Correct. But for everyone else, sorry, you're to have to bear with us. so Or you can turn us off.
00:36:46
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But we've already got to click. There are no ads. We have to click. um The NCDC. You know what's funny? I always get confused. Okay, so the parent organization of NCDC is USPHL, not affiliated with USA Hockey.
00:37:03
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USPHL is the umbrella. Yeah. And under USPHL is the NCDC, huh which is the tuition-free junior league. Not all of them are tuition-free, but there is there's a division line between. Sure, but NCDC is supposed to be. Yeah,
00:37:20
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And then below NCDC is, you this is why this is why i get confused. They call USPHL Premier and Elite. Yes. Which are pay to play. Yes. And ok very expensive.
00:37:33
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And very expensive. Right. And that's why I always get confused because the umbrella is USPHL. And then they also have the lower teams called USPHL Premier and Elite. And then there's NCDC. So I'm like, ah, ah, ah. Okay, anyways, for everybody, NCDC is mostly, let's let's say top half NCDC. yeah that It's really, that's the the the the lowest of the tuition-free junior hockey teams you're going to play for that could get you to college. Right, tier three juniors, we'll call it.
00:38:04
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Tuition-free tier three juniors. Actually, I think they refer to themselves as Tier 2. Tier 2. Okay. I always thought that NOL was Tier 2 and USHL was Tier 1.
00:38:15
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I think... That's how I thought i always thought it went. Yes. I believe you are correct. I think... I mean, who knows? I think because they're not USA hockey sanctioned, people might call them Tier 3. But in all the press articles I've seen, NCVC is referred to Tier 2. Okay. And then everyone else, whatever. i'll have to I'll have to ask. So be it. I'll have to ask my other source.
00:38:36
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Yeah. My other source is in the thick of it. He'll know. They are now, they're the first league to introduce for twenty six twenty seven season. ah which starts this fall, right? It does. Yeah.
00:38:51
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Dates. It's ah it's all a blur. um They're going start paying people for performance. I heard this. Yeah. And I did the numbers. It says the headline is 250 K really it is for NCDC. USPHL premier.
00:39:06
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and then the remaining seventy is for us p l premier And then elite kind of gets in this whole redevelopment of NCDC. Elite seems to be just like killed off.
00:39:19
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Like it might still exist. Yeah. But the expansion of NCDC and ah the drive for uniformity. I think this is the one good part about all of this is that supposedly. Yeah.
00:39:34
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in conjunction with performance pay. So we're talking things like if you win the championship for NCDC, every player gets 5K on the roster. That's $130,000 of $180,000 budgeted that, right? Right. $5,000 year end for top forward, top top goalie. Yep. $1,000 per week for player the week. Okay.
00:39:47
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Okay. five year five thousand dollars award year n for top forward top d top goalie one thousand dollars per week for player of the week okay There's 25 weeks right in their season. $1,000 each for six players who make the playoff all-tournament team.
00:40:13
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hu And then $4,000 extra for the playoff MVP. Okay. So all that together $180,000. Okay. And i think and and then and and with that,
00:40:28
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and the expansion of ncdc and ah a requirement now that if you run an NCDC team, you also run USPHL Premier. It's like a farm team for for development into your NCDC team. You can stop running your elite team.
00:40:50
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Interesting. And then they're going to have uniform. It's almost like a union. i size It's not a union contract, but it's basically that. It's going to say, once you have this uniformity of NCDC and a Premier team,
00:41:03
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Everybody has to have minimum standards league-wide for bus travel, for hotels, for meals, um uniform, equipment.
00:41:14
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All these things are now standardized under this restructuring of NCDC. Okay, so you know on the surface, good, better for the players who are there. you have and I think their argument is if you have some performance bonuses in terms of money,
00:41:30
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you will so they're saying they think that they can get, I guess, the bottom half of the NAL players to come over into NCDC.
00:41:40
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Sure. Right? Because they're either not playing on those teams. And they're good players, obviously, but they're not playing. So come down to NCDC, earn some money, potentially. But beyond that, it has to be If you can improve your player pool.
00:41:57
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Yeah. I.e. more recruits to college. That's really the only way you're getting your league. Right. I also think it's it's a it's a motivat and it's a motivating factor to keep the better players around.
00:42:10
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Yeah. Not just to bring players who are not playing in other areas, but to to maintain and keep the better players so that the league maintains its integrity.
00:42:22
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Yep. Yep. Yep.
00:42:26
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you know a player who wants to go and play college hockey yeah you um has you know worked towards that end yeah for a really long time they don't choose ncdc first Yeah. Right. That's not the, that's not the goal. The goal yeah is, you know, USHL, NAL. Yeah. Oftentimes they play NCDC. Yeah. To play juniors. Yeah. You know, they don't get the recognition. They have suffered injuries and haven't gotten the looks. Yes. You know, need some looks. Exactly. Whatever. i just think that, I think it's smart.
00:43:02
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I think it's really smart. Yeah. To um keep that talent pool saturated and interesting. Well, wonder if the other leagues respond.
00:43:14
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I don't know. I mean, the And they start paying people too. You know, look, the USHL kids, the guys who are, you know, slated for college will probably have the mail money anyway. They don't need to. they don't have anything to do with that. But it's really the null in the middle. Right. It's really the null in the middle and to see what they may or may not do in response to that new structure.
00:43:33
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And I think it would be really interesting if they did. yeah I think that that's an interesting... The NAL has gotten too, they've all gotten too big. Yeah. Right? Only the USHL has sort of shrunk, I think, in teams or they've maintained. I think they've maintained. I don't think they've shrunk. But they also, you know, they also have, you know, kids coming in from Canada to play. So that pushes, right? So that pushes everything else downhill anyway. yeah So, you know, the NAL might find that also being a motivating factor to keep, you know, a saturated talent pool.
00:44:06
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Yeah. Hanging around. For sure. For sure. So that's, yeah, it's interesting. I didn't mean, we don't fall close enough to, to have known. Not yet, was but i will be. That was expected or not expected. but will be shortly. i mean, I don't, I don't, you know, dive in. I'm trying to live in the moment right now. Yeah. Which is the end of, of youth hockey. Oh yeah. Right. I'm trying to really live in that moment and not look too, too far ahead. Yep. Um,
00:44:28
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But of course I'm looking ahead because I have to. I'm just, you know, I'm in the last month, really. I know. About three weeks for us. Yeah. As parents of youth hockey players, 18-year-olds. Yeah. So at the end of at the end of of that youth hockey season, yeah I'll take a much deeper dive, like a more focused, concentrated dive. I just, I haven't been able to really bring myself to...
00:44:55
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over-examine it because I'm really feeling the end. Really? Yeah, I am. I'm really feeling the end you know as i went to i went to a game the other day and you know i was just sitting there thinking how long i've been ingrained in this routine Yes. Right. Not just, not just structured. Yeah. Yeah. The structure of the routine. Yeah. the Yeah. Try out season. And i I don't mean to shift from, you know, the STDC. This is real.
00:45:27
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Yeah. But like, I really like, you know, for, I mean, since, my God, it's been at least 10 years. I know. Maybe longer. Yeah. The triaths and the practices, the game weekends, the tournament weekends, the families you meet, the people you take with you to your next environment. was sitting there and was like, wow. Wow.
00:45:53
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It was a very wow moment where I had this surge of it's almost done. like this i thought I was going to be sad. To be honest, i thought was be really sad and shed a tear. But actually, i'm just like when my daughter went to college, people were like, are you sad I'm not sad. Well, that's because you're a sociopath. I'm super excited. I remember my my I had a good time in high school and college. I was like, I'm really excited. to My daughter said, really excited for you. I know you're daunting, but I'm like so excited for you because that's like truly I think in the world there's never been a better time to say to your kids
00:46:33
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You can do anything. Right. And the sky's the limit. Right. And and go have fun. Go figure it out. Have your fun and do something you love. Yeah. and in and and And make a good life out of it. Let's say success is measured through financial independence.
00:46:47
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Yeah. Okay. One aspect. Like, you know, even for you and me, in our generation, there's a certain path you follow. Right. But I think in today's world, you can really do almost anything to be good at it and make money and live. Yes. I mean, I think you need to be much more particular now yeah about what you choose to pursue than when we were in their shoes. um You know, like I just had this conversation the other day.
00:47:16
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And I'm not going to say with who because yes it's fine. but understood um But this person was you know saying how you know this person works in the AI field. yep yeah yeah And this person was saying how there will be these huge swaths of career that are just going to be automated and they are going to go away. And one of those things in particular was coding and STEM related, right? yeah And so after that huge push yeah for STEM-related studies, yeah right, now those STEM-related studies are irrelevant.
00:47:53
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Oh, but see, I disagree with that. I think i think the people the thing that people are being negative about, yeah they're not discerning between the average person and the above average person.
00:48:06
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And I'll tell you, you know, I don't want to, you know, it's 47 minutes for it right now. In essence, what I want tell people is like, And I had brought this worry of like, oh, there's no entry level jobs. How do you become a senior person?
00:48:17
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blah Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay, fine, right? But I've seen this through even my own career in finance. Mm-hmm. And in the early days, like you, the average, as you ramping up industry, the the average person makes above average salaries. Right.
00:48:34
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Compensation. And then as the as the field matures, the average person gets squeezed out. see that, yes. And then you, well that and then the top layer stays behind. Yeah, yeah.
00:48:45
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But I would argue the top layer, like from finance, for example, when regulation hit, the top layer of finance, finance is just the product. These are the smartest people, the top, let's say 10, 15% smartest people, no matter what, of every generation. They go wherever there's more money. Right.
00:49:02
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So in my in our generation, it really was finance. Yep. Law, what have you, consulting. And then now it's tech. It's been tech for the last 20 years. Right.
00:49:12
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Right. So the people that would have been big time hedge fund managers and insider trading, and whatever else they went to fame and glory, yeah they went to tech and they earned even more money in tech. Right. But tech is huge. No, no. Understood. And so when AI comes people get all like negative about AI is going replace, I'm like, listen,
00:49:30
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i I am advising that company right now. And this guy who's an amazing software engineer from Amazon, he's using two different sets of AI to do the work of 15 engineers. Right. people are like, oh my God, you don't need to code anymore. I'm like, that's not true because you still need to learn how to code to understand how the computers think. Totally agree. To then become this guy right and do the work of 15 engineers, average engineers. Right. And so now I tell young people, don't give up and be fatalistic.
00:50:04
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Like if the technology for you is ai and you are an above average smart person, you will learn to harness the AI yeah and create products, services. like The hyper-efficient, still cannot replace human ideas. True.
00:50:26
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That is true. Okay. Yes. Right? But the average, yes, the average coder, you're fucked. Right. So you just kind of validated, though, right? Because what I said was this huge push for STEM education. yeah, yeah. But still need Right, understand. Because if you don't do it, you don't understand the technology. But what I'm saying is all of those people who gravitated towards that, thinking that they would have these grandiose, amazing futures, right? Now it's cut by, let's just say, like 25%, 75%. 75%...
00:50:57
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I still think that's good because it's like you and me saying, you know what, Jessica, in our generation, don't learn calculus. Don't learn higher level math because – the spreadsheet will do everything for you. Yeah.
00:51:09
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That's true. Yeah. But you still need to learn it because need know manipulate the spreadsheet. You to what means. then move to the next high-level idea. Right. Like you said. Right. That's what means. And then manipulate the Excel sheet to make yourself a super analyst. Agreed. For example. Agreed. Okay. So I just think it's the same thing. It's still cream rising to the top.
00:51:27
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Okay, understand. that's That's what I'm saying. What I'm saying is is that anybody who wanted to do anything in STEM, yeah right who went and pursued that avenue, yeah if you're not of that like super top layer, yeah you're kind of fucked.
00:51:43
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I know, but but it's like that in every industry. Yeah, but with that industry in particular, because it was so touted as such a solid choice, it's a little bit like, oh, God, it's a little bit of a bait and switch because... Yeah, I don't know. I don't think so. I that's just i think that's for a lot of people who just followed it blindly and thought this was the the path to riches. Like, it has been for the last 20 years. yeah Again, but I'm saying people forget, like, maybe it's happening faster than it used to. But the point is...
00:52:11
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It happens every generation. Every generation ends up with technology in their hands that makes what their parents told them to do for a career. oh it happened to me. Absolutely. Right? Yeah, happened to me. And then you go, oh, shit, I got to adapt.
00:52:26
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And whether it's capitalism or democracy, I don't know, whatever the system it is, but like you have to, as a human, like the top 10% always adapt and rise to the top. Our problem right now driven by tech, is that it's unprecedented that the top 10% have taken so much value yeah out of the system versus everybody else. i That I agree. i'm ah I'm not disagreeing with that. And you need that middle class, dream of the middle class to have a stable society. Right. No disagreement with that. Right. And and what you have instead, right, yeah is now you've got a bunch of demotivated people who want shit for free.
00:53:06
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Okay. the It's true. That's driven by their parents, by the way. it could Yeah. I mean, yes. I'm not, I don't think that I'm not saying education system, the parents, that kind of stuff. yeah I didn't go into like the, the, you know, the, the details underneath the heading. I'm just saying yeah that, you know, it's devolved into a group of entitled people who now are sitting there and going, well, the government should subsidize everything oh because I can't find a job because you guys pushed me to do STEM. But again, I did that well you' just because and i would tell the person, you just you're just your fucking average because I read articles every day of kids who drop out of college yeah and now they're market makers on Calci.
00:53:42
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Yeah, I hear what you're saying. But you know what? It's like not – But that's a psychology-driven thing also. You know, you got kids who are roof all rule followers who were taught that they have to take this avenue, take this path. yes right So they don't they don't have that mental creativity to deviate from said path. there's It's just – I think it's just so much more nuanced. Yeah. Yeah.
00:54:04
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Right. But, but the reason this came up with specifically to AI is because yes um my friend's child is yeah into coding.
00:54:15
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Yep. And, it you know, there's some other things that are about, you know, you gotta, you know, there's like autism and there's other yeah functional, you know, executive function, right. There's a lot of that in society now too.
00:54:28
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ah where AI will likely not be a conduit to a person who has these challenges to find successful career. yeah fair I understand that. I understand that. It kind of eliminates it eliminates a category of people who yeah will now not be able to find gainful employment
00:54:52
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in their in their chosen on their chosen path. let me Let me punctuate with on their chosen path. I mean, listen, lady, I've been, you know, even myself, I've been trying to find a job. Same.
00:55:04
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to find job for last decade. And no one will even give me interview or hire me. I'm like, boo fucking who, Francis? Like, go figure out another way to do it. I mean, no, honestly, like, you know, we laugh at all time about, like, being kids in the 70s. But being kids in the 70s, like, every time you hit a brick wall, you just kind of find another way around it. Right. And you were driven. you're driven, you're driven.
00:55:22
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you'll find a way. yeah So all the parents of kids, that's why i blame the parents, the kids who are like, it's not fair, someone help me, blah, blah. To me, okay, notwithstanding, obviously, people have learning disabilities and challenges and all that stuff. It's like the parents calling kids saying, oh, I'll find a way for you. No, you've got to find a fit fucking way. If you have to put together a table and Ikea forgot to send you a screw,
00:55:47
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You could sit there and pout like many people do and bitch and get in the phone. Right. Or you could go into your little toolbox and find a way to replace that screw. Yeah. And make your, put your table together.
00:55:58
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Yeah. The mentality. So that's my thing. My thing. Every time I hear someone say about, hey, listen, dude, if you have the drive and the creativity to figure it out. Yeah.
00:56:09
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You'll find a way to figure it out. Right. And use a technology. Our good friend, Billy Joya. Right. Hockey dad extraordinaire. Yeah.
00:56:20
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He's teaching himself how to use AI to make money. Well, it's smart. On agents. And I'm like, damn, Billy. Fuck. First of all, congratulations. Right.
00:56:31
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Hi, Billy. Clap to him, Billy. Okay. For like being smart enough to do that because most of us at our age give up. Fuck it. And blame the world and be angry. and He's younger than us.
00:56:44
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Not that much younger. Yeah, no, but younger. but But the point is, if you have the drive to do it... Well, you can do anything if you have the drive to do it. can do it You can do it. You got to try. And if you have the discipline to make the space in your life to learn it, yeah you know, it's not easy as family people with kids and schedules and stuff to take on... But every time we see like every time i see someone who's...
00:57:06
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have a friend who's I'm so stressed out. And I was like, have this really rich friend. And he's like, I'm so stressed out raising three kids. I'm like, bro. Oh my God. know, but I'm not minimizing people's problems. Your problem in your world is problem. It's the biggest problem. That's right. Yeah. Fair enough. But I was like, okay, there's people like that.
00:57:24
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And then I was like, and then someone like Sheryl Sandberg who's like, husband died, yeah raising kids, single mom, and running one of the world's largest yeah companies. yeah I'm like, and they do it all. yeah like And then I look at myself, like, fuck, every time I complain about being too busy, I'm like, don't complain, dude.
00:57:42
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There are people who are like 10 times more productive than you and still go to the gym at 5 a.m. I got no excuses. Yeah. Right? Yeah. kind of thing Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and all of these things are choices. Yeah.
00:57:54
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Yes. Right. and I mean, when you really distill it down, all of these things are choices like your friend who's extremely wealthy. Right. Is he choosing not to throw money the child care thing?
00:58:04
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Right. Right. Like you throw money at that if you have it. Yeah. Right. It's yeah the people that don't have the money to throw at that are the people that I look at and i think, God, how do you do this? Yeah.
00:58:15
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but if i happens But you what happens to those people? Let me tell you. i congratulate those people. you know happens? They work hard. They have the reason most resilient kids yeah out there that I see yeah that get out into the world and work really hard, right do three jobs, yeah and will become super successful people. Right.
00:58:33
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And then your kid, my kids, will just be soft. Yeah. I mean, my I don't think my kids is being soft. We make them soft. Yeah. I mean, Ruthie is a little soft. Yeah. She's a little needy, but she's also young.
00:58:44
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I know, but this is our kids are soft. Jessica, it's okay. it Trust me, because I tell kids all the time, like for junior hockey. Yeah. There are kids who come from such shitty upbringings yeah and small town and family abuse and whatever it else it is, that if you tell them to go to Cape Breton Island and play junior hockey and live with another family, they think it's the Four Seasons. Yeah, well, it's okay because you know what? My kid is in that camp. He'll do it.
00:59:10
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he want He wants it so bad, he'll do it. No, no, no. that That is not the same. I'm sorry to say that. that is Oh, you mean they look at it as an upgrade? Sure, I get that. But you know what? Our kids will go there because they want to play hockey. Yeah. And if they boo fucking hoo, don't get to play, and it doesn't work out, after three years, they come home, they're not starving.
00:59:30
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Yeah, that's true. But I'm talking about the kids who go there. This is their only way out. Yeah. And that desperation and resilience yeah feeds the success. Right. And feeds the desire. I get it. Okay.
00:59:41
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And the desire. Yeah. Right. Just like. i don't even know where that island is, by the way. Just so I'm putting it out there. Just go to Maine and keep going north. Oh, that territory. Up the coast. Just keep going north. Okay. Got it.
00:59:58
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Anyways, yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. So, ah listen. I'm with you and your friend and how fast that AI has taken away ah the the the living, the professions of people. It's dangerous. It is dangerous. Totally. Agreed.
01:00:16
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um And so the only way to really... help offset that. I mean, when the rich people think, oh, I don't want to pay higher taxes than the billionaire tax. Listen, this shit doesn't happen for fun. Right.
01:00:30
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Out of nowhere. Right. It happens because there's real suffering out there, right? That's right. well and with and And we're not talking like, we're talking billionaires. Right. Who who honestly really shouldn't complain about paying taxes. Right.
01:00:42
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No. and And I think, and that's, and that's the thing, like people like, if you have 50 billion and you now have 30 billion, you're okay. Right. Like, don't worry about it. You know what? I look at that and like the lottery numbers all the time. Yeah. Yeah. $286 million. dollars Oh no. You lose 50% of taxes. Boo hoo. 143 million. You're okay. Right.
01:01:05
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Exactly. Right. Like I look at that all the time and I think, Jesus, who cares? I know. So that's tough. pay your share. Yeah. Stop
Technological Adaptation and Intelligence
01:01:12
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complaining. Yeah. No, the next five things will be really, really, really interesting. Again, like as much as i talk to my god sister and many people are all the time and we won't know anything for 10 years, I do think that like all technology, life-changing technology in the world, whether it was the internet, whether it the industrial revolution revolution, everybody panics. Yeah.
01:01:32
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The world's coming to an end. And then you realize, hey, the top 10% of the people who know how to use a new technology to make money and make life better. Right. and understand the world.
01:01:45
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And I think that's what Jensen Huang was saying recently an interview. was like, hey, someone asked him, like, who's the smartest person you know? And he's like, That definition doesn't hold anymore because a smart person used to be someone who just knew a lot of shit and could do a lot of shit, but AI is to take care of that. That person is longer smart. A smart person is a person who can see around corners and say, hey, here are these problems coming down the pipeline. right How do we use technology to fix those problems or get ahead of those problems, avoid those problems? yeah He's like, to me, that person smart. right
01:02:15
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And that person doesn't know coding. That doesn't person doesn't know anything. That person is smart in that regard through... Some life experience. I think that's what where young people today are are missing out or in a hurry is that they want to be the 45-year-old CEO, but you can't unless you've gone through 20 years of work. Right.
01:02:35
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You can't do that 25. Right. You can't speed it up. I can't write a book because you haven't lived through it. Right. Exactly. And felt it. Yep. You cannot pick up those skills, right? Yeah. so Agreed. All right. Anyways, one hour, two minutes. Yep.
Light-Hearted Jokes
01:02:50
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Time for some jokes. You're on a roll. I'm going to get you. Okay. I'm going to throw you some easy ones today. Easy ones. so we can get of here. All right. Fine. Okay. All right.
01:03:01
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Easy ones. Jessica, I think i predict you three for three. Okay. Well, let's see how this goes. What do you call a grizzly with no teeth?
01:03:14
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What do you call grizzly bear with no teeth?
01:03:19
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It's too easy.
01:03:22
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What do you call a grizzly bear with no teeth? and Dad jokes are so funny. All right, you ready? No teeth. I know. Which would make it a gummy bear.
01:03:35
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Yeah. ah Yes. You got it You got it. Okay. You're one for one. And I'm tired too. But that one was kind of like all up. And you're tired. you're tired.
01:03:50
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What falls in winter but never gets hurt? I know you know this one. I've already scratched it out because I don't even know you know one. What falls in the winter but never gets hurt? What falls in winter but never hurt? Topical because of what's happened at your home. But we're not going to talk about that. What falls in winter but never gets hurt?
01:04:13
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Snow. ha Yes. Oh my God. Where's the applause? Two for two. i actually had to think of that. Cause like, it's funny. I had, I rolled through like all the seasons first. It was like spring is rain. Okay. Fall is leaves.
01:04:31
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this one' gonna get This one's near and dear to my heart because I have twins. Oh, ah hello what fruit do twins love?
01:04:44
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What fruit do twins love? You can just go through all the fruit and you'll hit on it within the fifth or sixth choice.
01:04:54
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That's crazy. i don't... What fruit do twins love? Apples? Oranges?
01:05:05
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Grapes? Melons? I don't know. What fruit do twins love? Come on, Jessica. Jessica, don't you know this answer? Jessica.
01:05:17
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Are you real? What's going on? Pairs. Yeah. Because they're a pair of twins. So playful.
01:05:30
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Okay. Squeeze. There you There you go.
Conclusion and Teaser
01:05:37
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I wish you an amazing trip to Minneapolis. Thank you. Go back to that cow place and have lot of food. I am.
01:05:43
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Good omelets. Best to your son. Thank you. And the team for the tournament. Enjoy the final three weeks of youth hockey. I most likely, I definitely will. I know you will. Be excited for playoff. Be excited for junior hockey for our boys. I'm getting there. I got to finish Awesome. I got to finish one trap. One trap. One chapter.
01:06:02
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yeah That was a Freudian slip. Understood. I'm excited. You're excited. Episode 38 comes to an end. Thank you, everyone, for listening. Thank you. And we'll see you next week on episode 39. Yeah.
01:06:17
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After Minnesota. After Minnesota. After Minneapolis. Minneapolis. All right. Bye, gang. Bye. ya. Well, well, well. You made it to the end. We can't thank you enough for listening to all of our random thoughts.
01:06:31
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