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Episode 18 - Make Sure They Remember The Day They Listened to the POD with Alec Hieatt
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This week we are joined by a guest they said we couldn't get. A man so tall he gets confused for trees. A man who has yet to listen to an episode but still wanted to be a guest. That is right we are joined by Alec Hieatt! This week we discuss Alec's favorite pharmaceuticals, his favorite Ohio State Players, take a deep dive into Cinco De Mayo, and then end the episode drafting our favorite sports movies.
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Introduction and Guest Background
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Good.
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Speaker
Good afternoon, Delights. I'm your host, Matt Lattimer, just trying to bring you a smile on this Wednesday, but I couldn't do that alone. So I had to bring on a very special guest, one of the tallest people that I know, a man who has yet to listen to an episode of Afternoon Delights, but that didn't stop him from coming on. The one and only Alec Hyatt. How are you doing today, Alec? I'm doing good,
Life and Career Insights
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Commission. All right, Alec, why don't you tell the people a little bit about yourself? You know, we've talked about you some on this, but give them a little deep dive.
00:00:58
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I mean, not a whole lot of interesting, but not even married now. We're celebrating or getting married here in July, so if anyone wants to come to that, send me your address, we'll get an invitation your way. But yeah, I mean, like to golf. I think we got to get the whole league invited to this celebration of Alex Budding.
00:01:18
Speaker
The whole league is welcome. What are you doing for work right now? Just construction stuff like remodeling bathrooms and we're also renovating a house as well. Nice. Have you been hired by Casa de Ship to come and do some work at his properties? No. We'll get on that, Michael. Come on. We got to get with Alec here. Throw him some business. Were you a Chapman kid? Yeah, I was a Chapman kid. I was in some of the woods for a little bit. Have you known Chris and all them forever? You kindergarten through senior year?
00:01:43
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I did the multi-age classes first. So, but they were in, they did just regular, but then once like fifth grade came around, then we all played DYA basketball together as well. For those of you that don't know and our elementary school system, I don't know if they still do this, but they used to do this thing called intermediate multi-age class, which was first and second graders in the same class and third and fourth graders in the same class. Or you could go and do just first grade, just second grade, et cetera. What were the multi-age classes like?
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I never understood how it worked because if you're in second grade, you're supposed to be learning like the next tests and then the first graders are like down. So if you come in in first grade, is it like alternate years or how do you keep pace because you're not learning the same thing ever? Like you're not repeating the same year over.
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No. Honestly, I don't even fucking remember what it was like. I think it was just, yeah, you would learn to attend a little bit of both like each year. I don't know. It was so long ago, I can't even remember now. Explain so much about who you are as a person, knowing that you are in multi-age classes. Once you got to high school, what were you like? What kind of kids did you hang out with? Did you play any sports? Do any clubs? Played the cross and hung out with the stoners. You hung out with the stoners? Yeah. Jeez. Who was your best friend in high school? Their coon maker. Tim and Tyler were close.
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I'm glad that you didn't go down the same path as the other ones. Ended up in a much better spot than they did. Were you any good at lacrosse? Were you better than Ryan Kasuji? Why didn't you play basketball? You're a giant.
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One, my height kind of hit, came later. And yeah, I don't know. I just never had the urge to go try out for basketball. Miss some great opportunities there. Probably take that one back. Out of high school, I know that you went to college for a bit. Did you attend the Ohio State University? I did the branch up in Delaware before it closed down.
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and then did a little bit at Columbus State and then realized I wasn't doing anything there like it wasn't going anywhere so left and just kind of doing my own thing for a while and got an opportunity into construction and stuff like that and figured I would jump on it. There's many ways to cut your own path and flow down a river people. Yeah. It's well known amongst the League and anybody that listens to the CKL podcast that you are our most famous stoner.
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What was it like for you when Ohio finally legalized marijuana? Is that the biggest day of your life? No,
Marijuana Perspectives and Experiences
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the bigger day would be once a rec dispensary is finally opened up. Are you going to be waiting out in line in front of a dispensary once they start selling pot?
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I'm not that dedicated, but there's one close-by in Grandview. I will probably become a frequent visitor there. What's your favorite method to ingest the marijuana? Smoking joints is the best way to do it. You're a joint guy? No, what about blunts? You like blunts? You used to back in the day, but... I mean, I was always terrible at rolling blunts, and after a while, they just taste disgusting after a while, so I switched over to the joints. It's been sticking since. I never was able to roll anything, so I always used the bongs or edibles.
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Yeah, they sell the pre-rolled cones. All you gotta do is just stuff the cones down. If ever I'm feeling lazy, I gotta go and buy those and stuff the cones. The most impressive pothead that I know is my cousin, Thomas, though.
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Yeah. That man can roll a blunt faster and better than maybe even Snoop Dogg. I would go and visit him in Houston, Texas, and he once rolled a blunt and under a minute while driving his car 90 miles per hour. It was the most terrifying event in my entire life. Then he would roll two blunts together, then stick them next to each other and then put more on top and then roll another wrapper around them. It'd basically be smoking like three blunts at one time.
00:05:32
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Well, it's Shelby. She used to, she doesn't smoke anymore, but she used to be able to roll a good plot. I don't know what our skills would be now, but since she hasn't smoked in a couple of years. I got to put it to the limit. Let's test her out. Let's see what she's got. I don't know. I know my cousin and all of his friends in Texas, they used to like collect Swisher sweets wrappers. When they finished them probably had like 2000.
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that's that's trash what's your favorite strain of marijuana when somebody still had her medical card i used to like the the willy's reserve strains those are seem to always willy nelson's strains of weed you like sativa or indica's i don't really care about either it gets me high either way it's different highs alec it's different highs for each strain tomato tomato
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When i was in colorado there was this one dispensary in denver that i would stop in it and it used to have like a data under each train so they won but and then the strain name and then basically like an ipad up and then it would tell you the percentage of each chemical in that strain and then what that chemical was able to do we go via.
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higher strain of like this portion of THC and
Golf Passions and Partner Involvement
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then like this and this it's better for like controlling your diet or not getting munchies and this one's better for pain and this one's better for creativity and it was like a whole thing with like 30 different strains and then their grow house was attached to the front of the store and they had plexiglass like bulletproof windows, floor to ceiling so you could walk up and like see the grow house at the back of the store. That's interesting. It was a pretty cool place.
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was that in denver or is it yeah it's pretty close to the denver airport oh nice i don't remember what it was called that was like eight years ago what do you like to do for fun now now that you're getting older what are you and shelby'd like to do on weekends when there's nice weather outside we like to go find a patio and have a couple adult beverages and also
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I keep trying to get her into it, but I'm trying to get her into golf, but it's not working out. Whenever she's working or something, then I like to find my way out to the golf course. Yeah, it's tough. I've tried to get Breein in the golf. She didn't want it. Matt Chaddone gave me the tip and said, just go out and buy a set of clubs and just spend the money. And then you can play the cards. Like, look, I just spent $1,200 on these clubs for you. So now you have to play.
00:07:37
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I don't even spend $1,200 on myself. Yeah, no, I was like, I'm going to go get the top flight pre-done bags for $400 or whatever. What are some of your favorite courses around Columbus? Where you like to play? Champions is probably my go-to course to play. Actually, yesterday, I just played for the first time. I played out at Denison. That course was really nice. I enjoyed that course. I want to get back out there again. It was really tough. There's also two that can't go wrong with virtues out by New York. That's the nicest public course in Ohio.
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I've been playing Glen Ross a lot this year, too. It's a nice, easy, feel-good course. Whenever you're feeling down on your golf game, just go play Glen Ross and it'll make you feel a lot better. That's what Rolling Meadows is for me. I didn't play Rolling Meadows in a while, but... I played Rolling Meadows, it's like five minutes from my work, so that's the after-work spot.
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this after-work spot. No, oh, Darby Creeks. Another spot that I love. That is a
Ohio State Football Discussion
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good spot. We just played yesterday at mental and Jacob Nave said that he needs to get another round with you stat because the one time that you played with us was arguably one of his worst rounds of golf he's ever played, probably like the last decade. So he was struggling out there, I don't remember. How you feeling about the Ohio State Buckeyes this year? No, you're a big, scarlet and gray man. Well, we made a lot of moves in the offseason. Ryan Day better not fuck this up, so that's all I have to say about it. They don't win the national title, it's a failure and he should be fired.
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If they don't win the Natty, it's a failure. What if they make it to the national championship? I don't care, they have to win it. Still gotta get rid of him? Yep, they have to win it. If he doesn't win it, he needs to be fired. This is the best roster he's probably ever had, except for maybe 2019. Yeah, it's insane how many moves they went out and made this offseason in the transfer portal. They do get a lot. They got a couple extra games to play in order to get there. What do you think their biggest hitch points are this year? What games scare you the most?
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Yeah, it's obviously Michigan's the game that it's going to scare me because other than that, their schedule works really easy. So that's another thing. Yeah, they have to they have to robust this year. They have no excuse to not win the national title. How are you feeling about Oregon this year? I think that's the game that I'm most worried about. Are they traveling out West Oregon?
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Oregon at Oregon in October. Yeah, that's the, that's probably, yeah, that's the only other one that worries me. Other than that, their schedule's not, their schedule's very favorable. Yeah, I agree. Oregon one worries me, but at least it's in October. So that gives us a lot more time to really get in and kind of gel into the season, especially breaking in a new QB. Let's see how Will Howard does. It sounds like the Julian Sane is actually the one pressing in, or at least during spring practices, it was Julian Sane getting all the lightning out.
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Yeah, I've seen the praise for saying coming out about where he's at already as a true freshman, but I still don't know if he's actually a favorite. I think that he's just further along than what people thought. They're trying to break in so many quarterbacks. I don't know if he can get enough reps to prove himself worthy of like a week one start.
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Yeah, I mean, I doubt he'll be a week one starter, but if he can be the guaranteed number two guy, cause I think it's definitely Will Howard's job to lose. Yeah. You don't bring in a fifth year senior like Will Howard to do that, but I don't know. I mean, it's tough because at Kansas state, you watch some of his film and he did not make a lot of good decisions at Kansas state in this.
00:10:37
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Stats weren't that great. And it's kind of like, why'd you get that guy? But it's also, you know, his best wide receiver was a fullback. So we'll see what he can do with some of the talent. I did see today that NFL scouts are starting to ask big 10 teams that the offensive backs, how did they do against Ohio state's wide receivers? And that's the parameter on whether or not they're actually getting drafted by teams. It sounds like they already got a new.
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wide receiver that might be even better than Marvin Jeremiah Smith. Oh yeah, that's what I'm hearing so far. He's probably going to be starter week one. Yeah. They just keep getting the man. Feels good for you, Alec. Let's talk about Ohio State's Mount Rushmore. You're at a dinner. You get to pick four Buckeyes. Who are your four Buckeye legends that you'd like to have a dinner with?
00:11:42
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That's some good picks. That's some good picks. Pretty interesting. You went with the more tried to pick the interesting people versus like your favorite guys.
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Yeah, he said to sit down and have dinner with. I'd probably go AJ Hawk, James Laurinitis, maybe Ted Ginn Jr., and then I'll throw Zeke in there. Oh yeah, those are good ones. Just played softball with Dane Zansenbacher earlier this week. You played softball with him at like a charity event? Yeah.
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No, it was my friend, he's in a league and he needed subs and he's from Toledo area. He grew up in Toledo area and he'd have stained Zans and Parker and he came like he called him to complete sub with us. How was he? I mean, he was good in the field. He didn't really connect on any, any good hits, but I mean, he had some, he had a couple of hits, but they weren't like launched like hard hit balls. They were kind of bloop singles. I saw on 11 more years this week.
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that there was a charity golf outing held by Troy Smith in the 1870 society and you could get it was like a thousand dollars to play oh jesus oh yeah i think i saw that too because i think johnny manzell is playing in it yeah i think he is i thought i saw i thought i saw him post something about that he's going to be a part of it too oh jeez why
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I guess you played for the Browns maybe? Dude's making his rounds. Yeah, it was like a thousand dollars if you wanted to play by yourself and then you could get a foursome for four grand or you could play six grand to play with another celebrity but they didn't say who it was and then it was seven thousand dollars to get Troy Smith into your group so you get you and two other people plus Troy Smith.
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Interesting. Where's the golf outing at, did they say?
Basketball Coaching Changes and Hopes
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It did say, but I can't remember what course it was at. But I thought that was pretty interesting. And I was like, man, $7,000 for a round of golf. Yeah, I don't know about that. It better be at like Merefield Village or a really nice golf course if it's, I'm going to be paying that kind of money, playing a golf outing. Have you done your part? Have you donated to the 18 seven society so that the Buckeyes can keep winning? I have not done my part.
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Leave that to the billionaires to fucking donate. I donated $50. So just when you see some wins by the Buckeyes this year, because of the players that they went and bought, the commish helped with that. I know. I know other people that are donating to that. So they're playing. Okay. Now I remember. So they're playing at the golf club at little turtle. My uncle owns a condo on the course at golf club, a little turtle. So maybe I'll just go hang out at his house and walk onto the course. See how it's going. See what's up.
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Yeah, Shelby's brother-in-law, Shelby's brother-in-law is a member there, so I wonder if he'll be playing in that. I don't know, my guess is he'd probably show up and walk around at least if he's a member there. Have you played at Little Turtle? Is it nice?
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Yeah, it's a little turtles. Nice. So Marty and I, when we worked outside of the reserve, the old assistant pro that worked at side of the reserve is now the head pro at little turtle. So, and then Shelby's brother in law, Andrew takes me out there at least like a couple of times a year. That's pretty nice. It's a, it's, it's a tough course. It's short, but it's tough. How are you feeling about Buckeye basketball now with this new coach Deebler? What's the outlook for you? Do we blurs, do we blurs making moves?
00:14:48
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I'll give him credit to that got Aaron Bradshaw and they just got Sean Stewart in the transfer portal to former five stars. I saw that he's making moves. He is building things up. It's starting to give me hope again, which I feel like is the most dangerous of things, especially with college basketball right now. I think anybody that has hope in their team is setting themselves up for disappointment.
00:15:07
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We'll see how it is. I mean, it can't get worse in the Chris Doltman era. That's true. This last year was the least amount of college basketball that I ever watched
Cinco de Mayo Origins and Celebrations
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because all I watched Ohio State play and I even missed, I don't know, probably missed like five or six games, I think is the first time in 20 years that I've probably missed five or six games. Doltman sucked the life out of Ohio State basketball.
00:15:28
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He really did. It was super depressing. It was killer. But I mean, Dibler came in and they turned things around. If they would have fired him after the 18-point loss to Penn State, maybe we would have made the tournament. Yeah. Who your Buckeye legends. We already hit the football ones. Yeah, Buckeye basketball. Who's that Mount Rushmore? Gotta start with Evan Turner, the Naismith Award winner. Then there's Jared Sollinger, D'Angelo Russell. Just to piss Alex off, I'll throw an aircraft.
00:15:54
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Good pick. I was going to do the same thing. Yeah. Think if I had a dinner, I'd have to throw John Deebler in there. Go David Lighty. Since you said Aaron craft, I won't say Aaron craft. We won't double piss off Alex, but Aaron craft probably there. I like the guys that were there for longer. I'm going to do a big throwback and I'm going to do Jamar Butler. Cause that was one of my favorite players growing up. And then, uh, kind of the man that started leading all of it off when I actually got old enough to pay attention to know what was going on. I'm going to go Terrence Dyer.
00:16:20
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The other guys I love him, like, you know, DeAngelo Russell was great, but he played one year. Greg Oden and Mike Conley, obviously, they're etched in history for the fact that we made it to the finals and blew a championship, but they also only played one year. Selinger only played two. It's tough to, like, really, really fall in love with a player when they leave so quick. Yeah. You know what? Maybe I'll throw Kyle Young. Kyle Young. The only player that actually fucking worked his ass off during the Chris Holtman era.
00:16:45
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those Holtman's guy, his original go to guy. All right, Alec, are you ready to get into a little afternoon delights place at the table? Let's do it. All right. Well, we are recording this on the 5th of May, Cinco de Mayo. So let's learn a little bit about the history of Cinco de Mayo.
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It's often mistaken for Mexican Independence Day, which actually takes place on September 16th, but Cinco
Favorite Sports Movies Draft
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de Mayo celebrates a different event in Mexican history. See, in 1857, Mexico became embroiled in a civil war with liberal forces backed by Benito Juarez and conservative forces backed by Felix Zulago. The conservatives controlled Mexico City,
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and the liberals controlled Vera Cruz. The United States government backed the liberal forces recognizing Juarez's government in 1859. In 1861, the liberal forces captured Mexico City and only strengthened their claim as the ruling government in Mexico. But their instability and foreign debts began to pile up. And with little options, Juarez was forced to stop foreign debt payments for two years. Well, this led France, England, and Spain to form a treaty and intervene
00:17:54
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in the civil war against the liberal forces in order to claim their unpaid debts at the time the french empire was the strongest in the world and napoleon bonaparte he sent his men over to mexico in order to handle the liberal army and they really struggled against the french for the first few years of this war so as they made their way
00:18:15
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towards Mexico City after winning battle after battle the French army came and on the 5th of May they launched an attack to take Mexico City but to their shock the Mexican army battled back and defeated the French at the first battle of Puebla and that
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is why we celebrate Cinco de Mayo today. It began as a celebration in the events in 1862, celebrating this battle commemorating beating the French army. It started in Mexico City and around these parts of Mexico and in the United States, it was celebrated in Columbia, California.
00:18:51
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Mexico would actually eventually go on to lose Mexico City in the second battle of Puebla almost a year later, but eventually they would win the war with the help of the United States lending the money at the conclusion of the American Civil War. Now Cinco de Mayo is actually more largely celebrated in the United States than it is in Mexico, and it's not even considered a Mexican national holiday. It was primarily only celebrated in California from the 1860s to the 1820s.
00:19:16
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kind of started spreading out to larger parts of California and the American Southwest in the 1920s and 40s and 50s. They really didn't become spread across nationally until the 60s. But even then, it was very, very small and not really outside of the Mexican culture. But how did it become so popular, you might ask? Well, you see the United States beer companies were looking for a way to sell more alcohol.
00:19:41
Speaker
And most places in the US, it's things start heating up. People start doing cookouts and all that kind of stuff in May coming out of winter. But nobody was really throwing parties or having like large gatherings or big reasons to celebrate until Memorial Day at the end of May. And the beer companies wanted to start at the beginning of May when things started to get warm. So they started integrating Hispanic holidays into their advertising.
00:20:05
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And there was already a celebratory factor around Cinco de Mayo. It came at the right time of year, so they started pumping money in in the 80s into growing this population for Hispanic holidays. And then it just caught on like wildfire and started to build up and build up and build up across the United States to what it is today. And right now, Cinco de Mayo beer sales are on par with both the Super Bowl and St. Patrick's Day. And that is why in the United States of America, we celebrate the Mexican victory at the first Battle of Pueblo.
00:20:34
Speaker
Another reason for Americans to drink. Yes. Any reason that Americans can drink, they are going to take it any time that they can party. Were you one of the many people that think that it was about Mexican independence? I mean, originally, I feel like I thought that, but then I feel like I remember someone like hearing one time about how it's not Mexico's independence day and that how Mexicans don't even really celebrate. Yes, they don't celebrate it at all. I'm like, oh, wow, that makes me hate it even more.
00:20:59
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The height of celebrating this holiday in Mexico was actually about in like the 1880s, 1890s. It was a pretty large holiday in parts of Mexico because one of the presidents of Mexico was a soldier in the Battle of Puebla. So he kind of led it to like have larger celebrations and everything. And then it kind of died down in Mexico after he stepped down from power or retired or passed away. Are you a big Cinco de Mayo guy? You going to go out and celebrate tonight and drink some margaritas? No, not tonight. Just because it's a Sunday? Yeah. Yeah, it's a Sunday.
00:21:29
Speaker
Gotta go, gotta get to bed early. But we went out last night, well, mainly because it was my sister-in-law's birthday. So, we went out to, I don't even know what this bar was called, but they had a big Cinco de Mayo celebration, but we were there mainly to celebrate her birthday, so. Well, to anybody out there when you're out there celebrating Cinco de Mayo this year, you know, it'll come out after this episode, but next year, let people know what they're celebrating for. Not Mexican independence, but for the victory of the Battle of Puebla over the French.
00:21:55
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Yeah. All right, Alec. Now, are you ready to get into the meat of this episode and do a little bit of drafting? Yeah, let's do it. All right, everybody. This week, we are going to draft the best sports movies. So Alec, we are going to each take five. We're going to do a snake draft style. So if you go second, you get to pick twice in a row, then I'll go twice in a row, et cetera. So we each have five. Do you want to draft first or second?
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I'll go second now. I want to see what I want to see what you take first. I kind of split my draft. I'm going to try and take not just my five favorite, but I'm going to try and get, you know, one from each sport. I'm going to try and do different sports. So I'll start off with the most important sport of them all, and that is football. I got two tough ones for football that I think it could go either way. It's a 1A, 1B, but I'm going to go get the one that I watched the most as a kid that I quoted the most as a kid that led to the songs that we sang when we went 9 and 0 freshman year after every win because there ain't no mountain high enough.
00:22:47
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All right, and I'm taking remember the Titans
00:22:50
Speaker
I had a feeling you were gonna go with that as soon as you said football. I was like, it's gonna be Remember the Titans. It has the historical significance. It's an actual story. It's got good acting. They actually play a ton of football in the movie. You know, it's not a sports movie where the sports is secondary. Tons of great quotes in it. Lots of great action. I still just love this movie to this day. I haven't seen it in a few years, I feel like, and I need to go look and watch it, which means I have to pay for Disney Plus. But, you know, I want you to make sure that they remember
00:23:18
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Forever the night they played the Titans. Alright Alec, give me your first pick. Alright, my first pick, we're gonna go with baseball movie and you might get caught off guard by this one because you're probably thinking one thing but I'm gonna go with Major League. That's a good pick. I do love Major League. All about Cleveland, the pride of Cleveland, Charlie Sheen's in it, just a classic movie about saving the team. You go and win the whole fucking thing.
00:23:43
Speaker
Yeah, Major League was on my list. I love it. Great comedy. Baseball easily has the most movies to choose from. Baseball and football for sports movies that are actually still great. So there's a lot of baseball options out there. I don't think most people would Major League at the top. I didn't think you were going to go Major League, but I guess being a Cleveland fan, it definitely makes sense that you went Major League. But I quote Major League, I don't know, pretty often during the fantasy football season. It's a very quotable movie.
00:24:09
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It is. I usually quote the line where when I talk to the fantasy gods when they forsake my team and where Jobu goes, I give you cigar, I give you rum, and what do you do? Nothing. Fuck you, Jobu. I do it myself. It's the best line in the whole movie. Scrabon. All right. Give me your second pick.
00:24:25
Speaker
Alright, second pick. I think I'm not gonna go with the football movie here. And we're gonna do Friday Night Lights. Just a true underdog story. The Permian Panthers losing Booby Miles their best player and then still making it all the way to the title game with the crushing defeat to the Dallas Carter, but just a true underdog story.
00:24:44
Speaker
Friday nights was my number two pick. Remember the Titans and Friday Night Lights is what I was between. It also obviously sparked one of my favorite TV shows of all time, Friday Night Lights. So that's another plus for it. Okay, my pick here. Let's go into this basketball world here because realistically, I think there's only two options for basketball movies that could even come up into this top list. And I'm going to go get my favorite one and I'm going to take Coach Carter. Coach Carter. Coach Carter.
00:25:10
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It's between the two and I like Coach Carter more than the other one. Get good basketball, another one that's got great quotes. I think everybody saw this movie growing up and they're like, dear God, my coach is going to see this and make me do a million pushups and run a million suicides and just live my life in misery. But yeah, I love Coach Carter. I don't think I've ever seen Coach Carter. You've never seen Coach Carter? Maybe one time, a long time ago, but I just, doesn't, nothing comes to my mind when I think of Coach Carter.
00:25:38
Speaker
Rich man. Rich what? Rich man. Rich what? I was not expecting it. When you were talking basketball, that was not, Coach Carter was not on my.
00:25:47
Speaker
You need to go watch Coach Carter if you haven't seen it. Our fear is not that we are inadequate. Our fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It's got Timo Cruz, man. This is blowing my mind right now that you haven't seen it. You need to go watch Coach Carter today because it's going to easily jump up to the top of your list for best basketball movies. All right, we'll see about that. All right, my third pick, I'm taking a baseball movie here. I'm glad that you didn't steal it. It's easily the best baseball movie of all time, even if it was made as originally as a kid's movie. You're killing me, Smalls. I'm taking the same lot.
00:26:16
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When he said baseball, I knew that was going to be on your list. The Sandlot has to be the best movie. It's the most quotable movie of all time. Yeah, the Sandlot is. Oh, absolutely. Funny from start to finish. It's got good acting, especially for kid acting. It's got a good story. It's got a pretty good amount of baseball in it. What do you love the most about Sandlot? I mean, there's nothing you can't love about Sandlot. It's just a classic movie that never gets hold of everything about it. True that. All right. Why don't you give me your third pick?
00:26:43
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Alright, so for my third pick, I'm gonna go down a sport that probably not a lot of people think of when they think of sports movies. It's gonna be hockey, and I'm gonna go with the movie Slap Shot. Paul Newman, the Charleston Chiefs, the city's just a depressing city. It's the last season of the Charleston Chiefs, and they bring in the Hanson brothers who are just the thuggish-like type players that
00:27:05
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Just fight people and stuff and it excites the town and gets the rallies the whole town around the Charleston Chiefs during their last season. That is a good pick. It was not my number one hockey movie. Might not even be my number two hockey movie. Alright, why don't you give me pick number four? Alright, pick number four. Let's go back to basketball. Another true underdog story. Can't go wrong with Hoosiers. That was my other one. That was the number two one was Hoosiers.
00:27:27
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Another classic underdog tale. It's just a I think a lot of people probably consider one of the top sports movies of all time. Yeah, it is pretty good. It's got a lot of interesting stuff in it. Small town kids in Indiana trying to win a state championship with a former collegiate coach that got in trouble for roughing up his players.
00:27:43
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I feel like now it is a little bit slow paced, but it's still pretty good. It's active well. I think it's good for the time period, especially that it's set in, represents all of that well. It just goes to show that one player can really make all the difference in a sport like basketball. They went from a mediocre team to the best team in Indiana when they added Jimmy. Yep, they got Jimmy.
00:28:02
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Okay, so my pick number four, I'll also come into the hockey world here. And I'm going to take the true best hockey movie. I am taking The Miracle. So what I love about The Miracle and why it's so great is it truly is about the hockey. And other than Jim Craig and the actor that played Jim Craig for the goalie, they casted the actors not primarily on their acting ability, but on their ability to play hockey.
00:28:26
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So I think that that makes a big difference in the showing especially since skating is like such a hard thing to do And then when they play in the final the final like big game which isn't actually the gold medal game But the game against Russia all of the goals in the movie and how they were scored in the movie is Exactly how they were scored in real life
00:28:43
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So they did a whole bunch of research. They really put into it. It's a great story. Also has some very memorable moments for some great lines. It's another movie that I quote all the time. Every time that somebody tells me that they can't do something or that they're too tired or that they don't want to come on the podcast, I tell them a bruise on the leg is a hell of a long way from the heart. Her breath's with some memorable quotes in that movie, but yes.
00:29:05
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I've seen miracles a great classic movie about a classic story and classic underdog story. Anytime that you get a miracle winning in a movie, I'm all about it. I got another one that I kind of want to pick. I'll save it for the honorable mentions because it's not, it's not a traditional sport. So I'll probably, I'm going to go with another category here. I'm going to take a fighting movie because that's another larger category of sport movie is fighting movies. And, um, you probably think that I'm going to take Rocky, but I'm not not going to do it. I'm going to take warrior is my favorite fighting movie of all time.
00:29:33
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Warrior, that's the MMA one, isn't it? Yeah, that's the MMA one. It's got Tom Hardy in it, two brothers that haven't seen each other in forever, and they enter like a winner-take-all, one-day MMA tournament event where it's like the 10 best middleweight fighters go and fight in this tournament. And it's got a lot of good story to it and good acting, and it's got a lot of flawed characters and some deeper issues that they address in it. And then once they actually get to the fighting, the fighting is really good too.
00:30:00
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Yeah, I'd like to... I've seen the Warrior Warriors again, maybe. I don't know if I'll put it up like top fighting movies, but... Give me your last pick and then we'll hit on fighting movies that you think might be better than Warrior. Alright, so we're gonna stick with the theme of True American Underdogs. Dodgeball, my final pick. I wasn't even thinking of Dodgeball as a sports movie when I was making my list. You're right, it is. It's a top five sports movie. It's a top five sports movie. The True American Underdogs story.
00:30:29
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And that's the actual name of the movie, Dodgeball. There's no resistant white Goodman when he puts on his shiny shoes. Another quotable movie, too. Ben Stiller, just a classic great role in that. That is such a good movie from start to finish. It's a laugh riot. I don't know how the hell they came up with the premise of it, but it is great. It made people love Dodgeball in a way that it was never meant to be loved. You have to remember the five D's of Dodgeball. Dodge, duck, dip.
00:30:59
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dive and dodge. Necessary? Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but it's sterile and I like the taste. The movie never gets old. Let's hit on some honorable mentions, Alec. Why don't you tell me a fighting movie that's better than Warrior? Because to me, there's only one that's even close.
00:31:13
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Well, I mean, probably Rocky, obviously, but I got another one that you might not be on your list, but you're gonna go with The Fighter. Yes, that's the other one. That movie's just a classic. Kristen Bale, hey, and Kristen Bale won Best Supporting Actor for it. Yeah, that was the other one that was close. I was between Warrior and The Fighter for my two best fighting movies.
00:31:34
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if you go back like Rocky has the nostalgia and it has the classic and everything but you know it was made in 1970 something and you go back and watch it today and it just doesn't like it doesn't hold up to me compared to some of the newer movies yeah fire too it's a true story the pride of Lowell
00:31:50
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You got any other honor mentions? What'd we miss on your list?
00:32:12
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I got the baseball movie that I thought that you were going to pick, Field of Dreams. Yeah, Field of Dreams is a classic. The one that I did want to pick at the end, but I didn't, and you know, I just should have, is Cool Runnings. I was just looking at that. I love Cool Runnings. Yeah, so it is another great movie.
00:32:29
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There's just so many good sports movies. There's so many other ones that I don't want to, I don't want to hit on yet. I did. Cause I did take the same lot. Now I mentioned cool runnings, but at some point I'm probably going to do a draft where it's like best kids sports movies. Cool running. So that movie holds up every time I watch it. All right, Alec.
00:32:45
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We're to our last segment now. It's called Afternoon Delights Book Club. So we just have everybody come on and recommend something that they've been reading recently or their all-time favorite book they would recommend to read. Do you have a book that you want to recommend for Afternoon Delights Book Club? No, it's not really books. But hey, I'll recommend a TV show.
00:33:04
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Nothing from high school? Nothing from your childhood? Uh, there's nothing memorable from high school that I remember reading. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, Alex's recommendation is to just not read. All right, I'll
Conclusion and Sign-off
00:33:14
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give us one TV show then. All right, it's a new TV show. It's on Amazon Prime. I've told Ryan Kasugi about it. I'm pretty sure he started it, but the new Fallout TV show about the video game, Fallout, it's a
00:33:25
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great, great TV show. So if you like video games, if you like, or if you have played the video game Fallout, it's definitely a must watch. We'll give it a try. I used to play Fallout a little bit. I'll give it a shot. I'll wait till the season finishes. You can binge watch it. Oh, it's already over. They release everything at one time. Yeah, I think so, yeah. All right. Well, Alec, thank you for coming on on this wonderful holiday of Cinco de Mayo and sharing all your insights with our guests. Maybe I'll finally listen to an episode after today.
00:33:56
Speaker
Uh, that would be, that would make me happy. That would cheer me up. Let's see those numbers go up. Listen to a couple of them. Will do. Thank you out there to everybody listening and give us your time. I'm your host, Matt Latimer, and I'm just reminding you that it's a good day to have a good day.
00:34:26
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So long, farewell, I'll be to St. Andrew. I do, I do, to you and you and you.