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A Solid 4 Beer Thoughts - The National Anthem
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We talk about feelings about the booing of the National Anthem at the hockey games in Canada. Also, what do you think about automatic gratuity? Plus This Week In History with Lynk and Joke Of The Week with Brett. Buckle in, you will have fun! www.asolid4.com
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Introduction & Audience Engagement
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A solid four beer thoughts. Pop a cold one and get interactive with us on YouTube, Facebook, x or Instagram. Yes, do that. Pop a cold one.
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Good job. Check. Did we get the timer going? Timer's underway. We're all settled in. Nestled in here where it's safe because the weather outside is frightful.
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Again. But the beer is so delightful. Yes, it is. Another episode of a solid at four beer thoughts. We've gathered around the microphones to attempt to entertain you for whatever period of time you decide to listen.
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So hopefully you're listening. That's all that matters.
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We're already getting trash out of the way. Jeff's going to play waitress. We haven't kicked you out yet, Tom. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Send us an email. I'm here all night. for solid beers at gmail dot com Don't forget to like, subscribe, follow, comment, all those good things whenever you're listening because we like it.
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And just in case you missed it last week,
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so um How how many times can we play that and analyze that? I can do it again. That is classic. but That's my is my favorite part right there. She doesn't want to cuss. Oh, yeah. so what the first
Uber Anecdote & Ride Sharing Discussion
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What the? And he's like, he just fucking left. The video with it is as she's not running, but she's half-ass trotting out the front door because the Uber driver left. That's hilarious. So that is that is last Monday right as my current wife was walking out the door.
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her so Exactly. so funny ah Five minutes after her ride was scheduled. Exactly. exactly This is why why you don't trust an Uber driver on a Sunday.
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I've heard a lot of people with that like pre-scheduled thing have a lot of ah just no shows. So a lot of like the oh hey he pick me up at 6 a.m. That's the part that's that's weird to me. He showed and he he showed like 12 ish 12 to 14 minutes early. early So he so sat he probably started his 15 minute wait when he showed up. Not when the ride was supposed to. Not my fucking problem. No, I'm not. Come on. Well, it kind of became. like I'm not saying it's your problem. Yeah. What was your problem when you had to drive your wife to the airport? It became your problem.
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So anyway. It doesn't matter. How much did you charge her for that Uber ride? You just pulled her head down yeah so she didn't get hit with a rock on the way there. You have to protect her. safe Like Blindside. I have to protect her. Make sure she's safe.
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Wow. Hang on. Don't look up yet. There's still traffic. Blind eye? Blind side? Blind side. Blind side. Brown eye? Sign. I don't know. sign and One of those eyes. That's totally different. Anyhow.
Weddings & Memories of Youth
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So, Jeff, did you do something anything exciting over the weekend? I went to a wedding on Saturday. Oh, you did? Yes. Was it good? And they're still married? Yes, they're still married. Okay, cool. It was a Catholic mass.
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Oh, boy. Oh, yeah, a full Catholic mass. I haven't been to one of those in a long time. Is that what you were going to say? It's cool as hell. Yeah, I mean, it is. I love I love everything about it. Are you seriously? Yeah, I do. Yeah.
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Oh, I hate them. I used to dread going to a Catholic club. It was an hour long. Yeah. Yeah, it's just, I think it's cool. ah They sing everything. It's, you know, they had a ah good singer there that played the organ, whatever. And yeah, it was just a beautiful, beautiful wedding. like Like cover band type thing? or Like a what? Cover band or? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They a cover band, yeah. My guess is. Sex Pistols. My guess is.
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thought going to make a joke about the organ. Yeah. Well, the bride probably played the organ later on that night. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. That's a friend of ours, daughter. Skin flu? Well, he didn't say she went with no hands. He didn't go that far.
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I don't know who this is. you know So just a bunch of Westsiders. The reception was a lot of fun, as you can imagine. yeah So yeah, that that was it. saturday Sunday did a whole lot nothing.
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No, no, no. Get me in that wedding. Get me out of the wedding. Get me to the cake. Are you serious? Dude. Really? Dude, the shorter the better. ah I love them. I do. i Oh, my gosh. It's a good mix of younger people, older people.
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and And it's like I've said the last three or four weddings I've been to. You remember when all your friends, when we were younger, were going through weddings. You know, you're going to a wedding two or three times in the summer when you're in your late 20s, early 30s.
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And you'd be there at the reception and you'd look around and there's, you know, Aunt Edna and Uncle Fred over there on the side and and Aunt Billy and Uncle Tom. Aunt Billy? guess guess Guess who's the Aunt Billy and Uncle Tom of of the wedding reception now? You are? know We are. yes we are those We are those old, not that old, but we yeah, we are the older people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it was fun. It was a lot of fun. Good deal. Yeah.
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How about you,
Cigar Bar Experience
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Laco? Anything great and fun and awesome? A little movie. little movie action. movie? can Captain America. Jesus. dude oh not I guess you didn't like it. I was disappointed. yeah yeah was It was okay. I have an opinion as well. It was okay. um I'm not going to ruin any anything for anybody. i It was okay.
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As far as the Marvel movies go. then what may What didn't you like then?
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You tossed it there. There was a lot of action. A lot of action for a Marvel comic movie, yeah but the story just kind of wasn't there, I didn't think. I don't Anyway, that went to, oh, Blocky, me and Blocky had talked for the last couple weeks about going to a cigar bar again. So went to Saturday. I don't know. Sometime. It doesn't matter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just went over, had a little glass of bourbon and a cigar. ah Over in Plainfield, there's a small little... It's not small.
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It's medium size. They're right there on 40. It's not hoity-toity. I think it's called Via Havana. Okay. Somebody needs call one of those, Smoke Them If You Got Them. I mean, how is that not the name of... Yeah, there has to be one but uh but this one so not not all of them allow you to do this but this one as long as you go in and buy a drink you can actually bring your own cigar okay into the place you don't have to buy theirs oh and and i i point like asked him the first time because blake's like i'm gonna take my cigar so i was like hey mick i'm a rule follower yeah and so i was like youre hey man just uh just curious you guys okay he goes
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Oh, yeah, as long as you got guys buy drink. And then I heard him say the exact same thing as we were sitting there on Saturday telling another guy the exact same thing. And I was like, okay, cool. cool So, yeah, they're really okay with you. Like, literally, like, I just need somewhere to smoke my cigars because it's freaking cold outside. So, anyway. So, I've never been cigar bar.
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So, you go in. Obviously, you're there to smoke cigars. And drink. Yeah. So most most of them have their license? All of them do. Most of them that I know of. I've never been to one that doesn't. Okay. Have alcohol. some Yeah, have alcohol. What's capacity in here? You know, my OCD shit. Seriously, what's capacity? The one in Brownsburg where we live, it's a lot bigger than you think it is. Is it really? Is it that little strip mall? Yeah, that's not a bad size. 50 people, 500? I mean, what? 15. Somebody give number. Jesus. 15. Probably 20, 25, something. It's actually bigger than that. would say more like 50. freaking way. Because they've got the bar. They've got the bar.
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And then they've also got That seems like four people. And we were worried we were going to run short on time tonight. everybody in there is obviously twice as, twice as big as the one in Brownsburg. Okay. And it's nicer. So everybody's in there smoking cigars, right? Yep. That's not for me.
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How smoky is, obviously they've got great air purifiers. They do. So as you're, as you're sitting there i mean you're getting the own smoke of your own. Sure. Right. But you're you're not you're not getting it from the guy sitting. There's not a haze. It's not like a hookah. The one time I was in there, it didn't seem that bad. I mean, you smell it, but it doesn't yeah but you do have like a heavy smoke And you literally smell like cigar warehouse.
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You have to go shower. When you leave, you know you It's going to the bar back in the, yeah when you get smoking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. But yeah i mean it's yeah, I mean, it's in the middle of the winter when you can't sit down on your patio and you want to smoke a cigar somewhere. yeah I mean. Now, we went to one in St. Louis um several years ago, but it was huge.
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I mean, like nightclub. Like 20, 21 people? No, like nightclub size huge. And they had couches. They had... different seating areas, TV screens, are have very high ceilings. Some are more holy-tony than others. No champagne I don't know why they wouldn't. But they had very high ceilings and everything else, so it was even – it you didn't even really feel like you were in a cigar bar because the ceilings were so high that none of it was like hanging down at head level. So, yeah. So there's there's one in that was pretty nice Lexington that we went to when we went down to visit Alex and Blocky down there one time. And um same thing, like ah a lot nicer, high ceilings. There's an outside patio seating. Right.
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um inside, I mean, full bar and just, you know, and they had just like longer tables and you sat up like on higher chairs and you may be sitting right next on a busy night. You may be sitting right next to somebody, but they're whatever. Yeah.
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You know, anyway, like any regular bar. Yeah. Yep. So
Emotional Challenges of Coaching
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yeah, man. There you How about you, Brett? Uh, wrestled Saturday, wrestled Sunday. Yeah. How'd your... Not a bad weekend. It was all right. we We went one and one. We had to go two and oh to get to state tournament. We lost second match five, three. So we were we were there. like yeah yeah It doesn't get easier as you as you do it because you feel so bad for the kids. And to be that close, I walked off. I'm like, almost think I'd rather get my ass kicked than be that close. yeah Don't get me wrong. I didn't want to get my ass kicked. But...
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um So, yeah, there's a lot of emotion that goes into it, and it's just a – it's tough, man. and It's tough. finality. Yeah. At that point. I see my kid was a great kid. Yeah, he he's he's one of the top ten kids I've coached. I would probably never be able to rank one through ten. but Senior?
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Yeah, senior. So, um yeah, it's just – and you just get to share a couple cool moments with kids along the way, and that's – That's pretty cool. Yeah, it's good. And then I had to drive a minibus back.
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I'm glad nobody from the high school. i i know as evansville evans oh she his one point shit Was Oh, shit. I don't even remember a 10-minute stretch of that drive. um like Really? You just zone down? okay Yeah, I think so. Is he going to college?
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Yeah, undecided, but he'll probably end up playing football at a D2-ish school. awesome All right. Cool. Well, we ah Valentine's Day dinnered it. um Oh, yeah. forgot about that thing.
00:11:28
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Yeah, so did I. That was all fine and good. Actually, without incident. You went to rookies, Jeff. Yeah, you were a rookie. You announced that last week. Yes. yeah Then ah Saturday, we tried it out the Alamo Drafthouse.
00:11:42
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I've never heard of that. So Nationwide Chain started in ah Austin, Texas. Alamo. Yep. you can get dinner to pretty sure it's 50. No, it's not.
00:11:53
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it's fifty brett ah for sure it's fifty no tell you get You get a dinner and movie. You can ah order from the menu. They deliver it to your seat. Oh, okay. So it's okay so you go in, you sit down, you order food. and they have ah So we also saw the Captain America movie. I like them i like those places, by the way.
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it's a place where you can eat and me and watch a movie yeah yeah they bring you alcohol too right oh yeah yeah there's beer it's kind of nice those places are really nice i i've been to one it's called my house just saying it's different my house so who delivers your beer for you yeah exactly whoever who's ever going to the garage the bitches um but uh I did not see that. the so So before the movie, though, they always have some kind of instead of just regular old stupid what's on the screen when you're at a movie stuff before the previews, they were playing like all these old um episodes of Spider-Man from Japan, right?
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So like probably 50s, era stuff. And then they had one that had the Hulk and Spider-Man. Godzilla. Godzilla. um but they had one that was Captain America, and it was all these like just old-timey, you know, they're never fun. um Then we got into the ordering of the food, which ah quickly turned into a giant debacle. What? I know it surprises you. Hold on, hold on, Tommy, hold on, hold on. Hold on, slow your roll there for just one second.
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but Che and I eat out at restaurants so do i quite often. Me too. had to clarify that language. Every once in while we you know get a bad waitress, whatever. For sure. Shit goes shit goes sideways every once in a blue moon.
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Yeah. but Why is it every time you fucking go out to eat, there's some kind of tragedy going on There isn't. Here we go. Here we go. That's not every time, Jeff. I flat told you Friday night we went out to dinner without incident. That's the first time you have you said that sentence in a long time. In probably about but about three years and since I've known you.
00:14:05
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Well, so... So what happened? My bad, my bad. So we literally, we get there and
Movie Theater-Restaurant Frustrations
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we read the instructions and you're supposed to write down what you want on a piece of paper so you when they take your order, you don't disrupt everybody Sorry, is this the movie place?
00:14:19
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Yes. Menu is what? Burgers, handheld stuff? Burgers, pizza, sandwiches, salads. Bar food. Bar food. Oh, that fish and chips. Bar food. So, but the menus... so but the menus
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You're right, Link. This week's a disaster. ah scrap the mid user at Let's wrap it They've got a little... Tommy's in a mood. They've got tables, like you know just like the old-timey school desks that you sit down and you've got like this table that comes in front of you like a desk.
00:14:49
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Really? Yeah. so It's something that pops out like an airplane on first class. yeah It doesn't fold down or anything else. It's always there. Oh, yeah, it just swings out the way? Nope, doesn't even do that. It's always right where it's at. so like stationer How do you get in?
00:15:02
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So there's enough room for you to get in and sit down. And then once you're seated. We live in Indiana. I'm sure there's some people that can't get Have been to State Fair, Tom? Yeah. I have. Look, I'm not a small guy. I didn't have any trouble.
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um So once you're in your seat, though, that seat adjusts. So you can lean it back, push it forward. Typical movie seat, right? Got a heater in it. It's all kinds of. It's really nice. Anyhow. it vibrate?
00:15:26
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No, I don't know. The only reason I knew it heated was because I accidentally hit the heat button and all a sudden my ass started cooking. You little swap ass? I was like, why is my ass hot all of a sudden? And I looked down there a red light on in my seat.
00:15:39
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sch Sweaty ass. Anyhow, um so we we read the instructions and so we wrote down an order on a piece paper like we're supposed to. And the guy comes soon. and He goes, oh, is this your order? And I was like, yep.
00:15:52
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So he still talked. Yep. Well, the movie hadn't started yet. Oh, okay. We were one of the first ones to order. What kind fucking order my mouth? Because he literally walked in. we had it We had it written down. i got a pizza. She got a salad. Ordered her tea. Whatever. I got a beer.
00:16:06
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Had it written down. He takes that. And then we sit there and wait. You know, small talk, small talk, but blah, blah, blah. Preview start, whatever. Please don't shut me downstairs. All this time, all these people that ordered after us are getting their drinks. They're getting food.
00:16:23
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And I'm like, the fuck? Yeah. So I stopped him and I said, because when he first came back out, he's like, hey, your drinks will be right out. Okay, great. yep So I stop him after I see all this other activity and I'm like, hey, how about those drinks? And he goes, oh, they should be right out. And I'm like, I've heard that before.
00:16:43
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And then he just kept walking. That's where it goes south for you, I think, Tom. Is that initial quip back? That's where the expectorant ends You might as well called him a cocksucker right there and just been done with it.
00:16:54
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So then we finally do get our drinks. I get my beer. He comes out with a beer and a water. She had ordered tea. Brings her water. And I'm like, no, she had tea. So takes they take both drinks back.
00:17:08
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And I'm like, whoa, that's it. Okay. So then he comes, the guy comes back out with just the beer and he says, we don't have any tea. And I'm like, oh no.
00:17:20
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Okay. How about water? And he's like, well, that's why I brought water the first. Well, then why didn't you fucking say that? Why didn't you say it then? Yeah. So whatever. Doesn't matter. Finally, we get our food after everybody else got their food. We literally probably were the last ones to actually get food, even though we were the first to order. When did you get your drink?
00:17:37
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ah Huh? When did you get your drinks? we I just told that. Just explain that. Really? I'm actually debating. No, I know how I feel. It it looks like this this they're not all that big just desk has to swivel.
00:17:53
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it it I'm telling you it doesn't. because we i hear you I know it looks like it should because we said the same thing, but it didn't. Anyhow, another free meal. um Nope. um So then as as you're going through stuff and you're and you're sitting there before the movie actually even starts, they kind of tell you how how to do everything. And then they inform you that an 18 percent gratuity will automatically be added to every bill.
00:18:20
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two Two people or 10 people or 20 people, doesn't matter. Correct. That's rough right there. that's not that's Every bill. However, if you feel like Does that say that on the menu anywhere?
00:18:32
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Didn't even look for it. Didn't pay attention. why would you? Didn't think to look for it. They announced it on the screen, and it's at a time when you've already ordered. You're already in there for the movie. you're you know you're already into so You're already into something, right? Drinks or something. That's horseshit. And I was like, and if you feel like yeah your server did a fantastic job and deserves more, feel free to add on. give You can give it 19%. Nope. Nope.
00:18:55
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You're getting 18%. Matter of fact, I feel like I got a little raped. But, you know, that's okay. So so we paid an extra 18%. So dinner and movie, and ah it was an experience.
00:19:06
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I'm not going to say it was bad enough that we wouldn't go back, but the 18% gratuity thing automatically... Kind of bothered me. And I was just wondering, where are we at with that? Are we back on the whole tipping thing? Yeah, and I'm just kind of curious. I get it now. Everywhere you go, the tip option comes up everywhere, especially if use a debit
Tipping Culture Debate
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card. Correct.
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when you borrow a credit card, when debit or credit. When you're buying dinner, lunch, McDonald's, it doesn't matter where it seems like, there's a tip option. Why? Why?
00:19:41
Speaker
So I go into the fake the vape shop. Oh, the vape shop. Sorry. Next to rookies. No, no, no. Well, there, it could be there. I don't know. I haven't paid attention. They want it to. Once every week and a half, I'm going in there buying ah vape thing.
00:19:55
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I go take it off the shelf, give it to the kid. Very nice kid. Very p polite. You know, hey, you want to try that? Blah, blah, blah. Pay for it. It flips the thing over and it's... And I'm like, what are we doing here? Are you fucking kidding me right now? Why do you need a tip? That's exactly what I said when he flipped it over and I saw tip. I go, are you fucking kidding me right now? And the dude's like, I'm sorry.
00:20:19
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He goes, wait I can't turn it off. Yeah, it's part of the system. It's not fault. No, it's not the kid's fault. And I just pushed no tip and and went on the way. i'm Right. But yeah, I mean, he's like... It's ridiculous. But it but it is. a it For somebody who tries to be a nice guy for the majority of the time, do feel bad. It's like a guilt thing. You do. I mean, look at that like, crap. He knows hit no tip. Correct. Yes. They know right away. So, you know, it's kind like, but at the same time, I went down the aisle.
00:20:54
Speaker
I picked out my own shit. I brought it to you. All you're doing is pushing buttons point. All you did is... That you're getting paid to do. Yeah, you're getting paid to do your job anyway. You agree to do this job for this amount of pay. If that's the case, they should make the rule like they – sorry, I'm not a fan of this, but make it all the – like their waiter-waitress where they get that extremely low minimum wage. Sorry.
00:21:18
Speaker
hourly rate correct like a couple of bucks and assume that you're making it up on tips i think it's yeah you're you're crossing streams there and yeah i don't know and and i also have it the issue is part of it so like if you go to a place like qdoba right huh you walk through the line there's like three or four different people that are involved in putting together whatever you ask for And then you get tipped at, you tip at the end.
00:21:45
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Do they all split that amongst themselves? Do that do you tip at the end of Cadova? you tip at the end of Speedway? Or Speedway, Jesus Christ, Subway? Does anybody tip at the Subway or McDonald's? I have in certain circumstances, but it's, I don't know. I don't like it. I think the whole thing, like, it's I don't like it. It is. is uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable. I think it's a forced on, and even like McAllister's, right, to ask for a tip.
00:22:08
Speaker
And the only thing they really do is bring it to your table. I'm okay standing there waiting. I really am. but the But again. I'm also good with giving that guy a buck, two bucks.
00:22:22
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All right, Chuck. And a Lucy. that's That's the other side of it. Like if it's a kid, you know, I'm like, okay, who knows. What's three bucks to me? That's stupid stupid judgment because there's probably, if it's not a kid, right, if it's a 35-year-old male-female, they probably need sure you know just as much as an 18-year-old kid. So and I'm with you. I think that it should be for a level of service. yep And I don't think at a lot of those places that level of service exists. yep I agree. It's just what has been a standard hourly wage job.
00:22:58
Speaker
You go to Subway and it used to be $5 foot longs. Or at worst, $6.50, $7 for a steak, $12 steak, whatever. Get it, COVID happened, inflation, boa get all that shit.
00:23:10
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But now you're in there and you're you're you're spending $13 on a six-inch combo. That's more than a buck an inch. Yeah, yeah exactly right. Yeah. Why am I tipping? What am tipping for? you paying exorbitant prices?
00:23:26
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And I get it. ah You, line worker, it's not your fault. I get that. no You just work for the corporation, but, you know. Well, and I think that's that's the whole thing is that it it just boils down to...
00:23:39
Speaker
I truly question how many of these companies are actually putting that tip back to all the employees that are working. I would think they would have to. well i say I would think there would be some sort of law. that would I don't know that there is. Because you've got so many people working. Tips are reported separately. Yeah, and so that's different if somebody waits on you and they've collected your bill and all that stuff. But if you're walking through a line and hitting a button on a POS as you're leaving, I just don't know that it does the same thing. I think it's the category of transaction. Right. Like when you buy something from a convenience store, I would assume, right? Yep. There's a food category. There's a beverage category. There's alcohol category. Whatever. Yeah, yeah. Correct.
00:24:26
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tip has to be a different level. so just just to before we get to this week in history. would just question how they get to... ah Get that divvied out to everybody. but So ja Jake and are traveling last week and we pulled this Burger King up in northern BFE, Ohio.
00:24:43
Speaker
Because it's the only place to eat in town. Didn't we hear this last week? No. Did you? No. No, you're not Burger King. You did? The kiosk and the ordered everything? Yeah, I think so.
00:24:54
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Did you? Oh, we did. Sounds awful familiar. Yeah, go ahead, though. Just in case we did. This week in history. did Yeah, Now part of the show. history.
00:25:07
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This week in history.
00:25:12
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1962, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth. Not go up in space, but orbit the Earth. ah During NASA's Mercury program aboard the spaceship Friendship 7. Isn't that nice? So does orbit mean that is nice one full trip around?
00:25:29
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Correct. Around the Earth. He made three full trips around the Earth in approximately five hours. Multi-orbit. So Alan Shepard was the first American in space, but he did not orbit the Earth. He went up, kind of fell back down. Yeah.
00:25:44
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I don't see it there because I can't read it very well. I think he got Space Head on his third orbit.
00:25:53
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I'm not sure. Yeah, because... I might be reading that upside down. well like So wait a minute. He went around the whole world three times in five hours, and it took this clown like 14 hours just to get to India?
Historical Trivia & Unusual Events
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Yeah.
00:26:07
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What the fuck is wrong with us? No, you could go to Disney World and go on Small World. He sat in Minneapolis for like... Like 13 of those 14 hours drinking beer. Back then, Tom, the world was flat. It was a lot easier to travel across before we blew it up. We still need to get it flat. Pumped it up. So Alan Shepard was actually the first. Oh, I already said that. was first mayor space.
00:26:32
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ah The first. Human being was ah Yuri Gagarin from ah Russian Cosmonaut. The Ruski. So, yeah. It wasn't a monkey?
00:26:43
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Human, Tom. He did say human. Oh, he did say human? There was a monkey with John Glenn, I'm pretty sure. The thing Brett was talking about earlier. Hey, we're going to bust you out on trip two around. going to make sure we get this first one through. I didn't really want to talk about obesity on the podcast here.
00:27:01
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This week, it's 1979. He evolved the shit out of that monkey. There's a joke there that I am just going to leave. Yeah, you probably should. You probably should. It's the, uh, anyway. anyhow Anyhow. 79. happened in 79, Mike?
00:27:18
Speaker
Before we get banned from every... For the first time in recorded history, snow falls in... Hawaii. The Sahara Desert. Ooh. What? First time recorded history, 1979.
00:27:30
Speaker
It may have happened earlier, but that's first time I recorded it. First time anybody saw it. ah It's located in southern Algeria. I would have never... I don't even know where that's at. Where's the Sahara? Where's the Sahara Desert? been like... South America. I don't know.
00:27:42
Speaker
Over there somewhere. Yeah. I would have never guessed Algeria. South Pole. Ever. Far east. Bermuda Triangle. Northern Africa. It's approximately three and a half million square miles. It also happened again in December of 2016. It's Christmas miracle. In January of 2018.
00:28:00
Speaker
In fact, in January 2018, there was anywhere from 4 to 12 inches of snow across the Sahara the higher at the higher levels of the Sahara. Is that all part of that global warming stuff that's going on right now? It's crazy. I have no clue.
00:28:14
Speaker
Not sure how measured that 4 to 12 inches. That was camel dance.
00:28:23
Speaker
How else would you mention that? My guess is for how freaking cold out it is here in Indiana, yeah I'm guessing going some snow here sometime soon again anyway. So in all cases, the snow generally only lasted about a day because then it warmed up and the snow melted away. Of course. there you go.
00:28:41
Speaker
This was the ministry of 1980. The miracle on ice happened. Oh, man. Oh, yeah. Hey, we got another one getting ready happened to happen tomorrow. big Big hockey game tomorrow night. That be.
00:28:52
Speaker
I don't know if it'll be, obviously, as watched as that, but there's more televisions. Tomorrow night's hockey game between U.S. and Canada. Well, it's a big thing. Which we're going to go into. We're going to talk about that a little bit. Is that it? This weekend, in 2001, Dale Earnhardt passed away. Daytona 500. Seatbelt malfunctioned.
00:29:09
Speaker
and so seatbelt malfunction Blah, blah, blah. Hit his head. Jeff, you've still never seen Miracle, right? The movie about that? That's a good one. There's one more. There is? Yeah. No, no, no, no. Birthday's 1985. Vision Quest came out 1985. February 15th.
00:29:32
Speaker
february fourteen Holy cow. You paused to make sure your math was right, didn't you? Because my high school reunions this year also. Yeah, so 40 years ago that movie came out. That's unbelievable. Wow. It's unbelievable.
00:29:50
Speaker
Unbelievable. All right, all right so Jeff brought it up, the U.S.-Canada hockey game, but ah here recently there was a hockey game
US vs Canada Hockey Game Controversy
00:30:02
Speaker
where... ah Canada was none too happy with the ah national anthem. There's also U.S. Canada, by the way. They're in a four-nation playoff. right but They're in a four-way.
00:30:17
Speaker
yeah chilly but It's a chilly four-way. Him and the monkey from NASA. Crazy four-way. So Brett sent a text message to the group and and voiced, ah maybe we should talk about this. So we are We're going to talk about it a little bit. And ah the ah I think the takeaway is, the despite what where you stand on anything, the fact is...
00:30:45
Speaker
In those circumstances, don't you just show respect to all countries? What circumstances are you talking about, Tom? Can you tell the audience? Yeah, at a sporting event. Okay. Yeah. When you're at a sporting event yeah and you're at a world, in two countries. If you agree or don't.
00:31:02
Speaker
the Agree or don't. Agree with the country. What's going on? You just show respect by not doing those things. Now, maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. when when Would you boost boost somebody's national anthem, Jeff?
00:31:15
Speaker
Or their whatever country, whatever, I don't know. Not everybody calls it National Anthem, right? but Correct. i That's a kind of a loaded, not a loaded question, but ah yeah, what's going on at the time between us and that country? I mean... what what sir I guess maybe, let me ask you differently. What circumstances... I don't see me under...
00:31:35
Speaker
a whole lot of circumstances being that blatantly vocal i'm not that way anyway kind of with you but is there a a circumstance where you would boo or you would go but he will run he will run through france shouting us usa usa that was in a specific group of people and it won the olympics they weren't even french they weren't even french man So I guess if I was was at Munich in 72, the United States basketball team got fucked over yeah by the Ruskies, yeah, I'd probably be booing. Yeah, Africa with apartheid thing, maybe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, there's probably certain circumstances where where that, I mean, where your fandom comes out, correct you know, and and your love of country comes out. yeahp I can see that. i like I've got no problem with those Canadians booing us. I i truly don't. It's... it's
00:32:25
Speaker
it's I just don't i don't see a big issue with it. And then for us to go and kick their ass physically and on the scoreboard was tremendous. but So the fights were interesting. it seemed like every what How many were there? Four?
00:32:39
Speaker
Five? Well, there were three in the first nine seconds. The beginning of the game was like a fight fest. The stuff I've read is um So these guys all know each other, right? This isn't like back in the day Olympic thing. International Hockey League players. Yes. Yes. yeah So ah what I've read is is so the Kachuk brothers are really the instigators, which is odd because their dad also got in a fight at USA Canada International game back in the ninety s So there's some blood there. It's one one of Kylie's least favorite NHL players, but now I bet it becomes one of her favorite. Yeah.
00:33:16
Speaker
But I what I read is he went to somebody's like, we're going like you got. And I love a lot of things about hockey, but there's a code. If you have to go, you have to go. Right. It's not like it's not like I'm going to say, no, no, this isn't the right place or time.
00:33:31
Speaker
It's like, OK, yeah, here we go, bitch. So if somebody drops their gloves on you, yeah you got go you have to. yeah You're not turning around. skin Otherwise, you are going to get pummeled the entire game. yeah So there's maybe the one exception is is the elite of the elite, which would have been Gretzky back in the day. And then you had an enforcer.
00:33:54
Speaker
He's not dropping gloves. You had an enforcer come along, and they took care of the business for for the elite guy. yeah You guys watch a lot more hockey than I do. a So that's not – it's not, you know, me big 6'7 guy picking on, not calling you out. No, not necessarily. You 5'4 guy. it's It is two people on opposing teams that know. So he said your actual height, but he made himself 6'7. He a good point. That's good point. But he's 6'7. Thank you. What the fuck?
00:34:24
Speaker
Shockingly, that went over my head. He grew six inches, but knew exactly how tall Brett was. I i over i almost just apologized for interrupting, but I don't feel sorry for interrupting you this time. my point My point being is, even in hockey, teams know who the fighters are. Correct. you know ah Bill the Enforcer on the Edmonton Oilers is not going after Jimmy the weak guy on the Buffalo Sabres. He's going after Enforcer to Enforcer. Correct. Fighter to Fighter. like Like to like most of the time. There's a few exceptions, but... Somebody does something dirty, yeah, there's going to be something. yeah And that's why hockey is oddly so clean.
00:35:00
Speaker
there's there's If somebody takes a cheap shot, they're it happens once, right? there's There's somebody that comes along and police. They police themselves, basically, through through fighting. So I heard this yeah ESPN commentator. Through kung fu fighting. Sorry, misspoke. Got it.
00:35:16
Speaker
Was everybody kung fu fighting? Oh, everybody was. Oh, yeah. i think everybody had to be. Fast as light. It was fast as light, from what could tell. Was it a little bit frightening? A little bit. Yeah, a little bit. Sorry, this ESPN commentator. Did he say frightening? um like by saying Frightening. Frightening.
00:35:32
Speaker
Frightening. Sorry, this ESPN commentator going on Monday morning. Some talking head. going, uh, this fighting in the NHL, tell he's a young kid, you know, this has got to stop, you it's bullshit, you know, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, dude, how much hockey I've watched seven years of hockey. You I've seen enough to know. And they say that this, and I'm like, it's part of the game. It's part the game. And if they don't fight, they're going to beat the shit out of each other with a stick. They're going to do different things. And that's why they allow it to happen.
00:36:06
Speaker
hockey is the only sport and hockey rules have a safety rules have advanced significantly it's the only sport that really hasn't uh i'm gonna say penalize but you get penalties for fighting within the game sure but you don't lose money you don't get game checks you don't get suspended unless you just do something egregious it's the only sport that really hasn't put in rules and to eliminate fighting. yeah Because I think the people that govern hockey know hockey, they've played it, understand how it works, and that's just how the game is has always worked since I've been watching. yeah
00:36:41
Speaker
My ah Northern Irish twin actually came in and showed me that video. She's like, hey, did you hear I was like, I heard about it. i said, but I haven't seen it.
00:36:52
Speaker
So she she calls it up and we're watching. She goes... They actually just let them fight. She goes, the refs aren't doing anything to stop them. I'm like, it's kind of the way it works. I said, one, they have to let them get it out of their system. And two, I said, if you're a referee and you have two big giant guys swinging fists, was like, do you want to go in there? One of them was Link.
00:37:19
Speaker
ah Oh, that's right. yes Okay. You have one big 6'7 guy. Yeah, stand behind the six seven guy. You're safe. give your five ah Beat the shit out of the 5'4 guy. But but the usa do you want to do you want to go in there while fists are flying or do you want to wait until they maybe fall onto the ground?
00:37:34
Speaker
And they cover them up. Or holding each other's sweaters and now nobody's moving and then you cover them up. yeah mean But there's there's a method to the madness there. There really is. There is a gentleman's code. If you're not a hockey fan. Absolutely code. you're like, well, why are the refs just standing there? They must want them to fight. it' not not Not really.
00:37:52
Speaker
So there there is a method to it. there's je Yeah, gentleman's code, whatever you want to call it. The refs know. The players know. The shit's going down. Yep. And if we hit the ice, you're come on top of us, cover us up, and yeah and it's all over. i thought I thought, for me, the booing, I don't like. but I do the same if if the U.S. booed Canada's.
00:38:12
Speaker
Right? I would say same thing. Like, I hate it when high school kids or college kids get booed. I'm like, that's, to me, that isn't right. I understand you paid your money for your ticket. It's your prerogative. Act however you want.
00:38:25
Speaker
um High school kids, yes. well Yeah. like To me, even college kids some extent. and now you're Different with NIL money, I understand that part. But in general, that's a 19-year-old kid that you're you as a 40-plus-year-old adult, bitching at him you're booing that kid but because he missed a three-point shot that you can't even hit on 20. So I'm not a big fan of that that negativity in sports anyway. What I do like is the reaction because they were the presser afterwards,
00:38:55
Speaker
The dude that started the fight, he's like, I didn't like it. Oh, that's why. American dude. Yeah, that's why went. didn't see that. He's like, I did not like it. And I'm like, okay, good on you, man.
00:39:07
Speaker
And so if it was reversed, if the dude from Canada said that, I'd be like, I'd respect that statement as well. I'd respect that statement as well. I do remember our hockey trip to Montreal.
00:39:18
Speaker
There was a spattering of booze when they introduced the national anthem because they were playing ah an American team. I don't even remember who it was. You probably do. You probably remember the score of the game. Actually, don't. when We drank a lot before that game. That was an all-day bender. it was it Yeah, we were in the bar for several hours. From new noon tik to puck drop. yeah he He remembers the important parts of the trip. Hell, yeah. if We used the pay phone to call home. That's how long ago it was.
00:39:44
Speaker
Plus, that's the second France-Quebec, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah, yes. Yeah, yeah. So I do remember a spattering of booze, and we both kind of looked at each other like, oh, shit, they just booed our national anthem. And it wasn't like the whole crowd.
00:39:57
Speaker
It was there was just a handful here and there. like, okay, okay, I guess. This was little bit different because... Very different. They actually waited until, I think it was like Land of the Free is what the line was. So they didn't like boo when they introduced the national anthem or when they first started singing.
00:40:20
Speaker
They kind of sat there respectfully until they got to certain part and they were like, boo. And I was like, wait a minute, why'd you wait till then? Orchestrated though. Are you like that so like wink like are you holding up? like, wait for it. Wait Hold, hold, hold. all of those national ansm anthems, especially in the playoffs, have become like orchestrated crowd events. Like if your team has the color red you will emphasize the word red or ah something like that. ah it When they do O Canada in Edmonton, they spotlight a guy that sings the first part and then the crowd sings the rest. So there's a lot of coordination with it, but...
00:40:59
Speaker
I don't know. I don't like it. I do like the reaction. Like I said, if it was Canada or Sweden reacting the same way, I would still respect the reaction. Sure, sure. yep Yep. Okay.
00:41:12
Speaker
Yeah. but do Do we want to talk about why? Why we think they booed? Well, sure. Our president came out and said, we're going to take over your country and we're going to charge you all these crazy tariffs. So, yeah, they're all pissed off. They called their, yeah.
00:41:26
Speaker
called their prime minister an idiot i don't i don't get wanting to make them don't know that it's that part of the u.s i don't understand that is that i don't think sorry i'm i'm gonna ask is that for real because i know there's a lot of hyperbole at times are we gonna get kicked off of uh all the internet for talking what do we even get kicked off oh i remember they're they're Their prime minister, aliize say that country's prime minister is on the way out.
00:41:54
Speaker
There's going to be elections here held soon, and he's socialist. ball we We're not going to go on the political side of it, but that's that's why they were booing him, because our president said we're to make them a 50-year state. From the few people I know up there, the individual provinces are very different from each other in a lot of ways. Especially Quebec. Well, that that's French. oh it's What we learned when we were there, it's like, yeah, you got were like we were talking to American bartender. country. It's like you have to pass a French test with certain fluency and certain – you have to kind of prove that that can be you can communicate in French on the daily. And all all of their signage up there, the French has to be – I think the font was twice as big
00:42:39
Speaker
as the American font or English font underneath. right So it it had to be first and it had to be twice as big as the English font. Well, they've, Quebec has literally tried to succeed from Canada.
00:42:52
Speaker
And you, so I can Google that. It's Texas. It's how Texas trying to get the hell out of the United States. They've tried to several times. Yeah. That's okay. Parts of Illinois will become Indiana, too. so Yeah,
Canadian Political Structure
00:43:03
Speaker
yeah. it's so i'm i I'm anxious to watch this game tomorrow night, though. It's exciting.
00:43:10
Speaker
So you have a prime minister of Canada, right? But what each individual territory, what is the head of each one of those territories? Is there a separate...
00:43:22
Speaker
Person? Grand penis. Like a governor. Like a state governor type thing. Is there that role? That's called a tip. Is there that role? have the tip of Ontario. I have no idea. It makes me ask that question because if they have all these rules in Quebec.
00:43:38
Speaker
Chancellor? Is there a chancellor? Who made the rules for Quebec to make it that vastly different than Saskatchewan? Right. You know what i mean? So what there's got to be a governing body in one of Who's the governor British Columbia? What do they call the governor of British Columbia? That's not a state. It's province. So that's right. They call him the governor. Yeah, that's nice. The governor.
00:44:01
Speaker
Governor A. That's what they call him. Governor Mate.
00:44:07
Speaker
So anyway, I know Tom is googling that. Tim Horton's got to be youri he's he's he's got to be one of the governors up there. He might have covered two of those problems. Yukon Cornelius. We need more than we thought we did. Do a little yuriga-googling on that there, Tom.
00:44:25
Speaker
Premiers. They have premiers. Of course they do. They lead the provinces of Canada while lieutenant governors represent the king and swear in the provincial government. and The king?
00:44:36
Speaker
Yes. They're still. What? Who's the king of Canada? King of Canada? I've never heard of him. Who's the king England? What? They are still. Yes. ah Hang on. I didn't know that. Yes.
00:44:49
Speaker
and know they are They are still, yeah, the king, the queen was on their dollar. the province and In Canadian constitutional theory, provinces are considered to be co-sovereign with certain areas.
00:45:03
Speaker
Constitution Act of 1867 divides responsibilities between provincial and federal government. Okay. So they're ultimately under... They're not in monarchy, I don't think, but they are still under the king. I thought we were just talking about booing the national anthem. A little bit of hockey. Now we're talking about Canadian history. I'm curious now. Political history. We're just not good at education on the fly at times.
00:45:31
Speaker
So why tom see one of those Tom's going to find another nugget here. I feel that. The one thing that's been kind of cool going through, ah scrolling through Insta for me is I've always liked that Toby Keith song. that I think it's called the Angry American. We'll put a boot in your ass. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:45:48
Speaker
So that is that is queued up to the fight scene right off the puck drop. Is it really? And I'm like, OK, that's that's pretty solid. I like like that. yeah And the dudes going off the the ice, that the the older Kachuk that I think started the first fight.
00:46:06
Speaker
he's He's just high-fiving his bench. Didn't something happen in the penalty box when both of the American guys it got called off? but Wasn't there something that happened in there between those two guys that that they were reenacting? reenacting yeah yeah yeah i don't know so I didn't see a lick of it, but I heard about Obviously, it it blew up the internet.
00:46:27
Speaker
Yeah, it's something, you know, good on the NHL for positioning this in a very perfect time. And I won't even go as far to say as maybe there wasn't a little encouragement that, hey, OK, right? like what What gets ratings great in racing?
00:46:49
Speaker
Why do people watch races, by the way? Yeah. Oh, my goodness. We'll about that. But why do people watch racing? Why do people watch racing? For the rats. Yeah, yeah. My daughter fell in love with hockey because the first one we went to, there's a fight right away.
00:47:03
Speaker
And I looked over. I'm like, what in the hell happened to my daughter? Like, she was completely into it. ah Now she she just she watches a hell a lot more hockey than I do now. Sure, sure. um i NHL timed that pretty well and probably not unhappy that there was some fighting and some controversy. So it's their all-star break, right?
00:47:23
Speaker
So instead of doing an all-star break with a skills competition or whatever, they did a round-robin. half-ass game. Between United States, Canada. su Sweden and Finland. Finland. So Russia. Those are the primary. Primary players in the NHL. They went and represented their country for a week, week and a half, however long this has been going on.
00:47:42
Speaker
So the NHL was shut down. Unlike the NBA. They did what they did over the weekend. And did you hear what the ratings were for that? I didn't. well No. Was this All-Star Weekend? Yeah. it even worth I had no clue. Oh, and and it was it it was it was in San Francisco because Kurt's wife was in San Francisco last week for for the whole week.
00:48:02
Speaker
Said there was a bunch streets shut down and and all kinds of shit. I was thinking Saturday at the bar, there was the slam dunk competition going on. terrible. All that stuff. ah skills Skills competition, three points, slam dunk. So the the NBA's ratings, in well, I guess we're switching to major games. The NBA ratings have tanked for the last four or five years.
00:48:21
Speaker
And it's for numerous reasons. So now they're saying that, you know, and you're you're in the same age that I am. Back in the 80s, 90s, you knew who the boxers, who boxers were. You knew, you know, Marvin. marvel Yeah, boxing was awesome. You knew Chigaray. You knew. Or Burgo Duran. Burgo Duran. Muhammad Ali. Thanks for helping him out, Link. Leon Spinks. I mean, a shit ton of them. Thomas Hitman Hearns. Tyke Bison.
00:48:51
Speaker
What happened to boxing? I mean, that used to be a very popular sport when we were in grade school all the way up to high school. Very popular sport. Not to the level of NFL. or Oscar De La Hoya.
00:49:03
Speaker
He was later, but yes. Did you say Sugar Ray Leonard? Yes. NBA better be careful because that their ratings drop. Ken Norton? Did you say Ken Norton? No, no senior or junior. Senior or junior.
00:49:17
Speaker
either go One played football, one play one was a boxer. Yeah, so NBA better be careful because their their ratings are tanking bad. Jeff, then if you if you watched a lot of boxing, which it sounds like you did growing up.
00:49:30
Speaker
Serious question here. oh Did you ever lick Ken Norton's stamps?
00:49:36
Speaker
I plead the fifth. Okay. so the If you've never watched hockey, the NHL playoffs, they are worth getting into. Nothing better.
00:49:47
Speaker
That sport is ridiculous. Nothing better. The athleticism involved there, the hits they take. um The speed of the game. the It's just, it's it's so it's fun. It's it's it's actually, ah it's easy to forget that they're on ice, on
Appreciation for Hockey
00:50:04
Speaker
skates. It really is. On a small little blade. because they're Yes, it's easy.
00:50:08
Speaker
Yeah. because And with another gigantic 6'7 dude. six six Or 5'4". 6'6". 5'4". On his mother's side. Pushing against you, trying to get you to fall on your ass so he can take the buck away from you. Ram your shit into the board. Whacking you with his stick across your forearm. It's so easy. Every once in a while, I'm like...
00:50:30
Speaker
Gosh dang it, dude. They're doing this on ice, on ice skates. With a hard rubber puck. I think that that might have become, ah i used to want to dunk a basketball. It faded pretty quickly. Tyke basketball hoop? I'm a monster. I'm a monster against six-year-old kids on a Tyke basketball. Yeah.
00:50:47
Speaker
yeah I'll play them them some bitches for money. that ask But it would be awesome to check somebody in it, like legit check somebody in the boards. That would be fun thing. Yeah, until they turn around and they blindside you from... Well, yeah, I'd take it back, I'm sure. With a skate... It would be a skating start, technically. It would be not a running start.
00:51:09
Speaker
There you go. so I did attempt to watch another sporting event that I haven't watched in several years. Highly? No, but I actually might see Highline next week. Next week. You going to Florida? I am. Yeah. um Work again.
00:51:24
Speaker
um I started to watch part of the Daytona 500. lost.
00:51:30
Speaker
i was lost There's a stage thing, which I don't understand. It's been around for a minute. Everybody's racing, and then they stopped and came in in. Like a mandatory stop.
00:51:40
Speaker
Yeah. And so I watched for 15-ish minutes. I think I saw one lap under green. They came in for that stage thing where everybody changed tires, fuel, whatever. They went back out and got behind the pace car. And I'm like, what are we doing? What the hell is going on here? It's a joke. Yeah. ah Yeah. i ah like It's hard to watch. I know people that really, i think, are devoted to it.
00:52:06
Speaker
I don't get it, man. I watched all of that race because there was nothing else on That's why I watched it. was nothing on There was nothing else on. shaa I said to Shay, I go, do you want to watch anything? She goes, no, she's...
00:52:18
Speaker
reading a book, doing whatever, I said, I'll switch over and watch this. It's 7 o'clock in the evening, rain delayed. Oh, yeah, it was for like three total hours or something like that. Oh, that's why it was on so late. Terrible. then, of course, i had on.
00:52:33
Speaker
Here we go. A driver to win. And he he was leading the last thirty five laps. And it comes around. mic yeah Oh, yeah. Comes. i get fucked every time.
00:52:47
Speaker
come Comes around. There's four laps left. course, a big crash happens. My Austin Sendrick's in the lead. So what do they do? Well, we got to go, you know, which is such a made-up thing. And IndyCar went to it several years back, and I'm not happy about it.
00:53:02
Speaker
You know, the white. green Green, yellow. Green, green yellow. Green, white checkered. Green, white checkered. Right. Which is such a fabricated bullshit thing. And so then on the last lap, and and the announcer's sitting there going, well, once they take the white, the the race is over. It's official. Oh, my God. official.
00:53:21
Speaker
Of course, they take the white. What happens? Big ass wreck. My guy gets, you know, which could have happened no matter if there was a flag or not. But I'm just like, this is, it's, NASCAR used to be, the drivers made it also when you had Earnhardt Wallace, Rusty Wallace, Jeff Gordon.
00:53:38
Speaker
yeah Here we go names again. Yeah, yeah, yeah. when yeah i Kid Norton. that He never raced. Billy Norton. He never raced. But yeah, it was, they call it the great American race. I'm like, come on. Are you fucking kidding me? I didn't watch hardly any of it. I saw some highlights somehow on a, I don't know, a news. I don't remember even how I saw any highlights because I wasn't looking for them. It just kind of happens.
00:54:07
Speaker
Yeah. Really? Took a trip around in the, oh, yeah. Took a trip around in the limo. Took trip around in the limo in the beast. He paced the race. plane flew over and blah, blah, blah. Whatever. Cool shit. Whatever. Good America. We're American. He's going to be there at the Super Bowl. He's going to be there at the 500 to get ready for it. At any? He was the Super Bowl. he's going to be there. I guarantee it.
00:54:27
Speaker
He ain't going to stay. Keep him the fuck away from the 500. He didn't do nothing. He'll pop in and say hi. and Think he'll stay at Presto? No, you got somebody else booking that. don't know. You better those people off. I don't think his car is going to fit in the driveway. It's Ford Street available. It's a pretty small driveway.
00:54:44
Speaker
He travels with a pretty big crowd. I don't know. You ain't got enough beds at Presto. You got that hood of the ah the NASCAR up on the the wall yet? Not yet. I got to do that. Dude, what are we doing? He's going to Coca-Cola infield on Saturday night before the race. Yeah, probably not. Sign some executive orders.
00:55:04
Speaker
I was thrown back a little bit by how there was no racing.
NASCAR & Indy 500 Celebrity Presence
00:55:10
Speaker
Like said, I saw one lap. It's a parade. and it Yes, it just seemed like, i don't know, man. i can't It is. Their viewership has to be...
00:55:19
Speaker
It'll be interesting because Indy's on Fox this year. ye Yep. yep And they've been advertising the shit out of that. Super Bowl. the Super Bowl was kind of cool advertising. Three ads, I think. yeah well i don't it's my Our guy Santino doesn't get any love, though. No, that whole team doesn't. And there's a show that was on, ah leading up to it, the 100 Days of... 100 Days Till Indy? 100 Till Indy.
00:55:44
Speaker
They never talk about the Foyt team in that either. They they focus on... the premier teams. Sure. And it makes sense. I mean, that gets ratings, but... Santino's in the mix at the 500, man. Foyt's team needs to turn the corner yeah to start getting that. Yeah. I mean, and I think with the drivers they've got now...
00:56:09
Speaker
I think they're going to be a force. It's the year. It'll be interesting. It's the year for them. That New Garden commercial is funny. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it is. With the sperm. he's yeah where He's a great representative. He is.
00:56:21
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oh yeah
00:56:24
Speaker
Good looking dude. He still steals the milk from his brother. yeah I thought that was pretty funny. So I know his physical therapist, personal trainer kind of guy. We can maybe talk to him in May. Oh, that'd be good. get him on the show? Yeah, get him on the show. We haven't had a guest in a hot ass minute. think he's got couple different clients that are in the IndyCar series.
00:56:48
Speaker
So doug winnegue Doug Bowles, who was IMS president, just also took over the IndyCar president, which I think that's, say which one about Doug Bowles, he's a hell of Oh, he's a great guy.
00:57:02
Speaker
We talked about that last week. But a couple people I know people i know in racing are like, is he biting off... More than he can chew? More than he can chew. Is he going to be effective at... Because he's very effective as IMS president, promoter. He loves that job.
00:57:17
Speaker
Oh, I know he does. Absolutely he does. How would he not be effective? I'm just saying, yeah. I mean, it's it's just a lot. Yeah. He's just out there promoting the entire league instead of one individual racetrack now. I mean, so why why wouldn't he? I don't know. Yeah.
00:57:31
Speaker
I don't think they could have found a better person. Without doubt. Yeah. Yeah. But... He's good dude. He's genuine. I'll tell you, every time I talk about Doug Bowles, I say the same thing. To anybody who who asks or whatever.
00:57:41
Speaker
um knew What you see is what you What you see is what you get. That's awesome. You see him on TV, and you're like, yeah, but is he really a down to earth? He is. Yeah. He's a good dude. ive I know him personally. saw him out two years ago out at ah in in Phoenix.
00:57:57
Speaker
Went up, said, Doug, hey, man. Link, man, how you doing? Good to see you. But hang on, yeah you saw him at a non-racing event. at a event. And he recognized you and remembered you. PGA, the Waste Management Golf Tournament out in ah out in Scottsdale.
00:58:11
Speaker
and And I, yeah, i so I was like, I turned to current wife, I go, holy shit, that's Doug Bowles. He was walking the opposite direction. Was he wearing a suit? he what I don't know if he was wearing a suit or not. So I walk in the opposite direction, and I literally just peeled off from my group, and I went over, and Got Ryan for i was like, hey, Doug. was like, hey, good to see you.
00:58:31
Speaker
He goes, oh, my gosh, Link, how's it going? Because I hadn't worked there a couple of years. Which weird, though, because your name, you either remember because it's so distinctive. Yes. But I would guess the group that remembers that's a smaller group, I would think your name, because it is unique, that there's a lot of people like, hey. You hear me do it all the time. Hey, buddy. How are you? Wow. How's it going? Yeah. Oh, fuck. Had that happen to me just a few weeks Knew exactly who I was. Genuinely seemed happy to see me and be like, hey, just as surprised to see me as I was to see him.
00:59:10
Speaker
Nice. So, yeah. Yeah, he's he's good dude. Good. Did he offer you a job back? No. no
00:59:19
Speaker
He didn't offer me any jobs, actually. No, I was kind of disappointed. No. Did you say I'll be your monkey? And I'm still saying he's a good guy. Take me take me into space. I'll be your monkey. ah wow Wow. Speaking of 8,500. You wrote a note down before we started. I'm dying to know what the note was. They are announcing the Carb Day Entertainment tomorrow. Are you kidding? I'm pretty sure it's tomorrow. This early? Oh, it must be somebody good then if it's this early. J&B and Doug Bowles are going on J&B, a local radio guy. Doug Bowles going on a radio, whatever they call it. Promotional. And they're going announce who the band is. It must be somebody good. Must be.
01:00:06
Speaker
um look that Now I'm looking forward. to oh yeah You're not going to be around, are I hope it's Jewel. Here's the thing. stuff I like Jewel. I i do, too. i she I loved her national anthem couple years ago. but Or was she God Bless America? I forget what she did. Yeah, well, then that's fine. But I don't know that she needs to be the headliner at Carb Day concert. Who do you want, Tom Pantera?
01:00:27
Speaker
so mine Yeah, okay, that'd be good. Pantera? Half of them are dead, but yeah, that'd be they'd be good. They can just bring the pan part. Just come rock. I want some roll. You got a thought here. No, I think between Super Bowl and the stupid ah NBA All-Star weekend, yeah um so many celebrities. They all show they show all, I think, all runs the gamut. All of them.
01:00:52
Speaker
All kinds of freaking celebrities from every different aspect of celebrity life. And the Indy 500, I think, I feel like they get like B and C level celebrities at the end. I'm like, this is the largest single day sporting event in the fucking world. Right. The largest single day.
01:01:14
Speaker
B minus. where are the top-notch celebrities going that's a cool ass event those cars are going 240 miles an hour yeah at the end of the straightaway yes and and you can't get people here and get people around this and go look look at these a-level celebrities we have and all the suites and put them on the cameras and everything i just i've never understood that for years travis kelsey he's driving the pace car this year no i I'm just telling you from a marketing... How about Jalen Hurts, dude? He won the fucking Super Bowl. Yeah, but if Travis Kelsey's here... just Just telling you from a marketing standpoint... Then put Swifty in the back seat, and then you got... And have her bitching at Travis Kelsey as he's driving around.
01:01:58
Speaker
You're not doing You're not driving fast enough. Turn left here. Turn right. Turn right. Turn left. Use your signal, damn it. you But, Linko, in in and I agree 100% with what you've said. we've We've sat up there in the light in the stands watching live, and I'm like, we rolling out fucking Florence Anderson again. She was good back in the 70s, 80s. She has a great rash. Mrs. Brady is kind hot. No, come on.
01:02:24
Speaker
Come on, Mrs. Brady. Come on. Who didn't wink off to that? Oh, my gosh. No, but but Greg did. No, Greg didn't wink off. He winked off. He winked off. Spider-Man that bitch. He tapped that shit. Greg Brady, Greg Brady. So you you're saying Alice over Mrs. Brady?
01:02:41
Speaker
No. I didn't see anything. It's a Ginger Mary Ann conversation. This was Alice or Mrs. Brady. I don't think it is. It's more of Sam the Butcher. It's more of Sam the Butcher. Yeah.
01:02:52
Speaker
I'd rather just take Tiger for a walk around the block. Tiger for a walk. Hey, bring your meat cleaver over tonight. ah So, no, I think a lot that had to do with the previous ownership, the the Georges.
01:03:04
Speaker
Sure, sure
Indy 500 Ownership & Celebrity Speculation
01:03:05
Speaker
that was. Now it's, Penske's owned it for, what, eight, nine? No, he owned it. He's owned it for? He owned it two months after I got fired. So how long has that been? 2019. So six years.
01:03:16
Speaker
nineteen so six years So i'm um I'll give him and his crew a chance. I'm with you. let's Let's bring in some fucking top-notch. I don't get it. Badass. It's never been top-notch time.
01:03:30
Speaker
They did have Chuck Yeager drive the pace. I thought when Chuck Yeager drove the pace years ago. He's not a top-notch celebrity. they've had They've had names, but the celebrities is who I'm talking about. People you see on TV every week. I think we got it. Or something else.
01:03:46
Speaker
So Kim Kardashian driving. We got to move this topic to the week before May. We do. And we have to all come with our, like, who are the five people that we think should be here. I want to know who Balston ate garlic for fucking dinner. I did not. Who was? I had no garlic. I had no garlic. But I did burp.
01:04:04
Speaker
I did not um so for for ah not. Not that I'm a huge fan. Kim Chi. But like Guy Fieri is everywhere on TV. Every time i see it i watch it.
01:04:16
Speaker
He was at the frigging... ah I think I swear they either showed him at the Super Bowl or the NBA stuff or whatever. I don't know. Anyway. He was at Super Bowl. Not that I'm a big fan of that guy, but he's...
01:04:27
Speaker
on TV and kind of relevant now. I don't know. That's just one name that pops into my head and I i keep seeing him everywhere else. yeah Why the, I don't know. I wonder how many celebrities actually come to the Indy 500 that you just don't hear about.
01:04:43
Speaker
Why wouldn't you hear about it? I don't understand. Okay, here's why. I think they would publicize the crap out. I'm going to play devil's advocate in this. Really? I can't imagine. You she don't do this. Not you. I usually do not do this. Is this the first time ever? so Out of character. First time ever.
01:05:01
Speaker
I'm out of my fucking element. Did you write that down as a devil? That's what he wrote down. That's what you wrote down. Devil's advocate. Little DA. I'm out my element here, and I wish you guys would let me speak. Respect the fact. Okay. Honestly about this.
01:05:16
Speaker
Boo. Boo. Boo. Boo
01:05:23
Speaker
You damn Yankee.
Air Filters: Practical Advice & Humor
01:05:25
Speaker
So do the celebrities not, because it is Memorial Day weekend and a solemn week. I'm just saying, I'm just saying, is that part of it? Is that, no you don't let the, you don't let the stars shine over the event over the weekend, over the... what world Because you still have that.
01:05:43
Speaker
but Okay, I'm just asking. No, I know. I think you would still... They had the guy from the Bike Riders, which was a movie that was coming out last year. oh I saw that. Waved the flag. I mean, so so though those are celebrities. They're just not A-list celebrities. Who waved the flag at the Daytona 500? I don't know. Whoever it was, he was semi-retarded because he was waving it backwards.
01:06:05
Speaker
Wow. I mean... Boo! Boo! Sorry. The R word. Sorry for that. Oh, I thought we were booing semi. I'm sorry. I got... We're on the... Wow. Did you see that? I booed the wrong thing. That's that's on me.
01:06:21
Speaker
So what did you write down, Jeff? Because I don't think that was it. I don't. You want to talk air filters? Kind of little bit. Oh, yeah. We don't have time. We'll talk about next time. we have time. Who the fuck cares?
01:06:33
Speaker
We're talking about air filters for your furnace. We want to do it this week or next week? It doesn't matter me, boys. Whatever you want to do. I've got all night.
01:06:42
Speaker
We go into it. Ask a question. So i sell filters, do it for a living. So i I saw an ad on Are you going to get Tom? well I saw an ad on TV for the 3M allergen filter.
01:06:59
Speaker
So my question is, I got several questions, and you can answer. We can go around the block here. What kind of filter do you use, Tom? Like brand? In your in your furnace filter.
01:07:12
Speaker
We just, a 16 by 25 by one. Isn't there like a MERV rating? Yeah, our MERV rating the MERV 8, 11, 13. Yeah, I think I typically get an 8, but I've got a 5-incher, Jeff.
01:07:25
Speaker
Damn, that's half your height. know. It's bigger than anything else on my body, unfortunately. i I generally get something from Lowe's or whatever. they I do buy mine in ah and bulk yeah from Amazon. So the reason I'm asking, I got several friends that they know I sell filters. Hey, can you find this filter for me? Blah, blah, blah.
01:07:44
Speaker
I'm looking at Lowe's for it, and it's $47. I'm like, fuck, kidding me? good me I was going to ask you what they're making those out of because I see those all the time. that Making it out of some stuff. two-pack of filters for $56 or something. It's pronounced Tupac. Okay, that's it. A two-pack of filters. It's nuts. the The markup in those things, in in air home air filters, it is ridiculous. where Where is the, do you know the majority of the filters?
01:08:17
Speaker
What country are they made in? Here in the United States. Oh, they are? ok Okay. Yeah, you cannot afford to ship them. So they're not important. Because ah you couldn't afford to ship them. Take up too much space. No way. Correct. And and it's just air is basically what you're shipping. so So from your professional experience, what is the recommended air filter for at home? Just a simple... For me...
01:08:41
Speaker
For every, I use in your, I use a, you're the professional. I use a panel filter, but, but just because my filter such an odd size, I won't go into it, but just a simple fiberglass furnace filter is what most people need. So what's, what's that mean? There's, I'll just, I'll put this in basic terms for me. When you go buy it, there really is almost always like a 99 cent dollar 99 version.
01:09:07
Speaker
Where it's almost like there's a layer of saran wrap in there. Yeah, like you would question. But it's typically blue. I don't know why. Yeah, yeah. blue. That's a blue poly. Yeah. Is that fiber?
01:09:19
Speaker
That's a polyester material. So that's all that's bad. yeah No, it's not bad. Lower quality, though. It has to be, right? Yeah. yeah yeah Yes. It's not going to stop as much crap yeah as what a... Merv 8 or whatever the hell. Correct. That's a Merv 6 filter. so it's it's Oh, that's so the lowest level is typically a Merv 6? Merv 6, Merv 5, somewhere in there. then They will not categorize it as that.
01:09:41
Speaker
But my my point being is do not buy those allergen... filters or 16 by 20 that, that are $35 at Lowe's or whoever's charted before, they do no good.
01:09:54
Speaker
it's if It's the same as something that costs half without the allergen, yeah without the allergen spray. Cause it's an allergen spray that they put on it. But if you've got carpet, if you've got furniture, if you've got anything in your house that can hold dust, but say anything with fabric,
01:10:14
Speaker
Those filters do no good. Okay. So should you shave your carpet? Yes. To help with the dust? Once it gets a little furry? Yes. Yes. i'll Shave it down.
01:10:27
Speaker
Put some lotion on it.
01:10:32
Speaker
Put the lotion in the basket. Yes. Hawk Tua it? Yes. That's twice, two in a row for you, Link, with the Hawk Tua. Hawk Tua? Yeah. So, no, I saw that commercial last night, I'm sitting in Washington, and I'm going, how many people...
01:10:47
Speaker
and And I've got, like i said, I got for everybody, everybody that has allergies, everybody yeah that has allergies, that's marketing buys an allergy. why wouldn't They look for that. That's, that's a buzzword for them because they're miserable this time of year.
01:11:03
Speaker
Their air's dry. Everybody's sneezing. Excuse me. Clearing their throats. Clearing their throats. And they believe. All that air passes through.
01:11:14
Speaker
Because it says it. Why wouldn't fucking believe it? Why wouldn't I believe that? It's the package. And maybe more importantly, especially if you got kids, why wouldn't you at least try it? Exactly. Yeah. And that's i mean that's just how people think. you know If something's on a package and it says this is the way it works, it's got to be the way it works. But if you if you got a choice and you're looking at something, I was trying to get a better example than than filters. Yes.
01:11:38
Speaker
You would go, okay I'm going to spend the extra five bucks to get something that I think delivers a better value. Correct. True. Or at least helps with an existing problem.
01:11:50
Speaker
Yeah. So I don't know. Like I cut a hole in my filter yeah before i I put it in. Yes. And then that's genius. Yes. That's a genius move. And then I ah use my hips to shove it into the filter space.
Shower Heads & Filtration
01:12:03
Speaker
Yes. Did you ever get stuck?
01:12:07
Speaker
no because i have a i told you have five inch filter so there's no nothing that's a uh two by four what's the joke there yeah yeah i fell into my story that this last five six minutes conversation is do not waste your money on the We're actually about 8.5 minutes. Merv rating matters.
01:12:35
Speaker
it It does, but buy the cheapest shit you can find without change stuff doesn't and change it more frequently. There you go. I actually have some questions. I'd like to explore more in a different podcast. We actually got a... We started this podcast because he had done a podcast about... On filtration. It's come full circle. So is this our last podcast? Please, please, please tell me this, Tom. Tell me this.
01:13:02
Speaker
Hey! Hey! What's up? We're not podcasting! She fucking left! She's going to be thrilled. That's hilarious. She fucking left! That's hilarious. So yeah, recently at our house, speaking of filters, hu ah we have two shower heads in our master bathroom. ah um And I just bought new shower heads that have the the filtration system built into them.
01:13:30
Speaker
So you've been talking to my wife? No, have not. Nope. You mean my sister? This wasn't part of a tech stream? And I'm being honest when I ask And I'm being honest when answer you.
01:13:41
Speaker
No. Again, no. Holy shit. Shea was talking about this. No, we we actually had em we actually bought two of them. And i yeah ah and they they clean the water, whatever. so it's rid of Get all rid of all the impurities. Does it feel better?
01:13:55
Speaker
Allegedly. i mean You feel better when you get out of the shower. I mean, ah a little bit. and We've only had them for about a week and a half. do you feel better when you're alone or when you're showering together? Usually when my robe is on, Tom.
01:14:09
Speaker
But throw Does the soap work better? Does the soap clean off better? No. Do you feel like you're rinsed better? These so many questions. We're going to have to push this off to next week because there's too many questions. Next week just might be filter conversation. Unless this the last one, Tom. I do have questions. So seriously, Shay was talking about those shower filter rins.
01:14:36
Speaker
I would probably, yes. I would suggest. I think she said they were $124. No, weren't that expensive. She said this one's top of the line, though. Link paid $120. Whoa, nothing but the best for me. Link paid $123. We live on the other side.
01:14:54
Speaker
Link's are on sale. Link paid $123. Wow. But he got that 11% rebate. I actually think we'll come back with Filter Talk next week. All right, we'll filters next week. We some shower filters. I've got Merv questions. Make sure when you listen, like and subscribe. I don't even fuck Merv means. I got Smoot questions. Smoots? I need know how many Smoots are in a Merv that make up a 16 by 25 filter. Wow. All right. So that brings us to that ever-popular part of the show, indicating that it's almost time
Conclusion & Humorous Farewell
01:15:21
Speaker
to go home. Here we go. Joke, joke, joke, joke, joke.
01:15:36
Speaker
We're going to a different state this time. In Utah. How is ordering a sandwich? Very similar to ordering... A hooker.
01:15:47
Speaker
Or a whore. A lady of the evening. who-or. in Utah, prostitutes are legal. oh Ordering a sandwich. If they're Mormon.
01:16:00
Speaker
In Utah, double double how is ordering a sandwich like ordering a Mormon hooker? I'll just add it. I'll make religion part of it. Does it have anything to do with what type of sandwich it is? Like roast beef, maybe?
01:16:14
Speaker
Is there mayonnaise involved? Ask for a friend. Like that gal that banged 1,000 dudes. Ironically, she's pregnant. Right. No. She's pregnant. Wait, what? could i Yes, this isn't joke of the week. I'm sorry to interrupt you. She's pregnant.
01:16:33
Speaker
That kid is going to have to slide through a mountain of chlamydia to come into this world. And now 1,000 dudes have to do a DNA test. Oh, good point. Just saying. to yeah Let's get back to joke. We kind of hijacked that. So you never answered my question. I couldn't. I couldn't.
01:16:54
Speaker
It actually does not have to do with the type of sandwich. Okay, okay, okay. That changes my answer then. Okay, got it. sort of like where you were going that. Hey, Brett. Oh, or meat, beef, and cheddar.
01:17:06
Speaker
How is ordering a sandwich? Very similar. To ordering a hooker. A whore. Well, ah both transactions would be unnecessary if your wife would do the job she's supposed to do.
01:17:18
Speaker
Wow. Oh, I'm sorry. If your current wife would do the job. That's my bad. That's my bad. Wow. That makes much more sense. It's poor delivery. Hey, every week you can get more of this. I know it.
01:17:33
Speaker
How could your life get better? This is why my current wife doesn't listen to this podcast, by the way. This right here.
01:17:46
Speaker
And with that, we're rolling out of here. I'm I'm the Uber driver. I am ah that person's current husband. and Loud and swaying lives, bitches. You survived another episode.
01:18:03
Speaker
Until next week, cheers.