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Episode 131 - Cleared for Takeoff
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"What's the deal with airlines crashing?" *Jerry Seinfeld voice*
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Existential Reflections and Dream Anecdotes
00:00:00
Speaker
I haven't, I don't even know how to spell sentient, but I'll tell you this, that I did have that. so back I did. Yeah. I don't even know what that word means, but I did have that kind of moment the other day I was in the mall and I was like, there's a lot of people in here. And I was like, Oh my God, all these people are like here for a reason. Like they have something to do and then they have something to do after this.
00:00:21
Speaker
Like it's just, it's just incredible to me how many faces you don't recognize compared to how many you do recognize. It was just like a step back moment. I was like, there's a lot of people here and they're all here for a reason.
00:00:33
Speaker
Like that's nuts. Yeah. And then the weirder thing is when you see some of those faces in your dreams and you think that they're strangers, but they're not, they're just people that you have seen before and your subconscious brain has registered that and saved it for later.
00:00:47
Speaker
You just, yeah you, by you saying that just reminded me that when I was at the mall, there was somebody that looked exactly like you, Austin. And I, for 10 seconds was about to say out loud, what the fuck are you doing here?
00:01:00
Speaker
That's crazy. And I had, that's the God honest truth. If you didn't bring that up, I wouldn't have remembered that. But I remember walking out. And I was like fiddling on my phone or something. Then I went to go look up and I saw this guy walking and I was like, the fuck is he doing here?
00:01:14
Speaker
You know what I'm saying? But it's weird also like how many people look similar but are very different.
Podcast Beginnings and Inner Monologues
00:01:20
Speaker
I'll tell you what. Nobody looks like me. Damn right. Don't you fucking forget. I was going to say, you haven't seen him in that long that he forgot what you look like. It was just a random white guy with a goatee and he was like, oh my God, Austin. Yeah.
00:01:32
Speaker
Honestly, I'm kind of racist, dude. Yeah, all white people look the same, Mike. Is that what you're going to say? ah That's some self-hate. Is this podcast almost over? or we I don't know, but we haven't even officially started the podcast. no right We kind of have to cut like the first seven minutes.
00:01:51
Speaker
right, hit us with the intro. We're making Victor's job harder right now. That's what she said. I don't... I don't think that makes sense.
00:02:13
Speaker
All right, guys. Welcome back to episode 131 of Laundry in the Basement. I'm just going to keep some of that in. I mean, I thought that was pretty funny. that was mike's ah That was Mike's new intro.
00:02:25
Speaker
Yeah. Mike wrote that. You did. Right, Mike? Can we take out the part where you... basically put words in my mouth that I thought all white people look the same. No, that's staying in that. That wasn't even. Yeah.
00:02:38
Speaker
yeah I mean, you know what? I, that probably wasn't going to be in until you said that. Yeah. and Now we have to give them context, you know? So that was staying kind of piggybacking off of that. Like this sentient conversation we were having before.
00:02:51
Speaker
ah Do you guys have like an inner monologue? Oh God. Yeah, for sure. i don't know if it sounds like me though, but there's a monologue there. See, so i I saw something that was like 50% of people don't have one, which is interesting to me because it's like everyone that I talk to has one.
00:03:10
Speaker
So I really would like to know. i would love to meet someone who doesn't have an inner monologue.
00:03:16
Speaker
But what do you what do how do you define that, right? Because people probably have different opinions on what that actually is. I think it's just like hearing like being able to hear a voice in your head when you think. Like being able to like read something, you know what I mean?
00:03:29
Speaker
I feel like everybody's version of an inner monologue is different. I think, is that what you're trying to say, Austin? I feel like some people say no, because their version of an inner monologue is not like the same as our version per se.
00:03:40
Speaker
Yeah. Like I feel like if people are thinking an inner monologue, at least for me, right? Like I'm thinking about like a, like a voice, like I'm thinking about something, but I'm hearing it being said in my head kind of deal.
Humorous Anecdotes and Blue Light Glasses
00:03:53
Speaker
And maybe, maybe that's my own voice. Maybe that's, somebody else's voice or maybe it's not a voice at all right like maybe me consciously making the effort to read something out loud and process it is my inner monologue i just don't think of it that way but it's getting pretty meta so that's deep bro that's deep wait but where were you going with that nowhere i just wanted to ask that question just to see if one of us didn't have one sick because if i had to put my money on anyone it would have been mike but oh
00:04:24
Speaker
Guys, I think I'm number one in line for inner monologue. It's not Mike doesn't have an inner monologue. He just spits his thoughts out like the vocal. I'm standing in line at the deli at the grocery store. I'm just like world peace.
00:04:38
Speaker
ah Okay. What else, Mike? What else is on your thought you got on your mind there? I mean, isn't that the deli? Isn't that the goal for every person in this world? No, that's to get money. You guys don't want world peace.
00:04:51
Speaker
No. World peace. World peace would be what, Austin? It would be boring. oh because what? You're not making money? Because war makes money. Why is the first thing that you think that i'm that I think about? i don't know. That's usually what people say. It's like, oh, war is good. or drives up the economy.
00:05:10
Speaker
No. I think that if the entire world was in a peaceful state, people would be unhappy for sure. Well, is peace and happiness the same thing?
00:05:22
Speaker
Okay. Now you're asking a question that i can't answer.
00:05:27
Speaker
right think about it i don't think no I don't think so. so Some people live in a peaceful state when they're murdering other people. yeah That's fucked up, but that's also true. you know Mike, you saying things after me that don't add to the conversation, you got to keep it going. right like Yes, let's continue to talk about murder.
00:05:48
Speaker
yeah let's Let's hone in on that. What kind of knife do you use when you murder somebody, Austin? I say something and Mike's, you know what? That's a sentence and it ended with a period. I'm validating your statements and feelings and you're just shitting on my validation.
00:06:02
Speaker
ah You know what, Mike? This is why men's mental health is at an all-time Shut the fuck up. This is why your mental health is at an all-time low. but Don't even get me
Adventures and Physical Reactions
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Speaker
started. Anyways, I have ah two ah have two things to follow up on from last episode.
00:06:22
Speaker
And then... A third one that we talked about at the end of the last episode that hopefully we could talk about this episode that the third one is talking about our Jerry Springer story. So hopefully we can we could get to that because I know last episode we were talking about that because I want to know what you guys remember and if we all remember the same thing.
00:06:40
Speaker
But my two updates that I have for you guys is I took your guys advice. I know shocker. and I wore my blue light glasses out in public for the first time.
00:06:51
Speaker
Okay. And the experience was confusing for me, and I'll explain to you why. Yeah, I i know, i know. Hold on, I want to start off this story by, by ah you know, before you get into it, nobody told you to go out and wear those things in public.
00:07:05
Speaker
Yeah, we didn't give you that advice. I
Jerry Springer Memories and Sports Tournaments
00:07:08
Speaker
can't. No, you didn't give me that advice. But you guys were saying like, oh, you know, you should feel comfortable doing it this night. And I said you should feel ah comfortable from your own home.
00:07:17
Speaker
Right. Yeah. Not going out to like the Cheesecake Factory with these dumb ass glasses ah We all came to the collection. So now you're saying the glasses are dumb. Is that what it is? You know what? I don't want to tell the story anymore. I don't want to tell the story anymore. You hurt my feelings. 10 minutes in. He's laughing at it, too. No, I don't want to tell the story anymore. The glasses are dumb. I'm going to take them off. I look like a fool. I'm not telling the story. That's bullshit.
00:07:41
Speaker
That's bullshit. Come on. and going You were confident enough to wear them out in public. You're confident to wear them now. i was hungry i was confident enough to wear my, quote, stupid ass fucking blue light glasses, end quote.
00:07:53
Speaker
Yeah, thanks. I'm going to tell my story now on this podcast. Fuck out of here, people. Come on, let's go. I wore them to Stop and Shop. I wore them to the grocery store. I was like, let me start small.
00:08:04
Speaker
I wore to the grocery store. The problem was, i'm not I'm so used the only glasses I wear outside of the home are sunglasses. So the whole time I was squinting like, why aren't these glasses working?
00:08:16
Speaker
Because i was I was thinking there's there's sunglasses. And i was like, why am I fucking squinting the whole time? Because they were not sunglasses. They were blue light glasses. So I don't think I'm going to wear them out. I did the trial run.
00:08:28
Speaker
I feel like sunglasses is the only thing that I should be wearing out. I feel like I always do the little like gym from the office look anytime Mike gives it one of his little stories.
00:08:39
Speaker
There's a little line in the middle, and I just like look at Victor directly like... What are we supposed to do with that? Right? So you went out and you said, these glasses should protect me from the sun.
00:08:53
Speaker
And then you looked into the sun with your little baby eyes. wow This is why is why this is the problem right here. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the prosecution rests because this motherfucker once again, basically said everything that I exactly did not say.
00:09:12
Speaker
I said i I wore them out and i and I was confusing them as regular sunglasses. Wait. Is that not what I just said? but you were But indoors? you were No, no. i was drive I had to drive to the grocery store. So while I'm in the car driving. In Stop and Shop, you were squinting. I was like, what do you mean?
00:09:31
Speaker
No, no, no. i was like, maybe you do need glasses. You're squinting at the the little barcodes and shit. Maybe you do need them.
00:09:40
Speaker
Well, that was a waste of my emotions. I'll never get back. But anyways... No, well, that's a good... Well, it was fun for us. Yeah, I had good time. Yeah, no, I'm glad everybody had a kick at right, story number two, Mike, let's hear it.
00:09:51
Speaker
Yeah, my latest... um Story number two, we're going to do long story short on this one, was my latest Zen experience. Jesus Christ. And let me tell you, boys, I'm not doing it anymore. Thank you, Jesus. Thank God. I'm not doing it anymore.
00:10:06
Speaker
I tried six milligram winter fresh... Now, in retrospect, remember... give me give me Give me, like, for everybody that doesn't understand the scale here, what is six milligrams compared to, like, is that a small dose? is that It's a small dose, so it starts at three milligram, and it goes up by three. So we've got three, six, nine. What is the highest that goes up to? Twelve, maybe? I think it may be twelve. It fifteen milligrams in.
00:10:32
Speaker
There could be. But in retrospect, those those blue e-cigars that I brought were 24 milligrams. Is it bad that my brain went to 369, damn you'll find?
00:10:43
Speaker
Nope, I do the same thing. Yeah. If we wouldn't get copyrighted, I'd ask to play that song right now. You could sing it, we wouldn't get copyrighted. Yeah. To the window. I feel like somebody would sue me.
00:10:55
Speaker
Anyway, sorry. So you did your big boy six milligrams. Yes, I tried it. ah It lasted about three minutes. Is that normal?
00:11:09
Speaker
No, God, it's not. It's not normal. It's because I couldn't handle it. I couldn't handle it. Oh, okay. Sorry. I lasted about, I would say, three to five minutes. I spit it out. That's normal for you. Yeah, that's also very normal for you.
00:11:21
Speaker
Yeah, that sounds right. Back to back. From the stories that you've told us about your experiences, that that sounds about the right length. And link and i was getting in the car to drive and immediately lightheaded.
00:11:32
Speaker
Right. Immediately lightheaded. and I was sweating. I was sweating, dude. i had I had no jacket on. I had the windows down. I was sweating. My body was rejecting it so bad.
00:11:44
Speaker
And then... I was my body was rejecting it and it was weeding it out. And then I started getting nauseous and I was like, I'm going to fucking puke right here. I was like, to have to pull off to the side of the road and puke like it's disgusting. So my body was going back and forth between like lightheaded headache and then just like nauseousness and like I'm just sweating it out and stuff. And I was like, it's not worth it.
00:12:06
Speaker
It's I'm glad this happened to you. Oh, the amount of time, the amount of times I've told you in the last week to not do sins. I think I've said it at least a hundred times to not do sins.
00:12:20
Speaker
Tell him tell him my um what I texted you last night. ah but was like it was like side He's like, I'm at a dive bar and there's a bunch of Zins left over in the bathroom. Should I take one?
00:12:31
Speaker
No, no, no, no. I told him that I was at a dive bar and there was Zim packets in in the urinal. i was like, I think this is a sign.
00:12:42
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, i think that we probably could have gotten there without the urinals ends. But yeah, ah hey, listen, I'm glad you learned your lesson. And as you were talking about that story, i was picturing you guys watch the original Pinocchio, right?
00:12:57
Speaker
No. Yeah. No, it's a trip. Like you almost have to be on some drugs when you watch this thing. Cause it's, you know, it's like the, the old like 1930s Disney movies. Like they're trippy. Like they're, yeah but they had a scene where, where Pinocchio tries a cigar for the first time.
00:13:18
Speaker
And he like, he tries it and he like turns green and his eyes like all like whatever. Like that's what I pictured Mike was like in the car.
00:13:29
Speaker
Yeah, no, it wasn't good. It's to a point where I think I may, obviously I'm not going to do that anymore, but I think I may lay off cigars for a while too. I think, uh, I think by transitive property, that's going to start to bother me too. If I, uh, next time I have a cigar, so I think, I think boys, the bad things.
00:13:45
Speaker
Yeah, that's right. Wait, what's go ahead. Go ahead. What's, what's the next vice then?
00:13:52
Speaker
ah I don't know, but I thought we were supposed to take a shot of tequila every 15 minutes we were doing this episode. so No, that was when like we were we were like not on a work night.
00:14:04
Speaker
Yeah, bro. It's Sunday night. Yeah, we were getting loose. That was like if we did this on Thursday. Thursday's a work night. Yeah, but it's Friday. It's the end of the week. You got the weekend coming up. Now we have the beginning of the week. Austin. Austin.
00:14:19
Speaker
If you don't back me the fuck up right now, I'm with you. be the fuck surprised The only reason I agreed is because I'm off on Fridays and that would have been nice for me. ah That ah would have been great.
00:14:31
Speaker
That would have been a good time. Well, maybe next time. Maybe an next time we'll do it. those are my status updates from previous episodes. so Well, and then you you wanted to talk about Jerry Springer.
00:14:42
Speaker
want roll into the Jerry Springer stuff? Also, are you drinking Pedialyte? I am drinking Pedialyte. I actually like it, but I i am pretty dehydrated today. Did you have a long night? Yeah.
00:14:55
Speaker
No, I didn't have a long night last night, but I was helping somebody ah was helping somebody move um ah today, most of the day. So pretty dehydrated. so i don't think I don't think I've ever seen anybody casually drink Pedialyte. I think I've only seen people drink it the the day after going on a bender.
00:15:13
Speaker
Yeah, and I've only seen people slam it, too. This is not a casual sipping drink that like Mike is doing right now. Aren't those like a little viscous or salty?
00:15:25
Speaker
This one's not bad. The grape one is actually pretty good. It's it's more sugary than anything. it has a high sugar content. Well, yeah, it's the electrolytes. Total sugar per container, 25 grams.
00:15:39
Speaker
I'm going to be perfectly honest with you. I don't know whether that's a lot. or Yeah.
00:15:48
Speaker
So um we talked last time about because we were watching Temptation Island, Spain, which led us to trying to talk about Jerry Springer. And there's a photo of Victor and i at the show that when they cut to us.
00:16:03
Speaker
And I wanted to bring it up because I wanted to see what we remembered of that. Because I was a long time. Guys, you have to realize we were like we were 19 when we went. I mean, we were fresh out of high school.
00:16:15
Speaker
Just little babies. Yeah, that was 10 years ago. I remember nothing. I would have i no clue what happened on that episode. We would have had to have been at least 18. I don't think we could have gotten tickets without that.
00:16:26
Speaker
No, we had to be at least 18. But we, you know, they give out they give up free tickets because they want the audience. They did two tapings. Remember that we had to stay. We were there for a long time. We were there for a while.
00:16:38
Speaker
um but i the i only remember the first uh group that they brought out and i don't remember anything else but i remember looking at like after that ended oh no i do remember too i remember and i remember looking at the first like after the first one we all looked at each other and like we're in for it baby this is gonna be good and do you remember what it was i remember too i remember two of the acts i remember First of all, I remember it being... When did Jerry Springer stop the show?
00:17:11
Speaker
Not too long. ah It couldn't have been more than four five years ago. died two years ago. right but He had stopped the show before then. yeah so He may have stopped it maybe like five years ago.
00:17:24
Speaker
Right, because I remember us talking to each other and we were like, is he going to come down the fire? Oh, yeah, we wanted him to slide down the pole. Yeah, I remember somebody asked him, like, could you slide down the pole?
00:17:34
Speaker
They cheered him on. He was he was doing the Q&A session after one of them, and somebody had specifically asked him to do it, and he went up there and he slid slid on down like a champ. by Like Jerry does.
00:17:47
Speaker
Right, so I remember two things, and i i know you're telling this, so I won't say anything. I just want to confirm... I want us to all say it to see if we remember either the same things or something different. I remember one was ah one of the the bits was a set of twins that were arguing or they were trying to get the same guy.
Restaurant Nostalgia and Unusual Animal Sightings
00:18:09
Speaker
And they decided to settle that by wrestling each other in a mud pit on stage. That's the second one I remember. That one was hilarious. I remember the mud pit. I don't remember the lead up to it.
00:18:22
Speaker
Yeah. And then the first one that I remember, I don't remember what the bit was. i don't remember what it looked, but all I remember was that the woman crashed out on stage and then got undressed like and and like dropped her boobs out and was showing everybody in the crowd, like trying to prove that she was like a real woman or something like that. yes. We remember the same one. Yes.
00:18:43
Speaker
it was. Yeah. It was the first one. The first one that came out. And what happened was something along the lines of this girl found videos of another girl on this guy's phone or some text messages, whatever, about like, hey, baby, come over or something like that. And remember, she was there was a video of that girl like pouring chocolate on herself. Remember? It was like chocolate syrup or whatever. yeah so then they bring...
00:19:10
Speaker
bring they bring her out they're arguing up along and she's saying like you're a fake bitch or this and that and then the girl that was in the video was like you're not a real woman like you ain't real like i'm real and she was like oh i'm not real she goes i'll show you what's real and just fucking blows her top off tits out i just remember victor just clapping his ass off he was just like yeah I also remember that at all.
00:19:40
Speaker
ah Yes. A really chunk of that crowd was like, put it away. put it I just remember looking at you guys being like, guys, session one, we're already seeing tits.
00:19:52
Speaker
Like, this is going to be a great day. You know? What a show. It was great. I don't remember much. more I do remember the mud wrestling. They brought out like the inflatable pool. Yep. Yep. And then they do the Q&A's app. They sit everybody down and do some... I remember some of the jokes were funny and stuff like that, but those were the two I remember.
00:20:11
Speaker
And then he did some crowd work, but he did that for both of them, I think. And sadly, we didn't get called on because i don't I don't remember any of us actually saying anything. No, I think we were too... i't I know for a fact I did not put my hand up to say something in that. i thought i No, I was not going to say anything. That was going to sound that was about it.
00:20:33
Speaker
What a good time.
00:20:36
Speaker
We looked like, I'm sorry, we looked like we were 12 years old, by the way. So I'm sure that if Jerry Springer was going through the crowd, he's probably like I'm not going to ask them anything because then they're going to question our standards on who we let in. here Yeah.
00:20:48
Speaker
Vic, put the do you have the picture? I sent it in the group. Put the picture up. Like when you, when I added this later, yeah. Yeah. Put it up. And I want to, I want to say, I, I don't remember what the episode is. I'm sure like if we went back enough, we could find it demand. trying to look for it, but I can't, I can't really find it
00:21:11
Speaker
I could tell you it aired. I found two dudes doing the mud wrestling. That's not the show we were at. No. I could tell you when it aired. I could tell you the date. okay yeah i remember If you could remember date, maybe I could go and find it.
00:21:24
Speaker
Because my cousin, ah have um i have this cousin from pitt from Pittsburgh, Jason. i don't see him a lot, but a nice guy. Big sports guy. And he messages me on Facebook.
00:21:37
Speaker
And he was like, Dude, you're on TV. And I'm like, how am I on Pittsburgh television? And he sends me the photo. He's like, no, you're on Jerry Springer. This is 8th, 2019. So we're of college at point. Yeah.
00:21:55
Speaker
so we're out of college at this point yeah
00:22:00
Speaker
Which, by the way, i think at some point we had seen the clip. There's way we went in 2019. No, no, no way went 2019. So they probably re-ran it. there's no way we went in twenty nineteen so they probably reran it Right. But but I think we had seen the clip after that, like somebody had hunted it down and it was like you and Vic were on that clip for maybe half a second. Oh, yeah. No, they're just panning to crowd.
00:22:28
Speaker
Right. So I am baffled that somebody actually picked you out from that broadcast. And was like, holy shit. Because I remember we had talked about it. We were like, yo, people are probably going to see us on TV.
00:22:41
Speaker
Nobody saw that. So this is the message. this is I haven't read this, obviously, in years. I'll read it to you guys. He goes, hey, how are you? I'm just randomly, and I mean randomly, watching Jerry Springer.
00:22:54
Speaker
The People's Court just ended, and that's my show. So I'm watching, and not even five minutes in, they show the crowd. Please tell me that's you sitting in the audience. It's a twin. If not, I instantly caught it. And thankfully I have DVR and rewinded it.
00:23:07
Speaker
And I said, Hey, cause I said, yeah, I've been to the Jerry Springer show once like two years ago. So maybe 2017. That makes a little bit more sense. We were in college.
00:23:18
Speaker
I said, I think I was wearing a blue and black plaid button shirt. He goes, laugh my ass off. They're airing the episode.
00:23:27
Speaker
And this is it.
00:23:30
Speaker
Look at you guys. Vic's so happy. That's right there. That's Vic's face after seeing the first pair of tits. That's why she whipped them out right there. That joy has been stolen from me.
00:23:42
Speaker
but That might be the last time I've been happy. Well, hold on. Can we all take a moment to appreciate, too? Vic, put that back up. And I know that, like... Yeah, put that picture back up, Mike. Hold on. yeah Let me get it.
00:23:59
Speaker
But yeah, ah that's the only two I remember. I remember us being like on a couple of them be like, all right, those were those were pretty fucking whack. But I remember the first one and the mud wrestling.
00:24:10
Speaker
Look at that. Vic, you had one of the best heads of hair I'd ever seen. i don't want to talk about it. I know you don't want to talk about it. talk about
Cultural Experiences and Travel Plans
00:24:18
Speaker
it That was after, remember how flawless his hair was after bull cut? Yeah. Hey guys, yeah let's not talk about that.
00:24:26
Speaker
All right. It was, it was very nice, but it wasn't. Emphasis on was all right. We're striking a chord. We got it. We got it. We got it. got it. We got it. We got it. We got We got it. We got it. We got it. We got it. We're striking a chord, doc. We're striking chord. I know. I'm pulling up.
00:24:43
Speaker
I'm pulling up the world's smallest violin. All right, man. Anyway, good. ah Yeah, so i'm I just wanted to see what you guys remembered out of that. I didn't i only remembered a few things.
00:24:57
Speaker
Speaking of sports, you guys want to talk about this? this here four nation shit Oh, sorry. I don't know. I'm just going to keep rolling with it until you guys bring something up. but I do want to talk Four Nations because it was great. Hold on, say that again.
00:25:08
Speaker
No, I'm talking about Four Nations. ah Okay. I'm going write fucking now, Mike. Fucking start your bit. Jesus. Hold on, say that again. Oh, did you lose the audio?
00:25:19
Speaker
Oh, okay. There we go. There we go. Damn, did he miss that? Yeah, i did miss And please don't bring it up again. i am It's probably going to hurt my feelings. So don't even think about it. Don't even bring it up. But I don't even know what it was, but I don't want to hear it.
00:25:31
Speaker
But so everybody's talking about the Four Nations. And Austin, you don't know ah about the Four Nations. So what the National Hockey League did was instead of doing an all-star break, they did a Four Nations like competition and they narrowed it to the u.s canada finland and sweden and they did like ah how long was it vi just like two weeks or something yeah i want to say it was two weeks they did like a quick double on elimination i think everyone had to play like three games before the final So they did this quick tourney style like as a as their version of like an all star break, right? Compared to the NBA one and the Pro Bowls and this and that.
00:26:12
Speaker
And it was electric. Yeah. Like national pride has never been in an at all time high like this before. Like maybe but maybe for some people.
00:26:23
Speaker
But I was going to say, if I haven't heard of this. Yeah, I don't really know. I mean, if you're a hockey fan and you're watching like, yeah, definitely. I think. But it traveled like it's. But so this is also i won't even say that because I was watching the game and rooting for Canada.
00:26:39
Speaker
oh That's because you're you hate America. I'll tell you what. I'll go out there and I'll ah i'll root for fucking anybody. But this is this is what the people... It brought out the sense... But like in all four nations, like in Canada too, like it just brought out... like the national pride of these nations like the the group play game versus USA and Canada three fights broke out within the first nine seconds yeah and it was just brawling well and you got to give context unless I missed the context while watching this video on Reddit when I pulled my head away but they were they started the fights because they were booing the anthem
00:27:19
Speaker
Yes, they they were playing in Montreal. Yeah, they were playing in Montreal. And for the whole the whole of the Four Nations, like the whole tournament, they played a lot of it in Canada. ah every Every time the U.S. National Anthem was played, the Canadians booed.
00:27:34
Speaker
And I think we talked about that a couple weeks ago where we were talking about booing the National Anthem or whatever. It's because of that. It was during the Four Nations. so Yeah, that's... on that last game like um and it was it was a big game because I think it was it wasn't elimination. Was it Mike that Saturday game or was it?
00:27:52
Speaker
No, the Saturday game was group play. The ah finals was that Thursday after because the in that Saturday game like they boo the National Anthem again. Three fights start right at the puck drop.
00:28:03
Speaker
USA wins. I think I can't remember. I think they won one all three fights, right? Yeah, yeah, they won all three fights. you know The boys are buzzing. every like it's The crowd's going wild.
00:28:16
Speaker
They end up winning the game. Yeah, the U.S. wins the game three one and it set up the matchup on Thursday. And then they went into the final. They played it in Boston at TD Garden.
00:28:27
Speaker
There actually was not booing for the national the the Canadian one. Actually, the whole arena in unison sang, Oh, Canada, which I thought was a beautiful moment. The U.S. lost in overtime, um just like in 2010. They broke my heart again.
00:28:41
Speaker
Um, and, but now other leagues are inspecting such the success of this and being like, how can we implement this in our leagues? Because nobody cares about the NBA all-star game.
00:28:55
Speaker
Nobody cares about the pro bowl. Now remember, remember when the pro bowl was, they were full body checking dudes out on the field and nobody's getting hurt. Yeah. Yeah, Sean Taylor laid out that dude. I mean, it was those were fun times, and now they're playing flag football. it really i don't think it matters about the format. It matters about the player's effort, and that's what I'll say. like The U.S. s and like Canadian national teams, like again, I didn't watch any of the Finland or Sweden games. I'm sure it was all competitive throughout, obviously, but like those last two games, both teams fucking wanted it.
00:29:30
Speaker
They wanted to win. They were there like – like i can't – I don't remember who it was but like –
00:29:38
Speaker
i don't know I don't know how the injury happened, but like one of the Bruins players, Charlie McAvoy, like had to be hospitalized. Oh, my God. Again, either from taking a hit or giving a hit. I can't really remember. He got busted. his ah Was it his shoulder or something? It got busted, but he wanted to keep going. It got so bad where it got infected. He played the game. He played the rest of the game. The shoulder got infected, and he was like, yeah, like if I could, I would play tonight like on Thursday. But they were like, yeah, you can't we're not going to let you fucking touch the ice. Yeah.
00:30:09
Speaker
but that's And these are dudes who are jeopardizing their regular money career to play for their nation. yeah Like these dudes. are they no I thought it was a part of. itself It is and it isn't. Like they still have to go back to their teams after this.
00:30:23
Speaker
Like that guy might miss like a good chunk of the rest of the season now because he got hurt. Yeah. Yeah. They started up. ah They started up on Saturday, the league again. They played the final on Thursday. They started up on Saturday. I don't agree with, by the way. I do think they should have given more days off um because the Capitals had no one go for the four nations.
00:30:45
Speaker
And they hate like I can't remember which team they played, but it had someone who had like both a lot of U.S. and Canadian players and they spanked that team. You want to know who that was? Was it us? That was the Penguins. 8-3, buddy. 8-3. Again, I tried to block that game out of my memory, after but I knew the Capitals beat someone pretty bad, and i was like, oh, yeah, that was somebody. Yeah, that was us. Yeah.
00:31:08
Speaker
So other leagues want to do this. A lot of players that went to the fucking Four Nations. Yeah. So a lot of leagues are expecting, unlike the success of this, to see how they could carry it on. And and there was a lot of talk on sports radio about like this is what the and NBA should be doing and this and that.
00:31:27
Speaker
But I don't, and this is where the topic of discussion comes in, I don't think the NBA can replicate what the nhl did with four nations i don't think they could get the nfl to replicate this success it's very it's just it's very different like austin was alluding to like you were talking about like the pride of it you know it's different because i don't think these guys want to go out there and get hurt what if they what if you were bringing in like other countries like what if the nba brought in like they do for the olympics we would mop them unfortunately
00:32:01
Speaker
like there are some There are some other countries that can put up a fight, and obviously like the U.S. is not like... I mean, yeah that's why we won Yeah, i mean that I mean, it would kind of work, but they would be close matches, but I still don't think that it... I don't know. I think a lot of U.S. players would opt out, too, is the thing, which the NBA wouldn't want, but...
00:32:26
Speaker
I just think it would be the rosters of nations for a basketball tournament like that would be so unfair. The US would be so stacked to compare to what France would have or Serbia would have or Australia would have. Like if you look at if you look at the and NHL like.
00:32:43
Speaker
Canada, U.S., Finland, Sweden, all these countries are are evenly matched on the roster. Obviously, the U.S. and Canada have the most stack, but like these countries these countries that these players come from are all evenly matched. Even if you looked at you know like the Russian team who wasn't in there and all this, like there's a lot teams. Look at World Baseball Classic.
00:33:05
Speaker
I mean, the U.S. has a great squad, but we're not sleeping on Japan, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Colombia. Like, these are some evenly—that's what makes it fun is because that these people love playing for their nations, and it's it's almost an even match.
00:33:23
Speaker
If the NBA does this, Team USA is just going to spank everybody, and it's just going to be, what was the point? well you know And then these guys are going to dog it. Yes. No, you're right. the The NFL, you cannot do different nations because no one else really plays American football.
00:33:38
Speaker
Right, right. So, I mean, that won't be hard. What if for basketball, you did whatever countries were beefing that year, they came to the table.
00:33:52
Speaker
Israel, Palestine, put them in. All right, maybe that one. You you walk that way walked yourself into that one. Russia, Ukraine, put them in. Now that sounds insensitive. i USA, Canada, 2026.
00:34:05
Speaker
twenty twenty six We're bouncing. Why can't we just settle it on the court? What's that? I said, why can't we just settle it on the court? you know Yeah, games to 21, ones and twos, check up top.
00:34:22
Speaker
um That's right. Winner gets Keeve. Okay, but what I said was fucked up, right? Yeah, no, what I said was fucked up.
00:34:31
Speaker
well Yeah, you're right. You're right. That was a little insensitive. Apologies.
00:34:38
Speaker
It's all good. I don't know. just don't think it would be if the NBA did it, it would be successful. And like you said, it's really about like if the players really want to do it, if they're willing to do it. We all know hockey players are willing to do it. Baseball players, any chance they could get to throw their country's jersey on.
00:34:53
Speaker
No question. and NBA, I just don't think they care enough. They get paid a lot. And it's, you know, I, you know, hockey players still get, I mean, they also get paid a good amount, but when you're making like four to 5 million a year, you get to play for your country. It's easier to kind of put your body on the line than a guy who's making like $45 million dollars a year.
00:35:17
Speaker
And it's like, yeah, you know I might just sit out these set of like these four or five games or whatever. like They're not that meaningful to me. already making millions of dollars. An exuberant amount of money.
00:35:30
Speaker
Doesn't the NBA have like an in-season tournament? also like I was going to bring that up. I think someone someone had suggested this on like sports radio, but they said get rid of the All-Star game itself.
00:35:44
Speaker
Do the in-season tournament later in the year. And so that way you replace the in-season tournament final, like you replace the all-star game with the in-season tournament final. You can still do the other bullshit, like the three-point contest, the dunk contest, whatever.
00:35:59
Speaker
You can still do that during the weekend. You make that like a big event, but you just have like, there's no more all-star game. It's just the teams who have like are playing in that tournament final.
00:36:11
Speaker
I kind of like that idea more than like, I didn't realize the tournament was over. They play it during like regular basketball. Right.
00:36:21
Speaker
I think that's confusing. I think the NFL screwed up the whole thing when they stopped going to Hawaii. I thought that was the bit. You go to the Pro Bowl, you're going to Hawaii. Yeah. You know, and now they're doing it in Louisiana. It's like, come on.
00:36:37
Speaker
You know what saying? Like you go to Hawaii. Okay. Like I get it. Like, I'm not saying you have to fool on tackle. Like, you know, it wasn't the old days, but like this flag football bullshit, it's just not working. You know, the skills competitions are cool and they did them too in the early days. But like, I thought it was like, you know, that was the gig. Like you go to Hawaii, you get to play with people you don't play with before you pull out all the trick plays, you know, the fake pawns, all this and that, like, that's fun.
00:37:02
Speaker
ah So people watch that, you know?
00:37:08
Speaker
Yeah, I don't really know how like ah know how else you fix it, really. It's it's it's all down to the players. they're They're still hosting the games. like They could still go and play. It's just on them. you know Do you think that do you think that like social media has a ah reason or something to do with that? like That people are so in the like the like public view now that people aren't as...
00:37:35
Speaker
drawn to the TV to see those people play anymore because it's not as special of an event. I mean, yeah, I mean, that could play a part in it. um I will say, I think the NBA was close to fixing it this year. They did a tournament style, like all-star game ah where they had like whoever won, like the rookie game, they got to move into like, there's basically four teams that,
00:38:03
Speaker
the all-star draft like was kind of broken into three teams. And then whoever won the rookie game played as the fourth team in the tournament. And they basically just did like best of one, like, you know, like for games to 40, you win and you move on.
00:38:17
Speaker
um But they kind of shot themselves in the foot because they basically had Kevin Hart, like not even like announcing the games, but like having a mic to the arena and like roasting some of the players like during timeouts and stuff.
00:38:33
Speaker
Which I think, not not that it hurt the player's feelings, but it's kind of like, damn, bro, like I'm trying to play a game and you hear like making fun of me. like That's kind of fucked up. And then halfway through the championship game, they stopped it to do 10-minute tribute to TNT.
00:38:50
Speaker
Like to the the guys who do like the inside the NBA show and whatnot. Because i guess it's leaving after this year because the NBA's like did a new broadcast deal or whatever. But they stopped the championship like midway to do like a whole whatever. And i think players kind of gave up after that.
00:39:10
Speaker
Didn't they didn't they stop the all star game to to do like a like for Kevin Hart to do a set? Well, yeah, it was like all of that. It was like that, the tribute. Like, they stopped the game for like a while. Okay.
00:39:21
Speaker
Okay. Okay. So that was all the same thing. So like... Yeah, that's a little weird. It seemed like the players were about it until the NBA started pulling some shenanigans like that.
00:39:32
Speaker
But I don't know. It's like like like people trying to... They think that they got to inject something new. Yeah, it's little weird. Although I shouldn't be speaking on this. I didn't watch it. I haven't been watching this season.
00:39:49
Speaker
Do you guys want to go into Victor's Italian restaurant getup? Or do we want to go into um me thinking if we're too old to be going out at at our age?
00:40:03
Speaker
i think you I think you just have to naturally go into it. Well, I'm interested to hear Victor's Italian. I'm curious to know what it It's not even anything. It was just I was watching a video on Neapolitan pizza, and it reminded me Mamma Mia's.
00:40:21
Speaker
Oh, mama mia. how much I fucking missed that place. Have you been to Sicily in Middletown? No. Dude. close you're going get. Was it that pizza that we picked up one time? Or no? It was. It was. I've kind of been there, I guess.
00:40:36
Speaker
Yeah, i think I think it was. I think it was. We gotta go. The tiramisu Mamma Mia's... I'll never forget that. I will never forget that either. Went there sometimes with Vic just for the tiramisu.
00:40:47
Speaker
Mike and I would go like right before work sometimes. We would grab a Peroni and a fucking pie. Like 1 p.m. And then we would just fucking go to work.
00:40:57
Speaker
I was vibing with the waitress too before it fucking burned down. That was scam. My sister worked there. Oh, yeah, that's right. She did. i didn't know that, actually. Poor one out. Yeah. Yeah, I fucking missed that place.
00:41:12
Speaker
but Actually, hold on. Maybe I'm tripping. I think she worked there, but I don't know if she worked there when it was Mama Mia's. There's a diner. Then there's Mama Mia's. There might have been something else. And now it's nasty diner. Didn't it burn down? Mama Mia's burned down. Yeah.
00:41:30
Speaker
Okay, I think my sister was at it before it was Mama Mia's then. Yeah, so it was probably the diner. Yeah, when it was the diner. Rest in peace to Mama Mia's. And did it have a new location, or did it come back?
00:41:41
Speaker
I thought they were trying to bring it back, but then it lasts long. Rest in pieces. Now you could get that kind of pizza somewhere in Middletown for sure. I'm sure in New York you can get something that well, I don't know is New York pizza just too saturated. Like, is it just New York pizza or bust? Or can you get like a European style pizza?
00:42:01
Speaker
You can get a European style dude. You can literally get anything out here. it is so insane. Also, it's not even the best pizza in the tri-state. So what isn't the best pizza in the tri-state New York pizza?
00:42:14
Speaker
No. Oh, I agree. I agree 100%. You know what they have on the side now? And this is probably like a known thing. It's just new for me. When I was driving into Connecticut the other day, it had the like pizza capital of the world. Yeah. Fucking right. The science self-proclaimed. genetic Damn. I was like, fuck that. Ned Lamont.
00:42:34
Speaker
Put that up there. i think I found the guy who used to own Mama Mia's on Facebook and he just works at FedEx now. Damn.
00:42:45
Speaker
Listen, that's that. What a fucking that's a waste of talent. That is a waste of talent because that that pizza oven came right off the boat from Napoli. That pizza really did. No, it did come from Napoli.
00:42:59
Speaker
And now he put it. He ship it back at his job. What did he do? Probably. Yo, ask him Send him a message on Facebook and be like, dude who was who was your vendor for for the tiramisu? Or did you make it is that your mom making that?
00:43:11
Speaker
Like, I got get, we got to, we got to hire this guy to make pizzas, bro. but We got to get you out of fucking FedEx, brother. Yeah, at least go to UPS. Jesus Christ, what are you doing?
00:43:22
Speaker
I didn't think any of this was going to stay in, to be honest, but I think I might keep that part in. that he works at fedex no no no just like any of this bit i was gonna i thought that was just gonna be for us just because we had a weird transition into it but i might keep some of that dm him and put him in touch with papa slab and get a yeah let's job big yeah big mike only got a couple years left he could take his spot you know what saying we'll get him no we're not we're not letting this dude handle packages anymore we're making them make pizzas I'm fucking locking him in one of our basements.
00:43:55
Speaker
I can't. mind My mind's an apartment now, but somebody else's basement. We're gonna make this dude make fucking pizzas and tell everybody. Oh, we all don't have basements. So no, your parents, I think your parents house does. Right. We can fuck. lot Yeah.
00:44:07
Speaker
Listen, I'll make you the tiramisu. That's not the problem. I'll make you the terms. That's and don' know not the same. You don't get it. The same. It's not the point. The point is we're going to kidnap This dude's name is Mossimo. We're kidnapping Mossimo.
00:44:23
Speaker
You sound so passionate about this. geez We're kidnapping him. and we're making i'm I'm watching the fucking oven right now. I'm looking at the flames in the oven of the fucking pizza right now. What is this what is this what are you looking at? what facebook I'm on this guy's Facebook.
00:44:38
Speaker
How'd you find him? I just typed in Mamma Mia Southington and whatever popped up. popped up Is there still a Facebook page? No, there isn't. It's just ah it's just it's only him.
00:44:52
Speaker
going to town on that pizza oven yeah i mean it was burned up in fire though didn't it it was slamming it was slamming it's either he ran it or this guy did you know oh so next time you come up here the three of us are going ah to to sicily in middletown we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna get it dude i i would love to yeah i would love to let's uh let's set a date yeah did you guys see the seal that somehow like washed ashore on the streets of new haven I saw that. And did you see the bull that was going around in Kent?
00:45:25
Speaker
No. No. You guys didn't see the bull? No. all right. Tell us about the seal. What's going on? Tell us about the seal. going to pull up the bull. Listen, i really I honestly don't know anything about the seal in New Haven.
00:45:37
Speaker
All I know is it somehow got onto the streets. And I don't think anyone knows how it got onto the streets. No. And didn't they ship it to Mystic? Yeah. they They ended up like it's at the Mystic Aquarium. I'm actually going to a wedding there in a couple of weeks.
00:45:52
Speaker
You want it out? Yeah, I mean, a couple All right. um A couple of months. But if it's still there, I'm going to be pretty pumped. I'm going to want to hang out with that thing. And it'd be like, yo, which one was the one that was on the streets?
00:46:04
Speaker
But probably has his own exhibit by now. But it was somehow five miles from the water. I don't like conceals. I mean, I know seals can like crawl on land and stuff, but like this dude took a a five mile trek inland. Maybe hitchhiked.
00:46:18
Speaker
maybe Maybe it got a ride back of a flatbed. don't know. Like.
00:46:23
Speaker
That just doesn't seem logical yeah to me. like that That seems like one of those things where where there's like a really reasonable explanation for how that happens, but you can't think of it.
00:46:40
Speaker
Here we go. yeah Scottish Highland Bull on Loose in Connecticut's rural hill country. This is in Kent, a Scottish Highland bull is the target of the town of rural hills of Western Connecticut, where it has been roaming for over a month in the frigid winter weather and escaping from its confines. Look at the photo of this thing.
00:47:03
Speaker
Just a baby. Yeah. But see, that's a baby. That thing is fucking huge. That is more plausible. than a seal walking around the streets of West Haven. It's way more possible.
00:47:15
Speaker
a bull got a bull A bull got out in ah in a rural area of Connecticut where there's a bunch of farms. Yeah, that makes sense. A seal is on land? Hold on, hold on.
00:47:26
Speaker
Dome question. Can seals be out of water indefinitely? like Can they just breathe regular air? don't think indefinitely. I think they could be out of like the water.
00:47:37
Speaker
They definitely can like have some sort of like a... Because they're not they're not moving quick, right? So to go five miles without dipping into water?
00:47:50
Speaker
Okay, this now... There's conflict. All right, so the New York Times says that it was a quarter mile from the sea, which is obviously way more plausible. Super plausible. the Washington Post says five miles from the water.
00:48:05
Speaker
That's a big gap. Half a mile, quarter mile, five miles. who Who's to say? tell me we Seals can stay out of the water for several days at a time as they are semi-aquatic animals and regularly haul out onto land to rest and give birth, molt, and warm up in the sun, depending on the species and situations.
00:48:30
Speaker
They may spend a significant portion of their day on land Okay. Okay. That's that, that helps, but that doesn't tell me how a seal goes for five miles. Like instinctually, that seems like against what a seal would want to do. Oh man.
00:48:48
Speaker
They're saying you could vote to like the, the aquarium was trying to like get his name, like vote, like you could vote for like, uh, what to name him. But the name seemed locked in. It's Chappy, Tyler, Vinny, and river.
00:49:03
Speaker
ah the four option none of those None of those are puns yeah on this SEAL situation, and I feel like that's a missed opportunity. I'm going Chappie. It said Chappie for the street who was found on Chapel Street, Tyler for the officer who found him, Vinny because he was close to Italian Worcester Street, and River for the river he swam up.
00:49:25
Speaker
What's the name? River River oh we swim a River. That's what they say. This is what this article says. That's not even in the name of the river. It's just it's just river. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, not everybody's blessed with creativity. like Yeah. I'll say river is at five percent. You pissed me off so much.
00:49:42
Speaker
Also, I agree with what Austin just said. I lost the audio.
00:49:48
Speaker
This is my brain every time fucking speak to me. Oh, good. He can't hear it again. Your brain?
00:49:54
Speaker
Yeah, maybe. Okay.
00:49:58
Speaker
I'm going Chappie. I'm going Chappie. I'm going Chappie too. I think that's probably the best name out of all of them. I'm going Chappie. Sorry, I missed all that. But if you had to make up a name, what would it be?
00:50:14
Speaker
Mike F***. that's That's what we're going with. that's good can you It looks a lot like it. Can you blur my last name, please? No. um Where was this again?
00:50:24
Speaker
Mystic or Weston? It was in New Haven. They're sending the seal to Mystic. Oh, Sally's. Sally the Seal. Easy. Named after to the pizza. New Haven. Sally the Seal. You were complaining about River?
00:50:37
Speaker
because Because Victor said they wanted to name it River after the river it flew up. But the river's name is not River. The river has to have a name. name River but Phoenix? Yeah.
00:50:49
Speaker
Okay, that's one. Name another one. Yeah. Go ahead. We'll wait. Besides River Phoenix. All right. right. Hold on. No, but Mike, I was expecting some deep meaning and deep connection to literature or something like that. Every time say that, you give me that stupid fucking look that you talked about earlier in this episode.
00:51:06
Speaker
what Say what? every time it's like oh Every time Mike speaks, I always have to do that that gym from the office where I like look over and I'm like, what the fuck is this? do it You just complain about saying somebody saying River and it's Sally the Seal.
00:51:19
Speaker
What are you coming up with? I'm telling you, I'm not that creative, so I'm not going come up with a good name. This is awesome you is awesometin thats is what pisses me off about Austin. He'll be like, hey, I'm not that creative, um so can you can you're more creative. Can you think of a name? I think of a name. Yeah, that's fucking stupid.
00:51:36
Speaker
No, I think that's fair. ah like be a dumbass name right ah but You couldn't have named him anything cooler. Did you think of one? Chappie for the street. No, you picked. You didn't even think of Chappie. You picked it off a fucking list. Which of the options were Chappie and River? No, I gave him a name. It was your name.
00:51:57
Speaker
And you said you didn't like that. Mike, you're telling me that if we were talking about a manatee and I was complaining that somebody named that manatee something really stupid ah and then I come in here and I'd be like, oh, we should call it Manny the Manatee.
00:52:12
Speaker
You wouldn't be like, that's such a dumb ass name. You know what? That's the difference between our friendship. I wouldn't shit on your dreams. If you wanted to, this is why men's mental health is down the fucking drain, guys. I'm going to start beeping that out in the post.
00:52:29
Speaker
Yeah, Jesus Christ. Everybody's going to think we're so insensitive god because we're out here. Cry me a river every time you talk about men's mental health. Cry me a river, the seal, by the way. Hey.
00:52:42
Speaker
See, Austin, you didn't even think of that. Why didn't they just name him? Yeah, neither did you, Mike. didn't they just name him Seal after the artist Seal? Yeah, that have been good.
00:52:52
Speaker
you like that one, Mike? I think that's better than fucking Sally. Yeah, definitely. It tied in. were talking about Pizza Capital of the World. Yeah, but they already gave him the one Vinny for Italian Worcester Street.
00:53:04
Speaker
Right, which also, by the way, offensive. Yeah, a little sensitive, you know. Couldn't name it something, you know, anything else, but. Right.
00:53:14
Speaker
Fucking Sally. It's better than a River. Is it? Yes. It's lot better than River. Oh, no. It makes sense.
00:53:26
Speaker
It's an homage to its its home state. Yeah, but, you know, Sally's not really like a guy's name. it's not a boy's name.
00:53:37
Speaker
Sal would have been cool Sal Pepe two names yeah two just a full Italian name maybe see that's better Giuseppe look at that that's way better than fucking Sally I'll tell you that Giuseppe we should DM them right now and say that should be in the fucking running other than fucking Vinny
00:54:03
Speaker
my god so good Mike, we just expect more from you. That's all. you know If you're going to complain about the creativity, you got to come correct. Go ahead.
00:54:14
Speaker
Hold on. like Now it's the time of the podcast where Mike wraps the the microphone on his neck. Here we go. Almost on cue. think I need to take a vacation from this podcast. Mike.
00:54:26
Speaker
Oh, Mike. You sweet summer child. You sweet summer child. I got to go through. We all know that. Just wait. Oh, I actually went to a um a ah ah Jewish funeral today.
00:54:44
Speaker
ah well, condolences. Actually quite touching. It was it was forred for somebody in B's work. But... um quite Quite touching. and And when I was there, i was sitting down and there was a woman to the left of me and she was like, do you do you have a yarmulke to wear?
00:55:09
Speaker
And I looked at her and then I looked at B and I started like frantically searching around the room. I was like, is that a thing? Even if I'm not Jewish, do i like should I be wearing a yarmulke right now? And I didn't know I never got an official answer. So I wanted to pose that to you guys. Well, did you what did you tell her What did you tell her?
00:55:27
Speaker
I said, I don't know what you wish. And then what did she respond to? Oh, so you told her you weren't Jewish. Yeah. Oh, OK. And then what did she say after that? Oh, she was a friend. She was a friend. So she knew I well, actually, she probably didn't know that I wasn't Jewish, but she was like, oh, you'll probably be fine. Like, it sounds like she didn't even know the answer.
00:55:46
Speaker
No, but I wanted to know whether that's like if I was offending people by not wearing one. I i do. I didn't know what strange memory of like going to bat mitzvah. And having to put one on.
00:55:59
Speaker
Or the maybe even just having the option to put one on. I was like, oh, hell yeah, I'll throw this thing on. That seems pretty cool. But now I can't remember if that was like an optional choice where I'd like I put that on or if it was like, hey, you should just throw this thing on because we're in the temple.
00:56:16
Speaker
i I tried to look around. like I thought that maybe they're handing them out like pamphlets or something for the people that don't have them. Well, okay, Victor, were you in the synagogue? Yeah, we were in like the the holy... it wasn't like a like Again, their their synagogue was like in an office building, but like still, it was like their holy place of worship. Yeah, okay, then that makes sense. That makes I don't know. Maybe, maybe, yeah, maybe that's, but how would you know? I mean, you're walking in there. I mean, how would you know?
00:56:41
Speaker
Well, that's right. i didn't know, but I didn't want to, I didn't want to offend anybody. No, you went in with no harmful intent. I think you'd be all right. Which, By the way, this was a totally different experience for me too because I'm used to like, you go to like a Catholic funeral, you walk in there, you sit down, they do the whole song and dance of the mass and everything like that.
00:57:03
Speaker
Somebody goes up there, they say a few words, maybe one person is chosen, maybe two people are chosen to go up there and speak on behalf of whoever has passed. I was at this for two to three hours.
00:57:19
Speaker
And every single person, and this may be an anomaly, right? I'm not sure. But every person that got up there um had pages of things that they wanted to say about the person that had passed.
00:57:34
Speaker
Pages. That is beautiful. And it is nice to see that that person was loved. That's too long. We gotta wrap this shit up. Come on. but but they Expedite the process. hall I'm sorry.
00:57:46
Speaker
It was long. And the the part for me that was a little tough was I'm i'm getting over a cold, right? And I was in there the entire time.
00:57:58
Speaker
I was going through like super hot flashes and then really cold. pieces And my eyes were getting watery and my nose being stuffed up. And I was like, the only reason that I'm okay right now is because everybody else is also got like the teary eye.
00:58:14
Speaker
But dude, I was suffering right in the whole thing the entire time. i thought it was going to be a 30 minute process. And here we are almost three hours into this. You're crying because you're cold. The person next to you is like, Oh my God, I can't believe you cared about him that much. And you're like, honestly, I didn't even know the guy.
00:58:30
Speaker
Like, how do you know him? I was like, i don't know. Also, it it says that you don't have to wear. Also, I guess yarmulke is not even the real word for it. It's called the Akippa.
00:58:42
Speaker
But you don't have to wear them. oh But they are provided at bar. Bar mitzvahs and bat mitzvahs. So, okay. Well, that was what I was trying to get at is like, I understand if it's in a place of worship, you know, it's probably best to do so. But like, what if somebody's, you know, very strict in their own religion? Like, isn't that like, like if somebody is a strict Catholic, like, I don't think that's good for them to put on, you know, or you know, do something of a different religion, you know?
00:59:14
Speaker
That's, that's maybe, maybe, maybe that's true, but I've never heard that. I've never heard it. But also at the same time, what does it matter? Right? Like, If I truly had a problem with it, I wouldn't be there in the first place. No, i don't think it's i don't I don't think it's about it being a problem. I think it's about, you know, right, like if I was a strict Catholic or if I was very deep into the Catholic faith and I went to a synagogue for a funeral, right, vice versa, like wanted to kind of go against my beliefs to wear one of those. So I i get why people wouldn't, but like the three of us would be very...
00:59:53
Speaker
ah open to you know not disrespecting any religion so we would do it out of the respect you know but like what if somebody's actively in there to into their faith and by putting that on kind of goes against what they believe in well and that's probably why it's not yeah I'm sure they could just be like yeah it's not not for me or whatever but you know that kind of um also at the same time got you go ahead because i mine's going to bring us into a different tangent Because all I was gonna say is if if I'm there for somebody and that's their religion and I'm going there to pay respects to them and that's a requirement, that's not gonna bother me, right?
01:00:32
Speaker
um But, you know, to each their own, I guess. But in retrospect, no, no, and I agree with that. I understand that. But in retrospect, like, I have a cross on a necklace, you know what Like, if I enter a synagogue, am I supposed to take that off?
01:00:46
Speaker
Yeah, it starts burning. that Yeah, I don't think it's that deep. Well, that's what I'm saying. It's like they start catching you the neck and they make you take it off. No, I don't think i think it's all right.
01:00:56
Speaker
Like, I don't think it's – they're not going to kick you out of the church for wearing that, you know what I mean? Yeah, and and also I feel like that's what this is supposed to be about, right? Like if we're all here to respect everybody else's religions and everybody's, you know, allowed to have their own belief systems, then, you know, who am I to to make some kind of objection like that? You know what I mean? Yeah.
01:01:17
Speaker
I would want to, you know, respect the the process, the culture. What I was going to say, though, it reminds me of – Like the times Mike and I would celebrate Ramadan with our with our Muslim friends who work, dude. Oh, my Some of the best feasts, dude.
01:01:32
Speaker
The nicest dudes. The nicest guys. they were um They would pray, and then they would eat. And remember when they did it during the winter, and we make sure they'd do it in the back, right? Because it was cold outside.
01:01:48
Speaker
And they were very, like... come on you gotta you gotta eat you gotta to eat like it's uh the fast is over the fast is over and i remember me telling them like guys this is your celebration you eat this is your food this and that they were so welcoming they would not stop and they and you remember you had to eat the date first to break the fast and you you remember we cooked a couple things for that we brought some stuff in bro we brought some stuff in we were bringing so i think it's because like having a non-muslim like participate in like a like a ramadan feast is like a really, really like cool sign of respect and like not only for like us but like for them to like I think they were like really like, you know, we're their boys. I still talk like, I mean, I'm still there, but like I talked to those dudes a bunch.
01:02:31
Speaker
I think that's so cool. Like that to me, that should be more of a regular occurrence, right? Of experiencing other people's culture, especially through food. Like how can you like slam it? It's easy for people bond to land. Some of the food, like they were like things I had never like had seen before or tried before. Just fucking incredible. The way they cook their chicken.
01:02:55
Speaker
no Like yeah they're, they're all Sudanese. They're all pretty much like they're all from like the same region of Sudan. bro some of the recipes i got out there that's just fucking delicious man like some of the they were bringing in crazy things man and yeah i can't wait for like if i'm still there while ramadan's happening like it's coming up is it coming up out in march again it's coming up soon yeah grabbing a plate then for sure And that's the thing is we were just, we were saying no to be respectful. Like these guys haven't eaten all day. Like, you know, they they were still working their job while they're not eating. We're like, no, no, make sure you guys eat. But they like, they would sit us down.
01:03:34
Speaker
They would make sure we got the food first. Like some of those dudes were like, no, no, no, grab your plate. And like, they would serve us. And I was like, bro, like, I just had lunch, man. You like you guys haven't eaten all day. like Please. They're like, no, no, no. like We're going to make sure you guys like have stuff. It's a very welcoming so culture and stuff like that. Those those guys are so cool.
01:03:55
Speaker
Would you guys want to go on vacation to Iraq with me? like Like the country Iraq? Yeah, to Iraq. you have to go out to Iraq? like Yeah. are you don yeah is that it's a and you I'm going to send you guys. I'm actually very intrigued.
01:04:13
Speaker
I saw this and I've been doing my research. I saw this. no it's not an ISIS recruitment. Asshole. What's so funny about it? I'm being serious about going.
01:04:26
Speaker
it's It's an activation letter for Mike. What's so funny about it? This is a tourist destination. Yeah. Yeah. i Listen, Mike, I'm sure it's beautiful. Are you guys stereotyping? You guys are stereotyping on what this could potentially be. I don't want to click this link, man. Nobody is stereotyping. It says, come to Iraq. It's a real link. It's a real um nice link. It's a real link. I promise you.
01:04:53
Speaker
I promise you.
01:04:58
Speaker
Bro, we're getting recruited. What's so funny? This is a real thing. tell
01:05:06
Speaker
Oh, no. That's not even close. No, no. Come on. You guys are crazy. This is a real thing. I'm to travel. I'm just not clicking that says come to Iraq 1999. already it. It's real.
01:05:23
Speaker
So there's this guy I don't. Actually, a beautiful website, by the way. This is. The guy's name is. It's the Bruce. What is. is the Bruce.
01:05:35
Speaker
He's on social media. He's, ah you know, social media, whatever. And he uses his... he He's in comedy, but he uses his platform and he does tours of Iraq because Iraq is trying to show you some other know gain his tourism. Oh, Jesus. Holy shit. And I'm
01:05:53
Speaker
jesus holy shit and i'm proud right. really It's beautiful. And the guy and and he's the guy that takes you around and does all these tours and you see these aspects of the world that you just you see in social studies books.
01:06:15
Speaker
I'm serious. I mean, I'm not saying like I'm going to pull the trigger and go this year, but like I'm serious about it. i you You guys know that I'm into going to places that not many people get to go or see things that not many people get to see.
01:06:29
Speaker
I would seriously consider if If the three of us or whatever the case i got together and was like, you guys want to do this and just do a fucking experience? I would totally do it.
01:06:41
Speaker
I'm not opposed to going on a trip here. It's just not something that was at the top of my list or even something that I thought about. okay. yeah okay It's not on the top of the list. I understand that. but like Maybe it turns out to be the best trip you ever took.
01:07:01
Speaker
Yeah, that that could totally be possible. But what what what brought this up for you? Did you just come across it on the internet? or Yeah, it was just me. It was essentially me just following that guy as the Bruce. He's funny.
01:07:16
Speaker
and And then he was... I saw one of his videos about like, hey, like I'm teaming up with... I don't know if it's like the government of Iraq or any... or like Iraqi tourism, but he's like...
01:07:27
Speaker
I'm, you know, like, I'm doing it. I was expecting a look from you.
Tourism and Global Perceptions
01:07:30
Speaker
I'm looking through the itinerary still. He said that he was linking up with the government or something like that. Yeah, mean, in my I immediately thought, like, oh, yeah, this is just kind like what Saudi Arabia does with, like, sports washing and, like... so basically sports washing is, like, Saudi Arabia, like, pumps a bunch of, like, money into events and stuff to make you forget that they're, like, an incredibly, like...
01:07:55
Speaker
awful country like yeah which hey listen they are not the only ones to do so ah you know wink wink nudge nudge where we are now uh canada you know ah oh but that's basically what it is like they pump a bunch of like money into tourism and like all this stuff to be like yeah like guys we're a completely totally cool nation that doesn't do anything wrong or bad to our citizens or any other citizens you know on in the world or whatever. We totally don't bomb other countries.
01:08:32
Speaker
you know
01:08:35
Speaker
but but Yeah, come to Dubai. I remember if Dubai is in Saudi Arabia or not, but you know what I mean. it's you know come to Come to this part of the world and we'll... you know no du but it's like That's basically what they do. and When you said, like oh yeah, he partners with the government, that's like my first thought. is This is just like a program to... i don't know if he partners And again, listen.
01:09:00
Speaker
I don't know how much of this is going to stay in. All the good parts Iraq. We've gotten into some interesting...
01:09:06
Speaker
Yeah, we've gone to some really interesting jokes here. I think we have gone some dangerous territory. But if we're being honest, what Iraq has done and what we've done to Iraq... ah we've done a lot worse to Iraq than I think Iraq has done to us. So yeah.
01:09:23
Speaker
Yeah. But it's also like if somebody took a tour of like the U S or DC, like what, you know, they're going to show you the good parts. I mean, it's not the same. It's the same exact thing. It's the same exact thing. They're going to show you the good stuff.
01:09:37
Speaker
They're going to show you the good stuff if you do a tour of the US, if you do the tour of certain cities and this and that. Yeah, but there's there's there's definitely a difference like in terms of what's the areas that are safe to travel here are not the same as the areas that are safe to travel in Iraq and vice versa.
01:09:58
Speaker
right Because there's different threats and there's there's different cultures and everything like that. So it's hard to compare the two. No. I was going to say, I think you probably are safer in Iraq than you are here. but
01:10:11
Speaker
I think there's... Well, i'm I'm pretty safe in this country, but... yeah i think we would be positive like that I think we'd be pretty safe in Iraq, too. And here, for the most part.
01:10:22
Speaker
but we're basing it We're basing it off of perception, though. We don't know. you know like a iraq We could find out that Iraq iraq may be safer. it's It's totally possible.
01:10:35
Speaker
I'm saying, who have you met that was like, yeah, I took a i took a vacation. I did a tour. Stop saying a tour of Iraq. Iraq.
01:10:51
Speaker
You know what? We're going to move on from this topic. But I also don't think that that's necessarily a good reason to travel. i don't think it's a batteries. i get what you mean. but like I haven't heard of them.
01:11:03
Speaker
and And this isn't equating the two But it's like I haven't heard a bunch of people say that I've traveled to Antarctica for the summer, but I'm also not inclined to do that either. But Iraq has like some of the world's oldest like artifacts and structures. you know I'm saying? Like there's a reason.
01:11:18
Speaker
Okay. you You nobody vacations to Antarctica because they know what they're getting over there. yeah You know what saying? Like you're getting some you're getting some snow ice caps and all that. Like but people go to Iraq because there's some significant pieces of of the world still standing, you know?
01:11:33
Speaker
I agree. It's not something I could do this year or next year because I have a little bit of um travel funds tied up to, you know, my trip next year. But I want to go to Japan for my 30th, which, you know, you guys are invited to. but like, I know that that's not really like a realistic thing to just invite people to.
01:11:55
Speaker
Like you guys, if you can, you can't come. like no It's an open invite, but, you know.
01:12:03
Speaker
i did I did my trip to Japan. It was fantastic. fantastic Mike, that's that's one that you should do as well. I'm not saying I wouldn't.
01:12:14
Speaker
I just want to do a couple a couple more first that I yeah have to hit off the list. You have to dip your toes in the water for Asian countries is what you're saying?
01:12:25
Speaker
No, you know what? i I'd be pretty interested in Korea. i want to do i would go to South Korea. All three when I go next year. my My goal is to do all three, but Japan is japan is like the number one because I want to go to the race there with my brother.
01:12:42
Speaker
And in the Philippines, we have to go to just because we're that like on that side of the world and we have to go home. But yeah yeah if I could find time for Korea, I would love to do Korea there. um You know which country I heard was beautiful?
01:12:53
Speaker
It was Laos. We got to do a blast to Thailand too. That's what I've been told. You know, for reasons. so
01:13:03
Speaker
No.
01:13:06
Speaker
No. Yes. We also got to take a trip to Turkey. Yeah. All right. other um Do you guys want to end it with one more bit? And then, yeah, i was to there's a lot there's a lot of us. cause I got to do some surgery this week. I'm going to tell you guys that right now.
01:13:26
Speaker
Yeah, there's a lot of there's a lot of good stuff in there. I can fucking put out there. If we made any sort of money off of this, I would say most of this can stay in. But considering we have jobs.
01:13:48
Speaker
It's my brain every time Austin says something. All right. Speaking of travel, though, it's hilarious. Yeah. And, you know, not to spook you out, man, because I know i know you're leaving sometime this week, right?
Aviation Safety and Public Perception
01:14:00
Speaker
Are you fucking worried about these, like, airplanes falling out the sky or what, man? Like, this shit looks crazy. Did you hear the one today? Did you hear the one today? Did you hear about the one today?
01:14:11
Speaker
Well, okay, it didn't get flown out of the sky. But there was one today. It was an American Airlines flight from JFK to New Delhi, India. there was a ah i think I don't know if there was an incident on the plane or something. They they didn't release all the information.
01:14:27
Speaker
But something happened and and like from a security standpoint on the plane where they had to ah get the Eurofighters out and escort this plane to land in Rome, Italy.
01:14:41
Speaker
It was American Airlines flight from JFK to New Delhi and it couldn't make it to India. They had to escort them with Euro fighter jets to Rome to land. What the specifics of it, I don't know. Some of that stuff we're cutting from the last part.
01:14:55
Speaker
um Obviously, I don't know how much is going to stay in. I don't like the fact... that I have the the Iraq tour thing, the seven-day tour. um i I wanted to type in flight Rome American Airlines, and the first four things that have popped up are all the flights from nine eleven I don't like that my Google just did that.
01:15:17
Speaker
I don't – i don't think that google just did that like google did that either i'm still gonna you know flight rome american airlines it was a flight dude are we was a are we all on a list no supposed to go to i think if i type in late rome american airlines just those four words yeah it'll pop up um so yeah security security concern um no one no one's really said anything yet i don't know if they're really specific um
01:15:46
Speaker
But my question is, are these things really happening that frequently? And they're just not covered. Or are we really just seeing some weird uptick in. I think it's a weird uptick. Issues happening. I do think like.
01:16:02
Speaker
There have been some cuts. To the FAA. And the like you know. The like air traffic control stuff. And I do think. I mean obviously with the Washington one. That was clearly just a little bit of.
01:16:14
Speaker
Pilot error in that helicrat like helicopter. And um maybe a little bit of. Yep. like air traffic control slip up there. But like the one in Toronto two days ago whatever, like that one, i don't know what the fuck happened. It looked like it landed hard and then just fucking rolled over. i don't think anyone died there and everything was fine. But like, that's still fucking like crazy to watch.
01:16:41
Speaker
Like. Yeah. And I don't know if it was, it might've been, maybe they didn't have the de-icing. I don't know. I look into it, but it's like,
01:16:51
Speaker
But again, it seems like there's one. Why is this happening? So like are you going to talk about the the American Airlines one? Because I pulled it up, too.
01:17:01
Speaker
um I was going to say this. I saw this today on social media, but um the one with that Delta one to Toronto, I think it was ah ah part of it was the weather condition and part of it was the wheel.
01:17:13
Speaker
And once the wheel fell off, obviously, because the wings hold fuel, that one flipped over and obviously then the other one was too heavy and vice versa. But I saw this on social media today. um And obviously we have to do our own research, but this is from a verified account.
01:17:27
Speaker
It says U.S. plane crashes in 2025 versus 2024. The National Transport Safety Board has reported 87 aviation accidents involving all kinds of aircraft since the start of the year.
01:17:39
Speaker
That includes 62 January 27 so far in February. That does not count Wednesday's crashing and in Arizona. That is a decrease when compared this time last to this i'm sorry that is a decrease when compared to this time last year In there accidents in january and ninety s three in february according to the agency so i think that we're hearing it more now because they're kind of one-off incidents. And I think that just like aviation in general is just getting now more attention because there's, they're more freaky. It seems like, I mean, again, you just said there was like, what, 80 in this year alone or whatever so far, like those could be like anything. I feel like when we're talking like major, major accidents with like critical, like life lost, like,
01:18:32
Speaker
I feel like we've had a couple more. This one, also for the Rome one, they said it was a bomb threat. They went on, checked the plane, everything was fine, and they took back off. So...
01:18:44
Speaker
that's what That's what, when they said security, um whatever, and then they had to direct, I was thinking that a passenger either made a threat or there was some sort of incident involving a passenger. or its the you know So that one, i figured, you know wasn't like a plain malfunction or anything like that.
01:19:04
Speaker
But I mean, we have to like think about this in terms of context, right? Like I think the FAA website says that there's, they provide service to more than 45,000 flights
01:19:18
Speaker
per 45,000 plates, sorry, 45,000 flights every single day. So, I mean, we're talking about a very small percentage, but still, right? It seems odd that there's an uptick now and it's hard to not correlate that with all the things that are going on in the news, but it just seems too weird. It seems like too much of a coincidence.
01:19:46
Speaker
And I know I'm putting kind of like my, my, uh, yeah. yeah Aluminum foil hat on here, but I just, I just think that it, and I've learned this all throughout my time traveling. Like there's just never a good time to fly.
01:20:00
Speaker
There's never a good time. there's when i I mean, my first flight ever in my life was 2014 after high school in Italy, and that was when Malaysia Airlines went down. Remember that? And they they still to this day have not found that plane and found that black box. I don't know if you guys remember that.
01:20:15
Speaker
But yeah I just feel like there's incidents yeah happening all the time and that there's just never there's never going to be ah secure moment to fly.
01:20:26
Speaker
I'm looking at the pages for like just like, you know, 2025 and aviation. And what I could say is like like, obviously, the numbers were more like higher for this time last year.
01:20:40
Speaker
But when we're talking about like actual fatal events, This year has like weirder instances. Last year had the the guy dying because he got sucked out the door on that Max 737. And I think we were talking about planes in the same regard around this time last year, too, because the 737s were like constantly getting grounded. You had this like the door blow out where that guy got sucked out of the plane, like all of this shit.
01:21:06
Speaker
So I don't think it's really...
01:21:10
Speaker
i don't know. I think it's probably the same. like Maybe it's just recency bias the way we're talking about it right now. but i do kind of Now that I'm remembering that was this time last year, like i think I was talking about planes the same way. like I don't know. i still It's still the safest method of travel, obviously.
01:21:30
Speaker
it It is. it's just I think it's the density of it. like I feel like it's almost every day now that we're seeing something. right or at least a couple of times per week. like These things used to be a little bit more sparse than this.
01:21:42
Speaker
But again, maybe those things weren't getting covered. They weren't. no It's a DEI.
01:21:49
Speaker
We're going to be eliminating that. Right, man. Whatever happened people getting hired from this fourth? That has nothing to do with play. How does that correlate? Austin, put your fucking figure down. How does that correlate?
01:22:03
Speaker
but You're right. I'm making a joke, but you are right. It doesn't correlate. You're right.
01:22:11
Speaker
Yeah. People were always hired on merit. Yeah, but you know. Isn't that why you got off at Twitter? This this is comes full circle for the first for the first episode we ever did, that Baltimore bridge. Remember that? Yep.
01:22:24
Speaker
yep Yeah, man. i hope to yeah i hope I hope to do this again with you next Sunday.
01:22:34
Speaker
Hey, hold on. Don't put that into the world. you're gonna know We will be just school right'll be doing this next Sunday. That's right. and We will be recording.
01:22:46
Speaker
You're going to be throw that PD light out there, Mike. Yeah, exactly. We don't have branding like that. They're not a sponsor. and You guys have to. It's that just. Just that, you know, i i would, I would, I would love to be here with you guys next week, but it seems like future is uncertain. And just in case I'll say it's been an honor do this. Hold on. Is this a Titanic?
01:23:14
Speaker
You know what? I take all back. This has really been torturous. Let me say the eulogy. Come on. Let me say the eulogy. Let me say the eulogy. Let me say the eulogy. Let me say the eulogy. Let me say the existence like that.
01:23:27
Speaker
Yeah. Let's not do that. now you're gonna be my Victor, I'll miss you. um And everybody that listens to our calls. Listen, the flight's what, an hour?
01:23:40
Speaker
it's like an hour two by the time you get up to altitude they're gonna be center you're gonna be all right in know five minutes that are always the most tense
01:23:50
Speaker
that's right and i'm just trying to compress those together so now the risk may actually be higher because that's why i look at it still the safest method of travel first it's way like a nice way libration happen in the first or last five minutes of a flight yeah yeah But, I mean, you technically aren't going over big bodies of water. So if anything happens.
01:24:12
Speaker
I don't know. I'm going over hard ground. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. no No soft landings for this guy.
01:24:23
Speaker
Well, and that note, that was depressing. But yeah, so hold on. I'll just take this moment to say thank you all very much. I've been happy to be in your homes these last couple of weeks. And if I get the chance be here again, will be much more grateful. And always in our hearts.
01:24:42
Speaker
Let's not talk about the guy he's dead. somehow Somehow coming out of Mike's mouth. and Somehow coming out of Mike's mouth that seemed insincere. Are you fucking for real, dude?
Conclusion and Lighthearted Farewell
01:24:55
Speaker
Are you serious right now?
01:24:57
Speaker
That's some bullshit, dude. Are you serious right now? No, no, no, no. I'm not serious. But do do me a favor, though. Next week, don't wear the glasses.
01:25:10
Speaker
locking off. I'll see you guys. Thanks for listening to the episode. We'll see you next week. Peace. I'm out. Fuck this. I'm out. I'm leaving the glasses on. I don't even care. Fuck it. I'm done. Fuck this outro music too. I'm done with it.
01:25:26
Speaker
Shake the ass, Mike. Dance to it.