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Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is a podcast called twenty five.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Wists, and they go, We're a whist So, yeah, it's
too bad.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
But what did you expect?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
It's a podcast called twenty five.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Whistles, twenty wine. Everybody, all right, blow the whistle. I
don't know. I don't like soccer anymore.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Oh are you done?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I watched the end of that Argentina Egypt game when
Argentina came back because I saw they were down to zero.
Been a couple of days ago, and I thought, oh,
this is interesting to watch Egypt beat Argenta and they
scored three goals and that was cool. If I know
when they're going to score, I'll turn it on.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
But you don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I know that's the problem. I'm I'm out, you guys,
isn't in it?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Oh, I'm still in it.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I'm out. If Mexico was in, I'd be in.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Dude, all aren't in. Canada's out, Mexico's out, We're out.
North America done here.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
The ticket sales are gone way down for the all
the games because all the host cities or nations are out.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
If it's close at the end, I might turn it on.
I love penalty kicks. If I can get some penalty kicks,
and the actual soccer fans hate penalty kicks because they say,
what a terrible way to end a game, right, Yeah,
but wouldn't you rather end it with penalty kicks on
a tie?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
And also penalty kicks are fun. They should do them,
like during hydration break, they should do three penalty kicks. Yes.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I feel bad for the goalie on those things, like
it's just all on the goalie and then like you're
gonna get nailed, like you hope to get nailed, I know,
but it's also gonna hurt.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, I'm over it. I wouldn't be over it, but
America is out. I don't only know anybody else other
than Messy what I think I know. He's French. I
don't only know them. I don't watch them because I
don't watch Premier League. Anything I see would be our
what's our version called MLS would be that if it's
on Apple and it's up because they put it up
(01:57):
at the top of the screen sometimes and it just
fires off and starts playing and watch a little bit. Yes,
that's about it. Holland that's the guy. I was watching
him play golf yesterday his day off that's somebody was
recording him play golf and he's he's a he's six four,
you know, over two hundred pounds. Yeah, and now he
pops up an algorithm and that's why I was watching
(02:18):
him play golf. But I was watching him kick and
hit the post over and over again on purpose during practice.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
So hard, really, he kicks so hard wam wham.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
He's a beast.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
And it's fun because Norway's a bunch of little kids
and him. Yeah, there's like nine people that live there.
I've been there. It's awesome, love and it's cold, so
it's not like they have a culture of being outside
playing soccer all the time. Because it's very cold. You
got to play inside for the most part.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Right question about Norway, are all the girls blonde?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Really, I think traditionally there's more blonde people there. But
I thought the same thing about when I went to Iceland.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I would think those would all be blonde.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I thought everybody'd be covered an ice and it wasn't true.
You do think that like Nordic Nordic guy, there are
those folks there because he is that personified, like he's
exactly what you think about a big Nordic white dude. Yeah,
you cast him in a movie. Yes, blonde way large
was a viking back in the day, a literal, But no,
(03:22):
I didn't find that to be the case. I didn't
walk around and go, sure enough, they're all blonde.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Look at that.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Maybe there's more than normal. But I've been to a
couple of different cities there and no, But I like him.
He's fun.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
He kicks so hard in the videos that I watch
of him because he is a striker and I'm not
sure his exact position because I'm stupid at soccer forward,
but he just like walks around, chills, ball starts coming
in the play boom, kick goal.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
You know what. That is such a common thing for
some of these elite forwards, these strikers. And I think
when we were so when we were in Puerto Rico,
we were like, how are we going to watch the games?
Because my Hulu didn't work over there, like my provider
didn't work because I was in a technically in another
territory or whatever. So we had to download Fox one,
(04:13):
I believe, to watch all the World Cup games. And
one of the options for when you watch the game
was just to watch the star Player. Just the camera
was just and when I watched Just Mess, he just.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Walks around the middle a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
He just walks until it's time.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
He's older though him a little bit. I think it's
like a baseball player that's on a pitch count because
their arms hurt or they're old or they're young. Like
I feel like MESSI only has so much in him. Yeah,
so he doesn't run for.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
That preserves it.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, I'm not gonna be wrong. I always thought that
was an age thing with him because he doesn't plays
as forward as the Highland guy does.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Right, No, same position he does.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Okay, I don't I know nothing, so and I just
found out. Yeah, that's a really cool camera though, y
star player camera.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
And they did that with Himbapa as well in one
of the French games, and I was like, look at that.
He doesn't move either. Nobody moves unless it's time to
like go and attack.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Okay, we're gonna talk soccer for a minute because I've
got just because I have a lot of stuff to say.
I didn't know I was even thinking about this, so
I'm out. However, I did learn a lot through this round.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
But you are done.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah, unless something's crazy. You want to watch the final,
not from the beginning, if it's close near the end. Yeah, okay,
So I'm a casual. Had a good time, ah, guys,
time of my life. So but some stuff that I've
been thinking about, Soccer is more entertaining than baseball. Not
(05:39):
to me, but I compared the two and a lot
of Americans go soccer's boring because they don't score. And
the analogy I made is if you didn't know baseball
and you watch baseball for the first time, you'd go,
this is the most boring sport ever. Heck, some people
say that and they grew up here and I've had
baseball the whole time, and so I put them together.
Why I like baseball is when I grow up with it,
i play it. I also have an understanding of all
(06:02):
the things that are happening around what's happening. So let's say, like, man,
this guy takes forever pitch pitch pitch, But also you're
looking at what inning it is, You look at who's
coming up next, do you how many runners around? There's
all the things that you know about the game because
you know the game that are factoring into how bored
you're not. I don't know enough about soccer to factor in.
(06:24):
All I know is the kick. They're kicking the ball
around and they never score. If I had more knowledge
about forward, a full back or midfield midfield, why they're
running a certain offense even with the NBA, Like if
I just don't have enough knowledge. But I think soccer's probably,
to somebody new, more entertaining than baseball. And that's tough
to say, yeah, because it is more constant, at.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Least constant movement movement.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
If baseball doesn't score a lot, No, well every once in.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
A while, but a lot of standing around m hm,
Like if you are able to mike one of the
players and talk to them, interview them during the game.
Back game is slow, and they do that during All
Star games.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I was taking to the rules I would change during soccer, which,
of course is what everybody wants me to change rules.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, it's like, of course, I'm just a game.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I'm an American that's got tons of ideas about a
game that's been around for a thousand years. Did you know,
by the way I believe soccer was the Aztecs kicked
around a skull?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah? Really, do you know that for sure? Because I
thought the same thing.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
But I never No, I just say stuff. I did
not look it up.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I just because I've thought that same thing. And I
don't know if it's from a movie. Maybe Apuckalypto.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
No, I don't know. Mine wasn't from a movie. But
I just think that was knowledge that I retained at
some point. Even could have been false. But I see
Kevin looking it up.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Well, maybe it came from me because I remember going
to Aztec Ruins.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I definitely wouldn't have heard you say that and stored that.
And this is this is true, that's real.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
That is rude. Yeah, but I get it.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
It says according to historical records there are human heads
and skulls, animal parts like pig bladders as well.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
That they would kick her, they would kick around.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, so there you go.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
The roles that I would change because it seems like
hardcore soccer fans hate penalty kicks. Fair enough, where's my camera?
Here's the rule I would change in soccer, as an
American who knows nothing about soccer. If it's a tie,
we don't end the game. We go to extra time,
which is normal, but every three minutes we pull a
player from both teams, so if at the end it's
(08:20):
one on one, it's freaking one on one.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
So every three minutes a player walks off, it's eleven
on eleven. Now it's ten on ten. You got three
minutes to score, nine on nine, eight on eight, more space.
At the end, it's three on three. It's freaking ice
cubes basketball league out there playing on that massive field.
That seems fun.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Do you think it would always be the goalies left.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I don't think it would get down to one on one.
Too big a field. Yeah, but if it did, that
would be so fun.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
That would be so cool.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
So that would be the rule, as an American who
knows nothing about soccer, that I would implement. Because you
foreigners want ties, I.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Don't even think, well, what does the player want? Does
the player want to do extra time?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I mean, honestly, the player probably wants what's best for
the game, and ties are fine, let's be done. Yeah,
probably I think they do. Do they do extra time?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Though?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
No, they tie? No, they just do uh the extra
the stoppage time.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
That's it, and then the game's over.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
The game's over with no overtime at all. Nope.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Okay, Now, soccer stupid again. Okay, So as soon as
the game's over, we start pulling a player and we
let that go every three minutes, and we pull a
player every time until it's three on three, two on two,
one on one. Yeah, and then if it's a tie
and it's still one on one, everybody dies. That really
motivates them. It's a squid game, yes, yes, Mike White,
there is overtime.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It's like the fifteen minutes they add.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
No, no, not in a regular season.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah, in regularly like premierly right now?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah, yeah, right now, it's two thirty minutes, yesh or
done two fifteen minutes. Yeah, yeah, so and it and
in two on two, three on three it's sudden death.
And then after that it's real real like if there's
a know, if it ends up in a total tie,
it's real death. So that really motivates people. That'll work.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
You also wanted to get rid of cherry picking? Am
I correct? Get rid of it?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I want it?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I mean get rid of the off side the off
side rule.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, if you want to send a player down and
have them stand by the goal, that's less players do
you have this playing defense? And if you don't like that,
then put another put one of the players on offense
back there with them.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Everyone hates the cherry picker in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
If you wanted to run four guys playing defense and
throw a center down there just standing outside the lane,
that you could do that. Yeah, risky, it's probably stupid,
but I'm all for cherry picking.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Especially.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
It's why when I get tired.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Sure, that's you.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I'm just pretty slow getting back. So I'm kind of
like half cherry picking. Yes, so yeah, that's good.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah, what about have you what about pulling the goalie
do you like? Have you seen that yet? Like whenever
the goalie is playing with everyone else?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yeah, so that's like in hockey they do that. I've
seen that more because I've watched more hockey than soccer,
where if you need a goal so you're trying to
maximize your ability to score, they even take the goal
out and put another player on hockey.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yeah, so in soccer they can't because they can't substitute
in the middle of a game. It takes three minutes too. Yeah,
that's fun. It's fun to see people in other colors,
like other clothes out there.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
What do you mean the orange or something?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah, like the bright orange guy run down. He's not
matching anybody with big hands. Yeah, he just it doesn't
even match like the team. He's just I think the
goal should match the team though too, you do.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
But well, you have to distinguish the difference between the
goal and everyone else.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
But in in sync, they would all wear the same
clothes but a little different, like if they all were white,
you have one with like cutoff, one with like long sleeves,
one with a coat. So if everybody's wearing white, the
goalie wears like bigger, like it's white, but it's the
same color, but it's bigger. It's like puffy arms or
bright gloves. Just he just needs to match the team
a little bit. Because once you got a blue goalie
(11:51):
and an orange goalie and the teams are red and green,
I don't know. I'm confused.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
I feel like every team has looked the same during
the tournament, like I don't know who's who every time
we turning game on. Other than maybe Mexico, they were
like a solid green, but every team is blue or white.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Argentina's pretty unique because they're the blue and white stripes.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I wouldn't yes, I wouldn't mind shirts and skins. I
could tell a little better if they did shirts and
skins because also on the screen, if you just turn
it on, sometimes it doesn't match the colors that they're
putting up of the team. Yes, yeah, and like okay,
which ones which?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Like the US game the other day, I think I
was like, are they blue?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
If it just turned on, it's like, okay, US are skins?
I would know immediately which team were skins. So I'm
kind of out on soccer'st but I'll check in.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
That's crazy, and this is really exciting because the games
are really really really good.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Now, then who's your favorite team?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Left? France?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
They're the absolute best team?
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Favorite?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I mean, okay, freaking I love the Bulls in ninety four.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I'm not even a soccer fans, but if you ask
me right now, like who is good? Who who you
think is gonna win?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Like I'm gonna know, I said, who are you rooting for? Now?
Who's gonna win?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Fronts?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Oh what a post?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Step Curry and Katie and the Warriors? Wow?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yeah, I mean Argentina would be kind of cool because
of MESSI.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
But a second in row huh yeah, that would be
that would be cool. And also the more Messy wins,
the more Ronaldo loses. And I like that because Renald
those seems like a douchebag.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
And Ronaldo's done, like he's they got eliminated. He's not
playing World Cups anymore. Yeah. I saw a TikTok video
where they compared Messi interacting with fans and Ronaldo interacted
interacting a.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Little unfair, but yes, dude, it was like the greatest
hits versus the worst hits. But yeah, Ronaldo's god a douchebagnal,
look bad, dude.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
A reporter goes up to Ronaldo with a microphone and
he grabs the microphone and throws it in a lake,
like give me that, throw it in.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
The water, and like a kid, runs on the field
to get a selfie with Messy and Messi. His bodyguard
comes out with Messy, evaluates it. It's fine, it's fine.
On the you know, it gives him his jersey. Messi
seems like a really nice guy. Yeah, they say he
doesn't speak English. Really, then I've seen yeah, because he's English,
isn't so? Isn't that good? But every once while you
see a club im speaking English and You're like, now
he's just doing that game. Yeah, you didn't want to have.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
To, Yeah, dude. I saw another video of like this
Mexican reporter or a Spanish speaking reporter in a wheelchair,
so he was like special needs and he was asking
all the players like interview, interview, and they would just
kept on walking by. And there was this one player
from England that stopped and said, yes, you need an interview.
I got you, Harry. I know his name, It wasn't King.
That's the only one I know that I knew, an
(14:20):
English player. And then the guy goes, can you do
it in Spanish? He's like, see, and he did. An
English player did the interview in Spanish for this guy.
So cool.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
That's cool. Belling them classic. The other one I was
about billing cown to watch some of these guys. I
believe what was the team from the island.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Cape Verda They yeah, or Ivory.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Coast, Okay, it could be either one of those. But
their goaliey had like fifty million followers. Oh he started
with like sixteen thousand, the bus driver fifty million. I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Because there was this one goalie that was and I
think it was Kate Verder. He's like as a bus
driver by day, I.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Would see people shaming people because they would I don't
I never heard of Can't camp? Is it Camp Verde?
Cape Cape Cape Verde? I don't know where that is,
But I'm rooting for the people like you don't even
know where Cape Verdie is, You're stupid, And I like,
I don't know where Cap Verdie. I have no idea.
I'm stupid. Then, Yeah, like I guess I I don't know.
I didn't know where Ivory Coast is either.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah, I don't either.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, and I'm not going look at me, ha, I don't.
I just I don't know. And if you said show
me on a map for a thousand dollars, I would
just pick somewhere. Yeah, and they're probably tiny. Yeah, so
soccer's soccer hardcore fans are a bit shamey. I don't
like that. People just suck. They're they're a bit more
shamey than other sports. Yeah, they're very like defensive about it.
(15:42):
I think maybe because it's a bit European more so
than in just American. Like you can talk about the NFL,
no one's like you don't know crap.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yeah, Like you're an idiot.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Not you shouldn't talk about it because you're stupid.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
It feels shamey, a little shamey.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
And it's just so passionate though, because like watching them
in a crowd, they never shut up the whole game.
Like if a game is bad and I'm in a
Cowboys game or whatever, the crowd doesn't keep on going
even if they're losing. They're like, oh, this.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
The difference is football stops.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, Soccer never.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Well, soccer doesn't stop unless it's a penalty or something,
and they do kind of chill a little bit during
those because but you're right, it's way more constant, but
the game is way more constant. Ye, But it's also
an obscene amount of passion. It's cool.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Did you see Eddie Vedder chug a beer?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I saw Eddie Vedder. I didn't see the beer thing,
but I did see him in the stands. That's his kid.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
That's his daughter, Yeah, OK, that's his daughter.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Eddie Vedder's lead singer, Pearl Jam, Eddie's favorite band.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I love Pearl Jam. And they were playing in Seattle,
so obviously he'd be there. And they played alive and
the whole stadium was singing alive.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I have a question about beer. Do you think it's
lame to drink the NA beer at baseball games?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Yes? Well, well lame, I answered that quickly. Yeah, if
you have a drinking problem, like and you're like not
to drink, it's a let her rip. Dude.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Mike was talking to me about that. You saw this
wear I did it. Oh, you're the one's game.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
We were in New York and I just needed a
little something. But I'm not drinking anymore. And then the
guy in front of me came back with a Ana
beer and I was like, it's kind of good, Like
I could still get that effect of having a beer
at a baseball game, but I didn't want to get drunk.
I didn't want to get a buzz. So my wife
was like, I'll go get you one. So she brought
me one and I had a an a beer while
watching the game.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Question the effect of a beer at a baseball game.
I thought the effect was to get drunker.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Not always, because like Mike said, a buzz, a buzz
isn't drunk. It's just this state of like, ah, no worries. Yeah,
that's the best way. That kind of drunker. No, because
drunk is like I don't even hey, where's my car?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Buzz is like perfect, like good mood, like no worries,
you're just having a good time.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Drunk is like, yeah, you can't really control what you're
doing when you're buzz Do you hear a buzz?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Why they call it that field of a buzz?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yeah, you feel like a glow over your face. Yeah,
so there is no actual buzz No, no, no a
buzz buzz like a sound.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
No, there's no buzz, more like a lightheaded but no
buzz but no buzz. So why do they call it buzzes?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Then?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I always thought you heard.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Like a like No, that would be funny. No, I
thought that.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I thought you it's like a middle ground where you
start to feel like a buzz in your in your by.
I know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
A buzz is just the perfect.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
But why is it called a buzz?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Then it's a good question.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Never even thought about it because I thought you would
hear a buzz like you would know you're starting to
get too drunk. Once the buzz starts getting louder.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
You would think, like if you drink, you're like, all right,
where's my buzz I don't.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Hear, and when we get to a certain point, you're like, oh,
it's loud enough, I should stop. Like it's a buzz
what do you see? Why is it called a buzz.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Just because it feels like a tingling? So it sounds
like a buzz.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
You don't but you don't hear a buzz.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
You feel the buzz.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
You feel.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
A buzz is a sound. Tingles feel a buzz is
a sound.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I would be weird, though, Hey you tingling, dude.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
We should just like saying that I got.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
A little Hey we getting drunk tonight. Nah, I'm just
gonna tingle a.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Little bit, wife Like, I'm feeling a little tingly right now.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
That's different. That's very definitely, that's so funny. That's a good,
good question. You never drink, so like, that's a good question.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I thought you heard a buzz or something when you
started to feel buzzs that's why they called it. Yeah,
so you did. Not other sports that we don't really watch,
as tennis, that's happening.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah, tennis is. It's weirdly entertaining though, right because do
you bet on it? No? No, no, yeah, sometimes sometimes
I will.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I had a season in my life where I was
very very into tennis because Roddick, now we start friends,
but I would like travel with them and go to games.
I got to like see tennis because I never didn't
grow up with tennis at all. I don't think I
was interested in tennis at all because mine didn't have tennis.
They have a tennis team, have a tennis court. No,
we had a basketball court. They'd put up a net
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sometimes during like pe No, no, this said all whatsoever.
So then I started to go to matches. I went
to a couple like atp events that he would play
with him. I went to the US Open with him.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
What's a major like in tennis?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Is it like one that I went to with him?
That's when he called me the day before and it's like,
I'm retiring. I was like what, because yeah, I'm dying,
I'm tired. I would take a nap. I mean you're tired.
He goes it, said, this is it. I'm gonna announce
it later today, but you should come up, and so
I was like, okay, that's crazy. And I went up
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and it rained the whole time. In that stadium doesn't
have a roof, it's open, it's Arthur Ash Stadium, and
so I would go from the city because I'd have
to work, so I didn't stay with them. I had
to stay near the radio station, so I stayed in
a hotel and I would go and drive from the
city all the way into Flushing. I think it's Flushing
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Arthur Ash Stadium is It's like a forty minute drive
and they would rain and I would just go back
to my room. And so it was terrible. It was
never electric because it kept raining the whole week his
final because I went to maybe three matches. I think
you play three matches overall, but it took like seven
days for it to happen. Oh, it's wild. I just
kept staying and staying and staying because I was going
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to stay until he lost because I was there because
he's my friend. It was his last match ever, so
that was cool. But everybody was just kind of exhausted
of the weather holding the event out. I don't have
a good Yeah, a good relationship was going. Is it electric?
It was wet, but it's cool. The ATP events are cool,
but it's not a major. But I would see like
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Federer in the back. I talked to him a couple
of times. Really didn't really talk to him. I said,
hide in the doll, but he was kind of his
own own guy by himself.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
But you'd see him in the flesh.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
We're all in the same room, and tennis is weird
because you're just in a room like this, everybody's just
sitting around. Is there like a locker room like golf
or no where I've been. Yeah, it's yes basically. And
like when they do the interviews before the US Open,
they're in the same locker room. They walk out together.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Really and are they what are they doing in there?
Are they stretching or are they just kind of sitting
around doing nothing?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Probably listening to music. I think they've already hit I'm
not an expert on this either. I just had about
four years where I went to matches and stuff with Andy.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
So yeah, I don't really watch much tennis now.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Though I went to one with you and man, that
was the first time I'd ever seen professional tennis live.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Where do we go?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
It was in Austin. It was at the Iroin Center, but.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
It was like, oh it was It was the USA
versus Davis Cup, Yeah, Davis Cup, US versus Spain and dude,
we're it's almost like we're sitting half court, you know,
and like the speed of.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
That ball is crazy, so like you think, like, oh
it's boring, like they just hit a ball back and forth. Dude,
there's so much action in tennis and I didn't realize
that until I saw it live. I thought that was
so cool.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Are you watching it now because it's Wimbledon now?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Right?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
I will? I will once.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Is it happening now? Yeah, that's why Andy's doing stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
On camera right, Yeah, wmbledon is happening. It's cool for
us because it happens earlier in the day. It's really
the only thing happening earlier in the day.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, because it's eight hours later there. Yeah, that's why
golf is good whenever it's like the Open, like the
not the US Open, but like the British Open, but
on the Open.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Yeah, that's coming, that's coming up.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
You get to wake, it's already going. Yeah, like that's cool. Uh,
Dennis is I had a bunch of gear, Like I
played tennis for a little bit, Like me and all
my friends in Austin. We had like a small league
but none of us had ever played before. But we
had thousands of dollars worth of free equipment. It's not cheap,
right tennis, it was for me, it's allful for you yeaheah.
Because Rodick would be like, how many how many people
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you want to play in your league? I was like,
I don't know, there's six of us, and so he'd
order like ten rackets that were like two thousand dollars each.
We all had shoot babelot shoes.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I remember you gave me some some of the shirts.
So was he spot who was this? What cost cost?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
He had a massive LA cost sponsorship his whole career.
We would go into any a cost store in any city.
He just go get whatever you want.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
That's legit.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
It's crazy, that's awesome. It just because that's expensive.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, so did you get whatever you wanted?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah? Within reason. I just grab a few things. Now
when somebody says that, like do you like how many
things do you guy?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Okay? So so we've been in the we were just
in this situation like when we played golf, who's we
you and me? Okay, and we what thing? And they
go gilt, go in the clubhouse and get whatever you want.
And literally we could have gotten whatever we wanted. But
we didn't. We got a box of balls and a glove.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Maybe I got a glove so much handed, Yeah, and
that's that's it. I guess we both needed gloves. We
didn't take clubs, so we got a glove with Roddick.
He was my really good friend. I probably could have
got one hundred shirts. He'd have laughed, but I would
just get a few shirts.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
And a built Yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I would never get too much. Also at his house,
he'd go like, hey, uh, if you want any I'm
about to change out my stuff. He'd had stuff from
them all the time, so he'd be like, if you
wanted to clothes. He was a big way bigger than
I was. He's a big guy. I mean he's six
two sixty three, but also like big. Yeah, you don't
think tennis guys are like that. But he's large, so
stuff is a little too big. So I look like
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I was wearing dadd's daddy's shirt to bed hand me downs.
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, but yeah, tennis is fun. You
know somebody playing cool.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Yeah, in your case, it is awesome.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Otherwise I'm not really watching Wimbledon. I think I'd rather
watch tennis than soccer though, if it's just one sport
versus the next way, only I know more about it.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Have you seen soccer live? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I went to an MLS game here legit. No really,
but it's not soccer's fault. They did it in Titan
Stadium and the stadium was way too big, so the people,
the people that were there filled up fifteen percent of
the football stadium, so there was no vibe. There's a way,
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so I didn't get to catch the cool vibe. You know.
The stadium they have here now is much smaller and
it's pretty raucous. Yeah, the otis is legit, I think.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yeah, I think you've seen a game there.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah, I saw a messy play there a couple years ago.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I think a big part of experiencing soccer if you're
not a soccer guy, is like being a part of
the event, the culture. Yeah, and there was not that.
It was like Nashville MLS versus like Cincinnati or something.
And then there were nine people there.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
In a very oversized stadium. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Just it just wasn't for me. But World Cup you
have a team I'll be rooting for probably Norway me too.
I think it's all in for Norway too, and they
have eleven people that live there. Yeah, that guy and
like the smaller countries. Yeah, I think that's cool. Smaller countries.
And he's so much bigger than the rest of his team.
It's just funny. When he scores, they run out like
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you did. All right, We're gonna take a break.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I gotta admit something to you, guys.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
What's up, dude?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
It's it's so because you have to understand, like I
have been like such a daredevil my whole life. Like
if there was a cliff and everyone's like, oh, who's
gonna jump first, it was me, Like I'm the one,
Like I'm gonna jump off the cliff.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I don't see you as that guy, dude.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
I've always been like that my whole life. Really, Yes,
And we were in Puerto Rico and there's this rock
slide right like there's a part of a waterfall where
it's probably about twenty five yards of a rock, a
natural rock slide, but it's jaggedy, and I watched like
four people go down, and like everybody that went down
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was one spin away from hitting their head, you know
what I mean, Like if they didn't put their hands
in the right spot, like they could have easily spun out,
hit their head. Boom. Vacation's over now?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Is that sure?
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Is that you just being a dad and you're seeing
like the worst such a place that you could find.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
It could have been that, but dude, I'm honestly it
was the first time in my life where like my
kids were like, come on, Dad, are you gonna do it?
And I'm like, I'm not gonna do it. Boys, I'm
gonna opt out of this because I don't feel like
it's worth ruining the trip if I take one wrong
spin hit my head and now we're in a Puerto
Rico looking for an er. Yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah,
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so what would you do?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
I mean, I'm a little my ten years younger than you,
but I'm getting there to that age now where I'm like, oh,
I would have done this back in the day. My
buddy sent me some on Instagram the other day, and
the first thing I thought it was like, there's no
way I would do this now. And I told him that,
and he's like, yeah, that's because you're thirty five and
you have two kids down I'm like, dang it, you're right.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
I used to do this. I do wonder if it's
like I'm a parent and if we weren't parents. But see, dude,
I've never broken a bone ever. Oh I have a dude,
not go oh no, No, until two years ago when I
broke my foot. Yeah, I broke my foot doing too
much access right and Cardinal Stadium. It's pretty cool Cardinal Stadium.
And then after that I break my arm roller skinning
with my kids. So like, I had never broken anything,
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and then in two years I break two limbs or
two bones. Now I'm like, dude, it's not and now
I know it's it's possible.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Mike, did you ever break anything?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
No, I've never broken anything. Knocking on wood. That's like
my biggest fear. Like if I see a clip on
TikTok and it's somebody breaking a bone, like, I cannot
watch it. I cannot stomach that. Just the sound of
a bone breaking is the worst thing ever to me.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Mike, I'm shocked because you skated right.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Yeah, And that's why I retired at the age of thirty. Like,
once I turned thirty, I realized, like this is not
worth it. If I break my ankle, if I break
my arm, I'm just gonna look like an idiot. So
I stopped skateboarding because I did not want to break anything.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
But thirty is pretty good.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
You're gonna say thirteen, No, it's really good. Well.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
The thing was, when I first started skateboarding, I was
probably twelve years old, and within the first week that
me and my cousin started, he broke his ankle and
my mom was like, immediately, you're not skateboarding anymore. So
I didn't skateboard again until I moved out.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
What kind of skater were you though, because like there
are like the dangerous tricks skater and then they are
like the long boarders who are like, you're never gonna fall.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Really, I was just a street skater, Like I never
did I never dropped in. I cannot do that because
I know immediately if I dropped in, I'm hitting the bottom,
I'm hitting my face.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
How many stairs you ever?
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Like?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Jump stairs?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Probably like three stairs? Fasting crazy like nothing no crazy
gaps or anything.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
What do you mean my stairs?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Like I can't even need the right phrasing right now.
Jump stairs clearing a gap of skate stairs? Y?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Yeah, okay, So mainly like.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Street skating kick flips, heel flips, a little bit of grinding.
Mainly just like going around and skating around town.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
It sounds dirty. What about like Alie's how high could
you Ali? Like, maybe.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
If you gave me a skateboard, now I could steal Ali.
I could steal Ali. I could kick flip, but not
land it.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
But I'm like six years out of I haven't skated anymore.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah, that's cool. I don't know. And I told you,
guys like my kids, they want to skate, and part
of me is just like, guys, just know that you're
gonna break something because because they're kind of idiots.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Like they're boys.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Yeah, they're boys, They're idiots, and like they're just like, oh,
I can go down that, no problem until they bust
their butt.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
That happened to me when I was I think twelve.
We were actually dirt biking, but I brought my regular
bike and there is these hills right where we were
parked for the weekend, and each hill got a little
bit higher and higher, and I kept, of course pushing
it and pushing it and pushing it. Got way up high,
came all the way down move and hit soft sand
at the very bottom of the hill that I didn't
know was their wabble wobble boom and broke my collar
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and ruined the whole trip.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
We had to pack up. My dad had to rush
me to the hospital.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
That's what I'm saying. Yeah, it's not worth it.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Man, it's not. But as a kid you got to
learn somehow.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Yeah, what was California growing up? Like like I feel like,
if you're in California, you're like, oh, you gotta surf,
you gotta skate, you gotta like motocross.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
We did all that except for surf. I never surfed.
I've been surfing one time, but it wasn't even in
California as in Hawaii. But I wasn't into surfing, but skating.
I was really into, I mean, rollerblading at some point,
biking all that good stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
I was never any like good at it.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
And biking you mean like like like BMX BMX.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
I did have I mean I did have a dirt
bike for probably six seven, eight years. And then my
dad realized this is a bad idea because we were
we were getting hurt and my brother I think I
got a really back concussion and he's like, yeah, I'm
selling these things.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Mike, were you ever like into like motorcycles and stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I wanted to be like we lived out kind of
on the outskirts, like where the country started, and like
everybody out there had dirt bikes, but you kind of
had to have money to have a dirt bike. So
I was always envious of those kids.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
I was envious with the guys that three wheelers. Three wheelers.
Oh yeah, really before the four were the three, dude,
before the.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Three were the two, because the dirt bikes were. There
were always the col.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Kids in school. Yeah, like you remember that Fox brand.
Oh yeah, Fox brand. S're like all those kids are cool.
They come in like all dirty covered, and I'm like, man,
they kid in school.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
And they know how to work on their bikes. Yeah,
like in middle school, Like.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
That's like changing oil and stuff. And I'm like, what right,
I just put pegs on my head, humpy bike.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
That's funny. You want to Yeah, let's.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Open up the mail bag here. We got to ask
twenty five whistles. Mail bag, Dear, twenty five whistles. I
just moved across the country to Seattle for the first
time in my life. I live in a city where
the team is actually good. I grew up loving the Cardinals,
but they spent the last decade disappointing me, ruining my Sundays,
and making.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Terrible draft picks. But everybody here.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Assumes I'm a fan of Seattle now, and honestly, it's
kind of tempting. So what's the ruling. If you move
to a new city, are you allowed to adopt a
local team? Can you have two teams? Is there a
probation period? Or once you pick a team as a kid,
are you stuck with them for life no matter what
signed unassigned in Seattle?
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Well, this is tough because if it wasn't the Seahawks,
if they didn't just come off a Super Bowl win,
and it was say, I don't know the Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
You'd be like, yeah, dude, it's the Dolphins. Nobody really cares.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
But if you're going for a Super Bowl champion, you
can't really jump on that bandwagon now, and being a
Cardinals fan, that's got.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
To be rough.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Yeah, but you gotta stay faithful.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
I mean, and I'm mispoiled as they come as a
Patriots fan for the last thirty years. But Cowboys fans
know as great as you guys, have been. It's been
a rough thirty years for you guys a bit. Yeah,
And you have to stay with your team, no matter
what I mean, through the thick and the thin. You
have to stay with your team. You can kind of
have like a second team. Like I don't know the Titans.
I'm like, I root for the Titans since I live
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here now, My cool Titans are cool. They're not really
a thread or anything. So you kind of have like
a one A and a one B in the I
guessasky be or one B.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Yeah. I was gonna say the same thing because like
we're kind of in that situation where we live in Nashville, Tennessee.
But like, unless you were born here or you've lived
here for a long, long long time, a lot of
people aren't Titans fans. They all come from different places.
I'm a Cowboys fan, you're a Patriots fan. Mike's a
Cowboys fan. But to me, I feel like, if the
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Titans do pretty good, say they go to the Super Bowl,
I'm rooting for them. Yeah, and then but I would
never call them my team, like never, So.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
How would you phrase that? Like, I'm a casual.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
I'm a casual Titans fan. I live in Nashville, so
like they're they're kind of my team. But I mean
I'm a diehard Cowboys Fan's that's my team.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
That's fair.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
What do you think, Mike, I think if you move cities,
you can you can change teams. Like you're committing to
a new city, you're living there, you're taking in the culture.
I think you can adopt a new team. Now, if
you're just picking a different city just because and you're
still living in that city, like you're not living there,
that's different, that's late. But if you actually move to
that city and want to be a part of it,
did your old team now?
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Does your old team have anything to do with it? Like, well, yeah,
they're bad, You're right for years, like the Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
If you're a Jets fan, they've done nothing for you.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
It's fun, I know.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
But dude, that's hard because like my kids now, like
most of them, out of the four boys, I would
say two of them are going to be diehard Cowboys fans,
like they are all about it. But I have two
that literally if the if the Ravens are good, like
they're ordering Ravens jerseys and I'm like, stop that crap,
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Like I can't stand it.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
That's tough, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Like I picked up my son the other day from
one of his summer camps and it was jersey day
at the summer camp. And what would you expect my
son to wear at that jersey? Yeah? You know what
he came out of, Jamir Gibbs jersey.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
I'm like, who is this carandom?
Speaker 3 (36:20):
You know what I mean? Yeah, And I get it.
He's a kid, Like I get it, Jamir Gibbs was
awesome whatever, But like to me, it's just like you
have no loyalty, Like your family is a cowboys family,
and yes they may give us a bunch of heartache
and be terrible for so long whatever, can't win in
the playoffs, but they're are team.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah, that is true.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
There's something to be said about being loyal to your team.
And like who cares if you live in Seattle?
Speaker 1 (36:47):
I know as a kid, I was a Dolphins fan
for a little bit. I ever tell you that?
Speaker 3 (36:51):
No?
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Yeah, but you know why the Marina No, because dolphins
are my favorite animal.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
How old are you?
Speaker 3 (37:00):
That was five years ago?
Speaker 1 (37:03):
That was post on Brady.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Actually, you sound like a girl. I that's what girls say,
Like I I mean, I don't know. I like Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
They're cute.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Yeah, I don't know, like eight, like ten years old,
and they would obviously play the Patriots twice a year
in the same division. And I remember like rooting against
Patriots when I was like eight or nine, and my
dad would just he would be so pissed, but he
couldn't say anything, like you're a little kid. So like
he's like, Kevin, you'll come around one day. I'm like,
thank god I did.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
He'll figure it out. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
I also feel like these teams aren't loyal to us,
like they could just move cities. They just moved the
franchise and then their new city.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Dude, I don't think the players are even loyal to
the team.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
They don't care.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
They really do not care. You're right, Are we just stupid? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Yeah, undry, that is true.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
I don't know. I don't know. That's a tough one
for me because I really love loyalty, but like baseball,
I don't have a team in baseball. Basketball was a
first fan, but like in baseball, literally I could care less.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
That's all right.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
I mean college football for me, it's kind of nice
having a sport like that, though, right, just because it
doesn't ruin your day something or your night.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
If you were to pick a college football team, though,
who would you root for?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
It would probably be Notre Dame.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
That's a weird one. Why because what's what's your title?
Notre Dame?
Speaker 1 (38:17):
I don't know, the fighting Irish just cool.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Gold helmets, the gold Rudy. I know.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
You had the T shirt and everything.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Good job, Mike, you called him out.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Dang it. I can't really back that.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Why did you even?
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Because you moved to Tennessee and you took in the culture.
I know, I know because I took in the culture.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
But it's just hard because I'm like Eddie where I'm like,
it's it's hard at a as a grown man. Like
maybe if I was a kid, it'd be easier to adapt,
but as a grown man, I'm like, if I didn't
grow up like that, I feel like such a phony.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
It's a kind of phony to love a college that
you didn't attend to or grow them around.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
That's interesting, I would say instant reaction, yes, because and
even do I even have a hard time watching like
older people like say they went to school like they
went to the University of Alabama when you know, forty
years ago, and I just feel like, I don't know,
it's just something in me that just when I see
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him in the stands and I'm like, dude, make room
for the kids. Really, man, you know, like you're you're
seventy years old now, especially college basketball, Like, get out
of here, you're freaking You're on the floor. You have
floor seats to your college that you went to forty
years ago.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
That's messed up.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
The kids should be there.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
You got to remember that when you're a Cowboys games
town though.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
That's not college.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Oh, I think professional is different.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
What I mean, what do you think, Mike? I just
think it's.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Weird if you're so die hard for a college you
have no association with. I agree, Like I love the
University of Texas because I lived in Austin for seven years.
My wife graduated from there. Big connection there. But if
somebody who lives in like Minnesota is a diehard our
Texas fan, it's weird to me. And you you never
even like maybe visited the Texas. He just loved the
team for the sake of loving the team.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Well weird.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
What if it was a player that got you into it?
Like I have a buddy who's a Texas fan, who's
from Rhode Island, lived in California, likes a Titan, He's
all over the place. You Vince Young, Yeah, was the
one and he's still a Texans or Texas fan till
this day.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
I can't be a diehard that way.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Especially like a kid right like he was a quarterback
for how many years? Three years?
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (40:31):
At that school.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Yeah, I know. Hey, I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
I don't know, I'm kind of weird. You guys.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Tell our guy here, what's our final verdict?
Speaker 4 (40:39):
Stick to your team, stay loyal, and have a one B.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
That's gonna be mine too. I'm going to say, like, dude,
you're from a Cardinals of your team? Man, Yeah, I'm sorry,
live and die with the Cardinals.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
I say, go Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
You're the only one you guys going to see UFC? No?
Is that?
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Is there even one going on?
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Connor McGregor, dude coming.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
He's fighting again?
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Yes? What the heck? Have you guys seen the There's
like a promo for one of these I don't know,
one of these like betting or prediction sites or whatever.
And the video is like it starts on all this
like potato chips and like spoiled food on the on
the coffee table, and then on the couch is McGregor
with a big belly.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Okay, I've seen a picture of it.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Yeah yeah, okay, okay yeah. And then it goes up
to McGregor and he's just like fat and out of
shape and he pulls off the fake belly's like he's
still ripped.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Really yeah, he's thirty seven years old.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
Hey, you're not gonna watch it? Wait?
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Do I have to buy it?
Speaker 3 (41:34):
It's Paramount Plus. Everything's on Paramount Plus.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Now think I still have that for like another two weeks, dude.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
That's funny. My my wife like because I've been giving
her hard time lately about like we've got to cut subscriptions,
like we got to get rid of some stuff. So
she came to me and she's like, all right, let's
cut subscriptions. Do we need Paramount Plus. I'm like yeah,
first what She's like why, I'm like, UFC, we got
to keep that one.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:57):
They have good stuff on there though, other than just UFC.
Who's he fighting Max Holloway? Okay, I know who that
is too?
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Then and Max Holloway is like good, He's like he
rarely gets. I don't know if he's even been knocked
out before. So it's one of those, like he's the
dude that last five rounds all bloody face. He can't
even recognize him, but he's still standing.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
He had a fight within the last couple of years, right,
like a brawl. I remember him against somebody. I can't
remember who off top of my head, but they were
just going at it.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
Oh yeah, dude. And then I remember seeing like the
video afterwards of both of them going in the ambulances
like Rocky.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:31):
Yeah, I'll watch a fight if it's like that for sure.
Obviously you don't know, but I mean I like McGregor, so, yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:37):
That's crazy. You guys don't watch any UFC, like, especially
if it's a big fight like this. Did you watch
the White House one?
Speaker 1 (42:42):
Yeah, okay, it's a white House that's cool. Yeah, Mike,
did you No, I didn't watch that one.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
Do you watch UFC at all? Not at all?
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Probably not since like maybe mid two thousands.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Randy Contour days.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Why, I feel like to me, like that's when it
like first popped off.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Yeah, Rampage Jackson.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
Yeah, like Chuck Liddell. Oh, he was the best. Like
that's when I was like, Okay, UFC is a thing.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
Why did you stop?
Speaker 2 (43:07):
She's never really got into I was probably more into boxing.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
See, boxing to me is so like nothing happens right,
You rarely see a knockout in boxing and then like,
I don't know, to me, it's always rigged, Like I
just feel like boxing is just always rigged.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
I think the last boxing match I watched was McGregor
and Mayweather.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
When like McGregor just tried to kick him once in
a while. I feel like I can't kick dude.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
I was like, this is why I don't watch.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
So who do you think wins?
Speaker 1 (43:35):
Uh, I'm gonna go McGregor.
Speaker 4 (43:37):
I hope he comes back and wins because he retired,
right and then he's coming back.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
Is that what it is?
Speaker 3 (43:41):
I mean he never officially retired, didn't He just never
accepted us a fight thirty seven already?
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Yeah, I'll go McGregor.
Speaker 3 (43:48):
You I'm gonna go Halloway. It was a favorite. I
think how Max Holloway is Okay, Yeah, what about you, Mike.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
I'll go McGregor. Did you see him signing autographs? M
he was He had like a stack of posters and
he basically just marks like one line and that's his autograph.
No gays for this fight. You are signing a bunch
of things, but he's just standing there and they're just
pulling them one by one and he just like slices
it with the marker. And that's that's the worst.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
When that's when we were like doing all those memorabilia things,
those breaks and everything, we got a what's I would
act like I forgot his name? What's the dude?
Speaker 5 (44:23):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (44:24):
The our cornerback for the Cowboys, not with us? Yeah,
Chevon Diggs. He like his was like that too, Dude.
He was like a line over the number, Like just
a line. To me, that's so disrespectful.
Speaker 2 (44:36):
I'd be so upset if I paid money for that.
And it's just a line that anybody could have made.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
Oh yeah, he's literally just like who you can't see it,
you're watching it. Just made a little sound like I'm
thank you see what it is. But yeah, it's basically
just a line.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
Yep. Okay, all right, Well I'm gonna be watching it.
I love UFC.
Speaker 1 (44:56):
I might watch with you do it.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
Mike, you should watch it too. Let us know.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
I give it a peek.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
Yeah, is it late?
Speaker 2 (45:01):
No?
Speaker 3 (45:01):
The good thing about Paramount Plus it all starts like
I think the prelims are like four o'clock, the main
events at seven. It's done by ten thirty.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Oh, that's the one streaming service I don't have. Actually
another thing about it.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
That's not true.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
That's the one I cut Paramount Plus.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Hey, did your wife tell you? What? Am I going
to watch it? Their SpongeBob?
Speaker 3 (45:18):
That's stupid?
Speaker 1 (45:19):
All right, Well, good luck to Connor.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
Good luck to Connor. I'm still gonna be watching soccer.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
About you guys, Wimbledon.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
I'm watching soccer.
Speaker 3 (45:28):
Yeah, good, Mike, probably not be good. All right, let
me you want me to blow it?
Speaker 2 (45:31):
Let's out of here.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
Okay, here we go, I said, don't forget to blow it.
That was a week because upside Down.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
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Speaker 3 (45:49):
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Speaker 1 (45:50):
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Speaker 5 (45:52):
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Speaker 1 (46:00):
Importantly, thank you for listening. Bobby Bones, we'll talk to
you next time here on twenty five whistles
This is a podcast called twenty five.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Wists, and they go, We're a whist So, yeah, it's
too bad.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
But what did you expect?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
It's a podcast called twenty five.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Whistles, twenty wine. Everybody, all right, blow the whistle. I
don't know. I don't like soccer anymore.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Oh are you done?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I watched the end of that Argentina Egypt game when
Argentina came back because I saw they were down to zero.
Been a couple of days ago, and I thought, oh,
this is interesting to watch Egypt beat Argenta and they
scored three goals and that was cool. If I know
when they're going to score, I'll turn it on.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
But you don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I know that's the problem. I'm I'm out, you guys,
isn't in it?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Oh, I'm still in it.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I'm out. If Mexico was in, I'd be in.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Dude, all aren't in. Canada's out, Mexico's out, We're out.
North America done here.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
The ticket sales are gone way down for the all
the games because all the host cities or nations are out.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
If it's close at the end, I might turn it on.
I love penalty kicks. If I can get some penalty kicks,
and the actual soccer fans hate penalty kicks because they say,
what a terrible way to end a game, right, Yeah,
but wouldn't you rather end it with penalty kicks on
a tie?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
And also penalty kicks are fun. They should do them,
like during hydration break, they should do three penalty kicks. Yes.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I feel bad for the goalie on those things, like
it's just all on the goalie and then like you're
gonna get nailed, like you hope to get nailed, I know,
but it's also gonna hurt.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, I'm over it. I wouldn't be over it, but
America is out. I don't only know anybody else other
than Messy what I think I know. He's French. I
don't only know them. I don't watch them because I
don't watch Premier League. Anything I see would be our
what's our version called MLS would be that if it's
on Apple and it's up because they put it up
(01:57):
at the top of the screen sometimes and it just
fires off and starts playing and watch a little bit. Yes,
that's about it. Holland that's the guy. I was watching
him play golf yesterday his day off that's somebody was
recording him play golf and he's he's a he's six four,
you know, over two hundred pounds. Yeah, and now he
pops up an algorithm and that's why I was watching
(02:18):
him play golf. But I was watching him kick and
hit the post over and over again on purpose during practice.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
So hard, really, he kicks so hard wam wham.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
He's a beast.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
And it's fun because Norway's a bunch of little kids
and him. Yeah, there's like nine people that live there.
I've been there. It's awesome, love and it's cold, so
it's not like they have a culture of being outside
playing soccer all the time. Because it's very cold. You
got to play inside for the most part.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Right question about Norway, are all the girls blonde?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Really, I think traditionally there's more blonde people there. But
I thought the same thing about when I went to Iceland.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I would think those would all be blonde.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I thought everybody'd be covered an ice and it wasn't true.
You do think that like Nordic Nordic guy, there are
those folks there because he is that personified, like he's
exactly what you think about a big Nordic white dude. Yeah,
you cast him in a movie. Yes, blonde way large
was a viking back in the day, a literal, But no,
(03:22):
I didn't find that to be the case. I didn't
walk around and go, sure enough, they're all blonde.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Look at that.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Maybe there's more than normal. But I've been to a
couple of different cities there and no, But I like him.
He's fun.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
He kicks so hard in the videos that I watch
of him because he is a striker and I'm not
sure his exact position because I'm stupid at soccer forward,
but he just like walks around, chills, ball starts coming
in the play boom, kick goal.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
You know what. That is such a common thing for
some of these elite forwards, these strikers. And I think
when we were so when we were in Puerto Rico,
we were like, how are we going to watch the games?
Because my Hulu didn't work over there, like my provider
didn't work because I was in a technically in another
territory or whatever. So we had to download Fox one,
(04:13):
I believe, to watch all the World Cup games. And
one of the options for when you watch the game
was just to watch the star Player. Just the camera
was just and when I watched Just Mess, he just.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Walks around the middle a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
He just walks until it's time.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
He's older though him a little bit. I think it's
like a baseball player that's on a pitch count because
their arms hurt or they're old or they're young. Like
I feel like MESSI only has so much in him. Yeah,
so he doesn't run for.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
That preserves it.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, I'm not gonna be wrong. I always thought that
was an age thing with him because he doesn't plays
as forward as the Highland guy does.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Right, No, same position he does.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Okay, I don't I know nothing, so and I just
found out. Yeah, that's a really cool camera though, y
star player camera.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
And they did that with Himbapa as well in one
of the French games, and I was like, look at that.
He doesn't move either. Nobody moves unless it's time to
like go and attack.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Okay, we're gonna talk soccer for a minute because I've
got just because I have a lot of stuff to say.
I didn't know I was even thinking about this, so
I'm out. However, I did learn a lot through this round.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
But you are done.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah, unless something's crazy. You want to watch the final,
not from the beginning, if it's close near the end. Yeah, okay,
So I'm a casual. Had a good time, ah, guys,
time of my life. So but some stuff that I've
been thinking about, Soccer is more entertaining than baseball. Not
(05:39):
to me, but I compared the two and a lot
of Americans go soccer's boring because they don't score. And
the analogy I made is if you didn't know baseball
and you watch baseball for the first time, you'd go,
this is the most boring sport ever. Heck, some people
say that and they grew up here and I've had
baseball the whole time, and so I put them together.
Why I like baseball is when I grow up with it,
i play it. I also have an understanding of all
(06:02):
the things that are happening around what's happening. So let's say, like, man,
this guy takes forever pitch pitch pitch, But also you're
looking at what inning it is, You look at who's
coming up next, do you how many runners around? There's
all the things that you know about the game because
you know the game that are factoring into how bored
you're not. I don't know enough about soccer to factor in.
(06:24):
All I know is the kick. They're kicking the ball
around and they never score. If I had more knowledge
about forward, a full back or midfield midfield, why they're
running a certain offense even with the NBA, Like if
I just don't have enough knowledge. But I think soccer's probably,
to somebody new, more entertaining than baseball. And that's tough
to say, yeah, because it is more constant, at.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Least constant movement movement.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
If baseball doesn't score a lot, No, well every once in.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
A while, but a lot of standing around m hm,
Like if you are able to mike one of the
players and talk to them, interview them during the game.
Back game is slow, and they do that during All
Star games.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I was taking to the rules I would change during soccer, which,
of course is what everybody wants me to change rules.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, it's like, of course, I'm just a game.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I'm an American that's got tons of ideas about a
game that's been around for a thousand years. Did you know,
by the way I believe soccer was the Aztecs kicked
around a skull?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah? Really, do you know that for sure? Because I
thought the same thing.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
But I never No, I just say stuff. I did
not look it up.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I just because I've thought that same thing. And I
don't know if it's from a movie. Maybe Apuckalypto.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
No, I don't know. Mine wasn't from a movie. But
I just think that was knowledge that I retained at
some point. Even could have been false. But I see
Kevin looking it up.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Well, maybe it came from me because I remember going
to Aztec Ruins.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I definitely wouldn't have heard you say that and stored that.
And this is this is true, that's real.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
That is rude. Yeah, but I get it.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
It says according to historical records there are human heads
and skulls, animal parts like pig bladders as well.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
That they would kick her, they would kick around.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, so there you go.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
The roles that I would change because it seems like
hardcore soccer fans hate penalty kicks. Fair enough, where's my camera?
Here's the rule I would change in soccer, as an
American who knows nothing about soccer. If it's a tie,
we don't end the game. We go to extra time,
which is normal, but every three minutes we pull a
player from both teams, so if at the end it's
(08:20):
one on one, it's freaking one on one.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
So every three minutes a player walks off, it's eleven
on eleven. Now it's ten on ten. You got three
minutes to score, nine on nine, eight on eight, more space.
At the end, it's three on three. It's freaking ice
cubes basketball league out there playing on that massive field.
That seems fun.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Do you think it would always be the goalies left.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I don't think it would get down to one on one.
Too big a field. Yeah, but if it did, that
would be so fun.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
That would be so cool.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
So that would be the rule, as an American who
knows nothing about soccer, that I would implement. Because you
foreigners want ties, I.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Don't even think, well, what does the player want? Does
the player want to do extra time?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I mean, honestly, the player probably wants what's best for
the game, and ties are fine, let's be done. Yeah,
probably I think they do. Do they do extra time?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Though?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
No, they tie? No, they just do uh the extra
the stoppage time.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
That's it, and then the game's over.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
The game's over with no overtime at all. Nope.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Okay, Now, soccer stupid again. Okay, So as soon as
the game's over, we start pulling a player and we
let that go every three minutes, and we pull a
player every time until it's three on three, two on two,
one on one. Yeah, and then if it's a tie
and it's still one on one, everybody dies. That really
motivates them. It's a squid game, yes, yes, Mike White,
there is overtime.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It's like the fifteen minutes they add.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
No, no, not in a regular season.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah, in regularly like premierly right now?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah, yeah, right now, it's two thirty minutes, yesh or
done two fifteen minutes. Yeah, yeah, so and it and
in two on two, three on three it's sudden death.
And then after that it's real real like if there's
a know, if it ends up in a total tie,
it's real death. So that really motivates people. That'll work.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
You also wanted to get rid of cherry picking? Am
I correct? Get rid of it?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I want it?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I mean get rid of the off side the off
side rule.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, if you want to send a player down and
have them stand by the goal, that's less players do
you have this playing defense? And if you don't like that,
then put another put one of the players on offense
back there with them.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Everyone hates the cherry picker in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
If you wanted to run four guys playing defense and
throw a center down there just standing outside the lane,
that you could do that. Yeah, risky, it's probably stupid,
but I'm all for cherry picking.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Especially.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
It's why when I get tired.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Sure, that's you.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I'm just pretty slow getting back. So I'm kind of
like half cherry picking. Yes, so yeah, that's good.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah, what about have you what about pulling the goalie
do you like? Have you seen that yet? Like whenever
the goalie is playing with everyone else?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yeah, so that's like in hockey they do that. I've
seen that more because I've watched more hockey than soccer,
where if you need a goal so you're trying to
maximize your ability to score, they even take the goal
out and put another player on hockey.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yeah, so in soccer they can't because they can't substitute
in the middle of a game. It takes three minutes too. Yeah,
that's fun. It's fun to see people in other colors,
like other clothes out there.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
What do you mean the orange or something?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah, like the bright orange guy run down. He's not
matching anybody with big hands. Yeah, he just it doesn't
even match like the team. He's just I think the
goal should match the team though too, you do.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
But well, you have to distinguish the difference between the
goal and everyone else.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
But in in sync, they would all wear the same
clothes but a little different, like if they all were white,
you have one with like cutoff, one with like long sleeves,
one with a coat. So if everybody's wearing white, the
goalie wears like bigger, like it's white, but it's the
same color, but it's bigger. It's like puffy arms or
bright gloves. Just he just needs to match the team
a little bit. Because once you got a blue goalie
(11:51):
and an orange goalie and the teams are red and green,
I don't know. I'm confused.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
I feel like every team has looked the same during
the tournament, like I don't know who's who every time
we turning game on. Other than maybe Mexico, they were
like a solid green, but every team is blue or white.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Argentina's pretty unique because they're the blue and white stripes.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I wouldn't yes, I wouldn't mind shirts and skins. I
could tell a little better if they did shirts and
skins because also on the screen, if you just turn
it on, sometimes it doesn't match the colors that they're
putting up of the team. Yes, yeah, and like okay,
which ones which?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Like the US game the other day, I think I
was like, are they blue?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
If it just turned on, it's like, okay, US are skins?
I would know immediately which team were skins. So I'm
kind of out on soccer'st but I'll check in.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
That's crazy, and this is really exciting because the games
are really really really good.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Now, then who's your favorite team?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Left? France?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
They're the absolute best team?
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Favorite?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I mean, okay, freaking I love the Bulls in ninety four.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I'm not even a soccer fans, but if you ask
me right now, like who is good? Who who you
think is gonna win?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Like I'm gonna know, I said, who are you rooting for? Now?
Who's gonna win?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Fronts?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Oh what a post?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Step Curry and Katie and the Warriors? Wow?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yeah, I mean Argentina would be kind of cool because
of MESSI.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
But a second in row huh yeah, that would be
that would be cool. And also the more Messy wins,
the more Ronaldo loses. And I like that because Renald
those seems like a douchebag.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
And Ronaldo's done, like he's they got eliminated. He's not
playing World Cups anymore. Yeah. I saw a TikTok video
where they compared Messi interacting with fans and Ronaldo interacted
interacting a.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Little unfair, but yes, dude, it was like the greatest
hits versus the worst hits. But yeah, Ronaldo's god a douchebagnal,
look bad, dude.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
A reporter goes up to Ronaldo with a microphone and
he grabs the microphone and throws it in a lake,
like give me that, throw it in.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
The water, and like a kid, runs on the field
to get a selfie with Messy and Messi. His bodyguard
comes out with Messy, evaluates it. It's fine, it's fine.
On the you know, it gives him his jersey. Messi
seems like a really nice guy. Yeah, they say he
doesn't speak English. Really, then I've seen yeah, because he's English,
isn't so? Isn't that good? But every once while you
see a club im speaking English and You're like, now
he's just doing that game. Yeah, you didn't want to have.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
To, Yeah, dude. I saw another video of like this
Mexican reporter or a Spanish speaking reporter in a wheelchair,
so he was like special needs and he was asking
all the players like interview, interview, and they would just
kept on walking by. And there was this one player
from England that stopped and said, yes, you need an interview.
I got you, Harry. I know his name, It wasn't King.
That's the only one I know that I knew, an
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English player. And then the guy goes, can you do
it in Spanish? He's like, see, and he did. An
English player did the interview in Spanish for this guy.
So cool.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
That's cool. Belling them classic. The other one I was
about billing cown to watch some of these guys. I
believe what was the team from the island.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Cape Verda They yeah, or Ivory.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Coast, Okay, it could be either one of those. But
their goaliey had like fifty million followers. Oh he started
with like sixteen thousand, the bus driver fifty million. I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Because there was this one goalie that was and I
think it was Kate Verder. He's like as a bus
driver by day, I.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Would see people shaming people because they would I don't
I never heard of Can't camp? Is it Camp Verde?
Cape Cape Cape Verde? I don't know where that is,
But I'm rooting for the people like you don't even
know where Cape Verdie is, You're stupid, And I like,
I don't know where Cap Verdie. I have no idea.
I'm stupid. Then, Yeah, like I guess I I don't know.
I didn't know where Ivory Coast is either.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah, I don't either.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, and I'm not going look at me, ha, I don't.
I just I don't know. And if you said show
me on a map for a thousand dollars, I would
just pick somewhere. Yeah, and they're probably tiny. Yeah, so
soccer's soccer hardcore fans are a bit shamey. I don't
like that. People just suck. They're they're a bit more
shamey than other sports. Yeah, they're very like defensive about it.
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I think maybe because it's a bit European more so
than in just American. Like you can talk about the NFL,
no one's like you don't know crap.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yeah, Like you're an idiot.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Not you shouldn't talk about it because you're stupid.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
It feels shamey, a little shamey.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
And it's just so passionate though, because like watching them
in a crowd, they never shut up the whole game.
Like if a game is bad and I'm in a
Cowboys game or whatever, the crowd doesn't keep on going
even if they're losing. They're like, oh, this.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
The difference is football stops.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, Soccer never.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Well, soccer doesn't stop unless it's a penalty or something,
and they do kind of chill a little bit during
those because but you're right, it's way more constant, but
the game is way more constant. Ye, But it's also
an obscene amount of passion. It's cool.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Did you see Eddie Vedder chug a beer?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I saw Eddie Vedder. I didn't see the beer thing,
but I did see him in the stands. That's his kid.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
That's his daughter, Yeah, OK, that's his daughter.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Eddie Vedder's lead singer, Pearl Jam, Eddie's favorite band.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I love Pearl Jam. And they were playing in Seattle,
so obviously he'd be there. And they played alive and
the whole stadium was singing alive.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I have a question about beer. Do you think it's
lame to drink the NA beer at baseball games?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Yes? Well, well lame, I answered that quickly. Yeah, if
you have a drinking problem, like and you're like not
to drink, it's a let her rip. Dude.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Mike was talking to me about that. You saw this
wear I did it. Oh, you're the one's game.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
We were in New York and I just needed a
little something. But I'm not drinking anymore. And then the
guy in front of me came back with a Ana
beer and I was like, it's kind of good, Like
I could still get that effect of having a beer
at a baseball game, but I didn't want to get drunk.
I didn't want to get a buzz. So my wife
was like, I'll go get you one. So she brought
me one and I had a an a beer while
watching the game.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Question the effect of a beer at a baseball game.
I thought the effect was to get drunker.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Not always, because like Mike said, a buzz, a buzz
isn't drunk. It's just this state of like, ah, no worries. Yeah,
that's the best way. That kind of drunker. No, because
drunk is like I don't even hey, where's my car?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Buzz is like perfect, like good mood, like no worries,
you're just having a good time.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Drunk is like, yeah, you can't really control what you're
doing when you're buzz Do you hear a buzz?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Why they call it that field of a buzz?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yeah, you feel like a glow over your face. Yeah,
so there is no actual buzz No, no, no a
buzz buzz like a sound.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
No, there's no buzz, more like a lightheaded but no
buzz but no buzz. So why do they call it buzzes?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Then?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I always thought you heard.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Like a like No, that would be funny. No, I
thought that.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I thought you it's like a middle ground where you
start to feel like a buzz in your in your by.
I know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
A buzz is just the perfect.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
But why is it called a buzz?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Then it's a good question.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Never even thought about it because I thought you would
hear a buzz like you would know you're starting to
get too drunk. Once the buzz starts getting louder.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
You would think, like if you drink, you're like, all right,
where's my buzz I don't.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Hear, and when we get to a certain point, you're like, oh,
it's loud enough, I should stop. Like it's a buzz
what do you see? Why is it called a buzz.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Just because it feels like a tingling? So it sounds
like a buzz.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
You don't but you don't hear a buzz.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
You feel the buzz.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
You feel.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
A buzz is a sound. Tingles feel a buzz is
a sound.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I would be weird, though, Hey you tingling, dude.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
We should just like saying that I got.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
A little Hey we getting drunk tonight. Nah, I'm just
gonna tingle a.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Little bit, wife Like, I'm feeling a little tingly right now.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
That's different. That's very definitely, that's so funny. That's a good,
good question. You never drink, so like, that's a good question.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I thought you heard a buzz or something when you
started to feel buzzs that's why they called it. Yeah,
so you did. Not other sports that we don't really watch,
as tennis, that's happening.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah, tennis is. It's weirdly entertaining though, right because do
you bet on it? No? No, no, yeah, sometimes sometimes
I will.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I had a season in my life where I was
very very into tennis because Roddick, now we start friends,
but I would like travel with them and go to games.
I got to like see tennis because I never didn't
grow up with tennis at all. I don't think I
was interested in tennis at all because mine didn't have tennis.
They have a tennis team, have a tennis court. No,
we had a basketball court. They'd put up a net
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sometimes during like pe No, no, this said all whatsoever.
So then I started to go to matches. I went
to a couple like atp events that he would play
with him. I went to the US Open with him.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
What's a major like in tennis?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Is it like one that I went to with him?
That's when he called me the day before and it's like,
I'm retiring. I was like what, because yeah, I'm dying,
I'm tired. I would take a nap. I mean you're tired.
He goes it, said, this is it. I'm gonna announce
it later today, but you should come up, and so
I was like, okay, that's crazy. And I went up
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and it rained the whole time. In that stadium doesn't
have a roof, it's open, it's Arthur Ash Stadium, and
so I would go from the city because I'd have
to work, so I didn't stay with them. I had
to stay near the radio station, so I stayed in
a hotel and I would go and drive from the
city all the way into Flushing. I think it's Flushing
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Arthur Ash Stadium is It's like a forty minute drive
and they would rain and I would just go back
to my room. And so it was terrible. It was
never electric because it kept raining the whole week his
final because I went to maybe three matches. I think
you play three matches overall, but it took like seven
days for it to happen. Oh, it's wild. I just
kept staying and staying and staying because I was going
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to stay until he lost because I was there because
he's my friend. It was his last match ever, so
that was cool. But everybody was just kind of exhausted
of the weather holding the event out. I don't have
a good Yeah, a good relationship was going. Is it electric?
It was wet, but it's cool. The ATP events are cool,
but it's not a major. But I would see like
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Federer in the back. I talked to him a couple
of times. Really didn't really talk to him. I said,
hide in the doll, but he was kind of his
own own guy by himself.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
But you'd see him in the flesh.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
We're all in the same room, and tennis is weird
because you're just in a room like this, everybody's just
sitting around. Is there like a locker room like golf
or no where I've been. Yeah, it's yes basically. And
like when they do the interviews before the US Open,
they're in the same locker room. They walk out together.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Really and are they what are they doing in there?
Are they stretching or are they just kind of sitting
around doing nothing?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Probably listening to music. I think they've already hit I'm
not an expert on this either. I just had about
four years where I went to matches and stuff with Andy.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
So yeah, I don't really watch much tennis now.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Though I went to one with you and man, that
was the first time I'd ever seen professional tennis live.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Where do we go?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
It was in Austin. It was at the Iroin Center, but.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
It was like, oh it was It was the USA
versus Davis Cup, Yeah, Davis Cup, US versus Spain and dude,
we're it's almost like we're sitting half court, you know,
and like the speed of.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
That ball is crazy, so like you think, like, oh
it's boring, like they just hit a ball back and forth. Dude,
there's so much action in tennis and I didn't realize
that until I saw it live. I thought that was
so cool.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Are you watching it now because it's Wimbledon now?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Right?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
I will? I will once.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Is it happening now? Yeah, that's why Andy's doing stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
On camera right, Yeah, wmbledon is happening. It's cool for
us because it happens earlier in the day. It's really
the only thing happening earlier in the day.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, because it's eight hours later there. Yeah, that's why
golf is good whenever it's like the Open, like the
not the US Open, but like the British Open, but
on the Open.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Yeah, that's coming, that's coming up.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
You get to wake, it's already going. Yeah, like that's cool. Uh,
Dennis is I had a bunch of gear, Like I
played tennis for a little bit, Like me and all
my friends in Austin. We had like a small league
but none of us had ever played before. But we
had thousands of dollars worth of free equipment. It's not cheap,
right tennis, it was for me, it's allful for you yeaheah.
Because Rodick would be like, how many how many people
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you want to play in your league? I was like,
I don't know, there's six of us, and so he'd
order like ten rackets that were like two thousand dollars each.
We all had shoot babelot shoes.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I remember you gave me some some of the shirts.
So was he spot who was this? What cost cost?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
He had a massive LA cost sponsorship his whole career.
We would go into any a cost store in any city.
He just go get whatever you want.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
That's legit.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
It's crazy, that's awesome. It just because that's expensive.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, so did you get whatever you wanted?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah? Within reason. I just grab a few things. Now
when somebody says that, like do you like how many
things do you guy?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Okay? So so we've been in the we were just
in this situation like when we played golf, who's we
you and me? Okay, and we what thing? And they
go gilt, go in the clubhouse and get whatever you want.
And literally we could have gotten whatever we wanted. But
we didn't. We got a box of balls and a glove.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Maybe I got a glove so much handed, Yeah, and
that's that's it. I guess we both needed gloves. We
didn't take clubs, so we got a glove with Roddick.
He was my really good friend. I probably could have
got one hundred shirts. He'd have laughed, but I would
just get a few shirts.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
And a built Yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I would never get too much. Also at his house,
he'd go like, hey, uh, if you want any I'm
about to change out my stuff. He'd had stuff from
them all the time, so he'd be like, if you
wanted to clothes. He was a big way bigger than
I was. He's a big guy. I mean he's six
two sixty three, but also like big. Yeah, you don't
think tennis guys are like that. But he's large, so
stuff is a little too big. So I look like
(25:15):
I was wearing dadd's daddy's shirt to bed hand me downs.
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, but yeah, tennis is fun. You
know somebody playing cool.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Yeah, in your case, it is awesome.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Otherwise I'm not really watching Wimbledon. I think I'd rather
watch tennis than soccer though, if it's just one sport
versus the next way, only I know more about it.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Have you seen soccer live? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I went to an MLS game here legit. No really,
but it's not soccer's fault. They did it in Titan
Stadium and the stadium was way too big, so the people,
the people that were there filled up fifteen percent of
the football stadium, so there was no vibe. There's a way,
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so I didn't get to catch the cool vibe. You know.
The stadium they have here now is much smaller and
it's pretty raucous. Yeah, the otis is legit, I think.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yeah, I think you've seen a game there.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah, I saw a messy play there a couple years ago.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I think a big part of experiencing soccer if you're
not a soccer guy, is like being a part of
the event, the culture. Yeah, and there was not that.
It was like Nashville MLS versus like Cincinnati or something.
And then there were nine people there.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
In a very oversized stadium. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Just it just wasn't for me. But World Cup you
have a team I'll be rooting for probably Norway me too.
I think it's all in for Norway too, and they
have eleven people that live there. Yeah, that guy and
like the smaller countries. Yeah, I think that's cool. Smaller countries.
And he's so much bigger than the rest of his team.
It's just funny. When he scores, they run out like
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you did. All right, We're gonna take a break.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I gotta admit something to you, guys.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
What's up, dude?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
It's it's so because you have to understand, like I
have been like such a daredevil my whole life. Like
if there was a cliff and everyone's like, oh, who's
gonna jump first, it was me, Like I'm the one,
Like I'm gonna jump off the cliff.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I don't see you as that guy, dude.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
I've always been like that my whole life. Really, Yes,
And we were in Puerto Rico and there's this rock
slide right like there's a part of a waterfall where
it's probably about twenty five yards of a rock, a
natural rock slide, but it's jaggedy, and I watched like
four people go down, and like everybody that went down
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was one spin away from hitting their head, you know
what I mean, Like if they didn't put their hands
in the right spot, like they could have easily spun out,
hit their head. Boom. Vacation's over now?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Is that sure?
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Is that you just being a dad and you're seeing
like the worst such a place that you could find.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
It could have been that, but dude, I'm honestly it
was the first time in my life where like my
kids were like, come on, Dad, are you gonna do it?
And I'm like, I'm not gonna do it. Boys, I'm
gonna opt out of this because I don't feel like
it's worth ruining the trip if I take one wrong
spin hit my head and now we're in a Puerto
Rico looking for an er. Yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah,
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so what would you do?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
I mean, I'm a little my ten years younger than you,
but I'm getting there to that age now where I'm like, oh,
I would have done this back in the day. My
buddy sent me some on Instagram the other day, and
the first thing I thought it was like, there's no
way I would do this now. And I told him that,
and he's like, yeah, that's because you're thirty five and
you have two kids down I'm like, dang it, you're right.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
I used to do this. I do wonder if it's
like I'm a parent and if we weren't parents. But see, dude,
I've never broken a bone ever. Oh I have a dude,
not go oh no, No, until two years ago when I
broke my foot. Yeah, I broke my foot doing too
much access right and Cardinal Stadium. It's pretty cool Cardinal Stadium.
And then after that I break my arm roller skinning
with my kids. So like, I had never broken anything,
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and then in two years I break two limbs or
two bones. Now I'm like, dude, it's not and now
I know it's it's possible.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Mike, did you ever break anything?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
No, I've never broken anything. Knocking on wood. That's like
my biggest fear. Like if I see a clip on
TikTok and it's somebody breaking a bone, like, I cannot
watch it. I cannot stomach that. Just the sound of
a bone breaking is the worst thing ever to me.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Mike, I'm shocked because you skated right.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Yeah, And that's why I retired at the age of thirty. Like,
once I turned thirty, I realized, like this is not
worth it. If I break my ankle, if I break
my arm, I'm just gonna look like an idiot. So
I stopped skateboarding because I did not want to break anything.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
But thirty is pretty good.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
You're gonna say thirteen, No, it's really good. Well.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
The thing was, when I first started skateboarding, I was
probably twelve years old, and within the first week that
me and my cousin started, he broke his ankle and
my mom was like, immediately, you're not skateboarding anymore. So
I didn't skateboard again until I moved out.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
What kind of skater were you though, because like there
are like the dangerous tricks skater and then they are
like the long boarders who are like, you're never gonna fall.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Really, I was just a street skater, Like I never
did I never dropped in. I cannot do that because
I know immediately if I dropped in, I'm hitting the bottom,
I'm hitting my face.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
How many stairs you ever?
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Like?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Jump stairs?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Probably like three stairs? Fasting crazy like nothing no crazy
gaps or anything.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
What do you mean my stairs?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Like I can't even need the right phrasing right now.
Jump stairs clearing a gap of skate stairs? Y?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Yeah, okay, So mainly like.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Street skating kick flips, heel flips, a little bit of grinding.
Mainly just like going around and skating around town.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
It sounds dirty. What about like Alie's how high could
you Ali? Like, maybe.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
If you gave me a skateboard, now I could steal Ali.
I could steal Ali. I could kick flip, but not
land it.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
But I'm like six years out of I haven't skated anymore.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah, that's cool. I don't know. And I told you,
guys like my kids, they want to skate, and part
of me is just like, guys, just know that you're
gonna break something because because they're kind of idiots.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Like they're boys.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Yeah, they're boys, They're idiots, and like they're just like, oh,
I can go down that, no problem until they bust
their butt.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
That happened to me when I was I think twelve.
We were actually dirt biking, but I brought my regular
bike and there is these hills right where we were
parked for the weekend, and each hill got a little
bit higher and higher, and I kept, of course pushing
it and pushing it and pushing it. Got way up high,
came all the way down move and hit soft sand
at the very bottom of the hill that I didn't
know was their wabble wobble boom and broke my collar
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and ruined the whole trip.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
We had to pack up. My dad had to rush
me to the hospital.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
That's what I'm saying. Yeah, it's not worth it.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Man, it's not. But as a kid you got to
learn somehow.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Yeah, what was California growing up? Like like I feel like,
if you're in California, you're like, oh, you gotta surf,
you gotta skate, you gotta like motocross.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
We did all that except for surf. I never surfed.
I've been surfing one time, but it wasn't even in
California as in Hawaii. But I wasn't into surfing, but skating.
I was really into, I mean, rollerblading at some point,
biking all that good stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
I was never any like good at it.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
And biking you mean like like like BMX BMX.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
I did have I mean I did have a dirt
bike for probably six seven, eight years. And then my
dad realized this is a bad idea because we were
we were getting hurt and my brother I think I
got a really back concussion and he's like, yeah, I'm
selling these things.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Mike, were you ever like into like motorcycles and stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I wanted to be like we lived out kind of
on the outskirts, like where the country started, and like
everybody out there had dirt bikes, but you kind of
had to have money to have a dirt bike. So
I was always envious of those kids.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
I was envious with the guys that three wheelers. Three wheelers.
Oh yeah, really before the four were the three, dude,
before the.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Three were the two, because the dirt bikes were. There
were always the col.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Kids in school. Yeah, like you remember that Fox brand.
Oh yeah, Fox brand. S're like all those kids are cool.
They come in like all dirty covered, and I'm like, man,
they kid in school.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
And they know how to work on their bikes. Yeah,
like in middle school, Like.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
That's like changing oil and stuff. And I'm like, what right,
I just put pegs on my head, humpy bike.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
That's funny. You want to Yeah, let's.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Open up the mail bag here. We got to ask
twenty five whistles. Mail bag, Dear, twenty five whistles. I
just moved across the country to Seattle for the first
time in my life. I live in a city where
the team is actually good. I grew up loving the Cardinals,
but they spent the last decade disappointing me, ruining my Sundays,
and making.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Terrible draft picks. But everybody here.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Assumes I'm a fan of Seattle now, and honestly, it's
kind of tempting. So what's the ruling. If you move
to a new city, are you allowed to adopt a
local team? Can you have two teams? Is there a
probation period? Or once you pick a team as a kid,
are you stuck with them for life no matter what
signed unassigned in Seattle?
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Well, this is tough because if it wasn't the Seahawks,
if they didn't just come off a Super Bowl win,
and it was say, I don't know the Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
You'd be like, yeah, dude, it's the Dolphins. Nobody really cares.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
But if you're going for a Super Bowl champion, you
can't really jump on that bandwagon now, and being a
Cardinals fan, that's got.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
To be rough.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Yeah, but you gotta stay faithful.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
I mean, and I'm mispoiled as they come as a
Patriots fan for the last thirty years. But Cowboys fans
know as great as you guys, have been. It's been
a rough thirty years for you guys a bit. Yeah,
And you have to stay with your team, no matter
what I mean, through the thick and the thin. You
have to stay with your team. You can kind of
have like a second team. Like I don't know the Titans.
I'm like, I root for the Titans since I live
(34:21):
here now, My cool Titans are cool. They're not really
a thread or anything. So you kind of have like
a one A and a one B in the I
guessasky be or one B.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Yeah. I was gonna say the same thing because like
we're kind of in that situation where we live in Nashville, Tennessee.
But like, unless you were born here or you've lived
here for a long, long long time, a lot of
people aren't Titans fans. They all come from different places.
I'm a Cowboys fan, you're a Patriots fan. Mike's a
Cowboys fan. But to me, I feel like, if the
(34:51):
Titans do pretty good, say they go to the Super Bowl,
I'm rooting for them. Yeah, and then but I would
never call them my team, like never, So.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
How would you phrase that? Like, I'm a casual.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
I'm a casual Titans fan. I live in Nashville, so
like they're they're kind of my team. But I mean
I'm a diehard Cowboys Fan's that's my team.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
That's fair.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
What do you think, Mike, I think if you move cities,
you can you can change teams. Like you're committing to
a new city, you're living there, you're taking in the culture.
I think you can adopt a new team. Now, if
you're just picking a different city just because and you're
still living in that city, like you're not living there,
that's different, that's late. But if you actually move to
that city and want to be a part of it,
did your old team now?
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Does your old team have anything to do with it? Like, well, yeah,
they're bad, You're right for years, like the Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
If you're a Jets fan, they've done nothing for you.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
It's fun, I know.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
But dude, that's hard because like my kids now, like
most of them, out of the four boys, I would
say two of them are going to be diehard Cowboys fans,
like they are all about it. But I have two
that literally if the if the Ravens are good, like
they're ordering Ravens jerseys and I'm like, stop that crap,
(36:04):
Like I can't stand it.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
That's tough, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Like I picked up my son the other day from
one of his summer camps and it was jersey day
at the summer camp. And what would you expect my
son to wear at that jersey? Yeah? You know what
he came out of, Jamir Gibbs jersey.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
I'm like, who is this carandom?
Speaker 3 (36:20):
You know what I mean? Yeah, And I get it.
He's a kid, Like I get it, Jamir Gibbs was
awesome whatever, But like to me, it's just like you
have no loyalty, Like your family is a cowboys family,
and yes they may give us a bunch of heartache
and be terrible for so long whatever, can't win in
the playoffs, but they're are team.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah, that is true.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
There's something to be said about being loyal to your team.
And like who cares if you live in Seattle?
Speaker 1 (36:47):
I know as a kid, I was a Dolphins fan
for a little bit. I ever tell you that?
Speaker 3 (36:51):
No?
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Yeah, but you know why the Marina No, because dolphins
are my favorite animal.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
How old are you?
Speaker 3 (37:00):
That was five years ago?
Speaker 1 (37:03):
That was post on Brady.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Actually, you sound like a girl. I that's what girls say,
Like I I mean, I don't know. I like Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
They're cute.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Yeah, I don't know, like eight, like ten years old,
and they would obviously play the Patriots twice a year
in the same division. And I remember like rooting against
Patriots when I was like eight or nine, and my
dad would just he would be so pissed, but he
couldn't say anything, like you're a little kid. So like
he's like, Kevin, you'll come around one day. I'm like,
thank god I did.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
He'll figure it out. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
I also feel like these teams aren't loyal to us,
like they could just move cities. They just moved the
franchise and then their new city.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Dude, I don't think the players are even loyal to
the team.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
They don't care.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
They really do not care. You're right, Are we just stupid? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Yeah, undry, that is true.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
I don't know. I don't know. That's a tough one
for me because I really love loyalty, but like baseball,
I don't have a team in baseball. Basketball was a
first fan, but like in baseball, literally I could care less.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
That's all right.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
I mean college football for me, it's kind of nice
having a sport like that, though, right, just because it
doesn't ruin your day something or your night.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
If you were to pick a college football team, though,
who would you root for?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
It would probably be Notre Dame.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
That's a weird one. Why because what's what's your title?
Notre Dame?
Speaker 1 (38:17):
I don't know, the fighting Irish just cool.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Gold helmets, the gold Rudy. I know.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
You had the T shirt and everything.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Good job, Mike, you called him out.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Dang it. I can't really back that.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Why did you even?
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Because you moved to Tennessee and you took in the culture.
I know, I know because I took in the culture.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
But it's just hard because I'm like Eddie where I'm like,
it's it's hard at a as a grown man. Like
maybe if I was a kid, it'd be easier to adapt,
but as a grown man, I'm like, if I didn't
grow up like that, I feel like such a phony.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
It's a kind of phony to love a college that
you didn't attend to or grow them around.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
That's interesting, I would say instant reaction, yes, because and
even do I even have a hard time watching like
older people like say they went to school like they
went to the University of Alabama when you know, forty
years ago, and I just feel like, I don't know,
it's just something in me that just when I see
(39:15):
him in the stands and I'm like, dude, make room
for the kids. Really, man, you know, like you're you're
seventy years old now, especially college basketball, Like, get out
of here, you're freaking You're on the floor. You have
floor seats to your college that you went to forty
years ago.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
That's messed up.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
The kids should be there.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
You got to remember that when you're a Cowboys games
town though.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
That's not college.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Oh, I think professional is different.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
What I mean, what do you think, Mike? I just
think it's.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Weird if you're so die hard for a college you
have no association with. I agree, Like I love the
University of Texas because I lived in Austin for seven years.
My wife graduated from there. Big connection there. But if
somebody who lives in like Minnesota is a diehard our
Texas fan, it's weird to me. And you you never
even like maybe visited the Texas. He just loved the
team for the sake of loving the team.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Well weird.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
What if it was a player that got you into it?
Like I have a buddy who's a Texas fan, who's
from Rhode Island, lived in California, likes a Titan, He's
all over the place. You Vince Young, Yeah, was the
one and he's still a Texans or Texas fan till
this day.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
I can't be a diehard that way.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Especially like a kid right like he was a quarterback
for how many years? Three years?
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (40:31):
At that school.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Yeah, I know. Hey, I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
I don't know, I'm kind of weird. You guys.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Tell our guy here, what's our final verdict?
Speaker 4 (40:39):
Stick to your team, stay loyal, and have a one B.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
That's gonna be mine too. I'm going to say, like, dude,
you're from a Cardinals of your team? Man, Yeah, I'm sorry,
live and die with the Cardinals.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
I say, go Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
You're the only one you guys going to see UFC? No?
Is that?
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Is there even one going on?
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Connor McGregor, dude coming.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
He's fighting again?
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Yes? What the heck? Have you guys seen the There's
like a promo for one of these I don't know,
one of these like betting or prediction sites or whatever.
And the video is like it starts on all this
like potato chips and like spoiled food on the on
the coffee table, and then on the couch is McGregor
with a big belly.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Okay, I've seen a picture of it.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Yeah yeah, okay, okay yeah. And then it goes up
to McGregor and he's just like fat and out of
shape and he pulls off the fake belly's like he's
still ripped.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Really yeah, he's thirty seven years old.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
Hey, you're not gonna watch it? Wait?
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Do I have to buy it?
Speaker 3 (41:34):
It's Paramount Plus. Everything's on Paramount Plus.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Now think I still have that for like another two weeks, dude.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
That's funny. My my wife like because I've been giving
her hard time lately about like we've got to cut subscriptions,
like we got to get rid of some stuff. So
she came to me and she's like, all right, let's
cut subscriptions. Do we need Paramount Plus. I'm like yeah,
first what She's like why, I'm like, UFC, we got
to keep that one.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:57):
They have good stuff on there though, other than just UFC.
Who's he fighting Max Holloway? Okay, I know who that
is too?
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Then and Max Holloway is like good, He's like he
rarely gets. I don't know if he's even been knocked
out before. So it's one of those, like he's the
dude that last five rounds all bloody face. He can't
even recognize him, but he's still standing.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
He had a fight within the last couple of years, right,
like a brawl. I remember him against somebody. I can't
remember who off top of my head, but they were
just going at it.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
Oh yeah, dude. And then I remember seeing like the
video afterwards of both of them going in the ambulances
like Rocky.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:31):
Yeah, I'll watch a fight if it's like that for sure.
Obviously you don't know, but I mean I like McGregor, so, yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:37):
That's crazy. You guys don't watch any UFC, like, especially
if it's a big fight like this. Did you watch
the White House one?
Speaker 1 (42:42):
Yeah, okay, it's a white House that's cool. Yeah, Mike,
did you No, I didn't watch that one.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
Do you watch UFC at all? Not at all?
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Probably not since like maybe mid two thousands.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Randy Contour days.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Why, I feel like to me, like that's when it
like first popped off.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Yeah, Rampage Jackson.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
Yeah, like Chuck Liddell. Oh, he was the best. Like
that's when I was like, Okay, UFC is a thing.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
Why did you stop?
Speaker 2 (43:07):
She's never really got into I was probably more into boxing.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
See, boxing to me is so like nothing happens right,
You rarely see a knockout in boxing and then like,
I don't know, to me, it's always rigged, Like I
just feel like boxing is just always rigged.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
I think the last boxing match I watched was McGregor
and Mayweather.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
When like McGregor just tried to kick him once in
a while. I feel like I can't kick dude.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
I was like, this is why I don't watch.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
So who do you think wins?
Speaker 1 (43:35):
Uh, I'm gonna go McGregor.
Speaker 4 (43:37):
I hope he comes back and wins because he retired,
right and then he's coming back.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
Is that what it is?
Speaker 3 (43:41):
I mean he never officially retired, didn't He just never
accepted us a fight thirty seven already?
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Yeah, I'll go McGregor.
Speaker 3 (43:48):
You I'm gonna go Halloway. It was a favorite. I
think how Max Holloway is Okay, Yeah, what about you, Mike.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
I'll go McGregor. Did you see him signing autographs? M
he was He had like a stack of posters and
he basically just marks like one line and that's his autograph.
No gays for this fight. You are signing a bunch
of things, but he's just standing there and they're just
pulling them one by one and he just like slices
it with the marker. And that's that's the worst.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
When that's when we were like doing all those memorabilia things,
those breaks and everything, we got a what's I would
act like I forgot his name? What's the dude?
Speaker 5 (44:23):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (44:24):
The our cornerback for the Cowboys, not with us? Yeah,
Chevon Diggs. He like his was like that too, Dude.
He was like a line over the number, Like just
a line. To me, that's so disrespectful.
Speaker 2 (44:36):
I'd be so upset if I paid money for that.
And it's just a line that anybody could have made.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
Oh yeah, he's literally just like who you can't see it,
you're watching it. Just made a little sound like I'm
thank you see what it is. But yeah, it's basically
just a line.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
Yep. Okay, all right, Well I'm gonna be watching it.
I love UFC.
Speaker 1 (44:56):
I might watch with you do it.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
Mike, you should watch it too. Let us know.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
I give it a peek.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
Yeah, is it late?
Speaker 2 (45:01):
No?
Speaker 3 (45:01):
The good thing about Paramount Plus it all starts like
I think the prelims are like four o'clock, the main
events at seven. It's done by ten thirty.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Oh, that's the one streaming service I don't have. Actually
another thing about it.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
That's not true.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
That's the one I cut Paramount Plus.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Hey, did your wife tell you? What? Am I going
to watch it? Their SpongeBob?
Speaker 3 (45:18):
That's stupid?
Speaker 1 (45:19):
All right, Well, good luck to Connor.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
Good luck to Connor. I'm still gonna be watching soccer.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
About you guys, Wimbledon.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
I'm watching soccer.
Speaker 3 (45:28):
Yeah, good, Mike, probably not be good. All right, let
me you want me to blow it?
Speaker 2 (45:31):
Let's out of here.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
Okay, here we go, I said, don't forget to blow it.
That was a week because upside Down.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
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Speaker 3 (45:49):
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Speaker 1 (46:00):
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