“You’re too nice and you like sports too much”

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Episode Transcript

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Hello, and welcome to Sports inthe City. I'm Haley and I'm Sally.
Good morning, and we are backthree weeks in a row for Mike.
Yo, let's go. Oh wow, look at us three and a
row. I know, I can'tbelieve it. I'm so proud of us.
Was that consistency? Yes, Iknow us. Look at us being
consistent for one time in our lives. So I know. Well, I
gotta say, when my alarm wentoff at five thirty or no, yeah,

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this morning, I was like,m Am, I going to really
do this today. Well, Iwhen my alarm went off this morning,
I was actually very excited because todayis a big date for me. I'm
leaving for Europe at five o'clock tonight, so I was, God, why
did I realize it was tonight?Yeah, I'm ready and rare and to
go. Yeah, all good.Yes, I packed yesterday afternoon, thank

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god. I ended up taking theafternoon off yesterday and I got a lot
done. I got my hair done, and yeah, I feel my hair
looks great, thank you. Ifeel like I'm ready to go today.
I just to I do like toiletriesand my finish packing my carry on.
But other than that, I'm Ican't believe it. I'm going to to

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Europe. It's so weird. I'min my did you see the Lizzie McGuire
movie. I don't believe I did. No. Okay, well, in
the Lizzie McGuire movie, because ofcourse I love that movie. She goes
to Rome for a school trip.And so I woke up to a text
this morning from my brother's girlfriend andshe's like, please watch the Lizzie McGuire
movie on your way here, AndI was like, I was literally already

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planning it. So yes, ohgod, it's amazing. I've downloaded the
soundtrack. I'm ready to go.So well, I need more of your
energy. So I'm glad you're soexcited. I am really struggling this morning.
I'm yeah, I was like desperateto sleep last night, so I
took too many I don't stop andsay substances. That's gonna sound like I

(01:52):
needed rehab. I took a cocktailof things so I could sleep. Didn't
work necessarily. Well, so nowyou're just groggy. Yeah, I'm so
groggy. Well maybe I ate Okay, So I don't think i've had McDonald's
in since COVID other I've had likea maybe fries four or five times in

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the last three years. I hada couple of mcflurries. I've not had
any sort of a burger nothing.Yeah, And for some reason, yesterday
I was driving him from school andI'm like, you know, it sounds
good right now, I'm gonna getone double cheeseburger. Oh God, that
does sound good. From the minutelike I was done chewing, I was
like, well that was a mistake. Oh there's stomach bothering you. No,
not really, just overall just likecompletely changed my energy level. I

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just turned into like a straight upsloth. I just felt gross. And
so I've laid in bed from likesix to ten and did not fall asleep.
Anyway, no one cares. Justdon't even if you haven't eaten McDonald's
a long time, don't eat it. I mean I still occasionally dabble with
the fries. Yeah, the friesare I think the fries are different,

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but I mean the fries are avegetable exactly. We're not used to eating
it. I think it just likeyou just notice it so much more so.
Anyway, Well, so I didn'ttalk about this last week that I
was going on a date the nextday after our podcast, you didn't week
We're finished recording, and you saidI'm going on a date tonight. Ooh,

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it's not a promising from a littlebit you told me. Yeah,
it did sound promising, didn't it. It did. And then you sent
me a text with a picture thatyou were getting picked up on a dock.
Yes. So I'm like, wellthat's nice. You did say there
was some juicy stuff going on onthe dock, yes, so well well
yeah, so okay, let's goback a few weeks. Let's rewind,

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shall we. So a couple ofweeks ago, I was at Maynards with
a friend where you know, allgreat love stories start. And this is
a friend that I'm very close with, but we don't go out super often
together. And this guy comes upto her and they started talking and he
walked away and I was like,who was that And she's like, oh,
that's my friend. We'll call himto Steve. Oh, Steve,

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Steve. And I was like,oh, Steve's really cute. You should
call the poor Steve. I'm sorry, Steve. You should give him my
phone number and tell him to takeme on a date. And she was
like, okay, so a fewdays later, I get a text from
Steve saying, Hi, Haley,this is Steve, your friend. Gave

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me her phone number, your phonenumber, how are you like? We
kind of go back and forth.And then the next day because we were
just going back and forth, niceconversation whatever, and I was feeling a
little bold the next day, soI said, do you want to meet
for a drink on Thursday? Andhe was like, so this is last

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week and he's like, I wasjust going to ask you the same thing.
He goes knew I live in Northeastand he works downtown, and he
was like, do you want meto come to you or we could go
boating on the lake and he liveson like Minetanka. I'm like, duh,
let's go boating, you know obviously, and right I knew. I

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didn't think he was gonna murder me. I did ask meat Sauce. I
was like, how likely do youthink it is that I'm going to get
murdered? And he goes, probablypretty likely, and also, but that's
the way you'd want to go,is like being murdered on like Minetanka.
It was like, true, yeah, honestly, the boats the boat stuff
just always gives me anxiety, evenif it's not a date. Just in

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general, going on a boat withsomeone you don't know well puts yourself in
such a vulnerable position. And Idon't know where this story is going,
so I'm not that very well.May have not been what happened, but
I just feel like got on boatswith people before they become a different person.
I cannot get off of the boat. Oh, you're stuck on the
boat. They maybe they're drunk,and then all of a sudden you're on

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the boat. It's just you're attheir mercy. You can't just get off
and go home. You have alot of trauma about boats. I don't
know, Okay, I don't evenwant to go anyway. Boats. So
he's like, i'll pick you upat why is that a dot? Oh?
Why is that a public docks?Like perfect, that's super convenient.
Great, I'll just stay at myparents' house that night. He picks me

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up on the dock. He's veryprompt, good communicator, like, Hey,
I'm I'm running late. He textsme at two thirties, like,
my meetings are running late. Insteadof four fifteen, it's gonna be four
forty five. Perfect. Thank youso much for the heads up and not
a last minute heads up. Whata king. He's an adult love well,
my friend had said she thought hewas about forty five. He was

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not about forty five. We'll getthere, Yes, we'll get there,
okay. So he picks me up. I get on the boat. We
immediately have great conversation, going backand forth, joking around. I wouldn't
It's a maybe a little flirty okay, but not like love it first second

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or anything like that. But itwas a little flirty. And so we're
on the boat for maybe half anhour and he's like, what do you
want to do next? Have youeaten yet? And I said no,
because it was only like, youknow, five fifteen, five thirty.
I was like, not yet.And he goes, okay, well,
let's go to Lord Fletchers and geta drink and then we'll go somewhere and
go to dinner. Perfect. Hegoes, maybe, I think, well,

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let's go back to Whist. Idon't really spend a ton of time
there. I'm like, okay,great, love dinner and why is thatta?
So we docket Lord Fletchers. Thisshould have been my first red flag
He's like, let's go underneath andhave a drink before we go out there.
And I was like, oh,okay, underneath under like his he

(07:59):
hit a really nice boat, LikeI will give him that. He had
a very nice boat, so onboats you can go underneath. He pours
himself a drink. I didn't wantone, and why I don't know.
And we're just sitting there talking totallytotally normal conversation. Didn't really think anything

(08:22):
of it. So we go toLord Fletchers, We get drinks, a
couple of people. We both runinto people that we know because we're both
always there. We're having fun whatever. About an hour later, he comes
up to me and he goes,I'm gonna get really drunk tonight. And

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I was like, what's I'm gonnaget really drunk tonight? I was like
okay, I'm like, I mean, obviously we're drinking, like we're both
you know. And he didn't drinkwhile he was driving the boat. He
waited until we got to Lord Fletchers, and so I was like, oh,
that's that's nice. He's not drinkingwhile he's driving the boat, which
you shouldn't. Right, I'm gonnaget really drunk tonight okay. And he's

(09:07):
like are you fine? And I'mlike, what do you mean? And
he's like, or you fine?If like I'm not paying a ton of
attention to you. And I'm like, I don't need to be babysat.
I'm fine. I know people here. He's like, okay, let's just
kind of like do your own thingfor a little bit. Okay. So
so I end up running into thisguy who I know because he's a chiropractor

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and why Zetta and he went toschool with our chiropractor. And I will
say, this guy is really hotand he had just gotten done play volleyball,
so he was shirtless. He lookedfantastic and I was like, anyway,
So he and I were talking.Steve comes up and he goes am,
I interrupting something and I was likewhat and he goes am, I

(09:52):
interrupting something and I go no,I'm just talking to doctor doctor Nick.
And he's like, oh okay.He bops around, keeps drinking whatever.
More friends show up. Our friendthat set us up showed up, and
I'm like, this is just weird. This is not a date. This

(10:16):
is not a date, which isfine. I'm like whatever, I'm at
Lord Fletcher's. I probably would endup here anyway. And I'm like,
this is just weird. So afterabout another hour he comes up to me.
So is he like bouncing around doinghis thing, but he's like watching
you having conversations, and then we'llgo talk to other people and then we'll

(10:37):
have a conversation in mind you.The conversation on the boat was great.
He was very present and seemed Iat least interested somewhat. Yeah, of
course, and getting to know you. Yeah, yeah, normal date conversations,
not even like not even asking backand forth questions, just full on

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conversation, like very easy. Solike another hour passes and he comes up
to me and he's like, thisisn't gonna work. I was like,
I'm sorry what. He goes,Yeah, this this isn't gonna work.
You're too nice and you like sportstoo much? What? And I was

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like, mind you, this manplayed college hockey. He played college hockey.
Wait what? Yeah, he goes, You're too nice. I would
ruin your life, and you likesports too much. I'm like, I
didn't think we were getting married.I didn't. I didn't think this was

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leading to a six months long relationshipor anything. We're just kind I'm like,
we're just kind of hanging out atLord Fletcher's, Like I didn't.
I mean, it kind of startedout and it's a date, but very
soon after I realized it was nota date, or it evolved into not
being a date, right, whichis fine, because I knew if I

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didn't know anybody there or something,and then it would be different. But
I knew twenty people there, andI was fine, there's poll tabs there
and there's drinks. I'm gonna failupwards and I can't always uber home if
I'm not open, if I'm unhappywith the situation. Yeah, I mean,
it would obviously be a night andday difference if you were somewhere where
you weren't familiar, correct, youdidn't know anybody that would be really fucked

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up, correct, And he didn'tknow taking me there that I would know
anybody, of course. Yeah.So like another half an hour passes,
he comes what you just said,like we're not getting married, And I
was like, yeah, okay,I didn't think this was leading to anything
super serious, like what, Yeah, the expectations were open. Yeah,

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so is he wasted at this point? Yes? Oh, okay, he
comes back up to me and whatdoes the like sports too much mean?
What does that even mean? BecauseI said, he asked, like what
I do for fun? And Iwas like, my life in the fall
kind of revolves around football. Butwhy was that like an issue? I
don't know? Oh okay, AndI was like, and I said to

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him, I go, I don'treally care if you don't like sports.
That's my thing I do with myfriends, right exactly. I'm like,
okay, I'm not forcing my interestson anyone, right, weird okay.
So so then he comes back upto me and he goes, do you
know anyone here who has coke?Okay? I was getting the vibe that

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there was something like that going onwith this guy, and I was like,
I'm sorry what He goes or adderallAdderall's fine, and I'm like,
no, I don't know anyone herewho has it. I'm sure someone does,
it's Lord Lectures, but I don't. And I'm like, he doesn't
listen to Sports in the City podcast. He knows we've never been offered coke,

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right, we don't know where toget it. So then I'm losers.
I'm just mad at that point becauseI'm like, am I giving off
the energy that I'm out here smellingtables. That's what that's smelling table.
That's the energy that I am puttingout into this world that he's picking up.

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Dude, you just said you thinkI was too nice. Nice girls
don't do coke. That's what Iwas exactly thinking. I'm sorry, and
honestly, I I've never done it. I've never taken adderall, I've never
done anything like that. And that'sthe energy you're picking up from me.
Well yeah, yeah, And notto say that you can't be a nice

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person and do too, but butI think if you if you've done coke
and that's cool, you're just alittle more or like you're a little You're
not somebody that's gonna be like you'rejust such a nice, little innocent girl
exact handle me. You got alittle street smarts. I think if you've
done some coke and you're a littleright, you're not this delicate flower that

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can't handle you. Think I'm fumbling, Hannah, But I'm doing coke what
exactly? Exactly? So, especiallyon a Thursday early, Dude, I'm
gonna tomorrow like, are you serious? I gotta be in bed. Who
was just doing coke and then it'sstill light outside. I'm not score,
like, come on, I wasso mad, and I'm like, obviously

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I like to have fun, don'tneed drugs to do it, you know
what I mean. And it wasso brutal. So then a bunch of
us end up going back to ourfriend's boyfriend's house, and why Zetta,
Steve came with because he's friends withall of those people. So Steve and

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I end up sitting next to eachother at our friend's house. Wait,
do we find out that Steve isa different age or did he just look
a different nage? My friend thoughthe was younger than he is. He's
fifty one, which is fine,but I'm like, you're fifty one and
you're asking for coke, bro starta family? What are you doing?
Yeah? Okay, And so wego back to our friend's house. We

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end up sitting next to each otherand we're just talking and I'm like,
I'm not going to be rude tothis guy. Whatever. I mean,
he paid for all my drinks,seting in a nice boat, so I'm
not going to be rude. Ididn't get nothing out of the date.
At least I got toward Fletchers.Yeah, you could tell just by the
story that you were pretty unbothered byhim overall, and you're usually good with
talking to people. Yeah. Yeah. So we're sitting there and he turns

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and looks me, and he goes, you know, I do think you're
really hot. Though He's like,this just won't work, and he brought
it up again, and I'm like, dude, let it go. Well,
I don't care. I clear,I don't want to be with someone
who's gonna ask me for drugs.It's also so funny how he thinks it's
just his choice exactly. I neversaid I wanted to be with you.

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I never said, oh my god, no, I want to be with
you for the rest of my life. You haven't said how you feel about
him at all, and he's justacting like it's completely his decision if you're
together or not together. Right,And I did think he was very cute
and I had fun with him onthe boat, But as soon as we
got to the bar, it's likea switch went off, and I'm like,

(17:32):
absolutely not. I'm like, that'sokay. I'm notation yeah, yeah,
I know. He's like, Ido think you're really hot. Okay,
great, Thanks that does something forme. So anyway, I leave
our friend's house and walk to myparents' house. Mind you, the whole

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time, I'm crying because I'm justso it kind of hit me that I
was like, I'm okay being single, that's not the issue, but that's
not the kind of person that Iwant to attract into my life. And
it yeah, that makes sense,and it really upset me that one I
put myself out there. Yeah,and to that's how it ended up.

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And it was like, this guy'stelling me, essentially saying you're not good
enough for me. He wasn't goodenough for me, yes, exactly,
And I'm like, why do youkeep reiterating this? So yeah, So
I cried my whole way home becauseI was like, I cannot believe I'm
thirty five and I just had afifty one year old man asked me for

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drugs? What what is happening?Where? Where did I take a left
turn in my life that I havea fifty one year old financial advisor asking
me for drugs. Dude, you'renot Wolf of Wall Street? Like,
you're not? I did. Idon't even know what to say. You're

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right, Seriously, You're not theWolf of Wall Street. I probably would
be crying too, honestly, andit was like, oh my god,
what did I do to get here? How is this the idiot that I
attracted? And so your friend thatset you up did? She only had
positive things about it, and shesaid he was very nice and very sweet.

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She's like, because I was nervous, and she's like, he Steve
is very sweet, easy to talkto. Perfect. Yeah, yeah,
man. Okay, So then didyou ever hear from him at five o'clock
the next day? The morning orthe night pm? Okay, so almost

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like a full twenty four hours afterwe started our date, he texted me,
hold on, I'm gonna pull itup and read it verbet o,
my god, hold on, Idon't even know. I just looked the
wrong name. Okay, Oh,like his actual name Steve. Yeah,
nice meeting you last night. Igot a little drunk. Hope you got

(20:12):
home, okay, five pm?Five fifty five pm. Oh my god.
So I responded the next morning ateight am and said nice to meet
you too. I'm like, Ilove that. It's almost six pm the

(20:32):
next day. You're like, God, I hope that girl I went out
a date with last night got home. Okay. Honestly, yes, okay,
that whole thing is crazy. ButI feel like with dates, and
obviously this was a shit show,it's just standard practice to tell the person
it was nice to meet them orlike had to you know, thanks for
your time, even if you're notgoing to go out with them again.

(20:53):
You just say like, hey,thank you for dinner or thanks for meeting
me. You just do that.When you're on the last person I wanted
to date with the same thing,they text, Well, they text me
like two days later they're like,oh, yeah, it was so nice
to meet you. Though day It'slike, that's just kind of rude.
I feel like, I don't.I think I'm so disenchanted. I think

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it's the right word. I Ididn't really know anything about this guy going
on a date other than that hewas friends with my friend. Yeah.
I thought he was cute and heseemed nice in our communication. He did
tell me, he goes, Ilike how you communicate via text. So
at least I'm hot and I communicatewell via text. I have that going

(21:37):
for me, But that on theresume. Honestly, that's what I'm putting
it on a business card. Iwould too it's a pretty good skill,
so hard to find these days.Yeah, so that's how my Thursday night
went right. Well, so,yeah, at least you have people there.
I did, and I played polltaps and I want so well,

(22:00):
there you go. That always helpslife. It's about balance, right it
is. But then on Sunday Iwent out on my friend's boat and he
taught me how to drive it.So now I don't need a man to
drive me on a boat. Ican do it myself. There you go.
I mean I still need a littledirection, and I probably get lost
on the lake, even though I'vebeen out there a thousand times. Oh

(22:22):
but for sure. But I cando it and I don't need someone else
to take me out on the boat. So that's I Yes, So I
grew from it. I took thatlesson of don't get on a stranger's boat,
and even if it is really nice, I will give him that.
I mean, maybe the cook giveshim an edge at work and that's why

(22:45):
he's successful. I don't know,God. And then does he drive that
boat home? No, he actuallysaid he goes. So he lives near
Lord Fletchers and he's like, Iwill uber home. He goes if I'm
drinking. He does not, soat least he has that going for himself.
I don't know if it's because hegot in trouble in the past and
but yeah, so, but atleast he doesn't do that, at least

(23:08):
he says he doesn't. Okay,so could be worse. Yeah, I'm
sorry about that experience. But maybeyou'll fall in love on the cruise I
you have in the past, You'vehad good luck. I have cruise romances
have, so yeah, that wouldbe nice to have. You know,
a long distance relationship might be thekey. What if it's internationally long distance,

(23:30):
we can get you on ninety dayfiance? Oh my god, amazing?
Alo I think I would. Ithink really the only thing keeping me
here is football and my friends becausemy family will travel wherever, you know,
and they're not even here most ofthe time anyway. So so you're
open to it. I'm open toit, honestly, I would. At

(23:52):
first, I've put some thought intothis. I've got time on my hands,
So at first I was like,definitely want an Italian man. Definitely,
they're tall, dark and handsome.But then I was thinking, I
can't be with someone who's out hereI guess I was like, oh,
I'll cook for me. I can'tbe out here eating pasta every day.

(24:15):
Okay, that's not gonna agree withmy body type. I'm sure you could
cook other things. They eat otherthings. Well, then so I pivoted
and I'm looking for a Greek man. You know, I love Greek and
a Greek diet is really good foryou and anti inflammatory, which is exactly
what I need. So I've reallyput some thought into this. Yeah,

(24:38):
I am finding a Greek man andthey're still tall, dark and handsome.
Well, and you know I'll comevisit because I'll get to go to Lindsay
Lohan's nightclub exactly exact beach club,so I'll be there. Yes, absolutely,
So long story short, I'm movingto Greece and yes, well let's
put it out there. I am. I'm absolutely what if you get to

(24:59):
move de Grease, you get thefood prepared for you every day, you
get to be in Meeknoase on thebeach. But he's fifty one and does
coke. That doing coke is ais a deal breaker for me. Okay,
I'm gonna say I am sorry fordrawing that line in the pile of
coke. It is not drawing inthe sand, drawing in the pile of

(25:23):
coke. That is a deal breakerfor me. Doing drugs is a deal
breaker. And also I'm not approved. Obviously I like to go out right,
but drugs are a deal breaker.Okay, So yeah, okay,
Well I feel good about the cruisefor you. Like I said, you

(25:45):
have a good track record with longdistance relationships on the cruise ship I do,
and and reigniting them years later exactly. So I feel good about this.
I feel good about this. Butwell, I'm sorry you went through
that. Gosh, I don't evenwant to go on any dates now.
No, And for the reminder,yeah, so I don't. I don't

(26:06):
even know. I don't know wherewe go from here. Honestly, dating
is just so weird. So thelast date that I went on, the
guy had like been trying to askme out for probably almost a year on
Twitter. Finally go on a daywith them. I'm like, okay,
this is fine. The divorce lawyer, So imagine the tea that I could
have the whole my whole life listeningto someone's work stories. Yeah, plenty,

(26:30):
who we talk about work some morein your day. The first time
you ever want to hear about someone'sday, divorce attorney, I'll be calling
a mid day. How was thatmeeting office? You get a live stream
exactly. Someone goes cool. Hepicks the restaurant. He picks all this

(26:51):
stuff. Then it wasn't be arestaurant I would have ever chosen for a
first date if I knew that hewas gonna want to split the tab and
what Yeah, he's taking me upforever. He picks the restaurant, which
is Handsome Hog in Saint Paul.So I've already crossed the river. It's
not necessarily like it's not, youknow, fine dining, but it's pretty

(27:12):
pricey. Did he pick you up? No? I met him there.
He we didn't even have a meal. We had two appetizers. But he
was drinking like these manhattans. Therewere twenty two dollars a piece or something.
I had a glass of wine andthe tabet is there and he's like,
oh, we'll just split it,and I'm like what. So not

(27:34):
only did he have way more todrink than me, but in my opinion,
if somebody, if if I askyou on the day and I pick
where we're going, yeah, thenthat's on me. Yeah, I initiated
the plan. You're the one who'vebeen trying to get to know me forever.
I agree to go on a datewith you. You picked the restaurant,
and then you say we're splitting thetab. I was just like,

(27:57):
and did he mean split right downthe Oh? He didn't even mean like
no, well, and I wasn't. I just I was so embarrassed.
I just handed my card, youknow. I wasn't like, oh,
can you split off my rose andthis? Yeah? So, because if
you aren't sure, if you wantto pay for someone's dinner, that's fine.
You don't have to. Let's justsay let's meet for a drink,

(28:18):
then yes, don't say let's goto dinner. And before that, he's
like, yeah, I was thinkingI really wanted to take you to the
New Butcher and the Boar, butit was two we couldn't get in,
and I'm like, thank god wedidn't go there. Could you imagine?
Oh my god? And also,don't make people pay for your ship when
you're having way more than them.Yeah. So, I don't know.

(28:41):
That's my opinion on it. Likethe guy, I don't think that the
guy should always be stuck paying.But it's whoever initiated the plans, especially
the location of the plans. True. And I so in the last person
no two people ago that I dated, for the most part, he paid

(29:03):
for everything. What about give andtake? I feel I always would be
like I'll pay, I'll do thisor whatever, or like I would go
get groceries and liked didn't like thatkind of stuff. Sure, And but
then like I took him out fora good dinner at a steakhouse to like

(29:29):
celebrate something, and like that wasme. I'm like work and he still
tried to pay, and I'm like, no, I said we're going here.
I made the reservation. I'm takingyou out to celebrate something like that's
not you don't put that on somebodyelse exactly right. I mean, if
yeah, I'll take you out likethe third day and pay or something.
I don't expect to have my paymy way paid all the time our entire

(29:52):
relationship, of course not. Butif you're according me, then you're paying
for the first tib Yeah, thatyou choke. And also of that,
I'm just like a rule for meis if you take me to a bar,
tell me I'm not good enough foryou and asked me for drugs.
You were paying for my drinks.Is Oh that's a good one. Yeah.

(30:14):
I hope no one else has toenforced that rule. But well,
a lot of advice on this showtoday. Maybe yeah. Yeah, Well
we went to the Vikings game Saturday. We did. We were so back
on Saturday. We were so backon Saturday. Yeah, seven pm game,
hot as hell, so hot.What was it like, ninety eight

(30:37):
yeah, freshly paved, freshly pavedparking lot, yes, space, But
we did it. Had a goodtime. We had a great time.
I that's the most I've drinking along time, and so I was feeling
it. I was feeling good.But that meant that didn't pay too much
attention to the game. I don'tthink we've ever gone to a preseason game

(30:59):
and really paid attention. It's somuch more social because some of our friends
who don't even really care about football, like or Vikings football, come and
I used to pay a lot moreattention to them, honestly, but they
that's when they would be like ona weeknight or when there was the four
I paid a lot more attention.But when it's a Saturday at seven pm,

(31:23):
probably not like so I can tellyou from that game that Troy Dye
had a pick love that for himand Owen ty Chandler had a lot of
yards running on the ground. Andthat's all I can really tell you about
it. And I was planning togo home and watch it like the setup
version we talked about did not.And also it was Kirk Cousin's birthday,

(31:44):
so we're basically just had Kirk's birthdayparty. And I love that they played
switch Foot for him. You areright. And did you see he got
a Cole's gift card. Yes,that was sweet, and then him and
Julie went the next day. Iknow, I wonder what they got.
He needs to do like a tryon Hall All that would be amazing.
I mean, why isn't Coles reachedout to him to do a partnership a

(32:06):
partnership right, seriously, Coles,what if someone from Coles is listening to
this podcast? Why have you notdone that? Kirk would do it for
cargo shorts and button ups, likehe doesn't need the cash well, and
that would be a way to makeColes like look kind of cool. Yes
too, that that demographic totally.Yeah, Now we have to tell people

(32:27):
how to do their jobs again.It's it's a big missed opportunity. Serious
to not to not use that.But yeah, it's Kirk's birthday party and
it was really fun. We hada great time, had a great time.
We saw our buddy Johnny back backback, our King Michael, who's
an usher there. Oh yeah,Michael added me on Facebook. He did,

(32:47):
Yeah, I had me. Iknow, rude, I know,
rude. God, I'm gonna haveto cruise your friends list find King Michael.
I'm not telling you his last name. This is our friendship, No
dare We got a selfie together.Yeah, I gotta we gotta triple pick.
Oh man, Yeah, you gottasend me those picks we had.
So we can't talk my jexs andoas today, unfortunately. I know that's

(33:10):
why everyone is here. We havejoint practice today with the Cardinals, your
boy Kyler or Murray. I havetickets, but I don't know about that
today. He did the time getadjusted. I believe practice now is starting
at twelve at noon. I gotthe email today say they changed or last

(33:34):
night? I don't know. Idon't think I can do it. Is
there? Do you have VIP tickets? So I have to get there early
to get the shaded area, andthen it's just like I said last time.
I love to go, but whenI get there so early that I
can get that prime seating, thenyou're by yourself for an hour and a
half for two hours, and soI don't know, it's just way too
hot for me. But I alsodo kind of want to use my VFP

(33:58):
parking. You might be the lastchance. Did I talk about that on
here? I don't think so,No you didn't, So whatever, have
my Ford Mustang love it? Itold I actually do have to pay to
the ductorbile. I was wrong lasttime for the hail damage. But when
I went to training camp the firstday I had it, They're like,
let me park. They kept likewaving me in to park, to keep

(34:19):
going, to keep going, tokeep going to park in the front row,
and I'm thinking, what the hellis this? But okay, so
I go for night practice and theysaid have you been here before? And
I said, oh, yeah,a bunch of times, and they go,
we'll just go park where you usuallydo that. I'm looking at him
like what are you talking about.He's like, go park in the front
row. Okay, I get there, to the front row. I'm literally

(34:44):
the only car in the entire frontrow of this massive gravel pit of parking.
Yeah, like, what on earth? So I go and ask the
I asked them the way, andI'm like, why is this guy telling
me the parking said, Oh,because you drive a Ford, so you
get VIP parking. I'm looking aroundlike there's a lot of Fords anyway,

(35:05):
So I don't want to miss onthat chance. It's a waste opportunity to
not eat it. This front rowparking at training camp. But I don't
think I can do it. Ican't be out there. It's too hot,
it is brutal, And why don'tthey I feel bad for the guys.
I thought practice got moved indoors yesterday. Well Comment and Rosie were they
moved indoors? I saw that.I didn't hear soft. They are soft.

(35:28):
But anyway, so that's what's upothe Vikings. Would they have a
game on Saturday which you won't behere for. Are you going? I
don't know. I see what everyoneelse wants to do. I knew you're
gonna leave it. Yeah, it'sa nooner. I don't necessarily need to
go. I definitely don't need Theweather, of course, is going to
be nice. Oh well, Idon't need to go. But we had
a good time after. I meanthe Mustang took a beating. How long

(35:52):
did you guys stay there? Ithink I went home at like eleven?
Did you Yeah, I don't knowhome. Yeah, I have to you
know, I have to be thevery last person the parking lot, like
that's my thing. So I wouldhave left way earlier. If these newbies
guys weren't there, Oh my god. It was so weird. So they

(36:13):
kept They were young. I thinkthey said they were twenty six, the
older ones of the two, theyounger ones had their learners permit, so
they were practicing how to drive thesedrunk people's car and the parking lot.
Oh that doesn't seem like a greatidea. So they could drive them home.
And then they didn't even drive themhome. It was so weird.
So we had to wait for thosepeople to lay book. Yeah, we

(36:34):
had a dance party on the Mustang. It was great time. Yeah,
that was That was a lot offun. The playlist was lit, so
playlist was late. Yeah, I'vebeen editing that playlist because who there are
some doozies on there. Well,no, so those those two brothers that
are Eric's friends, Oh yeah,they came back to the tailgate and they
showed me this playlist on Spotify that'slike, I think it's called sweaty,

(37:00):
grindy songs that you danced to ina high school cafeteria. And that's what
I was playing and it was sogood. That's awesome. Yeah, no,
I meant our our old playlist.I've been having to take a few
things off of them. Yeah,some couple of downers. Oh god.
But yeah, well that's what's upwith us? What's uh? What do

(37:22):
we got on the on the dock? So I watched a couple of things
this week. I watched Hard Knocksepisode three last night, and just a
few things that I really liked.Is that. So the Jets coach was
talking about he said there's four levelsof competitors, and I thought this was

(37:44):
a good thing to you realize thatyou have these kind of people in your
life, not just people, peoplewho were actual competitors playing on a football
team. They said, there's fourlevels of competitors. At the bottom is
survivors. They do just enough toget by the very miserable, Sally stop
it. And they have a contenderwho's motivated by external factors money, fame.

(38:09):
Then there's a competitor who's internally motivatedto be their best no matter what
the situation is. And then there'sa commander. Not to be confused with
the Washington Team. It has allthe traits of competitors, but they bring
people up with them. And Iwas like, oh, so in your
life, don't you want to bea commander? You want to be the

(38:30):
person who's internally motivated, and thenyou're not only are you rising up yourself,
but you're bringing up the people aroundyou. You don't want to bring
everybody else down. And what's thepoint of what's the point of being successful
and having amazing things in your lifeif you don't have people up there with
you to share it with. Yeah, that's that. That is true.

(38:52):
That's really good. And I knowwe've said this a bunch on this show,
but last night, when I waslaying there thinking about everything under the
sun, I thought about it.I'm like, I don't know why this
came up for me, but Ijust started thinking about our group of girlfriends
and how just lucky I am.I started thinking about that because we all
just bring each other up and makeeach other better. I agree. I

(39:14):
don't know. I just felt verylucky about that last night. Yeah,
I didn't have that for a reallylong time, so meeting people later in
life it was worth it to dealwith the other people who were like jealous
or would bring me down or makeme feel like I wasn't good enough.
Like there's no woman that I'm friendswith or have a close relationship with that

(39:40):
doesn't make me feel like I'm amazing. And I know I'm not perfect or
amazing, Like I don't always thinkthose things of myself, but I have
people in my life who remind meof the good things that I'm doing or
that I am special and important.And I hope I do that for other
people too, because I think ourfriends are amazing. Definitely. So I

(40:05):
didn't watch episode three yet because HBOor Max what does it want be referred
to now? Which I was tellingHailey last night. Why did they have
to rebrand as Max? Make allof the Max, Cinemax whatever rebrand as
HBO? Max is just not astandout enough brand names, I don't think,
because when I want to search Twitterto see if people are talking shit

(40:27):
about Max or if Max is downworldwide, I can't find it because there's
too many fucking people talking about Maxas in Maximum or Max is their name.
Yeah, so it's an issue.But Max is not working for me
currently, just as Netflix wasn't workingfor you. So they're tucking us.
I had to as a thirty fiveyear old child. I had to get

(40:51):
my own Netflix account. It's fuckedup, honestly, in this economy,
I'm paying twenty dollars a month forNetflix. It's insanity. So yeah,
so those who don't know, youknow, Netflix threatened us with us like
what six months ago that you weren'tgoing to be able to do family sharing
a different locations, and then Icould have sworn they got so much negative

(41:12):
feedback that about that. A fewweeks later they said, oh, never
mind, we didn't mean it thatway, and then they just hit us
with it no warning. Imagine whenyou're trying to watch your comfort show.
Yeah, Gilmore Girls, nine pm, we can't watch it. We get
it from Kirk's birthday party and Ihave a picture message from Haley and it's
of this of her TV saying thatshe can't watch Netflix anymore. I was

(41:34):
ready to burn my bill. Igot to fix this. Yeah, so
I'm trying to troubleshoot the TV.I'm googling this is how we had to
end Kirk's birthday party Netflix. Soit really really messed up. Yeah,
But for episode two, some thingsthat stood out to me was, for
one, the magic show. Iheard that was fantastic. Oh wait,
you didn't see I just skipped toOh, okay, never mind, it's

(42:00):
okay. Then well there was justthat, and then there was a piece,
a piece that was done at apiercing parlor. Oh and what got
Wilvert McDonald got multiple piercings. Hegot first his eyebrow pierced, okay,
and I'm thinking, okay, wellthat's it. That's a choice. Then

(42:20):
he does his nose Okay, healready had one side of his nose.
He does his other nose, andthen he does two ear piercings. Oh
same ear or okay. So Iwanted to talk about this. I've always
wondered this. How do these athletesplay this extremely physical game with this stuff
in their face? Like Ezekiel Elliottwith that huge I don't want to say

(42:45):
bull rings. That's not what it'scalled. Yeah, I would just be
so worried that that I was goingto get those things ripped out. Oh
totally. But he just gets allthese piercings back to back to back to
back, and he's just well,angy, dude, you have to really
baby pierce when you first get them. Well, ear piercings. I was
thinking, like when I got mysecond holes done, took forever to heal,

(43:07):
and I know cartilage takes a longtime to heal. Yeah, I've
never had it, but I alwayswanted my cartilage done, but I am
so grateful that I didn't do anything. I had a really hard time with
ear piercings. I would they wouldget infected so easily. And then finally
I went when I got my bellybutton pierced, I had them pierced my
ears too, and I haven't hadany issues ever since. Like it was

(43:30):
the stuff from Claire's that was notdoing well. You know, my body
rejects fake jewelry. I think that'swhat it is. Well, it's but
also when you get a piercing,you're supposed to keep it extremely clean.
So it's just fascinating to me thatit's mid training camp, and you would
decide to go get four new piercings. Yeah, dude, you're gonna sweat.
Oh I don't get it. Butthe eyebrow piercing, I didn't know

(43:53):
we were really still doing that.But when I was young, the one
piercing I wanted the most was eyebrow. Did you ever get her? No?
Thank god, Lorie O'Brien, ifyou're listening, thank you. I
remember stating in the kitchen, justbegging my mom to take me into this
eyebrow piercing. How old were you, I don't know, probably middle school.
Will you remember back in the dayour girl Jenny Jones? Oh yeah,

(44:15):
the talk show? Yeah? Andwho else would have this? Would
it be like out of control teens? They would just have people come on
and talk about their piercings that theywere No, it was it was the
parents were bringing the kids on andabout the piercings. And I just remember,
Wow, that eyebrow ring looked socool, and Genesis from Real World

(44:38):
Boston had it too, and Iwas like, oh, I need that.
Could you imagine the scar from that? Oh? Yeah? But that
was just interesting to me. Howthe athletes, how the athletes do that?
Well, a couple of highlights fromepisode three. They show our guy
Dalvin Cook who went back to numberthirty three as oh Jenny, Oh so

(44:58):
they have him coming. Yeah,I need to watch it. But he's
only there for a very short timebecause he has to leave because he is
having a baby and she's getting induced. Oh so have common needs? Common
needs to talk about that? Ohgosh, I mean take take your job
seriously, man with hell and uhso I have Vin real quick. I

(45:25):
am surprised. I mean he wason the market for so long. I'm
surprised he took a one year deal. Maybe that was his only it must
have been his only option. ButI just thought, I know, it's
a running back thing, but onlyget a one year deal, I would
be disappointed. Yeah. So Ihave had a little bit of a change

(45:49):
of heart. Oh I know.Uh. Aaron Rodgers was the voice of
reason during their joint practice because everyonewas fighting and he's like, guys,
come on, seriously, what arewe doing here? And he wasn't.
It wasn't the Aaron Rodgers show thisepisode, and he was more of a

(46:13):
not supporting character, but he washe was not the focus. Yeah,
and he was much more likable andI was like, oh god, so
mad. I felt that way episodetwo too, because especially during the magic
show scene and stuff, he justseemed really kind of fun and laid back
and one of the guys, buta mentor one of the guys. And
I again, I you know,he's a master at this stuff, so

(46:36):
he could he knows the cameras areon, yes, But I think regardless,
it's he's having a fresh start somewhere. He's letting all of that resentment
go because he doesn't have to walkinto that building every day that he had
all these emotions about negatively, andhe's kind of starting fresh with relationships outside
of Nathaniel Hackett. Yeah, soit could be real. I don't know.

(46:59):
I didn't. I didn't hate him, and that's the first for me
in the last almost ye years.I know. I was like, okay,
And you know, they did theTalent Show in this episode, the
Rookie Talent Show, and my favoritewas Zaiyer Barnes. He's one of their
linebackers. He was singing Return ofthe Mac, which is one of my

(47:19):
favorite songs, so it was verygood. And then another guy can't remember
his name, he did a songby eminem and rapped and everyone was calling
him be Rabbit. It was veryfunny. But Aaron Rodgers like he seemed
like he was letting himself enjoy itand not he wasn't too good for anything
or bigger than anything or so Iwas like, oh, I hate it

(47:44):
here, but I was actually Ididn't. I didn't hate him. I
know, I haven't. Yeah,I gotta. I'll watch episode three now
because I do. I agree withyou. I don't want to agree with
you. But it also doesn't reallymatter anymore because we don't have to deal
with him anymore. The rain ofterror is gone. The only I mean,
obviously I didn't like him necessarily atall or as a person, but
it was just so delicious with thewith the drama for the Packers the last

(48:07):
few years, with the resentment thathe had built up. And now we're
not going to have that. Butwho cares, Like, I want the
guy to I want everybody to behappy at some point. Yeah. But
speaking of contracts, So the newrumor is so t J. Hockinson has
not been participating in team practices orteam drills. He's only been doing the

(48:28):
individuals. I didn't he have ahe's been there. It's been that there's
an ear infection and that it's messingup his equilibrium, which if you ever
had an ear infection you know canbe brutal. Ear infections are awful.
Yes, no wonder kids are sogratty when they're a little but I don't
think that they take weeks to clearup. And he's obviously feeling well enough

(48:52):
to do drills. Yeah, anduh So, the rumor now is starting
to become that there's more to itthan this, and that he's actually doing
this to kind of hold out forhis contract. He's showing up because he's
showing that he's still committed to theteam, but he's not going to play
in any contact until he has anextension. And I'm starting to believe that,

(49:14):
Yeah, that would make sense.He says, of course, that
it's that it's not when he's beenasked, but I don't know. I
really hope that they figure that out. Quaisy hasn't really committed to anyone long
term yet, and they have alot coming up with Justin Jefferson, but
I don't want them to not havehim signed at the end of this year.

(49:36):
We need him, and they they'regonna have to pay him a lot
of money. Otherwise they just canfranchise tag him, but then you run
the risk of making him upset andnot wanting to resign here the next year.
So and he seemed like he likedbeing here for the back half of
last year. I'm sure that hedoes. But he's smart and that this
is his time to get his bigcontract totally. And I don't think he

(50:00):
is gonna get paid like Travis Kelseyamount of money. No, but he
doesn't want to be still on thisrookie deal and then maybe get franchise tagged
instead of hitting the market. SoI hope they can figure something out.
Yeah. No, it would benice if they could figure that out because
we don't want him sitting out onSeptember tenth. Yeah, and I don't

(50:20):
know if he really will just straightup sit out. I don't think so,
because you know he's going to behitting the open market next year anyway.
But yeah, I hope that theyjust get that worked out because that
would be a great partnership. Andalso, we were talking about jerseys and
like, oh, I would getwould maybe my sister wants a TJ jersey.

(50:42):
I don't know. Why. Imean, Senna is not the world's
biggest football fan. I don't knowif you know that or not, but
yeah, for some reason last year, she's like, hey, can you
give me a T J. Hogginsin Jersey? I was like sure,
why? So, well, okay, so that's the that's our toy department.
Yes that. I didn't think wehad anything, but I hope,

(51:04):
I really hope they get that figuredout. Yes, that would be nice,
and yeah, what else? Whatelse? Well should we wrap this
up? I guess so. Sowe're not going to have a show next
week obviously? Are we having ashow that we kept it that? Yes,
because I get home on Tuesday thefifth, so it'll either be oh
but that's so that'll be the rightbefore the Vikings game. Yes, oh

(51:28):
wow, okay, so we gottaget our preseason. Yeah, yeah,
this is crazy. I know.We're here. We did it. We
made it through another winter and summerand now we're back. We're back.
We're back. So I'm gonna endon what inspired me for the day,

(51:51):
and it is a quote from AmyLee Mercury. I think that's how you
pronounce your last name, and it'skindness can transform someone's dark moment with a
blaze of light. You'll never knowhow much you're caring matters make a difference
for another today. So I hopeeveryone goes out and makes a difference in

(52:15):
someone's day, no matter how smallit is, because sometimes you just need
the smallest act of niceness and kindnessto make you believe that things aren't terrible.
So oh, and also the Gophersstart next week. We're gonna miss
that they play in Nebraska. Yeah, Nebraska. I forgot about that because
I'm not going to be here andobviously everything's about me. Golfers are going

(52:38):
to beat Nebraska twenty eight to fourteen. Oh all right, well I'm with
you there. Yes, And ifanyone is going to the Gopher game,
stop by her friend Nadine's tailgate.She puts it on for charity Leukemian Lumphoma
Society. It's a great cause.Yes there, beat a Pills will be
sponsored Seventh Avenue Pizza and Gray Duck. So yeah, definitely check that out

(53:04):
because they are not doing as manycharity tailgates this year, so they want
as many people there as possible.Yes, and even if you can't go,
you can Venmo. Nadine we bothhave tweeted out about it, and
we can do that again. Sowe won't stop doing it. We will
never we will never stop. Okay, well, roll the boats, guy,
you ma go, Gophers skul skull. Bye,