Hockey Dreams and European Travels

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Brandys and BS serves up a bold mix of real talk and ridiculousness. In this episode, we kick things off with the Minnesota Squatch hockey team’s big win and a quirky debate on voicemail etiquette—are we over-apologizing for missed calls?

Jay and family jet off to Italy, where ancient ruins, tiny cars, and unforgettable food set the stage for hilarious travel tales, including a chaotic soccer match experience that’s part culture shock, part comedy.

But the heart of the episode? A deep dive into helicopter parenting—from bus stop hand-holding to college micromanagement—and how it’s stunting young adults’ independence. We share stories, vent frustrations, and make the case for letting kids fail, grow, and figure it out.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
all right.
Hey, jay, we went to, uh, hellof a hockey game tonight.
Ohatch, yeah, and it's notUtica.
We've been wrong.
Well, I didn't know.
You follow us.
You follow us, we're going toNationals.
We're going to Nationals andit's in the town is called Wayne

(00:38):
, new Jersey.
It doesn't look like it.
It's kind of like Northwest,northwest of Newark.
They moved it from Utica, newYork.
Because I was doing a lot ofresearch on Utica, you kept
saying it was Utica.
Yeah, that's where it's beenthe last couple years.
Yeah, that's where theWoolworths was from.
Yeah, the Buckteeth, theBuckteeth, yeah, so, yeah, so

(00:59):
congratulations.
I'll do a shout-out to theSquatch Accident game tonight.
It actually was a pretty goodgame.
It was a good game.
They won last night 2-1 inovertime and tonight they won
5-2.
And they punched their ticketinto the Nationals in Wayne, new

(01:21):
Jersey.
So I think it will be at theend of the month and you can
subscribe online.
Go to the Squatch website I'mguessing this is
theminnesotasquatchcom orwhatever.
I don't think it's that andthen you go to the league Well,
their league, I don't know whattheir league is and then there's
a streaming service.
You can watch it live, becauseone of our former guests on the

(01:46):
show Jakers.
Well, there's a lot of Jakers,but eight Jakers was watching it
live in sunny Arizona.
Oh my God, it iswwwmnsquatchcom.
You can tell my age when I saythe www, can't you?
Does that mean you're old?
When you say WWW, that standsfor the World Wide Web.

(02:09):
I know what it stands for.
What's the HTTPS stand for?
I don't remember Trivia answer.
That's a good one, because it'sa weird one it is.
I saw it before and I don'tremember what it was.
What's the dot stand for?
Dot, or is it a period?

(02:30):
It's a period.
Actually, speaking of that, aperiod?
Yeah, no, dots and periods.
Okay, did you listen to myvoicemail today?
No, I didn't.
Did you leave me a voicemail?
What is wrong with you?
I didn't even sign it.
You don't look at my text andyou don't listen to my
voicemails.
I did not.

(02:51):
So the question I had was yousaid okay, so here's what you
said.
You said first off, you saw thevoicemail as hey, you reached
so-and-so's phone.
Thank you for calling.
Yeah, are you thanking?
Why are you thanking?
What if it's like a salespersonor like a?

(03:16):
What do you call those people?
A telemarketer?
Are you telling them thank you?
Well sure, I don't like talkingto them.
That means they're going tocall you back.
They do call back, but whywould you them thank you?
Well sure, I don't like talkingto them.
That means they're going tocall you back.
They do call back, but whywould you say thank you, you
don't want to talk to them?
No, they could be someinteresting people.
No, because I get and actuallyI've actually had some pretty
good conversations with people,I know.
But do you think it's necessaryto say thank you?

(03:38):
As long as?
What?
Thank you for calling me atthis number?
I don't know.
I don't know if I remembersaying that I was thinking about
it a lot today.
Actually, turn it off.
Let's listen to your voicemail.
No, because I don't know.
I think I'm playing this.
Hold on.
Yeah, you can play it.
I'm not here.
I don't care.
Hold on, this is live.
Are you really sorry that youmissed my call?

(04:00):
Oh, yeah, that was it.
I wasn't thinking.
I was sorry.
You're right.
Is it a tone or a beep?
Is it a tone or a beep?
Rewind it.
I said it wrong, you're right.
Are you really sorry that youmissed my call?
I don't know if you are.
Is it a tone or a beep.

(04:23):
Call me back.
No, you're upset, I missed thatvoicemail First of all.
First of all, I gave this a lotof thought today.
You gave that a lot of thought?
Yeah, because I startedthinking about it.
Why are we apologizing?
Why are you saying you're sorrythat you missed my call?

(04:44):
You're not sorry Because I useit for work.
It doesn't matter If a customercalls me.
I missed their call.
I feel bad.
I wish they would get theircall.
So then you said leave yourname and number and brief
message after the beep.
Is it a beep?
Is that what I said?
It's a beeper tone.

(05:04):
I think you said tone.
I changed my voicemail.
I think you said tone.
So I'm going back to you.
Know what you should do, what?
Just leave the computer and sayyou reached this number.
You know how it says.
Does yours do that?
I'm done with it Because, thinkabout it.
Why are we even leavingvoicemail?
I mean not leaving leaving.
Why are we having a greeting?
Do you know what, though?
You shouldn't have a greeting.
There was like the computer tosay no, no, I like the greeting.

(05:27):
No, I don't think there was aguy that I you don't need.
There was a guy that used tocall every once in a while for
for work things, and whenever aguy's voicemail, he changed it
every day and he would update itwith like a funny statement,
that's cool and a joke or somekind of thing every day and it
was funny as shit and I wouldleave a message every time
Because it just kind of I don'tknow it, just it was a clever

(05:51):
idea to get somebody to actuallyleave you a message for work
reasons.
Why do you want a message?
Wouldn't you just want to tell?
Wouldn't you want them just toknow that you'd call them?
So why don't you just let?
If for business, you wantpeople to leave a message, you
don't want people to just hangup and not call you back?
No, no, no, that's not what I'msaying.
So if you leave it as the, whatdo you call that?
What's the one that you callthat?

(06:14):
It's like the Movie phone.
No, no, no, the general.
It's like If you don't doanything, it just says your
number.
There's a word for that, Idon't know default, default,
yeah, the default.
So it just you're missing a lotof words tonight.
I know, are you okay?
No, so it would just say youhave reached and then it says

(06:34):
the phone.
The lady says the phone numberand it goes beep.
Yeah, right, no, why do we haveto leave a greeting?
Think about this.
It makes no sense.
I think it's better.
I like the greeting.
Do you like it when you callother people and they have a
long greeting, a long greeting?
Let me ask you this but if theyhave just a tone one, I usually

(06:57):
just hang up.
When you call a business, I'llhang up.
When you call a business, ifit's got a personal greeting on
on there, I usually leave amessage.
If it doesn't have personalgreeting, I usually just hang up
.
You've never left me a message.
I will.
I have to.
Okay, you might have.
Let me ask you this when youcall a business and my messages
are better than that, I know whywas that.
I was actually thinking that.

(07:17):
And um, when you call abusiness, you know what drives
me the worst.
On a business, they'll saythank you for calling XYZ
company.
Say our menu changed.
Yes, play a tentacle in theirbed.
I hate that.
Why are you going to tell meyour menu changed?
Just tell me the damn menu.
And just so you know the menu.
Recently our menu has changed.

(07:38):
Who cares?
Did the menu ever actuallychange?
Is that just a stretch?
It's got to be some researchout there that says that's just
how do you get somebody tolisten to the options?
Do you get that many calls,complaints, that you've got to
change it up?
So instead I just hit zero.
You know they don't let you hitzero anymore.
I know I usually just hit zero,zero, zero, zero because I want

(08:01):
to talk to a live person.
It hangs you up sometimes.
Now it hangs you up sometimes.
No, oh, I know It'll hang up onyou.
Oh, I know I call the state ofFlorida because I'm doing this
thing with the employment taxthing Long story from one of my
plays and I call and it leaves amessage saying we're
experiencing higher than what.

(08:21):
Are they not experiencing highervolume calls?
Wait a second.
And is this where they call youback?
That I like I do, but last timeI did that they they call back
to my office one number.
We picked it up, I said, andthey would hang up so I wait.
So then this time I waited for30 minutes, although two times
in a row I call and the ladywould say we're experiencing

(08:43):
higher volume, higher than usualvolume.
I know what you're saying.
Everybody listening knows whatyou're saying and you're
expected to hear okay, so it'sgoing to be a longer wait.
Please hang on, right?
Do you want to get a call back?
No, she goes.
So please try your call againlater.
Goodbye, no, this is the stateof Florida.

(09:04):
What?
Yes, no, I call back.
And then I call back that.
I've never.
I go all through the wholeprompts and everything, get that
thing on and then he goes.
Or this is a different guy, hegoes, or there's a recording
goes.
Your estimated wait time is 34minutes.
So I'm like well, I'm nothanging up now, so I just put it

(09:25):
on speaker.
Yeah, you get some work done,right, and I did get through and
I said oh my God.
I said I've been on hold, foryou said 34 minutes, it's been
42 minutes.
I said how can you guys do this?
I go, I can't find the form Ineed online.
And I said the other companiestell me to do this, you tell me
to call this company.

(09:45):
I said I'm just getting suckedaround, flapped around and all
this.
It's a racket, it's highlyrobbery, it's government for you
.
They're not very efficient.
At any rate, I got through that, but it's just interesting to
me.
I don't know if you need.
The point is I don't know ifyou need to have a greeting me
with your.
I don't know if you need.
The point is I don't know ifyou need to have a greeting.
I'm thinking that I'mpro-greeting.

(10:06):
I don't care, I know I was.
I'm rethinking it, though.
I think maybe nobody should.
You're going to go back?
Nobody should do greetings.
Why it all started with thestupid answer machines.
We don't need to make all theseBecause you know, just say the
phone number so you confirm.
He used to have the old answermachine.

(10:26):
You used to leave me messageson my answer machine for like 30
minutes and you'd see theentire tape.
We didn't have tape like themini tapes.
I was like that was like thefancy ones too, the fancy ones
with the mini tapes.
I did that, the old school oneswhen I had that.
The old school one has like thefull tape, the full cassette
tape, yeah, and I had the fancyone with the small mini cassette

(10:46):
tape.
I know that was pretty awesome.
I tried to fill it up.
You damn near did.
I think a few times Back whenDuke.
That was back in the 90s, thatwas back in Bill Clinton days.
Yeah, I'd say I did not havesexual relations with that woman
.
Ms Lewinsky, yeah, she's got apodcast now.
Oh, does she?
Or she was on one.
Maybe she was on.

(11:06):
Was that the guy's name?
Podcast she was, I saw.
What the hell did I see?
Wasn't she defending him?
No, recently.
No, she was on a podcast.
I think she was starting her ownpodcast, but she did.
She was talking about, about,like how she thought like he was
going to leave Hillary and shewas going to be the new first

(11:30):
lady, and kind of crap.
Just like bizarre thinking, Iguess I don't know.
Oh, okay, hey, oh, did I tellyou by the way?
Hey, I just want to say alittle and, by the way, I want,
hey, I just want to do say alittle.
And, by the way, yeah, by theway, I want to say something um
out to our listeners.
I want to thank all our newestand recent newest listeners.

(11:55):
I've been getting a lot offeedback from a lot of new
listeners that they're reallyenjoying the uh, the podcast.
So all you guys, you know whoyou are.
You reached out.
I may or may not have responded, or we may or may have not.
You know what I'm saying.
Let me start over.
We may or may have notresponded, but we appreciate all

(12:17):
the new listeners.
Thank you, go to Brandy's.
Yeah, if you want to reach outto us, go to
eddyandjayatbrandiesandbscom.
E-d-d-y-a-n-d-j-a-y atbrandiesandbscom and I think we
may have gotten some people with.
I think we may have done anearlier show or something about

(12:40):
throw some recipes with the Eand J.
I'm not sure.
I think we did.
Yeah'm not too sure I think wedid.
Yeah, we talked about it.
I think we did talk about it.
I want to go get all thedifferent E&Js.
I want to do a sampling thing.
That is my thing.
I'm going to set that up one ofthese times.
I think I got one, but I have noidea.
But now I can't find it.
It's on the.
I've got to be honest with you,though I'm not really looking

(13:02):
forward to that, because I don'tlike the vanilla one.
I got one here.
Hang on, it's too much vanillaman.
The VS no, I don't like thatone.
Yeah, the VSOP.
But there's got to be a goodrecipe out there.
You can use it with something.
I had one here that one of ourlisteners sent in and I thought
not very good at this socialmedia stuff.

(13:22):
There's a lot of.
At any rate, you know who youare and I saw it, and it was not
a brandy Manhattan, it wassomething else similar to that.
I don't know.
I'll tell you.
I don't know, I'll find iteventually.
I think it's Actually.
I know who sent it.
To be honest, I'll get it inthe next break and I'll remind

(13:44):
you.
Well, you know who you are andthank you.
It was, geez, hit pause for onesecond.
We're going to pause it whileyou look for the.
Yeah, just one second, allright, all right.
So so yeah, we got one from anavid listener.
It was called a Perky's OldFashioned.

(14:04):
I'm sorry, from an avidlistener.
It was called a Perky's OldFashioned, I'm sorry.
Was it Perky's?
Perky's Like Perky boobs?
No, it's a Wisconsin familyrecipe.
So is it?
Perky's is the name?
I thought this was an ENJ one,but maybe we asked if they were.
Maybe I should get my factsright here.

(14:25):
I don't have my glasses on so Ican't read very good, but
anyways, the idea's there.
I don't know where you're goingwith that.
I don't either, but you canimagine.
It's like Tommy, or not?
Tommy Boy?
What's that?
Billy Madison that gets on thebus that Miss Veronica Vaughn is
one fine piece of ass and hegoes.

(14:46):
I know from experience no, youdon't.
Well, I know a guy that knows.
I know a guy, no, you don'tWell, you can imagine.
So it's kind of like that.
I didn't get all the facts.
I probably should have donethat a little bit more research
before I did it.
But however, the point is stillthe same a little bit more
research before I did it.
However, the point is still thesame.
Thank you for sending your.

(15:07):
If you guys got some goodrecipes for E&J or just brandies
, it doesn't have to be E&J,although that's what we prefer,
but you can do any kind ofbrandies.
Send us a recipe At E&J atBrandsBScom.
You know they had.
I found that airport bar atBrandsBScom, you know they had.
I found that airport bar at ENJ, you did.

(15:28):
You sent me a thing on that.
You sent me a picture of that.
Did we post I think that it'sat the diner, I think that thing
I posted on the line too.
I could not believe it.
I started crying, did you?
Oh, speaking of that, becauseyou were on an airplane, because
you went over to Europe, I wentto Italy, italy.
Yeah, I posted one.

(15:48):
I did a brandy on one of thebars.
They had brandy down there overin Italy.
No, why wouldn't they?
Because they don't even have itin Vegas or in Nashville or
Florida.
I'm not saying like E&J, theyhave it in Paris.

(16:10):
They have E&J in Paris At E&J.
Yes, you went to a bar andactually had E&J.
I did, daryl did.
Really it wasn't at a bar, itwas at a liquor store.
Oh, yeah, you were.
That was persia's, france.
So yeah, yeah, okay.
So how'd you like?
How'd you like europe?
It was good.
It's good to be home, though Iwouldn't live there.
It was nice, it was good times,good people.

(16:32):
I mean, they're kind of well,they're okay people.
Some are good, some are not sogood.
Yeah, that's anywhere you gothough, right, but it was very
good food and, uh, you know thesites and stuff.
Seeing all that history wascool.
But yeah, I wouldn't, I wouldnever go again.
I would recommend everyonegoing there once.

(16:53):
In checking all this stuff out,I would say, if you have a hard
time walking, don't go, orhiking, I would not recommend
going because it is Well.
I suppose they did have somegolf cart tours or bus tours,
but for the most part you'rewalking a lot, but it was nice.
Why would you not just drive?

(17:14):
There's too much traffic.
It's like New York City, romehad like 3 million people.
I've never been to New YorkCity, though, either.
I've kind of avoided some ofthose places like where you see
all like the um, the boat, likelike when we saw like the
coliseum, that was crazy cool.
Like outside, it's like what doyou see?
But after, like, you see it forlike two minutes, I guess

(17:36):
they're staring at it for awhile.
Right, I'm like, okay, it'sjust you think of all these
buildings that they, how oldthey are and how they did all
this stuff.
It's's crazy, and pictures donot do justice.
You've got to see it in personJust for the sheer size of it
kind of thing.
The size and how old.
And how could they do that withno modern equipment?

(17:56):
It's just nuts.
They just rebuilt the.
It's nuts, that one church thatburnt down.
What the hell is the name of it?
That's, in France, notre Dame,I don't know.
They're actually redoing thatColiseum.

(18:18):
When they rebuilt Notre Dame,they did it all with old hand
tools.
They tried to do it as originalas they could, to the old days
I thought it was prettyinteresting.
Well, so, like the Coliseum, Iwas looking at it because it was
falling down, so they put a newbrick wall.
Did you just say, well, youknow, because it's falling down

(18:40):
and stuff, I've never been there.
No, well, they put like this,like brick thing, that, because
they put an elevator.
So we didn't go inside it.
I ain't painting, can you getan elevator?
Yeah, and they put it's likethe new, you can see, like they,
they, they like tied it in, butthey try to make it look old.
But it was.
You could tell it's more modern,right, and this one, well, they

(19:02):
didn't have elevators back then.
I'm pretty sure they don't haveelectricity, yeah, yeah, but
I'll say like, like the statuesand like the sistine chapel, all
that stuff, and like we went to, uh, well, we went to all the
temple that'd be, we went to allthe things and like uh, uh, uh,
where the pope is at all thatthat stuff.

(19:23):
It's cool.
I'm not going to lie, it ispretty cool to be there and see
all that stuff.
It's pretty crazy.
And the size, it's just crazyhow they can, how do they do all
that?
You're like these churches arelike just massive and they have
statues up there.
How do they do that?
When it's like 1,500 years oldor whatever it Like?

(19:44):
How did they do that, you know,when it's like 1,500 years old
or whatever it's like, how didthey do that?
But after about like 20 minutesI'm like let's go to the bar.
But the food is great.
That surprises me, because Idon't like food that's not from
the US that much.
Oh, this is way better.
The pasta and the pizza it'sunbelievable.

(20:08):
I think it's because when I waseating I was trying to figure
out what was the best to eat.
I think it's because of theflavor you feel like when you're
eating it.
You know when you watch what'sthe ball?
Zimmer on the food, andrewZimmer, andrew Zimmer, yeah,
he's great.

(20:29):
He eats some weird shit though,I know, but he describes stuff
like he describes the flavorright.
So this stuff is Well fine.
I don't know him, but thedifference is, when I go to a
restaurant here, I'm like, oh,this is good, this tastes good.
Right, this is good stuff, Ilike it here.

(20:49):
But there you get it.
You can taste the flavors of,like the sauces.
You're like, oh, I can tastethat, but I can taste this.
I don't know how to explain it.
It's like I felt like I was afood critic Because it was more
homemade.
Right, it's all homemade, andthey make homemade noodles.
I think you can get thathomemade stuff here Well, you

(21:10):
probably could, or do ityourself.
But oh God, it was so good.
It was so good, I'm not kidding, it was so good, but it was
rich, so you couldn't eat a lot.
It was rich.
And the vino and the vino, oh,the wine is so good, and not
even a wine drinker, it was sogood.
The meats and the cheeses andthe Olives, olives, oh my God,

(21:34):
the Olives.
So good, so good.
We had such a good.
It was a good time.
It was a good time.
It was good to be home, though Idon't think anybody works over
there, unless you're in therestaurant business, the taxi or
Uber or whatever, or the hotelor the hospitality.
I would say you think it's alltourists.

(21:54):
They can't be all tourists.
No, even the Italians are like.
The other thing is they allsmoke.
They all smoke cigarettes orthose vape things with a
cigarette in it.
Everyone smokes A vape thingwith a cigarette in it.
Yeah, it was somethingdifferent.
You remember in those old showsthat the rich lady would have a
thing and they'd have acigarette in it.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's kindof like that.

(22:15):
But a lot of those people allsmoke cigarettes A lot of them,
really, I almost bought a packbecause I wanted to fit in.
I actually had a cigar lastnight.
No, not cigars, no, I had acigar, though I can't do
cigarettes now.
No, it was, but I've had acigar forever and I was just
like I stopped at the liquorstore and they had them sitting

(22:36):
there and it was that storm wassupposed to come in last night.
It was like a light show.
When I was going home, right,oh yeah, it was lightning on.
It was like a light show, yeah,I know.
So I was like I was at theliquor store, I saw the light
show.
I'm like You're going to sit onthe deck and have a.
I'm going to sit on the deckand have a stogie.
Do you like a stogie?
It was pretty good.
It was one of my favorite ones.

(22:57):
I like a Rocky Patel, it waspretty good.
Yeah, those guys like to smoketheir cigarettes.
Yeah, yeah, but it's cool.
The only other thing I'll say is, like, when you go to all these
.
Like we were in Milan, which Iliked, and I liked Florence, we
were in Rome, you know when.
In Rome, right, we said that alot.

(23:18):
But like these alleyways are socool, did you say that a lot?
Oh, yeah, I said like every 10,20 minutes, I go.
Well, when in Rome we'll justhave one, but they have so many
like restaurantes, like everylike 10 feet in these alleys.
These buildings are likethere's no trucks out there.
These are all smart little carsBecause you go down and there's

(23:42):
no room.
They're so narrow these roads.
I suppose the roads in thecities are also old.
They didn't have cars then.
Right, no, yeah, right, no,it's crazy.
It's like narrow.
I mean, everybody walked orrode a horse or something, so
the roads are small.
And then the other thing isthere's so many restaurantes or
little bars everywhere you walkfrom here to the bathroom, you

(24:04):
get moved by two bars orrestaurants everywhere,
everywhere, small town bars.
So I liked it.
That was kind of good.
The Irish bars were the best.
But you're in Italy, I know itwas great.
So the Irish are taking overItaly now.
Is that what you're trying tosay?
Well, no, I think they had more.
Well, yeah, they had.
They were Irish, but the peopleweren't the Italian.

(24:26):
I don't know, it was weird.
It was weird, I don't know.
It was cool.
We had a good time.
I'm glad to be home, but it wasgood.
Shit, I liked it.
Yeah, well, let's make a quickcocktail.
We'll get back into somethingelse.
I could use another drink.
All right, sounds good.

(25:02):
Well, hey, welcome back.
Sorry, I'm flipping through somestuff here, but what were you
talking about before we went tobreak?
Well, I guess I was saying butyou should probably do
Buzzsprout, oh yeah.
So yeah, if you guys want tostart your own podcast, like
Bill Clinton's, monica Lewinskyor others, go check out

(25:26):
Buzzsprout.
It gets you on the line and itputs it out on all the platforms
.
It's super easy to use, easy toupload to.
It's got AI and stuff there.
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You know what I was thinkingabout and, on there, what I'm
gonna talk about my little trip,like for like two more minutes,
just real quick.
I went to my first everfootball game, soccer.
Yeah, yeah, it was 80.

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I thought you played soccer inelementary school.
No, I played soccer, but thiswas like 80 or 90,000 people in
the stadium.
So I'm going to tell you alittle story.
So was it more than you had inelementary school?
No, no.
Do you think your dad actuallyhad fun watching you play soccer
?
He coached me a couple times,did he really?
Yeah, really yeah, I can't seehim doing that.

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Yeah, nobody else.
He was looked at as anoutstanding sister in the
community, like I was.
That's how you get roped in.
No, he coached and then heplayed me all the time because
that was great, because I wasthe coach's kid, but I was good,
but anyways, but anyways.
So when you get to the arena sofirst of all, I don't know if I

(26:53):
told you this, who was I talkingto?
Anyways, I get to the arena, orwe get there, and I guess when
you go to the football games yougotta gamble.
So we go into this gamblingplace, we're having beers, me
and Daryl's buddy, we'll justpost some bets, yeah, so we go

(27:13):
in there.
We're like so nobody speaksEnglish, everyone speaks Italian
.
Well, you're in Italy, yeah.
And so we're going to Milan andwe're playing.
They have two teams in Milan.
We keep saying Milan.
I keep thinking of that AdamSandler movie.
They're all dressed up at theleague, there is a lot of
fashion there, but anyways.

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So they're playing the worstteam in the league.
So we're like Cam, we can't readthe damn Because it's like a
computer screen.
You've got to put the bets inthat way, right, sure, and
there's not, like, a personthere that's helping you.
Yeah, so we can't speak English, we can't read it because it's
all in Italian.
So then we finally findsomebody that wants to help us

(27:57):
that speaks English, and we kindof figure it out.
Who was Daryl there before?
I mean, he's been there, he'sbeen there for like three.
He wasn't gambling, it wasDaryl's buddy.
So he was his buddy, are inthere and we're trying to figure
it out.
I'm like, well, I'm going to put$100 down.
He goes yeah, all right, let'sdo it Might as well.
And I said, okay.
So we got the two bets in andthen I'm like well, this one,

(28:20):
this guy who's a defenseman, ifhe were to score.
It's 45 to 1.
Right, but he's like their bestplayer.
I'm like let's do it.
It's to play in the worst team.
Did you win 45 to 1 at 100bucks?
No, we won 2 out of 3 bets.
The first 2 we won, he hit thepost 3 times.

(28:42):
This guy.
He hit the post 3 times andhe's a defenseman, so you're
getting into the game then.
Oh my god, so I won.
Like I think we won.
He's a defenseman, so you'reactually getting into the game
then.
Oh my God, right.
So I won.
Like I think we won $90 on a$100 bet.
We would have won 90 plus well,100 times, well, whatever it

(29:03):
was times 45.
We would have won $1,000.
Yeah, $4,500.
Yeah, and we were inches.
It was awesome.
But what team did you watch?
It was the Milan's first placeteam.
It was called Central.
I think I've seen Ted Lasso.
There's like levels of thisbefore, right, it's hard to

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understand.
I only watched.
It's a pyramid.
It's like we don't know.
I don't think we were in thePremier League, but we're in the
second Premier League.
Oh, the Premier, that's whatit's called.
I don't know, I think we're inthe second, but these guys were
good.
They were pretty good, hey, butTed Lasso, he didn't make the
Premier League the second year.
It's so confusing.

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I I'm getting to the whole pointFirst of all.
So we get done betting me andhis buddy, and we're drinking
beers.
So I'm like you've got to havea vulture.
So I'm like I need a vulture.
It's like this Think of like agas station that sells beer, but
there's no gas outside thestadium and I'm like, and they

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don't speak hardly any English.
I'm like I need to put a hundred.
How do I put money into thismachine?
Do they even take us currency?
He goes they need a.
Well, I had euros.
So then they're like you need avoucher.
I said, well, give me a hundreddollars in euros or for a
voucher, okay.
And so I go up to go.
I go how's it work?

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Well, I go, how's it work?
Well, that's not for that one,that's for the casino.
I'm like what the shit?
So what did you do with thevoucher?
Did they sell it back to you?
Yeah, I bought it back and Igot the right thing.
And I got it.
We made it work, or whatever.
We made it work.
We got it work because some guy, an Italian guy, helped us.
So we got it all figured and wegot our ticket.

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So we're like okay.
So we go back outside.
Were these Italians reallycharming guys?
No, isn't that the thing?
They're not.
The guy we talked to was supernice.
So we go outside to the picnicand we're drinking beers before
the game and they're alllaughing at us having a good
time.
One dude is like a bald-headedbig dude and he wants to fight.
You could just tell I felt thetension, right.
And the guys at Darryl andeveryone else, they're like cool

(31:19):
.
They're like, hey, we want toask some questions about the US.
And they kept calming him,trying to calm him down, and
they're like I could tell Icouldn't understand what he was
saying, but I know what he wassaying.
Yeah, but they're US.
Oh, he didn't like the US.
Huh, no, and I was like I waslooking at him like I think I

(31:42):
could take him.
I'm going to have to, right, Imean, he was a bigger guy, but
I'm like I think I could takehim as long as his friends.
So then I'm looking around, likewell, darryl and his friends,
they're okay.
I'm like you guys take this,but Darryl and his friends have
been drinking for a while.
Yeah, but Nags was even like Idon't know if that guy is liking
us.
I'm like I don't think he does.
He's trying to get want Becauseit's before the game.

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He's like talking shit.
I think so, but not to us, butto his friends to tell us Like
he would rip it off and we'rejust being friendly, right,
right, we don't know anybody,right, everyone else, all those
other people.
So we saw you in shit becauseyou're from the US, you can't
understand it, right, but I feltit.
I felt it and I kept looking athim and he would look at me and

(32:23):
I'm like and he's smoking, sohe's going to last about 25
seconds, he's going to besucking wind, so I can get him
fired up, as long as he doesn'thave a knife, but I'm like, so
anyway, at least there's thatit's not like the US where you
get him a gun.
You just got to worry about theknives.
Anyways, his buddies, the guysthat were up front, were super

(32:46):
cool, so they helped us.
They were being like you guysneed to go here, here, here,
okay, fine, so we get to thegame and we're like 10 minutes
late, yeah, because we're up atthe top.
You're going to get betterseason, then we had a pretty
good season.
We're front row on the top Notvery top, but towards the top.
And so the thing is so you know,when you go to like the NHL

(33:09):
games around here or theMinnesota Vikings or the Wild
game, and you go get a beer andyou come up, they will not let
you down until the whistle blows.
Right, right, right.
They're like wait, so we gotour beers.
It's like two minutes into thesoccer game.
Do they have the guys that goup and down the bleachers?
Like the stairs?
First of all, they're steeperstairs, they're steep, and

(33:32):
there's 90,000 people here andso everyone's, so it's like
twice as many as an average NFLgame.
Yes, right.
And so I'm like why iseverybody sitting down?
And kind of, in our sectionthey're serious, right.
They're like everyone's sittingin their chairs, nobody's
standing.
So I'm like well, we've got towait until a whistle blows.

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The lady that is working at thestadium, she's yelling at us in
Italian.
We're like what the hell istheir problem?
We're sitting all at the topwaiting, right.
She's like I don't know whatyou're saying, we don't know
what you're saying.
And she's just furious andshe's like finally she can go
into English.
She goes you guys need to sitdown.

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I'm like, well, we're waitingfor the whistle.
She goes no, right now youdon't stand up here.
You go, don't sit down.
I'm like it's the exactopposite of the US, oh really.
And we.
She goes numbers are numbers.
Yeah, but it was.
Well, we didn't know whatsection it was or whatever.
So finally she walked us downto the front row and we're the

(34:37):
only ones.
There's like eight of us andwe're all standing and
everyone's sitting down andwe're causing a scene and we're
in the front row.
I'm like we're going to die andthere's only two seats
available for eight of us.
Hmm, well, these people spreadout and we're in the front row
on the rail Right.
Well, it turns out they allkind of spread out and

(34:59):
everyone's like yelling at usbecause we're standing up Trying
to get your seats and you'relate.
I know, I don't know.
So you show up to the soccergame late.
We're only two minutes late,and so Everybody's been in their
seat for half an hour.
Thank God.
I've already had like 30 beers.
There's two dudes I hope hemight be listening to our
podcast this dude from LA, he'sfrom Compton or wherever.

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Did he speak Italian.
He spoke English.
He goes.
Hey man, me and my dad werehere.
We were sitting there, big guy,they slid over, we got in, we
sat down.
I'm like geez, this is serious,they don't mess around here.
But on the ends like on the oneend of the home team, they got
their flags going.
Everyone was standing upsinging.
They sang the whole game.
Oh really, the other side, theaway team, had like a smaller

(35:47):
section.
They were doing their flanks sothey sang their chants the
whole game.
But in our section and most ofthe sections you don't stand up.
So we're right on the 50-yardline kind of thing.
Yeah, you're like center, rollhigh up.
Well, I can show you the video,but it's probably, if you're

(36:13):
thinking like the Vikings play,I would sayikings play, I would
say the first or the secondlevel.
Oh okay, that's decent.
Yeah, we were decent.
You could see everything.
Good, those are probably goodseats they were.
So you're, you're bad.
You're probably like why?
Why do we have all theseamericans in here?
They didn't like us.
Yeah, I thought we're gonna die.
I said this is gonna be aproblem.
Was nags with you?
Oh, yeah, we were going to die.
I said this is going to be aproblem Was Nags with you.
Oh yeah, we were all there, butthe guy from LA, he was from

(36:36):
South Central.
You know what.
He was so cool.
There was a video I saw what daywas it, I think it was on
Twitter, the Twitter videos andthey were like Matt Damon and he
married some chick from Spain,or something like that.
That was a hot like, you know,whatever.
He's like hey, I want to go toa football game or soccer, you
know.
And the guy's like, mmm, okay,I'd take it, but no kids, no

(36:59):
children.
So they went to the thing, buthe wouldn't let him take any
women or children with becausehe got too freaking crazy there
at the soccer match.
So it's like a thing.
Those guys just get completelycrazy, from what I understand,
right?
I don't know.
Yeah, it was nuts, and for me,growing up in Minnesota, I could

(37:24):
give two shits about soccer.
Soccer sucks.
Well, a lot of people stilllike it here, but it was very
entertaining, it was very good,it was fun.
I'm glad I went.
What part was fun about it,though?
Was it the actual atmosphere,or was it people running back
and forth in the field?
Well, the problem is like whenI said this, I said this was
your thing.
Was it 0-0 or 0-1?

(37:46):
No, we were down 2-0.
When I say we Milan was down 2-0, when I say we Milan was down
2-0 right away, and the team wasnumber one versus the worst
team, and they're down 2-0.
And I'm like we're going tolose our bet.
Was Milan the worst one or thebetter one?
No, milan's like number one,okay, in the whole league.
Oh, really, and they're playingthe worst team in the whole
league and they're down 2-0.
Oh, was down the other end andthey had two shots and then both

(38:10):
shots went in.
Really, and we had like ahundred shots on the other end.
I'm like, but they don't shootenough.
So the goalie was good.
No, they just screwed up twiceand they capitalized, but then
they won 3-2.
Which didn't matter, because ithelped us win our bats, right.
But then I couldn't cash in.
Why?

(38:30):
Because we go't cash in.
Why, because we go to cash in,and the place was close.
Well, we were leaving the nextday.
Oh, no shit.
So we went back to our Airbnband we went to the local bar
that we made friends at andthey're like hey, you guys are
here.
I'm like yeah, hey, hey.
I said hey, I won this bet.
You guys got to buy it.
And they're like no, I'm notpaying that much, so I end up

(38:53):
selling it for half price.
Oh shit, no way, yeah, soyou're like 40 euros for a $90
winner.
Yeah, sucked, what are yougoing to do?
It's better than nothing.
Well, yeah, I didn't know.
I didn't know how all that shitworked, but it was pretty cool.

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I don't know, europe's not onmy list.
That's not my thing to do.
I don't know why.
For some reason, the 16thChannel would be kind of cool to
see and the Coliseum would bekind of cool to see.
That was cool.
Other than that, I don't knowif there's much over there.
I don't know, I'm soAmericanized, I don't know.
It's not my thing.
No, well, it wasn't my thing.
I went to win if my son wasn'tthere, but it was pretty cool.

(39:34):
I'm glad I went.
I would never go again.
That's the thing it's like.
It was like when I saw one ofthe is it seven wonders of the
world?
Which one is that?
It was the Coliseum.
I don't care if I see itanymore.
You got to go to India.

(39:55):
Taj Mahal, oh, taj Mahal is oneof them.
Yeah, yeah, do you know?
I know all these?
No, I don't Overboard from 19-.
I know we talked about it, ofcourse, great movie, by the way,
the putt-putt overboard wasgreat movie.
I watched that like all thetime.
I don't know, but it's not likeit's been on a lot lately.

(40:15):
I know I've seen it for a whilenow.
Yeah, is it?
I mean, I don't know.
I mean, honestly, when you lookat the pictures, so what I
explained to it, what I think,what I thought of it, how is the
best way to explain it?
So, like you've been to lasvegas?
Yeah, the strip, no, how, allthese buildings are just massive

(40:37):
, right, and they're cool.
And you, when you first getthere, you're like, holy crap,
this shit's bigger than youthink of.
That's what it's like there.
But there's, it's, that's whatit's like.
But after like 30 minutes,you're like I mean, it was all
interesting, I liked it, but Iwould never go back.
I remember the pyramids wouldbe more interesting.

(40:59):
Yeah, I'd like to see those too.
That's crazy.
Yeah, but you look at some ofthese.
I can show you that was allaliens, right?
Just kidding, just kidding, butanyways.
Yeah, oh, there's one laststory.
Just kidding, just kidding, butanyways, yeah, oh, there's one
last story I want to tell aboutthe whole trip.
Alright, and then we move on,do that, and then I gotta go

(41:19):
take a pee dude, we'll make anew drink.
So this is about the airport.
Which airport?
Boston, us?
Or okay, oh, so on your wayhome?
Yeah, in Boston.
Okay, no wait, let me think.
Boston, us.
Or Okay, oh, so on your wayhome?
Yeah, in Boston.
Okay, no wait, let me think.
Have I been to Boston Airportbefore?
I think I have no Pittsburgh.

(41:42):
Where have I been?
I've been over there before.
It might have been Rome, on theway back to Boston.
Wait a second, I don't knowwhich one.
It doesn't matter which one.
These were American citizens,okay, whatever.
Yep, all right, I don't know.
I think it was Boston.
Yeah, it was, I'll take it back.
It was Boston.
I'll remember because I knowfor a fact it was Boston.

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So, on the way back, we wereflying from Rome to Boston and
Boston to Minneapolis, right,okay.
So we had like 30 minutes.
We didn't even go to the bar,we were just like well, I'll
just sit here and chill until soI look across.
There's this family.
He's probably, I would say inhis 30s, him and his wife, and

(42:30):
they had a baby.
Sure, yeah, well, he drove aSubaru.
So you see, what was this guy'sproblem?
So what do you think?
Well, there's a lot of things.
So you know, he drove a Subaru.

(42:51):
So he sits across from us.
He's got the largest.
Was he with the Wiccan Edgehere or something, or what I
don't know?
I don't?
Yeah, well, he had the largestWith his wife and kid.
There they were.

(43:11):
Would you say granola, wouldthat be a term that our
listeners would understand?
And he might have been a niceguy.
I'm not saying that.
Wait, wait, wait.
What are you trying to rip onthis guy for?
Because he's gay or he's Well,is that bad?
Whatever, let me.
Okay.
So he's sitting across from meand he's looking at me and he

(43:34):
crosses his leg like a woman.
You know how you do that type,which, whatever, whatever.
So then he's got the you knowthe Taj Mahal of strollers it's
like bigger than my car and theygot a little baby.
And so then he's got thebackpacks, of course, you know,

(44:00):
and they pull up.
I had a backpack.
I had a backpack, I had mylaptop in there, I had my hats
in there.
I carry my backpack with me.
I do too.
I carry my backpack with mylaptop and shit in there.
He says, pulling snacks out ofhis backpack.
What?
Not just snacks.

(44:21):
Applesauce yes, applesauce.
And Tupperware Salad nodressing.
Wait, wait, the house and hehad a Tupperware salad no
dressing, wait, wait.
I have so many questions.
Were you in the bar right now?
You said the bar, you're doingthis, you can't bring this up in
the bar.
No, I wasn't in the bar.
Well, first of all, why weren'tyou in the bar?

(44:42):
Well, because we were going togo to the bar but we had like 20
minutes and I had to use therestroom and I came back and
then we're down like 15 minutes.
I don't think we had enoughtime and it looked like a dazed
bar.
You have no time to get a beer.
I probably could have, but wehad free drinks on the plane.
So the point, it's what,meeting the people?

(45:02):
Right, you gotta make an effort.
We were gonna.
And then we got to the partwhere I was like, eh, anyways,
but we did not.
But we had like we should have.
Okay, the guy has a saffron in aTupperware bowl with a metal

(45:23):
fork.
Well, how does that go.
I have so many questions.
How do you get that throughsecurity?
You can't bring water through,but you can bring a metal fork
through, or any fork for thatmatter.
I don't like.
Why is he bringing?
Where did he get the salad from?
First of all, where did he getthe salad from?
Can you bring a salad across?

(45:43):
I don't know, but I don't knowwhere he came from.
We're going from Boston,minneapolis.
Why is he eating the salad?
And it was huge.
It was a Tupperware, it washomemade, it came out of his
backpack and how warm was it?
Well, it could have been.
It could be like chilled.
I guess I can see that.
Wait, no, stop, what do youmean?
It's chilled.

(46:04):
He didn't have ice in hisbackpack.
Tupperware has like.
No, it's not like Tupperwarefrom a restaurant, it's from his
kitchen, his one bedroomapartment, like Tupperware, like
ice built into it, like alittle Like a double wall kind
of thing.
Like I have one of those thingsfor like Hard boiled eggs.
So the tray you freeze.

(46:25):
That wasn't the case here.
I don't know, I'm just throwingit out there.
I'm trying to defend this poorguy you ripped the shit out of.
Well, he kept staring.
What's his name?
I probably.
Did you not talk to him?
No, he was sitting across fromme.
Why would you not talk to him?
Well, I was going to.
You should ask him.
I'm getting to the bigger point.
All right, he had on New Bells.

(46:48):
No, I don't know.
I said whose shoes he had on.
You've listened to this podcastbefore.
Whose shoes?
Mm-hmm, what do you mean?
I don't know what.
That is what my eye doctorshoes on?
Oh, terrible, terrible shoes.

(47:10):
He was wearing those loafers.
Yes, he had Terrible.
He was wearing those loafers.
Yes, he had like no socks.
He had floods on Low whitesocks.
But he had low white socks onthe loafers and he had floods on
and he had his legs crossedover like a woman.
And he's chomping on this saladwith no dressing on it.
It was just dried lettuce andtomato.
I think there was carrots inthere too, and that was it.

(47:30):
It was just dry lettuce andtomato.
I think there was carrots inthere too, and that was it.
And it was like this big Get aranch, get a ranch.
It's just a point.
I'm probably being a littlejudgy.
You are being a little judgy,but it's okay.
I don't mind this one because weget to Minneapolis.
I'd much rather be on theairplane with food.
We get to Minneapolis at thebaggage check and they checked a

(47:52):
bag to the carousel that wassmaller than anyone that would
ever fit up in the overhead.
Yeah, yeah, smaller than acarry-on For the two of them and
their baby.
It was like the size of like aRemember Trapper Keepers.
I was like why would you checkthat?

(48:12):
You're going to put it up, Ibet you.
I want to look in there, so badit had to have been.
You got to pay for the check-in, don't you?
I mean for the overhead logins.
Yeah, you do, sometimes, not inDelta.
We get three check bags inDelta.
Well, it's because you're likea Delta Club person though.
No, but this guy, whatever, I'mtrying to figure him out.

(48:34):
I could have checked my bag mylast trip.
I could have checked my bag.
I did not want to check itBecause I don't want to go sit
by the damn carousel, I justwant to walk in and walk out.
The guy was probably the nicesthuman being on earth and I
probably was a little Tired oftraveling Because I was already
8 nicest human being on earthand I probably was a little
tired of traveling because I wasalready in eight hours in, or
whatever.

(48:55):
I had so many questions.
I want to ask him.
I had so many questions and I,I knew for a fact.
I knew for a fact that he drovea Subaru.
First of all, did you know?
Did you, did you get a photo ofthis?
I might've Let me look.
I was thinking that you had tohave, I would have, I would have
like, eh, I'm just going totake a picture of this son of a

(49:15):
bitch, just for just just.
He was I mean, I'm not, I don'tknow whatever.
It was just weird.
We're going to come back to thisone one.
We're gonna finish this littletopic up.
I can go to the bathroom andmake an e and j.
Yeah, let's move on from mytrip because I want to talk
about current events.
All right, we're gonna move on.
We're gonna move on one moresegment.

(49:36):
We're gonna close it off.
Yeah, then we gotta go to thebar.
I like your shirt.
I like your shirt, it's nice.
I got two of them.
They're solid.
I'm going to get one.
I know it looks nice, thoughFancy, it's warm.
I know it looks warm, it'sfancy, it is fancy.

(49:59):
Well, hey, welcome back.
It looks like it makes yourhair look nice, does it?
Does it match my hair?
Yeah, yeah.
So we were talking about thelovely Vikings and what I would.
Just, I think it's not all ourlisteners listen to the Vikings.
Well, real quick, we're goingto do like two minutes.
Well, they do Foosball team,because we're the best regular

(50:22):
season team ever but the worstplayoff team ever, and so
there's rumors that.
Is that true?
I think it is.
No, I can't be right, thoughit's been some pretty shitty
years.
I think it might be, but so wegot right right quarterback and
we got McCarthy.
He's supposed to be the nextgreatest thing.

(50:44):
We're finally going to get afranchise quarterback.
Well, I mean, but he got hurtlast year in hand surgery, so we
don't know if he's going to beor not.
He won national championship,yeah, but now there's rumors
that A-Rodge from the Packers isgoing to fall in the footstep
as the Brett Favre.
Why would I get the Brett Favrehanded out?

(51:05):
Because we had Brett Favre fortwo years.
He got us an NFC championshipgame.
He did get one year and didhorrible the second year.
No, he didn't.
Well, he didn't make theplayoffs the second year.
I would agree.
The only thing I can say isthat we went 14-2 last year, so
we have a good team.
What if McCarthy is stillinjured and he's not ready?
Then, yes, get rid of him.

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If he's not there, we need afranchise quarterback.
Everyone would be pissed if wesigned Rodgers.
Everyone, unless he's winning.
No, I would be pissed, no, ifhe won the Super Bowl.
If he won the Super Bowl, I'dbe happy.
If he won the Super Bowl, yeahright, I still don't agree with
signing him, though.
They're not going to, butthey're not.
The problem is they're notknocking it down.

(51:46):
That's the problem.
They're not saying no, we'renot interested in him.
Why would you not?
He's retiring, he's not doinganything, he's not getting back
in football.
What if they said he's done?
What if we bring him in as ourbackup?
I would do that.
Yeah, no, you gotta letMcCarthy go.
You let you guys.

(52:08):
Nobody understands ourquarterback.
He won't do that.
The quarterback from last yearwhat's his name?
Again, darnold Darnold.
You guys nobody.
All our listeners listen to me.
I said this last time.
You guys, nobody gets thispoint.
So our coach was a great coach.
I'm not saying he's a bad coach, he's great.
He won coach of the year KOC.
He did KLC.

(52:29):
He did KLC.
Why do coaches win the Coach ofthe Year?
Typically, it's probablybecause of wins on the regular
season, right?
Yeah?
Or a difference from the yearbefore to the next year, right?
So what was the difference?
Sam Darnold?
Sam Darnold's the one that won.

(52:51):
Yes, he screwed up in the lastgame of the year and the
playoffs.
Right, but if he screwed up sobad, why is the coach coach of
the year?
So at the same time?
So you can't have it both ways.
So either he's the coach of theyear that means the quarterback
did a great job and he justscrewed up the last two games or
the coach was good, but hescrewed up the last two games of

(53:14):
the year.
So you can't have it both ways.
It's a team effort.
So if KLC's, or maybe the restof the team that he coached,
carried the quarterback, ormaybe that's the case, so the
quarterback wasn't necessarilythe answer.
Maybe it was everybody else,Maybe it was the game plan and
the rest of the team.
Why did Seattle sign Darnold towhatever $80 million?

(53:37):
Yeah, it was a one-year deal,though no, it was three years.
I thought it was a one-yeardeal.
He was in Seattle, and now thatCooper Cup went there too.
So the bottom line is, darnoldmight have been on the cusp of
being great.
I think it's all mental for him.
For me, if I'm watching him,it's all mental.
And the big game happened.
It's kind of like Christian,not Christian, the guy that went

(53:59):
to Atlanta, kirk Cousins yeah,he got happy feet in the big
games too.
He was not.
He was not.
He was never there, he wasnever going to be that Tom Brady
that we don't have.
Was it better that we had Darylthan Kirk Cousins?

(54:23):
I mean 14-2.
No, I mean, maybe I don't know.
Or was it just because we havesuch a good everybody else?
I think everything else was allworked out pretty well and we
got lucky a few times Right, andour defense did some good
things.
Our defense did some reallygood things.
But let me ask you this so JJMcCarthy he won national

(54:45):
championship with Michiganbecause everyone around him was
good.
So is he really that good of aquarterback?
I don't know.
I agree with you, I don't know.
It's like the egg and thechicken which came first.
But they see them playing.
They do All the time right andthey're practicing.
They see that behind the scenes.

(55:05):
Well, you and I do, but ourlisteners don't.
They don't.
They see more of them.
The team people see behind thescenes Quasey Adesso or whatever
.
His name is, quasey Quasey, Idon't know, that's the only way
I'd call him.
Well, he's called a coupletimes wondering if we're
available.
Well, just for consulting.
Well, I know, but they want usto get more of a role, and I

(55:27):
said I'm too busy.
No, we've got podcasts to do.
Yeah, just consulting, that'sit.
We'll give you our thoughts,anyways.
So I'm moving on from that.
But yeah, so we don't know.
What did we?
Just we didn't resolve anythingthere.
We don't know if A-Rod's comingI hope he's not Unless he's in
a backup role, which he won't do.

(55:48):
No, he won't.
And I don't know if JJ McCarthyis the guy or not.
I don't know.
I don't know Football.
There it is, I don't know.
Football is a big question.
Mark Vikings, I'm not.
Eight and eight?

(56:08):
Well, for the record.
Eight and nine?
No, for the record.
I'm never watching them.
Ever again, though, I'm done.
No, I'm done, unless they makethe playoffs.
Playoffs, I watch every year.
You see that every year.
No, I'm serious this time.
You see that.
No, I'm dead serious this time.
You've been saying that since1998.
I am dead serious.
Last year I'm done Dawn.
Why would I care more than theycare?

(56:28):
The worst part was the MotorCity Kitties.
I was trying to switch over tothe Motor City Kitties and they
let me down big time.
Would you be more mad if youhad them?
They'll horribly let you downin the playoffs.
It's the same thing every year.
It doesn't matter.
We just want to be just abovemediocre.
We want to be good because youget people in there.

(56:48):
But although I will say the newownership, the owner it's not
new anymore but they actuallywill spend money.
Yeah, they spend money.
They want to win.
I think he does too.
I don't think they Unlike thetwins.
Oh God Well, they're trying tosell, right?
I don't even want to watchsports anymore.
I mean they're done, right.

(57:09):
I mean they're going to sell.
They have to sell.
It's already first sale.
No one's bought them yet.
Maybe A-Rod should buy themBecause he's buying the
Timberwolves.
He should buy the Twinkies.
I'm going to mind that he's gotthe money.
Yeah, well, maybe.
I don't know if he's got themoney.

(57:29):
He's got the money.
Yeah, well, maybe I don't knowif he's got the money.
Oh, he's got the conglomerate.
Yeah, I'm sure he's got theinvestors or whatever, but yeah,
so I don't know.
Maybe we should buy it.
Well, I put a phone call in,did you?
Yeah, I haven't heard back.
The poleheads, yeah, what's thekid's name?
Again, what is his name?
Carl?
No, carl's the old man.

(57:50):
Well, he's no longer.
Yeah, he's not there.
Jim, jim, yeah, jim, but that'sokay.
So you ready for your dramaticreadings?
Are we there yet?
Yeah, we, can you have a goodone?
No, we probably have to pauseit for a minute and I can find a
couple.

(58:12):
Well, I was complaining about acertain college and parents of
this certain college.
I'm not going to say what it is, no, but I agree with you.
I mean, some of the stuff isthese parents coddle these
college adults.
Right, I'm not going to saycollege kids, they're college
adults.
They coddle them like they're,like they're kids and they're

(58:33):
not, they're adults.
They need to figure this shitout, but we're not.
I don't know if you're readingthose or not, but I mean you've
read some of those.
To me it's like this isridiculous and if you guys, I
gotta know, do people okay?
Are you guys still?
Are you, are you people stillon Facebook?
If you are other than thevideos which are ridiculous,

(58:56):
like ridiculously addictive, isthe videos or Marketplace, the
Reels.
If you're on anything otherthan the Reels and the
Marketplace, you got to email usat eddienjbran.
I want to know what you'relooking at and why, and what I
want to.
What I want to know is can youguys email us Because it's our

(59:19):
generation, cause I have kids incollege right now.
They're young and you soon have.
Well, they're a little bityounger than college age, but
it's high school.
I used to think, when we usedto do, when we first started
this and we did dramaticreadings in the local school
district, I thought that it waskind of just maintained in the

(59:40):
local school districts and thatyou didn't think it was crazy
all over the country.
Right, well, it's not in all ofthe country.
It just proves it's not in allof the country.
It just proves is is ourgeneration and and and actually
I'm embarrassed, I'm youngerthan you.
Well, you're in that kind ofrange.
Yeah, I am, but I'm embarrassedfor all of us for some of these

(01:00:01):
things.
I read we're Gen Xers.
Hmm, we're Gen Xers, right,we're talking about college
students and adults, exactly.
So think back, if you'relistening to this.

(01:00:23):
When you were 18 years old, Idid a lot of stupid shit at 18,
though you did, but did you havemom and dad?
No, no, I don't Did they.
Did they do this?
And if you are, and if you'relistening to this, if you're
listening to this, I figuredthis shit out.
And if you're listening to this, if you're listening to this,
mama Daryl, I figured this shitout.
Okay, if you're listening tothis podcast and you're going to

(01:00:43):
listen to what I'm going toread and you believe in it, you
might want to look in the mirrorand say it to yourself no, just
take a hard look.
Oh shit, we're getting hardcorenow.
No, just look in the mirror andsay, hey, would my parents have
did this to me?
Or would they have said figureit out.
Are you helping or hurting yourkid by doing it?

(01:01:05):
There you go, you know how to.
I know where you're going withit.
I don't want to be rude.
Are you helping them to beindependent or are you hurting
them from independence?
I'm going to be blunt.
It's actually embarrassing tome.
It's embarrassment.
I'm going to be blunt.
It's actually embarrassing tome.
It's embarrassment.
I'm so embarrassed for mygeneration because our

(01:01:26):
embarrassment.
If you, if I'm, it's not justone or two, it's thousands of
these.
So it's our generation thatsomething happened where we
think we got to.
Is that lawnmowering Lawnmoweror helicopter Helicopter?
I think we got to.
Is that lawn mowing, lawn moweror helicopter Helicopter?
I think they call it?
I didn't like it when you're inelementary and junior, high and

(01:01:47):
high school, but now it's incollege.
Okay, so you get.
Okay, can we back up a littlebit?
It's getting worse.
Before I read this, 100%.
I drive to work.
I go to work around a bus stoptype what is that?
Like E30-ish, yeah, yeah, 1130.

(01:02:09):
1130.
And it's elementary school andI don't even give a shit what
you guys think.
Who's listening to me?
In my neighborhood there'sthree moms that walk their
elementary.
What is the month?
It's March.
What does school start usuallyin our neighborhood?
When does it start?

(01:02:30):
Like a clock time, no, not time, the time of year for our
worldwide listeners.
It starts in September, it getsolder and ends in June.
Beginning of June, right?
Yep, beginning of September tobeginning of June.
My point is, if you have a veryyoung elementary school, maybe
walk them to the bus stop firstday, maybe second day, to say,

(01:02:54):
hey, I'm even negotiating.
I'm negotiating, you have toget the photos, come on, okay,
that was the whole topic.
I'm negotiating.
You have to get the photos,come on, okay, that was, that's
a whole, nother topic.
We're talking about straight upbus stop.
Okay.
So and I'm being very lean whenI'm saying this Maybe the first
day or second day you get towalk them to the bus stop.
I totally disagree with that.

(01:03:14):
They can walk on day one.
I have right over there I don'tthink my kids wanted me to buy
the bus stops Three moms everyday walk their kids up and
they're not kindergartners,they're probably like second,
third, do you know what theystay-at-home moms they are?
Then you know what.
What else are you going to do?

(01:03:36):
Take care of them, why not?
Okay, explain that to me.
How are they taking care ofthem?
You can baby them when they'rein elementary school, but you've
got to let them grow up in highschool and college.
How are they taking care ofthem?
By walking them to the bus stop?
I don't know.
Keeping company, talk to them.

(01:03:57):
I don't know.
My parents didn't do that shit.
I mean, I don't know.
Keep in company, talk to them.
I don't know, my parents didn'tdo that shit.
I mean, I don't have no idea.
I'm just saying, I'm tellingyou we were in Cottle.
It's wrong.
It's wrong and you know what'seven worse than that?
You know what's worse than that?
Did I ever talk about this inthe air?
When I got in trouble on the busstop or off the bus and writing
me up where I had to get kickedoff the bus and get in trouble

(01:04:20):
with my parents, he didn't tellanybody.
But you had to hold your booksout, all your books.
I love it.
Arms straight up, great guy.
The entire way to school.
Great guy.
But hey, how did he get introuble?
Great guy, didn't rat you outto your parents?
Great guy.
Yeah, okay, great guy, bestthing in the world.
I knew you were going to saythat whole thing.

(01:04:41):
Let's just let that fly by.
There's also something elsehappening at that same bus stop
what?
Mom in the minivan has the kidsin the car of the minivan until
the bus comes.
It's not even winter time.
Yeah, no, I don't care aboutthat.
I am about my wits and it'snone of my business.

(01:05:03):
Why do I get so fed up aboutthis?
I'm going to roll my windowsdown and say what are you guys
doing?
What are you guys doing?
Why are you walking to thegoddamn bus stop?
That's four houses away fromthe bus stop.
What do you need to walk inthere?
These kids are never going togrow.
They're going to be the samepeople I'm going to read about
right now.
In a little bit, I'm going toread these same parents.

(01:05:23):
What the shit?
Yeah, I agree with that.
I agree with you on that.
Nobody walked us to school.
No, nobody walked us to a busstop.
No, nobody did any of that,which is great.
They shut up.
I thank you for not doing that.
We figure it out.
He makes you more independent.
Anyway, am I getting a scuffle?

(01:05:43):
What is the point?
He might get a scuffle at thebus stop.
Hey, what's the point?
Can you explain to me?
I just want to know what is thepoint of it.
Is it more for the parent tojustify that?
Hey, husband's at work, I gotto justify that I'm doing
something.
Is that what it is?
No, because they didn't do it.
Moms didn't work that much, butwe were kids.

(01:06:06):
They never walked you to thedamn bus stop.
No, nobody did.
Nobody went to the bus stop andthey didn't cancel school when
I was eight below God.
I hate this shit.
No, they never canceled school.
They're just driving me.
Beat us right now.
Now I'm angry.
The only time they cancel schoolis if the plows couldn't keep
up with the snow.

(01:06:26):
Let's go over there and askthem.
I know which house is there.
No, I'm just saying let's goknock on the door.
When they cancel school whenwe're kids is when the plows
couldn't keep up with the snow.
It had nothing to do withtemperature.
I don't ever remember atemperature day.
We had school canceled I thinkthree times my whole career, and

(01:06:46):
now it's now we're going to getinto politics.
No, I mean, I'm just saying itwas never.
I remember getting schoolcanceled, but it was nothing to
do with temperature.
It had to do with whether ornot the roads could get plowed.
Fine, and that's fair enough.
I lived out in the country.
Yeah, that's fair enough, andit was very rare.

(01:07:06):
We lived more in the suburbs,so we had it canceled like three
, maybe four times since Kthrough 12.
Is that what you're saying?
No, we didn't.
I had it probably three or fourtimes.
Yeah, and that was because thesame thing.
The roads were the same, butwhatever, it wasn't for the walk
Because I was a walker for alot of it.

(01:07:28):
But going back Were you, reallyDid you live that close K
through 6, I was a walker, oh,really, yeah, but there's no way
these kids could walk to schoolnow, because what would mom do
what?
But there's no way these kidscan walk to school now because
you know what would mom do whatif he went down the wrong street
?
They couldn't do that.
I mean, they'd have to give hima cell phone.
Wait a second, here's whatthey'd have to do nowadays.

(01:07:49):
If you're a walker, they'dprobably do this, and all your
listeners.
They'd probably put it onFaceTime and I'll talk to you
the whole way to school.
And then, once you get into theschool and take your stuff off,
I will tell you how to do thelocker.
And then, once you hang yourstuff off, I want to make sure
you're in school and sitting onyour desk before I hang up.
Okay, little Johnny, what iswrong with people?

(01:08:10):
There's no way you made thatsound, I guarantee it.
Why are you not going to thebus stop?
Why are you going to the busstop?
Why are you going to the busstop?
Why are you going to the busstop.
You're bringing a bus stop.
You're bringing like walking tothe bus stop all the way to
like walking to the classroom.
It's 45 degrees up.
They live four blocks away.
Why are you walking a fourthgrader to the bus stop and then

(01:08:31):
the other?
I hit this, sorry, and then Ihit that.
And the other thing is that'sone thing.
But the other lady, she hasthem in their minivan.
What do you mean?
She has them in there, shedrives them there.
She can't even get out becauseshe's too big.
She just can't waddle down tothe thing and she has to drive
down.
I don't even want to talk aboutit anymore.

(01:08:57):
My point is this is the last I'mgoing to say about all that,
you guys.
Here's the point and we weretalking about the whole point I
got into was for the collegepost, right?
Yeah, we kind of went way offscript.
But yeah, I got a little angry.

(01:09:18):
You get.
No, you're, I'm going to saysomething on Monday.
You're solid on that one.
They're idiots.
No, you're not.
I'll put money on it.
How much do you want to put?
I'll throw the next pull tab.
I'm going to ask that one lady,because she waves at me If you

(01:09:39):
actually go in there and talk toher.
I'll put up next poll tab.
Auntie, the only thing I wouldgive the one girl that she's
kind of cute.
Actually, the one thing I'dgive her credit for is she's got
a younger one, like in astroller.
So I think she's taking the kidfor a walk.
So she's like why don't I justwalk my kid down there and I'll
walk the other one and saygoodbye that I think.
Why not just walk my kid downthere and I'll walk the other

(01:10:01):
one and say goodbye?
That one is justifiable.
I have no problem with that.
But the other one?
You should ask him though.
Maybe it has nothing to do withthat, maybe it actually has to
do with I need to walk down tosee this one.
I can't leave this one homealone because that would be
terrible.
Either way, it's stupid.
I'm going to do it.
We'll give you an update on thenext podcast.
I'm going to find out.

(01:10:21):
I will find out.
I don't care anyways.
Okay, so now we're going backto the college age.
I like those big ice cubes.
The college post.
Yes, let's see it.
Mom, this is a mom, not let uslike salad.

(01:10:45):
Let us know if they are holdingclasses on Monday Question mark
.
I really don't want my sondriving back to get to his
Monday classes.
The rules are going to behorrible.
Makes this mama nervous.
Exclamation point.

(01:11:06):
Exclamation point Frown face,frown face.
Let's just talk about thatright now.
Okay, let's back up.
Think about this, you guys.
You guys listeners Will bothuniversities let us know what?

(01:11:27):
Is mom a student there?
No, isn't that what she'ssaying, basically, what she's
asking?
She's assuming she is.
Will both universities let usknow?
I really don't want my sondriving back to get to Monday
classes Period.
Why the roads?
To get to Monday classes Period?
Why the roads are going to behorrible.
So she knows Wait, wait, wait,wait.
Does she see where she's from?

(01:11:48):
No, but she said the roads aregoing to be horrible.
It is now three days beforethat's going to happen.
So can we respond to her andask her for the lottery tickets?
Do you think she's watching theWeather Channel or do you think
she's watching local news?

(01:12:11):
I'm going to get to that.
That's the funny part too.
I'm just sticking with this.
Do you think we should call herand say, hey, can you give us
the lottery tickets Because sheknows the future?
Yeah, because Monday the roadsare going to be terrible and I
don't want my son Makes thismama nervous.
First of all, if your sondoesn't know how to drive in the

(01:12:36):
weather, then he probablyshouldn't be driving, because
that's never would have been.
I think a huge pet peeve ofmine is that I've lived in
Minnesota my whole life and youneed to ride down the road and
there's some asshole going 10miles an hour and it shouldn't
be going 10 miles an hour.

(01:12:56):
It drives me nuts.
I know it's crazy.
I mean, I believe, go like thefastest, the fastest like the
conditions allow.
I get that to a point, but Imean, you don't need to go
ridiculously slow, right,because the roads are wet.
Right, it drives me nuts, right?
So I'm just going to let ourlisteners know that there's a

(01:13:17):
lot of like people supportingher because they're crazy
parents too.
No, wait, wait, wait.
They're supporting her, butthere's pictures that it missed
Grand Forks, you didn't say.
You weren't going to say theschool, well, I don't care for
shit, and so, anyways.
So one parent as they shouldhave responded properly.

(01:13:42):
Okay, as an adult, you shouldlearn how to plan and adjust
your travel plans accordingly.
We sent our kid back early toavoid such problems.
It's not the school'sresponsibility to adjust classes
for your lack of planning.
Teach your kids now that thisis how the adult world works.
Pretty much Right there.

(01:14:08):
Yep, I hear that and that's allI'm going to say about that.
There's a lot more on there.
You can hit all that one.
The point is, my point is youguys, if you have a college
student, please stay off the FB,and I mean Facebook and the
parents of the FB Let themfigure this shit out.

(01:14:29):
I mean nobody, if you'relistening to this.
Nobody figured it out for youguys.
Nobody figured it out for us.
I know you want to be helpful,but you're not being helpful by
figuring it out for them.
They did figure it out for us.
I know you want to be helpful,but you're not being helpful by
figuring it out for them.
They did figure it outthemselves.
I agree with you on that.
If they call you and you wantto help, then you help.
I agree with you.
Let them figure it out.
That's my public serviceannouncement PSA.

(01:14:53):
That's your PSA.
I like it.
Let's get it done.
Welcome back to the us.
I know I kind of travel a lotand you have been, so that was
actually kind of nice.
Welcome back, by the way.
So what, you're gonna be inwayne, new jersey at the end of
the month.
If you are in the wayne jerseyarea and you listen to our

(01:15:18):
podcast, you've got to go.
You have to go.
We may.
No, you have to go.
We should probably go.
We should probably go.
You want?
I'm not driving.
I hate flying.
Well, I'll figure it out.
Want to take a boat?
No, st Lawrence Seaway.
I don't want to drive that fareither.
We'll go through Superior thenMichigan.

(01:15:39):
I just don't like flying.
You don't like anything.
How come airlines have made itso terrible to fly, or the
government?
I don't know One of the two.
What do you want?
Well, you need a private jet.
Anything they can do to make itmore uncomfortable and more
intrusive and more of a pain inthe ass.
I swear to God, they do Well.
I swear to God, they do Well.

(01:16:00):
I don't know what to tell you.
I finally went on got TSApre-check.
I don't know that's nice.
No, it wasn't because of thelike yeah, you're well.
I never did, I was, I was.
I got three seconds.
I was randomly selected bothtimes.
I I've flown twice since TSApre-check Randomly selected to

(01:16:22):
get my computer it takes likethree seconds.
No, no, no, no.
Yeah, they were busy, so I waslike I was probably there for
like 15 minutes.
I went through that thing inlike three seconds and I got
tested.
No, because I had to wait forother people to get tested also.
I like when you say also I hadto had to wait for other people
to get tested also.
Oh, I like when you say also Ihad to sit there and wait for

(01:16:44):
them to get tested also and thenI went and finally they got my
stuff and then they went through, they swabbed it all and they
scanned it.
Do you think you say the wordalso properly?
Yes, I think I do.
I don't know if you do Reallyit.
Yes, I think I do.
I don't know if you do Reallyit doesn't sound right when you
say also I think you're tryingto say it with an accent or

(01:17:04):
something.
I don't think so.
I think so.
We have to go back and listen tothat.
But I don't think you say alsoright.
How do you say also Well, there, you did Not.
That time you did, that wasright.
Okay, but before listen, I'mpretty sure I say the same.
I think you're emphasizing theall.
Also, I think you're putting twoL's in the also Also.

(01:17:28):
No, now you're trying toover-exaggerate it.
Also Also, also no, also.
Yeah, that's two L's, it's oneL, really, yeah, I don't think
I'm saying that.
Well, I know you are.
I don't think I'm saying that,you say it, but anyways, the

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point is, flying sucks nowadays.
They do everything they can tomake it miserable for you.
You're kind of like a crabby oldman.
I am.
I don't like flying.
You don't like anything.
No, I like some things.
Like what?
Cooking?
Well, I do like that too.
Besides that, besides cooking,there's other things, yes,

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working Besides that, and yourfamily Besides that, nothing
else.
Really, yeah, you're kind ofthat guy.
You turn into that.
I had fun tonight at the hockeygame.
Well, thank you, I go thereonce in a while.
That was not bad.
That was months in a while.
You don't want to overdo it.

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I'm not overdoing it.
You're not going to Utica, it'sin Wayne.
So I don't got to go to Utica.
That was a test, so you didn'tlike it.
You were paying attention.
What are we going to do tonight?
I don't like flying either.
I don't like driving, though,either.
I mean, it's kind of like oneof those things that's just like
but driving, I get control.
You don't want your car toleave Highway 10.

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You're like Grandpa Jay, oh,what the hell was it?
We talked about that years.
Yeah, you remember that it'sB's Out 10.
Yes, what was that?
Was it B's Out 10?
Oh, we were gonna do a mechanicshop.
Yeah, b's Out 10.
Yeah, yeah, that was like.
That was like 25 years ago.
I just when you said that off10, I just remember everything's

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off 10.
Yeah, it was, everything wasoff 10.
Alright, alright, let's.
Yeah, it was Everything aboutTed, all right, all right, let's
wrap it up.
We're going to wrap it up andthanks for listening and we'll
get maybe next week at high.
Yeah, sure, all right, let's doit.
You.