February 9, 2024 • 35 mins
Ever found yourself wincing at the sheer ubiquity of Taylor Swift songs during NFL breaks, or debated whether concert tickets are worth their weight in gold? Brad and I sure have, and you're about to get a front-row seat to our lively back-and-forth on these cultural phenomena. We're serving up a hefty portion of hearty discussion, garnished with our signature blend of playful banter and pop culture riffs. From the musical battlegrounds where The Beatles and The Rolling Stones duke it out for my affections, to the neon glow of Adele's Las Vegas siren call, we're dishing out more than just your average podcast chit-chat.
Imagine tossing back a home run ball with the same gusto as throwing shade at halftime show mishaps—yeah, we're going there. Brad and I tear into the fabric of celebrity couple fascinations as easily as we debate over sporting algorithms. And in a world where youth sports can teeter on the brink of parental ambition, we're not afraid to slide into home with some tough love on the real impact of those midnight softball tournaments. So, grab your headphones and prepare for an episode that's equal parts nostalgia, sports fanaticism, and music critique. You might just find yourself reminiscing about the simpler times or questioning whether algorithms know your taste better than you do.
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Brad (00:00):
On a desolate, frozen tundra surrounded by mindless,
brain numbing cold takes, twobros trek through the
nothingness to bring hope to anew generation.
You are about to experiencebrad and dylan's hot takes.
Here we go again.
Dylan (00:18):
Again, it's my jam Fucking leave.
Just remember, brad, you goeasy on me.
I can hate when you do this.
What we're not gonna, we'regonna get, we're totally Stop it
.
Stop it, dude.
Brad (00:36):
You just peaked good, somebody's got a peak.
You can't do that you can't doit.
Dylan (00:44):
Okay.
Brad (00:45):
I don't know if you can do it.
I wish you would stop doing it.
Dylan (00:48):
Why wouldn't they take our whole podcast off?
Brad (00:50):
You don't like Adele.
Yeah.
Dylan (00:52):
I do.
She's playing in vegas at thesame time.
I'm gonna be out there, but notof the night that I'm available
she's got a, she got a thingthere right Residency, I think,
is there.
Brad (01:02):
Yes, that's the term.
Dylan (01:04):
I don't know.
Do you know?
I've said I am, I'm going thereand I can't see you too, and I
can't see her.
Brad (01:10):
Oh, I can't see you too.
Shannon has a thing right nowwhere she's got you to radio
going on.
I just why never have been abig youtube fan.
Just in terms of any, any of it.
I don't dislike them like theBeatles.
Dylan (01:28):
You just like the beetle.
That's a hot take.
Brad (01:31):
That's an old.
That's an old take.
Dylan (01:34):
Don't like the Beatles.
Are you like david company fromcalifornia kation?
Who's like?
Oh, rolling stones, fuck theBeatles.
Brad (01:43):
No, I don't like the rolling stones either really
okay, that's fine.
Uh, paint it black Okay.
Dylan (01:49):
I'll take that one.
All right, did you just listento the Spotify top five too?
What?
Brad (01:54):
Mm-hmm.
No, okay, from when?
Dylan (01:56):
Not sure.
These episodes are so mucheasier when I'm trying not to be
nice to you that last episodewas hard for me.
Brad (02:03):
Yeah, I know, I like Beatles songs when they're sung
by other artists.
Dylan (02:09):
I do.
I love covers.
I'm into a niche genre.
Brad (02:13):
I love covers.
Beatles oh my god, yeah, throwme a covered Beatles song and
I'm, I'm here for.
And then they're like oh, haveyou heard the original of this?
I was like no I don't think Ihave and they play the original.
I was like, ah, why would youdo that to me?
Can you quit clipping the mic?
No, you told me six inches fromthe mic.
Okay, so this is what you get.
Do you know how hard it is?
Dylan (02:32):
to try to be.
Do you want me to move away?
When I present as a host inthis episode and sound engineer,
is that better?
Don't do that.
That's mic bleed, what's that?
Do you know how much it makesmy life harder when I have to
edit these things?
Brad (02:46):
I'm trying to be dynamic.
I can't wait, people have afull-time we have a full-time
engineer.
People tell me all the timethey hate listening to your
monochromatic voice.
Who mine?
Yeah, okay, that's not theright term, deadpan, it's not
deadpan Deadpool.
Dylan (03:05):
I did notice that I have a very Spicoli voice when I talk
.
It's just kind of like Spicoliwas that Russian?
No, oh, pastimes are reachingmy high.
Brad (03:13):
No, never seen it.
Put it on the list.
Wow, okay, put it on the list.
Yeah you know how long the listis five to six inches long at
least at least oh.
Dylan (03:26):
So people complain about my monochrome, chromatic voice?
No, I just.
That's not true.
What now you're coming for yourfriends?
If you're one of Brad's friendsand you listen to this podcast,
I officially hate you.
Brad (03:35):
Well, there's none of those.
So well, that's good.
Yes, we're safe, pretty safe,speaking of artists.
Dylan (03:44):
Hot, hot.
Transition right into the topicyou wanted to get going, as
Super Bowl is this weekend.
Yes, do you know how hard it isto talk out of time contacts?
By the way, I don't like thiswhole Radio announcer thing.
It's fine.
Brad (03:57):
Okay, because this is not going away anytime, anytime soon
.
It's not, and plenty of peoplehave takes on this too, but I go
off what I see on my feed.
Shut the fuck up over TaylorSwift, mm-hmm.
Preach my brother, not in theway that you think.
Dylan (04:19):
Oh, okay, I was just.
I was practicing my nonmonochromatic Other voices that
was pretty terrible.
Brad (04:25):
Okay, yeah, you got to be more dynamic.
Tip of the tongue, yeah.
No, you got to tip of thetongue you got to peak, so
people are upset that they showher face During all.
Dylan (04:37):
NFL games yeah.
Brad (04:38):
Yeah, as if have you seen like a fucking Chicago Cubs game
there's girls that get moretime than her and they're just
nobody knows who they are.
Wasn't there a girl thatflashed on the Chicago Cubs game
, I'm sure.
Okay, have you been to a Cubsgame?
(04:59):
A lot of them.
Yeah, I have a great time.
They're amazing, baseball'sgood.
They stack plastic cups 30 rowshigh.
Dylan (05:07):
That's just silly antics that I like about the human race
.
We do silly things like that.
Brad (05:11):
That's that gives me hope, one of the few things that
makes baseball games fun.
What are the other Few meaningtwo or three?
Dylan (05:19):
What are you?
What are you?
Brad (05:21):
Well, yeah, drinking's one .
Yeah, I think drinking's got tobe one.
Dylan (05:26):
So we'll just say a subset.
So drinking.
There's a subset of antics ofdrinking.
Brad (05:31):
Yelling at so a few meaning a couple different
activities that have subactivities.
Dylan (05:36):
Yelling at umpires.
Brad (05:37):
That's yeah, that's a good one.
Throwing back the other team'shome run balls, that does feel
good.
Yeah, everybody claps like youdid a good thing, but they're
still a run on the board.
Dylan (05:49):
Yeah yeah.
Good thing it wasn't thebarkman ball, so, oh yeah, that
was a big deal.
Moses wasn't hot take.
Moses wasn't going to catch it.
Brad (06:01):
Never know.
Dylan (06:03):
Okay.
Brad (06:05):
Yeah, so I?
Where do we leave it?
She's.
She's one of the most powerful,influential people in America
right now.
She's in terms of, she has alittle bit of say, reach little
rabbit toss little mmm.
Dylan (06:20):
Gravitas is a good word.
Brad (06:21):
Yeah, she's, she's going to get airtime, no matter where
she is, True?
So what?
What do you want to see her?
I don't want to see her at all.
Okay, try to shut your fuckingTV off.
That's a good point.
I don't, I don't care.
Well, we're here to watchfootball, okay.
Well, you have announcers.
You see them all the time.
They're not necessary.
Just watch the fucking footballgame.
(06:41):
Why do you need them to tellyou what's going on?
Are you listening on the radio?
No, shut the fuck up, watch thegame.
Oh well, we need some.
Okay, well, she's entertaining.
She literally isn't anentertainer.
She is entertainer.
I don't, I don't get it.
I don't understand it.
On one hand, you have a largesubset of people that, by all
(07:05):
accounts, are really into likesex cells type stuff.
Yeah, give me my, give me myold bikini calendars so I can
hang them in my garage.
Those are the guys that arecomplaining about, like there's
too much Taylor Swift on TV.
Like, I don't know.
Dylan (07:22):
I don't know You're over generalizing.
Yeah, yeah, I appreciate thatabout you.
Brad (07:26):
Yeah, but also probably not wrong.
Dylan (07:33):
Absolutely not wrong.
Brad (07:35):
And there's the, the double standard that happened.
I think was it last week whenJason Kelsey, you know, emerged
from the suite shirtless like aphoenix having a fucking great
time cheering on us.
You know that was fine.
We can get images of that allday long.
There's nothing wrong.
It's cause he's anotherfootball player bro, how is?
(07:56):
That it Is that we're onlygoing to allow fucking football
players to watch football games.
Now it is.
Is that what we're doing?
Dylan (08:03):
It is funny.
Well, only musicians can gowatch Taylor Swift.
It is funny that we put ruleson things that have not been
flushed out formally, but wehave thoughts that just cannot
contradict those.
I don't.
I love fake rules.
Brad (08:18):
Yeah, fake rules are good, but somebody said Kanye needs
to come bust this shit up likehe did in 06 or something.
Whatever that was.
Oh no, I don't remember what itwas.
I made that bitch famous.
That was a controversial lyricand that was the first time I
was like, oh yeah, I don't, Idon't enjoy this guy at all.
Dylan (08:41):
No, kat Williams had some pretty interesting things to
say about Kanye West.
Brad (08:48):
He did.
That was before everyone reallyknew no, Kat.
Dylan (08:52):
Williams was like last month.
Brad (08:55):
No, no, no, no, no no.
I mean like the when he did theTaylor Swift thing at the award
show.
Dylan (08:59):
Yeah, that was.
That was still when people weredefending Kanye.
Now I know the people close tohim probably knew yeah that
something was a miss have youwatched the Enius or whatever?
No, on.
I Watched like two episodes.
No, and it's.
It's hard to watch that.
(09:19):
Not for you to look at everyoneelse and go.
Do you not see the way he looksaround in a crowd that there's
maybe a few things missing?
Yeah, yeah, there's, he's, justit's different for him.
Yeah, and you can call thatgenius or you can just call that
mental health.
Yeah, do you kind of gohand-in-hand in some sometimes,
(09:40):
sometimes.
Brad (09:42):
But what if he was?
What if he was like a mathgenius and then still acted the
way that he did?
And a tell us with algorithm?
Dylan (09:51):
that'd be interesting there probably is one, yeah oh,
there is one actually at 331million dollars.
13 313.
Brad (10:01):
No, there's like a number 13 that's going around.
Dylan (10:05):
We're talking about the amount of money for the NFL.
Brad (10:08):
No, no, no, no, this is in terms of like, if the chiefs
are gonna win or not, you'reruining it.
Dylan (10:12):
There's all kinds of deep Internet theories about this,
but yeah, so Get Taylor off myNFL the by the way she's made
them over 300 million dollarsyeah my favorite part about this
is I Don't really have anopinion one right the other.
I Think you know there'scelebrity couple people, for
(10:36):
whatever reason.
Slow go to Jennifer.
Go to Jennifer and Ben before,before they're married back in
the early 2000s, j Lo, you knowit was what they were there for
benefit for.
Thank you, yeah, and that waseverywhere all the time.
It's just a thing.
I don't get it.
I.
Brad (10:54):
Don't understand celebrity couples.
Yeah, you're name.
Dylan (10:57):
We have someone in the audience, yeah, good celebrity
couples.
Brad (11:00):
You like it, you like to follow them?
Okay, yeah, we got it, wait oh.
Dylan (11:10):
Oh.
Brad (11:11):
Hot take, hot take Shane, and might fall under that a
little bit.
Dylan (11:16):
Yeah, there's not a chance in hell.
She does not have some sort ofTaylor Swift Kansas City chief's
outfit for next weekend.
Who your wife no?
She'd give two shits about okayokay, and she doesn't, she's
gonna see it all over Instagramand tiktok now, okay, yeah.
Brad (11:33):
It's just not going to happen.
Dylan (11:34):
Oh, you want to put a bet on it.
Yep, how much.
Brad (11:37):
That bottle of zero sugar, Canada dry.
Dylan (11:40):
Okay, I will get you a bottle of Cody Road bourbon.
Brad (11:44):
Wow, I'm not going to get you anything, and then, if I'm
not, I don't need to wagerbecause I'm right, you lose.
Dylan (11:52):
You need to buy a better fucking mic stand.
Brad (11:55):
She might watch it for the commercials.
Okay, you don't?
Dylan (12:00):
think she'll have one piece of Taylor Swift
parafinalia, yeah.
Brad (12:02):
No.
Dylan (12:03):
Okay, I don't feel like.
Brad (12:07):
you know your wife very well, I think if anyone's going
to wear Taylor Swift parafinalia, it'd be my eldest son probably
.
Dylan (12:13):
Came out of your wife's womb.
Same thing.
Brad (12:15):
No, it's not the same thing.
He's a mini me.
So what?
Oh, you love Taylor.
Are you a Swifty?
I love Swifty.
Dylan (12:22):
Yeah.
Brad (12:24):
Shannon's not a Swifty, but she doesn't dislike her, but
she also doesn't watch football.
Dylan (12:30):
Yeah, so You're not rooting for the Kansas City
Chiefs.
Brad (12:35):
I'm rooting for them.
My mother-in-law had to comeover and watch the Lions.
No yeah, the Lions game.
Dylan (12:41):
No, what was the one before Ravens?
Brad (12:44):
Kansas City.
She couldn't get that channeland I was like he's gonna watch
it.
So then I just had on theNiners Lions game and I would
just check back in periodically.
So halftime I come in likethere's a halftime for this game
and it lasts forever, which isproblematic, and it was like 24
seven.
And then I didn't come back inuntil the game was over and the
(13:07):
49ers are putting hats on it andI was like wait, what?
What happened?
Dylan (13:12):
The fuck is this?
This switched quickly.
I'm just mad that Scott Stapleis in either game.
Brad (13:18):
Second I don't know who that is Creed, oh, with arms
wide open take me higher.
Dylan (13:27):
Oh wait, don't you remember that Dallas Cowboys
game where he was floating?
Brad (13:30):
around with a shirt off Nope.
Don't watch.
We're gonna have to watch don'twatch much of that, so just get
get over it, just get over it,I agree.
Dylan (13:46):
But I don't do you know why?
No, you keep seeing.
It is because you keep clickingon it and then your algorithms
keep telling you oh, we're going, whether you dislike it or like
it, it's just going to keepfeeding it.
Hmm, I had don't.
I don't have an opinion and Idon't see it at all.
I'm like why is everyone keeptalking about this Taylor Swift
on TV thing?
Because I don't see it.
Do I see it, I don't you, Idon't think you do maybe I mean,
(14:09):
you're the one that brought thehot takes.
I did.
You're a maturing candidate,damn it I.
Brad (14:14):
Don't know why, though I don't know either.
I'm just.
You know what my algorithm isother people's hot takes.
Dylan (14:22):
What's that do for?
Brad (14:23):
you, they just, they just pour into my feed and look at
that anything that'scontroversial, holy shit, look
at that Dallas.
Dylan (14:31):
Cowboys 2001.
Brad (14:32):
Oh yeah, this looks like.
I think if varsity blues was asrock.
Uh-huh, look at those jeans.
Love it.
Look at those man you guys are.
Dylan (14:46):
Oh yeah, look at that guy's hanging, that guy's
hanging from silks, so you guysgot to look this up.
Brad (14:52):
2001.
What's the game?
Dylan (14:56):
I don't actually know who's playing the game Creed
live at Dallas Cowboys 2001.
Yeah, check it out.
Thanks, giving day game.
Brad (15:04):
Texas State he.
They just came back into alittle bit of fame.
They're touring again.
Dylan (15:11):
Via.
He's been broke for 20 years.
Yeah, he is no money.
Yeah, well, nah, he will have alittle bit now.
Brad (15:21):
God told him to not make money, Hmm why did why?
Dylan (15:25):
how did you lose it?
Cream coin, I don't know.
Is he a drug?
Brad (15:28):
addict, let's not assume, you know, okay, scott's ah, adhd
, god damn it.
Dylan (15:37):
It's got stuff.
No worth of it.
You know where I just went.
Brad (15:40):
He's a worth maybe a million dollars when, when on
South Park the boys are tryingto make a hit band and they
couldn't figure anything out.
So they just started makingChristian rock.
They're like we have anautomatic audience, everyone
will buy it.
And then they went worldwide.
Dylan (16:00):
That's what Creed reminds me of so good, that was a funny
one.
Brad (16:06):
All right, let's get off stabby, scott Stabby that's good
, what do you want?
You want to keep on the peoplecomplaining about stuff, or you
want to keep on the sports thing?
Dylan (16:17):
I don't know.
You're the one that has hottakes.
You keep going.
Brad (16:19):
Okay, have you ever heard of midnight softball tournaments
?
Dylan (16:23):
Oh, yes, yeah.
Brad (16:25):
Well, what do you know about them?
Dylan (16:28):
Children or adults?
Children, no, I've never heardof those.
What I only know?
Beer league.
Oh, tell me about them.
That's a, it's a thing, what?
Brad (16:38):
happens?
You start playing games atmidnight?
Why?
Let's not get to that questionso fast?
Okay, I have no fucking ideawhy.
I have a theory, but well, this, this was the take.
Midnight softball tournamentsare a scream for help that your
(16:58):
life is too easy.
Dylan (17:01):
So you've invented fake stress which is yeah, okay,
essentially, okay, because whyelse?
Brad (17:11):
why else do it in it on some sense?
So the initial, my initialreaction is always that's,
that's dumb, like that doesn'teven seem safe.
Because they're playing tillthree in the morning, kids, yeah
, why I don't?
I don't know, it's maybe it'savailability.
(17:31):
They're like, hey, you can cramthree games in and in these
three hours, which also doesn'tmake sense coming from baseball.
Dylan (17:40):
Back our kids of all night and then all everyone's
gonna be miserable.
Mm-hmm, that sounds terrible.
Brad (17:45):
Yeah, and the parents are right along there.
There's like oh, everybody,pray for me that I can stay up
Till three o'clock.
Dylan (17:53):
When did this become a thing?
Brad (17:54):
like bitch, I can't even watch a fucking TV show at 9 30
at night.
Please stay up till threeo'clock watching softball.
Dylan (18:00):
Have you been one of these?
No, then why are they when?
Brad (18:05):
are they Indoors, where?
I think where yeah, everywhere.
Dylan (18:10):
I've never heard it.
You're not just making.
Brad (18:12):
I am for sure not making it up.
Dylan (18:14):
Okay, so is there local ones around here?
Brad (18:17):
Oh, I'm sure TV K's done it before kids Midnight and like
the whole theme is midnight.
Yeah, you start it.
You start at midnight.
Like you start late.
I don't know if they all startmidnight, this last particular
one did.
Dylan (18:33):
So we can get you a real great rate.
You're gonna love it.
Well, it's only gonna costforty five thousand dollars to
host it works.
Brad (18:40):
It probably works really well for the hosting facilities,
because who's using theirindoor fields at midnight?
Nobody you host during the dayyou hosted yeah, you host in the
morning for our money.
Dylan (18:51):
That's it, your money ahead I.
It's kind of like you got.
You know, you got a week insideof a day.
Brad (18:57):
If you use it right, I could I could see an adult
league for dobro, for thirdshifters on their days off.
You know, it makes sense,that's your daytime.
Dylan (19:05):
I think you have something here.
We Marginalize their shift andthey don't have the same
amenities that first shiftershave, and that is, the federal
government should fund items andrec leagues and other.
It's not that far of a leapwhat we're just marginalizing.
Third shift yeah, I Just youknow there's a second that we
(19:31):
need to second third just hard.
Yeah, I'm not discounting thatBecause I'm not a chance in hell
.
I mean it's, it's hard For alot of reasons, a lot of reasons
.
Brad (19:44):
I think family life, or whatever you have of it.
Dylan (19:50):
Yeah, yeah, props to you guys, new, a new, a third shift,
nick or not Nicky, but what'sthe baby floor called the
hospital?
Brad (20:03):
Yeah.
Dylan (20:05):
Just the which, just at a hospital like what's the word
like?
Where they deliver babies,what's the word called?
There's a vinyl.
Brad (20:14):
Yeah, tile, tile yeah.
Dylan (20:16):
The floor tile floor Maternity Ward.
Brad (20:20):
Thank you, fire in the maternity ward.
Maternity ward Anthony Juslin.
Dylan (20:24):
Like a Like a fox.
So third shift.
Brad (20:33):
Would get all right.
Dylan (20:34):
I was like Two hours of sleep a day, because they would
do all the normal activitiesduring the day for their kids
and then they'd go to work, andthen they'd try to sleep for a
little bit when they got homeand then they'd go back to doing
all the activities.
No, I was like that you werekilling yourself.
Brad (20:56):
Younger me would would want to have done a second and a
half shift.
What is?
Dylan (21:03):
second and a half shift Brad.
Brad (21:06):
Let's call it like a 7 to 3.
What pm To am?
Oh yeah, Okay, I could killthat not now.
Dylan (21:17):
No, no but what would you do when you were off at 3?
Look at home asleep, okay, andwhat time would you wake up?
Do I have kids?
No, okay, whatever.
I want to Go drinking, go backto work, do whatever I just do
whatever I mean.
Brad (21:34):
Before I had kids I would Work till three and then get up
at you know 7 or 8 o'clock andthen go back to work again and
yeah, Freakin sometimes thoseare good times now.
They build character.
I Think, do that.
Oh yeah, I think so.
Dylan (21:54):
So Midnight softball is for people that need excitement
in their life, but then, but howdo you backfill that then?
But then I also thought abouthow do you, how do you stop them
from doing silly shit Like thatactual, meaningful hard stuff?
Brad (22:09):
Well, that that's what I started thinking about.
Was is it?
Is it?
Is it meaningful at all?
Because look at some of theshit that we've done exercise
related.
That's hard, yeah, pushes yourbody to some limits, okay.
There's some degree of Unsafetyin that, which also builds some
(22:33):
excitement, yeah, but but Ifeel, yeah, I just I can't quite
make the connections exactly.
Dylan (22:46):
Also because I don't you ever think that maybe the kids
are just building memories andparents are there supporting
their children wanting to makememories?
Brad (22:56):
Oh, that's good.
That's a good point.
You know what I remember frombaseball.
Dylan (23:02):
Nothing.
I don't remember nothing.
Brad (23:03):
No, I remember getting knocked out cold in the morning
practice.
It's why I keep your mid up.
I remember throwing a no hitterwith another kid okay.
At a young age and then highschool.
I pretty much don't rememberanything.
Dylan (23:19):
Was that because you were stoned, bradley Could have been
from the concussion.
We didn't really have a goodman.
We didn't really have a goodconcussion protocol, did we I?
Brad (23:30):
Went dark Yep and was told to put some ice on it.
That's good.
And then go to school all day.
I don't know what could gowrong Did it make you stronger.
I don't know, they got it andget hit and had the next day.
Could have been an issue.
Dylan (23:46):
Might still be an issue, because I don't know, it might
still be an issue.
Brad (23:51):
Haven't had that brain scan done, yet I Think you just,
we'll just you don't want to dothat.
I don't know, I don't knowabout the memory thing, I would
like to think, yes, but man, youknow what?
Dylan (24:06):
my kids remember what outside stuff we're gonna go
back to the just get outside.
Brad (24:12):
No, like like when we take trips, like our vacations, and
they're they're outdoor, and Idon't mean like beach related
necessarily, even though some ofthose are even somewhat
memorable.
Yeah, and I'm kind of the sameway, like I've spent a lot of
time on whatever specific things.
(24:33):
I was in bay and, you know, didbaseball, some other stuff.
I don't really remember anyspecifics about it, but I could
go back and walk you throughsome of the trails that I was on
in my early 20s when I was onvacation.
Don't know why, but it leavessomewhat of a lasting impression
(24:55):
over.
Dylan (24:56):
I'll go on another trailer with your friends.
Brad (24:58):
Either Okay, yeah.
Dylan (25:01):
Done it both ways.
So, from baseball, yourbaseball experience was a lot
different than the modernbaseball softball experience,
though, From some modern, I meannot everybody's.
But you guys would have beenmore structured, little league
where you'd show up kind of onegame kind of out a couple of
(25:23):
times a week, versus the bigkind of.
Brad (25:25):
Yeah, which is what we're still playing today.
Dylan (25:27):
Yeah but there's a lot more emphasis on weekend
tournaments.
I feel like then, when I waseven younger and you're old,
well, that didn't.
Brad (25:33):
Yeah, we didn't, that didn't exist, period.
But I'm just saying thatthere's still a group of kids
that played yeah.
Dylan (25:40):
That you don't have a child.
Child memories fun, funmemories of being together with
all your friends.
I love going to baseball.
Brad (25:51):
I'm a social kid, I like to.
I didn't.
I didn't say that I didn't likeit, I just lack.
Dylan (25:59):
I think it's too fast to do there.
I think the kids like to be andthis isn't everyone.
I think the kids liked it.
I had an overwhelming sense offreedom when I was at those,
because my parents were like,well, we're here, wander
wherever, and so you kind offelt like you're being able to
go on an adventure and, to yourpoint about being outdoors, I
love those because it always isoh, where are we going to go
(26:19):
next?
What's our next move?
And that's still how I am.
When I go on vacation, I getyelled at by other people
because they want an itineraryand I cannot do itinerary
vacations.
It is, I will get there and Iwill go on my adventure.
Yeah.
Brad (26:31):
Because the things that pop up are things that you can't
plan for Exactly.
Dylan (26:35):
And you don't and I'm not .
So there's a balance there youneed there.
Obviously, if you go to certaincities, certain towns, there
are certain items you definitelywant to hit, but you can't fill
up the whole day, you felt thewhole day you're going to win.
Brad (26:45):
You got to leave some leeway.
Dylan (26:47):
Yeah.
So I think the parents, thoughthe way I see my, I've got some
older cousins that have youngkids that are doing the crazy
sports leaks down in St Louiswhere they're going all over the
country, and it's funny the waythey talk sometimes because
they make it.
Oh well, you know Ellis orWeston needs to do this or that,
(27:09):
and then sometimes I'm like, dothey need to do that, or do you
need to be with your friendsbecause you can't miss out?
And so there's, I think there'sa little bit of I don't want to
I don't want to necessarilycall it keeping up with the
Joneses, but there's a littlebit of herd mentality there.
There's part of that at theparent level.
Oh, yeah, for sure, Notnecessarily the kids, but and
(27:29):
they like to easily, they usethe kids as escape.
Go to well, we can't let themmiss out.
And it's like, well, is it themor is it you?
Brad (27:35):
But I wonder in 20 years like what those kids will
remember from that too.
Dylan (27:40):
Mom and dad, we're overbearing because Jen Steve,
not a reflection on you, by theway, just in a quick ad hoc, I
think part of why maybe I don'tremember specific so much is
that you just that's like youwere in the moment.
Brad (27:55):
Well, it's also 13 years of of playing the same thing.
A lot of it, it's a lot of it.
So it's it's hard to decipher.
Dylan (28:05):
There are key moments that come out of that.
Yeah, you had like the reallyhigh or the really low.
Oh, my goodness Most honestly,that girl, that girl talked to
me next to the concession standfor a few minutes.
You're right, she never did,damn it.
Brad (28:18):
Most of the stuff I remember has to do with
teammates Like I remembershowing up to so it's to be like
seventh, eighth grade.
So this, this is yourin-between year, so you're out
of like your town little leaguesand everybody's kind of stopped
playing and usually you got tojoin other people's leagues so
that you have enough, you know,people to play with and out of
(28:39):
the barn and did the storm.
Dylan (28:42):
Okay, sure.
Brad (28:43):
And I did it.
I had to pick up my firstpractice for that, and we were
probably in seventh grade, andso it'd be like seventh and
eighth and I had kind of a redrash, what is known as drink
drinkers for coaches often.
Dylan (28:59):
Oh, I had alcoholic coaches through most of my
career.
Red nose, big ears.
Brad (29:05):
They varied in sizes.
I had a pitching coach that wasI still see one of them out,
yeah, and so he was not there ontime and so we were just kind
of all there and I remember someof the eighth graders dipping
and full sandlot.
Dylan (29:24):
Yeah, yeah, did they puke .
Brad (29:27):
They did not.
But then there were the seventhgraders.
No, I've never tried it,because I watched like one or
two of my friends puke, give into the peer pressure and then
just yak all over the baseballfield.
What a good time.
Well, like I remember that shit.
I remember like it was fightsalmost broke out or like those
are the things that I remember.
(29:48):
This is life, but not so much ofthe baseball, so it kind of
makes me think like, yeah, itseems like a lot of money to
spend on some of these thingsthat you could just get from
probably hanging out with yourfriends.
Dylan (30:06):
Yeah.
Brad (30:07):
And I think that's because I think those are the kind of
stories that that people wouldremember and not having anything
to do with baseball, softballor the fields.
Dylan (30:18):
But that I think that goes back to my original point,
though is somebody found outthat midnight softball seems
like a novel thing, where peopleare going to want to do it
because of the novelty of it andthen it kind of gives you.
Those kids in 10 years aregoing to laugh and be like
(30:40):
remember that time we werereally dumb and our parents let
us do midnight softball.
Brad (30:44):
But that's the thing.
Like they didn't let them, theparents find the novelty in it.
That's what I mean.
Dylan (30:50):
Yeah yeah, it's not the kids, but the kids will be
laughing about it someday.
Brad (30:53):
It's kind of like the parents that say it's all bad.
I don't talk about like I hadto drive 500 miles on Saturday
just to hit this basketball gameand this softball game and this
thing.
Dylan (31:06):
And you're like who's the parent who runs the house?
Yeah, yeah, so you didn't haveto, you didn't have to.
Brad (31:13):
Yeah, but they love it.
Dylan (31:15):
Okay, so you love your kid.
That's cool.
That's okay to own that I meanit's okay to love your kid and
say you know what I do sacrificefor them, but it's okay.
Brad (31:22):
Yeah, but also have people that are have seven, eight year
olds.
We just go everywhere.
He just loves baseball.
Dylan (31:33):
Like yeah, he's fucking eight.
Brad (31:35):
Most eight year olds love baseball.
Every day is an adventure.
Yeah, they get to go outsideand play the dirt and hang out
with their friends and we'vegone back to being outside, spit
on the fence and oh, spittingon the fence.
Yeah, that's all that stuff.
But you don't have to spend andgo to the places that you think
(31:56):
you need to to for them to havethose experiences, necessarily.
Dylan (32:00):
No, I don't.
Brad (32:01):
I don't think.
But yeah, it gets to be thekeeping up with the Joneses.
Like well, have you guys everplayed softball at midnight?
Cause we did.
Dylan (32:10):
Yeah, there is a weirdness there of.
Brad (32:15):
And did you get a trophy for that?
And did the trophy say softballchampionship or did it say
congratulations on staying uppast your bedtime?
Dylan (32:23):
Thanks for the money.
Brad (32:25):
Thanks for the money.
I hope you had fun.
Oh, I don't know it's.
It's odd, I think.
Dylan (32:35):
Yeah, but people are odd and obviously there's some value
of.
Whatever that value is drivenby is still out to out to
pasture at the moment and I meanwhen they start playing major
league baseball games startingat 1am on a regular basis.
They're just training for thebig leagues that maybe we'll
(32:56):
think about it, but no, it doesseem silly.
Yeah, that sport in particulartoo, where oh, now you have a
thing against softball women.
Brad (33:08):
No, no, no, no, no.
Like softball baseball, Ididn't realize I had a generous,
oh my God, either one, justbecause there's long, long
periods of standing still.
Dylan (33:21):
There's not a defining time Quick reactions.
Brad (33:23):
There's not a lot of it.
Dylan (33:26):
It's like drunk driving.
Brad (33:28):
Two o'clock in the morning .
Okay, I'm just standing here ashort stop about to fall asleep,
and then somebody just fuckinglines one at your face.
Dylan (33:35):
I've got a better idea.
Let's give each of these kids abeer and put them out there at
6pm in the afternoon.
What's?
Brad (33:41):
that they would do better.
Dylan (33:42):
Yeah, they would do better.
Brad (33:46):
I feel like I have done a little research into the what's
worse.
Dylan (33:51):
Underage drinking softball league.
No, that sounds like a legitleague.
No.
Brad (33:58):
I can't do that, you can't do that, we could probably do.
North Korea no, they don'tallow fun there, it's true.
Dylan (34:06):
She's those two 16 year olds just got said it's still
like 70 years.
Hey, oh sorry, back back Rabbithole.
You can get out.
It's good for everyone to seewhat it's like.
It sucks.
Don't do it guys.
Don't be born.
Don't be born.
I mean, that's really what itis.
Is that what got us?
I think so.
Brad (34:25):
God damn it.
Hate being born yeah.
Dylan (34:30):
We'll end it right there.
Hate being born.
Brad (34:32):
Hey oh.
Dylan (34:34):
What.
Brad (34:35):
I've been forgetting what To do my things.
Oh, I, all right, am I gonnahave to add one for the last one
?
Nope.
Dylan (34:45):
It's kind of like if you don't use it, you lose it.
Brad (34:49):
Uh, it really is.
So Does it remember the theSkeletor memes?
Dylan (34:55):
Yeah, we've only missed one week, so Do you want a clean
one or a dirty?
One.
I want a clean one.
Brad (35:03):
Oh, I don't have a clean one.
Ok, trick, trick, trickquestion.
Ok, ready.
Yeah, remember BEEP Until nexttime.
You're still here.
Yeah, it's over.
Dylan (35:24):
Go home.
Brad (35:30):
BEEP.
On a desolate, frozen tundra surrounded by mindless,
brain numbing cold takes, twobros trek through the
nothingness to bring hope to anew generation.
You are about to experiencebrad and dylan's hot takes.
Here we go again.
Dylan (00:18):
Again, it's my jam Fucking leave.
Just remember, brad, you goeasy on me.
I can hate when you do this.
What we're not gonna, we'regonna get, we're totally Stop it
.
Stop it, dude.
Brad (00:36):
You just peaked good, somebody's got a peak.
You can't do that you can't doit.
Dylan (00:44):
Okay.
Brad (00:45):
I don't know if you can do it.
I wish you would stop doing it.
Dylan (00:48):
Why wouldn't they take our whole podcast off?
Brad (00:50):
You don't like Adele.
Yeah.
Dylan (00:52):
I do.
She's playing in vegas at thesame time.
I'm gonna be out there, but notof the night that I'm available
she's got a, she got a thingthere right Residency, I think,
is there.
Brad (01:02):
Yes, that's the term.
Dylan (01:04):
I don't know.
Do you know?
I've said I am, I'm going thereand I can't see you too, and I
can't see her.
Brad (01:10):
Oh, I can't see you too.
Shannon has a thing right nowwhere she's got you to radio
going on.
I just why never have been abig youtube fan.
Just in terms of any, any of it.
I don't dislike them like theBeatles.
Dylan (01:28):
You just like the beetle.
That's a hot take.
Brad (01:31):
That's an old.
That's an old take.
Dylan (01:34):
Don't like the Beatles.
Are you like david company fromcalifornia kation?
Who's like?
Oh, rolling stones, fuck theBeatles.
Brad (01:43):
No, I don't like the rolling stones either really
okay, that's fine.
Uh, paint it black Okay.
Dylan (01:49):
I'll take that one.
All right, did you just listento the Spotify top five too?
What?
Brad (01:54):
Mm-hmm.
No, okay, from when?
Dylan (01:56):
Not sure.
These episodes are so mucheasier when I'm trying not to be
nice to you that last episodewas hard for me.
Brad (02:03):
Yeah, I know, I like Beatles songs when they're sung
by other artists.
Dylan (02:09):
I do.
I love covers.
I'm into a niche genre.
Brad (02:13):
I love covers.
Beatles oh my god, yeah, throwme a covered Beatles song and
I'm, I'm here for.
And then they're like oh, haveyou heard the original of this?
I was like no I don't think Ihave and they play the original.
I was like, ah, why would youdo that to me?
Can you quit clipping the mic?
No, you told me six inches fromthe mic.
Okay, so this is what you get.
Do you know how hard it is?
Dylan (02:32):
to try to be.
Do you want me to move away?
When I present as a host inthis episode and sound engineer,
is that better?
Don't do that.
That's mic bleed, what's that?
Do you know how much it makesmy life harder when I have to
edit these things?
Brad (02:46):
I'm trying to be dynamic.
I can't wait, people have afull-time we have a full-time
engineer.
People tell me all the timethey hate listening to your
monochromatic voice.
Who mine?
Yeah, okay, that's not theright term, deadpan, it's not
deadpan Deadpool.
Dylan (03:05):
I did notice that I have a very Spicoli voice when I talk
.
It's just kind of like Spicoliwas that Russian?
No, oh, pastimes are reachingmy high.
Brad (03:13):
No, never seen it.
Put it on the list.
Wow, okay, put it on the list.
Yeah you know how long the listis five to six inches long at
least at least oh.
Dylan (03:26):
So people complain about my monochrome, chromatic voice?
No, I just.
That's not true.
What now you're coming for yourfriends?
If you're one of Brad's friendsand you listen to this podcast,
I officially hate you.
Brad (03:35):
Well, there's none of those.
So well, that's good.
Yes, we're safe, pretty safe,speaking of artists.
Dylan (03:44):
Hot, hot.
Transition right into the topicyou wanted to get going, as
Super Bowl is this weekend.
Yes, do you know how hard it isto talk out of time contacts?
By the way, I don't like thiswhole Radio announcer thing.
It's fine.
Brad (03:57):
Okay, because this is not going away anytime, anytime soon
.
It's not, and plenty of peoplehave takes on this too, but I go
off what I see on my feed.
Shut the fuck up over TaylorSwift, mm-hmm.
Preach my brother, not in theway that you think.
Dylan (04:19):
Oh, okay, I was just.
I was practicing my nonmonochromatic Other voices that
was pretty terrible.
Brad (04:25):
Okay, yeah, you got to be more dynamic.
Tip of the tongue, yeah.
No, you got to tip of thetongue you got to peak, so
people are upset that they showher face During all.
Dylan (04:37):
NFL games yeah.
Brad (04:38):
Yeah, as if have you seen like a fucking Chicago Cubs game
there's girls that get moretime than her and they're just
nobody knows who they are.
Wasn't there a girl thatflashed on the Chicago Cubs game
, I'm sure.
Okay, have you been to a Cubsgame?
(04:59):
A lot of them.
Yeah, I have a great time.
They're amazing, baseball'sgood.
They stack plastic cups 30 rowshigh.
Dylan (05:07):
That's just silly antics that I like about the human race
.
We do silly things like that.
Brad (05:11):
That's that gives me hope, one of the few things that
makes baseball games fun.
What are the other Few meaningtwo or three?
Dylan (05:19):
What are you?
What are you?
Brad (05:21):
Well, yeah, drinking's one .
Yeah, I think drinking's got tobe one.
Dylan (05:26):
So we'll just say a subset.
So drinking.
There's a subset of antics ofdrinking.
Brad (05:31):
Yelling at so a few meaning a couple different
activities that have subactivities.
Dylan (05:36):
Yelling at umpires.
Brad (05:37):
That's yeah, that's a good one.
Throwing back the other team'shome run balls, that does feel
good.
Yeah, everybody claps like youdid a good thing, but they're
still a run on the board.
Dylan (05:49):
Yeah yeah.
Good thing it wasn't thebarkman ball, so, oh yeah, that
was a big deal.
Moses wasn't hot take.
Moses wasn't going to catch it.
Brad (06:01):
Never know.
Dylan (06:03):
Okay.
Brad (06:05):
Yeah, so I?
Where do we leave it?
She's.
She's one of the most powerful,influential people in America
right now.
She's in terms of, she has alittle bit of say, reach little
rabbit toss little mmm.
Dylan (06:20):
Gravitas is a good word.
Brad (06:21):
Yeah, she's, she's going to get airtime, no matter where
she is, True?
So what?
What do you want to see her?
I don't want to see her at all.
Okay, try to shut your fuckingTV off.
That's a good point.
I don't, I don't care.
Well, we're here to watchfootball, okay.
Well, you have announcers.
You see them all the time.
They're not necessary.
Just watch the fucking footballgame.
(06:41):
Why do you need them to tellyou what's going on?
Are you listening on the radio?
No, shut the fuck up, watch thegame.
Oh well, we need some.
Okay, well, she's entertaining.
She literally isn't anentertainer.
She is entertainer.
I don't, I don't get it.
I don't understand it.
On one hand, you have a largesubset of people that, by all
(07:05):
accounts, are really into likesex cells type stuff.
Yeah, give me my, give me myold bikini calendars so I can
hang them in my garage.
Those are the guys that arecomplaining about, like there's
too much Taylor Swift on TV.
Like, I don't know.
Dylan (07:22):
I don't know You're over generalizing.
Yeah, yeah, I appreciate thatabout you.
Brad (07:26):
Yeah, but also probably not wrong.
Dylan (07:33):
Absolutely not wrong.
Brad (07:35):
And there's the, the double standard that happened.
I think was it last week whenJason Kelsey, you know, emerged
from the suite shirtless like aphoenix having a fucking great
time cheering on us.
You know that was fine.
We can get images of that allday long.
There's nothing wrong.
It's cause he's anotherfootball player bro, how is?
(07:56):
That it Is that we're onlygoing to allow fucking football
players to watch football games.
Now it is.
Is that what we're doing?
Dylan (08:03):
It is funny.
Well, only musicians can gowatch Taylor Swift.
It is funny that we put ruleson things that have not been
flushed out formally, but wehave thoughts that just cannot
contradict those.
I don't.
I love fake rules.
Brad (08:18):
Yeah, fake rules are good, but somebody said Kanye needs
to come bust this shit up likehe did in 06 or something.
Whatever that was.
Oh no, I don't remember what itwas.
I made that bitch famous.
That was a controversial lyricand that was the first time I
was like, oh yeah, I don't, Idon't enjoy this guy at all.
Dylan (08:41):
No, kat Williams had some pretty interesting things to
say about Kanye West.
Brad (08:48):
He did.
That was before everyone reallyknew no, Kat.
Dylan (08:52):
Williams was like last month.
Brad (08:55):
No, no, no, no, no no.
I mean like the when he did theTaylor Swift thing at the award
show.
Dylan (08:59):
Yeah, that was.
That was still when people weredefending Kanye.
Now I know the people close tohim probably knew yeah that
something was a miss have youwatched the Enius or whatever?
No, on.
I Watched like two episodes.
No, and it's.
It's hard to watch that.
(09:19):
Not for you to look at everyoneelse and go.
Do you not see the way he looksaround in a crowd that there's
maybe a few things missing?
Yeah, yeah, there's, he's, justit's different for him.
Yeah, and you can call thatgenius or you can just call that
mental health.
Yeah, do you kind of gohand-in-hand in some sometimes,
(09:40):
sometimes.
Brad (09:42):
But what if he was?
What if he was like a mathgenius and then still acted the
way that he did?
And a tell us with algorithm?
Dylan (09:51):
that'd be interesting there probably is one, yeah oh,
there is one actually at 331million dollars.
13 313.
Brad (10:01):
No, there's like a number 13 that's going around.
Dylan (10:05):
We're talking about the amount of money for the NFL.
Brad (10:08):
No, no, no, no, this is in terms of like, if the chiefs
are gonna win or not, you'reruining it.
Dylan (10:12):
There's all kinds of deep Internet theories about this,
but yeah, so Get Taylor off myNFL the by the way she's made
them over 300 million dollarsyeah my favorite part about this
is I Don't really have anopinion one right the other.
I Think you know there'scelebrity couple people, for
(10:36):
whatever reason.
Slow go to Jennifer.
Go to Jennifer and Ben before,before they're married back in
the early 2000s, j Lo, you knowit was what they were there for
benefit for.
Thank you, yeah, and that waseverywhere all the time.
It's just a thing.
I don't get it.
I.
Brad (10:54):
Don't understand celebrity couples.
Yeah, you're name.
Dylan (10:57):
We have someone in the audience, yeah, good celebrity
couples.
Brad (11:00):
You like it, you like to follow them?
Okay, yeah, we got it, wait oh.
Dylan (11:10):
Oh.
Brad (11:11):
Hot take, hot take Shane, and might fall under that a
little bit.
Dylan (11:16):
Yeah, there's not a chance in hell.
She does not have some sort ofTaylor Swift Kansas City chief's
outfit for next weekend.
Who your wife no?
She'd give two shits about okayokay, and she doesn't, she's
gonna see it all over Instagramand tiktok now, okay, yeah.
Brad (11:33):
It's just not going to happen.
Dylan (11:34):
Oh, you want to put a bet on it.
Yep, how much.
Brad (11:37):
That bottle of zero sugar, Canada dry.
Dylan (11:40):
Okay, I will get you a bottle of Cody Road bourbon.
Brad (11:44):
Wow, I'm not going to get you anything, and then, if I'm
not, I don't need to wagerbecause I'm right, you lose.
Dylan (11:52):
You need to buy a better fucking mic stand.
Brad (11:55):
She might watch it for the commercials.
Okay, you don't?
Dylan (12:00):
think she'll have one piece of Taylor Swift
parafinalia, yeah.
Brad (12:02):
No.
Dylan (12:03):
Okay, I don't feel like.
Brad (12:07):
you know your wife very well, I think if anyone's going
to wear Taylor Swift parafinalia, it'd be my eldest son probably
.
Dylan (12:13):
Came out of your wife's womb.
Same thing.
Brad (12:15):
No, it's not the same thing.
He's a mini me.
So what?
Oh, you love Taylor.
Are you a Swifty?
I love Swifty.
Dylan (12:22):
Yeah.
Brad (12:24):
Shannon's not a Swifty, but she doesn't dislike her, but
she also doesn't watch football.
Dylan (12:30):
Yeah, so You're not rooting for the Kansas City
Chiefs.
Brad (12:35):
I'm rooting for them.
My mother-in-law had to comeover and watch the Lions.
No yeah, the Lions game.
Dylan (12:41):
No, what was the one before Ravens?
Brad (12:44):
Kansas City.
She couldn't get that channeland I was like he's gonna watch
it.
So then I just had on theNiners Lions game and I would
just check back in periodically.
So halftime I come in likethere's a halftime for this game
and it lasts forever, which isproblematic, and it was like 24
seven.
And then I didn't come back inuntil the game was over and the
(13:07):
49ers are putting hats on it andI was like wait, what?
What happened?
Dylan (13:12):
The fuck is this?
This switched quickly.
I'm just mad that Scott Stapleis in either game.
Brad (13:18):
Second I don't know who that is Creed, oh, with arms
wide open take me higher.
Dylan (13:27):
Oh wait, don't you remember that Dallas Cowboys
game where he was floating?
Brad (13:30):
around with a shirt off Nope.
Don't watch.
We're gonna have to watch don'twatch much of that, so just get
get over it, just get over it,I agree.
Dylan (13:46):
But I don't do you know why?
No, you keep seeing.
It is because you keep clickingon it and then your algorithms
keep telling you oh, we're going, whether you dislike it or like
it, it's just going to keepfeeding it.
Hmm, I had don't.
I don't have an opinion and Idon't see it at all.
I'm like why is everyone keeptalking about this Taylor Swift
on TV thing?
Because I don't see it.
Do I see it, I don't you, Idon't think you do maybe I mean,
(14:09):
you're the one that brought thehot takes.
I did.
You're a maturing candidate,damn it I.
Brad (14:14):
Don't know why, though I don't know either.
I'm just.
You know what my algorithm isother people's hot takes.
Dylan (14:22):
What's that do for?
Brad (14:23):
you, they just, they just pour into my feed and look at
that anything that'scontroversial, holy shit, look
at that Dallas.
Dylan (14:31):
Cowboys 2001.
Brad (14:32):
Oh yeah, this looks like.
I think if varsity blues was asrock.
Uh-huh, look at those jeans.
Love it.
Look at those man you guys are.
Dylan (14:46):
Oh yeah, look at that guy's hanging, that guy's
hanging from silks, so you guysgot to look this up.
Brad (14:52):
2001.
What's the game?
Dylan (14:56):
I don't actually know who's playing the game Creed
live at Dallas Cowboys 2001.
Yeah, check it out.
Thanks, giving day game.
Brad (15:04):
Texas State he.
They just came back into alittle bit of fame.
They're touring again.
Dylan (15:11):
Via.
He's been broke for 20 years.
Yeah, he is no money.
Yeah, well, nah, he will have alittle bit now.
Brad (15:21):
God told him to not make money, Hmm why did why?
Dylan (15:25):
how did you lose it?
Cream coin, I don't know.
Is he a drug?
Brad (15:28):
addict, let's not assume, you know, okay, scott's ah, adhd
, god damn it.
Dylan (15:37):
It's got stuff.
No worth of it.
You know where I just went.
Brad (15:40):
He's a worth maybe a million dollars when, when on
South Park the boys are tryingto make a hit band and they
couldn't figure anything out.
So they just started makingChristian rock.
They're like we have anautomatic audience, everyone
will buy it.
And then they went worldwide.
Dylan (16:00):
That's what Creed reminds me of so good, that was a funny
one.
Brad (16:06):
All right, let's get off stabby, scott Stabby that's good
, what do you want?
You want to keep on the peoplecomplaining about stuff, or you
want to keep on the sports thing?
Dylan (16:17):
I don't know.
You're the one that has hottakes.
You keep going.
Brad (16:19):
Okay, have you ever heard of midnight softball tournaments
?
Dylan (16:23):
Oh, yes, yeah.
Brad (16:25):
Well, what do you know about them?
Dylan (16:28):
Children or adults?
Children, no, I've never heardof those.
What I only know?
Beer league.
Oh, tell me about them.
That's a, it's a thing, what?
Brad (16:38):
happens?
You start playing games atmidnight?
Why?
Let's not get to that questionso fast?
Okay, I have no fucking ideawhy.
I have a theory, but well, this, this was the take.
Midnight softball tournamentsare a scream for help that your
(16:58):
life is too easy.
Dylan (17:01):
So you've invented fake stress which is yeah, okay,
essentially, okay, because whyelse?
Brad (17:11):
why else do it in it on some sense?
So the initial, my initialreaction is always that's,
that's dumb, like that doesn'teven seem safe.
Because they're playing tillthree in the morning, kids, yeah
, why I don't?
I don't know, it's maybe it'savailability.
(17:31):
They're like, hey, you can cramthree games in and in these
three hours, which also doesn'tmake sense coming from baseball.
Dylan (17:40):
Back our kids of all night and then all everyone's
gonna be miserable.
Mm-hmm, that sounds terrible.
Brad (17:45):
Yeah, and the parents are right along there.
There's like oh, everybody,pray for me that I can stay up
Till three o'clock.
Dylan (17:53):
When did this become a thing?
Brad (17:54):
like bitch, I can't even watch a fucking TV show at 9 30
at night.
Please stay up till threeo'clock watching softball.
Dylan (18:00):
Have you been one of these?
No, then why are they when?
Brad (18:05):
are they Indoors, where?
I think where yeah, everywhere.
Dylan (18:10):
I've never heard it.
You're not just making.
Brad (18:12):
I am for sure not making it up.
Dylan (18:14):
Okay, so is there local ones around here?
Brad (18:17):
Oh, I'm sure TV K's done it before kids Midnight and like
the whole theme is midnight.
Yeah, you start it.
You start at midnight.
Like you start late.
I don't know if they all startmidnight, this last particular
one did.
Dylan (18:33):
So we can get you a real great rate.
You're gonna love it.
Well, it's only gonna costforty five thousand dollars to
host it works.
Brad (18:40):
It probably works really well for the hosting facilities,
because who's using theirindoor fields at midnight?
Nobody you host during the dayyou hosted yeah, you host in the
morning for our money.
Dylan (18:51):
That's it, your money ahead I.
It's kind of like you got.
You know, you got a week insideof a day.
Brad (18:57):
If you use it right, I could I could see an adult
league for dobro, for thirdshifters on their days off.
You know, it makes sense,that's your daytime.
Dylan (19:05):
I think you have something here.
We Marginalize their shift andthey don't have the same
amenities that first shiftershave, and that is, the federal
government should fund items andrec leagues and other.
It's not that far of a leapwhat we're just marginalizing.
Third shift yeah, I Just youknow there's a second that we
(19:31):
need to second third just hard.
Yeah, I'm not discounting thatBecause I'm not a chance in hell
.
I mean it's, it's hard For alot of reasons, a lot of reasons
.
Brad (19:44):
I think family life, or whatever you have of it.
Dylan (19:50):
Yeah, yeah, props to you guys, new, a new, a third shift,
nick or not Nicky, but what'sthe baby floor called the
hospital?
Brad (20:03):
Yeah.
Dylan (20:05):
Just the which, just at a hospital like what's the word
like?
Where they deliver babies,what's the word called?
There's a vinyl.
Brad (20:14):
Yeah, tile, tile yeah.
Dylan (20:16):
The floor tile floor Maternity Ward.
Brad (20:20):
Thank you, fire in the maternity ward.
Maternity ward Anthony Juslin.
Dylan (20:24):
Like a Like a fox.
So third shift.
Brad (20:33):
Would get all right.
Dylan (20:34):
I was like Two hours of sleep a day, because they would
do all the normal activitiesduring the day for their kids
and then they'd go to work, andthen they'd try to sleep for a
little bit when they got homeand then they'd go back to doing
all the activities.
No, I was like that you werekilling yourself.
Brad (20:56):
Younger me would would want to have done a second and a
half shift.
What is?
Dylan (21:03):
second and a half shift Brad.
Brad (21:06):
Let's call it like a 7 to 3.
What pm To am?
Oh yeah, Okay, I could killthat not now.
Dylan (21:17):
No, no but what would you do when you were off at 3?
Look at home asleep, okay, andwhat time would you wake up?
Do I have kids?
No, okay, whatever.
I want to Go drinking, go backto work, do whatever I just do
whatever I mean.
Brad (21:34):
Before I had kids I would Work till three and then get up
at you know 7 or 8 o'clock andthen go back to work again and
yeah, Freakin sometimes thoseare good times now.
They build character.
I Think, do that.
Oh yeah, I think so.
Dylan (21:54):
So Midnight softball is for people that need excitement
in their life, but then, but howdo you backfill that then?
But then I also thought abouthow do you, how do you stop them
from doing silly shit Like thatactual, meaningful hard stuff?
Brad (22:09):
Well, that that's what I started thinking about.
Was is it?
Is it?
Is it meaningful at all?
Because look at some of theshit that we've done exercise
related.
That's hard, yeah, pushes yourbody to some limits, okay.
There's some degree of Unsafetyin that, which also builds some
(22:33):
excitement, yeah, but but Ifeel, yeah, I just I can't quite
make the connections exactly.
Dylan (22:46):
Also because I don't you ever think that maybe the kids
are just building memories andparents are there supporting
their children wanting to makememories?
Brad (22:56):
Oh, that's good.
That's a good point.
You know what I remember frombaseball.
Dylan (23:02):
Nothing.
I don't remember nothing.
Brad (23:03):
No, I remember getting knocked out cold in the morning
practice.
It's why I keep your mid up.
I remember throwing a no hitterwith another kid okay.
At a young age and then highschool.
I pretty much don't rememberanything.
Dylan (23:19):
Was that because you were stoned, bradley Could have been
from the concussion.
We didn't really have a goodman.
We didn't really have a goodconcussion protocol, did we I?
Brad (23:30):
Went dark Yep and was told to put some ice on it.
That's good.
And then go to school all day.
I don't know what could gowrong Did it make you stronger.
I don't know, they got it andget hit and had the next day.
Could have been an issue.
Dylan (23:46):
Might still be an issue, because I don't know, it might
still be an issue.
Brad (23:51):
Haven't had that brain scan done, yet I Think you just,
we'll just you don't want to dothat.
I don't know, I don't knowabout the memory thing, I would
like to think, yes, but man, youknow what?
Dylan (24:06):
my kids remember what outside stuff we're gonna go
back to the just get outside.
Brad (24:12):
No, like like when we take trips, like our vacations, and
they're they're outdoor, and Idon't mean like beach related
necessarily, even though some ofthose are even somewhat
memorable.
Yeah, and I'm kind of the sameway, like I've spent a lot of
time on whatever specific things.
(24:33):
I was in bay and, you know, didbaseball, some other stuff.
I don't really remember anyspecifics about it, but I could
go back and walk you throughsome of the trails that I was on
in my early 20s when I was onvacation.
Don't know why, but it leavessomewhat of a lasting impression
(24:55):
over.
Dylan (24:56):
I'll go on another trailer with your friends.
Brad (24:58):
Either Okay, yeah.
Dylan (25:01):
Done it both ways.
So, from baseball, yourbaseball experience was a lot
different than the modernbaseball softball experience,
though, From some modern, I meannot everybody's.
But you guys would have beenmore structured, little league
where you'd show up kind of onegame kind of out a couple of
(25:23):
times a week, versus the bigkind of.
Brad (25:25):
Yeah, which is what we're still playing today.
Dylan (25:27):
Yeah but there's a lot more emphasis on weekend
tournaments.
I feel like then, when I waseven younger and you're old,
well, that didn't.
Brad (25:33):
Yeah, we didn't, that didn't exist, period.
But I'm just saying thatthere's still a group of kids
that played yeah.
Dylan (25:40):
That you don't have a child.
Child memories fun, funmemories of being together with
all your friends.
I love going to baseball.
Brad (25:51):
I'm a social kid, I like to.
I didn't.
I didn't say that I didn't likeit, I just lack.
Dylan (25:59):
I think it's too fast to do there.
I think the kids like to be andthis isn't everyone.
I think the kids liked it.
I had an overwhelming sense offreedom when I was at those,
because my parents were like,well, we're here, wander
wherever, and so you kind offelt like you're being able to
go on an adventure and, to yourpoint about being outdoors, I
love those because it always isoh, where are we going to go
(26:19):
next?
What's our next move?
And that's still how I am.
When I go on vacation, I getyelled at by other people
because they want an itineraryand I cannot do itinerary
vacations.
It is, I will get there and Iwill go on my adventure.
Yeah.
Brad (26:31):
Because the things that pop up are things that you can't
plan for Exactly.
Dylan (26:35):
And you don't and I'm not .
So there's a balance there youneed there.
Obviously, if you go to certaincities, certain towns, there
are certain items you definitelywant to hit, but you can't fill
up the whole day, you felt thewhole day you're going to win.
Brad (26:45):
You got to leave some leeway.
Dylan (26:47):
Yeah.
So I think the parents, thoughthe way I see my, I've got some
older cousins that have youngkids that are doing the crazy
sports leaks down in St Louiswhere they're going all over the
country, and it's funny the waythey talk sometimes because
they make it.
Oh well, you know Ellis orWeston needs to do this or that,
(27:09):
and then sometimes I'm like, dothey need to do that, or do you
need to be with your friendsbecause you can't miss out?
And so there's, I think there'sa little bit of I don't want to
I don't want to necessarilycall it keeping up with the
Joneses, but there's a littlebit of herd mentality there.
There's part of that at theparent level.
Oh, yeah, for sure, Notnecessarily the kids, but and
(27:29):
they like to easily, they usethe kids as escape.
Go to well, we can't let themmiss out.
And it's like, well, is it themor is it you?
Brad (27:35):
But I wonder in 20 years like what those kids will
remember from that too.
Dylan (27:40):
Mom and dad, we're overbearing because Jen Steve,
not a reflection on you, by theway, just in a quick ad hoc, I
think part of why maybe I don'tremember specific so much is
that you just that's like youwere in the moment.
Brad (27:55):
Well, it's also 13 years of of playing the same thing.
A lot of it, it's a lot of it.
So it's it's hard to decipher.
Dylan (28:05):
There are key moments that come out of that.
Yeah, you had like the reallyhigh or the really low.
Oh, my goodness Most honestly,that girl, that girl talked to
me next to the concession standfor a few minutes.
You're right, she never did,damn it.
Brad (28:18):
Most of the stuff I remember has to do with
teammates Like I remembershowing up to so it's to be like
seventh, eighth grade.
So this, this is yourin-between year, so you're out
of like your town little leaguesand everybody's kind of stopped
playing and usually you got tojoin other people's leagues so
that you have enough, you know,people to play with and out of
(28:39):
the barn and did the storm.
Dylan (28:42):
Okay, sure.
Brad (28:43):
And I did it.
I had to pick up my firstpractice for that, and we were
probably in seventh grade, andso it'd be like seventh and
eighth and I had kind of a redrash, what is known as drink
drinkers for coaches often.
Dylan (28:59):
Oh, I had alcoholic coaches through most of my
career.
Red nose, big ears.
Brad (29:05):
They varied in sizes.
I had a pitching coach that wasI still see one of them out,
yeah, and so he was not there ontime and so we were just kind
of all there and I remember someof the eighth graders dipping
and full sandlot.
Dylan (29:24):
Yeah, yeah, did they puke .
Brad (29:27):
They did not.
But then there were the seventhgraders.
No, I've never tried it,because I watched like one or
two of my friends puke, give into the peer pressure and then
just yak all over the baseballfield.
What a good time.
Well, like I remember that shit.
I remember like it was fightsalmost broke out or like those
are the things that I remember.
(29:48):
This is life, but not so much ofthe baseball, so it kind of
makes me think like, yeah, itseems like a lot of money to
spend on some of these thingsthat you could just get from
probably hanging out with yourfriends.
Dylan (30:06):
Yeah.
Brad (30:07):
And I think that's because I think those are the kind of
stories that that people wouldremember and not having anything
to do with baseball, softballor the fields.
Dylan (30:18):
But that I think that goes back to my original point,
though is somebody found outthat midnight softball seems
like a novel thing, where peopleare going to want to do it
because of the novelty of it andthen it kind of gives you.
Those kids in 10 years aregoing to laugh and be like
(30:40):
remember that time we werereally dumb and our parents let
us do midnight softball.
Brad (30:44):
But that's the thing.
Like they didn't let them, theparents find the novelty in it.
That's what I mean.
Dylan (30:50):
Yeah yeah, it's not the kids, but the kids will be
laughing about it someday.
Brad (30:53):
It's kind of like the parents that say it's all bad.
I don't talk about like I hadto drive 500 miles on Saturday
just to hit this basketball gameand this softball game and this
thing.
Dylan (31:06):
And you're like who's the parent who runs the house?
Yeah, yeah, so you didn't haveto, you didn't have to.
Brad (31:13):
Yeah, but they love it.
Dylan (31:15):
Okay, so you love your kid.
That's cool.
That's okay to own that I meanit's okay to love your kid and
say you know what I do sacrificefor them, but it's okay.
Brad (31:22):
Yeah, but also have people that are have seven, eight year
olds.
We just go everywhere.
He just loves baseball.
Dylan (31:33):
Like yeah, he's fucking eight.
Brad (31:35):
Most eight year olds love baseball.
Every day is an adventure.
Yeah, they get to go outsideand play the dirt and hang out
with their friends and we'vegone back to being outside, spit
on the fence and oh, spittingon the fence.
Yeah, that's all that stuff.
But you don't have to spend andgo to the places that you think
(31:56):
you need to to for them to havethose experiences, necessarily.
Dylan (32:00):
No, I don't.
Brad (32:01):
I don't think.
But yeah, it gets to be thekeeping up with the Joneses.
Like well, have you guys everplayed softball at midnight?
Cause we did.
Dylan (32:10):
Yeah, there is a weirdness there of.
Brad (32:15):
And did you get a trophy for that?
And did the trophy say softballchampionship or did it say
congratulations on staying uppast your bedtime?
Dylan (32:23):
Thanks for the money.
Brad (32:25):
Thanks for the money.
I hope you had fun.
Oh, I don't know it's.
It's odd, I think.
Dylan (32:35):
Yeah, but people are odd and obviously there's some value
of.
Whatever that value is drivenby is still out to out to
pasture at the moment and I meanwhen they start playing major
league baseball games startingat 1am on a regular basis.
They're just training for thebig leagues that maybe we'll
(32:56):
think about it, but no, it doesseem silly.
Yeah, that sport in particulartoo, where oh, now you have a
thing against softball women.
Brad (33:08):
No, no, no, no, no.
Like softball baseball, Ididn't realize I had a generous,
oh my God, either one, justbecause there's long, long
periods of standing still.
Dylan (33:21):
There's not a defining time Quick reactions.
Brad (33:23):
There's not a lot of it.
Dylan (33:26):
It's like drunk driving.
Brad (33:28):
Two o'clock in the morning .
Okay, I'm just standing here ashort stop about to fall asleep,
and then somebody just fuckinglines one at your face.
Dylan (33:35):
I've got a better idea.
Let's give each of these kids abeer and put them out there at
6pm in the afternoon.
What's?
Brad (33:41):
that they would do better.
Dylan (33:42):
Yeah, they would do better.
Brad (33:46):
I feel like I have done a little research into the what's
worse.
Dylan (33:51):
Underage drinking softball league.
No, that sounds like a legitleague.
No.
Brad (33:58):
I can't do that, you can't do that, we could probably do.
North Korea no, they don'tallow fun there, it's true.
Dylan (34:06):
She's those two 16 year olds just got said it's still
like 70 years.
Hey, oh sorry, back back Rabbithole.
You can get out.
It's good for everyone to seewhat it's like.
It sucks.
Don't do it guys.
Don't be born.
Don't be born.
I mean, that's really what itis.
Is that what got us?
I think so.
Brad (34:25):
God damn it.
Hate being born yeah.
Dylan (34:30):
We'll end it right there.
Hate being born.
Brad (34:32):
Hey oh.
Dylan (34:34):
What.
Brad (34:35):
I've been forgetting what To do my things.
Oh, I, all right, am I gonnahave to add one for the last one
?
Nope.
Dylan (34:45):
It's kind of like if you don't use it, you lose it.
Brad (34:49):
Uh, it really is.
So Does it remember the theSkeletor memes?
Dylan (34:55):
Yeah, we've only missed one week, so Do you want a clean
one or a dirty?
One.
I want a clean one.
Brad (35:03):
Oh, I don't have a clean one.
Ok, trick, trick, trickquestion.
Ok, ready.
Yeah, remember BEEP Until nexttime.
You're still here.
Yeah, it's over.
Dylan (35:24):
Go home.
Brad (35:30):
BEEP.
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