January 7, 2025 • 21 mins
Embracing humor and a dash of skepticism, I’ll recap my weekend, ponder a post-apocalyptic world scenario, the intricacies of human nature and survival by also mentioning Christopher Browning's "Ordinary Men." We'll also entertain ourselves with the topic of movies, discuss the challenges of the New England Patriots’ post-Brady struggles, and the legacies of Julian Edelman and Mike Evans. Your feedback is always welcome as we navigate this lively mix of humor and introspection.
If you would like to share your opinion, send an email to lnbemedia@gmail.com and don't forget to follow me on Instagram and TikTok @thelnbepodcast.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
all right, what's going on?
Everybody, thank you for tuninginto the first tuesday episode
of the year of the lmbe podcast,where lmbe stands for literally
nothing but everything.
I'm mike rispoli and, to spareall of you, I'm actually doing
this on Sunday night, and it'slike almost 1230 now, because
today I just sat my post-holidayfat ass on the couch and just
(00:35):
watched football.
That was my day today.
I know, don't I lead such anexciting life, guys, and the
Monday night game, which was theLions and the Vikings, ended up
around 1130.
Dude, the Lions just look sogood.
I mean, that game ended upbeing way more of a blowout than
I thought it was going to be.
(00:57):
But, as we've learned in thepast, if I'm watching sports
while I'm trying to record thispodcast, then I have a tendency
to get way too distracted and inmy life, unlike some of you
degenerates, I try to learn frommy mistakes, although, let's be
real, there are plenty of otherareas that I definitely need to
(01:18):
work on.
So, anyways, I'm doing itSunday night because I have shit
going on tomorrow and I'm not100% sure if I'll have time to
do it.
So here we are.
Plus, let's be real, it's notlike I got to wake up for work
tomorrow morning.
And why push something offtomorrow when you can do it
today?
Well, mike, if you don't wantto do it tonight, why don't you
(01:39):
just wake up early tomorrowbefore the stuff you have going
on?
Are you kidding me up earlytomorrow before the stuff you
have going on?
Are you kidding me?
Wake up early on the one ofmany days that I have off?
How proactive do you guysactually think that I am?
Plus, honestly, I'm actuallyway more of a night owl, and
even when I did have a job,waking up in the morning was
(02:01):
always a struggle.
I always wanted to be one ofthose people that could just
wake up at like 5.30, 6 am, geta workout in and just take on
the day by the balls.
And it's funny because therewas a period where I was doing
that.
I want to say that it lastedmaybe a month, but then all of a
(02:23):
sudden, like I just missed oneday and it was just downhill
from there.
So for right now, we embracethe night owl life until I have
to actually get my ass in gearwhen I actually get a full time
job.
But until then, here we are,and also the truth in the matter
is like, once I'm asleep, I amout Like dude.
I am such a heavy sleeper Itruly don't wake up, for shit.
(02:46):
Do you guys remember thatearthquake that happened in New
Jersey?
This, oh my gosh.
I almost just said this year,but it's 2025 now, so
technically it's last year.
Hey, I might be 28, but I'mmentally still like 21.
So I'm still trying tocomprehend the fact that it's
not 2018 anymore.
But yeah, no.
So New Jersey had an earthquakeif you aren't familiar with it,
(03:08):
back in like April of 2024.
And apparently it was actuallyfelt in my area of Connecticut.
Even if you aren't in my area,I actually think it made
national news.
But short story that I'm nottrying to make unnecessarily
long.
I am such a heavy sleeper thatI actually slept through it.
I remember waking up thatmorning to like 50 texts from
(03:30):
friends and family and I wasjust like, oh my God, who the
hell died.
But it was about the earthquake.
And that was when I realizedthat when World War III breaks
out and that bomb goes off, I'llprobably sleep through it out
and that bomb goes off, I'llprobably sleep through it.
So bad news is I'm dead, butgood news is I don't have to
worry about the world aftermathand just prolonging the
(03:52):
inevitable, because I amdefinitely a goner.
It's actually funny because overthe weekend, my friend Jordan
came to visit.
You, broke your rule.
You said a name All right guys,right guys.
Well, he gave me permission andalso said, and I quote, I'd be
honored for a shout out.
So, anyways, my friend jordancame to visit over the weekend,
(04:14):
which, honestly, was a nicelittle surprise, because he's
never been to the vastly wealthy, superiorly overrated town that
is greenwich, connecticut.
Well, with so much wealth,isn't your town nice?
Isn't there a lot to do?
No, what's there to do?
Get an overpriced meal at asubpar restaurant and walk up
(04:35):
and down Greenwich Avenue to allthose designer stores where you
look at the price tag and justgo nope, because the same
sweatshirt that you can find atSaks Off 5th yeah, we got one of
those it costs $500.
But at any other departmentstore like Kohl's or Target, it
costs like 15 bucks.
Well, that's exactly what wedid.
(04:56):
But anyways, he told me that hisdad liked to hunt and his wife
told me that they actually justrecently went over to Jordan's
dad's house to have venisontacos and I realized in that
moment that I would be soscrewed if our world were to go
to shit.
Well, why is that?
Well, for starters, I've nevershot a gun, but honestly I feel
(05:18):
like if the world were to go toshit and we were in that
post-apocalyptic like world kindof thing, I think bow hunting
or using a crossbow wouldprobably be your best bet,
because I don't know, everysingle time I talk to a hunter
or something and they're alwaystalking about the buckshot and
you got to eat around it orwhatever.
(05:38):
At least with a bow you'regetting more meat out of
whatever it is that you killedand also it's quiet like dude.
In that sort of a situation Idon't want nobody knowing where
I am.
I mean, even in a civilizedsociety that we have now, people
are already savages.
Why would I want to wait andsee what people are truly
(06:00):
capable of?
Like?
You could honestly think thatyou would be the nicest person.
You would never hurt a fly, x,y, z.
But for any history buffs outthere like me, there's a great
book that one of my friendsrecommended to me.
It's a book called Ordinary Menand it's about Battalion 101.
And pretty much what this bookis about is back in World War II
(06:23):
there was this group of guyscalled Battalion 101.
And I haven't read this book inyears so my details might be a
little bit spotty, but from whatI remember it was a group of
guys that were too old to bedrafted but they were too young
to not serve.
So they were maybe like late20s to maybe like early 40s, and
(06:45):
these were just people thatwere ordinary men, like they
were accountants, they werebarbers, like whatever you could
think of, and it was how theGerman army got these
quote-unquote ordinary men tobecome killing machines and how
they were able to do horrificthings to Jewish people even
though they had no desire toinitially do it, and how they
(07:07):
soon became desensitized to whatthey were doing.
It's a really crazy book and itkind of goes into the mentality
of like what people are trulycapable of when they have no
choice but to do something.
Because during World War Two,if you were part of Hitler's
army and the Nazis, it waseither kill or be killed.
And that was part of the wholething with the Nuremberg trials,
(07:28):
where the topics surroundingpeople's ethics started to come
into question, where you had allthese high officiating Nazi
members just being like, well,we didn't necessarily want to do
it, but it was kill or bekilled in this sort of a
situation, because if we didn'tdo what we were told, we were
technically going againstauthority.
So yeah, man, you really don'tknow what people are truly
(07:49):
capable of given a certainsituation.
So, yeah, if you're interestedin the book, I highly recommend
it.
It doesn't read like a textbook, it actually reads like a novel
.
And again, if you areinterested, it's called Ordinary
Men and it's by ChristopherBrowning, but anyways.
So yeah, I would definitely beso screwed if there was a
(08:10):
post-apocalyptic world, becauseI've never had to also forage
for food or build a shelter.
But one thing I do know is I'mavoiding mushrooms, because you
can't trust those fuckers foranything.
If it ain't a mushroom that'scoming from the grocery store, I
want no part of it because Idon't know what the hell that
thing is going to entail.
You got three options, becausethese things are more
(08:31):
unpredictable than a roided outmaniac's mood swings, and I know
that this is a meme all oversocial media, but truly you do
have only three options.
It's either nutritious anddelicious, it has you seeing God
, or it's going to have youpassed out in the fetal position
and you're going to die in like30 minutes.
So I'm not trusting any of thatshit and the last thing that I
want to do is get absolutelyBaked out of my mind seeing shit
(08:55):
that's actually not there in apost-apocalyptic world.
I mean, I just don't fucks withpsychedelics.
Man, people are putting shroomsin coffee and shit now, like I
was never interested in any ofthat stuff, never fazed me to
even try it.
Part of that is because I trulydon't like not being in control
(09:15):
of what's going on around me,but the other part of it is
knowing me and what my mentalstate is like.
I know that that would be oneof the worst trips of my life
and the last thing that I needis a trip to the frigging
hospital because I ate the wrongmushroom.
So not in my wheelhouse ofthings to try.
I know that saying is YOLO, butthere are truly some things
(09:37):
that you do not need to try inyour life.
Honestly, for those of you whohave tried mushrooms, I'm
genuinely curious.
Write in and tell me what yourexperience was, whether it was
good or bad, because I've seenstuff where it's like people are
just becoming really more awareof like what's going on around
them and what's going on intheir life.
They have like these fantasticmoments of self-clarity and all
(10:01):
that shit.
But then I also want to knowwhat the other side of that is
like, where, if you have a badtrip, does that also cause you
to have like the self-awarenessand stuff and like like that's
what the demons are that you'refighting inside?
I have no idea, but I also knowI for a fact have no desire to
know what that's like on eitherside of the spectrum.
(10:21):
That shit just truly scares theshit out of me.
So, yeah, write in with yourexperiences.
You can email me at lnbimedia atgmailcom, and, while you're at
it, don't forget to rate thepodcast and write up a review to
let me know how much you guyslike this thing or if you hate
it.
Either way, I don't know.
For some reason, though,episode 18 has been randomly
(10:43):
just blowing up and I don't knowwhy you guys like me talking
about my shitty golf game.
I don't know.
I think that's what I talkedabout that episode.
I'll have to go back and checkit out.
So I'm curious what was it thatyou guys liked about that
episode so much?
All right, sorry, I know Ideviated there a little bit, but
speaking of um me being fuckedin a post-apocalyptic world,
I've also never had to build afire from scratch like dude.
(11:05):
If I can't find a dura flame,I'm cooked.
So I'm honestly good withgetting it over with quick.
The sooner the better, in myopinion.
Okay, honest question If thereever was a purge or an
apocalyptic event or somethinglike that and you have no choice
but to go outside, logicallyand honestly, how long do you
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think that you have before youbecome Andy Dufresne and
Shawshank Redemption and arejust totally fucked, fucked.
Haven't seen the movie?
Watch it, it's actually prettygood.
Is it my favorite movie?
No, but IMBD ranks it numberone out of like 250 movies.
So if I don't say that it's atop 20, some of you are going to
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pull a White Chicks and have aBF.
Haven't seen White Chicks?
Bf stands for bitch fit Peopleget with the program.
My God, look at at that.
I just gave you two moviereferences of vastly different
genres, but honestly, I canthink of five movies I'd watch
before I would watch shawshank.
Oh, off the top of my head.
Oh god, you guys are putting meon the spot here, he says as he
(12:14):
talks to himself in front of acomputer.
Honestly, I would watchGoodfellas before I watch
Shawshank.
I'd probably watch Forrest GumpI would put Uncle Buck in that
list.
Tropic Thunder is a good oneand, honestly, I think I would
watch Grown Ups before I turnedon Shawshank.
(12:36):
And some of those I don't eventhink I would put in my top five
of all time movies.
All right, wait, new segmentidea.
What's a movie that you thinkis well overrated but everybody
else loves, or was overhyped byHollywood?
Like I already started withShawshank, but I'll give you
another one the Revenant.
Like I already started withShawshank, but I'll give you
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another one the Revenant.
I actually went to the theaterto see that movie when it came
out with a friend of mine andafter that movie my friend and I
walked out of the theater likedude that fucking sucked,
watching Leo crawl through snowand just saying my boy was three
hours of my life that I willnever get back, and he won the
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Oscar for that fucking snoozefest of a movie.
And we all know the jokes thatthe bear was the better actor.
X, y, z, and I'm not on here toreiterate old jokes from when.
When did that movie come out?
Hang on, give me one second,let me look this up real quick.
Hang on, give me one second.
Let me look this up real quick.
The Revenant oh my God, thatmovie came out in 2015?
(13:45):
It came out 10 years ago, oh myGod.
All right, give me a momenthere.
I just aged myself.
What have I done with my lifein these past 10 years?
No, no, no, no.
We're not going to bitch aboutthe negative.
We said that last week we're onto greener pastures.
Now, how the fuck did I evenget on this topic?
(14:07):
Oh, that's right, apocalypse.
The macho man in me says that Iwould learn the necessary
skills and I'll tough it out.
And that will just be my life,because if it's one thing about
evolution, the human species hasan incredible ability to adapt.
But realistically, I think Iwould last anywhere from three
(14:31):
days to a month before I diefrom either not finding water or
food source.
So, yeah, I honestly want toknow how screwed you think you
would be, because I think I'vedone a pretty good job at
establishing how screwed I wouldbe, just like the New England
Patriots.
Oh, look at that segue.
I told you I just got donewatching the Lions game.
(14:51):
Did you not think I was goingto talk football?
It's the last week of theregular season and it's at this
point where the seasonaldepression really sets in,
because I'm just like damn, weare now thoroughly into the
throes of winter here inconnecticut and it's been colder
than casey anthony's heart.
But the new england patriots,since tom brady has left, has
(15:14):
just continuously found ways tototally shit the bed.
But, mike, they won today.
They ended their season on agood note.
You should be happy.
Oh yeah, it was fantasticwatching the Patriots beat up on
a bunch of second and thirdstringers that the Bills were
playing.
Yeah, I'm thrilled that theywon, because in doing so they
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also lost the number one pick inthe draft next year.
Well, why do you need the numberone pick?
Drake May looks like a stud.
You have your quarterback.
What do you need the draft for?
I don't know.
Because desperate teams theGiants will literally sell a
kidney in their left nut to getthat pick.
(15:58):
So we could have had draftcapital to actually get a wide
receiver we so desperately need,because the Patriots wide
receiver core is literallyranked last in the division.
Not even last in the division.
The fucking league that widereceiver core is dog water.
And then we could have used someof that draft capital to try
(16:20):
and get the offensive linebecause the whole offensive line
needs to go a 33 year oldinjury prone.
David andrews is our toplineman and the rest of the guys
on that side of the trench arejust second string caliber
players at best.
Look at at the Eagles, look atthe Lions, look at the Chiefs.
If you don't believe thatchampionship teams are built in
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the trenches, you're absolutelywrong.
A good offensive line is thetrue core of a good offense.
Look at why Brady was so good onthe Patriots for so long.
His offensive line was amazingand it's not like during the
last half of his Patriots careerhe had the greatest wide
receivers to work with.
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Oh, but he had Edelman.
Look, I love Edelman.
The dude is not a Hall of Fameplayer.
The only reason he's even inthe conversation is strictly for
the fact that Brady broughtthat team to the playoffs so
many times.
That is the only reason whyEdelman was putting up thousand
yard seasons every year likehe's absolutely a Patriots Hall
of Famer, but an overall Hall ofFamer.
(17:40):
I'm sorry.
How do you put Edelman on thesame caliber as Mike Evans, who
literally today just had his11th consecutive season with
1,000 plus receiving yards.
I mean, that is something thatwe haven't seen since Jerry Rice
.
That is unbelievable.
And some people are saying thatthis guy isn't like a top 10
talent.
(18:00):
Are you kidding me?
Fuck dude, I might even put himin my top five all time Because
, like, think about the guysthat were thrown to him Josh
McCown, mike Glennon how manypeople even remember those guys?
Ryan Fitzpatrick, jameis,winston Blaine, gabbert Now he's
(18:23):
got what's his nuts?
Baker Mayfield thrown to him.
The only truly competentquarterback slinging that ball
to Evans was Brady, and it'slike, could you imagine the
records that guy would havebroke if he had good
quarterbacks throwing to him hiswhole career?
Hot take.
But I think Jerry Rice wouldhave been knocked down a peg.
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But when it comes to JulianEdelman, here's my take If Wes
Welker is not a Hall of Famer,then Julian Edelman is not a
Hall of Famer.
That just makes sense to me.
But as a Patriots fan, here'sthe silver lining Kraft actually
did something that was reallysmart and he fired Gerard Mayo
as their head coach and it wasjust like dude.
Why did he even have the job.
(19:06):
To begin with, gerard Mayo,fantastic Patriots player.
I loved watching him growing up, but the dude wasn't even a
coordinator, he was just anassistant coach, he was a
linebackers coach.
So honestly, that's I think ajanitor would have been more
qualified for the job.
Considering they're pretty goodat picking up garbage and
(19:37):
considering what I've seen fromthis Pats team in the past four
years, it would be a pretty goodidea to have somebody who's
good at cleaning up trash.
So here's my hope Now thatGerard Mayo's out as the head
coach of the team, mike Vrabelis still out there as the head
coach of the team.
Mike Vrabel is still out thereand that dude brought the Titans
, with Tannehill at the helm asquarterback, to the frigging
(19:59):
playoffs.
So Vrabel is more than capable.
He's also an expatriate and youknow Kraft loves trying to
bring back expats.
So that's my hope.
You get a competent coach whoactually knows what they're
doing.
Maybe you bring back JoshMcDaniels as the OC and then
hopefully you get Brian Floresfrom Minnesota to come over and
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be their DC.
That would honestly be the bestcase scenario for this Pats
team.
You got Drake May, who's afantastic talent.
I think he's a stud.
I honestly think he's thefranchise QB.
You use the draft to kind ofpick up some missing pieces.
You get some competent coachesin the building.
This team could be back in it.
But the regular season's overand now I'm just looking forward
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to hopefully watching some goodplayoff games.
And that does it for me today.
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(21:03):
Have a great week and I'llcatch up with you on Friday.
Thank you.
all right, what's going on?
Everybody, thank you for tuninginto the first tuesday episode
of the year of the lmbe podcast,where lmbe stands for literally
nothing but everything.
I'm mike rispoli and, to spareall of you, I'm actually doing
this on Sunday night, and it'slike almost 1230 now, because
today I just sat my post-holidayfat ass on the couch and just
(00:35):
watched football.
That was my day today.
I know, don't I lead such anexciting life, guys, and the
Monday night game, which was theLions and the Vikings, ended up
around 1130.
Dude, the Lions just look sogood.
I mean, that game ended upbeing way more of a blowout than
I thought it was going to be.
(00:57):
But, as we've learned in thepast, if I'm watching sports
while I'm trying to record thispodcast, then I have a tendency
to get way too distracted and inmy life, unlike some of you
degenerates, I try to learn frommy mistakes, although, let's be
real, there are plenty of otherareas that I definitely need to
(01:18):
work on.
So, anyways, I'm doing itSunday night because I have shit
going on tomorrow and I'm not100% sure if I'll have time to
do it.
So here we are.
Plus, let's be real, it's notlike I got to wake up for work
tomorrow morning.
And why push something offtomorrow when you can do it
today?
Well, mike, if you don't wantto do it tonight, why don't you
(01:39):
just wake up early tomorrowbefore the stuff you have going
on?
Are you kidding me up earlytomorrow before the stuff you
have going on?
Are you kidding me?
Wake up early on the one ofmany days that I have off?
How proactive do you guysactually think that I am?
Plus, honestly, I'm actuallyway more of a night owl, and
even when I did have a job,waking up in the morning was
(02:01):
always a struggle.
I always wanted to be one ofthose people that could just
wake up at like 5.30, 6 am, geta workout in and just take on
the day by the balls.
And it's funny because therewas a period where I was doing
that.
I want to say that it lastedmaybe a month, but then all of a
(02:23):
sudden, like I just missed oneday and it was just downhill
from there.
So for right now, we embracethe night owl life until I have
to actually get my ass in gearwhen I actually get a full time
job.
But until then, here we are,and also the truth in the matter
is like, once I'm asleep, I amout Like dude.
I am such a heavy sleeper Itruly don't wake up, for shit.
(02:46):
Do you guys remember thatearthquake that happened in New
Jersey?
This, oh my gosh.
I almost just said this year,but it's 2025 now, so
technically it's last year.
Hey, I might be 28, but I'mmentally still like 21.
So I'm still trying tocomprehend the fact that it's
not 2018 anymore.
But yeah, no.
So New Jersey had an earthquakeif you aren't familiar with it,
(03:08):
back in like April of 2024.
And apparently it was actuallyfelt in my area of Connecticut.
Even if you aren't in my area,I actually think it made
national news.
But short story that I'm nottrying to make unnecessarily
long.
I am such a heavy sleeper thatI actually slept through it.
I remember waking up thatmorning to like 50 texts from
(03:30):
friends and family and I wasjust like, oh my God, who the
hell died.
But it was about the earthquake.
And that was when I realizedthat when World War III breaks
out and that bomb goes off, I'llprobably sleep through it out
and that bomb goes off, I'llprobably sleep through it.
So bad news is I'm dead, butgood news is I don't have to
worry about the world aftermathand just prolonging the
(03:52):
inevitable, because I amdefinitely a goner.
It's actually funny because overthe weekend, my friend Jordan
came to visit.
You, broke your rule.
You said a name All right guys,right guys.
Well, he gave me permission andalso said, and I quote, I'd be
honored for a shout out.
So, anyways, my friend jordancame to visit over the weekend,
(04:14):
which, honestly, was a nicelittle surprise, because he's
never been to the vastly wealthy, superiorly overrated town that
is greenwich, connecticut.
Well, with so much wealth,isn't your town nice?
Isn't there a lot to do?
No, what's there to do?
Get an overpriced meal at asubpar restaurant and walk up
(04:35):
and down Greenwich Avenue to allthose designer stores where you
look at the price tag and justgo nope, because the same
sweatshirt that you can find atSaks Off 5th yeah, we got one of
those it costs $500.
But at any other departmentstore like Kohl's or Target, it
costs like 15 bucks.
Well, that's exactly what wedid.
(04:56):
But anyways, he told me that hisdad liked to hunt and his wife
told me that they actually justrecently went over to Jordan's
dad's house to have venisontacos and I realized in that
moment that I would be soscrewed if our world were to go
to shit.
Well, why is that?
Well, for starters, I've nevershot a gun, but honestly I feel
(05:18):
like if the world were to go toshit and we were in that
post-apocalyptic like world kindof thing, I think bow hunting
or using a crossbow wouldprobably be your best bet,
because I don't know, everysingle time I talk to a hunter
or something and they're alwaystalking about the buckshot and
you got to eat around it orwhatever.
(05:38):
At least with a bow you'regetting more meat out of
whatever it is that you killedand also it's quiet like dude.
In that sort of a situation Idon't want nobody knowing where
I am.
I mean, even in a civilizedsociety that we have now, people
are already savages.
Why would I want to wait andsee what people are truly
(06:00):
capable of?
Like?
You could honestly think thatyou would be the nicest person.
You would never hurt a fly, x,y, z.
But for any history buffs outthere like me, there's a great
book that one of my friendsrecommended to me.
It's a book called Ordinary Menand it's about Battalion 101.
And pretty much what this bookis about is back in World War II
(06:23):
there was this group of guyscalled Battalion 101.
And I haven't read this book inyears so my details might be a
little bit spotty, but from whatI remember it was a group of
guys that were too old to bedrafted but they were too young
to not serve.
So they were maybe like late20s to maybe like early 40s, and
(06:45):
these were just people thatwere ordinary men, like they
were accountants, they werebarbers, like whatever you could
think of, and it was how theGerman army got these
quote-unquote ordinary men tobecome killing machines and how
they were able to do horrificthings to Jewish people even
though they had no desire toinitially do it, and how they
(07:07):
soon became desensitized to whatthey were doing.
It's a really crazy book and itkind of goes into the mentality
of like what people are trulycapable of when they have no
choice but to do something.
Because during World War Two,if you were part of Hitler's
army and the Nazis, it waseither kill or be killed.
And that was part of the wholething with the Nuremberg trials,
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where the topics surroundingpeople's ethics started to come
into question, where you had allthese high officiating Nazi
members just being like, well,we didn't necessarily want to do
it, but it was kill or bekilled in this sort of a
situation, because if we didn'tdo what we were told, we were
technically going againstauthority.
So yeah, man, you really don'tknow what people are truly
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capable of given a certainsituation.
So, yeah, if you're interestedin the book, I highly recommend
it.
It doesn't read like a textbook, it actually reads like a novel
.
And again, if you areinterested, it's called Ordinary
Men and it's by ChristopherBrowning, but anyways.
So yeah, I would definitely beso screwed if there was a
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post-apocalyptic world, becauseI've never had to also forage
for food or build a shelter.
But one thing I do know is I'mavoiding mushrooms, because you
can't trust those fuckers foranything.
If it ain't a mushroom that'scoming from the grocery store, I
want no part of it because Idon't know what the hell that
thing is going to entail.
You got three options, becausethese things are more
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unpredictable than a roided outmaniac's mood swings, and I know
that this is a meme all oversocial media, but truly you do
have only three options.
It's either nutritious anddelicious, it has you seeing God
, or it's going to have youpassed out in the fetal position
and you're going to die in like30 minutes.
So I'm not trusting any of thatshit and the last thing that I
want to do is get absolutelyBaked out of my mind seeing shit
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that's actually not there in apost-apocalyptic world.
I mean, I just don't fucks withpsychedelics.
Man, people are putting shroomsin coffee and shit now, like I
was never interested in any ofthat stuff, never fazed me to
even try it.
Part of that is because I trulydon't like not being in control
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of what's going on around me,but the other part of it is
knowing me and what my mentalstate is like.
I know that that would be oneof the worst trips of my life
and the last thing that I needis a trip to the frigging
hospital because I ate the wrongmushroom.
So not in my wheelhouse ofthings to try.
I know that saying is YOLO, butthere are truly some things
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that you do not need to try inyour life.
Honestly, for those of you whohave tried mushrooms, I'm
genuinely curious.
Write in and tell me what yourexperience was, whether it was
good or bad, because I've seenstuff where it's like people are
just becoming really more awareof like what's going on around
them and what's going on intheir life.
They have like these fantasticmoments of self-clarity and all
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that shit.
But then I also want to knowwhat the other side of that is
like, where, if you have a badtrip, does that also cause you
to have like the self-awarenessand stuff and like like that's
what the demons are that you'refighting inside?
I have no idea, but I also knowI for a fact have no desire to
know what that's like on eitherside of the spectrum.
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That shit just truly scares theshit out of me.
So, yeah, write in with yourexperiences.
You can email me at lnbimedia atgmailcom, and, while you're at
it, don't forget to rate thepodcast and write up a review to
let me know how much you guyslike this thing or if you hate
it.
Either way, I don't know.
For some reason, though,episode 18 has been randomly
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just blowing up and I don't knowwhy you guys like me talking
about my shitty golf game.
I don't know.
I think that's what I talkedabout that episode.
I'll have to go back and checkit out.
So I'm curious what was it thatyou guys liked about that
episode so much?
All right, sorry, I know Ideviated there a little bit, but
speaking of um me being fuckedin a post-apocalyptic world,
I've also never had to build afire from scratch like dude.
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If I can't find a dura flame,I'm cooked.
So I'm honestly good withgetting it over with quick.
The sooner the better, in myopinion.
Okay, honest question If thereever was a purge or an
apocalyptic event or somethinglike that and you have no choice
but to go outside, logicallyand honestly, how long do you
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think that you have before youbecome Andy Dufresne and
Shawshank Redemption and arejust totally fucked, fucked.
Haven't seen the movie?
Watch it, it's actually prettygood.
Is it my favorite movie?
No, but IMBD ranks it numberone out of like 250 movies.
So if I don't say that it's atop 20, some of you are going to
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pull a White Chicks and have aBF.
Haven't seen White Chicks?
Bf stands for bitch fit Peopleget with the program.
My God, look at at that.
I just gave you two moviereferences of vastly different
genres, but honestly, I canthink of five movies I'd watch
before I would watch shawshank.
Oh, off the top of my head.
Oh god, you guys are putting meon the spot here, he says as he
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talks to himself in front of acomputer.
Honestly, I would watchGoodfellas before I watch
Shawshank.
I'd probably watch Forrest GumpI would put Uncle Buck in that
list.
Tropic Thunder is a good oneand, honestly, I think I would
watch Grown Ups before I turnedon Shawshank.
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And some of those I don't eventhink I would put in my top five
of all time movies.
All right, wait, new segmentidea.
What's a movie that you thinkis well overrated but everybody
else loves, or was overhyped byHollywood?
Like I already started withShawshank, but I'll give you
another one the Revenant.
Like I already started withShawshank, but I'll give you
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another one the Revenant.
I actually went to the theaterto see that movie when it came
out with a friend of mine andafter that movie my friend and I
walked out of the theater likedude that fucking sucked,
watching Leo crawl through snowand just saying my boy was three
hours of my life that I willnever get back, and he won the
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Oscar for that fucking snoozefest of a movie.
And we all know the jokes thatthe bear was the better actor.
X, y, z, and I'm not on here toreiterate old jokes from when.
When did that movie come out?
Hang on, give me one second,let me look this up real quick.
Hang on, give me one second.
Let me look this up real quick.
The Revenant oh my God, thatmovie came out in 2015?
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It came out 10 years ago, oh myGod.
All right, give me a momenthere.
I just aged myself.
What have I done with my lifein these past 10 years?
No, no, no, no.
We're not going to bitch aboutthe negative.
We said that last week we're onto greener pastures.
Now, how the fuck did I evenget on this topic?
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Oh, that's right, apocalypse.
The macho man in me says that Iwould learn the necessary
skills and I'll tough it out.
And that will just be my life,because if it's one thing about
evolution, the human species hasan incredible ability to adapt.
But realistically, I think Iwould last anywhere from three
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days to a month before I diefrom either not finding water or
food source.
So, yeah, I honestly want toknow how screwed you think you
would be, because I think I'vedone a pretty good job at
establishing how screwed I wouldbe, just like the New England
Patriots.
Oh, look at that segue.
I told you I just got donewatching the Lions game.
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Did you not think I was goingto talk football?
It's the last week of theregular season and it's at this
point where the seasonaldepression really sets in,
because I'm just like damn, weare now thoroughly into the
throes of winter here inconnecticut and it's been colder
than casey anthony's heart.
But the new england patriots,since tom brady has left, has
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just continuously found ways tototally shit the bed.
But, mike, they won today.
They ended their season on agood note.
You should be happy.
Oh yeah, it was fantasticwatching the Patriots beat up on
a bunch of second and thirdstringers that the Bills were
playing.
Yeah, I'm thrilled that theywon, because in doing so they
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also lost the number one pick inthe draft next year.
Well, why do you need the numberone pick?
Drake May looks like a stud.
You have your quarterback.
What do you need the draft for?
I don't know.
Because desperate teams theGiants will literally sell a
kidney in their left nut to getthat pick.
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So we could have had draftcapital to actually get a wide
receiver we so desperately need,because the Patriots wide
receiver core is literallyranked last in the division.
Not even last in the division.
The fucking league that widereceiver core is dog water.
And then we could have used someof that draft capital to try
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and get the offensive linebecause the whole offensive line
needs to go a 33 year oldinjury prone.
David andrews is our toplineman and the rest of the guys
on that side of the trench arejust second string caliber
players at best.
Look at at the Eagles, look atthe Lions, look at the Chiefs.
If you don't believe thatchampionship teams are built in
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the trenches, you're absolutelywrong.
A good offensive line is thetrue core of a good offense.
Look at why Brady was so good onthe Patriots for so long.
His offensive line was amazingand it's not like during the
last half of his Patriots careerhe had the greatest wide
receivers to work with.
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Oh, but he had Edelman.
Look, I love Edelman.
The dude is not a Hall of Fameplayer.
The only reason he's even inthe conversation is strictly for
the fact that Brady broughtthat team to the playoffs so
many times.
That is the only reason whyEdelman was putting up thousand
yard seasons every year likehe's absolutely a Patriots Hall
of Famer, but an overall Hall ofFamer.
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I'm sorry.
How do you put Edelman on thesame caliber as Mike Evans, who
literally today just had his11th consecutive season with
1,000 plus receiving yards.
I mean, that is something thatwe haven't seen since Jerry Rice
.
That is unbelievable.
And some people are saying thatthis guy isn't like a top 10
talent.
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Are you kidding me?
Fuck dude, I might even put himin my top five all time Because
, like, think about the guysthat were thrown to him Josh
McCown, mike Glennon how manypeople even remember those guys?
Ryan Fitzpatrick, jameis,winston Blaine, gabbert Now he's
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got what's his nuts?
Baker Mayfield thrown to him.
The only truly competentquarterback slinging that ball
to Evans was Brady, and it'slike, could you imagine the
records that guy would havebroke if he had good
quarterbacks throwing to him hiswhole career?
Hot take.
But I think Jerry Rice wouldhave been knocked down a peg.
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But when it comes to JulianEdelman, here's my take If Wes
Welker is not a Hall of Famer,then Julian Edelman is not a
Hall of Famer.
That just makes sense to me.
But as a Patriots fan, here'sthe silver lining Kraft actually
did something that was reallysmart and he fired Gerard Mayo
as their head coach and it wasjust like dude.
Why did he even have the job.
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To begin with, gerard Mayo,fantastic Patriots player.
I loved watching him growing up, but the dude wasn't even a
coordinator, he was just anassistant coach, he was a
linebackers coach.
So honestly, that's I think ajanitor would have been more
qualified for the job.
Considering they're pretty goodat picking up garbage and
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considering what I've seen fromthis Pats team in the past four
years, it would be a pretty goodidea to have somebody who's
good at cleaning up trash.
So here's my hope Now thatGerard Mayo's out as the head
coach of the team, mike Vrabelis still out there as the head
coach of the team.
Mike Vrabel is still out thereand that dude brought the Titans
, with Tannehill at the helm asquarterback, to the frigging
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playoffs.
So Vrabel is more than capable.
He's also an expatriate and youknow Kraft loves trying to
bring back expats.
So that's my hope.
You get a competent coach whoactually knows what they're
doing.
Maybe you bring back JoshMcDaniels as the OC and then
hopefully you get Brian Floresfrom Minnesota to come over and
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be their DC.
That would honestly be the bestcase scenario for this Pats
team.
You got Drake May, who's afantastic talent.
I think he's a stud.
I honestly think he's thefranchise QB.
You use the draft to kind ofpick up some missing pieces.
You get some competent coachesin the building.
This team could be back in it.
But the regular season's overand now I'm just looking forward
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to hopefully watching some goodplayoff games.
And that does it for me today.
Hopefully you guys enjoyed thisepisode.
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Rate, comment, subscribe, likereview.
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Also, don't forget, you cansend me an email to lmbemedia at
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Thanks for listening.
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Have a great week and I'llcatch up with you on Friday.
Thank you.
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