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February 15, 2024 20 mins

Ever wondered who would win in a penalty kick showdown decided by rock paper scissors? We've got the scoop on US striker Haji Wright and his Coventry City teammate's unconventional method to settle who'd take a crucial shot. It's not just about the soccer pitch, though; we reminisce over our own childhood games and how those simple pleasures translate into the competitive world of sports. Whether you're someone who revels in the gameplay or gets a bigger kick out of being a spectator, we're tackling it all. And if you've ever thought car racing was just about the shiny exteriors, buckle up as we zoom into a discussion about the power beneath the hoods of exotic racers and the unexpected skills needed to navigate those high-octane tracks.

Switching lanes from the adrenaline of racing to the sheer absurdity of Florida life, imagine finding a kangaroo at your local pool—yes, you heard that right! Join us as we hop into the tale of a marsupial mix-up that's too bizarre to miss. We'll also chew over the oddities of Florida's wildlife and pet ownership laws, and share candid reflections on the unpredictability that comes with recording a live podcast. From the laugh-out-loud mishaps to the promise of more unscripted fun, you're in for a podcast episode that's as unexpected and entertaining as a game of rock paper scissors with high stakes.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Have you ever played rock paper scissors?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yeah, I've never.
I've never played rock paperscissors.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Have you ever played rock paper scissors?

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, I've never Often man.
Man, I've finished eating andI'm burping already.
So have you ever played rockpaper scissors?
No, when did you first?

Speaker 1 (01:08):
play rock paper scissors as a kid.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
As a kid.
Dude.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
I don't remember.
I don't know if I can rememberthe first time I ever played.
You ever think about that.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
I can barely remember .

Speaker 1 (01:21):
You ever think about the first time you ever did
something.
See how far back you canremember, like if you were like
okay, the first time I did this.
Sometimes, Like I think thefirst time I played soccer was
when I was like uh, I want tosay 10 years old 10 years old.
12 years old I was olderbecause my friend got into it

(01:43):
when he was younger.
I didn't get into it untillater, so I was a little bit
older.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
My brain's got a lot of black, sir, from my head
injuries, though it's just ablack hole, there's a lot of
black.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah, I think a lot of us are like that.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Black emptiness.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Well, I wanted to bring this up because I thought
this was funny Rock paper orscissors?
Us Stryker wins pre penaltycontest before scoring in an
English soccer league game.
So something about rock paperscissors.
I wanted to find out what thiswas about because I was like
when it said rock paper scissors, I was like.

(02:20):
This caught my attention.
I don't know if they likeplayed before to see who would
get the kick.
We're going to find out.
Here we go.
We're heading over to Englandbefore out waiting the
goalkeeper.
United States striker HajiWright tricked his own teammate.

(02:40):
Wright, who plays for CoventryCity in England, second tier
championship, took part in animpromptu on field game of rock
paper scissors with teammateColom O'Hare to determine who
took a penalty in the team'smatch against Millwall.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Oh, so it was like well, if I win, you take it, If
you win, I take it.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah, if I win, I'll take it.
If you win, you take it.
Like they're just like divvyingup for who's going to get the
kick right.
That's what I figured thiswould be, so I wanted to read it
.
I thought it was funny.
Wright wanted and convertedthis spot kick by sending the
goalkeeper the wrong way,setting Coventry on course for a
2-in-1 victory on Sunday.
The 25 year old Wright said hewent for rock, adding with a

(03:30):
smile I had a little delay on mythrow.
The pre-penalty showdown didn'tgo down too well with Coventry
manager Mark Robbins.
I'm going to kill them.
Robbins, said jokingly, beforesaying he preferred there to be
a more scientific way for hisplayers to decide who takes the
penalty.
What's a more scientific way?

(03:51):
I don't know.
I think rock paper scissors arepretty straightforward.
It only takes five seconds.
You determine it immediately.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Have you ever went to play it right but then like
forgot to To rock paper scissors, maybe like too early?

Speaker 1 (04:12):
or Give away your answer too early.
Well then you, I don't know.
I think it comes down to atrust thing, because I think
even Because he was talkingabout his teammate, right, I
think if they know each otherwell, they're not going to cheat
.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Have you ever done that?

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Have I?
Yeah, oh, yeah, of course, ofcourse.
Or you like your friend givesaway their answer too early and
then you're like okay we need tostart over.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
I started out using both hands.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
I was just using the one hand also, so my son would
do that, he would delay, so likewhen he was little yeah, yeah,
yeah, wait for me to throw, andthen he would like throw it
right after me and I'm like heythat's not right.
It has to be at the same time.

(04:57):
That's the same thing.
So we've got soccer playersplaying rock paper scissors out
here, but they still won thegame.
So he took the penalty kick,won the game.
That's interesting.
It's also pretty funny.
Their coach seemed to justlaugh it off.
I can picture their coach justrolling his eyes like they did

(05:18):
what before a penalty kick.
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 2 (05:22):
He's like he's probably thinking Joker.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
He's probably like this isn't the first time I've
had to deal with this.
So yeah, there you go, Rockpaper scissors on the soccer
field.
Now you've never played sports,right.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Who told you that?

Speaker 1 (05:38):
I didn't tell you that Did you play sports.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
I'm just saying.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, okay, well, I didn't know.
I was wondering.
He just don't like sports.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
No, I just I'd rather play them than watch them.
I said, okay, okay, I don'tlike watching them on TV, that's
boring to me, I'd rather playthem myself.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
NASCAR left turn.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah, that's so hard.
Turn left, turn left, nascar,turn left.
You know what NASCAR stands for, right, no, non-athletic sports
center or rednecks.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
I don't think that's very scientific.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
No, but I heard that one.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
That's pretty accurate right there it's really
funny and, yeah, there's somany people that still enjoy it.
You know what I like if we'retalking about racing.
I like the, the exotics, youknow like when they have a race,
let's say, over in Italy it'skind of like Grand Prix, but
it's like it's like the carsthat are on the track are like

(06:39):
Porsche, lamborghini, mustang,camaro.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Porsche.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Lamborghini, like they're all the.
They're all the differentmuscle and tuner cars and
exotics, all pitted against eachother and they all race each
other.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
So like usually wins.
It just depends.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
And sometimes they'll switch cars, like mostly.
What I've learned about mostcar racing is it doesn't matter
what the shell of the car is,but just the engine itself.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
I would think why.
I know Lamborghini's are superfast, got a lot of power, but
they must not be as fast as likeI was led to believe in video
games and what you see that's alie too, because all of those
exotics are the Lamborghini team, ferrari team, like they, okay.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
So when you look up an exotic race, it has every
exotic in there and they all runthe same power engines.
So, in other words, the onlytime that we see a discrepancy
in the the exotics is when theysell us the cars Like McLaren,

(07:49):
lamborghini, all that stuff.
When they're racing, though,they've got those engines maxed
out and sometimes they'll switchout the engines, so like
they'll switch out a Ferrari fora Lambo engine or a Lambo for
Ferrari engine, or this from a.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
McLaren engine.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, so if you watch the races, it just depends on
what they're running.
The shell of the car does notmatter compared to what's inside
the car, so it could look likea Lamborghini, but they're
running something else.
Or.
Ferrari or whatever.
So, yeah, it's quite fun towatch and they are amazing.
Like the drivers are vicious,like they're just weaving in out

(08:29):
of each other and we're talkinga track.
That's not a left turn circleLike NASCAR, we're talking like
in and out through hills.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah, that's much more of a race to me than.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Go left.
It gets intense, it gets reallyintense.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Go ahead, all right, the next story.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
It sounds kind of funny, some more weird news
Sheriff's deputies corralwayward.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
kangaroo near pole at Florida apartment complex.
How can a kangaroo get intoFlorida pole complex?

Speaker 1 (09:02):
Don't know From the video.
We could play the video, butthe video it looks like this
kangaroo is lost, so we're gonnahave to.
Yeah, I don't get past the adhere.
Oh, ads, ads, ads.
There you go.
Look at him, look at him, lookat these.
What?

Speaker 2 (09:23):
It's standing at a gate.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Bro, they got like the infrared of the kangaroo.
What is this?

Speaker 2 (09:29):
the army.
That kind of looks like somecall of duty stuff right there.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
Now I will say that it would take more than one
person, obviously becausekangaroos can kick really hard.
I mean, you ever get kangarookicked?
We're talking like a bus hityou, like they're pretty
powerful kicks.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
I mean it looks like there's at least 40.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
Well, I love how the cops are just hanging out around
the pool area just like, hey,buddy, you lost.
And the kangaroo is not jumpingthe fence or anything, he's
just wandering around the pool.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
I bet he debated jumping in that pool.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
He did.
It was a pool of water, sothat's what he was attracted to.
That's great to see a kangarooin there, like where it is
supposed to be.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Oh, it's going to the water.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
If you wanna see this video, it's apnewscom slash
oddities and you'll see thisarticle pop up.
But oh my gosh, this ishilarious.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Definitely.
I don't know how it got there.
Hopefully it says it in there.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Oh, they said they found the animal's owner and
reunited them.
Let's see, no injuries werereported.
So why don't we dive deeperinto this?

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Tampa, florida.
Wayward kangaroo was curledsafely by sheriff's deputies
Thursday after it spottedhopping around the pool area of
a Florida apartment complex.
The Hillsborough CountySheriff's Office released video
and still photos of the kangaroo, including some footage shot
from a helicopter.
The agency also released audioof a female resident of the
complex calling in to report.

(11:04):
It Actually see a kangaroo.
It's kind of a large kangaroo.
The unidentified woman says wegot him closed in the pool gate
area.
Deputies were able to figureout the animal's owner and
reunite them.
After checking for its properregistration, the agency sent in
a Facebook post.
No injuries to the kangaroo orany other people were reported.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
So two things.
This is another only in Floridasituation, Like, unless it's
like Australia or something,usually this doesn't happen.
The other part of this that'sreally funny is that you can own
a kangaroo in Florida.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
If I had known that, I probably would have stuck
around Florida a little longer.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
I did not know you could own a kangaroo in Florida,
but apparently with properregistration you can.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
That's crazy, Little buddy.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
There was a kangaroo Now in the past we've seen those
uh the wildfire like zoos wherepeople actually bring wild
animals around.
So I guess it would kind ofmake sense, but I just never
thought about owning a kangaroo.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
I'm not sure, like I don't.
They're not meant to be there.
I know that.
Yeah, so it might not evensurvive.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I don't think I don't
own a kangaroo as a pet.
I just let them run free.
But that I know it's super hotthere, there's probably, there's
probably rules around that.
Wouldn't there be like wild,you know wild animals, like
rules around them?

Speaker 2 (12:37):
I don't and why didn't it say anything like the
inner getting punished or cited,or something Probably didn't.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
I don't.
I don't.
If the cause the owner ofwhoever owns that area, the pool
and stuff, they probablyweren't that mad.
It was just a kangaroo.
There's no injuries, like youknow what I mean.
Like I don't think they wouldpress charges or anything over
just an animal getting out.
And he was just hey, listen, hewas just hanging around the
pool.
Because it's Florida man, Imean you got, you got to just

(13:07):
give him credit.
He's on vacation, he was tryingto he was trying to book his
hotel for the night.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
Like I don't know where I'm at, but this is kind
of fun.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
You can't, like, you can't knock him for just wanting
to book a hotel for a night.
I mean, that's just.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
It's not a department complex, not a hotel.
Well, it's his hotel.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
From his point of view, it's his hotel You're
reaching, but I guess Listenlisten listen to an animal.
They don't know the differencebetween a hotel, apartment or
house.
This is my area for the night.
Well, he structures around here.
He also looked kind of trapped,so it didn't look like he could

(13:51):
hop over that fence.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
He's definitely sad just from his face.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
He's like okay, like this is not where I wanted to be
tonight.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
I'm trying to get out of here when I go.
He goes to water, okay.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Well, the one picture they have on here.
It looks like a mugshot.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah, but he definitely looks sad too.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Line left line right, face the camera, a mugshot of
the kangaroo.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
Fat mugshot of the camera From a camera of a
kangaroo.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
To be honest, we've talked about this conversation
before.
What conversation?
Which wild animals would wehave as pets?
Oh yeah, We've had thisconversation before I forgot
about kangaroo, kangaroo.
I didn't really.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
I mean, I didn't think to like.
I like them, but not enough toown them as a pet.
Uh, because of the kickingfactor.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
If it gets mad.
Yeah, they're very.
I feel like they're veryterrible, like case my chest in
or something.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
Nah, I'm good but.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
I mean we definitely talked about animals that could
just kill us.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
I mean, I mean pretty horrible.
Well, I picked some, I pickedsome, like we talked about some
animals that were crazy.
Wow, I watched so much BlackPanther.
That's why I was like I want towrite it.
I'll write it If you guyshaven't listened to that episode
.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
Go back and listen to that episode.
We talk about what animals youwould own as pets.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
I don't remember what number it was.
I was like um ladder bling formy draft.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
He wants to write a draft.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
But his bling would be the ladder, the bling ladder,
the bling ladder.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
Oh man, all right.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Imagine me sitting on the top head of a draft.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
There's dangling your feet up there.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
It's like hey, this is my walking throne.
What's up, can you throw?

Speaker 1 (15:38):
me, my, uh, my drink.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Hey, hold on, now, I'll just I'll drop a rope.
Hey, put my drink in here.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
You know what I feel, like the giraffes remind me of,
like the long neck dinosaurs.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
The uh Brontosaurus or something like that.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
They're going you know what I'm talking about Like
the big.
I'm trying to remember what thename is so like every time I
see a giraffe, I just haveJurassic Park music going on in
my head.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Dude, let's make a hybrid of this, yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
Well, there you go, folks, if you wanted your dose
of weirdness.
This morning we have rock paperscissors at a soccer game and
we have the kangaroo that foundthe nearest pool.
He just was ready to chill outfor the night.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
It wasn't chill dude.
He was trying to get out, hewas trying to get out.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
He was trying to figure out a way, but he
couldn't use the tanning chairs.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
I can totally see like an animal voice over there.
Come on man, why is there a runaround the edge of the fence?

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Can you imagine you go to the pool the next morning
and there's just a kangarootanning?
And the tanning chair.
Just like, just like.
I'm almost done.
He's just got like one of thosesudden those mirror things.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
I think it'd be lame those mirror things, holding the
mirror thing.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
I'm almost done.
I got a tan in a few moreminutes.
All right, guys, that's enoughweirdness for today.
We'll catch you.
We'll see you later this week,next time, bye, thank you, we
were ready.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Oops, really, a little too early.
Really, really, really.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
This is how this is where our show has gotten.
This is, this is the.
This is the low point of ourshow right here.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
No, you'll live.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
All right, see you next time.
What are we?
Having to do I Did.
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