January 7, 2025 • 30 mins
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Imagine kicking off 2025 with a bottle of 90-proof "Merica" whiskey in hand and a determination to conquer the new year. That's precisely how we start this episode, as Matt and Phil dive into the hilarity of needing new podcast gear and the Midwest's brutal January chill. With laughter, camaraderie, and a surprisingly sweet bourbon flavor, we navigate through the topic of New Year's resolutions, pondering the eternal question: do we have enough whiskey to sustain our podcasting journey?
Switching gears, we swap our whiskey glasses for hockey sticks and take you into the world of beer league hockey. Picture a league where the players range from their 20s to their 60s, and where camaraderie is more important than competition. Our tales from the Adult Safe Hockey League (ASHL) are filled with humor, from suspensions for fighting to the whimsical idea of a Zamboni bar cart. We even take a lighthearted jab at the quirks of playing with inside-out socks, proving that this scene prioritizes fun over fierce rivalry.
Finally, we journey into the nostalgic experience of attending live hockey games. Nothing compares to the atmosphere of the arena, and we'll share how it contrasts with the challenges of tracking the puck on TV. We explore ticket pricing strategies across sports and the best spots to catch the action without needing a Batman-esque head swivel. The episode wraps up with a humorous take on setting precedents, inviting listeners to engage with our blend of humor and insightful commentary on Whiskey Bits.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, we need new stuff.
Oh no, this is we need newthings.
This is getting messed up too,but I feel bad.
This stuff is expensive.
It's a new year.
We need new stuff.
We need new stuff.
We've got enough whiskey.
We need new stuff.
Our microphones are fallingapart.
Do we have enough whiskey?
Yeah, yours looks like it'sundressing what is happening
over there.
This is why is it getting sostretched out?
(00:23):
I'm glad we're talking aboutthis today because we need new
stuff.
That's true.
It's a good timing.
It's perfect timing.
Perfect timing.
It's a new year, new year, newyear stuff.
New year, new stuff is needed,phil.
So please drop that cashola.
Let's do it Because I ain't gotnone.
Let's do it Boom and do Phil.
(00:46):
So please drop that cashola.
Let's do it Because I ain't gotnone.
Let's do it Maybe.
Let a 50 or a hundo drop out ofyour pocket and I pick it up.
Maybe a couple hundos.
Okay, maybe a few hundos.
Maybe a G.
You got a couple Gs.
I got some 10 Gs.
Yeah, just give me 100K.
I don't want to work this year.
Oh my gosh, I don't either.
(01:10):
Welcome to Whiskey Bits withMatt and Phil, where we sip on
everyday whiskeys and find thefunny in our everyday lives.
Well, happy 2025.
Happy 2025.
This is the first episode.
Did you have a good New Year's?
I did yeah, yeah, excellent.
I don't want to talk about it,okay, no, but I did have a good
new year's day excellent, yeah,it's.
(01:31):
Uh, I'm right, you know, it'salways one of those things.
I'm not a big fan of new year'sresolutions, right, we kind of
joked about it, I think the lastepisode, but I I'm like I do
want to.
Just okay, let's refresh,refresh.
Let's start over, yeah, but notstart over.
But like, okay, let's try itRefresh.
Let's start over, yeah, but notstart over.
But like, okay, let's try itagain.
There's a nip in the air.
There's a nip on the nip.
(01:51):
There's a nip in the air.
There's a nip on the nipbecause it's freaking freezing
out there.
Yeah Right, welcome to Januaryin the Midwest.
The other thing that we can saywelcome to january in the
midwest is, with some america,murica is it, you guys, america
or murica?
It's, it's well, it's murica,it's murica.
You can say whatever you wanton the front of it, it's murica.
(02:12):
Yeah, bourbon whiskey this isamerica's finest bourbon.
It's the finest, made with pureamerican grains.
I feel like.
You have to say this is 90,though no, it's the finest
bourbon of all, the bourbon ofall, the yeah, but then you
gotta like it's what's it called, murk murk.
You gotta say it like georgemurk.
So you know, this is uh, thisis one that uh.
(02:36):
This comes uh from a hockeybuddy who found the.
Who found this stuff howfitting because of the topic I
was going to bring up later.
Okay, no, this is perfect.
Oh, my gosh, this is going tobe great.
You're gonna love it.
I can't wait.
So he would.
He would carry this in in hisbag and, like I, you'll notice,
our glasses are empty, theglasses, they're empty.
(03:00):
Why?
Why, because you can't drinkmurica from a glass.
This one is straight bottle andthis is how they spread c2, c25
.
This is a uh, this is uh, a 90proof whiskey.
Now, I don't know if I'msmelling you like your musk.
(03:21):
How dare you?
I'm not saying it's bad, I wasabout to say that you're, it is
sweet, it is a sweet musk.
Well, thank you.
Or if it's the, the bourbonwhich is probably.
It's cold, it's cold out.
Oh, there's a nip in the air.
There's also a nip in my carwhere that's been sitting.
I'm so glad you said car,because in my head when people
(03:44):
say words it goes slow motion.
In my head I do a lot ofprocessing really quickly and I
did not think you were going tosay there was a nip in your car.
That's all I have to say.
Okay, this is great.
I forgot I was drinking.
(04:05):
You forgot I was drinking.
You forgot you were drinkingfrom the bottle.
I forgot I was drinking whiskeyand for a reason, some reason,
I thought I was drinking pop.
Okay, I took way too big of asip, but it was really good.
It just I was like oh well,here, while you, while you kind
of you know that's really good,isn't it?
Like it's, um, I'm joking aboutlike we will pour this one into
the glass so that while youkind of you know, no, that's
(04:25):
really good, isn't it?
I'm joking about like we willpour this one into the glass so
that we can kind of get some.
You know, let it open up alittle bit.
Let it open up.
It's always fun that the factthat we've I've never poured
this into a glass, I reallyhaven't Like all of this, that's
gone.
It's all been bottle pulls,just chugged it Just because
it's Bottle pull, that's whatyou call it.
A bottle pull, yeah, okay, yeah, pull right from the bottle,
(04:47):
pull it.
Pull it with your face, pull itwith your mouth.
Phil, that was a big swig, abig swig.
Ooh, another shirt, but ittastes so good, right, it does
Like.
For I want to say this thing islike it's less than 30.
It's less than 20.
It might even be less than 15.
(05:08):
That's how cheap this is, andwhat's odd is Dollars.
Yeah, I haven't seen this oneon the shelf in a while,
unfortunately.
I was going to say yeah.
So if you do see it, please,please, please, grab it and then
mail it to us.
This one goes, that would begreat, that'd be awesome,
produced and bottled by famousbrands in Galveston, texas.
(05:29):
Oh, okay, so that's why we'vegot I was about to ask you where
it's from Taste the differencein every bottle Aged a minimum
of one year.
One year in new charred oakbarrels.
Okay, so, yeah, so, startingoff again, because bourbon isn't
necessarily an amount of time,right, right, there's no minimum
.
No, the only minimum is theamount of corn, right, because
(05:51):
that's why that you were talkingabout several episodes ago,
somebody put it in a new oakburl barrel, burl, burl new oak
barrel for like 10 seconds orsomething like that, just so
that they could call it bourbon.
Yeah, pbr, pabst Blue Ribbonyeah, that's what it was.
Yeah, they aged it for sevenseconds and they essentially
(06:14):
just poured it through an oakbarrel.
Yeah, that's dumb, just so theycould call it bourbon.
But yeah.
So this is a fun little one.
51% corn we were talking aboutthe bourbon stuff.
51% corn.
Um, but yeah, so.
So this is a fun little.
You know little one.
I ate 51 corn.
I like to.
Just, we were talking about thebourbon.
51 corn.
Um, you know it's, it'sdistilled in america, america,
is it america?
(06:34):
Or is it distilled in america?
This one's america, america.
I mean, come on, pbr pullingpoor.
I'm sorry I gotta go back tothat because I had a joke, but
it's still gonna be funny.
Let's pretend like we didn'tLike.
The setup is still there.
Like, ah, pbr, no, butseriously, like PBR pouring it
through.
I don't even know if I want todo the joke now.
(06:55):
I think I've just ruined it.
Pbr, pouring it through for 7seconds, that's like.
And then calling it bourbon Islike me going to a Tom Cruise
movie and calling myself NicoleKidman, katie holmes, whatever,
(07:17):
whoever he's dating now I don'tknow, those are two people he he
was with anyways.
So this was made in america.
What do you think of it?
It's really good.
Um, I'm goofing around but Ineed to like think real quick
about it.
Hold on Now.
With it being a little cold, Ifeel like you're going to get
some different tastes.
(07:38):
I have a hard time smellingthings when it's cold Because
your nostrils stick togetherfrom being frozen.
I think it's just because thething is cold.
Oh okay, I was going to saymaybe try blowing your nose so
that you don't have mucusbuildup that freezes.
I don't smell it as wellbecause it's cold.
It's very ethanol-y to me, likeyou know the smell, but the
(08:01):
taste has a little bit of asweetness to it.
I would say you can tell it'sprobably just a year because
it's kind of a light, it's verylight.
It's kind of a light, it's verylight.
It's a light, buttery kind of.
Yes, it is very much likemelted butter, yeah, yeah.
Also, it reminds me of thelightness of a corn whiskey, oh
for sure.
(08:21):
But this you said is 51%.
Oh no, I'm just saying it hasto be 51% because of the bourbon
.
Okay, but it could be as muchas 99.
You didn't think the pbr jokewas funny.
I thought it was funny, it wasgood.
I think I just beat it with thetiming, like it just was like
the wrong timing, you know.
It was like I could have doneit right then.
But then we were like, oh,let's keep going, you know.
And then I just was like, ohwait, let's stop.
(08:43):
And you're just like, whoa,okay this year, okay, I'm
exhausted already this year, man, I feel like I just worked a
lot.
Just now, it's mostly thetalking oh, okay, yeah, so, but
good New Year's, good New Year'scelebration, yes, yeah, that's
(09:03):
awesome.
Stayed at home by myself,that's good.
Sitting by myself at home, samehere, probably, yeah, I don't
know, you know, and it's like Ithink it's I don't mind doing
stuff.
But then it gets to a pointwhere, like, certainly before we
had kids, we were still hangingout.
But I think literally the lasttime I went to a New Year's get
(09:24):
together was With us this year,right, yeah.
And you're talking about NewYear's Eve.
New Year's Eve, oh, before thisyear.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, yeah.
And you're talking about NewYear's before New Year's Eve?
Yes, before this year.
Yeah, yeah, yes, got it.
Okay.
Time is hard when you're older.
You know it's like what day isit?
It makes sense, but it wasbefore we had kids.
Yeah, but the last year waslike we had Stella and then
(09:47):
never again.
Yeah, so, because I just wantto go to bed, right, but that's
not true, because I stay upsuper late now, right, that's
out of rebellion.
But then, like so, new Year'sDay, what did you do?
New Year's Day?
Just sat and I just looked in amirror and just rethought my
life.
No football, no, collegefootball.
I mean, that's like the big, oh, yeah for sure, football.
(10:08):
I mean, yeah, yeah, obviouslythat's what we're gonna do.
I mean did.
Do you gotta play football?
I mean watch football, right, Imean you gotta play football
too?
I don't, it sounds painful.
It is painful, yeah, but youdidn't play football.
No, do you like this?
I, yeah, like I.
I do about to get intosomething.
(10:28):
I love it, okay.
I mean, is it okay if I love it?
I know I love that.
This is.
I mean, this is america.
Why do they call it america?
I guess I'm wondering that's agood question, like what is the
inspiration behind the namebesides?
Well, this one comes fromgalveston, texas.
So, yeah, my guess is that thisis, this is george w bush.
Oh, is that where he's from?
(10:48):
He's from texas.
I don't know anything, I don'tknow geometry, but this one gets
the stamp of approval.
Oh, you see, that's why I putit over there.
This one gets the stamp ofapproval.
Yeah, double, double stamp, thedouble stamp.
I don't know, oh my gosh, butyeah, this one definitely gets
the stamp of approval.
(11:15):
Where should we put this one?
Over the star?
But that feels sacrilegious, itdoes.
What about on the neck rightthere?
That looks good.
That looks good, doesn't it?
Yeah, for sure, I'm gonna workon that, you work on that.
What do you want to talk about?
I'm gonna ask you somequestions, can I?
I want to me, can I ask you?
Like you know, there are bigthing here at whiskey bits.
Oh, yeah, what's the big thing?
Big thing at whiskey bits is we, we sip on everyday whiskeys, I
mean, and find the funny, thefunny in our everyday lives, in
our everyday lives.
What, what funny are we findingtoday?
What funny are we finding today?
(11:35):
Well, here's what.
Yeah, what funny are we finding?
Here's the funny we're findingis adult sports.
Yeah, adult recreational pickupgame, uh, intramurals, whatever
you want to call it.
Yeah, sports for people likeyou, people like me, people like
our buddy jared.
(11:56):
Jared's is, uh, was a baseballplayer, does a lot of softball.
You, uh, I don't know, did youplay hockey in high school or
college?
No, you, just you.
Well, you didn't go to college.
Did I go to college?
Did you go to college?
You're just really smart andhave proven that in America you
don't have to to make a ton ofmoney.
(12:17):
Stamp of approval.
Stamp of approval.
That's going to be on there nowwhen we take the picture.
That's nice, dude, I love that.
Cool, all right, spoiler alert.
Spoiler, okay, but you're anavid hockey player.
(12:37):
Now I feel like winter is thisseason.
We're in dead of winter.
I mean, this is hockey season,right, yeah, hockey season
starts in september for me.
Oh, so that's when theyactually like one of the
playoffs, like for for us in inrec league, beer league hockey.
No, I mean like actual, actualnhl hockey.
Yeah, what's the season startand finish?
Uh, it starts in september,starts in september, and then,
(13:05):
yeah, more like late september,early october.
Okay, it starts.
Um, that's, that's starts.
Get a little chilly.
You're like, hey, let's go,let's go out.
Yeah, that's when they start.
The Stanley Cup final is usuallyJune, oh my gosh.
But the playoffs will start inApril.
Hold on, whoa what.
Yeah, the playoffs start.
(13:26):
There's like two months ofplayoffs, wow.
And the beginning part of Juneis when they they usually, you
know crown the champs.
I am so out of the loop on this.
Now, that's great for nhl, butyou play pickup league.
What is it called?
Rec league pickup games?
Um, it's.
It's called it's for ourfriends in canada wishing they
would have played hockey, butlike didn't, because they're
(13:48):
just not as good.
Or maybe they were good, butthen like they broke their toe
or something and they're like Ican't play, I don't have any
teeth.
Uh, yeah, we play in the ashl,the adult safe hockey league.
Sorry, yeah, okay, I thoughtyou were like a.
Yes, it's, uh, it's, it's recleague or or really, beer league
is kind of how we refer to it.
(14:09):
A lot of the times is it's beerleague, rec league, hockey.
So it's a bunch of guys thatare drinking beer anywhere
between, uh, anywhere between 24, 25, up to 50, into their 50s,
60s.
I was joking, are you serious?
Oh, yeah, a 60 year old out onthe ice.
Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah.
But basically the beer part iswhat makes everybody at the same
(14:33):
level.
Because you get a 24-year-old,maybe it takes him a little more
beer, but he's sloshed, slothed, sloshed, yeah right, the first
time, but we don't drink a lot.
Well, are you checking the poor60-year-old in the eyes?
No, no, no, no, it's going tobreak a hip, phil, it's safe,
it's adult, safe hockey league.
(14:53):
So we're not checking, we'renot hitting each other.
That's lame.
I mean, some people get out ofhand and they're whacking each
other with their sticks orpunching.
You should whack somebody.
I've done it, just out of anger.
I've done it.
Okay, last year you gotsuspended in your beer hockey
(15:16):
league for seven beer hockey,beer league hockey for seven
games.
Seven, what did you do?
Wait, this last year?
Yeah, it was four games.
How did I not?
I got into a fight.
How did an actual fist fight?
I mean, I didn't punch anybodyin the face.
Why not?
Because somebody else waspunching somebody in the face
and I just said stop punching myfriend in the face with my hand
.
That's the best, that's awesome, yeah, um, and so I was
(15:45):
suspended for four days for fourgames.
Um, you said seven I, I know.
No, it was only four, let'sstay seven.
It sounds worse.
It ended up being like sevenweeks because we had like a
bunch of bi-weeks.
It was really weird.
It felt like forever.
It was almost a million years.
The other guy's got more.
I was the least suspended.
I was the least suspended ofall of them, but anyway, of all
(16:08):
the suspensions, I was the leastsuspended Because you don't
want to be suspended, sorry.
I love the president, yeah, thevoice and the hair, yeah.
No, so it's not that crazy.
(16:29):
Usually Everybody's got jobs inthe morning, so it's usually
we're trying to have fun andthere's a bar in the arena that
we play in.
It's on the ice, right Likethey have a guy that goes around
.
Instead of a Zamboni, it's aguy on a bar cart.
Yeah, that would actually be agood idea.
It would be good, it would bereally good Zamboni bar cart.
But we don't get Zambonied inbetween the.
I mean, I get Zambonied beforethe game, a little bit after the
(16:54):
game.
We get Zambonied after this,yeah, but we drink some Coors
Light in the locker room andhave some fun.
I feel like we both havedifferent definitions of what
Zambonied actually is, so we'regoing to move on from that, but
you can take it however you wantto say it.
Let the listener decide.
All right, we all know, probably, what Matt meant, but Phil's
innocent.
I certainly know what I meant.
(17:14):
Oh well, I certainly know whatI meant I put.
I got to just take this moment.
I put one of the socks I haveinside out and then the other
one right side in.
So that's how my year started.
Well, thanks for taking amoment to check your socks
(17:35):
before you put them on.
Every one of your sock.
Did the roll situation?
The sock roll were you?
Yeah, roll back, right, I'mstill at that point.
So you wanted to talk aboutadult hockey?
No, I wanted, I legit wanted totalk about hockey.
Hockey was my topic.
I thought, oh, winter, it'sprobably just started, which
that's totally false.
Uh, because I literally knownothing.
The one experience I have withhockey was the one game I went
to with you there.
Yeah, that was it, the wolves.
(17:56):
Yeah, I actually really likedit.
Great, I don't know much aboutit, right, I think it's very
helpful when they had the laserthat followed the puck.
Um, that was nice, but it'sgone now.
So I'm like, well, what, why?
Why would I watch.
I don't know where the puck is.
Well, you can see it betterwith on in hd, that's true now,
however.
However, however, here we go,there is no doubt in my mind
(18:22):
that hockey is a sport bestconsumed in person.
Go to a game.
Go to a game, experienceeverything that you want to
experience in a hockey game.
You can follow the puck, youcan learn about the game by
watching that.
Once you learn about the gameand understand how the puck
moves, then you can startpicking up on where the puck
(18:44):
should be when you're watchingit on tv.
Now let me because I don't evenunderstand the rules and we
won't necessarily get into that,we'll do that off camera,
camera.
But like, what I want to know islike the tricks, right, because
, like, I remember going to theChicago Bulls, but I was way up,
which is the same place thatthe Hawks play at Chicago
(19:04):
Blackhawks.
I was way up there in the upperleft corner, like almost I
don't know fourth tier, whateverthe heck, all the way at the
top, the 300 level, that level,and I was like I might as well
watch it on TV, because the TV Icould actually see.
Like I couldn't see what wasgoing on.
I was like what is the point ofgoing here besides spending a
(19:26):
ton of money and just being inthe atmosphere?
I would get that so, like, ifI'm going to go to, but I feel
like basketball tickets probablyyou have cubs which are way,
way expensive, socks not asexpensive, but cubs really
expensive.
And then like maybe the bullsand then the hawks, but like I
probably have it wrong, like ourhockey tickets but the Bears
(19:48):
are.
Like football is justridiculous.
Think about the number of gamesthat are played in the stadium.
That's true, you know youshould spend.
Well, baseball should be waycheaper then, because they pay a
thousand games, it is.
It should be way cheaper thanlike $130 for a ticket.
It isn't I ticket, it isn't.
I know it isn't it is.
(20:12):
If you follow a team that isn'tas popular, so to speak, as the
Cubs, they can put those ticketprices because people will pay
them.
Yeah, because it's a historicfranchise and everything
Whatever.
So historic, you know what elseis historic?
I don't know my toilet upstairs.
It's historic, it's probablyconsidered a classic.
At this point I really need toget a new, one of those New
(20:36):
Year's resolution, new Year'sget a new toilet, new toilet
with a bidet.
I mean it's in good shape.
I'm too scared, I know you are.
So where tickets should be 60,80, 90 bucks, 90's, pushing it
60, I agree I would pay 60 to goto a hockey game.
But where does that put me?
It puts you in a spot where youcan see the entire ice, you can
(21:00):
see the puck, you kind of knowwhere it is, you can follow the
game.
In fact, I would say I wouldrecommend not spending a lot of
money and sitting too close,because then you don't get the
full experience.
You don't get to see the fullice, you only get to see.
You want to see the full, yeah,and and I kind of I feel like
the center right, like kind ofat an angle, I feel like on one
(21:21):
of the ends, really is the best.
Now, why is that?
You can see more of the icesurface from that standpoint, if
you think about it, becauseit's foreshortened and it's yeah
, so you're only missing a small, small sliver on one end, which
is not, you know, the.
The puck goes there a fair bit,but it's not, doesn't stay
there a long time and when it isthere, you can kind of tell
(21:43):
where it is based on where theplayers are and that's right
there.
But the great part about sittingon the end is that you don't
have to turn your head at all tosee the game.
You can just look forward andyou can see everything just by
moving your eyes.
You don't have to turn yourhead.
So, like Batman Begins, batman,that would have been a good
(22:03):
spot for him to sit to look fora perp, because he couldn't turn
.
He can't turn, yes, so he wasexactly right.
So, yeah, 300 level.
To me it's 300 level.
Uh, it doesn't matter whichside, really, and because now
you can sit, if you can sit inthe, yeah, if you can sit in the
first five to ten rows, you'rein really good shape.
(22:25):
So, high up there, you'rereally good shape in the united
center, those are my favoriteseats.
Yeah, where did we sit when wewere at the game?
Is that a similar kind of spot?
Similar, yeah, similar spot,similar spot?
I just think because I, you know, I'm used to playing video
games, right.
So, like I, if I'm playing thebasketball game, I do not want
to have that angle for thebasketball game, but when you
play, play a hockey game, that'sthe angle.
(22:47):
That is the angle for thehockey game.
That is interesting.
Why is that?
Why are they not?
Because it's the same idea.
You have the goal or the hoop.
It's the center of the back ofthe whatever you want to call it
.
Is it a rink, called a rink?
So same place as the basketballhoop would be, except there's
(23:07):
room behind it that you can movefor.
As basketball there's not right, but basketball I like watching
side to side.
Yeah, right, I'm, and I like toplay that way too, but I don't.
Why is what the heck?
Yeah, I don't know.
What is that?
I don't know.
I personally would like I.
To me, it seems like it would bea little bit more difficult.
It's, it's difficult.
(23:28):
It's just about what's easy towatch and what is comfortable.
I mean football, if you thinklike.
Football and basketball, Ithink, are great sports to watch
on TV.
Yes, they are the most TVfriendly.
But football, the game, it'sthe same as hockey.
You play it that way.
You never play the footballgame sideways.
That'd be weird.
How are you going to be able tosee their splits and everything
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I know?
So what is it about basketball?
I feel like maybe I should beplaying basketball the other way
.
I don't know what I did it allwrong.
Phil, maybe you did so, okay,so that you did that I?
I don't know.
So what?
What about, like, if your teamthat you're going for is on the
far end, I feel like you're notgoing to see the attack as much.
Well, that's where you can pick.
So in hockey there's threeperiods and they switch ends
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after each time.
You know, when my two girlsgrow up and Madison's still
around, there's going to bethree periods here too.
Anyways, continue, they'restill young.
They switch ends, okay, theyswitch ends, okay, they switch
ends.
And so if you, if you know whichend they they shoot at, you can
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see it twice, as opposed tojust right, right, because they
switch sides.
Because they switch sides oh, Isee what you're saying you can
kind of look ahead and say, well, which end do they shoot at?
Twice, right, and then I'll siton that end.
Now do you want to sit on the?
Okay?
So if you're, you want to seethe end that they're going to
your team is going to shoot into.
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You want to be on the side?
Like, well, there's an argumentthat say, that would say that
you want to be on the side thatthey shoot at twice, right,
because then you're going to seemore of the offensive.
So you want to be behind thegoal of the visiting or the the
rival visiting team, the rivalteam, two times rather than just
once.
Right, so that's one way tolook at it.
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I don't care, you don't care,it doesn't matter to me, I see
the same, I see it the same way,okay, uh, and in fact there's a
part of me because maybe it'sbecause I play video games, I
can see the set up a little biteasier from that end, because I
see the entire thing Right,right, right.
If I'm sitting behind the samegoal as twice instead of once,
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what's the whole thing with?
Because I feel like soccer issimilar, right, where they have
this overtime thing.
But you're like, who isstopping the clock?
Here it just kind of keepsgoing.
Is that similar in hockey?
No, or is it like we playstoppage?
It's stop clock, our clockstops, it's just there's no
added time, like in soccer.
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No, that always gets me.
I'm like, well, who's decidingthe referee?
The referee me.
I'm like, well, who's who'sdeciding the referee?
They're just like.
I've had, I've seen enough timeto go.
You want to tell you about likeI actually think the soccer way
is really cool.
Yeah, because it counts.
It's 90 minutes, right.
It's 45 minutes at half, and soit's 90 minutes total, right,
but then they go like 96.
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But if they, what the heck?
Well, but the thing is, if you,if you're at 40, if you're at
44 minutes, like usually,usually you kind of look and
like, okay, how much time did westop for injuries?
Did we stop for other things?
Oh, that's what they're doing.
And so then you say, well, it'sbeen about six minutes of
stoppage time, and so they addsix minutes to the end of the
half.
Well, why don't they just stopthe clock when there's a
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stoppage time?
Because they don't have the guyto click.
My kid's basketball team hasthe guy to click, but he doesn't
because he doesn't do anythingExactly.
Remember that joke.
Yes, I do Hire Jerry, thescoreboard keeper.
He'll come out and stop yourclock, for you Probably will.
But it's not as much fun.
How much money are peoplepaying?
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Oh my gosh, it's not as muchfun.
The?
It's not as much fun.
Well, the other thing is thedoctor.
The doctor let's talk aboutthat.
The referees get to choose whenthey want to call it and say,
okay, that's enough.
Why?
Because all right, so there'sstoppage time, and then there's
like you could have a stoppagetime in the stoppage time so you
could add more time.
But also you don't want to gohardcore and say, okay, we're at
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47 minutes, it's over, blow thewhistle, it's done.
You want to see if there's aplay developing, they'll let
that play kind of continue on tofruition until it's like, okay,
they turned it over or theykicked it out of bounds, okay,
that's the end of the half.
So they kind of let it go.
Basketball, where it's like yougot buzzer beaters.
Yeah, there's no buzzer beatersin soccer.
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Because it takes you know why?
Because it takes five hours togo from one.
Yeah, because all the stinkingtime out to go from one end of
the the field to the other.
It's like three miles long.
It is what if?
Can you imagine soccer if theycut it in half?
Yeah, it would be.
Oh my gosh, it would be crazy,it would be insane.
Everyone would be dead probably.
Imagine cutting hockey in half.
They would would be likewatching figure skating, because
they would actually have to dosome of those moves.
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No, you don't.
I think that'd be a nice You'dstop and go.
So much more, but I think anice addition would be Less
gliding.
If, in order to score, you haveto flip somebody, you have to
pas de bourree your partner intothe goal, you flip him, you
flip him, you flip him real good.
Flip him, flip him real good.
Yeah, I think that's.
Can you name the movie that wejust?
No, flip him for real, I flipit, flip him for real.
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Blades of Glory no, oh, no.
Usual Suspects have you everseen the Usual Suspects?
Yeah, he's so awesome and Ilove that guy, but he's still
the Toro.
He says flip him, flip him realgood.
He's a crazy actor man, he'sreally good.
Well, this is really good.
Yeah, look to 2025 and To 2025.
Murica, murica, murica, I'm notgoing to drink out of that
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glass.
I can't.
Oh well, I can't it tasteswhiskey bits.
I want to rename all of thepolitical positions, I agree,
and and make up what they dobased on the names.
Okay, so you, you want torename them based on what they
do?
No, no, I want to take the nameof what they do and then,
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instead of allowing them to dothe thing that they're supposed
to do, like a treasury, like thetreasurer is the person who
kind of handles the money.
You know they're, they're kindof helping with the budget and
all that, right, but I like thetreasurer is the person who kind
of handles the money.
You know they're they're kindof helping with the budget and
all that.
But I like the idea that thisperson is guarding a treasure.
Treasure, so give them theliteral right.
Yeah, so like what?
What exactly are we trollingwith these comps?
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Yeah, and or even lookprecedent, press precedent.
He's setting a precedent, soyou've got to set it.
Now the vice precedent justsqueezes the precedent.
He's just squeezing it.
He's just there.
He's like set it, set theprecedent.
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Yeah, we need new stuff.
Oh no, this is we need newthings.
This is getting messed up too,but I feel bad.
This stuff is expensive.
It's a new year.
We need new stuff.
We need new stuff.
We've got enough whiskey.
We need new stuff.
Our microphones are fallingapart.
Do we have enough whiskey?
Yeah, yours looks like it'sundressing what is happening
over there.
This is why is it getting sostretched out?
(00:23):
I'm glad we're talking aboutthis today because we need new
stuff.
That's true.
It's a good timing.
It's perfect timing.
Perfect timing.
It's a new year, new year, newyear stuff.
New year, new stuff is needed,phil.
So please drop that cashola.
Let's do it Because I ain't gotnone.
Let's do it Boom and do Phil.
(00:46):
So please drop that cashola.
Let's do it Because I ain't gotnone.
Let's do it Maybe.
Let a 50 or a hundo drop out ofyour pocket and I pick it up.
Maybe a couple hundos.
Okay, maybe a few hundos.
Maybe a G.
You got a couple Gs.
I got some 10 Gs.
Yeah, just give me 100K.
I don't want to work this year.
Oh my gosh, I don't either.
(01:10):
Welcome to Whiskey Bits withMatt and Phil, where we sip on
everyday whiskeys and find thefunny in our everyday lives.
Well, happy 2025.
Happy 2025.
This is the first episode.
Did you have a good New Year's?
I did yeah, yeah, excellent.
I don't want to talk about it,okay, no, but I did have a good
new year's day excellent, yeah,it's.
(01:31):
Uh, I'm right, you know, it'salways one of those things.
I'm not a big fan of new year'sresolutions, right, we kind of
joked about it, I think the lastepisode, but I I'm like I do
want to.
Just okay, let's refresh,refresh.
Let's start over, yeah, but notstart over.
But like, okay, let's try itRefresh.
Let's start over, yeah, but notstart over.
But like, okay, let's try itagain.
There's a nip in the air.
There's a nip on the nip.
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There's a nip in the air.
There's a nip on the nipbecause it's freaking freezing
out there.
Yeah Right, welcome to Januaryin the Midwest.
The other thing that we can saywelcome to january in the
midwest is, with some america,murica is it, you guys, america
or murica?
It's, it's well, it's murica,it's murica.
You can say whatever you wanton the front of it, it's murica.
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Yeah, bourbon whiskey this isamerica's finest bourbon.
It's the finest, made with pureamerican grains.
I feel like.
You have to say this is 90,though no, it's the finest
bourbon of all, the bourbon ofall, the yeah, but then you
gotta like it's what's it called, murk murk.
You gotta say it like georgemurk.
So you know, this is uh, thisis one that uh.
(02:36):
This comes uh from a hockeybuddy who found the.
Who found this stuff howfitting because of the topic I
was going to bring up later.
Okay, no, this is perfect.
Oh, my gosh, this is going tobe great.
You're gonna love it.
I can't wait.
So he would.
He would carry this in in hisbag and, like I, you'll notice,
our glasses are empty, theglasses, they're empty.
(03:00):
Why?
Why, because you can't drinkmurica from a glass.
This one is straight bottle andthis is how they spread c2, c25
.
This is a uh, this is uh, a 90proof whiskey.
Now, I don't know if I'msmelling you like your musk.
(03:21):
How dare you?
I'm not saying it's bad, I wasabout to say that you're, it is
sweet, it is a sweet musk.
Well, thank you.
Or if it's the, the bourbonwhich is probably.
It's cold, it's cold out.
Oh, there's a nip in the air.
There's also a nip in my carwhere that's been sitting.
I'm so glad you said car,because in my head when people
(03:44):
say words it goes slow motion.
In my head I do a lot ofprocessing really quickly and I
did not think you were going tosay there was a nip in your car.
That's all I have to say.
Okay, this is great.
I forgot I was drinking.
(04:05):
You forgot I was drinking.
You forgot you were drinkingfrom the bottle.
I forgot I was drinking whiskeyand for a reason, some reason,
I thought I was drinking pop.
Okay, I took way too big of asip, but it was really good.
It just I was like oh well,here, while you, while you kind
of you know that's really good,isn't it?
Like it's, um, I'm joking aboutlike we will pour this one into
the glass so that while youkind of you know, no, that's
(04:25):
really good, isn't it?
I'm joking about like we willpour this one into the glass so
that we can kind of get some.
You know, let it open up alittle bit.
Let it open up.
It's always fun that the factthat we've I've never poured
this into a glass, I reallyhaven't Like all of this, that's
gone.
It's all been bottle pulls,just chugged it Just because
it's Bottle pull, that's whatyou call it.
A bottle pull, yeah, okay, yeah, pull right from the bottle,
(04:47):
pull it.
Pull it with your face, pull itwith your mouth.
Phil, that was a big swig, abig swig.
Ooh, another shirt, but ittastes so good, right, it does
Like.
For I want to say this thing islike it's less than 30.
It's less than 20.
It might even be less than 15.
(05:08):
That's how cheap this is, andwhat's odd is Dollars.
Yeah, I haven't seen this oneon the shelf in a while,
unfortunately.
I was going to say yeah.
So if you do see it, please,please, please, grab it and then
mail it to us.
This one goes, that would begreat, that'd be awesome,
produced and bottled by famousbrands in Galveston, texas.
(05:29):
Oh, okay, so that's why we'vegot I was about to ask you where
it's from Taste the differencein every bottle Aged a minimum
of one year.
One year in new charred oakbarrels.
Okay, so, yeah, so, startingoff again, because bourbon isn't
necessarily an amount of time,right, right, there's no minimum
.
No, the only minimum is theamount of corn, right, because
(05:51):
that's why that you were talkingabout several episodes ago,
somebody put it in a new oakburl barrel, burl, burl new oak
barrel for like 10 seconds orsomething like that, just so
that they could call it bourbon.
Yeah, pbr, pabst Blue Ribbonyeah, that's what it was.
Yeah, they aged it for sevenseconds and they essentially
(06:14):
just poured it through an oakbarrel.
Yeah, that's dumb, just so theycould call it bourbon.
But yeah.
So this is a fun little one.
51% corn we were talking aboutthe bourbon stuff.
51% corn.
Um, but yeah, so.
So this is a fun little.
You know little one.
I ate 51 corn.
I like to.
Just, we were talking about thebourbon.
51 corn.
Um, you know it's, it'sdistilled in america, america,
is it america?
(06:34):
Or is it distilled in america?
This one's america, america.
I mean, come on, pbr pullingpoor.
I'm sorry I gotta go back tothat because I had a joke, but
it's still gonna be funny.
Let's pretend like we didn'tLike.
The setup is still there.
Like, ah, pbr, no, butseriously, like PBR pouring it
through.
I don't even know if I want todo the joke now.
(06:55):
I think I've just ruined it.
Pbr, pouring it through for 7seconds, that's like.
And then calling it bourbon Islike me going to a Tom Cruise
movie and calling myself NicoleKidman, katie holmes, whatever,
(07:17):
whoever he's dating now I don'tknow, those are two people he he
was with anyways.
So this was made in america.
What do you think of it?
It's really good.
Um, I'm goofing around but Ineed to like think real quick
about it.
Hold on Now.
With it being a little cold, Ifeel like you're going to get
some different tastes.
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I have a hard time smellingthings when it's cold Because
your nostrils stick togetherfrom being frozen.
I think it's just because thething is cold.
Oh okay, I was going to saymaybe try blowing your nose so
that you don't have mucusbuildup that freezes.
I don't smell it as wellbecause it's cold.
It's very ethanol-y to me, likeyou know the smell, but the
(08:01):
taste has a little bit of asweetness to it.
I would say you can tell it'sprobably just a year because
it's kind of a light, it's verylight.
It's kind of a light, it's verylight.
It's a light, buttery kind of.
Yes, it is very much likemelted butter, yeah, yeah.
Also, it reminds me of thelightness of a corn whiskey, oh
for sure.
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But this you said is 51%.
Oh no, I'm just saying it hasto be 51% because of the bourbon
.
Okay, but it could be as muchas 99.
You didn't think the pbr jokewas funny.
I thought it was funny, it wasgood.
I think I just beat it with thetiming, like it just was like
the wrong timing, you know.
It was like I could have doneit right then.
But then we were like, oh,let's keep going, you know.
And then I just was like, ohwait, let's stop.
(08:43):
And you're just like, whoa,okay this year, okay, I'm
exhausted already this year, man, I feel like I just worked a
lot.
Just now, it's mostly thetalking oh, okay, yeah, so, but
good New Year's, good New Year'scelebration, yes, yeah, that's
(09:03):
awesome.
Stayed at home by myself,that's good.
Sitting by myself at home, samehere, probably, yeah, I don't
know, you know, and it's like Ithink it's I don't mind doing
stuff.
But then it gets to a pointwhere, like, certainly before we
had kids, we were still hangingout.
But I think literally the lasttime I went to a New Year's get
(09:24):
together was With us this year,right, yeah.
And you're talking about NewYear's Eve.
New Year's Eve, oh, before thisyear.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, yeah.
And you're talking about NewYear's before New Year's Eve?
Yes, before this year.
Yeah, yeah, yes, got it.
Okay.
Time is hard when you're older.
You know it's like what day isit?
It makes sense, but it wasbefore we had kids.
Yeah, but the last year waslike we had Stella and then
(09:47):
never again.
Yeah, so, because I just wantto go to bed, right, but that's
not true, because I stay upsuper late now, right, that's
out of rebellion.
But then, like so, new Year'sDay, what did you do?
New Year's Day?
Just sat and I just looked in amirror and just rethought my
life.
No football, no, collegefootball.
I mean, that's like the big, oh, yeah for sure, football.
(10:08):
I mean, yeah, yeah, obviouslythat's what we're gonna do.
I mean did.
Do you gotta play football?
I mean watch football, right, Imean you gotta play football
too?
I don't, it sounds painful.
It is painful, yeah, but youdidn't play football.
No, do you like this?
I, yeah, like I.
I do about to get intosomething.
(10:28):
I love it, okay.
I mean, is it okay if I love it?
I know I love that.
This is.
I mean, this is america.
Why do they call it america?
I guess I'm wondering that's agood question, like what is the
inspiration behind the namebesides?
Well, this one comes fromgalveston, texas.
So, yeah, my guess is that thisis, this is george w bush.
Oh, is that where he's from?
(10:48):
He's from texas.
I don't know anything, I don'tknow geometry, but this one gets
the stamp of approval.
Oh, you see, that's why I putit over there.
This one gets the stamp ofapproval.
Yeah, double, double stamp, thedouble stamp.
I don't know, oh my gosh, butyeah, this one definitely gets
the stamp of approval.
(11:15):
Where should we put this one?
Over the star?
But that feels sacrilegious, itdoes.
What about on the neck rightthere?
That looks good.
That looks good, doesn't it?
Yeah, for sure, I'm gonna workon that, you work on that.
What do you want to talk about?
I'm gonna ask you somequestions, can I?
I want to me, can I ask you?
Like you know, there are bigthing here at whiskey bits.
Oh, yeah, what's the big thing?
Big thing at whiskey bits is we, we sip on everyday whiskeys, I
mean, and find the funny, thefunny in our everyday lives, in
our everyday lives.
What, what funny are we findingtoday?
What funny are we finding today?
(11:35):
Well, here's what.
Yeah, what funny are we finding?
Here's the funny we're findingis adult sports.
Yeah, adult recreational pickupgame, uh, intramurals, whatever
you want to call it.
Yeah, sports for people likeyou, people like me, people like
our buddy jared.
(11:56):
Jared's is, uh, was a baseballplayer, does a lot of softball.
You, uh, I don't know, did youplay hockey in high school or
college?
No, you, just you.
Well, you didn't go to college.
Did I go to college?
Did you go to college?
You're just really smart andhave proven that in America you
don't have to to make a ton ofmoney.
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Stamp of approval.
Stamp of approval.
That's going to be on there nowwhen we take the picture.
That's nice, dude, I love that.
Cool, all right, spoiler alert.
Spoiler, okay, but you're anavid hockey player.
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Now I feel like winter is thisseason.
We're in dead of winter.
I mean, this is hockey season,right, yeah, hockey season
starts in september for me.
Oh, so that's when theyactually like one of the
playoffs, like for for us in inrec league, beer league hockey.
No, I mean like actual, actualnhl hockey.
Yeah, what's the season startand finish?
Uh, it starts in september,starts in september, and then,
(13:05):
yeah, more like late september,early october.
Okay, it starts.
Um, that's, that's starts.
Get a little chilly.
You're like, hey, let's go,let's go out.
Yeah, that's when they start.
The Stanley Cup final is usuallyJune, oh my gosh.
But the playoffs will start inApril.
Hold on, whoa what.
Yeah, the playoffs start.
(13:26):
There's like two months ofplayoffs, wow.
And the beginning part of Juneis when they they usually, you
know crown the champs.
I am so out of the loop on this.
Now, that's great for nhl, butyou play pickup league.
What is it called?
Rec league pickup games?
Um, it's.
It's called it's for ourfriends in canada wishing they
would have played hockey, butlike didn't, because they're
(13:48):
just not as good.
Or maybe they were good, butthen like they broke their toe
or something and they're like Ican't play, I don't have any
teeth.
Uh, yeah, we play in the ashl,the adult safe hockey league.
Sorry, yeah, okay, I thoughtyou were like a.
Yes, it's, uh, it's, it's recleague or or really, beer league
is kind of how we refer to it.
(14:09):
A lot of the times is it's beerleague, rec league, hockey.
So it's a bunch of guys thatare drinking beer anywhere
between, uh, anywhere between 24, 25, up to 50, into their 50s,
60s.
I was joking, are you serious?
Oh, yeah, a 60 year old out onthe ice.
Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah.
But basically the beer part iswhat makes everybody at the same
(14:33):
level.
Because you get a 24-year-old,maybe it takes him a little more
beer, but he's sloshed, slothed, sloshed, yeah right, the first
time, but we don't drink a lot.
Well, are you checking the poor60-year-old in the eyes?
No, no, no, no, it's going tobreak a hip, phil, it's safe,
it's adult, safe hockey league.
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So we're not checking, we'renot hitting each other.
That's lame.
I mean, some people get out ofhand and they're whacking each
other with their sticks orpunching.
You should whack somebody.
I've done it, just out of anger.
I've done it.
Okay, last year you gotsuspended in your beer hockey
(15:16):
league for seven beer hockey,beer league hockey for seven
games.
Seven, what did you do?
Wait, this last year?
Yeah, it was four games.
How did I not?
I got into a fight.
How did an actual fist fight?
I mean, I didn't punch anybodyin the face.
Why not?
Because somebody else waspunching somebody in the face
and I just said stop punching myfriend in the face with my hand
.
That's the best, that's awesome, yeah, um, and so I was
(15:45):
suspended for four days for fourgames.
Um, you said seven I, I know.
No, it was only four, let'sstay seven.
It sounds worse.
It ended up being like sevenweeks because we had like a
bunch of bi-weeks.
It was really weird.
It felt like forever.
It was almost a million years.
The other guy's got more.
I was the least suspended.
I was the least suspended ofall of them, but anyway, of all
(16:08):
the suspensions, I was the leastsuspended Because you don't
want to be suspended, sorry.
I love the president, yeah, thevoice and the hair, yeah.
No, so it's not that crazy.
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Usually Everybody's got jobs inthe morning, so it's usually
we're trying to have fun andthere's a bar in the arena that
we play in.
It's on the ice, right Likethey have a guy that goes around
.
Instead of a Zamboni, it's aguy on a bar cart.
Yeah, that would actually be agood idea.
It would be good, it would bereally good Zamboni bar cart.
But we don't get Zambonied inbetween the.
I mean, I get Zambonied beforethe game, a little bit after the
(16:54):
game.
We get Zambonied after this,yeah, but we drink some Coors
Light in the locker room andhave some fun.
I feel like we both havedifferent definitions of what
Zambonied actually is, so we'regoing to move on from that, but
you can take it however you wantto say it.
Let the listener decide.
All right, we all know, probably, what Matt meant, but Phil's
innocent.
I certainly know what I meant.
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Oh well, I certainly know whatI meant I put.
I got to just take this moment.
I put one of the socks I haveinside out and then the other
one right side in.
So that's how my year started.
Well, thanks for taking amoment to check your socks
(17:35):
before you put them on.
Every one of your sock.
Did the roll situation?
The sock roll were you?
Yeah, roll back, right, I'mstill at that point.
So you wanted to talk aboutadult hockey?
No, I wanted, I legit wanted totalk about hockey.
Hockey was my topic.
I thought, oh, winter, it'sprobably just started, which
that's totally false.
Uh, because I literally knownothing.
The one experience I have withhockey was the one game I went
to with you there.
Yeah, that was it, the wolves.
(17:56):
Yeah, I actually really likedit.
Great, I don't know much aboutit, right, I think it's very
helpful when they had the laserthat followed the puck.
Um, that was nice, but it'sgone now.
So I'm like, well, what, why?
Why would I watch.
I don't know where the puck is.
Well, you can see it betterwith on in hd, that's true now,
however.
However, however, here we go,there is no doubt in my mind
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that hockey is a sport bestconsumed in person.
Go to a game.
Go to a game, experienceeverything that you want to
experience in a hockey game.
You can follow the puck, youcan learn about the game by
watching that.
Once you learn about the gameand understand how the puck
moves, then you can startpicking up on where the puck
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should be when you're watchingit on tv.
Now let me because I don't evenunderstand the rules and we
won't necessarily get into that,we'll do that off camera,
camera.
But like, what I want to know islike the tricks, right, because
, like, I remember going to theChicago Bulls, but I was way up,
which is the same place thatthe Hawks play at Chicago
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Blackhawks.
I was way up there in the upperleft corner, like almost I
don't know fourth tier, whateverthe heck, all the way at the
top, the 300 level, that level,and I was like I might as well
watch it on TV, because the TV Icould actually see.
Like I couldn't see what wasgoing on.
I was like what is the point ofgoing here besides spending a
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ton of money and just being inthe atmosphere?
I would get that so, like, ifI'm going to go to, but I feel
like basketball tickets probablyyou have cubs which are way,
way expensive, socks not asexpensive, but cubs really
expensive.
And then like maybe the bullsand then the hawks, but like I
probably have it wrong, like ourhockey tickets but the Bears
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are.
Like football is justridiculous.
Think about the number of gamesthat are played in the stadium.
That's true, you know youshould spend.
Well, baseball should be waycheaper then, because they pay a
thousand games, it is.
It should be way cheaper thanlike $130 for a ticket.
It isn't I ticket, it isn't.
I know it isn't it is.
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If you follow a team that isn'tas popular, so to speak, as the
Cubs, they can put those ticketprices because people will pay
them.
Yeah, because it's a historicfranchise and everything
Whatever.
So historic, you know what elseis historic?
I don't know my toilet upstairs.
It's historic, it's probablyconsidered a classic.
At this point I really need toget a new, one of those New
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Year's resolution, new Year'sget a new toilet, new toilet
with a bidet.
I mean it's in good shape.
I'm too scared, I know you are.
So where tickets should be 60,80, 90 bucks, 90's, pushing it
60, I agree I would pay 60 to goto a hockey game.
But where does that put me?
It puts you in a spot where youcan see the entire ice, you can
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see the puck, you kind of knowwhere it is, you can follow the
game.
In fact, I would say I wouldrecommend not spending a lot of
money and sitting too close,because then you don't get the
full experience.
You don't get to see the fullice, you only get to see.
You want to see the full, yeah,and and I kind of I feel like
the center right, like kind ofat an angle, I feel like on one
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of the ends, really is the best.
Now, why is that?
You can see more of the icesurface from that standpoint, if
you think about it, becauseit's foreshortened and it's yeah
, so you're only missing a small, small sliver on one end, which
is not, you know, the.
The puck goes there a fair bit,but it's not, doesn't stay
there a long time and when it isthere, you can kind of tell
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where it is based on where theplayers are and that's right
there.
But the great part about sittingon the end is that you don't
have to turn your head at all tosee the game.
You can just look forward andyou can see everything just by
moving your eyes.
You don't have to turn yourhead.
So, like Batman Begins, batman,that would have been a good
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spot for him to sit to look fora perp, because he couldn't turn
.
He can't turn, yes, so he wasexactly right.
So, yeah, 300 level.
To me it's 300 level.
Uh, it doesn't matter whichside, really, and because now
you can sit, if you can sit inthe, yeah, if you can sit in the
first five to ten rows, you'rein really good shape.
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So, high up there, you'rereally good shape in the united
center, those are my favoriteseats.
Yeah, where did we sit when wewere at the game?
Is that a similar kind of spot?
Similar, yeah, similar spot,similar spot?
I just think because I, you know, I'm used to playing video
games, right.
So, like I, if I'm playing thebasketball game, I do not want
to have that angle for thebasketball game, but when you
play, play a hockey game, that'sthe angle.
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That is the angle for thehockey game.
That is interesting.
Why is that?
Why are they not?
Because it's the same idea.
You have the goal or the hoop.
It's the center of the back ofthe whatever you want to call it
.
Is it a rink, called a rink?
So same place as the basketballhoop would be, except there's
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room behind it that you can movefor.
As basketball there's not right, but basketball I like watching
side to side.
Yeah, right, I'm, and I like toplay that way too, but I don't.
Why is what the heck?
Yeah, I don't know.
What is that?
I don't know.
I personally would like I.
To me, it seems like it would bea little bit more difficult.
It's, it's difficult.
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It's just about what's easy towatch and what is comfortable.
I mean football, if you thinklike.
Football and basketball, Ithink, are great sports to watch
on TV.
Yes, they are the most TVfriendly.
But football, the game, it'sthe same as hockey.
You play it that way.
You never play the footballgame sideways.
That'd be weird.
How are you going to be able tosee their splits and everything
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I know?
So what is it about basketball?
I feel like maybe I should beplaying basketball the other way
.
I don't know what I did it allwrong.
Phil, maybe you did so, okay,so that you did that I?
I don't know.
So what?
What about, like, if your teamthat you're going for is on the
far end, I feel like you're notgoing to see the attack as much.
Well, that's where you can pick.
So in hockey there's threeperiods and they switch ends
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after each time.
You know, when my two girlsgrow up and Madison's still
around, there's going to bethree periods here too.
Anyways, continue, they'restill young.
They switch ends, okay, theyswitch ends, okay, they switch
ends.
And so if you, if you know whichend they they shoot at, you can
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see it twice, as opposed tojust right, right, because they
switch sides.
Because they switch sides oh, Isee what you're saying you can
kind of look ahead and say, well, which end do they shoot at?
Twice, right, and then I'll siton that end.
Now do you want to sit on the?
Okay?
So if you're, you want to seethe end that they're going to
your team is going to shoot into.
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You want to be on the side?
Like, well, there's an argumentthat say, that would say that
you want to be on the side thatthey shoot at twice, right,
because then you're going to seemore of the offensive.
So you want to be behind thegoal of the visiting or the the
rival visiting team, the rivalteam, two times rather than just
once.
Right, so that's one way tolook at it.
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I don't care, you don't care,it doesn't matter to me, I see
the same, I see it the same way,okay, uh, and in fact there's a
part of me because maybe it'sbecause I play video games, I
can see the set up a little biteasier from that end, because I
see the entire thing Right,right, right.
If I'm sitting behind the samegoal as twice instead of once,
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what's the whole thing with?
Because I feel like soccer issimilar, right, where they have
this overtime thing.
But you're like, who isstopping the clock?
Here it just kind of keepsgoing.
Is that similar in hockey?
No, or is it like we playstoppage?
It's stop clock, our clockstops, it's just there's no
added time, like in soccer.
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No, that always gets me.
I'm like, well, who's decidingthe referee?
The referee me.
I'm like, well, who's who'sdeciding the referee?
They're just like.
I've had, I've seen enough timeto go.
You want to tell you about likeI actually think the soccer way
is really cool.
Yeah, because it counts.
It's 90 minutes, right.
It's 45 minutes at half, and soit's 90 minutes total, right,
but then they go like 96.
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But if they, what the heck?
Well, but the thing is, if you,if you're at 40, if you're at
44 minutes, like usually,usually you kind of look and
like, okay, how much time did westop for injuries?
Did we stop for other things?
Oh, that's what they're doing.
And so then you say, well, it'sbeen about six minutes of
stoppage time, and so they addsix minutes to the end of the
half.
Well, why don't they just stopthe clock when there's a
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stoppage time?
Because they don't have the guyto click.
My kid's basketball team hasthe guy to click, but he doesn't
because he doesn't do anythingExactly.
Remember that joke.
Yes, I do Hire Jerry, thescoreboard keeper.
He'll come out and stop yourclock, for you Probably will.
But it's not as much fun.
How much money are peoplepaying?
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Oh my gosh, it's not as muchfun.
The?
It's not as much fun.
Well, the other thing is thedoctor.
The doctor let's talk aboutthat.
The referees get to choose whenthey want to call it and say,
okay, that's enough.
Why?
Because all right, so there'sstoppage time, and then there's
like you could have a stoppagetime in the stoppage time so you
could add more time.
But also you don't want to gohardcore and say, okay, we're at
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47 minutes, it's over, blow thewhistle, it's done.
You want to see if there's aplay developing, they'll let
that play kind of continue on tofruition until it's like, okay,
they turned it over or theykicked it out of bounds, okay,
that's the end of the half.
So they kind of let it go.
Basketball, where it's like yougot buzzer beaters.
Yeah, there's no buzzer beatersin soccer.
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Because it takes you know why?
Because it takes five hours togo from one.
Yeah, because all the stinkingtime out to go from one end of
the the field to the other.
It's like three miles long.
It is what if?
Can you imagine soccer if theycut it in half?
Yeah, it would be.
Oh my gosh, it would be crazy,it would be insane.
Everyone would be dead probably.
Imagine cutting hockey in half.
They would would be likewatching figure skating, because
they would actually have to dosome of those moves.
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No, you don't.
I think that'd be a nice You'dstop and go.
So much more, but I think anice addition would be Less
gliding.
If, in order to score, you haveto flip somebody, you have to
pas de bourree your partner intothe goal, you flip him, you
flip him, you flip him real good.
Flip him, flip him real good.
Yeah, I think that's.
Can you name the movie that wejust?
No, flip him for real, I flipit, flip him for real.
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Blades of Glory no, oh, no.
Usual Suspects have you everseen the Usual Suspects?
Yeah, he's so awesome and Ilove that guy, but he's still
the Toro.
He says flip him, flip him realgood.
He's a crazy actor man, he'sreally good.
Well, this is really good.
Yeah, look to 2025 and To 2025.
Murica, murica, murica, I'm notgoing to drink out of that
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glass.
I can't.
Oh well, I can't it tasteswhiskey bits.
I want to rename all of thepolitical positions, I agree,
and and make up what they dobased on the names.
Okay, so you, you want torename them based on what they
do?
No, no, I want to take the nameof what they do and then,
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instead of allowing them to dothe thing that they're supposed
to do, like a treasury, like thetreasurer is the person who
kind of handles the money.
You know they're, they're kindof helping with the budget and
all that, right, but I like thetreasurer is the person who kind
of handles the money.
You know they're they're kindof helping with the budget and
all that.
But I like the idea that thisperson is guarding a treasure.
Treasure, so give them theliteral right.
Yeah, so like what?
What exactly are we trollingwith these comps?
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Yeah, and or even lookprecedent, press precedent.
He's setting a precedent, soyou've got to set it.
Now the vice precedent justsqueezes the precedent.
He's just squeezing it.
He's just there.
He's like set it, set theprecedent.
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