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February 25, 2025 12 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I don't know if you go to Costco. I think
we talked about this. I think you're a samsu.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm a Sam's Club guy.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
Yes, but couples are turning to Costco.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Let's bring in Alex Stone by the way, ABC News, Alex,
I know you are a Costco.

Speaker 4 (00:15):
I go every weekend Sam's Club as well. We've got both. Yeah,
I go.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Get you.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
There.

Speaker 4 (00:23):
Yeah, boxes are my thing, I guess so.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
He probably rolls up in his escalade to fill it
full of Costco.

Speaker 4 (00:30):
Merchandise for my cheap gas.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yes, this is an interesting thing.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
And I thought about you when I saw this, And
you know what, I don't know my wife and I
I don't know if we could kind of get away
with this or call it this, but couples are turning
to Costco runs into date nights.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
Oh my gosh, I into that. That'd be great.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
See I knew it. I was like this right up,
Alex is up.

Speaker 5 (00:53):
His allan, this is my wife's name is Alix, So
don't uh you know whoop?

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Sorry about that.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
Don't talk about her that way.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Anyway, do you go and enjoy the samples? What do
you doing?

Speaker 5 (01:04):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Well, they some people talk about this is just an
errand on their to do list, but a lot of
couples are turning it into date night. The're bragging about
it on socials. They don't need a romantic restaurant seeing
a movie in the theater. And this is all obviously
in the in the article, they're happy to stroll the
aisles with the one and only they love, filled their cart,
rapit with a hot dog and soda at Costco food court.

(01:26):
Yeah but listen, they go. We literally call it our
Costco date. She has the chicken bake and I have
the hot dog, and we're after we spent two hundred
dollars on it. I don't know what that's about. All
we can afford after for dinner, which I think is hilarious.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
But then sounds amazing. I gotta do this.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
A lot of some of the other people are calling
it Kirkland's signature date night, a nod to the Costco
house brand.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
This is just sad for America right here.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
It really is. You know what I don't understand.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
Did the Kirkland hoodie sweatshirts have become such a popular thing.
Did they sell out immediately and just got the Kirkland
logo on the front.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
I didn't know they were a thing.

Speaker 5 (02:04):
You have one that I do not have one. I've
seen them there and thought, who the heck would buy those?
And then I read an article that they are like
the thing, and I've seen people walking down the street
wearing them. I would have thought they were a Costco employee.
They are not that having a hoodie. It's a white hoodie.
It's got the logo, it's his Kirkland signature. And that
this is now the hot thing.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
I did not know and this is recal.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah, it's like right now, why you would want to
wear that? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Huh, people put on oka. I've never understood wearing brand stuff,
you know, the Coca Cola te shirt. And in the
last few years though, the WASSA stuff that came back.
Why all the sudden was a NASSA on everything.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
I'll tell you this, and this is somebody who and I.
Did you did radio at one point, Alex Or did.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
You I have? Yeah? OK, yeah, right right right.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
So Chuck and I have done radio for a million years.
We actually went to broadcasting school a million years ago together.
And here's where I was going with this. If you're
at a radio promotion. You're there. I am not kidding you.
When when I used to do rock radio.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
I would be there.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
People would come there to get a free T shirt,
so kind of to your point, people would go, I'd
be like, I just have this. You know, I have
this Game of Life T shirt that somehow ended up
in our promotional box of T shirts or T shirts
that you know, had some off brand of thumb Drive
or something weird like that. And it's like a S medium, right,

(03:24):
and the person standing in front of me is clearly
an XCEL or larger, and they'd go, I'll take that free,
I'll take it. So I wonder if they gave those
away at one point, Alex. And that's why people are like,
no't wear anything that now, like.

Speaker 5 (03:37):
People want You're telling me, Chuck, I shouldn't you want
me to take off my wtv N shirt that I.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Never know because it is your favorite radio on the front.
And that's also good for eliminating vermin in the yard,
so that helps.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
You don't want to wear that in public.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
People throw us that at and then they talk about
not everyone gets excited about date night at Costco.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
As one guy found out.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
He said, the one the one night, I told the
wife I was going to take her out to a
surprise dinner and an exclusive membership club, and he goes
it was It was funny in my mind, but it
really didn't end up being that funny to her.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
She didn't think it was.

Speaker 5 (04:13):
I feel like that's one where you show up, but
then you've got to have a plan for no, no, no,
I'm just kidding. Now we're going to go too, because
you know that's not gonna go over well.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Some said they spent Valentine's Day at Costco. Now, look,
this would be for somebody who has been married a
long time, and they're okay with us. They said the
store wasn't too busy. Hot dog and a warm cookie.
We shared that their cookies, by the come huge.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Get out of here with that. Those things are unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (04:39):
The one from the food court though, right, not the
ones from the bakery, but from the food court. Yeah,
they're like basketball size.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
They're huge, they are, and they're really thick, and they're
gooey and they're warm, and you literally feel sick while
you're eating it.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
Like you you were making it sound so good until
the last party.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
But you start out going you're like, oh, this is
so good, and then you're like, feel really that good?

Speaker 3 (05:01):
But I gotta have another bite. And then you do
that and you're like what am I doing? But you
can't stop. Those cookies are amazing.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
You need to put ice cream on top of it.
Then it's a pazuki.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, we do. That's my daughter's favorite thing, those pazukies.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
You might as well just go to the parking lot
and climb in the back of the ambulance.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
I actually have I use that as a joke, and
you just kind of use it for whatever body part.
I'll be like, will you cover your perzuki please? Before
you go out? I say stuff like she's nineteen, she
comes down and I'll call her doctor cheeks or what
She'll have on some shorts ware butt cheeks hanging out.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
I'm like, are you going out in public covering your perzuki?
What's wrong with you? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (05:39):
But then when you start doing that at work, and
then it's a problem. No, you can do we can
do it at home. It's like dad trying to use
all the cool riz and all the term Now that's
so sus that sigma.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
Oh they get so mad.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
My son, he gets so mad if I say it like,
I'm like that, sus He's like, Dad, you are not
allowed to use that.

Speaker 5 (05:55):
Now I'm not allowed to do it, but I try
to use it in the most like inappropriate ways where
it doesn't work that way. And you're like, that is
beta or think got alpha beta stigma and that that
makes no sense.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, I know, I know all about that. I mean,
our sons are the same age basically.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
Yeah, so yeah, it's all fantastic. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
I do, I actually do know what you're saying.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Man calling this the tush push, this thing about the
NFL and should it be banned? And please explain to us,
Alex Stone, what tush push means here with the NFL.

Speaker 5 (06:30):
Yeah, or the brotherly shove. It's so popular. Speaking my
our sons. My twelve year old plays it on Madden
all the time and loves to yours the toush push
as his play. And it's really the Eagles and the
Buffaloes move their go to and basically it is a
quarterback sneak where the QB is pushed up and over
the line with only a couple of inches to go.
And it's either a touchdown or a first down, and

(06:52):
it has been used. The Eagles just used it to
win the Super Bowl, that they use it a lot.
And last night the NFL said one unnamed team t
had filed to ban the tush push, and today at
the combine the Green Bay Packers, they said it was us.
They're the ones filing that. The GM's saying, yep.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
It's that.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
There'll be a lot of discussions about it.

Speaker 6 (07:11):
I got to kind of look at some of the
information as far as injury rates things like that to see,
but we'll see.

Speaker 5 (07:18):
So NFL owners could vote on this next month at
the annual league meeting in Florida, and if twenty four
of the thirty two owners vote in favor of banning it,
then it will be an illegal move. And the league
has looked at a banning the tush push before, but
the chose not to make a rule and the Eagles
and Bills just listen to the numbers have run at
one hundred and sixty three times over the past three seasons,

(07:40):
more than the rest of the entire NFL combined, and
the Eagles and Bills have gotten a touchdown or first
down almost ninety percent of the time. It works, but
former Eagle Jason Kelcey we all know, says they don't
hate on it because it works. He says, look, it's working.
They found a way to win. He told the podcast
The Steam Room.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
Maybe the Eagles just happened to be really, really good
at it.

Speaker 6 (08:02):
And is that fair to necessarily punish a team just
because they're better at it than everybody else.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
I don't think that they's fair.

Speaker 5 (08:08):
But even Bill's coach Don McDermitt saying today that yeah,
they use it, but they worry about the injury risk
and the player's safety isn't risk with it. As they're
shoving in, as they're all coming in so tight and
shoving into the pile, and some players are saying it's
just bad for the game. There's no skill to it.
It's typically an automatic first down or touchdown. And today
Andy Reid, that the Chiefs head coach, was asked about
it and he said it doesn't work for every team.

Speaker 6 (08:29):
I think it takes certain players to be able to
do that, and that's not an easy thing for the center.
I was close to their center, so I know I
know that's not an easy thing to do. My hat
goes off to him. For making it as consistent as
they are doing it, but.

Speaker 5 (08:45):
He said that they do need to study the injury
rates and fully understand that the play's impact before making
it illegal.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
But we'll see it.

Speaker 5 (08:51):
It could go away when the teams get together, when
the owners get together and vote in a couple of weeks,
or they could decide to let it stay. But there
is a movement now in the NFL saying one, players
can get hurt, but two there's just no skill to it,
and you typically will get the first down or get
the touchdown.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
And the teams wanted to go away.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Coach Reid went on to say, fumble a Rooski, Dude,
I'm not saying that. Coach geez, please, no, I you
know what. I see stuff like this and I go,
is this nanny stick? They go, well, the injury rate. Look,
it's the NFL. I'm just beating the hell out of
each other every snap.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
This is so stupid of the just.

Speaker 5 (09:29):
Kind of the cover the injury rate. I think the
other teams don't have the ability to do it, and
like the Eagles and the Bills have the ability to
do and so the other teams are saying make it
illegal because not every team you feeling. I mean, you
heard Andy Reid there say you got to have the
right team, and if you don't have the right players,
you can't do it. So if all these other teams
don't have the right players, well then they can go.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
Well, maybe you'll get hurt.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
We shouldn't even what degree of skill is required to
push somebody's butt as they're trying to get two yards
or half a yard or whatever.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
There's no skill there, Well, that's what they're arguing that
they're saying.

Speaker 5 (10:04):
There is no I mean other than you've got to
have the right players size wise and ability wise. But
the actual skill the players are saying there's none in there.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Well that's the thing about this.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Then if it doesn't take any skill, and they're bitching
about it, well, then why don't they do it? Since
it doesn't take any skill, then everyone's equal here. Yeah,
you know, this is so stupid to me. It's once
again it's the NFL trying to screw this up. And
who cares If the team they go, well it's pretty
much automatic, Well, then I don't know, put some sort
of everybody do it.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Yeah, three and sixty pound man is going to fall
on you. But the toush push is dangerous.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah that's it, man, that's this is the stupidest thing
for me. And I'm glad you're covering it because I
was like, I saw this and I went, oh, this
is perfect conversation to have, especially when we're talking about
the NFL and how brutal of a game. That's gladiators
out there and this is just one more player who
cares if somebody's And then you know, what are the Packers?

(11:02):
Why were they the ones to spearhead this?

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Man?

Speaker 5 (11:05):
Well, I was thinking it would have been somebody who
lost in the end there and yeah, that it. But
it wasn't that the Packers kind of a random team
that they were the ones that came out.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
That is absolutely crazy.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
I like stone ABC News the tush push or the
brotherly shove.

Speaker 4 (11:22):
That is right.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
So Riz, thanks man, we appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (11:26):
See you, Sigma, see you man.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
This this is ridiculous that they're having a conversation about this.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Sounds like something you used to do while watching the
Richard Simmons show. Yes, come on, girls, puss that tous
let's go that. It doesn't even sound like something tush push.
My gosh, the.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
Brotherly shove again.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
I I It's like, can we have something else to
complain about in the NFL?

Speaker 3 (11:56):
They just I can't even verbal eyes how I'm feeling
right now. I'm at a loss for words. These morons, Oh,
they can't do this. They get an advantage, so stupid.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
I just I'm sad for our sports.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
Me too, me too.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Stop with the nanny state stuff, man,
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