Brandys and BS
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Brandys and BS
Hockey Dreams and European Travels
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Brandys and BS serves up a bold mix of real talk and ridiculousness. In this episode, we kick things off with the Minnesota Squatch hockey team’s big win and a quirky debate on voicemail etiquette—are we over-apologizing for missed calls?
Jay and family jet off to Italy, where ancient ruins, tiny cars, and unforgettable food set the stage for hilarious travel tales, including a chaotic soccer match experience that’s part culture shock, part comedy.
But the heart of the episode? A deep dive into helicopter parenting—from bus stop hand-holding to college micromanagement—and how it’s stunting young adults’ independence. We share stories, vent frustrations, and make the case for letting kids fail, grow, and figure it out.
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all right. Hey, jay, we went to, uh, hell of a hockey game tonight. Ohatch, yeah, and it's not Utica. We've been wrong. Well, I didn't know. You follow us. You follow us, we're going to Nationals. We're going to Nationals and it's in the town is called Wayne, new Jersey. It doesn't look like it. It's kind of like Northwest, northwest of Newark. They moved it from Utica, new York. Because I was doing a lot of research on Utica, you kept saying it was Utica. Yeah, that's where it's been the last couple years. Yeah, that's where the Woolworths was from. Yeah, the Buckteeth, the Buckteeth, yeah, so, yeah, so congratulations.
Speaker 1:I'll do a shout-out to the Squatch Accident game tonight. It actually was a pretty good game. It was a good game. They won last night 2-1 in overtime and tonight they won 5-2. And they punched their ticket into the Nationals in Wayne, new Jersey. So I think it will be at the end of the month and you can subscribe online.
Speaker 1:Go to the Squatch website I'm guessing this is theminnesotasquatchcom or whatever. I don't think it's that and then you go to the league Well, their league, I don't know what their league is and then there's a streaming service. You can watch it live, because one of our former guests on the show Jakers. Well, there's a lot of Jakers, but eight Jakers was watching it live in sunny Arizona. Oh my God, it is wwwmnsquatchcom. You can tell my age when I say the www, can't you? Does that mean you're old? When you say WWW, that stands for the World Wide Web. I know what it stands for. What's the HTTPS stand for? I don't remember Trivia answer. That's a good one, because it's a weird one it is. I saw it before and I don't remember what it was. What's the dot stand for? Dot, or is it a period? It's a period. Actually, speaking of that, a period? Yeah, no, dots and periods.
Speaker 1:Okay, did you listen to my voicemail today? No, I didn't. Did you leave me a voicemail? What is wrong with you? I didn't even sign it. You don't look at my text and you don't listen to my voicemails. I did not.
Speaker 1:So the question I had was you said okay, so here's what you said. You said first off, you saw the voicemail as hey, you reached so-and-so's phone. Thank you for calling. Yeah, are you thanking? Why are you thanking? What if it's like a salesperson or like a?
Speaker 1:What do you call those people? A telemarketer? Are you telling them thank you? Well sure, I don't like talking to them. That means they're going to call you back. They do call back, but why would you them thank you? Well sure, I don't like talking to them. That means they're going to call you back. They do call back, but why would you say thank you, you don't want to talk to them? No, they could be some interesting people. No, because I get and actually I've actually had some pretty good conversations with people, I know. But do you think it's necessary to say thank you? As long as? What? Thank you for calling me at this number? I don't know.
Speaker 1:I don't know if I remember saying that I was thinking about it a lot today. Actually, turn it off. Let's listen to your voicemail. No, because I don't know. I think I'm playing this. Hold on. Yeah, you can play it. I'm not here. I don't care. Hold on, this is live.
Speaker 1:Are you really sorry that you missed my call? Oh, yeah, that was it. I wasn't thinking. I was sorry. You're right. Is it a tone or a beep? Is it a tone or a beep? Rewind it. I said it wrong, you're right. Are you really sorry that you missed my call? I don't know if you are. Is it a tone or a beep. Call me back. No, you're upset, I missed that voicemail First of all. First of all, I gave this a lot of thought today. You gave that a lot of thought? Yeah, because I started thinking about it. Why are we apologizing? Why are you saying you're sorry that you missed my call? You're not sorry Because I use it for work. It doesn't matter If a customer calls me. I missed their call. I feel bad. I wish they would get their call. So then you said leave your name and number and brief message after the beep. Is it a beep? Is that what I said? It's a beeper tone. I think you said tone. I changed my voicemail. I think you said tone. So I'm going back to you. Know what you should do, what? Just leave the computer and say you reached this number. You know how it says. Does yours do that? I'm done with it Because, think about it. Why are we even leaving voicemail? I mean not leaving leaving. Why are we having a greeting? Do you know what, though? You shouldn't have a greeting. There was like the computer to say no, no, I like the greeting. No, I don't think there was a guy that I you don't need. There was a guy that used to call every once in a while for for work things, and whenever a guy's voicemail, he changed it every day and he would update it with like a funny statement, that's cool and a joke or some kind of thing every day and it was funny as shit and I would leave a message every time Because it just kind of I don't know it, just it was a clever idea to get somebody to actually leave you a message for work reasons. Why do you want a message? Wouldn't you just want to tell? Wouldn't you want them just to know that you'd call them? So why don't you just let? If for business, you want people to leave a message, you don't want people to just hang up and not call you back? No, no, no, that's not what I'm saying. So if you leave it as the, what do you call that? What's the one that you call that? It's like the Movie phone. No, no, no, the general. It's like If you don't do anything, it just says your number. There's a word for that, I don't know default, default, yeah, the default. So it just you're missing a lot of words tonight. I know, are you okay? No, so it would just say you have reached and then it says the phone. The lady says the phone number and it goes beep. Yeah, right, no, why do we have to leave a greeting? Think about this. It makes no sense. I think it's better. I like the greeting. Do you like it when you call other people and they have a long greeting, a long greeting? Let me ask you this but if they have just a tone one, I usually just hang up. When you call a business, I'll hang up. When you call a business, if it's got a personal greeting on on there, I usually leave a message. If it doesn't have personal greeting, I usually just hang up. You've never left me a message. I will. I have to. Okay, you might have. Let me ask you this when you call a business and my messages are better than that, I know why was that. I was actually thinking that. And um, when you call a business, you know what drives me the worst. On a business, they'll say thank you for calling XYZ company.
Speaker 1:Say our menu changed. Yes, play a tentacle in their bed. I hate that. Why are you going to tell me your menu changed? Just tell me the damn menu. And just so you know the menu. Recently our menu has changed. Who cares? Did the menu ever actually change? Is that just a stretch? It's got to be some research out there that says that's just how do you get somebody to listen to the options? Do you get that many calls, complaints, that you've got to change it up? So instead I just hit zero. You know they don't let you hit zero anymore. I know I usually just hit zero, zero, zero, zero because I want to talk to a live person. It hangs you up sometimes. Now it hangs you up sometimes. No, oh, I know It'll hang up on you. Oh, I know I call the state of Florida because I'm doing this thing with the employment tax thing Long story from one of my plays and I call and it leaves a message saying we're experiencing higher than what.
Speaker 1:Are they not experiencing higher volume calls? Wait a second. And is this where they call you back? That I like I do, but last time I did that they they call back to my office one number. We picked it up, I said, and they would hang up so I wait. So then this time I waited for 30 minutes, although two times in a row I call and the lady would say we're experiencing higher volume, higher than usual volume. I know what you're saying. Everybody listening knows what you're saying and you're expected to hear okay, so it's going to be a longer wait. Please hang on, right? Do you want to get a call back? No, she goes. So please try your call again later. Goodbye, no, this is the state of Florida. What? Yes, no, I call back. And then I call back that. I've never.
Speaker 1:I go all through the whole prompts and everything, get that thing on and then he goes. Or this is a different guy, he goes, or there's a recording goes. Your estimated wait time is 34 minutes. So I'm like well, I'm not hanging up now, so I just put it on speaker. Yeah, you get some work done, right, and I did get through and I said oh my God. I said I've been on hold, for you said 34 minutes, it's been 42 minutes.
Speaker 1:I said how can you guys do this? I go, I can't find the form I need online. And I said the other companies tell me to do this, you tell me to call this company. I said I'm just getting sucked around, flapped around and all this. It's a racket, it's highly robbery, it's government for you. They're not very efficient. At any rate, I got through that, but it's just interesting to me. I don't know if you need. The point is I don't know if you need to have a greeting me with your. I don't know if you need. The point is I don't know if you need to have a greeting. I'm thinking that I'm pro-greeting. I don't care, I know I was. I'm rethinking it, though. I think maybe nobody should. You're going to go back? Nobody should do greetings.
Speaker 1:Why it all started with the stupid answer machines. We don't need to make all these Because you know, just say the phone number so you confirm. He used to have the old answer machine. You used to leave me messages on my answer machine for like 30 minutes and you'd see the entire tape. We didn't have tape like the mini tapes. I was like that was like the fancy ones too, the fancy ones with the mini tapes. I did that, the old school ones when I had that. The old school one has like the full tape, the full cassette tape, yeah, and I had the fancy one with the small mini cassette tape. I know that was pretty awesome. I tried to fill it up. You damn near did. I think a few times Back when Duke. That was back in the 90s, that was back in Bill Clinton days. Yeah, I'd say I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
Speaker 1:Ms Lewinsky, yeah, she's got a podcast now. Oh, does she? Or she was on one. Maybe she was on. Was that the guy's name? Podcast she was, I saw. What the hell did I see? Wasn't she defending him? No, recently. No, she was on a podcast.
Speaker 1:I think she was starting her own podcast, but she did. She was talking about, about, like how she thought like he was going to leave Hillary and she was going to be the new first lady, and kind of crap. Just like bizarre thinking, I guess I don't know. Oh, okay, hey, oh, did I tell you by the way? Hey, I just want to say a little and, by the way, I want, hey, I just want to do say a little. And, by the way, yeah, by the way, I want to say something um out to our listeners. I want to thank all our newest and recent newest listeners.
Speaker 1:I've been getting a lot of feedback from a lot of new listeners that they're really enjoying the uh, the podcast. So all you guys, you know who you are. You reached out. I may or may not have responded, or we may or may have not. You know what I'm saying. Let me start over. We may or may have not responded, but we appreciate all the new listeners. Thank you, go to Brandy's. Yeah, if you want to reach out to us, go to eddyandjayatbrandiesandbscom. E-d-d-y-a-n-d-j-a-y at brandiesandbscom and I think we may have gotten some people with.
Speaker 1:I think we may have done an earlier show or something about throw some recipes with the E and J. I'm not sure. I think we did. Yeah'm not too sure I think we did. Yeah, we talked about it. I think we did talk about it. I want to go get all the different E&Js. I want to do a sampling thing. That is my thing. I'm going to set that up one of these times.
Speaker 1:I think I got one, but I have no idea. But now I can't find it. It's on the. I've got to be honest with you, though I'm not really looking forward to that, because I don't like the vanilla one. I got one here. Hang on, it's too much vanilla man. The VS no, I don't like that one. Yeah, the VSOP. But there's got to be a good recipe out there.
Speaker 1:You can use it with something. I had one here that one of our listeners sent in and I thought not very good at this social media stuff. There's a lot of. At any rate, you know who you are and I saw it, and it was not a brandy Manhattan, it was something else similar to that. I don't know. I'll tell you. I don't know, I'll find it eventually. I think it's Actually. I know who sent it. To be honest, I'll get it in the next break and I'll remind you. Well, you know who you are and thank you. It was, geez, hit pause for one second. We're going to pause it while you look for the. Yeah, just one second, all right, all right. So so yeah, we got one from an avid listener. It was called a Perky's Old Fashioned. I'm sorry, from an avid listener. It was called a Perky's Old Fashioned, I'm sorry. Was it Perky's? Perky's Like Perky boobs? No, it's a Wisconsin family recipe. So is it? Perky's is the name? I thought this was an ENJ one, but maybe we asked if they were.
Speaker 1:Maybe I should get my facts right here. I don't have my glasses on so I can't read very good, but anyways, the idea's there. I don't know where you're going with that. I don't either, but you can imagine. It's like Tommy, or not? Tommy Boy? What's that? Billy Madison that gets on the bus that Miss Veronica Vaughn is one fine piece of ass and he goes. I know from experience no, you don't. Well, I know a guy that knows. I know a guy, no, you don't Well, you can imagine. So it's kind of like that. I didn't get all the facts. I probably should have done that a little bit more research before I did it. But however, the point is still the same a little bit more research before I did it. However, the point is still the same. Thank you for sending your.
Speaker 1:If you guys got some good recipes for E&J or just brandies, it doesn't have to be E&J, although that's what we prefer, but you can do any kind of brandies. Send us a recipe At E&J at BrandsBScom. You know they had. I found that airport bar at BrandsBScom, you know they had. I found that airport bar at ENJ, you did. You sent me a thing on that. You sent me a picture of that. Did we post I think that it's at the diner, I think that thing I posted on the line too. I could not believe it. I started crying, did you? Oh, speaking of that, because you were on an airplane, because you went over to Europe, I went to Italy, italy. Yeah, I posted one.
Speaker 1:I did a brandy on one of the bars. They had brandy down there over in Italy. No, why wouldn't they? Because they don't even have it in Vegas or in Nashville or Florida. I'm not saying like E&J, they have it in Paris. They have E&J in Paris At E&J.
Speaker 1:Yes, you went to a bar and actually had E&J. I did, daryl did. Really it wasn't at a bar, it was at a liquor store. Oh, yeah, you were. That was persia's, france. So yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:So how'd you like? How'd you like europe? It was good. It's good to be home, though I wouldn't live there. It was nice, it was good times, good people. I mean, they're kind of well, they're okay people. Some are good, some are not so good. Yeah, that's anywhere you go though, right, but it was very good food and, uh, you know the sites and stuff. Seeing all that history was cool. But yeah, I wouldn't, I would never go again. I would recommend everyone going there once.
Speaker 1:In checking all this stuff out, I would say, if you have a hard time walking, don't go, or hiking, I would not recommend going because it is Well. I suppose they did have some golf cart tours or bus tours, but for the most part you're walking a lot, but it was nice. Why would you not just drive? There's too much traffic. It's like New York City, rome had like 3 million people. I've never been to New York City, though, either.
Speaker 1:I've kind of avoided some of those places like where you see all like the um, the boat, like like when we saw like the coliseum, that was crazy cool. Like outside, it's like what do you see? But after, like, you see it for like two minutes, I guess they're staring at it for a while. Right, I'm like, okay, it's just you think of all these buildings that they, how old they are and how they did all this stuff. It's's crazy, and pictures do not do justice. You've got to see it in person Just for the sheer size of it kind of thing. The size and how old. And how could they do that with no modern equipment? It's just nuts. They just rebuilt the. It's nuts, that one church that burnt down. What the hell is the name of it? That's, in France, notre Dame, I don't know. They're actually redoing that Coliseum.
Speaker 1:When they rebuilt Notre Dame, they did it all with old hand tools. They tried to do it as original as they could, to the old days I thought it was pretty interesting. Well, so, like the Coliseum, I was looking at it because it was falling down, so they put a new brick wall. Did you just say, well, you know, because it's falling down and stuff, I've never been there. No, well, they put like this, like brick thing, that, because they put an elevator. So we didn't go inside it. I ain't painting, can you get an elevator? Yeah, and they put it's like the new, you can see, like they, they, they like tied it in, but they try to make it look old. But it was.
Speaker 1:You could tell it's more modern, right, and this one, well, they didn't have elevators back then. I'm pretty sure they don't have electricity, yeah, yeah, but I'll say like, like the statues and like the sistine chapel, all that stuff, and like we went to, uh, well, we went to all the temple that'd be, we went to all the things and like uh, uh, uh, where the pope is at all that that stuff. It's cool. I'm not going to lie, it is pretty cool to be there and see all that stuff. It's pretty crazy. And the size, it's just crazy how they can, how do they do all that? You're like these churches are like just massive and they have statues up there. How do they do that? When it's like 1,500 years old or whatever it Like? How did they do that, you know, when it's like 1,500 years old or whatever it's like, how did they do that? But after about like 20 minutes I'm like let's go to the bar.
Speaker 1:But the food is great. That surprises me, because I don't like food that's not from the US that much. Oh, this is way better. The pasta and the pizza it's unbelievable. I think it's because when I was eating I was trying to figure out what was the best to eat. I think it's because of the flavor you feel like when you're eating it. You know when you watch what's the ball?
Speaker 1:Zimmer on the food, andrew Zimmer, andrew Zimmer, yeah, he's great. He eats some weird shit though, I know, but he describes stuff like he describes the flavor right. So this stuff is Well fine. I don't know him, but the difference is, when I go to a restaurant here, I'm like, oh, this is good, this tastes good. Right, this is good stuff, I like it here. But there you get it. You can taste the flavors of, like the sauces. You're like, oh, I can taste that, but I can taste this. I don't know how to explain it. It's like I felt like I was a food critic Because it was more homemade.
Speaker 1:Right, it's all homemade, and they make homemade noodles. I think you can get that homemade stuff here Well, you probably could, or do it yourself. But oh God, it was so good. It was so good, I'm not kidding, it was so good, but it was rich, so you couldn't eat a lot. It was rich. And the vino and the vino, oh, the wine is so good, and not even a wine drinker, it was so good. The meats and the cheeses and the Olives, olives, oh my God, the Olives. So good, so good. We had such a good. It was a good time. It was a good time.
Speaker 1:It was good to be home, though I don't think anybody works over there, unless you're in the restaurant business, the taxi or Uber or whatever, or the hotel or the hospitality. I would say you think it's all tourists. They can't be all tourists. No, even the Italians are like. The other thing is they all smoke. They all smoke cigarettes or those vape things with a cigarette in it. Everyone smokes A vape thing with a cigarette in it. Yeah, it was something different. You remember in those old shows that the rich lady would have a thing and they'd have a cigarette in it. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's kind of like that. But a lot of those people all smoke cigarettes A lot of them, really, I almost bought a pack because I wanted to fit in.
Speaker 1:I actually had a cigar last night. No, not cigars, no, I had a cigar, though I can't do cigarettes now. No, it was, but I've had a cigar forever and I was just like I stopped at the liquor store and they had them sitting there and it was that storm was supposed to come in last night. It was like a light show. When I was going home, right, oh yeah, it was lightning on. It was like a light show, yeah, I know. So I was like I was at the liquor store, I saw the light show. I'm like You're going to sit on the deck and have a. I'm going to sit on the deck and have a stogie. Do you like a stogie? It was pretty good. It was one of my favorite ones. I like a Rocky Patel, it was pretty good. Yeah, those guys like to smoke their cigarettes. Yeah, yeah, but it's cool.
Speaker 1:The only other thing I'll say is, like, when you go to all these. Like we were in Milan, which I liked, and I liked Florence, we were in Rome, you know when. In Rome, right, we said that a lot. But like these alleyways are so cool, did you say that a lot? Oh, yeah, I said like every 10, 20 minutes, I go.
Speaker 1:Well, when in Rome we'll just have one, but they have so many like restaurantes, like every like 10 feet in these alleys. These buildings are like there's no trucks out there. These are all smart little cars Because you go down and there's no room. They're so narrow these roads. I suppose the roads in the cities are also old. They didn't have cars then. Right, no, yeah, right, no, it's crazy. It's like narrow. I mean, everybody walked or rode a horse or something, so the roads are small. And then the other thing is there's so many restaurantes or little bars everywhere you walk from here to the bathroom, you get moved by two bars or restaurants everywhere, everywhere, small town bars.
Speaker 1:So I liked it. That was kind of good. The Irish bars were the best. But you're in Italy, I know it was great. So the Irish are taking over Italy now.
Speaker 1:Is that what you're trying to say? Well, no, I think they had more. Well, yeah, they had. They were Irish, but the people weren't the Italian. I don't know, it was weird. It was weird, I don't know. It was cool.
Speaker 1:We had a good time. I'm glad to be home, but it was good. Shit, I liked it. Yeah, well, let's make a quick cocktail. We'll get back into something else. I could use another drink. All right, sounds good. Well, hey, welcome back.
Speaker 1:Sorry, I'm flipping through some stuff here, but what were you talking about before we went to break? Well, I guess I was saying but you should probably do Buzzsprout, oh yeah. So yeah, if you guys want to start your own podcast, like Bill Clinton's, monica Lewinsky or others, go check out Buzzsprout. It gets you on the line and it puts it out on all the platforms. It's super easy to use, easy to upload to. It's got AI and stuff there. It's got monetization stuff in there and there's actually a lot of tutorial stuff in there. If you guys want to learn some new stuff, you can actually go there and actually watch videos and learn some things about how to do this stuff. But go check out buzzsprout and mention brains and bs and eddie and jay.
Speaker 1:You know what I was thinking about and, on there, what I'm gonna talk about my little trip, like for like two more minutes, just real quick. I went to my first ever football game, soccer. Yeah, yeah, it was 80. I thought you played soccer in elementary school. No, I played soccer, but this was like 80 or 90,000 people in the stadium. So I'm going to tell you a little story. So was it more than you had in elementary school? No, no. Do you think your dad actually had fun watching you play soccer? He coached me a couple times, did he really? Yeah, really yeah, I can't see him doing that. Yeah, nobody else. He was looked at as an outstanding sister in the community, like I was. That's how you get roped in. No, he coached and then he played me all the time because that was great, because I was the coach's kid, but I was good, but anyways, but anyways.
Speaker 1:So when you get to the arena so first of all, I don't know if I told you this, who was I talking to? Anyways, I get to the arena, or we get there, and I guess when you go to the football games you gotta gamble. So we go into this gambling place, we're having beers, me and Daryl's buddy, we'll just post some bets, yeah, so we go in there. We're like so nobody speaks English, everyone speaks Italian. Well, you're in Italy, yeah. And so we're going to Milan and we're playing. They have two teams in Milan. We keep saying Milan. I keep thinking of that Adam Sandler movie. They're all dressed up at the league, there is a lot of fashion there, but anyways. So they're playing the worst team in the league.
Speaker 1:So we're like Cam, we can't read the damn Because it's like a computer screen. You've got to put the bets in that way, right, sure, and there's not, like, a person there that's helping you. Yeah, so we can't speak English, we can't read it because it's all in Italian. So then we finally find somebody that wants to help us that speaks English, and we kind of figure it out. Who was Daryl there before? I mean, he's been there, he's been there for like three. He wasn't gambling, it was Daryl's buddy. So he was his buddy, are in there and we're trying to figure it out.
Speaker 1:I'm like, well, I'm going to put $100 down. He goes yeah, all right, let's do it Might as well. And I said, okay. So we got the two bets in and then I'm like well, this one, this guy who's a defenseman, if he were to score. It's 45 to 1. Right, but he's like their best player.
Speaker 1:I'm like let's do it. It's to play in the worst team. Did you win 45 to 1 at 100 bucks? No, we won 2 out of 3 bets. The first 2 we won, he hit the post 3 times. This guy. He hit the post 3 times and he's a defenseman, so you're getting into the game then. Oh my god, so I won. Like I think we won. He's a defenseman, so you're actually getting into the game then. Oh my God, right. So I won. Like I think we won $90 on a $100 bet. We would have won 90 plus well, 100 times, well, whatever it was times 45. We would have won $1,000. Yeah, $4,500. Yeah, and we were inches. It was awesome.
Speaker 1:But what team did you watch? It was the Milan's first place team. It was called Central. I think I've seen Ted Lasso. There's like levels of this before, right, it's hard to understand. I only watched. It's a pyramid. It's like we don't know. I don't think we were in the Premier League, but we're in the second Premier League. Oh, the Premier, that's what it's called. I don't know, I think we're in the second, but these guys were good. They were pretty good, hey, but Ted Lasso, he didn't make the Premier League the second year. It's so confusing.
Speaker 1:I I'm getting to the whole point First of all. So we get done betting me and his buddy, and we're drinking beers. So I'm like you've got to have a vulture. So I'm like I need a vulture. It's like this Think of like a gas station that sells beer, but there's no gas outside the stadium and I'm like, and they don't speak hardly any English.
Speaker 1:I'm like I need to put a hundred. How do I put money into this machine? Do they even take us currency? He goes they need a. Well, I had euros. So then they're like you need a voucher.
Speaker 1:I said, well, give me a hundred dollars in euros or for a voucher, okay. And so I go up to go. I go how's it work? Well, I go, how's it work? Well, that's not for that one, that's for the casino. I'm like what the shit? So what did you do with the voucher? Did they sell it back to you? Yeah, I bought it back and I got the right thing. And I got it. We made it work, or whatever. We made it work. We got it work because some guy, an Italian guy, helped us. So we got it all figured and we got our ticket. So we're like okay.
Speaker 1:So we go back outside. Were these Italians really charming guys? No, isn't that the thing? They're not. The guy we talked to was super nice. So we go outside to the picnic and we're drinking beers before the game and they're all laughing at us having a good time. One dude is like a bald-headed big dude and he wants to fight.
Speaker 1:You could just tell I felt the tension, right. And the guys at Darryl and everyone else, they're like cool. They're like, hey, we want to ask some questions about the US. And they kept calming him, trying to calm him down, and they're like I could tell I couldn't understand what he was saying, but I know what he was saying. Yeah, but they're US. Oh, he didn't like the US. Huh, no, and I was like I was looking at him like I think I could take him. I'm going to have to, right, I mean, he was a bigger guy, but I'm like I think I could take him as long as his friends.
Speaker 1:So then I'm looking around, like well, darryl and his friends, they're okay. I'm like you guys take this, but Darryl and his friends have been drinking for a while. Yeah, but Nags was even like I don't know if that guy is liking us. I'm like I don't think he does. He's trying to get want Because it's before the game. He's like talking shit. I think so, but not to us, but to his friends to tell us Like he would rip it off and we're just being friendly, right, right, we don't know anybody, right, everyone else, all those other people.
Speaker 1:So we saw you in shit because you're from the US, you can't understand it, right, but I felt it. I felt it and I kept looking at him and he would look at me and I'm like and he's smoking, so he's going to last about 25 seconds, he's going to be sucking wind, so I can get him fired up, as long as he doesn't have a knife, but I'm like, so anyway, at least there's that it's not like the US where you get him a gun. You just got to worry about the knives. Anyways, his buddies, the guys that were up front, were super cool, so they helped us. They were being like you guys need to go here, here, here, okay, fine, so we get to the game and we're like 10 minutes late, yeah, because we're up at the top. You're going to get better season, then we had a pretty good season. We're front row on the top Not very top, but towards the top.
Speaker 1:And so the thing is so you know, when you go to like the NHL games around here or the Minnesota Vikings or the Wild game, and you go get a beer and you come up, they will not let you down until the whistle blows. Right, right, right. They're like wait, so we got our beers. It's like two minutes into the soccer game. Do they have the guys that go up and down the bleachers? Like the stairs? First of all, they're steeper stairs, they're steep, and there's 90,000 people here and so everyone's, so it's like twice as many as an average NFL game. Yes, right. And so I'm like why is everybody sitting down? And kind of, in our section they're serious, right. They're like everyone's sitting in their chairs, nobody's standing. So I'm like well, we've got to wait until a whistle blows.
Speaker 1:The lady that is working at the stadium, she's yelling at us in Italian. We're like what the hell is their problem? We're sitting all at the top waiting, right. She's like I don't know what you're saying, we don't know what you're saying. And she's just furious and she's like finally she can go into English. She goes you guys need to sit down. I'm like, well, we're waiting for the whistle. She goes no, right now you don't stand up here. You go, don't sit down. I'm like it's the exact opposite of the US, oh really. And we. She goes numbers are numbers. Yeah, but it was. Well, we didn't know what section it was or whatever. So finally she walked us down to the front row and we're the only ones. There's like eight of us and we're all standing and everyone's sitting down and we're causing a scene and we're in the front row. I'm like we're going to die and there's only two seats available for eight of us. Hmm, well, these people spread out and we're in the front row on the rail Right. Well, it turns out they all kind of spread out and everyone's like yelling at us because we're standing up Trying to get your seats and you're late. I know, I don't know. So you show up to the soccer game late. We're only two minutes late, and so Everybody's been in their seat for half an hour. Thank God. I've already had like 30 beers.
Speaker 1:There's two dudes I hope he might be listening to our podcast this dude from LA, he's from Compton or wherever. Did he speak Italian. He spoke English. He goes. Hey man, me and my dad were here. We were sitting there, big guy, they slid over, we got in, we sat down. I'm like geez, this is serious, they don't mess around here.
Speaker 1:But on the ends like on the one end of the home team, they got their flags going. Everyone was standing up singing. They sang the whole game. Oh really, the other side, the away team, had like a smaller section. They were doing their flanks so they sang their chants the whole game. But in our section and most of the sections you don't stand up. So we're right on the 50-yard line kind of thing. Yeah, you're like center, roll high up.
Speaker 1:Well, I can show you the video, but it's probably, if you're thinking like the Vikings play, I would sayikings play, I would say the first or the second level. Oh okay, that's decent. Yeah, we were decent. You could see everything. Good, those are probably good seats they were. So you're, you're bad. You're probably like why? Why do we have all these americans in here? They didn't like us. Yeah, I thought we're gonna die. I said this is gonna be a problem. Was nags with you? Oh, yeah, we were going to die. I said this is going to be a problem Was Nags with you. Oh yeah, we were all there, but the guy from LA, he was from South Central. You know what. He was so cool.
Speaker 1:There was a video I saw what day was it, I think it was on Twitter, the Twitter videos and they were like Matt Damon and he married some chick from Spain, or something like that. That was a hot like, you know, whatever. He's like hey, I want to go to a football game or soccer, you know. And the guy's like, mmm, okay, I'd take it, but no kids, no children. So they went to the thing, but he wouldn't let him take any women or children with because he got too freaking crazy there at the soccer match. So it's like a thing. Those guys just get completely crazy, from what I understand, right? I don't know. Yeah, it was nuts, and for me, growing up in Minnesota, I could give two shits about soccer. Soccer sucks. Well, a lot of people still like it here, but it was very entertaining, it was very good, it was fun. I'm glad I went.
Speaker 1:What part was fun about it, though? Was it the actual atmosphere, or was it people running back and forth in the field? Well, the problem is like when I said this, I said this was your thing. Was it 0-0 or 0-1? No, we were down 2-0.
Speaker 1:When I say we Milan was down 2-0, when I say we Milan was down 2-0 right away, and the team was number one versus the worst team, and they're down 2-0. And I'm like we're going to lose our bet. Was Milan the worst one or the better one? No, milan's like number one, okay, in the whole league. Oh, really, and they're playing the worst team in the whole league and they're down 2-0. Oh, was down the other end and they had two shots and then both shots went in. Really, and we had like a hundred shots on the other end. I'm like, but they don't shoot enough. So the goalie was good. No, they just screwed up twice and they capitalized, but then they won 3-2. Which didn't matter, because it helped us win our bats, right.
Speaker 1:But then I couldn't cash in. Why? Because we go't cash in. Why, because we go to cash in, and the place was close. Well, we were leaving the next day. Oh, no shit.
Speaker 1:So we went back to our Airbnb and we went to the local bar that we made friends at and they're like hey, you guys are here. I'm like yeah, hey, hey. I said hey, I won this bet. You guys got to buy it. And they're like no, I'm not paying that much, so I end up selling it for half price. Oh shit, no way, yeah, so you're like 40 euros for a $90 winner. Yeah, sucked, what are you going to do? It's better than nothing. Well, yeah, I didn't know.
Speaker 1:I didn't know how all that shit worked, but it was pretty cool. I don't know, europe's not on my list. That's not my thing to do. I don't know why. For some reason, the 16th Channel would be kind of cool to see and the Coliseum would be kind of cool to see. That was cool. Other than that, I don't know if there's much over there. I don't know, I'm so Americanized, I don't know. It's not my thing. No, well, it wasn't my thing. I went to win if my son wasn't there, but it was pretty cool. I'm glad I went. I would never go again. That's the thing it's like.
Speaker 1:It was like when I saw one of the is it seven wonders of the world? Which one is that? It was the Coliseum. I don't care if I see it anymore. You got to go to India. Taj Mahal, oh, taj Mahal is one of them. Yeah, yeah, do you know? I know all these? No, I don't Overboard from 19-.
Speaker 1:I know we talked about it, of course, great movie, by the way, the putt-putt overboard was great movie. I watched that like all the time. I don't know, but it's not like it's been on a lot lately. I know I've seen it for a while now. Yeah, is it? I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I mean, honestly, when you look at the pictures, so what I explained to it, what I think, what I thought of it, how is the best way to explain it? So, like you've been to las vegas? Yeah, the strip, no, how, all these buildings are just massive, right, and they're cool. And you, when you first get there, you're like, holy crap, this shit's bigger than you think of. That's what it's like there. But there's, it's, that's what it's like. But after like 30 minutes, you're like I mean, it was all interesting, I liked it, but I would never go back. I remember the pyramids would be more interesting. Yeah, I'd like to see those too. That's crazy. Yeah, but you look at some of these. I can show you that was all aliens, right? Just kidding, just kidding, but anyways. Yeah, oh, there's one last story. Just kidding, just kidding, but anyways, yeah, oh, there's one last story I want to tell about the whole trip. Alright, and then we move on, do that, and then I gotta go take a pee dude, we'll make a new drink.
Speaker 1:So this is about the airport. Which airport? Boston, us? Or okay, oh, so on your way home? Yeah, in Boston. Okay, no wait, let me think. Boston, us. Or Okay, oh, so on your way home? Yeah, in Boston. Okay, no wait, let me think. Have I been to Boston Airport before? I think I have no Pittsburgh. Where have I been? I've been over there before. It might have been Rome, on the way back to Boston. Wait a second, I don't know which one. It doesn't matter which one. These were American citizens, okay, whatever. Yep, all right, I don't know. I think it was Boston. Yeah, it was, I'll take it back. It was Boston. I'll remember because I know for a fact it was Boston.
Speaker 1:So, on the way back, we were flying from Rome to Boston and Boston to Minneapolis, right, okay. So we had like 30 minutes. We didn't even go to the bar, we were just like well, I'll just sit here and chill until so I look across. There's this family. He's probably, I would say in his 30s, him and his wife, and they had a baby. Sure, yeah, well, he drove a Subaru.
Speaker 1:So you see, what was this guy's problem? So what do you think? Well, there's a lot of things. So you know, he drove a Subaru. So he sits across from us. He's got the largest. Was he with the Wiccan Edge here or something, or what I don't know? I don't? Yeah, well, he had the largest With his wife and kid. There they were.
Speaker 1:Would you say granola, would that be a term that our listeners would understand? And he might have been a nice guy. I'm not saying that. Wait, wait, wait. What are you trying to rip on this guy for? Because he's gay or he's Well, is that bad? Whatever, let me. Okay. So he's sitting across from me and he's looking at me and he crosses his leg like a woman. You know how you do that type, which, whatever, whatever.
Speaker 1:So then he's got the you know the Taj Mahal of strollers it's like bigger than my car and they got a little baby. And so then he's got the backpacks, of course, you know, and they pull up. I had a backpack. I had a backpack, I had my laptop in there, I had my hats in there. I carry my backpack with me. I do too. I carry my backpack with my laptop and shit in there.
Speaker 1:He says, pulling snacks out of his backpack. What? Not just snacks. Applesauce yes, applesauce. And Tupperware Salad no dressing. Wait, wait, the house and he had a Tupperware salad no dressing, wait, wait.
Speaker 1:I have so many questions. Were you in the bar right now? You said the bar, you're doing this, you can't bring this up in the bar. No, I wasn't in the bar. Well, first of all, why weren't you in the bar? Well, because we were going to go to the bar but we had like 20 minutes and I had to use the restroom and I came back and then we're down like 15 minutes. I don't think we had enough time and it looked like a dazed bar. You have no time to get a beer. I probably could have, but we had free drinks on the plane. So the point, it's what, meeting the people? Right, you gotta make an effort. We were gonna. And then we got to the part where I was like, eh, anyways, but we did not. But we had like we should have.
Speaker 1:Okay, the guy has a saffron in a Tupperware bowl with a metal fork. Well, how does that go. I have so many questions. How do you get that through security? You can't bring water through, but you can bring a metal fork through, or any fork for that matter. I don't like. Why is he bringing? Where did he get the salad from? First of all, where did he get the salad from? Can you bring a salad across? I don't know, but I don't know where he came from. We're going from Boston, minneapolis. Why is he eating the salad? And it was huge.
Speaker 1:It was a Tupperware, it was homemade, it came out of his backpack and how warm was it? Well, it could have been. It could be like chilled. I guess I can see that. Wait, no, stop, what do you mean? It's chilled. He didn't have ice in his backpack. Tupperware has like. No, it's not like Tupperware from a restaurant, it's from his kitchen, his one bedroom apartment, like Tupperware, like ice built into it, like a little Like a double wall kind of thing. Like I have one of those things for like Hard boiled eggs. So the tray you freeze. That wasn't the case here. I don't know, I'm just throwing it out there.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to defend this poor guy you ripped the shit out of. Well, he kept staring. What's his name? I probably. Did you not talk to him? No, he was sitting across from me. Why would you not talk to him? Well, I was going to. You should ask him. I'm getting to the bigger point. All right, he had on New Bells. No, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I said whose shoes he had on. You've listened to this podcast before. Whose shoes? Mm-hmm, what do you mean? I don't know what. That is what my eye doctor shoes on? Oh, terrible, terrible shoes.
Speaker 1:He was wearing those loafers. Yes, he had Terrible. He was wearing those loafers. Yes, he had like no socks. He had floods on Low white socks. But he had low white socks on the loafers and he had floods on and he had his legs crossed over like a woman.
Speaker 1:And he's chomping on this salad with no dressing on it. It was just dried lettuce and tomato. I think there was carrots in there too, and that was it. It was just dry lettuce and tomato. I think there was carrots in there too, and that was it. And it was like this big Get a ranch, get a ranch. It's just a point. I'm probably being a little judgy. You are being a little judgy, but it's okay.
Speaker 1:I don't mind this one because we get to Minneapolis. I'd much rather be on the airplane with food. We get to Minneapolis at the baggage check and they checked a bag to the carousel that was smaller than anyone that would ever fit up in the overhead. Yeah, yeah, smaller than a carry-on For the two of them and their baby. It was like the size of like a Remember Trapper Keepers. I was like why would you check that? You're going to put it up, I bet you. I want to look in there, so bad it had to have been. You got to pay for the check-in, don't you? I mean for the overhead logins. Yeah, you do, sometimes, not in Delta. We get three check bags in Delta. Well, it's because you're like a Delta Club person though.
Speaker 1:No, but this guy, whatever, I'm trying to figure him out. I could have checked my bag my last trip. I could have checked my bag. I did not want to check it Because I don't want to go sit by the damn carousel, I just want to walk in and walk out. The guy was probably the nicest human being on earth and I probably was a little Tired of traveling Because I was already 8 nicest human being on earth and I probably was a little tired of traveling because I was already in eight hours in, or whatever.
Speaker 1:I had so many questions. I want to ask him. I had so many questions and I, I knew for a fact. I knew for a fact that he drove a Subaru. First of all, did you know? Did you, did you get a photo of this? I might've Let me look. I was thinking that you had to have, I would have, I would have like, eh, I'm just going to take a picture of this son of a bitch, just for just just. He was I mean, I'm not, I don't know whatever. It was just weird.
Speaker 1:We're going to come back to this one one. We're gonna finish this little topic up. I can go to the bathroom and make an e and j. Yeah, let's move on from my trip because I want to talk about current events. All right, we're gonna move on. We're gonna move on one more segment. We're gonna close it off. Yeah, then we gotta go to the bar.
Speaker 1:I like your shirt. I like your shirt, it's nice. I got two of them. They're solid. I'm going to get one. I know it looks nice, though Fancy, it's warm. I know it looks warm, it's fancy, it is fancy. Well, hey, welcome back. It looks like it makes your hair look nice, does it? Does it match my hair? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So we were talking about the lovely Vikings and what I would. Just, I think it's not all our listeners listen to the Vikings. Well, real quick, we're going to do like two minutes. Well, they do Foosball team, because we're the best regular season team ever but the worst playoff team ever, and so there's rumors that. Is that true? I think it is. No, I can't be right, though it's been some pretty shitty years. I think it might be, but so we got right right quarterback and we got McCarthy. He's supposed to be the next greatest thing. We're finally going to get a franchise quarterback. Well, I mean, but he got hurt last year in hand surgery, so we don't know if he's going to be or not. He won national championship, yeah, but now there's rumors that A-Rodge from the Packers is going to fall in the footstep as the Brett Favre.
Speaker 1:Why would I get the Brett Favre handed out? Because we had Brett Favre for two years. He got us an NFC championship game. He did get one year and did horrible the second year. No, he didn't. Well, he didn't make the playoffs the second year. I would agree. The only thing I can say is that we went 14-2 last year, so we have a good team.
Speaker 1:What if McCarthy is still injured and he's not ready? Then, yes, get rid of him. If he's not there, we need a franchise quarterback. Everyone would be pissed if we signed Rodgers. Everyone, unless he's winning. No, I would be pissed, no, if he won the Super Bowl. If he won the Super Bowl, I'd be happy. If he won the Super Bowl, yeah right, I still don't agree with signing him, though. They're not going to, but they're not. The problem is they're not knocking it down. That's the problem. They're not saying no, we're not interested in him. Why would you not? He's retiring, he's not doing anything, he's not getting back in football. What if they said he's done? What if we bring him in as our backup? I would do that. Yeah, no, you gotta let McCarthy go. You let you guys. Nobody understands our quarterback. He won't do that.
Speaker 1:The quarterback from last year what's his name? Again, darnold Darnold. You guys nobody. All our listeners listen to me. I said this last time. You guys, nobody gets this point.
Speaker 1:So our coach was a great coach. I'm not saying he's a bad coach, he's great. He won coach of the year KOC. He did KLC. He did KLC. Why do coaches win the Coach of the Year? Typically, it's probably because of wins on the regular season, right? Yeah? Or a difference from the year before to the next year, right? So what was the difference? Sam Darnold? Sam Darnold's the one that won.
Speaker 1:Yes, he screwed up in the last game of the year and the playoffs. Right, but if he screwed up so bad, why is the coach coach of the year? So at the same time? So you can't have it both ways. So either he's the coach of the year that means the quarterback did a great job and he just screwed up the last two games or the coach was good, but he screwed up the last two games of the year. So you can't have it both ways. It's a team effort. So if KLC's, or maybe the rest of the team that he coached, carried the quarterback, or maybe that's the case, so the quarterback wasn't necessarily the answer. Maybe it was everybody else, Maybe it was the game plan and the rest of the team.
Speaker 1:Why did Seattle sign Darnold to whatever $80 million? Yeah, it was a one-year deal, though no, it was three years. I thought it was a one-year deal. He was in Seattle, and now that Cooper Cup went there too. So the bottom line is, darnold might have been on the cusp of being great.
Speaker 1:I think it's all mental for him. For me, if I'm watching him, it's all mental. And the big game happened. It's kind of like Christian, not Christian, the guy that went to Atlanta, kirk Cousins yeah, he got happy feet in the big games too. He was not. He was not. He was never there, he was never going to be that Tom Brady that we don't have.
Speaker 1:Was it better that we had Daryl than Kirk Cousins? I mean 14-2. No, I mean, maybe I don't know. Or was it just because we have such a good everybody else? I think everything else was all worked out pretty well and we got lucky a few times Right, and our defense did some good things. Our defense did some really good things. But let me ask you this so JJ McCarthy he won national championship with Michigan because everyone around him was good. So is he really that good of a quarterback? I don't know. I agree with you, I don't know. It's like the egg and the chicken which came first.
Speaker 1:But they see them playing. They do All the time right and they're practicing. They see that behind the scenes. Well, you and I do, but our listeners don't. They don't. They see more of them.
Speaker 1:The team people see behind the scenes Quasey Adesso or whatever. His name is, quasey Quasey, I don't know, that's the only way I'd call him. Well, he's called a couple times wondering if we're available. Well, just for consulting. Well, I know, but they want us to get more of a role, and I said I'm too busy. No, we've got podcasts to do. Yeah, just consulting, that's it. We'll give you our thoughts, anyways. So I'm moving on from that. But yeah, so we don't know. What did we? Just we didn't resolve anything there. We don't know if A-Rod's coming I hope he's not Unless he's in a backup role, which he won't do. No, he won't. And I don't know if JJ McCarthy is the guy or not. I don't know. I don't know Football.
Speaker 1:There it is, I don't know. Football is a big question. Mark Vikings, I'm not. Eight and eight? Well, for the record. Eight and nine? No, for the record. I'm never watching them. Ever again, though, I'm done. No, I'm done, unless they make the playoffs.
Speaker 1:Playoffs, I watch every year. You see that every year. No, I'm serious this time. You see that. No, I'm dead serious this time. You've been saying that since 1998. I am dead serious. Last year I'm done Dawn. Why would I care more than they care?
Speaker 1:The worst part was the Motor City Kitties. I was trying to switch over to the Motor City Kitties and they let me down big time. Would you be more mad if you had them? They'll horribly let you down in the playoffs. It's the same thing every year. It doesn't matter. We just want to be just above mediocre. We want to be good because you get people in there.
Speaker 1:But although I will say the new ownership, the owner it's not new anymore but they actually will spend money. Yeah, they spend money. They want to win. I think he does too. I don't think they Unlike the twins. Oh God Well, they're trying to sell, right? I don't even want to watch sports anymore. I mean they're done, right. I mean they're going to sell. They have to sell. It's already first sale.
Speaker 1:No one's bought them yet. Maybe A-Rod should buy them Because he's buying the Timberwolves. He should buy the Twinkies. I'm going to mind that he's got the money. Yeah, well, maybe. I don't know if he's got the money. He's got the money. Yeah, well, maybe I don't know if he's got the money. Oh, he's got the conglomerate. Yeah, I'm sure he's got the investors or whatever, but yeah, so I don't know. Maybe we should buy it. Well, I put a phone call in, did you? Yeah, I haven't heard back. The poleheads, yeah, what's the kid's name? Again, what is his name? Carl? No, carl's the old man. Well, he's no longer. Yeah, he's not there. Jim, jim, yeah, jim, but that's okay.
Speaker 1:So you ready for your dramatic readings? Are we there yet? Yeah, we, can you have a good one? No, we probably have to pause it for a minute and I can find a couple.
Speaker 1:Well, I was complaining about a certain college and parents of this certain college. I'm not going to say what it is, no, but I agree with you. I mean, some of the stuff is these parents coddle these college adults. Right, I'm not going to say college kids, they're college adults. They coddle them like they're, like they're kids and they're not, they're adults. They need to figure this shit out, but we're not.
Speaker 1:I don't know if you're reading those or not, but I mean you've read some of those. To me it's like this is ridiculous and if you guys, I gotta know, do people okay? Are you guys still? Are you, are you people still on Facebook? If you are other than the videos which are ridiculous, like ridiculously addictive, is the videos or Marketplace, the Reels. If you're on anything other than the Reels and the Marketplace, you got to email us at eddienjbran. I want to know what you're looking at and why, and what I want to. What I want to know is can you guys email us Because it's our generation, cause I have kids in college right now.
Speaker 1:They're young and you soon have. Well, they're a little bit younger than college age, but it's high school. I used to think, when we used to do, when we first started this and we did dramatic readings in the local school district, I thought that it was kind of just maintained in the local school districts and that you didn't think it was crazy all over the country. Right, well, it's not in all of the country. It just proves it's not in all of the country. It just proves is is our generation and and and actually I'm embarrassed, I'm younger than you. Well, you're in that kind of range. Yeah, I am, but I'm embarrassed for all of us for some of these things. I read we're Gen Xers. Hmm, we're Gen Xers, right, we're talking about college students and adults, exactly.
Speaker 1:So think back, if you're listening to this. When you were 18 years old, I did a lot of stupid shit at 18, though you did, but did you have mom and dad? No, no, I don't Did they. Did they do this? And if you are, and if you're listening to this, if you're listening to this, I figured this shit out. And if you're listening to this, if you're listening to this, mama Daryl, I figured this shit out.
Speaker 1:Okay, if you're listening to this podcast and you're going to listen to what I'm going to read and you believe in it, you might want to look in the mirror and say it to yourself no, just take a hard look. Oh shit, we're getting hardcore now. No, just look in the mirror and say, hey, would my parents have did this to me? Or would they have said figure it out. Are you helping or hurting your kid by doing it? There you go, you know how to. I know where you're going with it. I don't want to be rude. Are you helping them to be independent or are you hurting them from independence?
Speaker 1:I'm going to be blunt. It's actually embarrassing to me. It's embarrassment. I'm going to be blunt. It's actually embarrassing to me. It's embarrassment. I'm so embarrassed for my generation because our embarrassment. If you, if I'm, it's not just one or two, it's thousands of these. So it's our generation that something happened where we think we got to.
Speaker 1:Is that lawnmowering Lawnmower or helicopter Helicopter? I think we got to. Is that lawn mowing, lawn mower or helicopter Helicopter? I think they call it? I didn't like it when you're in elementary and junior, high and high school, but now it's in college. Okay, so you get. Okay, can we back up a little bit? It's getting worse.
Speaker 1:Before I read this, 100%. I drive to work. I go to work around a bus stop type what is that? Like E30-ish, yeah, yeah, 1130. 1130. And it's elementary school and I don't even give a shit what you guys think. Who's listening to me? In my neighborhood there's three moms that walk their elementary. What is the month? It's March. What does school start usually in our neighborhood? When does it start? Like a clock time, no, not time, the time of year for our worldwide listeners. It starts in September, it gets older and ends in June. Beginning of June, right? Yep, beginning of September to beginning of June.
Speaker 1:My point is, if you have a very young elementary school, maybe walk them to the bus stop first day, maybe second day, to say, hey, I'm even negotiating. I'm negotiating, you have to get the photos, come on, okay, that was the whole topic. I'm negotiating. You have to get the photos, come on, okay, that was, that's a whole, nother topic. We're talking about straight up bus stop. Okay. So and I'm being very lean when I'm saying this Maybe the first day or second day you get to walk them to the bus stop. I totally disagree with that. They can walk on day one. I have right over there I don't think my kids wanted me to buy the bus stops Three moms every day walk their kids up and they're not kindergartners, they're probably like second, third, do you know what they stay-at-home moms they are?
Speaker 1:Then you know what. What else are you going to do? Take care of them, why not? Okay, explain that to me. How are they taking care of them? You can baby them when they're in elementary school, but you've got to let them grow up in high school and college. How are they taking care of them? By walking them to the bus stop? I don't know. Keeping company, talk to them. I don't know.
Speaker 1:My parents didn't do that shit. I mean, I don't know. Keep in company, talk to them. I don't know, my parents didn't do that shit. I mean, I don't have no idea. I'm just saying, I'm telling you we were in Cottle. It's wrong. It's wrong and you know what's even worse than that? You know what's worse than that? Did I ever talk about this in the air?
Speaker 1:When I got in trouble on the bus stop or off the bus and writing me up where I had to get kicked off the bus and get in trouble with my parents, he didn't tell anybody. But you had to hold your books out, all your books. I love it. Arms straight up, great guy. The entire way to school. Great guy. But hey, how did he get in trouble? Great guy, didn't rat you out to your parents? Great guy. Yeah, okay, great guy, best thing in the world. I knew you were going to say that whole thing. Let's just let that fly by.
Speaker 1:There's also something else happening at that same bus stop what? Mom in the minivan has the kids in the car of the minivan until the bus comes. It's not even winter time. Yeah, no, I don't care about that. I am about my wits and it's none of my business. Why do I get so fed up about this? I'm going to roll my windows down and say what are you guys doing? What are you guys doing? Why are you walking to the goddamn bus stop? That's four houses away from the bus stop. What do you need to walk in there? These kids are never going to grow. They're going to be the same people I'm going to read about right now. In a little bit, I'm going to read these same parents. What the shit? Yeah, I agree with that. I agree with you on that.
Speaker 1:Nobody walked us to school. No, nobody walked us to a bus stop. No, nobody did any of that, which is great. They shut up. I thank you for not doing that. We figure it out. He makes you more independent.
Speaker 1:Anyway, am I getting a scuffle? What is the point? He might get a scuffle at the bus stop. Hey, what's the point? Can you explain to me? I just want to know what is the point of it. Is it more for the parent to justify that? Hey, husband's at work, I got to justify that I'm doing something. Is that what it is? No, because they didn't do it. Moms didn't work that much, but we were kids. They never walked you to the damn bus stop. No, nobody did. Nobody went to the bus stop and they didn't cancel school when I was eight below God. I hate this shit. No, they never canceled school. They're just driving me. Beat us right now. Now I'm angry.
Speaker 1:The only time they cancel school is if the plows couldn't keep up with the snow. Let's go over there and ask them. I know which house is there. No, I'm just saying let's go knock on the door. When they cancel school when we're kids is when the plows couldn't keep up with the snow. It had nothing to do with temperature. I don't ever remember a temperature day. We had school canceled I think three times my whole career, and now it's now we're going to get into politics. No, I mean, I'm just saying it was never. I remember getting school canceled, but it was nothing to do with temperature. It had to do with whether or not the roads could get plowed. Fine, and that's fair enough.
Speaker 1:I lived out in the country. Yeah, that's fair enough, and it was very rare. We lived more in the suburbs, so we had it canceled like three, maybe four times since K through 12. Is that what you're saying? No, we didn't. I had it probably three or four times. Yeah, and that was because the same thing. The roads were the same, but whatever, it wasn't for the walk Because I was a walker for a lot of it.
Speaker 1:But going back Were you, really Did you live that close K through 6, I was a walker, oh, really, yeah, but there's no way these kids could walk to school now, because what would mom do what? But there's no way these kids can walk to school now because you know what would mom do what if he went down the wrong street? They couldn't do that. I mean, they'd have to give him a cell phone. Wait a second, here's what they'd have to do nowadays. If you're a walker, they'd probably do this, and all your listeners. They'd probably put it on FaceTime and I'll talk to you the whole way to school. And then, once you get into the school and take your stuff off, I will tell you how to do the locker. And then, once you hang your stuff off, I want to make sure you're in school and sitting on your desk before I hang up.
Speaker 1:Okay, little Johnny, what is wrong with people? There's no way you made that sound, I guarantee it. Why are you not going to the bus stop? Why are you going to the bus stop? Why are you going to the bus stop? Why are you going to the bus stop. You're bringing a bus stop. You're bringing like walking to the bus stop all the way to like walking to the classroom. It's 45 degrees up. They live four blocks away.
Speaker 1:Why are you walking a fourth grader to the bus stop and then the other? I hit this, sorry, and then I hit that. And the other thing is that's one thing. But the other lady, she has them in their minivan. What do you mean? She has them in there, she drives them there. She can't even get out because she's too big. She just can't waddle down to the thing and she has to drive down. I don't even want to talk about it anymore.
Speaker 1:My point is this is the last I'm going to say about all that, you guys. Here's the point and we were talking about the whole point I got into was for the college post, right? Yeah, we kind of went way off script. But yeah, I got a little angry. You get. No, you're, I'm going to say something on Monday. You're solid on that one. They're idiots. No, you're not. I'll put money on it. How much do you want to put? I'll throw the next pull tab. I'm going to ask that one lady, because she waves at me If you actually go in there and talk to her. I'll put up next poll tab.
Speaker 1:Auntie, the only thing I would give the one girl that she's kind of cute. Actually, the one thing I'd give her credit for is she's got a younger one, like in a stroller. So I think she's taking the kid for a walk. So she's like why don't I just walk my kid down there and I'll walk the other one and say goodbye that I think. Why not just walk my kid down there and I'll walk the other one and say goodbye? That one is justifiable. I have no problem with that. But the other one? You should ask him though. Maybe it has nothing to do with that, maybe it actually has to do with I need to walk down to see this one. I can't leave this one home alone because that would be terrible. Either way, it's stupid. I'm going to do it.
Speaker 1:We'll give you an update on the next podcast. I'm going to find out. I will find out. I don't care anyways. Okay, so now we're going back to the college age. I like those big ice cubes. The college post. Yes, let's see it.
Speaker 1:Mom, this is a mom, not let us like salad. Let us know if they are holding classes on Monday Question mark. I really don't want my son driving back to get to his Monday classes. The rules are going to be horrible. Makes this mama nervous. Exclamation point. Exclamation point Frown face, frown face. Let's just talk about that right now. Okay, let's back up. Think about this, you guys. You guys listeners Will both universities let us know what?
Speaker 1:Is mom a student there? No, isn't that what she's saying, basically, what she's asking? She's assuming she is. Will both universities let us know? I really don't want my son driving back to get to Monday classes Period. Why the roads? To get to Monday classes Period? Why the roads are going to be horrible. So she knows Wait, wait, wait, wait. Does she see where she's from? No, but she said the roads are going to be horrible. It is now three days before that's going to happen. So can we respond to her and ask her for the lottery tickets? Do you think she's watching the Weather Channel or do you think she's watching local news? I'm going to get to that. That's the funny part too. I'm just sticking with this. Do you think we should call her and say, hey, can you give us the lottery tickets Because she knows the future? Yeah, because Monday the roads are going to be terrible and I don't want my son Makes this mama nervous.
Speaker 1:First of all, if your son doesn't know how to drive in the weather, then he probably shouldn't be driving, because that's never would have been. I think a huge pet peeve of mine is that I've lived in Minnesota my whole life and you need to ride down the road and there's some asshole going 10 miles an hour and it shouldn't be going 10 miles an hour. It drives me nuts. I know it's crazy. I mean, I believe, go like the fastest, the fastest like the conditions allow. I get that to a point, but I mean, you don't need to go ridiculously slow, right, because the roads are wet. Right, it drives me nuts, right?
Speaker 1:So I'm just going to let our listeners know that there's a lot of like people supporting her because they're crazy parents too. No, wait, wait, wait. They're supporting her, but there's pictures that it missed Grand Forks, you didn't say. You weren't going to say the school, well, I don't care for shit, and so, anyways. So one parent as they should have responded properly. Okay, as an adult, you should learn how to plan and adjust your travel plans accordingly. We sent our kid back early to avoid such problems. It's not the school's responsibility to adjust classes for your lack of planning. Teach your kids now that this is how the adult world works. Pretty much Right there. Yep, I hear that and that's all I'm going to say about that. There's a lot more on there. You can hit all that one.
Speaker 1:The point is, my point is you guys, if you have a college student, please stay off the FB, and I mean Facebook and the parents of the FB Let them figure this shit out. I mean nobody, if you're listening to this. Nobody figured it out for you guys. Nobody figured it out for us. I know you want to be helpful, but you're not being helpful by figuring it out for them. They did figure it out for us. I know you want to be helpful, but you're not being helpful by figuring it out for them. They did figure it out themselves. I agree with you on that. If they call you and you want to help, then you help. I agree with you. Let them figure it out. That's my public service announcement PSA. That's your PSA. I like it. Let's get it done. Welcome back to the us. I know I kind of travel a lot and you have been, so that was actually kind of nice. Welcome back, by the way.
Speaker 1:So what, you're gonna be in wayne, new jersey at the end of the month. If you are in the wayne jersey area and you listen to our podcast, you've got to go. You have to go. We may. No, you have to go. We should probably go. We should probably go.
Speaker 1:You want? I'm not driving. I hate flying. Well, I'll figure it out. Want to take a boat? No, st Lawrence Seaway. I don't want to drive that far either. We'll go through Superior then Michigan. I just don't like flying. You don't like anything. How come airlines have made it so terrible to fly, or the government? I don't know One of the two. What do you want? Well, you need a private jet. Anything they can do to make it more uncomfortable and more intrusive and more of a pain in the ass. I swear to God, they do Well. I swear to God, they do Well. I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 1:I finally went on got TSA pre-check. I don't know that's nice. No, it wasn't because of the like yeah, you're well. I never did, I was, I was. I got three seconds. I was randomly selected both times. I I've flown twice since TSA pre-check Randomly selected to get my computer it takes like three seconds. No, no, no, no. Yeah, they were busy, so I was like I was probably there for like 15 minutes. I went through that thing in like three seconds and I got tested. No, because I had to wait for other people to get tested also. I like when you say also I had to had to wait for other people to get tested also. Oh, I like when you say also I had to sit there and wait for them to get tested also and then I went and finally they got my stuff and then they went through, they swabbed it all and they scanned it.
Speaker 1:Do you think you say the word also properly? Yes, I think I do. I don't know if you do Really it. Yes, I think I do. I don't know if you do Really it doesn't sound right when you say also I think you're trying to say it with an accent or something. I don't think so. I think so.
Speaker 1:We have to go back and listen to that. But I don't think you say also right. How do you say also Well, there, you did Not. That time you did, that was right. Okay, but before listen, I'm pretty sure I say the same. I think you're emphasizing the all.
Speaker 1:Also, I think you're putting two L's in the also Also. No, now you're trying to over-exaggerate it. Also Also, also no, also. Yeah, that's two L's, it's one L, really, yeah, I don't think I'm saying that. Well, I know you are. I don't think I'm saying that, you say it, but anyways, the point is, flying sucks nowadays. They do everything they can to make it miserable for you.
Speaker 1:You're kind of like a crabby old man. I am. I don't like flying. You don't like anything. No, I like some things. Like what? Cooking? Well, I do like that too. Besides that, besides cooking, there's other things, yes, working Besides that, and your family Besides that, nothing else. Really, yeah, you're kind of that guy. You turn into that. I had fun tonight at the hockey game. Well, thank you, I go there once in a while. That was not bad. That was months in a while.
Speaker 1:You don't want to overdo it. I'm not overdoing it. You're not going to Utica, it's in Wayne. So I don't got to go to Utica. That was a test, so you didn't like it. You were paying attention. What are we going to do tonight? I don't like flying either.
Speaker 1:I don't like driving, though, either. I mean, it's kind of like one of those things that's just like but driving, I get control. You don't want your car to leave Highway 10. You're like Grandpa Jay, oh, what the hell was it? We talked about that years. Yeah, you remember that it's B's Out 10. Yes, what was that? Was it B's Out 10? Oh, we were gonna do a mechanic shop. Yeah, b's Out 10. Yeah, yeah, that was like. That was like 25 years ago. I just when you said that off 10, I just remember everything's off 10. Yeah, it was, everything was off 10. Alright, alright, let's. Yeah, it was Everything about Ted, all right, all right, let's wrap it up. We're going to wrap it up and thanks for listening and we'll get maybe next week at high. Yeah, sure, all right, let's do it. You.