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From JJ McCarthy To Peyton’s Rookie Woes: Why Patience Wins
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A case for patience with JJ McCarthy sparks a broader look at how strategy, not spectacle, steadies teams and fans. We move through Wolves rumors, winter food, oddball headlines, and a frank take on media noise, personal values, and where money really goes.
• JJ McCarthy’s seven-start stats vs Peyton’s rookie stretch
• Why a slowed offense and run game help a young QB
• Vikings defense form and ticket-price reality check
• Timberwolves trade talk, Rudy’s value, and fit over fame
• Winter grind: sauna rentals, Etsy orders, shipping choices
• Comfort food deep dive: chili builds, heat levels, soup wins
• Light news roundup: drunk raccoon, fast shed, RoboCop statue
• Media amplification vs everyday people, values vs legislation
• Wealth concentration, buybacks, and local spending
• Seasonal plan for the show: football focus, golf in summer
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Playoff Hopes And JJ McCarthy Debate
SPEAKER_01Do you watch Vikes today? Only partially. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00We're out of the playoffs. No, we're not. Yeah, we are. No, we're not. Packers won. Fuck Packers. We're out of the playoffs. Yeah, now we are. There's no way winning. That's what I have to tell myself in order to accept anything. I'm not going to get my hopes up. There's uh is there any scenario where we can make the playoffs?
SPEAKER_01No, we had to win and the Packers had to lose. Yeah, that's what I think. So we are statistically right now out of the playoffs. So we're just gonna start this Boss Two Boys episode off with some sports, and I'm gonna make a case, and you can fight me on it, or you can disagree, or you can agree with me. It doesn't really matter because stats don't lie. Am I wrong?
SPEAKER_02No. Stats don't lie. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Who would you consider one of the best all-time NFL quarterbacks other than Tom Brady?
SPEAKER_00I was gonna say Tom Brady.
SPEAKER_01Other than Tom Brady, who's one of the first ones that come to your mind? The best quarterbacks of all time? Yep. Fran Tarkenden. More modern. I'm talking like that we watched. Like when you talk about quarterbacks that you and I were able to watch. Brett Favre. Okay, who else? Aaron Rodgers. Okay. Donovan McNabb. Okay.
SPEAKER_00Arguably.
SPEAKER_01Michael Vick, arguably. I'd with m Michael Vick, like with physical ability, I could agree with that. So I'm gonna throw out a name that I'm I'm a huge fan of this guy. And I want you to just listen to this and let me know what you feel. And I know that we're gonna have people that listen to this that are gonna completely disagree with me, and that's okay. But I know people are upset about JJ McCarthy and how he plays and how he has played, right? Okay. He's how many starts has he had in the NFL? Seven. He's been he started he has started seven games in the NFL. Yep. Okay. Do you know what his stats are for his first seven starts?
SPEAKER_00I do not know.
SPEAKER_01I mean cumulatively, no, I do not. Okay, so he has a 52 or 54.2% completion percentage, ten interceptions, passer rating of 57.9, turnover worthy throws a 7.5 and a half, which is worst in the league, 32nd in the league. He's 2-4 as a starter.
SPEAKER_02Okay. So yards, not good. Interceptions, not good.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Do you know what Peyton Manning's stats were for his first seven starts? Peyton Manning in the NFL? Probably worse than McCarthy's. Okay.
SPEAKER_0263.5 QBR passer rating. 1600 yards.
SPEAKER_01Nine touchdowns. So JJ has more touchdown passes than Peyton Manning. Than Peyton Manning. In his first seven starts. In his first seven starts. And he had 14 interceptions. Peyton Manning had 14 minutes. Manning had 14 interceptions. That's interesting. His first seven starts in the NFL. So for all these people that think that JJ McCarthy is just a shit quarterback and we need to get rid of him right now, pump the brakes.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah, I'm I'm there. I am not, I have never I don't think we should get rid of him. That's not my opinion at all. But I definitely have heard that opinion. And I've been guilty of being emotionally in the moment and saying, God, this guy sucks ass.
Peyton Manning Comparison And Context
SPEAKER_01But I'm not saying he's Peyton Manning. By any means, by any stretch, I am not saying, and I am not cum I'm not actually comparing him to Peyton Manning. No, you're just saying. I'm just saying that JJ McCarthy in his first seven NFL starts has better stats than Peyton Manning did with the Colts. Now, do you know who the Colts had on their team when Peyton Manning was a rookie? Marshall Falk was his running back. So he had a better running back than JJ has because Aaron Jones and Mason are nowhere near the talent that Marshall Falk was. Correct. And he had a Hall of Fame wide receiver and Marvin Harrison. Correct. So you can't tell me that he didn't have weapons to throw to. Granted, not as good or as many as JJ McCarthy has. Correct. But this is my argument for JJ McCarthy. And I know we have people that are going to really disagree with me and they're going to think that I'm comparing him to Peyton Manning. I'm not. I'm just comparing the stats from their first seven starts. That's my rant for the day. JJ McCarthy played really well today. He did. He he did. And the reason he played well today is because they slowed the offense down. They ran like 30 times. Imagine that. You think? Imagine that. I just they they made the game plan so simple for him. For a guy that doesn't have the experience and doesn't have the game sense yet, and the game hasn't sped up for him yet.
SPEAKER_00So Trevor and I talk about our the Vikings need to run every week. Every week. Every week, Trevor and I talk about this. Run the damn ball. And then we score, and then we're like, see what happens when you run the ball?
SPEAKER_01I d I just I I like that he committed to it because you could tell that KOC was just scratching to throw the ball.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, because he's a QB quarter. He's a QB. He's a you know he's a quarterback.
SPEAKER_01He's a quarterback, and that's where he's a coach. And that's fine. But when you have a guy that's as inexperienced and as you know, as as as much struggling has been going on with McCarthy, you can't do that. You have to lean in on your running game, and this was the first week in however many weeks that our offensive line was healthy. We had everybody, which helps. And it it helps that Washington's horseshit, they're garbage. That as well. But even still, they're known for their run defense. Like they have a really good run defense. Our d our defense, the Minnesota Vikings defense, is top ten in the league in everything. Yeah. Harry played really well today. Did you know that was the first touchdown we've scored on that in like eight quarters? Yeah, it's wild. Which is insane. And last week when Brosmer played, I mean you you can't expect much from an undrafted guy out of the University of Minnesota. Like he's never he's never seen athletes like Seattle had. Correct.
SPEAKER_02So I mean I don't I I didn't get mad or upset with that whole game.
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SPEAKER_01Anyway, like I said, JJ JJ's not Peyton Manning, not yet. I mean, maybe one day he could be. That'd be awesome. But in his in their first seven starts, he has better JJ has better stats than Peyton Manning. That's in some aspects. Isn't that crazy? That is crazy. Because Peyton Manning set the record for interceptions by a rookie. He threw like 32 or some interceptions. He threw a stupid amount. And then he went from a 3-13 team to a 13-3 team. He started a streak of like 12 years with 10 or more wins. Oh yeah. With the cultures.
SPEAKER_00They were a powerhouse when he was a quarterback.
SPEAKER_01Between him, Marvin Harrison, Reggie Wayne, there was Mar Marshall Falk got traded, but then they had Edrin James. Edrin James.
SPEAKER_00I mean You're throwing out names I haven't heard since like Madden 07.
SPEAKER_01So it's it's definitely something that we can build on. And I and I know that JJ's in year two, and Manning was a true rookie. But Manning never won an NCAA championship like JJ did either. Truth. Couldn't beat Florida. Anyway, welcome to Boss Two Boys this week. I know we've skipped out on a couple weeks here because we've been busy and doing stuff and life's happening and much busy all time. All that kind of stuff.
SPEAKER_00Winter's my overtime time at work, like my day job work. So and I I mean I've been kind of pushing the sauna stuff. This week at gym's, we're supposed to be there Tuesday. We might swap that to Thursday because that's the community night light thing, night of the lights or whatever.
SPEAKER_01Light the town or light the alright.
SPEAKER_00So we were talking about switching it to Thursday just because there's gonna be people out and about. So we'll see. I gotta let her know tomorrow what the plan is.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and you've got that, and then I started the full swing into basketball now.
SPEAKER_00Basketball.
SPEAKER_01We played down at the target center yesterday and won, and then went to the Timberwolves game with the girls with all the the whole team. So nice. That was fun. It was a good game to be at.
SPEAKER_02That's for sure. They're another team that they're just underperforming right now.
SPEAKER_01Ant is struggling a little bit.
SPEAKER_00But I thought the game went well the other night. Last night, two nights ago. Whenever they last night. Well, we played last night, yeah.
SPEAKER_01We were down as many as like 16 or whatever and came back and won.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I think that was an audition to trade for James Harden.
SPEAKER_00Really?
SPEAKER_01Yep.
SPEAKER_00Interesting.
SPEAKER_01I don't know what they're gonna give up. Cause the I mean, I I wouldn't I wouldn't let McDaniels go. I wouldn't let Nas go. I wouldn't let you know who they can have? They can have fucking Rudy Gobert. Rudy. Rudy Gobert is fucking useless. He's he's a gazelle. He's a flamingo. An ostrich. He is useless. Uselessless. Tits on a bull. I just don't understand how you can be seven four and that inapt to offense.
SPEAKER_00If I was seven football dunk ball.
SPEAKER_02Do you know what I would be doing if I was seven foot four? Not this. I don't know, probably not this.
SPEAKER_00Do you know how hard it would be to have a vehicle at 7? Do you know how hard well see 7'4 is crazy? Who is the tallest? This is way off topic. Kind of not, but at the same time. Who is the tallest NFL player to ever play in the NFL?
SPEAKER_026'10. Too tall Jones. Deacon Too Tall Jones.
SPEAKER_00Richard Sly in 1967 on the Raiders. He was seven feet. He was a defensive tag call. Could you imagine trying to block that guy? Could you I I well I mean that would be equivalent. Well, I guess I'm fairly at 6'3. At 6'3, when we were doing drills in college, I had to block a guy that was 6'8. And and so, you know, a five-inch difference. You figure if somebody the tallest guy in the NFL besides seven feet is six seven, six eight, then that's yeah, that's the same difference. Yeah. But still, I mean, like if you're talking, if you're talking like we had a guy on our on our college squad that was like six even, and he was a guard.
SPEAKER_01Trying to block a defensive.
SPEAKER_00Trying to block somebody 12 feet tall or 12 inches taller than you would be way more difficult. Defenders are notorious for using their arms. Like, so that that's the key to being a good defensive tackle. And if your arms are fucking How do you get in on a guy like 10 inches longer than the offensive linemen's? You you got an easy advantage there.
SPEAKER_01You just shoot legs at that point, but even still, I don't even know. By the time you get to him, like he's pushing your face into the ground. Oh, yeah. It's over. There's there's no chance. It's over. I don't even know how you would do that. And I'm 5'9. Back to reality. Oh, there goes gravity. I guess there's some kid that I don't know, he's a high school football player. He's one of the top-ranked linemen, offensive, defensive linemen in the country. He's he's like 6'10. Oh. Yeah. Which is That's massive. That's huge. That's a massive human being.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01That's that's massive. That's a large man. I mean, you look at some of those left tackles and right tackles, they they stand about six between six six and six eight in the NFL. Tackles, tackles.
SPEAKER_00Guards are typically anywhere from 2'1 to 6'5. Yeah. I mean, there you don't see a lot of guards that are 6'4, 6'5. Most of them are 6'1, 6'2. And those tackles that are 6'1, 6'2 in college normally get converted into guards. Yeah. You cannot be less than like 6'5 in the NFL if you're going to play an offensive tackle.
SPEAKER_01Just because of the arms, lengths, or even you know, you can put them at center. Well, they're shorter. Yeah. Centers are between 6 feet and 6'3.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. You can't have tall centers or tall guards because the quarterback can't see. Right. I mean, that's right. That's you would definitely see if if there was a seven-foot quarterback, you would be able to see a six foot eight, six foot nine center and guard.
SPEAKER_01So Ryan Mallet, I believe his name was, played for Arkansas, played for the Patriots. I think he was like six, six, six, seven played quarterback. Okay. Massive man. Cam Newton's 6'6. So even a guy that's Cam Newton's size would have a hard time seeing over something like that. Like Matt Cleal played tackle for him for us. Yeah. And he was like 6'6, 6'7. Like that's a massive man. Big boys. I just could not imagine. Anyway, back to the Timberwolves. Yeah, it was a good game last night. McDaniels, I mean, he had a great game. Randall had a good game. But like I said, I think I think it was an audition for James Harden to see if we wanted him or not. There's a bunch of rumors going around between him, Trey Young, John Morant, Lamello Ball, and there was one other guy that I saw.
SPEAKER_02I don't know. I don't know what you give up for someone like that for a point guard.
SPEAKER_01Because for as useless as I think Rudy is offensively, defensively, he's he's a four-time defensive player of the year. He's an asset on defense. I mean, you can't deny that. It's he's just so frustrating on offense. D Vincenzo didn't do shit last night till he hit that big shot at the end. And I love Di Vincenzo. I really, really do. He's probably one of my best or my favorite players on the team. Uh, but he'd probably be one of the guys that would be in that deal. Rob Dillingham, Shannon, something like that.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01But yeah, we got to sit up in section 222 last night, way up the rafters. Yeah. Which was fun. Kids loved it. Oh, for sure. Gianna had a blast. She was nervous to go up all that distance and then have to sit there and look pretty damn high and look down, but she's very high up there. She acclimated to it well. Gav liked it. Our high school team ended up winning by 16, which was a big win for us. Sweet. Yep. It was cool standing on the target center floor. Like I I never was able to do that as a player or a coach yet, so that was really cool.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Traffic was fine. Got in and out real quick.
SPEAKER_01One of the players, her parents bought uh Vikings tickets for today too. Oh. So they got to go to the Timberwolves game.
SPEAKER_00We got a good game today, at least. Do you know how much tickets were for the Vikings game today? Were they cheap or expensive?
SPEAKER_01Like$55.
SPEAKER_00That's cheap.
SPEAKER_01Like for I'd say lower level almost the whole way up.
Timberwolves Talk And Trade Rumors
SPEAKER_00Like the concourse area?
SPEAKER_01Well, just just below it. Yeah. Like those seats just below the concourse area.$85.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's dirt cheap. Well, that's because they suck. Yeah, our fans probably gave up. I gave up. I mean, I'm I knew it I knew we had to win and the Packers had to lose, and I was like, I'm not gonna rely on the Packers losing because that's just how it works. It was a good game. Yeah. The Packers game? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I watched I watched more of that game than I watched the Vikings game. Because that game mattered for us. If the Vikings would have lost, it would have been whatever we're done for sure. But I was watching the Packers game and I've never cheered for the Bears before, but I was hoping they could pull it off. Well and and if that throw, he had the guy open in the end zone, he did. It was just a bad throw because he was running and off his back foot. It was just a bad throw.
SPEAKER_03I hate that could have been good.
SPEAKER_01You know who we get to play next week? No. The dumbest fucking team in the league. The Dallas Cowboys. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Fuck yeah, that's an automatic win. Sunday night football. Hey, I think I I uh my fantasy year is in shambles. Mine's shit. My I mean I was so at my work league, I was champ last year. I am going to be the bottom this year.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's how I was in the Antonity League this year with my uncle and cousins. I won it last year and I think I lost today. I think my team only scored like 48 points.
SPEAKER_00Oh my god. Yeah, I've had terrible.
SPEAKER_01Which whatever. I'm not if there's no money involved, I'm not as competitive or worry about it as much.
SPEAKER_00Just the bragging rights. I don't even care about the money portion of the work league. I just care so it's the that's the more competitive one I'm in.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00The other fun league I'm in, I'm winning. I think I'm beating Chad this week.
SPEAKER_01And I think you're middle of the pack with our league? Yeah, somewhere like that. As long as my sister-in-law's husband doesn't win, I don't give a shit.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. That's all I care about. I hope Gav wins it. That'd be cool. That'd be cool to see Gav win it. I'll buy him a little trophy. Fucker. What else is going on in the sound world?
SPEAKER_01Anything else? Anything new?
SPEAKER_00No, it's too goddamn cold for me to do anything in the shop right now. So just waiting. I have three rentals over the week Christmas week area. I had my first couple sales of the bench butter on Etsy. Nice. So I s I still actually have to send one out. One I sent out last week. Tried to get to the post office yesterday, but I looked at the hours and they were open till noon or two or whatever it was, but the box drop was only open till ten or something. So that's weird. I gotta drop it off tomorrow. Hopefully. Luckily, my shipping date is so Etsy gives you like a ship buy date, and it's December 8th. So as long as I get it in December 8th, yeah. That's good. Where are you shipping this stuff off to? Washington. Really? Yeah. Washington State? A couple different people from Washington State purchased a two pack and a three pack. So that's it was kind of cool. I was excited about it. Yeah, that's hopefully you know, and if that takes off, that's a little it's it's easy and and difficult to manage at the same time because if it it it's all in how much what do I want to spend up front. On shipping supplies. Because right now I literally just if I get an order, I go buy a single box and pack it and ship it. Right. But if it is going to take off and I'm going to get whatever, we'll say 10 orders a month, I'm not going to buy one single boxes for those. You know, I'd rather order in bulk, but how much is too much, how little is too little. I have a shipping printer and everything, so that's cool. I print off the shipping label right at my desk and that's pretty neat.
SPEAKER_02It's cold as it's cold as hell. It's cold.
SPEAKER_00It's cold out. It's 11 below right now here. Supposed to be colder. I'm supposed to get some snow tomorrow or Tuesday for sure. Hopefully there's enough snow where I can play around with my plow and snow blowers.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we had to buy a new furnace. Really?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we just got it installed last week.
SPEAKER_02Oh nice. It was less expensive than I anticipated, actually. Which was nice.
SPEAKER_01But we always go through the same like shop that put the original one in the house. So and he's been to our house a couple times, so it's it's always been it's always been the same guy, so they gave us not not necessarily a deal, but definitely something that would have not broken the bank.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Oh man.
SPEAKER_01I'm surprised you guys didn't didn't go to Tom and Jerry's today.
SPEAKER_00I thought of it. We went to Duluth yesterday. Maya got some skis for Christmas birthday, kinda technically her birthday last year. We said she we we were gonna get her keys, but obviously her birthday's in March, which is towards the end of ski season, so we got them this year, so we had to bring them down to Duluth to get the bindings set up.
SPEAKER_02Where'd you go for that? Ski hut? Ski hut. No. Then had some dinner at good old Texas Roadhouse.
Extreme Heights In Football And Positions
SPEAKER_00How was the steak? I didn't have steak. I had a salad. I had a the chicken critter salad. Because I was not hungry at all. Oh really? Yeah. I actually ate well, I ate like a third of the bloomin' onion. Sorry. What's it called? Cactus blossom. Bloomin' onion is out back. The cactus blossom. Cactus blossom. Had like a third of that, and then I ate like a little little plate worth of my salad and packed the rest up and brought it home and ate it later. Ashley had her smothered chicken breast. Because Ashley likes smothered breasts. And butter. And then Maya had something with mac and cheese. Oh, shrimp. Oh, and man, that shrimp was bomb. Really? It was it's like grilled seasoned shrimp. It's over a rice pilaf. I'm not a big fan of the rice, but the shrimp was amazing. And the mac and cheese is pretty good too. I like rice pilaf.
SPEAKER_01I don't know if I'd like that place's road house.
SPEAKER_00I didn't like it. I whatever seasoning they use, meh. It just it tasted like it came from like a box.
SPEAKER_01Probably did.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. But food-wise, I've been on a tear lately. I made so Maya requested loaded baked potato soup. Found a really good recipe for that. It was awesome. Very simple. In a crock pot, you just take like a bag of the Southern style cube hash browns, a half a bag of bacon bits, a block of cream cheese, a few cups of cheddar cheese, a box of chicken broth, and a can of chicken, cream of chicken soup. That's it. Yeah. Set it, forget it, four hours on high, come back to it, and it's it it's better the second day. It's better after after it cools off and then you reheat it. It's all the flavor is there. It's so good. That's only how it is with any kind of soup. I'm drooling right now.
SPEAKER_01I always do cheeseburger soup.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I love that one.
SPEAKER_00And then I made a pile of chili today. Oh. Because my grandma and I had chili at Val's last week. It was chili week at Val's. Yeah, I missed you by like 10 minutes. Oh, really? When I went there, yeah. Yeah. So we had We had the Val's uh their traditional chili. We went on Wednesday, I think. It was traditional chili night. So we had the traditional chili, and then I was going shopping today and I stopped at my grandma's on the way to see if she needed anything. She's like, I'm gonna make some chili. And I was like, you know what? I'm gonna make some chili too. So my grandma making chili for herself only used a pound of ground beef. I used four pounds of ground beef. Made a massive pot of chili. I mean do you like your chili hot? Like spicy hot? Yeah, but I can't make make it hot here because other people have to eat it. Like, do you like it hot where you're like sweating hot? Or just like tickles the back of your throat. Well, what I made, I think actually I enjoy what I made. It's got a little bit, just a little bit of spice. It's not like your wife would probably say it's spicy, but it's not at all. But it's not at all spicy. Because I use I and actually this is my favorite chili I've ever made, and I just kind of whipped it up. I got the diced tomatoes, crushed tomatoes, chili beans, dark and light kidney beans, green pepper, serrano pepper, jalapeno pepper, paprika, chili powder, cumin, and salt and pepper. But how I served it, you take my rice, my Mexican rice, you put it in the bottom of the bowl, and then you put the chili on the top of that, heat that up, sprinkle the cheese. If you're a cracker person, you can still use your crackers, but the rice is there too, so it's That sounds delicious. It is de freaking licious.
SPEAKER_01Well, people in Texas say beans don't belong in chili. Fucking white people. I disagree. You know how white you have to be to not like beans? I like the beans and the chili. See, my grandpa used to make it where you needed a roll of paper towel to eat it because it was so hot. Oh, really?
SPEAKER_00And a half a gallon of milk. It depends on what you put in it. Like uh there's different styles chilies, too. Like, I I could make like a southwestern style chili with black beans and corn as opposed to the peppers and the pinto or lime. Kidney. Fuck. Kidney and chili beans. Like the southwestern chili, and then my wife's fucking chicken chili. White chili is not chili, it's chicken goop with beans in it, is what it is. I don't like white chilies. Really? I'm not a fan because it's too you know how much cheese goes into white chili? Yeah, I've made it. It's too soupy cheesy bullshit for me.
SPEAKER_01My wife likes it because of her acid issue. Like she likes the white bean chili. I I prefer normal traditional chili.
SPEAKER_00Whereas, I mean Southwest chili, yeah, there's a spin on traditional, but it's still tradition, it's still chili powder, right? It's still ground beef, beans, corn, you know. I like that. You can do like sweet chili, you can do hot chili. If if I were to do hot chili, I would make it the same way as I made this, except I would add crushed red pepper, and instead of using two serranos, I would probably use two habaneros. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02So it'd be one or two habaneros, two jalapenos, four green bell peppers.
SPEAKER_00And I intend on experimenting more with this chili recipe because this turned out really good, and I think I could add some more vegetables because I like veggies.
SPEAKER_01I just like regular chili, like the traditional chili. Well, that's what I grew up on, and that's what my mom always made. That's what I always made. So I mean it was always a kind of a staple thing in our house, especially in the winter. And I'm a soup whore. I like soup. Jimmy made dumpling soup today with his turkey stock, and oh my god.
SPEAKER_02I just I I love that shit.
SPEAKER_01I don't know what the hell he puts in his dumpling mix, but he says he lets it sit like a day and then he puts flour in it, and then he makes and he mixes it all up to make the paste for the dumplings.
SPEAKER_02It's so good. So good. Twenty four days until we will be in Jamaica.
SPEAKER_01You're gonna grow your hair out and put some dreads in? Yamon.
SPEAKER_00Yamon, you gotta wear the Bob Marley hat wig thing. I I isn't that like isn't that like cultural appropriation? Shouldn't I not do that? Something like that.
SPEAKER_01Something like that. So moving on to some news topics here. I've got news topics for the this last week, and I kind of just wanted to make it light, make it funny, make it something that we don't have to get too serious about. There was a drunk raccoon raccoon rampage, animal control officer was called to a liquor store in Virginia, uh, state of Virginia, where a raccoon had broken in, ransacked shelves, and passed out drunk in the bathroom after a probable booze binge over the Thanksgiving weekend. I saw that drunk raccoon. That's that yeah, that was really, really funny. Yeah. World's fastest garden shed. British man set a Guinness world record by building a motorized garden shed that reached a top speed of 123 miles an hour. Jesus. Yeah. Uh there were seals in a bar, baby a baby fur seal wandered into a bar in New Zealand, causing some initial chaos before being safely removed and returned to the water. Robocop statue was installed. After nearly 15 years since the idea was conceived, an 11-foot 300 or I'm sorry, 3,500-pound bronze statue of Robocop was finally installed in Detroit, Michigan. So from the movie. The Robocop movie. So that's where its base is in in Detroit. The longest dog tongue was found. An Oklahoma family's dog earned a Guinness Book of World Record for its tongue, which measures a remarkable 7.83 inches long.
Cheap Tickets, Fantasy Pain, And Fan Mood
SPEAKER_02Betcha the wife is real pleased with that. Haha. No, not funny. I thought it was funny. That's a big tongue.
SPEAKER_01That's a massive tongue for a dog, for anything. A black bear roommate, a man in Southern California discovered he had an unwanted house guest, a 500-pound black bear.
SPEAKER_00I watched the video of that.
SPEAKER_01He's taking up residence in a crawl space under his home.
SPEAKER_00Oh, no, different video. I saw a video of a guy that heard the bear break into his house. Oh, really? And then he he grabbed his gun because I mean bears aren't quiet. So he thought his house was being like legit broken into. And there's it's a video of his camera, and you he's he's got an a sporting rifle. And he waited. He's got a sporting rifle with a flashlight attached to the foregrip. And you can see him look down the hallway, and then he turns the flashlight, and the bear is like coming from the kitchen into the hallway, and he's like Pow Pow Pow Pow Pow. Oh, obviously, the bear died instantly, but I well like to have that happen would that's why I have dogs, right? Well, yeah, dogs would never allow that to happen. Like, I would never be startled awake by somebody crashing a window. I would be startled awake by headlights at the end of my driveway. I'd be startled awake by a figure. There's a bin of bear at like one in the morning in my yard before, and the dogs go absolutely ballistic, and I'm up and I'm like, Well, thank you for that, because I guess that's why I have you. I can't get mad at them because I like I like the the security.
SPEAKER_01Makes you aware of shit that's happening. The next one, Man Misses His Own Wedding. An Indian man missed his own wedding after his indie go flight was heavily delayed with a video of the incident going viral online. Well, that sucks. Maybe it was for the best. Who knows? Eagle drops cat on windshield. A motorist in North Carolina called 911 to report a bald eagle had dropped a cat through their windshield.
SPEAKER_00Odd use of 911. Very odd. I don't think I would have called 911 on that one.
SPEAKER_01Probably would have called like a tow company. Or animal control. Or the owner of the cat if it had a toe.
SPEAKER_00I mean, yeah. I'm not calling, I don't think it's in the case. Unless somebody was hurt.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, if if somebody was hurt, that's fine, but I just know with with news lately, keeping it a little light is good.
SPEAKER_00All the bullshit that's going on and yeah, I my I'm so disconnected from news over the weekends because I don't I only listen to the news on your way to work. On my way to and from work Monday through Thursday.
SPEAKER_01I just there's so much difference going on in our country and the world with news and politics and right or wrong, left and right, up and down. I mean, it's so it's it's so you're either one side or the other. There's no middle ground. It's hard to talk to people about opinions and views and things like that without getting scrutinized or torn down or name-called, no matter what side you're on. And I just don't have time for that shit.
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SPEAKER_00Well, a lot of people are really passionate about their values. And that's okay, and that's that's okay. However, I will I I like to challenge people just to be like, they're your values to have, they're not my values to have. Right? Like you can have your values, you can think what you want. And then everybody, I I just I have to make this point because it's very relevant to the people that kind of resonate with how I speak, usually. You can have your own values. We're never trying to take your values away. That is exactly what we are against, right? We are against trying to take your values away. But the largest point of contention is that you you want everybody's life to be controlled by your values. And that is not fair. And that's where that's where you turn the argument around and say, well, your values are impeding on my freedom. No, no, no. Nobody is forcing you to have gender-affirming care. Nobody's forcing gender-affirming care to happen to you or your family. Nobody is forcing you to marry a same-sex person. Nobody's forcing you to do that. If you disagree with it, great, avoid it. Stay away from it. And I am a hundred percent on board with some of the rhetoric about being too far on the other end of the spectrum where it's in your face all the time, like obnoxiously, obnoxiously in people's faces with a whole bunch of stuff. But dressing in drag is not obnoxiously in people's faces. It is it like there aren't random drag queens that go out and find target people that disagree with them and and like bug them. That's a very, very, very, very, very, very little occurring incident. And so it's like back to sorry, I got on a tangent. It's like we don't want to take your values away, but we expect that that in return you will not take the values of other people away. And again, you can live your life the way you want. You just can't legislate based on your personal values. And again, the argument to that is, well, you're legislating based on your per your personal values. And it's not, no, no, because I'm not part of that, I'm not part of the LGBTQ community. I'm an ally. Let me know if you need help with anything, you know, right? I'm here for you. I I like listening to people. But it's like, I'm not a member of that community. I'm advocating the members of that community that are that are deep, deep into that community normally aren't out there screaming and hollering No, the only the biggest problem they have, the biggest problem they have is that the place that they live, the people who run the place they live are actively making laws that make it harder for them to live. It's a lot like civil rights. Exactly it is civil rights. It is, yes.
SPEAKER_01Well that the the civil rights. You're talking about the civil rights. The civil rights movement that happened in the 60s. Like that's that's kind of where it's getting. That's exactly that's what it is. And I'm not one, I don't I don't care if a person is in that community. Does not bother me. I I know people that are in it, I know I know people that have recently gotten in it, I know people that have been in it for a long time, and they're not ones to go out there and wave their flag and get it in your face. Like they want to be left the fuck alone, and they want to be able to do what they want to do without being impeded or out without being judged and things like that. And then there's the other flip side of that where it's they're in your face. Yes. No matter who you are, they're in your face. You're taking like it could be me and you walking down the road, and they're in our face, you you're taking our rights, and you're doing this, and you're doing that. So, I mean, it's on both sides with that. I don't know. I will I will But I do agree with you.
SPEAKER_00Yes, and I I and I I I do have to say with that, it's like there are crazy people in every every single demographic. Absolutely, every no matter where you're from, who you are, what your beliefs are, there are psychos in every single demographic. And the guy that's preaching fire and brimstone on the street corner with you know, like that he the guy that's open carrying down downtown streets with big USA flag and saying, Don't tread on me. That these are fanatics, right? There are fanatics with every single group of people. And you what what mass media has done is allowed us, meaning the majority of people were I I dare I say the word normal people in every demographic. I'm not saying like straight white cis man is normal. I'm saying the quote unquote normal people, meaning non fanatic, non fanatic. On extremist people, average person. In every group, the mass media has convinced us that there are way more of the fanatics than there actually are on both sides. And there isn't. And there isn't. The mass media's job is to take a molehill and make a mountain out of it. Oh, for sure. Yep. And so that by default causes everybody to freak out and fight about things because we think the end is nigh and this is like this is let's get down to business right now because it's gonna be it's gonna be bonkers in in a little while, you know, and it's like it's not that deep. It's not that uh urgent right now. There are certain things that are happening that are that urgent. I think from from an objective, non-partisan point of view, there are a lot of things happening right now where severely underqualified people are making decisions that have ramifications that are gonna last for decades because we're not we're I'm not gonna get into specifics with that. I'm just saying there are some grossly underqualified people making decisions that are gonna last a long, long, long time for the people that they impact.
SPEAKER_01And it's a bummer.
SPEAKER_00And it's a bummer.
SPEAKER_01It just seems like it's uh it's like the old fisherman. I caught a two foot two twinch two-inch fish, and the next person, well, with no it was a six-inch fish. Well, then it's a twelve, and then it's a sixteen, and then you know, bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger, and that's kind of what they're trying to do. They're trying to one-up each other.
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SPEAKER_00And I think I touched on that. I don't know if I was talking on here or talking to somebody else, but it's all right, I might have been talking to my fucking self in my car. I don't know. Could have it could have been a conversation with myself. But it's like, yeah, you're like one-upping, you're you're just it's just a big pissing contest, and it doesn't have to be. And and I feel like our whole political climate, every single time I hear a politician talk, it's like you don't have to do that. You just kind of talk to us like talk to us like you're presenting. Don't talk to us like you're fighting or arguing or making a point. Just talk to us, present the information, present your stance on the issue, present your argument for the solution to the problem that we all have, and then that's it. Then shut the fuck up and let the next guy talk. And it's like, I, you know, I just I've I'm so over these politicians going we have to we have to take this back because it's so bad, and and you know, it's it's like one side make America great again, one side no kings. It's like a like yes, there are dire needs for both sides of the political spectrum, but that is that is a that is a fabricated problem that the media and the rich people have created, so we will all get further and further apart, and they can just suck all of the money out of every part of the lower, middle, and middle upper class. And that's uh you can say that's liberal fucking propaganda, but uh it is not liberal propaganda. The rich continue to get richer, and we don't. Where does all the money go? Every bottle of soap you buy, every bottle of every tube of toothpaste you buy, every piece of fruit you buy, everything you buy, unless you buy from farmers markets at your in your local community or local co-ops or local grocery stores, even if you do buy from local grocery stores, they sell brand name items. I mean, the money all goes there. And then it never comes back here because there's what do companies use it for? Stock buybacks. Who owns the stock? Not the middle class. Can't afford it. Everybody says, Well, it's in my 401k. Yeah, your 401k is maybe if you're a you know, if you're a middle-aged, relatively successful individual, your 401k might be between 400,000 and 1.5 million. Maybe. If you're lucky. I'm saying if you're a relatively successful middle-aged adult that's worked since you were 18 to 20 years old, your 401k might be 400 to 1.5 million. That is literally like that is one transaction of stock for somebody that I'm talking about. The people that I'm talking about, 400,000 to 1.5 million is literally what they what they day trade with.
SPEAKER_01So I was watching The Last Dance, and that's the Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls documentary. They're talking about his gambling stuff, and they were talking about how he was making like$10,000 bets and this and that. And the one of the guys that's on there is like So to Michael Jordan, betting ten thousand dollars on something is like you going to a blackjack table betting ten dollars. Yeah, he's got it. Yeah, like that's the analogy I can use. A hundred percent. Yeah, like a million dollars to a rich guy, uh, who cares who it is, is a hundred dollars in our pocket. Yeah, that's the equivalency. That's that's pretty much what it is. Yeah, and it's it's crazy with that because you watch guys like Elon Musk billions and billions of dollars, all he would have to do is donate a a third or a quarter of his annual income, and it would solve the hunger crisis in this country. A hundred percent or the homeless crisis. Whatever in this country.
SPEAKER_00Whatever problem you want to pick, you can solve it. I mean I mean, what was the cost to completely alleviate all student debt up to 2016? The cost was like$1.6 trillion. And Elon Musk is slated to receive a$1 trillion bonus if he achieves some certain things in the next four years or something like that. Yeah. So, like, one man is going to get 80% of what it would have taken to completely eliminate student debt in the entire country. What do you even do with all that money? You be a dick face and you fucking act weird and fucking go nuts. Sorry, I know he's supposedly on the spectrum, but he is dangerous.
SPEAKER_01I just I don't I can't I can't fathom having that much money. I I I just it it doesn't register with me.
SPEAKER_00I wouldn't be able to fathom it because I would kill myself. In a good like I I would literally do too much and die. I would myself. Not not actively like with a gun or with drugs or bleep out the word make a note to bleep out the word kill. I can't you that's against community guidelines.
SPEAKER_01I j I just I can't imagine having that much money. Like, what do you do? Like he doesn't even do anything.
SPEAKER_00I never want to imagine may hope hope maybe he'll try bringing himself to outer space and the then he'll be gone forever, maybe someday. Or maybe he'll try or something. I don't know.
SPEAKER_02You need to take that out too. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01No, no, probably not a good idea. Well, that went completely sideways on me.
SPEAKER_00Pivot! Um Maya is doing a fundraiser for Christmas through her youth group that she is participating in. I'm just gonna read her little excerpt that's on the GoFundMe page because I can't speak on this because I'm not I I don't know about it. But she wrote this. Hi, I'm particip Let me start over. Hi. I'm Maya. I'm participating in Give This Christmas Away with my youth group. We're raising money for Transparent Ministries, an organization that supports and mentors kids aging out of foster care. My goal is to raise$500 by our big give on December 17th. I'd love your help as I take a leap of faith and give this Christmas away. Any little bit helps. So the GoFundMe will be posted on the social media pages that we have. Yes. You can feel free to donate on that. She is pretty excited about this, and it would mean the world to her if she met her$500 goal. She would be super pumped. So appreciate help in advance. Thank you.
SPEAKER_01Well, and my girls are doing a fundraiser right now for the Chisholm basketball programs. I have the text saved. And any little bit helps there. That goes towards it's it's kind of through our Chisholm Boys and Girls Hoops Club. It kind of provides like it helps with our youth programs, it buys warmups for You guys are already at 10,200 of 15,000, so you guys are doing pretty good. Yeah, we're it's moving along. I mean, and for both boys and girls programs, so it gets jerseys a couple times, it'll get warm-ups, it gets travel suits, basketballs. It goes towards a bunch of different stuff for the boys and girls basketball programs, and I'll have that posted for them on the social media websites also. Uh, it's just every little bit helps. I think the minimum donation is like$10. Uh, you can donate as much or as little as you would like to. I'm formerly on the Hoops Club, but now that I am a junior varsity girls coach, I had to resign due to conflict of interest there. So it's it's a good program, and I know that we do a lot for the for the programs and for the youth, for the community and for the youth program. Uh we have a pasta feed here coming up in a I think a month or so at Valentini's Supper Club in Chisholm. Uh, we'll be selling tickets for that. Come watch the girls and the boys. Girls team as of right now, I believe, is 5-0 or 4-0. We just won yesterday at the Target Center against the Ely Timberwolves. We have another game Tuesday in Moose Lake and Friday in Little Fork Big Falls, along with our boys program. So if you guys are interested in donating, I'll have that put up on the social media sites here in the next, I don't know, 24-48 hours. I believe it's open till Wednesday. Uh, we also have a Chisholm basketball apparel page open also for the next week or week and a half.
SPEAKER_02I'll have that posted on the websites also. So, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_02We can discuss price when reach out for a t-shirt. I'll have to give some of those to Tony for the gym's nights also for if anybody wants one. I'm sure you I don't know if you have people asking for that or not, but I had to throw that in there.
SPEAKER_01Sorry. Oh, did I require people to be there? Did you see who was signing autographs last night at the Timberwolves game? Yes. I wanted to grab Lane's jersey and get that sign for him so bad. But that line tone. Holy shit. It wrapped around the entire stadium. Jesus. Yeah. But they gave out rubber ducks with his face on him. Rubber duckies. And I got one for Lane. I gotta give to him. It was it was cool. And he was on the Jumbotron with Troy Hudson.
SPEAKER_02That's the one I sent on Snapchat. Oh yeah. Anyway.
SPEAKER_01Police in New Zealand monitored a man for six days after he allegedly swallowed a$19,000 James Bond inspired Fabray pendant to steal it. The pendant was eventually recovered naturally.
SPEAKER_02I wonder if they gave him an enema. Emina. Ema. Weird. Oh. What are you looking for?
SPEAKER_00Nothing. I'm just trying I have to I have to talk to the website people.
SPEAKER_01Website people? Yes. Ridiculous current events around the world. Drunk raccoon. Bizarre human. Let's um bat oh Jesus. How what are we at right now? Alright, 55. So did you do your list of live action non-remake Disney movies? I forgot about that. So I just went through a brief list. I'll we'll just do mine.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, go for it.
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SPEAKER_01So I I made a list of ones that were a part of my childhood. And ones, and we'll just discuss we can discuss briefly each one that I wrote down, and there was a shitload of them. I completely forgot. In our last tournament we did, it was Miracle and remember the Titans that were in the championship round, and they're both Disney live action movies. So I'm just gonna go through these and I'll tell you why I have them, and then you can tell me if you like them. And I did them like as a series, not as a singular movie for some of them, because some of them had multiple movies. Holy shit. Sorry. So the first one that I saw that I obviously I enjoyed as a child, Honey, I shrunk the kids. Rick Moranis.
SPEAKER_00I could a phenomenal movie.
SPEAKER_01I completely forgot that it was even a Disney movie. Great movie. First one was good, second one was okay, and then one of them was like Honey, I blew up the kids or whatever, and the baby attacked the town or whatever. But the first one is phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal. Obviously, the Mighty Duck movies. Those are staple from our childhood, not just because they were based in Minneapolis, but they were just phenomenal movies. This one always was one of my favorites as a kid. Homeward Bound. Mm-hmm. With the dogs and the cat. I love Homeward Bound. Was it Michael J. Fox was one of the dogs? Chance. And was Roseanne Barr the the cat? No. The cat was somebody else.
SPEAKER_02I can't I can never remember who the cat was. Oh my god, I just got a whiff of my wife's cigarettes.
SPEAKER_00I just realized that I'm I'm cooked with that sentence. No matter what I say, it's not good.
SPEAKER_02Why? Sigarettes. Sagarettes. Marijuana. But Homeward Bone was a great movie.
SPEAKER_01And I even like the second one. Was it Lost in San Francisco? Fuck this. It was Sally Field. Sally Field, that's who it was. Next one, Pocus Pocus. Mm-hmm. Staple Halloween time movie. Staple Halloween time movie. I can tolerate it. That's not my favorite. Not my favorite, but it definitely was something that we watched as kids. And it being a Disney movie was it's I was more of a fan of Halloween Town. I was too. And that was a Disney Channel movie. Yes, it was. Which was not terrible. The Three Musketeers. Chris O'Donnell, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Oliver Platt, Tim Curry. Yes. It's one of my favorite movies ever. One of my favorite songs, one of my favorite soundtracks, all of it. Three Musketeers, phenomenal fucking movie. Loved it. Blank check.
SPEAKER_00I never saw blank check.
SPEAKER_01You never saw blank check. No.
SPEAKER_02So more or less it's a kid that he's kind of a loser, honestly.
SPEAKER_01Then there's these guys that robbed a bank, and he found a blank check on the ground, wrote a number in it, cashed it, and bought a house, had a party, ran out of money, fell in love with this older lady. It's good. It's good. Oliver Platt's in that one also. Angels in the Outfield.
SPEAKER_00Yep. That that was a staple growing up. I watched that. I think I watched that movie once a week. It was amazing.
SPEAKER_01Christopher Lloyd, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Danny Glover. Danny Glover, Tony Danza. Pretty sure once a week I watched that movie. Phenomenal. Just call me owl. The Santa Claus. Yeah, once a week I watch that movie too. And I'm not much for for Christmas stuff, but it amazing. Tim Allen.
SPEAKER_00Scott Calvin.
SPEAKER_01Such a good movie. So good. That movie so much.
SPEAKER_00Heavyweights, obviously. Obviously. We've talked about that.
SPEAKER_01We've talked about that before. I and the big and there's this big rumor. I don't know if it's a rumor, but it's something that people say. I think it's hilarious. So the guy that Ben Stiller plays, Uncle Tony. Yes. Okay. Buys the Fat Camp, gets fired from the Fat Camp, gets fat, buys a gym. Yeah. Changes his name. Globo Jim. Changes his name, and he's that guy character, his character in Dodgeball. 100%. Next one. Big Green. The Big Green. Great movie. Yes. Great, great movie. Next one, uh.
SPEAKER_00Don't sleep on the pre the pre-movie, the pre-cartoon with Timon and Pumba singing Stand by Me. Yes. Don't sleep on that. Yes.
SPEAKER_01Oh, the VHS tape was so good. Parent Trap, 1998, Lindsay Lohan. Oh, yeah. Great movie. Great movie. Obviously, we already talked about Remember the Titans. And Miracle.
SPEAKER_02Pirates of the Caribbean. Pirates!
SPEAKER_01Johnny Depp's best role he's ever had in his entire career. Captain Jack Sparrow. Yes. Why is the rum gone? National Treasure. Oh, I love National Treasure with Nicholas Cage. That's my jam. John Boyd. Fantastic. Glory Road, one of my favorite sports movies that Disney made. About the all-black starting five that won a national championship against Kentucky.
SPEAKER_03Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_01It's it's just great. Jungle Cruise. It's one of the newer ones with The Rock and Emily Blunt. I loved that movie. It was really good.
SPEAKER_00I only watched it once, but I liked that movie. Really, really good. I love Emily Blunt. Oh, yeah. John Krasinski's a lucky man. Johnny Tsunami.
SPEAKER_01Johnny Tsunami.
SPEAKER_02Ey Pono.
SPEAKER_01And the last one that I wrote Urchins. Because I was getting a little rushed from my wife at the time. And I watched this movie whenever it was on. And when I first got Disney Plus, I probably watched it four or five times in a row. Brink. Brink. Love it. Brink got me into rollerblading, got me into wanting to do all the jumps and the half pipes, and that's how I hurt myself a lot. But that was kind of the list that I Wrote down for Disney movies, and I'm still a sucker for for a live action Disney movie non-remake. Oh, absolutely. So, I mean, like you you can't go wrong with a lot of those, and I and I didn't research it any more than that, but that was kind of what we were gonna do last time, and I know we were gonna do top five for each, so if I had to name a top five out of these movies in no particular order, Mighty Ducks would be on there, three Musketeers would be on there, heavyweights would be on there. I would probably have to put Angels in the outfield on there and Pirates of the Caribbean. And this is without Miracle and Remember the Titans. Yes, obviously. Because we did say before that we were gonna go without those. So those would those would be my five. Three I could watch, I could sit down and watch the three musketeers right now. I'll probably do it tonight when I go home when I'm watching film. Because I do have to do that when I get home. Like my kids watch a lot of the other things on the Disney Channel. Like, I could have put what the hell was it, high school musical.
SPEAKER_02My kids watched all in this together.
SPEAKER_01And you know, something like that. Because my kids watch that. They watch the zombie and werewolf movie. I don't remember what the hell that's called, and like they're big into the the Demon Hunter movie and all that music. K-pop demon hunters. Yeah, I just uh it is what it is, but I'm sure my parents and your parents thought our movies were fucking dumb when they watched them or had to watch them with us. Oh, yeah. The same way we think it's stupid and what our kids watch now.
SPEAKER_00Although I've been told I should watch K-pop Demon Hunters.
SPEAKER_01No, no, you should not, because you're the type of adult that's gonna love that shit. Of course I am and play that music in your vehicle, and then every time we come over for a fire, we're gonna have to listen. I love the song. Seriously.
SPEAKER_02We're going up, up, up.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Have you watched the Trey Kennedy reel with that? We need to watch that. He thinks it's stupid at first, and then it cuts to him dancing, learning the dance to it, which is something that you and I should do for prom. We should do it and then go to prom and dance the song.
SPEAKER_02Absolutely.
SPEAKER_01A serial world record breaker ran a half a marathon in Idaho while wearing 137 t-shirts, adding 48 pounds of weight.
SPEAKER_02I don't know what that means. Interesting.
SPEAKER_00137 t-shirts. Yeah. Adding yeah, so that's how much the t-shirts weighed.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I see. I see. Human rights to vegemite. An Australian prisoner is suing for his human right to be allowed to eat vegemite while incarcerated. Interesting. Stolen infant Jesus, a controversial infant Jesus icon was stolen from a nativity scene in Brussels, Belgium. Christmas tree for balloons. A hotel in England constructed a 25-foot-tall Christmas tree using a hundred thousand balloons.
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SPEAKER_02Sweet. So what do you think of that list? Do you have any objections or do you have anything that you want to say about those movies? I d I I said it already. You said it already? See. Let's do Let's do this. We're gonna see if there's anything here. Any new brackets that I can figure out here? Let's see. Playing a game, sorry. No, you're good. I'm just I'm looking at a quick bracket if we can do one. Just looking for something. You're not much for ice cream. Fries showdown, Pop Tarts, Oreos, fruits. What else is there? Oh wow. Taco Bell menu? Poper popular Italian food. It's one for myself. Chef stock photos? That's stupid. We are at 107, we could. Whatever you want to do. Rap. Whatever you want to do.
SPEAKER_01Netflix series. Most attractive famous women. Hottest actress bracket.
SPEAKER_02No, I will say I was thinking about the doing where we have the podcast and we're consistent. Again. Well, yes. Until the Super Bowl. And then we take time off. So we have like like a split season, right?
SPEAKER_00So it's like we do regular season football September through February. Regular season football and playoff and Super Bowl. So we start like we start Labor Day weekend or after Labor Day weekend.
SPEAKER_02We go till Valentine's Day. And then February, March, April, May, free time. And then we s maybe maybe even go June instead of that way summertime.
SPEAKER_00I'm not working a lot of overtime. I'm freer in the summer. So if we do June through February and take March, April, May off completely, have that as our off time.
SPEAKER_02What when is basketball playoffs? March. And the championship March?
SPEAKER_00Like for state? Yeah. No, like I'm talking like NBA. Probably May, right? Yeah. Like that's what sucks about it is like that's why if you do consistent sports podcasting, then we don't have to worry about that. Then we don't have to worry about that. I would because I'm totally in on NFL. We can talk about NFL during NFL season, but the basketball stuff I'm like, meh. Meh. See here. And like I said, if you want to do that, I will definitely edit it for you.
SPEAKER_02I'm trying to find when those playoffs start. I think it's May. Yeah. But I'm thinking like we do June through February for Boss Dew. And maybe not even, maybe maybe even just September through February.
SPEAKER_00We'll see, because I really want the saunas to to go well. Like I wanna build in the summer. Right.
SPEAKER_02And and that will take up time as well, so we'll see. Because it said here the date of the playoffs begin. April nineteenth is when they start. So game seven of the finals was on June it says. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01That's such a crazy long ass season. It just depends on how long the series goes. It depends on if the first fucking round is seven games for everybody.
SPEAKER_02So I mean I I I like that idea.
SPEAKER_01I mean, and that's fine. Because I can I can do NBA and WNBA stuff on my own. Yeah. I like the idea of the Super Bowl thing.
SPEAKER_00Like we could even live live stream the Super Bowl be our like final finale for the season. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01That'd be cool. I know my wife and whatnot are gonna want to be here, but we could have Well, we could always just use the wireless mics. We could do wireless mics, or we could even we could do it in here with like this with other people in here. I mean I don't have an issue with that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I'm sure our wives that'd be fun.
SPEAKER_00And we could set the camera up. Right. Could do a video live stream.
SPEAKER_01We could do boards here. Yeah. Yeah, I like that idea. And we could have guests every once in a while somebody pop in and start talking. That'd be cool. Yeah, we should definitely do that. I like that idea. I do, I do, I do. Yeah, because then it splits it up with work, with the sauna stuff, and then we can come back in whenever July June, end of June. June-ish. Middle, mid, mid to end June, maybe July. Whatever we feel like. We could even we could honestly start the weekend after 4th of July.
SPEAKER_00So back up. Let's do we should actually do like we should we can still bullshit and talk about all the topics for all the podcasts, but we should have like alright, we're we're pretty much oriented with football, and you can talk, you know, about basketball as needed in this one. September through February, football heavy with with our brackets and and tier lists and whatever. But typically football heavy, a little bit of bullshit, current events, whatever, what we're doing exactly now.
SPEAKER_02Then in May or June, start just strictly golf heavy.
SPEAKER_00Because we should go once a week and then we can talk about our round, talk about golf, talk about different tour events that are happening. Yep. We can talk, we can do golf in the summer, so football, golf, and obviously all of it is intertwined, but I think we should have like focus, focal points. That'd be fun. Yes. Because I can talk golf all the time. I need to watch golf then too. And we need to start swinging. Yes. Because I have that.
SPEAKER_01I need to bring my clubs here. I might store them here if that's not a problem.
SPEAKER_00That's totally fine.
SPEAKER_01I almost bought my wife a set of clubs. Black Friday. She talked me out of it.
SPEAKER_02Why?
SPEAKER_01I don't know. We're not gonna go with that. There was like they were like$230 at Dunham's. Like they were fucking cheap. Because fuck golfing with your wife. Seven, eight. There's what?
SPEAKER_00For wedge or for the record, not your wife specifically. Just fuck golfing with your wife in general. Golf is not meant to be a couple sport.
SPEAKER_01Well, she's like, well, if you buy me those clubs, I mean you're gonna go golfing with me more.
SPEAKER_00Unless your name, unl unless your name is Grace Karas, Paige Spearneck, Charlie Hull. Oh, sorry, Paige Speranic, Charlie Hull, or Nellie Corda. Golf is not a couple sport. But if your name is any of those, golf could be a couple sport. Just saying.
SPEAKER_01So I know we've been out for a couple weeks, like I said earlier. Uh hopefully we can get back on normal schedule here. I know Sunday nights has been our goal. Next Sunday the Vikings play Dallas. So maybe we'll maybe we'll do this during the Vikings game. That'd be cool. Yes.
SPEAKER_00Wait, when is the Vikings game? Probably seven. Oh, it's the primetime? Sunday night. What a terrible primetime game. Fuck the Cowboys. Sorry, America. What a terrible primetime game. Minnesota Vikings versus Dallas Cowboys. It's in Dallas. That's fine. In Jerry World. I have no doubt that we will win.
SPEAKER_01I don't know. I hope we do. You know, going into the game with zero expectation normally helps me because then I don't get pissed off if we lose. Oh my gosh. Yeah, we're gonna win. I hope so. It's the Cowboys. So hope maybe we'll uh maybe we'll do our our our recording during the Vikings game and then you can hear us talk shit about, you know, Chris Collinsworth and everything Dallas. How's that sound? Mm-hmm. Maybe we'll do it before, maybe we'll do it after. Who the fuck knows?
SPEAKER_00Don't I have to be Santa next Sunday?
SPEAKER_01Yes. And I have to be the Grinch. Nice. So we can suffer together. Perfect.
SPEAKER_02But do I have to like take kids' orders? I have no idea.
SPEAKER_00You have to talk to my wife about that. I was gonna order a beard off Amazon, because the beard I have is kind of haggard. Gotta get a better beard.
SPEAKER_01You could just like spray paint your beard white.
SPEAKER_00I could do that. That's a super short Santa Peter.
SPEAKER_01That's true.
SPEAKER_02That's true.
SPEAKER_03Then people know it's you.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, people aren't supposed to know it's me. Oh. But sorry for the long wait.
SPEAKER_01Sorry, not sorry. This makes people want.
SPEAKER_02I've been getting bugged on when we're gonna post our next episode from a couple people, so this'll this'll make them happy.
SPEAKER_01Anyway, next week we'll talk about the Vikings, hopefully during the game or after the game, or before the game, who knows? Should we come up with some sort of other bracket or topic, or should we just random do it next week? We can do it next week.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00I gotta I wake up at fucking 3 15 in the morning. Tomorrow? Yeah, every morning.
SPEAKER_02Oh well?
SPEAKER_01That's when I wake up. So you're going to bed here soon? Yes. Good, because I have to go home too. My wife's bugging me. Anyway, until next time, ladies and gentlemen, thanks for listening. Don't forget to go on the Bas2 Boys podcast, Shopify store, pick up a shirt, pick up a sweatshirt, kancuzzi, hat, whatever you're looking for. Roughbunker golf gear is also on there. Don't forget to go to the sauna website. Check it out there. Like I said, we have shirts available. Just contact me for those. Any comments, questions, concerns, give us a call, give us a text, shoot us an email, uh, whatever you want to do. We do have cards. Uh, don't forget to stop at Jim's on either Tuesday or Thursday.
SPEAKER_00It'll be on social media.
SPEAKER_01Tuesday or Thursday this week, it will be on the social media page. Both nights, we'll see. And uh, if you have any questions for Tony, go ahead and talk to him. I will I have basketball Tuesday night, and most likely, like I said, uh Thursday, we have pretty important practice before I do Friday. Uh until next time, listen, appreciate it and thank you, lovely bye.