Cheeseburger Wisdom And Baseball Life

You can learn a lot about a team from what it does when the weather is awful and the calendar is messy. We start with pure life talk and food debates, then slide into the real question: why do some high school baseball programs jump on spring break trips while others stay home and hope the field dries out? For us, it keeps coming back to one thing. The head coach sets the experience, and the players feel that standard every day. 

We get into what spring break baseball travel actually gives you: game reps, better timing at the plate, more chances to face adversity, and the kind of shared memories that turn a roster into a group. We also talk fundraising and donor support, why some programs have an easier path than others, and why “logistics” is often just a cover for priorities. Then we hit the fun traditions that make travel worth it, including an airport “dollar a man” pot for whose bag comes out first. 

Off the field, we bounce through family spring break stories, Easter chaos, youth baseball updates, and a hard look at between-game food choices after a Jersey Mikes rant drew a flood of comments online. We also show love to people and places that support the grind, including Caliburn Bats in Downers Grove and Newmans Corner Pub. If you care about high school baseball, travel baseball, coaching leadership, or building team culture, this one lands. 

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Transcript

Burgers And Midwest Travel Jokes

SPEAKER_05 0:00

You ever wake up one morning and say, I need a damn cheeseburger? That was me this morning. But who's serving cheeseburgers at 8 a.m.? Nobody. And that's sometimes I wish the Waffle House was around in Chicago, because I know they give me a cheeseburger. That's why I always love going down to the south with Nikki C and enjoying a good Waffle House burger. And then you say, Well, I thought you backed the blue. I do back the blue. But they're not open at 8 a.m. And I just went on a cheeseburger. Oh wait, you're not here for me to talk about burgers. You're here to listen to the good man show. Coming up next on your dial. Don't change that dial. Ha ha.

SPEAKER_03 0:48

Welcome to the good man show with Bruce Sauce and Lord Puck.

SPEAKER_05 0:54

I need that cheeseburger. I'm very hungry right now. I really need that cheeseburger.

SPEAKER_03 1:01

What's your go-to cheeseburger besides Backtable?

SPEAKER_05 1:04

Fogo de chow. It's a picanya burger. You go to the bar, say Josh sent you a$10 burger, give you fries with it too. You tip them$3, you end up leaving with a very thick picania burger for$13 with the fries and a glass of water.

SPEAKER_03 1:22

So I get the burger for$10 because I know Josh.

SPEAKER_05 1:26

Yes. Tell him Josh sent you.

SPEAKER_03 1:28

Which anyone? Oakbrook? Rosemont?

SPEAKER_05 1:31

I go, I frequent the one in Oak Brook a lot since it's so close here.

SPEAKER_03 1:35

Um I've never had the burger there because you've never invited me with you.

SPEAKER_05 1:41

Next time. Next week.

SPEAKER_03 1:43

Next week?

SPEAKER_05 1:44

Next week.

SPEAKER_03 1:45

For lunch? Sure. I can't wait. Yeah. I've heard so much about this burger. Have you ever had the country house? No. The country house. It's in like Darien area. It's pretty good.

SPEAKER_05 1:59

Darien's kind of like a land where the hobbits live.

SPEAKER_03 2:04

No Jack McDaniel.

SPEAKER_05 2:06

Darien's a place? Yeah, it's a town. It's like Kokomo.

SPEAKER_03 2:10

Town in Kokomo. It's a mythical place.

SPEAKER_05 2:15

Yeah, where is Kokomo? Like I've never I've heard people say I'm going to Arubo.

SPEAKER_03 2:19

It's in Indiana. We play in Kokomo.

SPEAKER_05 2:22

Oh. Is Indiana even a real place?

SPEAKER_03 2:26

Uh it's a state.

SPEAKER_05 2:28

Yeah. I love Indianapolis.

SPEAKER_03 2:30

Well then sounds like you like Indiana.

SPEAKER_05 2:32

Well, that's the only part of Indiana.

SPEAKER_03 2:35

What's your favorite part about Indianapolis?

SPEAKER_05 2:41

Um, I love Grand Park. The Drury. And I love the Drury as well. I just love the vibes. I I know so many places.

SPEAKER_03 2:49

Yeah, it's I'm one month away from being there.

SPEAKER_05 2:52

Yeah. I can't wait. I can't be there with you this summer.

SPEAKER_03 2:55

I know. It's a sad day.

SPEAKER_05 2:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:57

We're gonna miss you.

SPEAKER_05 2:58

Is it the first weekend in May?

SPEAKER_03 3:00

The first weekend of May.

SPEAKER_05 3:01

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_03 3:02

I was actually talking about it with my wife today.

SPEAKER_05 3:04

Oh, is she excited to go?

SPEAKER_03 3:05

Because she was trying to figure out. She's like, do I have to take off Friday at work? And she always takes off Monday at work because she knows we're gonna be there late.

SPEAKER_05 3:13

She should take everything off.

SPEAKER_03 3:15

Well, we can't do that. She's a teacher. She's gotta get to work. Gotta teach the youth.

SPEAKER_05 3:20

She has some PTO.

SPEAKER_03 3:23

Maybe.

SPEAKER_05 3:24

Let's hope she does.

SPEAKER_03 3:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 3:26

For the sake of the experience.

SPEAKER_03 3:30

What sake of what experience?

SPEAKER_05 3:33

Rest. Relaxation. Restoration.

SPEAKER_03 3:37

Just we're on spring break. They all speaking of that.

SPEAKER_05 3:40

Teachers love their breaks. That's why they get into the profession. Listen.

SPEAKER_03 3:43

I know.

SPEAKER_01 3:44

Hey Josh, I'm getting in to teach because I love my summers. My summers? I uh Hot Girl Summer. OMG. Oh my God. Who are you talking to?

SPEAKER_03 3:59

That's what I want to know.

SPEAKER_05 4:01

Who who is talking like that on my I can't I can't afford it on my teacher's salary, but somehow I go to Hot Girl Summer every time. Oh my God.

SPEAKER_03 4:11

You gotta figure out who you're talking about.

SPEAKER_05 4:13

Then uh what else do they say? Oh I love the pension. Like getting a teacher's pension, you're stuck from life. Oh my god. That's true.

SPEAKER_03 4:22

It's true. They got a good union, great health benefits. It's a very true statement. But they do love their breaks. And I I I if I was a teacher, I would like my breaks. They get to be on this the kids' schedule. They get their winter breaks, they get their Thanksgiving break. They get but here's my problem. Okay. My kids just finished up spring break last week.

SPEAKER_05 4:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:46

And then all of a sudden, we don't have school on Monday.

SPEAKER_05 4:49

Wait, what? Yeah. Was that last Monday you mean? No. Like Oh, this upcoming Monday?

SPEAKER_03 4:54

Yesterday.

SPEAKER_05 4:55

You see, this is what I'm talking about. They're stealing your tax dollars from. Yesterday. They didn't have school. You see, they love their breaks.

SPEAKER_03 5:00

I don't, but how do you have a week off at school and then the first day you're supposed to be back at school, you have another day off?

SPEAKER_05 5:07

You explain to me the teacher's schedule and I'll explain to you.

SPEAKER_03 5:09

Then I'll say this.

SPEAKER_05 5:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:11

Our school does a really good job always after break. Because every every period uh every so often on Tuesdays, the kids will do like they have hot lunch or or PTO lunch. Like crab? No, like they get Jimmy John's or Little Joe's or pizza. Can we talk about Jersey Mics? We can get there. Can I finish though? Jersey mics. I got a good jersey mics to work with the kids. But I just I don't get the the the day off of school after a week-long break. I just I don't get that. Like, why?

SPEAKER_05 5:45

Throws off a rhythm.

SPEAKER_03 5:46

It's like no, it's just get the kids back in school, man. Seven days was enough.

SPEAKER_05 5:51

It's like playing a full week's worth of games and then having two weeks off afterward.

SPEAKER_03 5:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 5:56

It throws the whole thing off.

SPEAKER_03 5:57

Doesn't make sense.

SPEAKER_05 5:58

Doesn't make any sense.

SPEAKER_03 5:58

How am I supposed to be on a routine as a hitter and find regular timing if I'm not seeing live pitching?

SPEAKER_05 6:04

Must be the hitting coach's fault. Could be. Has to be.

Ticket Hookups And Game Plans

SPEAKER_03 6:08

Could could be your batting gloves' faults. I've seen people blame the batting gloves, rip them, shred them. There goes 60 bucks. It might be sometimes it's the bat's fault, so you gotta have six of those. Could be the batter's eye, bad batter's eye. I will say this. I've played in some parks that had some bad batter's eye where like pitchers were throwing out of white signs. It was messed up.

SPEAKER_05 6:30

Messed up. I just got some bad news.

SPEAKER_03 6:33

Again?

SPEAKER_05 6:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:35

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_05 6:37

No, this is like baseball related.

SPEAKER_03 6:40

I guess I will talk to myself.

SPEAKER_05 6:42

This is baseball related. I don't have a plug anymore. Because apparently he's not employed by a certain organization anymore.

SPEAKER_03 6:48

You don't have a plug?

SPEAKER_05 6:50

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 6:51

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_05 6:52

For tickets, I had a plug. Oh and he's not employed by them anymore.

SPEAKER_03 6:58

Oh. Cash.

SPEAKER_05 7:01

I'm not saying who.

SPEAKER_03 7:02

Yeah. I got you.

SPEAKER_05 7:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:05

Hey, listen. I'm mad about that. We'll figure something out.

SPEAKER_05 7:08

We got who.

SPEAKER_03 7:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 7:11

You know, that was the coolest.

SPEAKER_03 7:13

I was watching the Socks game today. There was nobody there. That game.

SPEAKER_05 7:16

But the game I wanted, I'm gonna need a guy.

SPEAKER_03 7:20

He's gonna need a guy.

SPEAKER_05 7:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:22

So who we looking for? Are you looking for Cubs tickets? Cub Socks. Cubs versus Socks? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 7:28

See, I needed a guy.

SPEAKER_03 7:29

You're trying to when did Cub Socks play?

SPEAKER_05 7:31

May 16th.

SPEAKER_03 7:32

May 16th.

SPEAKER_05 7:33

Yeah, I'm playing this way in advance.

SPEAKER_03 7:34

Cub Socks.

SPEAKER_05 7:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:36

Is it that Wrigley or at Camiski?

SPEAKER_05 7:39

At the rate.

SPEAKER_03 7:40

Call it whatever you want. I call it Camiski. You want Cub Socks tickets to the rate?

SPEAKER_05 7:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:45

I'll get you Cub Sacks. Two?

SPEAKER_05 7:47

I need it to be as cool. Like when I walked up to that thing, I felt so cool. I was like, Caseris. Kanji, bro. Here you go.

SPEAKER_03 7:55

Call Kanji. Saw Kanji at opening day.

SPEAKER_05 7:59

Oh, he can get me in.

SPEAKER_03 8:01

Guy played there.

SPEAKER_05 8:02

I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 8:03

You know Kanji. Will he plug me up? Yeah, I'll take care of you. Okay. Or you know what? Call the lovely family at grandstand. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 8:14

Oh, they'll get me in.

SPEAKER_03 8:15

They might be able to get you a couple tickets.

SPEAKER_05 8:17

I bet they have tickets on the back end.

SPEAKER_03 8:20

They might.

SPEAKER_05 8:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 8:21

Listen, we will find you two tickets.

SPEAKER_05 8:24

That's all.

SPEAKER_03 8:24

And I don't want you getting all upset looking at that thing again and then getting it.

SPEAKER_05 8:28

I'm not that upset as the last time.

SPEAKER_03 8:30

You weren't, but we were also deeper in the show. And then I had to talk to Aaron for the whole rest of the show because you just fade off into the wind.

SPEAKER_05 8:41

I was telling someone the other day, we're just dusting the wind.

SPEAKER_00 8:45

Dust.

SPEAKER_05 8:47

Because I said, you know, if because we're talking about driving in the fog, I get to this peace of mind that I'm gonna die. That's the only way it gets through. Like I get through those types of drives. And uh I said, no one's gonna miss me. She got so mad when I said that.

SPEAKER_03 9:02

I'll miss you.

SPEAKER_05 9:04

Oh. You move on in a month.

SPEAKER_03 9:06

Wow. That's what you think of our friendship, huh?

SPEAKER_05 9:09

I th no, I think my siblings will move on. Everyone will move on.

SPEAKER_03 9:13

Nah, not your mother. Your mother loves you.

SPEAKER_05 9:15

Besides my mother. Everyone will.

SPEAKER_03 9:17

The kid loves you.

SPEAKER_05 9:19

That kid did something I can't say.

SPEAKER_03 9:22

Well, we all do things. But listen.

SPEAKER_05 9:25

Probation.

SPEAKER_03 9:25

We talked a little bit about spring break. Yeah. Got to go down to Florida with the family for spring break. What part? We're like Fort Lauderdale, Miami. More Miami, actually. Did you go to Miami? Uh, I mean, we kind of. I don't know. I don't really know my surroundings on there, but I guess technically when we crossed the bridge, there's a lot of beaches. We could go to a beach there. We did not go to Miami Beach. We went to a different beach. I guess technically that was in Miami.

SPEAKER_05 9:54

Did you stop by the Publix?

SPEAKER_03 9:56

Uh, there's a Publix across the street from our hotel that I had to walk to frequently to get stuff. I love Publix. I do too. It's not a bad place. It reminds me a lot of a Mariano's.

SPEAKER_05 10:06

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 10:07

Um, but yeah, Publix, not bad. But it was great times. We had a water park at the hotel. Kids tore it up. I tore it up. Logan occasionally got onto the 48-inch. Sometimes he got denied. I was trying to teach him how to kind of you know broaden the shoulders, get up on the tippy toes a little bit. And then sometimes the kids who were up there were just like, yeah, whatever, go ahead. But they had this drop slide where you would go in. It's like a plastic thing you step on, and the door closes, and you gotta fold your hands.

SPEAKER_05 10:36

Oh, like in the Carnival Cruise commercial. Yeah, and then Shaquille O'Neal came out.

SPEAKER_03 10:40

Yeah. But Logan went on that. Dude, watching him go down that was absolutely hilarious.

SPEAKER_05 10:45

Man.

SPEAKER_03 10:45

He had a good time, though. Good time. Good memories.

SPEAKER_05 10:47

Good lads.

SPEAKER_03 10:48

A lot of watch the basketball down there, but just good weather, man. Good, good to get out and make some memories with the old kids.

SPEAKER_05 10:55

Make the memory.

SPEAKER_03 10:56

I'll say this. Flying with them now is much more enjoyable than what flying used to be with kids.

SPEAKER_05 11:02

Would you recommend early parents drive?

SPEAKER_03 11:05

Uh, it all depends on on you know kids getting car sick or not getting car sick. Like I I would rather drive, in all honesty. Yeah. I I'm I'm not a big like I don't like flying. I I will fly, but I don't really like flying. I would prefer to drive a car two places.

SPEAKER_05 11:22

If I was alone with a woman, I'd love to drive everywhere with her.

SPEAKER_03 11:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 11:27

It's romantic times.

SPEAKER_03 11:29

I'm driving to Omaha this year. I can't wait. Oh. Just you and Ethan? Uh no, the whole family's supposed to go, but Amy and Amy and Lily might actually uh fly. Lily gets car sick, Amy gets car sick.

SPEAKER_02 11:41

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 11:41

They blame me for my driving. Listen, I can't help that I'm like Dale Earnhardt at the Daytone of 500, tearing it up.

SPEAKER_02 11:54

With your family?

SPEAKER_03 11:55

And the car? I got a vision that I see things before they happen on their own.

SPEAKER_05 12:02

It's all important to have a vision. Like the teachers with the pensions.

Easter Church Tennis And Missed Calls

SPEAKER_03 12:06

It's like the teacher with the pension. But yeah. So we'll see what happens. I can't wait. How is uh Easter just finished up? Yeah. Do you have a good Easter?

SPEAKER_05 12:16

Yeah, I went to church. All my siblings and my mom were there. Ah, the Crester. Who the hell are they?

SPEAKER_03 12:24

The Christmas and uh Easter church goers are called the Creasters.

SPEAKER_05 12:29

Yeah. I do go to church more often than just kidding with you. I know. But with our job, it is uh very difficult on especially in the summers and in this past spring, even though I should be done on May 2nd, and the Sunday should be freed up. Um please. Um what was I about to say? Oh yeah. Uh I went to church, uh, played some tennis. Um, I lost because he was cheating.

SPEAKER_03 12:56

Who'd you play? Caleb?

SPEAKER_05 12:57

Yeah, he was cheating. He was calling crucial breakpoints in that were out, and then it was it there was a lot of things that were said that day. Um because and then it's it's uh it's a habit with this guy. I'll blow a forehand past him. If he can't get to it, he'll call it out. But it it licked the line.

SPEAKER_03 13:18

Licked it licked the line.

SPEAKER_02 13:19

A line licker.

SPEAKER_03 13:20

I'm a line leka.

SPEAKER_05 13:22

Uh so yeah, and then uh what did I do after that? And then I oh, and then I went to Jewel. And then I yeah, and that was pretty much it.

SPEAKER_03 13:30

You didn't wish Logan a happy birthday.

SPEAKER_05 13:34

When was his birthday?

SPEAKER_03 13:35

Easter.

SPEAKER_05 13:36

How am I supposed to know that?

SPEAKER_03 13:37

I don't know. How am I how am I supposed to know that? Guy turned six and he kept asking when's Josh gonna call.

SPEAKER_05 13:42

That's a lie. He never said that because how was I supposed to know?

SPEAKER_03 13:46

He said, Hey, my buddy Josh hasn't called. Can you tell you I'm calling it?

SPEAKER_05 13:49

Yeah, no, I saw that kid last week. He didn't even say hi to me. I was like, Logan. He just looks at me with a uh a blank stare. Oh, Logan's me. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:00

Well, you know, that's Logan.

SPEAKER_05 14:01

He's a good lad. I like Ethan better. Wow. Ethan's my guy. Wow. Ethan's my guy. Love that kid. Wow. Him and I walk in.

SPEAKER_03 14:13

You can't make judgments and and have favorites.

SPEAKER_05 14:17

Yeah, I can have favorites. I have a favorite sibling too.

SPEAKER_03 14:20

Well, so do I.

SPEAKER_05 14:21

Exactly. You see, I and I have your sons, I have a favorite son. Yeah, Ethan and I. I've seen that how many years has it been? Nearly six years. How old is he now? Eleven? Almost. Yeah, so he was five. He and I were walking down the aisle the other day, and I was like, Oh, this is cool. Look at this guy.

SPEAKER_03 14:37

You got to do your first lesson with Ethan.

SPEAKER_05 14:39

It was so weird. Um, but um why it was just weird. Why was it weird? It's it's your son.

SPEAKER_03 14:47

That's why it was great. It was weird. Yeah, I said, Hey, if I can get Josh to get in there early, would you want to do a lesson with him? He said, Yeah, that'd be awesome. And I said, All right, well, I'm gonna have him do catching with you. He's like, What if I what if I don't want to do catching? I was like, Well, then you don't have to. I think you should to get some work and then try something different. He goes, Well, could I do like 15 minutes of catching, 15 minutes? I was like, talk to Josh. He loved it though. Like when I asked him, I loved it too. I said, What'd you work on? He told me all the stuff that you guys are working on with your catching, and I thought it was great. I think it's good for him to go do stuff with other coaches.

SPEAKER_05 15:21

Maybe I'll have a kid soon.

SPEAKER_03 15:23

That'd be great.

SPEAKER_05 15:23

And then I'll pawn them off.

SPEAKER_03 15:25

Then a little Joshy walking around. Come here, Joshie.

SPEAKER_05 15:29

Apparently, his name will be Valentino.

SPEAKER_03 15:32

Wow. Valentino Caceres. Yeah. What's his middle name?

SPEAKER_05 15:37

Wave Runner.

High School And Youth Baseball Updates

SPEAKER_03 15:39

Valentino Wave Runner Caceres? Yes. You're gonna want to think about that one a little bit more.

SPEAKER_05 15:45

That'd be a cool name, wouldn't it be?

SPEAKER_03 15:48

On to the Montini Broncos. How's the Montini Broncos doing?

SPEAKER_05 15:55

We're six and three. Nice. Just came back from a Florida trip. Good. Doing really well. Vibes are high. We have a a gauntlet of games coming up. We have we're in the Stevie's Ways tournament out in New Lennox, out in that new complex out there. Um, tomorrow we're playing Lamont, always a good squad. We got Hanover, I believe they're from Indiana. And then on Saturday we have Riverside Brookfield, but they're not a part of the tournament, that would be at home. But um next week we have four games in a row. Fenwick, Brother Rice, Mount Carmel, LT. Whoa. Not in that particular order.

SPEAKER_03 16:36

That's a that's a good uh gauntlet, but good to hear the Broncos are are doing well. Really like the Bronco team.

SPEAKER_05 16:43

We have cool logos. And I was actually we we should bring back the vintage horse Bronco logo. I'd really like that. You know, I drive a Bronco so it all fits, but we have some talent pitching wise. We we're we're we're pretty decent. And what I love about us and what Coach Eric Scott's doing, the teams that we are scheduling are gonna really prepare us for the postseason. There you go. And we might lose all the games. I don't think we're gonna lose all the games. We're gonna be very competitive and all, but honestly, how can you say you're dealing with any adverse if you're not scheduling any adverse teams?

SPEAKER_03 17:17

You gotta play competitive games. Yes, you gotta push yourself. Yeah, play talent. I get it. You want to get your wins and you want to stack your wins up. But if you play a bunch of cupcakes, when you get to that tough one, are you really gonna be ready? Nah. Maybe, maybe not.

unknown 17:37

Nah.

SPEAKER_03 17:37

I don't think you are, so you gotta prepare for the tough times.

SPEAKER_05 17:42

Correct.

SPEAKER_03 17:43

So I'm with you. That's good to hear, though. Glad the Broncos are doing well and you're liking it. Yeah, uh I think it's amusing watching you come in and you're maroon.

SPEAKER_05 17:51

I've always stuck in the maroon.

SPEAKER_03 17:53

I know, but it's like a different maroon on you. It was it's not Rambler maroon.

SPEAKER_05 17:58

I I love everything about the Ramblers. I miss the Ramblers. Uh Ramblers. Yeah, I don't miss the drive. Like if I lived a block away from the Ramblers, I'd probably be there again. Just a little too far.

SPEAKER_03 18:08

You did you did like your Ramble Nation.

SPEAKER_05 18:10

Yeah, I have no complaints. Probably the best group I ever got along with. And I've also I'm getting along with the Montini group here, too. So good times. Good times for you. Yes. Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_03 18:21

Good. Youth baseball's about to be impressive.

SPEAKER_05 18:23

You have your first game tomorrow.

SPEAKER_03 18:24

First game tomorrow.

SPEAKER_05 18:26

Scheduling the pitching. Is it in front of where are you at?

SPEAKER_03 18:28

Joliet? Yeah, out in Joliet. Uh, we play in a Wednesday Joliet League. Uh 6.15 game time. It was supposed to be a 7.30, but the field, the field uh we're playing on was open earlier. Normally we start there's like a 545 and a 7 uh what is that 545 and 730 games. So I requested to play earlier because you know, why not if the field's open? So we're able to play at 6.15. Um get an inning. Six guys will throw tomorrow. Um got all 12 dudes ready to go. Had a good practice tonight. We play Marionette Express tomorrow. Marionette Park Express. Sounds like a south south on the south side. Oh. Um, like Evergreen Park-ish area. Oh. Um we played them once last year. It was funny. I was telling the kids after practice, and Bennett goes, I gave up a home run to a kid on that team. I said, Yeah, you did. I remember that. Oh T he goes, it was O2. I go, Yeah, you threw a fastball right down the middle of the plate. You thought you were gonna throw a bye on the kid tattooed one. He goes, Yeah, that was a bad pitch. I said, Well, see what happens tomorrow. Surprised he remembers that. I think that's funny. I think all these kids remember some stuff, but um, yeah, first game tomorrow. Looking forward to it. Then we got a round robin this weekend, four games, two on Saturday, two on Sunday.

SPEAKER_05 19:52

Where?

SPEAKER_03 19:53

Uh Saturday, we're hosting. So Saturday we play at City Field and Countryside, and then Sunday we play at NAS. So I'll be working on the field all day Saturday. I'll sit there by myself. Um, usually Amy will bring me something for lunch, unless I pack my own stuff. Sometimes I pack my own little cooler for the day. What do you say when you leave the house? Well, I leave in the morning. I leave in the morning with Ethan for our game because we play the 9 a.m. She comes to the game and then the kids all leave. I say bye, I give her a hug, give her a kiss, and say I'll see you at five o'clock for the next game.

SPEAKER_02 20:28

Honey. I'll be back. I'll be back. Don Wayne. Is this me? No. Don Wayne.

SPEAKER_03 20:36

The Duke.

SPEAKER_02 20:37

Is this you?

SPEAKER_03 20:39

But yeah, a lunch pail. Yeah. I have a cooler. I get a little cooler.

SPEAKER_05 20:44

Not a lunch pail. Like a blue-collared man.

SPEAKER_03 20:48

Not a lunch pale.

SPEAKER_05 20:49

You know what? This year I want you to show up to the game in boots, jeans.

SPEAKER_03 20:55

Boot straps.

SPEAKER_05 20:56

Yeah, boots, jeans, and a trucker hat.

SPEAKER_03 20:59

I got my trucker hat.

SPEAKER_05 21:00

Alright, now you need the boots, you need the jeans, and now you and maybe a pack of Marlboro's.

SPEAKER_03 21:05

Tucked up in my sleeve?

SPEAKER_05 21:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:07

Then I gotta get a white T.

SPEAKER_05 21:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:09

With a pocket. Yes. But you don't put the you don't put them in your pocket.

SPEAKER_05 21:13

Actually, forget the trucker hat. Cowboy hat.

SPEAKER_03 21:16

Well, if I'm gonna do that, you need a cowboy on Steve Wall S Rod. Do you remember that show? Uh The Crab Show?

SPEAKER_05 21:28

The Crab Show?

SPEAKER_03 21:30

Yeah, where they used to go like um God, what was that show called?

SPEAKER_05 21:34

I didn't have cable. If this was on cable, I did not have cable. I only had antenna TV.

SPEAKER_03 21:39

It was on Discover.

SPEAKER_05 21:40

No, sorry. Discovery Channel?

SPEAKER_03 21:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 21:43

Yeah, no, sorry. The only access, this is why sometimes I ran away from the house to go find a random hotel room so I can just watch cable. Yeah. They called me the hotel bandit. He was a hotel bandit. And he got away for many, many years. He was on the In a Ford El Camino.

Caliburn Bats And The New Fungo

SPEAKER_03 22:02

Wow. Interesting.

SPEAKER_05 22:05

I know.

SPEAKER_03 22:06

So Caliburn Bats.

SPEAKER_02 22:11

They hooked you up with a bat.

SPEAKER_03 22:13

Hooked me up big time. My guy, Don Erickson. Love Don. Appreciate you, Don. Yes. Gotta go see Caliburn Bats. Down Earth Scrove. Brought all three kids to the shop on uh what was that Saturday? So we had uh Rand Little Sluggers. Yeah. Did little sluggers and had a practice with my team. And then uh we went over to Caliburn Bats. Don put in a special request for my new fungo. And I gotta tell you, the good man fungo, it is tip top. The best fungo I got. Can't wait to use it. There's a little engraving on the side, little brew sauce and Lord Puck, little little secret edition that Don did not share with me that saw it for the first time. Logan, I think, actually got himself a job to work at Caliburn Bats when he gets older. So I'm looking forward to that. I think a kid picked up his job. Does he fit the demographic? I think. I mean, Don says as long as he listens, I think I think he'll have a job. So uh but it was great. Everybody should go over. Ethan was loving all the bats. He was looking at everything, man. He was checking them all out, swinging some, took some swings in the back of the shop. I mean, it was great.

SPEAKER_05 23:28

Don't the type of guy, and I was actually, Don, I know you're listening. Um, I kind of just want to stop by in a couple weeks and just sit there and talk to you for a couple hours. You're that type of guy, and I just wanna I want to do that with you.

SPEAKER_03 23:41

Don't Don's the man, dude.

SPEAKER_05 23:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:44

About to head out to go see Sam play. Sam Erickson roads. Sam Travis? Oh, Sam Erickson, his kid.

SPEAKER_05 23:50

Oh, you went out to go watch him?

SPEAKER_03 23:51

No, Don's going to see.

SPEAKER_05 23:53

Don, no, Don um goes and watches former players. Like he just randomly popped in on my brother um last year, I believe, or was it two years ago? I think it was last year. I know he's gonna make a trip again out this year. Um, but no, he coached both of my brothers and uh nothing but good things with Don E.

SPEAKER_03 24:13

Donnie, man. Appreciate what you do. Go see Caliber and Bat and Downers Grove. Thank you, Don. You're a good man.

SPEAKER_05 24:18

Yes.

The Real Value Of Spring Trips

SPEAKER_03 24:19

So, first topic I want to talk about. This is actually an interesting one. Okay, and I kind of want to see how this goes, but I find it interesting, and I know when I played, like high school teams did not take spring trips, right? And it seems like everybody takes a spring trip now.

SPEAKER_05 24:36

Not your alma mater, I believe.

SPEAKER_03 24:37

No, they do not, but uh that's kind of what I want to get to. Like, why are some teams doing it? Why don't others? Why uh like how are teams doing this and how are others not? Like, and also the advantages of them taking these spring trips because like last week's spring break, weather was absolutely terrible, teams couldn't play, nobody could get on fields, like it's cold, it's rainy, it's just miserable. So, like my question is is why do you think some are doing it and some aren't?

SPEAKER_05 25:07

I think going back to we've had did we have this conversation this morning or possibly last week? 90% or 95% of any experience is dictated by the head coach. So the answer to your question, it's the head coach. The head coach sets the experience. The head coach says, I want to make memories. Well, the memories start from you, bud. That's why I'm gonna tell you right now. You're a lame duck, you're a bum. The experience will be bummy. No matter how great the kids are, no matter how great, talented and personality-wise, they are a reflection of you for how any months you are together, how many years you're together. So, to answer your question on why some people do not take that trip, I just believe they have different priorities. That some people, especially at the high school level, view it as just a stipend collector. Um, Jake, your brother, what does he call it? Uh uh CAP. And he and I uh refer to as capping, collecting a paycheck. And uh that's what I think half of them are doing. And I think it it's a little inconvenient for some people to schedule all that, even though logistically, people I love it when people in this business start talking about man, all the paperwork, all logistics, dude. Just pick up a phone, pick up a phone, pick up a computer, and all that stuff is done within a week at most. If you really like, what else are you doing? What else are you doing? I don't know, man. And you'll be like, oh Josh, you don't have a social life, you don't have a family. Well then go find something else to do. All right, you're either gonna be all in it here or you're just being a placeholder. Like yeah, you're just another dirty window that you can be scrubbed off in a couple seconds by using some Windex. Are you gonna make that much of a change or Windex? I that sign Luca made on my car still won't come off.

SPEAKER_03 27:16

Luca.

unknown 27:17

No.

SPEAKER_03 27:17

Get out here and clean the man's car.

SPEAKER_05 27:19

It's a bronze car. It's like three car washes, still hasn't come off. I got a free car wash. The back part of my mirror fell off in a car wash.

SPEAKER_03 27:28

The back part of your mirror.

SPEAKER_05 27:29

My rear, my side mirror.

SPEAKER_03 27:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 27:31

I get home, it's gone.

SPEAKER_03 27:33

Gone?

SPEAKER_05 27:34

Yeah, I come back to the car wash, like, oh, this piece? I go, yeah, that piece. Gone? Well, it fell off and now it's back. It was gone.

SPEAKER_03 27:42

And you didn't notice until you got all the way home?

SPEAKER_05 27:44

Yeah, it was only like a two-minute drive.

SPEAKER_03 27:46

Oh, okay. You had me a little concerned there. So did you you you need to be checking the side mirrors frequently?

SPEAKER_05 27:53

No, you can't. No, it was like the mirror's there. It was the back of the mirror. Like you would have to get out and see it.

SPEAKER_03 28:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 28:00

And the part you snap back on. I should ask for a whole year's worth of car washes. I wrote a bad review. The only way I got my free car wash, I wrote a bad review on Google. I never write bad reviews, but you write reviews frequently? No. I do not.

SPEAKER_03 28:14

So I hear what you're saying. And and I agree with that about the high schools, and some schools willing to do that more now, and some not. And it's just, you know, I think it's all a program reference or program preference about what they want to do and not do. And I think Catholic schools have a little bit more fundraising with parents and doctors.

SPEAKER_05 28:40

That's something I'd do it. I don't get that. Why? The Catholic schools. I know, I know the pay scale for their teachers and everything else is lower than the public schools. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:51

Public schools have more money. But I'm not no, no, I'm not talking about the pay scale of teachers and the school funding. Like, yeah, 100%. A 4-A school in the state has significant more funding because they have more kids and they have more stuff coming in from the state and all that stuff. I'm talking about programs like the specific baseball program. Like, just because a 4-A school baseball program doesn't have more money than a two or three A Catholic program because it all depends on your donors. And for Catholic schools, like they have kids who go to the school who then parents or alumni that have money that then give back to the programs, right? So what I'm saying is I think there's a lot of those schools, Catholic-wise, who have that situation compared to some public schools who would have to do more of the fundraising or getting donations from alumni of that to help fund that. That I don't think some guys are willing to go do or want to do. So they side with the fact of like staying home and trying to play games. I just think it's harder and harder to play games now over spring break here because so many teams are gone. Who are you gonna play? Well, that's what I'm saying. Like it's correct, it's like who you playing if you're not going out there. And it's just, I don't know. I just feel like even going to Tennessee or Kentucky or somewhere, just I mean, it's a six-hour drive. Like, get out there, go play, like find ways to do it. I just think there's so much benefit to those kids getting out there and playing more, and I know they want to play more, and it's just like I just I don't get the fact of why everybody isn't doing that yet.

SPEAKER_05 30:30

I know a kid on Mount Carmel, um, they spent their whole um spring break out in Vegas. I was texting him today, he's like, Yeah, I'm leaving. I go, leaving where? He goes, they have a doubleheader in Kentucky today, and then they're coming back tomorrow.

SPEAKER_03 30:43

Oh, really? Yeah. They're driving to Kentucky?

SPEAKER_05 30:48

Yeah, they're playing there today.

SPEAKER_03 30:49

But when did they leave?

SPEAKER_05 30:51

Uh either this morning or last night.

SPEAKER_03 30:53

A high school kid?

SPEAKER_05 30:54

Mount Carmel.

SPEAKER_03 30:55

So Mount Carmel drove to Kentucky. And they're playing in Kentucky doubleheader today and then they'd come back.

SPEAKER_05 31:00

I think they're coming back tomorrow.

SPEAKER_03 31:04

That's wild. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 31:05

But I mean, they're that's but they're going to Vegas. I know Brother Rice went to Vegas too. Uh Lawrence went to Florida. Naz is in Florida. Uh we went Mount.

SPEAKER_03 31:15

I also think some of these schools nowadays get invited out there, though, by those schools.

SPEAKER_05 31:20

Yeah, I I think Lawrence got in, I had to be invited because some of the schools they play.

SPEAKER_03 31:25

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_05 31:26

Like Ridgewood High School's even going to Florida. So you're telling me a school from Elmwood Park, Ridgewood, compared to a couple other affluent, more affluent schools in certain areas, they're not going to go with I I put well better teams, and they're not doing it.

SPEAKER_03 31:44

Yeah, I I I I get it. But but I think it goes back to what you were saying earlier. It's it's all dependent on what the coaches want to do and how much advantage they want to take of building their program or enhancing their program or doing the bare minimum. Like that's that's it. It's it's just like what we do. Like, there are how many travel baseball programs, and what you do or don't do is a separating factor. Like, can you provide an experience that other people can't? Do you do the same as everybody else? Like, it's all dictated on what the what what the guys are running it do. Well, no, not just me. All you guys are the valuable pieces that help running.

SPEAKER_05 32:30

No, I'm talking about like scheduling and all that stuff.

SPEAKER_03 32:32

Yeah, I get that, but I'm just saying, like, I have to have a staff or guys that are willing to also work that type of environment.

SPEAKER_05 32:39

I told you you put me on Indianapolis every week. I'm no, I'm telling you, dude, the best what I'm looking forward to in like a month and month and a half, Nick. Yo! Sorry, I got another text. I was looking forward to sleeping a little bit tomorrow, but you can forget about it. Terrible. I'm going to O'Hare twice tomorrow.

SPEAKER_03 33:01

You're going to O'Hare twice tomorrow?

SPEAKER_05 33:03

Yeah. Gotta go drop someone off, and then I gotta go coach two games tomorrow. Not cool. Anyway, um, I love Nikki C Nicki C and I'm Publix, great times. Kroger, great times. Costco Pizza with Terry Banya, great times. Eating rotisserie chickens, great times. In the hotels, falling asleep while on four melatonins, great times. Great times. I I I honestly would if you could put me on the road every week, I'd be on the road every week. I would. It's just the best time of my life. Because it's just me and Nikki C.

SPEAKER_03 33:44

Nikki C. We miss you, Nikki C. We love you. Nikki C's a good man. I love him. Doesn't like to talk on the show, man. He was the first ever bring on. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 33:56

And it was like, we need to revive him.

SPEAKER_03 34:06

We could try again.

SPEAKER_05 34:08

It's the Easter spirit.

SPEAKER_03 34:10

The Easter spirit? Oh, here's a good one for you. Lily looks at me on uh Easter Sunday. He dead. How'd you know where all the eggs were? And she just stares at me. I was like, what's that? She goes, the eggs? How'd you know where they all were?

SPEAKER_05 34:32

Are there cash in these eggs?

SPEAKER_03 34:34

No, hard boiled. Oh by the way, I made 36. I boiled 36 eggs and then made all not to hide. I made 36 eggs to make my deviled eggs, and they were fantastic this year. But I did hard boil 30 eggs because I we go old school. We still do like the drop it in the coloring, and you can write on them. Like we still and then we have these spinning things they can do markers on, but like I make my kids color the eggs and then we hide and then yeah, you know, the Easter bunny hides them.

SPEAKER_05 35:07

Did you dress up as the bunny?

SPEAKER_03 35:09

Hippity hoppa, don't stop hopping. Uh no, but in uh in a nether, I don't know, what seems to be the 2026 way, although Christmas was still in 2025, but I guess in the the last whatever stretch of holidays, my wife was sick the night before again. So, you know, I got to play Easter Bunny all by myself.

SPEAKER_05 35:37

You actually had the costume?

SPEAKER_03 35:39

No.

SPEAKER_05 35:40

Next year you have to.

SPEAKER_03 35:41

I had some good hiding spots though this year. I was really happy with that.

SPEAKER_05 35:45

Where's your costume?

SPEAKER_03 35:47

I found my Ric Flair costume.

SPEAKER_05 35:49

No, I want you to dress up as a bunny tomorrow. Not tomorrow.

SPEAKER_03 35:52

Shide up, shide up what?

SPEAKER_05 35:54

Dress up as a bunny next Easter.

SPEAKER_03 35:55

Why?

SPEAKER_05 35:56

I just want to see it.

SPEAKER_03 35:57

I don't want to dress up as a bunny.

SPEAKER_05 35:58

I want to see it.

SPEAKER_03 35:59

You ever seen the movie A Christmas Story? Yeah. When he gets the bunny costume for Christmas and he puts it on? I remember that. The pink bunny.

SPEAKER_05 36:06

Oh, yes. Come on. Kill with the glasses. Take it off.

SPEAKER_03 36:09

Ralphie.

SPEAKER_05 36:10

Is that the kid with the glasses?

SPEAKER_03 36:12

Yes. Yes. You'll shoot your eye out, kid. Great movie. Is the red rider still riding? We got the red rider.

SPEAKER_05 36:19

Is it still riding? Oh, it's it's good. Did you shoot a bunny? I almost ran over a bunny on Easter. I almost ran over a bunny on Easter. That would have been bad.

SPEAKER_03 36:32

You almost killed the Easter bunny?

SPEAKER_05 36:34

Thing ran out onto the street. I was like, dude, it's your holiday, man. What are you trying to do here? Now here's the thing. Why are there restaurants for cows and chickens, but nothing for squirrels or bunnies?

SPEAKER_03 36:49

Rabbit soup.

SPEAKER_05 36:50

What fast food restaurant serves rabbit?

SPEAKER_03 36:54

You didn't say fast food. You said restaurants.

SPEAKER_05 36:56

Well, fast food. We have a burger fast food.

SPEAKER_03 37:00

There's a difference of fast food and restaurants.

SPEAKER_05 37:02

Like why can't bunnies be fast food?

SPEAKER_03 37:09

I'm gonna take a 10-second break before I answer that question because I don't want to talk to you right now for 10 seconds.

SPEAKER_05 37:15

Well, let me talk for 10 then. You talk to yourself then. How can I help you today? I want a two-piece bunny with some sauce. What type of sauce, sir? Squirrel sauce. Alright. Bunny. No bonnie.

SPEAKER_03 37:33

Are you done?

SPEAKER_05 37:34

Your ten seconds are up.

SPEAKER_03 37:36

Yeah, but I can't listen to what you're saying.

SPEAKER_05 37:40

I had a kid the other day go, hey coach Josh, can I go to the bathroom? I looked at him and I said, Is this a prison?

SPEAKER_03 37:47

Say good luck.

SPEAKER_05 37:48

He goes, You're right. I go, don't ever ask me that again, please.

SPEAKER_03 37:51

Oh, you just say, hey, coach, I'm gonna go to the bathroom.

SPEAKER_05 37:54

I don't even care where it's a big thing.

SPEAKER_03 37:56

Well, if you're in the middle of a game, a kid's got it was practice. Still, like what if you were gonna do a drill that required the kid to be there?

SPEAKER_05 38:03

If he told me I was in the bathroom, I'd be like, oh alright.

SPEAKER_03 38:06

Yeah, right. You would have lost it and the kid would have came back.

SPEAKER_05 38:09

I don't think you are seeing a different man this year. I'm gonna tell you that right now. I'm telling you, I've got cheap, I've got stripped down to the bone. Oh I I told Nikki C, I said Nikki C, you're gonna see a very nice guy this year.

SPEAKER_03 38:28

I can't wait to video you and Indy blowing up and be like, yep, there he is. He's guess who's back? Josh is back. Guess who's back? Josh is back.

SPEAKER_05 38:39

My timing's off.

SPEAKER_03 38:41

What do you mean your timing's off?

SPEAKER_05 38:42

My coaching timing's off. My cadence is off. I don't know if I'm gonna go to the city.

SPEAKER_03 38:48

Just run LeBron.

SPEAKER_05 38:50

LeBron. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:51

Don't give me that dude. Don't give me that.

SPEAKER_05 38:54

No, I'm talking about my cadence, my my voice. I was telling someone today. Shout out to her. I was telling someone today, you you have different voices. Like I have an assistant coach voice, and I have a head coach voice. And I haven't used my head coach voice since October. I've nearly lost it.

SPEAKER_03 39:13

It's just like riding a bike.

SPEAKER_05 39:16

I need someone to get me mad. And then I go bang.

unknown 39:21

Bang.

SPEAKER_03 39:22

I know somebody on your team who might get you mad.

SPEAKER_05 39:25

Zero people will get me mad on that team.

SPEAKER_03 39:28

No, that's a filthy lie. Who? They're all gone. I'm not saying names.

SPEAKER_05 39:33

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 39:34

When it happens, though, I'll tell you I told you so. But it's time for a kabrew.

SPEAKER_05 39:41

Hey. Newman's Corner pub and all you healthy drinkers out there and you gamblers of life. Gamble responsibly, drink responsibly. Make love responsibly. But you can do that all at Newman's Corner Pub. I don't know if you can do the last part, but go on. You can meet someone there to do that responsibly. Jeff, we love you. In the western suburbs. Go find them. Tell them we sent you. You get a discount.

SPEAKER_03 40:11

Saw Jeff in here the other day.

SPEAKER_05 40:12

I haven't seen the mayor in a while.

SPEAKER_03 40:13

I saw him in here the other day with Logan. It was good to see him. They were watching the practice on Saturday. But Newman's Choir Pub, great, great sponsor, great men, good man. Go see him. Hampshire. Here's what we're talking today. We're going to build on the spring break theme. Right? We talk about teams going on trips, high school teams, right? Didn't happen when we were in high school, but every year for college, for my three years there, we would always go on a spring break trip. Right? Two years we went to Florida, one year we went to Hawaii. Right. And our pitching coach, who actually, fun story, Mike Dunn, pitched on the um, what was it? The the oh god, what year was it the the USA when they took second in the Olympics? I don't remember, but he pitched on the USA team that took second in the Olympics a long time ago. Great dude, big head. Every year when we would go on our trips, we'd you know put all your bags on the flight, you'd land, and you'd get to the gate and you'd wait for your bags and dollar a man. Right? So every guy on the team put a dollar in. So there's like, you know, 35 guys on the team, five coaches. It's like 40 bucks, right? Everybody puts in a buck, whose ever bag comes out first takes a pot. So you'd be sitting there and just be a crowd of dudes waiting for the first bag to come out, first bag to come out. Bam, somebody win, go crazy. Everybody else, boo, 40 bucks, win your money, right? You gotta have fun on the spring break trips, right? You gotta make memories, you gotta do stupid stuff, not too stupid of stuff. But I always found fun in the flights, in the games, at the at the at the terminals, right? I always felt like that was a fun part of my college experience in teams. I don't know if you've ever done the first bag out thing, but it was great. It's something that I think every team should do when they go on trips. When you get to the airport, you all gotta check your bags. You got your baseball bag going in. Dollar a man, man. First bag that comes out wins the pot.

unknown 42:18

Wow.

SPEAKER_05 42:19

I'm gonna do that with Nikki C.

SPEAKER_03 42:20

That's my uh that's my baseball story, cup of brew for y'all.

SPEAKER_05 42:23

We'll do a hundred bucks.

SPEAKER_03 42:25

Well, hey man, if you want to do five bucks ahead, you could really get the that's only one guy. It's only me, Nikki C. Yeah, but what what flight? Oh, yeah. We're gonna fly to Georgia. Can't drive to Georgia. I gotta fly to Georgia.

SPEAKER_05 42:38

Hey, hey, hey. I love being in the plane. Hey. I drive enough as it is, and you know this. If I can fly one time.

SPEAKER_03 42:47

One flight to Georgia. One flight, and then one flight to Florida. True. Fall. These these are all. I take care of you, don't worry. I actually have you guys into my freaking flyers. I don't even have to ask you for your birthdays anymore. Good.

SPEAKER_05 43:00

Good. I'm gonna ask my pilot friend to get us down to Indianapolis. Your pilot friends? Jake Thole. Jake Thol, good man. Yeah, great man.

SPEAKER_03 43:09

He's coach here.

SPEAKER_05 43:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 43:10

He's gonna fly you down.

SPEAKER_05 43:11

I've asked him. I call him today to fly me out in Springfield. Fly you to Springfield? Yeah. It's two and a half hours. If I can get there in 15, I'm good.

SPEAKER_03 43:29

Dude, do you notice flying with Jake Thor Springfield, Illinois?

SPEAKER_05 43:34

Do you notice all the celebrities dying these planes or helicopters?

SPEAKER_03 43:39

Listen. They're coming. I've never been in one of those small ones, but I I I don't know if I do it. Would you ever go skydiving?

SPEAKER_05 43:50

No. No.

SPEAKER_03 43:52

But you'll go on small planes, but you won't skydive.

SPEAKER_05 43:56

What's the difference between a small plane and a big plane?

March Madness Bracket And Tipping Debate

SPEAKER_03 44:00

thousand dollars you skydef a hundred dollars a hundred thousand a hundred thousand oh yeah put me up in that plane I need two parachutes why two because if the one that's the that's the fear so you're gonna put two bags on they always have two they have the emergency one so why do you need two if you always have two why are you asking for two if you already get two i don't get your I don't get your question why you said I need two but you already have two but I just need to make sure so you just need one but one has two emergency yes dude break your leg for a hundred thousand dollars maybe I got a funny joke for you tell heard a good joke on spring break from whom from my uh neighbor who's five okay guys got good jokes the five year old yep why does a duck have feathers that cover his tail ducks don't have a tail to hide his butt crack wow get it yeah the butt quack well you have to say it like that to hide the butt whack now imagine a little five year old dog that's ridiculous oh come on it's a good one Logan loves it now he goes around telling everybody oh he didn't tell me he just stares at you that's because you don't like him you just told me that Ethan's your favorite so what do you think Logan does that's because Logan doesn't say hi to me he knows Lily says hi to me he knows my brother Mooney keeps telling me that Logan's gonna be CEO one day that kid's gonna be a CEO one day I was like of what that was my response yeah of what I don't know curious did you watch uh March Madness watch the national championship terrible game agree but stayed at seven points the whole time the bracket is over who won 14 U. Timmy Estep takes it down he had Michigan winning it he had Michigan winning it wins the bracket how much how much you walk away with it$1,180. Wow what's a kid like that 60 dudes in 20 bucks a man you know who takes last place and gets his money back you the one the only Jenner Smith worst bracket out there 20 bucks back in his pocket where is Jenner Smith hello hercy high school but yeah I gotta pay the guys out but congrats youngest kid I've ever had to pay off the bracket yeah I know that's bad I didn't start it yeah you did no I just I just I provided an opportunity and don't forget to tip your waiter oh there oh you're expecting a tip huh listen hey what do you think about tipping people at McDonald's I've done it before what yeah you've tipped people at Culver's no what about Starbucks no so why McDonald's I don't know I was in college in college yeah were you early NIL no so where did you get this tipping money? Well just felt right at the time who did you tip specifically the drive thru guy oh I can't take that yeah you can here you go yeah all right right in his pocket I think it was after I ordered my food I got in uh so can I get McDonald's tonight? I junior year the guys I lived with we uh we went through like a month month and a half stretch where we talked backwards like we would say sentences backwards not not the like the words but like how you would start a sentence you'd go back you love I yes correct you love I if you're listening you love I correct you love I so we started you love I we started doing this so much man good that we got really good at saying like full sentences backwards like we could have conversations and it was just what spawned this boredom Bradley correct Peoria boredom yes or anything that what why do college kids do stupid stuff because they're bored or or they just are you know stupid stupid yes correct so I ordered one time in the McDonald's drive through completely backwards and the guy got everything right I think that's when I tipped the guy wow that's impressive I was so correct I was so impressed that he got I I said the whole thing backwards and I started he never said what he tied you could see it all coming up on the board and it was like bang bang bang it's like the guy nailed it said here's five bucks that's a smart guy he should be working there so I got five bucks wow but back in the day it's back in the correct back in the day in the early mid 2000s that was basically uh that was minimum wage 20 dollars 20 bucks back back then the day it was like 450 was minimum wage I mean think about it you not you but me when I started driving like when we were in high school and we started driving each other around like someone would drive for the night and you'd throw them like I don't know five bucks and that'd basically fill up his tank decent like that was that was the quarter tank. No five bucks gets me today a gallon half a cheeseburger at Fogo to Chow.

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Yeah medium yeah but that'll go back down gas is supposed to go down this week I hope so oil came crashing down.

RBF Poll Jersey Mikes Rant Finale

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Yeah so it's gonna go down again it was down and then it skyrocketed with all the nonsense going on but it'll go back it'll go down to the twos that'd be great and I mean dancing in the streets dance the night away dance the night away dance the night away I kind of want to call who you want to call ghost busters I don't know I just had a really good experience today and I was just so happy about it and I can't share it now but maybe she's you know it's gonna be great yeah we're gonna throw a shout out to someone really quick because I know he's listening I know he's gonna be pumped tomorrow morning I know he's pumped right now he's he's he's got his he's got his hat he's got a shirt he's got his stuff picked out he's ready to go tomorrow third string greatest greatest third string first base coach of all time right you have to have a third string first base coach because you never know when you're gonna be in a bind and you got to have someone to call on and you have to have Mr. Reliable and you know who the greatest third string first base coach is John Allison. John Allison hands down texting me the other day hey might need it here soon what are we thinking do I need to be ready and the the question's rhetorical because he knows you always gotta be ready you gotta have you got to have the turfs in the car at all times. You never know when you're gonna get the nod and well Scott's out of town where's Mike Tamman this rotation Dan's got to go to Vegas for the frozen four game one tomorrow I'm solo I gotta bring I gotta bring the big man into the dugout John Allison getting the nod game one. Does he have the jersey out already? That's what I just said were you not listening jerseys come on me go you want me to go pants tomorrow yes you want me to go full pants to please please and the jersey it'd be a statement yes or I don't have a jersey go in a suit change it up Pat Riley I'll show up in a polo no suit like I'm coaching the Little League All Stars because imagine you want to talk about viral content I show up to a game this year in a suit and coach the rebass in a suit you'd be a viral is that one video 100% I'm gonna do it Bond James I'm telling you I'm gonna do it which where should I do it MPL and only in Kokomo imagine all the people with their phones imagine all the people Nikki C and I coming up in suits men in black ooh just so you know if you guys do that you're both fired I come up to the plate the name's Bond and I will walk in the background I'm like ah these guys aren't with me they're trespassing please please get that's already that's already happened to me this year so if it happens to me a second time I I really don't care I'm past that point it's happened for all those out there that are religious please pray for Josh um yeah for his sanity for his his health for his well being and allow him to get through these next 30 days less less 20 days in a peaceful mindset please please send your best yes so I don't know how much more you you got tonight we we can keep going with this thing we can we can we can shut it down what do you what do you got anything else you want to say to the people today yeah I was told today that I have RBF what's rbf resting yeah by a certain lesson of mine mom she told you you had RBF yeah well what do you think she said I look unapproachable the mom of a lesson yes during the lesson no at before she saw me drinking a Pedialite and she said why are you drinking that and I said because I just need to stay hydrated and then I don't know what brought up my face or I was told I told her I said someone said I looked intimidating and she goes yeah you have RBF and I go what's that supposed to mean and she goes well you just do you know that's uh yeah that's awesome nah she I like her a lot she's one of the nicest moms you ever come across congratulations yeah she spoke the truth then I don't agree with her she was honest with oh so you agree with her no I'm just she was being honest with you the way she felt you gotta respect someone who's honest yeah I think I'm very approachable and intimidating I mean sorry I gotta cough did you say excuse me did you say God bless you because you didn't cough I did so I don't that's why you have RBF why because of stupid stuff like that I have a poll actually a poll yeah what do you mean an Instagram poll on what Instagram LF RBF and how's it going 66% say no I'm nice 34% say yes I have RBF.

SPEAKER_05 55:45

So three people have voted no a lot more people than that pretty interesting percentage numbers to tell me that it's more than three people I said 34% yeah and you said 66 that's 66 people no that's 67% two out of three voted no and one voted yes you know from people I'm seeing right now um it's all these people that run into the past that said yes that say do you get to see who is do you get to see who says yes yeah who said yes that I'm unapproachable Nikki C Nikki D.

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So these guys these guys vote on this yeah Tyler Quick if you I know T Quick yeah what do you mean if I remember uh conlash they all voted yes Luca Luca's vote doesn't count um a couple other and my brother Caleb no noah noah voted yes who voted no uh hold up here I want to know who uh who I want to well Doug Bass said I'm nice Doug E love Douggy I'm trying to uh Brooks Kookin said I'm nice all of my uh Montini boys said I'm nice all of my Loyola boys said I'm nice like they're voting and saying you're nice I have caption saying no Josh you're so nice and then I have the other one of no Josh yes Josh you're unapproachable so you chose what the caption is yes and then they just picked agreed yes so they're not technically saying it you said it about yourself and then you're you're instigating them to say it correct that that seems what this is this is the part of social media and your guys I drive the narrative stupid platform I'm the narrative I'm the rock star you're you're creating content and something to then walk around like oh so and so said this about me it's like no you said about yourself and then you told them to vote on it and then they voted on you and then you're trying to tell me that somebody said this about you. They didn't say it. You said it.

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They didn't have to click it.

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But you said it they'd have to agree with it.

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No but they didn't say it you know what this night is drawing me to McDonald's I haven't eaten McDonald's in eight years. Are you gonna get the Arch burger? I might just get the is that off arch manning I don't know oh I might get the chicken nuggets the chicken nuggets I love the chicken nuggets you'll get me with chicken nuggets what sauce uh the barbecue not the sweet and sour? No that's a mistake. No last thing I had tacos tonight.

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I can't wait to get home I'm gonna have like 10 tacos where's my invite taco Tuesday where's my invite no invite oh okay you didn't invite me to Fogo to show why should I invite you to my it was the pouring rain you wouldn't have left at nine o'clock to go to Fogo? Yeah if you would invite me all right I'm gonna do that this week not this week next week I believe it when I see it if she doesn't say yes if she doesn't say yes last thing I'll leave you with uh on my TikTok I post one of my postgame rants about Jimmy John sandwiches not Jimmy John's jersey mics yeah um it kind of caught fire um I had a lot of hate comments we're in Florida it's 95 degrees we lose the first game come out the second game yep get blasted struck out ten times we played fat we played lazy and I saw these kids just stuffing their face with these Jimmy John sandwiches in between and I went on a rant and I posted it because I recorded it on my glasses over a hundred thousand views this thing had a lot of hate comments people saying I'll read you some of the comments you ready you ready for this I don't want any hold up people all right here are the comments comment number one um your team got one hit because they can't hit the ball not because they ate a sub this is genuinely awful advice might be the worst postgame of all time what is dude talking about this is just terrible advice my roommate will generally snack on a micro microwaveable bacon and an energy drink and then go put up two pump skis a game sandwiches equal one hit and this is my favorite comment they're paying$5,000 for this team by the way not true um bros telling them not to eat jersey mics but wants them to drink 60 grams of sugar and then the my favorite one someone said I'm coach Julio and Nikki see's Captain Hook you know and then another guy said this guy's testing out his material in front of his baseball team man wow hey haters gonna hate I I forgot and I'm gonna talk to you about the Mickey D's because we talked about that and I said that's funny when I was in high school I'll never forget we had a doubleheader for this uh travel team I was playing for when I was 15 and uh some mom went out to McDonald's and bought like I don't know it seemed like she came back with like 50 cheeseburgers. I mean it was just bags of cheeseburgers I just started housing cheeseburgers in between the game and I probably had like four or five cheeseburgers and then the coach was yelling at me because he was like we gotta go the game start you got to get the shortstop you hit three homers after and I took a cheeseburger and I put it in my jersey sound like Connor Lash I took a button I unbuttoned it and put it in my jersey I ran out the shortstop and in between bitches I was pulling the cheeseburger out and taking bites.

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What happened that game?

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I don't remember but I remember eating a cheeseburger I probably had two hits but like the competition we were playing wasn't very good. That was an interesting team I played for I couldn't even tell you the field we were on the freshman uh freshman Hinsdale Central field Wow the things you remember in this sport that's all I have for tonight so I thank you all for listening and we always thank you for listening. Yeah we appreciate you and uh hopefully Josh will invite me to folder the channel I will I can get the burger this girl keeps the dumb red and then maybe he'll get an invite to taco dinner one day but thank you for listening good man show is back we'll be back again next week again you can get these in gonna bring a guest on next week we're gonna figure out who Birch Strain Birch strain oh I hope bird we do gonna get bird yeah yeah yeah so appreciate you listening Bruce sauce board puck out tonight um you love I