Ep. 05

Welcome to Fishing 4 Answers — where four friends cast their lines into life’s biggest (and funniest) questions. Join Matt, Chris, Joe, and Mark as they mix real talk, humor, and perspective on everything from what’s bothering them this week to what they’re loving right now. It’s part barstool conversation, part therapy session, and all honesty.
Whether it’s sports, family, work, or the stuff that makes you shake your head, these four dive deep without taking themselves too seriously. Come for the laughs, stay for the friendship — and maybe catch a few answers along the way.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:07

All right, guys. Welcome back to Fishing for Ancient, episode five, season one, episode five. It's myself. Joe's back after a one-week hiatus. And Chris is back here. First, we want to thank Jay Graz for jumping on last episode. Had a good time having our first guest. So that was that was good. Yep. Nice job, Jay. And uh so now, yeah, now we're into episode five, which is crazy. We have our our theme today. We wanted to go with uh the Olympics. Yep. So as we're filming this, the Olympics are going on. So when you listen to it, I'm sure it's gonna be over for about a month. But um as we're as we're doing this, the Olympics are going on. So we thought we'd have a we'd have a theme today and talk a little Olympics. Yep. Present, past.

SPEAKER_00 0:54

Uh but how's everybody doing? Yeah, doing good, enjoying this uh this Tuesday of Olympic week. Maybe week two of Olympics? I don't know. Who knows?

SPEAKER_02 1:03

This was really your idea. I'm not really uh keeping up with the Olympic stuff, but we wanted to do this, so I guess we're calling it week two of the Olympics. I don't know. I woke up this morning, I was like, it might be week two of the Olympics.

SPEAKER_00 1:13

I know. Yeah, it probably is week two, and I think they run two weeks, and so that's it? Is it just two weeks? Just two weeks, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:20

It's just two weeks of the Olympics. If we're gonna do an Olympic episode, we probably should have done more homework on it.

SPEAKER_03 1:23

I asked you guys earlier if break dancing was part of the I clearly haven't watched.

SPEAKER_02 1:31

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SPEAKER_01 2:02

Never know.

SPEAKER_02 2:03

So then we can you guys can suggest what we uh what we talk about next time.

SPEAKER_00 2:08

Exactly. No, not us, you guys, wherever you guys are the people.

SPEAKER_02 2:12

The people, the people. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, all 12 of you that are listening. But episode five, I mean, this is people, I think people are actually listening to this.

SPEAKER_00 2:24

I think so. I think so. We're definitely getting feedback from it. We're hearing from a lot of the fans, you know. So anywhere later. Oh, I was thinking that. I wouldn't mind some hats, some shirts, and then we could wear them on the show, too. Yeah, we'll just invest in ourselves. Yeah, yeah. We're talking Olympics, we're Olympic podcasters.

SPEAKER_02 2:43

All right, well, let's jump into the Olympics. I mean, should we talk about our favorite events we've watched so far?

SPEAKER_00 2:48

Yeah, I think we can we could talk Olympics, uh format. Yeah. All right, so what's your what's your what's your favorite event? Oh uh, my favorite event of the Olympics is um the female figure skating. Why? Such a creep thing to say. It is it is, but I like the I like the theatrics behind it and the uh the way they skate and the flow of it, the music. I mean, of all the Olympic events, you know.

SPEAKER_02 3:19

I mean when I watch figure skate in the Olympics, the only thing I really think of is Blades of Glory. I just watched that out of it. Like it's so it's so underrated. Nancy Kerrigan's I put that down. Yep. I I think we should talk about the Nancy Kerrigan thing for a second. All right, yep, yep. If Nancy Kerrigan situation happened today, I feel like the story would be a hundred times what it really was when it actually happened. Worse. No, just the I mean, if you really think about it on the surface, like you're on a team with somebody and you're competing, even though you're competing at not it's individually, obviously, but you're both for the you know, USA, and you're competing against other countries and figure skating, and the person next to you that is supposed to be kind of on your team, even though you're competing against, takes a metal bat to your leg before you compete. I mean, that's insane.

SPEAKER_00 4:16

It's like, I don't know if that's classic.

SPEAKER_02 4:18

I mean, it was obviously a gigantic story when it first happened. Right.

SPEAKER_03 4:22

I just feel like with social media and everything now, it would just be like it's harder to be the only story in town. Like that was huge.

SPEAKER_02 4:29

I mean, what's that going back? 92? Nope, 94. 94? Lilyham? Lilyhammer? Okay, yep. So it was 19.

unknown 4:40

I forgot.

SPEAKER_03 4:40

I mean, I get that from Seinfeld.

SPEAKER_02 4:43

So 94, I've I was in middle school. So maybe I'm not maybe I'm uh downplaying how big of the story was, but it definitely was a gigantic story. I just feel like the story itself, if you think about it today, like someone took a baseball bat basically to the back of someone's leg before they're about to compete because they didn't want to lose to them. Yeah. Like that's insane.

SPEAKER_00 5:02

Yeah, that shouldn't go away. Yeah. You live in infamy forever. That's what you're saying.

SPEAKER_01 5:07

Lifetime ban.

SPEAKER_00 5:08

Well, yeah, but lifetime ban for the Olympics lives like one more year.

SPEAKER_01 5:12

Yeah, right, right.

SPEAKER_00 5:12

Especially back then because she definitely has to be gone. Although there is a there is a skater for the US this year. I don't know her name, but she looks like Tanya Harding. With the blonde hair and the little braids, too. Um can't think of her name.

SPEAKER_02 5:27

But I think Tanya Harding kind of wrote out her her fame a little bit though.

SPEAKER_03 5:33

Remember then she did uh ref and rowdy or something? She was like still.

SPEAKER_02 5:36

That's what I mean. I feel like she got she did all that stupid celebrity. Yeah, she got her money's worth for sure. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:45

That movie they did, I don't know if it was like a made-for-tv movie or something, but it's pretty good.

SPEAKER_00 5:55

Yeah. I don't I can't remember what the outcome of that was, right? Because did Nancy Kerrigan's jump still. I'm trying to look at it and like compete.

SPEAKER_02 6:05

She had she had a guilty plea.

SPEAKER_00 6:07

Yeah, she's like stoned him or something. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:09

So she pleaded guilty to conspiring to hinder the prosecution of the assault of Nancy Kerrigan. Because she didn't actually Who was it?

SPEAKER_00 6:17

Was it Jeff? Gallooly.

SPEAKER_02 6:18

Galli.

SPEAKER_00 6:19

Yeah, was that his first name, Jeff? That was her husband. It was? That was her husband. So she's been abusive.

SPEAKER_02 6:24

One, two, she's had three uh three husbands.

SPEAKER_00 6:27

Like he's kind of weird, though.

SPEAKER_02 6:28

And Galooley. They were only married for three years. Um, nineteen ninety to ninety three. So I don't know if she was those are the years. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:38

Actually, yeah, when it was Alto is his ex-husband, I believe.

SPEAKER_02 6:41

Yeah, yeah. So they had yeah, because that was ninety-four. This is what Google's telling me anyway. She admitted knowing about the attack afterward and failing to report it, but denied involvement in planning the assault itself.

SPEAKER_00 6:52

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 6:53

She got three years of probation, hundred thousand dollars in fines and court costs, and then a lifetime ban from U.S. figure skating. I knew it. Yeah, Jeff Galulli, ex-husband, racketeering.

SPEAKER_00 7:05

But now maybe she like skates out of Canada or something.

SPEAKER_02 7:07

I don't think she's skating at all.

SPEAKER_00 7:09

No, I'm sure not.

SPEAKER_02 7:10

And then uh then there were three people that were the attacker's accomplices. They they got assault and conspiracy to racketeering.

unknown 7:17

Jesus.

SPEAKER_02 7:18

Interesting. Yeah. Not that I'm again, it was a gigantic story. I just feel like it gets lost that two people, like one person just took somebody out. That's like if you watch that in a movie, you'd be like, oh, this wouldn't really happen in real life. This is kind of crazy.

SPEAKER_03 7:34

But that would get way off track.

SPEAKER_00 7:38

That's the point of this.

SPEAKER_03 7:41

Remember the guy who was accused of bombing or something, but he played Galoy in that movie, but he played the guy who was falsely accused of. The Atlanta? Yeah, yeah. What's his name?

SPEAKER_02 7:51

The same guy played played the same guy?

SPEAKER_03 7:54

I think. Google of course.

unknown 7:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:57

Definitely a typecast.

SPEAKER_03 7:58

That was another good kind of documentary kind of movie. The Atlanta bombing ones, yeah. That was wild. That was kind of crazy thing. Yeah, he got completely thought his life was ruined. Yeah. What was his name? It was a famous name.

SPEAKER_00 8:12

Gotta go back. Now we're gonna knock up. Go back to the Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 8:16

What yeah, would that one have been, though?

SPEAKER_00 8:17

Was Atlanta must have been ninety-eight then? 96.

SPEAKER_03 8:20

Yeah, it was 96, uh Olympics, yeah. But that was the summer some of the Olympic.

SPEAKER_02 8:24

But some summer No, that's what I'm not that. That's why we're talking about it. No. I thought you were staying, you were staying on. You said we're gonna go off track, but that's exactly what we're talking about. Well, that's supposed to be. That was Atlanta. So that was that was Summer Olympics '96, Kerry Strugg. Oh, yeah. That was a big Carrie Strudge. That's when she tore ligaments or ankle, and then she remember that one. You don't remember that. She did the pole vault. The coach carried her off. Yeah. That coach was a little creepy. They seem to they seem to come out. Uh Richard Jewell. Yeah. FBI did the FBI apologize to Richard Jewell, was the first question on Google. No, they have not.

SPEAKER_03 9:05

Did he play Galulli in another?

SPEAKER_02 9:08

Not Richard Jewel. No, Richard Jewell.

SPEAKER_00 9:10

So who played Richard Jewell in the movie?

SPEAKER_03 9:13

Whatever.

SPEAKER_00 9:14

So wait, even back then they were doing the Olympics every two years? Remember it used to be every four years? Yeah, but it's it still is.

SPEAKER_03 9:20

It's the winter Olympics.

SPEAKER_02 9:22

Winter Olympics is every four years. Summer is every four years, but it's on a two-year cycle.

SPEAKER_00 9:26

Cycle of that. But it used to be that it was four years and you had winter and summer the same year.

unknown 9:32

Maybe, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:33

Really? Yeah, yeah. Remember that? Like that's they changed it.

unknown 9:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:36

Because they wanted to get it every on a two-year cycle.

SPEAKER_02 9:39

Paul Walter Hauser played um Richard Jewel. He's um Academy Award winning. He is?

SPEAKER_00 9:48

No, I have no idea.

SPEAKER_03 9:50

Ah, he won a he won a Golden Globe. For that Tony Harding documentary?

SPEAKER_02 9:55

Um it's I'm trying to see what he's what he's been in. Movies and shows. He was the Richard Jewel one. He was in the new Naked Gun. Did you see the new Naked Gun? No, no, yeah. It wasn't as good. But I I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. I laughed. I like the commercials. I'm not seeing anything with the uh that he played.

SPEAKER_00 10:17

You think you're spelling Galuli wrong?

SPEAKER_02 10:18

I didn't put Galooie. I put the if it if it's this guy, then it would show like what movies he's done.

SPEAKER_00 10:23

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:25

He's been in a lot of movies. But uh I'm not seeing how he was in Old Dads. Did you see Old Dads? That was kind of funny.

SPEAKER_03 10:36

No, I don't see him there, but my not even documentary.

SPEAKER_02 10:41

Um so some of the some of the weird there's so the winter I feel like has some interesting.

SPEAKER_00 10:49

Well, what are you sticking with? Are you sticking with your favorite one then? What's your like what's your favorite one?

SPEAKER_02 10:52

Oh sorry. Yeah, my I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 10:56

I mean, take the hockey out of it, right? Like that's it, that's an easy one.

SPEAKER_02 10:59

Yeah. I feel like hockey, when I was looking at all this, I was watching the hockey game earlier, and you know, guys are whacking each other and it's hockey, they're fighting each other and getting pissed at each other. Yeah, don't cut that. No, but I'm saying like everything else, even though it's kind of some team event, hockey seems like the only real true team event. Like I know two me and Bob's too man, but you're not competing against anybody. You are competing against somebody, but not really like in each other's faces.

SPEAKER_03 11:32

No, I think after that you're battling against your own teammates to come off the I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 11:36

Like curling any event. I'm watching curling and they're doing the curling, and the guys are there, but it's it's I guess it's less competitive. Less competitive, I guess is what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_00 11:45

Like the hockey is probably the most competitive against each other.

SPEAKER_02 11:51

I've been watching curling a lot in the last half.

SPEAKER_00 11:54

There's a ton of curling the last three days.

SPEAKER_02 11:57

So I don't understand what's happening. I don't really understand it.

SPEAKER_00 12:00

I'm gonna take a guess. I think you have to get your uh block, whatever that thing is, in the middle.

SPEAKER_02 12:07

Well, yeah, right. I understand that. But even like the curling part of it when they're yeah, when they're sweeping, like are they are they actually getting it to move a certain direction?

SPEAKER_00 12:17

So I saw the I was watching women's curling and the lady threw. Of course you were. It's the only thing you've been watching. Is there men's curling? Is there men's curly? I don't know. Yes, I was watching men's curly this morning, yeah. So um as they let it go, the lady's sitting there and she's sliding on the one knee, which is kind of cool looking too, and she's floating that, and she started saying, curl, curl, curl. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:38

So like they start brushing, right?

SPEAKER_00 12:41

But like, yeah, but like is it curling? Is it the name of it because it curls in? That's a good question. Yeah, you would think it's not windy at all.

SPEAKER_03 12:50

Trivia question for the collins.

SPEAKER_00 12:53

Yeah, so I think as you're brushing and scraping, it starts to move. That's what I think. I mean, that's gotta be what they're doing.

SPEAKER_03 13:00

Why else would they be?

SPEAKER_00 13:01

But one one is one is shoveling like a maniac, and the other one's standing there waiting for something adjusted or something.

SPEAKER_02 13:08

Like I was watching this morning. It was live this morning, and the US was playing somebody and they're mic'd up so you can hear them talking, and the you know, the blocks are in spots and they're about to go, and they even at the point where they're about to go, they're they're a lot of them aren't on the same page of where to put the block. Yeah, they're like, Well, I don't know, maybe we could do this or maybe we could do that. It just doesn't it start with all the blocks in the circle? You gotta bump some out or something. No, I I don't think it starts with no nothing, I believe.

SPEAKER_00 13:35

I saw one it started with there were two on like four on the outside circle. No, I don't know. You know, I mean we're probably should have stuck with hockey. Maybe women's curling has different rules than men's curling.

SPEAKER_03 13:47

There's definitely they're trying to move that and get it to end and it's like club.

SPEAKER_00 13:51

It's almost like bocce in the ball in the center is like the the I forget what you call the white ball.

SPEAKER_02 13:58

It's similar to that because they're trying to bump them out and then it's all strategy on how to move it. And because there was some there was an issue in the prelims where I think it was Canada like touched it after. That was wild. So he released it and then like gave a little figure to it.

SPEAKER_00 14:15

So there must be I think there's a line.

SPEAKER_03 14:17

You're like you can't.

SPEAKER_02 14:18

There was a lot of FUs.

SPEAKER_03 14:19

They were they were motherfucked like mother effing each other. Oh, really?

SPEAKER_02 14:25

That's interesting, yeah. So at this point, there's not many, again, when we were talking about this, there's not many that um have metals. There's a few different events that have metaled, but everything else seems like it's really going. So looking at this, the what do you mean? Like to like it finished. Like the two-man bobsled's done. They're they've they've already metaled. Oh, oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:51

So they're pretty good.

SPEAKER_02 14:52

Yeah, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 14:53

So they have six bob bobsledders? I never. I mean, that's pretty quick math. That was pretty quick math.

SPEAKER_02 14:59

Two, four, six. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:01

I think three teams in case someone gets sick, though.

SPEAKER_03 15:06

Yeah. But wow. Yeah, why how I didn't know a country could win gold, silver, and bronze.

SPEAKER_00 15:13

I didn't know they had that many in there.

SPEAKER_02 15:15

So the and the who finished fourth. Yeah, right. Who finished the US finished fourth? There's no other German team, but there's there's no other there was three teams. Switzerland had three teams. Wow. Um, you know what? China had two teams.

SPEAKER_00 15:32

You know what? South Korea had two teams. They probably go from mono to two to four, and it's all the same people, and they separate them.

SPEAKER_02 15:42

No, I'm like, there's there's six people.

SPEAKER_00 15:44

No, I know, but I bet you two of them are on the same team when they do a four-man bobsled. You know what I mean? Like you don't miraculously have four separate guys outside of the six four-man bobsleds made up of those.

SPEAKER_03 15:57

Made up of those six people. Some of those guys. Sure, sure. But these are that's kind of nuts.

SPEAKER_02 16:04

I think they would have three teams to qualify. Because that's all qualifying, so three teams from Germany qualified. I mean, that's all that is. Yeah, right. So when that when they're qualifying.

SPEAKER_00 16:13

But they also go along for the ride, right? The guys in the back, especially on a format, they do nothing. They have to do nothing.

SPEAKER_02 16:18

I mean, they're just we could sit back there. Doesn't matter. Completely.

SPEAKER_03 16:22

Oh, the two people in the middle. Someone lighter or like yeah, like a drink supposed to be. There's got to be some way around it. So that's an interesting question.

SPEAKER_00 16:31

Do you think it's the driver or is it the sled? I mean, I mean, would you bet the sled? Right? I mean, they always tell you to bet the Jamaican bobsled team. I mean, they didn't have a great sled. They figured it out.

SPEAKER_03 16:43

Oh, I guarantee there's a top line sled and that bought, you know.

SPEAKER_00 16:47

Yeah, but at that level, they gotta be all similar. Right. Yeah. I mean, do you think that's the greatest story of all time?

SPEAKER_02 16:53

The Jamaican bobsled John Candy. I mean, God bless his soul. Freestyle. Did you watch that? Uh uh. No, no, good.

SPEAKER_03 17:02

The John Candy document. I haven't watched it. I haven't watched it yet. I'll probably cry. Yeah. It does look like a good one.

SPEAKER_02 17:09

Uh Freestyle Skiing is done too. And that was Norway, United States, Austria. One, two, three. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:16

That's fun to watch. Lindsey Vaughn. Kerry Von Erick. Yeah, Lindsay Vaughn.

SPEAKER_02 17:22

Kerry Von Erick?

SPEAKER_00 17:23

The wrestlers, the wrestler fan? I thought you were going to say Von Van Trapp or something. What's that guy from Sound of Music?

SPEAKER_02 17:28

They said it had nothing to do with her knee, even though her knee was shredded. Oh, yeah. It's like, yeah, shredded had nothing to do with it. No. She just couldn't turn one with it. That's how, isn't that how the ACL works? I would I would think it would have something. Yeah, I mean, she's worth millions. Yeah, she's doing fine. She's doing fine.

SPEAKER_00 17:46

A lot of but again, all these people do is all this training for this. So I was kind of going to bring that up, right? One is on the Bob Sled side. How about this monobob? Did you see that? Have you ever heard that word before? I got it in my list here. Monobob, you're going by yourself. Solo. Like you you're in the sled by yourself.

SPEAKER_03 18:06

Oh, in your head first?

SPEAKER_00 18:08

No, that's I think that's skeleton. That is skeleton.

SPEAKER_03 18:12

How is that?

SPEAKER_00 18:13

Like this you're in like the full the full train. And you're by yourself. So you're the pusher, the driver, the whole bit. And they call it monobob.

SPEAKER_03 18:23

That makes more sense.

SPEAKER_00 18:24

You have the two, the four, and the monobob. Yeah. But that's a terrible name, monobob. Yeah. I mean, I they gotta come up with something better than that. Anyway, the lady last night, again, I was watching women's monobob, and she won the gold. But to your point. No, I don't even know why those two words go together, but um, she's won she's won bronze, she's won silver, and last night she won the gold. Three different events. No, no, in her whole career. She's been doing this for years. Um to your point, though, never heard of her, no idea who she is, must train her ass off. Oh, yeah. Um, I was saying she obviously needs a full-time job. Monobob's not paying her bills.

SPEAKER_02 19:14

Yeah. But then you don't know, like some of it is just sponsorships and they get paid through that. And then at the Olympics. I would to some degree, I would agree, like maybe figure skating, but like Monobob?

SPEAKER_03 19:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:24

But you know, sometimes you don't know, like, and I have no idea, but like what's her following on social media, like it's a new thing. It's crazy, you know. Because um, the girl that uh speed skater from Norway, I think, that dates um not Logan Paul. She has a lot of followers? The other Paul. Did you see her? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So like what's Logan, what's Logan's, what's uh the other Paul? Jake Paul. Yeah, yeah. So it's like Jake Paul's girlfriend or something. See the one that just sold the Olympics. Logan Paul.

SPEAKER_03 19:57

Oh, it was how many Paul? There's two. Oh yeah. Logan's the one who fought no Jake Paul, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:03

Logan Paul's in the WWE. He sold his Pikachu card for $16 million. I couldn't believe that last night. $16 million last night. I started digging through my Jake Paul's the boxer that then is this the Norway speed skater's boyfriend.

SPEAKER_00 20:17

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 20:18

Why are these people famous? Well, they're influencers. Yeah, they just they had a YouTube page and they did start a podcasting. We'll tell our story one day. We'll clip all this stuff later on.

SPEAKER_03 20:32

When you're dating Tanya Harding. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:41

Um maybe not my favorite, but I think the craziest one is the biathlon. The cross country, the skiing, and the shooting.

SPEAKER_00 20:49

Oh, that's wild. This is crazy. Crazy. It is wild at this time. Like you're watching it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:54

And they just got their gun there and they're shooting a little target. Even without the other part, like the shooting is a big sport, I think. Like even without the skiing and jogging. It is.

SPEAKER_01 21:07

Well, shooting's a big no, no, right, right.

SPEAKER_03 21:11

Lots of people have guns. No, but like they go and do competitions. Yeah. Like ski shooting. Oh, ski shooting, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:21

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:22

Might as well just strap a gun on your back. That is a wild, that is a wild uh event.

SPEAKER_02 21:27

It's just like and then you watch these events and you don't really know what's going on or how to how to score it. And then the people that are doing the commentating, it's kind of interesting. I I find that fascinating. Is they have these professional people that you have no, it's not like Bob Costas is doing the biathlon. They have Joe Schmoe is doing the biathlon. That's like the greatest biathlon person ever. Nobody knows who he is. 16 gold. Everything about it. Right. And they just get all these people and bring them in to be part of the Olympics. It's kind of crazy. Because each event has those that professional. Person kind of.

SPEAKER_03 22:01

So imagine how many people are fighting for that spot.

SPEAKER_02 22:04

How many?

SPEAKER_03 22:06

Imagine you get an invitation for that. When speech shooting cross-country skiing, if that's what it's called. Yeah. What do you do after that? That's my point.

SPEAKER_00 22:16

You win the gold and you kind of just like tuck that thing away and like.

SPEAKER_02 22:20

Would you see that they're all breaking? The medals are all breaking. They're not real. No, I think it's it's just uh however they did.

SPEAKER_00 22:29

But if you win a gold medal and a there's no way that's real gold. There's no way that thing would be worth a million dollars. Because how big it is. Yeah, but gold is a little bit more. We just throw around stuff. We have no idea what we're talking about. Well, there's no way it's a block of can't be a block of gold. Yeah, I mean that thing would be worth $10 million. And then imagine you come in second place, you work just as hard, and then you get a block of silver. It'd be like, thanks. Yeah, silver is what if silver's worth.

SPEAKER_03 23:03

Alright, then bronze, maybe bronze is the worst. Obviously, yeah, it's third place.

SPEAKER_02 23:07

Modern Olympic gold medals are not made of solid gold. They're primarily sterling silver. Sound effect machine.

SPEAKER_04 23:16

Let's test it out.

SPEAKER_02 23:17

So they're not made of solid gold. They're primarily sterling silver. Yeah, that would make sense. At least 92.5% silver. Yeah. So I'm winning a gold medal. It's actually silver. Yeah. It's like hitting a million dollar scratch ticket. That's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_03 23:30

We're gonna change that.

SPEAKER_02 23:34

50 to 523 grams of silver, six grams of gold.

SPEAKER_00 23:38

Six grams of gold, right. And that's still probably worth some money.

SPEAKER_03 23:42

Fucking head. Didn't get the ad free.

SPEAKER_02 23:44

How many people do you think that have won a gold medal have sold it?

SPEAKER_00 23:47

Oh bunch. Oh, I would well, yeah, but if you had to quantify it. No, I bet you it's probably like donated, maybe. I bet you it's like 15.

SPEAKER_04 23:56

What?

SPEAKER_03 23:56

You know what I mean? The all the Olympics?

SPEAKER_00 23:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:00

Thousands of athletes.

SPEAKER_00 24:02

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:03

Well, I mean, a hard time. Have you ever seen Rage and Bull?

SPEAKER_00 24:07

Yeah, but think of the path of selling your Olympic gold now. Like, talk about Olympia.

SPEAKER_03 24:12

Yeah, it would be a low point.

SPEAKER_00 24:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:14

But you think like hundreds of low point people? So there's no specific official tract percentage. I'm all just looking stuff up, man.

SPEAKER_00 24:22

I wouldn't think so.

SPEAKER_02 24:25

What do you think it cost? So the 2026 Olympic gold medal, what do you think it's approximately worth? I would go money. No, like money, like put a dollar value on it.

SPEAKER_00 24:35

$750.

SPEAKER_02 24:36

$750? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:38

Like if you would sell it on eBay? No.

SPEAKER_02 24:41

Just like what would it be worth? Like the metal itself. Like if you were to just the metal. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03 24:45

I'm going to say $85.

SPEAKER_02 24:49

$85? $20 $2,400.

SPEAKER_00 24:52

Oh, okay. That's gold is expensive right now.

SPEAKER_02 24:55

While the metal is worth over two grand, medals often sell for far more at an auction, sometimes in tens of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

SPEAKER_03 25:02

I would think, yeah. I mean, some gold medals would be.

SPEAKER_02 25:05

Remember uh Ryan Lochney, the swimmer? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he sold three of his gold medals for a combined. What do you think?

SPEAKER_03 25:12

I'm gonna go five thousand. I'm gonna go more than that. So he sold three?

SPEAKER_02 25:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:19

No, no, no. Five thousand? Five thousand dollars. Why do you think he's selling them? No, no, no.

SPEAKER_02 25:24

No, what do you mean? He needed money for something. No way. 300,000. He did? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:30

Do I win or lose?

SPEAKER_02 25:32

That was just in January. Excellent. Yeah, just in January.

SPEAKER_00 25:35

Why would you sell you medals? No, well.

SPEAKER_02 25:37

Jesse Owens gold medal was auctioned in 2013. Yeah, that's different. 1.4 million. Greg Luganus sold his Olympic medal in 2025. Very recent here. How much do you think he got?

SPEAKER_03 25:50

More or less than less.

SPEAKER_00 25:53

Really?

SPEAKER_03 25:54

Well, Jesse Owens is most famous.

SPEAKER_00 25:56

Oh no, wait. More than Jesse Owens or more. No, no, more than Ryan Lochman. Yeah, yeah. I'd go more than Ryan Lochman. 430,000.

SPEAKER_03 26:02

Yeah, much more.

SPEAKER_00 26:03

Yeah. It's kind of crazy that.

SPEAKER_03 26:05

What's a big uh the guy who won like 30 of them?

SPEAKER_00 26:09

Oh, Michael Phelps. He probably doesn't sell it. Why would you sell you an Olympic medal ball? But he's worth 30 of them. Yeah, but Michael Phelps isn't the media's commercial. Where's the other guys?

SPEAKER_02 26:21

Michael Whelps's net worth. What do you think that is? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:26

I'm gonna go like 110. No, no, no way. I'm gonna go like 17 million. 100 million. He is? Source of wealth. No source. Olympic winnings. I mean, no sense.

SPEAKER_02 26:36

No, he's one of the rare. But I mean, how much are you really making? You don't make that much winning. No, it's all the um, and now he's a public speaker. He like goes around and talks and does a lot of fortune. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:51

I feel like Britney Spears just sold her whole record album for like $50 million. Yeah, well, she's an absolute lunatic.

SPEAKER_02 26:58

Yeah, but she should be worth more than much. She probably is. She probably was at one time, but yeah, she's gotten her story. That's that's like unfortunately. That's a that's like a four-part series of a podcast to talk about Britney Spears.

unknown 27:10

No.

SPEAKER_00 27:11

Well, we could get into the Britney Tiffany, uh Debbie Gibson story. Save that for a different day. That's a teaser. We'll leave that to our podcast youngsters to figure out who Debbie Gibson is, first of all. And Tiffany for that matter. And Britney, probably, I guess, right?

SPEAKER_02 27:30

So I guess I guess this is so it's different for each country. So the country pays out an athlete for winning. So the Olympics doesn't.

SPEAKER_03 27:38

Oh U.S., yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:40

So the United States athletes receive. What do you think you would so I win a gold medal and Bobsled? How much do you think they pay you? Hundred grand. $75,000. $37,000. You work four years, you win a you win a gold medal if they give you $37,000. Gold medals, uh gold nothing for four, I would assume.

SPEAKER_00 28:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:01

Silver's twenty-two thousand. Bronze is fifteen thousand.

unknown 28:06

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 28:06

What's the point?

SPEAKER_02 28:07

And then after that, you're gonna be a good thing.

SPEAKER_00 28:09

So like your monobobbing your sell your life away.

SPEAKER_02 28:11

If you look other countries such as Singapore and Hong Kong offer substantially higher rewards for gold, exceed exceeding so Singapore, 790,000.

SPEAKER_00 28:22

Well, they probably have to go to the gold.

SPEAKER_02 28:24

Hong Kong, 768,000. Italy, 214,000, South Korea, 200,000, Poland, 200,000. Plus, you get a luxury apartment and car. It's all Google.

SPEAKER_00 28:37

I love how we're believing the internet, too. It's Google. Do you remember Alberto Tomba, the Italian skier? No. From the uh I'm just glad you bring up a male. Yeah, yeah. He was from the I think he was from the 90s. He was a he was a great skier.

SPEAKER_02 28:54

I looked up so when I looked this up, just like stories, like Olympic stories, almost all of them were summer stories. I just wrote like I put in you know some Olympic, some fun Olympic stories or interesting, and it was Ali in 60. Oh, yeah. Uh Cassius Clay went in gold when he was 18. Then it was Carrie Strugg, who you don't remember. Hussein Bolt. Oh yeah. The whole Bruce Jenner Bruce Jenner. Yeah. Uh Mary Luretten.

SPEAKER_00 29:26

I don't know who was Bruce Jenner. Formally.

SPEAKER_02 29:28

Formerly Bruce Jenner.

SPEAKER_04 29:30

And then I'd watch him now. Remember that? I would watch him in the female.

SPEAKER_03 29:36

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:38

They were like the Reebok guys, I think.

SPEAKER_03 29:40

Yeah, from the 90s or 80s or whatever, without telling me.

SPEAKER_02 29:43

Was it Dan and Dave? Was that what it was?

SPEAKER_03 29:46

Was it Nike or Reebok?

SPEAKER_02 29:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:49

It wasn't Dan and Dan, was it?

SPEAKER_03 29:50

Well they Dan and Dan. Yeah. And they were supposed to be like Janney and what's his name? We got two like rookies.

SPEAKER_02 30:00

Dan and Dave campaign was famous. 1992 Reebok Marketing Blitz featuring American Decathlon.

SPEAKER_00 30:07

We got the names wrong and the years wrong, but we got the Reebok right.

SPEAKER_02 30:11

Dan O'Brien and Dave Johnson, branded as the world's greatest athletes. Why both were favored? Dan O'Brien failed to qualify after missing all pole vault attempts at the trials. At the trials. Yeah, he never got it. Never even got it. And Dave only won bronze. Loser. O'Brien later won gold in 1996. Nobody cared at that point. They have a good 30 for 30 podcast, they said, so maybe we could talk to our podcast friends some of the things. We can uh bring that up to our when we go to our podcast.

SPEAKER_03 30:43

Have you ever watched that one?

SPEAKER_00 30:45

I never watched the documentary. I used to watch the hot dog eating 30 for 30.

SPEAKER_03 30:55

Oh, he dominated the sport. Like everyone loved him. It was like put it on the map. It was never USA versus Kobayashi. So Joey Chestnut comes along who idolized Kobayashi. Is that the guy from Usual Suspects? Who am I talking?

SPEAKER_00 31:10

Yeah, no, that's that's Kaza Sose. Kaza Sansei Sosei. Which we talked about in episode one. Episode two.

SPEAKER_03 31:21

Anyhow, yeah. So Joey Chestnut comes around and he becomes like this big thing, and they made it like wrestling like iron cheek versus Hal Kogan. And poor Kobayashi was for you kids that don't know what we're talking about. Yeah, yeah. Kobe the poor guy. So he was like heartbroken. All his fans turned on him. He's like, I never even thought of this as you know, America versus Japan.

SPEAKER_00 31:48

It's such a gross thing to watch, though, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03 31:50

No, but it's wild, like the but the Joey was idolized, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02 31:57

I mean, it's kind of like the Olympics. No, well like WWF. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:04

But so then Kobayashi bailed out all together. It was the same. And that's what they referenced. Probably got forced out. Poor guy. Yeah. He seems to be doing all right, though. Yeah. But it was a you never I never thought of that. That aspect of what it's interesting.

SPEAKER_02 32:25

The um going back to the Winter Olympics. Yeah, right. There are some very it's when you look at this list of July 4th episode.

SPEAKER_00 32:33

Yeah. Hey, let's say that for the summer show. Well, we'll be off in the summer though. We don't work summers. Oh, we don't, yeah, that's true. I mean, like every radio station, you take the summers.

SPEAKER_02 32:42

We're not a radio state. We're a part of the state. I mean, based on this, I mean, this episode could come out in the summer. We don't need to crap. Trying to time it. Yeah. So we got there's snowboarding, which I haven't seen yet. I don't think that's gone on now.

SPEAKER_00 33:02

Um women's snowboarding was already on. Oh, it was. Yeah. There's five versions of it. Is it good? The girl from uh uh the U.S. girls, unbelievable. Really? Yeah, young girl. I think she's like 16 too, and she does like the I was gonna make a joke with them. No, well, I mean they're so good at it, but they do like they do the 1080s a big spin, but I can't figure out how many is that? What's that, two and a half? Can't do the math that quickly. I try to count it, but they do it so quick. Anyway.

SPEAKER_02 33:29

Ski jumping, skeleton.

SPEAKER_03 33:33

The ski jumping's a yeah, it's like they're all the same. You want to see a wipeout now and again. You want to see something. It's like when they land it, it's like ratings would be kind of like the figure skating, like when they throw the girl in the air, and you're like, boom, I don't understand how they don't.

SPEAKER_00 33:49

That whole thing is. First of all, you know, I mean, you've been you go out. You know when you fall on skates? Oh my god. Can you imagine being 10 feet in the air? No. And landing on your elbow? No. Oh.

SPEAKER_02 33:58

Wearing nothing. And the crazy thing about figure skating is when you they're professionals, right? So they're they're unbelievable at it, and they do it, and it's so but when you first start and you see like young kids doing figure skating, they're not wearing helmets or anything. Yeah, right. It's like what are we doing? Right. How are they how how do you see that that more people aren't falling and hitting their heads? I don't know. I don't understand. Then the the speed skating, you see the speed skating? Chops back and forth.

SPEAKER_00 34:28

That kid, they uh I forget the kid's name. What's his name? That won the gold. From the US? From the US. Yeah, yeah. Um I saw him, he was talking, he was he was in a race, and I think he was losing the race. And he said, just said to him, they interviewed him after and he won the race, but they interviewed him after, and they're like, Well, what's going through your head? I forget the kid's name. Uh he goes, I just was skating and I was losing. And I said to myself, I ain't losing this race. And he just picked up and won. I want to run through a wall right now. Oh, yeah. It was just like, I'm so awesome. I'm like, good for him. Now, to your point, I can't remember his name. I'll probably never see him again. He could walk him in this podcast with us and I wouldn't know who he is. And here he comes, and here he comes up next.

SPEAKER_02 35:13

Just off the plane from Italy. But seeing the speed skating, so there's the short track and then the long track, and I don't know. It's just crazy. There is two different ones.

SPEAKER_03 35:25

Yeah. Yeah. And it's a big difference, the short track versus the long. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:30

I would like to see one of them go against Iconor McDavid. Because I wouldn't I want to know, are they much faster?

SPEAKER_02 35:37

They were going, they were going at like almost the men were at like 40 miles an hour. The women were at like 36, 37. Right. So what does like McDavid do?

SPEAKER_04 35:49

You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 35:49

Like, imagine putting him in that, which I bet you they've done. Because it's obviously two different skates. So like I wonder how that's gonna be. Yeah, the long blade obviously must help.

SPEAKER_03 36:00

But just straight away regular rink.

SPEAKER_00 36:02

Yeah, but just straight away speed, right? Just go.

SPEAKER_02 36:05

So this says again, AI on uh on Google says McDavid's top speed this season's 24.6 miles an hour.

SPEAKER_03 36:14

Oh, so he's way wait, what kilometers an hour? No, that's miles per hour. Yeah, if he had those skates and trained for that.

SPEAKER_00 36:20

Well, no, I don't. I mean if he switched sports, grew up, and became a power skater.

SPEAKER_03 36:25

That's it. So I was taller and better looking, I would have been a male.

SPEAKER_00 36:34

I want to see him go out right now, same skates, right? Little warm-up and go race the Olympic guy.

SPEAKER_02 36:39

As of February 26th, Jordan Stoltz. Is that the guy you're talking about? Yeah, yeah. He's widely recognized as the top male long long track speed skater. Olympic records and a couple different things. Yeah. Uh but the Dutch skater, I'm not even gonna try to say his name, holds the overall absolute speed record reaching 64 miles an hour in 2022. Whoa, man. So I wonder, is it easier to skate in speed skating skates or easier in hockey skates?

SPEAKER_03 37:08

I bet you the speed skating hockey to but do you go faster, probably using Yeah, because you've got a big long blade, you're pushing off of the whole thing, I would assume.

SPEAKER_00 37:16

Right?

SPEAKER_02 37:16

So 64 miles an hour. That's unbelievable. I wouldn't know they go that fast.

SPEAKER_03 37:20

I'd never think of that fast.

SPEAKER_02 37:22

We're actually for us not knowing anything about the Winter Olympics, we're learning a lot.

SPEAKER_03 37:26

It was pretty ballsy, pretty ballsy having a podcast about the Olympics. Yeah. And coming out topic, I was like, I don't think we came across as well.

SPEAKER_00 37:36

Chris Connors threw it out there.

SPEAKER_03 37:37

I don't think we advertise it as the expert side.

SPEAKER_02 37:40

We've already talked about the figure skating a little bit. Yeah. And then the freestyle skiing is also on the luge. That has a luge. The luge has got the that's the one where luge are on your back. On your back or the skeletons are facing down, which one is that?

SPEAKER_00 37:54

Yeah, I think I would assume skeletons facing forward.

SPEAKER_02 37:56

Because that's insane. Yeah, that is insane. Yeah. But I don't remember going headphones. I was watching it the other night.

SPEAKER_00 38:04

Yes. Yeah. But like you walk off the track, you win gold, and never see you again.

SPEAKER_03 38:10

And then be like, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:12

Yeah, nice job. They're all welcome.

SPEAKER_02 38:17

Alpine skiing, downhill, super G. What's the Super G? Um, so that's a big um like the X game.

SPEAKER_00 38:23

Do you know it? Yeah, that's the big downhill one, which I don't know if you have to go through the flags on that one. Or the flags might be the whole width of it anyway. But it might be the one without the flags. You just come down the track.

SPEAKER_02 38:33

So you have the giant Solemn? Is that what it's slalom? Slalom? Salmon. Is that is that the flags?

SPEAKER_00 38:42

No, no. So the giant the super G, I think, is just the big downhill. Go as fast as you can down the biggest moun you've ever been on. They hit like a hundred. Yeah, they fly.

SPEAKER_02 38:51

Yeah, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 38:52

So then I think the slalom is when you're going in between the flags. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 38:57

Right. So they have a giant and then a regular one.

SPEAKER_00 38:59

And then they have the quick one too, which was on last night, too. Yes, I watched it. That was kind of cool.

SPEAKER_02 39:05

It's been it's been interesting. Yeah. I don't know. I think it's some of it's kind of interesting that with the time difference. So like you wake up this morning, you turn on, it's live. Like that's that's always fun watching something live when it's going on. But then you're watching stuff later on in the day. Or they put it in prime time, but nothing is actually happening. It's all already happened before.

SPEAKER_00 39:26

Oh, yeah. I didn't even think of that, right?

SPEAKER_02 39:29

They did uh the NBA All-Star game was Sunday and they the it was at 5 p.m. because they wanted to make because it was on NBC and they wanted to make sure that they had the primetime Olympics at seven, eight, nine, ten o'clock. But then all of those were just basically replays. Yeah, right, right. If you were six hours ahead, right? They're six it'll be a little bit more. Yeah, they would be about six six hours. I think they said the gold medal game's gonna be at like seven in the morning or something for hockey.

SPEAKER_00 39:58

Oh, it is? Yeah. Why? Is that already out? Like who's in that? No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_03 40:04

You'd be able to get a window. Yeah. But I think we've all become so complacent with the internet that I didn't know there's a delay on any of those things. But I haven't watched any of them on Olympics I haven't, so you wouldn't realize this is a delay because you haven't watched it.

SPEAKER_04 40:20

But I'd seen that for all live. They look like that.

SPEAKER_02 40:23

They do show it live at different times during the day. So it's been on like different channels. And then Peacock, if you're on Peacock, you can watch everything. Oh, you can? Yeah. I thought that would. So TNT's not running it, or are they? It's NBC has it, so like USA. Oh, USA, yeah. C N B C is showing it, and then Peacock. If you're on Peacock, you can basically watch anything. Which is, I mean, if you think about it, the way it's come, where 10 years ago all this stuff's going on, and it's it's NBC telling you, all right, we're gonna go to this one, or we're gonna go to that one, and then you just you don't know what's going on where now you can go to an app and literally watch whatever you want to watch.

SPEAKER_00 40:57

Yeah, right, right. So yeah, which means those people were even less known back then. I know. That's right. That's the crazy thing. Unless you like the top of the top. Like merit and retin. They always love the skiing. They always show the skiing, right? They always show the figure skating.

SPEAKER_02 41:11

Um I'd say those are probably like your the ones that everyone kind of knows or can relate to a little bit. Yeah, it's probably not relate to, but I mean I mean how many people are you know biathlons? The male.

SPEAKER_03 41:24

Not many of us.

SPEAKER_02 41:25

Not that we're figure skaters, but it's kind of like that fun event that everyone Yeah, right.

unknown 41:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:30

Kind of I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 41:31

We're talking about it. I can't believe the Olympics has lasted this long.

SPEAKER_02 41:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:35

And it's still going like they're adding stuff. Yeah. That's probably why they're adding events.

SPEAKER_00 41:39

I bet you they've taken taken away events we don't even know. Like you don't even miss. Oh, actually, you know what's what I'm thinking of? Remember they used to do the skiing, and it was like the um uh I can't even say the word. Uh not aerobics, but like acrob acrobat, acrobat. They might still have that. They'd go out on the skis and like flip around on the poles and all that stuff. I don't think they do that anymore.

SPEAKER_03 41:59

Like the oh, like the dancing?

SPEAKER_00 42:02

Yeah, yeah. But they'd have the short skis, but they'd flip over and then go up on the tips and everything. Oh, they must still have the uh the bumps. Yeah, they gotta still have those. The mogul yeah, that's what it is. Oh, moguls. Yeah, that still has to be happening.

SPEAKER_02 42:16

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 42:16

I didn't maybe I know, I didn't see that though.

SPEAKER_02 42:19

All right, winter Olympic events removed or dis and discontinued. Ski ballet.

SPEAKER_00 42:27

That's Bandy. That was awesome.

SPEAKER_02 42:31

I don't know what was it called? Bandy, B-A-N-D-Y. I've never heard that word in my life. Speed skiing, sled dog racing, and military patrol.

SPEAKER_03 42:43

Sled dog, I remember.

SPEAKER_02 42:45

Oh, bandy, a precursor to ice hockey played in 1952.

SPEAKER_03 42:48

Oh, that's what I meant.

SPEAKER_02 42:52

Um snowshoeing. That appeared as a that stopped in 2020, 2002. That should probably should have stopped the year that started. I remember seeing that. Like people are like running in snowshoes. Like, what are we doing? That's stupid. Sled dog racing. Stupid uh 1932. Yeah, that kind of military patrol, a 1924 uh metal event involving skiing and shooting, which eventually became the modern day biathlon.

SPEAKER_00 43:18

Have you seen I thought it was going to turn into have you seen this event called Mountaineering? No. Where they're on like cross-country skis and they go uphill and they have something under their skis, like I don't know, if it's a sticky back or something. It helps them go up the mountain, they have to take those off, and then they race down to the bottom. Oh, really? Yeah. I don't think there's any shooting involved. It's it's some weird thing. It's kind of stupid too. And then there's a team event where you have it's a guy and a girl, and you do four laps, and the guy goes, races down, the girl goes, guy goes, girl goes. I don't know. Stupid.

SPEAKER_02 43:54

It's honestly, I mean, these people are unbelievable at what they do. The whole logic. The story is like, how did you get into some of this stuff? And how is it still going? How's it how does that keep going? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 44:08

How does that happen?

SPEAKER_02 44:09

Even by Athlon, like cross-country skiing and shooting. Like somebody is doing that since they've been 10 years old. Some people, some of these people don't go to high school. They're getting schooled at home and they're doing the whole thing to train for live up a cross country.

SPEAKER_03 44:24

Yeah. Um Olympic skier. I forget what year. Your cousin was an Olympic skier? Second cousin of mine. Well you start with that. You have an Olympic person in your second cousin?

SPEAKER_00 44:36

So was it your mother's cousin? Oh Jesus.

SPEAKER_01 44:41

Oh man. Down that road. Team Island, too? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 44:48

No, um America. Like Maine. They lived up in Maine. They're from Ireland already. That's a good.

SPEAKER_02 44:55

How do we feel about people that From Maine? No. No. So you have the person that lives here, but they have dual citizenship citizenship.

SPEAKER_00 45:08

My gut feeling is they didn't make the squad hit.

SPEAKER_03 45:10

Oh, 100%. That is that's not a gut. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:14

That's what happened.

SPEAKER_01 45:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:15

But it's kind of it's like cheating. Yeah, I think so a little.

SPEAKER_03 45:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:19

And there was somebody that just did it, right?

SPEAKER_03 45:21

There was somebody that um played basketball for Ireland, like yeah, yeah, that would have no chance of making it.

SPEAKER_02 45:32

Let's see. We're gonna ask uh Yeah, there's a most there's a recent one.

SPEAKER_00 45:35

There's one this year because I saw it. And it was like she's American and American born or playing for Team Canada or something. Well, that's a tough one, yeah. Well, I don't know if I have those facts right, but so did mountaineering not make the list of I didn't see that. Is it mountaineering again? You're out you climb up on skis and then you come down. Oh yeah. What the fuck? Yeah. Yeah, I mean makes a lot of sense.

SPEAKER_03 46:01

Yeah, I don't understand though. When did the Olympics start? Oh. Um wasn't it?

SPEAKER_00 46:07

No.

SPEAKER_03 46:08

I was gonna say 1923 was the first one, but no, it started in Greece and like was it like 5,000 years ago or was it a hundred years?

SPEAKER_00 46:18

Oh, we're only in two thousand and something.

SPEAKER_01 46:26

Pyramid talking? I double checked our math.

SPEAKER_00 46:31

Since this is the 33rd Olympiad.

SPEAKER_03 46:36

5,000 years ago, they didn't use numbers.

SPEAKER_00 46:41

Yeah. Well, they were using roaming numerals before that, so we're all confused. I always try to figure it out quick. I'm like, okay.

SPEAKER_02 46:55

Eileen Gu, G U, U.S. born representing China in skiing.

SPEAKER_00 47:00

That's it. That's her.

SPEAKER_02 47:01

Kaylee Humphreys, Canadian born representing the U.S. in bobsled. Kyrie Irvin, Australian born US basketball.

SPEAKER_03 47:10

Wow. That was a good idea.

SPEAKER_02 47:14

Other notable examples, skater Eddie Alvarez, obviously. Cyclist Clara Hughes. Yeah. And then MBA star Giannis.

SPEAKER_00 47:23

Oh yeah. Didn't want to play.

SPEAKER_02 47:25

Does he play for Greece or no? Uh born in Greece to Nigeria par to born in Greece to Nigerian parents. He represents Greece internationally while holding a dual shit citizenship in both Greece and I guess. No, Nigeria, not U.S. No, he's not a U.S. citizen? Oh, maybe. He'll be gone next week. Can't talk about that.

SPEAKER_01 47:59

And moving on.

SPEAKER_00 48:04

All right.

SPEAKER_02 48:04

Do you want to wrap up our Olympic talk? I mean, I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_00 48:07

I feel like nobody's even commented on their favorite or worst. Oh. I thought we just kind of went to the book. Oh, did we talk about all of them? All right. No, that's fine. We just ranked on all of them.

SPEAKER_02 48:14

My favorite one to watch besides the hockey, I think, has been the curling because it's been on the most, I would say. I'm thinking the ski jump, but I wish for a few more crashes.

SPEAKER_03 48:26

The skiing stuff's been fine. They look the same every time.

SPEAKER_02 48:29

The skiing's interesting to watch.

SPEAKER_03 48:31

Actually, yeah, the fast skiing's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_02 48:33

But I was watching a little biathlon because it was on, and it I just it's so boring. It's very so what's interesting about them. They just split screen it. It's not like, and then you just see that like, oh, it hits.

SPEAKER_00 48:43

And I was like, oh my God, unbelievable. It could be from here to the wall. It's like, oh, that's easy. You don't really know anything that's going on. What's interesting about biathlon is they obviously train for years to do this thing.

SPEAKER_02 48:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:54

And then I don't know how far it is. Is it like 15,000 kilometers? I don't even know what that equates to. That's probably 8 billion miles, but they do it, they shoot, and every 15,000 kilometers. Every time 8 billion miles. Every time. You follow the paper. They they come across the finish line, they all pass out. It's like, I know it was a lot of work, but you're an Olympic Olympic athlete.

SPEAKER_03 49:17

Like, you've got to be able to do a short sprint.

SPEAKER_00 49:20

I mean, no, I know, but you've practiced this 8,000 times. I would think. You'd have your arms up when you cross the finish line. Just saying, this guy's saying it. I've never done it.

SPEAKER_03 49:30

I've never done it either. I can imagine. When I'm sitting on my couch eating a bag, I mean I'm a bit of a walker, but that guy is.

SPEAKER_02 49:37

Jeez, he could go a little bit faster, couldn't he? And everything's tenths of a second. Oh, it is. I know. Insane. When they do the splits and it's like the guy's right, oh he's behind. It's like he's behind. One tenth of a second. I mean, he's right there, but it's that that's how close it is. Yeah, yeah. So when you let's let's maybe we can end on this one with the Olympics. When you think of the Olympics, what do you what's the first thing that comes to mind? Like event or situation, person, anything.

SPEAKER_00 50:08

First thing that pops to mind for me is uh Winter Olympics Lake Placid.

SPEAKER_03 50:12

Well, that's the one. For me as well. Yeah. I mean the same thing. But maybe after that Maybe the Carrie Strug.

SPEAKER_02 50:21

Carry struggl.

SPEAKER_03 50:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 50:25

But not even that so much, just Winter Olympics in general pops in my head when I think of Olympics.

SPEAKER_02 50:30

I was thinking like more of like uh an event or something that happened. So yeah, 80 Olympics with obviously miracle on ice. I would say mine, my second would be the dream team, 92. I forgot about that.

SPEAKER_04 50:45

Yeah, the Ben Johnson, Kyle Lewis. I thought that would go fart. All right, cool. Let's go.

SPEAKER_03 50:52

Um next time we're gonna prepare for the Olympics. Olympic talk. At the same time, it was awesome. I had the poster in my room, the whole lot. But it kind of ruined Olympic basketball. And then the pros started doing for hockey. Yeah, yeah. So that it it's good and bad that the pros are allowed to do it.

SPEAKER_00 51:15

I like that they're allowed to do it because it's fun you get to play for your country.

SPEAKER_03 51:20

It was awesome to see them all play for that country. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 51:23

That actually I thought was more fun.

SPEAKER_03 51:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 51:26

The Four Nations? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 51:27

But they couldn't do that probably I assume they're not doing it this year. But in a year they allow it right.

SPEAKER_02 51:34

No, but and there's so many teams. I think Italy is the only team, and then being the host team, but they're the only team that doesn't have an NHL guy represented on their team.

SPEAKER_00 51:43

Oh, no kidding.

SPEAKER_02 51:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 51:45

The guy from France, like there's not many cheap shot and get kicked out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 51:50

But like, you know, obviously US, Canada, the the entire team is NHL guys. But yeah, it's funny, like, everybody has multiple um NHL guys, and then Italy has zero. They just can get pumped. Yeah, I bet. Their goalie's actually been played played very well. So Alright. Well, I mean, I think we've beat the uh Olympics down. Yeah. With a bunch of false things we've said.

SPEAKER_00 52:19

I think they're all true. Fact-check ourselves.

SPEAKER_02 52:22

Yeah. We keep saying we'll fact-check ourselves, or we never do it. No, right. Last episode we talked about the guy that created Yellowstone. Completely wrong name. Yeah, it was, I know. We went uh I think we called him Mike Shelton or something. It's like Taylor. Was it Taylor Sherton? Taylor Sheridan, right? Taylor Sheridan, but we had that back. We said it back to the back. Yeah, yeah. We were like Mike. Not right. Mike. And we were very confident that it was not what it was. Maybe that's how it works. We just say it. Just again, there's not no one's listening.

SPEAKER_03 52:48

That's how it rolls. Eric Von Eric.

SPEAKER_02 52:50

Eric Von Erick. Eric Von Eric.

SPEAKER_03 52:53

That's a great movie. That was a cool movie. The wrestling movie there. I forgot that he had only he got the leg in, or he lost the leg.

SPEAKER_02 53:00

Lost the leg, yeah. That that's a whole that Von Ericks is a terrible story.

SPEAKER_03 53:03

What's that one? I don't know. They were Olympic wrestlers, right?

SPEAKER_01 53:06

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so still with Olympics. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 53:08

But they were a different name. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Von Ericks was just a made-up name.

SPEAKER_02 53:12

Yeah, that was their wrestling name. Oh, it was, really? Yeah. Sure, like everything.

SPEAKER_03 53:16

Because they thought the other name was cursed or something, right?

SPEAKER_02 53:18

Yeah, like the Well the twins? Oh, like the It was, but the whole family, like everyone, there's it's just tragic. Every one of their stories is horrible.

SPEAKER_03 53:27

It's like a tragedy.

SPEAKER_02 53:28

Yeah. Yeah. That was um Who Played? That was that movie was really good.

SPEAKER_03 53:34

Yeah, somewhat recent too.

SPEAKER_02 53:35

Yeah. It was very like in the last year. The Rock? The Rock. No, but that movie that he played, the the wrestler that he played. Yeah, I guess it's supposed to be pretty good.

SPEAKER_03 53:48

Tank Abbott. He was like one of the originals.

SPEAKER_02 53:53

Why don't we spin this around and go to our award-winning action? I gotta go see a man about a horse. This is a uh I don't know if I think we're up for an award, or people have been talking about the the segment of loving and hating.

SPEAKER_00 54:10

Oh yeah, yeah. I feel like it's been coming up, becoming very popular. People love to run up to us and be like, you know what I hate.

SPEAKER_02 54:15

I know. I mean the amount, I mean it's getting tough, like the amount of people that just come up to us now. It's uncomfortable. I mean, you're getting talked to at restaurants.

SPEAKER_00 54:23

It's just like it's like embarrassing. The drinks, yeah. Yeah, I know, I know.

SPEAKER_02 54:27

I I can buy my own drink. You know what I mean? It's it's been nuts, but fun. It is fun. Again, the 12 people that are hanging on to us.

SPEAKER_00 54:37

Yeah, thank you.

SPEAKER_02 54:38

I feel like the Why Joe's not here. I mean, should we do we should probably do merch? I mean, at least for the three of us. Or in four, Steve can get something.

SPEAKER_00 54:46

Produce some merch. I think we put the logo, get it on a hat, right? Get it on a shirt. Stop wearing it, maybe a couple of little vests.

SPEAKER_02 54:52

I mean, what we're really looking for is maybe a little sponsor, and we can put that little logo in the corner. And I think I might like it. I mean, that's probably what we're looking for. I mean, we're in episode five now, guys. This is real. Yeah, it's serious. It's happening. So, I mean, we've had guests on the show. We've done everything you could do in a podcast. I mean, what else besides a sponsor? So we'll be signing off shortly. Yeah. Besides the sponsor.

SPEAKER_00 55:14

I mean, I think if I had a bet, I'd I would have thought we'd be beyond S1E5, though, with the notoriety. S1E5. But I mean, do you thought by episode five we'd have sponsorships? Um, I would I didn't realize how much fame we'd have at this point. No. I thought it would take a little longer, but we're already there.

SPEAKER_02 55:33

And so um I had a I had a like just because I've always kind of had the beard, I had to fully shave because it was like didn't want people recognizing it. Please, this is this is just uncomfortable. You just understand what these people feel like, you know, these celebrities that walk around, and it's it's a burden.

SPEAKER_00 55:52

It's it's a lot. There's a lot of questions that get asked. How do you do it? What's it look like? What do you guys talk about? You guys are good at it. Yeah, oh yeah. Who's your producer? The compliments. Yeah, that comes up a lot. Who's the producer? It's producer Steve. I mean, if you don't know him, then somebody even pushed me a little. They're like, Well, who what's his last name? I'm like, I don't know. Beyond the curtain. Why are you asking me that?

SPEAKER_02 56:17

We gotta look for we I think the guest went. I mean, we're just kind of waiting until Joe comes back. Yeah. But we gotta do uh I thought the guest went well last week with Jay, so it's gonna be a good spot. Can we zoom can we zoom people in? Would that work?

unknown 56:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 56:33

Yeah, I got a few people that would want to do that too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 56:36

I think it'd be fun. We got a long list of guests. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 56:38

And I bet you would have to be. But he'd be up for it. Oh, he's no no, he's up for it. I think Brother Dan would be good. Brother Dan would be an in-person. Yeah, but also like there might be a ton of edits. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like we've had we haven't really had to edit anything, and he would be an edit machine. Yeah, yeah. He could go straight. We could not he could not he couldn't pre-game before. No, no, no. Right, right. We'd have to get him in on just I don't want him to lose his job. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Now, like the big brother's kind of kicking in a little bit. Like, hey, he went on the podcast, it went viral. Uh he lost his job. But it was worth it. All right, he's now the fourth guy. He's now the fourth guy. Welcome back, Joe. Oh, thank you. Yeah, we're waiting for it. We're waiting for it. All right, so we'll go uh loving and hating. Do you want to we'll start with the hating part?

SPEAKER_00 57:38

Oh, yeah, we always stop.

SPEAKER_02 57:39

Do you want me to go first? Yeah, go ahead, because I'm not prepared.

SPEAKER_00 57:41

I gotta bring it up.

SPEAKER_02 57:43

So this is so I coach high school hockey. And I've been doing it for a while. I don't know if you've known I've brought it up a couple times. Um so I play 20 games a year, so pretty much ten are at home and ten are away. The ten games that you're away, you're on a yellow school bus. When I tell you I hate a yellow school bus more than life itself. It is yesterday we had a game and you get on that school bus. First there, it's illegal us putting the bags in the bus anyway, because it's blocking every window and everything. And the guy's like, Yeah, you gotta do this. But you can't fit everybody in the bus, including all of their equipment. So it's an absolute cluster trying to even get the stuff on it. So you finally get everything on it. Bags are falling over. It's it it's the entire time you're just going up and down, up and down. The guy stopping and starting. I would say out of the 10 times I was on the bus this year, seven of them I wanted to throw up. Like legitimately wanted to throw up. Like I have to have a water with me. I can't look at my phone. Do you get the cold sweats? So I'm just listening and I'm like leaning against the front of it. There's multiple, and then I get up and I have like a red spot on my head, but I can't get comfortable on it. It's it's awful. And I've asked like multiple times at the AD. I'm like, hey, you know, can I take my car? Can I just drive? I'll be right behind it and I'll be and I'll be there when they get dropped off. I'm not gonna not be there when they get picked up or dropped off, but can I just take my car? Because I'm thinking, these school buses pick up seven-year-olds with nobody on the bus besides the bus driver. Oh, yeah, right. What do you need to be? So why do I have to sit here with these high school kids? As I want to just throw up in the front seat. Wait, it's a throw-up from a motion ticket? Yeah, it's just it's not the kids, it's not the kids at all. They're just sitting there, they're not doing anything, but it's the whole process of it.

SPEAKER_03 59:36

20 bags, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 59:37

It's 20 bags back there, and I I'm in the front seat, and next to it, they'll have like their drinks and waters will be up there, and every turn, it just falls. Now I'm just pushing it the whole way. I'm holding it like this. It's just it's just an awful experience. Do you get motion sickness normally? I don't I no no. Like I'm usually fine with that, but not with the bus. I I it's it's and it's I think with my old age here, it's getting worse and worse and worse. It's like I get on it and going through Quincy at so like if if we have a game at six o'clock, yeah. If you have a game at six o'clock, you gotta be at the you know, Hobamak Arena at five. So you're leaving at 3 30 to just get through Quincy and you're stopping and starting the entire time. The traffic and the bumps in the road, and then if you some bus drivers are much better than others, and then you get the one that one time we got on the bus. I've never we never had usually have the same guys. I don't even know, I don't know the name. There's no way he's listening, I can tell you. Could be Celsa Steve. I walk in, I get into the bus. No, no, that's what about bus drivers. So the first two rows are usually I'll sit in the front, I'll sit in the front, and then next to it will be like the drinks and other stuff, and then they fill in after. And I get on the bus, and the guy's sitting in the spot to drive, and he brought a friend. And he's just sitting there. And I was like, Oh, hey, now he's got the full seat now. Now I'm sitting with the Gatorades and the pucks and everything. I'm like, how's this what's this guy doing? And uh so the next day I asked the AD, I'm like, hey, uh, is it the bus driver's train guys? He's like, What? He was like, Well, there's there was a guy that normally do you bring a friend? He's like, no, nope. Like, make a phone call. He's like, Hey, I followed up on that. Nope, you're not supposed to bring a friend on the bus. Who was that guy and what was he doing? So that was strange.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:18

That was the around 17-year-old kids.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:20

Yeah, it was uh, and the the obviously a longer bus ride is even worse, and it's just it's just brutal. It's just what that must be like. Sorry to go on that rant, but it was just the other day I was on and I was like, I just hate it. I would hate that too. And it's so that this was a week ago, and that we have an away game, and brother Dan's like, hey, uh, I stopped at the 99 to grab a beer. Uh, you want to meet me? And I was like, I haven't left yet. I haven't left the rink yet. This guy's already got a beer in front of him having having dinner at the 99. And then an hour later, I text him like, hey, just got back. It's like yeah, we're at you. The bus just adds so much longer. It just makes it so much longer. Yeah, the early part of it. Getting there before the bus. So, coaches, no doubt. But it's perfect for parents.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:08

My kid, my kid uh currently at private schools. I'm not gonna mention names, but no secret, I mean to us. Like, I gotta fucking drive them there, get him there an hour before. Ain't I'd love a fucking yellow bus.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:26

They don't take a bus. Isn't that wild? That's crazy. Yeah, right. Like our JV team has a has a bus. We have a bus. We do get a bus, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:35

Oh, this brain trees fucking big. They don't have a bus. You're right.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:37

It's a six o'clock game. It's like, oh, 230 drop off of my seal it.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:41

Yeah, dude. What's good when COVID rolls in? That's crazy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:46

And again, it's not getting there early because I that that I don't I'm I'm coaching. I'm not gonna show up like that. I have no problem with being there early and staying there. Then that's totally normal. But just driving on the, I'm like, if I could only just take my car. I'm I'm leaving at the same time you are. I'm le I'm coming back at the same time. I'm meeting with the rink because they we get picked up and dropped off at the rink because they leave their stuff at the rink. But oh my god. I'm actually almost getting sick thinking about the bus. So now I threw up an oil from uh the last game the last game of the season is this week, and we're going to Nantucket. So I'm going to go on an hour and a half yellow school bus ride from Quincy to Hyannis, jump on the bus, and it's fun. It's a fun day, it's a good like team bonding thing. And then you take the ferry over, which is fine, but then you're getting back on that bus at probably 9 30 at night to get back to Quincy around 11.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:40

So, what do you do from the ferry drop-off in Nantucket? You take you up on a yellow bus.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:47

Thank God the ride's only like five minutes, but like it's yeah. And then and then like you just I I playing is tough. Like, those kids do a yellow school bus. Our boat ride. Like they're the Sea Legs is a real thing. Right.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:06

Oh, they're like they're they're they have to play most of the games.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:09

Well, they must play. I mean, they must have I mean, to be fair to them, right? I mean, 20 games they must have. Oh, they're they're going off.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:15

100%, yeah. Same thing. It's tough to get for them to get teams to want to commit to comp. Right, right. Because the win this is a makeup game because of the there was there was snow we had a snowstorm, so you had to make it up. Oh, summer. Summer. No, everyone's wants to get a big thing.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:29

Well, you wouldn't want to be on a yellow bus in the summertime, either though. That's a good one. That's terrible. Yeah. So sorry. It's an interesting angle because I never even really thought about it.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:39

I've been school, yeah. I'm like, why the fuck do I get it?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:43

Well, you just don't want to be on it, but like, yeah, right.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:45

No, I'm saying, why do I at this age I gotta drive my kids around?

SPEAKER_02 1:04:49

And to think too, again, I I always like I don't think there's adults on on an elementary school bus.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:56

No, not at all.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:57

Just the bus driver.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:59

Yeah. Um maybe now. No, they might maybe they have like a little like I don't know, something. But yes, in general, I would think in general, no way.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:06

No, no what? To be honest, no, I don't think um you'd have to pay two people. Like, well, I'm picture my so the guy I'd say say Salsa Steve, because he was uh bus driver for the kids in our neighborhood. It's the same bus driver, which uh you start to find out like that's why they have the even the different times because he does the loop, drops them off, then does the next loop, right? So it's the same guy. But little shout out to him, he he started his own salsa company. And he came up with a great salsa like chips and salsa. Not the dance. No, no, yeah, yeah. He might dance. Um but he had a creative name and called it like Steve Salsa. I thought it was pretty good. And it's delicious salsa. Thank you, Steve. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:48

And he's a creative salsa company. And uh is this what he's hating? Yeah, no, no, I love it.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:53

No, I'm not that I'm loving it, but talking about bus dravis.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:56

Oh that was a cool name to come up with I don't know how he came up with that.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:01

I think there's even tomatoes in the sauce.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:03

I was just saying I bet you it's the best option in the world.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:05

I'm gonna buy it tomorrow.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:07

It's at the farmers market every Saturday. Bus driver. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:13

Well, do you qualify for that though? Don't you need like a CDL for that? You'd have to take a take a test. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:18

My uncle, he retired. He he drove the bus in Plymouth for like years. Couple guys that do it. The best gig is to honestly be the guy that just does the sports. So like this guy, this guy on Thursday.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:31

Wait, imagine if this is your retirement plan. You end up on a yellow school bus. Oh no, that's not gonna happen. That's not gonna happen.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:39

And so when you go to the game, like you drop us off at the game, like you're hanging out there. You're getting paid the whole time. So we're playing the game. It's a good little gig.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:46

Yeah, that's probably a four or five hour turnaround, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:06:48

Yeah. Yeah. Whatever it is. Definitely.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:50

Oh, that's interesting. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:52

Alright, so that's what I'm hating. So sorry. Sorry, yellow school bus. Yeah. I hate yellow school buses.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:57

I'm hate. What do you hate in Joe? I'm hating getting old. It's basically what I've come to think about today. It sucks. Fucking every day you get up, something else hurts. My shoulder last couple couple weeks ago, all of a sudden I can't lift my shoulder above my fucking head.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:18

Yeah, sounds about right.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:20

I never felt old in my whole life.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:22

Till just the other day?

SPEAKER_03 1:07:24

Till last. Last year. Last year. But it's quick.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:27

Yeah, it hits you.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:28

Sounds a little more like uh the next car hits a hundred thousand miles, and then oh, this week it's this, this week it says you okay?

SPEAKER_02 1:07:36

Joe. So Joe's saying he's hit a hundred thousand miles. You know what you need is a tuna.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:43

Fucking don't need kids. It's getting bad. Hangover, blast a week.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:53

Yeah, that's that's painful, isn't it? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:55

Brutal. That's that's been that's tough.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:58

You know you gotta get you gonna get get on, you gotta get on the health track. What? That's what we're gonna do. This is gonna be one of our guests.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:06

This is gonna be one of our guests. He wants to come on. Dude, I thought that's career suicide. What?

SPEAKER_00 1:08:11

If he comes in.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:19

Who the hell's gonna keep going? I don't know. I don't know what's I don't know what's happening.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:26

And then nothing against him. He was a great trainer.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:29

Who's the trainer? Uh Tim Kinkanon. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I could use a trainer. He what's it? I'd like to I could use a trainer. I should say. We'll bring him on.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:39

We'll bring him on.

unknown 1:08:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:41

Can talk about training. I've I've I dug into the the whole like how do I eat healthier? And then I'm like, then I then I open up my cabin. I'm like, I just gonna keep eating these cheese.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:52

I was gonna say I'm gonna keep reading my phone as I'm eating cheese.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:56

I'm gonna eat a block of cheese with wheat then. I was gonna say, when you wake up, uh when your arm hurts, and when do you when do you sleep?

SPEAKER_03 1:09:06

Well, if I sleep on this, but this is like bone on bone, something's up. I I think I need surgery.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:12

Probably the uh rotator cuff. Oh, that's it. That's a throwing up. Yeah, that's what I would think, too. It's been a long time. It's been a long time.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:18

Actually, it's funny. My shoulder hurts, and Timmy can cannot help and fix it.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:22

My shoulder hurt, and I went to a chiropractor and it changed everything. That did. I couldn't move my arm past here.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:28

That was where I'm at now.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:29

Yeah. No, I'm telling you, she Oh, really? She was good. Really good. Yeah. It's like the they do like the therapy. They put the electro things on your back. I don't know. It's all about the back. It's all about the nerves and the neck.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:41

I don't like the electro thing. Yeah, I think.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:48

You bought on Amazon. Oh, yeah. I don't know. This lady's a professional. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:54

Why do I have to plug this into the dryer plug? It was weird. It's too honorable.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:02

But I the old stuff, like you have a couple beers and you wake up and you're like, yeah. Like, what is what is wrong with this? What is going on?

SPEAKER_03 1:10:09

Bring everyone down out there. Just don't ever get old. It's like your grandfather's oh, you just live forever, but don't ever get old.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:17

Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of depressing. Well, that certainly is. And part of the old playing into it is as you're watching the kids get older too. Oh, yeah. And they're kind of like, you know, the fun we had has been great. Yeah. But then you start looking. Like an old picture pops up, and you're like, hey! I hate pictures. I should say that.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:34

I hate pictures. Well, because it makes you sad, though. Yeah. No, no. I love the I love that I have them. Right. I'm just kidding.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:44

They're listening. They're secretly listening. But just think of it as like next steps in your life, I think. Like the next job.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:51

Eventually. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:52

No, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:52

But you get next step closer. No, no. You're going to enjoy it, though.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:56

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:58

Yeah, you ruined the whole song. You were so prepared.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:01

Get the phone up. So what do you got, Mazzini? We're past that one. No. In fact, we can hang on that one forever. That's a whole episode. Yeah. You know what I hate? No one I'm really actually hating these of um Boston songs that are overdone. Like these dropkick Murphy in that Irish song that they constantly play. Ship it up to Boston. Like enough already. Enough. We've heard it a bazillion times. This guy hates Boston. I love Boston, but like even this. Like even the Pat. It just reminded me when the Pats went back to the Super Bowl and they had the Pat sign off party. And here comes Dropkick Murphy's. Like, oh, I wonder what song they're going to play. The place goes crazy. They do. They do. And I would probably go crazy too.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:51

Yeah. It is fun. I I agree that. Like I'm sick of it though. Like something happens in Boston sports and it's it's always the same. Now it's just it's going to be the same people are going to come out. Like when's the new person going to come out with that? Dropkicks. Something else. Like DropKicks came out with that years ago. But it came up. But it came out. So something else has to be. We need a new song.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:14

Like I don't even mind the Sweet Caroline at the socks because it's kind of like Wait, wait, wait. That's Roy Albison. You would rather Roy Robison, that song's.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:23

No. That's Neil Diamond. Yeah. It's kind of like his most famous song. I mean Roy Diamond is what I meant to say. You would rather you would rather Sweet Caroline than Dropkicks? Yeah. Well, because it's at the socks and you're in the moment. I hate I I don't know. I I feel like that's overplayed. Oh, totally, yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:43

I would rather Dropkicks than Sweet Caroline. Yeah, just like because I I feel like they could come up with another song. And they just can't. I don't even know if they actually wrote that song. I think they resang that song. I mean, let's look at it. I think they wrote that song. Let's look this. What do you mean they didn't write it? That's not their song. They sang it. I think it's an old like pirate song. Oh, Kobe. Oh. Well, it's about did you ever read the words?

SPEAKER_03 1:13:09

Pirates of the Caribbean.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:11

It's like it's about like some guy that lost his leg.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:16

It is okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:18

And he's like on a boat. And he's shipping out to Boston.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:23

I'm shipping up to Boston. There's a song by Celtic Punk.

unknown 1:13:29

Celtic.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:32

Oh, Celtic.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:33

By Celtic Larry Bird. Bill Russell.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:37

Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphy's with lyrics written by folk singer Woody Guthrow. There it is. Or Woody Guthrie.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:44

Good old Woody. Yeah, but I mean everyone wrote one of his songs? Yeah, nobody writes their own songs. I would say Elvis wrote more than that. No, I'm saying as a fact. I don't believe it. I did not ask a question. No, he wrote the one about um about his wife. Yeah, yeah. But other than that, I was like stunned. Like he didn't remember. Well, he was a he was a wonderful singer, though. He's amazing.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:06

Elvis Presley did not write any of the more than 600 to 700 songs he recorded.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:12

Any of them? Yeah, so maybe that's a lie.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:16

Um while he received songwriting credits on a few tracks, such as That's Someone You'll Never Forget and You'll Be Gone, due to business deals requiring composers to split royalties with him, he did not actually write a lyric or medley himself. Oh wow. Yeah, I know. Well that that's why Taylor Swift is so big, is she writes everything. All of these guys don't write their own stuff.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:36

No, right, right.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:37

So geez, I mean, relax.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:39

I feel like I'm defending Dropkick Murphy's here, and I don't know why. I'm not, I mean, I'm not, but so I'm saying it's the most famous song ever. If they didn't write it, they sing it. They're probably singing it right now somewhere.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:49

Well, look at I went to see a guy in Fenway Park. He was this fat guy with a beard singing karaoke. Shipping up the boss name was no um he's pretty famous if I said it. Eric Church, maybe? Eric Church Church is not Faraoke. I mean, he was all cover songs. It was like mostly cover songs. I think it was him. No, Eric Church is scary. That could be earlier on.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:16

No, he was um just a big fat guy. I mean, he was he a famous country?

SPEAKER_03 1:15:23

Oh yeah, he was a big name. But if if you're a ZD. ZD Z Z top? ZD.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:29

It was Meatballs and ZD. Chicken Z.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:32

Chicken ZD Brown. Oh, Zach Brown? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:35

Oh that guy just sang everyone else's songs.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:38

Well, you gotta think. Oh, he has his own songs. Yeah, but if you're if you're if you're a famous musician, then you get that one song that everybody loves, and that's why don't get me wrong. That's why you get to tour stadiums and do that because that's like a one-hit wonder, though. Well, Dropkick's not a one-hit wonder. Oh well, what other song do they sing? Dropkick, Dropkick Murphy's? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:01

Oh, they have a bunch.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:02

You do? I mean, I'm like I can't I can't name them.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:06

I know. I can't name you what I can do. Murphy or Dropkick. I'm not going with names. Let's see. Why did I do this on the podcast? I know.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:17

Well, I guess I can't go out to any local bars anymore because Dropkick Murphy's gonna kill me.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:22

We probably can't uh I mean not that anyone's listening, but uh to play them. But yeah, they have plenty of songs. They have tons of songs. Your album? Do they have an album? Yeah, they have multiple albums. You come in with your what you're hating and you don't even know.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:40

Come on.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:41

Now again, I feel like I'm like this dropkick Murphy's defender here, but you know what? I like yellow school buses. That's okay. We can have debate. Do they have a do they have an album? Final? No. Yeah, I think so. I think they've had a couple. So you think they just have this one song that they write. Yeah, Department put in the middle.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:06

Big time.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:07

Oh, that was the first time that came out, you think?

SPEAKER_00 1:17:10

Yeah, I think they wrote, I think they did it. East Milton?

SPEAKER_03 1:17:12

No, West Milton. He's a West Milton guy. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:14

Yeah, I knew they were Milton. One of the guys is the grew up in Milton.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:17

One of them's a Milton guy. Yeah. My brother-in-law is good friends with him. Uh he still lives around here.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:23

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:23

Yeah. This is getting worse. Chris is an awesome guy with um even uh charities and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:30

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:30

I mean, he's not he clearly Chris hates him.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:33

No, I don't I don't hate him. Just write more. I think the creative juices have uh have stopped flowing for dropcake Murphys. I guess that's my point. You gotta play the hits, baby. Yeah, no, you definitely gotta play the hits. Play the hits. Yeah, I agree with that. So you know what? Ride it out.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:51

I mean, now he's turning around because he knows he lives locally.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:55

He thought he lived in Hollywood. Now he's gonna be on it.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:59

Get him on it. I know what you're saying, though, with the whole the whole songs thing. I think that's every like you say, the Red Sox are playing there.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:11

Yeah, but Neil Diamond's got 8,000 hits. That's commercial commercially like there's gotta be a deal worked out there.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:18

Dropkicks played at Quincy Center last summer. Oh, they did. They did a um uh a free thing. Oh, they played there at that thing with Darius Ruckett? No, they they played in Quincy Center. They shut down Quincy Center and put a stage on right across from Quincy College in between City Hall and Quincy College on the on the street. They set up a stage on a free concert. No kidding. Yeah, that's good. It was pretty awesome, yeah. Wow. Uh they only played one song because they only have one song.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:45

They just continued to play it.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:46

They somehow kept playing these other songs with on on albums. They actually had albums. It was crazy. Yeah, but it was pretty cool.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:55

Play your hits.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:56

It is a great song.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:58

All right. Well they're gonna be a good one. Yeah, no, it's a good yeah. I mean, it's a good song when you're in the right moment. Like, you're not waking up Sunday morning to it. No. I mean Eye of the Tiger, too. Acoustic sunrise. You guys into that? You like acoustic sunrise?

SPEAKER_03 1:19:14

Um Rocky wanted that as Eye of the Tiger, but Queen turned it down. Fun fact. Don't Google that.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:23

We could do we could do a fun fact.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:25

Hold on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, so you know, Eye of the Tiger is Rocky's theme song. Yeah. Another one bites of dust was supposed to. That's what Rocky wanted.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:35

Oh, he wanted his brother out? Didn't his brother Frank write Eye of the Tiger?

SPEAKER_03 1:19:39

No. What's that famous?

SPEAKER_00 1:19:41

All right, uh I've been I've been Googling. Frank Talbot? No. I mean, Frank Frank Stallone?

SPEAKER_02 1:19:47

Frank Stallone.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:48

Frank Stallone, yeah, right. If that is true, I'm gonna be able to do that.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:51

Who wrote Eye of the Tiger?

SPEAKER_03 1:19:55

No way. It's a famous band who wrote it who did it.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:58

Who wrote Eye of the Tiger?

SPEAKER_03 1:20:00

No. Yeah, who's saying famous for it?

SPEAKER_02 1:20:02

It's the the Eye of the Tiger was co-written by Frankie Sullivan and Jim Petrick.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:08

And who sang it in the movie, though?

SPEAKER_02 1:20:10

The duo wrote the song in '82 request from the request of Sylvester Stallone for the film Rocky III. Stallone originally wanted to use Queen's Another One Bites the Dust, but after being denied permission, he approached Sullivan and Petrick to create an original track.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:23

I have a lot of quirky, uh, useless facts.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:26

Yeah. Oh, I thought his brother wrote it. No. What song did Frank Stallone write then? That's famous. Let's see.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:33

Does he even have a brother? But yeah, imagine Queen. But Queen probably Rocky also got turned down like by the way.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:42

What song did Frank One was Band-Aid though? Was that was it Band Aid?

SPEAKER_03 1:20:45

Is that what the Band A uh something?

SPEAKER_00 1:20:51

Yeah, but I wonder if that was the time he was kind of on the way out and he was like, nah, I'm not gonna do it.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:54

Rocky Oh, you said it wasn't until Rocky III, maybe then.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:58

Yeah, so that would have been 82-ish, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:00

Oh, Rocky III was eighty-two. Yeah, 76 was the original.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:04

Yeah. What song did Frank Stallone sing and write? Let's see.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:10

I go 84 or 87.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:13

Frank Stallone is a singer-songwriter best known for his 1983 hit Far From Over, which he co-wrote and performed for the film Staying Alive. The song reached number 10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and earned him a Golden Globe nomination.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:29

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:29

He has written and published over 200 songs, which appear in movies starring his brother Sylvester Stallone.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:37

I guess he was.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:38

Take You Back, uh song he wrote and performed on screen in the opening scene of Rocky, the original Rocky. Far and Far from Over, Staying Alive. Uh Peace in Our Life, the closing theme for Rambo, part two. First Blood Part Two.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:56

He definitely was hooking his brother up then.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:58

Pushing, featured in Rocky III. And then Two Kinds of Love, featured in Rocky Two. So, yeah, I mean you were kind of right. I'm doing some good fat fact checking. Yeah, I like it. Alright, so what we're loving. Let's get to let's let's we're hitting a stride here.

unknown 1:22:18

I love fact checking.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:20

We love what do I love? I love uh AI. I love the Google machine. AI on my phone. All right, I'm gonna kind of stick with my theme of how I hate yellow school buses. What I'm loving is now it's tournament time for the high school. And I think that's that's so much fun for these kids. So it's the week before. So right now when we're recording this, we have one game left, and then the tournament will start next week. So, like this week, playing the game of I'm like looking at what teams have lost, what teams have won to try to play. Like when's final power ranking? Saturday morning, 10 o'clock.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:55

It is this Saturday. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:56

This Saturday. So then you sit there and you're refreshing it, you're waiting for it to come out, then you've seen who you play, and then now it's you're waiting to talk to the AD to figure out all right what day are we gonna play? Are we playing Tuesday? Are we playing Wednesday? What time? Where is it? And then the whole process of like getting ready and preparing for the game. So I already am looking at four teams that it could possibly be. So then you're watching their schedule, what teams can you watch prior, what notes can you have on it, and like just kind of changing how practice is and kind of amping it up a little bit more and getting them ready for it. And then the kids do whatever they do, whether they dye their hair or get a stupid haircut, or all that fun stuff that goes along with it. Um yeah, it's fun. It's and there's nothing better for watching a group of kids win a tournament game, whether they win a state title or not, but like just getting in preparing for that first tournament game and winning the tournament game, like, and then seeing them the next day in school, it's crazy to watch like how suddenly and it's tough to tell kids that haven't gone through it. So, like I'm telling a young group of kids that haven't won a tournament game, like you win one, God forbid you win two. Like, you're walking around the school and they're like, Oh, when's the game? What's going on? People that haven't been paying attention. You feel like you feel like we do when we walk outside.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:07

I agree. I love tournaments, yeah. I think it's great. I don't know why we don't call playoffs anymore, but um, it is fun to call a tournament.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:14

Tournament, yeah, tournament time, tournament. Yeah, tournament, MIA tournament. Yeah, it's just we could do it.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:20

So you guys probably won't move. It's more who you might play that'll move, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:24:24

Yeah, you know what's funny, it's talking about AI. So I was talking to a guy at school, and he's uh um he's a baseball coach at Milton High, and he was telling me how he put in his schedule into AI, his baseball schedule this year. And was just like, hey, like how do you think we're gonna do or something? And it gave like kind of a breakdown of different things. I was like, oh, that's interesting. So I I uploaded the f the last uh rankings that came out. So there's four divisions in hockey. So I uploaded all four and I wrote out who we're playing, who our final three games were, uh, who we're playing against, and where they would project us in the standings. And it broke down, it told me if we won the three games, if we won one of the games, if we won two out of the three games. Really? A complete breakdown of where we would move up or where we could move down and how many spots it would be. And it's insane. That is wild. So I did it. So we've had two games since I put it in there, and it's dead on of what it said. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:19

Oh, it's scary.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:21

So then I was looking because I was looking at we were at 24 and we had three games left, and it was like, no, even if you lose all three games, the most you could drop down, like the most I could see you dropping down is one spot, maybe two, but that's that that's really not gonna happen based on blah blah blah. And then it said, if you were to win all three games by this margin, you're looking at a possibility of jumping up six spots, which would be a crazy jump up, and basically saying, like, but you're not gonna do that. Like I was like, he's like, but you're not gonna win that game. But it was it was interesting. So I put it all in. So then I kind of have a better idea of the th two or three teams that we could possibly play. So then I'm now I'm like watching them and seeing scores and seeing if there's video on them and all that fun stuff. So the coaching parts, I love that part of it. And then just watching the kids like go through it is pretty cool. Yeah. Not the school bus, though. I don't I don't want to ride to the game, I want to ride my own car to the tournament game.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:12

Yeah, it's fun. And then you get the sadness of the seniors that he could potentially be playing their last games too. That's the that's the worst. Yeah, right, right.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:21

That's kind of what uh I mean, I'm not loving that part of it. That's the part that you're afraid of. And now I have a kid who's a senior, and I've been in that locker room now for how many times where I've that group, like they lose their last game. Because no matter what, you could you could make a run like only one team is feeling really good about themselves. And you know what? Even that team that wins the state title, those seniors are crying in the locker room. It's over. Like it's over for them. But like, you know, you you are hoping you're you're gonna win that first game, and you have an idea, you're building it up like you're gonna win it, and then when you if you lose that first game, it's like, holy shit, it just hits you all, and then the kids are upset. And so that's that's the hope of winning is to avoid the seniors being so upset about playing their last game, you know. Right, right.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:04

Well, you gotta prepare for it. That's all.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:06

It's the worst. That locker room at the end is the worst place to be. It stinks. And we have two seniors that are gonna experience it. Yeah, exactly. And it's like, I'm like, oh man.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:16

Just keep waiting for it. Because technically now when you're done, so after Saturday, season's over, our regular season's over, yeah. Even if you win at all, you got five games left. Yeah, yeah. That's it, no matter what. So no matter what. If you get if you're lucky enough to get that far. Yep. So um, yeah, just enjoy it, I guess. Enjoy the ride. Yeah. Enjoy the games. It's hard, but because you just want them to win so bad for them.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:37

I know. So they don't feel that because it does suck. Yeah. Just watching those kids. There's there's been kids that I thought had zero emotion for four years and they're crying like an absolute baby. Yeah, we're gonna do that. You know what I mean? It's like so I haven't been in a locker room with the girls, so I don't know how the girls react, but I it's it's the same. It's the same.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:57

I feel like they're tougher than the boys, though. It's still a total of him. It's still it's still the worst. Yeah. Because then it just leads to, right? Seeing you, yeah. It's all coming to an end. Yeah, it's all coming down. Yeah, yeah. So all right. What do you got? That's a good one. All right. Uh Monta, what am I loving? Um nothing to do with anything. I I really enjoy the self-checkout at BJ's. I don't know if you guys have used this yet, but like the little thing. I've used it.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:29

Yeah. But I feel like it's uh I mean, have you noticed it's different than other self-checkouts?

SPEAKER_00 1:28:34

I do, yeah. I think it's much different than other self-checkouts. Why? Because I think they give you the gun. Well, the little gun. You feel it. You feel like you work there. Yeah. And like you don't need to take everything.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:45

Do you feel like they they treat you like an adult because they let you use the gun?

SPEAKER_00 1:28:48

They kind of leave you alone. Why doesn't stop and chop let you use the gun?

SPEAKER_03 1:28:53

You figure it out.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:54

Well, stop and chop, first of all, you've got to balance the scanning with the bag weight in like all right, that one's full. I gotta take it off.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:04

And then the light goes off and then I paid for it, it's right there, but the weight doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:08

Then she's in two seconds later, I'm like, why don't you fucking just ring me out?

SPEAKER_02 1:29:11

Oh yeah. Right, right. That's why I don't like that one.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:14

Uh a little angry.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:15

And it has it does have more room. The BJ's one has way more room.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:18

Well, the the trick, the not even a trick, but a BJ's. You don't have to take anything out of P. Cotton. You just boop, boop, boop, boop. Like that makes more sense to me. I'm not weighing it and it's like everything's heavy. Right. And then you always take that chance of like, eh, we'll do the water in the bottom, you see what happens, and see if that guy, you know. The guy in the front that's got one eye and he's just kind of sitting there. And see if he notices. They always check. They do check everything, yeah. Especially if you have a couple things.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:43

But you throw something underneath, that's the first thing they're looking for. Yeah. I think they must be trained. Right. How do you think that training goes at BJs when you're a guy sitting up at the front?

SPEAKER_00 1:29:53

Um I think that's I I think that's first day on the job. We're gonna stick you over there.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:58

No, I think those are certain people that get the. You do? Yeah, yeah. And I think most of the time it's the ones that can't really be.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:04

If you stuck me there, I'd be like, all right, go for it.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:06

I don't give a fuck.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:07

I don't know. No, right, right. You think they do a big profile on them and then decide like, okay, you're not a cash register person.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:13

You're more like I don't want to say what I No.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:16

I'm not gonna say because now it's all automat all like computerized.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:24

No, it's not. They just they look at your receipt and then they stick their pen through it. Yeah. And that's it. I'm talking about it.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:33

He could be like a hometown hero.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:37

I think he's uh he's not ready for the register. They're gonna stop him out there. I think that guy is always gonna be there.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:42

This guy will call you out on it. Like if you put me there, I'll be like, yeah, oh yeah, I'm gonna keep a close eye on this. Oh, yeah, right. All right, if you said you paid for it, have a good one. Have a nice day.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:56

What do you think their policy is if they I've never witnessed that I used to, I was a uh fun fact.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:04

I was a security guard at the Worcester Common Outlets in a brief um brief period of my college life. Holy crap. Security.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:11

This has had to be circa 1997.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:14

Driving around in a car? Nope. They didn't even give me one of those Paul Block machines. It was pretty fast. Yeah, it would have been awesome. But the second time they said, Oh, you've got to wear one of these state trooper cowboy hats. Oh, nice. Oh my god. I didn't show up. There's gotta be a picture. I just bailed. No, I know. I didn't put it, he didn't put it on the driver. Did he give it to you?

SPEAKER_01 1:31:33

No.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:34

Did you have it? I didn't. He didn't even show up for the job. I was like, no. I mean, that's it. So I went there for a couple of things. It was kind of cool. They said, I go, What if somebody's stealing? You know, if I witness shoplifting, what do I do? Do I get a gun? You haven't given me my gun yet. Under no circumstances are you to confront a customer unless they ask you where the bathroom is or how to get to a store.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:56

So what is what's the purpose of you?

SPEAKER_03 1:31:58

You are walking, talking service desk people. Do not say security on your back? Yeah. And they gave us uh little passage.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:08

So you're like, oh, it's a good look. The point is really not. So the point is for people to be like, oh man, the security guy is a big thing. Oh yeah, that guy's got a badge. I better not take anything. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:18

Dude, they told us they said you are in no way, shape or form, supposed to engage a safety. I would imagine. Yeah, right. Because imagine if you got taken out. That guy take takes off and I run after and I trip over some kids or plant or something.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:36

Like Oh, you'd be Morgan and Morgan all day.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:40

That guy's gone.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:41

I'm like, oh, I just got on the drop. And that's that's when you're in college.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:46

Yeah. I had a gambling problem. That's interesting.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:50

No, no, I'm saying like that's what they said then. Oh, US. Oh, I know, yeah, yeah. So now, I mean it's not even now. No, it's the same thing.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:58

I don't know if they do. I'm trying to think. I've never really noticed one. I have EJs. Well, just in general, right? I haven't been inside the mall in I don't know how many years. I went to the mall the other day.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:10

I bet you it would have been a fun gig if I kept it up. Just can't imagine the stories.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:14

Did you work the Overnights? No.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:17

No. I was in college. It was just like part time to pay my gambling debt. Crazy times back.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:25

All right. Well, Joe, what do you uh we'll wrap this up with Joe's what he's loving? It's probably going to be growing old.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:32

Well, in fairness. It's better than the alternative.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:37

Which is well being six feet under, I guess. Yeah. Oh, all right. That's what you're loving? Not being dead. Every day.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:45

Every day's a gift. Yeah, every day is a gift.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:49

Joe hated growing old, but loving that he's not dead.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:54

I just wish I felt better every day. That's all.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:59

Wish I didn't do a podcast. This is the enjoyment of getting old. This is what we get to do. Oh my god. This has been an enjoying. Yes, this has.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:10

We do need lockback, though.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:11

Yeah, we need uh we could try three with a guest. Yeah, we could do three with a guest. Right? That kind of could bring an interesting vibe, too. I mean, we've got people requesting to be on the show.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:24

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. So how do we do that? How do we just bring on next?

SPEAKER_03 1:34:29

A lot of people say that and they're just joking.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:36

But people like no.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:38

Like me. Now you're stuck. You're stuck though.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:42

Well, I know our um definitely the the um gym guy wants to come on. Tim. Yeah? He definitely wants to come on. He keeps asking me what that is. So he owns a gym? Yeah. Interesting.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:52

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Any little sponsorship. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And we're gonna talk about the fact that you know what? He has to sponsor the episode he's on, or we're gonna bleep out every time he says his gym. So when he goes to say his gym, we're just like beep. Tim's average gym. That's all.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:10

Blur it out. Bring him on. I don't want to talk about how everyone hates working out. So you live in a you know his what gym does he work at?

SPEAKER_02 1:35:18

What gym does he uh um where is it?

SPEAKER_00 1:35:20

Nothing stronger. Tim Wayman. Yeah, he left that. Started his own gym. Yeah, yeah. So does a great job. Keep it up, Tim. All right, well, sorry, I left you. I kind of thought I could do it myself. I was wrong again.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:39

All right, so I think we should wrap up uh episode five here. Season one, episode five. Getting there. We've completed it. We're halfway home on season one. Based on you. Based on how you operate with this. I mean, Netflix is picking up podcasts now, so I mean that's probably our next move. Well, I figured season two, maybe we shift cheers. Wow. Wait till hey, cliffhanger. We'll see you. We'll see you'll see you at uh episode six, and maybe we're in a different seat. Till next time. See you guys.