Fishing 4 Answers Podcast
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Fishing 4 Answers Podcast
Ep. 08
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Alright, we're back. Um season one, episode eight. I think this is our longest break we've had. We've had a lot of things going on. Um yeah, this was our Fisher for Answers podcast vacation time. Uh Joe was supposed to be here. Um our topic tonight is from Joe. And then um Joe pulled the plug in um the last minute. So may show up.
SPEAKER_01Never know. The curtain may reveal a couple.
SPEAKER_00He could possibly come, yeah. He hasn't responded to the text in a little bit, so um maybe he'll uh maybe he'll show up. But so we're in our eighth episode. Like I said, this has been uh a little time coming. Me and Chris have uh daughters that just graduated high school and uh a lot of crap going on.
SPEAKER_01Between prom graduations on like grad, and now they're in Bahamas. Grad parties? Oh yeah, grad parties gonna be on my still.
SPEAKER_00And now they're living their best life in the Bahamas. Yeah, yeah. Because that's what I did when I was 18 years old. I went to the Bahamas. Exactly. My parents were like, yeah, sure, no problem. Go ahead. Why not?
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Uh for like six days, too. Not like three days. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01We're just gonna go for a whole week. Right? When they leave. Uh Monday, right? Monday. They get home Saturday night.
SPEAKER_00I looked at the flight. It's like 11 p.m. they get in. Yeah, yeah. It's a full day.
SPEAKER_01Oh, that's a terrible time. They made it there, the surviving. Yep. Um, a little bit of texting here and there, but not much.
SPEAKER_00No, no. Um enough that they're alive. Yep, that's it. And that's it. And uh and there's some mums down there that are now, you know, they're chaperoning, I'm sure.
SPEAKER_01Uh yeah, Danielle's down there. Yeah, yeah. Chaperoning her life away. I got a text.
SPEAKER_00Danielle sent me a text. There was a nice very little update earlier today. Said, hey, everyone's alive, no one's done anything stupid yet. Perfect. Perfect. So good stuff. Yeah. All right. So we're gonna get right into it here. Um big day today. It's a big day today. Yeah. June 17th. Um, that's the day we're recording this. So when you listen to us, it won't be June 17th, it'll be a couple days later. But June 17th um is a huge day in American history. And um I'm I'm sure everybody right now listening is like, yeah, obviously 1994, June 17th. Um, the OJ Simpson, um, you wouldn't call it high speed police chase, you call it low speed police chase. Exactly. But um that's the day. That is a big day in American history for all you young bucks out there. If you don't know that, I would Google it right now, but you're gonna learn a lot today from us. We're gonna go through that day because it's one of the greatest uh sporting days ever, I think. It gets overlooked. It gets very overlooked. There's a lot, there's a couple things that happened that day that's crazy that it was actually overlooked. So I don't know, do you do we want to just list all the things that happened and then kind of break and talk about each one a little bit?
SPEAKER_01I'm sure we could list them and then we'll talk about them as we do it, right? Yeah. Because that's what ends up happening anyway. And we'll go down some tangent of something. We'll find some.
SPEAKER_00So let's just get let's get it all the way. Juice was loose, right? The juice was loose. So the day started with OJ Simpson uh being um they got a warrant for his arrest for the killing of um Nicole Brown Simpson, his ex-wife, right? Yep, yeah, yeah, yeah. But which I don't know, I probably should have checked that at the time. I would assume it's his ex-wife, right?
SPEAKER_01Probably not killing your wife.
SPEAKER_00And then Ron Goldman. I don't know. I we should look that up right now. Um but uh it was his wife or ex-wife, and then a waiter, um, Ron Goleman. And it went on for a couple weeks or whatnot, trying to figure it out, and then on June 17th, they they have the warrant for OJ's arrest, and he is supposed to turn himself in. I think it was like 11 30 in the morning or eleven o'clock in the morning or something like that.
SPEAKER_01Let's see. It yeah, it was definitely it was it early? Because it must have it went into the night though. Oh no, wait, yeah, but this is this is West Coast time, yeah. It's West Coast time.
SPEAKER_00So the original time, West Coast time, was 11 a.m. that he had had to or oh, actually, I don't know. Maybe because when I the what I was watching was now confused if it's East Coast, West Coast. Whatever. Eleven a.m. he's supposed to he's supposed to turn himself in. Right. And by 11.45, they do a press conference and say he's missing, we can't find him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um while this is going on, we have these crazy things that's happening. So one of them is the Stanley Cup parade in New York City. So the Rangers had just won the Stanley Cup for the first time in 54 years. The last time they won a cup was 1940. They haven't won a cup since, and their parade was happening. So that's one thing that was going on.
SPEAKER_01And that was 94. I remember when that happened, too. I was in Hampton Beach when that happened.
SPEAKER_00That was Mark Messier. Yeah, he said it. He uh he said, We're gonna win this thing. And uh so the Rangers win the cup, they have their parade that day, June 17th. In New York at the same time, the Knicks are playing the Houston Rockets in the NBA finals.
SPEAKER_01NBA champion Knicks.
SPEAKER_00Game five, yes. And at the time they had not won a um the finals. This is this year that they won was the first time in forever, since 73 or 76 or something. Something like that. Yep, yep. And what I didn't know is the Knicks win that game that night on OJ Day, and they go up 3-2 in that series and then lose the next two games in Houston.
SPEAKER_01Oh my god.
SPEAKER_00To lose the championship. That's awful.
SPEAKER_01But that must have been were they home. Okay, so those were. So they were home. So you have the parade?
SPEAKER_002-3-2 format back then, right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, right.
SPEAKER_00But you have the parade in New York City going on, and you have the NBA Finals going on.
SPEAKER_01And they won that night, which is awesome. And they won that.
SPEAKER_00So that's just two things. Then you have the World Cup, which is perfect because the World Cup is going on right now, the opening ceremonies of the World Cup, and Bill Clinton is speaking in the middle of a football field, talking to everybody on what's going on. Brazil ends up winning the World Cup that year. Um, and then finally, which is probably the most overshadowed thing because of the O.J. Simpson, I mean, the NBA finals is huge, the parade is huge, the World Cup is huge, but Arnold Palmer plays his final round at the US Open. And I mean, Arnold Palmer, again, for our young lads who are listening. It's not a lemonade. It's not a lemonade. I mean, he's he is the guy that, but um I mean, he is the Mount Rushmore of golf. I mean, it's him, it's Nicholas, and it's Tiger, probably, in whatever order you want to put it in. I don't think anyone would argue that those would be the top three guys. Yeah, I would say, right. Again, this is Joe could button. Thanks, Joe. Joe's not here. Nothing. So, and that is probably I would think, in my opinion, the most that was the most overshadowed thing. So it would basically be like Tiger Woods playing, knowing that there was his final match of all time. Right. You know, it's Michael Jordan playing his final game. Right. Like that's what it is.
SPEAKER_01Good point. Good way to put it.
SPEAKER_00And Arnold Palmer's walking up there, and ESPN is is doing the broadcast and they're talking about OJ Simpson. It's it's crazy.
SPEAKER_03So that's that's all cover that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's all that's the craziness of June 17th, 1994. Right. Uh I was in seventh grade in 1994. I would have been in uh I would have graduated two years out of high school. Wow, you are old, man.
SPEAKER_01I'm a young buck. Yeah. I don't feel it. We can get into that in loving and hating. Exactly. One more fun fact June 17th is an important day in our household. My sister Kristen's birthday.
SPEAKER_00Wow. Yeah. Happy birthday, Kristen. Happy birthday, Kristen. Yeah. What is she doing today?
SPEAKER_01I don't know. Probably home with three kids and her husband running around Christmas.
SPEAKER_00Thinking she was hoping she was an O.J. Simpson's man running. Probably driving away somewhere. Like to get out of here.
SPEAKER_01Exactly. Exactly.
SPEAKER_00So I mean, so do you want to I have a lot of notes on the on the just the O.J. Simpson part of it. I mean, those are the other stuff is, you know, just wraps up the day. Another one that isn't on there is Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 30th home run that day. Think of it, June 17th. Oh, right.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00His 30th home run.
SPEAKER_01It was the Is that the year he hit like 56?
SPEAKER_00Nope. 1994 was the strike year of baseball. That year, he hit 30 by July 1st, which is the first time or second time a player's ever done that. Or the quickest 230. Right. The second first or second player to do that. And now 1994 was the strike year of uh baseball. Yeah, because it was. First time of no world series.
SPEAKER_01You're not even close to halfway through the season there.
SPEAKER_00They were playing uh the Kansas City Royals, and David Cohn was pitching. No kidding. And during that broadcast, they were talking about the OJ Simpson. It's it was it's everywhere. You can't really unless like I was obviously in seventh grade, but still I remember it. It's one of those crazy, crazy events. The whole the whole OJ Simpson from beginning to end was something, it was a phenomenal like Karen Reed on steroids.
SPEAKER_01I know right. That's if you try to compare, right? Yeah, it's a good point. That's a good way to put it in perspective, right?
SPEAKER_00Like if you thought Karen Reed, and and this was without social media. Think about that. Right, yeah, yeah. Karen Reed exploded because of more of like the social media stuff I would carried a little bit more because you could follow it so much. Right. Like this was you were coming home and watching the news to see what was going on with O.J. Simpson. Right. Yeah, I don't even know what the cell phone's in 94. I mean that. No, that's seventh grade. I don't I think I got a cell phone when I was a freshman in high school or eighth grade, maybe. It was like a not I got a cell phone, it's like a family cell phone that was in the house. But there was no checking online. There was no, you know. It wasn't, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Actually, 94, if I can think back to that with cell phones. I had a mine was like a bag, and it had it was like a black briefcase. Yeah. It had like a phone in it. You had to like unzip it and fold it up. You would carry that around? Oh yeah. It was like the coolest thing. I mean, it literally is like a satchel. I think seventh grade I had the beeper.
SPEAKER_00I definitely had a beeper.
SPEAKER_01Oh, beepers had to be out by then. Yeah, yeah. Right, right. Then you had to run to the payphone.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. But I mean, think about it. So, as crazy as the OJ Simpson Simpson thing was, that was without any sort of social media. So it's basically thinking about the Karen Reed trial, waiting to get home to watch the local news to figure out what's going on. Because you can't log in online, you can't check anything, you can't watch the court live with a spinning fan.
SPEAKER_01You know what I mean? Look, those Karen Reed fans. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00It's a phenomenon. Um, I mean, I have conspiracy theories, so I don't know if we want to start with those. Oh, really?
SPEAKER_01We want to get right into it, huh? Jeez.
SPEAKER_00And then I don't know. Maybe we'll let's let's stick on on track here. Because we're we're actually some good feedback we get from a lot of people is stay on track. Well, you guys, I mean, you go on way too long and you just talk about stupid shit. So we're gonna try to stay. But we love our fans. Yeah, we love them. Yeah. More and more every day. We're handing out stickers at graduation parties. It's fine. It's fine. No one listens to a full episode, they just listen to clips. So I was trying to so we have good clips, I guess.
SPEAKER_01All this for clips.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's fine. Um all right, so getting back to it. It was the child charges were filed that morning, and he was supposed to turn himself in around, like I said, around like 11 a.m. And then they can't find him.
SPEAKER_01So he's supposed to turn himself in because he's being accused of killing the wife.
SPEAKER_00Yes, he's called. He got charged.
SPEAKER_01So this is all before the trial, yeah. All before that stuff. Hey, you gotta come down to the station, we need to talk to you. Yes, and he's like, see you later.
SPEAKER_00He's gone. Yeah, yeah. They got the warrant for his arrest, and because he was he was cooperative at the beginning, and then like they were saying how depressed he was, and they were watching him, and he's doing this thing and that thing, and the next thing you know, you know, they get they get the information because it's basically his blood is all over the scene of the crime, yeah. Uh his DNA, and they get it, and now they can't find him. And they do a press conference announcing that they can't find him. So now the media I saw clip, I was watching some clips today, doing a little research. Um, and the clips of the media, I mean, it was thousands upon thousands of people around his house, around the police station. Remember the helicopters and everything? Over 20, over 20 news helicopters, they said 20 news helicopters. Like, how do you even have that many? It's insane. Right. Um so, like I said, ESPN was talking about it throughout the day, and then NBC, so they have the US Open going on, and it's it's Arnold Palmer's final round, and they're cutting out of ESPN to talk about because this isn't just Karen Reed was just a news story.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00OJ Simpson's a news slash sports story, slash entertainment story. Yeah, right. I mean, this guy, when you look at him, it's kind of crazy that it's all it's not crazy because he killed somebody, allegedly. Um there it is. That uh he was like this global, no, I don't know, global, but I mean he was a he was huge.
SPEAKER_01He was a Hall of Famer, people loved him, he was in movies. Older generations loved him, right? Like he we missed him. For all you young people out there, you guys don't know, he was a running back in the NFL, right? OJ Simpson, uh Buffalo Bills played for the Bills for years. I doubt he ever won. No, he definitely didn't win a Super Bowl then.
SPEAKER_00Um, because he played for the Bills, but he had he has I had something, uh I don't know where I put it, but he went to college too, but he was big in college, I think, even. So like he was the f he's the first, he's the only guy to ever run for 2,000 yards in 14 games. That's like his big stat. Oh, no kidding. Wow. Yeah. So I mean he was he was he was very running back, too. But he was but he was also not only was he good at like it's just like anyone else, they're really good at a sport that's great, but he was like loved. He was in movies and TV shows, and he was on the uh you know the the NFL like lineup before for games. He was doing uh play not play by play, the uh color guy.
SPEAKER_01So he's almost like uh he's probably almost like a Peyton Manning, say.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Right?
SPEAKER_01Like because he's well, I don't know, is he in movies? Whatever. Equate him to something like that. Something like that where everyone knew who he was. Everywhere. Yeah, right.
SPEAKER_00Like, everyone knows even if you weren't a football fan at that time. In the 80s, you knew who O.J. Simpson was. Right. And yeah, his stats are uh he remains the only player in NFL history to rush for 2,000 yards in a 14-game season. Um Were there only 14 games back then? When he was playing, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So he was in he was inducted in the Hall of Fame in 1985. So that just shows that you know he was playing in the in the early 70s, late uh early 70s into the only comment about the Football Hall of Fame is I feel like they led everybody into that thing. Yeah. No, that's I think at that time though, yeah. There's a guy that completely deserved it. Um he led the NFL in rushing four times 72, 73, 75, 76. He's the NFL MVP in 73. Um, yeah, I mean he was he was unbelievable. He was unbelievable. And like we said, and he was also very, very, very popular. Um where did he go to college? What's your guess?
SPEAKER_01Um well I would I would have I'm gonna go out west. USC. Very good. Yeah, was that it? Yep. Yeah. So I kind of thought that's what it was. University of Southern California. So that I mean so he was what you said, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So he was even famous then. Yep. You know? Um, so he was just well known.
SPEAKER_00But and we're coming, he and he's dead.
SPEAKER_01Alright, so that I wasn't 100% sure of. Oh, you didn't know, yeah. I figured he was.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, he passed away a couple years back. 24, yeah. 76. He was 76 years old. Um the juice. Yeah, so we called him the juice. Alright. Alright, so getting back to the day. Um, so now there's all these reports that he's gonna turn himself in. Um, so everybody huddles around the police station. He doesn't turn himself in. There's reporters out there like we haven't seen him, but maybe he went in the back, but I doubt he could, and they like then scan the area. Like, how could he possibly sneak into this place? Yeah, yeah. Um and Robert Kardashian. So Robert Kardashian. Oh, this is the cards, yeah. The Kardashian's father of the like Kim Kardashian's.
SPEAKER_01And this is where they made their money, too. This has got to be where the money came from. Well, not from OJ, but like he's a famous lawyer.
SPEAKER_00He's a famous lawyer, and you know when they got divorced, her the the the Kardashian mother with him, I'm sure she got to got a good starting point with everything. But he was Robert Kardashian was one of OJ Simpson's very good friends. He read a suicide note at a press conference that day in the middle of the day. So they were basic he was basically admitting that he was going to kill himself, O.J. Simpson. So Robert Kardashian gets to a press conference later in the day, early afternoon, says, I just got this note. This note was left to me from OJ, and he reads it, and it's it's a suicide note. So now everyone thinks they're gonna he's gonna kill himself. Um now the white Bronco comes into play. It's his buddy AC, I forget his last name, but it was AC something, not Slater. And he's driving it and he calls the police. So now they have they have the recording of him talking to the police, and he's like, OJ's, I have OJ, he's there, he's not in good place. He has a gun to his head, he just wants to say he wants to talk to his mom. Oh, okay. Just wants to talk to his mom. And there's a clip of like nine police cars following me on the freeway. Oh, I remember that completely shut down, and then the helicopters all hovering over him. They're like, please keep the police back. We just wants to talk to his mom. And now they have a cop on the phone with him, basically like a suicide guy, like trying to talk him off the ledge, sort of thing. And they just keep telling him, throw the gun out the window, throw the gun out the window, and he and he won't. And he's like, I'm not doing it. And then he'll hang up, and they go, but it just goes back and forth. Right.
SPEAKER_01Um and the streets were lined with people. Remember, like the highway, all the overpasses and everything.
SPEAKER_00Like, all I don't know if people were shooting for him or what? I think they they were chairing for him. Yeah, there was like I was watching clips today, they're chairing for him. Yeah, I remember that. The juice is loose. AC Cowlings was his. So he's driving the white van. Yep. And OJ's supposedly in the back with a gun to his head, saying he's gonna kill himself, and that you know, I've already said the the guy's like, you know, you don't want to do this, you have kids. He's like, I already said bye to my kids. He's going through this whole thing. I just want to, I just want to talk to my mother. So then he gets to his house, and the the the Bronco pulls up to the house. This is like 8 o'clock, 7.30, something like that. He eventually gets out of the van at like 9:30. The Bronco at 9.30, but he's outside his house for a little while. Everyone's surrounding, they're still telling him, throw the gun out the window, throw the gun out the window, throw the gun out the window. They're cutting into the NBA finals game with this thing going on. So, like, they Bob Costas is doing the NBA Finals game, and they're cutting into it, and it's going right to like Peter Jennings, and then halftime is just them talking about what's going on with OJ Simpson. It's it's game five of the NBA Finals, and they just keep cutting in and out of it, and it's insane. It's absolutely insane. And then the baseball games that are going on that night just keep referencing OJ Simpson. Yeah, right. And they announced on one of them like, hey, OJ Simpson just uh they just read a suicide note, I guess, for him. I don't know. I guess he's gonna kill himself. And they're making jokes about it.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah, right. Strike two. Yeah, yes, yes. Like, that's terrible.
SPEAKER_00It's it was crazy. Uh huh. In the press conference with uh Pat Riley was the coach of the um of the Knicks at the time. Yeah, and after the game was over, they said that they a guy went in there and said something like, Um, coach, do you think if OJ if OJ sliced the left side would it would have been different or something? Like some like stupid joke, and he's kind of looking like what's going on and you hit somebody in the back, like, get up, get that guy out of here. Get that guy out of here. But everything, it was like a everything was like a joke about him.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's kind of weird. Um, but they must have all been friends with him, too, right? I mean, I would imagine that's the one. Well, he worked for NBC. Yeah, I must have known him, right? Uh Al Michaels must have known him. I mean, all have to have been friends with them.
SPEAKER_00They worked for NBC, and if you remember, that was the thing with Norm McDonald. So Norm McDonald was on Saturday Live at the time and was fired because of his OJ jokes. Oh, okay. So he did weekend update. So he would do the weekend update and he would say an OJ joke. Yeah, yeah. And it killed every time. The the guy, I'll look it up and get his real the his name, but the uh president of NBC was best friends with OJ Simpson. Oh and he it came down like he needs to stop. So they would tell him, hey, Norm, you can't uh you can't do the OJ jokes. So he during during rehearsal, they wouldn't do an OJ joke, yeah. And then they go live and you do an OJ joke, and he ended up getting fired because of it. And his joke, they were unbelievable. Like we gotta clip. That's what we'll do. We'll clip some uh we'll clip some Saturday Night Live uh OJ jokes in there. And yeah, he ended up like they they fired Norm McDonald's, he arguably one of the most popular uh weekend update hosts, and they got rid of him at the time because the oh because OJ was best friends with the NBC president. Was it? No, no, that he was CBS. That's a CBS guy. Yeah. Um yeah, so OJ eventually gets out of the car. And how did he get in the car? Did it start in his garage? I don't know. I so I watched something today trying again, a little homework. Um, but it didn't really talk about where it was. Yeah, where it started from because there was there was a report and there was an image of him driving away in the morning. Someone had a camera like. Uh that's OJ in that car, but it wasn't a Bronco. So I don't know if he drove his car to that maybe his buddy's house AC AC's house, not Slater, and jumped in there. So because I I don't know. And then you're like, what he's gonna shoot himself in the back of that Bronco with the guy driving the driving the way and they said they found $8,000 in cash on him.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. Which I don't understand that, right? So where could he have been going? Had to be going to Mexico.
SPEAKER_00Probably.
SPEAKER_01Right? Yeah, CL. Maybe. But eight grand's how can you five?
SPEAKER_00So this is a so 9 15, he surrenders, okay? They're interviewing the uh LAPD detective or chief or whoever's in who's in charge of this, and he's doing the press conference, say, you know, OJ at 9 15, OJ finally surrendered. Um we they cuff him, they bring him into his house. Okay. So I don't even know if they cuff him, but they let him go into his house, call his mother, yeah, use the bathroom, and have a cup of orange juice. I swear to God. So OJ had a cup of OJ before he was arrested before he put cuffs on.
SPEAKER_01He loved his OJ. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Uh quick update uh for everybody. Um Joe Clancy, um still here, unfortunately. What time did you guys start? We're live, Joe. We are live. Uh we should call him, but it probably won't go through. No, he'll never answer that thing. And he won't answer, no. Uh um, he is gonna. I mean, this is his thing. I feel like I'm cheating on him right now because this is the stuff he'd be talking about.
SPEAKER_01He probably could have explained it, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um, he would tell you some crazy story where he was, and that's what people want. People want Joe. They don't want us. No, no, right, right. This is gonna be the least watched episode ever. Right. We'll make it good, though. We'll make it great. Yeah, so I mean, that's kind of the quickest version possible of that day. Yeah, right, right. There's a lot going on there. There's a lot going on.
SPEAKER_01I like it though. I mean, can we so I don't know whatever happened to the Bronco? I mean, that's a big question, too, right? I'm sure it was towed away, but I mean, yeah. No, but somebody has it. Definitely an auction belt.
SPEAKER_00Somebody has it by now because I probably had to sell it to pay for all those high-price lawyers. I mean, we could just do an entire episode on OJ. Because when I was like looking at this stuff, I'm like, we don't have time to talk about OJ.
SPEAKER_01Oh, OJ himself.
SPEAKER_00OJ himself, because the collectibles that he sold, how he got out of jail.
SPEAKER_01Right? Yeah, he won the Heisman. He won the Heisman. I'm sure he sold that thing.
SPEAKER_00He got out he was out of jail. He killed two people and he got out of jail. It's like I mean, there was a prank call. I'm gonna try this. All right. I think we should listen to this.
SPEAKER_01This is what we're gonna we're gonna go live to 1994.
SPEAKER_00This is live to 1994. And then we'll we won't explain it.
SPEAKER_01So what had to happen in the past for you kids was uh people used phones and they would dial in and call into the news station just to give people an update of what was going on.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And then it would it's called a prank call.
SPEAKER_01Do not try this at all.
SPEAKER_05Mr. Higgins.
unknownUm, how are you?
SPEAKER_05Uh just about as tense as you are. Oh my god, this is quite tense. What can you say?
SPEAKER_00Well, what I'm looking at right now is I'm looking at the van, and I don't think who thinks this is a real person? This is this is ABC Nightly News that this guy got through to. Yeah, yeah. ABC Nightly News with Peter Jennings. He's the biggest news guy in the world at this time, probably. Right. And this guy with a fake accent going on that everybody can pick up gets through and is live on TV. There's over a hundred million people watching the OJ chase. Right. So it's one of the most uh highly Yeah, highly viewed.
SPEAKER_01Like how you know I wonder what a Super Bowl gets. Look that up by the voting down a voting down looking up.
SPEAKER_05Clearly, an effortly way to have him come out of the vehicle in the doorway of the house. His friend Al Powell. Peter, by the way, just to pour the record, this is Al Michaels, and that was a totally farcical call.
SPEAKER_01Farcicle? Farsi called.
SPEAKER_04Uh he he said something in code at the end that's indicative of uh the mentioning of the name of uh a certain radio talk show host.
SPEAKER_00So the the radio talk show host is Howard Stern. Hopefully you guys know who Howard Stern is. He's the reason I'm sitting behind this mic right now. Uh uh He uh had one of his guys just crank call, like we said, Peter Jennings in the nightly news. Why so how many people watch the Super Bowl? So 127 million watched the Super Bowl last year. And a hundred million people were watching the OJ chase. That is insane. That is that's insane.
SPEAKER_01They were probably praying they could cut to a commercial.
SPEAKER_00Oh right, like so this guy gets through. Like that's insane. That is insane. I mean, that isn't this guy calls up so it was CBS or ABC, ABC, right? Peter Jennings?
SPEAKER_01Peter Jennings, I think, would be ABC because that's uh David Muir would be the latest guy, right?
SPEAKER_00That I think he took over for at the time you're talking about in 1994, it was NBC, ABC, CBS are the three biggest channels. We didn't even have Fox at the time. Yeah. You have like, yeah, you might have you probably have ESPN, you have a cup, but you don't have 400 channels. You probably have 50 tops. And out of those 50, you're watching like four of them. So everybody's paying attention to four or five, you know, channel four, channel five, channel seven. And this guy gets through with one of the worst fake accents ever. And then he says Bubba Buoy, which Bubba Buoy is one of the Howard Stern things. If you watch golf or you watch anything, people just yell Bubba Buoy, it's just awesome. Um and not only is Peter Jennings not understanding what's going on, then Al call Al Al Michaels has to jump in. He's a sports guy, and let him know, hey, that was a prank phone call. As he thinks that he just interviewed somebody on site that's giving him great information about what's going on. So I just thought that was pretty funny. Yeah, that's a yeah, it's an interesting point. However, he got through. Um I mean, it has to you can't even get on you can't call sports radio and get like get through with a crank call because you're going through a producer, you're asking what you're gonna say.
SPEAKER_01I mean, somebody else answers the phone. It's not like you know, Jennings is like hello.
SPEAKER_00I would guess this is I didn't do my homework on this. I wonder when the 10-second delay started. Because if the 10-second delay had started, meaning like anything that you watch is not really live, it's usually on a 10-second delay if something were to happen. Um I wonder when that happened. Yeah, and I wonder if it was around the time of this.
SPEAKER_01I know.
SPEAKER_00But I don't know that, so now I'm just speaking out of truth.
SPEAKER_01Well, not all of it's the truth around here.
SPEAKER_00No, I mean we just gonna throw some stuff at the wall. Let's see. Let's see if anything comes up. I mean, uh I mean, anything else on this before uh we get into conspiracy theories of O.J. Simpson, which I think you're gonna love. Um I don't think so.
SPEAKER_01Of the day itself.
SPEAKER_00I actually looked up like the day in Boston, like what was going on.
SPEAKER_01What was going on in 94?
SPEAKER_00That day it was something with the trains where possibly the T was gonna go on strike or something, so that was a big deal. But there was nothing going on. Yeah, major though in '94.
SPEAKER_01And I'm trying to think.
SPEAKER_00In 94, maybe, but it's uh I was looking at at the day to see like what else we could get on that day.
SPEAKER_01Are you talking 30 years ago though? Is it that long ago? Did I do my math right? Oh, yeah, long ago, 32 years ago. Jesus, that's crazy to think. Seems like the tens uh the delay has been around for a while. Oh, okay. Maybe 70s. Oh, okay. Uh let's see. Yeah. Rise of some delays, five to ten second delay.
SPEAKER_00Uh I wonder if that was for everybody. I don't know. I mean, you'd think like if you got duped like that, but he didn't swear anything, so yeah.
SPEAKER_01So some of them it says some of them are a seven-second delay. So oh, interesting. During OG Simpsons, most viewers were seeing the event with only minimal technical delays. Oh, well, that's yeah. That was a camera shot, though, most of that stuff. Yeah. So yeah, but you're right. He didn't say anything bad that they would have had to cut it out. Like he wouldn't actually uh you know what? Jennings knew nothing.
SPEAKER_00He didn't know. Right?
SPEAKER_01I mean, he said Bubba Booy and hung up and was commenting on the fact that the guy was there.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I know. He thought he got like some some great guy that came in. So a couple of the shows that he was on, he appeared on Dragnet as an uncredited role.
SPEAKER_01Um, I thought he was a long-standing role on Dragnet. That's funny. I thought that was kind of his show.
SPEAKER_00Uh was it maybe? Simpson became an acting while oh, while he was at USC and appeared on Dragnet early on. Oh, okay. As an uncredited role. Um I mean, he did a lot of he was in a lot of things.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Obviously Airplane, right?
SPEAKER_00That was his big in the naked gun trilogy. Yeah, yeah. I mean, those were he was great in that. Um according to Anna Schwarzenegger, Simpson was considered by James Cameron to play uh one of the characters in the Terminator. Interesting. I love that's a podcast we could do is the guys that didn't that were supposed to be in a role that didn't play the role, an actor. This there's some fun ones like that.
SPEAKER_01I never would have liked Terminator if he was in it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I don't know. Um A-Team. Then he did that uh he starred in the untelevised two-hour-long film Pilot for Frogman, an A-Team-like adventure. Oh which never never happened. I mean, the his biggest ones was it was um Um the Naked Gun, I think trilogy was the biggest thing that he did. And that new one that they did, there was a new Naked Gun, and they kind of they make reference to him.
SPEAKER_01Oh, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. They make reference to his character. Yeah, yeah, right, right.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I mean, what's getting overshadowed? I guess we're not really we're not really we're not journalists, or anything, so we don't have to we don't have to really say anything, but there was two people that were killed in this whole whole thing, which is crazy.
SPEAKER_01Um that always gets overlooked in all this stuff. In all of it.
SPEAKER_00I mean, I always remember what see that Ron Goldman's father, like if you ever put up a picture, I could tell who that remember what he looked like. He was always on there. Yeah, the glasses, yeah, yeah. The shrapnel of the whole thing, like whatever happened with between him and his ex-wife or wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, but then this guy becomes part of it. He was in his early, I think he was like 20 or something.
SPEAKER_01Who was the other guy? There's another guy that was uh um He lived at the house. Yeah, who's that other guy?
SPEAKER_00Oh, he became like a select Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, what was his name? As soon as you say it. People people are saying it right now, yelling at us. I know. Oh What'd you have to say? Who lived with Nicole Simpson in the house, right?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. That's probably the uh because that guy became he became he went on all those at the time they started doing those celebrity shows. Well, not at the time, but like years later. And he would be a guy that would be on those celebrity weird shows.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and he was kind of real goofy too.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, he was a he was an interesting guy. Yeah, yeah. Very interesting guy. Um, I know.
SPEAKER_01I'll never be able to find that. Oh, yeah, Kato Kalen. Kato Kalen. Yeah, yeah, right. Yes, oh yeah. Yep. So what was his became famous for some reason?
SPEAKER_00What was his thing? He lived there?
SPEAKER_01Um I don't even know.
SPEAKER_00Why is he famous?
SPEAKER_01On living in OJ's guest house. Yes. Okay, maybe that's all it was. I wonder why he lived there, though. Huh. I know, Kato Kalen, yeah, right.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, why is Kato Kalen famous? That's for being that he's literally famous. Uh says Kato Kalen is famous for being a house guest of O.J. Simpson's estate and a key witness during the highly publicized 1994-95 murder trial.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, right. Like, who cares about him?
SPEAKER_00He extended time in the national spotlight, made him a cultural icon of the 90s. He later parlayed his tabloid fame into a career in pop culture, appearing in val various reality TV shows, celebrity big brother, and acting as a media personality. Imagine that. You were just you lived in his guest house, and now then you're on TV show.
SPEAKER_01And that was his nickname, Cato. His name was Brian. That kind of nickname is Kato. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00Anyway, let's let's get into two conspiracies about OJ. See if we agree with these or not. Okay. The first one, and I've never heard this one before, and it's got a lot of teeth to it, I guess, but also been debunked multiple times. So I want to say make sure I make that clear. Um, but that O.J. Simpson didn't do it and his son did it. Oh. And that he was covering for his son, and his son had mental issues, and that he did it and he freaked out. He worked at a restaurant. I don't they said he worked at a restaurant, they didn't say he worked at the restaurant because Ron Goldman worked at a restaurant. So I don't know if they're just trying to get me off guard there. Yeah. And then that OJ got to the scene too late, and then that's why a lot of his stuff was there. He was trying to cover up for his son. Interesting. So there's a lot. Yeah, me either. There's a lot. And I didn't dive into it because I I can't. I can't have another conspiracy that wraps my head around something. So I'm just gonna take that as that I don't believe it, but maybe I should start reading into it. I don't know.
SPEAKER_01How old would he have been, though? How old would the kid been? Sixteen?
SPEAKER_00Oh, I don't know. That's a good question. I d I honestly I didn't know I couldn't I couldn't get myself to go down that rabbit hole.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I mean, I wouldn't think so. That takes a lot to kill your mother.
SPEAKER_00There's a lot, there was a lot of um, they said there's there's been different studies or people or pot, you know, they do like the podcast um um theories or how they do like the um I don't know, they break down like a murder or they may break down something. So I guess there's been a lot of those that people like try to say that he was the guy that did it, but yeah, so that's one. Yeah, and then the other one, which I believe, so I believe this one that Khloe Kardashian is OJ Simpson, that O.J. Simpson's kid. So if you look at Khloe Kardashian, she doesn't look anything like the other Kardashians.
SPEAKER_01Which one's Chloe? I don't even know that.
SPEAKER_00It's kind of yeah, yeah. She doesn't look like the other ones. Yeah, yeah. Um Chris Jenner, in her 2011 memoir, Chris Jenner is was Chris Kardashian, married to Robert Kardashian, who got divorced, and then she married Bruce Jenner, who then later became not Bruce Jenner. Yeah, right. Um so she's picking, she's pick, she's picking those ones.
SPEAKER_01They're not married anymore, right? They're not married as Caitlin Jenner, right?
SPEAKER_00I don't know. I mean, I think she's still Chris Jenner. Yeah, actually, I don't fucking I don't you know what that's one thing. I watch a lot of trash TV. I do not watch the Kardashians. Um but Chris Jenner in her 2011 memoir, I'm sure everybody read that. Yeah, uh, she admitted having a fair during her marriage. Robert Kardashian and O.J. Simpson were best friends. If you look at Chloe Kardashian, this is a rabbit hole to go down to. Yeah, really? She looks like O.J. Simpson and she looks nothing like her sisters. Chloe Gay, you don't think a little uh I mean you can get work done, but if you look at her early on, if you look at her pre-work, I know I'm trying to think pretty cool conspiracy.
SPEAKER_01How many what are they? They're four sisters and the brother. Um I've again. I don't even know.
SPEAKER_00I don't even know if the guy I'm thinking of is the brother. I know nothing, but I'm what I do know is that Chloe Kardashian is OJ Simpson's kid. That's what I'm sticking with. I'm sticking with that.
SPEAKER_01Because it's the younger ones, too. And they kind of look more like him. Yes, right? Oh, yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I know. I don't know enough about the Kardashians. Let's just go with it then. Yeah, then it is. That's what happened. It's a fact. This is a fact. So then why don't Kardashian, or maybe Kardashian Well, no, he got him off though. I'm gonna say.
SPEAKER_00I know that's interesting. Yeah. I mean, clearly OJ wasn't a good guy. So I mean, it wouldn't be you couldn't put a past them that he, you know, jumped on the foot, good foot, and uh did the bad thing with his uh, you know, his buddy's wife, who they clearly are having issues anyway, they got divorced. So I don't know. Right. Were they divorced at the trial? Were they already divorced? I don't know.
unknownI know.
SPEAKER_01I thought I really did my homework.
SPEAKER_00This is like an open like I'm telling you, you could do a two-hour thing on OJ Simpson. Right, and then it's a fast timeline of how old the kids are, what year that was in 94. So we could do an overall OJ Simpson episode and then a how the Kardashian Kardashians connect to O.J.
SPEAKER_01Simpson. Right, why they're famous.
SPEAKER_00Yes. Which is insane. I mean, we did pretty good here with unless you have anything more.
SPEAKER_01I don't have much to add to this, yeah. I think um I guess it's a great day in history. The big question is was is he really guilty or not? Yeah, I mean stand on that one. Can you even admit that nowadays? Is it so far gone? I th I mean seems like he did it, right?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I don't know, I don't know how you could say he didn't do it, but like everything that went through with that trial and everything that happened, because you were watching all of it, and let again, unless it is the craziest cover up and he was covering up for his son, which I've never heard before.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, never.
SPEAKER_00Like I couldn't believe he wrote a book if I did it. Yeah, he wrote a book if I did it.
SPEAKER_01Oh, did he outline how this is what he would do?
SPEAKER_00I didn't read it, but on the cover, it was OJ, and it said, If I did it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00After he got out of jail, like it's the whole thing's kind the whole thing is crazy. The whole thing is crazy.
SPEAKER_01Remember, he was like just out playing golf right afterwards, like nothing, nothing happened, nothing happened.
SPEAKER_00That's the crazy part of it all, and that just makes you seem he's just an a psychopath that could do something like that.
SPEAKER_01I don't know. Like, I've never really it's funny, it's so far gone. I've never really asked somebody like, hey, what do you think OJ Simpson? Like, do people hate him? Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? Like, uh, I'm not gonna come back.
SPEAKER_00He was beloved, and then and then it happened, and then but then you remember the OJ riots? I mean, it was it was it it was bad. Yeah, yeah. It was it was bad.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00There it wasn't a good time um during that. So then it's like, I don't know, but it's just it was so polarizing everything. The lawyers, it was like a TV show, you know.
SPEAKER_01It wasn't I mean, when you really think about it, he hired an incredible defense team.
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_01So at that point, you pay all this money to get you, you know, get yourself off. Yes.
SPEAKER_00I mean, if the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and I mean now and and thinking of modern day trials, it doesn't seem that hard to do.
SPEAKER_00No.
SPEAKER_01And again, it's and you're talking about what of the LA police, right? Who are terrible.
SPEAKER_00Who are I mean, you can just run through all the things that they've screwed up, so it's they have that going for them.
SPEAKER_01What's the guy? Mark Furman was he?
SPEAKER_00I think he he and yeah, no, he was the he was the main LA guy. So he was like the main cop that that was dirty, and then yeah, if you go through uh Mark Furman, there's a whole thing with that guy about what he did and what he was dealing with with the gangs and the whole thing. Oh, really? He's he's all over the place, and then his lawyer, his lawyer passed away, O.J. Simpson, with the um what was his name?
SPEAKER_01Which one? It was four or five of them.
SPEAKER_00But he was the the main guy, not Johnny Cochrane. Johnny Cochran. Johnny Cochran. Yeah, that whole I I'm telling you.
SPEAKER_01Didn't he have Johnny Cochran, Alan Dershowitz, Kardashian, and then I think there was one.
SPEAKER_00There's a woman. There was a woman on her. Otherwise, I don't remember the woman.
SPEAKER_01Oh no, the woman was the um Oh, did she was the uh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right. Um Masha Baron Cohen.
SPEAKER_00Masha Baron Cohen. Oh, no. That's a fact. Um so OJ's so that would be the Yeah, he was the defendant, right?
SPEAKER_01So the other one would be the plaintiff. Is that how that works? So there's a woman in the lawyer Mark, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Well, Mark would have helped. Uh Joe would have Joe would have this name right now.
SPEAKER_01Oh no, right, right.
SPEAKER_00Thanks, Joe. OJ, uh the lawyer.
SPEAKER_01And then I think as the trial went on, remember she like when it first started, she just had like curly hair, no makeup. Yeah. And then like a whole she had like fancy dresses on, the makeup flying.
SPEAKER_00Masha Clark.
SPEAKER_01She probably hosted SNL one time, too.
SPEAKER_00She was the lead prosecutor and LA deputy district attorney during the trial of the century. That's what they were called it. Yeah. No, she was, yeah. I mean, she's on TV every night. She's on every day. So you gotta like, it would, it's it's California, you know. It's a fame. People love it. Yep. Um, Furman retired from the LA police department after Simpson's 95 acquittal. He subsequently moved to Idaho with his family and set up a 20 acre farm raising chickens, goats, sheep, and llama.
SPEAKER_01Must be true because it's on the internet.
SPEAKER_00And then in 1996, Furman was charged with perjury and pleaded no contests. Yeah, he had a lot, he had a lot going on. Robert Shapiro.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, he's the other one.
SPEAKER_00Continues to work as a high profile civil and criminal. Right. He was the other famous one. He was a big one, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Uh Dershowitz was kind of in the back, right?
SPEAKER_00Dershowitz was, yeah.
SPEAKER_01And then I think Corran, no, maybe Cochrane stepped down. Oh no, Cod Ashin probably stepped down.
SPEAKER_00I think Cochran was there the whole time.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. So I bet you Cod Ashin was like, I can't do this. This isn't my buddy. Like conflict of interest.
SPEAKER_00OJ Simpson's legendary defense team lawyers uh followed vastly different paths after the 95 trial. Several have passed away while others went on to build media empires. Johnny Cochran, um he passed away from a brain tumor in 2005. Uh he also represented Michael Jackson. Kardashian, after temporarily renewing his law license, he largely stayed out of the spotlight before passing away from cancer in 2003. Oh wow. Okay. Um there's two of them gone. F. Lee Bailey. Oh, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01He was the old white guy. Yeah, right.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, he was he was the white guy of the group. He disbanded in Florida and Massachusetts in the early 2000s for mishandling a client's case and died in 2021. Robert Shapiro, um he's still he's still kicking. Yeah. And Dershowitz is still good. Dershow's a professor at Laverth. He's always on like Fox and CNN and doing all that stuff. He's kind of the go-to guy for uh lawyers on TV, it seems like. But yeah. All right. See, when we said we're gonna wrap it up, then we just went another five minutes of not wrapping it up.
SPEAKER_01Exactly. Well, it's the rabbit hole, right? So all right.
SPEAKER_00I mean that's June 17th, 1994, day in history. Yeah, remember it write it down every day. You gotta you gotta think about this. It's like Bobby Bonilla Day, which is coming up July 1st. Yeah, where he still gets paid. Yeah, he's still paying him. Jesus. Um, which is great.
unknownI know.
SPEAKER_01Oddly enough, like I said earlier, I saw a white Bronco driving around today. What was the Bronco? Was it a ninety one Bronco? Oh wow, great. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00I thought it was I mean, though somebody knows and they're it's when cars looked exactly the same every single year they came out. Like it didn't matter. Like I the 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 93 Bronco. It was a 93 Bronco, which looked exactly like the 91 and the 92 and the 94.
SPEAKER_01I mean now they're coming back, you could probably buy one, get it all fixed up, it'll cost you 100,000.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, just $100,000 for a new OJ White Bronco. Nice. But the top comes off. All right, so why don't we get into uh our next and just loving and hating? Yeah. And what we're at in life. Where we're at in life.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we like to start with our hatings, right? Because we want to end on a positive note. Yeah. I know.
SPEAKER_00Um uh you want me to go first? I think take it away. This is a topic again. I mean I think we say this during every podcast is a topic we'll talk about in another one. But this is definitely one that we've talked about to really go down a full episode of is um is youth sports, but mine's gonna be specifically parents that are coaching on the sideline. So like with Ryan and Cass with hockey, you'd see it from afar, but uh uh when I'm I was usually coaching at the time, so you don't really like take it all in, right?
SPEAKER_01Well, this is interesting for you because you uh coach a lot of teams, so you don't get to see the parents know when I'm sitting back watching, but yeah, carry on.
SPEAKER_00So now I'm really because Jamie, I don't coach anything that Jamie plays. Jamie plays basketball, she plays soccer, she plays softball, she's done everything. Like she's a she does everything but hockey. And and I just sit there and I sit off to the side when I go. I really don't talk to anybody, and I just watch. I mean, I'm sure they think like her dad's not even there, but he's there. He's there, judging. I am judging. Yeah, not the kids. Uh not the kids. And her last, like, I'm watching her soccer game, and it was probably a couple weeks ago. And there's this one guy, and her his daughter's playing goalie. So we're of course Izzy's right down by the goalie subject. Perspective, yeah. She's uh fifth grade? Yeah, she's in she's in fifth grade, she's going into sixth grade, she just turned 11. It's like first off, softball. It's yeah, it's one one, it's she plays travel soccer. But travel, like it's not AAU or anything, it's travel you're playing like Quincy. You're playing like Randolph. It's great, it's fun, it's great, super fun. What you should be doing, right? And but it's also they're 11, you know? So they're playing, and this guy's screaming at his daughter to like come out and play the ball, kick it, here she comes. And I'm like, she's probably terrified playing goalie. She's 11. The girls are shooting at her, and he's sitting there just like in her ear, like yelling at her. She's looking at him. What I don't get is I don't know how these people have the relationships with their kids. Because if I was doing that, maybe she'd yell at me on the field or after, she'd be like, I'm never talking to you again. Or I don't know how these people like can just yell at their kids and their kids don't say anything. I don't I don't know. I don't know. And they're like, Okay, dad, yeah, sure. Let me adjust this way.
SPEAKER_01Right. And wait, so at it at that age, are you playing 11v11 or is it is it like 9v9?
SPEAKER_00Uh it's three, yeah, it's nine. Nine, right? All right.
SPEAKER_01So you're not in the big net yet, but it's still big for it. It's still big. Oh no, no, actually, no, it's the the regular size net. Anyway, that's kind of my point being you got it doesn't matter. Well, you're lucky you can save anything at that point.
SPEAKER_00And then in the same game, this other guy's there, and his daughter's like going for the ball, and he's just so the guy, the at least the guy, the not at least, but the girl that's in goalie, she's he's just trying to like yell at her or like do this. This guy's coaching from the sideline. This guy's saying, look for her to the middle, move it this way, move it that way. What are you doing? The whole time. Yeah. And I want to look at him like, just fucking go coach then. Why aren't you coaching?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Like you're not helping, you're not volunteering. There's like three dads that volunteer. I I doubt any of them are like talker guys, right? They're just helping, and they're doing, they're they're just sitting there, they're positive, they're doing what you should be as a coach. And you got these idiots screaming at their kids, screaming at other people, and it's like, what are we doing? Oh, yeah, yeah. And then basketball, so just got her schedule for basketball in the summer for Starland, which last year, she's 10 years old. She just turns 10. We go to Starland. I'm like, oh, this is cool, like summer, like get ready for like the season, like play 10 games, like whatever. Like, it's fine.
SPEAKER_01And first of all, this is a no-name league.
SPEAKER_00We did the same thing for years. No name. Yeah, nobody cares. No one cares. Like people on vacation, you show up. I walked in the first day. I thought they were giving like food or money away. It's like, how is there 5,000 people here? It is Wednesday at 6 p.m. And this place is jammed. People yelling at referees, screaming at girls. I was like, what the fuck is happening? Exactly. This is insane to me.
SPEAKER_01I don't understand it.
SPEAKER_00And I'm just watching, and people are yelling at people, they're mad at people, they're yelling at coaches. They're like, get more aggressive. Yeah, they're yelling at referees, and I'm like, it is July 17th. Right. And we are yelling at kids. Like, what are we doing here, guys?
SPEAKER_01It's and it's funny. Sometimes it's a lot of like aggression, like the yelling at your kid to be more aggressive towards the other kid. Yeah. It's like, what happens if you hurt that other kid? Yes. Like, you know, don't forget they got parents watching, they got grandma.
SPEAKER_00Like, if I heard that, I'd be like, and then this is where this is what stems these stupid fights that happen to you, sports. And again, we don't want to go down this whole rabbit hole because this is for another day. But like, that's where it happens where you're yelling at your kid or yelling at somebody else to do something. And it's like, why you get her? Like the getter, get her, get her, get her, get her, get her. It's like, yeah, how about just let them be? Because you know what? You're not helping. No, you didn't make that person.
SPEAKER_01Let them figure it out on their own.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Right. Maybe they're not good when they're 10 and 11 and 12, but then all of a sudden they get it, right? Right. It's because you're the worst one at 10 doesn't mean you're the worst one at 15.
SPEAKER_00You've seen it so many times, but I don't know if we'll I don't know if this generation is going to allow that to happen for kids. I know. Because kids are just going to start to hate it. Yeah. And they're going to be like, I don't want to do this because mom or dad or whoever is yelling at me the entire time I'm out there, and all I'm doing is looking at them. And I don't know. I I it just the coaching from the sideline, and I've seen this guy do this multiple times. I I you couldn't give me a million dollars to tell me what his name is, but I could tell you who his kid is. Yeah, yeah. And it'd be like, why don't you just go coach? You're here. You're always here. Why don't you volunteer and coach?
SPEAKER_01Well, he probably won't coach all of them.
SPEAKER_00He's only no, he just wants to coach his daughter, and he knows everything, so he's gonna tell her what to do. Yeah, yeah. And then eventually that person, if she ends up listening to her father, they're not gonna like her because she's gonna be so selfish the entire time. Oh yeah, yeah. He's gonna tell her, you only do this through this. I mean, you've seen it a million times, but just watching these people and like get angry about stuff.
SPEAKER_01But then I wonder a good a good opening question is you could almost stop the conversation as he's yelling and be like, oh, is that your oldest?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Usually it's the first kid syndrome, right? Of like, you know, they're gonna make it, they're the one.
SPEAKER_00But then so then the the good people are like, all right, not the but you were crazy once, but now I figured it out. Now I get it. Like, what am I doing? I shouldn't be doing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But then the crazier ones are like, uh-uh, I screwed up with the first one. I'm gonna go even harder. Couple seconds. And I think I see that more now than I've ever seen. Like, you know what? That first one didn't go pro. I did something wrong.
SPEAKER_01I know. Yeah, so that's what I'm hating. That's I always I I love that one because I always felt there was like an odd relationship with your kid if you're yelling and screaming out, kind of to your point. Like, right? Like I'd go to the games, and and oddly enough, seems strange, but sometimes kids have bad games and sometimes they have good games. And it's like these parents that are just like when something bad happens to the kid and they're in the stands, and their the reaction is to kind of look at everyone like, oh, I'm gonna yell at him in the car.
SPEAKER_00Yep. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_01And it's like I'm gonna yell at her in the car. And it's like, why? Like, for what point? I used to just kind of sit back, watch it, and be like, hey, what do you what do you think? You know, how'd you how'd you do today? Oh, great, yeah, it was awesome. Fun to watch you play, right? Leave it at that. And then I like the story of not even a story, but like if I'm watching, you know, you're watching your kid play, there's certain things they do, and you might be like, oh boy, like in your head, right? Maybe you don't say anything. Yeah, you're like, oh Jesus, what happened there? Then you ask your kid about the game, the version they give, it's so different. Yep. And it's wonderful because in their minds, you're like, Hey, do you see me nail that kid? Yeah, you see me do this, you see me do it. I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, I saw that. But I agree. What are you gonna do? Like beat him down or beat her down and be like, no, it didn't really happen that way.
SPEAKER_00She had a softball game last night and I'm watching, and she struck out, and then in my head, and then you play the game too, like, wait a minute, should I be like bringing her to like do hitting lessons or something? Am I supposed to be doing that? And then the next step out, she gets a walk and she gets to like run the bases, and then after the game, like they lose. I walk, I'm walking by, I'm like, Who's because you don't know the score of anything? Some people do, but I have no idea what score, I don't know what anything it is. Right. And I'm like, what was the final score? Because it's getting close. It's like, I don't know, the coach didn't tell us. I was like, oh, good. I mean, didn't seem concerned about it at all. Right. And it's like, no, if I'm waiting for if my kids go, hey, I want to do this, and I want to do a little bit more. There's pushing. Sometimes kids need a little bit of push. Like if it's they have practice of something like, I don't want to go, no, no, you're going. But now hey, I just signed you up without you knowing that we're gonna do three times a week hitting lessons, and you don't want to do it. You really don't even like doing this, but I'm gonna make sure you do it because you need to be better. I know. It doesn't make any sense. If they're having fun, like this softball thing, these girls, they all have fun, they're chanting different things, right? So I don't know, just watching it and it's supposed to be fun. It's just supposed to be. They're 10 and 11. She's 10 and 11.
SPEAKER_01But even when they get older, even high school level, I'd say it's supposed to be fun. Because I've seen, I think it was a lacrosse game we were at, and the girls are playing, and I remember this father's yelling and yelling and yelling from the stands, right? So now you're in bleaches and he's yelling, and the daughter just turned to the stands and looked up at him and said, Shut the fuck up. Imagine that, right? Can you imagine that relationship with your kid? No kidding. And that I mean, I'm glad she did it.
SPEAKER_00But it's like, you know what? And nowadays, I think when you get to that high school level and a kid's an asshole, like before the kid's even an asshole, if you know like the parents just out of control or something like that, or like he's the asshole in the stands, it's always yelling, you can you're most likely you can pick that kid out on the team.
SPEAKER_01Right, famous saying, right? Cats don't have dogs.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you know, like I mean and it's funny, it's I I've heard multiple stories of college coaches that they go and watch a kid play. This is like every sport, not just hockey. And they watch the parents don't even watch the kid. Right. And they watch how the parents interact with people, they watch what the parents are doing during the game, and they think I'm not dealing with that for the next four years. And they just walk out.
SPEAKER_01I swear that's why Dougie Hamilton got traded.
SPEAKER_00Because of his parents, though? Oh, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I swear to God, I think that's why. I heard uh I don't know, he gets kind of sent off, maybe kind of oddly. Yeah. And I think it was because somebody said that like his parents would like call the coach after games, and they were like, Yep, I'm all set with him. I mean, it's but I don't know if that's true. Anyway.
SPEAKER_00I mean, I like it though.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00I like that.
SPEAKER_01Uh that's a good one though, because um it's just tough to watch. Well, it's you know, it's a it's it's a big part of everyone's lives nowadays. Yeah, and I don't I mean, I was the guy, I never said I was just a quiet guy, watch the games, and that's it. And it's like I always judge it, like you said. If they come off the field and they're having fun, they just leave it at that, no matter what happened.
SPEAKER_00The only thing I get aggravated at a game, and I'll never, it's just in my own hand, it's never at my kid or never at anybody else. It's just are the coaches treating those girls or those boys, those players, like respectfully, and are they doing the right thing? And are they taking it? And for the most part, she's had like the best coaches. Yeah, I I I can't really say much. Um, but like last night they had soccer and they bring them in. I mean, it's not soccer, uh softball, and they bring them in the huddle and you can hear them talking. They're like, listen, when we say 515, you need to be here at 515. And then I had them like, no, no, say that to me. Oh, they don't though. Don't say that to the 11-year-old who's just like sitting there like waiting to go, and mom and dad aren't ready or something. Yeah, yeah. And then they start like, so I guess they want the kids to come back and shame them, so they you have to shame the parents. But I'm like, just send an email that's like aggressive. Yeah. Send me the aggressive email like, hey, here's the deal. So many people are late today, need you here at 515. Don't put that on those kids. Tell them they played good today and move on from it. Because now you're leaving that game like almost like a that's a negative thing to say to them. You know, hey, make sure Thursday, we're here. When I say 515, how do they know you said 515? And they don't drive themselves. They're not at the mercy of parents who work, they're not on the app. It's 515.
SPEAKER_01Apps is fucking nine million apps that's gonna talk about the thing.
SPEAKER_00That's when we get into the youth. Yeah, yeah. So that's what I'm I'm hating the parents coaching on the sidelines and ruining ruining people watching it and ruining their games. The thing is, you don't even watch the game, you start staring at these people and I'm listening to them and I'm getting angry and I just want to throw something out there. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01And then you get like two of them that kind of talk.
SPEAKER_00Like, did you play? Are you a professional? Then you should be coached right now. And if you're not, then shut the fuck up.
SPEAKER_01Like it's crazy. Exactly. I just did we had to sign up for baseball, and one of the things is you know, you gotta obviously you gotta pay, you bring a check, and we have to bring the birth certificate, and it's gotta be it's gotta be the legit birth certificate, like it's gotta be the original copy, which is kind of stupid too. I don't understand why that is. So you have to give that up every year, the original person. I know, yeah. I don't know what it is about baseball. But um as we walked into our meeting, it was um I said to the guy, like, oh hey, I got your check. How much, how much is how much do I have to pay for this? You know, how much is it? Who do I make no who do I make the check payable to? Right? Yeah. And the guy just looks at me and goes, it was in the email. I'm like, Oh my okay, God. I'm like, well, what email? And he literally, this kid's in the room. So uh, you know, I'm walking in, who do I make it to? It's in the email. So I'm like, all right. And then he just looks at the kids, he's like, Come on, guys, you gotta share this with your parents. And I'm like, Can you just tell me do I make the check wave? I mean, it just would have been easier. Right.
SPEAKER_00So there's teachable moments, and I understand it, believe me. Like the high school, I tell the kids, listen, I'm not talking to your parents. This all this communication goes through you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um, meanwhile, we have an app with all the parents on it, so at least it's kind of getting to them. So at least they know what's going on. So I do I say that to them, but then also the schedule's on there, everything's on there because you fair enough. You gotta, it's tough. It is tough. And but at the same time, that's not an 11, 12, 13 year old.
SPEAKER_03No, right, right.
SPEAKER_00You're nine years old. I mean, who gives a shit what time I freaking practice? My mom and my dad is driving me there. That's basically what it comes down to.
SPEAKER_01I wonder how they even reacted to that. Are they just like, okay? Yeah. You know, like they don't know what to think. No, right? Right. So that's great though. I like that one a lot.
SPEAKER_00In the moment, right now, I just got a text from a former player that said, date, time, me, mic podcast. Oh, I'm not sure. Two ex players want to be on the podcast. I don't know what we talk about, though. How old are they? They're old enough to be. They're 18.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00They just graduated.
SPEAKER_01Oh, okay. Yeah, they're young. I know. We could try it. I mean, they'd have to talk about that.
SPEAKER_00They'd have to have a topic. They would have to. I'm not interviewing them.
SPEAKER_01That could be things we have no idea what they're talking about, though.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I don't need it to be like a hey, tell your favorite story about coach either.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I know.
SPEAKER_00I don't need that shit out there.
SPEAKER_01That'd eat up seven minutes.
SPEAKER_00That's what do you hate most about them?
SPEAKER_01The loving and hating. The hating would go for a while. All right, what are you hating? Uh um I don't know where this one's gonna hit, but um you know, I don't even, but whatever, we'll try it. So you know, you're driving somewhere and you're going you're going out and you gotta go and you gotta park your car. I fucking cannot stand parking lots anymore. Just trying to find a spot, and the biggest complaint is the amount of handicapped parking spots that are out there that go unused. And I don't know what it is. I mean, you ever go to like Target, and there's 9,000 handicap parking spots that nobody's in, and yet I can't find a parking spot anywhere.
SPEAKER_00So well, you have the handicap, and now you have the electrical, like power stations.
SPEAKER_01Those I haven't even seen so much, uh, see so much, but it's just the parking and trying to get into a spot and it can't go to that spot, can't come into this spot. Oh, yeah. So you let me get this are you hating handicapped people? Is that what you're saying? No, no, handicapped spots. Yeah, the person I'd have to judge them based on how they are.
SPEAKER_00So I can't say What if you see somebody park in a handicapped spot that doesn't have a handicap spot?
SPEAKER_01Oh that's uh that could be that might be a speaking up moment. Yeah, right? Like, hey, what are you doing there, bud? You know, but sometimes they pull it out, they don't always leave it hanging there. But you got it. You you can't keep that in your pocket. No, no, like they keep they don't put it like it's not hanging there permanently. So what they do is when they park, oh they put it up in a power.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so now you watch them, they park, they're not putting it there.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I know.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, are you okay with like throwing a little knife in a tire? Like you think that's acceptable.
SPEAKER_01I don't know if I'd do that, you know. Um so here's an interesting thought. This is what I kind of wrote down, too, right? So you wouldn't park in a handicapped spot, right? You probably wouldn't do it. No, I wouldn't. Would you use a handicapped toilet? Yeah. Yeah, I would too, right? Yeah. A stall?
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00What is it? What was it? What movie or someone did a skit on it? Oh shit, what was it? I can't think of it off the top of my head. And someone went into a handicapped stall. And the guy rolled in. No, a guy rolled in in a wheelchair. Oh, I can't.
SPEAKER_01Well, you'd use it all day long because sometimes there's a little sink in there, right? It's almost like a little apartment.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. But it's that what happens when the person pretended that they were handicapped when they came out. I gotta find out.
SPEAKER_01So in all my years of using handicapped stalls, that's never happened.
SPEAKER_00So that's interesting, though.
SPEAKER_01Like is that on the same level? I don't know. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00That's because technically, like, that's that's there that's not used as much, just like a parking spot's not used as much.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and it's like the best one because you're not your elbows aren't hitting the walls when you're like all said and done, you know.
SPEAKER_00I mean, um if I walk into one and there's four stalls and one's a handicap, you're going handicap and nobody's in there. Oh, yeah. I'm going, it's yeah, it's just easier.
SPEAKER_01I mean, it's just the best one. Oh, I didn't think of it that way. If the door doesn't lock, though, that's the worst one because you can't reach, you know. At least on those tight ones you're in, you can kind of hit the wall, you know.
SPEAKER_00But so when you're when you're in the bathroom, like and someone comes in and you're actually like you like making noise.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah, yeah. You don't do the old. I thought that was a given. No, that's yeah, that's uh feet a little bit, you know.
SPEAKER_00Just make it known that you're in there.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Oh, it's curb your enthusiasm. Oh, it is curb your enthusiasm, yes.
SPEAKER_01Oh my god, I'll have to watch that one now.
SPEAKER_00Yes, the handicaps call, curb your enthusiasm. He yes, and who goes into it, Larry? Larry goes into it, yeah. And the and the guy, I don't know if we can clip this because it's on YouTube. Maybe we can. But he comes out of it and the guy in a wheelchair goes, What are you doing? What are you doing in there?
SPEAKER_01Let's see if we can do it. Like he's not allowed to use it. Yeah. But I don't know. Yeah, I guess um I don't know. Maybe because it's the bathroom, it's like a little little less obvious, right? As in parking? I guess, but it's I don't know. I don't know. That's a very good that's very good. Because I think everyone would use a handicapped stall in a second. I think you know, nobody's thinking, oh well, I've got to save for the guy in the wheelchair. Yeah, I know. I mean, first of all, how many people do they know in a wheelchair? Like, I don't know.
SPEAKER_00So let's let's play this scenario. You're in a restaurant, there's a guy in a wheelchair in the restaurant, you go into the bathroom, do you think twice about it? Uh probably not, 'cause you probably wouldn't even like I know. I mean, this is I'm gonna now think about it all the time. Oh yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Oh man. I mean, I mean it's I don't know. Overall, I don't even see that many people in wheelchairs anymore.
unknownNo.
SPEAKER_01Maybe it's a different world now. They don't need them anymore. I don't think so. I don't think so. Never know. That's a crazy statement. All right. Now we're loving.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Let's get on to it.
SPEAKER_00I mean, I had a couple different ones, but I'm gonna keep it kind of boring, I guess. One of these days I'll get controversial. I'll get emotional and start crying. Um I am loving. I mean, we talked about daylight savings, but it's not about daylight savings, but I'm loving now like either sitting on the couch and looking outside and it's 7 30 and it's still so bright outside, or like going outside, driving back from baseball or soccer, and it's eight o'clock, but it's not pitch black out when you get home. And and I hate um, listen, last Friday it was 90 degrees, and like the humidity was through the roof, and I was at we were at baseball, and I was just sweating, it was the uh Walsh's graduation party, and I was just sweating through my t-shirt, just watching baseball. I hate those days, but the last three days have been so nice. Oh, the weather's perfect. It's just like uh a great 75 degrees, 80 degrees with a breeze, where like at the end of the day, you can throw like a hoodie on or a long sleeve. Like, that's that's nothing better. Yeah, and then with that comes the with that good weather, you know, going out on the boat, like just having a day on the boat. And again, it could be 85, 90 degrees, you go out on the boat, it's 10, 15 degrees cooler, it's just a nicer day. So I'm I'm just loving that. Yeah to be school's not even over yet. I'm hating that. I could have talked about that, but it's not over yet. Um still going, but once it's done, and then you can kind of enjoy the summer a little bit. That's what that's what I'll do.
SPEAKER_01The last few nights have been nice. I noticed that. I think we had baseball the other night. And you're right, it's like 8:15, 8:30. It's not dark at all.
SPEAKER_00The breeze. It's just like coming in. It's just, and I don't know, and maybe I've just never paid attention, maybe this is my old age here, but I've never noticed until the last like couple of years the sunsets we have around here lately. It's like the whole sky is like lit up, and I was like looking, I'm like, this is so cool, it's beautiful up there. And I'm like, and then I think, I'm like, has it always been like this? Am I changing? What's happening? Oh, yeah. Am I getting a little too sensitive? But I just feel like some of these days that's what it is. It's just kind of getting like really nice. I don't know. Yeah, it's like the orangey something. Yeah, really taking it in.
SPEAKER_01You gotta see you gotta be. I'm like, wow, that's correct. That's pretty insane.
SPEAKER_00Then I'll find out, yeah, it's been like this all the time. You've just been a miserable fuck your own life. Yeah, but I mean, I've been sitting sitting outside like in a in a chair, like reading a book. Like I did it like a couple nights now in a row. It's like 7 30, and I'm like, you know what? Instead of like sitting down on the couch watching TV or doing something stupid, terrible, go outside. Like get off your phone, read a book. And I have like a goal of reading a couple books this summer. What do you mean? And I've I've already read one. Oh, yeah? What interesting? Um, it's actually the um it's a story of Larry Bird growing up. It's but it's not it, it it talks about basically him growing up in Indiana. So it's all stories about everybody surrounded by Larry Bird except for Larry Bird. It's called Heartland. But it was a very interesting book. Like it just goes through him growing up, how he was growing up, goes through it. Just some author from Indiana. Just some author guy that um just some author that wrote it, and then just I mean, the last like 20 pages is just all the research he did, you know, like uh from news clippings from this, like everything in the back. So he must have followed him somehow, or he must have at least talked to Bird.
SPEAKER_01He must have known the family.
SPEAKER_00He's he I mean he talked to everybody around him except for for Bird. Yeah. So like his neighbors, his teammates in high school, his teammates in college. Um he it didn't get it never got into pro. It just talked about him leading up into to the Celtics. Oh, no kidding. It was it was fast. I mean, he was if it wasn't for his high school coach, and if it wasn't for um a recruiter from Indiana State, he would have never played college basketball. Like he went to Indiana and lasted like a month and left. Um he was he got recruited from Bobby Knight. Yeah, yeah. He couldn't do it. He hated he was such a homebody, went back home, started playing for a community college right outside of French Lake.
SPEAKER_01But but he was good enough to get recruited by the the team of the time. Oh no no he was great basketball.
SPEAKER_00No, no, he was an unbelievable basketball player. This was all him. So he was getting recruited by everyone still when he left Indiana. Like everybody was all over him, and he was like, No, I'm good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm good, I'm good. Went and played for a community college, quit after after like a month there. And then the following year was like playing pickup basketball and like scoring 40 points. Working for like the town. He was a DPW worker. Oh, he was really, and guys were coming to his house and he's like, No, I like I'm making money now, I'm doing this. And and he was a for whatever reason, Indiana State finally convinced him to go. He I I'm reading this and I was like, holy shit, like we almost didn't have Larry Bay. We almost didn't have him. And it had nothing to do with how good he was. It was him being he was worried about his mom, his he had issues with the the parents were divorced, they didn't really talk about it. The dad ended up killing himself later on. Like he had a ton of things. Were there pictures of his house? Did they show pictures of his house? Yeah, there's a bunch of pictures.
SPEAKER_01Is it like legit the small little house with those with the little hoop outside?
SPEAKER_00It's the town is like the smallest little town. There's some pictures of the town of the high school, like the whole thing. It was just it was crazy. And then even going through college, like the stories and of college, it was it was it was pretty cool listening to how everything played out, and they they weren't even sure if he was gonna play for the Celtics.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so the Celtics drafted him the year. The year they wasted the pick on him. Well, not wasted, but like they used the pick and played another year. We were just talking about this recently. And I don't know, was it different back then where he could he was owned by the Celtics, but he still played in college?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so he was eligible for the draft, and because of that, the Celtics took him and they had like a year to sign him.
SPEAKER_01It was like the day before, right? Or something.
SPEAKER_00So then when the next draft came, I think he had been signed before the next draft. Yeah. But during that time, like it was interesting how Red Albark was like, nope, we're going for this guy, and he saw him play like once. Oh, he did, yeah. Yeah. And then, you know, looking back, it was kind of crazy how the Celtics pulled that off. Like, that's it's kind of a fascinating thing.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I feel like he was like ahead of his time that time.
SPEAKER_00But even uh that sports illustrated cover where he's on the cover with um the cheerleaders from uh uh it was like who's this guy basically? They're coming out party, and he had to like fly to New York, he hated it. They he was supposed to stay for like the night for something else. They flew out the night that night, he did everything and then left. Like he was he was difficult. Oh, yeah, yeah. Difficult in the way that he wanted no recognition for anything. Like he was player of the year, he didn't even want to go to that, he didn't show up for some of the stuff where he got like awards, he just didn't want anything to do with it. That's kind of like the flip side was Magic, who loved the spotlight, loved all of it, and they're two of like their two best friends, yeah, yeah. And they met each other. That it was his going into his junior year, he went overseas and played with a like the best um college guys. Okay. And they went over there and and it was uh that was like the eye-opening thing, like who the f who is this guy?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and they loved him.
SPEAKER_00He went he went undefeated his senior year and lost that the only loss was two magic. To imagine and the year before they they won something crazy, like 17 something games in a row or something. It was it's pretty fascinating, like reading the beginning stages of it. Yeah, right. But because I've never I've I read Drive about Larry Bird, like his autobiography at the time, like and you think you know like the stories from watching this stuff, but this was interesting to see like where he grew up and how he grew up and how close he was to not even playing basketball.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, no, that's kind of wild.
SPEAKER_00But yeah, there's our tangent. Exactly. Was that based off handicapped bathrooms?
SPEAKER_01You reading books? No, I know. Me reading books. You're trying to read, you're gonna read three books or somehow. So that's one, and you got another two in mind. Do you like sports books? It must be your thing.
SPEAKER_00I like well, no, now I'm reading just uh uh now I'm just reading a fiction book that literally I judged it by the cover. The cover. Yeah. And uh I'm almost done with that one.
SPEAKER_01What is it, a guy with long hair on it?
SPEAKER_00With the shirt ripping open, it's called uh it's called Golden Boy.
SPEAKER_01What could that be about?
SPEAKER_00It's kind of interesting.
SPEAKER_01It's kind of like you buy it at CVS or something.
SPEAKER_00No, no, I got it at uh Bonds and Nobles like on the front thing, and I was like, oh, that's kind of cool. There's a bunch of them. Like, all right, I'll get that. And I started reading it, and uh, you know, I'm almost done with it. So now I get to pick another one. I got like I got probably 15 on my shelf that I haven't read, but I'll go back to Bonds and Nobles and pick out another book.
SPEAKER_01I had a thing, I would not buy another book until I finished reading the book I got. Because then you get, you know, you end up with six, seven books. Yeah, well, I get what am I gonna do? I get a bookshelf now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But although some of them it's hard, I don't know. I get committed to it, and I very rarely like I'll start reading a book, even if it sucks. I'm like, I just gotta get through it.
SPEAKER_00I feel like I have to finish it, but I have a couple on there that I just couldn't get through.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I couldn't finish Charlie Sheen's book. He's Jesus, though.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I didn't start that.
SPEAKER_01I got it if you ever want to read it. That's just terrible. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00I mean, this book sucks so bad. I couldn't finish it. You can have it if you want, if you want to give it a shot.
SPEAKER_0130% off. So that's good. Good stuff. Uh um, all right. So if it's to me, if you're ready. Um there's no one else. Joe, you love it. Joe, I got it. Calm down, Joe. I got it. Um I mean, I'd like to talk about the World Cup because I do love it. I know.
SPEAKER_00Like I am loving it, but I just um I thought about that. I had that on as loving it. And it's something I didn't think I was gonna love. I I I'll watch soccer occasionally, yeah. But like it's been pretty cool.
SPEAKER_01It's you know what's funny about it? Maybe it maybe could we could talk about it for a second, but it seems it reminds me of the kids like take the boys playing hockey, where they all play together on a team, yeah, but now they're going to play for the town and they get to play against each other. Yeah, and it's just fun atmosphere behind. That's a great way to explain it. You kind of got the stars that are like all in the I tell you, the stars in the first three games, they've definitely doing their thing for sure. And I don't know many soccer players, but I don't know. Did you watch Argentina last night?
SPEAKER_00I mean, Messi's 38 years old, and then he had a hat trick, like that's but like just unbelievable the way he plays.
SPEAKER_01And you watch him, and like I never really thought of it because I don't I haven't seen him play a lot. I've watched him, but I never noticed it. And the guy was saying it last night in the game. At the beginning of the game, he's like, you know, this is great. You watch Messi play, and he goes, a comment somebody will say about Messi when the first time they watch him play is man, he just walks around a lot, huh? And he's like, But he ain't walking around. Yeah, he's like strategically. He knows exactly where it's supposed to be. And you see it. Did you see like the rebound? See the kick?
SPEAKER_00You never see that in a soccer, right? Like you don't see a rebound pop out, and you like the guy like buries it.
SPEAKER_01But if you look at um, what'd they play Algae is whatever that is? Yeah, um, there were like three guys just stopped, yeah. Like just standing there watching, and it was like he snuck in and it was like, man, that was unbelievable. I didn't see the last goal.
SPEAKER_00I don't know what happened on the last goal. He went like left foot, like tucked it in the corner. He was like, Yeah, yeah. And the guy announcing was like, and that is classic Messi. Oh no, don't give Messi that much room. And I'm like, there's no room. Oh, yeah. He had that room. Oh, it's amazing.
SPEAKER_01Even some of his shots earlier in the game, it's like he's putting it like, I don't know, like near side top shelf, and you're like, how do you do that?
SPEAKER_00I think the coolest part of the whole thing has been, especially around here in Boston. I mean, the Scotland people are on the news like every night. Yeah, yeah. They drank the whole city out of booze. And uh they were in a uh liquor store and some lady bought water, and that there was like five or six of them in there and they started booing her.
SPEAKER_03Yes. Oh no.
SPEAKER_00But I mean, they said Hennessy's bar in Boston. Did you see this? No, tripled their tripled their uh amount of booze and money compared to uh St. Patrick's Day. Oh my god. Tripled it. Tripled it.
SPEAKER_01That's insane.
SPEAKER_00They were getting emergency beer deliveries because they were drinking bars. There was no beer left. Oh my god. Like none. But you see them like just come into these cities and it's fun, it's like joyous. It's not like they're not paying for the biggest. Wait, wait, wait. We're not burning cars and buildings down like in New York City because they won the championship. Yeah, yeah. If like Scotland comes in to go watch a soccer match, they're like, they're playing the bagpipes in the middle of the street walking down. It's like crazy. They took over Fenway Pac. Oh, if they did that, if that was us going somewhere else, we well, we took somewhere over. That means you're burning the place out and fighting people and doing stupid stuff. These people are coming in singing and chanting. Oh, and they're all happy and they love them. They're so happy. Are they the ones doing the boat thing, the row thing? No, that's Norway.
SPEAKER_01All right, that's what I thought it was. Yeah, because Norway played, I think, yesterday too. Iraq. Yeah, yeah. And they got that star on there too, who's human.
SPEAKER_00And England, I think, is playing tonight, maybe or something. Because they're in Boston too. They're all a bunch of them staying at the Marriott.
SPEAKER_01I think England's Marriott Scotland that's at uh the Marriott. Yeah, I heard that, that the nearby. But so, but I love it. I love the atmosphere of it, and it's pretty cool.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's been kind of cool. And I didn't think I was I thought, oh yeah, cool, like World Cup, whatever.
SPEAKER_01But then it's a humongous deal. It is huge.
SPEAKER_00You know? It is just why I guess it's seeing how big it really is. So then you're watching stuff and seeing how people are getting so excited about it and talking about it. I don't know. You can really appreciate it, even if you're not like a huge soccer person. Yeah. If you can't like understand that this is like a big deal, then you're not really a sports fan.
SPEAKER_01And there's not many um odd rules with soccer. I mean, the offsides, it's like a moving line, which is interesting.
SPEAKER_00I think if you watch it once and see an offsides, uh it's not it's not like like field hockey or girls lacrosse where like you can't figure out that sport sometimes.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Like you could figure out the off after while like, wait, how is that off sides? Like, where's the line? It's like, no, yeah, it's it's whoever's in the back. Yeah, yeah, right. Like just kind of figure it out. But yeah, other than that, like and it's even if it's one-nothing or zero zero, like I was watching that Cape Verde, Verde, they were zero zero. It was wicked exciting. Oh, yeah. They were like hanging on, they're playing, I think it was Spain, yeah, and Spain's like one of the favorites, and they tied them zero-zero. And you would have thought Cape Verde just won the World Cup. Because that's a gigantic tie. I don't know. Do they get points for a tie?
SPEAKER_01I forget. They get points for a tie, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Right. But seeing like the place is going crazy, they're going crazy, and then they're hanging on at the end. There was a couple like big plays where like the goalie makes a couple saves or it just goes wide, and you're kind of gripping, and like it could still be excited without goals being scored. Which seems odd. The 10 like 10-year-old self would be like, that's stupid. That's not fun. No, no, right, yeah.
SPEAKER_01But now, like you kind of appreciate it a little bit. Yeah, it's funny how they like set up. You can see the play set up a little bit, which is kind of nice to watch too. So I mean we're soccer gurus. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we could do a whole episode on soccer. Yeah, yeah. The match. Yeah, so so I don't know. I guess I'll stick with that one. Yeah, I'll just do that.
SPEAKER_00We'll call it a uh we Yeah, we almost went an hour and a half again.
SPEAKER_01So exactly.
SPEAKER_00I thought, like, oh, there's only two of us, we won't talk as much. No, but we've had a lot to talk about. We haven't been on for a while. But um, I think we're going, I think we talked about it two or three episodes, and then we'll we'll call it a season, and then we'll come back for a season two. Oh, yeah, yeah. With if the people want us. I mean, sponsorships available. Oh no. Yeah, if you get some sponsorships, it'd be great. Shout it out, bring you on, put a logo up there. Good stuff. Exactly. Maybe orange juice. Or yeah, orange juice, the juice is loose. We could just do an epit like a segment of The Juice is loose and just talk about somebody doing something stupid. Well, we have the stickers, people like the stickers. We could do some merch. Yep. We need a sponsor though. Again, I don't know if we've mentioned a sponsor would be great. But no one listens to the episode anyway. We need to uh they only watch the clips, so it's fine. That'll be the clip. We'll clip it. We need sponsorships and guests. Yeah. Who wants in? All right, until next time, episode eight, season one, episode eight. We're done. It's done. Yeah, we'll be on episode nine next time. That's how math works, yeah.