Ep. 52 | The Bitty Buggy Breakdown, Mordor Cheating Scandal, and Happy Hour Heartbreak | September 23rd, 2026

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Insightful heels in the big Mary.
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Yes, he was insightful.
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I do not dispute that.
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But you ducked your heels in and never talked about it again.
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I think it added a lot of depth to the conversation, is all.
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That's all.
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It didn't.
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But it also we'll get to it.
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Let's talk about it in the no no.
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We're gonna keep that in and we're gonna we're gonna talk about it.
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I want it in.
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Good.
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Good.
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We'll be in there.
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Welcome to the oh boy.
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Yeah.
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We are here.
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We're ready for it.
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We are we're we're doing it, Alex.
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Big week.
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Big week.
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We're back.
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Football's back.
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We're in the full swing of it.
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We uh we have the fall.
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It does fall a little bit.
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It absolutely does.
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I've got a new haircut.
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We'll talk about it.
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We'll talk about it.
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Wanted to address it for the YouTube audience.
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But so we've got a couple different things coming up.
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We have the return, Alex, of our one of our patent segments on the show.
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Loyal listeners will remember.
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We've got a pool picks from Alex and I.
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We got pool picks of the of the NFL.
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We're going back and forth and we're doing pickums.
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Actually, that's what we called it.
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I think we called it pick'ems.
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Pickums is great.
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And also, we wanted to extend this year.
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If anybody wants to jump in with us and put their pick'ums in, we can add it too.
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So we know a couple people might jump at that.
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So that'll be fun to have listeners on it.
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Check the Instagram first.
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You gotta follow, like, like our like our stuff, like our page.
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You gotta check it out.
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Make sure you're sharing it, do all that good stuff.
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But then I will put in the description there where you can get to our our pick'ems and join along for the rest of the season.
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Because I think that would be a blast.
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Alex and I have a little bit of a week head start, but at the end of the year, we can filter out our solo weeks and get uh some of the crew.
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And maybe we'll do a big one, a big pick'em's at the end of the year.
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See who wins, who wins the maybe the final week.
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Maybe we do something like that.
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We do a little playoff, playoff pick'ems, too.
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Maybe that's right.
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We could do something like that.
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You know, that could be big.
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So anyway, add on now.
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I think I think if we could get some people added on during the season, ramping up for our playoff push when we actually will have more of an announced kind of prize.
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Maybe that's something too.
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If you have an idea of what the prize should be or what it is, maybe we do merch, Alex, maybe a little merch giveaway.
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Uh oh, I'm percolating.
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I'm percolating.
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I don't know.
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Okay, maybe I should put on a 20-minute video then about something completely different.
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Alexat's we'll get to that.
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But that was a low blow.
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That was a low blow.
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That was that was a low blow.
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How was your week, Alex?
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What'd you do?
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What'd you get into?
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I had a good week.
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Another good week.
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Work is going well.
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I was at work excited last week.
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Um, and and somebody asked at work, uh, hey, what are you what are you doing this weekend?
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And I instinctively was like, I know I'm gonna be watching Red Zone on Sunday.
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And so I go, I've got a date with Chris Hansen.
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And the guy wait, it's supposed to be Scott.
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Chris is the guy on To Catch a Predator.
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He is the so I said that work.
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I go, I got a what are you doing this weekend, Alex?
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I got a date with To Catch a Predator is basically what I said.
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Because I mixed up the guy's name Scott Hansen, that's the host for Red Zone, and he does like eight hours of commercial free football, and he's engaged the whole time, and he's really exciting.
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If you're not familiar, that's who I meant.
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Uh, but uh the the the name Chris Hansen came out, and the one young kid behind me who started with me, we're like thick as thieves now, but his head snapped back, and he goes, What did you say?
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Like he was like, he was like like immediately identified the problem.
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I was like, what was that?
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And I was like, you know, Chris Hansen.
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Red zone?
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He goes, Is it Chris?
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And I was like, um, I don't know.
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And then I looked it up and it's Scott, and we looked up Chris, and he goes, Oh, yeah, that's to catch a predator.
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The old Florian slip is what it sounds like.
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Oh boy.
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I think so.
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I think so.
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So anyway, uh, that's how I started my weekend.
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Uh was is that like on Friday?
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I'm ready to do that.
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Um, I had I don't want to talk too much about it, but I will say had another lovely date.
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Um, that was lovely on Friday.
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Alex.
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Um, I don't want to talk too much about it.
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I'll just leave it at.
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Had a blast.
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Great time.
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You know what I mean?
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Look at you.
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Look at you, Alex.
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You know, fall time.
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Oh my gosh.
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Fall time, fall season.
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Um, and then so the next day, I can jump into the next day where uh I went to the gym and I got a call as soon as I left the gym, and it was one Mr.
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AJ, our buddy, and he goes, he goes, shot in the dark.
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He said it in a funnier way than that, but he said, shot in the dark, what are you doing right now?
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You want to go for a walk?
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And I just got out of a workout, it was all sweaty, but I was like, I'll walk with you and and your uh your baby in a stroller and your dog, your golden receiver dog.
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And that's exactly what we did.
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We walked around town, we took turns.
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Either I was pushing the stroller and being Uncle Alex, or I was uh walking the dog, uh, Mr.
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Rover Dog, Golden Uncle Alex.
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Still being Uncle Alex, yeah.
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Yeah.
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And uh and then AJ, yeah, AJ and I kind of caught up, and uh it was really nice.
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You walked around, took turns doing that, and uh, we called you.
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Uh, and but you you know you're busy at the moment.
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It was last minute.
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Well, I I you know I got I got my things together, was finishing up a late breakfast, and then I um got got dressed, got on my PJs, was doing my my Saturday lazy morning, and then um I got down there and I was like, hey, where you guys at?
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And you guys, I think we're like, yeah, we're we're out of cars, we're getting ready to go home.
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So I think I just I just missed you.
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I just missed you.
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Yeah.
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But uh Yeah, uh, but I did later that day, we did connect, and um I had to go back, I had to get uh measured for tuxedos for Al's wedding, and um I had to get measurements and stuff, and then it was right by your house.
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And stopped by, we had a couple of a couple of coffees that weren't from this country.
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They were a couple of Irish coffees we did.
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Well, we poured a little bit in there.
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We were a little bad, yeah.
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Yeah.
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We got fired up, we got percolating, and um tell you what, nothing gets me more fired up than the coffee.
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We we had our entrepreneur hats on.
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We were starting businesses, you and I.
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We did.
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We got a little brainstorm going.
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Yeah.
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I I uh in the office, I cleared off the whiteboard.
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I'm looking at it right now, Alex.
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We've got uh a list of ten different ideas really percolating, really percolating there.
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Inspired by the Irish golf.
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They're cohesive.
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They are cohesive, though, in a way.
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The ten scenes are different, but they have a larger umbrella that brings them together that they they're they're underneath, I feel.
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That's right.
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Yeah.
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And we and I think we I think we did a really good job.
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I think we did a really good job.
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I'm looking at a lot of fun stuff here.
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Um and it just uh it was it was buzzed around.
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I think I think the video I showed really enhanced the experience, Alex.
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For the listener, Jake and I were really humming.
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Jake and I had a couple couple Irish coffees.
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We were really had our entrepreneur hats on.
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We were we had tabled what the name of the company would be, but we had a beautiful it was a beautiful sunny day.
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We're in the office, it's late morning.
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We're we're really in a good headspace.
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Great headspace.
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Great headspace.
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And then and then Jake goes, this this is kind of adjacent.
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I'm gonna put on this video, and he puts on a 25 to 30 minute 24 minutes, Alex.
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Dry.
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I'm talking a dry audit of this guy's net worth and how he got there year by year, what his job was.
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Still a very respectable guy.
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Where he was investing, how much of the percentage he was investing.
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It was very dry.
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Very performative.
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Very slant one way or the other.
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Straight down the middle.
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He's fast metal for a little bit, but then he bought a farm.
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Alex, but then he bought a hobby, but then he bought a bakery.
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But then he's got a W-2 job.
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He's probably in accounting.
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That's right, he's kind of accounting or something.
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Yeah, he's got hero.
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This guy's a testing.
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And I don't discredit that, but it really, I'll tell you what, we were humming.
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We were at a real good, we were perfect in the middle of a brainstorm.
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And I did kind of I draw the blinds and put it on the second screen and really, really, you know, maybe put us into a slower pace.
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Sure.
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Sure.
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But Alex, I think between that and what we were humming at, the average of that, I felt like really leveled us.
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I think it leveled us in a nice way.
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Back down to Earth.
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Yeah, it was back down to Earth because we we were flying far way too close to the sun.
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We were we were close to the sun.
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You brought us back down to orbit in a safe cruising altitude, I think.
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That's right.
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Because we were a little bit too.
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So that was that was Saturday.
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That was Saturday.
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I think it was a beautiful day.
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It was a beautiful morning.
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It was.
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Honestly, honestly, loved it all.
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Loved it all.
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I think we would have got petered out eventually by the uh the brainstorm.
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I think the video is a nice interlude anyway.
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That's right.
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Now we can come back to the brainstorm a bit fresher too and energized.
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Like we we left something on the table.
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And you know what?
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Fiscally responsible too when we come back to it.
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Because of it.
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That's right.
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Because of it.
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So that was I kind of wrapped up my Saturday.
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I forget what I did after that.
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I think I actually got to bed at a reasonable hour on Saturday.
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Um and then the next day, Alex, can I can I do you mind if I interrupt really quick?
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Jump in, jump in.
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I just got a text right here, and um it's from my lovely wife.
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I love her dearly.
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And I just she said, this soup is, and I quote, fucking incredible all caps, my favorite meal you've made so far.
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What?
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Alex, I've made it.
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A lot of meals, weekly appreciation of my wife.
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I love her dearly, but I have I have made a lot of things, and I am I can't believe that's actually very surprising to me.
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I just got it as we're talking here, so I just had to uh I had to mention it.
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You cannot now leave us hanging with what kind of soup it was.
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What did you use?
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I how did you what did you do?
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How did you do so I well I uh I ended up we had some some carrots and some uh some celery that had been hanging around.
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And I thought when I went to the grocery store, I'm gonna I'm gonna really polish that off.
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I'm gonna pick up an onion, I'm gonna get some chicken, and I'm gonna make some chicken noodle soup.
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Um and so I ended up doing what is what are the noodles?
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I also got the noodle too.
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Um the one it begins with the Capari or uh the kapov?
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No, uh no, the the the very it's like the corkscrew looking one.
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Um twisty doos.
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A twisty do a cap uh oh my god?
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I'm uh the type of the noodle.
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Anyway, oh it's driving me nuts.
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It's gonna egg noodle?
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Not an egg noodle, it's uh is it the Campanelli?
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Companelli?
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Might be Campanelli.
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Uh uh, but anyway, um I thought there was a V- Anyway, I'll I'll look it up.
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I'll look it up when when you're taking over.
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But anyway, anyway, I got some of those.
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And I what I ended up doing was I was in the grocery store, and as I had this in mind, they had in the produce section, Alex, they had a a little plastic thing that was called the I want to say like soup kit something like that.
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It had a leek, it had rosemary, it had parsley, and it had um a long red pepper um all together.
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And so I was like, oh, this'll really elevate.
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This isn't chicken noodle soup exactly traditional, but this will really elevate.
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And so I thought, okay, well, I'll grab that.
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And so what ended up happening today was I did this over the weekend.
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I was going to meal prep.
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We're recording this about a uh you know Wednesday, so a couple days ago.
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Um, some dinner plans popped up earlier in the week, so I had to pivot and uh and go to Wednesday to make it.
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So I end up I end up chopping up, I chop up um the onion, so I've got a full white onion, I dice it up.
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I'm talking dice.
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Then I get the soup kit.
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So I've got the leek, the parsley, um, I pull out the rosemary spruce um twigs, sprig, thank you.
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Um and I put the pepper in and I I dice all that up, I cut all that up.
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Now I had put on the stove um two things of chicken broth.
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So I had some chicken broth as well.
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So now I put in all those veggies immediately.
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I got the I also then did the carrots, the celery, dice that up, threw that in there.
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So that was great.
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Then what I did, I get the chicken, uh salt pepper, nothing crazy, olive oil in a dish, in a pan.
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So I sear those.
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So that's searing.
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If I get a third thing and I put the pasta in there, I get that going, a little salt, a little uh just get it get it going.
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Um salt pepper, I pour out most of the pasta water, but I leave a little bit to add a little bit of the pasta water, the the thickness to put that into the mix.
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I put the chicken into the mix, a little salt pepper.
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Um but yeah, that was that was the the meat of it.
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That was most of it.
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But it had a very good consistency.
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You get the the bits of parsley, you get a little bit of pepper, a little heat, you get a little, you get the chicken broth, of course, but then also I I seared it pretty good, so I had that in there, but then it also you know it sears and it has not a burn, but like a char.
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But then you put that into the chicken broth, and some of those bits, they kind of they then soak a bit um and it adds some good flavor.
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Um gristle, a little bit of gristle.
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Yes, a little gristle, exactly.
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And so then I had that going.
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Um, it was it was marinating for a little bit, had a big old pot, and then yeah, so that was kind of it.
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Nothing crazy.
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It wasn't crazy, but it sounded crazy.
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It's not I it sounds a little a little less than sane.
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It's not fully sane, but it's not crazy.
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So it's it's in between there.
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That's right.
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Sort of the mental dexterity of this soup wasn't normal, but it wasn't too far gone that you'd call it crazy.
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It was somewhere in the middle, it sounds like and it's probably the rosemary and the gristles, I think.
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Together.
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Together, that's right.
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Would you buy a bag of gristles?
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Just called gristles.
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That's a fun thing, but that isn't that bacon bits almost?
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Doesn't that feel like bacon bits?
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But this is chicken, Jake.
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This is chicken.
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That's true.
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Do you call but that like gristles bits?
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TN gristles I'll put it on the whiteboard right next to me.
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I'll put it on the whiteboard next.
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This is what we missed out on.
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This is what we missed out on watching that video.
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Bristles?
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TN.
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The gristles.
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You remind me I did love it.
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Well, thanks for the sidetrack, Alex.
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I just got that text.
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I apologize for derailing the uh the lovely weekend that was yours.
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I do love a um love a good cooking story.
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I I will say now you've inspired me.
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I wasn't gonna talk about my date on Friday, but it because I want to be protective of her own privacy, but I will say I I did some cooking myself.
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I I cooked dinner.
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And um look at us.
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And Alex.
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I know.
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I did, I did uh I did a steak, we did little fillets, I did sweet potatoes, which I marinated the night before, with also rosemary and some olive oil, seared that up a little bit, and then had uh carrots as well with some yellow squash, real fall.
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And uh now I will say, unique thing, again, I don't want to say too much.
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I want to be protective of her privacy, but I will say I had to cook in a specific way because she has muted uh taste given that she she lost her smell and it's a whole thing.
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So I was really trying to get a lot of textures and colors in the dish to try to do it.
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So it was very colorful dish, had a lot going on, a lot of different textures going on with some of the uh the seeds I added at the end, um, and real flourish and uh and a nice medium rare sear, so real crispy on the edges there, a little juicy in the in the middle.
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Um, and then she actually baked me.
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I told her I liked apple pie.
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And we're pie men.
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You know that.
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We're pie men.
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We're pie men, that's rye, we're pie.
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It's just a couple of pie guys, just a couple of pie guys, pie-eyed pie guys.
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It reminded me of Tim Allen.
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Tim Allen goes, did the whatever that show was.
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So she actually uh she surprised me.
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She brought dessert.
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She made little apple pies uh shaped in in kind of hearts.
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And honestly, I love I love you and me going, pie then.
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And then you go, and it's little hearts.
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So she made a very delicate apple pie with terrific lattice work.
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I'm about to love this work.
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It was great, really great stuff.
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Uh, and then what did I do?
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So that's part of the weekend.
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That was Friday, Saturday.
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We talked about Irish coffees, brainstorming, Sunday, lazy Sunday.
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This was the first Sunday that it really did feel like the fall.
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It felt like the fall to me.
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Football Sunday.
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I went to both the hardware store and the record store on a nice rainy day.
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Oh, whoa.
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Great, great idea is go to a record store and walk around on a rainy day.
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It's a great, great way to see it.
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This feels this feels like a YouTube eight-hour vibe music session I've had before where there was, you know what I mean?
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You know what I'm talking about?
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The like atmospheric ambiance you put in the background, yeah, and it's like and then the record story in the background.
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Yeah, and it's fall time.
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Yeah, this is what it sounds like.
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That uh that's exactly what it was.
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Uh that was sort of the um what um what I did you get it?
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Lovely date spot.
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Did you bought it?
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Yeah, lovely date.
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Well, so so I saw the same same girl.
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Uh we went together and uh she bought a bunch of different stuff.
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She bought a um James Taylor record, actually, was one of the things that she bought.
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And um we uh the next next day uh we had a nice little sort of like um early morning where I had to wake up early, had to go to work.
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Listen to James Taylor in the morning, really, really nice.
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I put it on the um I have a CD of it in my car as well.
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And it's raining.
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So this is now Monday.
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Okay, so this is the following day, so it's Monday.
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And it's raining.
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I have my biddy buggy car.
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We kind of went over this.
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You know the bitty buggy car.
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My my niece.
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You're familiar.
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Of course.
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Of course.
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Well, the bidybuggy biddy buggy been bad.
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Bitty buggy, bitty buggy is kind of that.
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Yep.
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Bitty buggy been bad.
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The back window um it it it slides down now a little bit, so it's uh it like cracks.
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It it just opens and cracks.
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So I put my hand back and can slide it up from the inside.
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Very dangerous, shouldn't do it.
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In the bitty buggy.
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And so I'm listening to James Taylor trying to relax early in the morning as it's raining, and I'm about ready to go to work.
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And the back window is cracked, so there's a little bit of rain getting in.
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And then one of my windshield wipers on the passenger, it like flips over, like the one thing flips over.
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And so it's like it's like craned, it's now perpendicular.
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And it's like scratching the windshield as it's going.
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Okay.
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Instead of why not?
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So why not?
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So I'm driving, I'm trying to be super relaxed.
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I got James Taylor, bitty buggy back window.
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And the the back windows going, and uh, and then there's just some of the worst traffic uh on that Monday, too.
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It added another 40 minutes to my commute because it was an accident.
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Um and so because of the rain.
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Um so it was it was a tough commute, tough end, kind of beginning of this week, tough end of that weekend.
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Um, this was actually, I think, Tuesday morning.
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I think my days are all getting jumbled up.
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So that was a long-winded way of sort of saying I wanted to be uh I'm dancing around some of the details because again, I want to be protective of her privacy and everything.
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So I know that sounded kind of social.
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You I think we should be able to do it.
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Jake should share that.
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Alex, we've all done it.
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Okay, how was your weekend?
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How was your weekend?
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Oh boy.
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Uh it was it was good otherwise.
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Yeah.
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Well, that was that's awesome.
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They not the pity buggy part.
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That's a shame.
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That's a real bummer.
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It is it is very funny though that you kept saying, and I'm trying to relax to James Taylor.
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It just like runs in the back windows going, it's raining.
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Couldn't there's there's ambulance on the road.
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Yeah.
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What's a James Taylor song, Alex?
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Do you know one?
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Off the top, off Rip?
00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:10.880
Uh yeah, the the Fire and Rain is the one that I like.
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I think it's track four on my CD.
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Yeah! To the ray!
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No, it's called Fire and Rain, I think it's called.
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Uh it's uh you know the song.
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It's been in a lot of movies.
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It's like the top, it's like the basic, basic answer.
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That's the one I know.
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Okay.
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Oh, that is funny.
00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:38.319
That is funny trying to do to relax, but then have all of the pitfalls of the madness.
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The madness happening of the bitty buggy.
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My bitty buggy.
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I um I had the grocery shop, I kind of snuck in there already.
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Um I'll tell you what what I did, a little impulsive.
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A little impulsive, Alex.
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When I get to the grocery store and I get excited sometimes.
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Uh Did you go hungry?
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Did you go hungry too?
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I wasn't I was nippy.
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I wasn't hungry.
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I was just kind of that's almost worse.
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I know.
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That's almost worse.
00:25:05.279 --> 00:25:06.079
No, I can't remember.
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Was I that hungry?
00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:07.839
I don't think so.
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I try not to, but uh this particular time I'm going up and down the aisles and I'm looking for a couple things, and I go by the pickle aisle, and there was a pickle jar.
00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:21.359
Alex, I don't know what it was.
00:25:21.599 --> 00:25:26.400
It was bigger than my head, and I go, my wife needs to have that.
00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:29.119
Let's take this, let's take this thing home.
00:25:29.359 --> 00:25:36.160
And I just got a massive pickle jar, threw it down and impulsively bought pickles.
00:25:36.319 --> 00:25:40.799
And uh when I get home, when I get home, Lisa goes, hey, how was the shop?
00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:43.599
I go, look at this! Look at this.
00:25:44.079 --> 00:25:52.160
As if I had, Alex, as if I had, you know, spirit of bore and brought home, you know, family.
00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:57.279
Yeah, in our cave, you know, we were grunting earlier, and I'm just yeah.
00:25:57.440 --> 00:26:00.160
Um, and I and I had this, and I go, look at this.
00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:02.240
It's it's bigger than your head.
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It's bigger than your head.
00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:18.799
Um, and so yeah, it was um, I've got these pickles now, and Alex, every time I get pickles now, especially like in the jar like that, I'm reminded of the Hannibal Burris joke.
00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:19.440
Do you remember it?
00:26:19.599 --> 00:26:21.599
Yeah, where he flicks it on sandwiches.
00:26:21.759 --> 00:26:23.759
Oh I always think about that.
00:26:23.839 --> 00:26:26.480
We know Hannibal from Fringe Fest.
00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:28.319
I know our guy.
00:26:28.640 --> 00:26:29.759
Fringe Fest, we met him.
00:26:29.920 --> 00:26:45.119
But uh, he had the whole joke about he kept, even when he finished the pickles, he'd keep the jar in his fridge because the pickle juice he would dip his fingers in, let them soak, and then flick it on his sandwiches for flavor.
00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:49.920
And I think about that every time I see a pickle jar.
00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:51.440
I think about it all the time.
00:26:51.680 --> 00:26:58.400
You could probably do like a spray, you know those like little um those basters or something that you could do like the turkey with.
00:26:58.559 --> 00:27:04.000
You could probably do something a little more clean than just your fingers, but yeah, but the whole concept using pickle flavor.
00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:11.759
Mix it with like something to get like more of a spread instead of you could make a jus of some kind or a sauce.
00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:12.480
Yeah, yeah.
00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:13.279
That's right.
00:27:13.440 --> 00:27:18.079
Or dump it on some fries, dump it on some chips, dump it, huh?
00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:19.599
Dump it on that's right.
00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:26.880
Well, Alex, I'll make a lot of chips with this pickle jar that I had.
00:27:27.039 --> 00:27:30.160
Um other than that, yeah.
00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:31.200
Oh yeah.
00:27:31.519 --> 00:27:34.960
I um I know we're in a couple big fantasy leagues.
00:27:35.039 --> 00:27:40.240
We'll probably get into football stuff later, but I did I did want to share this one thing.
00:27:40.559 --> 00:27:48.559
Kyle, who has been on our walk to Mordor with us, he um he is don't give me that.
00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:51.680
Don't give don't you don't you put your head back like that.
00:27:51.920 --> 00:27:54.880
Don't you tilt back disgusted like that.
00:27:55.200 --> 00:27:59.039
No, you you you both ruin the sanctity of the whole competition.
00:27:59.200 --> 00:27:59.440
Why?
00:27:59.759 --> 00:28:00.960
A whole year is gone.
00:28:01.279 --> 00:28:05.200
It's disgusting what you two did, and it's it's atrocious.
00:28:05.359 --> 00:28:10.960
Uh honestly, the sanctity and the integrity of the entire competition has been undermined.
00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:24.720
And I can't, I I cannot, in good conscience, give you guys any type of award, any type of praise for what you've done.
00:28:24.960 --> 00:28:27.119
Uh what am I doing?
00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:30.240
You're gonna just say, oh, it's gonna be cut in the front of the line.
00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:33.519
Is it is it is it because you're in third, Alex?
00:28:33.599 --> 00:28:34.079
Is that why?
00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:42.880
Is it is this do you think if you were willing to do the I could be in first too if I if I just manufactured random miles that don't exist?
00:28:43.200 --> 00:28:47.920
Yeah, let me just put my my totals at four billion now.
00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:50.400
This is just disgusting.
00:28:50.720 --> 00:28:57.039
For the listener, for the listener, uh, we're talking about the the the the walk to board or or run.
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Uh it's a competition we have had all year long since January.
00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:04.960
My lovely wife, I love her dearly.
00:29:05.039 --> 00:29:05.680
It was her idea.
00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:27.200
She found this app that it sunk, it it did a sink with your phone that all of the steps you take throughout the year, it kept track of and pinned it against or did it how far you were to Mordor, which they figured was over 1700 miles.
00:29:27.759 --> 00:29:32.319
So our goal was to try and walk 1700 miles in the year.
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Now we've been doing this.
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We got some people, some family members, some friends involved since January.
00:29:38.880 --> 00:29:48.319
And both Alex and I have been uh going against our good buddy Kyle, but we were very frustrated because he has a manually.
00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:49.039
He manually does it.
00:29:49.119 --> 00:29:52.319
He has no Alex.
00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:54.000
Costbate spade.
00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:56.640
He has He's been fudging it.
00:29:57.680 --> 00:29:58.720
He does not.
00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:00.319
I don't even know if you can do that.
00:30:00.480 --> 00:30:01.119
What do you think?
00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:06.720
He has a watch that doesn't always connect to his phone.
00:30:06.880 --> 00:30:10.240
And so when he goes for walks, he doesn't have his phone.
00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:14.160
Um, and then at the end of the day, he syncs up his watch.
00:30:14.319 --> 00:30:19.839
Now, Alex and I have gotten frustrated with him because we can't keep track of how far he's going.
00:30:20.079 --> 00:30:28.799
So we we he started catching up and passing us throughout the year because we weren't sure how many miles to keep up with him.
00:30:28.960 --> 00:30:35.119
And so he would be at zero all day, and then overnight he would have 20 miles.
00:30:35.359 --> 00:30:59.279
It it got to be as far as uh a week where he didn't have miles, and then all of a sudden the week he has 30, 40 miles, and so um that was going on throughout the year, and so he was catching up, he passed, he passed us, and we weren't sure how many miles to do, and so um we couldn't pace pro properly.
00:30:59.519 --> 00:31:08.720
Now, I say all of this to explain Alex's frustration, one, but two, to set up the fact that I ended up getting a new phone last week.
00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:15.119
So I I go iPhone, I set it up, but all of my data, all my apps, they left.
00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:17.759
And I'll tell you what, it is a nightmare getting a new phone.
00:31:17.920 --> 00:31:30.400
Luckily, it's a little bit better than it used to be back in the day, where you can kind of transfer things over, but even still, there's a new thing now where like I don't even know all the apps I had previously, and I'm going through.
00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:35.440
I still have my old phone, luckily, so I can kind of double check and see what's there.
00:31:35.680 --> 00:31:45.039
But um one of the apps was our walk to Mordor, and for about a day and a half, all of my data was wiped.
00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:55.440
So it wiped all of my miles, which at the time was like I think it was 1580 or 1590 um miles that I had.
00:31:55.759 --> 00:32:07.599
Now I was fiddling with it for a couple days, and finally I was able to find out that you can backlog your old miles from a previous account.
00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:09.359
So I was able to get them.
00:32:09.599 --> 00:32:20.000
And when I did that, it said, Do you want to add extra miles that were on your health account, your phone, and that aren't logged on this?
00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:22.319
And I I said, sure.
00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:28.000
And so it went through and added an additional, I think it was 111 miles.
00:32:28.319 --> 00:32:28.880
200.
00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:30.160
It was like 200.
00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:31.279
It was like 200.
00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:34.240
Alex, I was at I was at like 1580.
00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:35.200
Um, I had one.
00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:37.039
It was at 17 all of a sudden.
00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:38.319
And he was at 17.
00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:39.119
That's right, Alex.
00:32:39.359 --> 00:32:40.240
You were like 14 something.
00:32:40.559 --> 00:32:40.960
That's how it was.
00:32:41.279 --> 00:32:42.960
No, no, it was at 200.
00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:44.880
It was 200 plus miles.
00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:47.440
Because it was it was just over 100.
00:32:47.519 --> 00:32:48.640
It was 111.
00:32:48.960 --> 00:32:50.160
It was at 18.
00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:54.960
It could have been 1889 plus 1100.
00:32:55.039 --> 00:32:56.480
That goes to 1700.
00:32:56.640 --> 00:33:05.039
How do how do we how do we not know that you didn't double double up from a health app tracking it, but then also your very well could be.
00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:06.000
Very well could be.
00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:07.039
It could have double dipped.
00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:08.240
There could have been a double dip.
00:33:08.319 --> 00:33:08.720
I don't know.
00:33:08.799 --> 00:33:09.359
I don't know.
00:33:09.519 --> 00:33:10.960
Double dip happened and occurred.
00:33:11.039 --> 00:33:11.440
We got it.
00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:12.480
We got it.
00:33:12.799 --> 00:33:14.240
Alex, we got it.
00:33:14.559 --> 00:33:15.279
We got it.
00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:18.160
Alex, I'm not trying to deceive anyone.
00:33:18.319 --> 00:33:21.599
I wasn't trying to do anything.
00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:27.920
However, I will say, when Kyle came to me, I was not as pleasing.
00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:28.799
I said, What?
00:33:28.960 --> 00:33:29.920
You didn't like it?
00:33:30.079 --> 00:33:32.160
You don't like when I upload miles?
00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:33.599
Well, that's I gave him some shit.
00:33:33.680 --> 00:33:34.720
Yeah, I gave him some shit.
00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:35.839
I go, Oh, what is it?
00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:36.240
You don't?
00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:42.960
And he just sent a gift back of, you know, that guy that slowly zooms in on him, and he just kind of like respectfully nods.
00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:44.640
We just like Yeah.
00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:46.160
Yep.
00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:49.200
And so he he sent me that.
00:33:49.359 --> 00:33:50.319
And I go, what?
00:33:50.480 --> 00:33:52.880
You don't like that we've been running in the shadows?
00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:57.920
Our orcs have been running by nightfall and catching up on you?
00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:01.920
And um, and then I go, no, but seriously, I got a new phone.
00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:03.440
It added some old miles.
00:34:03.519 --> 00:34:11.119
I was like, I wish I could take credit for tact to tactfully ambushing you, tactically ambushing you.
00:34:11.280 --> 00:34:20.320
However, uh, this was a pure just coincidence or pure uh just like byproduct of me.
00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:24.960
Because I went from like zero and then back all the way in like over the day and a half.
00:34:25.119 --> 00:34:27.039
So did you see me at zero miles there?
00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:27.840
I did.
00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:28.320
I did.
00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:30.960
You saw that too, but you weren't you weren't complaining about that.
00:34:31.039 --> 00:34:32.960
You weren't upset about that at all.
00:34:33.199 --> 00:34:34.239
That was fine.
00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:44.559
But if I get a hundred, Jake, people fit people trip 1500 miles sometimes.
00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:48.239
It's like it's called Everest.
00:34:48.559 --> 00:34:49.760
They fell off it.
00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:50.559
Yeah.
00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:56.320
Although that's not I'm I'm disgusted and I've lost all motivation for the entire game and the sport.
00:34:56.480 --> 00:34:57.519
I feel demotivated.
00:34:57.599 --> 00:35:07.440
I feel like I've been cheated out of almost a year of progress and hard work and uh grit on a determination.
00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:10.320
Like a little bit of a is it maybe sore losing?
00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:10.800
Do we think?
00:35:11.119 --> 00:35:11.360
Jake.
00:35:11.599 --> 00:35:21.679
A little bit of a if if you found out that the man with one testicle that was beating everybody was doping, would you call that cheating or winning?
00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:23.440
Or would you just throw them in jail?
00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:24.239
Hmm?
00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:25.119
Hmm?
00:35:25.360 --> 00:35:28.719
You're the man with one testicle, Jake, and you've been doping.
00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:30.400
And you've been doping.
00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:33.360
I like that you haven't sang Lance Armstrong.
00:35:33.519 --> 00:35:36.719
You're just you just no, you're trying.
00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:38.559
I'm trying cheaters.
00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:48.559
Except for the entry form at the prison.
00:35:51.119 --> 00:35:54.239
Um so I'm about to win.
00:35:56.719 --> 00:35:57.679
No, but you know what?
00:35:57.760 --> 00:36:01.760
I will say, Alex, the last like three, four days, he has gone on a ripper.
00:36:02.079 --> 00:36:04.400
If you notice Kyle, Kyle said this thing.
00:36:05.199 --> 00:36:07.519
So all fun and games were on the podcast.
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:17.280
I'm hamming up a little bit some of my disdain and anger towards Kyle and uh the amount of of poor wishes I've I've I've wished on him in in this time.
00:36:17.440 --> 00:36:22.159
But I um I did slow down myself with the work and the commute and everything like that.
00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:26.719
I I have slowed down with how much running I've been doing.
00:36:26.880 --> 00:36:28.400
So I do what it wants to do.
00:36:31.039 --> 00:36:31.920
I'm calm.
00:36:32.079 --> 00:36:47.679
I am calm, and I and I I I think in this analogy, you are a you two are both broken windshield wipers scratching the vision I have looking forward, but So be it.
00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:49.519
Fire and rain, baby.
00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:51.039
Fire and rain.
00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:54.559
I think we are, are we the fire?
00:36:54.639 --> 00:36:55.440
Or we're I don't know.
00:36:56.000 --> 00:36:59.840
No, you're the broken windshield wipers scratching up my windshield.
00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:02.719
Um now it was funny.
00:37:02.880 --> 00:37:07.760
On top of that happening, he and I played each other in fantasy football.
00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:23.599
And this is a classic, you don't even have to be a fantasy football fan to really appreciate this, but the the games were going back and forth, and he and I were just locked in a tie where I would go up, he would catch up.
00:37:23.840 --> 00:37:25.440
He would go up, I would catch up.
00:37:25.519 --> 00:37:28.559
And we were just going back and forth the whole weekend.
00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:32.000
And um at one point he just texted me.
00:37:32.159 --> 00:37:37.599
He just goes, couple of rams, locked horns in the grasslands.
00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:39.920
I just go, I go, what?
00:37:40.159 --> 00:37:44.000
You go, he goes, this game, you and me, just a couple of styles.
00:37:44.480 --> 00:37:44.960
Like, oh my god.
00:37:45.119 --> 00:37:46.000
That's really good.
00:37:46.239 --> 00:37:47.280
That's very good.
00:37:47.440 --> 00:37:48.960
That's very good trash talking.
00:37:49.039 --> 00:37:50.800
I I gap to that.
00:37:51.039 --> 00:37:59.039
And Alex, the craze, the that was one of the wilder fantasy football games um between he and I.
00:37:59.199 --> 00:38:02.400
It started with that last Thursday night.
00:38:02.559 --> 00:38:09.920
I had Amon Ra get like 35 points in the same game that he had DJ Moore get injured.
00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:14.800
So that's how the week minus 0.1 or something like that for him.
00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:15.360
Yep.
00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:19.199
So he so the the way the week started, he's like, I'm a dead man.
00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:30.719
And then he comes back in scratches and claws all the way back, and he is within, I think it was 20 points.
00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:32.960
He was within 20 points.
00:38:33.280 --> 00:38:35.679
Monday night football, it comes to last game.
00:38:35.840 --> 00:38:37.280
I'm done for the week.
00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:43.280
We both, it's funny because I after he said that comment, we both plummeted.
00:38:43.360 --> 00:38:45.760
Like we were both like two of the lower scores.
00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:53.199
We went from like two of the highest projections to two of the lowest projections, and like thank goodness we played each other because it was still close.
00:38:53.519 --> 00:38:59.119
And it came down to Monday night where I was locked in a score, he was down 20.
00:38:59.199 --> 00:39:07.760
He had two players, Scataboo and Likely, and both of them, and he's a giant fan.
00:39:08.159 --> 00:39:15.599
Both of them underperformed, and the starting quarterback gets hurt, he loses by less than a point.
00:39:16.719 --> 00:39:20.000
And we were narrowly hung on.
00:39:20.159 --> 00:39:20.480
Yeah.
00:39:20.719 --> 00:39:26.000
Yeah, we ended as Rams locked in in the grasslands.
00:39:26.079 --> 00:39:28.400
We were we were 0.5 away.
00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:31.440
Just one of us slowly bled out faster.
00:39:31.679 --> 00:39:32.559
Is all that happened.
00:39:33.039 --> 00:39:34.400
Play the Rams too?
00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:36.239
Didn't the Giants play the Rams?
00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:37.519
Football team, too.
00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:38.000
Look at that.
00:39:38.239 --> 00:39:39.440
So that's pretty poetic.
00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:40.880
That is poetic.
00:39:41.039 --> 00:39:41.679
Yeah.
00:39:42.559 --> 00:39:45.280
Um hurt though.
00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:46.159
Out for the year.
00:39:46.400 --> 00:39:47.760
We could we're gonna get to football.
00:39:48.159 --> 00:39:50.079
I think we've been a little bit a little bit.
00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:53.039
I do want to mention um one other thing.
00:39:53.360 --> 00:40:05.840
Uh I think one of the nights, Lisa and I were just hanging around and we were doing some gaming, and then uh she puts on some TV, and then she puts on um we're both just kind of messing around.
00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:06.800
We're on our laptops.
00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:08.639
We're she was very tired.
00:40:08.719 --> 00:40:13.920
She ended up waking up pretty early one day, and then so she was kind of just napping, so she's like, I'm just gonna throw something on.
00:40:14.400 --> 00:40:26.400
She puts on uh this Italian game show and it translates it translates to physical 100 is the way it translates to.
00:40:26.639 --> 00:40:26.719
Okay.
00:40:27.039 --> 00:41:40.880
Um but it's basically like it's themed as if it's like a Coliseum or something, like the Coliseum, and it's like a game show where you have all these different games, it's like Olympic type of thing where they all have these busts made of their own personal physiques, and all of them are bodybuilders, crossfit, Olympic swimmers, um like breakdance people, um gymnasts, um they they have all these different disciplines of like insane fitness um and coordination, and and so and then they have all these games, and then once they're eliminated, they have to get a sledgehammer and destroy this like ceramic bust of their own body, and then like destroy it, and so they're gonna find out who the most um I don't know, physical or like uh but like person is, but it's all in Italian because we have the Italy trip coming up.
00:41:41.280 --> 00:42:03.760
Lisa was like, yeah, we'll get some Italian, we'll get some Italian just flowing, and so it's all these Italian people just like roided out, like um, you know, bodybuilding um Italians, just uh doing like tug-of-war and wrestling.
00:42:04.079 --> 00:42:08.159
There's like a uh is it in uh like like a Coliseum?
00:42:08.320 --> 00:42:13.760
Like you said, it's like glad, like is it is it actually like gladiators, is what I'm imagining.
00:42:14.639 --> 00:42:15.519
What's that show?
00:42:15.679 --> 00:42:24.880
What's that show from like the 80s where it's like those those roided out dudes and they have like the big sticks and they're trying to bat like hit each other off?
00:42:25.199 --> 00:42:33.760
And uh, or like um it's like a it's like a game show where it's all physical, like kind of like American Ninja Warrior, you know, like that game show.
00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:34.079
Okay.
00:42:34.320 --> 00:42:34.800
Picture that.
00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:45.519
There's a lot of contestants, there's like obstacles and things, but there's like in this version, it's almost a little bit like Squid Games too, where there's like a hundred people and it gets whittled down.
00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:50.320
Um Squid Games is a little bit more like psychological thriller.
00:42:50.559 --> 00:42:58.079
This is more like purely like the physical games in the competition, you know?
00:42:58.320 --> 00:43:20.960
Um but um yeah, anyway, so I'm watching this and it's all Italians, and um there's like this, like there's like an Olympic wrestler who's like a a pro like Roman Greco wrestling technique, and he's going against these other people trying to get this ball on top of a thing, whatever.
00:43:21.119 --> 00:43:29.760
And uh they're going back and forth, and I'm looking at all these people, and we're getting ready to go to Italy, and I just think to myself, you know what I should do?
00:43:29.920 --> 00:43:33.199
A lot of these people have some hairstyles.
00:43:33.360 --> 00:43:40.239
It reminded me, dude, I am gonna get the Julius Caesar haircut for Italy.
00:43:40.320 --> 00:43:41.440
That's what I went with, Alex.
00:43:41.519 --> 00:43:42.400
I still have to figure it out.
00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:43.280
I just came from it.
00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:45.440
So I'm gonna think about how to style it.
00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:50.960
But think George Clooney and ER, it's it's it's coming down.
00:43:51.119 --> 00:43:52.800
I thought, what better way?
00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:59.360
What better way to prep for Italy, an Italy trip, than having a Caesar cut, Alex?
00:43:59.519 --> 00:43:59.840
Come on.
00:44:00.880 --> 00:44:10.800
You should go, Jake, Jake, come down a little bit on the sides and bring out a um bring out the the back and go full fryer.
00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:12.480
I think you go fryer.
00:44:14.320 --> 00:44:14.880
You know?
00:44:15.519 --> 00:44:23.119
I mean what I could do or I keep it I keep it long or I I I cup I I keep it long on top.
00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:25.760
I shave the sides, I go full simple jack.
00:44:25.840 --> 00:44:28.000
I just go simple simple jack, yeah, yeah.
00:44:29.440 --> 00:44:32.320
I want to say Tropic Thunder, but what's it is it Tropic Thunder?
00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:33.119
It is Tropic Jack.
00:44:33.280 --> 00:44:34.400
Yeah, this is Tropic Thunder.
00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:34.719
Yeah, yeah.
00:44:34.880 --> 00:44:37.760
It's a character within a character within a movie.
00:44:38.559 --> 00:44:40.480
I'm a dude playing another dude.
00:44:42.559 --> 00:44:43.280
That's right.
00:44:43.760 --> 00:44:49.440
Uh anyway, so uh those are a couple things, but yeah, so I lay on this haircut because of that shape.
00:44:49.760 --> 00:44:52.320
It's a good I mean it it looks good on you.
00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:55.280
It fits the face well, I'd say, with the beard too.
00:44:55.599 --> 00:44:57.519
It gives a nice round shape.
00:44:57.760 --> 00:45:01.599
I literally got it right before this podcast, and so I have it messed around.
00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:05.519
I don't know if you're the same way with haircuts, but gotta give it a day or two.
00:45:06.079 --> 00:45:10.719
Yeah, I need a shower, I need a little product, I need to mess around with it, gotta feel it in.
00:45:11.119 --> 00:45:11.519
Putty?
00:45:11.760 --> 00:45:12.719
You think a putty?
00:45:12.960 --> 00:45:13.679
A spray?
00:45:13.920 --> 00:45:15.199
Well, you know what I'm doing, Alex?
00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:18.159
Uh you know what I might do is I have a little clay.
00:45:18.880 --> 00:45:20.079
I might do like a paste.
00:45:20.239 --> 00:45:23.840
You know, like a paste to kind of to kind of get it a little texture-y.
00:45:24.079 --> 00:45:25.679
You want a texture-y, but you want it to be a sort of thing.
00:45:25.840 --> 00:45:26.639
You definitely want texture.
00:45:27.280 --> 00:45:28.800
Anyway, sea salt thing.
00:45:29.039 --> 00:45:31.280
You get to see some some some sort of sea salt.
00:45:31.440 --> 00:45:34.480
Then whatever you do, Jake, spray it to lock it in.
00:45:34.559 --> 00:45:36.400
Get the hair sprayed, lock it in.
00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:37.519
Lock it in.
00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:39.440
Yeah, like the 80s.
00:45:39.519 --> 00:45:40.559
Yeah, that's right.
00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:45.599
You gotta you gotta spray it to lock it in, like a greaser almost of sword seven.
00:45:45.679 --> 00:45:48.000
I mean, so okay, so you did that, but that was this week.
00:45:48.079 --> 00:45:49.199
What did you do this weekend?
00:45:49.360 --> 00:45:51.199
Any any or maybe earlier this week?
00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:53.360
Did you do anything fun, anything clever?
00:45:54.559 --> 00:45:56.719
We had um now you're in this.
00:45:57.199 --> 00:45:58.960
This is our little our little Phillies chat.
00:45:59.039 --> 00:46:00.880
By the way, Alex, I'm gonna need you to get me up to speed.
00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:02.480
When did the when did the playoffs start?
00:46:02.559 --> 00:46:03.519
We're coming up, right?
00:46:03.760 --> 00:46:04.559
We're getting real close.
00:46:04.719 --> 00:46:08.800
Jake, this is a hunt for October, and we are probably, I'm gonna say like 10 games away.
00:46:08.960 --> 00:46:19.679
Like our magic number is like six or something like that at the moment, where we have a high percentage of making the playoffs, but we really we don't want to play the Dodgers again.
00:46:19.760 --> 00:46:20.559
They don't look amazing.
00:46:20.880 --> 00:46:23.039
This Brewer series right now is actually big.
00:46:23.119 --> 00:46:24.800
They're like the best team in the NL.
00:46:24.960 --> 00:46:26.159
We're playing right now.
00:46:26.400 --> 00:46:28.000
The best team in the NL.
00:46:28.159 --> 00:46:30.639
But we look pretty good as far as timing-wise goes.
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:32.719
I mean, obviously October baseball, right?
00:46:32.880 --> 00:46:35.519
October is when it starts.
00:46:35.679 --> 00:46:40.880
So I think we are filming on Wednesday, September 23rd.
00:46:40.960 --> 00:46:43.280
So I think we've got about a week or so.
00:46:44.559 --> 00:46:44.719
Okay.
00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:45.039
I think.
00:46:45.199 --> 00:46:48.880
Yeah, I needed I needed a um little check-in to figure it out.
00:46:48.960 --> 00:46:50.079
But we'll be in Italy.
00:46:50.159 --> 00:46:52.880
I think we'll be in Italy when maybe some of the games start.
00:46:53.119 --> 00:46:53.280
Yes.
00:46:53.440 --> 00:46:53.760
I believe.
00:46:54.159 --> 00:46:54.400
All right.
00:46:54.559 --> 00:46:54.800
Cool.
00:46:55.119 --> 00:46:58.400
Hopefully win that series and we come back for a fresh series or something like that.
00:46:58.639 --> 00:46:59.360
That'd be great.
00:46:59.440 --> 00:47:19.440
Um but um anyway, I bring that up because some of the Philly guy the Phillies fans that we usually get together with, um, they go to um this place called the Clubhouse for a they do 50 cent wing happy hour.
00:47:20.159 --> 00:47:21.599
50 cents a wing.
00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:23.760
You get 12 wings, six bucks.
00:47:23.840 --> 00:47:24.239
You know what I mean?
00:47:24.400 --> 00:47:26.480
You know, that's really you're in prime time.
00:47:27.039 --> 00:47:28.960
So uh yeah.
00:47:29.199 --> 00:47:31.519
So our one buddy loves doing it.
00:47:31.760 --> 00:47:43.199
So he he gets a couple of us um together and we we we join them and we're we're there, and I brought a a deck of cards.
00:47:43.280 --> 00:47:51.760
He and he was asking, I was like, maybe we play some cards this time, which I thought is hilarious too, because we're all it's like, you want us to eat wings and then play cards?
00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:53.119
Yeah, yeah.
00:47:53.199 --> 00:47:54.880
No wonder you didn't bring your own cards.
00:47:54.960 --> 00:47:55.199
Yeah.
00:47:55.280 --> 00:48:04.159
Uh but luckily we we split it out where we had the wet wipes, we did the bathroom breaks, and then we were able to play cards.
00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:12.719
And um I'll tell you what, we played a couple different games, one of which was the game, I can't remember the name of it.
00:48:12.880 --> 00:48:16.400
You you're basically you have oh, it's called it's called Fuck the Dealer.
00:48:16.639 --> 00:48:17.280
Have you heard of this?
00:48:17.360 --> 00:48:17.840
Do you remember this?
00:48:19.199 --> 00:48:19.280
No.
00:48:19.599 --> 00:48:20.719
Remember how it's how it goes?
00:48:21.760 --> 00:48:23.840
Uh guessing it wasn't the drinking game.
00:48:25.119 --> 00:48:26.320
It is it is a drinking game.
00:48:26.400 --> 00:48:35.599
We didn't really drink with it, but it was it was a um saying, yeah, usually, usually it's like you're trying to fuck them over for drinks and stuff.
00:48:35.760 --> 00:48:48.639
But we we just played it as just like a a fun thing to get us all included where you uh try you if the dealer has a deck of cards face down, uh you have to try and guess what the card is.
00:48:49.119 --> 00:48:52.559
And then you take a look at it, and then you say either higher or lower.
00:48:53.199 --> 00:48:57.440
And uh if uh you they then make a second guess.
00:48:57.840 --> 00:49:02.880
If they guess the card, then it resets.
00:49:03.599 --> 00:49:18.800
If they don't guess the card, it goes to the next person, and you're trying to get through everybody without guessing two in a row, trying to guess the card um before you then pass the deck.
00:49:19.840 --> 00:49:22.000
So you're then just passing it.
00:49:22.159 --> 00:49:38.239
Now I say all this just so that you know an idea of you're putting the cards down, and at one point it gets to this place, we're at the clubhouse, we're playing this game, cards are flowing down, there's five or six cards on there, and they're all clubs.
00:49:38.719 --> 00:49:44.800
And um I look over to somebody and I go, Oh, look at this, we should have known.
00:49:44.880 --> 00:49:46.639
I guess we're in the clubhouse, right?
00:49:46.800 --> 00:49:49.920
You know, light chuckle, light chuckle, little wordplay, people didn't.
00:49:50.480 --> 00:49:52.800
The next card is a jack of hearts.
00:49:53.119 --> 00:49:54.079
I go, uh-oh.
00:49:54.480 --> 00:49:57.199
Did so and I'm and I feel like I've got a hot hand.
00:49:57.280 --> 00:49:58.559
So I go, uh-oh.
00:49:58.880 --> 00:50:04.960
Is there it looks like there's a jackass in the uh in the clubhouse?
00:50:05.199 --> 00:50:09.039
And Buddy Connor just leans in and goes, Is this why you left LA?
00:50:09.199 --> 00:50:10.400
I can I can see it now.
00:50:10.480 --> 00:50:12.880
And I go, oh boy, okay, I'm gonna check myself.
00:50:13.039 --> 00:50:18.400
I have to check myself without uh a little too much wordplay.
00:50:18.559 --> 00:50:27.440
Um, but I did find out about myself because you're trying to kind of read the other person, where you're like, is it higher or lower?
00:50:27.599 --> 00:50:32.800
And you can kind of read the other person as they're putting the cards down, what's going on.
00:50:32.880 --> 00:50:39.920
And I'll tell you what, Alex, Acor and Leash, they have a beat on me.
00:50:40.159 --> 00:50:43.920
They know exactly how to read me like a book.
00:50:44.079 --> 00:50:48.880
Acor, especially, he, Alex, I was the dealer.
00:50:49.119 --> 00:50:53.599
I would say he'd guess a card, he'd say higher or lower.
00:50:53.840 --> 00:51:00.079
He'd look at me, he'd look at the remaining cards, he'd look at me again, and he would guess it every time.
00:51:00.400 --> 00:51:01.599
I at one point.
00:51:02.960 --> 00:51:11.599
Yeah, I have a towel, and um and it also got to a point too where it's like so many cards are down, it becomes easier to guess.
00:51:11.840 --> 00:51:17.119
So it is, it becomes like a spiraling thing because the more that are down, the easier it is to guess.
00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:20.000
The easier it is to guess, the more cards that go down, etc.
00:51:20.239 --> 00:51:20.639
etc.
00:51:21.039 --> 00:51:23.519
And so uh I just found out, you know what?
00:51:23.679 --> 00:51:26.239
I just chalked it up to I'm an honest guy.
00:51:26.400 --> 00:51:30.400
That's that's my way of saying I'm very bad at cards.
00:51:32.559 --> 00:51:35.360
That's how I am coping with how bad I am at cards.
00:51:35.519 --> 00:51:38.320
Now, we end up finishing up the game.
00:51:38.559 --> 00:51:47.920
I go off to the bathroom, and um as I go to the bathroom, Alex, I go in there, I use the restroom, I'm washing my hands.
00:51:48.079 --> 00:51:53.599
A complete stranger is at the urinal, and he leans over, he goes, What's up, man?
00:51:53.840 --> 00:51:55.119
I go, Hey, hey, how's it going?
00:51:55.280 --> 00:51:58.239
That's a weird so he's he's talking while he's peeing.
00:51:58.320 --> 00:51:58.880
Is that right?
00:51:59.920 --> 00:52:00.159
Okay.
00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:02.400
As soon as he walks in, hey, hey, what's going on, dude?
00:52:02.639 --> 00:52:03.760
Hey, hey, how's it going?
00:52:04.400 --> 00:52:05.280
And you're washing your hands.
00:52:05.360 --> 00:52:05.840
Okay, okay.
00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:06.159
Yep.
00:52:06.320 --> 00:52:15.679
And then he goes, So I'm at the bar, and my ex is on the other side of the bar with her new boyfriend.
00:52:15.920 --> 00:52:17.760
You think I should say something?
00:52:18.719 --> 00:52:20.159
He said that to you while he's peeing.
00:52:20.880 --> 00:52:21.760
He asks me that.
00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:26.000
It's only two of us in a very small bathroom.
00:52:26.079 --> 00:52:28.159
And I am, I am still washing my hands.
00:52:28.320 --> 00:52:29.199
I'm still lathered up.
00:52:29.280 --> 00:52:30.719
I haven't even rinsed yet.
00:52:30.880 --> 00:52:33.920
And uh I go, I go, nah, no, probably not.
00:52:34.079 --> 00:52:34.559
Probably not.
00:52:34.719 --> 00:52:37.280
And I'm trying to keep a very light, high pitch.
00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:38.400
Ah, no, probably not.
00:52:38.559 --> 00:52:40.000
But it's like, we're joking.
00:52:40.159 --> 00:52:43.360
Nah, part night goes, oh yeah, you're nice, you seem like a nice guy.
00:52:43.519 --> 00:52:44.480
Yeah, you're probably right.
00:52:44.559 --> 00:52:45.360
You're probably right.
00:52:45.519 --> 00:52:51.599
And I'm washing, and uh, this other guy comes into the bathroom as I am like drying my hands.
00:52:51.760 --> 00:52:54.800
And this guy, for a second time, goes, This is the guy.
00:52:55.039 --> 00:52:57.440
This is the this is the guy I was telling you about.
00:52:57.920 --> 00:53:02.960
Alex, I I dry my hands, I throw it out, I go, Yeah, you're probably fine.
00:53:03.119 --> 00:53:04.480
You're fine, don't worry about it.
00:53:04.559 --> 00:53:05.440
And I leave.
00:53:05.599 --> 00:53:10.800
I just I Alex, I leave the two of them in there.
00:53:11.039 --> 00:53:12.159
I don't know what happened.
00:53:12.400 --> 00:53:18.320
I I walk back and look, I told you, I don't have I can't lie.
00:53:18.639 --> 00:53:20.320
Ipocrypha.
00:53:20.639 --> 00:53:24.400
They go, they go, Jake, it looks like you saw a ghost.
00:53:24.719 --> 00:53:30.559
It was like, I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure a fight is happening right now.
00:53:30.719 --> 00:53:34.480
Like, right now, I'm pretty sure a fight is happening.
00:53:34.719 --> 00:53:39.199
Um and so then they hear that.
00:53:39.599 --> 00:53:45.440
I tell them what I just told you, and we then see him kind of get back to the bar.
00:53:45.599 --> 00:53:55.280
And now at this point, the four of us are sitting at our table, and the the three of them are now they're looking behind their shoulder a little bit.
00:53:55.440 --> 00:53:58.400
They're trying to get an eye on who this is.
00:53:58.559 --> 00:54:01.360
They're trying to, yeah, yeah, they're trying to, they're trying to look at the bar.
00:54:01.440 --> 00:54:03.360
I see the other guy go back.
00:54:03.599 --> 00:54:05.039
Now I can see.
00:54:05.679 --> 00:54:08.320
Now I'm positioned where I can see the bar.
00:54:08.400 --> 00:54:09.920
I can see this happening.
00:54:10.159 --> 00:54:14.559
I see the the boyfriend and girlfriend kind of talking a little bit.
00:54:15.039 --> 00:54:18.000
I I nudge, I nudge Connor next to me.
00:54:19.840 --> 00:54:22.400
The guy walks over to the couple.
00:54:22.719 --> 00:54:28.960
He walks over, puts his hand on both their backs, says something, goes back to his side.
00:54:29.280 --> 00:54:31.760
He starts talking to this older guy.
00:54:32.000 --> 00:54:37.360
Now, this whole time we are like, oh my god, what's what the hell is going on?
00:54:38.320 --> 00:54:46.719
No less, no less than 30 seconds, minute later, the girl walks across the bar over to him.
00:54:47.119 --> 00:54:56.480
At this point, at this point, I am like, Alex, I am twirling my drink with my straw.
00:54:56.960 --> 00:54:59.760
I Alex, I can't contain.
00:55:00.320 --> 00:55:04.320
I can't contain how uncomfortable I am.
00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:07.760
I I have I have no poker face.
00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:12.559
And everyone on my table is like, Jake, just relax, relax.
00:55:12.800 --> 00:55:16.159
And they're now looking and they want to see what's going on.
00:55:16.480 --> 00:55:19.440
Alex, I am looking down.
00:55:19.519 --> 00:55:22.159
I don't want to, I don't want to see what's happening.
00:55:25.679 --> 00:55:26.079
He's crying.
00:55:26.159 --> 00:55:26.559
He's crying.
00:55:26.639 --> 00:55:27.039
He's crying.
00:55:27.119 --> 00:55:28.079
He's crying.
00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:30.639
He there is now a look.
00:55:31.679 --> 00:55:32.719
The X guy.
00:55:32.960 --> 00:55:39.039
The guy that talked to me at the bathroom is now, there's a there's an emotion.
00:55:39.280 --> 00:55:40.159
I peek up.
00:55:40.320 --> 00:55:42.000
There is an emotional.
00:55:42.480 --> 00:55:44.000
I was white as a ghost.
00:55:44.320 --> 00:55:45.199
He was not.
00:55:45.440 --> 00:55:47.440
He red in the face.
00:55:47.760 --> 00:55:48.639
He is.
00:55:49.039 --> 00:55:51.280
I don't know if we hit tears, Alex.
00:55:51.360 --> 00:55:52.079
We're close.
00:55:52.239 --> 00:55:52.800
We're close.
00:55:52.960 --> 00:55:53.360
Wow.
00:55:53.599 --> 00:55:59.039
There is a I I don't I don't know if it was a whimper that might describe it.
00:55:59.599 --> 00:56:05.599
But Alex, Alex, the at this point, the other two, Leash and Acor, they're turning around.
00:56:05.760 --> 00:56:06.559
They're turning around.
00:56:07.039 --> 00:56:09.280
Alex, they turn around, they turn back.
00:56:09.360 --> 00:56:12.719
I'm looking at the I cannot, I can't contain myself.
00:56:12.800 --> 00:56:14.079
I'm playing at the ice cubes.
00:56:14.159 --> 00:56:14.800
I can't do anything.
00:56:14.880 --> 00:56:15.840
I don't have to do it with my hands.
00:56:15.920 --> 00:56:16.639
I'm looking down.
00:56:16.800 --> 00:56:19.840
They come back, they go, she's crying, she's crying, she's crying.
00:56:20.079 --> 00:56:21.599
She starts crying.
00:56:21.920 --> 00:56:27.440
At this point, there is an audible, there is an audible crying happening.
00:56:27.599 --> 00:56:32.719
And it's one of those cries where they're trying not to be loud, but they're holding it back.
00:56:32.800 --> 00:56:35.760
And it sounds like the two of them are both crying.
00:56:36.000 --> 00:56:40.000
I I hear now at the Leash has ears.
00:56:40.159 --> 00:56:43.599
She hears, she leans into me and she goes, She has ears.
00:56:49.199 --> 00:56:49.760
Okay, thank you.
00:56:49.920 --> 00:56:50.400
Okay, yeah.
00:56:50.639 --> 00:56:52.159
So she's got ears.
00:56:52.719 --> 00:56:52.800
Okay.
00:56:52.880 --> 00:56:53.840
Yeah, she's got ears.
00:56:54.000 --> 00:56:54.719
She's got good ears.
00:56:54.880 --> 00:57:02.559
And so she leans, she leans into the group and she goes, she goes, I heard him, I heard him say, I was never the same after you.
00:57:02.719 --> 00:57:05.519
I was never oh my god.
00:57:06.320 --> 00:57:12.559
And now Alex, the other guy, the new boyfriends on the other side of the bar by himself.
00:57:12.800 --> 00:57:17.679
Everyone next to him, everyone next to him, they're all looking down the bar.
00:57:17.920 --> 00:57:19.679
Everyone's looking down the bar.
00:57:19.840 --> 00:57:23.599
There are other tables that are kind of like picking their heads up.
00:57:24.320 --> 00:57:25.920
How many people are in this bar right now?
00:57:26.000 --> 00:57:27.760
Like I should have let the question.
00:57:27.840 --> 00:57:29.519
Yeah, how good is the clubhouse?
00:57:29.599 --> 00:57:30.880
Now I want to know really bad.
00:57:31.119 --> 00:57:38.320
We we were there at happy hour, Alex, and then we were playing cards, the wings happened, we're still playing cards, we're catching up.
00:57:38.559 --> 00:57:39.840
It is now full.
00:57:39.920 --> 00:57:41.760
We're getting close to dinner rush.
00:57:41.920 --> 00:57:44.159
We are on cusp of dinner rush, Alex.
00:57:44.239 --> 00:57:51.280
We're looking at like probably at the bar, you've got five or six people on the left side.
00:57:51.360 --> 00:57:55.519
You've got probably 10 to 12 on the right side of just the bar.
00:57:55.920 --> 00:57:56.559
On the tables.
00:57:57.199 --> 00:57:58.079
On the tables.
00:57:58.239 --> 00:58:03.840
You've got you've got two or three bartenders with a roaming one or two wait staff.
00:58:03.920 --> 00:58:12.960
You've got you've got another probably 15 to 20 at the immediate tables, and then some back corner tables as well.
00:58:13.119 --> 00:58:18.480
So we're looking at maybe 30 to 40 people all together, kind of within earshot.
00:58:18.800 --> 00:58:23.599
I was gonna say 40 people probably looking at this, watching this probably.
00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:28.880
They're they're turning around, they're figuring they're trying to figure it out.
00:58:29.039 --> 00:58:32.559
And um, at this point, Alex, I'm shuffling cards.
00:58:32.719 --> 00:58:34.400
I don't know what to do with my hands.
00:58:34.559 --> 00:58:40.960
I I'm I'm putting the cards back into the I don't know what to do.
00:58:41.199 --> 00:58:43.840
And um, it is around this time.
00:58:43.920 --> 00:58:47.039
We have now hit a point, we're past happy hour.
00:58:47.199 --> 00:58:52.079
We've already closed our bill, and we're looking at each other, we're like, this bill couldn't get here sooner.
00:58:52.320 --> 00:58:52.960
My God.
00:58:53.280 --> 00:58:59.760
Um, and there's this happening, we're like, also, at this point, what is the boyfriend doing right now?
00:59:00.239 --> 00:59:04.960
What is he's just watching his his now girlfriend cry with his ex.
00:59:05.599 --> 00:59:10.320
Alex, I wish I've really I've I've built up this story.
00:59:10.480 --> 00:59:13.039
I wish there was a concrete ending.
00:59:13.679 --> 00:59:15.119
No, Alex.
00:59:15.280 --> 00:59:18.400
Oh the check comes, the check comes.
00:59:18.719 --> 00:59:20.320
No, not the check.
00:59:21.280 --> 00:59:22.159
I walk out.
00:59:22.400 --> 00:59:26.719
Alex, I will say, I will give you one morsel on the way out.
00:59:26.800 --> 00:59:28.239
I'll give you a morsel on the way out.
00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:36.719
As we're leaving this distraught situation, I am physically uncomfortable.
00:59:37.039 --> 00:59:43.679
And we're walking outside, we're saying our goodbyes to the four of us, walk into the parking lot.
00:59:43.840 --> 00:59:50.880
We pass the window on the other side of the boyfriend of the bar.
00:59:52.559 --> 01:00:02.719
Leash turns into the turns to the window and goes, just goes, leave her, leave her, you don't deserve that.
01:00:03.119 --> 01:00:04.800
And uh, and that's how we left.
01:00:04.880 --> 01:00:06.559
And I I I thought that was a power play.
01:00:06.719 --> 01:00:07.840
I thought that was a power play.
01:00:08.159 --> 01:00:09.119
Did he say anything?
01:00:09.360 --> 01:00:10.079
Did he see that?
01:00:10.880 --> 01:00:12.159
I have no idea, Alex.
01:00:12.400 --> 01:00:14.320
I wish I'll have to follow up.
01:00:14.480 --> 01:00:14.559
Oh.
01:00:14.880 --> 01:00:16.960
I'll have to go back to that same happy hour.
01:00:17.440 --> 01:00:21.199
The clubhouse has just wild things happen there.
01:00:21.440 --> 01:00:22.480
Now the silver.
01:00:22.960 --> 01:00:25.360
Now I'm just thinking about it, I'll think about this out loud.
01:00:25.599 --> 01:00:27.840
Connor, Connor's at a point now.
01:00:28.159 --> 01:00:30.639
He knows some of the weight staff by name.
01:00:30.960 --> 01:00:34.480
He might be able to get the skinny scoop.
01:00:34.639 --> 01:00:35.199
That's right.
01:00:35.280 --> 01:00:35.519
Yeah.
01:00:35.920 --> 01:00:38.960
On what happened and if it played out in any kind of way.
01:00:39.199 --> 01:00:42.639
So I will follow up uh with that story.
01:00:42.800 --> 01:00:44.960
No, we'll have to see.
01:00:45.119 --> 01:00:47.280
We'll have to see, Alex, because I did.
01:00:47.440 --> 01:00:52.159
We got some football we can touch on a bit, but I do want to put this out there, Alex.
01:00:52.480 --> 01:00:54.400
We're gonna we if we follow up.
01:00:54.960 --> 01:00:57.519
I leave in about a week's time right now.
01:00:57.760 --> 01:01:03.920
And so podcast, Alex, this may be our lot uh our last podcast in a couple weeks.
01:01:04.159 --> 01:01:05.599
We're gonna be on the same flight, brother.
01:01:05.840 --> 01:01:08.320
Yeah, we might have a little bit of a hiatus.
01:01:08.639 --> 01:01:10.639
Um, a couple, a couple things.
01:01:10.719 --> 01:01:12.800
Now, what's brutal is we're gonna be on the same flight.
01:01:12.960 --> 01:01:15.760
We're gonna that's middle of the week, but then we're gonna get back.
01:01:16.000 --> 01:01:17.199
Similar timing.
01:01:17.360 --> 01:01:23.679
We're gonna miss probably two weeks of recording, and then we're gonna have I'm gonna have another some travel as well.
01:01:23.920 --> 01:01:27.840
We might look at three, potentially four weeks off here, Alex.
01:01:28.159 --> 01:01:29.840
So I love that.
01:01:30.159 --> 01:01:32.800
What if we do take Call Me Crazy?
01:01:32.880 --> 01:01:37.440
We do a special episode, and it's called Going Yard in Italy.
01:01:37.679 --> 01:01:49.599
Italia! We just do it Bongiana! Bongiano! Cornetto, un cornetto, which is Yep.
01:01:49.840 --> 01:01:50.400
Crissant.
01:01:52.400 --> 01:01:52.639
That's right.
01:01:53.840 --> 01:01:54.400
This is my favorite.
01:01:54.480 --> 01:01:55.199
Yeah, croissant.
01:01:55.360 --> 01:01:57.280
Uh uh, I know how to order in a cafe.
01:01:57.440 --> 01:02:14.079
Um, what we could do is maybe record something there, not not like release it right away, but like at least have I can I maybe I'll bring something and do we'll it'll be like shitty audio or something, but we'll have a little something to tide everyone over type of thing to kind of keep it.
01:02:14.239 --> 01:02:16.079
But uh we'll we'll look into that.
01:02:16.159 --> 01:02:23.199
I won't I won't promise anything because I don't know how everything's gonna work with the travel and everything, but we'll we'll try.
01:02:23.280 --> 01:02:26.159
We'll do our best and we'll try and um get something together.
01:02:26.320 --> 01:02:31.519
So, anyway, I wanted to make the disclaimer that that is all out there.
01:02:31.760 --> 01:02:41.679
I'll maybe make some Italiana posts, so please follow, like, share the Instagram as well, but maybe we'll put some some updates there.
01:02:42.000 --> 01:02:44.639
Going yard, Italiano version.
01:02:44.880 --> 01:02:50.960
Um, but um without further ado, Alex, do we want to touch on the pick'ems?
01:02:51.039 --> 01:02:52.639
Do we touch on the footballies?
01:02:53.119 --> 01:02:53.840
I think we do it.
01:02:54.000 --> 01:03:01.440
I think we do some pick'ems, and as we go through, we can talk about our beloved Eagles and uh and then wrap it up, right?
01:03:01.840 --> 01:03:04.320
I think that's kind of love, love, love, love.
01:03:05.280 --> 01:03:07.360
So I'm gonna pull up, Alex.
01:03:07.440 --> 01:03:09.519
I'm gonna pull up the results from our pick'ems.
01:03:09.679 --> 01:03:11.360
Alex! Do you remember this?
01:03:11.440 --> 01:03:12.639
I forgot we used to do this.
01:03:12.960 --> 01:03:16.480
Alex! There were how many total was it?
01:03:16.639 --> 01:03:17.679
Uh shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot.
01:03:17.840 --> 01:03:25.440
There were one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, twelve, fifteen.
01:03:25.840 --> 01:03:26.559
Sixteen.
01:03:26.880 --> 01:03:30.320
There were sixteen games last week.
01:03:30.719 --> 01:03:35.039
Now, you get two points for being correct.
01:03:35.840 --> 01:03:43.440
Um, you get uh one point if there's like a tie, um, and then zero points for a loss.
01:03:43.599 --> 01:03:46.239
Now we were picking against the spread.
01:03:46.400 --> 01:03:49.360
I will emphasize that, I will bold it.
01:03:49.599 --> 01:03:51.280
That's much more difficult.
01:03:51.599 --> 01:03:57.519
You're not just picking the winner, you're picking that they cover the spread.
01:03:57.840 --> 01:04:03.280
Now, Alex, with all that in mind, how many points do you think you got?
01:04:03.440 --> 01:04:12.239
Two points for a win, sixteen total games, thirty two total points is the maximum you could get.
01:04:12.719 --> 01:04:15.519
You could also get a couple points for tying, for pushing.
01:04:15.920 --> 01:04:16.719
What's the maximum?
01:04:16.800 --> 01:04:17.199
I'm sorry.
01:04:18.000 --> 01:04:20.320
You said maximum is 32 total points.
01:04:21.119 --> 01:04:23.039
Because it's um 16 games.
01:04:23.360 --> 01:04:26.000
I think I got like 45%.
01:04:27.440 --> 01:04:28.000
40%.
01:04:28.559 --> 01:04:31.039
I think I got less than half correct.
01:04:31.199 --> 01:04:35.440
I think I'm probably at like 16 points.
01:04:36.320 --> 01:04:37.039
Maybe 18 points.
01:04:37.360 --> 01:04:38.000
Dead even.
01:04:39.360 --> 01:04:41.760
No, yeah, yeah, no, less than that then.
01:04:42.480 --> 01:04:42.880
Sorry.
01:04:43.119 --> 01:04:49.440
Umteen points.
01:04:49.760 --> 01:04:49.920
Yeah.
01:04:50.239 --> 01:04:50.960
14 points.
01:04:51.280 --> 01:04:51.679
Yeah.
01:04:52.400 --> 01:04:52.719
Okay.
01:04:54.320 --> 01:04:56.559
Um, I'm gonna share the screen so you can see.
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I'm gonna share it right here.
01:04:58.719 --> 01:05:00.800
We'll see our YouTube audience can see.
01:05:01.039 --> 01:05:02.559
Alex, you nailed it.
01:05:02.719 --> 01:05:04.000
You got 14.
01:05:05.039 --> 01:05:06.960
Alex, my goodness.
01:05:07.199 --> 01:05:08.400
Now I did get 16.
01:05:08.960 --> 01:05:09.280
16.
01:05:10.239 --> 01:05:11.599
I did omit the first one.
01:05:11.679 --> 01:05:12.559
I missed Thursday.
01:05:12.719 --> 01:05:13.679
I did miss Thursday.
01:05:14.159 --> 01:05:15.760
That is actually Alex.
01:05:16.159 --> 01:05:24.559
So technically, we you got you got 14 out of 30, I guess.
01:05:24.880 --> 01:05:27.280
Uh so you know what I mean?
01:05:27.519 --> 01:05:28.400
So Yeah.
01:05:28.719 --> 01:05:29.599
There you go.
01:05:30.239 --> 01:05:33.519
Like uh like a little bit below half, yeah.
01:05:33.599 --> 01:05:35.039
Yeah, a little bit below half.
01:05:35.280 --> 01:05:38.079
Now, some of the games you uh you missed that Thursday game.
01:05:38.159 --> 01:05:39.920
That was Detroit Buffalo.
01:05:40.079 --> 01:05:48.480
Uh Buffalo had the the minus four and a half, and um, they did cover one by ten.
01:05:48.880 --> 01:05:49.679
I hit on that.
01:05:49.760 --> 01:05:50.239
That was fun.
01:05:50.320 --> 01:05:51.280
That was a great game.
01:05:51.440 --> 01:05:52.960
That was a big fantasy game.
01:05:53.119 --> 01:05:55.039
One of those Thursday night.
01:05:55.199 --> 01:05:56.639
Yeah, did well.
01:05:56.719 --> 01:05:59.039
Josh Allen looks like the best player in football.
01:05:59.280 --> 01:06:01.199
My He always does, doesn't he?
01:06:01.360 --> 01:06:01.679
Yeah.
01:06:01.840 --> 01:06:02.480
He's crazy.
01:06:02.719 --> 01:06:03.280
That's right.
01:06:03.519 --> 01:06:04.159
That's right.
01:06:05.280 --> 01:06:07.519
Jared Doff had a monster day.
01:06:08.000 --> 01:06:09.440
Gibbs had a very good day.
01:06:09.599 --> 01:06:13.039
Some really star-studded fantasy for a Thursday night.
01:06:13.920 --> 01:06:17.920
Now, the next game we both get right, Alex, Atlanta, Carolina.
01:06:18.239 --> 01:06:21.679
Carolina, Alex, I we said this last year.
01:06:21.920 --> 01:06:23.840
Carolina was our darling.
01:06:24.400 --> 01:06:28.639
Carolina was my little dark horse, and now it looks even better this year.
01:06:28.800 --> 01:06:30.320
I mean, Atlanta looks terrible.
01:06:30.559 --> 01:06:31.840
They do look bad.
01:06:32.159 --> 01:06:34.239
Penix is going to start week three.
01:06:34.400 --> 01:06:41.840
So right before the recording of this, Penix might save the day, but quarterback is a massive issue for them.
01:06:42.079 --> 01:06:45.039
They've got a bunch of, I think what is the expression?
01:06:45.199 --> 01:06:48.480
They've got a couple Bugattis that are parked in the trailer park.
01:06:48.960 --> 01:06:49.119
Right.
01:06:49.440 --> 01:06:58.800
Because they've got great playmakers, but three incredible players and Kyle Pitts, Bijan, Drake London, but no one to get it to them.
01:06:58.960 --> 01:07:00.320
No one to get it to them.
01:07:00.639 --> 01:07:01.599
No support.
01:07:01.760 --> 01:07:05.679
But the next one, Chicago versus Minnesota.
01:07:05.840 --> 01:07:07.519
This was a head scratcher.
01:07:07.599 --> 01:07:09.199
I think the weather played into this.
01:07:09.440 --> 01:07:13.199
Also, New Orleans Baltimore, right before?
01:07:13.440 --> 01:07:14.480
Oh, sorry, I missed one.
01:07:14.559 --> 01:07:15.199
Sorry about that.
01:07:15.920 --> 01:07:16.239
Yep.
01:07:16.400 --> 01:07:19.039
Before that was Baltimore and New Orleans.
01:07:19.199 --> 01:07:25.599
Now, I had Baltimore winning, which I did they oh, they lost.
01:07:25.760 --> 01:07:27.840
Sorry, I'm gonna figure out how to read this.
01:07:28.079 --> 01:07:32.800
Yeah, and you had you had New Orleans, Alex.
01:07:32.880 --> 01:07:34.159
I'm surprised by this.
01:07:34.400 --> 01:07:41.280
I think I just thought the spread would be better because I know didn't Zay Flowers get injured.
01:07:41.519 --> 01:07:46.159
Also, Jacoby Lane got injured, and so I thought it'd be a close game.
01:07:46.320 --> 01:07:50.639
I remember thinking that they can't get uh eight and a half ahead.
01:07:50.719 --> 01:07:53.519
I thought I thought eight and a half was a big line for them.
01:07:53.679 --> 01:08:01.039
I don't know if I necessarily thought New Orleans would win, but I'm pretty optimistic now with Kellen Moore, and you've got me on the Shuck train a little bit.
01:08:01.280 --> 01:08:03.199
You've kind of got me on it a little bit.
01:08:03.360 --> 01:08:07.519
I'm not like you know scoffing at it anymore, you know.
01:08:08.239 --> 01:08:22.000
A little bit more I I want to uh put a feather mic up now because I don't know if it's gonna last very long, but I was in a two-QB league where I have Bryce Young and Tyler Shuck as my two starting quarterbacks.
01:08:22.239 --> 01:08:26.720
My strategy was to not really draft high on quarterback and go for the other positions.
01:08:26.960 --> 01:08:31.199
So I have Aminra and Puka together, which is very fun.
01:08:31.600 --> 01:08:34.399
But uh I I skipped our quarterbacks.
01:08:34.479 --> 01:08:37.920
However, both of them are quarterbacks four and five.
01:08:38.079 --> 01:08:39.279
Actually, it might even be better.
01:08:39.359 --> 01:08:58.880
It might be like five and two for Bryce Young, uh, which is it feels so good to just be like it feels like I'm a savant, but I was just kind of like I I felt like they would do better, they would do average and they've exceeded my expectations, and it's it's been awesome.
01:08:59.199 --> 01:09:04.560
So um, I don't think it lasts, but I do think they will hold some value for sure.
01:09:04.880 --> 01:09:05.520
I think so.
01:09:05.680 --> 01:09:06.159
I think so.
01:09:06.319 --> 01:09:06.640
Yeah.
01:09:07.359 --> 01:09:09.520
I like I like New Orleans a lot.
01:09:09.600 --> 01:09:10.960
I like Kellen Moore a lot.
01:09:11.119 --> 01:09:19.600
I think he's a very good play caller, he has an incredible track record, and I think Shuck is a fantastic fantasy play.
01:09:19.920 --> 01:09:24.319
Maybe not like winning football, but a lot of volume and that type of stuff.
01:09:24.479 --> 01:09:26.880
And um I'm excited, dude.
01:09:27.520 --> 01:09:32.560
Easy passes, easy completions, get schemed up, a lot of good good yardage and good fantasy points.
01:09:32.640 --> 01:09:32.960
Yeah.
01:09:33.199 --> 01:09:38.560
I'm excited for our guy, ASU Tyson, to come back and add to that offense.
01:09:38.800 --> 01:09:44.560
I've got him in one league sitting on my IR just waiting to be deployed somewhere.
01:09:44.720 --> 01:09:44.960
Yeah.
01:09:45.199 --> 01:09:45.439
Yeah.
01:09:45.600 --> 01:09:46.159
I'm excited.
01:09:46.319 --> 01:09:48.000
Jordan Tyson, I think it'll be good.
01:09:48.159 --> 01:09:54.000
Um, now that brings us to the one I tried, I almost skipped over, but uh Chicago, Minnesota.
01:09:54.159 --> 01:09:56.800
This one, poor weather, head scratcher.
01:09:57.119 --> 01:10:01.439
Chicago comes off like, what was it, 60 points or something crazy in week one?
01:10:01.520 --> 01:10:07.199
And then 59, and now they could only muster three.
01:10:07.359 --> 01:10:09.760
They did have Caleb get hurt this game.
01:10:09.920 --> 01:10:11.119
Yeah, that was a big thing.
01:10:11.199 --> 01:10:12.560
He got injured early.
01:10:12.880 --> 01:10:18.640
Weather was crazy, it's a division rival, but um, yeah, still three points.
01:10:18.720 --> 01:10:27.359
I feel silly now because in one league I stacked Roma Dunze and um Luther Burden, and I was like, I just want this offense.
01:10:28.000 --> 01:10:37.920
Now I I I wanted the offense, but I actually couldn't execute like getting them, and so now I'm happy I actually couldn't get some of the players that I wanted originally.
01:10:38.159 --> 01:10:39.359
And Loveland looks bad.
01:10:39.520 --> 01:10:40.960
Loveland looks pretty bad.
01:10:41.119 --> 01:10:46.560
The run game looks f solid, but um, we'll have to see without Caleb Williams how it how it ends up.
01:10:46.800 --> 01:10:48.239
The Eagles play them next week.
01:10:48.319 --> 01:10:51.279
So actually on Monday night football, they'll play the Eagles.
01:10:51.359 --> 01:10:56.960
So really lucky timing for them that they might get Case Keenum at QB.
01:10:57.039 --> 01:11:02.159
They're their backup is in King Cushia Protocol, Bajon.
01:11:02.319 --> 01:11:07.039
And so could be a nice, nice get-right game for the Eagles.
01:11:07.119 --> 01:11:10.159
We'll get to the Eagles, but yeah, a little bit.
01:11:10.479 --> 01:11:14.720
Now, the other game, the next game in the list, we've got Houston v Cincy.
01:11:15.039 --> 01:11:16.239
We both had Houston.
01:11:16.399 --> 01:11:19.279
Since he looks good, they win 20 to 6.
01:11:19.680 --> 01:11:20.159
Alex.
01:11:20.560 --> 01:11:21.760
Their defense what?
01:11:22.239 --> 01:11:22.800
I know.
01:11:22.960 --> 01:11:26.479
I wish I this is one of the things in the offseason.
01:11:26.560 --> 01:11:28.079
I wish I could point back.
01:11:28.159 --> 01:11:31.199
And I I I don't I look back a little bit.
01:11:31.279 --> 01:11:32.800
I it wasn't on record anywhere.
01:11:32.880 --> 01:11:35.760
I didn't make any claims, but I had some thoughts.
01:11:35.920 --> 01:11:38.560
I didn't commit to them, so I can't take any credit.
01:11:38.800 --> 01:11:51.039
But the addition of Dexter Lawrence and Jonathan Allen has unlocked all of their rookies they've been drafting the last two, three years.
01:11:51.279 --> 01:11:56.800
Those edge rushers and the secondary DJ Turner's a corner that looks very good.
01:11:56.880 --> 01:11:59.359
They have Shamir Stewart is a very good one.
01:11:59.439 --> 01:12:01.920
Miles Murphy would look like a bust there for a while.
01:12:02.079 --> 01:12:07.840
They all look great now because the interior is getting double-teamed and getting penetration.
01:12:08.079 --> 01:12:11.920
And like they look like a competent, legit team.
01:12:12.079 --> 01:12:17.680
I think Cincy, they can stay healthy, might be like a legit run kind of team.
01:12:17.920 --> 01:12:21.840
Finally looking like a bit of a complete team because it's always been Burrow.
01:12:22.079 --> 01:12:24.239
Burrow's always been there with Jamar.
01:12:24.640 --> 01:12:25.760
Um, very cool.
01:12:25.840 --> 01:12:27.359
That if if they're a good team.
01:12:27.520 --> 01:12:34.079
Also, I have Chase Brown in a league, and that's great for a winning team to then sit on the ball and run the ball more with Chase Brown.
01:12:34.159 --> 01:12:34.720
So that would be great.
01:12:34.960 --> 01:12:35.439
That's right.
01:12:35.600 --> 01:12:36.479
That would be really big.
01:12:36.640 --> 01:12:39.680
The other one is um Houston on the other side of this.
01:12:40.000 --> 01:12:42.800
Uh I can't get like they're a defensive team.
01:12:42.960 --> 01:12:45.920
They they held Burrow and Jamar to 20.
01:12:46.079 --> 01:12:49.199
Jamar had a crazy catch, which was good defense.
01:12:49.279 --> 01:12:55.439
So I'm not I'm not scared of the defense, but Houston's offense cannot really, it's just I don't know.
01:12:55.520 --> 01:12:57.119
Yeah, I think they're undervalued.
01:12:57.199 --> 01:13:00.000
I do think they're better, but they had a lot of injuries at receiver.
01:13:00.239 --> 01:13:00.560
Yeah.
01:13:00.720 --> 01:13:03.039
Um, that's really killing them.
01:13:03.600 --> 01:13:04.960
Um, so we'll see.
01:13:05.119 --> 01:13:07.039
The next one we've got New England v.
01:13:07.199 --> 01:13:08.079
Pittsburgh.
01:13:08.319 --> 01:13:09.680
This one we both got right.
01:13:09.840 --> 01:13:10.960
New England over Pittsburgh.
01:13:11.119 --> 01:13:12.720
Pittsburgh looked kind of bad.
01:13:12.960 --> 01:13:13.760
They don't have to be.
01:13:14.000 --> 01:13:15.680
Rogers looks very old.
01:13:15.920 --> 01:13:16.319
Yes.
01:13:16.479 --> 01:13:19.600
Uh he got drilled on one play.
01:13:19.840 --> 01:13:21.199
Uh, I think he fumbled.
01:13:21.439 --> 01:13:24.720
It looked bad, and they just can't move the ball.
01:13:24.880 --> 01:13:27.439
I am just low on kind of both of these teams.
01:13:27.600 --> 01:13:30.880
New England after the opener, I kind of can't get out of my head.
01:13:31.119 --> 01:13:37.199
And then AJ Brown getting injured, and Romeo, Romeo Dobbs looks bad, even though he needs to be good for them.
01:13:37.600 --> 01:13:40.960
They had a defensive touchdown to get to 20.
01:13:41.199 --> 01:13:41.520
Yeah.
01:13:41.760 --> 01:13:42.319
So yeah.
01:13:42.640 --> 01:13:44.960
It looks it looks rough over there.
01:13:45.119 --> 01:14:03.119
So the fact that we got New England, uh, I you know, I I feel like the minus five and a half, too, was like a good spread to choose New England because you're like, Pittsburgh can't score that much, and they can beat him by a touchdown, you know.
01:14:03.439 --> 01:14:04.640
I'm just very happy.
01:14:04.720 --> 01:14:09.039
I didn't put too much stock into the Pittsburgh off offense.
01:14:09.119 --> 01:14:13.439
I do have Pittman in one league, but uh he's been hurt.
01:14:13.600 --> 01:14:14.880
Uh I have Metcalf.
01:14:14.960 --> 01:14:20.239
Dude, Metcalf gets like nine targets a game for like four catches through the first two.
01:14:20.560 --> 01:14:25.279
So it's like they're trying to get it to him, yeah, uh, but it's not going well yet.
01:14:25.600 --> 01:14:31.119
Even Dowdle was getting drafted kind of high in some leagues on the offseason, like Warren.
01:14:31.359 --> 01:14:35.119
I it just it's it's a shame because their defense, I think, is pretty good.
01:14:35.359 --> 01:14:40.079
Like their defense only let up, again, there was a defensive touchdown, so they didn't even let up 20.
01:14:40.239 --> 01:14:41.359
They were less than that.
01:14:41.520 --> 01:14:45.520
So they're a solid defense, but their offense is just so bad.
01:14:45.680 --> 01:14:47.840
Um, so we'll see if they turn that around.
01:14:48.000 --> 01:14:49.520
Green Bay versus Jets.
01:14:49.600 --> 01:14:53.039
We both had Green Bay, and the Jets, they just cover the spread.
01:14:53.119 --> 01:14:55.680
They lose by three instead of three and a half.
01:14:55.760 --> 01:14:58.560
Um that was just uh the spread got us on that one.
01:14:58.720 --> 01:15:00.640
That one, I feel like you're both right.
01:15:00.720 --> 01:15:03.039
Uh the spread got us on that one.
01:15:03.359 --> 01:15:03.680
Agree.
01:15:03.920 --> 01:15:04.399
I agree.
01:15:04.560 --> 01:15:06.640
That's a spiritual win.
01:15:06.800 --> 01:15:08.319
I don't feel bad about that.
01:15:09.039 --> 01:15:10.319
The reasoning's all there.
01:15:10.399 --> 01:15:14.319
It was just uh Garrett Wilson looks pretty good uh for the Jets.
01:15:14.560 --> 01:15:15.279
That's a bright spot.
01:15:15.439 --> 01:15:16.000
That's a good spot.
01:15:16.319 --> 01:15:21.199
Batani Mitchell, the receiver two, he's having a solid year, Alex.
01:15:21.279 --> 01:15:25.199
He's having he's like top, I think, 20 or 30 receivers.
01:15:25.359 --> 01:15:25.760
So we're gonna go.
01:15:25.920 --> 01:15:29.600
I don't know if we can say having a solid year until at least four games.
01:15:29.840 --> 01:15:33.279
Once four games are done, to be a very coincidence.
01:15:33.439 --> 01:15:34.239
You know what I mean?
01:15:34.479 --> 01:15:34.880
Right.
01:15:35.039 --> 01:15:42.079
But so I do think I do think the Jets could be in a territory where they've getting a lot of garbage points.
01:15:42.239 --> 01:15:51.439
They're not winning football, but fantasy-wise, Gino is an upgrade over the whole fields experiment and whatever they were doing last year.
01:15:51.520 --> 01:15:54.159
I do think Gino can get some people the ball.
01:15:54.479 --> 01:15:56.239
Also, Sala's not there.
01:15:56.399 --> 01:15:59.840
We'll get to Tennessee, but Sala's not there anymore, is it?
01:16:00.159 --> 01:16:01.199
That's another big one.
01:16:01.359 --> 01:16:04.880
We had Tampa Bay, Cleveland, and this was an upset.
01:16:05.039 --> 01:16:06.800
Tampa Bay loses to Cleveland.
01:16:06.880 --> 01:16:10.640
We broke that Tampa Bay by they had an eight and a half.
01:16:10.960 --> 01:16:12.560
This was miserable.
01:16:12.800 --> 01:16:14.000
What what happened?
01:16:14.239 --> 01:16:17.680
Did you see Baker try to make a juke move and then fumble, I think?
01:16:17.840 --> 01:16:19.199
Was it was it this game?
01:16:19.439 --> 01:16:29.760
I didn't catch that exact play, but it looked like um Deshaun Watson actually like made plays, and it's a little disheartening because I don't like him in his off-the-field stuff.
01:16:30.000 --> 01:16:34.880
And I just I I've also it's ruining for me.
01:16:34.960 --> 01:16:45.359
I was kind of doing my defense streaming where I just pick against Cleveland every week, and now I don't know if I can do it because they've shown a little bit of life.
01:16:45.600 --> 01:16:48.239
Denzel Boston, the rookie, I am happy for him.
01:16:48.319 --> 01:16:50.640
It looks like he's he's really kind of popping.
01:16:50.960 --> 01:16:52.560
Judkins is like okay.
01:16:52.800 --> 01:16:53.359
Concepcion.
01:16:53.920 --> 01:16:54.319
Concepcion.
01:16:55.520 --> 01:16:56.079
That's right.
01:16:56.399 --> 01:16:57.279
Um Fannon.
01:16:57.680 --> 01:16:58.159
Judkins.
01:16:58.239 --> 01:16:59.439
Yeah, Judkins looks good.
01:17:00.479 --> 01:17:02.319
Uh Fannon had a little pulse.
01:17:02.479 --> 01:17:06.239
I would just a little, I wouldn't say he's really doing break, but a little blip.
01:17:07.439 --> 01:17:11.680
Um and Tampa Bay, dude, a lot of injuries at receiver.
01:17:12.079 --> 01:17:15.520
Their defense, I mean, was fine, but not great, really.
01:17:15.760 --> 01:17:17.520
It's kind of kind of tricky.
01:17:17.680 --> 01:17:18.239
Kind of tricky.
01:17:18.399 --> 01:17:19.439
Yeah, I think so.
01:17:19.600 --> 01:17:25.119
Um next game we had Philly, Tennessee, and we both had Philly.
01:17:25.359 --> 01:17:27.520
They did win, but they did not cover the spread.
01:17:27.680 --> 01:17:31.680
This should have been a bigger blowout, even.
01:17:31.760 --> 01:17:36.800
Um, yeah, it was definitely uh I think a trap game for the Eagles.
01:17:36.960 --> 01:17:44.079
There was this big noise about how hot it was on the field, how hot the the field was.
01:17:44.239 --> 01:17:49.039
They were saying it feels like over like 110 or something like that.
01:17:49.119 --> 01:17:52.000
Uh the field feel, I believe it was.
01:17:52.159 --> 01:17:55.840
And like they were talking about their cleats, their cleats almost melting.
01:17:56.079 --> 01:18:03.279
Um, I don't know how much this actually affects both teams have to play on that field, so I still think they should be winning by a lot.
01:18:03.520 --> 01:18:11.199
Um but I will say this I think the Eagles' offensive line is now the problem.
01:18:11.600 --> 01:18:14.000
I thought this was a great game from Jalen.
01:18:14.479 --> 01:18:31.199
Even the interceptions, uh I just the game-winning drive he had at the end, he looks very spry and he's running very well, but he's also throwing in rhythm across the middle of the field, which we we really never see.
01:18:31.439 --> 01:18:32.720
We've been dying for.
01:18:32.800 --> 01:18:34.880
You know, I saw some stuff on Instagram.
01:18:35.039 --> 01:19:00.319
It was, it's exactly what I was hoping for this year, which was it had it charted all of Hertz's throws from last year, where they were on the field, whether they were complete, whether they were incomplete, where the where it happened on either the left, right, middle side of the field, and then also the depth at which it had.
01:19:00.479 --> 01:19:02.000
And so it tracked everything.
01:19:02.079 --> 01:19:07.039
And all of last year, all it was was just the left and right sides, nothing in the middle.
01:19:07.199 --> 01:19:07.359
Right.
01:19:07.520 --> 01:19:09.840
And it was like two areas.
01:19:10.079 --> 01:19:13.279
Now it was basically and goes, hitch and goes, hitch and goes.
01:19:13.680 --> 01:19:14.079
Exactly.
01:19:14.399 --> 01:19:16.800
The whole season.
01:19:17.039 --> 01:19:20.880
They charted a couple the first two games here, and it was awesome.
01:19:20.960 --> 01:19:29.439
It just looked like a uh a machine gun that had just been just thrown all over, just spraying across.
01:19:29.680 --> 01:19:29.840
Good.
01:19:30.079 --> 01:19:30.880
Just spraying across.
01:19:31.520 --> 01:19:33.920
So it's over the middle, it's off to the left, it's off to the right.
01:19:34.000 --> 01:19:35.119
And look, some of those are picks.
01:19:35.199 --> 01:19:35.760
That's fine.
01:19:35.920 --> 01:19:40.960
I'd much rather, I'd much rather, like I I like the aggressiveness.
01:19:41.279 --> 01:19:56.479
I because we don't have AJ Brown, you don't have like this high floor, I'd rather them be aggressive and try and make offense and and go after that and go for more of a volume and having then less efficient plays.
01:19:56.560 --> 01:19:57.840
Um I do like that.
01:19:57.920 --> 01:19:59.680
I like the strategy, and you're right.
01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:02.640
It was honestly, they looked incredible the first half.
01:20:02.800 --> 01:20:11.199
It was the one what basically was a pick six, even though even though they had a couple plays to punch it in, but it was effectively a pick six.
01:20:11.439 --> 01:20:12.800
That one play doesn't happen.
01:20:12.880 --> 01:20:14.720
The rest of the half was fantastic.
01:20:14.960 --> 01:20:15.359
Yes.
01:20:15.520 --> 01:20:38.640
Um I I did I felt like the um the run game, it's like the biggest strength of the team for so long, the line and the run game, is now like our Achilles heel all of a sudden, and we're improving in what we've always been been poor at, which is sort of like a well-distributed uh offensive passing game.
01:20:38.880 --> 01:20:41.199
It's it's sort of uh flip-flop.
01:20:41.279 --> 01:20:45.119
And so I think we're feeling sort of the transition of that with the injuries.
01:20:45.199 --> 01:20:47.199
Like obviously, Landon Dickerson is out.
01:20:47.359 --> 01:20:52.800
Drew Kendall goes to center, then Cam Jurgens put gets put at left guard.
01:20:53.119 --> 01:20:55.199
I want to see Markel Bell.
01:20:55.439 --> 01:20:57.279
I am on record.
01:20:57.680 --> 01:21:00.239
I want to see Markel Bell.
01:21:02.000 --> 01:21:03.279
I thought I turned it off.
01:21:03.439 --> 01:21:04.479
I thought I turned it off.
01:21:04.640 --> 01:21:06.079
I really did.
01:21:06.399 --> 01:21:08.079
Dude, I'm so sorry.
01:21:09.680 --> 01:21:11.119
I thought I did it off.
01:21:12.079 --> 01:21:15.119
I I turned off the phone going off in the middle.
01:21:15.279 --> 01:21:16.640
Uh I know.
01:21:16.880 --> 01:21:17.279
I know.
01:21:17.359 --> 01:21:19.039
I'm so it is it's a bit now.
01:21:19.119 --> 01:21:19.920
It is a bit now.
01:21:20.000 --> 01:21:21.199
It's a bit honestly.
01:21:21.279 --> 01:21:25.279
I'm gonna be I'm gonna be upset next episode when it doesn't go off.
01:21:25.359 --> 01:21:27.920
I think I know I really thought I'd turn that off.
01:21:28.079 --> 01:21:30.159
Uh it's my rule of my own.
01:21:30.239 --> 01:21:31.119
Anyway, anyway, anyway.
01:21:31.600 --> 01:21:35.359
Anyway, I want to see Markel Bell on the field.
01:21:35.520 --> 01:21:40.079
I want to put him at right guard or left guard, put Jurgens back or keep Kendall.
01:21:40.159 --> 01:21:40.720
I don't care.
01:21:40.880 --> 01:21:43.359
I want to see Makai Becton 2.0.
01:21:43.439 --> 01:21:49.279
I want to see, I want to see a massive human being leading the way for Saquon Barkley.
01:21:49.680 --> 01:21:55.520
I gotta see it because I have Saquon in two leagues, Jake, and it has been miserable to start.
01:21:55.680 --> 01:21:58.640
It's been miserable to start for Saquon.
01:21:59.199 --> 01:22:06.239
I I think it's it is a real, it's all a product of the the system and the way it's changed.
01:22:06.319 --> 01:22:19.279
Like, you know, what's funny is like everyone always like Stout is a phenomenal coach, um, but his style people don't talk about that he also was the run game coordinator.
01:22:19.760 --> 01:22:43.920
And what that meant to me was it also it the reason the offensive line looked so good is because uh when he was coordinating the run game and coordinating everything, it never put them in a bad position, which I think hurt getting the ball to AJ, Devontae Smith, and over the middle of the field.
01:22:44.079 --> 01:22:54.640
Like they the technique was for them to only have to guard a specific thing because they knew they were never gonna have to throw over the middle of the field.
01:22:54.800 --> 01:22:59.920
So now, in order to do that, there's much more burden on the offensive line.
01:23:00.079 --> 01:23:03.039
So this scheme requires much more.
01:23:03.199 --> 01:23:05.039
Now that doesn't take anything away from Stoutlin.
01:23:05.199 --> 01:23:14.239
He's still a phenomenal coach, but it it was a system that it was much easier and it was much more um simplistic.
01:23:14.319 --> 01:23:17.359
Like Alex said, all it was was hitches and goes.
01:23:17.520 --> 01:23:20.800
And the run game was, you know, a couple of simple things.
01:23:21.119 --> 01:23:23.039
Just we're bigger and better than you.
01:23:23.199 --> 01:23:29.520
Um, and they can they can move faster, they can be more aggressive because they don't have to worry about as much.
01:23:29.760 --> 01:23:39.119
Now they have to worry about if they're doing the right thing, if they're passing the blocks off, getting to the second level, making sure everything is sealed up.
01:23:39.199 --> 01:23:46.399
And and now it just you can see why other teams don't have the success that the Eagles did all those years.
01:23:46.479 --> 01:23:49.600
It's because they have to worry about much more.
01:23:49.760 --> 01:23:52.880
Um, and so whether that's a good or bad thing, we'll see.
01:23:53.039 --> 01:23:53.680
We'll see.
01:23:53.920 --> 01:24:02.800
I I think my optimistic take, like my uh glass half full take, is first four games of the season are still the preseason now.
01:24:02.960 --> 01:24:13.680
Like with the extended season and like the lack of preseason, I feel like for all teams, not just the Eagles, all teams, you get growing pains, especially for the ones that are changing schemes, like the Eagles.
01:24:13.840 --> 01:24:26.720
So I'm optimistic in that like they're getting better at the thing they're trying to get better at, and they're figuring out how to raise the floor of the thing that they're kind of purposefully put by the wayside and learn the new scheme.
01:24:26.800 --> 01:24:35.039
So I am optimistic they can get better at this and it can look better, but we are winning while they are learning this.
01:24:35.199 --> 01:24:36.640
That's really the big thing.
01:24:36.960 --> 01:24:47.760
Jalen has put the team on his back the last two weeks, which he hasn't needed to do, and every Jalen hater would be like, wow, he doesn't uh he just has a super team, he doesn't have to do too much.
01:24:47.840 --> 01:24:53.039
But it's like, yeah, like so did Tom Brady the first like half of his career.
01:24:53.279 --> 01:24:57.439
He was like a glorified game manager and won three Super Bowls doing it.
01:24:57.600 --> 01:25:07.199
It wasn't until the end of his career when he would he would put the whole team on his back and and be have like deficiencies that he would overcome on offense.
01:25:07.279 --> 01:25:17.680
And Jalen through two games has done that so far, which is like pretty impressive to be like, okay, it's through the growing pains, he's he's still winning through all of it.
01:25:17.760 --> 01:25:23.119
Like he's still doing what needs to be done to just get the win at the end of the game, you know.
01:25:23.359 --> 01:25:33.600
The the development and the um the burden of who has to do the more difficult thing has has switched over.
01:25:34.079 --> 01:25:42.800
Um, and now you're seeing, I think, the receivers are able to reap the benefits of having less of that burden that was there previously.
01:25:42.960 --> 01:25:46.960
The offensive line, the burden shifts to them with this new scheme.
01:25:47.039 --> 01:25:53.920
And what I like about it is now you get to see like Donnie Candles, that Davian Wicks is doing well.
01:25:54.159 --> 01:25:56.640
Devontae Smith is incredible.
01:25:56.800 --> 01:25:59.199
Um, you had Cooper with a huge catch.
01:25:59.359 --> 01:26:08.239
Lemon is slowly in improving, he's getting more targets, but um he is getting a little bit little by little getting weaned into the system.
01:26:08.399 --> 01:26:12.239
Um definitely you've you've got um now we should get to this.
01:26:12.399 --> 01:26:14.960
Dallas Goddard had a really great week one.
01:26:15.199 --> 01:26:16.399
He gets hurt.
01:26:16.960 --> 01:26:33.039
Um and a little bit of the fallout from this game, the other thing I think is we didn't talk about the defense as much, but um the defense hasn't looked as good as years past, and I think we've got Cooper is hurt, he's playing hurt, it's big.
01:26:33.119 --> 01:26:33.760
Yeah, yeah.
01:26:33.840 --> 01:26:44.479
Cooper DeGin is playing hurt, and he does not he like everyone says he's banged up, whatever, whatever, but he looks he looks slower, he's not changing directions as well.
01:26:44.720 --> 01:26:48.720
And um, they just signed Kenny Moore um as well.
01:26:48.960 --> 01:26:50.560
So they signed Kenny Moore.
01:26:50.720 --> 01:26:53.600
They also bring back Zach Ertz to the team.
01:26:53.760 --> 01:26:54.159
Yeah.
01:26:54.319 --> 01:27:00.800
Which is now that I think I think that'll be fun and nostalgic, and I think it'll be great at the link.
01:27:01.039 --> 01:27:14.720
Like the fans will love that, that'll bring extra energy from the fans because of his his presence and his tenure and his uh his gravitas as a an Eagle great.
01:27:15.359 --> 01:27:22.479
Um but I don't think that he's necessarily a you know the same player that he was or like a world beater.
01:27:22.800 --> 01:27:28.399
But if he could be an average tight end, that would be such a home run if he's an average tight end.
01:27:29.279 --> 01:27:38.800
And I I think um I wanna I wanna double check it really quick because I think in him coming back, he has a chance.
01:27:39.279 --> 01:27:43.279
He is number five on the Eagles all time leading receiver.
01:27:43.840 --> 01:27:46.880
Um he has a chance to pass Mike Quick at four.
01:27:47.359 --> 01:27:52.239
And he, if he can get 300 yards, can pass it to Sean Jackson.
01:27:52.960 --> 01:27:53.439
Wow.
01:27:53.840 --> 01:27:55.039
That's kind of crazy.
01:27:55.760 --> 01:27:56.159
Yeah.
01:27:56.640 --> 01:27:59.760
So this is a fun little side quest that's gonna come.
01:28:00.079 --> 01:28:01.279
Kind of take place here.
01:28:01.439 --> 01:28:03.680
Now, I do want to see maybe catches.
01:28:03.840 --> 01:28:04.560
He might be.
01:28:04.720 --> 01:28:05.600
Yeah, he's second.
01:28:05.760 --> 01:28:06.399
Oh, he's second.
01:28:06.560 --> 01:28:11.359
Oh, he needs 10 catches to be the all-time leading receptions.
01:28:11.760 --> 01:28:12.720
Oh, wow.
01:28:12.880 --> 01:28:14.960
That would be really cool.
01:28:15.199 --> 01:28:15.439
Yeah.
01:28:15.760 --> 01:28:17.199
Devante Smith is up there.
01:28:17.279 --> 01:28:18.399
Look at Devontae Smith.
01:28:18.640 --> 01:28:20.319
Devontae's going to pass eventually.
01:28:20.560 --> 01:28:20.720
Yeah.
01:28:21.920 --> 01:28:22.800
I've gone on.
01:28:23.199 --> 01:28:33.840
I I think I mentioned this on our offseason, but I think AJ Brown was a red herring because I think Devontae Smith will be the greatest Eagle receiver of all time.
01:28:34.000 --> 01:28:41.039
Not that he's a better talent, but I just mean he was drafted by the team, and I think they're going to keep him for his whole career.
01:28:41.199 --> 01:28:46.720
And I think he's going to have some good longevity where he passes some of these.
01:28:46.880 --> 01:28:48.079
And uh I think you're right.
01:28:48.159 --> 01:28:54.159
I think he's going to be catches-wise, yards-wise, even maybe touchdowns.
01:28:54.319 --> 01:28:55.039
We'll have to see.
01:28:55.199 --> 01:28:59.680
But it will be very cool for all-time catches.
01:28:59.920 --> 01:29:01.920
Zachertz only needs 10.
01:29:02.239 --> 01:29:05.520
So if you're 11 is oh, touchdowns, he's not close.
01:29:05.600 --> 01:29:06.720
He's not close for touchdowns.
01:29:06.880 --> 01:29:07.439
Holy crap.
01:29:07.520 --> 01:29:07.600
No.
01:29:07.840 --> 01:29:08.479
70 to 10.
01:29:09.199 --> 01:29:12.319
Tommy McDonald has 66.
01:29:13.359 --> 01:29:16.159
You don't remember that 1963 season?
01:29:17.359 --> 01:29:18.960
Oh, what a year.
01:29:19.119 --> 01:29:19.680
What a year.
01:29:19.840 --> 01:29:20.640
63.
01:29:21.279 --> 01:29:28.880
If he can get, if Zach Ertz can get 300 yards, well, two uh 250.
01:29:29.119 --> 01:29:40.000
If he could get 250 yards and 11 catches, he can move up the leaderboard and be first and third in catches and yards.
01:29:40.239 --> 01:29:45.119
So a little fun side quest that's unfolding now that Zach Ertz is back.
01:29:45.359 --> 01:29:46.239
That's pretty cool.
01:29:46.399 --> 01:29:47.520
I think that's pretty awesome.
01:29:47.680 --> 01:29:48.239
It's a bummer.
01:29:48.399 --> 01:29:50.560
Hopefully, Dallas Goddard's not off for too long.
01:29:50.720 --> 01:29:53.920
Do you know how long his injury I do not know?
01:29:54.079 --> 01:29:59.199
I do not know, but it it it's a bummer because the rookie Eli Stowers is no longer there.
01:29:59.279 --> 01:30:12.560
But I'll tell you what, if they make a deep run and Eli Stowers ends up turning into someone, we'll look back at this year and go, did we have three of the greatest Eagles tight ends on the team at the same exact time?
01:30:12.880 --> 01:30:14.479
That would be great if Stours does.
01:30:15.520 --> 01:30:18.159
Maybe not the greatest, but three eras is a good way to put it.
01:30:18.399 --> 01:30:25.279
Yeah, three eras of Eagles tight ends all together would be kind of interesting.
01:30:25.600 --> 01:30:28.800
Stours is a weird stash to me.
01:30:29.119 --> 01:30:32.319
What they're doing with Stours, they're like redshirting him basically.
01:30:33.119 --> 01:30:39.760
I hope he can just hit the weight room, bulk up, and become more of a blocker, more of a well-rounded guy.
01:30:40.000 --> 01:30:41.199
Um, but we'll see.
01:30:41.359 --> 01:30:44.399
We'll see if it uh how it plays out though.
01:30:44.880 --> 01:30:51.680
Anyway, it is, I do think the the all I'm not optimistic about the run game because Goddard leaving.
01:30:51.840 --> 01:30:53.439
Zach Gertz is not a blocker.
01:30:53.840 --> 01:30:54.319
I know.
01:30:54.560 --> 01:30:56.079
We're we're thin already.
01:30:56.239 --> 01:31:02.560
We've got to we gotta pick up a fullback and a and a and a proper tight end like in Free World.
01:31:03.279 --> 01:31:06.560
I mean, this just might this might be a product of the offense.
01:31:06.720 --> 01:31:18.479
Maybe this is a thing where you know we went so run heavy, had the 2,000 yard season with 2,000 yard season with Saquon, and then now this is the pendulum swinging back.
01:31:18.720 --> 01:31:21.199
And maybe they're trying offense, yeah.
01:31:21.359 --> 01:31:26.399
They're trying to go back to the receipt three receiver sets, and I don't know.
01:31:26.640 --> 01:31:28.000
Maybe they might have to.
01:31:28.159 --> 01:31:31.840
Maybe they maybe it's not what they want to, but maybe they might have to.
01:31:32.079 --> 01:31:32.479
Anyway.
01:31:33.199 --> 01:31:39.199
Yeah, the wide receiver class the wide receiver core is much deeper than trying to get Johnny Monto on the field, you know.
01:31:39.359 --> 01:31:39.840
Yeah, yeah.
01:31:41.279 --> 01:31:44.560
Hollywood Brown's getting some in-arounds, which is kind of fun.
01:31:44.720 --> 01:31:45.119
They work.
01:31:46.399 --> 01:31:49.520
They were actually successful, better than some of the screens they were running.
01:31:49.600 --> 01:31:52.960
They gotta work on the screen design, I think.
01:31:53.199 --> 01:31:53.600
I know.
01:31:53.840 --> 01:32:05.359
Or now, do you think what I even though the screens might not be effective, there's a part of me that makes me think it does force the defense to cheat up.
01:32:05.520 --> 01:32:22.399
And it opens it, it opens up some routes later in the game behind that because they think it's they go up a couple steps and then it gives them just a quarter step on that next post route or whatever the play.
01:32:22.640 --> 01:32:30.239
Yes, and and I and definitely gonna be good to to to set up the the screens and then have the counters to them.
01:32:30.640 --> 01:32:35.439
But you I want to be doing that by also gaining a couple yards on the way instead of losing the cards.
01:32:36.319 --> 01:32:39.199
They're gonna bite even harder if they do actually work.
01:32:39.359 --> 01:32:39.600
Yeah.
01:32:39.760 --> 01:32:40.720
Right, right, right, right.
01:32:40.800 --> 01:32:44.319
So if if it's like three, four yards, or or they break a tackle.
01:32:44.399 --> 01:32:45.520
I think that's a big thing.
01:32:45.840 --> 01:32:54.880
Get it to Mikai Lemon in space, and and if he breaks a tackle, then it's an extra 10 yards, you know, because there's nobody else.
01:32:55.039 --> 01:32:56.880
It's just one guy to make the play.
01:32:57.199 --> 01:32:59.520
Um so we'll we'll see.
01:32:59.600 --> 01:33:10.399
So I I think I think yes and to the uh to the effectiveness of screens making DBs more aggressive and and opening up down the field shots.
01:33:10.560 --> 01:33:11.680
But they need to do better.
01:33:11.840 --> 01:33:12.319
Yeah, yeah.
01:33:12.479 --> 01:33:12.640
Okay.
01:33:12.880 --> 01:33:13.760
Now I'm gonna go.
01:33:14.079 --> 01:33:19.600
I think we can we can move on to the next game and and start going back to rapid fire a little bit here.
01:33:19.760 --> 01:33:21.840
We had the Denver versus Jacksonville.
01:33:21.920 --> 01:33:23.439
Alex, you went Jacksonville.
01:33:24.159 --> 01:33:26.000
I was down in Jacksonville this year.
01:33:26.239 --> 01:33:28.560
Uh I didn't I did not think.
01:33:28.720 --> 01:33:30.000
Yeah, they looked great last year.
01:33:30.159 --> 01:33:36.399
I remember being, for your wedding, being around there and watching a Jacksonville game and being like, this is a fun team.
01:33:36.479 --> 01:33:36.960
Like they are.
01:33:37.279 --> 01:33:38.399
They're starting to put it together.
01:33:38.479 --> 01:33:40.159
Their defense actually looks good.
01:33:40.399 --> 01:33:43.760
I think Trevor Lawrence could could make another jump.
01:33:43.920 --> 01:33:46.720
Uh I think it could could be something.
01:33:46.800 --> 01:33:48.079
Uh, but Denver.
01:33:48.800 --> 01:33:52.479
Honestly, one of the better defenses in the league, if not one of the best.
01:33:52.640 --> 01:33:59.199
And uh and Bo Nicks keeps coming along with uh with Sean Payton running the offense.
01:33:59.279 --> 01:34:03.119
So they have had they have had a lot of running back injuries.
01:34:03.199 --> 01:34:04.399
I don't know if you're keeping track.
01:34:04.479 --> 01:34:09.359
I've got Harvey in one league, Jonah Coleman got hurt, the rookie that came in.
01:34:09.600 --> 01:34:20.399
They also had uh Dobbitz who was hurt, all three of them are like questionable, so um, which is interesting, but they I I think they're a very good team.
01:34:20.640 --> 01:34:26.000
Denver has one of the most wicked schedules to start the season.
01:34:26.399 --> 01:34:28.720
Because they made the AFC championship.
01:34:28.880 --> 01:34:32.399
I think they they were given like the division was pretty good.
01:34:32.720 --> 01:34:43.520
They have a wicked schedule, and um I have bone I have Bonex in a league, and I think he's playing very well, but he's playing really tough defenses.
01:34:44.000 --> 01:34:49.199
And um I think Jacksonville, like you said, is vastly improved over last season.
01:34:49.439 --> 01:34:52.960
And um, yeah, I think I think those are two good teams though.
01:34:53.279 --> 01:34:54.319
Seven-point game.
01:34:54.479 --> 01:34:56.079
We were both pretty close.
01:34:56.560 --> 01:35:00.800
Next one is the biggest head scratcher in the league to me.
01:35:01.039 --> 01:35:03.279
Talk about Chicago loading up on offense.
01:35:03.760 --> 01:35:13.439
We had the Chargers versus Vegas, they had minus seven and they lose by oh my god, by 12?
01:35:13.600 --> 01:35:15.439
This is disgusting.
01:35:15.760 --> 01:35:19.119
Jake, what did I tell you about the Chargers?
01:35:19.199 --> 01:35:21.279
I say this every offseason.
01:35:21.359 --> 01:35:22.800
This happens every offseason.
01:35:22.960 --> 01:35:25.119
You get high and mighty about the Chargers.
01:35:25.279 --> 01:35:28.319
And me, Alex, you're the Hampton man.
01:35:28.560 --> 01:35:29.520
You're the Hampton man.
01:35:29.760 --> 01:35:30.560
Only Omarian.
01:35:30.640 --> 01:35:31.119
He's the only one.
01:35:31.199 --> 01:35:36.399
He's the only one like but the Herbert, they always everybody gets so excited about Herbert and and the Chargers.
01:35:36.479 --> 01:35:38.399
This happens every year with the Chargers.
01:35:38.479 --> 01:35:41.199
Yeah, they're like a theoretical God squad.
01:35:41.359 --> 01:35:46.800
I honestly, I'm it's still seared in my brain that like LT and Drew Brees are gonna break records.
01:35:47.199 --> 01:35:48.560
Antonio Gates, yeah.
01:35:48.800 --> 01:35:49.199
Right.
01:35:49.359 --> 01:35:51.279
And um I don't know.
01:35:51.439 --> 01:35:53.199
I I am not, Alex.
01:35:53.279 --> 01:35:58.640
I'm telling you right now, week two, I'm not selling my Charger stock.
01:35:58.720 --> 01:36:00.239
I have O'Maran Hampton.
01:36:00.319 --> 01:36:02.720
I have Quint Quentin Johnston.
01:36:02.880 --> 01:36:09.840
I have got Dicker, the kicker, and Alex, I'm telling you right now, they're gonna bounce back.
01:36:10.000 --> 01:36:11.520
They are gonna bounce back.
01:36:12.159 --> 01:36:12.800
I like Dicker.
01:36:13.039 --> 01:36:13.680
Dicker's good.
01:36:13.920 --> 01:36:18.640
Dicker's good because he's a he's a kicker and they're gonna stall out in the red zone a bunch.
01:36:18.800 --> 01:36:19.920
So I think I like him.
01:36:20.000 --> 01:36:20.239
I think.
01:36:20.960 --> 01:36:23.920
I also think Alex, we we talked about this a little bit.
01:36:24.079 --> 01:36:30.000
A little bit of the the uh what's lost in this game.
01:36:30.079 --> 01:36:31.920
Everyone thinks the Chargers suck.
01:36:32.159 --> 01:36:40.399
We talked about this, I think, in person, where Vegas quietly has a better defense than you think.
01:36:40.640 --> 01:36:41.760
They spent money.
01:36:41.840 --> 01:36:43.199
We looked at the depth chart you wanted to.
01:36:43.439 --> 01:36:45.119
Kobe Dean and Quay Walker, right?
01:36:45.359 --> 01:36:47.439
Those those linebackers, that's right.
01:36:47.600 --> 01:36:53.600
Off-ball linebackers, two of the better free agent signings was the Kobe Dean and Quay Walker.
01:36:53.680 --> 01:36:55.199
They picked up Quidi Pay.
01:36:55.279 --> 01:36:58.560
They have Crosby still, despite all the trade talks.
01:36:58.640 --> 01:36:59.520
He's still there.
01:36:59.760 --> 01:37:04.319
Quity Pay, those that four, they can really shut down the run.
01:37:04.479 --> 01:37:11.760
And then you've got a couple of uh people in the the defense where they're younger, they got drafted.
01:37:12.159 --> 01:37:13.840
Um what's his name?
01:37:13.920 --> 01:37:15.279
I'm blanking on his name now.
01:37:15.359 --> 01:37:18.079
I think it's something, something Taylor, a couple other guys.
01:37:18.239 --> 01:37:19.920
Oh, they got Jeremy Chen as well.
01:37:20.159 --> 01:37:22.720
So anyway, they're they're not amazing.
01:37:22.800 --> 01:37:24.399
I think they're underrated, though.
01:37:24.479 --> 01:37:25.760
They're undervalued.
01:37:26.000 --> 01:37:32.159
Whatever you thought of the Raiders, they're not amazing, but they are better than people think.
01:37:32.319 --> 01:37:34.399
And that's the lesson I'm taking away.
01:37:34.479 --> 01:37:35.279
I like that.
01:37:37.279 --> 01:37:38.880
Are you curcousining me right now?
01:37:39.119 --> 01:37:40.560
I'm curcousining you, curcous.
01:37:40.960 --> 01:37:41.199
Nice.
01:37:41.359 --> 01:37:42.079
That's a good team.
01:37:42.319 --> 01:37:42.640
That's right.
01:37:42.720 --> 01:37:43.199
Yeah, yeah.
01:37:43.439 --> 01:37:45.840
Next game, we got Seattle versus Arizona.
01:37:46.000 --> 01:37:47.520
Seattle crushed them.
01:37:47.760 --> 01:37:48.720
That's what it was going to be.
01:37:49.359 --> 01:37:51.279
Only four and a half seemed very low.
01:37:51.439 --> 01:37:53.279
Why only four and a half?
01:37:53.439 --> 01:37:57.439
Like Seattle, and it's like one of the best teams versus one of the worst teams.
01:37:57.520 --> 01:37:58.399
It was only four and a half.
01:37:58.479 --> 01:37:59.680
That made no sense to me.
01:38:00.000 --> 01:38:07.359
Yeah, and this this game felt tough for me because I was on a little bit of the Arizona's underrated.
01:38:07.680 --> 01:38:09.439
Their offense is underrated.
01:38:09.520 --> 01:38:15.439
They they've got the playmakers, they just don't have the quarterback, but they've got some infrastructure.
01:38:15.600 --> 01:38:17.760
I think they just ran into a fucking buzzsault.
01:38:18.239 --> 01:38:18.960
Yeah, they did.
01:38:19.119 --> 01:38:23.359
And so they were just very clearly outclassed.
01:38:23.520 --> 01:38:25.680
It's also a division game.
01:38:25.840 --> 01:38:27.279
Seattle's got their number.
01:38:27.439 --> 01:38:30.560
They've got they know them, they're ready for them.
01:38:30.720 --> 01:38:32.000
They just crushed them.
01:38:32.319 --> 01:38:33.359
Dallas v.
01:38:33.520 --> 01:38:34.479
Washington.
01:38:34.800 --> 01:38:36.239
We both had Dallas.
01:38:36.399 --> 01:38:37.439
They killed him.
01:38:37.760 --> 01:38:40.159
Washington has a major injury here.
01:38:40.399 --> 01:38:41.760
Daniels goes down.
01:38:42.239 --> 01:38:43.680
JD goes down.
01:38:43.920 --> 01:38:54.319
And I'll tell you what, the bloodbath of the league begins because injuries of like really a foot here this week.
01:38:54.479 --> 01:39:00.560
Obviously, AJ Brown week one and a couple other ones, but this is, you know, backup quarterbacks.
01:39:00.640 --> 01:39:10.239
When you get a bunch of backup quarterbacks now, I'll tell you what, the Eagles after this week just kind of staying, just we lost the left guard, but that's okay.
01:39:10.399 --> 01:39:11.600
We can fill that.
01:39:12.000 --> 01:39:17.840
Eagles, Eagles look a little bit better because two division rivals lose QBs this week.
01:39:18.319 --> 01:39:18.720
That's right.
01:39:19.359 --> 01:39:20.399
And we haven't played them yet.
01:39:20.640 --> 01:39:25.279
And we played the and we play the Bears, who also they lost their quarterback.
01:39:25.359 --> 01:39:29.600
So that's three quarterbacks on the schedule that went down.
01:39:29.840 --> 01:39:32.720
The C's are parting for the Eagles a little bit.
01:39:32.960 --> 01:39:33.520
A little bit.
01:39:34.640 --> 01:39:36.960
They did have their own injuries with Dallas Goddard.
01:39:37.119 --> 01:39:45.359
Cooper DeGene's playing kind of hurt, the offensive line, but um, yeah, better than quarterback, knock on wood.
01:39:45.680 --> 01:39:48.479
The next game is Miami, San Francisco.
01:39:48.640 --> 01:39:53.199
This was a 13 and a half, the biggest spread of the whole weekend.
01:39:53.520 --> 01:39:54.319
And they covered.
01:39:54.640 --> 01:39:56.079
We both had San Francisco.
01:39:56.399 --> 01:40:01.680
Miami is they're gunning for Arch Manning, potentially.
01:40:01.920 --> 01:40:03.439
Um, or that other guy.
01:40:03.520 --> 01:40:05.359
There's another, I think, an Oregon quarterback.
01:40:05.600 --> 01:40:06.399
Can we call them?
01:40:06.880 --> 01:40:08.640
Can we not call them the Dolphins anymore?
01:40:08.720 --> 01:40:10.560
Can we call them the Miami Dead Money?
01:40:10.720 --> 01:40:11.680
Just call them Dead Money.
01:40:11.920 --> 01:40:12.319
That's right.
01:40:12.479 --> 01:40:16.880
Half the team is on the books, the other half is on the field.
01:40:17.279 --> 01:40:21.760
Uh yeah, that's a sad, sad state of affairs.
01:40:21.920 --> 01:40:25.359
Not to mention, Alex, they had Make It Fitzpatrick.
01:40:25.439 --> 01:40:29.039
They got him back, and they got rid of him for nothing.
01:40:29.359 --> 01:40:32.560
They just like just malpractice.
01:40:32.720 --> 01:40:36.079
It's like you gotta feel bad for do you know Kickball Dad?
01:40:36.479 --> 01:40:40.239
Oh, social media Darlet.
01:40:40.640 --> 01:40:41.199
Poor guy.
01:40:41.439 --> 01:40:42.560
Yeah, poor guy.
01:40:42.640 --> 01:40:44.479
He's he's the biggest Dolphins fan I know.
01:40:44.560 --> 01:40:45.199
Poor kickball.
01:40:45.600 --> 01:40:50.319
Frank Frank Pre-Kelly, you know, feel bad for him as well.
01:40:50.960 --> 01:40:51.520
He was a Dolphins.
01:40:52.000 --> 01:40:52.560
He's shed that.
01:40:52.640 --> 01:40:53.279
He's shed that.
01:40:53.359 --> 01:40:55.520
You don't you don't hear about it too much anymore, do you?
01:40:55.760 --> 01:40:57.199
You know, it doesn't come up.
01:40:57.439 --> 01:41:00.239
Doesn't come up much since the Super Bowl.
01:41:00.479 --> 01:41:01.680
Since Merino.
01:41:03.760 --> 01:41:07.279
Um, but yeah, San Francisco looks really good this year.
01:41:07.520 --> 01:41:12.399
Apart from the injuries, again, like Mike Evans, I think, is banged up.
01:41:12.560 --> 01:41:14.159
You lost the other rookie.
01:41:14.319 --> 01:41:14.880
He's banged.
01:41:15.119 --> 01:41:24.560
The last two draft picks they had at receiver, both out in Ricky Pearsall and Stripling, both out.
01:41:24.720 --> 01:41:25.359
Yeah.
01:41:25.680 --> 01:41:28.720
Um, what are they doing on that field?
01:41:28.880 --> 01:41:30.560
What is happening, San Francisco?
01:41:30.640 --> 01:41:33.199
That is just like gunshots, galore.
01:41:33.520 --> 01:41:36.079
But I will say Brock Purdy looks really good.
01:41:36.319 --> 01:41:38.319
Brock Purdy playing really well.
01:41:38.399 --> 01:41:39.840
The defense looks very good.
01:41:40.000 --> 01:41:40.800
Fred Warner.
01:41:41.039 --> 01:41:42.399
Debo's back, baby.
01:41:42.880 --> 01:41:44.479
Yeah, Debo's back.
01:41:44.640 --> 01:41:47.199
Uh Drew, what is it?
01:41:47.279 --> 01:41:47.920
Greenlaw.
01:41:48.239 --> 01:41:48.960
Greenlaw, yeah.
01:41:49.359 --> 01:41:50.640
Yeah, he looks great.
01:41:50.800 --> 01:41:51.520
He's back.
01:41:52.159 --> 01:41:53.840
Um, so anyway.
01:41:54.319 --> 01:41:55.840
KC versus Indy.
01:41:55.920 --> 01:41:56.880
We had KC.
01:41:57.119 --> 01:42:05.039
Thought this was gonna be a trouncing, but KC's defense, man, this indie offense, the last two years, like Jonathan Taylor's the truth.
01:42:05.279 --> 01:42:08.560
They had uh Alec Pierce get hurt.
01:42:09.199 --> 01:42:10.640
Um yeah, that's right.
01:42:10.800 --> 01:42:12.880
Stiichen looks very good.
01:42:13.119 --> 01:42:17.279
Um my guy Downs looks pretty solid.
01:42:17.520 --> 01:42:20.239
Can I can I call this game out real quick?
01:42:20.399 --> 01:42:27.920
I want to give a big thank you uh to lover himself, Mr.
01:42:28.079 --> 01:42:29.520
Travis Kelsey.
01:42:30.159 --> 01:42:38.319
When I needed him most, I was down by, I believe, 20 points, and Mr.
01:42:38.479 --> 01:42:41.920
Travis Kelsey came in with 25 points on Sunday night.
01:42:42.159 --> 01:42:42.720
Oh, wow.
01:42:42.960 --> 01:42:51.039
And snuck a victory over Drake and Bake in the this is in the LA League Fellowship.
01:42:51.199 --> 01:42:51.760
Yeah, that's right.
01:42:51.920 --> 01:42:52.960
Yeah, the fellowship.
01:42:53.119 --> 01:42:55.760
So snuck a win out for me.
01:42:55.840 --> 01:43:02.399
So Travis, thank you in this game for having some some of the bigger plays in this one.
01:43:02.560 --> 01:43:07.840
Um, and uh fun to see Taylor Swift and Jason Kelsey sitting next together.
01:43:08.000 --> 01:43:09.600
Or yeah, yeah, Jason and and Taylor.
01:43:10.000 --> 01:43:12.239
I think Tom Cruise was at the game, wasn't he?
01:43:12.399 --> 01:43:12.800
Was he?
01:43:13.279 --> 01:43:13.600
I don't know.
01:43:13.760 --> 01:43:15.600
I think Tom Cruise was next to Taylor Swift.
01:43:15.680 --> 01:43:19.039
Maybe that was week one I'm thinking of, but this one I was nodding off for though.
01:43:19.119 --> 01:43:21.279
These games go on so late at night, don't they?
01:43:21.359 --> 01:43:22.159
I was watching bed.
01:43:22.319 --> 01:43:24.159
I kind of nodded off in the second half.
01:43:24.399 --> 01:43:27.840
I don't really I haven't been watching the evening games as much myself.
01:43:27.920 --> 01:43:31.600
Even the Monday night we'll get to, but the KC, I will say this.
01:43:32.000 --> 01:43:36.399
Kenneth Walker leading the league in rushing, looks incredible.
01:43:36.640 --> 01:43:37.359
Yeah, he does.
01:43:37.520 --> 01:43:40.000
He's winning me the chop league.
01:43:40.239 --> 01:43:42.159
Alex, I am number one.
01:43:42.399 --> 01:43:44.319
Tanner just got chopped.
01:43:45.840 --> 01:43:46.159
No.
01:43:46.640 --> 01:43:52.640
No, he didn't know about Puka, and he kept him in all the way until Monday.
01:43:53.039 --> 01:43:57.840
And so in a chop league with a thin roster, not a lot of things.
01:43:58.079 --> 01:43:59.119
He got chopped.
01:43:59.279 --> 01:44:00.479
I end up picking up T.
01:44:00.640 --> 01:44:02.560
Higgins off his squad.
01:44:02.800 --> 01:44:04.640
That's a crazy concept.
01:44:04.800 --> 01:44:05.760
That's pretty wild.
01:44:05.920 --> 01:44:06.079
Yeah.
01:44:06.399 --> 01:44:09.119
You gotta be on your P's and Q's on waiver day, huh?
01:44:09.359 --> 01:44:11.199
Alex, I'm crushing that league.
01:44:11.359 --> 01:44:13.119
I'm crushing that league.
01:44:13.199 --> 01:44:16.880
I I am I have had the number one, I have the most points scored.
01:44:16.960 --> 01:44:28.479
I have the most points projected, um, knock on wood, but I've got Brock Purdy, Kenneth Walker, I've got um my guy, my guy T.
01:44:28.640 --> 01:44:30.640
Higgins that I just picked up.
01:44:31.039 --> 01:44:35.600
I also have um what is his name?
01:44:35.680 --> 01:44:36.560
I'm blanking on.
01:44:36.640 --> 01:44:38.000
Oh, Christian McCaffrey?
01:44:38.479 --> 01:44:39.359
Ever heard of him?
01:44:41.199 --> 01:44:46.000
Yeah, Christian McCaffrey, Kenneth Walker, Devontae Smith, Christian Watson.
01:44:46.640 --> 01:44:47.600
Both breakouts.
01:44:48.000 --> 01:44:51.359
Alex, this is a this is a 16-person lead.
01:44:51.760 --> 01:44:53.439
Um fucking crazy.
01:44:53.840 --> 01:45:01.359
Sam Laporta, quint, Quinshawn Judkins, and my first actual chopped pickup was T.
01:45:01.520 --> 01:45:02.239
Higgins.
01:45:02.720 --> 01:45:09.840
Um I have Adnai Mitchell, Khalil Shakur, um, Donnie Candles, Josh Downs.
01:45:10.079 --> 01:45:12.640
What other toddlers are in this league?
01:45:12.960 --> 01:45:14.319
Uh Tanner.
01:45:14.960 --> 01:45:20.000
Tanner, Austin, Jared, uh, Aaron, Aaron, our boy, our buddy.
01:45:20.079 --> 01:45:20.399
Yeah.
01:45:20.560 --> 01:45:22.000
Uh Buccaneers fan.
01:45:22.239 --> 01:45:25.039
So um, yeah, yeah.
01:45:25.199 --> 01:45:29.920
It is getting now what I did, I don't I I want to get your kind of opinion on this.
01:45:30.079 --> 01:45:34.800
Everyone went crazy bidding on Puka, which is why I went for T.
01:45:34.960 --> 01:45:35.520
Higgins.
01:45:36.319 --> 01:45:39.680
So I was like, everyone, everyone spent a ton of money.
01:45:39.760 --> 01:45:46.880
I think the guy that that won them spent almost like a third of their waiver, like which is like a chop strategy.
01:45:47.439 --> 01:45:49.039
Yeah, in a chop league, though.
01:45:49.119 --> 01:45:51.279
That's that's pretty steep, right?
01:45:51.520 --> 01:45:51.760
Yeah.
01:45:52.000 --> 01:45:54.319
Which like you I guess you want to stay alive.
01:45:54.399 --> 01:45:56.399
You know, you you could you could be out.
01:45:56.560 --> 01:46:00.079
So if you it's like you don't want to leave with money on the table, kind of thing.
01:46:00.159 --> 01:46:01.840
So I can kind of see it.
01:46:02.079 --> 01:46:03.920
But um, yeah.
01:46:04.079 --> 01:46:08.319
Anyway, speaking of which, Rams, Giants, Monday night.
01:46:08.479 --> 01:46:09.600
This looked like a blowout.
01:46:09.840 --> 01:46:11.439
I didn't I watched the highlights.
01:46:11.520 --> 01:46:12.720
I didn't get to watch it.
01:46:12.960 --> 01:46:14.560
I know Jackson Dark got hurt.
01:46:14.800 --> 01:46:16.399
J-Mo came in there.
01:46:16.640 --> 01:46:18.640
Looks like Aaron Donald is back.
01:46:18.880 --> 01:46:21.359
Looks like triple teaming Adams I saw.
01:46:21.520 --> 01:46:25.760
Yeah, they were trying to triple team Aaron Donald, and Miles Garrett's not on the field yet.
01:46:25.920 --> 01:46:28.800
So excited for when Miles Garrett comes back.
01:46:28.880 --> 01:46:29.760
When's he coming back?
01:46:29.840 --> 01:46:30.479
Is he coming back?
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This is the the Rams look like, and they didn't have Puka either.
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Like, they're they might be just slow.
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Like, this is what I think.
01:46:41.119 --> 01:46:44.960
This is this is like the preseason, especially for the Rams.
01:46:45.039 --> 01:46:46.479
They're a smart organization.
01:46:47.279 --> 01:46:55.359
Like, they're in still preseason form, and they're like, Aaron, get up back up to speed, and he's like, take it on triple teams, and it's like, oh, he's back.
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I'll tell you what, brutal, brutal, brutal to start in Australia and then go to New York, or were they in LA?
01:47:03.840 --> 01:47:04.800
They were in LA.
01:47:05.760 --> 01:47:06.960
Maybe they were in LA.
01:47:07.039 --> 01:47:07.600
I can't remember.
01:47:07.840 --> 01:47:11.920
I think they actually I have to double check, but still, yeah.
01:47:12.560 --> 01:47:22.640
Um maybe it was the smart thing that they didn't adjust to the Australia time and they just uh they just came, they were already ready to go for the Giants.
01:47:23.039 --> 01:47:24.000
For this, yeah, this week.
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Yeah, yeah.
01:47:25.199 --> 01:47:26.720
Anyway, that was the season.
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That was the week.
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That was all the pick'ems.
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Pickhums is back.
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Alex, how you know I was thinking about during this little run through?
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I have the going yard here.
01:47:38.560 --> 01:47:40.560
What if I create one for myself?
01:47:41.039 --> 01:47:47.199
We each pick, but then you and I together have a shared pick.
01:47:47.680 --> 01:48:05.359
So maybe you and I, we do our own picks by ourselves independently, and after we've done that, we hash it out and you and I talk and we see if we can who does better, you by yourself, me by myself, or us together.
01:48:05.760 --> 01:48:06.560
What do you think?
01:48:07.039 --> 01:48:08.079
That could be kind of fun.
01:48:08.319 --> 01:48:09.359
Yeah, maybe that'll be fun.
01:48:09.520 --> 01:48:10.000
We'll think about it.
01:48:10.159 --> 01:48:10.960
We'll we'll think about it.
01:48:11.039 --> 01:48:15.760
We've got a tricky couple weeks here with the travel things coming up.
01:48:16.000 --> 01:48:25.760
We'll might have to uh you might have to table that for a later episode, but um we'll see.
01:48:25.920 --> 01:48:26.720
We will see.
01:48:26.880 --> 01:48:32.960
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01:48:36.800 --> 01:48:38.880
If uh if they want to join, right?
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01:49:01.119 --> 01:49:05.199
Pick'ems, it's under uh pool host is the is the name of the site, so we'll pass it out.
01:49:05.279 --> 01:49:10.079
But I think with that, Alex, that's another episode of Golem Yard! Arriva Dance.
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See ya, love ya.