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Benny Mikula joins the show · Day Drinking With Dog

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  Drinking, Drinking Day, Drinking, Dog Day, Drinking, Welcome Back Day,
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  drink mdog. It is a nice Wednesday, May twenty fourth. It
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  is Memorial Day weekend. We got great weather coming. Look out for those
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  cop stops people, They're all over the internet. You can find them,
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  but be careful. Do not drink and drive. Takeing Uber and I have
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  a very special guest today. We've been talking about having you on the show
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  for quite some time now, the Lone Gnome himself, Benny mccoola. What's
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  up, Benny. I'm just like to be here, Jared, thanks for
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  having me. Manna, thanks for coming on, my friend. You're a
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  busy man in the musical world industry. You have yeah, pack anomes right.
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  Yeah, you know what. You guys haven't played Stonebridge in a while.
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  We haven't. That's something maybe after the show we're gonna have to we
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  have to discuss anything schedule this summer we do We were doing Two Roads is
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  doing instead of Rojam, They're doing Summerfest. Okay, so we're doing that,
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  and then we're playing a festival called Concerfest on Block Island, which was
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  psyched about. That nice a little getaway, yeah, and then we have
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  a regular Huntington Green show. Every single kind of festival we do, the
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  little outdoor, the town Green, Yeah, downtown Sounds. Yeah. We
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  haven't played a bar in quite some time. Okay, we'll pop into Bryak
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  occasionally, yeah, um because they have the sound there and stuff like.
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  Yeah, and those are those are our boys over there. They help us
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  out with our toy drive every year. Nice. So yeah, but I
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  haven't told. Yeah, me and Phil have to have a chat, yeah
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  and figure something. He likes to chat he does. Yeah, but you
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  are always you do at least a couple happy hour gigs a month on huh
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  on Fridays and sometimes Sundays. Aways A good time, ohlways, a good
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  time. Now? What are your musical influences? How long you've been doing
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  it? Like it's kind of like a lifelong thing. Yeah, so man,
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  I've been a fan of music my entire life. Grew up a round
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  at my parents and the Duop and my brother and the Leonard skinnerd and the
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  Beatles and my sister loved the Door. So I was always influenced by their
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  their musical tastes. Um. I didn't pick up a guitar until I was
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  in my twenties though, um quit quit playing college baseball and uh picked up
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  the guitar. I had been in the band as a singer slash screamer.
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  I was in like a hardcore ball prior to that. How old am I
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  now? Forty five? All right? So yeah, so you in the
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  late nineties early two yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because I didn't
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  play an instrument. Yeah, I always wrote songs. So I always wrote
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  poems and lyrics and stuff like that. So that was natural. That was
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  something I did. And uh, and then I was a buddy had a
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  guitar, and his buddy had a drums, and we put together a little
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  band just for fun, you know, having a couple of seven and sevens
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  on a Sunday afternoon. You know, that was my original. Yeah.
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  My grandfather drank oh yeah, I think turned twenty one. I mean granted
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  before the right, right, but when I started drinking drinking, Yeah,
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  I think he had the same thing. It was like, yeah, had
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  a bottle of seagrums, Like what does this go with seven up? Okay?
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  And then it was lovely and uh, it was lovely with that little
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  band. We turned like we ended up playing Toad's Place, ended up playing
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  CBGB's and then that kind of like opened my eyes to be like, oh
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  this could be a thing, this is cool, and then uh you know,
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  um small, I didn't think of it as what it is. Now,
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  it's awesome to have it like I do a full time and it's like
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  that's a dream come true. That part of it. I didn't see that
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  coming. So yeah, when you when you do a show, I've noticed
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  this a lot, Like we don't do as money bands and stone Bridge that
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  we used to. Yeah, um, you know, it's just it's the
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  happy hour things. Yeah, it's the Sunday bands. Um, we're actually
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  ramping up a little bit this summer. But I always see like does this
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  bother you? Like you just by yourself, right, Yeah, you got
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  your set up, you're doing your thing. Yeah, you know you could
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  be interactive with the crowd, but like where is that wacky lady? That's
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  wrong and she's just like she's dancing right yeah, but she's like right the
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  fucking front of you. Yeah, Like are you gonna like like you're just
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  like is it? Like it makes me feel comfortable watching it from afar,
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  like because you're just like you're like not you personally, Yeah, I've seen
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  like it just I'm sure it's happening before, Like sure, And that's always
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  gonna say. This happened to me too often and not at stone Bridge,
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  but I can see it happening. I've seen it happen to other people.
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  It has happened to me. Yeah. Um, it's you know, it's
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  a little it's a little front. It's frustrating anytime somebody's too drunk and they're
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  around you, because you know, I'm having a couple of drinks up there,
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  but like I'm working, Yeah, you know, I'm Yeah. I
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  love to come. I love to converse with people, take request you know
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  that. I love to I say it a million times during my show because
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  the more people request songs, the more I have to decide, uh what
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  they might want to hear at that moment in time. But an nutshell,
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  yeah, of course, always always nutshell. I always got a nutshell for
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  you. There's another buddy, Todd an Oxford. Everybody I see Todd,
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  he's he's a nutshell guy. Yeah. Um, yeah, so that is
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  weird. It is strange. Um, I just there was it was a
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  couple of weeks ago. There was a lady there and I mean all up
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  in the dude's grill. Yeah, and I can see how uncomfortable he was.
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  Yeah, you know we've had we've had you know, like the run
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  Runners played there year. Well they do the Oyster Fest every year, yep,
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  one year at least pre COVID eighteen nineteen something like that, and this
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  junk guy just was like all up in their ship and they're like yo,
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  and then eventually he like tripped over the monitor and like something like fell over,
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  and they just shut the whole show down. Yeah, I was gonna
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  stay. That's what I was gonna say to you. Is like the times
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  I do see it, it's usually with the band, um when we're doing
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  when we're doing like a private event or something like some of those where you
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  know, our stuffs on, our stuff might be on the floor and we
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  see people trip over the you know, the monitors usually the first thing they
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  trip over. Right, That's what it was so nice about Danniel Street.
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  You got to your own stage, Yeah exactly, And that's what we've been
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  doing more of those events where we have our own stage or sounds taken care
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  of. How many together now the band's thirteen something years, Yeah, something
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  around there. That's a good question. Um, there's really no true story,
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  believe it or not. There's a couple of things that we like to
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  talk about. We used to, uh, you know the gnome, the
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  traveling gnome was popular at the time. Um, the travels. Yeah,
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  Um, I was into gnomes. We started talking about gnomes. Um.
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  It was me, Kimberly and Matt Zum our percussion player at the time.
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  When we started, it was just a little trio into gnomes. What is
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  that exactly? You exactly you know, like well, yeah, I mean
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  yeah, garden gnomes, Like just like it's a cool thing. Where did
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  it come from? You know, you could do the whole history. When
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  I had my house had a little Patriot nome. Yeah, of course I
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  got a bear, I got a Bears nome. I have a lot of
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  gnomes now. Um. But when it first started, it was just like,
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  you know, let's it was something fun. You know, It's like
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  like, let's go with gnomes, Let's go with nomes. And then we
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  came up with this thing, um that uh, these gnomes, these particular
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  nomes that we were we're gonna travel They were traveling nomes and they traveled by
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  alpaca because you gotta figure somebody's got a band called the Gnomes somewhere, right,
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  So we went to alpacking Nomes and then um it also kind of ran
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  with al pack a bowl and somebody somebody had said that like that like rehearsal
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  or something around that time period, and it was just like, I don't
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  remember, don't you don't look like a smoker to me, you know what,
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  I haven't been for years. Yeah, yeah, you know, college
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  was one thing, and then I hadn't been for years. But now everything
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  has changed again and it's nice and it's nice to partake again. Somebody handed
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  just gave me a gummy the other night. It's like, like, just
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  that's just sound like it's like the eighties with cocaine. It's it's every exactly,
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  it's everywhere. I get, like joints in my in my guitar case.
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  I just I passed those off to somebody else. Us. My god,
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  we found a Tommy and I found it. You know, I'm a
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  medicine compainer filled with marijuana. And he's like, hey, I'm like,
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  I'm I first said give me that. I don't smoke, You'll like give
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  me that. And immediately I was like I gave a bactorum said, throw
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  the funk out. Yeah, he's like why, I'm like, dude,
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  Fatanel. Yeah, I don't know what in this shit. It could have
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  been a bad Yeah, it's it's insane. There's out there. It's insane.
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  Um. You know, I I U. I used to enjoy it
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  before I had children, you know, right, and then like everything changes,
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  and then it wasn't as enjoyable. Yeah, and then playing shows and
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  I talked to a lot of people. You know, I'm I'm I'm out
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  there. I have to speak to a lot of people. A lot of
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  people know my name and I don't know their name all the time. I
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  know that feeling. Yeah. So yeah, so I stopped for a while.
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  I was causing little anxiety here and there, um and and and stuff
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  like you said, you got Fatanel out there. It's stuff is just extremely
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  strong, yeah, you know, all the strains. So I had to
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  like re educate myself about it a little bit. Yeah, I mean I
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  don't I've never really I mean, I've done it before. Yeah, sure,
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  obviously, but the last time I did it was probably five years ago,
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  and I took maybe two hits. Yeah, and I was crawling up
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  my stairs together in my cony, and then I had an out of body
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  experience. I was on the couch and then next thing I knew, I
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  was peeing. And then next thing I knew like in the bathroom, couch
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  right right, and then I was back on the couch. Was like three
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  blinks. I was like three spots. I'm like, whoa what, Yeah,
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  that was the last time I did it. I've seen I've seen friends
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  of mine when I was when I was into it more go through something like
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  that, who don't normally do it? And then and so like you know,
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  it could, it could definitely weigh in. It's it's funny. And
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  then like you said, the strands are just so strong, oh my god,
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  and uh yeah, I had I had to get away from it for
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  a little bit. And then uh um, and these gummies are like the
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  gummies are crazy. Yeah, I've I never really enjoyed um, even when
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  people made brownies and stuff like that, Like I was never into that,
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  right um part of it. But I remember eating a brownie once though,
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  when I was in California, Like this is like eighteen years ago or something
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  like, I was riding the train by myself out in California. That's just
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  pure and yeah. Like I bought a brownie in San Francisco, like,
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  and it was like I just bought it so I could have it on the
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  train, right, I just eat it on the train. It was nice.
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  She's sitting there staring out the window like that was your rafts from Yeah,
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  that was lovely. I did a brownie while back. It. I
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  had some friends over for football, and you know everyone has that drug dealer
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  friend. Well, he was there and he said, oh, I made
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  these brownies. He's like, just have a little piece. Yeah, so
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  I did you want to eat it? The Patriots were actually playing the Bears.
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  It was that snow sure remember that a Sunday night game. It was
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  a night game and they killed him. Yeah, and I ate it.
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  You know, forty five minutes. You know, it takes a little while,
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  you jest it. I I literally went into my bedroom and hung on
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  to my bed to keep me from falling off the earth. That's how fucking
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  fucked up I was. And I just I don't like that feeling of not
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  being in any kind of control and I'm not a fan of that. I
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  did, I did. I did a little mushroom at the casino a few
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  years back, like a chocolate bar one. Yeah, I had one piece,
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  my friend had the other eleven. I'm not he was way more control
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  and I'll never forget what he said to me. We went downstairs. We're
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  at Mohegan and we went to go get steak. Paul I went to go
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  take him to ballow forget. I'm like, I can't even be So we
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  walk in the back behind Peppies and there's like a steak and cheese shop.
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  Yeah. I went up to the lady. I'm like, I just need
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  three shake and cheesus. She's like, what would you like him? I
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  don't care three, just just just just three and I'm gonna be sitting right
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  there. I'll wait and she's like, we need to pay. I handed
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  her a hundred. She's like it's forty two. I go just keep the
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  change. She's like why I don't like okay, I'll bring it over.
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  So we're down and he my buddy, looks at me and he goes just
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  see, you know, it only gets worse from here. And with my
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  anxiety, I'm already fucking tripping. I lost it and I'm like I had
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  like three bites. I went upstairs. I splashed water on my face.
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  I whacked the JMO back and I laid down. And the good thing with
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  that synthetic stuff is it wears off quick. Like probably not for him.
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  He took eleven. I just took one. Yeah, you know, so
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  I was like, within like forty five minutes, I was calm and I
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  enjoyed the rest of my night. But whoa, Yeah, yeah, I
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  don't like too I like to maintain in those situations, like trying to find
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  something that'll right, you know, a nice easy path. But I don't
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  like too nothing too fast, like a roller coaster. Not a big roller
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  coaster guy, So oh god, no, I like to you know,
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  put me on a tram. Yeah. The guy that handed me the gummy,
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  I brought it to Boston and I was like, I just I didn't
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  take it. I was like, there's no way, I'm I'm been drinking
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  all day. Yeah yeah, and you know you're in a city. It's
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  just me and another buddy, Like, yeah, you could be a puddle
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  in a minute, right exactly, so minutes on him. Anyway, we'll
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  get the drugs later in the show. Favorite bands right now, current current
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  currents. I mean they could be older bands, but like, yeah,
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  those are the Wood Brothers by far the most. Yes, the Wood Brothers
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  Music Americana. Yeah, Um, I guess you would put him in that
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  genre right now. M trio. Chris Wood on bass was part of Medeski,
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  Martin and Wood, the jazz trio from like the nineties two thousands.
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  His brother Oliver Wood is a singer songwriter. This guy John O Ricks plays
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  the drums and he plays piano while he plays the drums, and he sings
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  harmonies and he's just a madman back there. And Oliver Wood, I've said
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  it before. I got to introduce him at ct Folk last year he played.
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  He played solo with his trio. But he's one of the best songwriters
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  of of this time period. Um. And you know, under the radar
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  for a good the good most part. Um. I think he's just phenomenal.
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  Where they from man, probably Florida, North Carolina. I think North
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  Carolina, Florida area. They're like friends with Tdesky Trucks. Um, another
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  great band, tes Trucks band. Yeah, but now the Wood Brothers,
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  they most of my listening would be them As far as current bands, Yeah,
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  I don't, I don't. I don't even know. I don't listen
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  to a lot of new stuff. Scream yeah, yeah, yeah, I
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  mean Pearl Jam is my number one. Yeah, that's my number one band.
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  I would say I've seen them thirty somethingtimes. Um, Ragie has some
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  machine I like back then obviously with the screaming and stuff and the political angst
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  on the edge of there. I feel like their politics have changed over the
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  year ago. They have. I I didn't go out this time. It's
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  it's it's strange. The world has changed, so it's kind of tricky.
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  Um, you know, everything's kind of changed around them. Stone type of
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  Pilots was another one that like loved wild Yeah, just Wiland was just awesome,
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  like I feel, you know, Temple of the Dog and Pearl Jam
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  brought me into that yeah yeah, and Nirvana kept it going. Yeah,
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  and Stone Temple and like those definitely kind of I guess Molden Might you know
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  when I was young listening whatever my dad, you know, yeah, Neil
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  Diamond like that. Yeah, I say, I listened to like the duop
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  stuff. My first band that was like mine, I felt, was like
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  the Beastie Boys, you know, like when I was like eight years old,
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  like and then they just they they matured. I always I've said this
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  before on podcast, is that they just matured with you. It was like
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  and eight they were doing you know girls and fight fee right the party,
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  and then you know, when you're yeah, when you're junior high school,
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  they're doing check your head, uh so what you want and then you turn
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  in nail communication and then they're doing hello nasty when you're in college. It's
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  just like this. It was just like this evolution. It was pretty cool
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  and they were yeah that they were always been one of my favorites. I
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  was in eighth grade when Fight for Your Right the Party was out, okay,
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  and I just remember we would like playing for like our football games as
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  our run out in trow and you know, as soon as they said your
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  best part, like everyone so yeah, and everyone says like, well we
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  didn't the fu yeah, use it right, right? What were we doing?
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  And that's how I remember Nirvana Um when I was in like seventh grade,
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  being into like the seventh eighth grade locker room and like the song Territorial
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  Pissings was the name of the song. I was just like, I never
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  felt so angry before. This is great, you know, No, I
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  mean yes and no, like Tica, No, I didn't, Yeah,
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  the same thing, yes and no, like the hit songs, yeah,
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  like I like yeah no, um at the black album I probably had from
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  Attalica. I never had the other stuff gn R more so like people that
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  love Appetite, Like there's so many songs on there, I can't even listen
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  to. Um. I just like the radio hits and then a little bit
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  of user Illusion. Yeah, I wanted more of that stuff. My favorite
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  of everything. And then yeah it was and the acoustic stuff. The acoustic
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  stuff on that that one acoustic album. I like that. They were very
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  very you know, they were versatile in that way. Um. But now
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  I was never a big fan of them. One of my sleeper bands was
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  Extreme Okay, and they just came out with a new album. Oh my
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  god, they're going on tour again. Are they still the first singer?
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  The guy first, everybody Gary, Sharoncore, Paul Gary, Oh wow,
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  yeah, all those guys. The drummer may be different. Okay, my
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  brother's going to listen and be like, you got that all wrong. But
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  yeah, actually never to them. Some of their new music is my brother's
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  like got me into Extreme and some of their new music. I've listened to
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  like three songs and B minus to be like nothing's like yeah, yeah they
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  still have that. You know, well, think about them. All their
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  lyrics were just cliches, you know, like all their songwriting was just like
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  yelling out cliches. Okay it, but I always liked it. Yeah,
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  hey, it's you know, he who knows one of the best guitars I
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  think on the planet. He's definitely, he's definitely great guitar player. But
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  yeah, so I don't know, it's all music is subjective. So like
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  you know, that's why I never understand why they have lists, right,
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  you know, they have the greatest lists, you know, top ten,
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  this top ten that it's fun to discuss. Um, But what I'm funny
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  said that, what do you think about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
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  Like I think that's getting a little ridiculous. I didn't even see this,
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  Like I didn't see who's in this year. Like once we got past,
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  like once Pearl Jam got in and and like you know, things are
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  right right, you know, it's like, okay, um, I actually
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  haven't paid attention to it. It's a cool place to visit, Okay,
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  you ready, Yeah, this is the inductees for twenty so these are definitely
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  in. These are the nominations like Cheryl Crow okay, George Michael okay,
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  Kate Bush okay, Missy Elliott okay, Willie Nelson. That's crazy. Here's
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  one that makes sense. Rage, Yeah, let's see the full bust.
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  Chokra Khan. Sure, the Spinners all right, Al Cooper, Barrett,
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  Bernie Taupin, Don Cornelius said, miss Elliot, Yeah yeah, Al Cooper
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  by yourself. Spinners yeah, said the Spinis. Yeah yeah, I think
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  that's everything. Oh DJ cool hrk okay all right, Lincoln rip up in
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  there? Link Gray Ye do you know all these people say? I do?
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  Yeah, A Cooper, Al Cooper, Yes, I love Val Cooper.
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  You did that with Michael Bloomfield. Um. My point is they just
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  it's too broad of a spectrum. Yeah, it got really broad. Um,
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  Like you know, how can Willie Nelson not be in there already?
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  Right? And like how is how is Willie Nelson and Missy Elliott getting in
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  on the same ballot? Right? Like there's some well in the rock and
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  roll category? Right? Right? So is it rocket? It should be
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  the Music Call of Fame, right, because you know Willie's in the country
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  music yeah, of course, and miss season maybe are there isn't one problem,
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  right, I don't think there as well. Um, they should follow
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  the Patriots lead and just nominate one person a year, one person in a
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  year. Is that what they do for their what the fair team? They
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  have their own team Hall of Fame? Yeah, that's nice, win six,
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  So you gotta en Yankees are running out of numbers, right, there's
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  no rhyme or reason. No, but it makes no sense. It should
• 20:37
  be like you said, like music Hall of Fame, but it wasn't when
• 20:40
  it started. So then you're getting a lot of retroactive people getting in like
• 20:44
  a Spinners like, which is like you know, R and B seventies,
• 20:48
  sixties, seventies group in there with a country legend and then rage against the
• 20:53
  machine. They want to please everybody, right, and it did water ends
• 20:56
  up watering it down and making people not care about it. I think my
• 21:00
  biggest gripe is I've always been a rock and roll, hard rock kind of
• 21:03
  guy, never having met up a hard rock and even like today like the
• 21:11
  Grammys, Yeah, they're like, who's up, no one I even know,
• 21:15
  or they'll throw metallic because they're like the brand name. Yeah yeah,
• 21:18
  yeah, yeah, but like there's some really fucking good bands out there.
• 21:22
  Yeah, in the rock category, they're just not mainstream anymore for whatever reason.
• 21:26
  Like I'll go see a rock concert down in Bridgeport, you know,
• 21:30
  I'll go. I saw Hailstorm last year. Are female lad, She's great.
• 21:33
  Yeah, she's awesome. That last year too. Yeah there, but
• 21:37
  somewhere I'll see seven Dust, I'll see you know, all this stuff staying
• 21:40
  and even the guys that have been around for a while and the newer bands
• 21:42
  from A to new and these guys are fantastic. Yeah, they just don't
• 21:47
  It's like they just don't get I don't know. I mean, I think
• 21:49
  pop and R and B and hip hop and just take it over. Yeah,
• 21:52
  and it just might be a time period and it goes back to rock.
• 21:56
  I don't know. Yeah, it's it's it's an interesting point you bring
• 21:59
  up, because as when, you know, when when when I was younger,
• 22:02
  obviously we were younger, the nineties was rock based. You know,
• 22:06
  you had a lot of the alternative stuff, but it was rock based still.
• 22:11
  Yeah, there were still exactly those bands were still on the radio.
• 22:15
  Um, and then it kind of just all went away and then it turned
• 22:18
  into just pop um and yeah, it doesn't make any sense. Like I
• 22:23
  saw a hail storm last year. They were phenomenal, they were great,
• 22:26
  you know, presen I saw them too. I went to that rock Welcome
• 22:32
  to Rockville last year down in Daytona. Yeah it was cool, but it
• 22:37
  just happened. And I'll tell you what, I'm glad I didn't go this
• 22:38
  year because I saw an aerial of the Pantera UH set and they looked like
• 22:45
  there was so many more people than the last year. And it was so
• 22:48
  hot last year when I went, I went on, it's on the track,
• 22:52
  it's on the it's on the endfield. Yeah. Yeah, so it's
• 22:57
  it was very hot. Um. One of the cool things though, is
• 23:02
  I got a vould. I bought a one VIP ticket um because my brother
• 23:07
  and my knee, my brother and my niece and they had already bought tickets.
• 23:11
  So I looked online and I found like a VIP price for the same
• 23:14
  regular tickets. So we got the park and a VIP parking and I got
• 23:17
  to drive on the track, which was cool because that's where the parking was.
• 23:19
  It was like all of a sudden I'm like, I'm on the Daytona
• 23:22
  Drack. I'm driving, I'm driving. That was my brother's car. I'm
• 23:26
  driving down. But it was cool for a minute. I'm like, oh,
• 23:27
  this is cool. I'm like, I'm gonna check this off my list
• 23:30
  of things I wanted to do. Drive on the Daytona track. Uh,
• 23:33
  it was just unbearably hot. I'm getting old, you know, I'm getting
• 23:37
  old. That sun beach up Florida. The Florida's suns a little different than
• 23:41
  up here. I think I'm too old for those festivals. But it was
• 23:45
  awesome. Yeah, it was. So it was supposed to be Food Fighters
• 23:48
  and then they had a cancel, so then Um nine Nails took their spot,
• 23:53
  which was cool because I never thought i'd see them again. I saw
• 23:56
  them once. I didn't think I see him again. And then Jane's Addiction
• 23:59
  was supposed to play and they had a cancel, but Perry Um had did
• 24:03
  Porno for Pyros, which was awesome. I always wanted to see them and
• 24:07
  every thought i'd see them either, so that was cool. And then there
• 24:10
  was like hail storm and smashing pumpkins were there and pretty reckless and it was
• 24:15
  neat this year's lineup was really cool. But I couldn't. I couldn't pull
• 24:18
  the trigger again, just too much. It's expensive, and yeah it's a
• 24:22
  trip. My brother lives right there, so I have a nice place to
• 24:25
  stay. But that's a perfect segue. So yeah, down there. Uh,
• 24:29
  this is a topic, hot topic of the fallen for a little six
• 24:32
  weeks now. They probably was selling a lot of bud Lights there last year,
• 24:36
  oh probably, yeah, yeah, yeah. I wonder what their sales
• 24:37
  are this past weekend. Probably not as much, I would say, no,
• 24:41
  And I don't know this as closely as you, so I'm gonna follow
• 24:44
  along, all right. So I don't drink bud Light. I don't have
• 24:48
  rightly, I don't don't. I don't drink the like cords light anymore.
• 24:53
  So obviously everyone knows what happened. So they were now six weeks deep.
• 24:59
  It's been that long. So now they're at the point where they haven't been
• 25:03
  selling it. Yeah, and it's beer, so beer goes goes bad three
• 25:07
  months of ninety days, they said. So they're at you know, halfway
• 25:11
  point here, but they're also at the halfway point where they get they can
• 25:15
  start buying it back. And so the sales are already down twenty five percent.
• 25:21
  Here's the kicker. Cores Light also makes Miller Light and Memorial Days coming
• 25:26
  up. Yeah, they're already predicting shortages of those beers because everyone no one's
• 25:33
  gonna buy about Light, right, And it's not like they're like stepping on
• 25:34
  the gravestone about Light. It's just they no one expected this though, Like
• 25:40
  they just chug along year after year, like they If sales go up three
• 25:42
  percent, awesome, If they's down two percent, exactly, whatever, we'll
• 25:47
  figure it out. Put a commercial up, Yep, twenty five percent down.
• 25:51
  It's twenty five percent up the other company, Yeah, is insane.
• 25:55
  That is like, that's a big swing. I don't, I can't.
• 25:59
  I've researched. I don't think there's another category of a brand that has fallen
• 26:06
  so hard, where their rivals have profited so much in a shorter period of
• 26:11
  time. I mean the day and age we live in, you know,
• 26:15
  it happens more often than it doesn't with what you say or what you do.
• 26:22
  And there's no media or medium whatever that is, you know, free
• 26:26
  from it. Right, it doesn't matter if it's a comedian or if it's
• 26:30
  a you know, a musician or a baseball player. That doesn't matter anymore.
• 26:37
  I just, yeah, it's crazy because I don't want to sit here
• 26:42
  in Bashbud like, like I get it. There's the only company that's the
• 26:47
  kind of caving to this society. Right. And this whole thing with mulvaney
• 26:53
  wasn't a national ad campaign, right. It wasn't like going to be on
• 26:57
  the super Bowl. Right. So I didn't even see. I don't even
• 27:00
  go. Yeah, I don't even know what I know the gist of it.
• 27:06
  Yeah, so I talked to a marketing but I don't know what happened.
• 27:08
  And he's been in marketing forever and in the beer in the beer spectrum
• 27:12
  too, not for Anheiser, but he told me, he said, this
• 27:18
  kind of stuff's been going on forever. Yeah, you know, they go
• 27:21
  to the LGBTQ bars. They you know, they're they're they have spokespeople for
• 27:25
  that, so what I mean they're not. They're all over there, Yeah,
• 27:26
  and for the black community in there. They support everybody. They support
• 27:30
  everybody. So like when this thing went viral and that's the world we live
• 27:37
  in, ye, Like, it's just they didn't think that, you know,
• 27:40
  Clay Travis from OutKick was gonna fucking catch onto this and like blow it
• 27:45
  up, like oh my god, like, well the bud Leg's doing.
• 27:47
  But it's almost the you know, it's like kind of like what happens where
• 27:51
  you know, if I said a bad word on here and no one listened
• 27:53
  for you know, three weeks and all of a sudden sunny listens and oh
• 27:56
  my god, Dadred Goddag said that boom. It's that actual moment. Yeah,
• 28:00
  well it works both plays, I thought, And here's how and this
• 28:03
  is what happened to bud Light, And like I kind of do feel bad
• 28:06
  for him because I think we're trying to reach out to me with that.
• 28:11
  Right, they weren't right. I didn't, Like I said, I didn't
• 28:12
  see it. I kind of know what it's about. Um, but it's
• 28:17
  like that it's I mean, can I compare it to um if you're a
• 28:22
  bud Light drinker, like uh, like this part of the problem with like
• 28:26
  a Facebook, right is that nobody can just scroll by right right, right,
• 28:30
  So bud Light chose to support something that isn't intended for you. Um,
• 28:37
  you could just ignore it and keep drinking bud Light and nobody's gonna be
• 28:41
  injured, like nobody's hurt by it. So like that that is that what
• 28:45
  we kind of wait again at Yeah, I think, but I think like
• 28:48
  if this would have happened ten years ago, which it was happening ten years
• 28:52
  right again, no one would have known who would have flown under the radar,
• 28:56
  right, But now they reached out to probably the most filential, highest
• 29:02
  followed transactivists. Okay, like ten million Instagram follows. Wow. Yeah,
• 29:07
  and she's on her page like three days in a row with her new bud
• 29:12
  light cans twist off. Yeah, have her image on it and celebrating sixty
• 29:18
  five days of womanhood. Okay, rubs a lot of the fly or state
• 29:25
  bud light drinking people. I could, Yeah, I could see that.
• 29:29
  And yeah, I mean there's a there there's a lot of different ways you
• 29:33
  could you could spend that. Um, I'll probably stay away. No,
• 29:41
  I've had people that have engaged me more so than I wanted to, and
• 29:44
  I've had people that did you. Yeah, So I mean the way I
• 29:47
  come from the you know, like I said it, listening about you keep
• 29:51
  drinking your bud light if you like bud light, if you don't, and
• 29:55
  you want to do this and boycott bud Light, you're really only shooting yourself
• 29:59
  in the foot as you're the one who drinks bud Light, like, I
• 30:00
  don't bother if that's your beer, don't bother me. I've never had bud
• 30:03
  Light, like, I can't remember last time I had a bud Like.
• 30:06
  I don't even drink at games sometimes because I won't. You know, I
• 30:08
  just don't drink that garbage, that garbage, all that stuff. I don't
• 30:12
  drink any of it. So, you know, not knocking just bud Light,
• 30:15
  but I don't drink chords Light or you know, any of those things.
• 30:18
  But anyway, that's teach their own, you know, I'm not I'm
• 30:22
  not boycotting anything because you know, because it's an awful product and I don't
• 30:30
  enjoy that boycott I should enjoy exactly. And then yeah, I'm I'm I
• 30:37
  miss a lot of things, like I didn't see that. I don't even
• 30:40
  know what happened. Yeah, you know, I probably if I didn't do
• 30:42
  this podcast, I wouldn't just yep as I did. That's, you know,
• 30:47
  like I said, I'm more of a change their own. It's kind
• 30:48
  of what my motto would be, I guess, right, and again this
• 30:52
  wasn't directed towards you, right for you? Yeah, yeah, you know
• 30:56
  what I mean. Yeah, yeah, like it's you'd be surprised what kind
• 31:00
  of advertisings are out there that you never see? Yeah, definitely know because
• 31:04
  everyone's kind of in their own bubble. Yeah, I mean obviously national branding
• 31:07
  is one thing. Yeah, of course, and that's what national branding,
• 31:11
  that's what those that's what those um, that's what they get paid for.
• 31:14
  Yeah, right to hit a different market. But what's good now is you
• 31:18
  can drink that bud light, go buy a tough friendly swimsuit Target. Yeah
• 31:23
  you did say that, and uh, you know we'll go. I'll go
• 31:29
  with the same route there. Yeah, to eat their own you know.
• 31:33
  It's so it's it's it's tough. You can't say anything. Um, you
• 31:38
  know, I ask you one question. You can ask me a question.
• 31:42
  Are you cool with not? Not? Nothing? Not cool? No?
• 31:45
  Are you cool with it? For kids out a twelve? The suits for
• 31:48
  a seven year old? I don't know. I don't know. I mean,
• 31:52
  you have you have you have young kids growing? I do? I
• 31:55
  do, Um, it's a it really is. I wouldn't. I don't
• 31:59
  know the question, but I just don't think I'm in that situation. I
• 32:02
  have three girls, m and I don't know. I'm sure there is a
• 32:08
  situation out there that somebody's going through that this might be the answer to it.
• 32:15
  I don't know that for a fact, but like it's not my issue,
• 32:21
  and I wouldn't want to take away somebody's answer somebody like that could solve
• 32:24
  somebody's problem, and like, good for them, and maybe that's for them
• 32:29
  and the fair enough, However, I think you should be able just to
• 32:32
  go on the internet and buy that set product. Sure, I don't think
• 32:36
  there should be a section in Target what you wear. Your seven year old
• 32:39
  son asked you, mommy, what is this? Well, well put,
• 32:45
  because you can't get half the thing you need a store any at any store
• 32:50
  anyway without without planning ahead. So like, yeah, I get that part
• 32:53
  of it. It shouldn't Maybe it shouldn't be more accessible than you know,
• 33:00
  um, a stapler or something that I might need that, oh we don't
• 33:02
  carry those. You have to order them online. Or you know a certain
• 33:06
  paint that I need, you know that they don't have in the art the
• 33:08
  one real art section that I have to order, you know, things like
• 33:13
  that. I was actually I was. I was called the Transpol the other
• 33:15
  day online. Okay, it's hilarious. I don't remember what I told the
• 33:21
  ESPN a lot because I just think that's another like they really went down,
• 33:27
  yeah, and they're super like. I get why they promoted w NBA all
• 33:31
  the time because they bought the rights to it. Okay, and it's their
• 33:35
  right to try to blast out as much content as they can. And now
• 33:40
  Brittany Grinder's back. I don't I can't remember what I said. I I
• 33:45
  don't remember. I just just like I do like a little one line singers
• 33:47
  again, okay, Yeah, And I triggered some dude ye and he started
• 33:52
  diving into my page and he was like messaging me and I'm like, yeah,
• 33:55
  who the fuck are? Yeah right, and he is like just it
• 34:00
  was. I was literally at the bar in Boston watching the Celtics games,
• 34:02
  sitting next to Red and I'm like, man, I look at this dude.
• 34:05
  He's like what hell? Like I didn't know who this guy is,
• 34:07
  but but I engaged back with him. It's hilarious like him just like like
• 34:12
  then my friends started texting down the side's like yoh, who's this guy?
• 34:14
  Like chirping on the Yeah, I'm like, let him chirp. I don't
• 34:16
  care. Yeah, I don't care. I told him too, he's probably
• 34:20
  listening. I said, I don't remember his name. I could probably look
• 34:22
  it up. But he's a waste of my time with. But right,
• 34:24
  if you're listening to buddy, thanks for making my night on something. Yeah,
• 34:28
  exactly. The Celtic sure didn't. Yeah that's what about that? We
• 34:32
  could talk about them? Another great segue. So here's how here's how sports
• 34:37
  work nowadays. Yeah, especially with all the TV shows, the ESPNS,
• 34:43
  the Fox Sports ones, all this, there's a lot of stuff. Game
• 34:45
  one they lose, it's over. Yeah. Game two they lose. Oh
• 34:50
  my god, break the team up. Game three they didn't show up.
• 34:53
  Fire the coach, break up Jaylen Brown, Jason Tatum. Yeah, probably
• 34:57
  gotta trade smart Alf Horford's retired. Got to get rid of him. What
• 35:01
  are we gonna do? We have no draft picks, blah blah blah.
• 35:05
  Then what happens last night? They win Game four, the Tatum goes off
• 35:09
  for like twenty and the fourth. Now it's well, I think we're gonna
• 35:15
  win the series. Right now. We go home, We're gonna win Game
• 35:17
  five, We're gonna blow them out. Game six, all the pressures back
• 35:21
  on them. And then game seven, we're back at home again. What
• 35:24
  yeah? What has what has anyone thought? We are ten and eleven at
• 35:30
  home in the last two seasons in the postseason. Why does anyone think we're
• 35:32
  gonna win tomorrow night, let alone game six or seven. It's never happened
• 35:37
  three, right, But of course there is all the comparisons now to the
• 35:39
  o fouri Red Side Yankees. We could talk about that, and then Jeter
• 35:45
  and a Rod Redd the game last night. Now that that I thought was
• 35:49
  pretty funny. That's funny. That's funny that they would be there together or
• 35:52
  separate. They were sitting separate. Let's get the court side. Oh that's
• 35:55
  funny. Yeah yeah. Um, you know how heart it is to come
• 36:00
  back three. Everybody knows that. Um, that Yankee Red Sox series obviously
• 36:06
  not one of my favorites, but um, you know, you get comfortable
• 36:09
  when you're up three. Oh sometimes and uh it wasn't even a great Yankee
• 36:15
  team when we'll get into that. But um, they were primed. They
• 36:17
  were primed for that loss. Even though they were rolling through the series,
• 36:22
  they were primed. It took two you know, late inning comebacks by the
• 36:25
  Red Sox at home, you know, so to make them fall apart um
• 36:31
  this we did and either so there's a difference, so um, not especially
• 36:37
  baseball, you know, baseball, hockey and all those different sports. Baseball's
• 36:43
  different. We went home, but like you know, it's not the same.
• 36:46
  We didn't have the rotation. Um. You know, the last thing
• 36:51
  you get to a game seven, We don't even know who, like we
• 36:52
  couldn't even I don't even know who pitched. I remember who gave up the
• 36:55
  two grand slams. That guy I don't remember his name now, but like
• 36:59
  I remember or eight, not two grandsons. He gave up. The home
• 37:01
  run to Damon was a grand slam. Well, he gave up two.
• 37:06
  He gave up two to him earlier in the season or in that game or
• 37:08
  something like that. They didn't have grand but they did have. Yeah,
• 37:12
  but early in the season, the same pitch he had pitched to Damon and
• 37:15
  he had given up two home runs to him in the same game, and
• 37:17
  then we've decided to bring him in with the bases loaded, and it was
• 37:20
  just like one of those things, like what are we doing here, like,
• 37:22
  did we we forgot what happened like two months ago? Um, anyway,
• 37:27
  I can cry about two thousand and four. All I want the Celtics.
• 37:31
  It's different, right, total basketball, same teams out there every game.
• 37:37
  It's a grind, you know. The NBA, it's pretty close most
• 37:40
  of the time. There's been more blowouts in this playoff than I remember.
• 37:46
  No, No, I feel like, you know, the Nuggets just like
• 37:50
  just so exactly. But uh, you know, I don't know. I
• 37:52
  don't think I don't think that that win is gonna like do anything. Like
• 37:59
  this Heat team. They're a team, you know, they're like a really
• 38:02
  good team, no standouts, butlers great. But I don't know. I
• 38:08
  don't see the Celtics. I don't win in four in a row. If
• 38:13
  they win five, if they win tomorrow night, well my attitude will change
• 38:16
  a little bit because they are road warriors. They do when they've They've won
• 38:22
  four straight elimination games on the road between this year and last year. So
• 38:29
  I do feel if they if they this is what should happen, they should
• 38:32
  come out tomorrow I and blow them out of the water, right because they
• 38:35
  haven't had that game yet. Yeah, the last one they had they had
• 38:37
  it against Philly in Game seven, but like, all right, just go
• 38:39
  out blow them out and then reset and just put all your energy into game
• 38:44
  six and keep seven generals anything but again, all the pressures me on,
• 38:46
  my mammy, be the first team that might blow this. I haven't feeling
• 38:51
  they lose tomorrownight, and it's just like, okay, that being said,
• 38:54
  should they lose. Breaking up the Bees is probably one of the stupidest things
• 39:01
  in the society we live in now. The sports Junny Championships are bust.
• 39:07
  Every team, every year, every team every year. Since Tatum is second
• 39:12
  year, yep, we have been I think pretty much in the Eastern Conference
• 39:15
  finals every year and made a finals. He's only twenty five. Yea.
• 39:19
  Brown's only twenty six or twenty seven. They're both gonna get max contracts.
• 39:23
  Does this group work? Can we move out from spark? Obviously? Horford's
• 39:27
  aging. Robert Williams should probably resign, but he's injury prone, you know.
• 39:30
  Derek White and Malcolm Brown like keep these these two guys are wing scores
• 39:36
  that can defend. You can't do. These guys don't come around a time
• 39:38
  a dozen, especially the way they played now. Yeah, a guy like
• 39:43
  Tatum. I mean, you don't let him go? Do you just want
• 39:45
  to try to blow it up and trade him for Damian Lillard, who's like
• 39:49
  thirty five to shoot threes. Like, I don't even know a player that
• 39:54
  I would want to return for Brown at this point unless you're giving me Giannis
• 40:01
  or I mean who, I mean who? I mean. I'm not saying
• 40:05
  Brown's the best player, but like, who's gonna come here? I don't
• 40:07
  want Durant. We've been down that road a bazillion times. No, he's
• 40:12
  you don't want that, I mean, Yoki maybe. Anyway, My point
• 40:15
  being is you're set up for the next ten years of these two guys to
• 40:20
  be relevant every fucking year, right, because the self's had a lot of
• 40:22
  down years. Yeah, you can be relevant and maybe one or two three
• 40:27
  years along those how long years? How long ago is Isaiah Thomas? That
• 40:30
  was that was pre all this, so six years ago? Okay? Yeah,
• 40:34
  all right? And then they well, no, he did play with
• 40:37
  Brown, I believe when he was the one then for like one year,
• 40:40
  yeah, and then he left They got Kyrie, right, he was right,
• 40:43
  right, right, right right? Yeah, I mean they already did
• 40:45
  this, right, they already had. They did the Kyrie, they did
• 40:49
  the Hayward, right, I mean they already did this. Let's try and
• 40:52
  reinvent something. So now you're here and you keep losing, you gotta I
• 41:00
  mean, you got to make some kind of adjustment. But you're there.
• 41:02
  You don't blow it up. You don't blow it up. What do you
• 41:05
  Why would you want to blow it up? And everyone is all they do
• 41:07
  on Twitter is blow it up, fire the coach. Now look at the
• 41:10
  Red Sox, right, can we talk about the Red Sox real quick?
• 41:13
  They do that sometimes? Right, they win, they win a World Series
• 41:17
  out of nowhere, and then they right, Like that's got to be frustrating
• 41:22
  for a fan because it's nice to win the World Series, but you're but
• 41:24
  the ones you're winning, you're not even expected. You're not expected to win
• 41:28
  the World Series. So that right, So, like the Yankees, and
• 41:31
  I'm not saying they're a prototypical thing to follow, but like you know,
• 41:36
  like we're getting there every year, right, we're being consistent. You know,
• 41:39
  we can't beat the fucking Astros, but um, but like you know,
• 41:44
  they didn't blow up last year. Last year's team didn't even stand a
• 41:46
  chance. Against the Astros swept and they didn't blow up the team. They
• 41:51
  didn't do it enough in my mind to get that much better. They went
• 41:54
  younger, which is fine. I'm fine with that, um, but like,
• 41:58
  you don't just do It's too hard to completely rebuild things. So you
• 42:02
  got like a guy like Tatum. You can't let a guy like Tatum go
• 42:06
  No, I mean Tatums to the out of stays. It would be Brown
• 42:07
  that would go right a soume. But like, just enjoy the next ten
• 42:12
  years of being relevant, being in the at least the Eastern Conference Final.
• 42:16
  You gotta win some game. You gotta win some games, and maybe you
• 42:20
  get the right year. Like I thought this was the year. Because Milwaukee
• 42:22
  lost, I'm like, all right, it might break right for us.
• 42:23
  Rights felt the same way. Yeah, yeah, we're playing in Miami.
• 42:28
  Yeah it's fuck. It's not like how they're playing. And I give all
• 42:31
  the credit in the world of Miami. Spolster is a great coach. I
• 42:35
  thought when you know, Lebron went there, it was just easy because he
• 42:37
  had the best team. Yeah yeah, yeah, but he's really developed and
• 42:40
  quite the quite the you know, the coach and the play caller and sense
• 42:45
  in the moment where Missoula just doesn't call timeouts what he needs to. Yeah,
• 42:47
  I don't even know who that guy is. He's he played with,
• 42:52
  like he's played with a lot of these geas. He's only like thirty four
• 42:54
  years old. The NBA changes coaches so often. Yeah, I think's another
• 42:59
  thing. It's like, you know, so they want to so they want
• 43:01
  to fire this guy and bring in a third coach in three years, right,
• 43:07
  and the last two were rookies coaches head coaches. So now it's like,
• 43:12
  I don't know, it's it's frustrating. But again, let it all
• 43:15
  play out, Let it all play out. Maybe it's the dream season again,
• 43:19
  like the Red Sox act. Yeah, you never know, it's it's
• 43:22
  not over. You know, you gotta you gotta go out there and win
• 43:23
  games. It's not easy to win an NBA game. So you watch these
• 43:27
  games now, These fucking dudes shoot from anywhere. Yeah over. I mean
• 43:31
  I remember if Larry Bird hit like a turnaround jumper in the eighties, it
• 43:36
  was a cool. Yeah yeah, right, this guys do it at fucking
• 43:38
  will now. Yeah, I don't watch a lot I watched um. I
• 43:43
  do like to watch the Warriors and um, I was watching a little bit
• 43:46
  of the Knicks because my buddy's a Knicks fan. Um, give a shout
• 43:51
  out to Darren Field and Citizen Cider. Yeah nice, Um. But yeah,
• 43:55
  I don't watch a lot of NBA basketball. I prefer college basketball.
• 44:00
  You got that one. Yeah? Uh all right, just some breaking news
• 44:06
  over the phone. It's crazy. The last time I break news over the
• 44:07
  phone, I had a guy who was a football draft all right show,
• 44:10
  and it was Aaron Rodgers finally got traded through the Jets, like just as
• 44:15
  we started the show. That's a little saturn news. That's oh no,
• 44:20
  yeah, Tina Turner pasted, Oh, that's very sad news. Eighty three
• 44:23
  I think it's said, oh Man rock leg she is. She's probably in
• 44:28
  the Hall of Fame, right, she would be in the Hall of Fame,
• 44:30
  I would imagine, Yeah, eighty three. I think she's still's love
• 44:37
  got it little healthy. Last time I saw her. Um a picture of
• 44:40
  her something interesting. Yeah, they said she had a long illness. Okay,
• 44:45
  maybe maybe it's I misinformed on that. Bis are rich Love. I
• 44:52
  grew up on her, yeah you know, yeah, yeah, I mean
• 44:54
  she was, you know, in her fifties. I mean my parents grew
• 44:58
  up on her. Yeah you know she's eighty three. Yeah, now she
• 45:00
  was a heck of a voice. Is sad? Yeah? Always, you
• 45:06
  know, always always upsetting when the legs, when those musical legends passed away.
• 45:10
  So um so one we're gonna finish on Live in Golf. Yeah,
• 45:15
  well, before you get there, it still is Mental Health month. Yeah,
• 45:21
  and I've read this disturbing article North Carolina State University. Okay, they
• 45:25
  just graduated, obviously, and two people committed suicide the week before graduation,
• 45:32
  which brought the total to seven on the on the year. The year,
• 45:37
  Wow, they had fourteen deaths on campus. Four were like auto accidents where
• 45:44
  but seven or it was seven or seven? Like I don't, like I
• 45:50
  always say, you can't get into people's heads. You don't know what they're
• 45:52
  thinking. I feel like this is like a mini pandemic from the pandemic.
• 45:58
  Like, I just think people have just been so enthralled on being on line
• 46:04
  because they had no social interactions for a year and a half. And I
• 46:08
  mean, I don't know the specifics of these cases, but you know,
• 46:12
  it just seems like it's a trending wrong. Yeah. Um, I can't
• 46:17
  imagine being that age high school college age and going through the pandemic, like
• 46:27
  I can't fat like yeah, like yeah, it's like like like you know,
• 46:35
  yeah, I mean I had three young girls, my three young daughters.
• 46:38
  They're so young. Yeah, so like I'm home with them, like
• 46:42
  I got my wife, We're at home, we're saying, you know what
• 46:45
  I mean. It's like it's it's a nice it was a nice break.
• 46:49
  It was like reprieved from life. I couldn't imagine, like like those any
• 46:53
  seniors who lost their final year of sports in high school, Like I couldn't
• 46:57
  imagine that. I want to stay championship my senior in high school. One
• 47:00
  of the rules that want to come to storms that we're going to Sacred Heart.
• 47:01
  Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. That's you know, it's like there's
• 47:07
  all these things that you look forward to and and they get taken away from
• 47:10
  you. So I learned a lot about mental health UM during UM this time
• 47:17
  period. You know, it's it's there is something to be said when you're
• 47:21
  expecting something and it gets taken away. I had a situation in my family
• 47:25
  that that had happened. So I had a niece that passed away um,
• 47:30
  right at the beginning of the pandemic, and she was going to get married,
• 47:34
  and it was like she completely you know, had nothing one had nothing
• 47:38
  to do with the other. But she passed away, ended up passing away
• 47:40
  the week that she was going to get married, which was delayed because of
• 47:45
  the pandemic. Right, So um so no experience, No, she never
• 47:52
  experienced it. But then like my daughters were going to be in the wedding,
• 47:55
  so then they dealt with a little bit of that expectation. So like
• 47:59
  you have this whole generation of people who are expecting let's just use it on
• 48:05
  a lighter level, their senior year of sports, uh, their senior prom
• 48:10
  their graduation from college, turn in twenty one, their freshman year in college,
• 48:15
  freshman dorms. All these expectations that they were looking forward to in their
• 48:20
  life all get put on pause or taking away air change or you know,
• 48:24
  now they're not going to school, now they're not traveling. Now I'm not
• 48:27
  doing that. A lot of things change. Um. I personally ended up.
• 48:30
  I had anxiety that I never ever had in my life come after COVID
• 48:37
  uh, and I say it was from exhaustion of just like dealing with this
• 48:42
  invisible you know this invisible enemy, I guess you could call it. And
• 48:47
  then I started dealing with stuff. So I've been on some meds for it
• 48:52
  for the last year, almost over a year, yeah, over year,
• 48:55
  which has helped tremendously. But I ever dealt with any mental illness type things.
• 49:06
  I've seen friends go through it. Um, but it's I mean,
• 49:08
  it's it's scary, it's a it's a battle. Like I don't listen to
• 49:14
  probably the show that much, but you know I talk a lot about anxiety.
• 49:16
  Okay, you know something I battled and this show is a great outlet
• 49:22
  for me. But jokingly that six weeks I didn't work or two months almost
• 49:28
  Yeah, in the beginning, it was like, holy fun, what am
• 49:31
  I gonna do? Yeah, Like, because you know, I got a
• 49:35
  mortgage, I got this and that, and I'm in the business where you
• 49:37
  know, I made my money off tips. Yeah, I getting tipped and
• 49:43
  I love them or hate them. Yeah. Trump started send any fucking fourteen
• 49:47
  a week, and I was like the like the four weeks leading up to
• 49:51
  before we opened we opened, like right around this time, yeah, uh,
• 49:54
  right before Memorial Day we opened, and it was just calm, Yeah,
• 50:01
  driving the streets and no one was on it. Yeah, riding the
• 50:05
  bike down the beach and no one was out. It was it was real,
• 50:07
  but it was it was Yeah, it was nuts. Yeah, Like
• 50:10
  I never want to see that happen again. No, no, but I
• 50:14
  but I took the opportunity to appreciate what life is like when it's not all
• 50:20
  hustle and bustle. Yeah, when it's not all like fucking traffic backed up
• 50:23
  for miles, people angry at each other for no reason, for no reason,
• 50:28
  you know. And then and then it comes back to that whole like
• 50:30
  you don't know who's fighting what battle type of thing you know, um,
• 50:35
  which is you know, kind of like an angle I take on most things,
• 50:37
  Yeah, you know, um, because you spend a lot of energy
• 50:43
  getting mad at people. I had some guy even coming here, just peeping
• 50:46
  at me, like for what, Like, dude, for what? Man,
• 50:49
  Like we're all going we're all going left here, Yet where are you
• 50:52
  going with? I don't want to. He's got his he's got his hand
• 50:55
  out the window with his cigarette, like, just enjoy your cigarette. What
• 51:00
  are you into such a rush for you? And he hands up cutting through
• 51:01
  the parking lot here just to try to get in front of like for for
• 51:07
  for no reason, because I didn't jam on the gas the second the light
• 51:13
  turned green. No, no, you know you're upset for the next five
• 51:16
  minutes. It's just like, we shouldn't live like that, but yeah,
• 51:19
  some people do, and you know maybe they got Maybe he's got something going
• 51:22
  on too, So what are you gonna do? So remember it's uh text
• 51:28
  suicide hotline, easiest way to get a fuss with. Somebody should be having
• 51:31
  any thoughts of that. All right, so we're gonna go off it.
• 51:34
  We are going to squeeze one top again and that's your Chicago Bears. Yeah,
• 51:40
  pretty interesting offseason. Yeah, they have the opportunity to go move off
• 51:45
  the fields. They didn't. Yes, I agree with It's not his fault.
• 51:50
  You guys haven't had an offense at about fifty years. Nope. So
• 51:52
  you can't draft your quarterback and then get rid of them to related like like,
• 51:55
  you can't be the Jets. No, no, you can't keep changing
• 51:59
  the same thing with the end be able to coaches like you gotta stick with
• 52:01
  somebody. Yeah, so what's your outlook is now? Now? The funny
• 52:05
  thing is that your last victory was the pag motherfucker. And it shouldn't have
• 52:10
  won that game. We would have been in the playoffs and that was like
• 52:14
  a turnaround for the season. But then we traded our two best defensive players
• 52:17
  immediately after that game, crazy, and I was like, Oh, I
• 52:22
  guess, okay, I guess we're not I guess the season's not happening next
• 52:25
  year because it end up working out for you. It might, It very
• 52:29
  well might, which is fine, but like right then you're kind of getting
• 52:30
  excited. You're like, oh, hey, this is great. Then you're
• 52:32
  like, okay, never mind, this could be the break of young career.
• 52:37
  Yeah, so exactly, I thought, that's what we're head to tarts.
• 52:39
  So as a Bears fan, and um, I'll speak for all of
• 52:43
  Chicago, even though I'm not from Chicago, not expecting anything, not expecting
• 52:49
  anything out of this year. It's lessen It's painful to be a Chicago Bears
• 52:54
  fan. It's one of the most painful things that I go through. I
• 52:58
  got a couple buddies around here. We're Bears fans. You know, beautiful
• 53:01
  thing. Football is beautiful zero zero every year, right, only only a
• 53:07
  handful of games. You know, you're not gonna get forty games out like
• 53:09
  in baseball, but somehow the Bears seem to manage to do that right in
• 53:15
  there. Yeah yeah, so you know, I mean, you know,
• 53:17
  even even since the double blink, like, it's it's it's it's it's not
• 53:23
  easy. You know, it's like we've been close, but it's it's tough,
• 53:29
  and I don't expect a miracle, but like, you know, you
• 53:34
  gotta take it. You gotta take a game by game. And that's that's
• 53:36
  the mentality I'm going with this year as well. I want to see some
• 53:40
  um some you know, early season. I want to see something. Yeah,
• 53:45
  I want to see something. I want to see something good. I
• 53:47
  always felt like they should build on defense. Well that's what they've been doing,
• 53:55
  right, but but I know I understand that, but then we got
• 54:00
  away from it. I feel like because we started drafting wide they started drafting
• 54:04
  wide receivers, and like, what's your greatest wide receiver in the history of
• 54:07
  to you, I mean, will yeah, Will he Go stands out because
• 54:12
  I was a kid, Um, I mean I know that's what I mean,
• 54:16
  Like, you know, what's the guy from Alan Robinson? Yeah?
• 54:20
  No, uh, we had Mohammed He was great. For a little bit,
• 54:23
  right, I enjoyed him. He's not one of the greatest one,
• 54:27
  but I know exactly we don't really have anybody, and we've wasted draft picks.
• 54:31
  Right, obviously you've had Walter Payton, but you know, and what's
• 54:37
  the other one, uh, Brendan the other Hall of Famer? Oh you
• 54:42
  talk about? Oh yeah, right, see those two? Yeah, running
• 54:45
  out. Yeah, there's no offensive that much, right, there's some quarterbacks.
• 54:52
  You got no quarterbacks. Jim Van follows me on Twitter, though,
• 54:54
  but does he really? He does? Of course. You ever see the
• 54:58
  list of U the quarterbacks that played for the Bears in the time that Farvan
• 55:04
  Rogers have played for twenty years or whatever? Yeah, yeah, twenty year.
• 55:07
  More than twenty it's been my life, like literally my lifetime. We've
• 55:09
  been playing against Farvin Rodgers. Uh, you know, and uh it's like
• 55:14
  we've had like, you know, fifty something Quarterbacksler is probably the best one.
• 55:19
  Come on, I liked, but I didn't like love him, but
• 55:22
  I liked. How are you gonna come out of an NFC championsh How are
• 55:27
  you gonna come out of it? How are you gonna come out of an
• 55:29
  NFC championship? Game. Okay, come o, come on, nobody's getting
• 55:35
  me out of that game. Nobody's getting me out of that game against the
• 55:37
  Packers. And you're gonna, you're gonna, You're gonna get a great one
• 55:40
  out. When do you come out? Uh, championship game? Yeah,
• 55:45
  you know, I'm bledso finished it up for him? Great videos behind him?
• 55:49
  Yeah, it bleds behind. Who do we have? We probably never
• 55:51
  been played, yeah, game exactly, so I don't know, so listen,
• 55:55
  I don't do my NFL show. It will probably like out of August
• 56:00
  if you need an ad. No, well, no, I think I
• 56:04
  like what Chicago's done. Yeah, I think in retrospect, you know,
• 56:08
  getting that pick moving it. They definitely didn't tank the season. I think
• 56:15
  just things got unraveled on them and then they lucked in because Houston's Houston,
• 56:20
  and they decided to win the last smith helping the Uh. The NFC is
• 56:27
  so wide open, like you guys could easily make the playoffs anything, totally.
• 56:31
  I mean, I do want that to happen, right of course.
• 56:35
  I just I'm just you know, it's the it's it's the middle of the
• 56:38
  summer, and since Tom Brady's left, it's only been three years is our
• 56:44
  fourth season, we're middling. Yeah, and when you middle, you get
• 56:47
  stuck. Because yes, they made the playoffs one year, but the other
• 56:52
  two years they were like eight and nine. Didn't make it right, You're
• 56:57
  you're in the middle of the draft. Ye, yeah, you're not getting
• 56:59
  any but great, you're not high end and what really did you do?
• 57:04
  You earn one extra game on the road where they lost by forty to Buffalo.
• 57:07
  So me, I'd rather, like, I know Bill doesn't want to
• 57:10
  like just blow a season, but like, we'll see how Matt Jones ends
• 57:15
  up being. Yeah, but like last year, I think it was an
• 57:17
  anomaly with a bad coaching they had, Like I think they lucked out getting
• 57:22
  mac Jones at fourteen, yeah or fifteen wherever you got them. You know,
• 57:24
  you got Feels at what like nine, ten, eleven, somewhere in
• 57:28
  there. I don't recall. I wanted to say seven, but but it
• 57:30
  wasn't a top three picks. It was Lawrence and yeah Lance, right,
• 57:36
  I mean, Lawrence is gonna be a Hall of Fair with the other two.
• 57:37
  Yeah, yeah, at a fucking waste but so and which is why
• 57:43
  they were smart to trade their number one pick this year right, because there's
• 57:45
  what are you gonna do? If they had it next year, that'd be
• 57:49
  the real question. Yeah, take CJ. Stroud, you know, but
• 57:52
  you'd also have one more year to figure out if you really wanted to keep
• 57:53
  Fields right, you know, right, so then you'd have another quarterback in
• 57:57
  four years of you know, control of five years. Yeah. I agree
• 58:00
  what they did with trading the number one pick um, I get in a
• 58:02
  wide receiver. I think Fields wants to win. I think he's I think
• 58:06
  he is a winner, and I think he's got some really good talent.
• 58:08
  Like I really like, I think we need a running quarterback. I don't
• 58:12
  think he needs to be rushing for that many yards though, no, because
• 58:14
  he's not big. But I don't want to stop either. No. I
• 58:16
  mean like I felt like, yeahides itself. Yeah, who didn't who didn't
• 58:21
  run nearly as much this year? Somebody didn't run. I forget who it
• 58:23
  was. It wasn't hurt. It wasn't Alan Alan or Jackson down. Yeah
• 58:30
  he was hurt. Yeah. So I watched somebody and I was like,
• 58:32
  I wish they would run more. Yeah, because that was like I forget
• 58:36
  who it was. But anyway, I know Mac Joe. So I'm confident.
• 58:38
  I do think we could be good. I think that hopefully. Obviously
• 58:42
  now that Farves not there, there there a question mark. The Packers are
• 58:45
  a question mark looking at it right now. Okay, all right, you're
• 58:49
  walking off the door with it. Wonderful, wonderful. Yes of the show.
• 58:52
  And yeah it's a color match too. Oh sweet? Uh and um
• 58:58
  uh, who's he gonna say? The Lions always the Lions, and you
• 59:00
  know the Vikings are Lions made some good moves. Yeah, but the Vikings.
• 59:05
  My favorite stat is last last year the Vikings won, they were eleven
• 59:08
  and zero and one score games. Yeah, that's never gonna happen again.
• 59:13
  No, no, So if we have eleven one score games next year,
• 59:15
  they're gonna lose four or five of them and they're gonna be completely exactly Yeah.
• 59:19
  Yeah, so there. I'm not worried about them. So we have
• 59:21
  a we have a shot, which is more to say than we have recently.
• 59:23
  Yeah, you know, all right, golf, golf, we both
• 59:28
  love it. I played great every yesterday. Nice I played wood Haven yesterday.
• 59:32
  How'd you do? Because I did terrible, had some nice shots.
• 59:36
  But I'm someone you know, when you play you know when you play okay,
• 59:38
  like you play well, but your score, your scores are not good.
• 59:40
  That's how I felt like. I didn't hit like many. I lost
• 59:45
  nine ten balls yesterday. Yeah, I didn't hit any bad shots, but
• 59:46
  my score just wasn't recovered. Well. I mean I recovered, I you
• 59:50
  know, potted decently. Yeah. I don't like to use the square,
• 59:55
  you know, right, I want to play eighteen. So the PGA Championship
• 1:00:00
  this past week, and he said he didn't watch. I followed a little
• 1:00:02
  bit because of the Block story, yeah, which is, oh my god,
• 1:00:06
  that's awesome. That's that's American sports in a nutshell. Yeah, everybody
• 1:00:10
  loves that story. It really is, like if you haven't know with Michael
• 1:00:13
  Block was the or is the current golf pro at Oak Hill Country Club,
• 1:00:17
  which is in Rochester, New York. And by being the pro at a
• 1:00:22
  PGA national, he's a PGA member. He gets to play that tournament.
• 1:00:27
  And he made the cut, like he was kind of under the radar.
• 1:00:30
  But once you make the cuts, h oh shit. Story. So he
• 1:00:35
  makes the cut in the final round, he's already becoming a little local legend.
• 1:00:37
  And the final round, I think he pairs up with Rory McElroy and
• 1:00:42
  like the fifteenth hole or something, he hits a hole in one on the
• 1:00:45
  fly, on the fly, so he doesn't even know what goes in.
• 1:00:47
  Yeah, he just thinks everyone's chair because he landed on the green or he's
• 1:00:51
  close to the pin right, And then Rory turns goes you know that one
• 1:00:52
  in the hole and he's like what yeah, And then it was just crazy
• 1:00:55
  and that hole in one got into even yeah, and he finished even which
• 1:01:00
  basically now he's top fifteen and if you finished the top fifteen, you're invited
• 1:01:05
  to the next year's tournament. So he's gonna be playing in the PG next
• 1:01:07
  year. I believe it's in California. And the next to this tournament the
• 1:01:13
  Charles Schwab this weekend. Yeah yeah, yeah, what a great, great
• 1:01:15
  story, and I'd actually be invited to a bunch of more stuff. Now
• 1:01:19
  he'll probably shoot plus fifteen this weekend and you know that's golf for you.
• 1:01:22
  But great story, good guy. Um. But the story of the hour
• 1:01:28
  was Brooks kept us he was on the scene. I guess it's like five
• 1:01:34
  years ago now, really jumped on the scene, won four majors in two
• 1:01:37
  years, I loved him. I thought he was great for the sport.
• 1:01:42
  Him and d Shambo had yeah, and shit they hated each other. Uh
• 1:01:46
  then he kind of mostly injury riddled. It just kind of faded away.
• 1:01:52
  And you see this a lot with golfers. Is they just they're like they're
• 1:01:54
  hot for a couple of years and they fade away. Do you watch this
• 1:01:59
  show on nets? Yeah, you obviously watched his episode. Yeah, it's
• 1:02:02
  been a minute. Awesome show. Awesome show, and I just recently watched
• 1:02:09
  it, Okay, and the Brooks Keptca episode I thought was so talent,
• 1:02:14
  Like you could see like just his struggle with his injuries and that struggle he
• 1:02:19
  had last year and now he was fully healthy. Of course he joins live
• 1:02:22
  and that's gonna be a big they're filming the show again this year. Yeah,
• 1:02:24
  I think it's gonna be a lot more live centric, like ye too.
• 1:02:29
  And regardless, he calls out and he wins the tournament this weekend.
• 1:02:31
  So now it's his fifth major. And I think the funniest thing was,
• 1:02:36
  and there's memes about this, he's getting the Watermaker Trophy, right, Yeah,
• 1:02:38
  the PGA Commissioner has to come up and give it to him and then
• 1:02:42
  stand there and do the photo of ye. So they do all that,
• 1:02:44
  and as the PGA Commissioner walks behind him back this way, he says something
• 1:02:49
  to him behind his head, we can't see and just you remember when Keptko
• 1:02:54
  rolled his eyes at the Shambeau. When he's walking with the tweets, he
• 1:02:58
  literally looks over he goes like, whatever, you did it again. Everyone's
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  just like this, yeah, yeah, yeah, And what are your thoughts
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  the last time live golf tournament. Yeah, we're gonna fix it. Oh
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  man, it's uh. I mean, I'm guessing there's a lot of money
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  involved obviously, so like you know, that's that's that's always gonna it's always
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  gonna cause problems. Um, I mean, you're playing golf. I mean,
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  if somebody wanted to throw you a boatload of money to continue just doing
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  what you're doing, wouldn't you take it? Like, especially if you already
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  did the PGA Tour thing. Um, you know, maybe the PGA Tour
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  missed a chance to modernize their game a little bit and somebody else jumped on
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  it, and um, you know, and they're taking advantage of PGA Tour
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  kind of being staggered in their old ways. Yeah, I don't really know.
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  Well, I think I think Actually Phil Phil Nicholson sweeted this yesterday,
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  but he's kind of going on the sentiment of Dustin Johnson's comments, which were,
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  I don't have an obligation, right. First of all, I'm getting
• 1:04:04
  paid up front, which a lot of the guys get, apparent season and
• 1:04:06
  United. Yeah. Yeah, but I'm getting paid what was his contract?
• 1:04:11
  Three hundred million dollars for four years. I don't even know. Something crazy,
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  right, I only have to play in twelve tournaments. Yeah, oh
• 1:04:17
  the plus of that, that's what I mean. Majors. Yeah, so
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  I can find tune my game on twelve tournaments. Relax, don't over look
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  at Tiger game play anymore, right, they run these guys rampant. Tiger
• 1:04:32
  didn't play that many tournaments with past what thirty five years old. I am
• 1:04:36
  still shocked that he didn't or hasn't taken an offer from them. Well,
• 1:04:42
  he's gotten the offer. Yeah, that's what I mean. He's so injured,
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  Like like I could see of all the people being like, yeah,
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  he'd be the face of the Yeah. Just take it, right, Tiger,
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  like you did enough for the PG Tour. Just take it like and
• 1:04:55
  stop with the you know, the Saudi Arabian fucking human rights fucking violations.
• 1:05:00
  Listen, just day fucking NBA, hold my fucking beer. You know,
• 1:05:04
  all your money comes from China, so like, relax with that. I
• 1:05:08
  think there are certain aspects of it you need to look at. But everyone
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  like thinks like the PGA Tour is like like spotless and because golf is a
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  you know, clean cut sport. Yeah, it's all about manners and how
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  you act on the course. Well, you know what, It's funny.
• 1:05:27
  Live comes along and just a year later, the PGA is now upping their
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  prize pool by millions of dollars. Like, oh oh oh, where that
• 1:05:36
  money come from? You guys had all this money you weren't telling us,
• 1:05:40
  right. That's why I think this experiment will last until these guys contracts run
• 1:05:44
  out, right, and I think they'll all be back and the PGA will
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  modify its schedule to like you only have to play a minimum of twelve events,
• 1:05:51
  you know, like you don't have to play. I think they make
• 1:05:54
  it play like twenty four. It's pretty crazy. It's ruling like you're playing
• 1:05:59
  people joke about. Yeah, I don't know if I go on vacation after
• 1:06:02
  a round, I'm good. Like you know, for a couple of years,
• 1:06:04
  it's still still four days in a row. You're traveling, you're standing
• 1:06:08
  hotels. They're walking, but they're walking like the Masters is all hills,
• 1:06:13
  the skills after hills. I'm a walker with my golf. I don't I
• 1:06:16
  don't take a cart. I stopped walking. Yeah, I mean I got
• 1:06:20
  a bush card. I ain't caramem it back. I'm not I'm no hero,
• 1:06:26
  but uh, I enjoy walking and it's tiring, like it is tiring,
• 1:06:29
  and uh, you know, four days in a row with all the
• 1:06:31
  pressure on them and all that stuff. A lot of these guys are getting
• 1:06:33
  out five in the morning on some tea times and not guaranteed a pay day,
• 1:06:36
  right you qualified? Yeah, you don't mean you don't get paid.
• 1:06:40
  There's a there's a lot to be said for it. Now. At the
• 1:06:42
  same time, like, you know, are these guys who are is are
• 1:06:45
  they doing anything good with this money like they're getting like from those guys,
• 1:06:50
  like the exorbitant amount of money that Phil Nichelson got, Like if you're doing
• 1:06:54
  something positive or as you're just putting in it as a lot probably gambling,
• 1:06:57
  right, Phil, Yeah, philis right, I mean because they could's coke
• 1:07:00
  all right, rayne Reski's daughter's ass. I mean, yeah, whatever their
• 1:07:05
  money, right, it is their money. Yeah, so I mean if
• 1:07:08
  they wanted to shut some people up, they could probably do some positive things
• 1:07:11
  with the money. But you know, to each their own again, yeah,
• 1:07:14
  I think, yeah, it's gonna be interesting. And now, like
• 1:07:16
  the Ryder Cup's coming up. The PGA doesn't want any to live guys in
• 1:07:20
  it. And if that's the case, then why I even have the Ryder
• 1:07:23
  Cup Because you're gonna miss out on Deshamba, right and and kept good and
• 1:07:29
  even like a Patrick Read and these guys like, if you don't have them
• 1:07:31
  in there, you're gonna get trounced. Yeah. I never like to put
• 1:07:34
  your egos aside. This isn't a PGA of sanction event, right, it's
• 1:07:38
  just the tournament, right, you know, it's it is what it is.
• 1:07:41
  And the Ryder Cup's great, it's fun to watch. It's you know,
• 1:07:45
  it's US versus Europe. Yeah, and these guys like take it really
• 1:07:49
  seriously and there's a lot of American pride involved in it, and I just
• 1:07:54
  love watching it and those guys are Dustin Johnson's not there, like come on,
• 1:07:57
  yeah, he loses a little luster. I guess all right, Well
• 1:08:00
  I do have this one last topic, tip tip, tip tip. There'd
• 1:08:03
  a lot of articles about tipping lately, and obviously I'm a tipped employee.
• 1:08:08
  Yes you are. I get tips as well. Yes, you get tips
• 1:08:11
  as well. That's correct. I didn't do it for years, really,
• 1:08:15
  I didn't. If they offered you one, would you take it, of
• 1:08:16
  course, But I didn't put a tip. I didn't put a buddy of
• 1:08:20
  my brothers up to me. The other day, I remember when you wouldn't
• 1:08:23
  want to put it. I was like, I didn't know. I didn't
• 1:08:24
  know if it feel comfortable. I got a lot of tipping employees working at
• 1:08:27
  these places, and yeah, I always feel comfortable putting right out and then
• 1:08:30
  slowly but surely people put it out there. And then, you know,
• 1:08:32
  I do have three kids, so you know, every extra dollar helps,
• 1:08:36
  So you know, I'm done forget this. My first full shift of bartender
• 1:08:43
  on my own, Yeah, it was at the Trumble Marriott at Chat's Bar.
• 1:08:47
  Yeah it was a little lobby bars no longer there. They renovated at
• 1:08:50
  all, and I was working with this guy Steve, and he turns to
• 1:08:55
  me and I was given change back to somebody. Yeah, it was like
• 1:08:58
  nine dollars. I gave him a kind of a one back. Ye,
• 1:09:00
  And he goes to Jerich camer what's up? He goes, just give him
• 1:09:04
  a five and six singles? Yeah, it goes. You got to maximize
• 1:09:08
  this, Yeah, he says, you're getting a dollar. Never be bashful.
• 1:09:12
  Yep, give him fucking eleven singles if you want. Ye make him
• 1:09:15
  think about it, you know, Yeah, exactly what the pressure? Yeah,
• 1:09:16
  put the pressure out of my first ever shift end like thirty years later,
• 1:09:20
  Like really shit, but it makes a lot of sense, it does.
• 1:09:23
  I can't stand when I want to tip somebody and they like and they
• 1:09:27
  gave me that time, right, Yeah, give me eleven dollars. Like
• 1:09:29
  what am I supposed to do with this? I wanted to tip you?
• 1:09:30
  Now I gotta ask you for nineteen. I give him forty. Gives me
• 1:09:33
  the twenty and the one back. Yeah, exactly if you want to tip,
• 1:09:38
  if you don't want what I mean? So that's interestingly you never used
• 1:09:41
  to take him, but yeah, now you got I mean, I got
• 1:09:43
  it. I got too much too much going out. I do. I
• 1:09:45
  do walking by you when everyone else that plays they're dropping. Yeah, it
• 1:09:48
  could be just singles I do. I do really well. It's certain places
• 1:09:53
  and ends one day. Okay, I've gotten a hundred before. It's nice.
• 1:09:57
  It's nice. You know. I take a lot of requests too,
• 1:09:59
  so like that's like geared towards that. Yeah. Um, but yeah,
• 1:10:01
  it's always nice to have that extra cash flow. Yeah. I see a
• 1:10:04
  lot of the guys that are like, you know, you want to hear
• 1:10:08
  this and that you know it's fine. Yeah, like people fall right into
• 1:10:11
  it. Yeah, they do a little. That's a little. Yeah.
• 1:10:14
  I've seen the lists where it's like, you know, yeah you want to
• 1:10:16
  hear wagon Wheel, it's twenty bucks list and I'll play you Wagonwheel, all
• 1:10:19
  right, it's not my favorite song. If you want to hear Wagonwheel,
• 1:10:23
  I'm not gonna tell you what to do. You know, it's on your
• 1:10:25
  conscience. You know, I'll play it. And then if you tip,
• 1:10:28
  you tip you. It's funny. I get more tips in the places almost
• 1:10:32
  that you wouldn't think. Sometimes, yeah, um than I do, like
• 1:10:35
  in the you know, the places that might that might seem to have more
• 1:10:40
  money yeah. I usually do better at other places like dive bar West Haven.
• 1:10:46
  Yeah yeah, like Windmills. Yeah, so there's a difference though,
• 1:10:50
  like dive far as Westaven, blue collar. Yeah, like those guys spend
• 1:10:54
  they don't give a fuck. No, we spend money. Yeah, absolutely,
• 1:10:56
  yep, you know. And I used to work Yeah, yeah,
• 1:10:59
  it's great. Yeah when it was small, stupid for me. Now yeah,
• 1:11:02
  I love I love it there, I love those. So staying on
• 1:11:05
  this top. Sorry, I I ordered something online the other day and I'm
• 1:11:15
  going to check out. There's shipping and handling fees, tax total, and
• 1:11:23
  then underneath it says would you like to tip ten percent? Fifty and twenty
• 1:11:28
  They went up to twenty five percent. Now, this is a item I'm
• 1:11:31
  purchasing online. I'm assuming this company pays the people to package it and then
• 1:11:39
  ship it. So where's the first of all, where's the tip going to?
• 1:11:43
  It's just going too the company's coffers. Are you? Are you redistributing
• 1:11:45
  a munch your employees? That would make me think a little bit the way
• 1:11:49
  it's still like, do I trust it? No? It was the Internet
• 1:11:51
  exactly, and it wasn't like some you know product, you know it wasn't
• 1:11:55
  product with a repertable site. But I'm like, this tipping gone too far?
• 1:12:00
  Where do we stand with tipping on takeout? Okay? I am all
• 1:12:04
  for it because I think what a lot of people don't realize. It's harder
• 1:12:10
  for me to package your fucking takeout and put lids on catchups, and it's
• 1:12:15
  just it's really interfering with my process of work. Put it in a styrol,
• 1:12:21
  like if you order a flamingnon and blah blah blah, bring it out
• 1:12:25
  to you, you know, and if you need something, I get it
• 1:12:27
  for you this you know, and then and then the ladies looking through everything
• 1:12:30
  and open it all up. I don't want to be I haven't worked on
• 1:12:34
  the restaurant industry in a while, but now definitely throw a couple of bucks
• 1:12:41
  on there, because yeah, it's really more work than it is just coming
• 1:12:44
  in sitting down right, Okay, all right, Yeah, no, I
• 1:12:46
  was curious because I haven't I haven't been on that side in a long time
• 1:12:49
  now. Like I don't really deal with anymore because since COVID, like it's
• 1:12:53
  just the food runners do it. But they get tips too, Yeah,
• 1:12:55
  Like I rather with them get the tips than me anyway, I don't.
• 1:12:58
  I don't want to deal with it. I don't want to have to like
• 1:13:00
  put it all together for somebody. And like I said, they'll call back
• 1:13:03
  the restaurant and I said, extra, yeah all right, you should have
• 1:13:06
  came and sat down. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I gotta here.
• 1:13:11
  Um, but like this's online stuff, like yeah, I don't I don't
• 1:13:14
  get that. Um. If I'm gonna tip somebody, I want to like
• 1:13:17
  tip them like right to like, yeah this is for you, Yeah,
• 1:13:21
  thank you. I was just at Fenway and Sunday for the card show and
• 1:13:26
  I went to buy like two high dudes. Yeah, and basically I guess
• 1:13:30
  in my the guy's a partender. Yeah, of course this was him.
• 1:13:33
  And they have the screen. Yeah, they have to turn around the screen,
• 1:13:36
  so they have the screen on there and they flip it over. Yeah.
• 1:13:39
  Yeah. So I put my card in, but the guy like literally
• 1:13:41
  said a word to me. He's like, what do you need. I'm
• 1:13:44
  like, hey, yeah. He doesn't even crack him. He just puts
• 1:13:46
  them up, yeah, put it there, flips it and it's like fifty.
• 1:13:53
  I'm like, so right, So that's my question. So, like
• 1:13:59
  we go to music festival called see here now it's an Asbury Park. We
• 1:14:02
  go every year. Um yeah, bracelets with your credit card on it,
• 1:14:08
  you know, yeah yeah, and they yeah, they have a million places
• 1:14:13
  to get a drink. So there's not lines awesome, a lot of tito's,
• 1:14:17
  uh you know things like that. Everything's expensive, like really expensive.
• 1:14:23
  It's the same thing though, it's the screen, right, So it's like,
• 1:14:27
  of course I'm in a tip. It's a bartender, like you're saying,
• 1:14:30
  but like like when does it end? Like where like how many am
• 1:14:33
  I drinking? Like am I really giving you like thirty dollars? Like like
• 1:14:40
  but for the day, for like a day, Like am I really for
• 1:14:43
  for you to literally just put lemonade and vodka and a thing over and flip
• 1:14:47
  it over, and you know they're getting paid, Like they're behind there,
• 1:14:49
  they're in the shade. It's so like I'm not against it, but it's
• 1:14:53
  like, am I really tipping twenty? Like every fucking time I'd buy two
• 1:14:57
  or three drinks? It's like, you know, it's expensive. I think
• 1:15:00
  the difference with all this like just flipping it over. It's like like there's
• 1:15:05
  a guy I go to Celtics games a lot, and I kind of go
• 1:15:08
  or Bruins games. He bartends both and I just get seltzers from like the
• 1:15:13
  hard Seltzers. But he engages with me like it kind of knows me sure
• 1:15:17
  often but yeah, but you remember, yeah, and he just doesn't like
• 1:15:23
  flip it over. He's like, you know, I ain't been you know
• 1:15:25
  they got you know, like he talks to me where everyone else behind that
• 1:15:27
  fucking thing could care less, exactly where it used to be. You know,
• 1:15:30
  you wait in line and a Yankee Stadium, you get up there,
• 1:15:33
  you order two beers and they're busy, and but you're dealing with cash,
• 1:15:36
  you know, and you're standing there and you're talking to him and like it's
• 1:15:40
  like they're a bartenter. To me now, it's just like there we are
• 1:15:43
  one step away from just pushing up. It's pretty much out and then they're
• 1:15:47
  gonna ask us to tip. Yeah exactly, there's no there's no h you
• 1:15:50
  know. I had a guy at Yankee Stadium, the old Yankee Stadium.
• 1:15:53
  Yeah, like you know the same thing. Yeah. Like it was like
• 1:15:56
  they'd like one little tiny station was like a deli that had a craft here,
• 1:16:00
  and I would just go there. Yeah, and I knew the guy
• 1:16:01
  and he was a big Mets fan and that's why he worked at the stadium
• 1:16:04
  because the Mets were always on the road, so he worked at Yankee Stadium
• 1:16:08
  because the Mets were never home, right, and it was like he never
• 1:16:10
  missed a Met game and it was like a great So like I get I
• 1:16:13
  get that, like that personable, uh, you know, getting to know
• 1:16:15
  somebody on a personal level. But yeah, now you go there's seven eight
• 1:16:18
  people behind each place. No matter where you go to get a hot dog,
• 1:16:21
  nobody talks like it's just like they're just getting it for You're just grabbing
• 1:16:25
  it for me, you know. I just I just think it's you know,
• 1:16:29
  I don't know. I always do tip. It's just my nature.
• 1:16:30
  Obviously, it's just yeah, you know, doing business for thirty years.
• 1:16:35
  But even sometimes now I questioned it. I'm like, I will never ever
• 1:16:39
  tip something online that I purchased, right, you know, les it says
• 1:16:43
  that five dollars is going to the you know, Boys and Girls Village of
• 1:16:45
  Milford, you know what I mean, Like, I don't know, like
• 1:16:46
  what am I tipping for? Right? You know? You go on you
• 1:16:50
  go on Wikipedia and they're like, you know, you know, they say
• 1:16:55
  they ask you. Yeah, okay, yeah, that idiot right exactly,
• 1:16:59
  No, not not half, but yeah, so we'll see how We'll check
• 1:17:01
  back in a couple of years and see, you know, when AI takes
• 1:17:04
  over. Yeah, exactly. We'll see where it goes from there, all
• 1:17:08
  right, Benny, thank you so much for having appreciate your brother, Benny
• 1:17:11
  McCool of the Lone Gnome, the frontman for the All Pacingnomes for check him
• 1:17:15
  out some festivals this summer and you'll be at stone Bridge probably a handful of
• 1:17:18
  times. Yeah. I got a solo album coming out too at some point.
• 1:17:21
  So yeah, yeah, when you're next to stone Bridge, you know,
• 1:17:25
  if you don't, off the top of my head, I know you'll
• 1:17:27
  be there soon. No, not this week, all right, so check
• 1:17:30
  him out. I'll you always look at stone Bridge website. He's awesome.
• 1:17:32
  He comes in, he has some seahags and he does accept tips. All
• 1:17:38
  right, We'll see you guys all next week. Thanks so much. Have
• 1:17:41
  a great Memorial Day weekend, Stay safe, everybody, enjoy it, and
• 1:17:44
  I'll talk to you soon.