Welcome to what are we doing?I am your normal host and there's half of your normal hosts here today because Caleb is somewhere in an undisclosed location and you'll never find him.It's my basement.
So we have Mike who is normally on the ones and twos in front of the camera today.So huge golf clap for Mike. Is a huge golf clap a normal clap?
Can I give you another question?Give it to me.So Jake, my friend from work, I made a joke about how virgin Long Islands were hitting and I was starting to feel something and he said, would a virgin Long Island just be coke or just be tea?
Because there isn't, there isn't any, there isn't any tea in a Long Island iced tea, right?It is in the name.
Has he ever had a Long Island before?Oh yeah.Oh yeah.Okay.
I'm, I'm, I'm heavy.I'm heavy.
Assuming this whole time he's thought there's been.
Oh no, no, no, no.He knows, but the name is iced tea, a Long Island or a Long Island.Yeah.Long Island iced tea.
So does he think by if you're having a virgin Long Island iced tea they're adding tea into it?
Yeah, he's saying would it just be tea or would it just be Coke?Before you start pooping on him, it makes a ton of sense.
No, absolutely.I'm just trying to wrap my brain around it.
Literally, it's in the name.
Actually, this discussion happened while I was at your wedding.
Happy wedding.Thank you. Was he he was not there?I didn't think so.Nope.He wasn't there.Nope.Nope.I was just making you were I was there Had a great time.
It's a sick wedding It's to my knowledge that you went to the to the Cancun we did indeed go to the can of the Coons How did you how did you do down there?
Was it in the same time zone?Sure was.Caleb.Caleb.Same time zone.Caleb.
Same, in fact, time zone.Exact same time zone.Believe it or not.Actually, you know what?I wish I still had the flight map because before we flew down there, even on the plane, the plane was, we flew first class, which was sick.
I didn't pay for it.Well, that's a lie.I did pay for it. I did not choose it, I should say.
Um, but the back of the seats had like full on screens.You could watch movies and do stuff like that, but you can also pull up the flight map.Oh, cool.Yep.Yep.Yep.It is a straight shot out of O'Hare.
I mean, you flat, I, I believed you cause I also knew it was the same time zone, but it was such a weird thing for me to lied about.
He went straight down and for whatever reason, I don't know why, just for the, I'm assuming how they have to land at the airport in Cancun, they were straight shot the entire time.
And then right at the end of it, you just took a little quick right hand turn and then back left, slow zigzag.Yeah.That was the only not.
You were going, you were flying South in the landing zone was East to West.Yeah. Makes sense.Or west to east.I don't know.
All I know is that when I flew to Cancun, we were in the air, and I don't know if the guy was up in the clouds and he didn't know where Cancun was or something, but we literally got directly over it, and then he just free-fell.Like, so fast.
I've never been on a plane where I've heard everybody complain all at the same time about something. Okay, you know like and it was a pretty common consensus that everybody's ears were shattered
I literally like I'm I'm pretty good about like if I feel Like if I'm at the dentist and they're like filling a cavity or something like that and I'm in a ton of pain I will grip the seat until the arm falls off.
I will not tell them I will not say anything I'm just gonna I'm gonna grind it out until it's over.I was to the point where I was like, I don't know fall over here again like I mean
It was bad enough that the entire time we were in Cancun my ears never popped.They did not pop until we landed back in Chicago.
I was like, so that was, that was only, we didn't have anything like that happen.It was a little sketchy when we'd landed coming home.Cause there were like, I think they said 20 mile an hour winds in Chicago with like 35 mile an hour gusts.
And the entire dude, no, no, the entire time we were landing, you could just, I mean, you could be like sitting there and I know it's probably the same way for everybody.You could feel the pilots like struggling.
Because it was the entire time, you couldn't tell, but the entire time you knew the plane was just doing this.
Yeah. So, you know what the the turbulence sign is on the entire time.
Yeah, the seatbelt sign was on.
Yeah Yeah, and Like, you know how it's annoying people clap on airplanes like nobody clapped I Wanted to yeah.
Yeah.Well, that's always a it's always a weird thing like for me Like
is their job like if you were in an uber and he got you to your place safely you're not just gonna start like hey man that stellar job buddy you got us all the like yeah it's my job literally employed or like a bus driver gets you to the next stop and you're like hey man that was a
like thanks man right uh speaking of uber uber we had an uber from o'hare to the parking garage where we parked yeah our driver how far of a drive was it uh 30 minutes oh yeah not awesome in rush hour and it was probably only 12 miles yeah something it was seriously it was just chicago sucks yeah i hate chicago chicago move
Yeah, that city's worthless.
Anyhoo, are you you were uber driver are Our my core my car uber driver was from Albania, okay He said he was like lived in Chicago for nine years.
Uh-huh still has the thickest Albanian accent I've ever heard because he's the only Albanian guy I've ever met but he was a G What I'm yeah, talk to us the whole time like was this do you like that? Normally, no.
In Mexico, we had a private transfer from the airport to the resort and the resort back to the airport.And I don't know if it's just because, obviously, language barrier, but both of our drivers spoke English a little bit.
So we had conversations with them for the first five minutes of the trip, and then it was just awkward silence the rest of the way.And that was also a 25-minute drive.
Those words like yeah, whatever this one was fine because it was like we talk for five or six minutes And then it'd be quiet for like five or six minutes.
Yeah, and then we talk again So it was fine, but we got on a topic talking about autistic people Wow, because he was telling us that he saw a tic-tac of this autistic mexican girl whose iq was higher than einstein's
And then I kid you not for the next five minutes.He was having me Google Einstein Nikola Tesla da Vinci cuz he's like all of them just off the roof.He's like autistic Google it.That's all he would say
It's like so I'm back there behind him googling this and obviously like we don't know if they were autistic or not But he hit me on the head.
Everybody was like everything said like they assumed Google's like what are you trying to do build a dream team?
Yeah Could you imagine that team?That is crazy I so I have a a guy that I follow on tik-tok and He starts every video with like hi.
This is my name and my autistic superpower is that I'm really good at golf I know exactly who you're talking about and he's like He literally is like a machine.
Yeah, like he's so Every every single swing is like the exact same perfect Like it's that's incredible.
Yeah Okay, so that same guy did you before he started doing this golfing videos?Yeah, see the ones that he would do like of him acting with this kid, huh?
No same guy before he probably just got it on golf to talk because probably like I saw some of his videos of that before like he would Act out funny stories.He is this toddler and Then he after afterwards.
He's like I'm autistic and I think I don't don't quote me on this But I think a lot of people at first didn't believe him
Also, if you do that you're a bum that's terrible correct, but like no it is sad like if people have any sort of You know disability disability at all.I mean, yeah, that's terrible So How's married life what's different?Oh
I mean, you know that jenna and I we've been together for seven years Yeah, so like We were it kind of felt like we were already married I mean Right.
No, I mean obviously like, you know, the boring stuff changes like, you know insurance and yay her like she has to change everything big yay maddie
They have not sent her a new license yet, still.
Yeah.That's good.We did it like the week we got back from Cancun.
She hasn't started anything because like we've we got back on Tuesday night.
Yeah, so it's been like two days.
Yeah Yeah, like but we like we the only thing we did was submit our marriage license Yeah, so but there's actually Which I don't know Maddie's probably too far gone like she's probably already changed started changing stuff and whatnot But there is I can't remember there's a kit like you can buy really 80 bucks that has literally everything
Like all this stuff you have to change your name on yeah, it's in this little box They send you dang and you fill everything out and just send the box and take care of
That's not bad.We might look into that.
Yeah, so like I think we're gonna do that just because That would be worth it.That would be so we're gonna have to go pay right probably more than that I think it's like 90 bucks pay more than that 90 to take care of everything.
Yeah, so well even if you like just calculate I Know it's a little bit less for you.But like for me gas driving the different places like Value your time I can think on one like just very quick thinking about it.
I know we've made over five trips to Pekin about it Yeah, which is you know, not fun probably 40 to 50 ish miles round trips.
So so I think we're gonna do that but But yeah, not a lot's changed I mean
Yeah, get ready to answer every every single person you talk to for the next Until you have a kid probably as I'm assuming is when it's gonna change Every single person is gonna ask you that.
Oh, yeah.How's married life?
Yeah, it's like It's like when someone's like, oh happy birthday you feel any older and you're like, oh No.Yes.Yeah.
Every day.Yeah.Every day.I woke up today.My ankle hurts.Couldn't tell you why. Just moved and I was like, ow.Seriously.
I got, I got out of bed the other day and I stood up and I got up on my tippy toes and my ankles both went pop, pop.And I was like, whoa.Yeah.I like what is happening?Yeah.I like low key kind of got into a squat.
Cause like, I don't know if I'm going to, like when I put my ankles back down, I don't know if they're connected anymore.Um, so. You, uh... Yeah.You're a firefighter.Correct.Tell me what that's like.Because I've never been a firefighter before.
Um... Which one?I mean... Your day-to-day.Let the people know what it's like to be a firefighter.
Well... You work every single day.
No, fun fact.I work every third day for the entire day.Yeah, 24 on and then 48 off.So work one day, two days off.Do you like that?
Do you hate that?Love it.Love it?Because you get two days off.
And every once in a while, I have what's called a Kelly day, which is a scheduled paid day off.So I get five days off That's hot.
That's a that's a full work week of not working Sometimes it falls on it to we're like I'll work Sunday and then I have Monday through Friday off.
Yeah, that's sick.Yeah That's that happens.How often Kelly days happen?Oh
I think for us it's a change I think each department can be different but for us I think it's every like 15 work days or 16 work days.
Oh, that's not bad No, so it's nice too because like obviously throughout that time you're working your normal shift and then if overtime gets to you you take overtime so you could I mean I could work You know for 48.
Yeah, plus my know my other normal shift days in that 15-day span.I
So you work there, you go in at what time?
Our technical hours are 7 a.m.
to 7 a.m., but it's unwritten rule you're there by 6.20, 6.30, so that you can relieve the guy that is getting off in the morning, and then he can kind of give you a rundown of the day before, let you know if they had any serious calls, what they used on it, if anything was wrong with the truck, all that fun stuff.
So you gotta eat there, sleep there,
we live there for i mean every like every third day you just bring a tent sleep on the floor no we got beds what kind of beds you got temper peter stop it yes sir so you probably got a better bed at work than you do at home yeah that probably makes jenna so happy that you get to go to work and sleep so well like the first time like when you get to sleep yeah well
And how often does that happen?How often does it happen that you actually get to sleep the whole night?
At my station?I will say, I am at the quote-unquote slower station.
Am I allowed to tell the people who are listening what station you work at?
So if you're in Pekin and you're by like B-dubs or McDonald's or whatever, it's that station right there.So that way, if you are ever driving by there, you can say, what up Mike? Yeah, a little beat bop.
People do it all the time.
Yeah, people do that to me all the time at work.They'll like, I'll be walking across the street.Guilty.Yeah, and I'm like, how you going?
Yeah, no idea who it was.
I don't know who you are.
No, I remember like So like I got so it's for me.It's a little because like Jenna growing up He was at the wedding to her.She had a family friend growing up whose dad is a Pekin firefighter My uncle is a Pekin firefighter.
Okay, like I worked for AMT the ambulance company in Pekin so like I got to know a good amount of the guys before I got hired and I
Like tested not thinking I was gonna get hired really just cuz like when you start normally when you start testing for fire departments You test all over the place.
Yeah, because the chances of you getting hired your first time are slim Yeah, it's not like you pass everything and they go.Okay.Here's your job, right?
Yeah, you have to you get put on a list Cuz like there's preference points for hiring It's like if you have a medic license if you live in the city if you have any college like all those will get you additional Points it can put you higher on the list
right and then people have to like be like remove themselves or be removed from the current roster correct like for you to get unless like they are short guys yeah normally someone has to retire either retire or
Yeah, it doesn't happen often but get fired right or quit or quit.Yeah So and because like each list stays open for two years It's like okay the list I was on I was number Like I got lucky because they hired four guys off my list for right away.
Oh, we needed people and because I was number one
six on the list but like it's also too like not like you could be the number one guy on the like the number one guy on my list didn't have like we so we require that you have your emt license to care he didn't have it so they passed over him like he's still saying number one but like they'll pass over you if you're not eligible to get hired
Right and then until you if they have to hire again, they'll go back top of the list and if Which I mean he could be like like you said if you're going to a bunch of different stations like he could have applied in East Peoria peak in Bloomington and Just because he's number one on your guys's list doesn't mean that like I
He's going to take your Right, like he could they might go.Hey, you want this job now?
And he's like, no, I'm I already work for Bloomington or whatever, you know, like yes, like you can be on There's no limit like you can be on ten different the hiring list if you want right go test ten different places Yeah on every single list
I mean, it's like pretty much any other job at that point.Like for that specific thing.
Like for you, if you went and applied at Lighthouse, but you also applied at four of the car dealerships, and two of them offered you a job the same day, you could say, no, I'm gonna go work for this one.
That's cool.What would you say your percentage when you go on calls are like actual house or not house but like fires?
Because I feel like it's called the fire department but a lot of times it's like the car wreck department or the high blood pressure department or
Probably for like the calendar year 80 20 80 80 percent being medical calls versus any other 20 percent being Actual fires.Yeah, we're like even fire.Well, yeah true fires probably 10 or 20 percent.
Yeah, it makes sense because a Lot of people call 9-1-1 When they don't need 9-1-1.Yeah, I And I feel like that's a like that's even like outside of my career.I feel like that's a well-known thing Yeah, yeah, like people know that I feel like
I wouldn't call unless I was like, hey man.Dying?I got half my leg in that cornfield and the other half of my knee is touching my forehead.
And the only reason I called is because that's the foot that touches the gas pedal.Yeah, I can't.
Both my legs are in the back seat of my car and I can't drive to the hospital.That's how I am. Right.So, I mean, obviously, like, I'm on Delavan, so, like, we get the texts from the dispatch.Right.And there are some where I'm like, really?
Yeah.Oh, yeah.That's, like, I have the same.We have an app that we use that we get all of our notifications to.
Which, I mean, whatever mine is, yours is probably times a hundred.
Yeah.I think since I've, well, this is since I've gotten hired, there's been, where'd it go?Come on. Since I've been hired, that's what, 20,018 calls? And the city of Pekin since I've been hired.
So yeah, and that's under, I'll have three years in January.
That's all three stations or just your station?
That's all three stations.The city of Pekin since I've been hired.
A little over 20,000 calls.
You guys have separate tones, right?Correct.Each station has its own tones.Each station has their own tones.So just because station three gets put out on something, then, I mean, do they just say like, hey, be ready?Do they say,
No, so like if like if station 3 gets a medical call, we'll just tone out station 3 Yeah, and like they'll send the engine and then cuz like so station 3 has an engine in the ladder So no ambulance AMT runs everything correct.
So they they would send AMT and and and us See that's interesting cuz like 90% that's probably maybe more than 90 we get there before AMT does
Yeah, which that makes sense, because you're sitting there ready to go, basically.Yeah.
But it just seems like, again, it seems weird to me that, like, it's, I mean, it's its own separate entity, and I just don't understand why they don't just go do the medical stuff.
Yeah.So, AMT just transports?Correct. So it's just an Uber for people with broken bone disease?
Yeah, in a roundabout way.
Like, so like when I worked, and it was the same way when I worked at AMT, I worked in the Peoria market and Pekin.Peoria is obviously busier.
Do you even have to like have a ton of medical experience then?Could you just go be a driver for AMT?No.You have to at least be an EMT. Why?All I have to do is show up and you're gonna go do whatever work.All I gotta do is put them in the back.
I just need to know how to drive and be strong.You're still taking care of them.Not if I'm driving!
As an EMT though, you will take calls.The paramedic doesn't take every call. The paramedic is only going to take the calls that they deem necessary for paramedic skills, so IV, meds, stuff like that.
If you get a call for grandma fell off the nursing home, because we get this all the time, someone will fall off the nursing home because it's a rule, they just want them sent out to be evaluated to make sure they're okay.
you're all you're going to do is take grandma's blood pressure yeah so that's that's any and that's all that's what unity will do i gotcha yeah i make sense but i only run with them on all medical calls in case kiss a fire breaks out now casey decided yes sir spontaneously combust that'd be something like hey i have heartburn
I saw this he was here now.He's gone.I don't know just He pointed his chest at the ceiling and and then everyone's it was I Just smacked him really hard with the hose.I didn't spray any water.I think Iron Man was here
I saw this, uh, uh, this clip on Tik Tok and it was like, do you think zombies still have, uh, like the problems that we currently have?
And there was just like a, this guy acting like a zombie and he was kind of like bent over the bed and he was making, you know, zombie noises.And the other zombie was like, ask him what's wrong.He was like, heartburn.
I thought you were going to go with something like, do zombies have a mortgage payment?That's where I thought you were going.
I mean, I feel like in the state of the economy, somebody's got to pay it.Figure this thing out.I don't know.Speaking of zombies.Call of Duty.
No, I was going to say Happy Halloween.
Dude.Because today's Halloween.Happy Halloween.Happy Halloween.What are you going to be this year?
So I don't know we Jen and I were going to that's scary.Yeah, we're gonna be ourselves terrifying.Yeah So last year we started like it's a haunted house.
Here's Greg No, no Anything but Greg he's the worst give me chainsaw clown.Oh This is not a self-esteem boost
Go home Like we were gonna do Have you seen Parks and Rec?
Yeah, so Burt Macklin great show.Yeah, you know Burt Macklin Yeah, yeah, I was gonna be Burt Macklin.Nice and then Jenna was gonna be Janet snake hole.
Love it Yeah, that's what we're gonna do.
But then obviously we got married went to Cancun and came back two days ago So we didn't have time to get our costumes classic.So Throw a Cowboys jersey on that's scary and a bag over my head.Yeah
Sucks so bad I'm assuming I stuck with him after the first couple weeks when Dak was like, you know, he's walking the town He's like go ahead and jump off.
Can I uh, no, I'll stay with all right, and then I want to jump off now so We both like to sports guess for money and I
It's funnier So for me being a Celtics fan like There's kind of two things that suck because the Celtics are favored to win every single game they play 82 games they're favored to win all of them and
usually makes it not super fun to bet on them because when they play like the Charlotte Hornets, it's like I Don't want to take minus 1400 odds for them to win, you know, right But that's because the Celtics are really really good, right?
For you as a Cowboys fan right now, and I'm not trying to poop on the Cowboys.I'm just asking I
They did beat my Steelers and the Steelers are winning the Super Bowl this year I heard so I'm That's just what I heard that's what I heard I don't know I mean who knows in the end that's what I heard They're up there they're up there with anybody else six and two yep going into a bye week
Yep, Russell Wilson's tearing it up.Hashtag back, maybe?Maybe Russell Wilson's back?
He's kind of hooping.He had like four touchdown passes to George Pickens and none of them counted.
Before I get to the point that I was trying to make.
I think I know what you're going to ask.
Two feet have to land in the end zone for it to be a catch, right?One foot twice does not count.Correct.One knee does count.Correct.One hand elbow does count.
Or not hand.No, not hand, because you can hold yourself.You can hold yourself.Yeah, so like it's knee, elbow.One knee, one elbow, one butt all count.Yeah.One foot twice, no count.
Two-feet couldn't tell you why two separate feet do count And I think it was Jason Kelsey talked about it at halftime because that would've been the first touchdown of the game, right?
And I have pickings on my fantasy team so needed it, right? Why that's the case.I don't I don't it makes no sense.It makes zero sense because like Unless they're thinking is okay.Yeah left foot down.
He has control of the ball if they think that the force from his right foot Because it's not even like it doesn't have to like make firm contact his the tip of his shoe, right?Yeah, you can slide it.I'm gonna call that good, right?So it's like oh
I feel like it's harder for him to touch the same foot twice than it is to not.Yeah.How is that possible?
How does the left foot hit twice before your other foot touches or vice versa?
Well, because he got pushed backwards after he caught it while he was in the air because he jumped.
So, foot hits, his right foot hit, left foot went up because of how he was falling, and then before his butt landed out of bounds, his right foot hit a second time.
So there's a lawyer who was betting on the game and needed a George Pickens touchdown, and he is suing the NFL. some amount of money because Essentially, I don't remember exactly what it was.
I don't know but He Essentially is saying it's discriminate or discriminatory against Potential something because I don't know there's a bunch of legal jumbo read into it.It's cool But or just go on tik-tok and look up Lawyers lawyer suits.
Yeah over George Pickens something like that.I But I thought that was kind of interesting.So let me get back to my original point What's it like for you so Obviously, I don't know how you view Sports betting
The way that I look at it is like, if I'm going to be watching a game, throw two, three bucks on it.
And then that way, when, you know, as I'm watching it, if Kevin Durant makes a three-pointer and I need him to make three of them, I have something to get excited about, right?Gets me like into the game.
And a game yeah in a game that I normally wouldn't watch which I've been watching a ton more of since Maddie's been working nights Because I just come home and like if well, you've been gone so can't hang out with you Brock goes to bed early because he's an old man.
He's an old man and he has to wake up at two o'clock in the morning You go to work Caleb's doing Caleb things Parker lives in I don't know Washington that's Seattle.
Oh, yeah, but I'm not good.Do you live in Illinois?Do you live in Pekin?Oh
Okay, but that's different though.Cause like we didn't know where he was at.
Oh, I knew where he was at.
Yeah, but it's, to me, it seemed like you were having like for a second that you couldn't remember.Like my brain was set on like, he lives in the state of Washington.And then I say that you go, no, Seattle.
Yeah.I mean, I was trying to think of something funnier than the actual place that he's at, like Mexico or Uganda or something.All right. It hit in my head.Um Doss is down in Bama.Yep.So, I mean, I'm just sitting at home alone.Nothing to do.NBA's on.
So, I'll throw on the the late game after the Celtics or whatever.Sit down there and watch whatever.Suns Clippers and I'm like, man, this is
So this is something and it would make it more fun if I needed James Harden to get 40 points rebounds and assists, right, you know, so I throw a couple bucks on and then that way I'm like, oh cool my $2 turned into
35 and I feel like I accomplished something That's the way that I look at it, right some people are like throw 500 bucks on whatever game and I just makes no sense to me I will do little two three dollar bets here and there and then like
I I like doing the anytime touchdown once.Yeah, they give you a big boost on a college.Yeah Yeah, like I like doing them for NFL.
Oh, yeah, except it's aggravating Yeah, like sometimes it's like oh, yeah, you would think if I bet, you know These six players who are like the highest scoring players on their each other respected teams to score a touchdown I'm gonna win 100 bucks.
right because they're going to give the third string running back 47 touches for whatever reason because that's the day they decide that tank bigsby should run the ball for jacksonville that one still hurts yeah all right because i was that was i was an et in touchdown away from like
But like I only put like $10 on those yeah, and like that's the most I'll bet like I won't ever place a bet for more than 10 and I hardly ever do it I'll throw like five six bucks on something and be like oh Boy this is a
This was a financial decision.It could be $10 for the Celtics to play a basketball game and I'm like, it might not happen.Plane crash, I don't know.
There's a hurricane in Oklahoma City.
That's what would happen to me.But what is it for you with a team, like, is it hard to bet on them to win?
Knowing that they might probably not I Will never for the rest of this season put a bet on the Cowboys to win, okay But they probably have good odds to win No
The rest of the year for the Cowboys is tough That's what I'm saying.
Like I'm not saying it's like good odds.I'm saying like if they win, right?See, that's the cuz like it usually if I if I'm trying to make them like a money line bet.It's like $5 would win me $5.76 and I'm like that's not even worth it.
Yeah, I'm gonna lose five, right?I Yeah, that's that's how I look at those ones, right?
Yes Yeah, I mean It's gotta be probably pretty tough Yeah, I was just trying to find out I'm gonna look at I'm just gonna look at the cowboy schedule for this year and tell you why I'm not gonna bet on the Cowboys.
Yeah when because It's not great.It's like we have the Falcons.Oh I hate the Eagles.Caleb, love ya, but... Yeah, anyhow, let me play the Texans at home.
We're gonna lose that Yeah, commanders are just filthy right the commanders are on a heater so annoying because like it's like it makes sense Why they're good Dan Campbell their head coach was our DC last year sure and years before that Phenomenal coach like gets the guys going right and you have Cliff Kingsbury who is a just offensive mind guru.
With Jaden Daniels, who, he's just a dog.He's a rookie, but he was a dog at LSU and still is.We should beat the Giants.Week 13.We'll probably lose to the Bengals week 14.I'd bet on the Cowboys to beat the Panthers.We'll probably find a way to lose.
Then we have the Buccaneers, the Eagles again, and Commanders again.
Talking about sports teams, you want to do a draft?Absolutely.I'm thinking the way that we do the draft is... So we each have our own town, right?So you got Carrollsville, and I've got Bradyland.
We're gonna pick from the four major sports, in my opinion, the four major sports, hockey, NFL, MLB, and NBA.And then for our fifth one, any college
like not program but any college sport team with their stadium or arena so so I could take like University of Massachusetts women's field hockey Yeah, that'd be a great pick.That would be a great.Do you want that to be your first pick?No.Okay.
So basically what you're doing is you're taking them plus their fan bases and putting them in your city.Okay.So I'll let you have first pick because you're the, you're a guest on the, on the pod.Um, and you said fans stadium, is that it?
You're getting you know, they're fans their stadium their revenue the good the bad the ugly like You could you could take the Yankees because they've got a really Faithful crowd, but then you also have to put up with all the dirt bags that are you know, ripping balls out of bookie bets Right So I'll let you take first pick here
I think first pick I'll take the St.Louis Cardinals.Okay, because baseball town.Yeah, I mean us both being Cardinals fans We don't first hand go into games and whatnot.Yeah that the Cardinal faithful are Diehard fans.Yeah, there's a baseball town.
Oh, yeah, I Like that.Yeah, I think that's a great first pick because you're right they are Like I mean almost to a fault some of the hardest fans.It doesn't matter if you're getting your heads kicked in, they're fans.That's a great pick.
For obvious reasons, my first pick, most storied franchise in NBA history, the Boston Celtics.
They generate a ton of revenue their fans are Die hard to say the least bleed bleed green, baby So that's I feel like that's a that's a fairly easy pick With my number two pick I am I'm gonna go arrowhead And take the Chiefs because again, they are like
Die-hards out there.Yeah, and that stadium is nuts It's huge.Have you seen it in person?
Oh, it's not in person, but like you can just do it.
It's Crazy yeah So I'm gonna I'm gonna take I'm gonna take the Chiefs as my NFL team and It is now up to two picks
I've been ragging on them.It's a tough year.But, we'll go.AT&T Stadium, Cowboys.Cause, same thing.Stadium is huge.Jerry's World is insane.
Oh yeah, you have Ballpark Village too, I'd say.For the Cardinals.
But like... They are like and a lot of people hate Cowboys fans just because we're loud and we talk.Oh, yeah about the Cowboys.
Yeah, like That means that means that you have a good fan base, right?
Yeah, like even though it's like, you know, this is a this is a tough year so far like yeah, everybody's still riding with them.
Oh, yeah, I mean It's a tough year every year Honestly, I mean Shout out Cowboys.
Yeah, whoo your number three pick is my worst nightmare number three Basketball and hockey left.
I Go hockey I'm gonna take the Las Vegas Golden Knights.I
Okay, I like that.That's a cool pick.
They haven't been around for a crazy long time, but they're super good ever since they became a franchise.
I just feel like the buzz around Vegas, I guess I really don't know a lot about Vegas, but to me it just seems like they've got a good fan base in the playoffs every year since they've been in the league.
Sweet.I like it.It's a good pick.I'll go... I got two here, so I'm going... I'm gonna go Dodgers.They just won a World Series.But I think that their stadium is sick.They've got a really cool stadium.
Also, they generate a ton of money and I'm assuming that I'm taking fans from Los Angeles who also have a ton of money So pump people from Los Angeles into my town, which I'm not thrilled about because I don't love, California but
We need money and so far we've got small market Boston and small market Kansas City.So take our diehard fans and make some with some money for my NHL team.I'm going to go. I'm gonna go Toronto and take the maple leaves.
And my thought process behind that is that hopefully I can get Drake to endorse us somehow.And be like some kind of ambassador for the team.Because I just can't take another really small market.
Cuz I was gonna go blues, but I'm like Can't can't do it And I'm assuming Toronto's probably got a like pretty diehard fan base for NHL, so Yeah, I feel like it makes sense right so bring them to Bradysville or whatever I said So now you have Yes, you have basketball in college
So for NBA, I think I'm going to take the Lakers.
Similar stance, similar, similar beat.
Yeah.Bring in some, some big names.
Yeah.LeBron on your team.Yeah.That's cool.He generates a boatload, a lot, a boatload of money.So that's a, that's a solid pick.
Do you think random question? How much more money do you think they're bringing in now with his son being on the team?
Probably a lot.I feel like it's a dumb question.Not enough where it's like, wow, the Lakers are worth
you know however many more whatever yeah but like i think like kind of back end like i'm sure they probably sold out every night anyway like the celtics sell out the celtics have sold out every game for the last like six years
So also it's crazy how much smaller like NBA stadiums are than like a football stadium where you can pack like 100,000 people in there versus like the TD Gardens like I want to say it's like 19 or 20,000.
That's it.Yeah, I did not know that.
Yeah, which I mean bush is like 42 7 something 40 almost 50.I think is it?Okay.Yeah, it was in the 40s.
Yeah Yeah, because when we went it was Half that was filled Yeah And it looked like it.
Yeah.Yeah, um So, okay, so you got your basketball team.We need an NFL team, or college team.It's my first day.
Yeah, it's all right.You'll have that.I think, I'm stuck between two.I think college, I'm gonna take Notre Dame.
Great pick because it wasn't mine.Let's go.
This is, I think, like, as far as the fan base, like, Sterling Franchise, like, They need to join sick helmets Uniforms are so tough and they're clean too.
Yeah, they're not like crazy over the top Like sometimes they've got the the fun ones they do every like one or two weeks out of the season Yeah, like mascot though.He's a dog.
Yeah, you see the the Tennessee Black uniform unveil that that was all last night.They're dude.They're hot they're Marketing team or whatever.It needs a race because that was sick
The one that I saw said that someone needs to give Tennessee's intern a job now.
Which, facts, because that was tough.I'm going to go Michigan State.Football.
See, I was stuck between Notre Dame and Michigan.
I can't imagine how much money they make per year off that stadium.It's their football team?Yeah.Right?Am I thinking of the right team?
What colors do you think they are?
Michigan State? Like, blue and yellow?That's Michigan. Which one has the bigger stadium?
Doesn't one have like- Probably Michigan.So, Michigan- Oh, Michigan State's green.
I want- You want Michigan.Michigan.
Yeah.They have, like, the biggest field.
The Loud House, I believe is what it's called.
Right?Maybe?Isn't it the biggest?
It's one of the biggest ones.
Because I'm pretty sure that's what it is.I'm pretty sure it's, yeah, not Michigan State, Michigan.No, it's- I thought you- Michigan State Spartans are green.Yeah, no.Yeah.I'm good.Pass.Hard pass.Hard pass.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Look up what they the capacity of their football stadium is it's some crazy Michigan Stadium the big house not the loud house.
I think the Colts Stadium is last Michigan Stadium at the big house from the football at Michigan football team largest stadium in the u.s.With a capacity of 109,000 910 thousand people The Nittany Lions is second
I mean that's like, so take Bush, times it by two, and add 15-ish.
Yeah, that's a great pick.Even though I said it wrong.
That's alright, I wonder now though. Yeah, so like Cowboy Stadium capacity, uh-huh 80,000 Wow, so 30 30,000 people more 20 you said 110 Green Bay's is huge too, right?
I think theirs is Green Bay I thought about Green Bay after I said the Chiefs, but I just can't do it.
Green Bay is $81,441.I wonder what the highest now.Comparing to some MetLife, where the Jets and Giants play, are the biggest NFL stadium by capacity and it's still only $82,500.
Have you watched a Clippers game yet?A Clippers home game?
So you know how they have their new stadium?The Intuit Dome?Sure.Their Jumbotron?1,300 square feet. That's a house.
That's bigger than my house.
Right.Because it's about the same size, I think, as my house-ish.Like a little smaller.
Yeah, it's like 150, 200 square foot more than my house.
They have this thing called the wall where you have to be a Clippers fan.You have to go register something and prove that you're a Clippers fan.And then it's essentially a student section.And it's almost vertical.
They've got like bars in front of the seats and the bars say on them They don't call them stands for no reason or something like that like You're supposed to stand.
Yeah, right, but that's just like Cool, but also kind of terrifying.
Yeah, which I Want to encourage you in your free time to look at it because it's nuts.They've got I want to say like 1,200 bathrooms like individual toilets.
They have all of the sections have like microphones in them, like the seats do, so that when they're doing like, who's louder, section 118 or 134, they can actually tell who's louder based off the decibels that the section's putting out.
They have a t-shirt cannon that can reach every single section and what they do is they put the player up there super big on the huge jumbotron so the jumbotron is It's a circle that goes all the way around the court basically like it's that big and then it's on the inside too
So on the outside they'll have their players throwing fake t-shirts and it will look like their like their hand is hitting the top of the jumbotron and then a shirt flies out.
yeah out of a cannon that can just spin and hit all of the sections so sick that's so tough all the seats like the armrest things have lights so they can throw up like blue and red lights everywhere also really tough yeah there's dude it's so sick you should watch like a uh billions it's like a few a few billion
Just a couple B's all I have is a couple C's For sense yeah for sense and not up here and bingo yep But yeah nuts I think that I think it's really cool It's
It's crazy how Like I don't know the technology that goes into stuff like that and it is Like it's crazy What you can do in a stadium like for basketball that's indoors versus the different changes that you have to make for one that's Open yeah, you know.
Mm-hmm like I I don't know, you can't put a 1300 square foot Jumbotron in the center of like the Chiefs Stadium because there's no roof there.Yeah.You know, like, I mean, well, yeah.
And then I was trying to think how big because Pittsburgh's I mean their screens.I mean all obviously they're all huge all that.Yeah, all this but I feel like I Thought Pittsburgh had the biggest like base one.
I think with no idea Oh with an open stadium, I could see that.I think Dallas's is the biggest in football property sure They like to do everything's bigger in Texas.I heard I
Out of my three favorite teams, I guess I'll say my favorite hockey team is the Blues just because Brock really likes them and I really like Brock. I've only been to Bush Stadium.I've never been to a Steelers game.
I've been to Celtics games, but only in Chicago, Indy, Memphis.I've never been to a Celtics game in Boston.Which kind of sucks.
Like I've been to obviously been to Bush.
Yeah, like I've never been to AT&T It sucks I stopped looking I just I put all my trust that you'd connect It does kind of suck being a Visiting fan or a fan of the visiting team
like going up to Chicago and being you know like a one of a very few which the Celtics do travel extremely well so do the Steelers I've heard like when they played in Las Vegas it looked like a Steelers home game like after the game they're like hey Justin Fields what was it like playing at home but on the road and he was like it was pretty sick
But pretty cool pretty cool but like I mean, it's like a mile walk from where we had to park to get into the United Center and the whole walk it was just heckled people like just you know, why don't you go back to Boston with the khakis and I'm like die crazy that
And I think of that as like the Bulls Suck.
Yeah, the Bulls are terrible.
So it's crazy to me that I mean, obviously they're heckling because they're in Chicago, right?
I mean, what am I gonna do fight?70,000 I'm gonna go I'm gonna go fight 24,000 Bulls fans Like no
see what obviously the bulls won for the bulls lost answer this obviously the celtics one that's right i meant to say yeah c and without the whole way out of our you have a lot of like oh uh... car keys here just mackay or media yeah what's this uh... it's an l hold this l for me along with the ninety other that we've given you get worked uh...
Oh, dude, dude, dude, dude.
Yeah, you know what I was thinking about today, you know how People are always like I just I don't like rap I can't understand it You know older people always be like, I don't I can't understand what they're saying.
I Think that it's not as much that they can't understand what they're saying.
It's that they don't understand what they're saying yes, so like the Example that I'm thinking of is like when future calls a gun a stick right like there's just so many different things in a
rap where they use You know like different terminologies and stuff like that.
Yeah, where if you don't know it literally like They might as well be speaking Spanish because it's like you're using terms that you have no idea what they're talking about right, you know, I Think that's uh, I think that's why cuz I could see like that makes sense if if you actually and there are people that you actually can't understand like young thug is like
And it's like yeah, yeah but like Think it's it's more of you just don't under you actually don't understand.Yeah, like you you're not comprehending it I could see versus like Does that make sense?
It's not that it's not that you can't Understand them.It's that you don't understand them.
Yeah, but I was listening to Drake song today and I was like, oh I Wonder if like, you know, he's just chucking out whatever random Terminology that makes sense to me because I know what he's talking about, right?
But then it's like but I think if you know, if my dad was listening to this he'd be like Yeah, yeah Yeah, but I don't know I
Back in the day, Tim was a big old, like, NWA Ice Cube, like, all that back, like, that was... The Timmy is now, not the Timmy was back then.
He's evolved.He's a different creature now.
He evolved.Hey.Hey.You catch any Pokemons down there in the, uh, down there in the coon?Down in the can coon?Um... Did you play it at all?
I sent you a gift and you didn't open it, so I can't send you another one. Get in there.
I didn't know that you did that.
Get in there and open the thing.Now?No.Later.
I did once.If I actually wanted to legitimately play, I would have had to have walked up and down the entire beach.That might have been the day that the Whiskey Sours were hitting a little different.
For those of you that don't know, in Cancun, if you ever go there, on an all-inclusive,
go to walmart or wherever and buy a fake stanley or a fake yeah like the big ones because you can just give it to them and they'll fill that just right and like if you say hey i want a little more alcohol yeah they will give you more alcohol yeah instead of drinking out a little yeah it ain't a little right and i did that that day
And then you were... And it didn't hit me until about 4.30 in the afternoon.
Dude, it was so funny.Jenna and I don't, like, talk, like, throughout, like, how me and you just, like, send thoughts or texts or whatever, snaps, back and forth.Yeah.Like...
It has to be something that's like pretty important pretty, you know, like intentional for Jenna to have to and she was like She she sent me a text and she was like I think Michael's trying to send you a snapchat And I don't think that he's figuring it out I
Was like what and then literally probably Probably 45 seconds later.
I get a snapchat from you and I mean Yeah, you were leaned over the table just like Mouth open and it was like I could I could see half your mouth and it was just like your upper teeth and then up your head and You're just you said I mean
I needed a degree in whatever English language arts to figure out what you were trying to say to me.And then you send a follow-up snap immediately after.It looked like you hadn't moved at all.And you go, hey, I'm kind of feeling these whiskey sours.
And I'm just like, yeah, no shit.
I was like, oh, you seem like you're high and tight, bud.You're doing good.
like so like we had that that night yeah that was so earlier that day like we texted our butler it's right butler it's just the person you text to set up your dinner reservations and we set up a reservation for 7 30 it was 7 15 and i was still in swimming trunks and jenna was still in her like swimsuit cover and we're like yeah what are we doing because she was also
Right or up except a little bit to where she could put a fake face on at dinner and yeah Me no, I was you couldn't spell face.No Four of them Actually, it's so funny.
In fact when it all hit me when we were sitting on the beach, uh-huh We were talking to an old couple from Boston
Really?Yep.I met people from Boston when I was there were they old No, they were super young But I was like, hey man Seems like you got an accent.Where are you from?He's like Boston Austin and I was like I go.
Hey, we're doing pretty good in the in the Playoffs because it was I think the round before the finals Nope, it was not.It was the... Was it the Cavs series, maybe?It was the series, I don't know.
It was the series before the Eastern Conference Finals, because I remember watching the Eastern Conference Finals here.But we're like, I was like, hey, we look like we're doing pretty good.He was like, I don't watch basketball.And I was like,
I was like, you're from Boston.You don't watch Boston basketball.Like what?What do you mean?That's like what else do you do?He's watched the Red Sox.Boring.
Nah. I was doing weird like so like this guy he had a New England Patriots Yeti.
Yeah, I had my Dallas Stars hoodie on.Yeah, so he asked me we were in a hoodie.It was windy.Brother, I never sure underneath of it.Like no, you understand.It's like you went in May.In the middle of summer to Cancun.
Oh, May is the middle of the summer.Close.Really?
You think about I guess it's the middle of the year.Maybe not summer.
Interesting.What?That you're wrong.
I guess you went in the middle of the winter, right?Close.Since you just got back.October is about the middle of the winter.
Okay.Got you. I mean, December's coming up.I'm here for it.
Anyhow, it was a cloudy day, and there was like 20 mile an hour winds.
So it got all the way down to like, what, 78?
All right.Anyhow, we were talking about it.He asked me about hockey, because the Stars have a guy that used to play for Boston.
Yeah, so we started talking about that and then we say he and I just like sat we were just shooting shit for 10-15 minutes.Yeah and We got on the topic.Oh, yeah, we talked like asked him like if he was like a Boston sports guy through right?
Yeah, and he said for everything except for baseball and I meant to text you this and I forgot take a stab How many Celtics games?This this guy's been to from Boston still lives there probably Four None lots more
Okay The way you set it up made it seem like I was gonna say a really large number and then you're gonna say a really small one so I tried to I tried to swerve Don't let this deter you from your guests cuz like to you and I it's gonna seem like a crazy number But I guess to someone from Boston.
It's not not yeah like 3,000
Not it that's not an unreal for someone at 65.That's what their whole life.It's not an unreal number.
So like 500 Because there's a little more so like 173 Why does he know that?Huh?So you have like a you get like a he has every ticket from every game he's ever been to He also, he told me, now granted this is everything he told me, I believed him.
I don't know, I didn't have a reason not to.He has a picture of him with Larry Bird.Larry Bird signing his jersey.
That's really cool.So that's like what you say that reminded me of it, because like that guy from Boston doesn't watch basketball.But this guy's like Boston.Through and through.But he's a super cool guy.
You like being from St.Louis, you're like, I don't, Cardinals?I don't know, how are they doing this year?Shut up.Well, you got anything you wanna, you got anything you wanna talk about?
How expensive is, I'm gonna butcher this, like Dolce & Gabbana stuff?
Real quick, we- More than what we can afford.Yeah, well, yeah.So, flying back, in first class again, we did not belong up there.
Like, flying there, they gave us warm towels, and we watched to see what other people did, because we were like- You're like, can I get a cold one?
And they're like, what?Like, shut up.
This guy, so like, sitting next to us, had Dolce & Gabbana shoes on,
Yeah.Yeah, like I knew like I know that right?Yeah, those are not cheap.
I mean, I'm not going to Ross and getting those Probably you're probably talking like thousands not hundreds.
Yeah would be my guess I Don't I mean, I don't know what which ones they were or anything and I don't really know a ton about them But I'm assuming you like you're probably talking more closer to thousands than hundreds and then his wife
The ring yeah on his wife's finger, uh-huh Brought the plane down could have Dude, I'm talking generational wealth for a family like this thing was like a I'm trying to find something to compare it to, because it was absurd.
I probably stared at her ring on her finger for a total of five minutes, 10 minutes, that plane, because it was just like... You won't go to K and see a ring that says... He paid someone to go into a mine and get it for him.
And then came to his house in a blacked out SUV with an armored briefcase and said,
your ring squire yeah there is uh when we were in cancun there was a bunch of restaurants at our resort which i'm sure is probably about the same for you and one of them was a buffet and that's like the buffet is where you ate breakfast every day so you just go down there and get your breakfast and we were sitting there one morning and
You didn't really have like they sat you at tables.Yes, so we had to sit like pretty close to another table and Maddie had her ring on whatever went to like out to eat.
We always put our rings on I guess we took them off We put them in the safe whenever we got there like if we're going out on the beach or whatever I'm not gonna lose my Ring in the ocean.It's stupid but
there's a lady sitting right next to us that looked over and looked at Maddie's ring and then looked at her husband and we're like pretty close we're just sitting there eating and she was like looked at her husband was like when do I get my 10-year or whatever like extra band or something like that
I was like, yeah, I was like, that's such a flex.
Like, that's so sick.You know, that guy never met you.You guys probably never even saw each other the rest of the time you were there, but he just was fuming.Oh, yeah.He's so mad.
Like, I've never hated the person more than his left hand.Facts.
Um, yeah, I thought that was pretty funny.Um, well, We've casted a pod.We're at an hour and 10 minutes before we take anything out, which I don't know if there's really anything to take out.I feel like we did pretty good.What do you guys think?
I can't hear you.Ha ha ha.But yeah, I don't know.It's been fun.
Now you now you get to you get to experience what we feel because normally you're sitting back there What do you think I mean, what what's the what's it like up here do you like it up here it's not bad Were you?Did you feel kind of nervous about?
Yeah, it's about being yeah, we did the first couple ones that we did I Yeah one you're being recorded and you're like yeah, you just you kind of don't know what like what to expect Yeah for like there's a lot of just kind of unknowns when you're the one that has to figure out how to talk for an hour But
At the same time, it's not like it's not crazy bad because it's right.
I mean this is right This is not something that we wouldn't just do anyway, right?
But yeah, yeah, right which the recording element does add a little bit of like like it feels like it it feels like there's however many hundreds of people that listen like just
In the room, you know like Right like you have to like, you know pay attention to what you're saying you have to there's you know all that stuff where it's it is kind of weird, but I Definitely can tell from my perspective like the first Whatever episodes that we did there's there wasn't anybody.
I or we didn't record the first episode that we did, and we didn't know if there'd be anyone who would listen. You know, so like that was kind of different.And then we started recording it and it got more different.
And then, you know, now it's the point where it's like, you know, you kind of get into a routine and it's, it feels natural, but like, no, I definitely, I remember just, it's, it's,
Kind of awkward is the best way to say it because you I mean like we are talking to However, many people are listening and they're just not here.
Yeah, like we're pre recording a conversation For Hundreds of different people to a lot of who I've never met.Yeah, I
So that might be the other weird thing too is like, hearing myself, which I hate, that's just something I don't like.I've always been like that, I don't like hearing myself.But also, the amount of people that are gonna hear this that I have
No idea who they are.Right.Which, it is, it's weird hearing yourself talk, but, so, obviously this is our, this is our 15th episode.Um, I've gotten to the point now where I, I just understand that, like, it is pretty much just how I sound.Yeah.
Like, I think that's a hard thing to wrap your mind around, because, like, I don't know. You only hear yourself while you're talking to someone you don't ever hear yourself getting talked to But you're you're never the one talking to yourself.
I mean, I guess you can be but you're still Hearing now, right, but you're not
Processing right.Yes Right.
Yes, and you're like man Yeah No, there are definitely times where I'm talking and I'm listening to it like in the car or whatever or listen to it I try and listen to it like right as it comes out in case there's something that needs to be fixed needs to be fixed we can fix it but like You know, there's definitely times I'm listening.
I'm like that's weird.Why did I say that?I Or like, God, your laugh is ugly, or whatever.Just talking to yourself?Yeah, I'm just sitting in the car like, I hate you.
Yeah, right I love that meme where it's like what happens after after a car wreck and it's just like Yes, I'm sorry When there's those memes that are like Machine gun Kelly your music saved me.
I was paralyzed but you came on the radio and I got up to turn it off That's how people feel about our podcast like I it came across my Spotify and I got undisabled so I could The old Midwestern goodbye, all right, it's been a dream It's been real.
It's been fun.It's been real fun.Okay We love all of you Come up with some kind of something right now on the spot to say before I say peace.
Uh, thanks everybody for listening and hanging on for 15 episodes so far.Um, Caleb should be back.
Yup.And you'll not have to look at my face again because I'll be, unless you want to, I guess there, because he is scared to set up a second camera.
So if we can get enough people to give him a confidence boost and tell him that he looks so cute behind the camera,
It's not, it's not scared.It's the, it's my thing is that I'm going to be back there in my own little world.And for 20 minutes, everybody watching is just going to see me like.
Just mouth breathing overstimulated.
Just back there being an absolute goober.That's my thing.I don't care.I guess if you guys would like to see this, I don't know why you would, but if you want to see this.
Running the ones and twos.Tell us about it.
Let this guy know.Tell us about it.
But thank you.It's been fun.
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