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SPEAKER_01:Hey guys, real quick before we get into this episode, I wanted to take literally 10 seconds of your time to thank you so much for spending any moment of your life with me and the guys. We appreciate it so much. You following along on this platform or whatever other platform you're listening on. It means the world to us. We're working our hardest to make this the best podcast possible. All that we ask in return is that you hit that follow or subscribe button. It's the best way for us to grow this thing so that we can continue to do more of it and bring more value to you guys. Now let's get into the show. Welcome to another episode of the Slightly Above Average Podcast, where we've got garage vibes, shooting the shit with the boys, hot takes, snacks, and literally everything that you and your buddies are probably doing when you're not in front of the camera. I am pleased once again to be joined by the forever incredible Mr. Sam Pulla and our boy Joe Minard. We've got a uh hell of a show lined up for you guys today, but before we get into any of that, we've got Sam's snack segment. Now, Mr. Pula, I can smell, I think, what is under this plate, but would you like to show the fine people of the internet what you've prepared today and then give us an explanation of why?
SPEAKER_05:Absolutely. So this is my rendition of a uh Chicago style hot dog minus the poppy seed bun. I could not find the poppy seed bun, but I was able to secure the sport peppers from the strip district. Uh, but I thought we would eat these in honor of uh the Chicago Bears putting up one last great game before the end of the playoffs. One last great game. The people of Chicago should have had unlimited dogs whenever they won the Super Bowl. Unfortunately, the uh the powers that be wouldn't let that happen, so I guess we'll have to settle for these uh these fine Chicago dogs here this morning at what time is it? U Tree really. Yes, it's good yes.
SPEAKER_01:In honor of the Bears, regardless of what Why would I ever in any context honor the Bears?
SPEAKER_05:Everyone, yo, I've come to this realization, everyone should have a favorite AFC and NFC team. There's no reason not to. So I I'm I've chosen it for you. The burden's off of you. The burden's off of you.
SPEAKER_01:You are the most non-committal human I think I've ever met in my life. What do you mean?
SPEAKER_02:That's not how favorites work.
SPEAKER_01:Why not? You don't just start breaking favorites down into subcategories to give you the ability to have more favorites.
SPEAKER_05:No, see, this is complete bullshit. No, I was married.
SPEAKER_01:Like, I'm I'm going out on this trash. Chicago. Whoa, whoa, whoa, what?
SPEAKER_04:I'm telling you something right now about Chicago. I'm married. I'm married into the Bears. Chris says, Oh family's Bears families. I've watched season after season after season of loss, loss, lost, lost, lost. Did you see this game? 30 seconds left. Caleb Williams said, Hail to the North! We play four quarters. Bam! Touchdown and into overtime. That's how we went out, and you're gonna eat one of these dogs, and you're gonna love it.
SPEAKER_01:No, no. You're not first off, you've never been to Chicago. Secondly, you're not actually married. Okay? So on the way to being married. One less than one year. I refuse. One, I like literally nothing that is on that hot dog. I think it's an abomination. How dare you do it? It's an abomination. This is second, second, they f ⁇ ing lost. If they were Sydney, they got the dub, and you're like, in honor of Caleb Williams' incredible comeback once again. But like, let's be honest here, that dude almost won the game, and then he 100% lost the game. So I'm not eating shitting your honor.
SPEAKER_05:I think he deliberately threw that pick because he knew the world wasn't ready to see Chicago go to the Super Bowl with a first-year head coach.
SPEAKER_04:He knew that that would cause mass panic, outbreak, war. And he said, This one's to keep the beast. I'll see you next year, Super Bowl.
SPEAKER_01:He said, What happened was Papa Stafford came out there. Papa Stafford my ass. Let me show you Papa Stafford my ass.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, he got stopped by the Bears drive after drive after drive.
SPEAKER_01:They didn't! They won! They put 17 points on the board. There's one thing that matters in sports, Sam, and this is something that you're gonna have to understand. It is winning and losing. No. Yes, no. All that matters. No, sometimes a great. What has Stafford got on his stat sheet, Mr. Mr. My. Keep it to yourself, Joe. He has a win on his stat sheet. He's got a win and a Super Bowl. He's got an MVP comeback. Let's just let's take a step back. Hold on, hold on. What other accolades does this man hold? Because I believe in ranking of fourth quarter comebacks, he's top five, top three. He's up there.
SPEAKER_04:I'm sorry. We only had seven consecutive comeback wins in the fourth quarter. Almost eight.
SPEAKER_01:I love Ben Johnson, and I like what the Bears did this season.
SPEAKER_05:I like what they did.
SPEAKER_01:But I but I'm not gonna sit here and celebrate losing by eating that hot dog.
SPEAKER_05:No, come on, I know.
SPEAKER_01:No, don't they gave it to you? It's a consolation prize for a loser. You could put that in your mind.
SPEAKER_05:You know what they uh needed? Did you see that nice lady that interviewed the head of the uh Jacksonville Jaguars after their loss? You didn't Joe, did you see that?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I did.
SPEAKER_05:She was like, the the coach is all emotional, and I feel like every every uh losing coach that had a tight game should have this lady at their interview. She was like, you hold your head up, young man. She's gonna you had nothing to be ashamed of. That was a wonderful game.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, effort only gets you so far in life, Sam. It's results that actually matter. This is this is the real world, my friend.
SPEAKER_05:No, that was a beautiful game. Yes.
SPEAKER_01:It was a good game. I'm not gonna knock him out.
SPEAKER_05:And I will applaud Chicago for that game. And I'll I'll eat one of these hot dogs. Joe, are you standing in solidarity with Chicago?
SPEAKER_03:Listen, I'll eat one because I don't want any problems with Chicago. You guys are move. Good move. Love Chicago.
SPEAKER_01:Joe, I don't know why you're painting yourself as some like passive individual. You are a passionate man. I am passionate man. Stands by his beliefs. I know a lot of people.
SPEAKER_02:Bring me the problems. I know a lot of people from Chicago.
SPEAKER_01:They're the last people you want problems with. You think that about everyone. You're like, you don't like this person. Don't put it on the internet. You know, like, what the f? I'm an individual.
SPEAKER_02:I'm allowed to like my shit.
SPEAKER_03:You are. I'm gonna eat one of these hot dogs because I think the bears are, you know, they they deserve some praise in the sense of they're not the old bears, they're the new bears. And I love Ben Johnson.
SPEAKER_01:Hey, the Bears have one of the greatest Pittsburghers of all time in their echoan of top-tier individuals. Pula probably don't even know this. I know I I went to high school with him, Mike Ditka. He's so old. I will say I hate. Ditka is the best thing that ever happened to Chicago.
SPEAKER_05:Until Ben Johnson showed up.
SPEAKER_01:Ben Johnson is elite. I'm not gonna knock that. See, I'm not knocking winning, but they didn't win, so you can't celebrate, but you come up. Like I am not a consulary prize kind of guy. I am not a participation trophy kind of guy. I'm not a second place runner up. Put a sash on my shoulder kind of guy.
SPEAKER_04:No, hold on.
SPEAKER_01:And either is Ben Johnson. That's the thing. He's not celebrating the day. He's getting a warm. Hold on. Let me let me take a bite of my Chicago dog.
SPEAKER_05:Let me take a bite of my Chicago dog. Try to drown, drown out this sound.
SPEAKER_03:I just don't think the microwave was it's gross, huh? It's not gross.
SPEAKER_01:No, Joe, you gotta get a bite with all the fixins on it. So I don't here's I guess another thing for me, too. I'll just be completely straight up with you. I am I am jumping on the anti-Chicago concept that you gave me here just solely because it doesn't deserve what you're giving it. But also, like I hate condiments. Oh, this is like your worst night. So like I'm a very anti-condiment person. Like, I'm the kind of guy that if I make you food and you come over to my house and you ask for a bunch of like sauce and ketchup and all this junk to put on top of it, I am personally offended. Like good cooking doesn't need any of that. Yeah. And that's like it's just it's a it's it's a it's a very me thing, but I'm gonna lean into the fact that you're trying to celebrate losing.
SPEAKER_05:I'm trying to celebrate the bear. I don't think you realize the things I've witnessed over the past, like there's been probably actually Sam, I'm a football fan longer than you've been alive, dude.
SPEAKER_01:I've watched it. Yeah, but I've watched like every Bears game. And it's like You have? Who returned the opening kickoff for the Bears in the last Super Bowl that they went to? John Who's not you!
SPEAKER_05:Why you answering it? You don't even know who that is! John Who's our 28th president? You don't even know who that is. Who's our 28th president? I don't know. John Quincy Adams? No, that was our second. That was actually, no, that was John Adams was the second.
SPEAKER_04:What does that have any role in the world?
SPEAKER_05:But then can I argue? Can I argue you're not an American because you don't know that one? It wasn't in my lifetime.
SPEAKER_01:I wasn't alive when the 28th president of the United States was the 28th. You were alive? I'm saying I've watched ever since I've been with Kristen before you cut my eyes a couple years.
SPEAKER_05:No, I've been with Kristen eight years. Eight years and you're not married? But I've I'm I'm engaged, I have a date, but I had to do it.
SPEAKER_01:I said you I've chucked that one up there, Joe. He's just taking it too.
SPEAKER_05:The past few years I've been watching the Bears games. And I know I don't know every statistic. However, I do know usually some bad losses. They're usually bad, bad. Yeah, and this was this was a miracle.
SPEAKER_01:The Bears are a roller coaster of a franchise. 100%, right? The whole Lovey Smith era had ebbs and flows. You had Jay. Jay Cutler?
SPEAKER_02:Jay Cutler was a stud. Jay Cutler was the best worst quarterback ever. Ever. Like he was so good but so bad. Human being-wise and performance, he was so unlikable. We don't want to get into the human being side with Jay Cutler, but. He was so unlikable.
SPEAKER_01:Terribly unlike this many of a flying hoot.
SPEAKER_02:Brandon Marshall? Stud. Most catches in NFL history on the Bears in one single game. The start of Khalil Mack's career. Like, don't come at me with this Bears fan bullshit. Like I'm not.
SPEAKER_05:Oh, yeah. Okay, no. Now, being a fan of something, you don't have to answer a quiz. There's not a bunch of questions. Being a fan of the no, actually, I'll tell you why it's not, because this season alone, so many friends, family members, including my own father, have converted to Bears fans.
SPEAKER_02:They're called bandwagon fans. No. Yes. No.
SPEAKER_01:That's literally the definition. Can we pull the definition up on screen? Put it here. Make sure that it says explicitly explicitly that jumping onto a team while they are good is a bandwagon fan. Yeah. Someone who starts the players. I've been watching the Bears. Only when it becomes popular.
SPEAKER_05:I've been watching the Bears since before they were good. I watched several horrible losses. I remember when Jordan Love first came to the uh uh Packers. I remember that the hope in the air.
SPEAKER_04:This is three years ago. Yeah, I never claimed to be a lifelong fan. Is three years not enough for you? No, not for what you're claiming here. You're claiming like ride or die, hard and soul.
SPEAKER_05:Can someone not love something? Can I not say I love this team? This is my NFC favorite. You can, but that is completely different than what you've been saying.
SPEAKER_04:What have I been saying? Joe, have I said anything? It's outlandish. That's fair. I will say he's putting words in my mouth.
SPEAKER_03:He did pick the Bears to win the Super Bowl. Yeah. Thank you.
SPEAKER_04:Joe, how many years literally, like all year.
SPEAKER_05:All year I've been saying Bears, Bears. Yeah, he hasn't.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Well, but no, I've been talking about the Bears for several years that he got.
SPEAKER_03:At least he's been consistent. You've been consistent with supporting him all season.
SPEAKER_01:No, no, I'm not claiming you're a bandwagon fan, but I'm saying what you said about your dad is a bandwagon fan.
SPEAKER_05:Well, I think I think I think my dad has I think my dad has a little bit of me in him almost. No, I think he likes to kind of like stir the pot.
SPEAKER_01:Now it comes down. Pull his over here so much.
SPEAKER_05:But I will say, my buddy Devin, though, he was like anti-football. He was like, he's like real big into like MMA jujitsu. He's like, I don't watch that stuff. It's so boring. I hate football. He watched the last Steeler game. He's like, oh my god, this is so good. I'm hooked on it now. And I was like, you think this is bad? You gotta watch the Bears. Greatest sport on earth. He sat there and watched the Bears game with his old Italian grandmother, and he was like, this was like the most fun I've had in so long.
SPEAKER_01:Bears fan. I'm gonna knock it up for that. Because I'm I'm down for more people coming to the sport. Because it's like a bad rap for some reason.
SPEAKER_03:I'm eating that hot dog because I ate the hot dog. Only because you cleared wow, you tossed that thing now. I cleared mine. I'm starving, dude. This morning. Um I will say, you have been consistently a fan of them. I do think they didn't win. I think it's pointless. The season's over. You know, I think that that that is the biggest overall takeaway that I agree with John for.
SPEAKER_01:I wouldn't say pointless, I just don't celebrate losing.
SPEAKER_03:It's you don't win the Super Bowl. Like, what's the point? Everyone's trying to win the Super Bowl.
SPEAKER_01:They're there. I'll give you pushback there. If you don't win the Super Bowl, you're right. What's the point? But also the Bears are a Phoenix rising. Like they can't be able to do that. Yeah, like I think they are they are Caleb Williams, I think. Proving a lot. Ben Johnson, like, loved it. I'm so pissed that that dude isn't a Steelers coach. He's a great coach. He's gonna be like you just saw his defense. I mean, it's like 12 degrees last night. You're watching that game. Everyone's there like, hold my jackets and like frigid. And he's just standing there, just pissed.
SPEAKER_03:The most incredible part was like how invested the city was. Like the fans, as far as you could like not hear a voice, a beep in the stadium. They were all so quiet.
SPEAKER_01:That is a beautiful aspect. I mean, I sit here, I say Chicago, but Chicago is a phenomenal sports fan. Or city, yeah. Like they are ride or die lifers, they will literally die on the stake of like the Cubs and the if they're a White Sox fan. White Sox. Well, I don't know how many White Sox. But the Bulls and the Bears. Like they are phenomenal sports fans. I don't know if it would be considered the greatest sports city. Even the Blackhawks do. So like straight across the board. But we also have a phenomenal sports city. That's why I sit here and say five. Like, I believe in Pittsburgh. We stay across the board right now. At pretty much every sport. The Penn's got a shot to be something special this year, but it's like, look, it's really hard to like. Last ride, baby. Yeah. But all that being said, I just don't I don't think Chicagoans are sitting there right now, while they're drying their frozen tears, eating hot dogs, celebrating a good season.
SPEAKER_03:That's what I know.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I don't know.
SPEAKER_03:They're Super Bowl or bust. They are, but you know, they're like, you know what? Yeah, next year's already they're already on the next season. 100%.
SPEAKER_05:They're doing no one's sad in Chicago. They they surpassed every expectation that was.
SPEAKER_01:They for sure did.
SPEAKER_05:I mean, incredible season, great run. I'm just not going to celebrate. I will say one last thing just regarding Ben Johnson because it's been so funny to follow him. I almost feel like he's like a like a 12-year-old boy that got to become an adult overnight, where like it's so funny to watch him in the locker room because you watch these other coaches. There's a lot more like composure and decorum. And I'm sorry, it was so funny after that Packers game where he's like, the Packers! I hate those guys. They tried to ask him about in the interview. They're like, You were a little fired up there. You didn't like mean that, right? He's like, oh no, I hate those guys.
SPEAKER_01:That's why you dude, that is he coaching tree. Paint the picture for him. Where does he come from?
SPEAKER_03:Oh man, he come where he's um Dan Campbell.
SPEAKER_01:He's in Detroit. Was he anywhere before that? I don't know, but he caught on the map when he was in Detroit.
SPEAKER_03:I know that.
SPEAKER_01:And so Dan Campbell, the Lions hard on his sleeve coach, right? I mean, he was a player, he's been in tears. Uh you can tell that that man in his life, the biggest privilege he's ever been given is the opportunity to coach the Detroit Lions. And then you can see that trickle down to Ben Johnson. And so it's a beautiful thing. I 100% love that, right? Like I love seeing that that man just wears his heart on his sleeve, he's out there, he's coaching his face off, he's bringing dynamic to the sport and to the game that hasn't existed for a minute, and he's stone cold. Like stone cold. And I dude, what Chicago's doing is a beautiful thing. I'm a Pittsburgh fan, though. I'm not gonna sell that.
SPEAKER_05:You get an NFC too. I've declared that rule. No, you don't make a rule. He is the role master.
SPEAKER_01:No, our last video you did ask me. The Steelers won the division. We weren't sitting here eating Permanny sandwiches saying, oh gosh, let's celebrate a division title.
SPEAKER_05:Well Yeah, but we've already gone to the playoffs.
SPEAKER_03:We've already gone to the playoffs. I mean, you guys were sent them to the Super Bowl. You sent them to the Super Bowl. Believed.
SPEAKER_01:Joe, my buddy said it the other day. He goes, you know what? Moleque don't give a f. He's gonna be sitting in his seat, game one next season, believing the Steelers are making a run, just like I do every damn year. Yeah. I believe regardless, 100%. But you won't celebrate? No, I won't celebrate. I literally only celebrate winning.
SPEAKER_05:Let me close off with one stat then, Joe. What are the what are like in what are the odds we would go to a Super Bowl like in our lifetimes? How many Super Bowls do you think like the Steelers could get in our lifetimes? One or two. Okay. So that means there's like hypothetically, if we live like another 50 years. There's a 0% chance. You want to have 48 years of just not being happy about this one or not celebrate. Why? Why not? Because the standard's a standard. He's gone, but the standard is a standard. Super bowl or nothing. After the Steelers lost, I'm sorry, there wasn't a lot for us to celebrate. That was a hard loss. But a loss like this where it's tight, you can celebrate that.
SPEAKER_01:Loss is a loss. No, there's different types of losses. It was a prettier loss, but like a loss nonetheless.
SPEAKER_03:But spinning off of the Bears' uh loss and their pivotal matchup against the Rams on Sunday night football, that uh paves the way for the NFC and AFC championships. We're getting the Broncos versus the Pats and the Rams versus the Seahawks.
SPEAKER_01:Yep.
SPEAKER_03:Um what are your guys' thoughts, predictions going into that? Um who do you think comes out on top in the AFC and NFC?
SPEAKER_01:Let's start in the NFC Sam's favorite division. The only team in the back half of the season to give Seattle like a true game was the Rams. So Seattle, I wanna I don't want to see them win anything. I don't know why. I just have you know what it was? It was the Legion of Boom that made me so angry when they were good. They were so good. Legion of Boom. This is why we can't have this man in the room! Who's the Legion of Doom?
SPEAKER_02:Shut up. They related to Legion of Doom? Basically. They were worse.
SPEAKER_01:They were they were so good, but they were s I hate cocky football. Like I hate flashy. My the pinnacle of uh uh of a of an of a football player to me is like is uh TJ Watt does a really good job, I think, of not like being a very self-centered kind of celebratory person. I he doesn't talk about himself much, he's not in the media a ton. Larry Fitzgerald, very similar. Score a touchdown, Joe. What does he do with the ball? Hands it to the ref. Okay. I hate all the hoopla bullshit, celebrating touchdowns like this, smelling your finger, throwing you know, freaking knives and shit out. Like, I don't like any of that. Um, you watch people celebrate, they're like pulling swords out like you're like some elite fighter. I'm like, get get out of here. Like, what's the D-Bax do? The sword? No, no, it's not despicable.
SPEAKER_02:That's not a sword, John.
SPEAKER_01:I hate it. What is it?
SPEAKER_02:It's a seatbelt. That means they're strapped. They strap the receiver.
SPEAKER_01:Just so you know, it looks like a sword. Anyway, seatbelt, no haw zone. They're sheathing their swords. Regina Boom celebrated like like so hard, but they were so good. You like couldn't argue that it's just like one of those things. If you if you despise that type of football, they were in your face. Richard Sherman was playing at a like a an ungodly level. There was maybe only one corner that we'll ever see again. With but him and Revis like came out, Revis obviously was a little older back to back. Richard Sherman was playing literally lights out. He'd look any receiver in the league in the face and be like, I will, I'm gonna steal your soul, and then do it. And it was it was despicable. And they were so good. I just don't know why, but I just didn't like it. Right. Love Marshawn Lynch, but I like didn't like, and then they did it with Russ, right? And then Russ coming to the Steve's and doing nothing, like it makes me dislike him even more. Dude, the Legion of Booms, but Fed fans. So I want to see I want to see Seattle lose more than I want to see the Rams win, but I also love Matt Stafford. I'd love to see him. He gets another Super Bowl, first ballot Hall of Famer, I think. I just so you have you have the So I I have the Rams I'm rooting solely on fandom here. I think they're gonna go. I mean, I don't know if you saw, but they're they're they're registering earthquakes in Seattle last week. Really home game. Yeah, like the that twelve man's legit. Like it it's gonna be A rough game. I do think I think it's they I think they played twice this season. I think they're in the same division. I can't remember. Anyway, it went down to the wire for the division title for that number one seed between the Rams and Seattle, and it was a close game. I think the Rams can come back, pull it off. So I like them. So what do you think?
SPEAKER_05:I mean, I don't know enough about any of these teams to give like an actual like This is what I think is gonna happen mascot. What would I team colors? What I want to happen, I'd like the Rams to go over the Seahawks strictly just because I've I've got a neighbor that has been a Rams fan since he lived in LA like back in the 70s, and he's I just remember growing up, he watched them when they were the St. Louis Rams, and it was so sad. It's like you watch another game, Rob, it's like loss, loss, loss. So I have the Rams on that side. Broncos Patriots. I was telling Joe earlier what I want to happen. I know it won't happen, but I know Bonix is hurt, right? So there's one man out there, one legend that I think could get the job done for Denver. They bring in Phillip Rivers to send them to the promised land and then beat the Patriots, get to the Super Bowl, Phillip Rivers defeats the Rams fourth quarter with the Broncos. That's a fairy tale right there. It's not possible. But imagine if it could be. Imagine if that happened. You're unbelievable.
SPEAKER_03:Imagine it would feel scripted if that wasn't the case. I know.
SPEAKER_05:Come on, man. Give Phillip one more shot.
SPEAKER_01:The Colts. I think they still have his rights. Yeah, I don't think they waived him.
SPEAKER_05:So like Well, maybe he he he voids this contract. He says the money. He can't vote.
SPEAKER_03:Fuck the money.
SPEAKER_05:Maybe the owner, he's got it.
SPEAKER_03:He already got a pro-rated, you know. I don't know. Can they get Flacco out? Is Flacco free? Who you got?
SPEAKER_01:Who you got NFC?
SPEAKER_03:I originally had picked the Broncos versus Rams. Um I uh I would love to see the Broncos versus Rams, just to say my bracket was was right. However, I do think it's gonna be Seahawks Pats. I think we're gonna get a rematch. I think the Pats, I mean think I think Stidum's, you know, Bo Nick's being hurt puts a wrinkle on everything.
SPEAKER_01:Does if they do somehow get can we run the clip? Yeah. Did you see how he got hurt? Taking a knee. Taking a knee.
SPEAKER_05:It's like wait, that see, I was wondering because I watched the end of the game and I was like, how did he get hurt? How how did he take a knee like a defending knee someone who were up on turn sideways?
SPEAKER_01:And someone like fell on the room. Taking sideways to take the knee, and it was like you I don't know. It's crazy because every there's this weird thing with quarterbacks, right? It goes on the stat sheet as a negative stat. For some reason, I don't know why you didn't. You watch every veteran quarterback, they take two steps back, you get some. Like Brady used to like have him push forward and he would like take it, so he didn't get the negative stat. But they were just that was, I think, them asserting their dominance as the Pats. Wow. Um, but you take two steps back, take the knee, you take a two-yard loss. Yeah. He didn't do that. He like took this like weird sidestep thing, and then a defender fell and like smacked him in the knee. I saw the clip this morning.
SPEAKER_03:I was like, You know what would be an incredible Super Bowl that would ruin the NFL? If the Broncos won and the Seahawks won, but the Seahawks uh Sam Darnold's been having injury problems, oblique issues. If he gets hurt and we have to watch Drew Lockford's character. The backup bowl. The backup bowl. That's more probable, Pola, than your theory of Phillip Rivers.
SPEAKER_01:There's no way they're signing someone off the street. That's ridiculous.
SPEAKER_05:Didn't they do that in that one Mark Wahlberg movie about the Eagles? They're like, we're having open tryouts at the beginning of the season. He's just hanging out in a bar. He's like, I guess I'll be the quarterback for the Eagles Vince Papalio on the on the kickoff.
SPEAKER_01:He was a special teamer. Uh he wasn't a quarterback.
SPEAKER_03:Um, I I think we have some good games coming up, some fresh faces, at least from the past couple seasons. Um, I think it'll be some good football. Now, that leads us into our next craze.
SPEAKER_01:I didn't get my AFC.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, sorry, who do you who do you have?
SPEAKER_01:So, this is probably gonna be a hot take. My Yinzerness obviously doesn't want to see the Pats go to the Super Bowl because that gives them a chance at getting at seven before the Steelers do. Golly, do I love me some Vrabel? Like, I'd run through a wall for Vrabel. That man rules. I I I want right now for me. I'm looking at it, I'm like, I want the Rams to beat the Seahawks. It's gonna be a tight game. I don't know. And then I I think the Pats do win just because Bonex is out. Um and in the Super Bowl, I don't think the Pats can stop the Seahawks. I think they could beat the Rams. I don't think the Rams have the pass rush that they need to like on defense. No, they they they were just in like a too high shell last night. It was like beating up Caleb, right? And it was wild because he he made a bunch of mistakes. Um I didn't catch the Broncos game, but like the I hate it. I hate so much that I'm like, I don't want I'd love to see Vrabel win and and this is his first season as their head coach, right? Yeah, like returned the prodigal son, returns back to where he played, won multiple Super Bowls, takes them to the ship, does it, gets it done. Like, it's such a good story. And that dude is what football should be. Um so it sucks as a Ian's there to say it, but I think it's actually gonna go.
SPEAKER_03:But here's the thing, it feels different this year with the Patriots. It's not Tom Brady Patriots. But it's still I get it, I get it still the Patriots, but I think something about Tom Brady being just Tom Brady himself winning a Super Bowl, yeah, just pissed every Steelers fan off ever. So, like it's Drake May, he's young.
SPEAKER_01:How crazy is it that the the Patriots are able to go from having Brady to like cluster to back to dominance? Yeah. And that in the same time the Steelers like literally can't figure shit out.
SPEAKER_03:Shows you what happens whenever you uh you take some losses, you draft well, and you rebuild.
SPEAKER_01:But hey, I mean, they weren't intentionally taking losses, they just happened to take losses.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, they just were shit.
SPEAKER_01:No, you see the writing on the wall. Like, that's the thing that's gonna be the next level of the Steelers is like, are they gonna buy into someone for 20 years? Meanwhile, they're interviewing coaches that have no young They got some young coaches in the mix. They do, but like they're top right now and what's the Steel House. I'm I'm all in for that. I'm not in for McCarthy. Not gonna take a look at the city. Yeah, that yeah, that's it. I love McCarthy. Your time's over, bro. Go retire. Like in Flores.
SPEAKER_03:McCarthy would be a terrible head.
SPEAKER_01:Flores is a dictator, so he's not gonna be able to. I don't know, that locker room. He's already here. Like if he would have if he was I don't know. Anyway, get him out of football because this isn't a football show. Sam, take us into the next segment. Uh do my best.
SPEAKER_05:Um, so we have uh compiled here a list of di well, we have a list of different yeah, these are a bit pungent. Maybe we might I'm gonna scoot these off the table. Hold on. We have a list of uh some some common movie villains. So Joe thought it would be nice to for us to do a Mount Rushmore of movie villains. Now you are not limited to the villains on this list, these are just uh give you something to reference here, but you're gonna pick up.
SPEAKER_01:This is uh this is a ridiculous list.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, four top movie villains.
SPEAKER_01:I feel like we should have subcategorized or something. This is like all over the place.
SPEAKER_03:They're just the most popular villains on any show.
SPEAKER_01:I know. But it's like you're going from sci-fi to like horror to a lot of villains. Yeah. I'm gonna throw a wild card out there because I think it's a I think it's one of the most fantastic acting jobs and like just such a good movie. But I love seeing uh Hans Londa on there from Inglorious Bastards. He was so so good in that role. Yeah. Right? Like uh you didn't even see that, did you?
SPEAKER_05:I've seen Inglorious Bastards. I don't remember which one's Hans Landa. He's the damn it.
SPEAKER_01:I'll show you. Yeah, you showed me a photo of him. He's the main guy in the whole movie. He's he uh so he actually is Oh oh uh what's that actor's name?
SPEAKER_05:He's in all the Tarantino movies. What's his name? He's the guy that was eating the cake all funky, yes. He what's his name?
SPEAKER_01:Um, Christoph Waltz. Yeah, Christoph Waltz. Christoph Waltz actually speaks all the languages he spoke in the movie, right? And he's just so such he's such a dick, right? And you like there's so many, like I don't know, it's just such a good deep depth character. Like Mount Rushmore since the movie's satire, I don't know. I love seeing that on there. So um I mean Mount Rushmore of movie villains go. Are we going by quality of the acting or just period? Like just I think just up to you. I think quality I think it's up to you. I think I'm going with quality of the I don't know. I think it all plays a role in the Voldemort, it's like f ⁇ ing evil as shit, right? But like there's no quality in that acting. Like you're not a good actor, you're not sitting there like I'm terrified. But then you think about like the Joker, like the Joker, the Dark Knight, like Heath Ledgers, is 100% acting. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. The Joker, you could if you watch the cartoon, you're like, what a f nerd, right? But like you watch that movie, you're like, that dude is sick. Like he's twisted his so that's why I'm asking the question. I already have my four, so whatever you think. Okay, go for your four.
SPEAKER_05:I'm going too adult. What metrics are we measuring this on here? Going too adult with this, I guess.
SPEAKER_03:Mount Rushmore movie villains. There's only four right answers here. I think there's a there's a there's a four here that I'm gonna give you. Your young ass is Darth Vader. He's on there. No order, by the way. No, no specific order. We got Darth Vader. Uh The Joker, Heath Ledger, his favorite movie villain of all time, Voldemort, and Thanos. That's it.
SPEAKER_01:You might as well have like a 12-year-old girl come in here.
SPEAKER_03:You know that's wrong, too. So those are the four. I mean, you could go off movie popularity, you could go off of the only one I get to do. Those are four of the biggest franchises. Harry Potter, Marvel, you go into Star Wars. I mean, come on. Dark Knight, one of the best movies of all time.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, you just cherry-picked.
SPEAKER_05:I didn't cherry pick. I did cherry picked. Darth Vader turns it around in the end, though. You cherry-picked that cherry pick.
SPEAKER_02:Cherry picked. You know that's a great four. That's pretty good. I you know what? The only thing I didn't like from the four. I know you don't like Harry Potter, but that's a pretty good I like Harry Potter.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, like, Voldemort's not like scary at all to me. I'm like, this dude, like, there's nothing there for me. It's generationally, you guys were kids when that moved those movies. I get it. Like, that's for that for me would be Agent Smith from The Matrix. Like, he was a like a twisted villain. Like when The Matrix was popular, I was the same age you were when Harry Potter was popular. So I get it. It's a great villain. Also, the T1000 would be from Terminator 1 and Terminator 2. He's actually fighting for Sarah Connor and John Connor.
SPEAKER_03:So Well, no one can see his list, so that's correction there.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, gosh. But I knew you were picking Thanos because I know you love him, right? Uh I know you love that franchise, which is great. Um I'm gonna I'm gonna actually I'm gonna let you go. I don't think any minor on this list.
SPEAKER_05:I'm gonna give them how is that possible?
SPEAKER_01:I'm gonna give him the Howard Zero of your attack.
SPEAKER_05:Go ahead. Number one. This one's probably the lightest of them all. I'm gonna say Commodus from Gladiator. Great character. That's a solid. Yeah, it's really good. Very hateable.
SPEAKER_01:This is why I'm saying like you like franchises. Like we if we could have bracketed maybe. No, because that's like how do you believe that? How do you leave Joaquin's role as Commodus off? He was so hated. I just asked Chad GPT to give me the most popular one of his stupid, those stupid robots. It's a good list. I would I think if we get into specificity though, then we can have like more engaged conversation.
SPEAKER_05:Anyway, yeah, Commodus is pretty evil. I I think even just strictly off that one line alone, he like says that evil shit to Russell Crowe about like his wife and kid. I'm like, whoa, that was some evil stuff right there. Uh under him, I'm gonna say uh Calvin Candy from Django, uh uh Leonardo DiCaprio's character. He was pretty just raw, evil. There was no like, oh, there's a little likable quality about him where there's like nothing really there. You ever seen the clip of him actually shattering that glass?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and he's real, he's like bleeding and he's just in it. You're like, love Leo.
SPEAKER_05:He's pretty raw. And then I'm gonna say you've never seen the boys, have you? No. I'm gonna say homelanders.
SPEAKER_03:Homelanders are wow. That's that's ball knowledge again. Yeah, pull is pulling some. That's that's a that's a Homelander.
SPEAKER_05:I've seen some of the most up things.
SPEAKER_01:Uh so that I I'm not gonna lie, my buddies didn't like start talking about that show, and that show didn't come to fruition until I I uh became a dad. So because I have daughters, I was like, I don't want to watch this. Like this shit. It shows fed up. It's just like f sick humor. Yeah, it's not enough.
SPEAKER_05:It's not even humor. Sometimes it's just pointless violence. Yeah, the comics are worse too.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, I guess the terrifier's not even on this list. He's a stupid ass villain. Yeah. Never seen those movies.
SPEAKER_05:My final one, this one, I think you should get to have a villain you like too. I'm gonna say Ris Raspucia Lattimore from Norbit. What a villain. What a villain. Not many, not many positive attributes there. I mean, she she cheats on Norbit. She almost kills a dog. She assaults many men, women, and children throughout the course of the film. She lies about being pregnant. I mean, you know, just lost me on that one.
SPEAKER_01:But the first three were great. I don't even know what the f the Norbit is.
SPEAKER_05:Joe, Google Raspucia Lattimore from Norbit. Norbit, it's what is Norbit? You've seen Norbit, you know Norbit. No, no, I'm just lying. It's an Eddie Murphy film starring Eddie Murphy, Eddie Murphy, and Eddie Murphy. And Eddie Murphy actually plays his own wife in the film, Raspucia Lattimore. And yeah, from the time they're kids, she actually tricks him into getting married. And uh, yeah, she's a big old bully, I'll tell you what. Okay, anyway. Lost before that last one.
SPEAKER_01:Those are my four who know how to really turn a conversation. Rasputin. Rasputin, Lattimore? Rasputia. Rasputin. Someone goes on that. Going into like historical figures, he's like, Hannibal. You were like Hannibal Electric? No, Hannibal. The historical figure. He's like, Genghis God. I'm like, it's Sam. Anyway. Um, so I I will I'm I'm I want more specificity, but if I'm just going gut off the top here, number one, and this probably for me it's Sauron um from Lord of the Rings. The problem with this is that he's not physically a character in the movies, so you guys are gonna sit here and be like or whatever. But like this man was like a world destroyer before Thanos was even a thought.
SPEAKER_03:I I don't know, I thought you were.
SPEAKER_01:And so the um yeah, like if you if you actually get into like Lord of the Rings stuff, like this this is this is an evil song bitch, um, which which is pretty pretty uh pretty cool. And I think that the uh like um the depiction of that character in the shows is like he's like in people's souls. He doesn't exist physically. I think that's that's pretty um he's a big eye on the tower, right?
SPEAKER_05:He's that oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01:So but he's actually a being that exists in the world in Middle Earth. That was a he's he's he's physically capable of embodying other humans. He came comes from like uh the the he's like a disciple of Morgoth. He kills the guy that the he kills the the the the existence of evil in order to become the most evil thing. Wow, in thousands of years previously.
SPEAKER_02:So like when the world sounds like a committed folk, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:No, essentially he's like thousands of years old. When the world was created, there it was like created by the the the whatever greater being exists in the Middle Earth, right? And then there was a bunch of um siblings that were like given the ability to keep this like easy to understand, given the ability to run the world. Well, the one Morgoth was jealous of another one, and so he became evil, whatever, and then for like a thousand years, all he tried to do was just kill his family and take over the whole world. And one of his disciples was Sauron, who ends up killing him and then becoming the most evil thing in existence of human like all of all of everything, and then he's defeated, blah blah blah blah. So I can't believe he killed the existence of evil itself, right? He be the yeah, Morgoth became so I might have to change my list.
SPEAKER_03:That sounds pretty sinister, man.
SPEAKER_01:It's it's as sinister as Thanos, right? Like Thanos wanting to kill half the universe, but Stanos was hard because they made him likable in regards to like he was trying to save humanity kind of thing. It was it was it was pretty interesting. I can't I'm not putting us on my list though. I'd like to see him trying to kill Raspucha. Raspuchia. Raspucha get a backhand and then she's gone. Like I that that's a that's a awful one. Um so man, this is I don't the Joker's obviously on there. Uh only the Heath Ledger Dark Knight version of the Joker. Um just such a such a good great acting joke. Like it obviously gets the nods where the nods are deserved. Um I will say this. This is an interesting one, and I'm gonna throw it in there as a curveball. I am gonna, from the list that's sitting in front of us, and just like I don't know. Joe Joe's got what, 10, 15 names in front of us. Um I'm for some reason I'm always just like into the heroes. I'm you know, I'm a I'm a pussy in that regard. Um so oh no, you were right. Actually, I go back to the T2, the T1000 was the um it wasn't Arnold Schwarzenegger's. Um I I was mistaken there. I was so fired up in the moment.
SPEAKER_03:Um You're not gonna pick the Wizard of Oz? Wicked of the West.
SPEAKER_01:No, not into that at all. Um Wicked sucks. Um the the Anton Kitchen Girth's role in No Country for Old Men, where he was walking around killing people with a cattle prod. Or the like like the cattle air canister. It was just such a sinister I feel I feel like for me, um it was just one of those like one-off characters that was just like did it for me. Um but I hate to agree with Joe. Vader's gotta be on there, so Anton's not on there, and then I really I'm gonna have to give it to I'm gonna have to give it to Hannibal Lecter. At the time it came out in my my age. Hannibal Lecter Eating Your Brains with Fava Beans was pretty dub. Clarice. Yeah, and and that was actually filmed in Pittsburgh, so shout out to the William Penn Omni and the 13th floor dungeon that they shot that in. We know exactly where that was filmed. I don't know if it's a 13th, but it's actually it was filmed in one of the basements that you can no longer get to because none of the uh elevators work, and it's actually, I think, filled with water. That's creepy. Yeah, it's filled with water because of like, you know, it's so far underground or whatever. It's pretty wild stuff though. So uh that was a that was a that was a good one, Joe. Two minutes, it's like a blue ocean though, I feel like it's just a lot, you know.
SPEAKER_03:And now that leads us into you know, talking about movies makes us hungry. You know, I am hungry because I didn't know. Sam and I had a conversation. We had a conversation uh on a road trip a couple months ago. We were stopping at some gas stations, and we were rating these gas stations just based off of overall, just like how good are they as a complete one-stop shop. You know, you stop there, you get gas, and you're also getting food, beverage, whatever you could indulge in. What are the top five gas stations in the United States? We have a list of ten of the most popular, rank them one to five.
SPEAKER_05:I haven't traveled enough to be a I think I think I got my five. I'm gonna go from five up to one. Okay. So I feel like number five, I'm throwing QT on there, a quick trip. There were like a million of those in the South. It's like the sheets of the South, but they don't have a huge food menu. But I will say I uh I used to indulge in their breakfast pizza from time to time. Nothing like a good seven a.m. slice of QT breakfast pizza. Uh so that's that's in my heart there, so I'm gonna give it number five. Uh Uh, number four, I'm gonna go. I don't want to do it, but I think I have to do it. I guess I'm gonna go 7-Eleven. Number four. He's about to get this pinch in the face. Now, 7-Eleven's not necessarily known for their quality or their uh their taste, but they're dependable. They're always there. It may not be the best, it may not be hot, it may not be within the expiration date, but it's there for you when you're not wrong in that sense of like there's 7-Elevens everywhere. I will say 7-Eleven is the best place to hear hear some stranger conversation that you'll just talk about for like hours on end afterwards. I've heard some crazy shit in the 7-Eleven.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, you take too much time in a I gotta get in and out. I'm not you're spending too much time.
SPEAKER_05:Take your time perusing there. Uh after that, where are we on the number three now? I'm gonna say number three. Uh I guess we'll go Bucky's. Bucky's is pretty sick. Uh, super clean gas station. The food's food's not too bad. They got a wild assortment of snacks and such. Uh number two, I'll go sheets, dependable sheets. They've got wide assortment of food, they've got everything a growing boy needs to sustain a healthy lifestyle, very good gas station. And I'm sorry. What? I'm sorry. Number one, it's not on the list, but I remember their chicken. It's like burned into my skull. It's so good. Spinx. Spinx gas station. Best gas station fried chicken that's out there. Oh my god, the amount of Sphinx chicken I've put in my body is is just is should be illegal. John, if you had the Sphinx chicken, you'd agree with me with me. You'd agree with me.
SPEAKER_01:You have no loyalty.
SPEAKER_05:Get him some. You are you are you are Joe. Can we get some Sphinx chicken? You are despicable. Come on, man. Despicable. Get some Sphinx chicken in them. Despicable.
SPEAKER_01:Those are my five.
SPEAKER_02:I I can't believe you just did that. You were you were. I don't even want to rank mine anymore. There's sheets and nothing else.
SPEAKER_01:I got nothing. I don't go to enough gas stations or hang out at gas stations. I don't care about gas stations enough. There's only one gas station. It holds Supreme. Globally. United front. Sheets all day, baby. Let's go. Number two. I think Sheets is a solid wall. He's ranking a gas station no one's heard of. Yeah. Joe, look up Sphinx. It's like you sent me. I could Google anything. You're saying the greatest drink ever made was one you made for yourself.
SPEAKER_05:S-P-I-N-X, and it's weird because their logo is a Sphinx, but they spell it different.
SPEAKER_03:There you go. I've never seen or heard of a Sphinx.
SPEAKER_05:Making life easier. What a nice slogan.
SPEAKER_01:Bro, they were First off, never been to Bucky's. I don't remember any time I've ever been to Wawa's, never heard of Casey's. Speedway, 7 Eleven trash. Like you can't just rank things because they they exist. BP.
SPEAKER_03:I think Sheets is like a top tier. Sheets is one. Never been to a Sheets, go to a Sheets. They have everything. It's quality. It's you know, maybe not the healthiest, but it's it's it they make it in front of you. They have a wide assortment. They have alcohol.
SPEAKER_01:They booze.
SPEAKER_03:They have they have literally everything you could want. Nicotine, cigarettes, go up drunk, and get some goodies to eat.
SPEAKER_01:Or you could get drunk and then get the goodies.
SPEAKER_03:It is the a lot of them have car washes. It is a one-stop shop. Competitive gas prices in your local area, potentially. I can't verify that one, but that is definitely one. I think two, Buckeys. You have to go to a Bucky's in Texas. When I lived in Texas, I went to the largest Buckeys, and it was incredible. Bucky's is just like a it's a whole different world.
SPEAKER_01:Buckeys, you want to bring us down to to check you out? I mean, we'd love to film an unscrewed video there. I've I've never been to a Buckeys. I've dude you can anytime I go down south, I'm I'm flying, so like I don't have a car.
SPEAKER_03:I've heard of Buckeys that have movie theaters in them.
SPEAKER_01:I heard Bucky's got it all. They have everything. I mean I heard that you can start at a Bucky's at the beginning of the day and then end at a Buckeys? At a Buckeys. Yeah. 24 hours at a Buckeys and do something different for a Bucky's.
SPEAKER_03:They have everything. Casey's, I think you left Casey's off. You ever been to a Casey's? Casey's is great. Do you remember the Casey's we stopped at when we went down to Tennessee? That was a bad Casey's. I think they're all like that. We were in Louisville.
SPEAKER_05:I don't know, like That was a rough one. The floors were covered in urine. There were active fights going on. We're in Tennessee there.
SPEAKER_03:I take that with a grain of salt. Like I love Tennessee, but I mean we're just anyways. I I think I was just gonna say, I think 7-Eleven has to be on the list just because they're everywhere. Um then you know Speedway, Speedway is always a solid gas station. I hate Wawa. People that always argue Wawa is better than sheets, Wawa is the best, Wawa's this and that. Wawa's disappointed me every time I've been in Wawa.
SPEAKER_01:It's just Philly people that are constantly thinking Philly's better than everyone else.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah, that yes.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. What about Amaco, huh?
SPEAKER_03:I don't know if that went off. It wasn't. Is that the one?
SPEAKER_01:I'm pretty sure they're gone. They went bankrupt.
SPEAKER_03:There's a local, we can rank some local gas stations that no one knows of.
SPEAKER_05:There's a couple of Sinclairs still left out there. I saw some when I drove to Denver. I don't even know what that is.
SPEAKER_01:What's that new one popping up? Um uh I don't know it'll come to me. Anyway, the uh yeah, the con I this is just like there's there's only one. There's it's like one ring to rule them all. Yeah. Right? There's one gas station.
SPEAKER_03:I will go out of my way to find a sheets, even if it is past like another gas station that's closer.
SPEAKER_01:If I'm under like a hundred miles and I'm on a road trip and I know their sheets, go the extra 75. I'm I'm looking, I'm stopping at the first sheets I see. Yeah. Right? Like I'm not going to I'm not gonna push it to like I have eight miles left in the tank. No, I'm filling that sucker up the next sheets. Why? I know what I'm getting. I'm going in there. If I'm if I'm feeling real chubby, I'm gonna get something on the schmuch menu. Shmish get schmegel.
SPEAKER_03:Dude, they have a coffee monster. Yeah, I feel like I'm trying to sell you on this. I don't know why. They have like a lot of people.
SPEAKER_05:I will say I will say Sphinx had that that nice uh on-demand coffee machine before Sheets. Because when I used to drive back up to Pennsylvania, I was like, Sheets has to get one of these. And they finally did, but it's not as good. Sphinx had the one, you'd like hit it, and it'd have like a crema on it on your coffee. It would have like a two and a half inch creme. It doesn't have a crema like this, it has like a little one.
SPEAKER_01:You don't even like crema. You're over here making Maxwell House in a pot because she's gonna be a good one.
SPEAKER_05:I got in trouble for that too, by the way. Kristen was like, Oh, I was listening to that podcast. Should I get you a coffee pot? I'm like, no, I don't need a coffee pot. I don't know if she's like, You keep drinking all my fing coffee out of this espresso machine. She's like, You like this better one?
SPEAKER_01:I just get you a yeah, Kristen, you rock this guy.
SPEAKER_05:He's wishy-washy as shit. Come on, I like them both.
SPEAKER_01:Wishy-washy as shit.
SPEAKER_05:Like I said you get an AFC and an NFC. You get a dirty coffee and a good coffee.
SPEAKER_03:You know why I feel betrayed? I feel betrayed right now just because we could even pop up that unscrewed video clip. You you explicitly ranked ready to go to war.
SPEAKER_05:We didn't go to the Sphinx though.
SPEAKER_02:You gave them a nine. But nine too. You're ranking Spinx on one thing you get there. The fried chicken.
SPEAKER_05:You've never had it. You know, you don't understand.
SPEAKER_02:I'm sure there's better fried chicken at other places, you might as well.
SPEAKER_03:Not at other gas stations. But why not? Why are you getting fried chicken at a gas station? Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:That was like a big thing in the South. It was weird if there wasn't fried chicken stations.
SPEAKER_01:Anyone in the South. I want to know how to do it.
SPEAKER_03:We have other restaurants in the South for fried chicken.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, but you're it's like lunchtime. You're on the go. Are you getting like a chicken tender or are you getting like a bucket of like chicken?
SPEAKER_01:Bone in chicken wings. How many of you ends in the South are getting fried chicken at a gas station? Like this does not sound the worst. There's Chester's chicken. Have you ever got that?
SPEAKER_05:It's not a gas station. No, Chester's chicken they have attached to a lot of gas stations. Like a BP, you get some Chester's chicken. It's not as good as Spanks.
SPEAKER_03:Where do we go? What was that gas station we went to that had that restaurant next to it? Was it Hardy's? Yeah, I think it was a Hardy's way with a Hardee's. Sam insisted on getting a Hardee's burger. He's like, Joe, it's gonna be great. You want one? I'm like, no, I'm good, man. I'll just have some gas station snacks. I had some like, you know, cheese and pretzels and some grapes.
SPEAKER_02:Yep.
SPEAKER_03:He's like, no, Joe, you need to get one. I'm like, I'm good, man. He's like, it's gonna be, he ate it. He's like, this is so good. Five minutes later, is snoring. He wakes up and he's like, I don't feel good, man. Like I gorged myself.
SPEAKER_05:It was like a triple layer cheeseburger at this massive strawberry milkshake, a bunch of fries, and I just like, Joe, I don't feel good, man.
SPEAKER_02:We might have to stop again. Uh I'm feeling remote. A grown adult drinks a strawberry milkshake and thinks they're gonna feel good. I don't know.
SPEAKER_01:I think it was the burger, not even the shake. I will say that the joke, like that much. The lactose and the sugar and a milk.
SPEAKER_05:After about 45 minutes, I was good though. My body just was like, all right, we got Sam.
SPEAKER_03:We got two. Because he kept saying the whole time, you just gotta build your body up, Joe. You gotta you gotta become immune to it. Like cockroach. Unbelievable. What do we got? What else we got here today? Speaking about uh you know going to the gas station, we we were having another conversation about how absurd car prices have become. Have you noticed that? Like car prices are like when I was a kid, I remember my dad would go into a Ford dealership, brand new truck for its business, thirty thousand dollars. I mean, full pickup, loaded, brand new. Nowadays, you know, you have to give your firstborn and cut off an arm or a leg just to get a vehicle. I mean, it's nuts.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah. Yeah, the MSRPs have gotten wild, and then you get that other layer of the dealership itself, because it's like, oh, this is what the sticker price is, but you know, if it's deemed to be like a like a rare car, it's like we're having trouble getting these in. It's like we threw another like 15,000 on the sticker price, and then you have to negotiate with some guy with a mustache, and then you just walk out feeling dejected.
SPEAKER_03:They all have mustaches.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, they do have mustaches. It's a sign of power.
SPEAKER_03:That is nuts.
SPEAKER_05:You're trying to get in your head, man.
SPEAKER_03:All the hidden fees, too. I I hate that about going to car dealerships, like taxes and titles and dock fees and all that other stuff. They just don't I wish they advertised it better. I get it's different for everybody, but like Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:It's just scary how quickly it seems like it happened. Because I remember back in like which I guess this is a little bit ago now, but like back in like 2013, like I remember being like like 16 and you start looking for cars. It was a hundred percent possible to get like a reliable beater for like a thousand dollars. It's like it's not gonna be anything crazy. It's like a Toyota Corolla with like 150,000 miles on it, but you could get that for a thousand dollars and it's like ready to go, inspected. You could drive it. There's nothing you could get for I think even five thousand is hard today. Like it's just how much did your first car cost? Five thousand on the dot.
SPEAKER_03:Is that the Jeddah?
SPEAKER_05:No, no. My first car whenever I was 60. Well, the first one I ever bought, it was a 97 F-250 with that big old 7.5 liter, 460 cubic inch engine in there. Five five speed manual.
SPEAKER_03:Gonna get a helius for the zero turning that thing on.
SPEAKER_05:Oh, it was no, it sounded so good. It was loud, but like a classy loud. It was it was like it would just rumble. And if you wanted to make it loud, you could you give it some gas. But five grand for that. Right now, if you tried to buy that same exact truck, it'd be like 15 to 20 any day of the week. What color? Red, maroon. How big were the wheels? I don't know. Big. You suck.
SPEAKER_03:Do you ever watch Steve Austin? Stone Cold? No.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, I've been watching a Vince McMahon documentary on Netflix. No, he hasn't. Yes, I have.
SPEAKER_03:No, about a Stone Cold.
SPEAKER_05:Mort Kilo. Yeah, I actually watched.
SPEAKER_03:No, like I guess that's what he was doing.
SPEAKER_05:I was trying to get you to do the participate. Yeah, sorry, I went right over my head. Yep.
SPEAKER_03:It's been trending too right now. People have been doing it with Lego collections. It should.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, what you got what was your first view for when you were a kid back in?
SPEAKER_01:Young puppies here. Um 2013. I I uh I bought it was my second or third year in the NFL. I remember buying a fully loaded Ford FX4.
SPEAKER_03:Um FX4, what was that?
SPEAKER_01:It's like their it was like their Lariat upgraded Lariat package um back in the day. Uh and it was, I remember it was like 55 grand, which was pricey. Um then I immediately drove it to my buddy's house who put a six-inch lift 35 and a 20-inch ring on it.
SPEAKER_04:John, this car's depreciated.
SPEAKER_01:So my first car was actually a Honda Accord that my grandparents gave the family because they like went from two cars to one car or whatever, and I was the oldest grandkid. So I didn't have to buy it. And um my dad bet me when I was 12. He's like, if you get a scholarship to college, I'll buy your truck. And so I I started driving, and then I got a scholarship like six months later, and so we went truck hunting, and the first truck he bought it, I didn't buy it, so I am a spoiled little brat. Thank you, Pops. Um it was a 2004 Black Ford F-150 STX, and it was$24,000. It was like a work truck, so it had the extended cab, not the full, so like the seats in the back were smaller. The inside of it you could open the door and hose off the floor mats because it was a little bit more than a little bit. Uh a rubber seat, um they had a it had a bench seat with a flip-down middle. Yeah. Um, and I put like every dollar I ever made as a kid as a teenager into it because I I didn't actually have to get a job, thankfully. Um, I was just playing football. So I would like cut grass, roof mulch, do like all kinds of side work to get money, and um all that went into that truck. I drove that truck until I was a rookie in the NFL. Um and she had a good life. When I sold I traded in for that FX4 I was telling you about, and my dad made me pay him back. Um you did buy it yourself. So but yeah, I mean, I remember looking at trucks back then, and you could get like a it was like a Tacoma at the time was the other truck that was in that price range, like 25 grand. And that Tacoma Um was like it was just too small and didn't have like I don't know for for what we wanted, what I wanted. Um but it is wild to see now like that same like level of truck is like 50 to 60,000 for like just a bare bones ass truck. Oh yeah. That had an eight five, I'm gonna say a no six point, yeah, six point two liter VA was in that. And then I had a five five in that FTX, FX4, if I recall. Um but it was it's it's pretty insane. I mean, I was at the car dealership last week, Sarah's was getting service, and I was picking it up, and I'm looking and I'm like, should we get a van for the business or should we get another, should we get like a bigger pickup truck for towing? Because Sam almost killed himself towing that scissor lift we rented. And I was like, oh, let me look at a 250. The one on they had two on the lot,$97,000. Wow, yeah. They had the second one on the lot,$95. Now they were sick. I mean, one was a$350 tremor, the other one was a platinum. But like they don't have a reason to make these trucks cheap anymore. You can now you can get like cheap ones built for business. And my my outlook on vehicles now is completely different as a business owner. Like they're obviously if you're using them for work, they're a tax deduction. Um, so I've never been in the world of like trying to get a cheap affordable vehicle. I do have my fourth kid showing up though, so that'll probably come. Um yeah, it's absurd, man. It's it's it's one of those things where you're like, how are you supposed to overcome this financial burden of having a vehicle is a necessity? And it's actually I wonder it's actually be interesting to see the the statistics globally of when ride shares became popular and then like the increase of the cost of vehicles because of it, right? It's like, oh, you don't need to buy cars anymore. They're like, well, they can't let that that's a global economy within an industry. Yeah. Like vehicles. Yeah, you guys, because you gotta remember, you've got how much global how many different data points are globally tied to the automotive industry, period. It's like you can't let that collapse globally, so they have to prop it up so we can actually jack the prices up. Even though it was like you don't need a car anymore, you can Uber everywhere. It's like no, you can't, bitch.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, it is like it's wild to see. I I think the thing that makes it like just extra hard too is like it wouldn't be that bad if like the prices are getting jacked up, but they're still like very like reliable, dependable cars, things that you could have over your lifetime and service, but it's getting like more and more frightening, even how they approach these vehicles with maintenance. Like I saw I got served this piece of short form on uh one of the new Broncos in like a dealership, and they're like, It's like we made sure designed this Bronco so it was like easy to work on. I'm like, that's lovely. And they're like, you could take the whole the whole thing off the frame with just a few bolts here, and then they lift it off there. I'm like, oh, you mean you make it easier to work on at the dealership? Like, no one's gonna be able to lift that thing off the frame at their house.
SPEAKER_03:Like the they did it with the Rangers when they re redid them. Yeah. People hated it.
SPEAKER_05:It's it's ridiculous. That and all the engines, too. They're trying to meet like these like just insane fuel emission standards. So they're just like putting like turbos on smaller and smaller engines. So, you know, you'd have like a like in years past, like a naturally aspirated engine that could go for like two, three hundred thousand miles, it's like not anymore. Direct injection, forced induction, like yeah, this thing's gonna burn out so quick. That's okay, bring it back to the dealership, trade in, get another one, and you'll keep paying us until the economics of the automotive industry are wild.
SPEAKER_01:Like the depths and the moves and the blah blah. It's it's insane. Oh, yeah. Have you guys ever seen the video of them building um a Jeep from uh literally nothing uh on an Air Force base back in like I think it's the 30s or 40s? It's a pretty insane video. They put a whole Jeep together, drivable Jeep, in like 98 seconds or something. That's insane, right? And you're like the whole damn car bolts together. It's cool as shit.
SPEAKER_03:There's this guy that's been going Uber viral right now. He bought a Bugatti that was wrecked and he's trying to fix it, and he's doing it all himself, not using the dealership. And it's I I'll find it and show you guys the clips, but it's been this big thing of him trying to prove that uh Bugatti's just like ripping people off. Oh, a thousand percent. And you don't have to be able to do that. You're not paying for quality. Yeah, you can go spend you know 20 grand on brakes, you know what I mean? Like, do they actually cost that much? So he bought a totaled one and then he's he's redoing it and going through the process.
SPEAKER_01:But like the labor, I'm saying. Oh, oh, but the car's good. Yeah, no, no, no. I mean, like, it's like going if you go to Mercedes. The maintenance on a Mercedes is equivocally four or five, six X on then it is. I'll show you the video.
SPEAKER_05:I do think with a Bugatti, though, I feel like that'd be a little bit different, though. Okay, I'll give you an example. Like of a Mercedes.
SPEAKER_03:I don't know the exact numbers, but he was trying to get the front right headlight like broken because it was a total Bugatti. He uh he bought it, is like redoing it, he's a millionaire. The front light head headlight, he got quoted at like I think it was like 15 grand or something like that, yeah. Just to replace it. Yeah, and he's like, I 3D printed like a mold and someone's gonna come do it. There's no way it's worth$15,000 to get that replaced.
SPEAKER_05:Not like cosmetic stuff. The engine, though, that's that's so here's the thing you have to watch to it.
SPEAKER_01:He broke it down. I I don't know, man. Oh, really? Yeah, you have to think about like the time value and in order to do that, right? Like, yeah, you you like you can't you can't sit here and say like working on a Bugatti should be cheap. Like, no, it's a Bugatti. Like you're you're completely right. Like, it's not like you can just drive down to your logo or an automotive parts store and snag up a headlight. Yeah, it's like but the the other part of it is it's like yes, he can 3D print that and then pay like what you're gonna save half the price, but you're also gonna take like three months to get that headlight. Yeah, you're like, I'm gonna create an injection mold, I'm gonna find your manufacturer, and I'm gonna be like, yeah, that's cheaper. So like I get it, but also like there's the other side of the thing.
SPEAKER_03:He's probably trying to monetize it, like his whole process. He has a lot of following. Oh, it's a brilliant idea.
SPEAKER_01:I freaking love it. I think it's cool as shit.
SPEAKER_03:I'm not saying what you're saying.
SPEAKER_01:If you I'm just yeah, it's like it is it worth 15 grand? No, but also like it's a it's a rare commodity, like that's economics, right? Like supply and demand. There's not a high demand, low supply, jack your price up. Like that's what it that's how it works.
SPEAKER_05:There was that guy that got real big a few years ago for doing the same thing with a Tesla, and his whole motivation was like, it's so hard to even get an appointment to get this thing serviced or worked on. So he started a YouTube channel where he literally like rebuilt his entire Tesla, like like frame off restoration. And I think he does something with them now, or maybe he does something with Mythbusters, or maybe both of those statements are false, but I'm pretty sure. he does something. I know he did something after YouTube.
SPEAKER_01:I will say I think working on your cars is like being a is like has a that same connotation as like being a contractor, right? Like any human being can learn how to do it.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Then you're talking about like the tools, the time, the knowledge, like that's where all the that's where all the investment is. Do dealerships rip you off? Probably a thousand percent of the time. Right? But like the time, knowledge, the diagnostics, the speed, like I can I I take my truck and there's a problem with it. The dealers diagnoses it in 35 minutes. The part's ordered, it's there the next day because they're getting a shipment every day. And then someone knows exactly how to fix that thing. It's done. One day turn around to get my thing back. Yeah I'm gonna pay a premium for it. But for me to do it like I'm trading two weeks of my time in order to just like find the part get the part make sure it fits right know how to diagnose it. Take it off and like make sure I like troubleshot it right and like the and like there are it's way more complex than that. But I do feel like it's one of those things everyone thinks they can do just like working on your house right you're like yeah anyone yeah you want a new fireplace like yeah go ahead and build it it's like it's doable. I've done it.
SPEAKER_05:We've done it you've done it multiple times now big fireplace guy over here right but then there's the other side of it too it's like you f that up you're burning your house down like you f up your car you might die I think you gotta know where your limit is like there's certain things like I I have my own to where it's like I'll do A B C and D but once this happens it's like yeah like I like electrical like I will not wire back to a body we won't see the ranger for a month where's that ranger they say it's good guys like don't worry about it it's coming back like I will say though there's been a massive resurgence in like doing more things yourself which I think is great.
SPEAKER_01:It's kind of losing its weight in woodworking which is sad but it's definitely like heavily prevalent in DIY and I think it's in automotive and home specifically which I think is super I think it it's correlation with the prices of stuff.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah it's just things are nuts.
SPEAKER_05:It's expensive I know there's there's that company slate that they have that uh it's like the Amazon truck. And I wish like they took that I love the concept of it where it's like everything's like bolt on easy to fix da da da I just wish they did that with just like a like little just naturally aspirated like four cylinder engine like just like a simple vehicle like that. Like something where it's like like I don't even know the brand that would put it out like this but it's just like a base model something. Just you want to get into a new vehicle you get into it for like under 20 grand. Yeah. But they I don't know why they're only doing it with uh electric which is unfortunate and they've already jacked the price up they're like it's gonna be under 20 grand and then they're like never mind we don't have the tax incentives 25 yeah it's a wild wild world we live in it'll be interesting to see the next five years because there's been a lot of like you know legal stuff that's going on in the automotive space.
SPEAKER_01:But speaking of a resurgence Joe I'm gonna jump here because there's been a massive resurgence online and that's been with one of Joe's favorite artists of all time Fetty Wop getting out of jail. I wouldn't say favorite of all time no no no I'm gonna quote you one we got it on film it's back it's back a couple years ago the clip Joe Joe we don't have any of this on film um but I do I remember Joe um I got another little Fetty Wop story too but I remember Joe uh saying a couple years ago how like 2016 was the greatest year ever right and in 2016 was now 10 years ago and 10 years ago you were 15. 16. 16 right 10 years ago I was 27 the impact it had on my life nowhere close to the impact it had on yours but I do remember it and Fetty WAP coming out of coming out of jail has like had this massive like boom online I think it's cool as hell to see because I didn't realize the dude was even in jail I just thought he fell off I don't pay that much attention to rap and hip hop um but curious we'll get to Joe here in a sec what does Fedywop's return to the the world have do for you saying I don't know I really don't know much of anything about Fetty WAP all that I know is that when I went to college that's when like I his his songs were like at their peak.
SPEAKER_05:I just constantly heard them no matter where I was like in like 2015 I could be in any location in the United States and there was a Fetty WAP song on somewhere. And they were great but I didn't know he went to what'd you go to jail for uh drug trafficking. What kind of drugs was he trafficking?
SPEAKER_01:I don't know look it up so I remember we had an employee shout out to Craig um back like 10 10 plus years ago when when Fetty Wop was coming on the scene and he was all in like hip hop and he had this like little DJ side gig going. I don't know what he's doing these days. But nice kid and I was just like I don't know who this dude is uh but he loved him right and he it was just like in yeah it was insane heroin fett and all crack oh man fetty wop what are you doing I didn't know that man I thought it was weed or something but I will say the best part of the internet right now is seeing Russell Dickerson the country artist singing at his counter while he's cleaning his his mug uh and his wife's recording him doing a fetty wop cover that he used to do as like a party trick. Uh that dude seems pretty cool it'd be a freaking blast to hang out with um and that thing just absolutely going viral that's actually where I found the fact that like Fetty Wop right is like out of jail because I was like I was like why is a country artist that I follow say like what is going on? Oh I was like then I got down that got that got sort of the hip the algorithm took over but explain to us Joe why this is so impactful for you.
SPEAKER_03:And Fetty Wop was just my whole high school experience was it like everywhere you went when he started like his music 2016 just in general for me was just an unreal year for like music sports just life it was just like full circle you had Fetty Wop Lil Uzi Vert was getting huge the rappers you don't like Drake Drake was hot that year your boy Kanye a lot a lot of great music in 2016. I'd argue it's gotten worse since 2016 until he can continue I would also agree but it was a great year peak music and LeBron James 3-1 coming back against the Golden State Warriors the Cleveland Cavaliers NBA champions there was a lot happening in that year and Fetty Wapp just like just took it to the next level like his music was just it's so weird it wasn't like this hard like drill rap it was just like a vibe like rap music that anyone could listen to and kind of vibe to I will say like it was just more of a we'd play it in the locker room we'd get hype before football games like it was just I have the most vivid memories of everybody always listening to the song called Trap Queen by him like you have to I'll play it before you got to Bourbon Catholic school Joe Trap Queen half the school was from from the city you know what I mean like I I dig it.
SPEAKER_01:I mean I I the songs are incredibly catchy like I'm not gonna I can't knock that at all you cannot knock it everywhere you went you were here like I was like what am I listening to because I feel like for me it was like the de-evolution of good rap and hip hop because that kind of like you have no idea what he's saying. Like it's almost impossible to understand. I could sing it word for word some of them I don't but like a normal person like you can't put that on for like anybody and then understand the words sure which was like in my opinion I I just don't like that era of hip I don't like this mumbling just audiences right like we don't 100% kids I'm not taking away from like yeah it's good it's catchy like it's fun right like 1738 like I remember vividly being like a drunken idiot in my mid twenties right like that's all in every bar you go to yeah um it was fun it's just like I don't yeah so but it is cool to see like I mean it was just unfortunately the dude had to be like a you know drug trafficker I would say like peak fetty wop probably is if you were in high school or college like high school wise just hanging out with your buddies I'd imagine I wasn't there but like I could imagine what frat houses were like in 2016 with that shit playing.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah I'm sure it was just incredible pull you were you in frat houses in 2016 I wasn't in a fraternity but I my but my roommate uh my roommate was I used to frequent this agriculture frat at Penn State a lot sounds like a blast it was agriculture frat oh it was just all country guys and it was oh you're right you're at Penn State you got the FAA yeah no F FAA it was a good time yeah one time I I was there it was during rush week I asked my buddy I said could I pretend I go here and they're like absolutely so I kept introducing myself like I'm Sam Poole I'm I've been here for a couple years I did see these stats though Joe I saw the uh Pokemon Go came out the the Cubs broke the the the 108 year drought yeah the drought uh basketball no one actually cares about um that was the last basketball I think a lot of people cared about there was a lot of good stuff he just told me to go down you're telling me it's going too fast maybe he's doing useless shit social media transition oh yeah there's the music yeah oh Frank Ocean yeah he's big then no idea who that is but the I would say Fetty Wop getting out it's more purely nostalgia it's just you can definitely tell I think it's a cool thing on the internet yeah I think it's so sick to see him like getting released I haven't listened to I will say it's not like well I didn't go turn on Fetty Wop when he got out.
SPEAKER_03:I saw some TikToks and I was like man miss those days and it was just like on to the next like it's not gonna When did he get out?
SPEAKER_05:Was it like recently like last week last week. Two weeks ago do you remember like like a few months ago there was it was he was real big on TikTok there were those memes where it would be like like uh it'd be like they had like the scene from Star Wars where they're like flying into the clone wars and they play mine again and they do it with like all these war movies and it's like I haven't oh yes yes I have yeah yeah I saw with Assassin's Creed someone did it yeah yeah they're like we're going to war and it's like what the Gen Z eers are like bumping.
SPEAKER_03:Incredible John I'm telling you like he he changed lives it was a vibe huh it was a whole vibe it actually it like genuinely makes me so happy that he's out of prison.
SPEAKER_01:That's such like a uh what a time I saw that he's like literally just going right back into making music. Yeah yeah I mean Fetty Wapp from his 2016 man he might be a a top you know hundred artist of all time bullshit I just wanted to click all right alright alright enough of that I think it's a we had our fun there Joe yeah I think we had our function I think it was a lot of not normal stuff but speaking of stuff that is not normal or is normal it leads us to our favorite segment of the show um is it normal these are so stupid every time I love reading the first one corrects me it's hard to come up with new ones for these let me just say well I think the problem is you keep doing like eight a segment I can cut it but I love it.
SPEAKER_05:Okay first up on the list is it normal sitting in your car after work you guys didn't we do this one no he said sitting in your car when you're going somewhere so now it's just like you're leaving work before you leave your car you know why I'm asking this and you know do some thinking here a little bit we can't say it's normal I think I think now when you say after work I don't think it's normal when you're at your place of work just sitting there because I think it can lead people to wonder what's he doing out there? What's going on out a lot? He's been out there for a while is he okay is he contemplating something uh when you get home from work like you actually make that trek home and you want to sit for a minute before you go you know into the house I think that's normal. Yeah I think the end of the trek is where it's normal.
SPEAKER_01:It's not normal to begin weird if you're just sitting in your car at work the beginning of the trek especially if you're leaving work weird.
SPEAKER_03:Just get out of there man go home like there's a lot of better things to do okay all right next one is it normal thinking you could have gone pro this one's not really for you John but Sam you know so many people probably I do that man I could have gone pro if I was just healthier I I could I could have gone pro if I wanted to or I surprisingly I actually don't no I honestly can't even think of anyone off the top of my head I don't think it's normal.
SPEAKER_05:In fact I think I feel like you come across like Al Bundy if you're like I could have went all state if it wasn't for my bum knee like I feel like just doesn't say anything.
SPEAKER_03:I think it's normal to hear I hear people say it a good bit of the time I don't think it's normal to actually believe that you could have done that. Yeah um but I think it's normal for people to say that I think it's common a lot of people just like to think of where they could have been or done it's it's so much more common than it should be.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah it's like yeah and I think it's so funny because I don't I mean I'm not in like vast rooms of people who don't know me. But when I am and you hear talk like that there's always that person that's like John played in the league and I'm like hi it was like you would have never made it in a single moment like I got a it brings back to a story of a buddy of mine he he he's passed um and uh R I P tank. But um he was old enough that I didn't play high school football with him but we became buddies after high school but he played with the guys that I played with because they were you know a year or two younger and whatever so these guys were seniors when I was a sophomore and then he was a senior when I was a freshman. So like I we didn't have freshman didn't play with seniors. Anyway we were getting boozed up and like I'm in the league and uh he he I just remember I'm sitting there with my two buddies that I played high school football with when I was a sophomore lived with them in college they both played at two and he was like on the he was like all banged up on a ramble he's like ah you know could you have blocked me in high school like I I don't know maybe he's like but I I think I was pretty good and they both looked at him and they're like are you insane dude like you didn't even start in high school and you think that this dude is literally in the NFL right now couldn't block you and I'm just sitting there like what do I do what do I do what do I do what do I do right because they're like arguing around me and I was like this is wild I was like I wasn't even like that good I I mean I got real lucky to go to the league and I'm like there's guys that are so much better than me but it's just wild you hear it all the time it's like oh my knee my ankle like this this coach this and that and anytime you get in a room with someone who did it they just shut the f up because they know they're wrong. Like you could tell it's just like this fallacy in their head like I could have gone pro. It's like you would have if you could have like they don't they don't not take you because you got hurt or because you were stupid. Like they'll figure out a way to get you into college if if you're that good. They'll figure it out.
SPEAKER_05:They'll get you there. I must feel like it's kind of cooler to like hypothetically let's say you were that good and maybe you did have some career ending injury but if no one knows about it and then out of nowhere one day you just bust out some moves or something.
SPEAKER_01:But that guy is never the guy that's like I could have made it yeah that's what I mean. Yeah that guy's always like the low key dude where his boys are like no you should have seen homie back in the day. Yeah he could ball and you're like oh shit man sorry to hear it like my buddy Robbie he was a running back at my high school like literally had like 36 touchdowns or something comical on like 2800 yards rushing shattered his foot right then like blew out a knee went to Cincinnati blew out a knee again blew out a knee again he doesn't even say like I could have made it to the league it's like no he could have I know he could have if he wouldn't have got hurt like the man just couldn't stay healthy. He was just super talented but he's never making statements like that. It's everyone else yeah it's like oh if the coach didn't hate me it's like coach would have liked you if you were good dude I'm like you're making shit up so that's normal anyway.
SPEAKER_03:What do we got next yeah? I messed this wording up on this one but all right uh is it normal to send text messages immediately after receiving one from somebody or do you wait a couple minutes and then answer?
SPEAKER_05:Like you send me a text while as you're typing you hit send I'm on my phone click I see your little bubbles pop up and I immediately respond is that normal to respond instantly I think it's abnormal it freaks me out to be honest whenever I send a text and it's like I'm when I'm when you when I say when you say immediate I'm saying like less than 30 seconds I'm like is this person just glued to the thing like how are they responding? Like what like I've it's happened to me before where I've sent text messages and then you see the bubbles pop up like immediately I'm like this is weird like you're just waiting for it. I think at least a minute or two has to pass by and even it's happened to me where I've got a text and I'm like oh I can immediately respond they they replied back like real quick I'm like you gotta wait. You gotta wait or it's gonna just it's it's weird to have it that quickly I know you're gonna have the opposite you're gonna be like what are you talking about?
SPEAKER_01:I think it depends on who it is and what they're what they're texting. That's a good point. Yeah I can agree with that yeah like also on top of it if I'm on my phone and you text me I find it to be a courtesy I'm also like a very much like I don't want any notifications on my phone. All right I clear them or I get rid of the app. Like I don't keep like if if I have an app that has an egregious amount of notifications I get rid of the app like I'm not dealing with that. Like it's just anxiety riddling. And on top of it like here's the thing if you text me and I don't respond quickly yeah what are you thinking? He may be out having fun no he's probably thinking the world's burning because you know I'm gonna respond but but but quickly is different than immediately if you were responding if I'm on my phone I'm I mean I think it's normal just because a lot of us are on our phones a lot. Like I got my I got my three screens on my desktop if I'm on my desktop and you text me and I'm not in like deep work I'm probably replying within five to ten seconds.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:If it's something normal if you like if Joe doesn't text me you'll slack me if it's for work. If you text me it's probably something personal or you're like out and about and just need to hand me a voice memo right so I'm gonna get you quick because you're not gonna like time and place time and place for person place. Yeah I think it's I think it's more my wife I always respond to her immediately.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah I think also I think Polo was referring to me I think one time I texted him about something he answered and I was just like waiting on a response because I need and I immediately answered right away.
SPEAKER_05:I do that all the time it's happened with a bunch of people it's a yeah yeah I do that all the time I don't have anything against yeah I think it's normal I think I think this other one's good.
SPEAKER_01:Here's something I you know what to piggyback that I find myself doing it a lot is like I love watching sports with my buddies but I never get to do it because I'm old with kids. And so when I'm watching a sports game I just I I'm literally watching it like this and I'm like I'm firing shit to them as if I'm I'm watching the game with them. Yeah to like try to get a little bit of that feeling because it was something like we did a ton like pre-internet like this is a glorious era that you guys missed out on. It was like 2005 um the Steelers went to the Super Bowl right we watched every game together me and my still like best friends to this day and so like watching sports together was like how we like it was the reason we made time to get together. And so now as dads we're all like I'm like very invested in like the conversation we're having because the rest of the day I'm like f off I'm not talking yeah I don't have time for your bullshit but during the game I'm like did you see that catch? I was like oh last night I'm like what the f am I watching like Caleb literally just how does he complete that pass? Like this shit's you know they're like this shit's scripted I'm like no it's not that's insane throw.
SPEAKER_05:Vegas is controlling the outcome um all right is it normal to mute group chats permanently instead of just leaving them yes yeah I've got a couple that see I don't use uh I don't use Snapchat anymore but I've got a couple Snapchat group chats from like there's group chats in Snapchat yeah I've got a couple of them from like years and years ago I will say sometimes it's kind of fun because it'll just build up and every couple weeks I'm like what's happening on this and I'll just go through it but yeah you don't leave you're invited if you get the honor of being invited to a group chat you don't just leave I think it's normal to mute it and just move on to the next I I I will I'll I'll leave or delete it.
SPEAKER_01:If it's not like if I'm not gonna participate in it I don't just mute it and let it burn. I don't I jump I leave. I'm I'm just like I don't know I'm only in things I want to be in like I'm very adamant on that. Like it's just like everything else is like every someone's trying to grab my time, right? Yeah like I want to be present for the people I actually want to be present for. I don't want to be in a group chat from like dudes I went to college with twenty years ago that's like talking about some shit that happened one time that's thirty seven guys and half the numbers I want to Have like I don't want that.
SPEAKER_03:Alright, last but not least, is it normal lying about how early you wake up? Lying?
SPEAKER_05:No, I don't see the purpose. He's lived that life, Joe.
SPEAKER_03:Like people lie about like I get up at five every day.
SPEAKER_05:No.
SPEAKER_03:I get up at six, seven every day.
SPEAKER_05:I don't to be honest with you, I don't uh I this might be kind of a hot take. I don't necessarily like if you get up at five, all the power to you, but you know, I like uh my dad's a great example. He he'll get up like a little bit later, but it'll work like a 12-hour day, if not longer than that. Like I think it's about you know what you do in that day. You get up early, that's cool, but what are you gonna do with it? You know what I mean? I think you get up early or later, and you know, it doesn't it's so is it normal to lie about how early you went? I don't think it's normal to lie about that. Just say what time you woke up. You woke up at eight, say you woke up at eight, and then make the best of it. I agree with that.
SPEAKER_01:I think it's totally normal. I I don't think it's right. Yeah, I think I think a lot of people do like lie about what time they get up for whatever it's like an ego thing, yeah. Right? Um like I I was I was talking to my boys last night about it. My one buddy's like, he's like, Your your morning posts make me want to run through a wall, dude. And I'm like, great. I was like, it's and I was like, it's the only time I have for me. Like if I don't get up at five, I mean my time's immediately just sucked in a bunch of different directions. I don't get to like work on my health or wellness or like learn or knowledge or any of those things I want. I got three kids, a pregnant wife, like two dogs, like this business. Like, there's just a lot going on. I need to get that time, and that's I've also come to realize in myself personally, like I don't I go to bed at 9, 9:30. Like, I'm not I don't function well late if I stay up late. Like my quality of my existence goes down, yeah. Compared to what when I was your guy's age, I was like, I'll burn it on both ends, baby. I'll get up at five, I'll go to bed at midnight, I'm good to go. Like, I don't have it anymore. Um, but you you you I will say in your 20s, you find a lot of people that get like a lot of like, man, I get up so early. I'm with Sam though 100%. What are you doing with that time? Right? Is it scheduled? Is it consistent? Are you trying to accomplish certain things and you're putting that time to task? Like, yeah. Also, or you're like, I suck in the evenings, I'm not a quality human, I want to get some you know, shit done, I'm gonna get up early. Like, yeah, do it. I also I go on for this like for hours because I think it's a very fascinating thing, but I also think that if you want to make big changes in your life, like that's the easiest thing you can do is just like set it set a goal, wake up a little earlier, start attacking the goal. Simple as that. And uh that's an area where I'd much rather see people going. So super cool. Um super cool, like life hack for anyone out there. Uh just make it a goal to get out of bed a little earlier, and you can get some shit done. Um, but as far as like a sign of ego and pride, it's super common. And I completely disagree with it. It's like you're not better at anything because you wake up earlier. So, what do you do with the time, my friend? What do you do with the time? What do you do with it? And speaking of time, I can't say in words how grateful I am for you guys spending time with us today. Um, that's gonna be a wrap on this week's show. Let us know in the comments down below what was your favorite segment or what questions you have, or how you feel about any of the despicably, deplorable, stupid shit that we talked about today. Whatever it is, we love you guys. We appreciate you. And if you want to get early access to any episode, make sure you're checking out the Builder Bunker. It's our private community where not only are you getting early access to every episode of the podcast, but you're also getting live streams from in the shop. We do some live broadcasts once or twice a month here, giveaways, all kinds of cool shit. There's now some new features, there's a new chat. We've got some new short form content that's coming out over there that's exclusive off the other platforms. It's awesome. Check it out, let us know what you guys think. And with that, we appreciate you ins. Subscribe, and we'll see you on the next episode.
