Crutches & Combos | Getting Old, Injuries & Quality Fast-Food Service | The MJ38 Show #96

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Welcome in, ladies and gentlemen. Episode 96 of the MJ 38 show Matthew and Justin. San Antonio, Texas here for you. Hopefully having a great day. Let's make a little bit better. What's up doc. How you doing? Doing well I'd like to cordially, formally invite you all to hop about that bad harness wagon. If you forgot to turn your swag on this morning. Go ahead and flip that switch real quick. Oh, shit. My swag. I walked walking with my walk. My gait totally new gait. Vibe different. Yeah. Phat gait baby. Frequency Phat. Let's go. How about the bed? Hopefully your swag is on. Let's have a fucking life, kids. Let's have a great life. Subscribe. Like, comment, tell a friend about and make a friend. Tell them about your life. Tell them a pop culture you're enjoying right now. Include us into that mix. TBS podcast shows, movies, video games were in there for us in that thing. Items that are consumable entertainment. Things you can watch and engage with. We're in that category. We got music to this. This is this is just one of the facets, one of the sets we got. Oh, you see, me personally, sometimes I'm listening to a podcast. Sometimes I'm listening to a music for you personally. You don't have to make a selection. You can just do MJ 38, both avenues. Whatever you feeling. We can both of them. I go to Joe Rogan, I go Drake I go, I go man Shane secret podcast I go Big Sean for you guys. You can just MJ 30 a m to 30 a m. I think that's pretty far. That's pretty dope. That's pretty cool. That's pretty fucking tight. I'm with you. If our favorite rappers had a podcast when we were growing up, brother, we would have been watching it every fucking day. Yeah, I promise you, I wish everything on. I am donald.com. Yeah, all the Donald Glover, Childish Gambino stuff, big big Sean stuff. All the videos you posted. Yeah definitely. Dude. Yeah. So it's a different era. So that's pretty tight. It's pretty tight that that's an option now. Oh yeah. And also it's like, people weren't streaming. Like you can watch fucking Randy Moss like stream Fortnite 20 years ago now. Like I go watch Tyreek Hill go play Fortnite. That's pretty much Odell Beckham play Call of Duty or whatever. It's like the crossovers are crazy nowadays. Yeah that was anything. Nah not even close. Now I'm trying to like think about if there was even anything like the now athletes doing outside of their domain stuff. Now Peyton Manning has Omaha productions now. I feel like he might have done that earlier if he could have. Maybe right. If there was a lane for it. Yeah. For him and his brother to have like a manning cast. Yeah, yeah. Now they were on and like as fast as you could be for them. Yeah. They wrote that way. If any basketball players do anything that wasn't just like basketball other access points into their life, maybe like business entrepreneurial, like, pursuits. Dame Lillard was making music. I was playing that. Yeah yeah. Dame Lillard makes music. Yeah he balls. It was sports bars. He was still good at basketball to really be a rapper. Because some of us have I was really good. Some of it wasn't there yet. No. He's good. When are you going to drop the album of the year Dame. And I'm like, oh, he's not like he's trying to win. He's got other pursuits. But did it get traded back to Portland? Did it? I'm not trippin. I don't know, that'd be funny though I can't remember. I don't know why I'm dreaming because I don't know where. Maybe I have the realities or something. But like, I saw I saw something about Dame going back to Portland. Maybe because he was loyal to the soul, and then he went to go get a ship, and then it never happened. Oh shit. Says he plays for the trailblazers. Yeah, yeah. Themes back things. Back in the port, baby. Back in Oregon. That's crazy bro. Good for him. Yeah. Baxter returns to Portland, signed a three year, 42 mil contract to return, delighting fans in the organization. Yeah, right. Come on, man, that was like the guy, bro. That was their own. That was that was it? Yeah. Think about if you're in Milwaukee, you go to a steakhouse Damian Lillard they treat you really well. Yeah the treat you really well. You go to a steakhouse in Portland and you're dame Lillard. They fucking love you. Yeah it's a different dude I'm sure. Yeah right. The energy behind the service is just different. If your hometown hero yeah. Yeah. It's got to be a big allure to go back to where you you made your name you know. Yeah. Well you did the different especially if you're not going to achieve the purpose as to why you left in the first place. Yeah. Right. Like I want to ship, I want to I want to win, I want a ring. And then never happens in Portland. I'm gonna go do the LeBron. We'll go do the fucking LeBron and his hop to another team with a super all star on it. And then hopefully we get a dub can happen. I think both of them just kept on getting injured or some I don't even know what the what the mix up was. I said why they didn't pan out and have more success, but Dame Lillard's that guy, man. And he got rap. He didn't win one with Milwaukee. He came after that. Yeah I think he came after. I'm pretty sure now I think you're right. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he came later because he came like a year or two ago. And then I think they wanted to chip like 3 or 4 years ago against like Phoenix or some shit and some random finals that I never watched. I think the, the craziest thing about being that good is the training that it takes to be that good is definitely not great for your body. It's like you can only just like like when Kobe Bryant towards Achilles. In my mind, that's just like that was inevitable. He trained like you ever like, maxed out your rubber band. You're going to snap that rubber band eventually. Yeah. There's always so much elasticity in that band. There's there's been times where I'd like, wake up and do my cardio, and then I go to my work shift and then I, like, need to go lift weights at night. And I'm like, doing the David Goggins looking at the shoes. And I'm just like, all right, you bitch, you're going to do this, brother. You got to do it. But like, I imagine Kobe Bryant had days like that, but they were much like he probably did like three workouts. And then he's like, I told myself I was going to run sprints. I told myself, it's like going to be his fourth workout of the day, you know what I'm saying? And if I'm able to say, like garbage put on the shoes, like I'm sure he did it at such a higher level that eventually, like, that's just not good for your body. But they're like mental. The mental warfare of saying like, no, no, no, I'm doing this workout like you can be mentally stronger than your body can be physically capable, you know for sure. And I think that for some people to maintain that top five shooting guard skill set requires so much work that you're almost doomed to unless you, like, just do all the recovery in your free time. Yeah, that's the thing. If you there's definitely, I would assume, a balance or like, maybe an allocation of attention and energy. So I got today we're working on this. We're working on this. We're working on this like specific drills for specific tasks and traits and like things you want to develop. And then also there has to there has to be like a we're resting today like we're resting hard, you know, like we're going to rest our asses off today. Like there's got to be that in there. You got to have the stretching in the sauna and the fucking massage therapy and the brow therapy also. Yeah, the blood fucking moving, moving shit around. Make sure you get good circulation everywhere. It's like it's it's important for sure. Get great sleep. Like you need a solid nine hours tonight. I need nine hours out of you. Yeah. Sleep like most of the time you can handle six is fine. But like tonight, this week we need nine hours every night this week? Yeah, shit like that. You had to incorporate that. And if you're not, I think you're just doomed because you're going to, like, you're just rev in the engine. You just fucking run like you're going to fucking blow a gasket or lose a bolt, lose a screw. Something's going to happen. You can't rev that long at that RPM for that high. It's just going to fuck your engine. Yeah. They're at the point where they probably need to get the warp band. Like, we don't just need nine hours. We need like six hours of Ram within nine hours of sleep. It's like levels to that shit. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. They're going they're going stupid. What a stupid deep. But man. Yeah. So I think it's kind of inevitable to a degree, just overworking yourself like you're playing at that level. That's what that's like Dame Lillard Kobe Bryant yeah yeah. When we talk about injuries to star athletes that's what I think happens. It's just fucking hard to have there ever been like an injury free like super mega star who's never been like injured the Tom Brady get injured. That was one of my first thoughts too. I'm not sure I know he's got an injured, but I don't think he's gotten like, anything severe. This whole thing was tb12, which was supposed to be designed to prevent that. Yeah. Or discourse or injury. Yeah. I don't think he's ever been, like, seriously injured to where he misses multiple weeks or months or like torn ACL or anything. I don't think he's ever had any that he's probably had, you know, bruises, contusions and fucking sprains been hurt. He's been hurt for sure. Yeah. I don't think he's been I think I think he was the one who was saying that the injury rate is 100% in the NFL. And like you're going to get hurt here. Yeah. This is what happens to people. But the level of severity of that injury can vastly different for people. I was thinking about that today. Just thinking about I think I saw a clip of Aaron Rodgers running around throwing balls in Pittsburgh, and I was just like, man, that thought crossed my mind of like, his body is like his car. His has got so many miles, man. Like that. The elasticity in those joints and the elasticity in those ankles is like, if you just fucking go off in a dead sprint, all of a sudden it's like, oh shit, your body, your body might not be able to handle that. And you just fucked. You're just done watching. Fuck that, fuck that. It sure though. Oh, just thinking about it. I don't know why. Probably there's happened to him, I guess. Partially because he's. That did happen to him a couple years ago when he first played them. And I don't think it's the first play, but first game of the season is the third snap, dude. Yeah, it's fucking just I don't even know what happened. I didn't watch it, but I'm assuming he was just running and then he just pulled this shit more or less. Right. It wasn't contact. He didn't get yanked on and twisted, contorted. And I think maybe he was compelled to step awkwardly far and then that's fair enough. Yeah, but but that shouldn't fuck up your whole season, bro. I had an awkward step yesterday. Like I walked out on my from there maybe two days ago. I think it was the first. Yeah, was the first of the month. So I went to go give, landlord the whatever the rent I and it had just rained rain on Sunday. We'll talk about that a little bit. Happy belated birthday. Happy future birthday to me. Birthday season NFL season coming up tomorrow. And first Sunday we got pick. We're talking about football right now but awkward steps Aaron Rodgers fucking up your heel I had an awkward step yesterday. I think maybe it's just like a it just comes with the territory of getting older and just kind of sucks. No. Like I just walked out of my front door and I was okay. Like, I'm an athletic person. I've played sports throughout high school, pretty much my entire life, multiple different sports, and then been working out in the gym consistently since like college afterwards. So like, I'm a relatively athletic person and thank God for that because I know that I it had rained on Sunday, Monday, the steps outside of my front door, I only had like 2 or 3 steps, but they're slippery and I walk out my cracks and then I feel like I just take one step, going down to the second step and then I just. I'm like, my foot's gone. I am like, I'm taking like I'm on one foot. That foot has slipped, the other foot is about to try and land, but like I'm in mid slip. So I just like fall like completely from like oh my right, my right leg taking the step down with my left foot. And then I just went from right. Like the third step on my right foot to the second step on my right foot. I was like, I never stepped with my other foot. I just like, fell and like slipped off the step. But I was able to like, catch myself in like, oh. And I was like, oh, oh, that could have been bad for somebody like that. Could have been. That's a divorce, Frank. Not going to fuck somebody bad, bro. You're not careful. You could just one step on a slippery staircase and you're just fucked. There goes your six months. That's a metaphor for life. Kids gotta be careful. And thank God I had been preparing for that moment. So God or whatever, just through just through continual athletic training and just being physically ready all the time. Yeah, yeah. It wasn't all like just extra, extra ankle stability. But yeah, just like one mishap could just fuck your shit. But I know that if I'm an older person and that happens to me like, I'm probably fucked, I'm probably fucked. And like, this thought also crossed my mind yesterday. It took the little one to her volleyball camp or I guess like a camp, whatever. It's kind of like a off season, season, season in the off season, preseason, it's volleyball, whatever. I guess they have the regular season typically for volleyball in like February or March. So like that, I don't know. It's in high school to fall sport. We'll find out. Yeah, I think it's a it's a second semester sport. So she's doing fall ball now. Took her over to their practice and then they're just doing their warmups. Let's like I just go down to the net and back or I do some lunges like I do some butt kicks. I do some fucking sweeps and then touch the floor. And like partly, partially, I'm thinking, like, these kids have no fucking idea what they're doing. Like, you really just told them, like, all right, touch the floor. And I was like, no. I was like, you need to tell them why and what are they doing? Yeah. Like, the purpose of this is to stretch the hamstring. So you go like. Like, you know what I'm saying? Just like that little it takes 10s to kind of explain it a little bit. He might not even know himself. Probably not. Maybe, maybe maybe not. But I'm just like, oh my god. But then yeah, just to see the kids doing their warmup and it's just you know, how they're doing it. You you don't have to be there to know the level of intensity and effort they're putting into this. Like they don't give a shit. They're just like, literally like doing it. And that is where that thought came from initially. As well as like partially why they're only just going through the motions because they don't know the benefits of what they're actually trying to do here. So like they're kind of just doing what they're being told without, all right, I'm telling you to do this. The reason why I'm telling you to do this is because it does this, this and this and these are important because it helps you do this. It's like, oh, okay. So I'll like try harder and like I'll be more effective in initial or like intentional with my motions and my stretching and like, oh, I feel that in my hamstring. Okay. I see we're talking about now I'm like doing shit and like actually warming my body up, but because they don't have that information and because they're children, they're like ten, 12 like they don't care. So there's like doing their warmup and like then they go out there and just run full force. But like, I think you can do that. You can afford to do that when you're a kid. You can't do that when you're in Rogers and you're 41, you can't even see a dog. You need to be like extra on top of your shit because one play, three snaps into the season, you're going to fuck my whole dynasty league up, bro. Like I'm going to rebuild because of you dawg. And Nick Chubb. That's a that's a it's a it's a rough sport. It's a rough sport. Yeah dude I get I had like flies invaded my house like last week. They're pretty much all gone now. But there was one in the morning. Man, I hate that shit. I haven't been in college. So weird, bro. They're gone now, but, I just sat down on my desk, like, early. I'd been up for, like, 15 minutes, so I'm not really awake. And then, like, I saw the fly go in my range of motion and within my grasp. And my brain, like, sends like a fast like it or it's like I could feel all this. My brain put its finger on the trigger of a very fast synapse that was grabbed the fly. Yeah. But then my, my body said whoa cowboy, if we're not ready for the just woke up brother, we're still on the wake up cooldown. Like we can't cast that spell quite yet. I'm still waiting for the fucking. But those two thoughts about In the middle. And so I just kind of like, like shove a hand up. But I had stopped it from going for the full. The full reach. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I was just looking at my arm like, your body's crazy, bro. I'm happy that I didn't go for the. It's too early to be doing that. Like that's when I'll get hurt. Not warm. Yeah. Your body is not properly like, acclimated to movement yet you've been and you've been not moving for like eight hours. Yeah. I remember there was a time where I rolled my ankle or something like that because I was like, running late. So I like woke up and saw what time it was and I was like, oh shit. And tried to hop about the bed, but I forgot to turn the swag. No swag, damn it, I got the bed, took one step, two step roll. Oh, just fell on the ground. Just no. Like cuz you know what? You try to roll it. You realize like maybe I'll just go with this. Like, oh the basketball court let me just fall down with this. And hopefully this hurt so much trying to pull up into my bedroom like, yeah, but that's what played out of my head. I'm like, there's just you early in the morning or if your body's just cold, you know what I'm saying? You can't be sending those full fire synapses, which is not good for it. Yeah, yeah, it's, it's not ready for it. It's not ready for it. No, it's a delicate machine we got here. It's a delicate little meat suit. Yeah, totally. This thing is crazy, man. Some players, man, just breaks my heart. This injury prone or some people are injury prone. I guess maybe that's like a a descendants ancestral type of the type of shit that's going on here. The drinking of milk whenever, like the great grandpa didn't drink enough milk or some shit, I'd say you could usually actually pinpoint it on something like, like a event or like a psychological thing, like, well, I would roll my ankles a lot when I was a kid, and then my mom would tell me that she rolled her ankles a lot. So we just have weak ankles genetically. But then she was also giving me like, shin guards that had ankle braces attached to them since I was like, you know, really early on in my soccer career. So then like three years in, I've been wearing the same kind of shin guard, like my whole life. But then it kind of hit me later in my life once I stopped wearing, like, high top basketball shoes and I just started wearing low top shoes, which everyone says is like a higher proclivity to hurt your ankles. I just like eventually built stronger ankles from not using so much support, and then the percentage of times I'd roll my ankle per year went way down. And then I wonder, like if I would have not just protected them so much when I was a kid, like put braces on all the time. If I do like let them strengthen naturally, if I would have had less rolled ankles, you know. But there's no way to really know that. But I think with some people, like if someone's always injuring their knee, it might just because their hamstring is like not as it's really, really strong hamstring, but it's not as flexible as it should be per unit of strength that it has. So it generates too much torque for the need to be able to handle. But like genetically, you might just be like, well, this guy has fucking jacked hamstrings. He's got yanked hamstrings and tight hips like predisposed for that. And so but that might be like injury prone. But you could have just like open up your hips while you stretch and you diagnose it and then work on it specifically and try to remedy that and get it back to normal. At least you're not like prone to one type of injury. Yes, totally. Some people are like, all right, I'm pretty sometimes like it happened, you never know in football or whatever. But yeah, for the most part, yeah, some people have maybe proclivities for ankles or knees or their shoulders. I got my fucking back, man. This one time. My back is just fucked up for decades, brother. So that's probably going on there. Generations of brothers. Oh, great granddad, my great great grandpa. I had a fucked up disc now, but like our friend Julian has a fucked up, his whole shoulder blade. Yeah, yeah. And then, like, we're always talking about it, you know, trying to figure out what it is, but it's it's ultimately just too tough. You'd have to get some kind of diagnostic work done, you know, but it's probably something that's too tight with something. This chest is really big per like amount of back space. He has. I don't fucking know. You know, something's wrong. Something's off. Yeah. Just some sort of that. Their, injuries are so strange. Especially like the body is such a weird, connected organism. Like, from your feet to your head. So, like, it's all one thing. Your body. And it's like you can have something in your fucking ankle that's pulling on something. And it's not like going to fuck up everything on that side of your body. You have to compensate on the left side of your body. It's like, oh, my left shoulder hurts, but it's like a right toe issue. It's like, yeah, there's a lot of diagnostics that could go into the connectivity, in the strengthening, in the elongating and the stretching of everything. Yeah, there's wild like there's like a it bent I guess that goes through your knee. I'm not exactly sure what that means or what that is. I've heard that term for sure. Right. Yeah. I'm not sure where it is. I think it might cross somewhere in your body or some of your lower body. Well, I feel it in my knee and it's like a sharp shooting pain sometimes when I try to, like, squat down or if I try to take a knee like the, to actually put my knee on the ground is like a shooting pain through my knee. Whereas like, I can just kneel down on my right knee. You don't, like, feel anything, you know what I'm saying? But as soon as, like, my kneecap touches the ground and pressure hits it, it'll just be a shooting pain. But it's not. It's a shooting pain, but it's not debilitating. It's just like, fucked. But there's still stability there, which is nice. But then I'm reading that this is it. An injury can happen that causes that if your hamstrings and your glutes are like too tight and your and your pushing a lot of weight, like if you're squatting like a decent amount of weight and then you also have two tight glutes, two tight hamstrings, then it'll activate this like it band tightness that you feel as a shooting pain in your knee. And I'm like, my butt's weak so my knee hurts. Yeah, right. It's like like right there. You're the anterior is like, what the hell. It's. Yeah. It's all connected. It's so strange. So strange or not strange. Exactly. It kind of makes sense, like, for one thing. But, you know, we don't think of. It's convoluted for sure. Yeah, it's a little. It's not just a simple. And it's like to the point of like, all right, shoulder hurts, I work, I fix that area. It's like, nah, it could be something way elsewhere. That's not even like in your thought range at all of what to think about what's even look for. It's like, oh shit. It's like, you know, trying to fix a car to a degree. So like, there's so many different pieces and it's like, you don't know what wrong what's wrong with it at first. But then once you figure out what's wrong with it, okay, now we can fix it. But it's like, oh, for two years trying to figure out what where's that sound coming from? Where's that sound coming from? There's so many different places it could be coming from. Let me check this and check this and check this and eventually like, oh, okay, no diagnostics. Tell me this is it. But the diagnostic work takes a fucking holy eight years of schooling to be able to diagnose something as a doctor and even then, like why? That's what having surgery is for. Like, sorry, my dad's been having seizures for, like, maybe year now or so, like, not all the time, but like, it was like two on a three month span and then three months without any. And then one and then three months without any in the one. So the doctors can't like exactly diagnose why that's happening. You know what I'm saying? Which is that's like your whole body as a whole. It's like something happens and they're like, fuck, I don't know. Well, hopefully it's like easy, like I have the flu. That's why I'm throwing up, you know what I'm saying? But for some stuff, it's just hard to find out. You know, it's fucking it's house, bro. It's fucking good. Now let's have a whole show about it. Yeah. Yeah, man. Welcome to the old podcast I like, bro. Yeah, right. Like all this fucking bro being old baby. It just comes with the territory, man. So Aaron Rodgers praying for your brother. Take care of yourself. Well yeah it's I'm running around. I'll take care of that ankle brother. Careful if you run to Fiji and fuck your shit up, man. You know what I thought I had along the lines of being old, I was, I don't know, I was right, but I was like, tell me, girl, again, no film Peyton Manning on the Broncos because Peyton Manning was pretty old. And I went to the Broncos. Yeah. And then he had that fucking year, bro. 57 touchdowns. He had a fucking year, bro. Dude. He went he went nuts. Shane bro I think I remember I'm pretty sure I remember that season specifically because I think it was like my sophomore year in college. And I just remember you were doing fantasy football. Oh, Emilio. I was like, I wasn't quite into it yet. And then it was like, I think you had Peyton Manning as your quarterback and Wes Welker, and he had like game one against the Ravens. It was like seven touchdowns. And I was like, bro, what the fuck? You just fuck it all. This guy's going nuts. Yeah, bro. That's what he was. He was not a young motherfucker right there. No, no, he was on the back. Or he was like a couple years out from retiring. Yeah. Like 2 or 3 it post-surgery. Two. Oh, okay. I had to get neck surgery. That's why the Colts let him go. Oh, it's because they're like, oh he's not going to be the same guy post neck surgery. And then he's like, well we're cool. We get surgery yet I'm going really? Yeah. He's like Germany, I'm going to Germany. I want to go over Kobe when he got surgery. Fuck yeah. And then you got a surgery. That doc that, that he came back and then they were still like, look, we're going to release you, which was fucking crazy. That's why I basically released Peyton Manning and then the Broncos. The Cardinals were also interested in him, but I think he went to the Broncos because John Elway was one of the owners. And he was like, I'm gonna take call. I'm gonna take care of the quarterback. Papa trust. Yeah. It was like, all right there and then, dude. Yeah, I mean, I was playing Madden the other day on Superstar. My guy's pretty fucking good. Now the quarterback out in Detroit goes on nice. It has active challenges for you. And some of them are just like the records. Like I think it's like 52 completions in a game is Peyton Manning's record. Holy shit. So it just shows you that. And if you have like 14 completions it's like 14 and 50 to break the record. Dude, 52 is fucking impossible to do. I can't do it on a video game, bro. Like I can't do that is 52. That is over 15, right? 15, 15, 30. It's a little bit less than 15 completions per quarter. Yeah, it's fucking ridiculous. It's impossible. But don't run the ball. Running the ball. I know it's green screens all day. Does this. That's where I'm just I'm just trying to do that. I'm trying to throw three yard passes all the way down the field. And then you'll get to like 27. You got a few and then the other team gets the ball. You get completions when they have the ball. So many things had to go right. Oh I wish I could watch that game again so I could just see how many it had to be a man to watch. He's been throwing the ball all game. You know at half they're like, do you see like almost 30 completions already. What the fuck. That's crazy that the records are easier to be like 170 rushing yards. Lamar Jackson single game record. Easy to beat, bro. But that fucking completion record like in real life, that must have been anyway. So I'm thinking about getting older. I'm like, somehow Peyton Manning fucking went to Germany, got Kobe surgery, went to a new team, fucking dug deep and broke like every record in the league, dude. And dub the fuck I've got a Super Bowl. Yeah. Got a second, got a second Super Bowl. Yeah. Pretty much could retire after that. I mean, he basically did, right. Yeah. They might play like 1 or 2 more years off into the sunset. I'm pretty sure. Retired I think. So I want to say he just retired after he got that dumb dude was like 50. I'm pretty sure he's like, I'm done, bro. I don't want to six no more, dude, someone else can play this game all the time. Thank you, Mr. Von Miller. They don't appreciate that defense, my friend. Yeah, yeah. For the beat. I'm pretty sure he beat Carolina Von Miller more or less. Just went fucking bananas. I think he won the MVP Super Bowl MVP as a defensive player. That's hard. Which is fucking crazy. Yeah he went nuts. So they, I'm pretty sure I'm. I think they did he I care did he lose the Seahawks before that or after that I think before that right. I'm pretty sure before that too. He got his ass smacked her. Do the Seahawks nasty back then with the Legion of Boom. They were disgusting. They got them won that year. Yeah because Russell Wilson Richard Sherman they lost Wagner. It's like a couple years before that. The fucking what's that guy's name? Malcolm Butler. You got the pick of the pick? They should have ran it. Yeah, yeah. And then I think they won after that, but then beat Peyton Manning. He had to come back and win after that. Watch all the way lead down to Patrick Mahomes losing to the Patriots. Then he had to come back and win after that. It's just how it goes. But it's the cyclical nature of things dawg I'm sorry. Yeah I know some people just want to at least get in that cycle. Okay. Let's kind of get into the fucking lose now win later cycle. Just just losing and losing and losing and losing. Don't fuck this. It sucks man. Yeah. For bills. That's crazy. It just seems like that's how it goes. And it just seems rigged to me. Just seems like that's how it goes. It's like okay now. Yeah, it's their year. It's their year. But you're coming up, you're coming up, we'll let you in. Okay. But you gotta lose. Okay? A couple years from now, we'll let you win and then let's see. But you guys, you don't get to one for a while, but we'll, we'll give you number one draft pick. You got a good draft pick? Yeah. It's all surprises. It's like, it seems like a big balancing act. It's all a business. It's definitely a business, for sure. Undoubtedly. That's what it is. They're there to make money. If they don't profit, they will cease to exist. Yeah. Will there ever be like a players league? Just like gone. Not a not a not for people to like like for Ice Cube for example. He's doing the three on three shit. The big three. Like those players aren't getting a lot of money. I don't think maybe there's like a grand prize for like a tournament winner or some shit. I think it's like, I think someone got like $10,000 for a weekend, okay? Just in like crazy. But it ain't bad. Neither does demand. But if it's like, I guess so, I guess maybe the question I'm trying to ask is, is there just a love for the game itself, that even if there wasn't an NFL corporation of owners and people making money to put it all on, like I think that they would still be playing? You know what I'm saying? Definitely with football's a little bit harder. You need you need more people. You need more equipment. You need more. Maybe not more. Yeah, I guess any more equipment for basketball, you need two hoops in a fucking ball and then ten people. But with or football, you need a lot of different positions. You need a lot of different, you know, helmets and fucking bullshit in field goal posts. And let's make it work for basketball. So you're saying like, we would just be like the San Antonio Heat, and then we would you and me would have a team, and then we'd be like talking to other team captains. I think you would just start off, you know what I'm saying? Like if the NFL player or the like at the NFL or NBA ownership was just like, we're putting a fucking halt on this bullshit, we're all, we're on strike until we get what we want. You ain't gonna watch your games anymore. We're taking away the Coliseum, motherfuckers. The people are going to revolt. People are going to revolt. But if they don't revolt and riot, I think there is a revolt that could happen that's peaceful and still accomplishes what they want to do, which is I want to watch the game. I want to be entertained. I want to have fun and watch my players, whatever, my home team. Why don't we watch football? Whatever. We want to watch this fucking hero story play out in front of me, I love that, so I'm willing to do it. I'm willing to watch it. I'm willing to pay for I'm willing to pay to go to a game. I'm willing to pay for the NFL ticket. I'm willing to pay for a jersey. I'm willing to pay for this parking and all this bullshit. So all those people still exist. But if the ownership is like, oh, we're putting a stop to it for whatever reason, I'm not sure why that would do that. I don't know, whatever my name is, Jerry. You know, people I think like LeBron. I like the players too. I think the players, there might be a love for the game so much like this. Enjoy playing the game that they would just go play pickup somewhere, and then the pick up would become a fucking sellable event like, oh shit, there's no more capacity for people. We're going to start charging motherfuckers five bucks ahead. Yeah. And then it just fucking starts over again. Dog. Yeah. Like, there was the like, Michael Jordan would have his games at the Looney Tunes set. Well, everybody would fly in the Space Jam pickup at the Space Jam facility with Michael Jordan, because that was like the if he's going to shoot that movie, he needed them to build them a gym. And then when he wanted to work out, he would just invite, like Reggie Miller, Charles Barkley, all these people to, like, play open gym with him. Yeah, but if they were to sold tickets to that, they would have made a fuck ton of money, right? Yeah. I don't watch it. Yeah. It's like watching the Olympic Dream Team practice. It's like that's fucking tight, dude. It's like, would they still play ball? Like yes, absolutely. Absolutely. That's the thing I think is what might be like what might keep the league alive or like the ownership. There's only so much they can do or I guess all this is we're kind of all talking about and alluding to things that might suggest that this is like rigged because, like all that, that's kind of where we're talking about. So it's like the people who are rigging it, if we as consumers or the players as like the product actually like the actual product itself or the people consuming the product, if either one of us like, get out of line or don't do things that like are in the league's best interest for them to profit or to be beneficial for them, they could try to pull the plug. I don't think it will work, because I think that there might be just a love for the game people want to play, and they'd be willing to go play. Not in these crazy facilities or whatever. Take can take a little fucking middle school, high school field and like that. If we just start over again, I think, do you imagine watching like the Texans play the fucking do we have another Texas team, the Cavaliers? Yeah, I like a high school football stadium. That'd be fucking crazy bro. I'd be cool as hell. This is super intimate. Yeah, yeah. It's weird to think about how it's. It's happened the other day. Like the movie The Replacements was like the players didn't want to play because they weren't getting paid enough money, but then they just, like, took open tryouts to have people come replace those people. Yeah. And they're like, fuck, you guys want to play football, bro? People like the red versus green, bro. I don't need you, bro. I just need this bang bang. I see 22 people willing to take each other's heads off. So I need maybe like, invincible with, Molly Bird. Yeah, that's a similar story where it's like the players. Are they rioting because they want more money striking? But then the other way around, where the ownership is going to be the one that strikes, and then the players are going to say, fuck yeah, we're still playing. Yeah, right. It could happen for sure. I just don't think ownership would ever stop. Yeah, I don't think there would I guess. Yeah. What what would, what would be something that would make ownership want to stop or make ownership want to do like. All right Colin Kaepernick almost got him. Not a great. Yeah I don't know man. As long as the doors are open, as long as people are buying tickets and people are watching, they're going to keep the shit rocking. Yeah. Week to week. Like the lowest profiting team probably still makes like$100,000 on a weekend. When they play football, it's like you're not going to shut your doors down to $100,000, or let's say it's gonna be the worst weekend of the year. We're going to make 80 grand. It's like, we need that fucking 80 grand, bro. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's how businesses work. Like we're going to take our bare minimum every time because this shit's. Everything costs money. The field's costing us money. All the equipment's costing us money. These players contracts are costing us money. We got to try to like. So anyways, I just know that's our business is work. So I don't think the NFL would ever just, like, stop it. It'd be hard to find some a reason. You know, I don't think you're right. I don't think so. It's just a money grab, baby. But there is still the game. The game? The fucking game we talked about before. But there's definitely some influential, you know, pushing is maybe here or there. Yeah, man. Just to be I don't think we'll ever find out if it's like truly rigged or like the level of which that they have influence as far as like ownership into the actual game mechanics of like who wins and who loses or who wins the championship. It'd be cool to find out. It would be cool. That's like, but they might have to kill you. Might have to kill. It's right there, bro. I think the I think that there's obvious moment like when I see that the bills went to the Super Bowl four years in a row, but they didn't win any of the four years. To me, that screams what you're talking about. It's like we can only influence it so much, bro. Like you're going to have to win the fucking game like I can't. Yeah, I can't give you the points. Yeah. Like we can, we can kind of give you a nice schedule and we can make sure, you know, like a couple of those first downs don't happen. Couple pass interference calls. We can do some shit like that. We can definitely get some shit. But also, if another team just comes out and they're on fire, bro. Fucking hitting down 60 yard strikes. No one talked to George Pickens. No one told George Pickens that they're supposed to throw this game that was doing his dance in the end zone. Like something I don't think everybody knows. I think the kicker news sometimes. Oh, okay. That's 20 years ago. That's a big yeah. That's a big make or break player right there. Yeah. And I think that's what you would do is you would tell like you would tell like Tom Brady and fucking Adam military those two people. Hey you guys you guys are winning today okay. Just so you know, everybody wants to get home safe to their fucking wife tonight. Never wants to sleep in their own bed tonight. You guys don't win today. It's like fuck, bro, you know? Oh, that's that's what I think personally. Gun to my head. Is it getting is it, is it intermingled with the mob. It has to be. It has to be. I just realized right now it has to be right there on the sportsbooks. Exactly. Fucking has to be. Yeah. Is is they're intermingled. Las Vegas 99% sure recipe that is Vegas said something about the mom like has 98% sure you know go fuck man Goodell. Oh yeah. Damn I fucking know some shit. He knows she definitely can't tell nobody dog. He's like he's going to the grave with them secrets. That's part of what you're getting paid for to be that guy. So shut the fuck up. Take the fucking heat, man. Take the heat, brother. Never say a word, bro. This is the greatest American secret. Oh. That's crazy. So. Yeah, but that's what I feels like that, right? Definitely do. Definitely do what we talking about that bro? People was, like, disgustingly, crooked. Really? Yeah. For sure. They had the hand of God play where the dude basically, like, spikes the ball into the net when he's like, I think it's Maradona. He's trying to score in like the FIFA Cup to win the championship because they're supposed to win. And then he like the balls in the air and he just like knocks the ball in his hand. And then the ref's like, oh that is give it to him. They call it the hand of God. It's like a famous play in soccer. Oh my God, the hand that never touched the ball. What the fuck? That's crazy. That's gross. Yeah, I don't think we're that level. Maybe not yet. And soccer's been around for longer. I think it would get to a place now because all the players have social media. So like when the flaking happened, that was pretty close to being like, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit. But I legitimate think they invest in a magnet magnet in the middle of the football. The two field goal posts both have magnets in them. That field goal is going up and curves to the left so hard that I think they would do that kind of shit more than they would, tell someone to throw because they might just get on fucking Twitter that night and be like, you wouldn't believe what coach told people are, yeah, people are too unpredictable. Yeah, people are wild, random creatures. Yeah, yeah. Put a fucking magnet in the gloves. Or put a magnet in the hands of those hedges. Dude, don't be that crazy. Do the Andre Hopkins highlight reel is fucking weird, bro. So. So, yeah, as far as Rick goes, I think that, it's exactly like you say it is. It's like they want they, they have a certain projected outcome that they expect and try to influence towards, but ultimately they can't guarantee that that's going to happen. Yeah. It's 70%, maybe a little over halfway. It's like I can give you a 60% chance that this is going to happen, right? But I can't I can't guarantee Devin Hester kickoff return for a touchdown. You never know how someone's just could just ball I control I can't stop him. Ja'Marr Chase. He's a fast man. Yeah I I'll to tell you. Yeah. Talk to that guy. That's one of the guys who I talk to. Yeah right. He's the game breaker the role players. But yeah. So we'll never know if we do find out. I'll let you know. The thing about well, right now is you got to learn to love it even though that's true. Yes. And then how do you do that? Love the game. Yeah. Appreciate the unpredictability. When someone makes a phenomenal, phenomenal catch that's not scripted. Usually they can't like. Yeah. Like fuckin Justin Jefferson against Buffalo that one year like 2 or 3 years ago that he had that fucking crazy catch bro. Like fourth and 18 or something one handed. Just give me that shit, dog. Like you can't script that. Oh no, you couldn't if you tried. Like, that's not going to happen again. We might get a catch like that this year. Like that's a up there for one of the best of all time. Yes. Like those like those types of plays. You can't you can't predict that. You can't you can't force it either. Right? Right. You know what I'm saying. Yeah. The Saquon Barkley backwards hurdle that's pretty in the moment. You know what I'm saying. Like I know they're not scripting that kind of stuff. So you can enjoy those parts. Eventually it should be your team's turn eventually. I mean if there's 32 teams sharing Super Bowls at a disproportionate rate, it might be like 100 years before your team gets its turn. But eventually, somewhere down your line, one of your ancestors will get to enjoy a home to the Super Bowl is like the fucking Browns, bro. Like, right? Our time is good. We got like 26 more years until we get to be good again. Maybe. Here we go. Gotta hear my conspiracy theory about them. The Chicago Cleveland Cleveland Browns. I think that some of the owners in the private owner meetings, they're not interested in chips. Like that's not what they're doing it for. Okay. So they're like, willing to see the league succeed so that they can make money, more money in their pocket at their city's expense. Like, now we'll go for it. I'll give a fuck. Fuck them. Yeah. Put us on this guy. Joe's fine. And then, like, every time you, like, allow someone else to prosper and win. Then you get more leverage bargaining chips for the game that you're playing with the other owners down the line, what would they gain? He's getting a new stadium. More money. Yeah, that's what I think. Okay. Yeah. Like, you know, I don't get as many chips, but that's fine with me because I get a higher pay of the NFL revenue. Yeah. Yeah. Like a percentage of the cuts of the games. Maybe even. It's like, okay, we're going to bump you up 2% for taking another losing season. We appreciate you. Yeah. Because we know that the teams that are contributing the most to the revenue are the teams that are winning the most. Yes. You know, because those are the teams are getting watched the most right and the most jersey sold, most tickets, all that shit. So if you're the Browns and you fucking suck, you're not selling any tickets. No one's watching your games. You're not making that much money. But you might get some of the, you know, you might be incentivized. Oh yeah. Totally financially. That's to keep yourself in that shithole. Yeah. And if you really trust the game that they're playing, that leverage bargaining chips you could use in ten years would be like no, no, no, no, we want the number one pick in the draft. We want the number one pick in the draft. Because there's it comes down to like who's going to get those top five picks this, who's going to have the worst records which could be influenced to some degree too. Yeah, I was just thinking about that right now as soon as you said it, because some people are trying to tank and then they'll get a fucking dub at the end of the year for some reason, or, you know what I'm saying? Like, I think it happened last year with Texans having the Texans in the Colts, where the Texans let the Colts win and it made no sense. And that was the year that led to us getting Anthony Richardson. Yeah they like threw the game. But they they won it when there was no incentive to win it. They throw up like a fourth down bomb and the tight end goes up and just snags that thing. It's like bro, let that drop bro. Like, what are you doing. This is directly affecting your draft capital. Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah. Strange. Weird, right. Yeah. So I could see that. I could see that because. Yeah. Why else would you want to just be the Browns? Commissioner Sanders? That one's interesting because he sold the most jerseys out of anybody, like the first week he was drafted. And he had a crazy, like, viewership showing for the preseason game. It was like one of the most watched preseason games ever. Yeah. You see what I'm saying? So I think that there's who knows if that was actually like, someone's got to take them. I'm going to give them to the Browns, going to sell a bunch of jerseys. You guys will make extra couple million off of him. The Browns like, they were able to finally get him in the fifth round. We've got three quarterbacks. We don't need him. Just take I'm just taking this far. And they drafted Dillon Gabriel. Really fuck his name. How would you say both. It's so weird. Just a I don't know, throw us off. Yeah, I don't know. That's strange. I don't know. We'll never know. But that's okay. We'll speculate. And I'll still enjoy watching in the meantime. Right. Because we don't know what it means. So they're saying it's going to take over the league in week seven, and then all of a sudden it makes a ton of sense, like, oh, this guy was good. We got fucking propagandize anything. And he sucks. He was he's actually good enough to take a team to the playoffs. Now, if you got there, Sanders taking the Browns to the playoffs. Those are my fucking solid jerseys. Oh hell yeah. That's a new story. That's a movement. Yeah, that's a movement right. And so that could dramatically spike that team's net worth from year to year. There's just things that do that you know. Yeah Patrick Mahomes did that change the Chiefs dude it's night and day bro. No one fucking was talking about the Chiefs. That guy Alex Smith was slinging that rock. Duh. Dude. No one give a fuck about the Chiefs. Get this bro. Give a shit. I can't even a dexterity classic forever. Remember a wide receiver from that era? Yeah. None. Zero for me, bro. Like I couldn't name a single player on that team besides Tony Gonzalez and Alex Smith. Yeah. Does it I know like six Chiefs wide receiver since then you know. Yeah I know who left. Like where they left to. Yeah. So so yeah that's what I that's that's one of the things you on. But I don't really give a fuck. It's hard to explain the Peyton Manning stuff. I don't think anybody knew he was going to do that shit. Yeah. Just come back from a neck surgery and ball out of fucking control. Maybe that was the first year they had magnets. Don't we got to play with John. I was like come to the city brother. For errors thing here. The air is thin. You know Shaq God I'm happy. I want the damn talking in code. Oh I don't know. Oh man. All right. Now football talk for sure I was going to bounce it off to that was one thing. Well I guess before I get into that we're going to recap our little weekend mentioned it was raining on Sunday. A fucking happy belated happy future birthday season for the boys. MJ 38 birthday season forever and always right around that end of August. Beginning of September Virgo season time always fucking birthday birthday NFL baby. It's time we went to to city. We went to the bomb in a bomb, bomb boom. Hottest coolest time in Texas. Come let us think that was playing in my head while we were there okay. Oh yeah yeah. But yeah I was just the best. So fun. So fucking fun to fucking bet they have the fucking best lazy rivers in the fucking state of Texas. The hands that you got. Your hands up. Put them down, put them down I never been to a better lazy river, bro. They got three damn bitches. Or at least two. The the wavy torrent. And like the regular lazy. And they have that fucking falls ride that goes from one park to the other. But those rivers are the best part, bro. There's no line for them. No line. That shit is diff. So nice. I love the medium lazy river, the toy river as a kid. Fucking mind blower. I don't know if it's just like it's not as impactful because I'm such a larger person now. Those waves used to be fucking big dog. Those waves would take you to Narnia, bro. She would ride you. It's still fun. It's still fun. Oh, great time for sure. But I like the medium lazy river. That thing just scoots you. You just. You can just sit there. Yeah, you can do nothing. That's so nice. So nice. Catch the rapid. Fly down the rabbit. Lose your glasses. Grab a rock. Try to hold your hold. So fun bro. Yeah, man. It's literal. It's a fucking bomb. And it was tight, too, because we got, like, we avoided the rain. There was, like, a 30 or 40% chance of rain, like a couple days before that. And it did rain like after we were done. And then, like, a little bit of lightning storm after we were done. And then we went to a restaurant after that and it rained like while we were eating, and then it stopped raining. When we left, it was just like, we just we're just bobbing and weaving with that shit. Just missed it. Every time I had that birthday pumpkin spice latte for the drive home. You son of a bitch. Bro. I think we talked about that on a pod before getting that free Starbucks during on your birthday. Do that thing. Boy, did that shit. Dude, I got double extra shot of espresso in there and some oat milk. Yeah. And it's free. Yeah. To what end? To what extent can I get a free beverage? Insofar as, like, how many shots of espresso get throwing that before I start getting some eyebrows raised. Whatever the fuck you want. Yeah, it's your birthday. Look, it's your motherfucking birthday. Have you had a crazy drink experience there? And they're like, all right, bro, this is too much for your birthday drink. Really? Oh, no. But that tells me someone to push that envelope for us and let us know where it falls off. Why? That is literally tell me. Like, I go and I get the quad espresso. Damn. Like it's. But there's only so much you can do to a drink. Get two different kind of sirups and milk and that's that's pretty much I mean and some the quad espresso is nuts. Yeah. No. Yeah. He's like just go hard like try to get a $20 drink. Try because it's like it's for free. That's so cool. Yeah. So I think if I were working at Starbucks and this dude was like going off of his order, I'd be like, Burma hand. Let's go. Okay, what else you got for me? You want some of that, this fucking flavored half and half. You can get two. That's like the other additional add on you could get, but that's it really could only get up to like, $15. Yeah, I guess right. There's only so many shots spread. So I like how you shots of espresso to the top with it. I want a 16 ounce of espresso straight espresso 16oz. But that to the side okay I want a latte ice and a hot. Yeah, exactly. You know, that's crazy. Or if you're like the the barista or the register worker at that time, someone's like, what's up, birthday? Did anyone get my birthday drink? And you're like, yo, go off dog, go off, chill, show more. There's like, let's get like a like a vanilla latte. He's like, no, no need more dog. It's free. What the fuck? Yeah, I could tell that. The guy could tell that. I knew that it was coming to me for free. 99 I'm like, how many shots of espresso come in? The two. Let's make it. Can you make it a three for me? Thank you, my friend. And what do you guys put milk in that community? Put oat milk in that. Then like I was, he was like, gotcha, dog. I know what it is. But that's a banged bro. What a time to have the birthday drink to right around PSL season. Oh like it just came out fucking been like it's only been out for not even definitely not a month. Maybe like a week or two. Beautiful. I don't even I like the caramel brulée which is the Christmas time drink that drink slaps. Oh man, that's a hitter. That's like number one on my draft pick board. Really? So I like that drink more than I like PSL. To be honest, it's PSL was like number three for me on my board. So it's like number two. But it just it hit though, it hit like a first rounder. Like a pick one. Oh shit. Nice. Everyone upside dude I'll be one upside I was like three touchdowns. Thank you Jonathan Taylor oh 30 points. It felt good. Oh man. It was just the perfect train to drive home with us. So nice. Oh yeah. You because you left it in the car too right. Yeah. For the drive from. Yeah. And I just say Pesci. So I've got like, chocolaty flavors and all that. Zuki. BJ's zuki, dude. Fucking digestive over here. Yeah. So it's grand, but I was thinking about if it were. So when it's someone's birthday. Right? Like I try to give a fuck, you know what I'm saying? As a server. Yeah. Okay. But if I was a barista, I think that would translate to, like, I want to. Yeah. Give me your complicated fucking drink order, bro. I'm happy that I get to make it and that you get it for free also makes me happy. It's like on my birthday. There's only so many things you do that's like birthday energy. Like true. Like when you wake up and fucking take a shit and brush your teeth. That's not exactly birthday energy, you know what I'm saying? As a daily maintenance baby, right? But then when you when you leave the house, I go to Starbucks and you get an extra bougie drink that you don't pay for. That's a huge birthday. Yeah, that's birthday energy. So you want to, like, hit a couple of those moments in the song that is your actual birthday, you know, the day of the song. Yeah, yeah, totally. A couple base drops of birthday. Yeah. Some give me some. 808, bro. Yeah. Like when they brought out the bazooka and you guys saying to me, that's like the one do. Yeah. Oh, shit. Is everything. Yeah for sure, because it's like, there's this, I what am I trying to say? There's either something sacred about birthdays or were delusional. Like, maybe it's just a dumb, fucking weird thing that we do as humans, you know what I'm saying? Like, the day's really not different than anything else, or it is kind of sacred. That is your birthday. And then I lean towards it is sacred. And then you kind of have to do some kind of justice to it. You can't just live your birthday like it's a regular day or you're going to be, like, sad on the inside. Yeah. Just never celebrate it, you know? Right. People who never are, like wanting to go to dinner or wanting to do anything for their birthdays, like, ever. I think they're lying. Well, there could be tangled up stuff from their childhood in there. Something going on there. It's all childhood, you know, deal with that shit. That's all we're all dealing with forever, man. It's crazy. True. But you guys remember the really special. It was awesome. I'm happy that brought the energy, man. Yeah, it's fucking time. So amazing day. It's a great day for bro. It's literally for eight hours suck from 11. It's seven. Open to close. It was so good. I was like almost sad because I'm just like, I don't want for anything. This is perfect. It's like, oh, we're having a great time. 364 days until my next pretzel day. And we didn't even get. Yeah, right. No. No nothing. No one got burned either, you know, being out there. But for eight hours, you're likely to get a little burn. We were fine. I did good, dude. We played three times. We're fucking good, man. Got God got got it got dark, darkened for sure it burned and yeah. Did I get burned so worked out great bro. Again. Chillin, drinking dude. Man, the best time, best times, the fucking best times. And you're talking about berries doesn't mean a server. And that reminded me of a an experience that we had the other night and like is I've mentioned it to you before, like the Wingstop incidents of cold fries, consistently cold fries, shitty quality mid D minus fries. We don't even give D's in Texas D minus fries. It's like y'all suck bro. And it's been that way for like two years. They don't can't get a fucking grill guy in there or a fry guy who knows how to fucking heat, all right. And how to do it right. Like it's just consistently sucks. And then that was making me think of just fast food in general. And people like your fast food experience, or whenever people talk about favorite fast food or the best fast food or the worst fast food, it's always depending upon your area, your area of where you live and where you're going. Okay, you know what I'm saying? It's like the McDonald's on fifth Street. That shit sucks. Don't fucking go there, bro. No one that works there gives a fuck about life, dog. They don't give a shit. But if you go to the McDonald's on eighth Street, they go hard. That shit's clean. That shit is on time. The fries are always hot. It's like it just. It can be such a drastic experience differential from one place to another. And I was just thinking about that in regards. So yeah, we go to McDonald's sometimes. Wingstop always fucking sucks with the fries. The wings are great. Fries are dogshit. McDonald's they're hidden. Miss. They can be miss. They've been miss more than hit lately. I'm not sure if management change or who was coming in who's coming at. But they're they're hit and miss. And then there was a good little run a stretch of time where the water burger by our house was just dog shit too consistently dog shit cold fries every time. Wait times forever. If you order a chicken sandwich or it's a burger place, of course, but if you order a chicken sandwich, it's gonna take you 20 minutes. It's like, fuck, man, this place sucks, but you never know because high turnover rate in this industry. So if you go to a shitty fast food place, shitty chick fil A, a shitty Panda express, it's like, just give it three months, go back and you might have a completely different experience with new management and new staff coming in and out. But so with all that being said, we're going to Whataburger one night. The consistently shitty Whataburger. But it's been better. It's been getting better. I've noticed over the last two months we're hopeful, like, okay, they're they're instituting some change over there. They got some fucking four more years going on. I'm not sure who's managing. I'm not sure why the why they're on the up and up, but I'm here for it. Let's go try Whataburger. We only either, I don't know, once or twice a month, maybe give it a shot. We go pull up to the drive thru and the guy is just like, I don't know, sir. I don't say anything. I just pull up to the drive thru and typically they're like, hey, welcome to whatever, I'll take your order or what I need any you want to try a prickly pear lemonade? Yeah, right. You want to you want to try a brand new car nicer. It's like no, no, no. But I pull up to the window. He he answers me promptly. Pretty like, almost instantaneously. As soon as I pull up, he's like, yeah, man, I'm gonna need a minute. I was like, oh, okay, take your time. Don't spit in my food. Me too busy. I was just like, oh, not a good start. No, it's not a good start, dawg. Oh, shit. But then we ended up just chillin. It wasn't too long. A couple couple minutes and then order the stuff. And this general I, we talked for a total of like, 30s just interaction order, order order. Paying at the window, paying at the window, getting my food, getting my food. Okay, I'm out of here. In that 30s of total cumulative conversation. He's called me boss like 13 times. Like I was working for your boss. Like just 11 more bosses to go. I was like, this guy is this 1 a.m., mind you as well, at this point, if you're going to a fast food restaurant, chances are the people handling your food, delivering your food don't give a fuck. High likelihood they don't give a shit about that. Just just in general, talk this in shit about life. Don't give a fuck about changing their role. They don't give a shit about wiping their ass, right? There's there make some money, go home. Which I get, I fucking get, bro. I'm in the industry, I fucking get it. But please give a shit. Please give a little bit of a shit for me. I just it just such a drastic change in life. If you like, you pull up, get the food, get back home, check the box. They forgot the sauce. They fucking took tomatoes on there. This shit's cold. I'm having a bad time now. And I paid for all of this and it cost me time. Fuck. That sucks. Versus, like, you get the same exact thing. Pull up, get the food, pull back, get home, unveil everything, started on boxing, and you're like, okay, yeah. All they give us extra sauce is okay. These fries are hot. Nice. I like their salted. It's just a different energy bro. You're creating different lives here people. If you work in fast food, you're creating a different life for the people enjoying your food. If you're doing it well and give a shit. So I'm going to Whataburger. 1 a.m. likelihood is already pretty low past midnight. Super low. That's it's sinks bro. It's just done. There's a 10% chance they don't give a fuck. There's a 50% chance they're high or drunk. 50% dog like no, not a knock to anybody. It happens a lot in the in service industry. Not an observer. Not just fast food restaurants, regular restaurants do. People don't get to watch out. Watch on now though. Don't get this shit twisted. Whataburger 1 a.m.. I'm hoping for it. I need a minute. I'm going up quick. All right, we'll see what happens with this man. We're already in line and there's nobody else in line, so it's like, this is our best bet. I don't want to have to fucking go drive to another spot and roll the dice again. Let's just go for it. And then we pull up to the cash register or the second window to pay, and then just jam. In Metallica. There's jam in Metallica. Unless you. I think it's like Enter Sandman or some shit. Hey, Eli. And I was like, dude, they're fucking fighting forever against me. Oh 2639 boss, I think I think it, boss, because once my shit starts getting whatever I was like reviving there, having a vibe back there, like I can feel the energy like, this is, this is okay, this is much better. A different energy versus like the initial five seconds when I was like, I need a minute, please look it up. Like just switched up. I don't know what happened. I don't know what happened in that minute. Maybe like you, you got what you needed to get. We need a bit of us, blah blah blah blah hahaha. Oh, hey. Like 2 or 3 blinkers before he got back to me. Whatever he needed to do, do your thing, dog. Because that was the best water burger meal I've ever had. Yeah, he's easily the best water burger meal ever. The patty melt was sauced up. It had. It was the heat. It was hot. The bun was nice and toasted and not like stale and crunchy. It was. The fries were the most consistently salted and hot like they maintained their heat throughout the entire meal. I don't know how the fuck that happened then, but usually this day lukewarm. They get airtight. Or, room temperature within like five, ten minutes after you take them out of the bag. But some magic, you cast it on there. It was literally the best water burger meal I've ever had in my life. I was like, yo, this water burger is going up and up. That's birthday energy. Yeah, that's bro. Maybe he said, I need a minute. Pull these fucking fryers out of the oil, put them right on top, salt the shit out of the bubble. Oh, hey, what's up bro? How you doing? That's sick. That's brought the energy, bro. When people come up into my section, they tell me it's my birthday. Nah, yesterday, not tomorrow. It's my birthday. I'm like the day witness to me. Tell me how it's going. Did you hit every green light? Favorite song was on the radio. The fries were hot and salty the whole meal. You, You pulled up to the gas pump. Your gas. Your favorite number. Four 4444 angel numbers going on. Tell me some wild shit, because I think that happens on your birthday. There's something about your frequency that thing's lining up. It's like your lottery numbers are hitting. It's like me. Me winner. It's usually you. But if it's your birthday and the opposite of that, it's happening. Oh, dude, if I hit a couple red lights, I don't really give a fuck. I'm a little bit like, I'm all for them today. I couldn't like. But if it's my birthday, anything ever, I'm like, what do I do wrong this year? The fuck did I do wrong? What is up? I need a I need a reset. I need to fucking, like, go drive back home, chill for a second, change my shirt, change my outfit, go back out. Maybe I'll catch the vibe there. Something to get on the right kind of rhythm. Yeah, the wavelength. But I think that that's, that screams birthday energy to me. Yeah, it could just. You never know. That was definitely, that had that energy behind it. It was just like, this is a different meal. Like, I am having such a good time eating this. I'm so happy I paid for this and waited for it, because I've been on the opposite end of the spectrum and it's just so annoying, bro. There's definitely some leeway, but I'm like, fuck man, they forgot the fucking chicken sandwich. I think I missed the whole chicken sandwich. Chick fil A, what the fuck? You know, it's supposed to be the most consistent. They've been falling off the last like 2 or 3 weeks. I'm not sure who left. I'm not sure who came in, but just fucked up chick fil A over by my house. Chick fil A is not supposed to fall off. That's the one. That's the one that you're supposed to have the consistently same solid experience every time. That's like part of what makes them like my favorite. I think they're probably my favorite fast food place. Yeah. To go to. That's fair right? I love chick fil A chick. It's the bomb, dude. That's I guess that's partially why why they're up there. It's because consistent. Like if Water Burger was always consistently that good. Like how I had it like, oh shit, bro, they ain't fucking missing. They're hittin hard over there. This is what a burger is right here. This is the one by the Walmart. 1604 21 don't fucking go to that waterpark. They don't go to fucking water burger, just like you said, bro. You order chicken 20 minute wait guarantee bro. 20 minute is sitting there put in Park Bench Farm podcast. Yep, you're stuck bro. 20 minutes. I should have gone to a restaurant, kind of sat down, had a whole meal pay to left. Dude. But then you go to the I just for one. I don't even know why I what's the one on 281 and Evans and I ordered the same shit I always order. It was done in like five, six minutes. I'm like, what the fuck? This thing is moving, bro. It's crazy how different. And when I went to the 6042 81, I ordered a taquito. Like a like a Teresa of tequila with cheese. And I get home. It's just eggs. It's just eggs. And I'm like, how do I even complain about this? You was, I was here like, two weeks ago, and I swear I ordered a Charizard. Taquito with cheese. You guys give me just the egg. Like I'm not going back for, like, fuck you. I'm not going back over there isn't the only course of action at that point is to call them immediately. Call them. Gotta call. You gotta give me more work as well. Don't. Yeah. Fucking. Yeah. Yeah. That's annoying as fuck, And I gotta feel like that person. I feel like company is like, today I had to fucking call AT&T to be like, hey, I'm moving in a little bit. I need to cancel my service because I wanted to move the service. But you don't have the same speed of internet. You don't have the same service in the area I'm moving to. So I need to switch. You know, I'm out of here, but I'm breaking up with you. It wasn't quite as simple as just like, cancel your service here. Okay? Click. Sorry to see you go. Here's how you return your shit. No, it's like call. It's like, oh, fuck, I got to call them. I got it's hey. I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this. Actually. I'm good, I'm fine, I'm good. Bye. I'm on the move. But, like, I think the fuck moving. We'll just keep paying them. The deterrent. The deterrent, the call. The call is the deterrent. They know the hell they know that. Oh, yeah. If it's as simple as click the button, they're going to click the button. Oh, yeah. If it's harder, if it's like make a call and then press a couple extra buttons and then talk to 2 or 3 people. Oh fuck. Dude. The the likelihood that they're going to cancel is dropped by 80% or something. Crazy. I bet 30% I ain't no statistician, but that's it makes sense to me because I felt it as a human. It's like, fuck, man. Well, it's not going to make you not move. But yeah, I was like, not fuck that. I'm calling this one off, I guess. But yeah, you got you got to make that cost partially like the fast food shit. Like. Yeah. Then I got a call, then I got to fucking, then I had to, I had to initiate that fucking move the other night at Chick-Fil-A because they had they forgot the sandwich. That was my question. I was like, bruh. Like I'm home, daughter ain't got a sandwich. Like, I gotta go to work. I can't go back. Remedy this for me. Make a fucking make it. Right. There's like, okay, what's your name? What's the order number of the receipt? Okay, okay. Oh, yeah, I got I got your here. Okay. Next time you go in, let them know you talk to Rachel. Order with the same name you ordered with this time. And you'll get a free sandwich. Okay? I ain't free meal, though. Give me. Yeah, bro. Come on now. Talking about we're interest, bro. Yeah. You guys wronged me. It's not just that I don't have sandwich. No, I don't have dinner. We don't have dinner for my daughter. Yeah, okay. Yeah. The fuck? Dude, can you give me back the idea of dinner tonight? You know what? We wanted to eat together. What's the idea? Yeah. That's why in in a in a restaurant we like at this price point of the restaurant that we're at and restaurants of similar caliber, like, it's it's not unheard of if a couple is going out to eat the comp the whole meal, or if you fuck up one of the steaks has to take it back, that you would bring it everything back out like so they can eat together because it's like what they came there to do. Oh, you know what I'm saying? It's not out of the realm of possibility, but definitely a movie that you're gonna make. Yeah, a movie that can be making chef. I can call those dirty bitches. Yeah. And I am with you. I remember fucking college finding that out. You could call them and they'd give you free shit. Yeah, I'm. I would do that. Yeah. It's cool. It's not for me. I want a steak. You give me salmon, I'm gonna eat it. I hate the fucking taco. But the difference in going to the different Whataburger, that's real. What is so real? It's like culture. Culture exists. Yeah. It's just like teams. It's like some teams that they play basketball. They also play basketball. But, like, you watch their practices. Hahaha. You watch the locker room. It's a different game, bro. It's a different sport almost sometimes. Yeah. Like watching. Yeah. Just, just being at different places and I guess the, the culture maybe you're right. You know what I'm saying? Because I guess maybe, maybe a geographic thing, but I think more so it's like Whataburger A and Whataburger B, they're both going to get different recruits. They're both gonna get different applicants based on who's like closer to them, who lives there. So it's like maybe that this side of town, they just have people who don't give a fuck. Maybe the side towns people do give a fuck, but if they're like roughly pulling from the same pool of people to work, they're the same caliber of person. Hypothetically, they should be the same. But I think at that point it comes down to the culture and the management and the leadership and the fucking ownership. Yeah. That's it. Is it culture and leadership? Like, I don't give a fuck whatever, man. Do what you gotta do is fine. Just get through the day. I've never really played, but if your leader is out there fucking leading and showing up and going hard and fucking doing the thing, then like truly inspiring, you're probably likely to make sure the fries are hot. But if your boss pulls up late and a fucking whoop doesn't give a shit a stain on his shirt, fucking hair all fucked up to hell and back, you probably don't give a fuck about the fries. You probably don't give a fuck what the fresh might be a culture thing going on. Yeah. Probably is. Yeah. People are hard to understand. I've never played different because of my boss. For the most part, it's a me thing, you know? It's like in here. It's like my assessment of my self-worth is, like, predicated on my own competence, or at least my own effort. Yeah. I can't, I can't let that change what I'm trying to do. Or regardless, this is output maximum. Maximum output. I'm just trying to fucking go hard. Yeah. Go hard. Don't make mistakes and just. Cook. Yeah. Whatever cooking is for you. I'm trying to cook. Play your best game. Yeah. Despite circumstances or regardless, I don't give a fuck who's coaching. No, I'm not trying to ball out of control. Yeah, I'm trying to win championships. Yeah, yeah, I'm with you. So sometimes they're like, well, leadership and management can really impact a culture's ability to propagate good workers. It's like really most of the time it's individual thing, you know. But it is true that like if there's some people right in the middle of wanting to care and not wanting to care, and then you have like an inspiring leader come in and you're just like, that motherfucker makes me want to make sure that these fires are hot. Can't explain it. Yeah, well, I see him. I like the fire is going to be hot. For real, bro. For real. It's, It's it's it's crazy because I've heard, isn't there? And that it's kind of about that as far as talking about culture and just influencing your team or your influencing your sphere of people around you. It's like a good company. No, I forgot the adage, but it's pretty much something alluding to like, bad company will corrupt good morals more or less. So like if you throw a bad egg into a pool of good eggs, the more likely thing is that the good eggs will start to drop and be bad eggs, versus pulling up the bad egg. To be a good egg too. I think there's a stronger pull to the negativity. Unless you just are David Goggins and say I don't fucking care bitch. Like you're going to be negative. Are you going to try to persuade me to give less of a fuck? Fuck you. I give more of a fuck now actually, that's all. That doesn't come. That's hard. You can't just teach that. You can't. You can't just coach there. You gotta, Where does that come from? It's a fucking internal. Just like a I don't know if it's God given or if it's developed through adversity, and it's just peeled back the layer so many times it's like a simple equation. You're like, I see what's going on here. Like a minus c equals x squared. Fuck x squared. It's like I'm not getting a minus c I'm gonna forget the minus c. But I think like what I'm trying to say is like it's like David Goggins is where he's like, no, we were solid. Then we got an underperformer brought in who was clearly manipulating on some level for us to also underperform with them to justify their. Is that where he's at? It's like, I see it all the way and I fucking despise it. That is one of my least favorite things morally to see happen to a group of good workers. So I'm going to make a stand. I'm going to go. I'm be extra hard. I'm waking up 15 minutes even earlier, 345 in the morning. But I think that there's that's what's going on there. I think he's there's people that have peeled back the layers enough times to like, just see it straight up and be like, nope, I know what's happening right here. So I'm going to be more resolute about it. But for the most part, it's life is a subconscious journey. We're just like things are happening and we're reacting, and it's hard to proactively understand where your situation is headed and then take the right steps unless you've spent hours in pain, like David Goggins says, trying to understand the fucking pain itself. You know he's a doctor, bro. Doctor is pain. Doctor pain, bro. Yeah. He's deaf. That's cool. Julian's reading the campaigns book that came out okay. Yeah. Yeah. Like recently. Right? Yeah. So it's amazing. Really like fucking amazing, dude. Like, I just want to get out of bed so bad, but I'll get there. I'll get there. Nice. Oh, listen to this shit. I know, I know him and Joe had a pod probably around the time the book came out, I would have, yeah. Oh, I figured I would have heard it. I can't remember it. I've talked my head. What it's called. No, the like his podcast because I don't think I've, I don't, I don't when you say his I know who he is. Like I have a picture of them in my mind, but I don't know what his voice sounds like. Oh, you know what I'm saying? And I figured that if I would have watched the podcast that I probably would know. Kind of like what they talk about or like how he handles himself, how he carries himself. But I'm trying to put it there. I'm like, I don't think I've seen that one. He's kind of a country dude. Oh, he's like a yeah, he's a he's a fucking animal. Yeah, it's a crazy person. He's like David Goggins crazy person. Just like country David Goggins. Okay. So like kind of but not. And then he talks about hunting all the time too. Yeah. He's a hunter. Hunter guy, right? Yeah. Big hunter, wildlife advocate. Ultramarathon runner, fitness guru. But him and Joe Rogan just talk like boys. Pretty much. They're just, like, super on point and throwing out. Yeah. So Monsoon elk's a ton of elk talk, bow talk, gun talk. You got to be into that. It's a for me. Even his podcasts are hard to get there sometimes because I just don't care about hunting that much. Yeah, but, I was listening to him, like, earlier this week. That's why I can, like, picture it perfectly, but as an old one, that's why I was kind of tripping me out. It was like episode 1000, something like, damn, who's been friends with Ken Haynes for like, a long time? Yeah. This is like ten years ago. He's had 2600 out right now or something. Yeah, some crazy, crazy bro 1600 podcasts ago. Holy fuck. This shit's prolific. It is three week. I've been pond for 20 years. Yeah, that's what happens. Holy shit. Dude, we'll get there to just a matter of time, man. That's it. But yeah, you want to. I want to write it down. But I didn't realize we were going so far. We're right there. I had realization the other day just thinking about talking to my coworker, and most of the time I just like, hey, you seen any good TV lately? And kind of like, give me the ice. That's my grandma. That question all the time for like, yeah, because like when you talk to your grandparents, sometimes, like, you don't know what to talk about, it's like a generational gap. But I'd be like, are you watching anything good on TV? And then she would tell me about some show she's watching with some actor that's from some other thing. And, oh, I've seen that guy in an episode of House one time. And then I was talking about Hugh Laurie and like, it would just spawn conversation, right? So it was like an easy way to talk to my grandma. I'll just be like, what are you watching? And then I was doing that at work at 31 years old, and I'm like, I picked up this fucking line of dialog when I was like 15, I realized that I could have conversations with my grandma about what she's watching. That's something you can do in conversation. Hey, what are you watching? Easy way to have social conversation. Non conversation. Small talk. And then when someone asks you what you're watching, you can tell them the MJ 38 show. Bang. That would help a lot. We'd appreciate it. Bang. Facts bro. That's fucking facts. That's gas I love that. Oh yeah I'm here for I love to leave you guys with that. Happy birthday to my guy Justin. Let's go. Let's get you all. Let's go. By the time this comes out, I'll be in my new year and we will be waiting for Monday Night Football. Boo boo. Week one, baby. Good luck in your fucking leagues, boys and girls. Yeah, here we go. Oh, yeah. Come on, baby, let's go. Yeah, let's get the fall, baby. You'll fall in the sky. We keep on pushing luck. Go like subscribe. We'll see you on the flip ups 100 coming up soon. We keep on moving. I'll see you there.