Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back. It's a brand new episode. This is
Speaker 1: the Friday Happy Hour, a Laugh with Me podcast with
Speaker 1: your coote jay. Oh and I am here with a
Speaker 1: couple of a couple of good pals of eye and Air. Clarson,
Speaker 1: a giant in the in the industry. Yeah, he's a
Speaker 1: giant in the transportation industry.
Speaker 2: And my brother Kyle.
Speaker 1: They're here. You heard him earlier in the week on
Speaker 1: Laugh with Me and they're back to share Happy hour. Joy.
Speaker 1: You've had a good wedding run though, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: when's the last time? What's your last wedding? I mean
Speaker 1: when I say wedding experience, it's like, all right, we
Speaker 1: all go to weddings, we all whatever. But Eric's had
Speaker 1: a run of groomsmen best man? Have you ushered? I've
Speaker 1: never been an usher, no guest, obviously, you just you
Speaker 1: had a good run as groomsmen, best man. When's the
Speaker 1: last time? Like, it's been a while, right.
Speaker 3: I feel like it was probably Bob oh damn the
Speaker 3: Lake Superior wedding and.
Speaker 1: That was seemed like a lifetime ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that had to be awesome.
Speaker 2: Oh ship Bob.
Speaker 4: Eric looks at me as if that was not awesome,
Speaker 4: But I bet it was awesome.
Speaker 1: What you don't remember is Bob died that night. Oh Bob, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he tried to move on from his memory.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I obviously wouldn't have asked the question if
Speaker 1: I knew that was the last time.
Speaker 2: Oh for sure.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And then you just think we brought it up like
Speaker 7: this wedding. Yeah, Eric's looking at me like this was
Speaker 7: not what was up, Bob. I apologize for what's happening
Speaker 7: right now.
Speaker 1: R I brother, all right, you know.
Speaker 3: And it is kind of interesting too, because I look
Speaker 3: back at like the Bob wedding.
Speaker 5: I was a groomsman. I was also the wild card.
Speaker 3: Like I always felt like I leaned a little bit
Speaker 3: into like the mystique of I could be the wild
Speaker 3: card pole like especially the brides.
Speaker 5: The brides were always just like Eric wild card, Like
Speaker 5: what's he gonna do?
Speaker 3: Like he's gonna be drinking before the wedding, He's going
Speaker 3: to be, you know, doing this, Like there was always
Speaker 3: a bit of fear.
Speaker 1: Do you think they looked at the lineup, like when
Speaker 1: it was all put together, when they're putting together the
Speaker 1: wedding party and they're looking at the names and they're
Speaker 1: just like, you know, honey, I this is this is
Speaker 1: gonna be great. I love that your friends are involved here.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be the best day, right, Eric, Though that's
Speaker 1: a wild card. Do you think that's a conversation?
Speaker 5: I feel like it was, which again to me, is hilarious.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, you guys know me the listening audience, right,
Speaker 3: I mean I'm far from a wild card, just a.
Speaker 1: Regular card, just a normal card. He's the seven of spades.
Speaker 5: You play me, you know what you're gonna get.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, he's the six of spades. If he's thrown
Speaker 1: down with the ten, you're not quite sure which way
Speaker 1: to go with it, but you're you're there.
Speaker 3: But I did love like so. Bob's wedding was up
Speaker 3: on the shores of Lake Superior, like a beautiful venue.
Speaker 3: All this kind of stuff was great, and it was
Speaker 3: the least that had ever been asked for me as
Speaker 3: a groomsman. Like it was literally they they gave me
Speaker 3: a shirt like I didn't have to get fitted for
Speaker 3: a tucks.
Speaker 5: They gave me a shirt that was size to me.
Speaker 3: I didn't even have to walk anybody down the aisle.
Speaker 5: They were just like just stand up there with the
Speaker 5: just like hang out.
Speaker 1: Like were you too much of a wild card? They
Speaker 1: were like, how do we limit this possibility?
Speaker 3: I think probably the big problem is that we keep
Speaker 3: calling this friend Bob.
Speaker 5: Bob his name.
Speaker 2: Is Nate, No, I disagree.
Speaker 5: So the family was throwing off. They're just like, oh,
Speaker 5: how do you know Nathan.
Speaker 1: It's like, who is Nate?
Speaker 5: Nathan? Like this is my buddy mob.
Speaker 1: That was That was a fun time experience. I remember
Speaker 1: when we rolled up there, I thought it was going
Speaker 1: to be a great opportunity to like get a nice
Speaker 1: room and just like have just the best time. Except
Speaker 1: they gave our room away. So when we got there,
Speaker 1: we checked. We walked into the room and there's other
Speaker 1: people's stuff in the room. That's a real thing. And
Speaker 1: it ended up being the mom of the bride.
Speaker 2: Maybe I would have thrown it out the window.
Speaker 1: They're just the window, right, So then I go down
Speaker 1: and it's like, hey, there's stuff, but that's the room,
Speaker 1: and like we're gonna get you taken care of. And
Speaker 1: then they were sorting out the rooms and in the meantime,
Speaker 1: here's a credit of like one hundred dollars at the
Speaker 1: bar because we didn't know where to go. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're literally just at this resort whatever drink beers, and
Speaker 1: that's exactly what happened. Yeah, we remember we camped out
Speaker 1: the bar and people were coming up. We were camping
Speaker 1: out the bar, and it's like, hey guys, we got
Speaker 1: a credit, like, let's go, and we had a great time.
Speaker 5: The bar was just like, you're gonna give drinks to him.
Speaker 1: That's wild card, that's wild wild. Yeah, he was on
Speaker 1: a restriction. Yeah uh yeah. That was a great way
Speaker 1: to kick off the weekend. But it ended up being
Speaker 1: a really awesome weekend.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 1: It was awesome to kind of pregame that mother fucking bob.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So that was the wedding you've had the least amount
Speaker 1: of responsibility. What would be the wedding you had the
Speaker 1: most responsibility?
Speaker 5: Was yours?
Speaker 4: Oh boy, why you fucking hard?
Speaker 2: Sorry about the Why do you making work so hard?
Speaker 3: There was no like, out of all the weddings, Evan Groosman,
Speaker 3: there was no wedding that I had to stand up.
Speaker 5: Sit down.
Speaker 2: Good god, yeah, just standing sitting down.
Speaker 3: Plus, it was the first one I remember remember kind
Speaker 3: of before we went in for the actual ceremony. You know,
Speaker 3: I had stuff in my pockets, wallets and that. Like,
Speaker 3: my parents were were there, they were at the wedding,
Speaker 3: so I.
Speaker 5: Was just like here, hold this, hold my stuff, hold
Speaker 5: this stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So you know, divested all that, and I'm talking to
Speaker 3: my parents after the after the ceremony, and they're just like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean you did good. I mean you were swaying
Speaker 3: up there a bunch.
Speaker 5: It was just like swaying, what do you mean? But
Speaker 5: they were just like we were supposed be staanding still
Speaker 5: and you were just kind of like waving like left
Speaker 5: or right, left or right.
Speaker 8: It's just like, well, now you said being having to
Speaker 8: stand up here, like what's going on? Like what about
Speaker 8: Jeremy for forcing me to like sit down like three times?
Speaker 5: Stand up like keep going up there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's that's all the work. You had to
Speaker 1: do a lot of up.
Speaker 4: It looked like wacky inflatable arm flailing tube.
Speaker 2: Man, which there's nothing wrong with that. Well, it's not
Speaker 2: what he signed up for. And tell you that much.
Speaker 1: He signed up for whatever was coming his way. That's
Speaker 1: all I'm saying. You also got a nice pair of sunglasses.
Speaker 2: He had to give a speech, You had to give
Speaker 2: a speech.
Speaker 1: It's wild as it was fun. I'm just saying, and
Speaker 1: you regret Halloween, what what day would you put it
Speaker 1: on if it wasn't Halloween.
Speaker 4: I don't regret Halloween.
Speaker 1: Don't regredit It's just become a thing. If you could
Speaker 1: move it, if you could move it today.
Speaker 4: Well that's that's the thing.
Speaker 5: It sounds like he makes a habit of getting married Halloween.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it having one time, It having one time. I
Speaker 4: don't know what to tell you, guy. If I would
Speaker 4: not move it, I would not move it. It's just something.
Speaker 4: It's just you don't think about that. Like, okay, everyone
Speaker 4: in Halloween. Now you're like trying to be like, oh,
Speaker 4: let me give you flowers, like hey, but in reality,
Speaker 4: you don't have time to say, have anniversary because you
Speaker 4: gotta motherfucking get the ding porch ready with all these
Speaker 4: animatronics and like candy and apple, citer and ship.
Speaker 1: Okay, how about this, how about this, guys, we have
Speaker 1: a friend Grant front.
Speaker 4: Of the pod.
Speaker 2: I voted for him.
Speaker 1: They had a second wedding that him and Kathy had
Speaker 1: a second wedding, okay, to where they renewed their valves.
Speaker 2: Weddings, No sweatings. You weren't there. You're in Atlanta. For
Speaker 2: the record, Eric was in Atlantic.
Speaker 1: I officiated it. He's a little bitch. Yeah, where were you, Eric?
Speaker 1: I officiated it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we were all there.
Speaker 5: So here we talked about my biggest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not even Yeah. I went for best man to officiate.
Speaker 1: That's big. That's a promotion.
Speaker 2: That's a big deal. Eric wasn't even there.
Speaker 3: He was So's birthday tomorrow it is, and he's going
Speaker 3: to hear about this.
Speaker 1: He should hear about this anyway. Anyway, they had they
Speaker 1: had a second that a vow renul because they wanted
Speaker 1: to kind of celebrate on a different day. You know,
Speaker 1: I like it, and.
Speaker 5: Uh, they have to celebrate both days now.
Speaker 2: No, I think they another day.
Speaker 1: It was a different day, completely different months, different time
Speaker 1: of year.
Speaker 4: Too many days to remember for me.
Speaker 1: Well, I think it's not yours. So then the uh
Speaker 1: they did this with that in mind. What I'm asking
Speaker 1: you is, if you guys were to have a vow renol,
Speaker 1: what day would you pick?
Speaker 4: Oh? October thirty.
Speaker 1: Oh Jesus, he went from this is such a pain
Speaker 1: in the ass, never picking up.
Speaker 4: It's not a pan in the ass. You don't think
Speaker 4: about it though, you're like, yeah, all right, anniversary of
Speaker 4: what all I got coming up? And then you'd be like, okay,
Speaker 4: let me do this anniversary stuff and you're like, there's
Speaker 4: fucking kids knocking on my door.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: It just happened so fast.
Speaker 1: Every year, turn your light off.
Speaker 3: I just want to state for the record that we
Speaker 3: are not replaying.
Speaker 5: You the beginning of this show.
Speaker 6: This is making the same points again.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying. I'm just saying for the record, that's
Speaker 4: just how it goes down. I don't regret it.
Speaker 2: I love it, but it just hits you fast. Every year.
Speaker 4: It's like, whoa, where did that come from? So there
Speaker 4: you go, there you go. You have been on Halloween
Speaker 4: on the pod and over years. Yeah, I was banned.
Speaker 4: So that's your fault. I don't know if you're aware
Speaker 4: that's your fault.
Speaker 1: So what have you been up to?
Speaker 4: It's fine, it just been working. Some of us move states.
Speaker 4: We moved six and a half hours away from where
Speaker 4: we current.
Speaker 1: We used to live.
Speaker 4: Hey, some of us, Yeah, two thirds of us move
Speaker 4: across the country.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then and then one of us goes to
Speaker 1: the other one's old house and helps move them. Well,
Speaker 1: the other one's not there. Kyle, do you ever.
Speaker 3: Have you ever considered the idea that perhaps if Kyle's
Speaker 3: TV gave.
Speaker 5: You chromes, that moving his TV again could fix the chromes.
Speaker 2: A that's a great idea.
Speaker 1: You still got that TV. I got a TV and
Speaker 1: it's I'm going to hopefully assume it's like a flat
Speaker 1: screen that I can just pick up myself.
Speaker 2: Well, you can hang out.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm just jump jumping ahead here. But what
Speaker 3: if you moved this TV into I don't know, a lake?
Speaker 1: Oh, here we go. Okay, now we're talking all right.
Speaker 1: So little backstory to this. The three of us playing
Speaker 1: a fantasy football league. It's been around for twenty plus years,
Speaker 1: and we a few years back, a few years back now,
Speaker 1: we had a lake draft that there was this old
Speaker 1: ass TV in the house and after a long night
Speaker 1: of drafting, we had some ideas about throwing this TV
Speaker 1: into the lake. Well, as happens, Eric got injured in
Speaker 1: the process, and also as happens Eric ever since then,
Speaker 1: just for clarity, the TV never ended up in them now,
Speaker 1: but we've joked ever since that the TV needs to
Speaker 1: get in the.
Speaker 5: Lake our environmental impacts.
Speaker 1: Yes, so the TV's evert we did our work, because
Speaker 1: that's the thing. After that, it was like, Okay, we
Speaker 1: didn't do it. Here is why great success? What if
Speaker 1: we did do it? And then it was looking at that.
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Speaker 4: All right, we're out right official.
Speaker 3: I would like to clarify that, you know, I got
Speaker 3: injured and how I got injured.
Speaker 5: So I got injured multiple times that night. H The
Speaker 5: first time was at the bar.
Speaker 1: You got injured at the bar?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So we're at the bar and I lived to
Speaker 3: land at the time.
Speaker 5: There was a bar near the cabin, kind of a
Speaker 5: kind of a small town type of bar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, small community regular is only basically I.
Speaker 5: Got a walk.
Speaker 3: You know, I felt like I was big stuff, you know,
Speaker 3: being living in Atlanta because I was like, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: I'm gonna cover the whole tab.
Speaker 5: So we had had some beers, we had.
Speaker 3: Some shots as a group, and I got the tab
Speaker 3: and it was like twenty four bucks, and I felt like,
Speaker 3: just I'm the richest person in the world, Like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna pay this. I'm gonna leave a twenty dollars tip,
Speaker 3: like like they're gonna talk about big money Eric Atlanta
Speaker 3: Eric for like years.
Speaker 4: At this the people at the bar still are yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: And we definitely talked about it for at least five minutes.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I so actually didn't even remember this until we.
Speaker 5: Were all sitting around this table and somebody.
Speaker 3: I feel like maybe I was talking to the group
Speaker 3: about how generous I was.
Speaker 1: And there's nothing great than that.
Speaker 5: I think I was.
Speaker 3: I think I was like extolling my virtue, and I
Speaker 3: feel like it was probably Kyle actually, now that I've
Speaker 3: been talking here and just hearing Kyle's reaction to my story,
Speaker 3: like somebody kind of like and it was just like,
Speaker 3: you know what we need to go, So.
Speaker 5: Like I feel like the group.
Speaker 3: Was still r and so to prove how serious I
Speaker 3: was about us leaving, I created a fist in my
Speaker 3: right hand and I punched down into the center of
Speaker 3: the table, just a tremendous boom, and I'm pretty sure
Speaker 3: that that knocked about two of my fingers knuckle.
Speaker 1: But did everybody get the point?
Speaker 6: Yeah, well we all gathered up.
Speaker 4: Probably worth it, and you're like, let me make this
Speaker 4: go quicker.
Speaker 3: Yes, And then I mean we obviously didn't get JJ's shoes.
Speaker 5: It was a mistake.
Speaker 6: But so we got back. You know, we walked back.
Speaker 3: It was about thirty minute walk from the bar. I
Speaker 3: mean ten minutes for normal people, thirty minutes for us.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, to get us back to the cabin. And
Speaker 3: then we decided that we were going to.
Speaker 5: Carry the TV. And so we're carrying the TV.
Speaker 3: I had one side of it, somebody else had the
Speaker 3: other side, and there was about ten other people around
Speaker 3: that were just hovering.
Speaker 1: Well, so your hand was injured before, so yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Mean I did not feel it. I did not feel it.
Speaker 3: So we're going through. We're carrying this TV to the
Speaker 3: lake and there was this pipe that was like sticking
Speaker 3: up out of the ground and I nailed one of
Speaker 3: my feet like toe first, like into that pipe as
Speaker 3: I was carrying the TV.
Speaker 4: Which is true, but it has nothing to do with
Speaker 4: his hand being injured.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 6: So like that, like I almost dropped the TV.
Speaker 3: At that point, it was it was a group It
Speaker 3: was a group activity to not drop the TV.
Speaker 1: How many people are carrying this TV? Because I distinctly
Speaker 1: remember me not carrying it, but being out there watching
Speaker 1: you guys car these folks not getting chroned. So I
Speaker 1: was like, well, this was your TV.
Speaker 6: We already established that you were.
Speaker 1: There bigger than you were there were well Dan.
Speaker 4: Dan brought something and I was out of it. I
Speaker 4: was not with the rest of the group at this point.
Speaker 4: I remember the bar and I don't remember after the bar,
Speaker 4: so I was just gone.
Speaker 3: So we're carrying the TV across the lane and we
Speaker 3: run into basically there's a retaining wall that goes from
Speaker 3: the edge of the lawns down to the sand that
Speaker 3: would be the beach, and so we got the TV
Speaker 3: to the edge of that and then these you know,
Speaker 3: eight or nine great minds that were left in our
Speaker 3: group at that time, we could not figure out how
Speaker 3: to surmount this obstacle. How how do we get this
Speaker 3: TV past the retaining Like we're throwing it in the lake. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: but we don't know how to get it, Like in
Speaker 3: this retaining walls only about three foot tall, but there's
Speaker 3: some bushes on the bottom, and it is all true.
Speaker 5: We end up we end up failing. We do not
Speaker 5: get the TV any far than that. We end up
Speaker 5: having to like haul it back into the house.
Speaker 1: I think I remember when when you got when you
Speaker 1: hit that pipe in the ground and hurt your foot,
Speaker 1: and I quickly realized this thing's not going to I
Speaker 1: think I was just like, I'm going up to see
Speaker 1: what's going on the house? What was?
Speaker 3: But that was the next morning I woke up and
Speaker 3: it was like two of my knuckles on my right.
Speaker 5: Hand were incredibly swollen.
Speaker 3: And then on my foot, I had like three toes
Speaker 3: that were just like had been displaced and swollen, and
Speaker 3: it was just like what like and they were all
Speaker 3: on the right side, like it.
Speaker 1: Was just have a stroke?
Speaker 5: What is happening here?
Speaker 2: That's how you know you had a good Fantasy football draft?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I just yeah, I always think back
Speaker 3: to that and I'm just like that that retaining wall,
Speaker 3: like if we just like, if we would have had
Speaker 3: any guidance, there would have been any leadership. If there
Speaker 3: would have been a single leadership brain cell like left
Speaker 3: in the route there, we just would have walked around
Speaker 3: the retaining wall. Yeah, but instead we got to it
Speaker 3: and it's just like, well, how do we hand it down?
Speaker 6: Well, we've already set it down, so we don't want
Speaker 6: to lift it again.
Speaker 4: There's literal stairs maybe eight feet from where you were
Speaker 4: trying to go over the wall.
Speaker 1: There's some smart people that have their fantasy draft that
Speaker 1: like b dubs and just have their draft and then
Speaker 1: have a couple of beers and go home, and then
Speaker 1: we're like, how do we get this TV in the lake?
Speaker 1: And then we can't even get there and then the
Speaker 1: TV ends up going back up to the house. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's absolutely ridiculous, honestly.
Speaker 4: So we lost Eric. So that's part of this pod.
Speaker 1: No, he's going to the fridge.
Speaker 4: He's gonna see definitely gone forever.
Speaker 1: No, he's going to fridge, he's gonna see what's gotta be.
Speaker 4: Hey, you've added Rancid and out come the Wolves to
Speaker 4: the studio and that's just top tier edition into studio.
Speaker 1: So I appreciate that. I'm actually and i I'm going
Speaker 1: to be kind of reorganizing that whole wall. But I've
Speaker 1: got some I've got some new ship coming that I
Speaker 1: think you're going to be excited about.
Speaker 2: Okay, well I haven't been hearing about one hundred years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm aware. Just been on the bottom every year.
Speaker 1: You haven't been around.
Speaker 4: It's just been working.
Speaker 1: It's good though, No, No, working's good. Yeah. I do
Speaker 1: have Rancid outcome the Wolves up there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that wasn't here last time.
Speaker 1: Dookie's new.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you got a lot of good stuff here. Podcast friends,
Speaker 4: send in what you listen to, and if it's not
Speaker 4: Rancid or Dookie, you're wrong. I don't tell you about that.
Speaker 2: This is true.
Speaker 4: This is true.
Speaker 1: We have to ban them from the podcast.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's fine. I had to deal with the band,
Speaker 4: so you're definitely banned, folks. I'd rather not ban the
Speaker 4: listeners just saying.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying. It happens.
Speaker 1: It happens, but it's all good, true, so true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what else is going on?
Speaker 1: How's it feel to podcasts here in the shadows of
Speaker 1: Juan Soto Pinstripe and he's not a Yankee anymore?
Speaker 2: Well, so this is Jersey's bullshit.
Speaker 4: But also I will say, Won Soto should be Yankee
Speaker 4: and one Soto is quickly finding out what it's like
Speaker 4: to not bat Judge. Yeah, like the Yankees loved you,
Speaker 4: the fans loved you. You could have made a billion dollars.
Speaker 4: Now you're making a billion dollars, but no one cares
Speaker 4: about you.
Speaker 1: So that's so funny because he called it out. But
Speaker 1: just a few weeks ago and they were asking him
Speaker 1: about he is not off to a hot start, and
Speaker 1: he's just like, well, I was batting, you know, before
Speaker 1: or after one of the greatest hitters, and people were like, oh,
Speaker 1: because you're not hitting after some of the greatest, like
Speaker 1: in your lineup, and it's like, jeez, Aaron Judge, you're
Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna really put that that terrorist that plays
Speaker 1: first base for the Mets, as you know, as equal
Speaker 1: to Aaron Judge. And yes, he's a terrorist. It might
Speaker 1: get flagged for saying that.
Speaker 2: Oh, don't flag us. We're laughing with us.
Speaker 1: No, he's a terrorist. Beat Alonzo. That's it, he's a terrorist.
Speaker 4: We're all on board.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're a name dropping here.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: All I'm saying is you have the chance to bat
Speaker 4: in front of Aaron Judge. For a decade, and instead
Speaker 4: you were like, I'm going to go to the Mets.
Speaker 4: And I don't know what there is to say to
Speaker 4: that other than you don't care about yourself. You care
Speaker 4: about just dollars, which.
Speaker 2: Is fine, I mean, which is fine. I'm not gonna hate.
Speaker 3: Let's say, just for the for the record, I mean,
Speaker 3: the Mets have twenty eight wins this year.
Speaker 5: Yankees only have twenty six.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Interesting, I mean kind of seems from the team perspective
Speaker 3: that he might be doing just as good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right. If the team all bets like, you know,
Speaker 4: two twelve, then let's score some runs and win some games.
Speaker 5: But you know, twenty eight wins.
Speaker 4: If Soto could mother flap and hit the ball, they
Speaker 4: might win more than Trank.
Speaker 1: Grisham's been doing pretty good for the time.
Speaker 2: Uh, Tran Grisham been awesome.
Speaker 4: So uh, we got Trank Gresham, we get the Padres
Speaker 4: about one hundred players, and somehow they got fleeced out
Speaker 4: of the deal.
Speaker 2: I don't know how that math works out, but it did.
Speaker 1: We didn't get fleeced, Oh, fleeced.
Speaker 4: Straight up fleeced like blanket been and ace. You are correct,
Speaker 4: and he's free agent. After this year, he's gonna resign
Speaker 4: with the Yankees. But I'm glad that you get to
Speaker 4: use him for a year. They get you zero championships.
Speaker 1: There is zero chance of Michael King's resigning with the
Speaker 1: Yankees because he's getting an extension with the Padres.
Speaker 4: Okay, let's put it yet it, let's put it. Let's
Speaker 4: bet number one of all time in history of King.
Speaker 2: This oldest season.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, this is the first Laugh with Me
Speaker 1: podcast bet of all time, all time, of all time,
Speaker 1: all time, number one. Michael King, starting pitcher for the Padres,
Speaker 1: is going to re sign with the Yankees next season. Okay,
Speaker 1: where's the before we before we do anything beyond this. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're saying he will sign the eighties. I say he won't.
Speaker 1: What if he signs somewhere else.
Speaker 4: That's just off the board.
Speaker 2: That's not a possibility.
Speaker 1: So the best a wash?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, what are we betting?
Speaker 4: Motherfucking what do you want to bet? Am I allowed
Speaker 4: to say, motherfucking yeah? Ask you?
Speaker 2: Well, the fucking I don't know what the fuck is
Speaker 2: going on? If he signed somewhere else?
Speaker 4: Oh, what's the bet?
Speaker 3: That was the question?
Speaker 1: We actually did you read the article about the pod?
Speaker 1: We are wildly wholesome this podcast?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, is this podcast two hundred?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, folks, we made it podcast two hundred.
Speaker 1: Nope, I think this is episode eighty eight.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: Eighty eight, eighty nine somewhere there, folks.
Speaker 4: We don't really know where we're at, but we're not
Speaker 4: at two hundred.
Speaker 5: Yeah, under one hundred.
Speaker 1: Rock to hundred okay, okay, I mean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, can you save that audio?
Speaker 2: Closing in on folks?
Speaker 1: Now we are on the road to one hundred. Okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: which is a giant milestone in this industry. But the
Speaker 1: two hundred would be something as well. Someday.
Speaker 6: Okay, I feel like that's the closer to the show.
Speaker 5: Now, on the road to two hundred.
Speaker 1: Two hundred, you have been gone a while.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you banned me, so so there's that part of it.
Speaker 2: He's like, you just keep having Eric.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come.
Speaker 2: Here's the deal.
Speaker 4: Kyle was the first guest.
Speaker 2: Kyle got the folks in here.
Speaker 4: Now we have Eric.
Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, I've only been like, this is only
Speaker 3: the second time I've been on the show.
Speaker 1: Well, that's a lie sad that you can recognize at
Speaker 1: the time being on the Laft podcast. Oh right, we
Speaker 1: did have the air we you were on once and
Speaker 1: then now he's on again. That's number two whatever.
Speaker 3: Uh do you guys see the news that Rock Purty
Speaker 3: signed a new contract.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tifty some million, five.
Speaker 3: Years, hundred and sixty five million to sixty five puts
Speaker 3: him ahead of uh Joe Burrow.
Speaker 4: Actually I feel good because that's a terrible decision by
Speaker 4: the Niners.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Fine, I could see that.
Speaker 1: It's it's one of those things. It was kind of
Speaker 1: like when when you know, three four years ago whatever
Speaker 1: that was when Tatis signed that fifteen year deal whatever,
Speaker 1: and it's a lot of money, but it was like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, in four or five six years, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be the value of the century. I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: Joe's gonna be, but it's Joe gonna then in a
Speaker 1: year or two be like, guys, well, and that's where
Speaker 1: gonna need a structure.
Speaker 5: The chiefs, I.
Speaker 3: Mean have been very active, like mahomes. Yes, they've restructed
Speaker 3: that over and over twice.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because they.
Speaker 2: Know that's with him being a little bit right.
Speaker 3: But that was always like when the Vikings offered the
Speaker 3: when they did the contract with Cousins when he first
Speaker 3: came over, Yeah, and it was just like this is ridiculous.
Speaker 3: And then it was like two years in, it was
Speaker 3: just like, well, you're paying for the fourteenth quarterback and
Speaker 3: you've got the fourteenth quarterback money going to him, like
Speaker 3: it seems pretty logical.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Cousins just got so much money.
Speaker 2: But Mahmes is a little bitch.
Speaker 1: For the record, Cousins is an all time guy, all time,
Speaker 1: all time getting paid and you know, for what he gives.
Speaker 3: He's like I I feel like Sam Bradford had that
Speaker 3: for a while because he was the last quarterback under
Speaker 3: the old rookie contracts.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: And then he's still got a couple of deals after that.
Speaker 3: But yes, I mean Cousins absolutely, I mean got to
Speaker 3: chase that paper.
Speaker 1: I think he's got another big contract in him even.
Speaker 2: Oddly enough, I do as well.
Speaker 1: Don't you think, because he's not gonna be in Atlanta.
Speaker 6: Yeah, anybody's gonna trade for him, no under that.
Speaker 1: But he's gonna get out of whatever get that money.
Speaker 1: He's still gotta get that money.
Speaker 3: They're not going to cut him, no, no.
Speaker 1: No, because he'll just sit it out. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: too smart. I mean, this is a fantastic business for
Speaker 1: a guy like him. But then he's still good enough
Speaker 1: in a market that needs a guy who can go
Speaker 1: in and run your offense. That he's gonna get paid,
Speaker 1: and that's his value. They're gonna pay him. It's incredible,
Speaker 1: all time guy. He should make the Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: just because of his contract.
Speaker 4: Do you think, no, No, he's doing what. No.
Speaker 2: We got all time great players who aren't even.
Speaker 5: Who would you tell?
Speaker 6: Who would you put in the Hall of Fame ahead
Speaker 6: of him?
Speaker 4: I got so many players, name one, Gino Atkins, defensive tackle,
Speaker 4: Cincinnati Bengals, all time great. I will kill you. Don't
Speaker 4: that on the podcast. You can't put threats on the podcast,
Speaker 4: But Eric watching.
Speaker 1: Back, this thing's gonna get flagged for me calling Pete
Speaker 1: Alonso a terrorist and you threatening the life.
Speaker 4: Yeah I did.
Speaker 2: I really didn't mean to go there.
Speaker 1: First, first time guest for the record, he said who?
Speaker 4: He said who? Meanwhile, he's like aware of the Williams Wall,
Speaker 4: which is like, oh, we stopped the run in the
Speaker 4: nineties or whatever the hell, No one cares that you
Speaker 4: stopped the run, get out of here.
Speaker 2: Great, that's my whole point.
Speaker 4: Your dumb ass d tackles that stopped the run made
Speaker 4: the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: Great, We're all proud.
Speaker 4: What about the folks that stopped the run and mother
Speaker 4: flapping rushed the passer, which is the whole point of
Speaker 4: the game. What about those guys. Yeah, yeah, Jared Allen's
Speaker 4: on the god dang outside. Guy, he's not on the inside,
Speaker 4: But I'm proud he wrote a fucking horse video. Great.
Speaker 2: I like Jared.
Speaker 4: Allen was a cowboy image.
Speaker 5: He did not play for the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, NFL's about image.
Speaker 4: If you can create cool videos and make a WW
Speaker 4: star out of yourself, you get in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: If you're just quiet and do your job, get argument.
Speaker 2: He rose, Hey, hey, oh my god, I can't believe
Speaker 2: you brought that up.
Speaker 4: How bullshit is it that the dude dies and they're like, oh,
Speaker 4: he's ready to go in the Hall of Fame?
Speaker 2: Like, go fuck Yourself's MLB. I hope he never gets
Speaker 2: in the Hall of fame.
Speaker 1: That was literally the statement was well. The band was
Speaker 1: really for just when you're alive.
Speaker 5: What I love about that.
Speaker 3: Is they're like trying to separate themselves from like the
Speaker 3: Pete Like, this isn't due to Pete Rose, this is
Speaker 3: just any player. Yeah, like shoeless Joe Jackson, he threw
Speaker 3: died like eight years ago.
Speaker 1: Correct, they threw.
Speaker 3: Him, you know, it's the same thing. I mean, he's dead,
Speaker 3: so so dumb.
Speaker 1: They threw in shoeless Joe strictly to try to make
Speaker 1: their point of this as not a Pete Rose thing,
Speaker 1: you know, which is just obnoxious, so dumb. So do
Speaker 1: you think he gets in because I still don't think
Speaker 1: he gets in.
Speaker 6: I don't think he does.
Speaker 3: But the biggest reason is that again they call it
Speaker 3: it's rule twenty one, Like the NFL does not have
Speaker 3: Like the NFL says.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, Pete Rose played baseball.
Speaker 6: But no, But the NFL says, only what happens on.
Speaker 5: The field matters.
Speaker 6: Oh, baseball does not.
Speaker 1: They do not have that.
Speaker 3: Baseball has rule twenty one that basically says like did
Speaker 3: you carry yourself?
Speaker 6: And I mean that was.
Speaker 3: Why Seelig did not pardon Rose was because he said,
Speaker 3: like there's never been a single statement that he's made
Speaker 3: where he's said anything about regretting breaking the rule which
Speaker 3: again a viewer of the sport can bet on it,
Speaker 3: but the sport has been very clear that saying that
Speaker 3: a player or a manager cannot bet on it. There's
Speaker 3: never been any there was never any statement that Pete
Speaker 3: Rose made in his entire life that showed any remorse
Speaker 3: or any Hey, I knew it was wrong.
Speaker 5: I made a mistake. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: He never said that he made money off it.
Speaker 5: He made money off of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And so that there is a question on whether
Speaker 3: or not he'll get voted in. He won't be eligible
Speaker 3: to get voted in for two more years, so to
Speaker 3: be twenty twenty seven will be the first time that
Speaker 3: they can hear his argument on it. But it's not
Speaker 3: a slam dunk that he's going to go in there.
Speaker 4: I'm glad.
Speaker 2: Never apologize.
Speaker 4: That's so dumb.
Speaker 1: So you say he should be in for the play
Speaker 1: on the field, sure, but if what he's saying is
Speaker 1: it goes beyond that, and it's just about the integrity.
Speaker 5: Of the game.
Speaker 4: He bet on the Reds to win.
Speaker 1: Allegedly, right, isn't that a legend?
Speaker 5: I don't think that's alleged.
Speaker 1: It's for sure he bet I'm I'm right here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he definitely on the games.
Speaker 1: I get that, But did he bet for them to
Speaker 1: win or to lose? Was? I think was what we're arguing, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you said to win, and I'm saying, is that real? Like,
Speaker 1: because I was in the understanding that he could have
Speaker 1: said the other way too, and that was that's the
Speaker 1: moral dilemma.
Speaker 5: No, he never bet it.
Speaker 3: I don't think that anybody's ever said that he bet
Speaker 3: against his team. But the fact is is that there
Speaker 3: is a rule, and the rule extends even to now
Speaker 3: that if you're in the sport, you don't bet on it.
Speaker 3: Like that's that is the rule.
Speaker 1: And that's the way it should be. Yeah, you shouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to better.
Speaker 4: You could bet on it. If you go to Cincinnati
Speaker 4: and you go to Great American Ball Park and you
Speaker 4: see this statue Pete Rose laid out straight sliding into home.
Speaker 4: You're getting that guy of Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: They have a statue.
Speaker 4: Fuck yeah, right outside stadium. It's great, really.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's you know, it's very eerie timing that
Speaker 3: the same day that they announced that Pete Rose was
Speaker 3: eligible to be voted to the Hall of Fame, Cincinnati
Speaker 3: did a Pete Rose Day at the baseball Stadium.
Speaker 5: Now, I'm not.
Speaker 3: Saying that they knew ahead of time that this was
Speaker 3: going to come down, or that Cincinnati informed the commissioner that, hey,
Speaker 3: we're doing this day.
Speaker 5: Would be great if you said this here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but there was a day like a Pete Rose event.
Speaker 3: The same day is playing.
Speaker 1: I I think I saw this online. Is there truth
Speaker 1: to every year when they do the Pete Rose Day?
Speaker 1: Like they just did you know this last week that
Speaker 1: they put his corpse out there all weekend at Bernie
Speaker 1: style and he just kind of goes out and throws
Speaker 1: off the first pace? Is that really what happens? Is
Speaker 1: that real?
Speaker 4: Eric don't know Rose so we can have Pete Rose Day.
Speaker 1: I read that.
Speaker 3: He hasn't been dead for a full calendar year. I
Speaker 3: don't know that you can say that this is any
Speaker 3: sort of habit if you've seen it happen that that
Speaker 3: was the first and only time it's happened so far.
Speaker 1: So if I've seen it before, that was actually him. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: he looked dead, so all right, that's fair. It's if
Speaker 1: you live that long in Vegas, you would beat like that.
Speaker 1: I saw him twice in Vegas sign a baseballs baby.
Speaker 5: Friend of friend of the pod Nate.
Speaker 3: He got a picture of Pete Rose before the selfie era. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but he basically took the over the shoulder shot of
Speaker 3: Pete Rose because if you wanted to take a picture
Speaker 3: of him you had to pay money.
Speaker 1: Man, if he would have just I know it was
Speaker 1: before selfie era, but imagine had it been like a
Speaker 1: legit selfie, you get kind of his face and legendary picture.
Speaker 6: Get the like the fists of the bouncer, like Kevin
Speaker 6: out side of the frame.
Speaker 5: That would have been.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. I agreed, agreed, man, hall of fame. Dude,
Speaker 1: do you think you guys will be in the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame?
Speaker 4: I think so. I'm pretty good. You banned me, but
Speaker 4: I'm back, so back, I think so. Eric just fucking drunk,
Speaker 4: but that yeah, yeah, he's had.
Speaker 1: A beer in a half. He he just yeah, he
Speaker 1: just had his first beer.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you know Eric drinking half? Eric gone.
Speaker 1: Just drinking half the Guard.
Speaker 4: Team extream.
Speaker 5: It's my first time on the podcast.
Speaker 1: This is Eric's first appearance. Laughingly, you guys have fired,
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 4: Whatever, what's going on?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that's a was about to ask you guys,
Speaker 1: got anything else? No, I think we're on the road
Speaker 1: of two hundred.
Speaker 2: I thought we hit two hundred.
Speaker 1: Are you laughing all the noise upstairs?
Speaker 2: I didn't hear the noise upstairs until.
Speaker 4: You just mentioned that.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of noise because I'm the one
Speaker 1: was headstones on. I hear Old upstairs and these headphones.
Speaker 4: I thought this was a professional podcast. What that ship
Speaker 4: give me headphones?
Speaker 1: Well, you're the one that was like, let's not record
Speaker 1: in the studio. Yeah that's fair.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, Friday Happy Hour in the studio.
Speaker 1: Road to two hundred