E9 We Barely Survived the New Year

Zac Saleski: 0:00

There we go. Welcome. Hey, happy New Year, man. Happy New Year. Yeah 2022 I keep forgetting this 2022 I'm still I frickin hate that always putting 2021 I'll do that for like four months and then by the time I get used to it's like frickin bad. Yeah. Whatever. Frickin bad, man.

Murph: 0:19

I'll tell you what a tie man is. Yeah, our

Zac Saleski: 0:25

two are somewhat not old, but kinda old. Right? We're probably getting old apartment podcast on us. Yeah, okay. Well, you know, it's not just relative Are we all old? Man? What would start where? What if she's a little more profound in 2022 cheese? Oh yeah. God Murphy changing his profession to being a bard. There you go one thing I know that is that a guy? Vi ARD er B A D var D var D. O bartered. How do I know there's an eye on there? Okay, continue. That's beard. Ah, yes. Guy just has a lot of emotions. He writes things down. Down and guys here. Listen to my little stories or songs. Gotcha. Sounds like a philosopher. Yeah, philosophize philosophizing there. Yeah, that's it right there. That's That's alright. You probably should have had all this fixed before we started this. I mean, this is the first time we'll kind of do an all the

Murph: 1:28

thing which is the so while tweaking and the messing still have introduced that we're getting our still you know, 2020 We're still awful introducing our podcast but continue. Well, welcome. Ah, this is almost two minutes in you probably are trying to figure out exactly what you're listening to. Yeah, we don't know I am. Yeah, we don't know sometimes Murph knows sometimes forgets the name but we're still here. Maple Glazed. Yes. Yeah, got it this time. Here we go right. Just the one d not the two correct even though there should be two Ds ah you got paid double for the fair that's fair. It's the two Ds Yeah, got it got it all right now we'll do when we do now we'll dumb real dumb No, no, no yeah, how do we go how do we close from here? It's a new year I got mental blocks no Wow. How heavy are they?

Zac Saleski: 2:18

What are you leaning into?

Murph: 2:20

For a second? I thought I knew where I was going to I felt like I got the track running well they do the blocks but then I realized that those don't count yeah no and then I thought we're gonna do blocks for like airline planes you know they put the blocks they don't roll away but

Zac Saleski: 2:33

we're gonna do eight different takes of this podcast

Murph: 2:37

all nighter let's do it

Zac Saleski: 2:39

all right, now we're doing the hell with work we got exactly right. Oh we van Wow. Brand New Year Yep. We just just a lot of stuff has happened. I know we kind of took a little bit time off because you know all together

Murph: 2:56

Yeah, it's it's a lot of drinking. No drugs.

Zac Saleski: 3:01

Family stuff for marine we stopped drinking and yeah, you know how it is brand new year brand new year. We made it's it's hard to believe was it now? I think our podcast is four months old.

Murph: 3:12

Ah. So I think in human terms we could hold our heads up properly because our neck strong enough Yes, our podcast did weird but yes, that's right no longer Bible heading we are we will infused muscles in the neck.

Zac Saleski: 3:31

While still at awkward we might we might just you know digger ourselves into the dragger heads into the sandwich

Murph: 3:37

yeah we're there yeah we can we can hold the weight of our head now and we're still drooling a lot but it is what it is

Zac Saleski: 3:42

nowhere near the top of the world because we can't handle the world we can you came in Halo or head nearly

Murph: 3:47

exactly. We're getting there though. That's it. We're still working on shapes and colors and things like that. So we're getting there baby steps or in this case would be crawling but yes.

Zac Saleski: 3:56

Say Wow. Listen is like

Murph: 4:00

talking about 2022 Hashtag 20.2 with the fox happening

Zac Saleski: 4:03

hashtag 22. Yes.

Murph: 4:05

Do that. Three different things of Coronavirus like we are this is the least of anyone that serves Right.

Unknown: 4:13

Like oh, RM

Murph: 4:16

oddly specific images we paint and things

Zac Saleski: 4:22

like a painter Murph don't try to put that you

Murph: 4:27

know, you like it. You know, you don't fight it.

Zac Saleski: 4:30

Oh, so, man. We just had I mean, Murph had a New Year's party and then after the New Year's, we had to sober up just enough that because then we have a special surprise. We'll get into that a little bit later and then correct by our viewers. And it just it's been

Murph: 4:46

it's been been crazy. It's been eventful, been awesome. We've we've, we've ended 2021 and brought in 2022. Pretty, pretty awesome. I can't think of a better word than awesome right now. So as I say, pretty cool, but that sounds kind of weird. So awesome. Yeah, no, just reverse grade. Everything is awesome. Apparently, everything is off. Just go with that. Yeah, I'll take Lego Movie, you know? Alright. Oh,

Zac Saleski: 5:10

boy. So yeah, damn. Yes. It's so weird because I just we just like if you guys watched like on YouTube and stuff we just finished like that that video with us just over eating and

Murph: 5:22

done like gosh I felt like crap after amazing I felt like rap. It's like the first time I like I was happy to see someone take away candy and baked goods. I was like

Zac Saleski: 5:33

it was so friggin rough because like, oh yeah, I was feel good by myself that day. I was like, alright, like, I haven't really eaten like crap for a couple weeks. I feel good. Like this shouldn't really bother me too bad. And the next day, you get the gifts we start making the glue by

Murph: 5:47

oh my gosh, Ed. Glue vine is not a good mix with sweets. Not even close. That was just I'd say that's rookie mistakes, but we've done that before, so it's disappointed. We're just idiots. Yeah, yeah, it's like we just chalk it up to

Zac Saleski: 6:01

the idiots who try.

Murph: 6:02

It is true. We are

Zac Saleski: 6:04

I should be man and have a team it's an

Murph: 6:07

idiot to try. Yeah. I don't know. That sounds good. I don't know what that sounds like a how to book or something like for Dummies was like idiots that try like we just try really dumb things. trendy things on the internet. There's a ton of stuff that people that do that.

Zac Saleski: 6:24

Or I was gonna say Jackass but you know, for people but in Canadians, Canadians case, red green,

Murph: 6:31

have had it. Yeah,

Zac Saleski: 6:33

that's true. Good times.

Murph: 6:34

Good times.

Zac Saleski: 6:36

But uh, yeah, we first of all, thank you as again, the choice for sending us all those wonderful goodies. I will put down all this stuff in the show notes where you can watch that video almost slowly dying on the inside.

Murph: 6:49

Save you got 30 minutes to spare.

Zac Saleski: 6:50

So still,

Murph: 6:53

I just can't believe me that long. I can believe YouTube. Oh, I would it? Of course they do. It's like a It's like half a porno. Like that's like crazy. That's a long video.

Zac Saleski: 7:03

Watch. No, no. Just certain markets, man.

Murph: 7:06

Right? I guess. Yeah. Like, man.

Zac Saleski: 7:11

First of all, that the video ended up 31 minutes. And then yeah, the sooner they show and wherever they go. Hey, like it's obvious. Like what the who's watching it for 30 minutes. It's like you'd be surprised. Germans love it. And then like the average engagements like probably seven minutes. So if you

Murph: 7:27

want yet they still have 23 minutes

Zac Saleski: 7:30

to standard. I will take that. All right. That's fair. That's fair. Because for Americans I know damn. Well, they're not watching. Oh,

Murph: 7:35

hell no. Even I get bored. Even I was in it. And I've been bored. Two minutes. And they're like, man, these guys fucking suck. One guy came and look at the camera. It's weird

Zac Saleski: 7:46

that I know my flow. Looks right through the camera, everybody.

Murph: 7:49

I like to stare into people's souls. The goalie stare. Oh, wow. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Got me late a few times. Where anyway,

Zac Saleski: 7:58

that's in protection.

Murph: 7:59

Oh, geez.

Zac Saleski: 8:01

Viewers. Ah, it's for the bros for the bros. There we go. So we know making like the glue vine. And we felt I mean, Murph had some extra barefoot. You're like I need to I need to get rid of this. So can we make that into?

Murph: 8:16

It was like Costco sized bottle of red wine. So yeah, that was huge. Yeah, it was bad. Oh, she said, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Definitely. She's lying. She lied. That's what I knew it. But it's a new catchphrase. She lied. Alright, continue.

Zac Saleski: 8:34

I said she lied. Yeah. But if so we eat up a thing to choice. Yes, you send us a bunch of like spices to mix into the red wine so we can eventually make it tastes good. Yes. It just turns out that we should have gotten

Murph: 8:49

better wine. Yeah, yeah. For a better one. better one. But next time. 23.

Zac Saleski: 8:53

Yeah, you know what we're learning. We're getting better learning. That's probably the 30 year we're doing it. But you know what we should know better. But we don't. But we're good. No, it's

Murph: 9:01

It's trial and error. You got to make a ton of errors. Yeah. Just to really make sure that it doesn't work. Yeah.

Zac Saleski: 9:07

Because you don't get over the barrel of the ego. You're like, okay, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, exactly.

Murph: 9:11

The first time could have been a fluke. Now we know for sure that it doesn't work like that. So

Zac Saleski: 9:16

like, now I know you care because you've been here for eight years. Exactly. Congrats, you guys. You're getting it. But perfect. After we get that done, I like she gave us a bunch of sugar. So we're like dumping the sugar. Oh my gosh. Oh, and I'm like, I don't even know we're making a mess.

Murph: 9:31

We were even dumping the sugar cane in a cone. So Zach decides he's going to his and our infinite wisdom. He takes a spoon and like a like a prospector is just whacking this sugar thing cone until it breaks off into the blue vine and we just keep stirring it and tasting like more sugar and is whacking it. After like a quarter of that thing in my house. It's the only thing Zach left behind. He took all the candy we left the sugar.

Zac Saleski: 9:56

I'll give you some candy. Let you know that that's Got some from years past to you I'll give you the Oreo balls just perfect

Murph: 10:04

oh yeah you know I love balls my balls I don't know that was I know I had something but it just I just left me you know I like balls balls balls balls I to live dangerously with balls I continue

Zac Saleski: 10:17

are your balls for the Oreo but nothing no no cream yeah no no no no no just

Murph: 10:23

all cookie Jesus very painful for my girlfriend crunchy you like right yeah just like the hospital for me to have children like the like the fantastic for the rock guy that's that's in my jump right now that's that just rocks awesome Kidney stones are not

Zac Saleski: 10:44

a very special medical edition of exactly listen we're getting brand new year we're getting even more niches here we're not

Murph: 10:53

anymore No Yeah, we had the hockey colts now we're going to the the physical mental deformities so that's what we're going for now. We try to do Halloween but they're not taking exactly keep shoving down their throat but they're not taking it you know, I get the abandoned places but then I got tired of almost getting arrested and I've had a pretty clean record so I don't want a little too nervous to do that. So

Zac Saleski: 11:13

one park ranger said something that you can't you can't exist please leave well

Murph: 11:18

My life flashed before my eyes and I know if I'm going to prison I'm gonna have to pick up so much soap so I'm like I'm not gonna I don't want to do that. I'm not built to not be the bottom bunk if you know what I'm saying.

Zac Saleski: 11:31

Listen, I can't go to jail either. I'm pretty done.

Murph: 11:34

Yes. Sure. World has actually lied.

Zac Saleski: 11:38

Can I can I say? Who? She helped you find out

Murph: 11:41

you'll find that Oh, we got way off talk. Oh god we're Jamie 2022

Zac Saleski: 11:47

Hey 23 will

Murph: 11:49

get I'm sure everyone listening like I really thought they're gonna turn a corner and have more substantial topics and discussion paths. No, we're not doing that we change for nobody. Nobody do this for us. We do this for us then. And the German viewers we get and the free German candy

Zac Saleski: 12:06

and the money that doesn't come in. So it's a little bit of money once a month Yeah, but we know what it's right

Murph: 12:12

and the haters online that quit that we check us those Canadians bed they are

Unknown: 12:18

all of you oh yeah,

Murph: 12:18

they know they could smell it

Zac Saleski: 12:21

I just hit sitting here with some saw I'm just I'm not I'm not liking really

Murph: 12:24

hate that you said that. Look I've ever heard of Canadian called czar. Oh my gosh,

Zac Saleski: 12:30

I was like oh wow, new water. No pizza cheese. But now we Wow. Here we

Murph: 12:38

go. How you keep us on track as I've already forgotten we were talking about before

Zac Saleski: 12:40

Thomas brandy man. Oh, that's right. The Candyman Candyman can not. Okay. The hook er. So we either we never get like a bunch of these things. Like I'm not talking about not just usually years past we get like, you know, like a probably come out with candy. Yeah, this year was like a full on box.

Murph: 13:03

It was Costco or something that was like, it was probably expensive. I felt bad see and all that like it was awesome. And I'm definitely gonna finish it. But that was like a lot. It was which was awesome, though. But

Zac Saleski: 13:14

it's Yeah, I mean, it was great. We got the experience. I mean, you get a little bit of stuff here. And then you get a little bit stuff from the year before where it's like you get some German items here and there and mixed in with some Americanized German. But now you get everything so, man, definitely check it out if you guys have a chance to so and it was awesome. It's great. Murfin was birthed out is how

Murph: 13:36

I did actually that's the one Yeah, that's a fun actually your brother's house? Yes. Thank you. Clarify. Yes. Not a loser enough just to verify that.

Zac Saleski: 13:46

Ah, Cotter. Yeah, we were making goo Vaughn really

Murph: 13:50

weird thing happened. He's Christmas tree branches that are left out for a week that are dry as hell. caught on fire. It's amazing. They just catch right on fire that candle wax on top of it would prevent that it did not. Things got out of hand. Oh, yeah. Yeah,

Zac Saleski: 14:07

but we're live we're good. Um, but yeah, we we end up doing that and then like, was it not too long after that we end up getting right into the meat of doing merch little party.

Murph: 14:18

Yes. Ah, thank you. Yes. Which was supposed to be a small intimate friendly get together that turned into a shit show. All of us drinking and Zack getting drunker than me for the first time I think ever in our friendship, which was awesome. But all that happened maybe once. Maybe you're right. Sorry. Once when I think when I came and visited you at Miami because you're hanging out with your boys down there. Oh, yeah. And I was still in the adult world. So I hadn't started pre gaming. Yeah, and you guys are already feeling pretty good by the time I got there. But at all fairness, because Zack is calorie counting and has a vagina. He drinks. He likes to drink vodka like mixed drink. So we'll be playing like drinking games with beer that you're supposed to do and Zack will use this vaccum mix drinks to play with us and people big man that's hardcore. It's like, yes, but he also doesn't have the liver for it. So he gets shit ever. Like, I know, like a normal person. Well, kinda like a normal person. But yeah, like, do you remember flip cup? Okay, I do. Okay, that was hilarious. I remember that. Okay. But yeah, exactly. He went to college yet somehow for Flip Cup, which, hopefully everyone here knows what that is. Because either you've been to college or gone to college parties or whatever. But Zach did not know that. You didn't have to fill the cup all the way up with beer. And you did that a few times. That's how we played it. Oh, yeah. Cheese. Yeah. Okay. I've never played it that way. Oh.

Zac Saleski: 15:50

Well, it's like, I think that's a problem with hanging out with my my roommate and his buddy from Cincinnati. Things got really weird really quick. No, you fill up the whole thing like, whoa.

Murph: 16:03

I completely surprised by that. That's out right with them.

Zac Saleski: 16:05

There's one time we end up running out a keg. And then we just that's how we started doing this, I guess. Just fill out the whole thing. So we got a cake. All right. That was the time we had the Inkling. So it's oh, gee, we got that one weekend. And we're just like,

Murph: 16:20

that is not a that is not a party beer. It's not that is not a beer you want in a keg. Yo, you're trying to finish that keg off? That is like what? Caffeine like what kegs have like, no, no, no, I don't I don't do math. Gotta be like, maybe 30 Solo cups worth of beer. More than that. You think? Oh, yeah, there's

Zac Saleski: 16:37

a lot. It's like that

Murph: 16:39

makes a hefty party to tap a cat to tap to. And we got

Zac Saleski: 16:43

we got like the full cake. And I think those are like, I want to, I really want to say like 200 or so. Gotcha.

Murph: 16:48

I guess we could Google if we wanted to know. Let's just keep awkwardly guessing it.

Zac Saleski: 16:52

I'm really guessing. Yeah, like 400. Yeah, it's not my Yeah. All I remember is like the weekend we had that we start playing flip flip cup and we filled the whole thing up and like, then we basically get to a point where I was like, kind of like, kind of, you know, tired. Yeah, playing flip cup because we drank all this beer. But never was. We didn't have as many people at this party that we hoped to drink all this beer like, damn. How are we gonna do is we're just gonna sit and one of our friends milkshake. That's I'm not gonna get hold

Murph: 17:20

guys. Hilarious. Let me give you started right around the world here soon. But yeah,

Zac Saleski: 17:25

yeah. We go out of town and then we come back and they say no, we see milkshake just fall asleep on our couch. Like, No, shut your eyes like Yeah. Like, all right, we try to get a little bit of beer for the other night. And we're like, Oh, shit. It's gone. Really? Moshe. You drink all this. He's like, Oh. milkshake is like five. He's six.

Murph: 17:51

He's a small guy. Yeah, like I think any of us could pick up mop and put you throw him over your head. Like it was a small he's he's a huge personality.

Zac Saleski: 17:59

He's like, ironically, he's been to Germany, like to Munich plenty of time. So I think he kind of understood like how to drink and yeah, volumes. But just he didn't see this little guy like, oh, like,

Murph: 18:10

well, Germans knew how to do things. I'd love to learn how because like, yeah, I imagine No, I love German style beer. But I feel like it always sits so heavy for me that I can only drink so much beer and then I'm done. Can't like I'm tapped. So

Zac Saleski: 18:23

some well, but I don't. I always drink the pilsners because they're nice. But yeah, German Pilsner is a

Murph: 18:28

lot. Like getting into those. Yeah, yes. Super smooth. So, but yeah, anyway, so yeah, it's yours. But yeah, so I went to a shit show a little bit, but it was still fun. Nonetheless, we brought in 2023 Two with a bang. We're not even 23 yet. Like with souls. Now. So that was that was cool. You know, our first time in a long time, thought I was gonna be awkward. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was gonna be so yeah, we handle each other pretty well.

Zac Saleski: 18:55

Oh, it's yeah, people ran into other people who they haven't seen. Yeah. And then they're like,

Murph: 18:59

I hope that that helps, too. Yeah, yeah, it was more luckily, there was a lot of underwear by anything. Right. Good. Yeah. Perfect. Yeah. And then. And then yeah, I was horribly that was on Friday. Man. That weekend was a lot. That was a long weekend. Yeah, that was I think that was Friday. And Saturday. We just kind of hung out. Yeah. And yeah. And then there was just like, yeah, it's Saturday passed off for a while. Yeah, we all had to recover was actually no, I went to brunch and then I'm pretty sure I drank all day. Yep.

Zac Saleski: 19:28

Oh, God. I was oh, that Saturday was bad because as soon as I got back, it was raining. I was like queasy and then I was like, Alright, and then I just like hopped on my bed, and then just passed out for a few hours. And I get I walk out and my dad's like, Hey, I was last night I'm like, fine

Murph: 19:50

yeah, nope. I went to brunch and I think we had nine bottles of champagne.

Zac Saleski: 19:57

celebrate the New Year. I love it. And then

Murph: 19:59

we Oh had also had two more when we got back to my place after like, so yeah, yeah. Yeah, we did. I did a lot more drinking on. I surprisingly though, I don't know if it just because I did it over a long span of time, or just because it was champagne with orange juice in it. But it was surprisingly not that hungover on Sunday for all that drinking

Zac Saleski: 20:21

most of the man. Yeah, they just are different.

Murph: 20:25

They're amazing. But yes, they are different. You just you just

Zac Saleski: 20:28

you don't really get hung over from Moses at all true. The maybe like a headache, but that's really

Murph: 20:33

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it definitely. Well guess I think it was to how long it took us. We're there for a few hours because I've done it where I've had like a few in a short time. Yeah. And yeah, I think the during the German

Zac Saleski: 20:43

way, right drink Exactly. Well over anymore. Exactly.

Murph: 20:47

The danger. Yeah, the danger, though was this was a true so this is a true bottomless mimosa. Whereas like a lot of places here in Columbus, they kind of get around bombas Mimosa by they give you a deal for the bottle. So it'll be like, Oh, $10 for a bottle of mimosa. Whereas, like, if you bought them individually, it could cost you five bucks. So if you do quick math, you're like, you know, a bottle gets about four drinks, roughly. So you're like, you know, whereas five bucks. That's 20 and the bottles? 10. Let's do bottles. Yeah, so you but you only do like, four or five is your like, that's $50 in bottles right there. And there's five of us here. So each pay for one bottle. Yeah. Whereas when we did bottomless, it was literally like 20 bucks. And that was it. So we literally sat there for four hours and just drank. And I could

Zac Saleski: 21:34

sit there for four hours with somebody and just get like in public. Plus,

Murph: 21:39

it was yeah, it was was it was a small group of people. So that helps. But yeah, it was like and then yeah, so it was like it was it was Yeah, me my girlfriend. Two buddies from I started out three buddies from hockey, and then his wife and the other guy's girlfriend. So there was like seven of us. Oh, geez. Yeah, so it was yeah, it was it was a it was a good group. Yeah, so we hockey players didn't drink man like football players and other sports but they can still hold their own pretty good so I'm not sure football players I know. Actually. I think they said rugby players drink crazy. Oh,

Zac Saleski: 22:11

dude. That'd be their wild. Yeah, I'm footballs is up there with rugby. They're kind of saying level true. But

Murph: 22:19

those linemen help out. Yeah. Big Men. Because big guys, I'm sure a lot of you.

Zac Saleski: 22:25

And then we end up getting to like Sunday. This is this is the best part. I got to give a shout out to everyone who obviously listens to this, watch this and also watches the vlogs they actually surprised me about a month ago two months ago about giving up me and Murph tickets to the Chiefs Bengals game.

Murph: 22:46

Thank you so much. That was actually my first NFL experience. Yeah, it was my first I've never been an NFL game. So that was really cool.

Zac Saleski: 22:53

You see Merce? I just lined up like my kids just like,

Murph: 22:57

yeah, look at them, right? Because tight pants. No. Truthfully, I'm not the biggest football fan but I will have to I will have to admit, like being there experiencing at all like, you definitely see why people enjoy it like yeah, it's definitely like, actually kind of feel a little bad too. Because you can tell some people enjoy it so much that you I bet you any money owners and stuff just racking it in. Like, you know, like, doing the bare minimum especially what that thing came out was like the Washington Football Club and the Eagles game and the fans fell over the railing because the Washington stadium is so under capped and they don't want to put the money into it. And it's just like, you know, they're making so much money. It's like you can

Zac Saleski: 23:40

build out that stadium. I don't I mean, that stadium is probably the most cursed thing I've ever seen in my life. Right? Geez because like we're RG three got injured and Alex Smith. Oh, yeah, they're within like five yards of each other.

Murph: 23:53

Oh, geez. ACL was really bad. Yeah,

Zac Saleski: 23:58

yeah. So like, like there was someone put out someone put out on Twitter one time or this past week of all like the major like, milestones of like the bad milestones of the stadium and all these major injuries like blown MCL ACL all happened within five or seven yards of each other and then obviously you had like the Oh like for that entrance thing happened? Yeah. Or this fans fell out. That's actually like the closest closest one to that yeah, so patch a field Yeah, literally

Murph: 24:27

if you if you guys haven't seen the video like go check it out. It's crazy. But like yeah, like there's an entrance or whatever. And you see I think it was hertz the new quarterback for failure the the chosen quarterback guy right now. He's like running out and you see these and Philly fans are crazy. And he's reaching over Yeah, leaning over this railing and then the railing just gives out and they fall easily what like four feet like it's it was like it was like it was a pretty high fall for me and they and you're like luckily I don't think anyone like broke anything but like you know not to mention you're falling on top of a railing so like your wrists or any

Zac Saleski: 24:59

no one's like yeah, like was seriously injured but even then Jalen Hurts To make matters like, just shows how good duty was he wrote a letter to the owners like hey, get your crap together. Yeah, cuz this is bad.

Murph: 25:10

Well, the railing too could have fallen on him. Like fell on his ear. Yeah, true. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Which fair fair he's used to. Yeah, he's used to no lines are just like, oh, I can just dodge this. Yeah, Texas junk a bad dB. Yeah.

Zac Saleski: 25:23

There's everyone else is falling. Wow.

Murph: 25:29

Well, anyway, yeah. I don't know when Zach, did you put your video on that?

Zac Saleski: 25:33

Not yet. I'll probably do that this week at some point. Gotcha. I gotta find the expiration

Murph: 25:37

date there. There. But But no, it was awesome. It was really fun.

Zac Saleski: 25:41

But it's, I'll tell I'll try and tell Murph like this whole time like you wait till you go to your first NFL game. The you know, the whole experience to trap you and he's like, Okay, I've been hockey games, whatever, that's fine. But then you can't explain it till you go to one. You're like, oh,

Murph: 25:56

oh, wow. Yeah. This is fun, right? It is. Well, besides that crazy woman that was standing behind me at the end of the day, like that woman we were annoying. Like, I don't even want to look behind me because I was nervous. It was just some crackhead that was gonna like, be like, Oh, he's wearing a silver chain. Let's jump up like I don't know, it was just crazy

Zac Saleski: 26:13

for some cheap stuff. And he had like a little bit of a cracked out woman. A high on something drove on something up kind of like getting slightly a little bit closer to his left shoulder. And we're counting on the aisle seat there. And we're just like, it's like he is getting awfully close. She's like, boop, boop, boop. Who day looks like I don't know who they are.

Murph: 26:37

That's that's the question. I'm asking. Are you are they? Are they? Who are you? Oh, yeah. This is not proper English. I don't get it.

Zac Saleski: 26:47

I just I just don't turn around. And then I turn around to look at her because I'm curious to see who this woman what's what it looks like. And she's like, Suze, I have like a quick look to my left. She kind of makes a quick iContact meme like, oh, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, you reset. And then the guys are right. We're actually pretty, pretty cool. But like Murph said, there's people. And granted, I have been around football my whole entire life, I get it. But there's people who live and die to the sport and to their team, whatever. That's cool has to have your pageantry. But if that defines your whole entire, we literally

Murph: 27:24

if you just like yeah, like literally like 30 literally some people that like, happily married and the team loses. And then I can't go home and make love to their wife or something. And I'm like, if it's blocked, if it's like affecting your life that hard that you ruin No, ha, no pun intended, that you've ruined your week, like and I mean, I know that I know, they hate we talked about this, but he knows there are some soccer fans that are exactly the same. But that stuff just baffles me. And I know, like, I know, it's easy. Well, it's weird for me to say considering my family has made a living in this sport. But I think that's what I will respect about football, as I always love. And Zach knows this, like we've talked about it. I love when you have pride in your town. And I think that's what makes sports. What makes a city in which makes a state so good is the people that live in it caring about what their communities like, like that I respect. That's why I've always thought like, Columbus needs a football team, a basketball team, like the city of Columbus needs something. We'll never get it. But we could use that instead of just soccer and hockey. But like, that's always cool to see. They do feel like they just take it too far. Or I'm like, unfortunately, the guys that are playing on the field. They love that city too. And they want to do well. But the other day, they're getting paid for it whether they win or lose it. Yeah, Mike Yeah, that's true. But not It's not from it. So it's like,

Zac Saleski: 28:42

I'll be honest with you having played whatever you want to call it, arena football, like in that whole experience you you don't, you really don't get a whole glimpse of whatever like surrounding you're in unless you get even remotely a little bit time off, which is not very much. So it's even then you spent so little time outside of the football facility that you're like, Well, this is nice. Whatever I get, I'll get used to it. You you learn to adapt pretty quick. So these guys, I'm sure burrows fine because he's from Ohio. So he's like, why whatever. Yeah, and then everybody else, you know who's from the south or other parts of the country? They're like, this craps cold. I don't like it. It's like, well, it's yeah, it's a different environment. And I I just don't understand people who just don't like that. This is my life. I right. I can't move on with my life until these guys win. This is it.

Murph: 29:35

I mean, it's great to see and I respect that I was like I had a roommate you've ever Travis like they're huge Cleveland fans. And like his dad, I think him cried when like the Cavs won, you know and like they were like, you know, they'll never last stage. Yeah, so like that stuff I respect so that I'm okay with but there are some cases where like, they go a little too serious and like you said, like, unfortunate professional athletes. They're so busy and so many things. are happening that the stuff they do do in the community a good chunk of it, it's like the team is asking them to do it. And then so that like, you know, so it's it's very rare to find guys that like different want to get in the community because then by the time they do have time off it's only a few months and they're like, as much as I'd love to help the community I want to enjoy my time off with my family. So it's like it's yeah, it's

Zac Saleski: 30:20

everyone's kind of required to do a lot of community work. Yes, I'm sorry. Sorry, your own foundation. I mean, they used to not anymore

Murph: 30:27

No, no, but some of them still do like there are really there are some good ones. I know Joe burrow with the hunger here and like in southern Ohio. I know there's like some NHL owners like the old owner for the blue jackets was really good about that like wanting people to get out into the end like I think even paid some players a little extra big Hey, go do this because sometimes the superstar players just get so tired of all the recognition that they don't want to go do the community service stuff because sure the the attention no longer is on the community service stuff. It's on the athlete that's there. And so like it's just like but yeah, it's that's just the only thing I have about words like sports is great. There's a reason for it. It used to it used to be a sign of who's a stronger nation for war. Now we've turned it into this huge billion dollar industry but like I just I'd sometimes I have to think like fan like fans, myself included. We have to be at least a little bit like woke and being like these guys are just paid to do this. Like you know, they're not going to go die out there because they want your ego stroked when Cleveland and Cincy play each other for the Ohio rivalry for the fifth times a year. Like it's like this like it's not like they're not gonna do it like he's just not gonna do it. I I wouldn't do it either. Like that's like you know,

Zac Saleski: 31:40

I and I have the same debate with people if you were like oh, how do you not like like me I enjoyed it. I was like, that's great you enjoy but I guarantee you if you ask everybody who ever played a very high level all Do you still watch the sport? Do you still I guarantee you probably eight times out of 10 the very least there'll be like no I don't watch a sport i i played you know high power five conference level in college or just professionally I guarantee the guys be like

Murph: 32:08

actually to what do you know some of the insider stuff that even like I don't get told because like just can't be told it but when you've seen some of the stuff and you've seen ownership and you've seen how things are run it unfortunately hurts that it takes the childlike definitely wonder out of that. Because it is am so business now that yeah,

Zac Saleski: 32:26

is one of the hardest things I hardest pill to swallow the

Murph: 32:29

hardest pill to swallow. As she said, Yeah, me nice. She lied. Oh,

Zac Saleski: 32:36

horse pills. Get out of town. No, but no, it's that was like one of the hardest things when I when I started playing arena. That was one of the most difficult things to switch from. I guess. School, for me was in pageantry for Miami. It was just I don't know, he just tried to win. Yeah, yeah. And then you get to the next level. It's like, alright, you know, what can you do for us? Like, well, I'm working really hard. I'm doing this. I'm doing that, like, care if you work really hard.

Murph: 33:04

Yeah. You gotta show media. Like, yeah, this

Zac Saleski: 33:07

is like, right. I think Instagram was just becoming big at this time. But they're like, You got to be here. This is the level you got to be at. And if you're not, then

Murph: 33:16

it isn't. It is entertainment, even though a lot of those athletes have horrible acting skills. They are entertainers just like actors like that. Yeah, they have to, they have to be able to promote the team in the city. And that's what they want. Like, especially if you're a bubble player, if you're like a bubble player, unfortunately. And because the professional, there's so many people in the world that want to do it. They're like a dime a dozen. So if you're a bowl player with a decent social media, following our idea of how that works, they're going to keep you because that's free marketing. More as if you're someone that works hard, but maybe you're quiet off the ice or off the field or whatever. They don't want you if they don't, that's not what they want. That should

Zac Saleski: 33:52

happen to football YouTuber. Destroying. He's a kicker. And then he's been trying to play the NFL for years. He's actually not bad. Okay, so he actually was one of the first casualties of NCAA because when he was in college, he was doing all these videos, he's making money off of it. So NCAA said, yeah, make money off, right? Because at that time, so they basically he's like, either you stopped doing YouTube or you can leave schools like, leave now. Actually, you wanted to finish school, but the team said, Well, we're not gonna kick them. Well, yeah, if you're not playing for us, we're not going to continue. We're gonna honor our scholarship. So they're like, screws. So but it's funny because Toronto Argonauts call them one time. There's a couple years to go and to come on for be an extra leg during training camp. And that point, they already had three kickers, which is unheard of.

Murph: 34:44

Yeah, say in football or your job or things like that, as soon

Zac Saleski: 34:47

as he announced and this is perfect to what Murphy says like as soon as he announced that he signed with his team. They basically use the first cloud Yeah, because then they would never use him. Except for like preseason games. They were using their sporadically but in season they kind of kept on kept them going for like, I don't know, three, four weeks, and then they cut them that Yeah. And I mean, the dude has probably a couple million followers on Instagram and everything. So it's Hey, so that's how that's how it is

Murph: 35:16

all you know all sadness aside, I still think it's amazing and I love talking to people that have a respect for the sport like be exact well, I'll always have respect for the sport like even though we've seen the dark side, kind of like they say how the sausage is made, like, you still have a respect for it. Like, there is still meat, right? There is still that that thing behind it of why you love it. Like means I've joked about it once. It's like a crazy ex, like you want to be done with, but you can't let them go. Marriage, you know that. And I always love talking to fans like that, or like, educating people on it. Like it's a sport that's given me so much, I'll always love it. But unfortunately, like everything, there's a dark side to things and so that's like, why I always want to try and help fans and being like, love the sport, love the place you live in have that pride. Like that's, that's really great. But be careful because they will use that against you as quickly as they can. Especially in some of these cities, like especially in Canada hockey so big that they will not question when things are expensive. And they just like take it. And it's just like like, yeah, like a typical Toronto Maple Leafs game. You could set like high high up like high upper bowl that they look like ants down there almost. And you are paying easily $300 At least for one ticket. And then you go in there and then like the tall beers are like this tall could be like 50 bucks. Oh, it's like one of the most they're they're like one of those expensive arenas in the war like in in hockey. So yeah, it's crazy. It's crazy. But regardless, we got sad, but the Bengals game that you guys helped us out with. Thank you again. That was awesome. It was a great first experience. I will say hopefully I don't ruin by saying this. I was really shocked by how the reps affected the game. Like I really thought oh off right now.

Unknown: 36:57

I go off,

Murph: 36:58

I thought it probably should have ended more like better than what it actually did. But there were a few times and there's some calls where I think Zach got a video where I was coming. I thought this was football, like, what are the calling phone? Or like, you know, like, or they would just make these. They make these weird calls where I don't I don't like to put the tinfoil on my head. But I had to agree with Zack where I'm like, it seems like a bigger, a bigger power has come into this game and been like hey, like, you know, one team, there's gonna be one team winning this game. And this is the team I want to win. And that was like, it was just really weird that the rest of you hate to see that. Like that's not what reffing supposed to be. They impacted the game like that's not what they're supposed to do. They're supposed to be objective and they like interjected themselves into it. It was like it was bad. It was bad. But

Zac Saleski: 37:38

I am going to God is difficult. I I try to tell football fans this and they don't want to listen to me ever. But it's like this is no different. So this is years and years and years ago. The NBA had issues with referees. And there's a guy that came out I blew the whistle on some stuff. It's like all they want want us to call certain fouls. X amount of fouls X amount they do in hockey, too. Yeah, throw ins, whatever. Yeah. Just to not influence the game. But to make sure the pace is where

Murph: 38:12

they want to change the style of the game. Yeah, yeah. And at

Zac Saleski: 38:15

the time, I'm like, okay, you know, whatever. That's, that's one guy. That's fine. But that was like, like, probably a year ago, I see something with soccer, such as the same thing. Alright, we want to get a certain number of corners certain number of free kicks, like, Huh? So I started thinking one day, I was like, Alright, there's got to be something here with the NFL because realistically, it is entertainment. I get it. I've heard story after story of people saying like, okay, it's it's rigged. It's this is that. I don't think it is rigged, but it's pushed in a certain way. If they had to, they see an opportunity, they will take it. Yeah. And I'm not just saying this a chiefs fan, whatever. It's, um, is

Murph: 38:56

x kind of gotten me into it to actually talk to my dad about at once because we would like, yeah, like even my child does it but no, yeah, even my dad after an HL game will be like, you know, what do you think that call? And I was like, Yeah, I'm so confused by it, too. But yeah, what so in hockey when they do when they do a video review, I don't know about football. They go to Toronto, that's what they call it. And so basically, Toronto is where the big Hockey Hall of Fame as well as like, the NHL headquarters, you know, they also have went to New York. And so they always call going to Toronto. And so there's really this war room with these old guys watching the film and all that but truthfully, even though there's 80, something games, the NHL, I think they factor in how things are going and how sort of deals are doing Yeah, and they'll say let's just give them a bowl here or something like that. Let's Let's keep this game interesting because just like football, hockey, they want more goalscoring. They want like they don't want hitting but they want goalscoring. They want excitement like that. And that's that's kind of the sad I guess. That's the sad part we talked about is is now so many people just want the entertainment and like the and they don't understand the whole gameplay of the Like, that's where Yeah, I somewhat respect soccer, a little bit of that, you know, you respect the gameplay in the culture of it where, you know, hockey, football, basketball, it's all about points and celebrations and goofy things and basically just turns in this huge circus soccer is on

Zac Saleski: 40:15

a good job with Yeah, yeah, kind of embedding itself in the culture and then working its way kind of around credit. It's funny Mark brought that up, because like, when I was younger, I know a lot of things when I was younger, there's one thing that just really bothered me. This is when they first introduced kind of like a central location for like, viewing replays. Yeah. So. So first case for hockey was Toronto, but for us, it's New York. Oh, they always go with the call going to New York to get an extra review. And I always hated that. Because I remember early on when they first initiated a lot of the calls, were going gets cheese and like, What the hell do we have to do? Like, I never understood that. They used to do these to have an extra referee and box up and you know, there'd be a little cubicle for him and like, Alright, check this over. This is look good. All right. What do you think about this? Okay. Boom. There's your call. Move on. Right? That's yeah. Do you have a guy at the stadium? That's it? That's, that's how we should be? Because that's my concern as well. It's like you send it to a central location like,

Murph: 41:17

Yeah, well, end of the day. It's a big like, you know, NHL, NFL, they're a corporation. They're a big conglomerate. So they need to do what's best for they'll say the sport, but they also need to do what's best for entertainment, and for all that. So

Zac Saleski: 41:28

just think of ancient Rome, where you had a bunch of those games during that 90 day time just to excite the people. And then the Senate's doing all kinds of goofy stuff. Exactly. Yeah. That's all that is that. As soon as I read about that, in the book, in one of my college history books, like wow, this is very reminiscent today,

Murph: 41:44

but I don't want to do the Gladiator. But anyway. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So I

Zac Saleski: 41:48

don't wanna get too gloomy, but it was a great game. Great game. I, you know, the chiefs didn't do themselves any favors second half, but the rest really handed to them. The last two or three drives, and

Murph: 41:56

that, that last thing where they got to replay downs and all that it was just yeah, that was crazy. Anyway,

Zac Saleski: 42:02

yeah, that tackle was not a personal foul.

Murph: 42:07

Yeah, I think Zack, I don't know if Zack will include it. But I think he like turned to me. And I literally told all the cameras like, I thought this was a football like, Isn't aren't they allowed to make those times? And Zach just shrugged. He's like, I don't know. So

Zac Saleski: 42:16

it was I love it when because I couldn't see it firsthand. But then when they slowed it down actually know what this is the problem they didn't show the frickin replays not just in stadia, but also Oh, yeah, TV. Yeah, they didn't. Yeah, I heard from a lot of people can't see it. Like they bother showing the TVs that Yeah, but it's funny because I had a couple Bengals fans next to us are saying, well, so you guys, I know. That's that's a really bad call. But we'll take it Yeah. Right. Like, no, at least you're honest about I

Murph: 42:40

will I respect those fans who respect exactly on the same Yes, yes. Yeah. Unlike those other fans, like, Oh, he did we do deserve this? And you're like, oh, yeah, I think that was the one thing that like, bugged me. That doesn't make sense is because I guess I'm a little bipolar. I'm a little like, I guess I don't think bipartisan the word but whatever. Yeah, with my family being so defensive minded, knowing you, that's defensive minded. So that's the one thing I can't get over the NFL football is, the whole idea is you're killing each other. And you're tackling each other. Yeah. And yet, somehow, they know these rules that someone could tip to along the outer bounds line with the ball, and someone goes to tackle them. And instead of like, in tackles them in the continuation, unfortunately, they go out of bounds. And it's a magic flag. And I'm like, the tackle was already initiated inbounds. So it kind of like promotes these guys as a tiptoe along the along the goal line, and no one has to or belong out of bounds line. And sorry, that the sideline and no one has to hit up because they're like, if I hit a flag, it's like, the craziest thing to me

Zac Saleski: 43:42

that we call a gray area. Yeah. And that is a rough usually, that's his interpretation. And usually his interpretation is wrong all the time. So it's a difficult call to make. Yeah. But that's kind of like that,

Murph: 43:55

guy. God. That's why well, that's why I find it funny because it used to be back in the day, like you said, when we were growing up was, if it was a gray area, the ref usually would just let it go unless it got bad because he was judging the game. Nowadays, I think these reps view themselves as entertainers. So they try to insert themselves in the games as often as possible a

Zac Saleski: 44:14

turn from the judge of the game to the kind of the director. Yeah, the game. That's the kind of the issue I have now. Yeah, before

Murph: 44:22

they would as hockey they'd say, let the boys play. They let him play. Now the rest of like, no, no, I'm an author, authoritarian figure. You will play my game and it's just like, it's the weirdest thing. So I'm on top you could normally what was beautiful about sports is you go to different areas and see the different style of play. They all would do and they would combine to see who was the best Yeah, nowadays it's you just see who's reffing and that's the game they're gonna play and then that's it and it's just like it's it's crazy. Yeah, so battle NHL, I'm sure NFL the same NHL, they know what refs they know the refs so they know. Hey, guys, we got Macaulay tonight. He's gonna call this and that and there's just like they just it's it's crazy

Zac Saleski: 44:58

and NFL is having that problem. Now because the last couple of years, a lot of the older refs started retire so now you have some like the the younger reps who are probably only been wrestling for,

Murph: 45:10

you know, three years for some of those people who might never played the sport. My biggest

Zac Saleski: 45:15

problem and this stemmed and I don't care who who you talk to. I'm tired of this crap when the Chiefs play the Rams on Monday night or whatever the hell it was a couple years ago. That's when those like, you know, combined points was like over 100 Everyone said to me, this is the best game ever watch. It was one of the worst games because first of all, there was no one stopping anybody on defense like why the hell we watching this? Why even put a defense Simon worth the time. But that was the game. They're supposed to have Mexico City, but then they moved. Because I guess Mexico decided all it was a Shakira concert. And then they didn't put the coverings on the grass to protect it. So then it was just all ruined. So they moved it to LA. Oh, yeah, but they didn't one thing that they should show you

Murph: 46:02

on like Texas or something then like a neutral site. Alright, it

Zac Saleski: 46:04

was the thing they ran out of space. Like they couldn't have they couldn't schedule anything last second. But the problem I had was, like all we didn't really have any any Reps available like a whole crew available during that time. So they took what they call the all star crew that's nitpicked. And this is like you know, 567 man crew they put together who've never worked together and it's imperative they work together. Yeah, because they have to stay in constant communication the

Murph: 46:30

fields big Yeah, it's big. So like, you know, you got one on one sideline got another like, they got to be able to like look at each other and be like, yeah, I gotta get like and they all

Zac Saleski: 46:38

have like little tiny set like head pieces. So they all talk to each other like alright, we got holding here we got this going back going on. And you can't and I remember like the first half of that game there were so many aggressive play calls it I think was ad hoc Lee son, and it's like, he was just like all holding here holding there, which it probably is. Yeah, but but but

Murph: 46:58

like that's football they just let that go because like yeah, that's just what they do. Only Oh, hold each other

Zac Saleski: 47:03

is the problem now because like I always said is like unless there is a a rivalry game or something that's getting starting to get heated. Yeah, then you step in it's like hey, they started throwing flags on both sides. Hey, chill out

Murph: 47:15

prevent them from fighting. They don't fight each other. From fighting. Yeah,

Zac Saleski: 47:18

I guarantee you I it's why my dad doesn't really talk to me about football during games because he's like, You know too much. So it's like I can tell you where the flow is gonna go to during a game so if there's like if it's heavily one sided or heavily the other way and then I'm like these guys are gonna fight and later third, third quarter fourth quarter usually does happen because it just like you don't take control the game early on second quarter, you

Murph: 47:41

get out and oh, yeah, that happens in hockey. Oh, yeah. Yeah, what you do, it's bad for as much as we should on before the athletes do get competitive. They do you know, they do get competitive. Of course, it's for their own reason you gotta sit down. But yeah, reps have to set that boundary. And they'll always they'll always cheat and only do things. That's why the ref is there to set the boundaries of being like this. I'll let this go. But I won't let this go. Yeah, and or they're supposed to give verbal warnings. It seems like nowadays, that doesn't happen anymore. Like,

Zac Saleski: 48:07

might it's too much, either. It's way too aggressive. Like throwing flags, or just nothing,

Murph: 48:12

I think too, it's like egos because my dad would say like, you know, obviously, in hockey, like, and that's the, that's the whole point of a coach is they have to help the team, like, get going. Sometimes you've gotta, you got to yell at the ref. You got to let them know like, hey, like, you're really fucking up right now. Like, get your shit together. And my dad was saying, like, back in the day, the rest of it like, I know what you're doing. Does your warning stop? If you don't, I'm throwing you out. And so then the coaches will be like, throw me out. And so then they keep cursing and then they get thrown out. All my dad's is like, nowadays, the rest will get like verbal altercations with you. I know then it will go then it'll be like, You're such that was such a fucking terrible call and he'll look Look at you go, Oh, you're fucking terrible coach and you're just like, it's like, You're slow. You're supposed to be the RAF. Like what are you doing? Like don't ever engage in that you're supposed to have thick skin and then even like coach high school, like the rest will say something. And then I'm like, you know, you just pissed us off more and our and our our players off more. Oh, I say yeah. And like, and that's been the problem. It's so bad. Well, the players are horrible treating rest, I will first Yeah. But the rest don't do themselves any favors. Sure. Because it's like you're the adult here. Like, come talk to me. Come talk to me, then don't tell my kid to go fuck off. Like, come talk to me. Like I've had that. I've had that happen in front of me once and I almost got kicked out because the guy like said something to my player. I was like, You don't talk to you Don't fucking talk to him like that. You talk to me. And the guy looked at me he knew we fucked up and I was like, exactly, dude, like, a high school kid.

Zac Saleski: 49:38

Like, it's not just, you know, I experienced that high school level. I've experienced it. The higher levels too but even overseas, that started become a problem. Yeah, and I hate it. And I used to always ask these reps and some of these people are really nice people. Very good. Awesome people besides the point but I always go up to him like why I'm here. There's one time thing you had a game in Germany. I always have ran up to the guys like, why are you trying to dictate the game? While I'm supposed to read? Like, no, you're supposed to judge it, you're dictating the flow of the game and that's why I do not like any that's why I think you're messing up your job. So you just worry about yourself. I'll worry about my child's like, well, I'm let you know, I have to come over here talk to you again. I'm not going to be pretty successful, right? Like, do your job I want to do anything. That's it. It's like It's like it's

Murph: 50:25

and I understand there have been people in players that have ruined the ref thing relationship by going too far or saying things too much like

Zac Saleski: 50:33

in Columbus where they they wedge refs in it you see the columns the rows are going into halftime and someone took the the oh man is a soda. Oh no, I missed this one. The soda machine dispenser and they they wedged it up against like where the refs were. So they couldn't get out like so the refs I don't blame them. They end up suing the school because yeah, you know, I don't know what even

Murph: 51:01

Yeah, I mean, I What does that mean? Why not? And again, unfortunately, that's also fans I get too rowdy where but of course, high scores nowadays are I don't know what's going through their minds like they're just they they scarily jump to things that I'm like, I had to have to be a certain sort of pissed off no matter how much hormones are going. I have to be like, they still think anymore and I know the common excuses like they don't I think that's it is people have defended them so much with well, there's so many hormones firing off of the brains. I can't think clearly. It's like, we were all teenagers at one point in my Oh, wait, no point in my life. Did I ever get Oh, yeah. Did I ever get mad enough that I keyed somebody's car or like, put in a cherry bomb into a car seat that they're gonna sit on? Like, like, I would never have thought? I don't know. Well, I might have thought to have gone that far once but then I've been like, oh, no, like, I'm not an idiot. Like, no, I'm not gonna do that. And yeah, it's scary nowadays, how people defend them. So like, so quickly. Like it's maybe not the teenager's fault maybe it's that person's fault and it just like doesn't like unless that person is physically assaulting them like no like even like no like It's like call the police there's like just no

Zac Saleski: 52:09

Oh, like you guys will find out maybe maybe not now or down the road possibly things ever correct themselves, which I'm not sure they well. The key word and all this is accountability. Oh my god, there is none. Have fun doing try to instill I think yeah,

Murph: 52:25

I think as a world like as like just as a world especially if like COVID has created this for us is accountability. Literally just Yeah. Everyone's gunning for themselves right now. And that is why we are in such a shitstorm and we're going to be in it for a long time because so many people are like, I did this for so long. This person didn't do that. So because he's not doing it I'm not going to do it and it just kind of like yeah, the everyone's got to pay the piper at some point. Like we're all like, you know, it's it's just everything in the world you see it like we know to as athletes, we you learn this when you're in school and you're an athlete that if you're fucking something up, not giving you the proper attention, it will come back to bite you at some time. At some point every time just like my investing portfolio. I have so much stock that I'm not taking on right now and I know I gotta pay them crazy fine for it. But that you know, I'm lazy as fuck right I don't have a bill but like, oh no. Yeah, man we really digress again for Wow awesome awesome chiefs big world experience.

Zac Saleski: 53:23

Oh, yeah. Cheese game was great. Very good. Oh, very third fourth topic.

Murph: 53:27

I know. Right. Right. Or they listened for they know they want you know,

Zac Saleski: 53:32

Vaughn was the Tyler You were really off chart.

Murph: 53:35

We did Yes.

Zac Saleski: 53:35

We did. Get up together right?

Murph: 53:37

No, it's no but that was cool. That was that was the old the Sunday after New Year's.

Zac Saleski: 53:41

Yeah, it was it was awesome. You know, it's final is great. Go to like a NFL game. Yeah. Just again to experience at all every time it's just funny because I love seeing people's first games because they just kind of get that look like wow, this is way different than on TV. Yes. They kind of get sucked into it. But I was joking when I was like a man I must have been spoiled because once you go to Arrowhead Stadium, it's a completely different.

Murph: 54:06

Like, it's on my bucket list. I feel like oh, now that I've experienced the first NFL game now I got to do the first arrowhead with what everything he tells me so that might that's going to be the goal hopefully the next few years. Yeah, all debating on coal depending on COVID What you know, the country decides to react to but yeah, it was like the other thing I was telling Zack the whole game was I was shocked. Yeah, how fast it was. It was not as slow as I thought it was. Now of course, it probably was because there was two awesome gunslinging quarterbacks that were just shocking it downfield. But it wasn't so because what I'm used to when I was younger watching was it was always the same old thing. I could still predict it to this day where it was run and play potentially a second run play 13 long toss and then it was just okay, now we're going to plant it. And the whole idea was who was going to mess up the punting that you would then be in a good area to get a field goal or touchdown, but now Man right but nowadays you gotta love that the the playbooks are so more detailed and they study so much more and there's an I you know, I realize now football players are a lot smarter than I thought they were and that they will literally be like maybe it's a run play. Next thing you know, we're doing a you know, we're doing a Hail Mary and now we're doing another run play and now let's do a dump off like it's just, it's, it's awesome. It was it's a lot more entertaining. So yeah, and I'm not sure if it's just their styles of offenses. But you know, even Joe burrow to that quarter that wide receiver Chase, like, scored three touchdowns literally Joe burrow, just throw the ball in his vicinity. He was getting it. It was the crazy it wasn't like,

Zac Saleski: 55:36

you know, he was such a thing like,

Murph: 55:38

the other end of the field and he just got thrown up here and he just come out of nowhere is like what has happened? It

Zac Saleski: 55:43

wasn't like he was open like, it just he was being really I mean, he's being pressed pretty good. And he just find a way to get the ball. Yeah, and then not too much into that big. The big pass play had. Oh, yeah. Oh, he threw it to all boom, one cut. Just speed. Everyone just like missing.

Murph: 56:00

Yeah, man. Just as act. I was like, what happened there? Like I thought you guys would be fast enough to catch him. Like, he was just fast. He's, uh, he took the right angle when we watch and I think it was like a was a everybody orders like a corner or something over committed a little bit. And because he went like, yes, he overcommitted a little. But yeah, it was it was crazy. It was crazy. Well, yeah. Ah, see, these

Zac Saleski: 56:19

are the things I tell my guys. It's like you don't over pursue now. If you realize you're not going to be the first one there. Alright, I always teach them. Yeah.

Murph: 56:28

But make the tackle angle CRB hip. Hockey's the same

Zac Saleski: 56:32

other hip, and he can just manipulate where they go. That's all it is. And everyone's just like, oh, look, football. You're

Murph: 56:39

like, okay, but in all fairness, so they have to make those decisions in like, two seconds. So a lot of times, especially when you're tired, it's cold out, you're gonna suck. Yeah, you're not making the right decision. And you know what I mean? Like, there's one off the field. Oh, yeah. Especially, that's the one thing I remember training. I'm sure you're the same way as you realize when training is that you're not trained to become stronger. You're training to train your muscles of when I am dog tired and don't want to think they're just going to naturally take over it just happened. Like it's just habit like, yeah,

Zac Saleski: 57:05

I woke out to get strong. Exactly. Alright, how would everybody

Murph: 57:11

know that game was awesome. Thank you guys again, again, was awesome. Yeah.

Zac Saleski: 57:14

Luckily, I mean, you know what, the beers weren't that expensive. It was pretty. It was pretty good compared to everybody else. Yeah, it's like

Murph: 57:20

what Iraq's right. We were pretty the we were pretty tame. We only have like two. Yeah, yeah, we pretty tame but

Zac Saleski: 57:26

yeah, I was hungry. Right? Yeah. Right. But honestly, it wasn't bad. I only spent like 30 bucks.

Murph: 57:31

Yeah. Didn't tailgate was kind of hoping to. Yeah, see that a little bit. But we didn't get there in time. It was daddy's out. Uh, yeah, that tailgating place either.

Zac Saleski: 57:39

No, they if if you guys ever get a chance to check out like Cincinnati or Cleveland, they're very similar. Like Cleveland has like a huge open parking lot. That's where everyone does tailgating. Cincinnati kind of has an in Cleveland very similar to this. They all have like areas underneath, like the overpass, but they all just get drunk trolls

Murph: 57:57

now. Yeah. Charlottesville troll the trolls.

Zac Saleski: 58:03

Give me a beer. That's a joke. But it's just funny because you have like one one parking lots like full of cheese fans. The other ones are full of Bengals fans, and just like kind of sporadic same thing in Cleveland in Kansas City is so different because the the stadiums like right in the middle of this huge parking lot with the baseball stadium. And so like, even if you park far away from the parking lot, and you're walking up the stadium, the amount of smells of barbecue you get in the morning, just oh yeah hits you. And everyone be like, Hey, you want some you hungry? You want a beer? Everyone's like, oh, well, I was a kid when I went there and they people go out and

Murph: 58:37

raise it. Yeah. Then well that's like to I know the Eagles are like that because they share their park like it's like a sport complex. So they share it with the flyers, Sixers, and I think the Phillies and eagles all have their facilities in this area. So they all share their parking lots. So even like before fliers, games like hockey, and again, this is like, winter, there'll be tailgating and like that's not a hockey thing to tailgate but like they'll they'll do it like it's crazy. Oh yeah, like I'm saying Minnesota does it too because they love hockey and then the Vikings twos I think they tailgate and they're fucking winners are terrible.

Zac Saleski: 59:11

Oh, don't even go up there. Yeah, that's the worst.

Murph: 59:15

Those guys they are they are nuts. The Minnesota people they are not the Viking blood or whatever. They want to think that God it's crazy. Like it's like it. They're not like like, right seriously, but it's like but they are they are legit like they are aren't they will like the outdoor game. So they just had so every New Year's Day NHL is an outdoor game I got to go to at once which was awesome. And so they did finally St. Louis and Minnesota in St. Paul, Minnesota, which like, you know, Detroit's considered like, you know, like hockey city. But Minnesota I pretty sure is the the state of hockey. And St. Paul itself too is huge for hockey. They have like, they have like three colleges and all three games. Colleges, their universities, there are like top 10 Hockey schools, like so much so that University of Minnesota has like three satellite campuses and all three of their hockey teams are like, top 15.

Zac Saleski: 1:00:14

Like it's crazy. Isn't Minnesota, Minnesota state?

Murph: 1:00:17

So it's a it's like Minnesota. Yeah, Minnesota State but it's the University of Minnesota, which is in Minneapolis. University, Minnesota, Duluth, Duluth. Yeah. And then St. Cloud, which isn't far from there, too. And I thought University of Minnesota had a third. I can't remember what it was. But yeah, it's like,

Zac Saleski: 1:00:33

ever. It's like Mankato State. Which Minnesota state of my relatives. Yeah.

Murph: 1:00:38

Minnesota State. Yeah, yeah, they're doing well the Mavericks. Now they're good. Like they're like top and first ranked right now. Like, anyway, so

Zac Saleski: 1:00:44

this was it. St. Cloud, or, or St. Cloud? Yeah. For the North. Maybe a little bit. Yes. I remember them being so damn close. Like these guys. Yeah. Remember? Like they're further or

Murph: 1:00:56

yeah, they are. But it's yeah, it's crazy. So anyway, they held this outdoor game, and it was like negative and this is Fahrenheit. It was like negative like 20 no negative 12 Fahrenheit. And it was Louis so yeah, literally so cold. She kind of nice right for them literally so cold and an outdoor game was the first time in NHL history. They had to heat the ice because it was too cold. So obviously, you know, like it was Zamboni. No, exactly. So though it is Zamboni was just to kind of like make sure all the the, you know, the nicks and stuff. Were all smothered down. That was really it. But yeah, it was like, but it was like, and it was at I think it was at the twins. Yeah, it was at the twins. Park. Yeah, twin stadium, okay. And it was like, they filled two, they filled it with people. And just like and they stayed for the whole thing. They drank like All that you're really seeing these people just bundled up in this in this stuff. But they just love it. And they did it. And like they showed hockey players after the game and like, their beards would just the daughter or the sweat was just for Rosen on it. It's actually kind of funny, St. Louis. They're like pregame entry. They're all wearing beach gear. So like swim trunks and sandals and all that it was so funny. But it was a it was a really cool game. St. Louis killed them. But it was a really good game. And though just like how Minnesota did it was amazing. Just when we saw I saw on TV like they, they deserve to have it and they did such a good job with the camera. They have it's called the heritage. So but it's mostly Canadian teams play and that's an outdoor one too. But Canada has one. Yes. And then the one year I think they had in Toronto No man, I think was Detroit, but Toronto played them. Sorry to have one this year. I'm not sure if they will. Because right now COVID Is ravage Canada. So like, a lot. I have no, he's not evident. Nope. A lot of the Canadian teams right now aren't even playing some of them. So like so the NHL has come out saying they're still going to have their full season. So they might have to extend it because there's there's like, there's some teams that have only so a lot of teams that played 34 to 36 games, and there are some that have only played like 2628 Oh, that's how far behind they are. And we're Oh, wow. And they're almost all star games approaching soon. So it's supposed to be halfway in the season here soon. So some of the teams the amount of games that have left to play is just gonna be ridiculous. So like the schedules or something schedules are insane. Like my dad's is like some of the Rangers as they're doing a west coast sweep. So usually East Coast teams, they'll plan their trips for logistic reasons to play the only play the West Coast teams once Yeah, so the planet that they're gonna play. All the West Coast teams in one fell swoop. So that's Anaheim, San Jose. LA, I think sometimes like Vegas and Arizona, they'll they'll try and creep those in. Yeah, so that'll be a week to 10 days on the road. And literally for my so that's what right now the ranges are in. So they and it's literally like you travel, maybe you get a day arrest and then a game the next day. And then right after the game, you fly to the next city, maybe a day arrest, play the next game. And then usually near the end, usually near the end of the trip. You'll they'll give you like a two day break somewhere. And then you play a game and then you go about it. So they play tomorrow in San Jose. And then after that, they go they go they fly back east but the problem is, is that they then have a game on Saturday in Philly. Oh, and that's what's tough about like, the the East Coast is like New York, Boston, Philly, Washington. They're all really close to each other. So when you're playing an away game a lot of days it's like maybe you leave in the day before play the game and you come right back and then you play a game at home and then now you got to go to Washington and this is like it's a lot of weird small traveling like it's crazy. I

Zac Saleski: 1:04:48

just missed the days where I'm baseball. They do this crap now but I missed the day where like they don't play like NFL teams. They don't they wait till like the playoffs to like, you know, actually to the championship. They play him, right. So it's like I miss because everybody has their own identity, the way they play and their own style. I miss people just being true to that. And then because they don't really get the play, the other teams are like, oh, you know, we just do our thing on this coast, you do your thing on that code. But I just missed that.

Murph: 1:05:15

I don't right now. Well, but I think again, because it's such a business. They know that fans obviously you know, they like that. And so people will like Chicago fans travel really well. So Rangers fans because their original 16 So they literally anytime, anywhere they go on the road, you will find fans there for that team.

Zac Saleski: 1:05:33

It's crazy. Oh, yeah, by the way, last night. Oh, yeah. Murph, Murph brother.

Murph: 1:05:37

Yep. Play Columbus

Zac Saleski: 1:05:39

for here in Columbus is always an interesting thing for me, because Connor and Tyler both kind of came up through the Blue Jackets youth system. So it's always interesting.

Murph: 1:05:50

It's different though, from soccer. And I guess like football, where it's like, the team, the team helps the helps a little bit. But just because you play for it doesn't mean you're guaranteed to go do it. It's just the system. It's just the team's way of giving back to the community. So they're like, we're going to create a travel team to kind of get our name out there as well as promote the local talent to you know, make our state look better and hockey and stuff. So that Yeah, so I get just the lead, because I know and I know in Europe, they do academies. This isn't exactly like that, because you still pay and it's just like an extra curricular. But yes, but you do get to I think every NHL team has some sort of this where the kids can say yeah, then you get like almost there matching jerseys. You just say like yeah, I played for the triple A blue jackets. And so like that stuff like that,

Zac Saleski: 1:06:38

just yeah, not to mention too, I think at that time when they first mate, you know, created them and Columbus was not even like really know. Any.

Murph: 1:06:45

Yeah, when I when they're finally coming on the mat for hockey, but it was like, No, it was oh my gosh, I had to really trudge through some shit for that.

Zac Saleski: 1:06:52

Yeah, no, I was gonna say that they do anything. They say anything for Connor? No.

Murph: 1:06:57

They do I think on the TV announcer stuff like that. But not always before games. They'll make little notes but I guess to to kind of

Zac Saleski: 1:07:04

follow it for like, Well, Sally, then your brother, right? Oh,

Murph: 1:07:07

they do it a little bit. But there's just so many games now. That's you can't do it every time because there's enough fans and the fans I do know. But like the brother was like the first like, Yeah, but when they but when they first come in, they do all the pattern should they do all that stuff. And unfortunately, as the years go on, it didn't just becomes more of like a nod of like, oh, you know, this or that? Or they'll do a little thing on it. But like, also what they'll do is like so last night, I was at the game. And he doesn't do this often, but he actually scored a goal. Oh, which Yeah, which, you know, hockey players will say whatever they want to say but when they've grown up somewhere, and they're able to do that in front of, you know, at a at a stadium or at some more where they've grown up like idolizing or watching people and stuff like that. Like it packs a special punch for them. Oh, so you know, he scored it. He was pumped. He was excited your brother? Y'all Yeah, he Sally pretty hard. And but anyway, yeah, so so that that was great. And so obviously think so the blue jackets one for certain projects, Chicago one four to two. And so after every game they do three stars. And so if they if they wanted to they could have done all blue jackets players or something like that and I think this is where like they'll factor in local talent. So because Conor yeah because Connor got second star Yeah, so he didn't get first obviously and then the I think it was another Chicago player so they flourishing that first like flurry something like that yeah, I mean I brought it to bring bring it cuz he scored I think two goals and gotten a cyst or something. Okay, so to bring it up first and then Connor got Connor got second and I'm Calvin de Haan who's another solid defenseman for Chicago scored his first goal that games like they could have given it to him if they wanted to. They could have given it you know to local guy right well you know two goals they could have probably given it to another blue jacket player if they wanted to. But I think you know they gave it to Connor gold I think it's a blue jacket play the third the third star they wanted to they could have made only one and two they could have made them three and two and then given to break it number one because they'll do that a lot of times for the three stars unless the home team has a horrible game they will usually make most of them the home team but I think that kind of factored into Connor getting the second store let's start like it was still a great goal and he had a really great game but I think that stuff like that's the the the local you know stuff they given a course real hockey fans know all this stuff already. So like I'll go to bars and like like obviously I don't look anything like them but the moment they find out that that's my brother is there like oh my gosh, like they just people you know I don't have to explain to them as much anymore right it's funny.

Zac Saleski: 1:09:37

I know it's funny because I even like working in the Columbus area I always want to have like people coming in who do like either their son's in hockey or just coming up and I was like oh yeah, like I met briefly matching all my best friend his brother came up through triple A bluejay Oh, who is his account? You know, Connor Murphy like to I like okay, sorry. Yeah. That's like weird,

Murph: 1:10:01

right? Right.

Zac Saleski: 1:10:02

So it's always interesting because it's, you know, you don't try to name drop, but it's no, it's cool. It's cool to see, you know, that kind of be like a figurehead, right. That kind of be the gold standard. I

Murph: 1:10:12

always get this one wrong, but he wasn't the first Columbus person drafted. No, but I think he was the first Columbus drafted first round for Okay, I think I believe so. That that that I that, I think, but I'm not 100% sure on that note, but I know that those two were the Yeah, John was not a first round pick. Just draft overall. I don't know. Yeah, no. So the first one, the first one he actually lives in the same neighborhood as he works for the blue jackets farm team. Now his name is Trent Vogel Huber O is like a year or two older than us. He would have been the first one drafted, I think, from Columbus or at least close to I'm sure. Someone's gonna fact check this and be like, No, I'm sure there are. A lot. Oh, yeah. No, I'm sure there are. Oh, yeah. We're over an hour and oh, yeah, I'm sure a lot of like, it's probably happened because there is there is believe it or not a if you're like for to hockey fans, like myself, as I'm learning more about the hockey culture in Columbus. Yeah, there was a very small niche. And there was a time when hockey was, you know, Cleveland has really good good big hockey these that don't Erin's who were in the WHA for a little bit, which was like, a subset, a subset of the NHL, you know, and then, Dayton had a few major junior teams and Cincinnati had a few big ones. So it's just like, so like, yeah, the Cincinnati had an HL team was the Mighty Ducks affiliate. Yeah. So it's like, you know, there there were that stuff was around. Columbus was a big for us, but I feel like recently now with the Columbus success and now the triple A team success with with players like it's becoming a little bit on the map a

Zac Saleski: 1:11:46

little bit here. It gets that point. Yeah, get get a couple of successful kids. And then they're like, Yeah, I want to be like that.

Murph: 1:11:51

Yeah. So and then. Anyway, Trent volver Huber was the first one that I can remember. And then like I said, I haven't done any research. But I think my brother is the only one I can think of that's, that's that grew up in Columbus. I was drafted first round now. It's funny if you check his bio, it's been Boston. Yeah. Well, so yeah. Truthfully, he's from Boston. But he did not grow up there long enough. So he's always put like on his playing cards. He's always put Dublin Ohio. But I think if you like found his drafting thing, I think they put Boston on there. That's why like, I've told people from Philly, but I've only ever even remember living there. So like, probably there for like, what a year. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I get only one of all our siblings would be my sister. And she would I don't think she remembers much of it. But we lived in Florida the longest before we lived here. So I was just like, yeah, and she's from Florida. So yeah, yeah, but I know she's from Atlanta or Florida now. Yeah. Florida and then Atlanta was only a two year stop so I think she probably remember Atlanta but not Florida. Oh, I think we left Florida she was still like a toddler or something. So boy, yeah, fun stuff.

Zac Saleski: 1:13:00

Boy. I'm glad you got that goal though.

Murph: 1:13:02

I was awesome. It was great. Yeah, he's exact knows he's not a my brother, what we call a defensive defenseman. So his job is you know, sticks on the blue line tries to keep the puck in on the offensive zone and he keeps everybody in front of them taking shots at the goalie can see like that's his job. But lately with hot lead the way hockey is working, which actually kind of like is they want they realize if we can get defense more active, you will create mismatch mismatches. You know, in front of the goalie and sometimes you can get your good players the puck to score and so he decided to do that he's always been very smart like that I decided to come in and he got lost in coverage and ended up on the far side of the net with no with no one like no one even recognizing he was there. And he got fed a really great pass and it was from to bring it Yeah, and then he buried it last Oh, well the The goal is not to mention to those guys can move the puck so fast. As a goal you're trained to kind of always keep your eye on your puck but you're also having to use your peripherals to keep an eye on like what's moving around you. Yeah, but sometimes especially as you get tired and stuff you get a little too dialed in because you know what to bring it cane you know when they got the puck at any time they could throw it on net and it's not it's not like a little like blue is coming at you so you have to be ready for it. So I think to break it did a good job seeing Connor early and knowing that the moment I get this puck it's going to go over there like he didn't get selfish with it. And my brother put a really good shot over over because goalies we train cover the lower part of the net. And he did a good job of lifting it enough that he got over the pad and was basically in a spot that the goalie was never going to stop it. So unless the goalie read it, but he was never gonna read that. So it was it was so fast. It was such a great goal. So it was awesome. Technically, it was the game winner because Blue Jackets scored to make it three to two. Not too long after that. Yeah, so technically his goal was the game winner even though they were up three to one at that time. So yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah, exactly. Right. Yeah. Boy, yeah, he was pumped. He always gets pumped. That's that was always their goal this season. So He usually I think like 10 was probably his Max. I don't know. He doesn't really score a lot. That's not his

Zac Saleski: 1:15:04

job. Yeah, it's usually pretty minimal. Yeah, it's a big deal if he does score or even gets in a fight

Murph: 1:15:10

doesn't have a very No, he's not much of a fighter. Yeah, no, no,

Zac Saleski: 1:15:13

it's so any emotion with them usually don't get a whole lot of on that.

Murph: 1:15:17

He says he's hard for goals. Like he gets he gets he gets any hits. He hits really well. He can he could really throw the body around. You just he just doesn't fight. He talks trash. We just fight. He's a fighter. He's, he's I unfortunately inherited the the the muscle in the family. He's a little like, he's he's six, four, but he and he's like, I think he says in this car. He's like to 10 but he's like 5% body fat like he does not look like he's not a stocky Yeah, he's not the stockiest guy in the world. So

Zac Saleski: 1:15:47

I don't drink or eat.

Murph: 1:15:50

My dad my dad played he was six to 190 something like that. Say they just never he tried to 100 he felt slow. So it's like, yeah, that's

Zac Saleski: 1:15:59

I think I've ever your dad told me that I was like, well, you can do you can if your defenseman throw your body around to 15 be like, smash and do It's like no, slow. Yeah, I was like so maybe you

Murph: 1:16:10

know, it's such a fast game. Like it's hard. There are some guys I've done it like Dustin Buffett is like, like to 60 Less you're right, well, that's the wall. Victor headpins. Like six seven so of course he's going to be to something like, but yeah, like who all right. But no. Yeah, I mean, you can definitely the games turning that way a little bit. But it's also bad you. I've had the I've gotten to see a lot of hockey players, even some of the toughest guys. You see even street clothes and it's like, you have no idea. You have no idea look like look like you could take them on. But you know what I mean? Like, Wayne Simmons, like, I've seen him before. And like, Dude is like, legs legs or toothpicks. Like literally like I know. Yeah, razors are crazy. They're crazy.

Zac Saleski: 1:16:49

They snap, they they they blend in so well. You would have no clue. And you're just like, oh, no, that's right. Cool. But man,

Murph: 1:16:58

you have a you have a slight idea only just because they like to wear Lululemon and stuff. So it would be like that nice athletic look that they're wearing. And that would be by like, so you could tell. I could tell I could I could cause a

Zac Saleski: 1:17:09

ruckus, right. Love it one time. Hilarious. Hash that one.

Murph: 1:17:13

Well, unfortunately, they're not. They're not built for guys like you. unfortunate, but

Zac Saleski: 1:17:16

I'm not. I'm saying Who the hell will buy $40 for a hat?

Murph: 1:17:20

Yeah. All right.

Zac Saleski: 1:17:21

What the hell is this crap?

Murph: 1:17:22

They last a long time though. Yeah, they fit really well. They breathe really nicely. It's an awesome dude. They're their boxers and their socks are like my favorite things. Oh my God. Now they're awesome.

Zac Saleski: 1:17:34

Very, I remember years ago when I went in there with one of my exes back in the day. And I was like, I look at like, just the the spandex and it's like $130 like white? No, I

Unknown: 1:17:46

had stupid expense. And you hear like, I'm actually like,

Zac Saleski: 1:17:49

I didn't realize it. But I was being like, really loud. And like, why is this price and they're like, sir, it's something wrong. Like, God these prices like, just, like simplest stuff like little accessories that are usually about 10 bucks somewhere else. Things are 60 bucks. 50 bucks. What are you You are stealing. You're stealing people's money?

Murph: 1:18:10

What they do? That's that's how they Yeah. I mean, you got the money. I don't know how to explain it. Like, my brother gets a gift card for their for being in the NHL because they love dealing with athletes. So they do that stuff around, especially hockey. And that they think they said that's how they've kind of gotten into the male market was I'll tell you a funny story with that. But oh, so I'll like get the odd stuff. And I just don't know how to explain it. It's like it's tight, but it's not awkwardly tight. Like everything snug. It's holding things properly. Like all that stuff. Like it's just it fits really well. It just it's it's clothes that they look good, but you don't feel like you're like, dressed up super nice. were true. You know what I mean? They just fit they fit all well. I

Zac Saleski: 1:18:50

like the 3/4 cut like spandex. Yeah, it's over.

Murph: 1:18:54

Coffee. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so yeah, so it'd be like that. Yeah, so but anyway was funny story. So they there they used to be really big, obviously with women. And then they were kind of like trying to get bigger into the market. So they kind of came up with ideas of like, if you're a coach you get like 25% off as well as so now hockey players and that's why it's so big in hockey culture now because they love you know, they love Oh, they love comfortable stuff, but it's also very what's it called? Good for their figure kind of stuff like you know, like it promotes the right stuff. And so they so they like it so they made a deal that I think if you're like an NHL hockey player, or if you do a deal with a company called Bauer you can have money put towards their stuff so you get like a gift card. Hmm. So but back when I was in college it's a huge thing for Chicago people Chicago they love little them I think they might even started No, Chicago loves to overspend on things and it's true though there it's expensive city just like you want New York is a great city but great. New York is way more expensive do I think but yeah. Anyway, but did all the big cities are yeah So all these guys I used to play hockey with from Chicago. They were, you know, taking business classes. So what happens when young guys taking business classes, they all think that they can run businesses and invest and all that stuff, basically, you know, they were basically becoming investment bros. And so they wanted to, I heard the story, we're on a team bus ride, I forgot where we're going. But I heard them telling the story. And they said, so they were like, you know, a Lululemon store, look at some stuff and they're talking to the people working on like, hey, like, you know, do you guys do take on investors or things like that, like, what do we need to do to like, get a little more into this? And they're like, oh, you know, they gave them some stuff and some and some like, pointers and all that. And they just said no, do you mind we asked what are you guys hockey players? By any chance? They're like, you know, they're like, Yeah, we are like, you know, like, oh, how are you? How are you able to tell that and they're like, Oh, they're like well because really the only people that want to invest and enjoy Lululemon so much are that are male are either hockey players or gay guys? So yeah, so that was that was the the funny story they were talking about was like, yeah, so obviously, and at first they started as a women's apparel and now they're getting heavier into men's stuff. Like, literally when I first went in there when it was becoming popular. It was like, you could find maybe some shorts and some boxers and some socks. That was it. Everything else. It felt awkward because everything else or women's stuff,

Zac Saleski: 1:21:28

or the European audiences, it's basically GymShark but more expensive. Yes,

Murph: 1:21:32

yes. Believe it or not. Oh, yeah. And then so then now they will divide like half the store men and half the store women. I think they still they still pander to women a little more, but they have more men's stuff. Like I think I have a Lululemon coats not super thick, but I have a coat, you know, track pants. Hats,

Zac Saleski: 1:21:51

probably 2014 They wanted to cater. Like they were trying to cater to men. But yeah, like you're saying that they they just they had a hard time bridging that gap.

Murph: 1:22:00

Yeah, the trouble is they will never be Nike Under Armour like they won't be those those are like the solid male stuff. And so I think now what they're catching on to and realizing is okay, we can't compete like that. So we will get like the rich niche market of athletes which was a lot of unfortunately a lot of very wealthy people now are becoming athletic because they were probably nerds and whatever and now they're like I'm gonna do all these sports and do all this stuff. But yeah, they're they're kind of realizing and then also realizing to the women market is just killing it. Like, literally, girls don't want to buy Nike and Under Armour they want Lululemon or

Zac Saleski: 1:22:37

what happened was they were killed. I mean, the women market started to dwindle and because their husbands like why the hell you spend 1000s of dollars on this stuff? Yeah, I don't

Murph: 1:22:45

think so. Dude, girls ask good Lululemon,

Zac Saleski: 1:22:48

but they do.

Murph: 1:22:50

It's like, I hate to say it, but men talking about like, Under Armour and that's why the rock collabs with them and Nike and all that and women like Nikes trying to get to women. I think women like Nike, but they love Lulu more like literally. I know like my sister mom, particularly would kill people for Lulu like gift cards. Like my brother gets blue gift cards. He gives them to her like I to them, I don't even get a chance to use them much. I used it as my brother for stuff for Christmas. Literally the moment he gets the gift cards, my mom and my sister just all over

Zac Saleski: 1:23:19

it. How would you get on those? DS? No, I

Murph: 1:23:23

think it's like I think it's it's all about where you can put his money to but then he tries to go three 400 bucks, something like that. But the problem is two shirts. Yeah. Yeah. It's like four things like yeah, if you're lucky. Yeah, it's it's not. It's But in all fairness, I get it. laughs pretty good. Like I've had, I've had little things that have lasted for. I know that sounds gross, but have lasted for four years. And I mean, I cleaned it all properly and all that and it they last like now they're starting to show signs of like, I have to throw it out. But like, like, socks don't rip, like all that stuff. It's crazy. Like it's just a

Zac Saleski: 1:23:57

that's like I tell people all the time Under Armour. It's probably the stuff like I love it's so comfortable. Like, it doesn't really break down as fast as like Nike. Nike just drives me nuts. I love the look of it. But yeah, it breaks down

Murph: 1:24:10

Nike fits weird Under Armour is definitely a better it's a more no offense to your to the audience, but or American fit. Whereas like little like Lulu and Nike can be a little bit of a Euro fit where I can get a Nike shirt that's an extra large and be like, Why the hell is it feel like I'm wearing a small whereas like, you know, like Under Armour, like the sizes or the sizes like if it's an extra large it's an extra large like I don't know Nike likes to play with their fits every once in a while and it pisses me off because I'll pay like true good money for something online. And then I get and I'm like, this isn't an extra large like, what is this and you find out they're like, oh, did the ego super slim. You know, mocha fat. You're like, what is this? Like? It's just large, extra large. That's all I need. And it's relaxed fit. It's muscular. Like this is like, like It's also stupid but

Zac Saleski: 1:25:02

it's like I read the Save they deal with like 2x or Excel like sometimes Excel stuff will fit but 2x kind of fits comfortably to kind of, but even then it's these with Under

Murph: 1:25:13

Armour, you know, you're signing up for either extra large or large depending on the fit, whether it's like the slim athletic fit or the natural fit, like I know that was like and that's what I love about it. And it's it's pretty good. Yeah, loose fit. Under Armour stuff. always the best. Yeah, yeah. And if it's good, I like it. You know, when I'm going No offense, but I'm going a little cheaper. I will go under armour compared to Lulu and then like, whereas Nike is just like so just on it's just so weird to me. I have a few Nike things just such a weird fit that I'd have to be like in a store to try and Nike on I don't order on the pair to Lulu right God I know. Yeah. I don't I don't know. I said it.

Zac Saleski: 1:25:50

I said would you say price demo? True. Exactly. Alright. Calm shark. Truth. Alcohol choose. Oh, there we go. Here we go. Give me some youth Boy. Boy. New Year

Murph: 1:26:02

New us. Exactly. Right. Hopefully that means more fun adventures when this weather lets up.

Zac Saleski: 1:26:07

I know. I tell you what. It's been up. It's cold in here, but it's cold up here. Rinella keeping in Patrice on the AWS cloud. Here

Murph: 1:26:15

it is. It's cool. It's cold out here in the Midwest.

Zac Saleski: 1:26:20

The dude that tries to get into his cars he's sleeping because he wants to hook up like well, they go inside

Murph: 1:26:29

you see it's so bad Chicago that everything's iced over? Yeah, yeah, hell freeze over seriously. Like they said like the literally like the the sidewalks are like, iced over like none of the heating seemed to work or something. So like, my brother was. My brother was saying he loves his small girlfriend had to take their big Samoyed dog for a walk. And the dog loves the pole. So the dogs just pulling her and she's trying not to fall on the ice doesn't fall on the ice. Oh, that was bad.

Zac Saleski: 1:26:56

And faceplant. Yeah Scorpio bad Yeah,

Murph: 1:26:59

seriously. So it's

Zac Saleski: 1:27:01

God I know it's it's

Murph: 1:27:03

your like we it's been good it's been good today it was like I think got to the 40s Yeah, over the past like three days it was like no higher than like, I don't know like 11 degrees Fahrenheit, which is like negative like no bad math but like negative like negative like three three years ago negative 10 Celsius I don't know something like that. Yeah, it's like

Zac Saleski: 1:27:22

negative three Celsius maybe I don't know it's honestly it's like it's weird because like now usually we're getting like hammered with with snow by now or whatnot but we

Murph: 1:27:32

have not Saturday is it it's gonna last weekend anyway

Zac Saleski: 1:27:35

we really don't we'll get like a little dusting of snow here and there that's it so it's

Murph: 1:27:40

just stick around for long No, we though it seems like now the winters are getting which I kind of hate just cold like so cold it can't snow like so because you know obviously in Fahrenheit it's 32 degrees is freezing and so it will get so low that it's like like literally the beater I'll just be like it's too cold snow like we'll get like they call these like Arctic blasts. Well Does this come through and the thermostat what is Minnesota right the thermostat will just dropped like zero degrees Fahrenheit which is like you can't even go like you normally go outside you're like your everything just chaps up it's like it's too cold like it's crazy.

Zac Saleski: 1:28:11

Somebody say chap

Murph: 1:28:12

yeah

Zac Saleski: 1:28:15

but honestly I I don't actually don't mind it it's the snow that packs up with ice I really I hate Oh yeah, I hate that blend. So it's like honestly I'll take the cold any day of the week but I know we're gonna get frickin side slept

Murph: 1:28:30

well yeah right yeah problem is Ohio is always great with it'll snow and it will stick and then next thing you know we have a warm day and it melts a little and then it reflux exa then refreezes and then just for fun Mother Nature just said So throw some rain at us so then it rains on it and it's just like it's

Zac Saleski: 1:28:45

a we every nice day you'll get a 50 degree weather day and then you know your your sinuses will be through the roof

Murph: 1:28:52

as is where the cold season goes up yeah it's always fun

Zac Saleski: 1:28:55

and then we got a new strain

Murph: 1:28:58

meter in France poor quality all right yeah I'm

Zac Saleski: 1:29:07

here Mr. Mark Andhra Yeah, exactly. Sorry. You forgiven we've got any any any I guess resolutions things you want to do this year? But sorry they

Murph: 1:29:23

totally I'm just keep keep trying to learn my German still doing that. Oh, yeah, it's not not going It's um, feel really good on it on the on the app. But then like when I carried over the real world, I feel like I learned nothing. But you know, nothing. Exactly. But you know, keep doing that. Try and read some more. I got away just do all the reading in college. Just kind of get sick of it. So wanna try get back into some reading you're gonna love it actually have a book. My girlfriend got me for my 30 minute start reading about it's like the own miracle team. Canadian team was leveled like of the Winter Olympics where they're a bunch of amateurs. So I'm going to read about that. You know,

Zac Saleski: 1:30:03

so they about to say a book of fairies now.

Murph: 1:30:05

Yeah, exactly. No. I'm really excited. I actually your guide all right, you're gonna laugh but I also have read something online I think want to do I think it'd be a really cool experiment was they say like, you should reread some of your old favorite books as you get older because you'll be in a different mind frame and just kind of seeing how things are. I love it. Well, okay. Yeah, so I haven't done it yet. Because I'm really bad about I'm a slow reader. So because I'm such a slow reader. Things stick pretty, pretty clean. Yeah, but it's been so long. I'm going to reread the Harry Potter books as kind of like, you know, turning 30 New Chapter My life just start with those. That's what got me into reading. So I even got the I got I think they only did the first four, I got the illustrated versions. So I'm going to read those at some point. Damn, yeah. So they're pretty big books. But I'm gonna read those. And then honestly, I'm really bad about just picking up random things and, and like saying, I'm gonna do it and then dropping other things off. So like, it's always like, learn to invest. And then like, four months later, I don't know. Yeah, yeah. Like, it's just like, I'm really bad about that. So I think that'll be the other goal is that whatever I commit to just go full fledge into it. So how about you?

Zac Saleski: 1:31:20

Oh, nothing. What I mean, other than this, growing the YouTube go in the podcast, but I, I mean, those I'm already investing. I'm already doing like two different side things. I don't know. Okay, I'm just I'm trying, oh,

Murph: 1:31:38

you're killing it. My bad. I'm not killing it.

Zac Saleski: 1:31:41

Like to get to a point where I can like make a, you know, I guess, for me, basically just be able to pay off a good chunk of my, you know, bills every month just with investing or other stuff. I like to get there. Eventually. I like to get into like, I don't know, maybe. I know. I don't have the money. But I'd love to kind of be involved with business, I guess. And kind of it's a very broad, I guess, I don't know being investor and winners. Okay, gotcha. If I ever had the money I loved Yeah, something like that. And just kind of

Unknown: 1:32:12

entrepreneur. Yeah. Okay, that's fair. I'm starting to get that I can see that. I'm starting to

Zac Saleski: 1:32:17

get that sparking back in my head. Like, I can do this. So it's nice. Oh, no, there's something I've kind of been doing long term and there's a bunch of other things on my list. I'm like, I want to start doing this now. Cuz I've been putting it off. Yeah. But then I'm hearing each other that other social media stuff of like, Dave, I don't have time.

Murph: 1:32:36

Yeah, actually, that's I got to start posting more on social media. That should be my yeah, there's resolution. Yeah.

Zac Saleski: 1:32:41

People want to they want to get at you on social media man. Get all update you.

Murph: 1:32:45

I mean, they can I just don't post anything. I have social media. So just don't do my Facebook. Don't get on Facebook. I think. I think I might think I might delete Facebook. I'm kind of it's kind of the Facebook at the Facebook. Sorry. I like to kind of dumb I think I might just stick to Snapchat and Instagram.

Zac Saleski: 1:33:00

Oh, it's just sounds so weird. All right. Follow me on Snapchat. Why? You'll see.

Murph: 1:33:07

Yeah, you don't need to do Oh, I don't know who you are. I won't follow I won't let you anyway. So it's

Zac Saleski: 1:33:12

we got you got to put your Instagram was public. So people here can find you and be like, Hey,

Murph: 1:33:17

I thought you tagged me in the Instagram stuff.

Zac Saleski: 1:33:19

I cuz I'm, um, I can tag you but it's like your profile still private?

Murph: 1:33:26

Oh, I have to set to public now. Yeah, you get all the weirdos adding me? Well, unless the SEC spots or whatever you call those? They're gonna thirst traps. There's the thirst traps what they call them. But their spots? I don't there. So thirsty bots, or something like that.

Zac Saleski: 1:33:42

Really dehydrated? Yes, they're

Murph: 1:33:43

very, you know, someone's gotta calm down.

Zac Saleski: 1:33:47

That's like a Canadian.

Murph: 1:33:49

Lumpy, they don't have enough water. It's no, no, it's ourselves, not Fiji.

Zac Saleski: 1:33:56

What is this high class water out of here. But uh, hopefully, I mean, I got I got plenty of different, I guess projects of mine. I've been trying to get done. And hopefully the weather turns and I don't know what's going to happen with recruiting this year.

Murph: 1:34:09

True. Fortunately, like, now you get really busy with your football side of work, as well as like, especially here in Ohio, like Zach was saying, like, the weather gets so bad that no one really even wants to do anything. So it's kind of like true, like, literally by my one year anniversary is coming up my girlfriend. I'm trying to think of things and I'm like, it's not a lot to do because the weather gets shitty. And then like, because COVID Things are closing early still. And nobody wants to work in these kind of jobs. And it's

Zac Saleski: 1:34:35

still like, it's like your COVID hours and a lot of places. Yeah, and then

Murph: 1:34:39

that's the weekends things are closing like 10 o'clock. You know, like, this is kind of sad. Like it's just it's getting kind of crazy. Because nobody and I don't blame them. Nobody wants to work the food jobs anymore. Things like that. Like it's just like it's getting bad.

Zac Saleski: 1:34:51

It's It's so weird. And then and then, like Murph said to it's the weather here. It's I mean, if you're

Murph: 1:34:58

gonna put on weight around now like gets Yeah, have you ever heard the term of like,

Zac Saleski: 1:35:01

you know, wait, if you don't like the weather in Ohio to wait like 10 minutes it's so true because it's usually gets

Murph: 1:35:07

worse though not like better. Like it's like it'll go from cloudy like okay just wait 10 minutes okay? It's raining too then it's okay, it's hailing to the ends like where did this wind come from knowing like Yeah, but why is Tyler naked outside like I don't know it's weird. My Erica well yeah, exactly.

Zac Saleski: 1:35:26

No, like it's it's so bad like no I remember talking to a lot of people around here they always say like I'm gonna leave and go to Arizona or somewhere hot everyone always says that. Yeah, I don't know. Whatever. Yeah, but everyone wants to lean back right it's the next month is going to be kind of cold and this is

Murph: 1:35:44

this is the Yeah, this is when what the winter blues they call it whatever like this is when it hits like this is the seasonal depressions this is when it hits right around here because you're out of the holidays. Nothing really much to look forward to until take your vitamin D Exactly. Right. What would you say? Probably Probably March no marches will get a lot of rain and it's April right

Zac Saleski: 1:36:03

March it breaks a little April it'll break a little bit more I mean consistently though, I mean, Lady roll may or may not really about May it's

Murph: 1:36:11

Yeah, but somehow with like somewhat March and April though, I guess you know, it's like along the horizon so you kind of deal with a little better it's like literally these months of January or February and a little bit of March it's like it is painful. And I think just because you don't see the sun that much it's either it's gray and cloudy, raining snowing, or gray and cloudy again and that's usually what you get and then you get maybe one sunny day a month

Zac Saleski: 1:36:34

and so it's fun seeing the most depressed people coming oh yeah, it's yeah, it's like the weather so bad. Like so bad.

Murph: 1:36:41

Heatseeker Yeah, you could be leaving the house at with wearing one thing and then being like I have a pair Yeah, I have werebear for this show.

Zac Saleski: 1:36:52

But no, it's this year should be fun. Yeah, expect a lot more content not just with the podcast but maybe on the podcast channel might might do a couple extra things. Me and Murph doing Oh doing odd my grow

Murph: 1:37:08

I was like God what did you sign me up for? I don't know. I didn't agree to this. Deal bad call my agent dad. Jeez. Do for fame. How are you good. Did you

Zac Saleski: 1:37:20

Ayman tiny tiny circle

Murph: 1:37:21

tiny tiny circles

Zac Saleski: 1:37:23

you love is like a circle you eat leaf

Murph: 1:37:28

Oh no, no that one

Zac Saleski: 1:37:30

Oh, the emotional damage guy.

Murph: 1:37:32

Oh yes. Yes. Yes. I send you to Jesus.

Zac Saleski: 1:37:38

This is right guy. You want salad? Is on tree Wilkie tree

Murph: 1:37:45

I am way too into that emotional damage. sighs gets me every time I take talk.

Zac Saleski: 1:37:49

Yeah, sure. The original. You'll love it. Oh, yeah. But uh, yeah, expect a lot more stuff. This year. Vlogs content across all fronts. We're gonna try to do a little bit more. I don't know what's gonna happen. We

Murph: 1:38:01

are gonna blitzkrieg it. Wow. Yeah. Too soon.

Zac Saleski: 1:38:06

If I can say it's the last time I have a we had a blitz called blitzkrieg. Coach. This not good idea. Okay, sorry. Tough subjects. I'm sorry. I'm just trying to win. Yeah, right. Oh, boy, Murph. Yeah. Welcome that 2022 Ah, thank you. I

Murph: 1:38:28

blocked that one. Oh, nice. I know. blocked it by go. Right. All right. Oh, well, it's 2022. So I'm gonna do it this time. Ah, there we go. ASMR that never leaves.

Zac Saleski: 1:38:44

Some more. You'll never

Murph: 1:38:48

better sign up before it gets even weirder. Bye, guys. All right.