Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: 4821 emails later. And we're back.
What you thinking, friend? I'm Cody Lindaberry. With me as always, Ed Worl.
It's only been months.
[00:00:36] Speaker B: Months. Yeah, it's been a bit. We've, you know, the summer has kind of been a little busy for the two of us.
[00:00:42] Speaker A: Arsenal. Okay. Sorry, that. That was a.
Obviously, Premier League is back and it's a week one and already Manchester United is down one nothing. Thirteen minutes.
That's okay. This is why I talked to you, Ed.
[00:00:57] Speaker B: Well, at least they won't be as bad as the Atlanta Braves this year.
[00:01:01] Speaker A: Well, this is actually. It brings up a perfect topic because who we as Americans like to.
[00:01:08] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:01:09] Speaker A: Okay. So.
So who is your favorite player to just dog on? Like. Because usually if.
If something goes wrong, we obviously can't blame ourselves because we're animalistic. No, we gotta blame somebody. Always. Somebody has to take the blame. Right.
[00:01:32] Speaker B: Gotta play favorite athlete to blame.
[00:01:36] Speaker A: Yes.
Like, wow. Let's see.
[00:01:40] Speaker B: Right now, I would say it would be Shohei Otani.
[00:01:45] Speaker A: Shohei Otani or Bryce Harper.
Why Bryce?
Why are you going to dog on Bryce with the good hair?
[00:01:53] Speaker C: I.
[00:01:53] Speaker B: That's just because he's in the same.
[00:01:55] Speaker A: Division, you know, when he was natty. I understand.
[00:02:00] Speaker B: Well, I. I will give him credit.
He did bring the nationals a World Series championship. It just took him leaving.
[00:02:10] Speaker A: Yes, he did.
[00:02:13] Speaker B: I'm hoping that's what happens with the Phillies, too. Just to prove that he's not the best player in the world.
[00:02:19] Speaker A: Oh, my God. If they could just sign Schwarbs and just have him have Schwarbs instead of Harper.
[00:02:26] Speaker B: Philly's fans are the first ones to blame Schwarber, though. Oh, my God.
[00:02:31] Speaker A: Oh, all right.
Since our last podcast, I got married. It's great.
[00:02:37] Speaker B: Congratulations.
[00:02:38] Speaker A: No one else. Yeah. Next. No, Very, very happy.
But we had a week of. Well, not even a full seven days. We had like a majority of a week with Pennsylvania family.
Not all of them, but most of them. And so when the Phillies are on. Oh, you hear. You hear a symphony of emotions.
[00:03:04] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:03:05] Speaker A: And a lot of that is.
God damn it, Schwarbs. And then it turns around.
Schwarbs is the man. God damn.
[00:03:15] Speaker B: Literally within seconds of one another.
[00:03:17] Speaker A: Oh, he could. Oh, it goes from heartbreak, but it goes. It goes from a strike count to a ball count and.
Or him going yard.
[00:03:26] Speaker C: Yeah.
Yeah.
[00:03:28] Speaker B: Phillies fans are weird. That's all there is to it.
[00:03:32] Speaker C: I.
[00:03:33] Speaker B: They've got to be the most emotional roller coaster type fans in all of professional Sports.
[00:03:41] Speaker A: I don't know. Have you tried the Bruins for hockey?
[00:03:44] Speaker B: I, you know, I don't pay much attention to hockey, but. No.
[00:03:47] Speaker A: Okay, that's fair.
I mean, most Boston nights for. I mean, it's a very much of a East coast thing.
[00:03:55] Speaker B: Oh, sure.
[00:03:56] Speaker A: I think the only west coast that you could have had in any sport would have been the Raiders when they lived in Oakland or.
[00:04:03] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
Oh, speaking of West Coast, Dodgers are no longer in first place.
[00:04:07] Speaker A: Yay.
[00:04:08] Speaker B: Hey, they spent a billion dollars in the off season and now they're in second to the Padres.
[00:04:14] Speaker A: So did they. I was just gonna say, did they blow it last night?
[00:04:18] Speaker B: They blew it a couple nights ago and we're down one game, so I don't know. As of last night, I don't know what the standings are, but I know they were in second place.
[00:04:27] Speaker C: Huh.
[00:04:28] Speaker B: And that makes me smile. Makes me very happy.
[00:04:31] Speaker A: Oh, man.
I gotta say, like, as I'm watching this, because I'm hoping that the little icon that goes zero goes to one because I don't wanna load up over too much.
I don't eat up too much bandwidth as.
As I try not to anyways.
[00:04:49] Speaker C: Right.
[00:04:51] Speaker A: I gotta tell you, sports betting is a thing of emotion.
[00:04:54] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:04:56] Speaker A: And I say this with the preference of know where.
Know where your dogs lie is kind of a thing because for. Right in front of me, I can't escape it. There's like a DraftKings ad in front of me. Right?
[00:05:12] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. It's all over professional sports now.
[00:05:15] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:05:16] Speaker B: So insane.
[00:05:17] Speaker A: A lot of. A lot of these just for the fact of the matter are if you are a state that has DraftKings, know that your money is being sent to New Jersey. It's getting out of your state. So a lot of. A lot of lotteries are trying to keep the money in state, but a lot of the cases like DraftKings or FanDuel or all extract, etc. Etc.
Anytime that you can use a credit card to gamble, that's a red.
[00:05:52] Speaker B: Bad idea.
[00:05:53] Speaker A: That's a red flag. Mad.
[00:05:54] Speaker C: Right?
I.
[00:05:56] Speaker B: The Braves broadcasting channel now is FanDuel.
[00:06:02] Speaker A: Boy.
[00:06:03] Speaker C: Yeah.
Yeah.
That.
[00:06:06] Speaker B: I'm just like. That pains me.
It should not be. They shouldn't be allowed to advertise during sports.
I just, I don't. I don't like it.
But here we are.
Because if. If you're going to bet on sports, you know where you're. Where you can bet. You don't have to feed it down everybody else's throat.
[00:06:29] Speaker A: Okay? So knowing that we had this is back in 2019 as Carols, as. As the Mrs. Having background music of memes.
Oh, there. There's where I was going. Sorry, I.
[00:06:52] Speaker B: Train wreck.
[00:06:53] Speaker A: Dude, it's 9:50 in the morning. Just got up talking to my line buddy to whom A lot of people wanted to meet you at the wedding, I want to say.
[00:07:03] Speaker B: Did they?
[00:07:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:07:06] Speaker C: Huh.
[00:07:07] Speaker A: You boogied out. You boogied out way too soon. Well, but I.
[00:07:10] Speaker B: But I know that it was a little loud for. I don't know, I just wasn't.
[00:07:15] Speaker A: You were set up in front of Bo's Audio, like mics or.
[00:07:20] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:07:20] Speaker A: Speakers.
[00:07:22] Speaker B: They wanted to meet me.
[00:07:23] Speaker C: Huh.
[00:07:23] Speaker B: That's weird.
[00:07:24] Speaker A: Yeah. There was a. A couple of cats because they're.
They wanted to meet you and.
But I. I know that you were not the only one that was like, you know what? I gotta get the. Out of this place.
[00:07:36] Speaker C: Yeah, it.
[00:07:37] Speaker B: It was. It was a. It was a bit loud for me, weirdly.
[00:07:41] Speaker A: Oh, a lot of as loud as hot.
[00:07:43] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:07:45] Speaker A: But it was. It was good.
So, Ed, if you were a sponsor or actually if you were a fan, because you. You have stated that the Braves are now like, brought on by fanduel.
[00:08:01] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:08:01] Speaker B: What is the broadcasting.
[00:08:02] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:08:03] Speaker A: Oh, okay. They're broadcasting.
[00:08:05] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:08:06] Speaker A: What is their stadium name?
[00:08:08] Speaker B: Truest Park.
[00:08:10] Speaker A: Okay. It's the brand that's. Thank you.
What.
What sponsorship do you wish they had? As.
As the bank or not even a bank. As a.
[00:08:24] Speaker B: What sponsorship do I wish they. Ooh, I can't.
[00:08:30] Speaker A: I. I say this knowing that in 2019, Bang Bros tried to make Bang Bros center for the Miami Heat for the naming rights for $10 million.
[00:08:44] Speaker B: Bang Bros. Wow.
[00:08:46] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:08:48] Speaker C: Wow.
Wow.
[00:08:54] Speaker B: I, you know, I'm terrible at that type of thing. I don't even know. I'm just glad they're not, you know, Home Depot park or Coca Cola Park.
[00:09:05] Speaker A: Well, I mean, wouldn't it be Pepsi because it's Atlanta.
[00:09:08] Speaker B: Actually, it would be. It would be Coke because Coke is based in Georgia.
[00:09:13] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:09:14] Speaker B: I'm just glad they're neither of those.
[00:09:17] Speaker A: I mean, I would, okay. Be okay with Dodger Stadium being renamed to pornhub Stadium or pornhub Field.
[00:09:22] Speaker B: That would be awesome.
[00:09:27] Speaker A: Like, I, I can't think of any, like, brand off of hand that would make me go, yeah, we're going. We're going to see the Panthers play. We're going to see them at reputable sponsor here.
[00:09:43] Speaker B: Yeah, I, I can't think of anything.
I don't know that that's a tough one because I can't think of any brand that just screams, like, you know, Atlanta Braves or professional sports team. Really?
[00:10:01] Speaker A: Here's my suggestion.
We make you make it whatever the. The local. The big.
Okay, I'm. I'm thinking about this here for a second, because now I'm.
[00:10:14] Speaker B: You're rethinking your. Your thought process. Nice.
[00:10:16] Speaker A: Well, there's vetting.
There's vetting in. This is. You make, like, if it's a. A ballpark where it's like, a baseball or whatever it is, then you make it to whatever your local, like, adoption agency is or, like, for animals.
[00:10:36] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:10:37] Speaker A: So that way, like, oh, it makes sense. You're in the mall and getting dog and all the other stuff.
[00:10:42] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:10:45] Speaker A: But.
Yeah, but I'm sure there would be a lot of vetting, because a lot of people want that.
[00:10:50] Speaker B: I will say that people that. That are in the Atlanta area, like fans, they don't call it Truest park. They say they're going to the Teepee.
[00:11:00] Speaker A: Okay.
What? I love that.
I love that a lot. Because fans will never call it what they. What sponsors want it to be.
[00:11:11] Speaker C: Right.
[00:11:12] Speaker A: Like back in the day when it was CenturyLink filled.
[00:11:16] Speaker B: Clink.
[00:11:17] Speaker A: The clink. Yes.
[00:11:19] Speaker B: That one's pretty iconic, actually.
[00:11:21] Speaker A: Yeah. And then you got the vault for bank of America stadium. Nice.
[00:11:27] Speaker B: Charlotte. That's kind of awesome, actually.
[00:11:29] Speaker A: Yeah. The link for Lincoln Financial in Philly.
[00:11:33] Speaker C: The link. Okay.
[00:11:35] Speaker A: Yeah. But I love, like, fan rebellion.
[00:11:40] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:11:40] Speaker B: They're like, I'm not calling it by its corporate name. I'm gonna call it the Teepee.
[00:11:44] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:11:46] Speaker B: Awesome.
[00:11:46] Speaker A: We're not calling it by its government name. No. We're gonna go by the street name.
[00:11:50] Speaker B: Yes, exactly. I just. And it's fitting. And I maybe. I mean, people that do marketing are relatively intelligent, so maybe they think of these things.
[00:12:02] Speaker A: Like, if it was the Denver Jazz, you're just going to the little jizzy.
[00:12:08] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:12:11] Speaker C: The Jazz. You.
[00:12:12] Speaker A: You can't tell me there's Jasmine or. No, that's Utah.
[00:12:15] Speaker B: Utah. I was gonna say Utah.
[00:12:16] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:12:17] Speaker A: There ain't no Jazz in Utah. Come on.
[00:12:20] Speaker B: There isn't.
[00:12:21] Speaker C: I.
[00:12:21] Speaker B: They moved to Utah, and I don't remember where they originated that team. I would assume down south somewhere.
I would like. Like, Becky just said in the background with that name, she would think New Orleans or Louisiana or something.
[00:12:39] Speaker A: And. And you know what? She would be right. It was the New Orleans Jazz.
[00:12:44] Speaker C: Oh, Becky.
[00:12:45] Speaker B: For the win.
[00:12:47] Speaker A: For the dubs or the Doves.
[00:12:49] Speaker C: Yikes.
[00:12:51] Speaker B: The Atlanta Braves were the Doves back when they were Boston.
[00:12:55] Speaker A: The franchise began as an expansion team in 1974-75 season as new Orleans Jazz Tribute to New Orleans history of originating jazz music. The Jazz relocated from New Orleans to Salt Lake City on June 8, 1979. God damn. It only lasted four years.
[00:13:14] Speaker B: There is no jazz in Utah.
[00:13:16] Speaker C: No.
[00:13:19] Speaker B: I don't care what anybody says.
[00:13:24] Speaker C: Right.
[00:13:27] Speaker A: We heard. We were walking through an antique store yesterday and heard somebody like, you know how you just pick up on random quotes or like, as if the room will suddenly get silent and you pick up on one sentence.
[00:13:46] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:13:46] Speaker A: And this sentence particular was.
Oh, I go back to Utah in a heartbeat.
Like.
And then followed by have you ever been to Great Falls?
[00:13:57] Speaker C: Really?
[00:13:59] Speaker A: Yeah. That was a. That was a legit conversation that somebody was having in the basement of antique store.
[00:14:09] Speaker C: Huh.
[00:14:11] Speaker A: I was just trying to find like rusted skeleton keys.
[00:14:16] Speaker C: Oh, okay.
[00:14:17] Speaker A: They used to sell them for like a buck a piece.
[00:14:19] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:14:20] Speaker A: Now, homeboy that was there was not. Not too keen on it. Well, if we got him, we're being a display case somewhere. There's a hundred thousand display cases in a antique store.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: Well, yes, that's correct.
[00:14:33] Speaker A: Damn.
Anyways.
[00:14:38] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:14:39] Speaker B: That ends our educational part of the show.
[00:14:42] Speaker A: No, I mean, we did do little educational.
[00:14:45] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:14:46] Speaker A: Stadium names and stadium teams and.
[00:14:48] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:14:49] Speaker A: You know, Shohei, you know.
[00:14:51] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. I'm tired of hearing about them. I did a survey for MLB a while back.
[00:14:58] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:14:59] Speaker B: And they asked what our pit. My opinions were of Shohei Harper.
[00:15:04] Speaker A: And.
[00:15:06] Speaker B: There was another one that I'm just like.
[00:15:08] Speaker A: You write three words. Them all.
[00:15:11] Speaker B: Actually, I did.
[00:15:12] Speaker A: Hey.
[00:15:15] Speaker C: That.
[00:15:15] Speaker B: Those.
Actually, it was three words. It was those guys is what the.
[00:15:22] Speaker A: Easier for a screen reader, I'll admit.
[00:15:24] Speaker C: Yeah. I.
[00:15:25] Speaker B: But I basically, I just said I'm tired of hearing about them.
[00:15:29] Speaker C: I.
[00:15:29] Speaker B: They're good players in their own right. Don't get me wrong. But I'm just tired of hearing about them and having them force fed to me.
[00:15:37] Speaker C: I.
[00:15:37] Speaker B: If I. And I just flat told them if I wanted to see how they were doing during the season, I would go look up their stats.
I'm just tired of having these players force fed to me every waking moment through their I have an idea channels.
[00:15:54] Speaker A: New idea.
[00:15:55] Speaker B: Sure.
[00:15:56] Speaker A: The more millions of dollars that you have, the less the respected leagues or fanisms or like broadcasting.
[00:16:07] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:16:08] Speaker A: Sponsorship.
Less blowjobs for them.
[00:16:11] Speaker B: Yes, exactly.
[00:16:13] Speaker A: So if you have $1.20 billion like Shohei.
[00:16:19] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:16:20] Speaker A: Used to be 40 until his translator lost money.
[00:16:23] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:16:24] Speaker B: I. I think that was some side betting. I really do.
It's hard for Shohei.
It just there's just too many things.
[00:16:37] Speaker A: I had a bad man. I had a bad bust. Actually, in the span of like 1 week, I had one of the best and worst cases.
Like one of the best. I placed in a bet before, like center. Yeah. San Diego had a grand slam and won me 300 bucks.
[00:16:55] Speaker C: Right.
[00:16:56] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:16:57] Speaker A: Yeah, so that was one of the greatest ones where you're just like, holy. I. I hit.
[00:17:02] Speaker B: Wow. Interesting.
[00:17:03] Speaker A: Yeah. Hit on the over because Flint. Grand slam. And you know, I think I hit it over under on another one. So the parlay was 300 bucks.
[00:17:12] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:17:13] Speaker A: Which. Which was like, sweet. I'm buying donuts for everybody. You know, for the after party.
This. This turns to last night where I'm.
I think it was.
I think it was the Orioles. I'm not. I'm not quite 100. Sure. Because time is. Timing is illusion.
[00:17:35] Speaker C: Sure.
[00:17:36] Speaker A: But I had the over under at eight, Right.
These two teams. It was two one the entire game until the. The ninth where the other team tied it up. So it's at 4. It's going into extra innings. Okay.
This, this bet has surely to be in. It's like 20 bucks. You know, if you win, you get 40.
[00:17:59] Speaker C: Sure.
[00:18:03] Speaker A: Goes into 11 innings and gets over the cap and it gets to nine. Scores or. No, actually it gets to 10 because they hit three. Three in the 11th.
[00:18:15] Speaker C: Geez.
[00:18:16] Speaker A: And you're just like, damn it.
[00:18:20] Speaker B: That's why baseball is such an interesting sport.
Betting. You just. If you're gonna bet on baseball, just.
No, don't, don't. Just don't.
[00:18:33] Speaker A: As a degenerate.
[00:18:36] Speaker B: Come on.
[00:18:36] Speaker A: As you know better. Okay. Even having this discussion basically throughout the week, slash the last night, because this is this hilarity.
Degenerates will bet on anything.
[00:18:50] Speaker C: Yeah, you will.
[00:18:52] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:18:53] Speaker A: Yeah. Hands down. Heartbeat.
[00:18:54] Speaker C: Right? Yeah.
[00:18:56] Speaker A: So with this, we'll look at baseball. Baseball. Most of the games. On the low side, the average of over unders is set at seven.
[00:19:07] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:19:09] Speaker A: On the high side, they're usually like ten and a half when you're starting a game.
[00:19:14] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:19:15] Speaker A: And that's. We're talking like brewers because of course they are.
[00:19:20] Speaker B: Brewers have been awesome to pay attention to, to follow.
[00:19:24] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness. Yeah.
[00:19:27] Speaker B: Best records in baseball. And they're on a 13 game winning streak.
[00:19:31] Speaker A: They're doing some satanic. I think there's 14 now.
[00:19:35] Speaker B: Did they win last night?
[00:19:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
Jesus.
Yeah. No, they pulled out some Garbo. Like somebody had an error in the back and then ran it in for two and.
[00:19:46] Speaker B: Yeah, that's awesome.
[00:19:49] Speaker A: Garbage time.
[00:19:50] Speaker B: Like a Win is a win. That's all that matters.
[00:19:52] Speaker A: Yes, absolutely.
But same respect.
Trying to, trying to go on. That is like. Oh, God. Do you do the, like over, under? Because the overrunners are usually set pretty high.
[00:20:05] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:20:05] Speaker A: And then on top of that, it could be 13 to 20 on any particular game just because they're banging out.
[00:20:13] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:20:14] Speaker B: And then the next game, they squeak it out in 11 innings, 2 to 1.
[00:20:18] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:20:19] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:20:19] Speaker B: Baseball registered like that.
[00:20:21] Speaker A: Oh, my God, it kills me every time.
[00:20:24] Speaker B: Or like the Braves a couple weeks ago, they scored like 13, and then the next game they got shut out.
Yeah, baseball sucks like that.
[00:20:34] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:20:34] Speaker A: Oh, my God. He's like, yeah, they've been on a four game streak, but then you have to almost go and like, how are they. How are they at home versus how are they away?
[00:20:42] Speaker B: Right.
[00:20:43] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:20:44] Speaker B: I just.
I don't know.
Baseball is so funny that way.
[00:20:51] Speaker A: Okay, I'm glad that you say that.
What do you think, if given the opportunity, you might be able to. Somewhere. I don't. I don't know. I don't want to know.
What do you think right now people will want to gamble on as degenerates.
[00:21:13] Speaker B: As degenerates.
[00:21:15] Speaker A: You gotta go. You think it would be deep? It's not that deep.
[00:21:18] Speaker B: I saw on ESPN News this morning, okay, the World Kickball Championship is going right now.
[00:21:31] Speaker A: That's.
[00:21:33] Speaker B: I. I have no clue about any of it.
[00:21:36] Speaker A: And I love it. And I love it.
[00:21:38] Speaker B: Absolutely. See that becoming a really big betting thing.
[00:21:42] Speaker A: Okay. I love that.
[00:21:43] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:21:44] Speaker A: But I'm gonna one up you.
[00:21:47] Speaker C: Oh.
Hmm.
[00:21:48] Speaker A: And it's. And you as soon as I say you're gonna go, of course.
Little League World Series.
[00:21:55] Speaker B: Oh, absolutely.
[00:21:56] Speaker C: That doesn't make that.
[00:21:58] Speaker B: And that shouldn't even be allowed, but yes, it's not.
[00:22:03] Speaker A: Well, I, I don't.
[00:22:04] Speaker B: Technically, it could be.
[00:22:05] Speaker A: It could be on your local draftkings.
[00:22:07] Speaker B: Under the, you know, under the table jersey.
[00:22:09] Speaker A: Yeah, well, it's not. It's not via local Montana.
[00:22:13] Speaker B: How about that?
[00:22:13] Speaker C: Right, Right.
[00:22:15] Speaker A: Which I'm thankful for that one Little.
[00:22:17] Speaker B: League World Series would be even more of a crapshoot than anything else because you just don't know.
[00:22:26] Speaker A: We were just having this between me and the bartender, buddy. We were having this conversation last night about like, I think he said it was either he or I.
I don't want to misquote.
Put a. Put a house payment on Japan.
[00:22:46] Speaker B: Oh, I was just gonna say Japan all the way.
[00:22:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Like your money odds were probably like a hundred. Like you're probably making your money back.
[00:22:56] Speaker B: There'S usually a couple teams from New York that go pretty far.
[00:23:02] Speaker A: Yeah.
Like the.
[00:23:06] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:23:06] Speaker A: So I think.
[00:23:07] Speaker B: But Japan all the way.
[00:23:08] Speaker A: Connecticut is doing something amazing. And Pennsylvania was doing work last time I saw. But yeah, no, as. As the.
As the means of Little League World Series. If you're going international, it's like you always put money on Japan and money on Mexico.
[00:23:25] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:23:26] Speaker A: Or Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico's pretty.
[00:23:28] Speaker B: Puerto Rico usually makes it into the semi finals.
[00:23:31] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:23:35] Speaker B: No, Little League World Series is an interesting one, but there's some of those countries, they do pretty good.
[00:23:42] Speaker A: And, you know, my opinion on baseball is usually like, it's all right, but there's nothing pure out of the sport than like the Little League World Series because they're just out there too.
[00:23:56] Speaker C: Ball.
[00:23:56] Speaker B: I don't know. Some of those kids are way better than you or I ever were.
[00:24:02] Speaker A: No, no, no.
[00:24:04] Speaker B: Holy crap.
[00:24:05] Speaker A: I'm just saying for the love of the sport.
[00:24:07] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:24:08] Speaker A: There's.
[00:24:08] Speaker B: There's more of it in it. I still. I've got a whole conspiracy theory on those kids, too.
[00:24:15] Speaker A: Well, let's. All right, let's do it.
[00:24:17] Speaker B: Well, we have a podcast, because let's.
[00:24:22] Speaker A: Let's get. Let the. The conspiracy go. Let's. Well, what's your take there, buddy? What's. I really.
[00:24:29] Speaker B: I really do feel like the teams that make it to the Little League, Little League World Series, those kids are so damn good that it's not about love of the game anymore, because a lot of those teams make it all the time to the Little League World Series.
And I.
I really.
[00:24:52] Speaker A: Because you.
[00:24:53] Speaker B: You're starting to see all these training facilities for, like, Little League and high school sports, like younger kids pop up in all these different communities. We're getting one in Great Falls, for God's sake.
I just.
There's a small part of me that believes that parents are still forcing kids into doing this. It might have originated with the love of the game, but then the parents got involved and I just.
I don't know. There's a small part of me that thinks there's way more politics involved with it.
With it than. Than it seems at face value.
It just there.
[00:25:40] Speaker C: I.
[00:25:41] Speaker B: Because these kids are way freaking better than we ever would have been.
So with that at that age, because.
[00:25:49] Speaker A: You bring up a. An interesting topic of that because you.
You have fandom again. We're going circle back. It's fandom. So, like, in certain regions, like Montana.
Montana had a region or I think it was soccer, where they had silent soccer games. Games or they were pushing for silent soccer games because of your proverbial. I don't even think it was your drunk dad that was. Or drunk uncle that was your drunk. Cheering on or just dogging on refs?
[00:26:30] Speaker C: Huh?
[00:26:31] Speaker A: It's hard to say.
But it. Those are the moments where you're just like, you know, it. It's because of a failed.
Like I used to play football and. And little League or like, you know.
[00:26:48] Speaker B: I know the type.
[00:26:50] Speaker A: The people who peaked at high school. Yes. Yes.
[00:26:52] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:26:53] Speaker A: Yeah. The ones that still wears their Leathermans and. Or like not Leatherman's.
[00:26:58] Speaker B: Is there leather letterman jacket and everything?
[00:27:00] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that.
[00:27:02] Speaker A: I mean, dude, you're 55 years old.
[00:27:05] Speaker B: Get over it.
[00:27:06] Speaker A: It's high school.
[00:27:08] Speaker B: It wasn't. It's not worth it. It wasn't.
[00:27:10] Speaker A: Then people didn't like you.
[00:27:12] Speaker B: Then you wear your letterman jacket at your used car dealership lot. You know, prototypical.
[00:27:18] Speaker A: No. Okay. If I'm gonna ask this question.
[00:27:23] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:27:24] Speaker A: More likely that a person that wear their. Wears their letterman jacket.
Are they a salesperson or. Or are they in the back of an auto dealership salesperson because the rest.
[00:27:40] Speaker B: Of them don't want to deal with them.
[00:27:45] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:27:46] Speaker A: Do it. Yes. Good on you. Well done.
[00:27:49] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:27:49] Speaker B: Because they're still trying to live off of their one play that got the team to the championship in 1972.
[00:27:59] Speaker A: Let me think of the year 2007.
I hit somebody out and our team won the game.
And do you know what that game was?
Dodgeball.
[00:28:12] Speaker C: Dodgeball.
Yep.
[00:28:15] Speaker B: That's your claim. That's your lame claim to fame.
[00:28:18] Speaker A: That's all I could think of right now because it was just one of those like. Ah.
And I. I got nothing else after the nothing else.
[00:28:26] Speaker B: You and I are like, yeah, we were. We weren't necessarily the best at anything.
[00:28:31] Speaker A: Well, I mean we had like, both of us had 15 pounds of bowling trophies. But now it's just like you tried. We trying to donate them to like Special Olympics or something.
[00:28:42] Speaker B: Nobody wants them.
[00:28:43] Speaker A: Nobody wants them. Nobody gave a. That again. They're like, why do you have all these second and third place trophies?
[00:28:51] Speaker B: Oh, speaking of bowling, I went.
Went bowling with a blind group in would have been July.
And did you stop ass.
You know what's funny? For one game I did okay. I actually.
[00:29:07] Speaker A: What was it?
[00:29:08] Speaker B: A 1111 or something?
Not being able to see. That's not so bad.
[00:29:15] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:29:17] Speaker B: And no bumpers.
[00:29:19] Speaker A: Hey.
[00:29:20] Speaker B: Got picked up three spares. Not being able to see it.
Two of them were the. That dreaded ten Pin that we always left.
I'm not even sure how I picked it up, but I did.
[00:29:34] Speaker A: Winging a prayer, my dude.
Okay. You say that and you know what it was? I. I'll tell you. My. My magic.
My magic. Find Goodwill.
I think as one does your hunting down wedding stuff just because you're like.
I think in this particular case, we were looking at board games and, and all that.
You can find some pretty good sales on board games and dominoes and all this other stuff. That way people who are entertained during the wedding or actually that little time gap.
[00:30:10] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:30:10] Speaker A: Between the fastest ceremony that you've probably ever been to.
[00:30:17] Speaker B: That was amazing. I will commend you. I'm like, I go, just knowing Cody and Carol, this is going to be quick, dirty and. And done. Like just real quick.
[00:30:28] Speaker A: It was fantastic, wasn't it?
[00:30:29] Speaker B: It was great. I loved it. And I particularly love the phrase adventure buddy. Yeah, that was great.
[00:30:38] Speaker A: Is absolutely the truth.
[00:30:39] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:30:40] Speaker A: So with that going back, there's that little. There's that little section of time between a ceremony and people coming back from photos. Right.
That's. That's where we said bar is open. Also, there are games and desserts. Help yourself. Run, run, run, run. Right, and so back to the. To the Goodwill we ended up buying.
[00:31:09] Speaker C: Excuse me.
[00:31:10] Speaker A: All of these games.
[00:31:12] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:31:13] Speaker A: I find a bowling bag.
A two, two ball rolling bowling bag.
[00:31:21] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:31:23] Speaker A: Like, it was pretty. Aside from the. The amount of dust on it, not too bad. Okay, open it up. Two bowling balls.
[00:31:32] Speaker C: Really?
[00:31:32] Speaker A: And the full. The full kit, like towels and everything.
They're pretty good size. Like, I think they're both like 14, 15 pound balls.
[00:31:42] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:31:43] Speaker A: And the extension on them for like fingertips is not that far off from what I have.
[00:31:48] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:31:50] Speaker A: So I'm looking at the bag.
I think it was 10 bucks.
I'm like 10 bucks for two balls in a bag?
[00:31:59] Speaker C: Heck yeah.
[00:32:01] Speaker A: Yep.
So I now own more bowling balls that. Now I gotta. I gotta give them a shot just to see what.
[00:32:10] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:32:12] Speaker A: What kind of tordy force on it. Or if I have to get them filled and drilled because of just, you know, fingertips. I've broken my fingers a couple times. Yes.
Which a lesson to everybody out there, all three of you. Don't try to catch yourself when you're falling down.
[00:32:30] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:32:32] Speaker A: Yeah. Because you'll.
[00:32:33] Speaker B: You'll up your digits falling down sober, drunk.
[00:32:36] Speaker A: I don't want to talk about it.
[00:32:38] Speaker B: Or a little of both.
[00:32:40] Speaker A: I am over a year sober.
[00:32:44] Speaker B: Oh, well, then it was definitely sober.
[00:32:47] Speaker A: Well, I. I have not.
Well, I was gonna say I Haven't fallen down. But that's not true. So.
[00:32:56] Speaker B: And I commend you on that.
[00:32:58] Speaker A: Thanks. Appreciate it.
And even still. Yeah. It's a, it's a miracle by now standards. Like they have non alcoholic whiskey.
Really? It's not bad. Yes.
[00:33:13] Speaker B: I did not know that.
[00:33:14] Speaker A: Yeah. It's called Monday.
That's the one that we liked. Is just because it's spicy.
[00:33:20] Speaker C: Oh, okay. Huh.
[00:33:21] Speaker A: It's good for cocktails, but yeah, I didn't know.
[00:33:24] Speaker B: That's interesting.
[00:33:25] Speaker A: Yeah, it's pretty damn good.
That's the only thought a lot of people ask. Oh, you're not drinking, you're not drinking, you're not drinking.
The more the only thing I miss just because you can get na beers and it's basically, it's the muscle motion of having a can in your hand.
[00:33:44] Speaker B: Oh, sure.
[00:33:46] Speaker A: Of like, oh, you know your 12 ounce curls.
[00:33:51] Speaker C: 12 ounces.
[00:33:51] Speaker A: That's what you.
[00:33:52] Speaker C: Nice.
[00:33:52] Speaker A: Yeah, that's. That's the motion and like the sociability of it. That's what it is. That's like a lot of people will go, you know, they're not much into cigarettes. They're into the motion of being social.
[00:34:05] Speaker C: Right.
[00:34:06] Speaker A: Like a lot of drinking is associated with being social.
[00:34:10] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:34:12] Speaker A: So a lot of that now curve because of removing alcohol is now like, you can be social and be out, but then you could tell when other people are getting drunk. And so you can just be like, yeah, I'm tapping out, I'm out. And then the next day you don't have a hangover. So it's great.
[00:34:29] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:34:31] Speaker A: Yeah. I do see the other drawback because I had this conversation with somebody else that because they work a night shift that it's hard for them to get to sleep at a normal. Because your normal rhythm of sleep patterns are up.
[00:34:49] Speaker C: Right.
[00:34:50] Speaker A: So you need that beer in order to stop thinking and just. But it's a slippery slope.
[00:34:55] Speaker B: It is.
[00:34:56] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:34:58] Speaker B: Anytime you're using a substance to fall asleep, it's a slippery slope.
[00:35:04] Speaker A: Yeah. And for anybody that's out there, it's like, oh, just use chamomile tea. I am an advocate of tea and I love tea. But don't, don't try to sell me as tea as a means of like calming yourself down. Yeah.
[00:35:19] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:35:20] Speaker A: There's like, yes, it's homey. Yes, it's. Is tea awesome on a, on a snowy day where you don't have to go outside? Yes. Let's go.
[00:35:31] Speaker C: Nice.
[00:35:32] Speaker A: I'm not trying to crawl up the ceiling or the roof with coffee just because I can't.
Me and coffee. No bueno.
[00:35:42] Speaker C: The.
[00:35:42] Speaker B: The sheer amount of caffeine in coffee.
[00:35:44] Speaker C: Or.
[00:35:47] Speaker B: Does other things.
[00:35:49] Speaker A: Sure.
Just. I mean, think of things that are delicious, but then you shouldn't have it.
[00:35:55] Speaker C: Oh, okay.
[00:35:57] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:35:58] Speaker B: I got you.
[00:35:58] Speaker A: I'm sure it's a white monster for you.
Oh, I don't even know.
Is there anything that you want to talk about before?
[00:36:11] Speaker B: I'm getting. Getting close to September.
[00:36:15] Speaker A: You're getting close to September? And Ed, what happens in September?
[00:36:20] Speaker B: Going to a fancy concert.
[00:36:23] Speaker A: A fancy concert?
[00:36:24] Speaker B: Well, maybe not fancy, but I'm. I'm excited.
[00:36:28] Speaker A: Now, was this la or is this C Tech or is it Denver or.
[00:36:33] Speaker B: In the Seattle region?
[00:36:35] Speaker A: Seattle. In the Sea Tac.
Seattle Tacoma region.
[00:36:40] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:36:41] Speaker A: Does it start with an L and then with arc?
[00:36:45] Speaker B: It sure does.
I am going to see Lark.
[00:36:50] Speaker A: You can go see Lark. Congratulations, buddy.
[00:36:53] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:36:54] Speaker B: There's got to be a band.
[00:36:55] Speaker A: Never been.
[00:36:56] Speaker B: There's got to be a band out there called Lark.
[00:36:58] Speaker A: Let's find out.
[00:36:59] Speaker B: I'm. I'm pretty sure there is, but.
[00:37:02] Speaker A: No, I just want to know what kind of band they are.
[00:37:06] Speaker B: I have no clue.
[00:37:07] Speaker A: But get the out of here.
[00:37:10] Speaker B: Is there.
[00:37:13] Speaker A: You have got to be. Butt me. Did you know this ahead of time?
[00:37:17] Speaker B: I did not.
[00:37:19] Speaker C: I.
[00:37:21] Speaker B: Is there a Lark?
[00:37:24] Speaker A: Okay, so there's two.
[00:37:26] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:37:28] Speaker A: You got Butt me with this. Okay, so you have.
I cannot believe this.
You have Lark L, a, R, K. Yep-music.com.
[00:37:43] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:37:44] Speaker A: Lark is a five piece band out of Western Montana featuring some best musicians in the state.
[00:37:51] Speaker B: Really?
[00:37:53] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:37:54] Speaker B: I did not know that there's a band. There's a band named Lark out of Helena.
[00:38:01] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:38:01] Speaker B: That is the other.
[00:38:02] Speaker C: Huh?
[00:38:05] Speaker A: The other Lark is.
Are a South African glitch electronica band from Cape town formed in 2003.
[00:38:14] Speaker B: Glitch Electronic.
[00:38:17] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:38:19] Speaker A: But the Mon. The Montana Lark, via the Helena region has been an intersection of soul and funk since 2023.
Original music as real as Montana.
[00:38:35] Speaker B: I did not.
[00:38:37] Speaker A: No. That's why I thought you were playing me.
Like get the out of here.
[00:38:41] Speaker B: I wish I was, because that would have been awesome.
[00:38:45] Speaker A: Oh my God.
[00:38:48] Speaker B: That is weird.
[00:38:50] Speaker A: Soulful, bluesy and full of energy. Testimonial from Danny C. What the am I looking at?
Get out of here.
[00:38:59] Speaker B: Random things we say lead to random Google searches.
[00:39:06] Speaker A: How the hell did we make something from making fun of your affinity for Lincoln park, to which you're going in September, to finding out upcoming dates for Lark, comma, Mountain Soul.
[00:39:25] Speaker B: Well, you're gonna have to go check that out now.
[00:39:28] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, you can check out Lark's upcoming dates at the Western Bar. August 8, August 21 at Lewis and Clark Tap House.
The wrath Skeller at September 16th Springs at Broadwater. September 18th and November 8th at the Western Bar again at 9pm Goodness.
[00:39:53] Speaker C: That's awesome.
[00:39:56] Speaker A: So much so that you have a homeboys I'm, I'm not gonna put on blast because that's rude.
Where you can contact the person via Gmail. So that's awesome. And it's not even like larkband gmail.com it's somebody's.
[00:40:10] Speaker B: It's straight up their email.
[00:40:11] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:40:14] Speaker B: That's awesome.
[00:40:16] Speaker A: I am only going to support this because I am a big fan of you got to support your local squad. So.
[00:40:23] Speaker B: Right.
[00:40:23] Speaker A: Big ups to Lark now. I hope they're. I hope that you're as funky as. As it gets. I love me some funk.
[00:40:29] Speaker C: So. Yeah.
[00:40:32] Speaker A: Oh, that's awesome. God blessed.
[00:40:36] Speaker B: How, How? Because everything leads back to Montana.
I guess I, I, I learned that like especially weirdly Great Falls there's a lot of stuff that leads back to Great Falls for some reason.
[00:40:55] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:40:56] Speaker A: I got a question for you. Okay. That. This is a little unfair actually.
[00:40:59] Speaker C: Sure.
[00:41:00] Speaker A: I have to think about this.
Just because of Montanans will wear a ton of like gear that either has a.
The state or 2 406.
[00:41:17] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:41:17] Speaker A: Because of the area code that.
[00:41:19] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:41:20] Speaker A: Falls out for all of the state.
Do you know of any other states that does that?
I mean California maybe.
[00:41:32] Speaker B: California maybe.
[00:41:35] Speaker A: But you don't see a lot of them that just have this, the shape of the state.
Right.
Yeah. I think that's more because we are in Montana that we see all this Montana.
[00:41:48] Speaker B: I suppose there's some areas in the state of New York maybe.
[00:41:55] Speaker A: Maybe Oregon maybe.
[00:41:58] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:42:01] Speaker B: It's weirdly a Montana thing.
We see it mostly because, well, we're in Montana, but we're in it.
[00:42:07] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:42:08] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:42:09] Speaker B: And I can weirdly say I don't own a single piece of clothing with the Montana emblem or not emblem, but state and 406 on it. Because I refuse.
I'm a proud Montana, but I'm not that proud.
[00:42:26] Speaker A: Why are you proud? Like why are you proud?
[00:42:29] Speaker B: I'm not that guy.
[00:42:31] Speaker A: Okay, fair.
[00:42:33] Speaker B: Don't be that guy.
[00:42:35] Speaker A: I think that truly because I mean I'm thinking of my whole wardrobe mostly of T shirts and everything.
And one of them is Montana for immediate nuclear destruction.
And just that's just because the amount of like military bases slash nuclear facilities and all jazz. So if, if, if the nukes don't get us Yellowstone will.
[00:43:04] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. That should be a T shirt.
If the nukes don't get us Yellowstone will.
[00:43:11] Speaker A: I like that. I should write that down.
[00:43:13] Speaker B: You absolutely should.
Montana if the nukes don't get us Yellowstone will.
[00:43:23] Speaker C: That.
[00:43:23] Speaker A: I love it.
[00:43:24] Speaker B: That should absolutely be a T shirt.
[00:43:28] Speaker A: I. I know. Now I have to listen back to the. Get the exact words.
[00:43:37] Speaker C: Oh, that's awesome.
[00:43:43] Speaker A: Fantastic. And I'm glad that I wrote that down now.
[00:43:46] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:43:47] Speaker A: Don't get us. So. Well, then you throw a picture of the state in.
[00:43:53] Speaker B: Ah, don't be that guy.
[00:43:55] Speaker A: What? Oh, did I ruin it for you? I'm sorry.
[00:43:57] Speaker B: You did.
[00:43:58] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[00:44:00] Speaker B: Don't be that guy. No, but.
[00:44:03] Speaker A: But Ed, I wanna.
[00:44:05] Speaker B: All right, fine.
[00:44:06] Speaker C: Fair enough.
[00:44:08] Speaker A: I'll use.
How can I make this more terrible? Via. Via Ed's Comic Sans periscope.
[00:44:17] Speaker C: J.
[00:44:19] Speaker A: Comic Sans. That's good.
[00:44:20] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[00:44:21] Speaker B: Comic Sans font. Just because that's what will make it more terrible. Because in design and designed by AI.
[00:44:27] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's that. There's the. There's. There it is.
[00:44:32] Speaker B: Made in Montana by AI.
[00:44:38] Speaker A: Oh, that makes me want to make. Make. You know how they have the Made in Montana product symbol or whatever it.
[00:44:45] Speaker C: Is made by AI.
[00:44:47] Speaker A: Yeah, do that. Made by AI.
[00:44:50] Speaker B: That would be awesome. Just a whole group of T shirts that are made by AI that you do not correct.
[00:44:56] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[00:44:59] Speaker A: But you still have the shape.
Now I gotta look. I gotta look at the. The made in Montana logo just to describe it.
[00:45:10] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:45:11] Speaker A: For our five fans.
[00:45:15] Speaker B: Oh, we gained two. Nice.
[00:45:18] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:45:18] Speaker A: In the matter of.
So basically you have a blue circle.
[00:45:23] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:45:24] Speaker A: You have the word Montana and red across the middle. And then you. But in the background you have mountains and in the forefront you have yellow and reds basically to indicate like wheat fields.
[00:45:37] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:45:38] Speaker A: In a gradation from yellow to red to. From top to bottom.
[00:45:45] Speaker C: Ah.
Made by.
[00:45:46] Speaker A: Oh, and I should. Preferences like made in usa. Montana. Usa.
[00:45:52] Speaker B: Oh, we added the USA to it.
[00:45:54] Speaker A: Now the USA is at the bottom.
[00:45:57] Speaker B: Oh, is it?
[00:45:57] Speaker A: I think it's always been there.
[00:45:59] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:45:59] Speaker B: I don't remember that, but it's.
[00:46:01] Speaker A: Yeah, I. I never. A long time either.
[00:46:05] Speaker B: So no, knowing our state and whoever runs that, they probably added the USA later. Because I just remember Made in Montana without the USA at the bottom.
[00:46:16] Speaker A: But for us, it would have to. We'd have to make it like made by AI. Usa comma, probably.
[00:46:25] Speaker B: Probably.
That's awesome.
I absolutely love it.
I wonder what kind of crap you could actually sell.
Because people.
I mean, AI's got its uses. Don't get me wrong, but doing art and stuff like that.
[00:46:50] Speaker A: Yeah. As soon as you. You should be using AI for real workman, like, to make enrich lives, not.
[00:46:58] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:46:58] Speaker A: Take jobs.
[00:46:59] Speaker B: Well, look at, like, for the blind. AI is being used to identify things for us. Like, I just ordered a pair of glasses with a camera on it that you can use your voice to take a picture of stuff in front of you, and it will identify what's in front of you.
And it can use the AI to read text and. And tell you what pro. Like, what can of soup it is. It can do things like that with AI so that's enriching the world.
But AI art is wow.
[00:47:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:47:38] Speaker B: Just wow.
[00:47:38] Speaker A: Ed, I. I up and I know I have an answer for you. And I. I didn't look it up. It was just more. I used my brain for two seconds. Oh, I. I have an answer for another state that uses or puts their state on everything.
[00:47:56] Speaker B: California.
[00:47:58] Speaker A: Texas.
[00:47:59] Speaker B: Oh, Texas. Yes.
Texas is probably the worst.
[00:48:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:48:06] Speaker B: Put it on everything.
[00:48:09] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:48:10] Speaker A: I put.
[00:48:11] Speaker B: Putting all their.
[00:48:12] Speaker A: They're.
[00:48:13] Speaker B: I would have to say that's a politics aside. Like, Texas on everything.
[00:48:18] Speaker A: If you put, like, if you were going to make a state draft.
[00:48:24] Speaker C: Huh.
[00:48:25] Speaker A: A draft of which, like, you're using the state symbol as your. Your moniker.
Number one seed. It has to be like, Texas.
[00:48:35] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:48:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
I would imagine that Alaska is probably like, a five seed.
[00:48:43] Speaker B: Florida's got to be top five.
[00:48:47] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:48:48] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:48:48] Speaker A: Somewhere in there.
[00:48:50] Speaker B: Montana's got to be two or three.
[00:48:53] Speaker A: I would have to put it at, like, a number four seed.
[00:48:55] Speaker B: You think so?
[00:48:57] Speaker A: I mean, it's. It's a great.
[00:48:59] Speaker B: Well, if you're doing it by recogn. Recognize, like, how recognizable it is.
[00:49:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:49:05] Speaker B: Probably wouldn't even crack the top 10.
Probably not, because you definitely have California in there, too.
[00:49:14] Speaker A: I mean, you're at that point. You're like Ohio, comma, because.
[00:49:22] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[00:49:24] Speaker B: That seems to be about right.
[00:49:25] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:49:29] Speaker B: That is.
[00:49:30] Speaker A: I. I have one more thing before we end this beautiful podcast.
[00:49:34] Speaker B: Sure.
[00:49:37] Speaker A: I am amazed at your craft, at you and Becky's craftsmanship.
[00:49:44] Speaker B: Oh, don't throw me into this. That was all her.
[00:49:46] Speaker A: No, no, your name's on the box, too, buddy.
[00:49:50] Speaker C: Oh, fine.
[00:49:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:49:54] Speaker B: Now, now what did we do? I forgot.
[00:49:56] Speaker A: No, why don't you describe it, Ned?
[00:49:59] Speaker B: I see it was. Becky's the mastermind. She's the brains of the family. So.
Because, you know, box.
[00:50:11] Speaker A: It's a box. Beautiful little box. It has butterflies on it.
[00:50:14] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:50:15] Speaker B: Butterflies on the tag.
[00:50:17] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:50:17] Speaker B: The. My only contribution Was telling Becky she needed to do the names and like the to and from in comic Sans because, you know, long time running joke.
[00:50:28] Speaker C: Sure.
[00:50:29] Speaker A: You didn't do it in papyrus, so you're still loved.
[00:50:32] Speaker B: Papyrus.
Papyrus from the other side of the room.
[00:50:36] Speaker C: I hate papyrus.
[00:50:38] Speaker A: Thank you. And that's why we're friends. In love and. Yes.
In friendship and in work. Let's go.
[00:50:46] Speaker B: Since there's hatred for that font across the board that'll never be used. Will never cross that line.
[00:50:52] Speaker A: Deep hatred.
[00:50:55] Speaker C: But.
[00:50:56] Speaker B: So the whole thing was.
At some weddings, people release butterflies, so we couldn't.
[00:51:06] Speaker A: I've never heard that a day before in my life.
[00:51:08] Speaker B: Yeah. It's a thing.
[00:51:09] Speaker A: No one. No, I know that now. How about that?
[00:51:13] Speaker B: You know that now.
[00:51:14] Speaker C: Okay, good.
[00:51:15] Speaker B: Cody learned something.
[00:51:18] Speaker A: Always learning something.
[00:51:20] Speaker B: Something. Whether he retains it or not.
But no. So Becky saw online how to do origami butterflies and she folded money.
I think it was tens and fives, wasn't it?
[00:51:38] Speaker A: Correct.
[00:51:39] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:51:39] Speaker B: And folded them into butterflies.
And there was a good chunk of money in that box all folded into the shape of butterflies.
[00:51:52] Speaker A: And don't get me wrong, they're beautiful.
They are fantastic. And there was a box of money butterflies, which instinctually has triggered both Carol and myself, having worked in the money business in terms of like a credit union, you know, the poor people's bank, the money handling.
And it's just like it was a lot of ornate but not wanting to rip or. And we kept one of them and we put it on the shelf.
[00:52:28] Speaker C: Ah.
[00:52:29] Speaker A: Like as a. Like.
Yes. This. This.
I don't know if it was more like, yes, this little butterfly will bring prosperity. It'll fly into our lives. I'm not going to give you that hokey.
[00:52:39] Speaker B: No, it's because you got through most of them. You're like that. That one could stay.
[00:52:43] Speaker A: Well, we got. Naturally. We. We specifically went and tried to look for the. The best looking one. And now. Yeah, that's why it's up on the shelf.
[00:52:51] Speaker C: Oh, okay.
[00:52:52] Speaker A: Next to the Japanese lucky cat.
[00:52:55] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:52:56] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:52:57] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:52:59] Speaker A: See?
[00:52:59] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:53:00] Speaker B: Becky was quite proud of herself after she did that. And she said they're gonna either love it or hate it or a little bit of both.
And yes, we. We totally. Both of us forgot that Carol or. And you worked at a credit union and that that would be the gift that kept on giving because. Well, it would be.
[00:53:26] Speaker A: Yes.
And it was the gift that kept on giving because I. There was amusement, amazement, and just straight on because. Well, yeah, it could be both. Yeah. She. She.
[00:53:43] Speaker B: Becky legitimately Spent two. About two hours sitting there while we were watching tv, folding those and tying.
[00:53:50] Speaker A: Them and knowing that it's probably going to be a while.
I. I too, know that level of depravity and. Well, it's not even depravity. It's just more like sarcasm with motivation.
[00:54:06] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:54:07] Speaker A: Yeah, I know that because I'm also the same way. Did I get fat heads made of my dogs for the wedding? Yes.
[00:54:18] Speaker B: Excellent.
[00:54:18] Speaker A: Is one of them. Is one of them in my office now so that way I could annoy my co workers? Absolutely.
That's awesome.
Am I going to make a fat head of my buddy for his beer league hockey?
Absolutely.
[00:54:36] Speaker B: You absolutely should.
[00:54:37] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:54:39] Speaker A: But because he's a ginger.
He's a bald ginger with a big old bushy gingery beard.
Am I gonna make it. Make another fat head of Yukon Cornelius of.
Of Rudolph the Red nose reindeer, the Muppet, and use that as the means of, hey, your fat head came in. And just use that as the old switcheroo.
[00:55:07] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:55:08] Speaker A: God damn right. I am.
[00:55:14] Speaker C: Awesome.
[00:55:15] Speaker A: Yeah, no, it's. I. I thought of that one last night. I was, like, trying to go to bed and just get one of those. Like, I gotta get fat head. A fat head.
Wait a minute.
[00:55:26] Speaker B: I will say your guys's wedding. The one thing Becky and I were kind of, in a way, enamored with is the gal off to the side painting.
[00:55:36] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:55:37] Speaker B: So you guys had a portrait done? Is that what that was?
[00:55:41] Speaker A: Okay.
And shout out to Samantha Houston. Actually, me, I want to. I want to give proper accreditation, because that is who she is. Not. Not to discredit, but I also want to give.
Give her a shout out to Sparrows and arrows tattoo. If you're ever in the Great Falls region just for tattoo shops, that.
That is our artist, homie, who she.
She's a longtime friend. Like, her husband was one of my best men. The fact that I didn't make you Ed one of my best men is because that was a lot of moving parts and I didn't want to put you to work. It's all good, actually.
One would almost argue I like you so much that I didn't make you a part of the show.
[00:56:33] Speaker B: I appreciate that.
[00:56:34] Speaker A: Yes, exactly.
So with that in mind, because you already know your family anyways, and there's no escaping it. We're gonna watch each other get old.
[00:56:42] Speaker C: Right?
[00:56:42] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:56:45] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:56:45] Speaker A: And so I.
She. She basically asked, well, would you like a live painting?
And I go, sure, sure.
We kind of just went, sure. Just because a lot of people either a Have nervous energy and they need to expand upon it or they don't want to be a part of it. Or they, you know, there's a myriad of reasons they want to be a.
[00:57:13] Speaker B: Part, but not really.
[00:57:15] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:57:15] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:57:16] Speaker A: And so I was like, fuck yeah. And to the point of, like, I was even berating my photographers of have your God damn business cards ready.
In the event that somebody said looks at your stuff and says, oh, that's awesome. Like, the amount of people that are like, Sam was doing the live painting. She was there early because she needed to be able to get the background. Background looked lovely.
[00:57:45] Speaker B: And that's what Becky said is the brick wall that she was painting was just fantastic.
[00:57:51] Speaker C: It was cool.
[00:57:52] Speaker A: And then. And so even after the fact, after we've had a hundred thousand goddamn photos taken, still took a couple of reference shots. That way she could get the, the, the dress, like the finer features.
[00:58:06] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:58:06] Speaker A: Because she does amazing work and look forward to having that in the house.
And many of other people want to see the final.
The finale of it.
[00:58:17] Speaker B: Oh, absolutely.
[00:58:18] Speaker A: Which is absolutely cool. I mean, that's cool as hell. That's. That's talent meets, like.
And, and her tattooing is phenomenal, I would imagine. Well, so with that in mind, it was just like, oh, yeah, that's kind of cool. And even planning it out, I was like, okay, she doesn't want to be anywhere near it, which is fine because you, like, you want to have a certain perspective when you're trying to either take photos or any of that kind of fucked her over. When I was cubing the room of like, oh, where do we put desserts? And it's like, oh, let's have everybody walk by.
So that was.
Well, you can't win them all.
Nope. Nope. But hey, at least that was a lot of revenue of like, hey, people checking out and then having comments and.
[00:59:08] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:59:08] Speaker A: Which is par for the course of that kind of stuff. So it wasn't that bad.
[00:59:13] Speaker B: No, I, I thought it was. I thought it was cool, you know, being a former artist myself.
[00:59:20] Speaker A: Yeah, no, super cool.
God, I can't.
[00:59:25] Speaker B: And I.
[00:59:26] Speaker A: There was one more thing.
[00:59:26] Speaker B: I was gonna say envy people that can just sit there and paint. I just, that was something I, I was never really good at.
[00:59:34] Speaker C: Is. Is paint.
[00:59:36] Speaker A: No, I mean, you can. Anybody could do.
Is a.
It's a learning curve.
[00:59:43] Speaker B: Oh, it is, absolutely.
[00:59:44] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:59:44] Speaker A: Some people have the, the it factor and some trained and trained and trained.
[00:59:51] Speaker B: My skill was really doing kind of live sketches where I'd just be sitting there, people throwing ideas at me and, and drawing it on paper.
That was. Yes, that was my skill set.
But yeah, the painting was cool.
[01:00:06] Speaker A: Yeah, no, it's. I'm super looking forward to it being done.
[01:00:10] Speaker C: Cool.
[01:00:11] Speaker A: Like when it is complete, I will be static.
[01:00:14] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:00:14] Speaker A: I'll get a year. Get a nice frame up.
[01:00:17] Speaker C: Call.
[01:00:18] Speaker A: Good.
[01:00:19] Speaker B: Now I hope your. I hope you know painted Cody has the type of eyes just follow you around the room and creep people out.
[01:00:28] Speaker A: Oh, get big old googly eyes and post googly eyes.
God damn it.
[01:00:37] Speaker B: That would be awesome to have a kind of cartoon like version of the painting where you, you legitimately put googly eyes on it.
[01:00:47] Speaker A: I gotta find. Oh, God, yes, Ed.
[01:00:51] Speaker C: Yes.
[01:00:53] Speaker A: Saying that just because our, our photographer homies had sent us a couple of cleaner cut shots cleaned up. I'm looking dapper. My, my waifu is looking amazing.
I absolutely need to grab one of those pictures and then put googly eyes on it.
[01:01:13] Speaker B: Make it your. Make it your Facebook profile picture just because it's funny.
[01:01:17] Speaker A: These.
There you are using the big brain. I love it, Ed.
[01:01:22] Speaker B: I'm the idea guy.
[01:01:26] Speaker A: The idea guy.
[01:01:29] Speaker B: I, I don't have to execute my ideas. I just come up with them.
[01:01:33] Speaker A: Yeah, Yeah. I didn't come up with a nuclear or actually I came up with the nuclear bomb. I just didn't, you know, I didn't build it Exactly.
[01:01:42] Speaker B: So it's not my fault.
[01:01:44] Speaker A: That's not my fault.
[01:01:46] Speaker B: I didn't know what they were going to use it for.
[01:01:51] Speaker A: I'm. This will be the only time I ever compare you to Elon Musk. It's like, oh, it is like I, I told people was making fun of the, of the flamethrower. I said it's a bad idea. We shouldn't do it.
And they made it anyways.
It's not my fault.
[01:02:12] Speaker B: My fault exactly.
[01:02:15] Speaker A: But as the idea guy, he put that shit out and then all of a sudden people like me, like, yeah, absolutely.
[01:02:21] Speaker B: That needs to happen.
[01:02:23] Speaker A: Fucking all right. I think we can.
I think this, this, this trade has some steam behind it.
[01:02:32] Speaker B: I'm just the idea guy.
[01:02:34] Speaker A: Yeah, that's.
And I was just doing what I was told. That's what I've heard. Yeah.
[01:02:42] Speaker B: Cody was just doing what he was told.
[01:02:47] Speaker A: Trying to think if there was anything other of like, oh.
To our seven now listeners, if you're ever booking a venue, remember to check the schematics versus what the actual is because there was a pillar in the middle of the goddamn walkway.
[01:03:08] Speaker B: Becky noticed that.
[01:03:10] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:03:12] Speaker B: And you guys handled it gracefully. He just.
Everybody split Apart and came back together around the other side of the pillar.
[01:03:19] Speaker A: You did a little twirl. It was great.
Yeah.
[01:03:24] Speaker C: Son of a.
[01:03:25] Speaker B: You handled it elegantly.
[01:03:28] Speaker A: That was one of those. You look at it because they. They. The venue was nice. They clearly had operated and set it up as per the instruction. But you're like, God damn it.
[01:03:43] Speaker C: Yep.
[01:03:46] Speaker A: At least nobody was, like, everybody could see. So it wasn't a big deal.
[01:03:52] Speaker C: Right.
[01:03:54] Speaker A: And only had about 80 people. So it was perfect.
[01:03:58] Speaker B: It was a small, little intimate wedding. It was good.
[01:04:00] Speaker A: It was. It was.
[01:04:01] Speaker B: Compared to a lot of these things I've read.
[01:04:05] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[01:04:06] Speaker A: And by the end of the night, it was everybody that you wanted to be there.
[01:04:09] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:04:10] Speaker A: So it worked out just fine.
[01:04:12] Speaker B: Except for me, where I slipped out the back and everybody's over.
[01:04:16] Speaker A: Yeah. You had a. Well short of an Irish goodbye. You were.
Where you just slip out unannounced, which I appreciate that he at least said goodbye.
[01:04:24] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah.
[01:04:25] Speaker A: Most everybody did.
[01:04:26] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:04:27] Speaker B: We never would have left without saying congratulations and goodbye to you guys because.
[01:04:31] Speaker C: Well. Yeah.
[01:04:33] Speaker B: That's just rude if you don't.
[01:04:35] Speaker A: Yeah, that. That. That's a certain level of douchebaggery that. I mean, so long as you still get the contact in there. I understand that other people had, like, kiddos or.
[01:04:45] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:04:46] Speaker A: They didn't want to be there.
Either way, I just. I understand. I get it. I have no hard feelings about anything on.
[01:04:54] Speaker C: Right.
[01:04:54] Speaker A: Any of the matters, so.
[01:04:55] Speaker B: No, no, it was a. It was a good time had by all.
We, well, talked with one of the, I assume, husbands of the bridesmaids that they were talking about.
They came and talked about with me about the guide dog and all that. So that was kind of fun.
[01:05:13] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:05:14] Speaker A: Good old Helen was.
Was a gem. Yes. And kudos. Kudos to your pupper. Because there was about, I don't know, six, maybe eight out of max kids, and they buried them pretty good, actually.
[01:05:33] Speaker B: They didn't come up and bother her or.
I don't know if the parents were like, don't pet the dog.
[01:05:40] Speaker C: I don't.
[01:05:40] Speaker B: I don't know those details, but it went all right.
[01:05:44] Speaker A: It's hard to say.
I mean, when you're a host or, like, the proverbial, like, spotlight is on you, you go in kind of a host mode.
[01:05:56] Speaker C: Yep. Yep.
[01:05:58] Speaker A: And as much as you try to have invisible handcuffs to your partner in crime, you're. You're often.
[01:06:07] Speaker B: You're split up.
[01:06:08] Speaker A: You can't be there. You can't be inevitable at once.
[01:06:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Right.
[01:06:11] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:06:12] Speaker B: Delightful at Least you didn't get left on the dance floor by a drunk aunt.
[01:06:19] Speaker A: No, we had anybody listening. We basically. We hit it and quit it on the. We James browned the ceremony. We basically got sat in chairs for the photos, which is great, actually. They opened up a balcony. That was for a closed bar. We didn't know if having a bar closed was gonna ruin. But actually it was a helping stance because we didn't have wandering wedding crashers or any extra traffic coming through that.
[01:06:52] Speaker C: Sure, sure.
[01:06:53] Speaker A: The photos, I'm sure, will be amazing. Even though it was when you. Because Great Falls, Montana.
[01:06:57] Speaker C: Who knew?
Yeah.
[01:07:00] Speaker B: I got left in the middle of a dance floor because my drunk aunt decided she wanted to dance with me at our wedding. And the song ended maybe I don't remember if it ended or not. And she just kind of left me there.
[01:07:14] Speaker A: I'm like, we did three dances and that was. And then let it loose.
[01:07:18] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[01:07:20] Speaker A: No, it was a grand time. And did somebody who came to get you then.
[01:07:27] Speaker B: I don't remember if it was my dad or Becky. It might have been Becky, actually.
After my aunt deserted me in the middle of the dance floor.
[01:07:38] Speaker A: And I can't remember because it's a thousand whiskeys ago. Oh, God. Yeah.
[01:07:42] Speaker C: You.
[01:07:43] Speaker B: You and my groomsman downed a bottle of whiskey.
[01:07:46] Speaker A: Yes, we did.
[01:07:48] Speaker B: I think at the dress rehearsal and the wedding.
[01:07:58] Speaker A: Me and the boys, we did some work.
[01:08:00] Speaker B: You did? Yes.
[01:08:01] Speaker A: Well, we didn't make spectacle. But we didn't make a spectacle out of it either.
[01:08:06] Speaker C: No, no, no.
[01:08:07] Speaker A: Like we weren't the main show.
[01:08:08] Speaker B: We.
[01:08:10] Speaker C: Did.
[01:08:11] Speaker A: We did. Like this has gone years past.
The person I was dating at the time was not too kind of it because I was a particularly big bottle of Jack Daniels. Old number seven.
It was a big. It was a big bottle. We. We killed that like it was a job.
[01:08:32] Speaker B: Well, it was, it was.
[01:08:33] Speaker A: It was our job to do. And so with that. That bottle. By the end of that bottle, the bottle was lonely and we were lovely to it.
And so with that, it was like, all right, we've. We did. We had some. But it wasn't enough to make any of us like a belligerent.
[01:08:55] Speaker C: Right.
[01:08:55] Speaker A: But we also hung around because of said we're like, yeah, no, we're. We're not going anywhere and we don't have any problems in the world. Right, Right.
Little Jack Daniels on Pepsi. And we were aok.
[01:09:13] Speaker B: Nice.
[01:09:16] Speaker A: Well, with that, I think that this has been a lovely catch up session of. What you thinking, friend?
I'm Cody Lindberry.
[01:09:27] Speaker B: I am Edware. L. You.
Sorry, I was. I was looking for a key.
A key on the key and. Or on the keyboard.
[01:09:36] Speaker C: I couldn't find it.
[01:09:37] Speaker B: I'm like, oh, wait, we're ending this.
[01:09:39] Speaker A: Yeah. You left me hanging, buddy.
[01:09:41] Speaker C: I did.
[01:09:42] Speaker B: You know, just like my aunt at my wedding.
[01:09:44] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. I just gotta make that same joke, same callback.
Left me, like, your drunk aunt out on the dance floor.
[01:09:54] Speaker B: That's awesome.
[01:09:57] Speaker A: Like, what is it? Stevie Wonder at the mt.
MTV Music Awards?
Like, yeah, he's singing Wild, Wild west. And they left it. Left him out on the stage.
[01:10:11] Speaker C: Yep.
[01:10:11] Speaker A: That's it. That's us. That's.
[01:10:13] Speaker B: That's you guys.
[01:10:17] Speaker A: All right, I'm Cody. Linda Berry.
[01:10:19] Speaker B: With me, as always, Ed Worl and. All right, guess what? You can find us online. You know, all of the. The things online.
Wtf.castus.com or, you know, whatever. It's out there.
[01:10:32] Speaker A: I accidentally rolled a 10. All right. And with that, thank you all for listening and hope you have a great.
