A Crock-Pot Catastrophe, The Man Flu, and A Stolen Pillow

This week we take you through a comedic yet relatable journey of our not-so-perfect anniversary celebration, complete with fevers and rearranged sleeping arrangements. When volunteering at our kid's school turns into a sniffle-filled fiasco, we find laughter in the absurdity and comfort in the support we give each other—even if it involves a strategically placed pillow.

Then, hold onto your taste buds; we're about to recount the epic saga of a crock-pot catastrophe that left our Instagram followers in shock and us questioning our culinary choices. Yep... we're referring to the chuck roast that harbored secret cysts - YUCK! 

And if you've ever encountered the moral conundrum of a lost patio cushion, join us as we navigate this suburban mystery with a side-splitting account of ethical dilemmas.

Finally, we tackle the world of glitzy celebrity romances and the possibility of sports being more scripted than we'd like to believe. Are these high-profile relationships just for show, or is there a flicker of truth behind them? We explore this, alongside the eyebrow-raising moments in the NFL and NHL that have us questioning the authenticity of the sports we love.

Whether you're here for the romance, the laughs, or the candid sports commentary, this episode is packed with tales that will entertain and maybe even enlighten you.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:13

Hey guys, welcome back to Life Unmastered. I don't know about you guys, but I had a lot of fun taking two whole weeks to walk down memory lane and talk all things wedding.

Speaker 2: 0:27

It was pretty cool. I actually really enjoyed those episodes. I enjoyed listening to them as well, which I don't normally.

Speaker 1: 0:35

Yes, just FYI. Our worst fan is Mike.

Speaker 2: 0:41

Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 1: 0:42

For somebody who loves to hear himself talk. He hates to hear himself talk. It's the weirdest thing, and so I listen to them because I like to see is there something that I'm doing that I should stop doing? Is there, I don't know, whatever.

Speaker 2: 1:02

Look, I learned a long time ago you cannot add to perfection.

Speaker 1: 1:05

Oh gosh. So anyways, he doesn't listen to them, so me and my mom just give him pointers.

Speaker 2: 1:13

Let me know.

Speaker 1: 1:15

Here's what you need to fix.

Speaker 2: 1:18

It's usually accurate.

Speaker 1: 1:20

So, anyway, we are back to normal this week. We had our anniversary on Valentine's Day last week and I feel like it wasn't our best year.

Speaker 2: 1:36

I feel like we say that every year.

Speaker 1: 1:38

This one really wasn't no we yeah. Jason was recovering from his sickness.

Speaker 2: 1:46

He was his first day being better was on Valentine's Day, on our anniversary which was our goal at that point, and so, with that experience, we just shifted all of our focus to getting him healthy so he could go to school and enjoy his like Valentine's Party and stuff like that.

Speaker 1: 2:00

Yeah, so I went to their school and worked in his classroom to like volunteer for his class party. The break my heart Valentine's Day boards that I made the like the class game were huge hits. They loved it. And then by the time that I got home and was making dinner, in the middle of making dinner I kept sitting down.

Speaker 2: 2:22

I knew something was wrong. It was. I could tell you were not 100 percent and I wasn't sure if you were just tired from the extra stress and busyness of the day or if you were going down.

Speaker 1: 2:33

At first I was just like man, my back hurts, I'm just really tired. My body just felt heavy, like I felt like I needed to sit down and then, by the time dinner was ready, I served all of you guys and you're like what do you do?

Speaker 2: 2:46

I'm like I'm, I need to go take a nap or something Like I don't want to eat, all eat later, and I think that was close to like the last time I saw you that night.

Speaker 1: 2:53

Yeah, um, that was at like 530. And then you guys finished eating dinner, cleaned up, you went upstairs, gave the kids a bath, put them to bed and then I was like I'm going to bed. So we spent our anniversary separate.

Speaker 2: 3:14

A couple of party animals over here.

Speaker 1: 3:17

And then on Thursday I was, I, I was out for the count.

Speaker 2: 3:22

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 3:23

I was in bed all day long on on Wednesday. I did not sleep at all.

Speaker 2: 3:28

I remember I of course many of you days, days later do not hook up in-line because Thursday morning kind of half expecting it. But I asked you when we woke up. I was like how you doing? And I just heard and I was like, all right, I'll let work know, I'm taking the kids to school.

Speaker 1: 3:45

I don't remember being that sick for a really long time.

Speaker 2: 3:49

I think what's amazing to me is you were very, very sick, like I could tell how sick you were, but it seemed short because, like by Friday you you weren't 100%, but you were mobile and able to do stuff again and it was like it was well timed.

Speaker 1: 4:04

I'll take it.

Speaker 2: 4:05

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 4:05

I always say that I'll take anything over a headache, mm-hmm on. On Thursday I was just exhausted because I didn't sleep at all the night before and my body ached, I had the fever, I was just uncomfortable and I did a lot of sleeping, even though I was super uncomfortable. Still on Friday I woke up and everything felt a little bit better, but I had that headache, which went away pretty early. And then what happens? And I feel like you and I both do this I was like oh great, I'm feeling better, let's do some laundry, let's do some dishes, let's get some stuff done. And then the end of the day comes and I just my body's like you over, did it.

Speaker 1: 4:41

Yeah you weren't quite ready to be doing all this stuff again, and so then I wasn't feeling great Friday night, and then that made me just upset. I was like upset. I.

Speaker 1: 4:50

I remember, because I just feel like every time the weekend rolls around, somebody's sick or Everything's covered in snow, and just like I don't want to do this again. Yeah, so, and because I was sleeping so badly, I Kind of rearranged our bed and on Saturday I actually woke up and was like oh, I actually slept last night. After two nights I'm not getting any sleep. I was so excited.

Speaker 2: 5:18

Well, yeah, you put a giant pillow in between the two of us. It's like the pillow of separation for our bed it is, but the pillow of separation has lived on and it's just spreading dividing marriages now all over the place.

Speaker 1: 5:30

I had. No, it had nothing to do that. This is a two-part thing right here. First of all, now, when I roll over, I get to cuddle.

Speaker 2: 5:40

Since you don't let me cuddle.

Speaker 1: 5:42

I get a. I get a cuddle with a pillow. That's true, that's true, it's very comforting for me, but real in reality. It's one of those like super firm pillows that I got forever ago when we were trying out with gajillion pillows and. I feel like it was like propping me up enough that it was supporting my back. And then I also slept with that heat pad which, in bold capital letters all over it, says not to sleep with, but I was like I don't care.

Speaker 2: 6:09

Yeah, we're not gonna burst into flame. Yes, I mean you might, though, so you shouldn't do that. Follow the directions.

Speaker 1: 6:16

Yes, we made this decision for ourselves. So anyways, yeah. And then I woke up, feeling fine, and you woke up. I, what I woke up to us, oh.

Speaker 2: 6:29

No, no, we're not, we're not.

Speaker 1: 6:35

I'm like, oh, is something wrong. I.

Speaker 2: 6:39

Have never had back pain before, but I've always been told that it is the worst pain that you will ever feel, and there have been multiple people that have come through my life, either at work or school or whatever Mostly work but that I have made fun of for complaining about back pain because I didn't believe it and, as you know, I have a very hard time with empathy.

Speaker 2: 7:02

Yes if I cannot physically see your pain, it might as well not exist and your baby. And I'm sorry, that's just how my brain is wired and it makes me a horrible person. I understand that. But now I was literally on our floor Of our bedroom going baby. I'm sorry for all the people I made fun of. I could not breathe. My back hurt so bad. I was like hyperventilating just to get air. It was.

Speaker 1: 7:30

It was bad so he's like constantly Breathing these loud?

Speaker 2: 7:36

no exhales felt that way because, like I would go to just breathe like a little breath, and I couldn't even breathe a little breath and so I was getting like shocked by the pain. Oh, as I was, I wasn't trying to breathe deep, it's just I could only breathe so much and I'm trying to find that limit of where, like it hurts. It was trial and error. We almost didn't make it. I'm pretty sure I was. I had nine and one dialed and I was waiting to tell you to dial the other one.

Speaker 1: 8:02

I Will say at least you're consistent. You're equally as annoying with the man flu as you are with your back pain.

Speaker 2: 8:10

I Once I finally came downstairs Saw you like walking out of my office. Like I put a heat pad on your chair there.

Speaker 1: 8:22

So I Can empathize with people in pain. It's just, it's something about the vocalness of your pain when you are in it, and just like I get it, I get your back hurts. Why do I have to hear about it?

Speaker 2: 8:37

Is it? I'm?

Speaker 1: 8:38

upstairs, you downstairs, I can hear my back. I Didn't forget. Your back hurts, I still remember. So, anyways, I had fun making fun of you you finally got some Finally every time I go to the doctor and they come, I come home and that you're like what they say. I'm like they just said I have to wait it out. You're like I knew you're faking it.

Speaker 2: 9:03

Well, I mean, this was incredibly different than the lower back pain that I normally have yeah, yeah tell me about it the extra low pain that doesn't go away. I've been dealing with it for nine years that pain in your butt?

Speaker 1: 9:17

Yeah, mm-hmm. I Know you're not referring to me, right, honey?

Speaker 2: 9:23

No, never.

Speaker 1: 9:25

All right, enough about your pain, tragedy. Let's move on to something disgusting, something disgusting.

Speaker 2: 9:38

This was another tragedy, a tragedy indeed.

Speaker 1: 9:41

You may have cooked your last crock-pot meal, so Mike is not a fan of crock-pot meals as it is.

Speaker 2: 9:48

That's not fair. I I have had plenty of crockpot meals in my life, just none of them. You have cooked Okay.

Speaker 1: 10:00

I feel like I need to defend myself here. First of all, I cook like seven nights a week and you are all well nourished, right? I'm not a bad cook.

Speaker 2: 10:15

That's not what it is.

Speaker 1: 10:16

no, it's their bad crockpot recipes. They are.

Speaker 2: 10:19

For instance, let's just go down this recipe For not the one we cooked this last time. But it's almost like you look at a recipe and you think to yourself Mike hates onions, so we're gonna cook a crockpot recipe that involves nine different kinds of onions. And then you're like oh, you didn't like it.

Speaker 1: 10:42

This is so not true, although I will say I did get that recipe with the time and you and I both hate time, but I was like I mean it looks good, I'll just put it in. It was like a practically like half a bottle of dried thyme too.

Speaker 2: 10:56

It was the quietest meal we ever had it ended. You could literally hear my fork hit the plate and just kind of like push the chair back and go. Well, that wasn't very good.

Speaker 1: 11:09

And I had. You know, it's a crockpot meal, so we had enough for leftovers and it was just like it was sad we had to just throw it away.

Speaker 2: 11:15

It was so bad, I was happy.

Speaker 1: 11:17

I was like please don't make me that again, I know so. I see these recipes on Pinterest or on Instagram. There's some influencers that will post it and everybody rants and raves about how good it is, and so I'll make it. And I'm like what about? This was good? It just tastes like I peeled an onion and bit into it. And so I just I don't know, I'm just making these recipes that people are saying are good.

Speaker 2: 11:41

And that's what made this one so disappointing is because you successfully made a beautiful roast in the crockpot.

Speaker 1: 11:51

Which I have done before.

Speaker 2: 11:53

Correct, but the entire like we cooked it all Sunday. The whole house smelled amazing we were so excited we finally got there. All right, here we go. And there was something wrong with the meat.

Speaker 1: 12:05

Yeah, I pulled the meat out. It separates beautifully.

Speaker 2: 12:10

Everything was done. So well it was great I got.

Speaker 1: 12:13

I picked a piece off, cut it all up, gave it to the kids first. Then I go to cut up our meat to put on our plates and I cut into it and this stuff like squirts out at it. And you're standing right there with me and we're both like we literally jumped.

Speaker 2: 12:29

Yeah, it was like you popped a meat pimple.

Speaker 1: 12:32

It was like popping a pimple.

Speaker 2: 12:33

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 12:34

And so I'm like cutting into it and I'm like maybe I could just cut around it. And then so I cut around it and I separate the meat and instantly it makes like no, this is not right. And me being who I am, I have a tendency to not want to Waste things that we've spent money on correct, which I don't think is a bad thing and unless unless it comes to the health and safety of my family.

Speaker 1: 13:07

And I'm working on it. So, anyway, where I cut it, I set it aside. And Mike's like should I stop the kids from eating it? I'm like no, it's fine. And then, as I'm like investigating it, I'm like noticing that they're like these actual like pockets that if I stick my finger in and like, scoop it out, this like white chalky.

Speaker 1: 13:28

Yeah substance is in there. It was nasty, you guys. It was so gross so I send a picture of it to my mom and instantly she's like oh my gosh, I don't know what that is, but do not eat it. Yeah so then we went to go take it away from the kids. I was able to save Carter but Jace had successfully eaten all of his meat. Love that roast.

Speaker 2: 13:48

To be fair, it's not like you gave him those pieces like hit. The pieces he got to eat were cut. Well, on the other side of what it was correct, we found out that it was a cyst. They were.

Speaker 1: 13:59

Sists in the meat. Yeah and, and I seasoned that meat all around. It was beautiful, it was perfectly red.

Speaker 2: 14:06

It was in the dead center. How would you know? Yeah, you, there was no knowing until you cut it over, have known and it's just one of those unfortunate things. But, after all of our crock pot dilemmas, and then finally we're it, we're done with the crock pot.

Speaker 1: 14:21

I'm done with the crock pot. I don't like the crock pot. We're keeping the crock pot only for our bacon green beans.

Speaker 2: 14:26

And that we make a Thanksgiving. Yes, that is, that is now. It's not even a crock pot, it's a green bean pot.

Speaker 1: 14:33

I saw a crock pot recipe the other day and I was like, oh, I'm like, no, I'm not gonna save you?

Speaker 2: 14:37

Yeah, not enough onion in that.

Speaker 1: 14:41

So yeah, that was tragic. I did post it on Instagram.

Speaker 2: 14:44

We got so much feedback from everyone.

Speaker 1: 14:46

That was my most viewed story ever.

Speaker 2: 14:48

Yeah, my favorite thing was this happened, I don't know five o'clock at night it was 930 at night and I finally like put down your phone and stop watching videos of this stuff.

Speaker 1: 14:59

So I was paranoid because Jason, I had eaten some of it and I'm like great, we're gonna get sick. But mostly I was worried about Jase, because he had eaten all of his and. I was just worried about it and so I was like researching it and whatever.

Speaker 1: 15:12

And finally I gave you my phone, like give it away, and you're like your phone won't stop blowing up, because everybody was responding on Instagram, and so, finally, I took it back and I just I kept going down this like spiral of googling and you know, when you look at Google, you're dying.

Speaker 2: 15:26

Yeah, you're already dead.

Speaker 1: 15:29

So, yeah, that was just, and so, anyways, I went, took it back to Costco.

Speaker 2: 15:33

You did take it to Costco. They gave us our money back and we also got it to give us our money back for the carrots and potatoes and stuff, because it all cooked together in the same crock-pot. Well, you ruined our entire meal, I do love.

Speaker 1: 15:44

I do love Costco. Yeah but I was curious because when you go to Google this, it's you just not very, you don't get a lot of stuff on it. It's not very common. And so I went and took it back to the butcher and I was asking about that and they're like I don't know, it's like I've got video and like three of them came out to watch the video and they're like, yeah, I wouldn't. I'm glad you returned that.

Speaker 2: 16:06

But the, the head butcher guy or whoever it was also kind of said I'm type personally, would just eat around it. But yeah, you're probably better off. It was like all right.

Speaker 1: 16:15

Yeah, but he also said he's like I eat questionable things all the time, so I wouldn't maybe not.

Speaker 2: 16:19

I mean, this man has chosen to cut up meat for a living.

Speaker 1: 16:22

I mean, it's a great job. I feel like a lot of people do that. This is fine.

Speaker 2: 16:25

Well, he's more of a man than me, because that would gross me out interesting, that doesn't.

Speaker 1: 16:29

That surprises me with how you get so into gutting a fish different because it's a fish Maybe.

Speaker 2: 16:35

Yeah, I guess I mean Okay.

Speaker 1: 16:42

So, I didn't think about that now that we've talked about my Bad qualities, in crock-pot meals.

Speaker 2: 16:50

Let's talk about you. I strike again.

Speaker 1: 16:52

I feel like I feel like I need to shift things over on to you right now at least once a month, I will make a social faux pas. I will say you had the best of intentions.

Speaker 2: 17:03

I did.

Speaker 1: 17:04

I just think that maybe sometimes you don't think things quite all the way through.

Speaker 2: 17:09

Yeah, so we get incredible wind in our house, in our neighborhood and it's very common for especially during Christmas. But anybody's patio furniture, long decorations, anything it ends up all the way down the street. So I was going to get the mail in one of these windstorms and I saw a couch cushion, from what I assumed was somebody's patio furniture, rolling down our street. So I thought it would be a good idea to pick up that couch cushion, because I was gonna find the house that it belonged to and return the cushion.

Speaker 1: 17:43

Right.

Speaker 2: 17:43

That cushion is in our garage.

Speaker 1: 17:46

So we've talked about this before, but Mike has a hard time making a decision, so first he brought it in thinking when the wind dies down, I'm gonna take a walk around the neighborhood.

Speaker 2: 17:58

Which I did.

Speaker 1: 17:59

Yes, multiple times.

Speaker 2: 18:00

Yes, nobody has a matching.

Speaker 1: 18:03

And I'm guessing that if one blew away, the other one blew away.

Speaker 2: 18:05

Most likely.

Speaker 1: 18:06

And so that's why you couldn't find it.

Speaker 2: 18:08

Or it's from somebody's backyard that I can't see. Yes also true.

Speaker 1: 18:12

So he's like why don't you put it? We have a neighborhood Facebook group, but it's not super active and nobody had been like hey.

Speaker 2: 18:20

Somebody fine. Well, when we first moved here, I remember posts about hey, did somebody have this cushion or something Like I thought that would be the same thing. It wasn't.

Speaker 1: 18:28

No. So then he's like well, do I just throw it away? I can't throw somebody's couch away. He's like should I put it on the curb? Well, I don't want to put it on the curb right in front of our house. Then we know we took the couch cushion.

Speaker 2: 18:40

I almost let it in front of and then he's like should I put it in front of somebody else's house?

Speaker 1: 18:44

He's like what if the ring doorbell sees me doing that? Should I just drop it off in the park? Like the things going on in your brain, I'm just like I'm tired for you.

Speaker 2: 18:58

That cushion's getting thrown away, for sure, but not until spring cleaning. So if you're, listening and you're missing a couch cushion. I could have it.

Speaker 1: 19:05

And it's been like two months.

Speaker 2: 19:07

It's been a while, so we've got your cushion.

Speaker 1: 19:11

So does this make you a thief? Did I steal it I?

Speaker 2: 19:14

feel like I. I mean, it was in the middle of the road, so finders, keepers, well, I tried to do the right thing. I was like, oh no, somebody probably wants this, that's not. And now I have it.

Speaker 1: 19:25

Next time I think you're just gonna watch it roll down, be like bye-bye.

Speaker 2: 19:29

Next time it's gonna be somebody, like some horrible situation, but not getting me again.

Speaker 1: 19:34

Or you're gonna see it and you're just gonna watch it roll away. Some of them will be recording. You'd be like can you believe this guy? Yeah, he won't even pick up a couch cushion.

Speaker 2: 19:42

I mean it could be worse. I could have held a candle in front of somebody's face.

Speaker 1: 19:47

But speaking of, you and couch cushions and candles Carter. I was dropping her off at school the other day.

Speaker 1: 19:55

Oh no, and she was telling about her dream and we were walking from the car into the school and we had all the time in the world where it's just her and I and nobody else around us. And she spent that entire time leading up to the dream. Mom, I had this dream and you won't even believe it. It's gonna be so funny, you're gonna laugh so hard. And you know, she just over and over and over again just leading up to the dream and then, once we finally get around a ton of people, she gets to the dream itself.

Speaker 2: 20:29

Which was.

Speaker 1: 20:30

Which was me and Jace were driving the car, and actually that was still with just her and I. We just drove in the car and we drove up to that place. That daddy goes to get his wines and beers and we got them for him and we gave him the him and he drank them all right there. And then we drove away and one of her teachers looks up at me and goes, oh, and I was like instantly, like it was a dream. You missed the part where she said her and her brother were driving the car.

Speaker 2: 21:03

This school is just convinced that I have a tiny brain. Yes, and then I'm an alcoholic and I use furniture to keep my kids from fighting.

Speaker 1: 21:13

So I text you and I was like, oh, I can't wait to tell you what just happened. And you're like, how bad is it?

Speaker 2: 21:18

Yeah, who's fault? I think was the first thing I asked Like you or me? Like definitely you.

Speaker 1: 21:23

Yes, this is definitely you. So then I come home and tell you like we haven't been there in forever. That's her memory. She doesn't forget anything.

Speaker 2: 21:33

The place where daddy buys his wines and beers.

Speaker 1: 21:36

And we bought them for him and he drank all of them right then, and then we drove away Like well, I don't know how I feel about her having these types of dreams either. I know that wasn't even like when she was telling it, though that wasn't the exciting part. The exciting part was that her and Jayce were driving the car that makes sense. Yeah, but that's not what stands out to other adults listening in. All right, now let's talk about other people's misfortunes.

Speaker 2: 22:02

The greatest scam of all time.

Speaker 1: 22:03

Yes, poor 49ers.

Speaker 2: 22:06

Yeah, they lost, they lost.

Speaker 1: 22:09

Although I'm not gonna lie. If I was gonna be rooting for a team, you already know what would have been the chiefs, Even if you remove Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey.

Speaker 2: 22:17

I think it's funny that you would root for the chiefs and you've told me this before because didn't you read a book like a football romance book and the love interest played for the chiefs?

Speaker 1: 22:29

Yeah, it was actually just like a side storyline to the book that I read.

Speaker 2: 22:32

But you've always told me that and now you got to watch it play out in real life. Yeah, almost like a script was written, exactly like a script was written. There is this huge fight going on, and I think we could even check the tape of our episode when this relationship started, where we joked about oh so the chiefs are gonna win the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1: 22:50

Yep.

Speaker 2: 22:50

But there is really this war going on between people who want to believe that this romance is real, which I really don't care if it is or not. You understand where I sit.

Speaker 1: 23:02

Michael does not believe that any celebrity romances are real, they're business transactions.

Speaker 2: 23:06

They are absolutely business transactions.

Speaker 1: 23:08

I find that hard to believe that there's just too many of them for them all to be fake.

Speaker 2: 23:12

No, you. What's gonna get me the most time in pictures in magazines? It's a business transaction. That is all it is.

Speaker 1: 23:19

Maybe just because I can't imagine actually doing that myself. It seems so unfathomable.

Speaker 2: 23:27

Wow, did I get that right? Impressive, I think so.

Speaker 1: 23:29

Okay, To me Like it seems so crazy, but we actually did see that happen with one of the Nikki Bellas. And what's his name? John Cena.

Speaker 2: 23:41

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 23:42

That was like fully fake.

Speaker 2: 23:44

Yeah, they had a whole TV show thing going.

Speaker 1: 23:46

Which really, with that one specifically, you can't. They were there in WWE, which is an entirely scripted thing. As it is, we're gonna have to.

Speaker 2: 23:55

We're getting off on a tangent here, but I would like to point out, in that situation that situation had a war going on too of me explaining to you this is fake and you say, no, it's not. Look at it like, yes, I did, I was not convinced at all.

Speaker 1: 24:10

But now I see and understand and I'm not saying that this whole Travis Kelsey, taylor Swift thing is not like scripted, but I don't know. It just seems so wild to me that you would be willing to do that.

Speaker 2: 24:23

And who knows, it might not be, but the reality is is there's a lot of fishy things going on in the NFL lately.

Speaker 1: 24:29

Is it weird to you that I am not fully convinced that their relationship is transactional, but I am 100% convinced that the NFL is rigged.

Speaker 2: 24:39

No, I mean anytime you have large sums of money, it's very easy for me to believe that something shady is going on.

Speaker 1: 24:46

What was shocking to me is because my 4U page on Instagram the next, you know, following week, the whole week has been videos right of Super Bowl and all that. And this guy on the 49ers, straight out, was like the people who write the script for NFL. This is how they wanted it to be and it was all angry and butter straight up, just said the NFL is right.

Speaker 1: 25:12

I'm like it's one thing for, like Joe Schmo, you and I to just be chatting about how it's right, but like you're actually being like in the NFL, being paid by them, and you're like this is all fake.

Speaker 2: 25:21

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 25:23

You know, there are some things that happen and I don't even pay attention to football and I'm like, yeah, that doesn't make sense.

Speaker 2: 25:30

I find it interesting I don't know At the end of the game, all the 49ers players being like we didn't even know the rules over time, like really the biggest game of your life and you didn't know the rules, that sounds weird yeah.

Speaker 1: 25:42

Yeah. So and it's clear by the people that you hear talk that some people were in on what was happening and some people went on. Some people are like, oh, you win some, you lose some, and some people are really pissed off so yeah, that was, that was very interesting.

Speaker 2: 25:57

But the most important thing to come out of the game, like any pop culture situation, besides the whole Taylor on the field with Kelsey, whatever celebrating is the Jason Kelsey meme of him yelling at his coach.

Speaker 1: 26:08

Not Jason Kelsey Travis, kelsey Travis.

Speaker 2: 26:10

Kelsey, I'm sorry. Yes, I mixed them up, but yes, that was what I took from the next day Everywhere. It just turned into a full blown meme competition. Who could make the funniest caption for that photo?

Speaker 1: 26:21

Yeah, he should be embarrassed for that.

Speaker 2: 26:24

I think he got called out by a lot of people about it.

Speaker 1: 26:26

I did see that on the new heights podcast His own brother called him out and like this is not cool, like there's not how you should have done it and yeah, I, there's a few things that he does that I'm just like you're very immature and that doesn't really surprise me, because I think of Taylor Swift.

Speaker 1: 26:43

I'm like you are very mature, so I just like that. Even then, I'm just like all right, you guys are made for each other. So, yeah, anyways, I feel like you and I, well, we don't have live TV, we have only streaming services, because we just don't watch it. But we were paying attention to it on our phone because we were so curious if things were gonna turn out the way that we all knew they had to turn out right.

Speaker 1: 27:07

The chiefs winning. So they won back-to-back Super Bowls and they made a crap ton of money. Of course, because Taylor Swift was there.

Speaker 2: 27:15

It was like the most viewed Super Bowl ever, or something like, or.

Speaker 1: 27:19

No, I think. But like in like years he had to go back pretty far to get those types of ratings. But yeah, you had all of Swift's nation or whatever, like tuning in just to see her on the Jumbotron, which she was there and, honestly, like whatever. For me, as someone who doesn't care about football, yeah, I was more interested in seeing celebrities on the Jumbotron than I was about what was happening in the game. So, like the NFL knows what they're doing, they're like hey, we need to get our ratings up, let's take this and use it.

Speaker 2: 27:49

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 27:50

But yeah, it's just sad.

Speaker 2: 27:51

It's a completely different game than I grew up watching, and I think that's why I'm so bitter about it. Is it even if you go back five or six years, when I was still paying attention to the NFL? It's a completely different game.

Speaker 1: 28:02

I think that's why I love hockey so much, although we're starting to see I wouldn't say necessarily at all that things are being fixed, but I would say that things are definitely shifting in the way that roughing is happening.

Speaker 2: 28:15

Well, they're crossing that line into more interpretation of the rule status and whenever you do that, you can't ref that way. There needs to be a black and white like oh, that's a high stick, because you hit them up high with your stick.

Speaker 1: 28:29

Yeah, but more than that, it's all. It's more about the like oh, these are the star players. We can't call penalties on them. That's always been there, though.

Speaker 2: 28:36

If you go back to Gretzky and Lovue and all the greats, like that has always been the case, I just don't understand this.

Speaker 1: 28:42

In hockey or any other sport, if you would just call the game the way that it's supposed to be called, then the game is just what the game is and everything will fall where it's supposed to fall.

Speaker 2: 28:55

In my mindset it usually comes across as that's the greatest player in the world. So if you got a one-up on him, or better positioning, or made him lose the puck, then you obviously must have cheated, so it had to have been a penalty.

Speaker 1: 29:11

No.

Speaker 2: 29:11

And even that you kind of grow used to. What I am tired of is the crybaby attitude that's happening in the NHL. More and more stars are openly throwing temper tantrums on the ice because a call doesn't go their way that they thought they should have got, Breaking sticks and throwing them on the ice. Like there's so many different things that are happening that these players don't even get called out on because they're making millions of dollars and I'm the best.

Speaker 1: 29:38

Okay, and if you remove what I was just talking about, if you don't play favorites to these star players and they wouldn't feel the entitlement of all of this stuff happening, they would be treated like anybody else, like you're all just giant men playing Exactly being paid millions of dollars to do it Like just play the game, take the politics out of it, take all the other things out of it, and in hockey or in any other sport and also, just since we're talking about sports, I hear totally shifting gears.

Speaker 1: 30:13

Right now I saw this video of this golf tournament where this drone is flying over, like getting this aerial shot of it, and it like dips down to go and this guy walks down the hill to pee and just films and pees and the drone is just bad timing. He goes in between two trees but where the drone is like going around totally on live TV just catches this guy.

Speaker 2: 30:40

Was it a golfer?

Speaker 1: 30:41

A golfer, yeah yeah, so you know there's that. That's just bad timing. Well, all right, I think that's a good place to end. My dad sends me all kinds of fun videos, and then I end up going down this rabbit hole, especially when I'm in between books too, I'm just like I see all kinds of random stuff online.

Speaker 2: 31:10

Let's watch this golfer pee.

Speaker 1: 31:11

The good hole internet. All right, guys. Thanks for tuning in, as we just chatted about everything and nothing, and we hope that we see you guys all next week, but until then, bye.

Speaker 2: 31:24

Bye.