Hot Takes - Swiftie Off My Feet

Ever found yourself wincing at the sheer ubiquity of Taylor Swift songs during NFL breaks, or debated whether concert tickets are worth their weight in gold? Brad and I sure have, and you're about to get a front-row seat to our lively back-and-forth on these cultural phenomena. We're serving up a hefty portion of hearty discussion, garnished with our signature blend of playful banter and pop culture riffs. From the musical battlegrounds where The Beatles and The Rolling Stones duke it out for my affections, to the neon glow of Adele's Las Vegas siren call, we're dishing out more than just your average podcast chit-chat.

Imagine tossing back a home run ball with the same gusto as throwing shade at halftime show mishaps—yeah, we're going there. Brad and I tear into the fabric of celebrity couple fascinations as easily as we debate over sporting algorithms. And in a world where youth sports can teeter on the brink of parental ambition, we're not afraid to slide into home with some tough love on the real impact of those midnight softball tournaments. So, grab your headphones and prepare for an episode that's equal parts nostalgia, sports fanaticism, and music critique. You might just find yourself reminiscing about the simpler times or questioning whether algorithms know your taste better than you do.

Transcript

Controversy Surrounding Taylor Swift at NFL

Brad 0:00

On a desolate, frozen tundra surrounded by mindless, brain numbing cold takes, two bros trek through the nothingness to bring hope to a new generation. You are about to experience brad and dylan's hot takes. Here we go again.

Dylan 0:18

Again, it's my jam Fucking leave. Just remember, brad, you go easy on me. I can hate when you do this. What we're not gonna, we're gonna get, we're totally Stop it. Stop it, dude.

Brad 0:36

You just peaked good, somebody's got a peak. You can't do that you can't do it.

Dylan 0:44

Okay.

Brad 0:45

I don't know if you can do it. I wish you would stop doing it.

Dylan 0:48

Why wouldn't they take our whole podcast off?

Brad 0:50

You don't like Adele. Yeah.

Dylan 0:52

I do. She's playing in vegas at the same time. I'm gonna be out there, but not of the night that I'm available she's got a, she got a thing there right Residency, I think, is there.

Brad 1:02

Yes, that's the term.

Dylan 1:04

I don't know. Do you know? I've said I am, I'm going there and I can't see you too, and I can't see her.

Brad 1:10

Oh, I can't see you too. Shannon has a thing right now where she's got you to radio going on. I just why never have been a big youtube fan. Just in terms of any, any of it. I don't dislike them like the Beatles.

Dylan 1:28

You just like the beetle. That's a hot take.

Brad 1:31

That's an old. That's an old take.

Dylan 1:34

Don't like the Beatles. Are you like david company from california kation? Who's like? Oh, rolling stones, fuck the Beatles.

Brad 1:43

No, I don't like the rolling stones either really okay, that's fine. Uh, paint it black Okay.

Dylan 1:49

I'll take that one. All right, did you just listen to the Spotify top five too? What?

Brad 1:54

Mm-hmm. No, okay, from when?

Dylan 1:56

Not sure. These episodes are so much easier when I'm trying not to be nice to you that last episode was hard for me.

Brad 2:03

Yeah, I know, I like Beatles songs when they're sung by other artists.

Dylan 2:09

I do. I love covers. I'm into a niche genre.

Brad 2:13

I love covers. Beatles oh my god, yeah, throw me a covered Beatles song and I'm, I'm here for. And then they're like oh, have you heard the original of this? I was like no I don't think I have and they play the original. I was like, ah, why would you do that to me? Can you quit clipping the mic? No, you told me six inches from the mic. Okay, so this is what you get. Do you know how hard it is?

Dylan 2:32

to try to be. Do you want me to move away? When I present as a host in this episode and sound engineer, is that better? Don't do that. That's mic bleed, what's that? Do you know how much it makes my life harder when I have to edit these things?

Brad 2:46

I'm trying to be dynamic. I can't wait, people have a full-time we have a full-time engineer. People tell me all the time they hate listening to your monochromatic voice. Who mine? Yeah, okay, that's not the right term, deadpan, it's not deadpan Deadpool.

Dylan 3:05

I did notice that I have a very Spicoli voice when I talk. It's just kind of like Spicoli was that Russian? No, oh, pastimes are reaching my high.

Brad 3:13

No, never seen it. Put it on the list. Wow, okay, put it on the list. Yeah you know how long the list is five to six inches long at least at least oh.

Dylan 3:26

So people complain about my monochrome, chromatic voice? No, I just. That's not true. What now you're coming for your friends? If you're one of Brad's friends and you listen to this podcast, I officially hate you.

Brad 3:35

Well, there's none of those. So well, that's good. Yes, we're safe, pretty safe, speaking of artists.

Dylan 3:44

Hot, hot. Transition right into the topic you wanted to get going, as Super Bowl is this weekend. Yes, do you know how hard it is to talk out of time contacts? By the way, I don't like this whole Radio announcer thing. It's fine.

Brad 3:57

Okay, because this is not going away anytime, anytime soon. It's not, and plenty of people have takes on this too, but I go off what I see on my feed. Shut the fuck up over Taylor Swift, mm-hmm. Preach my brother, not in the way that you think.

Dylan 4:19

Oh, okay, I was just. I was practicing my non monochromatic Other voices that was pretty terrible.

Brad 4:25

Okay, yeah, you got to be more dynamic. Tip of the tongue, yeah. No, you got to tip of the tongue you got to peak, so people are upset that they show her face During all.

Dylan 4:37

NFL games yeah.

Brad 4:38

Yeah, as if have you seen like a fucking Chicago Cubs game there's girls that get more time than her and they're just nobody knows who they are. Wasn't there a girl that flashed on the Chicago Cubs game, I'm sure. Okay, have you been to a Cubs game? A lot of them. Yeah, I have a great time. They're amazing, baseball's good. They stack plastic cups 30 rows high.

Dylan 5:07

That's just silly antics that I like about the human race. We do silly things like that.

Brad 5:11

That's that gives me hope, one of the few things that makes baseball games fun. What are the other Few meaning two or three?

Dylan 5:19

What are you? What are you?

Brad 5:21

Well, yeah, drinking's one. Yeah, I think drinking's got to be one.

Dylan 5:26

So we'll just say a subset. So drinking. There's a subset of antics of drinking.

Brad 5:31

Yelling at so a few meaning a couple different activities that have sub activities.

Dylan 5:36

Yelling at umpires.

Brad 5:37

That's yeah, that's a good one. Throwing back the other team's home run balls, that does feel good. Yeah, everybody claps like you did a good thing, but they're still a run on the board.

Dylan 5:49

Yeah yeah. Good thing it wasn't the barkman ball, so, oh yeah, that was a big deal. Moses wasn't hot take. Moses wasn't going to catch it.

Brad 6:01

Never know.

Dylan 6:03

Okay.

Brad 6:05

Yeah, so I? Where do we leave it? She's. She's one of the most powerful, influential people in America right now. She's in terms of, she has a little bit of say, reach little rabbit toss little mmm.

Dylan 6:20

Gravitas is a good word.

Brad 6:21

Yeah, she's, she's going to get airtime, no matter where she is, True? So what? What do you want to see her? I don't want to see her at all. Okay, try to shut your fucking TV off. That's a good point. I don't, I don't care. Well, we're here to watch football, okay. Well, you have announcers. You see them all the time. They're not necessary. Just watch the fucking football game. Why do you need them to tell you what's going on? Are you listening on the radio? No, shut the fuck up, watch the game. Oh well, we need some. Okay, well, she's entertaining. She literally isn't an entertainer. She is entertainer. I don't, I don't get it. I don't understand it. On one hand, you have a large subset of people that, by all accounts, are really into like sex cells type stuff. Yeah, give me my, give me my old bikini calendars so I can hang them in my garage. Those are the guys that are complaining about, like there's too much Taylor Swift on TV. Like, I don't know.

Dylan 7:22

I don't know You're over generalizing. Yeah, yeah, I appreciate that about you.

Brad 7:26

Yeah, but also probably not wrong.

Dylan 7:33

Absolutely not wrong.

Brad 7:35

And there's the, the double standard that happened. I think was it last week when Jason Kelsey, you know, emerged from the suite shirtless like a phoenix having a fucking great time cheering on us. You know that was fine. We can get images of that all day long. There's nothing wrong. It's cause he's another football player bro, how is? That it Is that we're only going to allow fucking football players to watch football games. Now it is. Is that what we're doing?

Dylan 8:03

It is funny. Well, only musicians can go watch Taylor Swift. It is funny that we put rules on things that have not been flushed out formally, but we have thoughts that just cannot contradict those. I don't. I love fake rules.

Brad 8:18

Yeah, fake rules are good, but somebody said Kanye needs to come bust this shit up like he did in 06 or something. Whatever that was. Oh no, I don't remember what it was. I made that bitch famous. That was a controversial lyric and that was the first time I was like, oh yeah, I don't, I don't enjoy this guy at all.

Dylan 8:41

No, kat Williams had some pretty interesting things to say about Kanye West.

Brad 8:48

He did. That was before everyone really knew no, Kat.

Dylan 8:52

Williams was like last month.

Brad 8:55

No, no, no, no, no no. I mean like the when he did the Taylor Swift thing at the award show.

Dylan 8:59

Yeah, that was. That was still when people were defending Kanye.

Dylan 9:02

Now I know the people close to him probably knew yeah that something was a miss have you watched the Enius or whatever? No, on. I Watched like two episodes. No, and it's. It's hard to watch that. Not for you to look at everyone else and go. Do you not see the way he looks around in a crowd that there's maybe a few things missing? Yeah, yeah, there's, he's, just it's different for him. Yeah, and you can call that genius or you can just call that mental health. Yeah, do you kind of go hand-in-hand in some sometimes, sometimes.

Brad 9:42

But what if he was? What if he was like a math genius and then still acted the way that he did? And a tell us with algorithm?

Dylan 9:51

that'd be interesting there probably is one, yeah oh, there is one actually at 331 million dollars. 13 313.

Brad 10:01

No, there's like a number 13 that's going around.

Dylan 10:05

We're talking about the amount of money for the NFL.

Brad 10:08

No, no, no, no, this is in terms of like, if the chiefs are gonna win or not, you're ruining it.

Midnight Softball Tournaments and Celebrity Couples

Dylan 10:12

There's all kinds of deep Internet theories about this, but yeah, so Get Taylor off my NFL the by the way she's made them over 300 million dollars yeah my favorite part about this is I Don't really have an opinion one right the other. I Think you know there's celebrity couple people, for whatever reason. Slow go to Jennifer. Go to Jennifer and Ben before, before they're married back in the early 2000s, j Lo, you know it was what they were there for benefit for. Thank you, yeah, and that was everywhere all the time. It's just a thing. I don't get it. I.

Brad 10:54

Don't understand celebrity couples. Yeah, you're name.

Dylan 10:57

We have someone in the audience, yeah, good celebrity couples.

Brad 11:00

You like it, you like to follow them? Okay, yeah, we got it, wait oh.

Dylan 11:10

Oh.

Brad 11:11

Hot take, hot take Shane, and might fall under that a little bit.

Dylan 11:16

Yeah, there's not a chance in hell. She does not have some sort of Taylor Swift Kansas City chief's outfit for next weekend. Who your wife no? She'd give two shits about okay okay, and she doesn't, she's gonna see it all over Instagram and tiktok now, okay, yeah.

Brad 11:33

It's just not going to happen.

Dylan 11:34

Oh, you want to put a bet on it. Yep, how much.

Brad 11:37

That bottle of zero sugar, Canada dry.

Dylan 11:40

Okay, I will get you a bottle of Cody Road bourbon.

Brad 11:44

Wow, I'm not going to get you anything, and then, if I'm not, I don't need to wager because I'm right, you lose.

Dylan 11:52

You need to buy a better fucking mic stand.

Brad 11:55

She might watch it for the commercials. Okay, you don't?

Dylan 12:00

think she'll have one piece of Taylor Swift parafinalia, yeah.

Brad 12:02

No.

Dylan 12:03

Okay, I don't feel like.

Brad 12:07

you know your wife very well, I think if anyone's going to wear Taylor Swift parafinalia, it'd be my eldest son probably.

Dylan 12:13

Came out of your wife's womb. Same thing.

Brad 12:15

No, it's not the same thing. He's a mini me. So what? Oh, you love Taylor. Are you a Swifty? I love Swifty.

Dylan 12:22

Yeah.

Brad 12:24

Shannon's not a Swifty, but she doesn't dislike her, but she also doesn't watch football.

Dylan 12:30

Yeah, so You're not rooting for the Kansas City Chiefs.

Brad 12:35

I'm rooting for them. My mother-in-law had to come over and watch the Lions. No yeah, the Lions game.

Dylan 12:41

No, what was the one before Ravens?

Brad 12:44

Kansas City. She couldn't get that channel and I was like he's gonna watch it. So then I just had on the Niners Lions game and I would just check back in periodically. So halftime I come in like there's a halftime for this game and it lasts forever, which is problematic, and it was like 24 seven. And then I didn't come back in until the game was over and the 49ers are putting hats on it and I was like wait, what? What happened?

Dylan 13:12

The fuck is this? This switched quickly. I'm just mad that Scott Staple is in either game.

Brad 13:18

Second I don't know who that is Creed, oh, with arms wide open take me higher.

Dylan 13:27

Oh wait, don't you remember that Dallas Cowboys game where he was floating?

Brad 13:30

around with a shirt off Nope. Don't watch. We're gonna have to watch don't watch much of that, so just get get over it, just get over it, I agree.

Dylan 13:46

But I don't do you know why? No, you keep seeing. It is because you keep clicking on it and then your algorithms keep telling you oh, we're going, whether you dislike it or like it, it's just going to keep feeding it. Hmm, I had don't. I don't have an opinion and I don't see it at all. I'm like why is everyone keep talking about this Taylor Swift on TV thing? Because I don't see it.

Dylan 14:05

Do I see it, I don't you, I don't think you do maybe I mean, you're the one that brought the hot takes. I did. You're a maturing candidate, damn it I.

Brad 14:14

Don't know why, though I don't know either. I'm just. You know what my algorithm is other people's hot takes.

Dylan 14:22

What's that do for?

Brad 14:23

you, they just, they just pour into my feed and look at that anything that's controversial, holy shit, look at that Dallas.

Dylan 14:31

Cowboys 2001.

Brad 14:32

Oh yeah, this looks like. I think if varsity blues was as rock. Uh-huh, look at those jeans. Love it. Look at those man you guys are.

Dylan 14:46

Oh yeah, look at that guy's hanging, that guy's hanging from silks, so you guys got to look this up.

Brad 14:52

2001. What's the game?

Dylan 14:56

I don't actually know who's playing the game Creed live at Dallas Cowboys 2001. Yeah, check it out. Thanks, giving day game.

Brad 15:04

Texas State he. They just came back into a little bit of fame. They're touring again.

Dylan 15:11

Via. He's been broke for 20 years. Yeah, he is no money. Yeah, well, nah, he will have a little bit now.

Brad 15:21

God told him to not make money, Hmm why did why?

Dylan 15:25

how did you lose it? Cream coin, I don't know. Is he a drug?

Brad 15:28

addict, let's not assume, you know, okay, scott's ah, adhd, god damn it.

Dylan 15:37

It's got stuff. No worth of it. You know where I just went.

Brad 15:40

He's a worth maybe a million dollars when, when on South Park the boys are trying to make a hit band and they couldn't figure anything out. So they just started making Christian rock. They're like we have an automatic audience, everyone will buy it. And then they went worldwide.

Dylan 16:00

That's what Creed reminds me of so good, that was a funny one.

Brad 16:06

All right, let's get off stabby, scott Stabby that's good, what do you want? You want to keep on the people complaining about stuff, or you want to keep on the sports thing?

Dylan 16:17

I don't know. You're the one that has hot takes. You keep going.

Brad 16:19

Okay, have you ever heard of midnight softball tournaments?

Dylan 16:23

Oh, yes, yeah.

Brad 16:25

Well, what do you know about them?

Dylan 16:28

Children or adults? Children, no, I've never heard of those. What I only know? Beer league. Oh, tell me about them. That's a, it's a thing, what?

Brad 16:38

happens? You start playing games at midnight? Why? Let's not get to that question so fast? Okay, I have no fucking idea why. I have a theory, but well, this, this was the take. Midnight softball tournaments are a scream for help that your life is too easy.

Dylan 17:01

So you've invented fake stress which is yeah, okay, essentially, okay, because why else?

Brad 17:11

why else do it in it on some sense? So the initial, my initial reaction is always that's, that's dumb, like that doesn't even seem safe. Because they're playing till three in the morning, kids, yeah, why I don't? I don't know, it's maybe it's availability. They're like, hey, you can cram three games in and in these three hours, which also doesn't make sense coming from baseball.

Dylan 17:40

Back our kids of all night and then all everyone's gonna be miserable. Mm-hmm, that sounds terrible.

Brad 17:45

Yeah, and the parents are right along there. There's like oh, everybody, pray for me that I can stay up Till three o'clock.

Dylan 17:53

When did this become a thing?

Brad 17:54

like bitch, I can't even watch a fucking TV show at 9 30 at night. Please stay up till three o'clock watching softball.

Dylan 18:00

Have you been one of these? No, then why are they when?

Brad 18:05

are they Indoors, where? I think where yeah, everywhere.

Dylan 18:10

I've never heard it. You're not just making.

Brad 18:12

I am for sure not making it up.

Dylan 18:14

Okay, so is there local ones around here?

Brad 18:17

Oh, I'm sure TV K's done it before kids Midnight and like the whole theme is midnight. Yeah, you start it. You start at midnight. Like you start late. I don't know if they all start midnight, this last particular one did.

Dylan 18:33

So we can get you a real great rate. You're gonna love it. Well, it's only gonna cost forty five thousand dollars to host it works.

Brad 18:40

It probably works really well for the hosting facilities, because who's using their indoor fields at midnight? Nobody you host during the day you hosted yeah, you host in the morning for our money.

Dylan 18:51

That's it, your money ahead I. It's kind of like you got. You know, you got a week inside of a day.

Brad 18:57

If you use it right, I could I could see an adult league for dobro, for third shifters on their days off. You know, it makes sense, that's your daytime.

Dylan 19:05

I think you have something here. We Marginalize their shift and they don't have the same amenities that first shifters have, and that is, the federal government should fund items and rec leagues and other. It's not that far of a leap what we're just marginalizing. Third shift yeah, I Just you know there's a second that we need to second third just hard. Yeah, I'm not discounting that Because I'm not a chance in hell. I mean it's, it's hard For a lot of reasons, a lot of reasons.

Brad 19:44

I think family life, or whatever you have of it.

Dylan 19:50

Yeah, yeah, props to you guys, new, a new, a third shift, nick or not Nicky, but what's the baby floor called the hospital?

Brad 20:03

Yeah.

Dylan 20:05

Just the which, just at a hospital like what's the word like? Where they deliver babies, what's the word called? There's a vinyl.

Brad 20:14

Yeah, tile, tile yeah.

Dylan 20:16

The floor tile floor Maternity Ward.

Brad 20:20

Thank you, fire in the maternity ward. Maternity ward Anthony Juslin.

Dylan 20:24

Like a Like a fox. So third shift.

Brad 20:33

Would get all right.

Dylan 20:34

I was like Two hours of sleep a day, because they would do all the normal activities during the day for their kids and then they'd go to work, and then they'd try to sleep for a little bit when they got home and then they'd go back to doing all the activities. No, I was like that you were killing yourself.

Brad 20:56

Younger me would would want to have done a second and a half shift. What is?

Dylan 21:03

second and a half shift Brad.

Brad 21:06

Let's call it like a 7 to 3. What pm To am? Oh yeah, Okay, I could kill that not now.

Dylan 21:17

No, no but what would you do when you were off at 3? Look at home asleep, okay, and what time would you wake up? Do I have kids? No, okay, whatever. I want to Go drinking, go back to work, do whatever I just do whatever I mean.

Brad 21:34

Before I had kids I would Work till three and then get up at you know 7 or 8 o'clock and then go back to work again and yeah, Freakin sometimes those are good times now. They build character. I Think, do that. Oh yeah, I think so.

Dylan 21:54

So Midnight softball is for people that need excitement in their life, but then, but how do you backfill that then? But then I also thought about how do you, how do you stop them from doing silly shit Like that actual, meaningful hard stuff?

Brad 22:09

Well, that that's what I started thinking about. Was is it? Is it? Is it meaningful at all? Because look at some of the shit that we've done exercise related. That's hard, yeah, pushes your body to some limits, okay. There's some degree of Unsafety in that, which also builds some excitement, yeah, but but I feel, yeah, I just I can't quite make the connections exactly.

Dylan 22:46

Also because I don't you ever think that maybe the kids are just building memories and parents are there supporting their children wanting to make memories?

Brad 22:56

Oh, that's good. That's a good point. You know what I remember from baseball.

Dylan 23:02

Nothing. I don't remember nothing.

Brad 23:03

No, I remember getting knocked out cold in the morning practice. It's why I keep your mid up. I remember throwing a no hitter with another kid okay. At a young age and then high school. I pretty much don't remember anything.

Dylan 23:19

Was that because you were stoned, bradley Could have been from the concussion. We didn't really have a good man. We didn't really have a good concussion protocol, did we I?

Brad 23:30

Went dark Yep and was told to put some ice on it. That's good. And then go to school all day. I don't know what could go wrong Did it make you stronger. I don't know, they got it and get hit and had the next day. Could have been an issue.

Dylan 23:46

Might still be an issue, because I don't know, it might still be an issue.

Brad 23:51

Haven't had that brain scan done, yet I Think you just, we'll just you don't want to do that. I don't know, I don't know about the memory thing, I would like to think, yes, but man, you know what?

Dylan 24:06

my kids remember what outside stuff we're gonna go back to the just get outside.

Brad 24:12

No, like like when we take trips, like our vacations, and they're they're outdoor, and I don't mean like beach related necessarily, even though some of those are even somewhat memorable. Yeah, and I'm kind of the same way, like I've spent a lot of time on whatever specific things. I was in bay and, you know, did baseball, some other stuff. I don't really remember any specifics about it, but I could go back and walk you through some of the trails that I was on in my early 20s when I was on vacation. Don't know why, but it leaves somewhat of a lasting impression over.

Dylan 24:56

I'll go on another trailer with your friends.

Brad 24:58

Either Okay, yeah.

Dylan 25:01

Done it both ways. So, from baseball, your baseball experience was a lot different than the modern baseball softball experience, though, From some modern, I mean not everybody's. But you guys would have been more structured, little league where you'd show up kind of one game kind of out a couple of times a week, versus the big kind of.

Brad 25:25

Yeah, which is what we're still playing today.

Dylan 25:27

Yeah but there's a lot more emphasis on weekend tournaments. I feel like then, when I was even younger and you're old, well, that didn't.

Brad 25:33

Yeah, we didn't, that didn't exist, period. But I'm just saying that there's still a group of kids that played yeah.

Parental Pressure, Value of Childhood Experiences

Dylan 25:40

That you don't have a child. Child memories fun, fun memories of being together with all your friends. I love going to baseball.

Brad 25:51

I'm a social kid, I like to. I didn't. I didn't say that I didn't like it, I just lack.

Dylan 25:59

I think it's too fast to do there. I think the kids like to be and this isn't everyone. I think the kids liked it. I had an overwhelming sense of freedom when I was at those, because my parents were like, well, we're here, wander wherever, and so you kind of felt like you're being able to go on an adventure and, to your point about being outdoors, I love those because it always is oh, where are we going to go next? What's our next move? And that's still how I am. When I go on vacation, I get yelled at by other people because they want an itinerary and I cannot do itinerary vacations. It is, I will get there and I will go on my adventure. Yeah.

Brad 26:31

Because the things that pop up are things that you can't plan for Exactly.

Dylan 26:35

And you don't and I'm not. So there's a balance there you need there. Obviously, if you go to certain cities, certain towns, there are certain items you definitely want to hit, but you can't fill up the whole day, you felt the whole day you're going to win.

Brad 26:45

You got to leave some leeway.

Dylan 26:47

Yeah. So I think the parents, though the way I see my, I've got some older cousins that have young kids that are doing the crazy sports leaks down in St Louis where they're going all over the country, and it's funny the way they talk sometimes because they make it. Oh well, you know Ellis or Weston needs to do this or that, and then sometimes I'm like, do they need to do that, or do you need to be with your friends because you can't miss out? And so there's, I think there's a little bit of I don't want to I don't want to necessarily call it keeping up with the Joneses, but there's a little bit of herd mentality there. There's part of that at the parent level.

Dylan 27:26

Oh, yeah, for sure, Not necessarily the kids, but and they like to easily, they use the kids as escape. Go to well, we can't let them miss out. And it's like, well, is it them or is it you?

Brad 27:35

But I wonder in 20 years like what those kids will remember from that too.

Dylan 27:40

Mom and dad, we're overbearing because Jen Steve, not a reflection on you, by the way, just in a quick ad hoc, I think part of why maybe I don't remember specific so much is that you just that's like you were in the moment.

Brad 27:55

Well, it's also 13 years of of playing the same thing. A lot of it, it's a lot of it. So it's it's hard to decipher.

Dylan 28:05

There are key moments that come out of that. Yeah, you had like the really high or the really low. Oh, my goodness Most honestly, that girl, that girl talked to me next to the concession stand for a few minutes. You're right, she never did, damn it.

Brad 28:18

Most of the stuff I remember has to do with teammates Like I remember showing up to so it's to be like seventh, eighth grade. So this, this is your in-between year, so you're out of like your town little leagues and everybody's kind of stopped playing and usually you got to join other people's leagues so that you have enough, you know, people to play with and out of the barn and did the storm.

Dylan 28:42

Okay, sure.

Brad 28:43

And I did it. I had to pick up my first practice for that, and we were probably in seventh grade, and so it'd be like seventh and eighth and I had kind of a red rash, what is known as drink drinkers for coaches often.

Dylan 28:59

Oh, I had alcoholic coaches through most of my career. Red nose, big ears.

Brad 29:05

They varied in sizes. I had a pitching coach that was I still see one of them out, yeah, and so he was not there on time and so we were just kind of all there and I remember some of the eighth graders dipping and full sandlot.

Dylan 29:24

Yeah, yeah, did they puke.

Brad 29:27

They did not. But then there were the seventh graders. No, I've never tried it, because I watched like one or two of my friends puke, give in to the peer pressure and then just yak all over the baseball field. What a good time. Well, like I remember that shit. I remember like it was fights almost broke out or like those are the things that I remember.

Brad 29:48

This is life, but not so much of the baseball, so it kind of makes me think like, yeah, it seems like a lot of money to spend on some of these things that you could just get from probably hanging out with your friends.

Dylan 30:06

Yeah.

Brad 30:07

And I think that's because I think those are the kind of stories that that people would remember and not having anything to do with baseball, softball or the fields.

Dylan 30:18

But that I think that goes back to my original point, though is somebody found out that midnight softball seems like a novel thing, where people are going to want to do it because of the novelty of it and then it kind of gives you. Those kids in 10 years are going to laugh and be like remember that time we were really dumb and our parents let us do midnight softball.

Brad 30:44

But that's the thing. Like they didn't let them, the parents find the novelty in it. That's what I mean.

Dylan 30:50

Yeah yeah, it's not the kids, but the kids will be laughing about it someday.

Brad 30:53

It's kind of like the parents that say it's all bad. I don't talk about like I had to drive 500 miles on Saturday just to hit this basketball game and this softball game and this thing.

Dylan 31:06

And you're like who's the parent who runs the house? Yeah, yeah, so you didn't have to, you didn't have to.

Brad 31:13

Yeah, but they love it.

Dylan 31:15

Okay, so you love your kid. That's cool. That's okay to own that I mean it's okay to love your kid and say you know what I do sacrifice for them, but it's okay.

Brad 31:22

Yeah, but also have people that are have seven, eight year olds. We just go everywhere. He just loves baseball.

Dylan 31:33

Like yeah, he's fucking eight.

Brad 31:35

Most eight year olds love baseball. Every day is an adventure. Yeah, they get to go outside and play the dirt and hang out with their friends and we've gone back to being outside, spit on the fence and oh, spitting on the fence. Yeah, that's all that stuff. But you don't have to spend and go to the places that you think you need to to for them to have those experiences, necessarily.

Dylan 32:00

No, I don't.

Brad 32:01

I don't think. But yeah, it gets to be the keeping up with the Joneses. Like well, have you guys ever played softball at midnight? Cause we did.

Dylan 32:10

Yeah, there is a weirdness there of.

Brad 32:15

And did you get a trophy for that? And did the trophy say softball championship or did it say congratulations on staying up past your bedtime?

Dylan 32:23

Thanks for the money.

Brad 32:25

Thanks for the money. I hope you had fun. Oh, I don't know it's. It's odd, I think.

Dylan 32:35

Yeah, but people are odd and obviously there's some value of. Whatever that value is driven by is still out to out to pasture at the moment and I mean when they start playing major league baseball games starting at 1am on a regular basis. They're just training for the big leagues that maybe we'll think about it, but no, it does seem silly. Yeah, that sport in particular too, where oh, now you have a thing against softball women.

Brad 33:08

No, no, no, no, no. Like softball baseball, I didn't realize I had a generous, oh my God, either one, just because there's long, long periods of standing still.

Dylan 33:21

There's not a defining time Quick reactions.

Brad 33:23

There's not a lot of it.

Dylan 33:26

It's like drunk driving.

Brad 33:28

Two o'clock in the morning. Okay, I'm just standing here a short stop about to fall asleep, and then somebody just fucking lines one at your face.

Dylan 33:35

I've got a better idea. Let's give each of these kids a beer and put them out there at 6pm in the afternoon. What's?

Brad 33:41

that they would do better.

Dylan 33:42

Yeah, they would do better.

Brad 33:46

I feel like I have done a little research into the what's worse.

Dylan 33:51

Underage drinking softball league. No, that sounds like a legit league. No.

Brad 33:58

I can't do that, you can't do that, we could probably do. North Korea no, they don't allow fun there, it's true.

Dylan 34:06

She's those two 16 year olds just got said it's still like 70 years. Hey, oh sorry, back back Rabbit hole. You can get out. It's good for everyone to see what it's like. It sucks. Don't do it guys. Don't be born. Don't be born. I mean, that's really what it is. Is that what got us? I think so.

Brad 34:25

God damn it. Hate being born yeah.

Dylan 34:30

We'll end it right there. Hate being born.

Brad 34:32

Hey oh.

Dylan 34:34

What.

Brad 34:35

I've been forgetting what To do my things. Oh, I, all right, am I gonna have to add one for the last one? Nope.

Dylan 34:45

It's kind of like if you don't use it, you lose it.

Brad 34:49

Uh, it really is. So Does it remember the the Skeletor memes?

Dylan 34:55

Yeah, we've only missed one week, so Do you want a clean one or a dirty? One. I want a clean one.

Brad 35:03

Oh, I don't have a clean one. Ok, trick, trick, trick question. Ok, ready. Yeah, remember BEEP Until next time. You're still here. Yeah, it's over.

Dylan 35:24

Go home.

Brad 35:30

BEEP.