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com. Slash doing our part. Two

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of the greatest offenses in the league get together

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and the result was offensive. It's one

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more thing. I'm shrunk

0:36

and getting one thing round

0:42

the horn real quick, quickly.

0:44

I'm sorry. I'm still embracing the adverb, even

0:47

though the rest of the world has moved on. Marshall

0:50

Phillips, were you

0:52

you watched the game? Did you watch the game? No?

0:55

No, you had stuff going on personally. They watched

0:57

the last part of it, like the Yeah,

1:00

I mean I did not see much of the game at all. All right, yeah,

1:02

because you had stuff you probably don't want to talk him.

1:05

Marshall was fine everybody, but he had to help out

1:07

a relative. Okay, Michael,

1:09

what was the setting? How did you watch. I

1:12

watched over at my parents house. I went to visit

1:14

him. Man, it was just me and my parents.

1:16

The gal pal didn't come along. No, No,

1:18

she had something else she had to do. Actually, yeah,

1:21

I have something else I have to do. Actually

1:24

that's not fan. Yeah,

1:26

I know, I know. Okay, now,

1:28

positive Sean, you're sports You used

1:30

to work at the sports c station, have sports

1:33

friends? Yes, that is all true. Uh. Probably

1:36

were invited to a number of Super Bowl parties,

1:38

yes, and I didn't go to any of them. I was

1:41

I was recovering from my previous night of sportiness

1:43

at a at a live NBA game, and

1:46

UH realized the At first,

1:48

I thought I was gonna have to go somewhere because I'm a I'm a cord cutter.

1:50

I don't actually have like broadcast TV and I don't

1:52

have those things. So I was like, if I'm if I'm gonna need to watch

1:54

the game, I gotta go somewhere to do it. But

1:56

then I just did a little Google homework realized CBS

1:58

was just streaming the thing. So I was I was sitting

2:00

at my computer. I have a multiple screen set up because

2:03

I am a single man with no children, and

2:06

uh, and so. On one screen, I had the Super

2:08

Bowl. On the other screen, I had the Professional

2:11

League of Legends games going. I was living the two

2:13

screen dream. My man, Wow, so

2:15

slow moment you glanced over at the video games

2:17

being played, plenty of slow moments. Yeah,

2:21

not even close. The Legal Legends games

2:23

that day were way more exciting. Joe boy,

2:25

Yeah, more action Jack at home,

2:27

I think, right, yeah, mostly me and Sam.

2:30

That's nice. Mom was asleep. When

2:33

I say mom, I'm referring to their mom. Uh.

2:36

Often I'll reference mom in the house in Laurel

2:38

said, don't call me your mom. It's weirds me on, I'm

2:40

not calling you my mom my. Mom

2:42

used to say that by my mom, I mean my mom.

2:45

I remember that telling my dad.

2:47

Don't refer to me as mommy, I'm your wife. Um.

2:51

And I wasn't sure what to think of that. As a lad,

2:53

I thought, wow, these are dynamics playing out.

2:55

I don't understand

2:57

any And he really

3:00

likes to get his snack on, so yeah,

3:02

lots of different kinds of chips and dip. We could

3:04

had an orange crush, which was just he was over

3:07

the moon about that. That's great, that, that's

3:09

that's good stuff. For watching that and stuff.

3:11

Is he still at the age where he gets like the orange

3:13

mustache from So

3:16

here's how imbalanced I am. For years,

3:18

I was a huge football fan, just super intense,

3:21

and I grew to hate

3:23

Super Bowl parties because I wanted

3:25

to watch every second of the game

3:28

and I wanted to hear the play by play and

3:30

I wanted to watch the replays and the rest of it. And

3:32

I would have you know, suburban moms come up

3:34

to me and try to talk to me, and and I

3:37

just I couldn't stand it. So I kind of was off

3:39

put from uh, super Bowl

3:41

parties. So I usually watch at home alone, plus to

3:43

talk about it the next day. It kind of helps to have seen

3:46

a lot of it. Um, So that's my

3:48

excuse for staying home and being a social zero.

3:50

But I also was at the NBA game. Sean

3:52

was at and and had a designated

3:54

driver and frankly got a little hammered. So

3:57

yeah, I was not in the mood for any sort of parte.

4:00

So I sat there and watched it and rolled my eyes and ended

4:02

up with the guitar in my lap strumming along

4:05

kind of watching what was your drink of

4:07

choice? The NBA game. You weren't drinking a

4:09

drink with a corn syrup in it for you. I

4:11

hate to even admit what my drink of choice was

4:13

at the NBA game. Strawberry Dachary

4:17

extra umbrella, Apple Tea extra

4:20

umbrella please case, I

4:22

need to fan myself because you know how it is when

4:24

I have a cocktail like a little steamy. So

4:27

is the revelation your worried is gonna make you look

4:29

like woos or pretentious? Um, a

4:32

little both the pretentious? Whooh no,

4:35

I tell you what here Honestly, god, here's

4:37

my drink of choice. Now.

4:39

At NBA stadiums a lot of them, you

4:42

can buy a bottle of wine and

4:44

they pour it into a plastic caraff and

4:46

give you a couple of plastic glasses. Then

4:49

you go to your seat with a pretty decent bottle

4:51

of wine. Now it's wildly insanely

4:53

over priced, so you know, I'm just gonna

4:55

get some decent doesn't make a gay

4:57

grocery store wine, which is fine because frankly,

5:00

I'm there for the buzz, the tasting.

5:02

But um, I'm picturing you a thunderbird.

5:06

That's what it was. That's right. It was fortified wine,

5:08

Michael. They give it to you in a little plastic

5:10

flask you can tug into your coat. No

5:12

um uh. And the

5:14

beauty of it is you don't have to pee

5:17

is often, so I can

5:19

drink a bottle of yeah,

5:23

um past thank

5:25

you. Yeah so yeah. I me and my

5:28

companion, who I didn't consent

5:30

to have his name thrown around on the air. Um. He was

5:32

the designated driver, so he just had a couple of SIPs.

5:34

And I found myself with a bottle of wine to drink, sitting

5:36

there in the stands because I'm not gonna let it go to waste.

5:39

A lot of people they stumped on those grapes

5:41

all day long. What am I gonna do that?

5:44

It's a good point, so wah. So

5:46

anyway, yeah, so I have wine, so you can. You

5:48

can get a pretty good whooping and holler.

5:50

And I'm at a sports game, buzz on and not have to p fourteen

5:52

times. So wine

5:55

is my drink of choice NB eight

5:57

games, which even I don't like. I

5:59

would make fun of me, man when I was drink

6:01

up Barry Pansy. When I was young and single and

6:03

childless. Which super Bowl party would to go to was

6:05

a big thing or which super Bowl event, because there's

6:08

lots of different kinds of you know, and

6:10

there's lots of drinking

6:12

and uh, usually lots of women in this. Yeah,

6:15

major decision to make. It's festive. It's

6:17

been a while since. And I got a couple invites,

6:20

and I thank you folks very

6:22

much, and I'm sorry I didn't show up. But

6:26

I'd rather just go to a party party, stand

6:28

around, hob nob, drink a little ettle, like

6:31

in a super Bowl party. I'm neither watching

6:33

the game, which I would enjoy, nor having

6:35

the full party experience what I would Also, I'm just kind

6:37

of doing a half version of neither one well

6:40

enough, torn between two worlds.

6:42

I went to a bar one time, as a place that serves

6:44

burgers and stuff like that bar and they have big screens

6:46

everywhere sports part and uh, I was

6:48

like twenty five years old and

6:50

they had nickel

6:53

pictures and dime cheeseburgers.

6:56

Get the f out he paid five bucks to get

6:58

in. I would put them out of business. I

7:00

did. I worked on and I ate lots of cheeseburgers

7:02

and drank a lot of beer. That was right.

7:06

Seriously, what were they making money on? Were

7:09

they like robbing the drunk customers

7:11

as they stumbled out they were making their money

7:13

on a lot of people who for

7:15

five dollars maybe

7:17

didn't even get a cheeseburger or had one and

7:19

didn't drink that much. Date insistent

7:22

on an apple to college town, a lot of college

7:24

girls, that sort of stuff. But I just ate cheeseburgers

7:26

for like five hours and

7:28

uh and drank like crazy. That was definitely my drunken,

7:31

most drunken and felt the worst the next

7:33

day of all time, just like eight

7:36

cheese Man. Something else

7:38

I learned when I was working on the sales side of

7:40

the beer industry is a lot of those promotional things. They'll

7:42

have events where they intend to just sell

7:44

it at cost, and the suppliers

7:47

give them some sort of incentive just because they're helping them move

7:49

so much volume. So maybe you know they can,

7:51

Hey, if if you run this special for the

7:53

weekend, and then maybe we can get you that k neeon

7:55

that you've been looking for the whole Like there's

7:57

some wheeling and dealing if they need to hit certain volume

8:00

markers and then make sure it's our brand that maybe

8:02

build loyalty. So I was gonna ask you it's a funny

8:04

thing. You brought that up. As a former a

8:07

beer seller. What do you think

8:09

a bar has costwise

8:11

that wholesale in a picture of beer, a

8:14

picture of bud light or sin. Yeah,

8:17

so even in a Nicholas no

8:19

no that I could very much believe that that's

8:21

within the realm of what it costs them. Yeah.

8:23

And something tells me those burgers weren't exactly

8:26

ground Kobe beef. That was unusual

8:28

burgers. It was good burgers. But um,

8:30

here's the unfortunate end of this story. So having

8:33

had I don't know six seven, eight cheeseburgers

8:36

and nine pictures of beer over a five hour

8:38

period, the place is closing

8:40

down, like I'm the only person there that's left.

8:42

And the employees. I was always friends with all the employees

8:45

at all the bars because I'm the last person. Because the

8:47

waitress and the waitresses

8:50

were complaining about having to click clean

8:52

the men's room. What was a

8:55

nightmare? Oh my god, I can assumer

8:57

fun site and they're complaining and

9:00

to argue about who's gonna do it, And for whatever reason, in my

9:02

drunken stand and said, hi, your bunch of words,

9:05

Oh no, clean, where

9:08

your mop? So I went in there at the big

9:10

mop and bucket and clean the wa the walls

9:12

had to be moped, lord slick,

9:17

and I cleaned the whole thing up there. Showed

9:19

you, didn't I? Yeah, yeah, you showed

9:22

us already. We'll see you next Saturday night. People

9:24

probably still talk about that guy it got drunk

9:26

and cleaned the vomit out of the bathroom for

9:29

us drinking at Tom Sawyer's all, that's

9:33

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