0:00

Hey, it's Matt from the future. I just listened to the

0:02

episode that you just queued up. I know

0:04

some of you listen with your families. You probably saw that title

0:06

and you're on the fence about it a little bit. I think

0:09

this one's mostly going to work because we're

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mostly talking about a gigantic mistake someone

0:13

made a long, long time ago. It'll make sense

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later. Okay, enjoy. Enjoy.

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Alright, so I'm

0:28

looking at this play. And

0:32

basically, it's just a random

0:34

clip on the internet. So it looks like

0:37

the game is tied. It's a softball game. 7 to 7.

0:41

Must be the bottom of an inning or something like that.

0:44

And bases are loaded. Batter's

0:47

up. Two outs, apparently. They

0:49

hit the ball and it's like a shot

0:52

out to the outfield. It's clear

0:54

they're going to win because the runner on third

0:56

is going to come in and score. And

0:58

everybody's celebrating. Okay,

1:01

so it's two outs in this situation. Yeah.

1:05

Okay. The runner runs in, tags

1:07

home, and then everybody just loses

1:09

their mind because they just won, right? They start

1:11

jumping up and down, screaming.

1:13

In baseball, this is called a walk-off. Yeah.

1:16

Because in baseball, you take turns

1:18

playing offense and you get three

1:21

outs or failures for each

1:23

team per inning. So in the last

1:25

inning, if the visiting team, they

1:28

bat first, so they already got their three outs for

1:30

people who don't know baseball. Now the home

1:32

team, who is tied or behind, they

1:35

have three outs to try to tie

1:37

the game or get ahead. But if

1:39

they don't need all three outs to achieve

1:41

that, the game ends prematurely.

1:44

So that's the scenario you're describing here.

1:46

Yeah, exactly. It's not like a walk-off

1:48

home run, but it's a walk-off. They hit it out of the outfield

1:50

and the runner on third runs

1:52

in, tags home. They're like, yeah!

1:55

And everybody runs to the center. Let's go! We

1:58

won! Yeah, let's go is what everybody's doing. that's what he

2:00

says now, right? That's weird to me. Anyway, so

2:03

there are a few things in life that have as much energy

2:05

as like a teenage boy screaming let's

2:07

go. Well yeah, yeah, yeah. So

2:09

anyway, they run to the center and they're

2:12

like

2:13

really excited at the pitcher's mound and

2:15

all the team leaves the dugout and they run

2:17

out there. Meanwhile, the

2:20

coach on the opposing team just

2:22

screams at his team, hey,

2:24

grab the ball, throw it first.

2:26

Because the person that swung

2:28

and hit the ball got

2:31

so excited they just ran out to the pitcher's mound

2:33

and piled on with all of their

2:36

team. And calmly,

2:38

you can't do that. They grabbed

2:40

the ball and they throw it to first

2:43

and they tagged first and then the umpire just nonchalantly

2:45

raises his hand and goes out.

2:47

So

2:50

the force out was still on and

2:53

the person that hit the ball never ran

2:55

to first base. They just started celebrating.

2:58

Oh no. And then they ended up losing the

3:00

game over time. It's very satisfying

3:03

to watch. I'm not gonna lie. Okay,

3:06

we gotta be conscious of the third chair here.

3:09

Some people know these baseball rules. For others, it's

3:11

gonna be as baffling as you and me watching

3:13

cricket. So I'm gonna try to

3:15

beat others real quick what Brady Heron is

3:18

to me when we talk about cricket. In

3:20

baseball, it's possible to hit a ball very,

3:23

very high in the air. And

3:25

if a ball gets caught in the air, the batter

3:27

is out. But if there

3:30

wasn't some rule in place about

3:32

what happens when a ball gets hit high in the air, the

3:35

runners on the bases could just try to run as fast

3:37

as they can and try to get as far as

3:39

they could while the ball's in the air and nobody

3:41

can do about it, can do anything about it because

3:43

it's hundreds of feet in the air or whatever. So

3:45

the rule is

3:47

you have to wait until a ball is

3:49

caught when you are running the bases. You have to wait

3:51

on the base so as not to exploit

3:54

the height of a ball that is going to be an

3:56

out. You have to wait for the ball to get caught,

3:59

touch the ball. the base you were already on, then

4:01

you can try to advance. Yeah, it's called

4:03

tagging up. Tagging up, yep. So

4:06

nothing that happens in a baseball play

4:09

actually counts, you can't record

4:12

a run with two outs

4:14

until the out at first base

4:17

is settled or until all the force

4:19

outs are settled. So a force

4:22

out would be a ball caught in the air. So if a runner

4:24

scores while a ball is caught in the air with two outs,

4:26

I mean, it doesn't matter.

4:28

The run doesn't count, even if the guy crosses

4:30

the plate before the ball is caught. Or

4:33

if an out at first base occurs, even

4:35

if the person on third scores from third,

4:38

it doesn't matter. You gotta settle the

4:40

out, the force outs first.

4:43

So in this scenario,

4:45

the batter forgot to settle the force

4:47

out, even though they easily could have made it to

4:49

first and be declared safe and

4:51

everything would have worked out. It's just, even

4:53

if that didn't make sense, I mean,

4:55

I don't even know what to liken it to. It's the most basic

4:58

error you could possibly make mentally

5:00

in a sport, right? It's like when you see

5:02

people just drop the football and start celebrating

5:05

right before they cross the goal line. Yeah,

5:08

that premature celebration thing is

5:10

interesting. One of my boys friends,

5:13

they've

5:14

been playing chess. A young kid,

5:16

he's like 10 years old, right? Been

5:18

playing chess and we've been talking about,

5:21

hey, Mr. Destin, when are you gonna come over and play chess?

5:24

I'm like, oh, it's gonna happen, buddy.

5:26

And then yesterday I just surprised him and

5:28

I showed up at his house and I was like, all right, because

5:30

my son was over there. I was like, it's

5:32

time to play chess. And his dad

5:34

was there, he's like, oh, is this happening? I was like, oh, it's happening.

5:37

And so we sat down joking around and I'm sitting

5:39

there thinking, okay, this kid actually plays chess. I

5:41

don't actually play chess. I'm about to

5:43

get destroyed. You know

5:45

the moves and that's it. I mean, I

5:48

play just a little bit, but like, just

5:50

amongst friends, but I'm not a

5:52

chess player.

5:53

And so we started playing

5:56

and I made the only opening move

5:58

I know that can checkmate somebody.

5:59

in three moves, just in case they don't

6:02

know it and I can pull it on them. So

6:04

I make that opening move and he makes the counter

6:06

move to it. And I'm like, okay, well, that's not gonna work.

6:08

So I just keep playing.

6:10

And then he says to my

6:12

son, he said, oh, I see checkmate

6:14

in five moves.

6:16

He says that to my son. Like he got a little cocky.

6:19

What?

6:20

And then I did the thing where I flipped,

6:22

I was like, okay.

6:24

So I flipped from my, I'm just playing around

6:26

brain

6:27

to you are now gonna get the full

6:29

force of Destin Sandlin's strategic

6:32

thinking brain. Just

6:35

against you right now. That's gonna make it even

6:37

more embarrassing when you lose. Ha ha

6:39

ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha

6:41

ha ha ha. Exactly.

6:45

It's so, but it was really fun in my own brain.

6:50

I'm like, oh,

6:51

oh, this 10 year old is now my actual

6:54

foe. Ha ha ha ha ha

6:56

ha. So I like

6:58

turned it on and I beat

7:01

him. And,

7:02

but- Oh, you did? Okay, all right. I did beat him, yeah.

7:05

So I beat him and then he's like, oh, I just

7:07

made a mistake there. I was like, ah, it's okay, it's okay.

7:09

And I was trying to show him

7:12

where he made the mistake and he was unwilling

7:14

to take the

7:15

advice. We were like, hey, this is

7:17

the point that I flipped from this to this. And

7:19

then, but he didn't wanna hear it. I was like, okay,

7:21

we'll play again sometime.

7:23

But the premature celebration

7:26

is a thing that, that's a big

7:28

problem. Why does it feel so good when

7:30

you see people fail when

7:33

they do the premature celebration thing?

7:35

What a great question.

7:39

You're right though, it does feel

7:41

good. Cathartic, karmaic,

7:45

I don't know quite how I feel. Chotin-Freudy,

7:51

I do feel something when people celebrate

7:53

early and then lose. And

7:56

I do seek out videos on the internet with my

7:58

kids of

8:00

premature celebration fails,

8:03

and I'm showing them to the kids because I want them

8:05

to learn life lessons.

8:07

I don't know, pride, I guess? I mean,

8:09

it feels like there's some age old

8:11

agreed upon lesson amongst all

8:13

of civilization. We talked about Persia the

8:15

other day. You go back to Persia, that's

8:18

like Herodotus is the historian who

8:20

talks about Persia and Greece and all their wars. It's

8:22

like one of his main themes is pride

8:24

and hubris and all of that stuff

8:27

and how it'll bite you in the butt and

8:29

maybe that's it, but

8:32

I think that's an insufficient explanation. I

8:35

don't know, what do you think? I don't know. I

8:37

mean, the thing that makes it

8:39

interesting is it's a built in underdog

8:42

story. Like you know

8:43

this person was going to win, but the person that

8:45

was supposed to lose ended up winning and

8:48

we like underdog stories, so I think that has something

8:50

to do with it.

8:52

I don't know why though. I really do enjoy

8:56

seeing somebody

8:57

go towards the finish line and they start

8:59

pumping their hands, yeah, like

9:02

looking at the crowd. Let's go! Let's

9:04

go!

9:07

And then the person right behind them that just never

9:10

lost the sight of the prize just goes

9:12

into the biggest sprint of their life and

9:15

they get there four milliseconds before

9:17

the celebratory. The tortoise wins. Yeah.

9:20

Yeah. Yeah. Okay,

9:22

that's a really good take. Okay, and

9:25

it helps me understand better too. It

9:27

feels like you're showing up your opponent. Like

9:30

you had dignity as a competitor until

9:32

you knew you'd win and you didn't need dignity

9:34

or respect anymore. Yes. And

9:36

then we see the real you come out.

9:38

It's like even though I'm still on the field, I want

9:40

to show that I've defeated

9:42

you this badly. And as soon

9:44

as I clicked into thinking of it that way, suddenly

9:47

I can think of a hundred incidents like that. I

9:49

think of the Don Beebe,

9:52

Buffalo Bills, Super Bowl situation

9:54

where, I mean the Cowboys beat the Bills

9:57

in that Super Bowl, but there was this little receiver

9:59

from Chet.

9:59

in Nebraska, I think that's

10:02

where he played. And he chased

10:04

down this

10:05

dude who had a free and open lane

10:07

to a touchdown on a turnover. He's a wide receiver flipped

10:10

to playing defense because there was a turnover.

10:13

And he just gets down there and punches the ball

10:15

free.

10:15

And it was awesome. But

10:18

dude was celebrating and showboating

10:20

and, oh,

10:23

the really famous one is the snowboarding

10:25

girl, right? The snowboard cross girl

10:28

in the Olympics. You see this one all the time on the

10:30

internet. What happened? Yeah, it's

10:32

a snowboard race. The goal is just

10:34

get down the mountain fast, not

10:37

do goofy tricks and silly things. And

10:40

so she decides that she's gonna get some air

10:42

and grab the board and screw around

10:44

to get some cool poses and

10:46

photographs to get more than a gold

10:48

medal. Like let's also get famous here and do it in

10:50

style or who knows what she was thinking, right?

10:52

Well, she eats it and you can't

10:54

just hop up and get momentum back

10:56

on a snowboard. And

10:59

so she gets passed and she loses. And you watch that

11:02

and

11:03

there's no part of you that's like, oh, that

11:05

poor girl, all

11:07

that time and energy and work she put

11:09

in, all the investment that her parents put

11:12

in, it's mean and maybe it's unsympathetic

11:14

to feel that moment of judgment

11:17

toward her for one moment of errant

11:19

thought. But you look at it and you're like, you're trying to

11:21

show up all the other girls who put in all that time

11:23

and effort and whose parents invested in them and blah,

11:25

blah, blah. And you wanted to stand

11:28

out and embarrass them

11:30

on the field of play and instead you got embarrassed.

11:32

And it feels both okay

11:35

and it feels like a wonderful cautionary

11:37

tale to avoid making such mistakes

11:40

yourself, right?

11:42

I have not seen that clip. That sounds fascinating.

11:45

It's fascinating. You want me to find it? Do you need to see

11:47

it? Did she end up meddling? No, I don't think she, maybe

11:50

she got a bronze. Hang on a second, I'm

11:52

gonna find it. All right,

11:55

so what is this?

11:57

What is this video? What's her name?

11:59

Lindsay Jacobalis,

12:03

Jacobalis. She

12:05

looks like an absolutely lovely

12:07

young lady. I mean, pigtails

12:11

and

12:12

billion dollar smile. She looks like a

12:15

lovely young lady who just got caught up in

12:17

the moment. She's participated

12:19

in a bunch of Olympic games since then.

12:22

And she has become

12:25

the oldest American woman to

12:28

win a medal at the Winter Olympics. So

12:30

good for her,

12:31

awesome redemption stuff. But

12:34

it's the 2006 Winter Olympics where

12:37

the incident happened.

12:40

She grabbed her board in midair, a move known

12:42

as the Method, but crashed

12:45

letting Switzerland's Tanya Frieden

12:48

speed past her.

12:49

She did not medal in subsequent Olympic

12:52

games until 2022,

12:53

when

12:56

she finally got a bronze in, what

12:58

that be, Beijing. Did she win? She

13:01

did not win, she got a bronze. Let

13:03

me see this real quick, one second. Oh

13:08

no. Oh

13:10

no. Dude. Oh

13:14

God, right before she falls,

13:16

the announcer says this is a lack of honor

13:19

for her.

13:20

Oh. This is a lack

13:22

of honor for her because she was so far ahead

13:26

because everybody else had fallen. And then she

13:28

kind of, oh golly dude.

13:31

That's amazing. But it kind of is a lack

13:33

of honor, right? I don't know what

13:35

I'm supposed to say. In the world,

13:38

there are things now where it just

13:40

feels like there's, you're just supposed to say certain

13:42

things. I don't know what you're supposed to say in the set

13:44

of circumstances. I'm not supposed to say it. I don't want to gloat

13:46

over her failure or brutal lesson

13:49

that she had to learn 17 or 18 years ago, whatever

13:53

it is, it's just a very sad

13:55

thing. And in that moment,

13:57

I have to agree with the announcer and

13:59

the sense of, responsibilities of 2006 or

14:01

whenever that happened that it's

14:04

not honorable. No, what's interesting is

14:06

he said This is a lack

14:08

of honor before she fell. Oh, no.

14:11

Yeah, she's looking around she's like, wow,

14:14

I'm alone and

14:15

He goes this is a lack of honor

14:17

for Lindsay. I'm gonna play it

14:30

Time very very unfortunate for

14:32

her Okay,

14:55

that is the best announcer I may

14:57

have I mean He

14:59

goes this is a lack of honor

15:01

for Lindsay

15:07

But dude that's rough

15:09

oh that's rough Which is still

15:11

great. But as a viewer no matter

15:13

how much you like that kid You

15:16

don't want her to get the gold as soon as she starts doing

15:18

that stuff You want it to go to somebody who

15:21

took it seriously and showed respect to others? Golly

15:24

man that feels like

15:26

it says more about us than about them.

15:28

I don't know maybe Well

15:33

Okay, and that's what I was talking about a second ago

15:36

when I was like, I don't know what to say No, what

15:38

opinion I'm supposed to have cuz

15:40

here's the thing in the right context Ribbing

15:43

people while you compete

15:45

that can be the tone of a sport It

15:47

would be so weird for me to go and play

15:49

basketball with people and be like

15:52

Gentlemen time for basketball then

15:55

shall we put on our trousers great splendid

15:57

who shall go first heads or tails?

15:59

Excellent, I shall go second then. Your

16:02

ball, bounce, bounce, bounce. I

16:04

shall defend you. Excellent defending, I must

16:06

say. Oh, and a fine shot. No, you just,

16:09

I don't know. It's a mean physical

16:11

game that involves getting right

16:13

in people's business. It's very assertive.

16:16

It's off-putting to some people. But

16:18

basketball,

16:20

it feels personal, whoever you are,

16:22

whatever part of the world you're from, every culture

16:24

that has adopted basketball as a

16:26

sport has figured out it's just a very

16:28

personal sport. And you give each other

16:30

crap when you play it. And it

16:33

just is.

16:34

But it feels weird to talk trash

16:36

when you're playing tennis. You

16:39

never touch. You're not on the same side of the net. It's

16:41

like, why are you running your mouth? I'm

16:44

not even allowed to hit you. You're clear over

16:46

there, protected by a net and

16:48

a line judge. I just think different types

16:50

of competition lend themselves to different

16:52

kinds of interpersonal interaction

16:55

and different sets of expectations

16:58

of what is and isn't

17:00

best practices and honorable. And

17:02

to me, I

17:03

mean, I snowboard. I've been a snowboarder

17:06

for a long time. To me, that looks

17:08

dishonorable in a race, but snowboarding

17:11

is a little bit more loosey-goosey. And

17:14

nobody really knew what snowboarding looked like

17:16

in the Olympics back then. Are we gonna screw around

17:18

and keep it real, Mountain Dew, red-headed

17:22

Sean Shane, what was the kid's name?

17:24

I can't even remember anymore. Shane White, he was- No, no, that's

17:26

stuff made here. Sean

17:29

White, Sean White, there you go.

17:33

Yeah, he's a kid who was on

17:35

Fox News or something when he was 17 in

17:38

the Olympics. And they're like, yeah,

17:41

well, congratulations. What are you gonna do now?

17:43

I'm gonna go have a couple cold ones. You're 17,

17:46

Mountain Dews, bro. Mountain

17:50

Dews, bro. That's

17:54

a good recovery. So, I don't know. On

17:57

that one, I've

17:58

allowed myself- to feel

18:00

super judgy about it until

18:02

I was having the conversation with you

18:05

and in front of other people and now I feel a

18:07

little bit more self-conscious about my judginess

18:09

toward that girl. But it did rub

18:11

me the wrong way. It still rubs me the wrong

18:13

way

18:14

and I'm working out why

18:16

it does, but somebody dunking on

18:19

somebody else and then flexing their muscles at them

18:21

doesn't. Let me ask you this.

18:23

If it was a large burly

18:26

muscle guy, would you

18:28

feel weird talking about it in front of other people? Or

18:33

is it the million dollar smile and

18:35

the adorable blonde pigtails that makes it

18:37

difficult?

18:38

Yeah, if it was a

18:40

dude who looked like me and

18:42

there was no potential sub-narrative

18:45

that

18:45

could be lobbed at me in the weird

18:48

toxic world of the internet

18:50

on such things, yeah, I think I

18:52

would feel a lot more licensed to be, you look just

18:55

like me. You have the same non-haircut

18:58

eye hair and you behave badly. I'm

19:00

allowed to call that guy

19:02

out a little more. Oh yeah, it's open season right now.

19:05

Dang it.

19:06

Okay, and maybe we have it coming. I don't know.

19:09

But

19:10

I'm serious, man. I've only ever seen this

19:12

clip with her helmet on and

19:14

I'm like, there's a girl going fast. That moves my heart.

19:16

Oh no. Don't be proud girl.

19:19

Oh, okay, you had that coming. But

19:21

now that we pulled up the article together and

19:23

I see some dad's little

19:25

girl with the big bright smile and the blonde pigtails,

19:28

all of a sudden my heart is soft toward her and I can't help

19:30

it. And so

19:31

I feel less judgy seeing

19:34

her smiling face.

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does that manifest? You gave me a silver

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an occasion or something like that. It's just

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one of those things where

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20:38

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does slightly reduce my gift-giving

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creativity load, which can occupy a lot

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of brain space. So, you

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24:09

Okay, before we turn on mics, the

24:13

reason we decided to turn on mics is because I told you about

24:16

the softball thing. You

24:18

had another one that you were telling me

24:20

about. It was named something weird, what

24:22

was this?

24:23

The

24:25

incident, it's a baseball incident in 1908,

24:29

professional Major League Baseball incident, that

24:31

it's very much like the incident you just described in

24:33

softball that happened recently. And it's a famous

24:36

incident, so famous that this incident has

24:38

a name. And the name of the incident

24:40

is the

24:41

Merkle Boner. Just

24:43

let that sink in.

24:44

I'm actually on

24:46

Wikipedia right now, it's called Merkle's Boner.

24:49

Yeah, that's a new way

24:51

to try to soften it. I've always heard it referred

24:54

to as the Merkle Boner, but

24:56

now I'm seeing some websites,

24:58

articles written in the last four or five years, they're

25:01

starting to try to update the name to Merkle's

25:03

Boned Headed Play,

25:05

which is not what it's called, it's called

25:07

the Merkle Boner. Okay,

25:10

there's a lot to unpack here,

25:11

so. Yeah.

25:13

Go ahead. Yeah, do you wanna start with the name or do you wanna

25:15

start with what happened?

25:17

Let's start with what happened. Okay, great. So

25:20

it's 1908, and

25:23

it's a regular season game that

25:26

is being played. Do you have the article right

25:28

there? I've got the Wikipedia page up.

25:30

Looks like September 23rd, 1908.

25:33

Oh, so it's a late season game.

25:35

In baseball, the season wraps up

25:38

right at the end of September,

25:40

and then you go into the playoffs, the best

25:42

teams play to try to get to and win the World

25:44

Series. So the Cubs, the

25:46

Chicago Cubs, and the back then

25:48

New York Giants, now they play

25:51

in San Francisco, the Cubs and

25:53

the Giants were in a tight race

25:55

with each other to

25:57

try to go and win the National

25:59

League.

25:59

Pennant, one of the two leagues, National League

26:02

American League, they're trying to win the entire

26:04

National League. And this game was very,

26:07

very important between these two

26:09

teams. Well, it gets to be

26:12

the final inning and

26:14

the home team needs

26:17

to score some runs to win the game. And

26:19

what do you have in the article there? What do you

26:21

see

26:22

in? It's too much to read this fast. Just keep going.

26:25

All right, so it's a notorious base running mistake,

26:28

according to Wikipedia, by

26:30

a rookie named Fred Merkel

26:33

of the New York Giants.

26:35

And what happened was

26:38

there was a game winning hit, a base

26:40

hit. So the ball gets

26:43

past the defenders and the batter

26:45

makes it to first base safely.

26:48

So the force out at first is resolved.

26:50

The runner scores and the

26:52

Giants win. Hooray. But there

26:54

was a runner on first base named Fred Merkel,

26:57

and he had to go and just casually touch

27:00

second base for all of the force

27:03

outs

27:04

in the bottom of this inning to be resolved. But

27:06

in the hubbub of the celebration, he

27:09

did not do so.

27:11

And attentively,

27:13

the Cubs recognized

27:15

that and got the out, the force

27:17

out at second base, which eliminates

27:20

the run scored at the plate.

27:23

And as a result, the game ended

27:25

in a tie and

27:27

the Cubs

27:28

won the pennant instead of

27:31

the Giants

27:32

winning the pennant. And it is

27:34

a day which will forever live

27:36

in infamy and be referred to as

27:39

the Merkel boner. Man,

27:42

I wish there was video of that. That would

27:44

be so much cooler than... Because

27:47

I love watching video of mistakes

27:49

in baseball. It's one of my favorite things.

27:51

Yeah, it's a great genre. And obviously

27:53

it predates the era of video

27:56

footage. So it's simply an impossibility. But

27:58

I was digging around.

28:00

on the internet, I was doing some sleuthing, and

28:02

I discovered that there is an audio

28:04

recording that has been preserved.

28:06

No way. Really? It's rough,

28:08

but it gives you a little bit of a sense of

28:10

what it might've been like to be there. I

28:12

mean, if you're interested in that kind of thing, I could play

28:15

it for you now, but only if you're interested. Yeah,

28:17

dude, pop it in or play the wax

28:20

cylinder, whatever it is you gotta do. I'd love

28:22

to hear that.

28:23

Sure, let me just pop that over here,

28:25

pop that in. There we go.

28:26

I say, dear Barnaclease,

28:31

what a wonderful day for a sporting

28:33

event. Who doesn't love

28:36

the polo grounds in September

28:38

for a fine game of baseball? Why are

28:40

we playing on polo grounds? And

28:42

why do we have

28:44

weird Cockney accents even

28:46

though we live in New York? Well,

28:49

obviously we live in an era when

28:51

diversion and fun is a

28:54

public matter of behavior on a

28:56

weekday afternoon is just becoming

28:59

acceptable socially. And so

29:01

there aren't many places to play these sports,

29:03

but gradually I anticipate these

29:06

cathedrals to entertainment will

29:08

pick up in popularity around the world.

29:10

For now, we'll just have to repurpose

29:14

the ones we have for multiple sports.

29:16

That's a great point, Barnaclease. One thing that

29:18

I love is that here in 1908, the

29:22

world is full of peace. And

29:25

I foresee that in the near future, sporting

29:28

events will be the largest gatherings of

29:30

humans ever assembled. Wouldn't

29:32

you agree?

29:33

I anticipate centuries

29:35

of peace. We've finally achieved

29:38

human enlightenment. And with

29:40

all of the technological advances we

29:43

bask in today, I can only imagine

29:45

that due to the spirit of brotherhood

29:47

that permeates this great world, that

29:50

we shall only use those inventions for

29:52

the next hundred years to make each other better.

29:55

I say, is that the rookie

29:57

up to bat here? It's here at the end of

29:59

the game. I was hoping

30:01

we could go get a snow cone afterwards, but what's

30:03

this chap's name? I forget. Fred Merkel

30:06

demonstrates a lot of promise. Nerves

30:09

of steel, infinitely focused,

30:11

why here's the pitch now, and a base hit for

30:13

Merkel. Well, good for him. That puts

30:15

runners on the corners. This is getting interesting.

30:18

This could be the end of the game here. Looks like our

30:20

fine team is going to win.

30:23

And this would take us one step closer

30:25

to that ever so desirable pennant. I'm

30:30

sorry I got to gather myself. I don't know

30:33

what to do. Oh, look, it's the hot dog

30:35

man. Hot dogs are a new

30:37

thing that I enjoy. Wiener's

30:39

here. Would you like a wiener? We would take wiener's

30:42

here. I would like a wiener. Thank you,

30:44

chap. Yep. Yep. Here you go. Here's your nickel.

30:46

Yeah, all right. All right, man. Cheers.

30:49

Cheers to baseball in September, testicles.

30:52

Let us knock wiener's. Yeah, you're here. Let's tap

30:54

them together as if they're... Yep, here we go. Touch. There

30:56

you go. All right. All right. These

30:59

are great mustard.

31:01

Mustard is wonderful. All right, so

31:04

let's get this game over and let's get back

31:07

home so we can breathe

31:09

cold dust or whatever it is

31:11

we do at our houses.

31:21

My fair testicles, I must say these ballpark

31:24

wiener's are especially delicious today. No

31:26

doubt made from 100% beef.

31:28

Okay, whatever. All right, so we've got short

31:31

stop Al Bridwell up to

31:33

bat. I say if he hits this

31:35

next pitch from Feister, then we

31:38

might be done for the day, my fair

31:40

Barnaclies. This might be it. A fine

31:42

hitter. I'm hopeful. All right, here's the

31:44

pitch in the wind up in the... Oh, he drilled

31:46

it! An apparent single

31:49

into center field. Yes!

31:52

And an apparent victory for the home team.

31:55

Let us charge the field with others. McCormick's

31:57

running home. There it is. A Giants

31:59

2-1.

31:59

victory. That

32:01

is fantastic! I am so

32:04

excited about this! This is... I

32:06

love being a part of the infield mob.

32:08

This is the gentleman. Huzzah

32:11

to all of us. Huzzah! Let's do

32:13

what is customary in our time and let's

32:15

walk across home plate, across

32:17

the field, and exit outs into field. Don't

32:19

you say? Absolutely, as though we

32:21

had scored ourselves. Let's

32:22

do this. Okay, oh, what's happening?

32:25

It looks like Cubs second baseman

32:28

Johnny Evers is seeing

32:30

an opportunity for an odd rule

32:32

to be enforced. Another

32:34

absurdity. This game is over.

32:36

He seems to be shouting to center fielder

32:38

Sully Hoffman. What's

32:40

he doing? He's throwing the

32:42

ball.

32:43

Fortunately,

32:46

our first-base coach Joe McGinney intercepted

32:49

that ball and did what he should do, which is throw

32:52

it recklessly into the face. Yes, exactly.

32:54

Oh,

32:54

what's his retrieve?

32:57

Evers has apparently retrieved

32:59

the ball and is marching

33:02

towards his touch second base. You

33:04

can't retrieve a ball once it's been hurled into

33:06

the stands by a first-base coach. This is an outrage.

33:09

It appears that umpires M. Slee and O'Day

33:12

are consulting each other. What

33:14

is to consult about? Here we are in the middle of the

33:16

field with our wieners and the game

33:19

is over, gentlemen. The game

33:21

is over. Is it possible

33:23

that Fred Merkel has made a mistake?

33:26

Hold, hold, hold. I've got the baseball

33:29

rule books updated for 1908 here

33:32

in my pocket. I'm searching section 208.1.

33:34

Oh, dear. It's literally

33:36

that section,

33:39

isn't it?

33:41

Oh, dear. What has happened?

33:43

According to the rules, Fred Merkel's

33:46

failure to touch second base does

33:48

indeed result in an out even after

33:50

play seems to have concluded. As much

33:53

as I hate to admit it, the run shall not be

33:55

counted and we shan't be able

33:57

to claim victory this

33:58

day. No! No!

34:02

No! He's

34:04

raised his fist! It just hit him with your cane!

34:07

He's ruled Merkel out at second! They've

34:09

undone the result! This is an incredible

34:11

boner that has been made!

34:13

The worst of boners! Merkel,

34:16

from now on, will only be known in

34:19

history for this boner. Can

34:21

you imagine? This will be on the front page

34:23

of the news

34:23

tomorrow. That's the hugest

34:25

boner I can even imagine! They

34:28

will be talking about this boner in future

34:31

forms of media yet imagined. I cannot

34:33

believe this has happened! This is

34:35

insane! Hit

34:37

him! Barnacles!

34:38

Hit the umpire! Yeah,

34:43

that's basically what happened. It says here

34:46

that the fans were

34:48

so hostile to the umpire O'Day

34:51

that the cops had to get involved to

34:53

protect the umpire.

34:55

This was a huge deal for

34:57

the day. It looks like the

34:59

umpire Evers and O'Day, they were... was

35:02

it Evers? No, not Evers. Who was that? Emsley.

35:06

Emsley. Yeah, this made the

35:08

papers and everything. It's called Merkel's

35:10

Boner, so there's no question that

35:13

the umpire made the correct call. So

35:15

I think, per the rules, the umpires made

35:18

the correct call, and this is just the way it is. Sure.

35:21

Yeah. If everything happened as

35:23

it is reported, and as the umpires

35:26

understood it,

35:27

then yes, they made the correct call. The force

35:29

at second was not resolved.

35:31

Rookie Fred Merkel

35:33

committed a horrible boner by retreating

35:36

back to celebrate with his team and the fans

35:38

before touching second base.

35:40

Man. So the game wasn't over until the force at second

35:42

is resolved. And the fans were already on

35:44

the field. I think it's interesting that the fans could just

35:46

walk across the field after the game.

35:49

That's interesting.

35:50

So why is it called Merkel's Boner? So

35:52

just let's talk about the entomology. Entomology?

35:55

That's study of insects. Etymology,

35:58

which is word studies, right? Etymologist

36:01

right is that not saying that right? I think so.

36:03

What's the deal here? So that word has

36:06

clearly changed meaning Apparently

36:08

so I went ahead and took the risk of

36:10

googling the word boner

36:13

of googling the phrase boner definition

36:15

and

36:16

Here is what I'm getting

36:19

definition number one

36:20

North American English vulgar slang

36:23

an erection of the penis

36:26

definition number two North American

36:29

English informal

36:30

a stupid mistake

36:33

Those are very very different in

36:35

terms of their application They are and

36:37

I understand how each word

36:39

only has so much real estate that it can

36:42

occupy and If that real

36:44

estate enters into the realm that boner

36:46

has entered into then you

36:48

pretty much have to vacate the real estate and just Give

36:51

it up to the new occupant

36:53

We're just gonna let boner be what boner is and

36:55

we will just retire to history the

36:57

former use which was a stupid mistake Have

37:00

you ever heard somebody say

37:02

boner

37:03

as though they were talking about just messing something

37:06

up? Oh

37:06

No, I haven't

37:09

I don't think I have

37:10

I have once when I was a young man

37:12

in my first job

37:14

Another person who worked there came in

37:16

and they're like Matt. I

37:18

Just made a huge boner

37:21

The what yeah, come

37:23

here and what they had done I'm doing a really

37:25

good job laughing. I'm proud of myself,

37:27

right? They They

37:30

had backed up into their own mailbox and

37:32

dinged the side mirror on their

37:34

new vehicle Yeah, that was it. But

37:37

for this person who was a generation

37:39

or two before me age-wise That

37:42

term

37:43

in polite society was clearly still

37:45

lingering around when he grew up.

37:48

I was very dignified about it I'm not kidding.

37:50

I was I didn't giggle or crack a smile.

37:53

I was like, oh a boner. I Have

37:55

to know what this is. Sure. What happened?

37:58

Then I was like, oh that can mean a mess mistake.

38:01

And so then I went back to my office and

38:03

on the primitive internets that existed back

38:05

then, I was like, I hope I don't get in

38:07

trouble, but

38:08

I want to know. And

38:10

that was the previous time I googled

38:12

the phrase boner definition.

38:14

And that is when I learned that the Merkel boner

38:16

was a thing, because that's what came up.

38:19

That's interesting. And it brings up all kinds

38:21

of questions about the evolution of language.

38:24

I can think of several words that have changed

38:26

meanings. In fact, in modern

38:28

society, I believe it's become fashionable

38:30

to weaponize the definition of

38:32

words,

38:34

to change words in order to

38:36

almost take ground. Like, oh, if

38:38

I can make this word mean this,

38:41

I

38:41

can use it as a way to

38:43

identify brand things. Yeah.

38:47

An example of that for the sake of conversation.

38:50

And I'm very up for talking about

38:53

issues like this, but that's not what

38:55

we're doing here. I just want to talk about the evolution of two

38:57

words,

38:58

hyphenated words

39:00

that were captured by two different sides

39:02

of a very hot debate that

39:05

I think demonstrate a tremendous

39:08

wit for branding on the part

39:10

of both sides,

39:11

pro choice and pro life.

39:14

Yeah. Notice how neither of them

39:16

are against anything. They're

39:18

both positively stated.

39:21

And again, the whole debate

39:23

aside,

39:24

they're both things that are very desirable.

39:27

Choices and lives are

39:29

both things that people would theoretically

39:32

want, but each side

39:34

would say the other is using

39:36

Orwellian language and that it's not reflective

39:39

of what the coined term

39:41

holds itself out as representing.

39:44

Another example I've seen recently, I

39:46

saw a person on a newscast

39:49

and they used the term woke

39:52

and I don't want to tell you the person's politics.

39:55

In fact, they weren't a very political person, but

39:57

the newscaster did something interesting. They said,

39:59

What is the definition of the word woke to

40:02

the person? And I thought to myself,

40:04

oh wow,

40:06

they just almost checkmated this person.

40:09

Because this person now has

40:11

to define this word that means

40:13

certain things to certain groups.

40:15

It doesn't matter what you say, you could twist

40:18

their response to that question and

40:20

make them sound bad somehow.

40:23

I would like to leave that word there because of how much

40:25

meaning has been attached to that. And

40:27

also let's just note that if somebody is listening

40:30

to this episode

40:31

roughly in chronological

40:33

proximity to when we publish, this

40:36

little segment right here where you used the

40:38

word woke is going to be

40:40

interpreted by them differently than

40:42

if they're listening to this in five years or 10 years.

40:45

Because that word is going to evolve like crazy.

40:48

I guarantee you, it will not conjure

40:51

the same emotions, the same associations,

40:53

the same political alignments in

40:55

five years or 10 years. Hello,

40:58

by the way, to those of you who are listening at that point

41:00

and looking into the future, it's

41:01

nice to meet you, glad to have you here, as

41:03

it will for the people who are listening right now

41:06

in the third chair. Because that word is

41:08

undergoing all sorts of

41:11

verbal definitional

41:14

metamorphic forces under

41:17

all kinds of massive pressures

41:19

that are reforming that word into

41:21

different things. From my world,

41:24

evangelical is a word that I have

41:26

seen undergo massive strain

41:28

and pressure. And I spoke

41:30

a while back

41:31

with one of the absolute

41:33

elite rockstar geniuses

41:36

in the whole world of religious

41:38

taxonomy. Who fits where, what do you call

41:40

it all? How do you organize this stuff? His

41:43

name's Mark Knoll. And one of the things he

41:45

said when I asked him about the word evangelical

41:47

is that it's just being asked to do too

41:49

much right now. It can't mean

41:52

all the things people need it to mean in

41:54

different sectors at the same time. And

41:56

so his proposal was sometimes

41:59

words need to go.

41:59

fallow. They

42:01

just need to sit for a while. What

42:03

was that word you said? Fallow? Fallow. Like

42:05

the crop rotations where you let a field

42:07

or you let soil sit for a while

42:09

to regain its nutrients

42:12

and its properties that make it fit for

42:14

growth. You can't just beat the heck

42:16

out of soil and inject it with artificial

42:19

nutrition all the time. At some

42:21

point, you just got to let the thing sit for a while.

42:23

There has to be a period of rest. And

42:25

he was proposing that it might be good if

42:28

we could initiate a period of rest for

42:30

certain words. He just proposed this

42:33

for evangelical, but I would propose it for a lot

42:35

of words. I think there are words that

42:37

if they mean everything, they don't mean anything

42:39

anymore. And it might be better to just let

42:41

them sit for a while and try to be more specific

42:44

in our language

42:45

because more precise language makes us

42:47

understand each other better and hopefully like each other

42:49

better.

42:50

That's interesting. There's a word

42:52

that I hear often used in political ads

42:55

that is being used

42:58

and you can hear it in the voice actor voicing

43:01

the ad and the word is liberal. They

43:03

say he's a liberal. What

43:05

a funny insult. It's a funny use of

43:07

the word, right? Because you would

43:10

probably refer to yourself as someone from

43:13

the liberal West, wouldn't you? I am definitely

43:16

a liberal.

43:17

Yeah. Yeah. I'm not

43:19

a leftist nor a rightist, but

43:21

I'm definitely a liberal, meaning bill

43:23

of rights, free mind,

43:25

free market, freedom of expression,

43:28

political tolerance for your opponents.

43:31

Yeah. Liberal. This word was being used

43:34

in a very

43:36

aggressive way. It was a

43:38

label that was being, I almost imagine

43:41

it being printed out on one of those inkjet

43:44

label makers and just put on somebody's forehead

43:46

like, oh, that's a liberal. Let's tag

43:48

them with that word. And we all know that word

43:50

is bad, right?

43:51

Right? Yeah. Yeah. It's

43:54

interesting. I think words change and

43:57

the weaponization of words,

43:59

I'm not a fan of it. I don't like it. But

44:02

that's only one of the reasons that words

44:04

change. Right now, that's, I think,

44:06

the biggest driving force we're seeing in the

44:08

changing of words is language

44:11

is hyperpoliticized right now.

44:13

The people on the far ends of the distribution who

44:16

are most looking for a fight and

44:18

who are the least liberal in their

44:20

views, they are the least tolerant, they

44:23

want to eradicate the language

44:25

strongholds of their opponents and

44:27

expand the language holdings

44:30

of their side. In doing so, you

44:32

reduce the ability to have intellectual

44:35

space to freely

44:37

talk about ideas for one position, and

44:39

you expand everything

44:42

under the massive umbrella

44:43

of your position. And I hate this

44:45

practice. I don't care if I agree

44:48

or disagree with the politicians

44:51

and political pundits behind it or not.

44:53

It's a horrible practice that destroys

44:56

language and weaponizes something

44:58

that is supposed to be a thing we share. We

45:01

might not agree on a lot of things, but we all agree on what

45:03

words mean.

45:04

And it gives us a common starting point. It gives

45:06

me hope for peace and resolution

45:09

and understanding with other people. When

45:11

you pervert and weaponize words to gain

45:13

an advantage in this dystopian

45:16

Orwellian manner, you're messing

45:18

with something that is perhaps the

45:20

most shared thing we have in a given

45:22

society, our ability to say a word and have

45:24

the other person know what it means. So

45:27

I'm very troubled by that. Phobic is another one.

45:29

Phobic. Yes. Yeah.

45:31

That's a subject. You can just tag that on anything

45:34

and you get to label anybody

45:36

in the thing once you say that.

45:37

You are right to call out the

45:40

right leaning practice in society of trying

45:42

to weaponize the word liberal as

45:45

a jab against people who lean

45:47

left.

45:48

And honestly, I don't know that you meant to do it,

45:50

but phobic, that's a club the left uses.

45:53

Anything someone disagrees with they are phobic

45:56

of. But here's my biggest gripe with

45:58

the word. That's not what it means.

46:01

I mean, what's a phobia? A fear

46:03

of something. Right. Fear and

46:05

hate are different words.

46:07

They mean different things.

46:09

I think that's interesting and it makes me wonder

46:12

what words I may use incorrectly

46:14

and the definition that I understand

46:16

the word to have is not the

46:18

actual definition. There must be words

46:21

in my vernacular that there has

46:23

to be. And brother, that's the same way I think about theology.

46:27

I know I'm wrong about God. I

46:30

just don't know where I'm wrong about God. If

46:32

I knew where I was wrong, I would

46:34

stop being wrong because I would want to

46:36

be right and I would change it.

46:38

And that's just one of the problems when you deal with

46:41

abstract things is you're

46:43

trying to hold to things that are true

46:45

and accurate, that are good representation of what that word

46:47

means, what this concept means, but

46:50

we're fallible. So I know, yes,

46:52

of course you're using some words wrong. Of course

46:54

I am. Of course I hold wrong opinions

46:57

or understandings about how things actually are.

46:59

It's just tricky when you don't happen

47:01

to know which ones they are. And then when

47:04

you do find out where you were wrong, well,

47:06

hopefully you just change it. That's

47:08

interesting. Okay.

47:11

This is all amazing and fascinating, but

47:13

I have a thing happening right now. I've got sunlight

47:15

here in Alabama. It's been partially cloudy

47:17

and I've got a high speed camera set up that

47:20

I need to go attend to because there's something

47:22

really cool I want to film in slow motion. It's really

47:24

cool. Yeah. You do. You need to attend

47:26

to it. I need to do the thing. Thank you for your patience

47:28

with me. We've been a lot of places

47:30

here. We started with a softball mistake.

47:34

I'm so very glad you had that tape

47:36

of barnacles and testicles. Those guys get around, don't

47:39

they? They work everywhere.

47:40

Yeah, they're a blessing. They're a real

47:42

blessing. So we got through

47:44

them in 1908 there. Yeah, we went

47:47

to- Snowboarding.

47:49

Snowboarding. Yeah, we went to battles of the battle

47:52

for language in modern

47:54

society and how you can weaponize words.

47:56

That was interesting. And

47:58

here we are. What do we do with this, Matt? Well,

48:01

normally I'm the one that mentally maps

48:03

out convoluted conversations that go in

48:05

a lot of different directions. But today I've

48:08

got to tip my hat to you, my friend. You were on it.

48:11

Yeah. I mean, seriously, all

48:13

of it started out of you being like, ah, check

48:16

out this video. Oh no. And

48:18

me saying, whoa, there's something like that that happened

48:20

in history. And you saying, let's turn on

48:22

mics. And then we turned on mics and

48:24

we get into this whole,

48:26

this whole interesting part of our psychology about

48:28

competition and what is honorable competition.

48:31

And what does it mean when you celebrate prematurely?

48:33

And are there different motivations for that

48:35

that would be different in their level of desirability

48:38

or forgivability? I think that's

48:40

a super interesting discussion that we got

48:43

solidly halfway through. But

48:45

then because the name of

48:47

the incident in the baseball game is

48:49

the Merkel boner. Okay, full disclosure.

48:52

You and I talked about this off mics and we're like, do we even

48:54

acknowledge the boner thing?

48:56

Should we just roll with it and let everybody feel

48:58

weird that we never talked about it? And

49:01

my argument was, dude, we

49:03

can't not. It's

49:06

just evolution of language. It just is what it is,

49:08

man. It meant something different when they named

49:10

that incident. And so then, of course, we're going to get

49:12

into that whole question about how language evolves.

49:15

And

49:15

where I love that we got to was the discussion on

49:18

the forced political weaponization

49:21

of language that we're seeing culturally right now.

49:23

What I'd love to talk about another time when

49:26

the sun isn't right and you don't have a cool

49:28

thing to go shoot is other

49:30

reasons that language evolves

49:32

over time, other forces that work

49:35

to change what we make

49:37

of a word that maybe are a little bit more innocuous

49:40

and more evolutionary in nature

49:42

as opposed to being so intentional

49:45

and forced. I think that

49:45

would be fun as well. Yeah, I think

49:48

that would be fascinating. And I think this weaponization

49:50

of language is not happening only now. I

49:52

think it's happened throughout history. It'd be very

49:54

cool to maybe talk to a historian

49:56

that knows that weaponization

49:59

of language

49:59

happened in the past, like maybe comes up with some

50:02

examples. I think it'd also be interesting to talk about

50:04

just the evolution of a language, a language

50:07

and how that happens. I would love

50:09

to find an expert that knows something on that. And I think

50:11

it'd be fun. Yeah, I agree.

50:14

And though the impulse has always been there on

50:16

the parts of powerful people with agendas

50:18

to control and shape language,

50:20

such actors in society

50:23

have only very recently had the

50:25

kind of tools at their disposal that

50:28

exist right now. To do it quickly. And I think that does

50:30

make it different as an exercise

50:32

than previous attempts to manipulate language.

50:35

That's a good point. Yeah. Yeah. I'll buy that.

50:37

One thing I want to say here, I

50:39

just don't want to lose sight of the fact that you

50:41

and I get to have an interesting conversation

50:43

together as friends and other people sit

50:46

in and listen to this with us. I'm just grateful

50:48

for that. I don't want to appear like

50:50

I take that for granted. I don't. I think

50:52

it's just really cool that other people take the time

50:54

to have these complex thoughts with

50:57

us, even though we may be doing it in a

50:59

juvenile way at times. But I, I'm

51:01

grateful. I'm grateful for the third chair

51:04

for sticking in and hanging out with us.

51:06

If the better part of a decade ago,

51:08

you had told me, you know, it'd be fun would be

51:11

to share just a teeny tiny bit

51:13

of our friendship that we're committed

51:15

to as dear friends with other people and

51:17

just see what happens, just a little bit of it, I

51:19

mean, there's stuff that's just for us and our families, but

51:22

I wouldn't even know what strategy you would employ.

51:25

And it ended up being this thing. And

51:27

the kids were pulling up pictures from the cloud

51:31

or something the other day on their mom's phone.

51:33

And I saw one of our kids hanging out the

51:36

first time

51:36

that we ever got together.

51:38

And it reminded me that was a long

51:41

time ago.

51:42

The world has changed. We've

51:44

changed. Our families have changed. And

51:47

friendship is, it's a pretty cool constant

51:50

that runs as a through line through a whole lot of things

51:52

that are very dynamic and even

51:54

unstable. And

51:55

yeah, I appreciate that we get to do this and I appreciate

51:57

that we get to share it with everybody sitting in the third chair.

52:00

I agree.

52:01

Am I still clear to come up to South Dakota and

52:03

go fishing with you? Is that on the table? Yeah,

52:06

I mean sooner than later. I hope the

52:08

weather is perfect. The water is great. All right,

52:11

I'll do it I'm heading that way brilliant.

52:13

All right. We'll do some South Dakota episodes.

52:15

This will be fun Not like about South Dakota, but sitting

52:17

here at my place. Yeah, that'd be fun. Let's do it.

52:19

Sounds good Thanks for going to weird places buddy. Yeah,

52:22

have a good one. I appreciate it

52:42

They will be

52:43

talking about this boner in future

52:45

forms of media yet imagined. I cannot

52:48

believe this has happened Surely

52:50

this is a boner that will transcend

52:52

print and send echoes forward

52:54

into history changing the sport

52:57

and media Forever

52:59

they will be talking about this boner for

53:01

over a hundred years

53:05

Our descendants will be reflecting

53:07

at the magnitude of this boner Did

53:17

you imagine this would be your job when you grew

53:19

up I got lightheaded I actually

53:22

just got lightheaded I Gave

53:24

blood a couple days ago. I just laughed

53:26

so hard. I know it kind of came

53:28

in a little bit I got tunnel like it. Oh,

53:30

dude

53:33

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