It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven nine
day. Now, here's Nick coffee. All right, let's get it started
at the five o'clock hour here on a Tuesday afternoon. It's a Friday for
me. I hope that doesn't make you jealous. I will be out tomorrow
through Friday and of course back on Monday. And I'm starting to calm my
I don't know. I wouldn't call it nerves, but every now and then
I get like pre travel trip anxiety to where I just I don't know,
I feel like there's something inside of me telling me the last thing you need
to be doing is going on this trip, which is nonsense. I'm looking
forward to this trip, but I feel like because it's a little I mean,
it's not really a spontaneous type of trip. But you know, in
typical me fashion, I just assumed I just have my dates wrong. I
thought, if this is a trip that we've known we were going to be
going on for a while and looking forward to it, but it didn't hit
me until it just a couple of days ago that it's actually taking place in
June, not July. So you know, I wasn't prepared to pack or
anything like that, so kind of scrambling to get everything in order. We
are driving, So I took my car to the car wash, only for
my kids to then, you know, just make another mess of it.
Because that's that's what happens when you have, you know, young kids,
at least that's what happens to me. If you got any tips about how
you know your kids can keep the you know, I guess not let them
eat or drink in the car, But like I would, I could never
do that. I mean, I guess I could, but I wouldn't want
to. Who doesn't like having snacks when they're in the car? That'd be?
Is that? I mean, that's it's a good way to pass the
time. It's punishment. I feel like if they can't have who doesn't want
snacks in the car? Come on now? I mean, i'd take my
kids to get I mean the road trip to say, yeah, donuts and
slushies every morning for breakfast. Not every morning, but at least a couple
of times a week. You know, that can leave a mess in the
vehicle. So I guess it's my own fault. But yeah, I'm looking
forward to to getting away and spending time with some family, and you'll be
in good hands because you'll have Tony Venetti, Dave Jennings and also Scott Fitzgerald
filling in while I'm gone. So enjoy Are you someone that packs like way
ahead of time? If I don't, I get super stressed. So there
are certain times where I'm able to pack a couple of days ahead of time,
But in situations where I can't, and you know, it just happens,
and it's more stressful that way. All right, So let me ask
you this. If you were in the same position I'm in, when you're
leaving tomorrow morning for a trip that'll keep you gone for four nights in five
days, when would you have your bag packed and ready? I would have
liked it to be packed yesterday if I was leaving tomorrow. Okay, so
you would have liked it, meaning like you would have liked to have it
packed on Monday, knowing you're leaving Wednesday. Yeah, the day before you
leave, to me is best if it's a day of kind of just relaxing
before you get up and get in the car. So is it more just
about the process and like the mental component of packing for a trip or is
it like you have because I don't. I mean, I feel like you
wouldn't have a lot to pack, right, Like I mean not bringing you
know, I mean, I'm gonna bring enough clothes, always enough in case,
you know, something happens. But I think I am in the minority
when it comes to packing. I don't even consider it to be procrastinating.
I can pack the night before a trip and be totally fine and not worry
about it ahead of time. Not you know, think I'm gonna forget something.
I think mourning of or day of is different. I think that's like
a that's a scramble because then you're overthinking it and worrying that you left something.
But I am wired to. I mean, I could be gone for
a week and I'll pack the night before and as long as we've done laundry
and stuff, I'm good to go. Like I don't. That doesn't stress
me. It doesn't take me a crazy amount of time to pack. But
you know, my wife totally different situation, Like you know you haven't even
packed yet. No, we haven't. We're not leaving to tomorrow. Like
if if I wake up day of trip and I haven't started packing, then
you can be upset, like, don't have to worry about me. I'm
gonna get my stuff packed and it's gonna be fine. But I think a
lot of people like to get the packing done ahead of time, And here
I may have just figured out why I have this pre travel anxiety. Maybe
if I packed way ahead of time, then I'd never worry about it.
But I don't feel like my anxiousness has anything to do with packing, because
you know, I'm gonna pack close and that's really gonna be it. I'm
gonna take my backpack that as my laptop, and uh, there are you
know. I'm trying to think of something I could forget that would be really
like a really big deal like that. It would be like, oh,
I can't believe I forgot that. Yeah. See, I'm the kind of
person who always I overthink that I'm going to forget something, and it's usually
something like even if I forgot it, it's probably not a big deal,
even though in my head, I'll just be super pissed that I left something.
Same here, like I think if I left my laptop, I would
be very very like I would feel naked, like I would feel like I
don't know what, I've got to turn around. I gotta go home on
my laptop. But there's also a chance I take the laptop and never open
it on this trip, just because you know, I don't know what I'll
need, but just knowing that if I had to do some work, if
I had to send an email, if I had to I mean, and
I have been times needed the laptop because even though I'm on vacation, like
I gotta, you know, there's things I got to keep up with.
But yeah, I lose, like other than leaving my wallet with my license
and my phone, I can't really because if it's closed, that would be
not ideal. But I can get closed, you know what I'm saying.
I can go to a store and buy, you know, an outfit.
I mean, you remember what happened on my way to Atlanta, right,
I had to stop and get closed? Yeah, because there was I mean,
it was I mean, I I don't that was a trip that we
were I don't even know if people know this. I don't remember talking about
it beforehand, so maybe it's not something anybody new or I'm sure you don't
care about it. That was like a last minute decision, like we thought
we planned on going. We were gonna be going to Atlanta for the Louisville,
Georgia Tech Game last year, but leading into it, it just started
to seem like more work than what we would get out of being there.
And I really thought, okay, you know, first post postgame show of
the Jeff brom era, I don't want to have any hiccups, Like maybe
it would be best to just stay back to it in studio because I'm gonna
have to leave the I'm gonna have to leave the hotel at halftime and get
settled in for the postgame show so I can make sure we're on the air.
And at the end, I just decided let's go ahead and do it
because I don't want to not be there as Bron makes his debut and it's
a you know, standalone game, prime time on a Friday night on ESPN.
And I was glad that we went. But because of that, you
know, last minute, and I mean woke up and decided, all right,
we're going. I brought the clothes on my back, that was it.
So actually know, I brought a pair of like basketball shorts to sleep
in and like a T shirt, but like I didn't actually have, you
know, clothes to wear to the game. And I wasn't like going to
be dressing up in like a you know, sport code or anything like that.
But I had, you know, I wasn't. I didn't Louisville gear,
which you're not really supposed to wear in the press box. Anyway,
so we stopped along the way and we were on a time crunch too.
We had to be on the air at three o'clock. We barely made it,
if you remember, which I'm sure you don't. People don't remember.
I was guess I was talking to John there, but it was kind of
a scramble. I think we actually started the show on the phone, maybe
because of the scramble, But anyways, they have Yeah, like that was
like that was where I forgot clothes. But you know, there's plenty of
places you can buy clothes. And I'm not somebody that you know, is
really worried about fashion and style because I don't have any anyway with the clothes
I have as my own. You know, it's not like I'm you know,
I've got something that I really want. Like, for example, we're
going on this trip, I have no clue what I'm gonna wear. I'm
just gonna throw a bunch of clothes that I typically wear into this into this
suitcase, and that's gonna be it. So I didn't mention this the other
day, but I nearly lost my driver's license in Delaware. Oh No.
We were at a state park called Cape Henlopen, and in order to ride
the bikes around the state park, you have to give them your driver's license.
And when we finished up, we were in such a hurry to leave.
My wife was having kind of like an issue that we had to deal
with, and I just left it there. In about six hours later,
the people at the state park called me and I I didn't even be cause
I lost it, but thankfully they called me and I went back and got
it. Yeah, that's something that you could go without and not know it
for a long time, exactly until you get pulled over. Yeah even Yeah,
you could be without your license because honestly, how often, like I
don't I know, you don't buy a lot of booze. I don't get
carted anymore because I'm not, And you probably wouldn't get card anyway, because
you don't look twenty one. You're far from twenty one, but twenty five
to twenty six. Yeah, twenty six, So you know that's a good
point. The ID would be something that you would really not You could go
a long time without knowing you don't have it. Now if you're and this
is what I guess, if you open your wallet and see that it's not
there, it would stand out. But you know, for me, I
have and I don't know why I have this underneath my actual ID, I
have an older ID that became was it expired, No, it's an ID
that is an old from It's the last idea that I had before we moved.
So visually, you know, my dumbass wouldn't even be able to see
that I don't actually have a legitimate license because you know that one is not
valid because I had to get a new one because we moved. So yeah,
I guess like airports, you always need it, but you didn't fly,
so yeah, yeah, I can't. That's scary. That's weird to
think about. What are situations I guess I get other than getting pulled over
where you kind of immediately need your license pulled over carded to buy something.
You mentioned alcohol, and we didn't do any of that while we were out
there either. I can't. Yeah, I can't think of anything honestly,
because I mean, it's a driver's license. Now it's also used to identify
yourself and and you know some people actually have IDs but not driver's licenses.
But uh, yeah, I I could. That's such a me thing to
not have my ID and not realize it. Like months could go buy and
I could be thinking, I don't know where I left it, I don't
know who has it, I don't know you know, what happened. But
in fact, I have to confess something embarrassing here that is not just it's
it's only embarrassing for me because my wife. So there was a time where
my wife and this this is a bad look on her, and thankfully,
fingers crossed, we no longer deal with this ever again. But my wife
lost three iPhones in like an eighteen month period when we were younger, and
when you know, we didn't have you know, the means to just go
replace an iPhone, right and one. It happened once and it was just
a rare you know, it was just a you know, we really don't
even know where she ended up losing it. This was in a world where
people were on their phone a lot but nothing like you are now, you
know what I mean. And to be fair, my wife, you know,
I think this is actually a quality, a compliment to her. She
can go without her phone a lot better than I can, and actually a
lot better than I think most people. My wife cannot have her phone for
hours and not realize it, and sometimes it pisses me off and I need
to get a hold of her. She's just you know whatever. But because
of that, she has an Apple Watch, so her phones not on her
one of the kids has it watching videos like she'll see on her phone that
I'm calling, which I'm glad that she has that product that is the Apple
Watch. But she lost the first one and it was just kind of you
know, we chalked it up as you know, you bad luck, what
are you gonna do? So then we got a new one, and then
she had it for a long long time and then she left it at a
pedlar's mall for some reason. She set it down at a pedlar's mall to
look at something left and came back and big surprise, wasn't there anymore.
And then we got a replacement. Five days later. She left it at
the tanning bag. Big surprise. Went back, wasn't there, And you
know, I know she's not doing it on purpose, but like, come
on, like what are we doing here? Like, you know, so
it became a really you know, it would be something that I would just
casually bring up, not during a fight, but just I'd be a smart
ass about make sure you don't leave your iPhone here, like we could be
anywhere in the world. Hey, make sure you just don't sit your iPhone
down here, you know, just kind of you know, busting her chops
a little bit. That's tough too, because once it happens that many times,
you become super self conscious, like, man, am I gonna leave
it? Well? What else am I going to leave it? So again
I'm not exaggerating, we haven't. He hasn't lost an iPhone since we've had
a kid, So you know, it's a long time. So Karma came
back to get me because it wasn't that long after her iPhone issues ended that
I continue to leave my debit card places. I would, you know,
pay for dinner and it would be given back to me with the receipt to
sign and I would just forget it. In fact, one time I left
it in an ATM and you know that's dangerous. Yeah. So another another
time where I lost it where I just you know, I left it in
the card reader somewhere when I paid for it. And you know, we
can quickly cancel the card when we find out it's and and any time that
it's happened, there was no there were no charges of somebody using it because
I'd left it. But you know the process of getting a new card is
never you know that convenient. Uh. And my wife works for the financial
institution where we where we bank and keep our money, and they're a little
smaller than some of the you know, big national banks to where getting a
card from them as you know, not as convenient. So you know,
with that, I complain about how long it takes, and you know,
she's giving it right back to me like, well, you probably shouldn't have
lost it. So on Father's Day actually it came up. So but le'll
be back up. Two days before Father's Day, somehow the iPhone thing came
up, and I, you know, couldn't help myself. I took another
jab at her about losing iPhones. So then she threw it right back at
me about debit card like you know, and It's true I lost debit cards.
Now those didn't cost us any money. The iPhones did. However,
We're at the track at Churchill Downs on Father's Day and I lost my debit
card and just two days before I was like, what's the last time that's
happened. I haven't lost my debit card in forever? Like I was,
you know, defensive, and then I realized I didn't have my debit card.
And all it took was you know, me looking for it. And
she looked at me with a grin, like, you lost your debit card,
didn't you like, like, you know, like almost wanted me to
lose it. I think, right, just because we're we're feuding about you
know, who loses more stuff. And I got defensive again. I was
like, no, I know where it is. It's fight, do you
think that? And sure enough I knew I did not have it. So
I went back to the last place I bought a beer and said, is
there any chance that somebody left a debit card up here? And she said
the lady said what's your name? And I gave her my name and she
said, here you go. We were trying to yell at you whenever you
were walking away that you left it in the card reader, and I said,
yeah, I was probably just in my own world. But I got
it back. And my wife, unless she's listening as we speak, does
not know that I did in fact lose my I didn't have my pride got
in the way. I didn't have the heart to tell her that she was
in fact correct that I did lose my debit card once again. But that's
karma. I don't really believe in karma, like on a deep level,
but that's just that's what I get, right, Like me acting like,
oh no, I haven't lost it in forever, and then two days later
I lose it. Have you ever lost something that, like, you know,
was a big deal. I can't. I'm gonna guess no. I
mean other than personality. Yeah, the example I just mentioned when we were
on vacation, that's probably the close stuff come to losing something that was pretty
important and really could have gotten that back somehow. Yeah, like losing things,
I mean, what could you lose? That's really if something's really valuable,
it's either going to be what's in your wallet, your phone, your
car keys, things that you keep on your on your person. You know
this isn't this isn't really losing something. But whenever I worked at UPS,
I left my car unlocked frequently, and I was working the night shift,
and I don't know how long I'd been working there at this point, but
eventually somebody came around was you know, checking doors, and got to mind,
took my debit card, all the cash that may have been in my
wallet, took books out of my college you know, backpack that kind of
stuff, and I just felt like an idiot, Like why did anybody?
Why would anybody leave a car door unlocked when you're working a third shift job
in downtown not really down, so you're mad at yourself. Yeah, that
was like the first really dumb thing probably ever did as a young adult.
At that point, I was probably eighteen or nineteen. Were you able to
get like everything back? I mean, obviously the money you couldn't get back,
but like, you know, what was the process like of getting I
mean, you get to get a new ID made, I'm sure, And
yeah, I remember they canceled my debit card send me a new one that
way, But at that age, at that age, I mean, clearly
it's a hassle and in an inconvenience, but you probably didn't have a ton
of stuff that was that much. Fun of the fact, like I could
see what the uh the person purchased with my debit card. The first place
they went was White Castle, So did they get like, did you call
the cops? I remember going to the security people in the front of the
ups area and they like could file a report or something, but there wasn't
really anything they could actually do. They're not going to go track down my
phone or my debit card or any of that stuff. It's not that valuable
to them. So I I've shared this story before, but I don't think
i've shared it on the air since you and I've worked together, and I
probably haven't shared it in a long long time. But I actually lost my
wallet when I was eighteen years old, but it was also stolen, so
let me so I went to it's not there anymore, But there's a gas
station near where I grew up that used to have a subway attached to it.
And I was leaving my girlfriend at the time, my now wife.
I was leaving her house and I stopped at to get gas and I went
in to get a subway sandwich for dinner, and when I left, I
left my wallet on the counter, like right in front of where I was
checking out, and I knew that I left it there, but I'd gotten
back home to where I was living at the time, turned around and you
know, came in there. It's a gas station. So they're up in
twenty four seven, and I was like, hey, anybody leave a wallet
in here, and they were like, oh, no, you know.
So I go to work the next day. At that time, I'm young,
I'm working like my first job. It's in the summer. I think
it was the summer before I went away to school, and I was talking
to my boss at the time. My dad worked at the company, so
it was a guy that you know, I knew other than just working for
him. But I told him I'd lost my wallet and he was like,
well, hey, I'm sure because this is two thousand and six, so
therefore there's not a lot of like cameras weren't everywhere then, Like you could
have security cameras and all that, but it wasn't that common like for restaurants
to not have it. But he said, if it's a gas station,
they have they have. I mean, they can tell you they can go
back and tell you if you left your wallet there on the counter, it
would be right there. And I said, okay, great, So I
called him on my break and I said, hey, I was in there
last night. I'm just trying to find my wallet. Can anybody like check
and just check the camera to see if I left it on the counter.
And it was a young employee at the gas station who apparently was really eager
to help me out, thankfully, and he checked the security camera and I
didn't get a call back for like two days. So the next call that
I got was not from the store, It was from a It was from
a detective and he said, hey, you know, this is such and
such with with the Louis Metro Police Department. They saw that the guy who
worked at Subway grabbed my wallet after I walked out. He walked out of
the back of the store and took out eighty dollars cash that I had and
threw my wallet in the dumpster. Well, they called the cops on him
and turned him in, so he was arrested. And you know, they
told me that they were they were you know, that the stores was pressing
charges on him somehow, and that I would you know, they would be
in touch and they'd let me know, like you know you're gonna We'll let
you know, like there'll be restitution or whatever. So this is in two
thousand and six. At that time, I lived with my mom and my
stepdad, and I'm not kidding you. Nine ten years go by and I'm
at my other job before I was, right before I left my other job
that I had before I was able to do radio full time and work here
at iHeart, and I got a call from my stepdad, who you know.
It was just like this is like a really you know, I'm not
surprised at all by this, knowing him in the relationship we have together.
But he could have I don't think most people would have done what he did,
but I'm glad he did. So I'm I'm grown now. I have
a child, Like it's been ten years. I live at like I'm grown
up. So he calls me at work and he was like, hey call
me. You know. He left me a voicemails like hey call me back,
it's pretty important. So I called him back. I was like,
oh crap, what's going on. I'm worried something happened to my mother or
something like that, And he said, Hey, there's a detective that has
come to the house looking for you, like you okay? And I'm like,
yeah, like, no clue what in the world this could be about.
So he got a number and I called the guy and it was not
the same guy from ten years ago, but the guy who got prosecuted for
stealing my you know, charged in you know, guilty of commune whatever level
of theft that is. He had a long, lengthy criminal history throughout like
his life. Post stealing my wallet, he'd gone to prison. He'd been
in prison for like ten fifteen years or you know, ten to fifty year
sentence. He was still in prison at the time this happened, but he'd
worked off restitution eighty dollars and they were trying to figure out where to have
an eighty dollars check mail to me because he'd paid off his restitution for stealing
my wallet. And to this day, I've still never received the eighty dollars.
Crazy, isn't that wild? Wow? Yeah? But I mean I'm
thinking, i mean, I'm thinking to myself, why is there a detective
at my mom's house looking for me? That's not my legal address, but
that's the address they just had on file when they filled out the police report.
So anyways, if anybody knows how I can track down that money,
which in fact this all made this might all make sense. Now there's like
these things you can go in and enter your information and figure out like if
you're entitled like you like, if you're entitled to money that you never got
back because you overpaid in taxes or something. I was owed a certain amount
of money and my buddy showed it to me, and I'm like, I
don't know what that could be for. Maybe it's my restitution because he stole
my wallet. And it was more than just eighty bucks too, because it
was for whatever it cost to get a new eye, d and all that
stuff. But yeah, it took them a long time to really get that
thing resolved. But I guess it's actually not resolved considering I still haven't been
you know, paid. But anyways, quick break, we'll come back on
the other side and keep this thing rolling along. It's coffee and company.
We are feel about Thornton's right here on Sports Talk seven to ninety so in
our conversation about losing things, my best friend Matt texted me and reminded me
of something he lost that no offense pal, but that would be that'd be
tough. He lost his wife's wedding ring, that'd be a tough one.
Yeah. Yeah, it's hard to come back from. Yikes. It reminds
me though, that I lost my wedding ring briefly. We both kind of
did. So I don't have this problem now, but at one point,
if I got into water, not like the shower, but like if I
was in even in the pool, it could potentially happen. But the ocean,
like if you lose your if you lose your ring in the ocean,
you're not gonna get it unless you're really, really lucky. So we were
in Fort Lauderdale for a trip that we went on about, I guess about
nine years ago, and I took my wedding ring off on the beach where
we had our towels because I didn't want to lose it in the in the
ocean, so I just wrapped it up in my T shirt, and uh,
you know, it was probably a stupid thing to do because once we
got back and I picked up my T shirt, I forgot that my ring
was in there, and it just kind of flew away in the wind and
ended up in the sand somewhere. So we're like, you know, using
our hands trying to find it. My wife's telling me it's not a big
deal like it. You know, we can get a new one. It'll
be fine, trust me. It's not something I you know. So I'm
thinking, like, I can't lose my wedding ring like it would be It
would be you know, it would be sad. So we're we're looking.
She's trying to tell me just don't worry about it, and I won't.
I won't hear that because I don't. I'm not gonna quit. I'm gonna
try to find it. So there were two couples near where we were at
and they you know, saw us, you know, aggressive me, aggressively
digging for something in the sand, and they were curious. And then once
we told them like why we were doing that, they felt sad for me
and just started helping. And sure enough, there's six of us just digging
around in the area that the ring could have ended up, and one of
them found it. So and I still have it on my hand today.
So what a story? Yeah, this is storytime here in the five o'clock
hour. Good stuff, all right, real quick. I wanted to mention
this earlier, but I didn't get around to it. So I love the
creativity that comes with fantasy football punishment. I think fantasy football has declined in
popularity over the years because of sports gambling. I think people spend way more
time keeping up with their bets, player props, wagering in general than they
do their fantasy football team. And I have a love hate with my fantasy
football league. I'm probably the worst player in our league. I don't keep
up with it like I should, and yet they still haven't kicked me out.
And that's because I hope that they love me. They talk about things
that like are you know, it's normal back and forth about the league,
and I don't even think it's like they're speaking a different language to me.
So I don't, you know, I'm not somebody who, like, I'm
not obsessed with it, and they aren't either, to be honest with you.
But like, I could never walk away from that league. I would
never not want it to happen, because you know, it's the boys,
it's my lifelong friends. We have our draft every year, which is the
best thing we do, and it keeps us communicating with one another. I
mean, our group chat is never about fantasy football anymore. But it all
started because it was guys that were in the fantasy football league with us.
So, you know, it's it's not what it once was. But I
feel like because of what I just described, and I know there's many many
other dudes out there that are in a league that has a similar story like
that, that's gonna make it to where I don't believe it'll ever go away,
and I hope that that's the case. But what I love is the
creativity for the losers, right. I don't remember the first story that went
viral about a guy that lost his fantasy football league and had to, you
know, really do something nobody would ever want to do for the punishment.
You know, I've seen guys who had to go get like a professional ESPN
the Body magazine shoot where they had to like be naked with like a football
covering their genitals and whatnot, and just super embarrassing. The waffle House challenge
was one. Do you remember that one where a guy had to sit in
waffle house for twenty four hours and eat so many waffles. There's a lot
of creativity out there. But this one, this one, I don't know
how this guy didn't die. This is Joe Deleone, who, by the
way, is a former college football player. He actually works for Yahoo Sports,
but he posted this and has gone viral thirteen point two million views here
on this tweet. But here's the tweet. It says, I finished in
last place in fantasy football, and tomorrow I have to do my punishment.
I have to sit on I had to sit at a McDonald's for twenty four
hours unless I can eat my way out of it. So here's the Uh,
I don't know how. I don't know that. Yeah, there's the
let me try to find the thread here. But yeah, so time reduction.
So each time he eats a bacon, egg and cheese biscuit, it
takes forty five minutes off. Each time he eats a big breakfast with hot
cakes takes one hundred and twenty minutes off. That's two hours. So again,
there's things you can eat that could get you through to take the time
off of the twenty four So just to give you an example breakfast, I
mentioned the bacon, egg and cheese biscuit. That's forty five minutes thee sausage,
egg and cheese McMuffin is forty five minutes. A little lighter breakfast the
sausage McMuffin, it's thirty minutes. But on the breakfast. On the breakfast
side, the biggest you know, I mean, two hours can be taken
off if you eat the big breakfast with the hotcakes, which of course is
pancakes. On the burger items, you can get a double quarter pounder with
cheese that takes off an hour. You can get a quarter pounder that'll take
off actually, let's see they have it cret. Yeah, you can get
a quarter pounder or a big mac. Each of those takes forty five minutes
off. You can also get a double cheeseburger, which takes forty five minutes
off. On the chicken and fish sandwiches, all of them are the same
forty five minutes off for a MC crispy, a Deluxe Mix Crispy, Spicy
mccrispy, filet of fish, MC chicken if you eat ten chicken nuggets takes
thirty minutes off. So you can eat twenty chicken nuggets it'll take an hour
off. And then fries and side items thirty minutes off for every medium fry
that you eat, you get an ice cream in a milkshake, it takes
twenty five minutes off and that's it. So I mean I would be there
for twenty four hours, wouldn't you. I mean, I mean, just
by hold on one second, yeah, I mean, John's getting about to
throw up in there because he's just thinking about having to shove all this McDonald's
down his throat at. I mean, i'd probably eat, you know,
once for every meal, but that wouldn't be enough to really substantially take my
time off. Of the McDonald's sentence, I'd probably shave off a couple of
hours maybe, So he said he received a lot of consulting on this.
So the goal is if he can eat twenty hash Browns, he can be
out of there in less than ten hours. And I did later see because
he was all over. He was on a bunch of shows, doing interviews,
doing media hits, because of course, you know, this is a
creative and clever way to punish. Sure, you're a loser of your fantasy
football league. But he and I actually think hash Browns would be a good
way to go, because anytime you eat a hash brown it's gonna take off
twenty five minutes, and I can go through those things in three bytes,
two bites. If I'm really you know, that's true, trying to just
scarf him down, and it wouldn't be a race like I would. I
would not inhale all this. If think, if you just gradually work your
way up, you can maybe not get out of their asap. But instead
of being there for twenty four hours, you're there for you know, eight
or five. I don't know, but I don't, you know, I'm
pretty simple with McDonald's, which, by the way, I like McDonald's like
I don't. Sometimes it's become cool to like knock McDonald's, like, oh
who eats that? I haven't had McDonald's in ten years. Well, okay,
well enough people are eating it. They're doing pretty well. I don't
try to eat McDonald's a lot, but like, I like McDonald's, but
what I get there, Like I could put away two double cheeseburgers, and
that would be let's see here, that would be is it on here?
Yeah, that would be me taking an hour and a half off, and
at that point I couldn't eat much more. If I eat two double cheeseburgers
in one sitting, So maybe I give it twenty minutes rest and then I'm
doing it again. Like I wouldn't do well with this. But back to
the hash brown. He apparently had shared this on one of the shows he
was on that it backfired because he bought a bunch of them at the same
time. He bought twenty of them at once. Well, they're not as
easy to eat when they're clumpy and not hot and fresh and warm, you
know what I'm saying. Like, yeah, like when it's hot and fresh,
it's just like a greasy potato, right, But whenever you have had
it sitting out for a while, it's a lot it's a lot tougher to
eat. So I would probably be there twenty four hours and just be miserable
because I would have tried to eat my way out and I couldn't. I
wouldn't be able to do it. Wouldn't be able to do it. What's
your go to? McDonald's. Do you have one go to? No?
I don't know if I have a McDonald's go to. I used to like,
I think this is a limited menu item. But when they did spicy
nuggets, those are okay. And by the way they do, I think
twenty nuggets could be like I don't remember what it said as far as how
much that. Yeah, so if you get so if you get ten McNuggets,
it takes off thirty minutes. I could be wrong because I rarely,
I raally get the mc nuggets. But I've had them before and they're fine.
But I feel like I could put those away pretty quickly because they're pretty
small, Like ten wouldn't be a big deal. But then again, you
know, I've never had ten, so maybe I'm totally wrong on that.
But yeah, that chicken biscuits pretty fire too, but that probably doesn't take
off very much time. Yeah, I'm trying to find some of the fantasy
football some of the more Again, I've mentioned some of the I've mentioned some
of the biggest punishments. The one where the guy had to sit at waffle
house was really creative because I mean, I feel like that was like the
first time one of these things went viral because somebody was kind of live tweeting
live tweeting as they were going through it, and like people were like,
damn, I want to see is this guy a live Uh? This is
a good rundown. Here this says, and this is this is interesting.
Uh this apparently there's a guy in Indiana who had a league and the last
place finisher had to endure a full body waxing session like pictures Steve Carell in
forty year old version. That would be that'd be tough. Uh someone had
to die their hair totally wacky color and that wouldn't be fun. Oh,
this would be brutal. Oh man, Like you have to go to an
open mic night at stand up comedy Oh no, oh god, I'm getting
like I'm cringing even like thinking about it. Oh man, that would be
bad. That may be the worst I can especially if you're not funny,
Like, that would be the worst I can I could I can think of.
Uh, somebody had to serve as the league winners butler for a weekend.
That could That would be brutal. But then again, I think you
know, uh, they if it's your friend, they probably wouldn't be you
know, it wouldn't be too hard on you. But yeah, having to
go to do an open mic night at a comedy club as somebody who you
know doesn't do comedy, that would be like I would just say sorry,
guys, you can kick me out of the league. I'm not doing it.
That's not my thing. All right, quick break, we'll come back
on the other side. We may talk sports at some point. I'm not
sure. I'm not going to promise anything, but stick around. Who knows,
maybe we'll surprise you right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. All right,
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and I don't have as much time as I planned on it. But this
is what I think you're going to start to see across college basketball in these
MTE events, which for those who don't know what it is, it's the
multi team events, the no late November early December type of tournaments that you
see like the Battle Fortlantis, those kind of events. And you're also gonna
see it in college football bowl games, and that is NIL being up for
grabs, and that will incentivize I mean, that's probably gonna incentivize guys to
play in bowl games that typically wouldn't because they can make some money. But
also I think you're gonna see in basketball. I mean that's not I mean,
guys don't opt out of those games. But I think it's just another
reason why someone may decide to stay in college rather than going pro overseas because
maybe their NIL situation is decent. But this, you know this, uh,
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gonna help us recruiting tool. And also you're gonna see more of these events
pop up because it's it's I mean, you need to pay ANIL to keep
these guys around and last that check. That's that's whatever. I mean,
that's it's helping. No sport has benefited from I think viewership and entertainment from
the portal than college basketball and inn IL as well. So I mean,
maybe others disagree, but viewership is up, better, players are staying in
college longer, and I don't know about you, but I think that's good
for the game. All Right, we're out of here. Enjoy the rest
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