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On today's self Core History, we
talk about the sport that captivated a nation.

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These were endurance athletes who needed an
edge and got it anyway they could.

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Cocaine and really gambling was a massive
proponent of its popularity. In one

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of the most exciting eras of American
history, the country's most exciting sport was

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none other than walking. So,
without further ado, let's get into this

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week's episode about pedestrianism. Welcome to
Softcore History. Welcome back to soft Core

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History. I'm your host for a
week. Dan Chester has always by Rob

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Fox, what's going on? And
Late Night calling him out of the bullpen.

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Scott Lopez, Hey, it's gonna
be here again. Guys, you

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were just you were at the studio, showed up and uh, we're doing

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this. We had to cancel on
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Yep, so are the people who
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us had to do an emergency show
bumped us and I just happened to sit

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here and hey, Scott, you
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yeah, why not? Yeah,
it's like my wife and my wife's

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bowl when they get bored and they
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like, we need a third and
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here. I guess I kind you're
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Like I don't really know what's gonna
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dialed in. I don't tend to
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how often are you needed? Every
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happened once. It was a bad
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anomaly. It was fun though.
Well, Scott, I didn't write this

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episode for you, but I'm glad
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that makes you feel really good.
Hey, this doesn't meant for you,

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but you're heres. Oh we're gonna
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it really fits anyone. I didn't
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we ever. Kind of wanted to
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Everyone knows me. I'm a big
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Oh it's solemn somber. It's not
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a gang of ladies. Lady gang. That's not good. Were they successful?

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Yeah? They're mean bitches? What
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I'm obviously did it because it takes
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so I could just do you mind? I didn't flog I man,

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I appreciate it, don't. I
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So softcore history, we already told

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you about that. Well, today
we're going to talk about a spectacle and

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a sport in the eighteen hundreds.
The day was September twenty first, eighteen

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nine. This is We've said this
before on the show. I think,

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but I think my favorite time in
history is the Victorian like era because that's

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just when everything is in it's at
its most insane. It makes no sense.

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Yeah, you think things are nuts
now modern times, that was its

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toddlerhood. And if you've ever seen
a toddler like they understand things, but

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they will shove their whole fucking hand
into a working garbage disposal until into a

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fucking, worrying, fucking on garbage
disposal. They will get it mangled because

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I'm like, what is that?
That's that is society in the Gilded Age,

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just being like, what is this
to everything? Well, I've never

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been around a toddler. I don't
think I'm allowed to either, to be

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honest with you, one hundred feet
yeah yah, I don't think it's even

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like a normal thing for me to
be around one. It's not legal for

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you to look like that and be
near a toddler. Yeah yeah, I

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mean, and I accept that.
And now toddler's fear me as they should.

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And if you're listening to this,
then you want to see what he

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looks like. Go to his softcore
history on YouTube. Dude, I look

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fucking retarded. You said you've had
that half for eight years. I've had

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this half for eight years. The
trick is just to cut the straw lining

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around the side of it and just
see what happens. He's lying. He's

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been growing the whole time. That
hats stayed the same size. Yeah,

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when I had this hat, I
didn't have hair, so it actually fit

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me, and now it just sits
on top and looks ridiculous. You look

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like a Mexican city scarecrow. All
right, I don't like that. I

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don't like that one, dude.
I'm only bronze because it's the summer.

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I look pretty well, I look
like you're I look like you whiteness in

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the winter. I mean you look
like Honestly, what you look like is

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you, uh, just got in
a fight at a NASCAR event and someone

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fucked up your hat real bad.
That is true. I did show the

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guys earlier that I do have a
legitimate fanny or not fanny, a crop

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top tan line. It is.
It is pretty sweet. I love that.

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Yeah, you look like you lost
your sticking bandana in a great dog

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does have a name? Yeah,
in the dust bowl. Pindle, the

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bindle, the hope, damn it. I always forget the bindle, the

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pantana on a stick, all your
worldly possession. You had a child,

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I was like, but that's so
little. How nearly that can fit in

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his pocket? Did you never run
away with a bindle before? Yes?

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A bindle? Yes? Who hasn't
everyone? I went to my neighbor's house

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immediately. But just take a backpack. No, what the Mexican and poor

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I think he's affording a backpack?
And Anaheim, did you take did you

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take your like go to school with
a bindle? Were you showing up?

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No? I was that kid that
had a binder in school. It's like

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the little like white binder thing.
You jammed everything in your binder. What

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else do you need? I mean
I had a backpack from kindergarten. On

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a backpack. No, I had
like a cool white binder with like stickers

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on it and stuff with like pizzas
of paper in it. And then if

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I got like homework, you know, without the whole punch, is you

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just like whole punch it yourself with
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system. You're from Texas, right, No, he's from California. Oh

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that's right. Oh boy, the
California education is again Anaheim. Yeah,

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seventeenth worst. I went to the
seventeenth worst high school in California. And

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there was and there was four high
schools in my city. But I will

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I will not say you're from Anaheim. I will only say you're from the

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OC. I like that. I
don't even like saying I'm from there,

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dude, Like I'm a Texan,
you know, been here for a long

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time. I don't know. I
like saying now. I like saying you're

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from the OC. That's where you're
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sounds like I should have a TV
show like I called the OC or Yeah,

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will you'd be like one of Ryan's
like skeezy friends from back in Chino,

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you know, in with my bendle, Yeah, with your Bandole Walking

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twenty four seven, Goodbye Ben.
It's Saturday night in Inland at Los Angeles.

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We gotta do what we always do, break into cars. That's what

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we do here. Got a bindle
full of like drugs and booze. Yeah,

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I'm going to watch the o seed
night. You kind of almost look

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like a specialist in a Wild West
gang. Like you you're in charge of

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the dynamite that derails the train.
I like that. I have experience with

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dynamite. But you're very expendable.
No, no, like you're gone within

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the first fifteen minutes. Now,
I think he Well, if it's like

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a series, I make it to
episode two. You're a desperado. I

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don't know what that means. I
don't speak Spanish. It's okay, it's

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desperate. Ho okay, that makes
sense. Yeah, it kind of checks

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out. Yeah, no, I'm
still making it to episode two. If

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it's a series, if it's a
movie, twenty minutes. Fair enough.

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Back to New York City, September
twenty first, eighteen seventy nine. Ten

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thousand spectators gathered at the relatively new
Madison Square Garden. Had no idea msg

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was this old? Well back then, it was a garden on an early

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Sunday morning at one am Local time. The athletes were international superstars, and

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no expense was spared when it came
to keeping them at peak performance. They

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rolled in with an entire entourage of
doctors, dietitians, trainers, private chefs,

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and messuss I feel like I hear
about two seconds away from talking about

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how the first ever sporting event at
Madison Square Garden was a dogfight. I

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was going more towards chariots. That's
not the left turn. Okay, I

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know that's not Pokemon fights now,
okay. Corporate sponsors were sprinkled all over

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Any serious New York reporter was in
attendance. Thousands of wagers were taken on

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site and a prize of twenty five
thousand dollars and a solid silver championship belt

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awitted the victor, You get a
belt, You get a solid silver belt.

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Damn that's cool. This was no
basketball game, soccer match, or

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fight. The city and world was
in pandemonium over a much more physically intensive

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activity. Please tell me walking?
Hell yeah, fuck yeah? Is this

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a speed walking race? Basically the
sport was pedestrianism. Let's go and the

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fans came to see their favorite jocks
walk in circles over and over and over

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again. What else do you gotta
do at that time in a race that

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would span over six days. Oh
I love that. So it's like a

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cricket match, like it we end
when God decides this is the Iditarod before

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the idit a rod. This is
insane. The rules were incredibly simple.

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Each contestant would jog, walk,
mosey, or crawl horse. Are there

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horses like canter lope something? Yeah, I've told the story before on the

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podcast, I believe. But like
in college, we used to have rehearsals

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for our like Greek Week skits at
this one place out outside of Columbia,

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Missouri. And on the other side, of the wall was a horse arena.

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They're walking for six days, I
know, and we would get we

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would get really high, and we'd
watch these horse shows that were just happening

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at the same time, and we
were watched so long that we'd be able

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to tell the difference between like a
lope and a canter, and we're like,

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oh, it's a shit canter.
Horses points, So these are just

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humans loping and cantering. Jogging jog
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They were permitted to eat, drink, and sleep intense on the side of

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the track. Boots. Did they
have a pit crew just like put them

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to sleep like a team. Yeah, they like, I need to sleep

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for six hours. Someone just punches
them unconscious. But the minute they left

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the oval shipped venue, they were
forced to withdraw, so they had to

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stay on the track. Oh okay, So it was like a hand on

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the car. Whoever wins it.
It's like when a car dealership invites seventeen

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poor people to compete for a Kia
Hey I have yeah, shut up.

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Essentially, what I do is how
you win a car in the mall?

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How long can you debase yourself in
public? For sixteen thousand dollars. Yeah,

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it's never a lot back then,
twenty five's over million dollars. That's

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insane. Yeah, this again is
right after the Civil War. People do

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that now for fifteen Wait after the
Civil War. They're really good at walking,

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or they're great at walking. The
last era of Americans walking, I

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think perhaps the last great era of
American walking. Pedestrianism started with the fair

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heel and toe rule, which meant
your one foot could not leave the ground

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until the other heel had landed,
preventing athletes from running. So that rules

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were modified and often jogging was permitted
to fight off cramping. Okay, so

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sometimes you gotta move it a little
more. That was a plot point in

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Malcolm in the Middle when how was
a speed walker? We brought that up

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off Mike. Yeah, I was
telling them about the subject coming in.

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But yeah, it's the first thing
I went to, was the Malcolm in

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the Middle episode. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he could. He analyzed

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the videos Peter walkins. Also,
I didn't know this a real sport in

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You didn't know that. You never
seen that. I thought it was kind

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of a joke. No, man, it's hella real, but you don't

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want to see it. That whole
thing too. There's a lot of sports

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the Olympics you don't want to see. Yeah, I mean it's incredible,

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like they they made walking look so
gay. Yes, they there's no cool

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way to do that. Their hips
are moving too fast, their arms moving

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too like shallow now too, they
all kind of walk the same. It's

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the same stride, same technique back
then though, everybody had their own kind

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of style. Could you use like
a an a like a walker or a

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cane? I don't believe so.
Well, all right, I don't think

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that was permitted. I'm out.
What if you were just very long legged

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and you stood on a pony and
let your feet dry against the pony walked

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around. That's who they're betting on
the most, that long legged fellow.

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Yeah, being dragged by a pony. His feet haven't left it once.

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This strange sport started as an attraction
in Britain and England in a fixture at

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fairs, with gambling being a massive
component to its popularity. Foster Pale was

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the first real pioneer of endurance walking. In seventeen seventy three, he walked

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four hundred miles from London to York
in seventeen seventy eight, pal walked one

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hundred miles in little over twenty one
hours. The press followed these bizarre feats

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and labeled the act of this long
distance hobby pedestrianism. This is when life

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got too specialized, you know what
I mean, This is what the Industrial

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Revolution had really wrought upon humanity,
asinine hobbies. What if you're the parent

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that specializes their kid in speedwalking?
Someone did it, Like what I mean,

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they're speed walking in the Olympics,
like truly, like you have to

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master that, But they're not allowing
their kid to play anything football, basketball,

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Yeah, you're a speed walker.
Maybe that's the way to go.

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Smaller pool of competition. Almost none. What some would say, are there

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scholarship opportunities for walking? There are
not. Ah shit, that's it's like

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it's really maybe by the time.
But speed walking it's like tennis or gymnastics,

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Like if you're good at it,
you don't go to college. You

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do it for the glory. Yeah, I can see that. Yeah,

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And back then, the fame and
the money they ask probably too so much

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money in this was before there were
real sports. This is eighteen seventy nine,

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before the invention of basketball, I
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and it's like actually fifteen, because
that's what was like eighteen ninety I think,

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yeah, it was in the early
to mid and then baseball in the

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in eighteen seventy. What did three? Uh so baseball was invented by a

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Civil War like captain. No,
that's that's bull shows man. Before that,

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that was all bullshit. Yeah,
it's Avenuer double Day, it's all

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bullshit. But that was just like
a neat story they could do. They

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were playing baseball. There's pictures of
people playing baseball. Well there was like

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cricket and British. Yeah, it
was like, ah, there's reports of

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it in the eighteen thirties. Why
can't we claim a Civil War captain?

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And then you can't and it's just
bullshit, like American baseball. He didn't

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modernize the game, no, not
at all, Like he didn't do anything.

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They just picked him out of a
fucking hat. Basically, did he

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play baseball? Yeah he did.
He played it with his troops and shit

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like that. Then I'm giving him
credit. That's fine. But I was

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gonna say though, I think baseball
at this time had not even fully finalized

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its strike and ball rules in terms
of how many for each. That's how

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early we are in the era of
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and only been crowned what four years
before this, it was eighteen sixty nine

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Ruckers, Yeah, so what years
it's seventy three, seventy nine, ten

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years now, we're kind of going
through the original start of the sport,

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which was seventeen seventy three. Oh
oh god in England. That's why we

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revolted. Captain Robert Barclay Alerdice had
ten thousand people follow along as he walked

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one mile for one thousand hours in
July eighteen oh nine. What he tried

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to walk one mile for one thousand
hours, so like he would sleep and

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stuff, so he would make up
time, okay, so he'd walk like

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four or five miles and but he
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mile in every for a thousand hours, okay, which he did. George

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Wilson attempted to do one thousand miles
in four hundred and eighty hours in eighteen

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fifteen, but was arrested for disturbing
the piece three fourths of the way with

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the crowds that gathered to watch.
No people just like I'm wearing this hat

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kind of with the beard to give
off Gump a Gump vibe. Yeah,

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that's kind of what happened with these
people. They just had crowds of people

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follow them. I just kept rod
nag and then I imagine for as Gump

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that scene is just based off fucking
probably it's just kind of like a neat

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Yeah, little kind of the Easter
egg for you. I got to the

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end of town, then I got
to the end of the colony. Englishmen

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and english women who would do one
hundred miles and twenty four hours tried to

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earn the title of centurion. Oh
god, fascist walker in a day.

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Again, this is what happened,
gross, This is what happens when society

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gets too specialized. No one knows
how to do anything anymore. You want

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to walk one hundred miles for some
reason. In like a weird way,

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the intensive hobby became organized and competitive
and grew into into a more digestible race

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format. It didn't really captivate the
US until around the Civil War, and

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it all began with the unlikely unlikeliest
of heroes, Abner Double Day No okay,

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in eighteen fifty nine, New York
Herald copyboy Edward Payson Weston chased down

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a wagon across the city after missing
a scheduled delivery of flowers for his boss's

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wife. And he sped walked to
he walked. He was like, he

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didn't feel like running after it.
He was just like, fuck, the

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wagon's getting away. Excuse me,
waving a finger up in the air.

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Wagons, well, he took him
all day. Yeah, wagons going like

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thirty miles an hour. All he
had to do was run once for thirty

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seconds at the beginning. He was
able to hunt down the wagon and get

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the flowers around West seventieth Street.
I disagree that he was able to hunt.

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Was there traffic? Yeah? How
does it work back then? I

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don't think he did anything. And
he was rewarded with the applause of his

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coworkers upon return and double the pay
for his efforts, even though he kind

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of fucked up not being there for
the delivery. He wasn't there for the

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delivery. It took him probably three
times as long to track down that wayagon

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as it should have. He's doing
it on company time. Yeah, he

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should be fired. What gig did
he get back there? And he was

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like, gentlemen, you won't believe
it. By the mere act of walking

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quickly, I tracked down a wagon
over the course of nine hours and was

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his flower or like flowers, like
a bouquet of flower flowers for his boss's

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wife. Oh my god, Well, okay, happy wife, happy life.

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Yeah. I did have to do
that when I first started working at

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Drinking Bros. For uh Chuck Leadell. That's right, we had to get

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it. Didn't save his marriage though, it did not. No, no,

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oh boy. She domestically abused him
later, but yeah, not the

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other way around. Yep, she
hit him. Yeah. Not the right

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color of flowers, dude, I
know. But they were supposed to get

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flowers delivered to the studio so he
could take him to her because he's gonna

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do a show and didn't have time
to get it. And the Faedex asshole

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just like showed up. They told
me he was gonna get there later in

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the day, shows up before any
of us are there, leaves a note

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bring it back tomorrow. It's fucking
flowers, and I'm like, I call

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FedEx. I'm like, you need
to come back, you need to come

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back. I I honestly I don't
even know if this is a lie because

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I had not worked there that long, but I told it anyway, thinking

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it was lie. I was like, if you don't bring those flowers back

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it is for an important client,
I will get fired and they were like

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sorry, So I had to walk
down the truck. I walked after the

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truck for ten hours. So you're
just like Weston, Yeah, exactly left

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for the day. No. I
told him. I was like, I'm

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gonna get fucking fired if you don't
bring these flowers back, and like,

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okay, we'll do our best.
And the guy came back like right after

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Chuck got to the studio. Damn. Yeah, all that all that drama

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for a dying marriage. Also,
I didn't even know you can order flowers

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on FedEx. Yeah, apparently that's
pretty cool. Like, what do you

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mean you're gonna bring them tomorrow?
They're flowers, you asshole. The asam

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to leave them there. At least
no one's gonna say would a simple of

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their marriage, though it would have. Yeah. The next year, Weston

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made a bet with his colleague about
the eighteen sixty election. The loser would

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have to walk to Washington, d
C. To see the inauguration, Weston

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faded Lincoln and put his faith in
John Breckenridge. Oh not good walking roads

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back then, either, ain't no
interstate. He would pay off his debts,

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making the ten day trick down to
d C. The paper tracked his

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voyage down through the elements of rain, mud, and snow, and he

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was rewarded for his efforts with newfound
fame and a handshake from the new president.

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Upon arrival, Lincoln gave him a
stiff shake. Where do you walk

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from New York New York to DC? That took ten days? Send us?

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I I I don't know, I've
never done it. You're also mud

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and snow. Yeah. At what
point you're like fucking why you bet your

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homie? Like how many of us
have like bet three bucks to a friend

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and just never paid him. And
this dude walks too. I always paid

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my debts. Oh you're a lanister. Yeah yeah. Let me let me

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see how far the walk would be
today? What do you mean today with

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interstates and stuff? Yeah? I
know that, but he's walking allegedly.

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Actually, so ten days makes sense. If you walked today, it'd be

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just how many miles is well,
it takes three days it's uh, two

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hundred and fifty eight miles, So
two hundred fifty eight miles and ten days.

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And he walked two hundred and fifty
eight miles and ten days, twenty

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five miles a day. Bitch,
if you think about it, you're going

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at a fifteen minute pace. If
you're not actually you know, racing.

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Yeah, it's four miles an hour. You could do better than that.

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He's weak. But what shoes did
he have on the roads between If there

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were any good roads, it was
between New York and it was on the

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East coast in the United States at
that time. Certainly like as far as

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decent roads go. With the attention
he received, it inspired Weston to embrace

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walking and accomplish larger feats and bring
the sport to the mainstream in the US

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consciousness. Sure sport. This is
how pickleball started. Man, this is

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walking? Is this is terrible?
I don't know. This seems more entertaining

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than watching pickleball. And watching pickleball, but you don't play it. No,

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I've never looked like a guy though
I've never done it. That's offensive.

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That is maybe the most defensive.
Throw hands with you for saying that.

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Have you played disc golf. Yeah
I have. Okay, so pickleball,

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disc golf, they're not one and
the same. They are. No,

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they're not very white, very fake
fake. I am not going to

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defend disc golf either. Yeah,
nor high. And I hung out with

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my friend before he left for Wisconsin's
and he was a disc golf influencer.

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Well that shouldn't be a thing,
or was He just posted a the other

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day, Hey is Jared Borslow.
Yeah, he's an F one guy and

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a disc off guy. Two weird
things, getting weird, weird sports to

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enjoy. In eighteen sixty seven,
Weston walked from Portland, Maine to Chicago,

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covering twelve hundred miles in twenty six
days. Well that's impressive. And

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I guess he just received a prize
of ten thousand dollars. Just someone was

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like, wow, God, damn
dude, here's ten thousand dollars. No,

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it's because, uh, people gambled
on this shit, so hell yeah,

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a lot of the bookies were taking
action. And I think you get

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cut a cut of that. Okay, I mean that makes sense. You

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should get a cut of it.
If the only reason anyone's gambling at all

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is because you're doing something, you
have to make it to a destination.

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Yeah, Like why shouldn't you know, just for example, on a fight

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like this is not not a real
boxer really, but like Jake Paul,

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right, why shouldn't he get a
cut of everything that's being gambled on him?

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It wouldn't even be happening if it
wasn't for him. Why shouldn't a

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football game? Why shouldn't the NFL
get a cut of the money ambled on

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the thing they're putting on the sanctity
of the sport. It's over now,

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Yeah, it's corrupt, it's all
gone now. ESPN has their own gambling

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app and they control the college football
playoffs, so yeah, it's all Oh,

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it's all over. Yeah. Like
for example of ESPN's having a bad

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a bad year financially and a real
long odd team that you're going to see

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a Georgia loss, is what he's
saying. No, no, no,

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I think you're going to see a
long that that makes it less likely that

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like just say like UCF, right, they don't want to lose money on

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a hot UCF team getting in that
Maybe some a lot of people bet on,

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but it was longer odds, Like
I don't know, call it five

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hundred. Well, you're going to
see a lot of like favorites that are

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in parlays just like suddenly, Oh, Vanderbilt just took out Alabama. Oh

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weird, weird. I went to
vand it was great. It was not

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great. I was there with you. Oh yeah, I got water boarded

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there you did bylcohol. Yeah,
which only makes sense when you look at

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Mellgate seems not great. No,
it was. It was one of the

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worst. And I've been to a
lot, easily the worst college football experience

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I've I've been to. It was
mostly Georgia's hands. Yeah, of course

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it was. Now was Vandy worse
than Baylor? Oh the Baylor tailgating is

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better? But I could buy booze
in Vandy, which is great. Yeah,

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And like the crowded interaction there,
like walking around like all like the

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Tennessee like millfs, where's hitting me
up left and right? So that was

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fun. Baylor it's just terrible.
And it was a Baylor b YU game,

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so oh boy. Yeah. So
the the whole I don't have to

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say more, I think that kind
of story, but the whole like last

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row thing where where my tickets were
was a Baylor family of like six kids,

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and I swear to god, three
of them had helmets on, like

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like the not like football helmets,
but like hat helmets. And I mean,

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how old were they because my kid
when yeah, your child a helmet

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had a skull shaper. I don't
these kids are deformed. I don't think

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these these were those these were They
were just wearing like just white fall swedie.

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Yeah. And I couldn't. I
couldn't do last stro next to these

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kids. Oh so that's why.
That's why if you see that video,

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it's turned down around. Yeah.
When I was I went to a Miszoo

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by U women's NCAA tournament game here
in Austin because it was hosted here when

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I don't have to admit that.
And it was fun. I don't care.

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I had a great time. I
got real drunk, went to the

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game and I was like, right
right, right, let's go. And

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then I sat down and my seats
and I was drunk, and then fucking

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immediately right in front of me.
I don't know why I didn't move because

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it's not like it was sold out. Uh, immediately right in front of

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me, a Mormon dad sits down
with his two young children. I assume

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he was a Byu alum one had
down syndrome. I know they were fine.

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The kids were Mormon, I guess, but otherwise fine, And like

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I'm just sitting behind them, and
I was like, I probably shouldn't be

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such an asshole, but I was
still just like breathing alcohol onto them.

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For I mean, I was drunk, and it's just like three like milk

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chug and Mormons sitting in front of
me being like yay. But I was

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still cheered and I got drunker as
the game went on and would just be

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like I'm God like that. I'm
sorry, I'm sorry. Sorry. So

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as Weston walked to Chicago, he
received several death threats and confrontations from people

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who gambled against him, and was
even attacked once in the process. Did

405
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:30,599
it say like, were like,
was he almost stabbed? Do we know

406
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:34,200
the details on the on the attack? I think just fists were thrown.

407
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:40,359
But dude, when you're walking for
it was like halfway your little Yeah,

408
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,759
yeah that's tough. I can I
give you a way that I think the

409
00:28:42,839 --> 00:28:48,400
Kentucky Derby should be could be improved
if you could fight the horse close so

410
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,920
you you pick out what are there, like ten horses and it let's just

411
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,880
say ten horses. You pick out
ten betters from the crowd at random,

412
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:04,799
and you give them weaponry from the
time of the first Kentucky Derby, and

413
00:29:04,839 --> 00:29:11,680
they are allowed to shoot and any
horse they wouldn't shoot it there is obviously,

414
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:15,079
so they're allowed to shoot at other
horses from a certain distance as the

415
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:18,039
race is going to hobble them and
help their horse win. You know,

416
00:29:18,039 --> 00:29:22,599
I thought you were gonna go where
like hockey rules where they have a goon

417
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:26,880
horse and the goon's job is to
fuck up other people. That'd be I

418
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:30,039
mean, if your horse has spikes
on the side, dude. There are

419
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:36,599
times though, like legitimately, I
think there's been times when there's been a

420
00:29:36,759 --> 00:29:40,400
trainer with more than one horse in
the race and you know, presumably one

421
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,599
horse has a better shot than the
other. One's a stud ones not so

422
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:47,319
like the other horse. There's probably
been a history of goon horses in the

423
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:51,599
in the race before where it's like
your job is to box out, you

424
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,559
know, like an F one where
they have teammates. Yeah, it's literally

425
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,839
kind of yeah, like are you
is your name? Max? For stabbing.

426
00:29:57,319 --> 00:30:02,599
Oh you don't get to win.
I'm sorry, is it not?

427
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,839
I don't watch that one because of
that. I think I can't get into

428
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:11,799
that. Yeah, I just there's
too much going on. I can't.

429
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,839
I can't. I honestly like NASCAR
more. And that's not just by going

430
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,920
off of looks. Yeah, I
just I motorsports are hard for me in

431
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:23,559
general. I don't care. I
just don't care. This man became known

432
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:30,119
as Weston, the Pedestrian and the
Superstar grew around the nation as he would

433
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:36,680
compete in both indoor multiple day races
and long distance endurance countryside journeys. It's

434
00:30:36,799 --> 00:30:45,119
just hilarious to me that somewhere in
Chicago, probably some chick got drilled by

435
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:53,039
Western, Like some chick gave herself
up for a fucking power walker. She

436
00:30:53,200 --> 00:31:00,279
was wowed. He lost a bet
celebrity. Yeah, he like can't been

437
00:31:00,279 --> 00:31:04,359
worried by losing a bet. Ever, the showman Weston would often play the

438
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:11,240
trumpet as he went with this dressed
in a cape wait on his walks.

439
00:31:11,279 --> 00:31:15,119
I guess he was doing the real
walks. Sometimes he would play the trumpet.

440
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,039
I would you know what though,
Like, honestly, like I want

441
00:31:18,039 --> 00:31:22,119
to say that that's like a sign
that it isn't a real sport. But

442
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:26,599
like baseball players are straight up like
O ding on nicotine back in the day

443
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,519
on the field, just like Lenny
Dykstra a fucking baseball sized thing at chew

444
00:31:30,599 --> 00:31:34,400
and his fucking cheek O d on
nicotine. I mean, they're just doing

445
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,519
so much. Well, yeah,
that's cool. They're just like I mean,

446
00:31:37,559 --> 00:31:41,880
it's just like a like a whole
fucking side of their I mean you

447
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:45,079
literally as how old you were actually
maybe too young to remember though, but

448
00:31:45,119 --> 00:31:48,079
those ninety three Phillies, Yeah,
I was like one and a half two

449
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:52,279
the carpet at the vet because it
was played on astrof back then. I

450
00:31:52,279 --> 00:31:56,039
went to Phillies camp one year and
I went to the VET and I played

451
00:31:56,079 --> 00:31:59,440
baseball at the vet on the carpet
on the concrete. Yeah. Yeah,

452
00:31:59,839 --> 00:32:07,319
that thing had soaked through with dipspit
and tobacco chewing, tobacco spit. That's

453
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:12,359
gnarly. I say that as someone
who, like my my previous front porch

454
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,200
had like a permanent dip stain from
like spit. Just like it was like

455
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:21,119
a cool little like six inch diameter
little you look like you were on the

456
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,839
ninety three Phillies. Truly. Yeah, I'm not even just look up the

457
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:30,400
ninety three Phillies. You look like
John Kruk or Lencatcher for that team.

458
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:35,599
Yeah. I don't know what that
means, but thank you. They were

459
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:37,720
awesome. They were They were like
American as fuck. I don't know what

460
00:32:37,759 --> 00:32:40,960
a bullpen cat it's the most American
team practice. We lost to Canada?

461
00:32:42,599 --> 00:32:49,200
What we lost to the fucking Blue
Jays. Both of our teams gave Canada

462
00:32:49,279 --> 00:32:52,480
World Series championships. Are great,
our great. Shame that's disgusting. Yeah,

463
00:32:53,599 --> 00:32:59,039
like wrap up the franchise if that
has it's it's it's horrifying to let

464
00:32:59,079 --> 00:33:05,440
happen. Weston was renowned for his
wobble and was sometimes referred to as Willie

465
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,920
the Wobbler. He couldn't even walk
right, Well, what none of them

466
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:13,319
can, right? They all have
to keep one foot on at all times.

467
00:33:13,319 --> 00:33:15,799
It's a goofy looking walk. Yeah. He started it. In eighteen

468
00:33:15,839 --> 00:33:20,160
seventy four, he became the first
man to walk five hundred miles in six

469
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:24,759
days during an indoor race in Newark, New Jersey. Sure, great job,

470
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:31,880
like the first man to do nothing
like what? No, he was

471
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,559
the first man who walked five hundred
miles in six days. I get that,

472
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:37,720
but and it just it just so
happened to be in Newark, New

473
00:33:37,759 --> 00:33:40,079
Jersey. It wasn't like the first
guy to do it in Newark, New

474
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:43,160
jerl I know, I know,
I'm just saying, like, I don't

475
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,759
care. It's not an accomplishment I
give a shit about you know what I

476
00:33:45,759 --> 00:33:50,119
mean. Like I'm the first man
to eat a cheese burger from nine different

477
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:54,400
restaurants in one afternoon. No one
cares that you did that. It's not

478
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:58,160
a thing that's like Joey Chestnut's whole
career. Yeah, I know, but

479
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,319
it's just like I drove, I'd
beat like or like I've eaten it the

480
00:34:00,359 --> 00:34:04,960
most five guys and of anyone in
the United Like, no one cares.

481
00:34:05,119 --> 00:34:07,400
Okay, well, I do care
about the elderly couple who's eating at seventy

482
00:34:07,519 --> 00:34:14,280
nine cracker barrels across the country.
That's it, seventy nine And he was

483
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:15,599
like years ago. I don't know. Actually, I don't know if they

484
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:19,519
died or if they completed the thing. They tried to go to every single

485
00:34:19,519 --> 00:34:21,920
one of them they had dementia.
They just kept going to the same one.

486
00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:23,199
Oh yeah, that makes sense too, right, yea, our buddy

487
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:28,639
Jay Arnold tries to hit up all
the best like Texas barbecue spots that are

488
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:32,639
ranked yearly. That's fine, that's
like more like that's more like a pilgrimage,

489
00:34:34,159 --> 00:34:36,199
right, And he's doing it for
content, he's doing it for work.

490
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:37,440
This guy's right in the back,
but he's not walking there, he's

491
00:34:37,519 --> 00:34:43,199
driving. He's also not acting like
it's an accomplishment. No, it's more

492
00:34:43,199 --> 00:34:46,760
of just a goal. Yeah,
this is this guys like I did it.

493
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:51,480
I did it. I've done what
no one's done before. Well,

494
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,639
he's also winning money. He's going
on tour in Europe. He's wearing cape,

495
00:34:55,360 --> 00:35:00,519
he's killing it and challenging European champions. In eighteen seventy, Si Weston

496
00:35:00,559 --> 00:35:04,239
went head to head with an English
racewalking champion in a twenty four hour,

497
00:35:04,559 --> 00:35:08,920
one hundred and fifteen mile race.
Weston smoked the motherfucker good. I mean

498
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:13,679
for America and like for there's two
things I will do, like for the

499
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:20,199
United States and for Missoo my alma
mater. I will root for anything anything

500
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,239
like it does not matter what it
is. I will get fucked up and

501
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:27,920
scream for it if it's for the
country or for the school I went to.

502
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:30,519
So for that, I am like, all right, hell yeah,

503
00:35:30,519 --> 00:35:32,639
it doesn't even matter how stupid it
is. Like it's like the Olympics.

504
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:38,760
All the sports are stupid, but
I'm going hard for it. The Englishman

505
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:44,360
actually dropped out as for fourteen hours
bitch loser. Oh god, did it

506
00:35:44,639 --> 00:35:47,559
complete? Did it super easy?
But there was a little controversy. Okay,

507
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:54,000
Weston admitted to chewing coca leaves throughout
the event. He was doing cool.

508
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:58,960
He was doing coke the whole time. This guy's getting better and better

509
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,920
now, all right, I'm all
everything I said was a lie. I

510
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:05,519
was gonna say something earlier when you
talked about the chewing tobacco. I'm like,

511
00:36:05,519 --> 00:36:07,320
no, he choose cocaine. Yeah, which, by the way,

512
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:12,760
for the that's cool. That's awesome. For those who don't know, back

513
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,360
way back in the day, when
the Spanish first came to the Americas and

514
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:21,000
just started enslaving motherfuckers left and right
natives, they were like, yeah,

515
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,239
when we were baton death marching them
to the gold mines that they weren't We're

516
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:27,920
not going to make it out of
We noticed that some of them, when

517
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:31,679
they got tired, they would just
grab leaves off these plants off the side

518
00:36:31,679 --> 00:36:35,599
of the path and start chewing them
and they get up and be good to

519
00:36:35,639 --> 00:36:39,440
go again. And then we tried
it and it was awesome. But like

520
00:36:39,639 --> 00:36:45,639
so slaves, Indian slaves of the
Spaniards when they came here would do that

521
00:36:45,679 --> 00:36:47,800
when they were getting death marched to
whatever, you know, silver mine or

522
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:52,159
gold mine they were going to go
die in for the Spanish, they would

523
00:36:52,159 --> 00:36:53,760
be like, I mean, obviously, if I'm going to drop dead if

524
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:58,400
I don't do this cocaine right now, I'd prefer to be hopped upon cocaine.

525
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,239
He's gonna die anyways. Can you
imagine? Know You're just like,

526
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:04,840
hey, guys, we gotta we
gotta kill these concuisitors that are enslaving us.

527
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,000
And they go, okay, but
we gotta wait until we passed by

528
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,639
a cocaine plant. I just and
then we'll all take the leaves and do

529
00:37:10,639 --> 00:37:13,880
it. I can't do it now, I'm so fucking tired. Let's wait

530
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,280
for the cocaine plant. I would
absolutely love to do that, and I

531
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:22,039
wish I thought of that sooner.
What cocaine plant. Yeah, because I

532
00:37:22,159 --> 00:37:25,039
once walked twenty six miles and I
wish I had cocaine leaves in my mouth.

533
00:37:25,119 --> 00:37:29,079
You walk a marathon? Is that
how far that is? Twenty six

534
00:37:29,159 --> 00:37:31,199
point two? Baby? Oh?
Whoa? Really? Yeah? Oh shit,

535
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:35,079
I didn't even think about that.
Yeah, you walk them? What

536
00:37:35,119 --> 00:37:37,039
did you walk a marathon for?
In the military? Oh? Yeah,

537
00:37:37,079 --> 00:37:38,800
it was like I was like forced
to for sure. I didn't want to

538
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,400
do it. Did you you had
to march? Yeah? I forgot Wait

539
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,039
what you were in the army?
Yeah? Yeah? How much do you

540
00:37:45,039 --> 00:37:49,639
have to march? We don't really
call it marching like it's like marching.

541
00:37:49,679 --> 00:37:52,719
We call like when you're in a
formation like four by like twenty and you're

542
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,480
like you left, right, left, that whole thing. Yeah. This

543
00:37:55,679 --> 00:38:00,159
was just like a hey, guys, we're gonna commemorate the guys before for

544
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:04,880
you who walked seventy five miles into
combat by doing like twenty six miles.

545
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,079
Yeah, And we were like,
what's the point if we're not doing seventy

546
00:38:07,079 --> 00:38:09,800
five miles, which also that sucks, But if we're not doing that,

547
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:13,119
we're like, we're gonna live up
to the legend of those dudes. Who

548
00:38:13,199 --> 00:38:15,480
walked that far to get shot at? Wait who? What war was that?

549
00:38:15,599 --> 00:38:20,800
From? Uh Korea? God damn? Yeah, yeah, like it

550
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:28,800
was the ninth Regiment whatever manchew was
their name. Okay, ninth Regiment whatever

551
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:30,480
I was walked it. Yeah,
I was in second Battalion, ninth Infantry.

552
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:34,679
So ninth ventry Regiment was the guys
that walked seventy five miles to like

553
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:37,280
go fight the Chinese. Where the
fuck? Yeah, I didn't care.

554
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,320
That's nuts because I feel like it
still happened. But a lot of marching

555
00:38:39,599 --> 00:38:44,760
was basically dead from World War two
on, maybe even World War one on,

556
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:49,000
but definitely world War two on because
everything became like quote mechanized infantry get

557
00:38:49,039 --> 00:38:52,800
on trucks. Oh dude, we
were mech like we were we had Bradley's,

558
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:54,400
but like I was in like a
light unit, Like we didn't use

559
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:59,679
the Bradleys, so we walked everywhere
possible. But one of them was like

560
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,280
twenty six miles for like literally no
reason. Yeah, it's a little literal

561
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,880
middle of the night, like hey
guys, we're gonna do this. Okay.

562
00:39:06,039 --> 00:39:09,320
Fuck that there was in the book
Bander Brothers. They talk about it's

563
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:14,360
not in the show. But the
Japanese like set some world record for marching

564
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:20,719
during World War Two, and the
general of the hundred and first Airborne or

565
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,239
whatever, I think it was a
general hum Singer Born who was like,

566
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:24,800
fuck that, we can beat that, and he just like made his troops

567
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:30,320
like march that same distance but faster
to prove that American troops could march faster.

568
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:34,280
Which reading that book, I thought
two things. One won a dick

569
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:38,760
yep, and two he didn't do
it in combat. They were doing it

570
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:42,519
on the side of a road in
Georgia. Yeah. It doesn't like boost

571
00:39:42,559 --> 00:39:45,239
morale, it does nothing. And
it was just like it's under different circumstances.

572
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:49,519
Like I was like, no offense. Like the Japanese suck obviously like

573
00:39:49,559 --> 00:39:53,679
fucking Perial Japan, but like their's
was more impressive. Yeah in war,

574
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:59,480
Yeah, you did it training in
America and he went to go sleep afterwards.

575
00:39:59,559 --> 00:40:02,280
Yeah, in a bed. But
if there was ever a performance enhancing

576
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:06,840
drug for a sport, probably cocaine
for walking. Oh oh yeah I do.

577
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:08,360
Yeah, that's what started the whole
thing. I wish I had that

578
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:14,719
at the time. I will say, actually, to his credit, chewing

579
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,719
that cocaine, he was able to
maintain in the discipline to not just start

580
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:23,000
fucking spritting, because you would think
you'd be impatient. Yeah, if there's

581
00:40:23,159 --> 00:40:29,920
one thing cocaine is bad at,
or one thing cocaine makes you do is

582
00:40:30,039 --> 00:40:35,920
lose all inhibitions and just run through
whatever wall you're not supposed to run through.

583
00:40:36,679 --> 00:40:38,719
But he's probably already delirious from the
lack of sleep. Yeah, he

584
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:44,079
maybe disot He got back to level, still wasn't. Continued his career and

585
00:40:44,119 --> 00:40:49,239
became an advocate for exercise well into
the nineteen hundreds, saying that automobiles had

586
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:53,719
made people lazy and sedentary. One
of the episodes did a while back.

587
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:59,199
I forget which one it was,
but it was like things that were blame

588
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,159
or things that like I think it
was like all the times the youth were

589
00:41:01,199 --> 00:41:06,199
said they were lazy or whatever there
was. It was a big take in

590
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:10,199
the twenties especially. It was like
the youth's legs were gonna like wither away

591
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:15,039
and become weaker because they all drove
around now instead of like walking to school

592
00:41:15,079 --> 00:41:19,519
and stuff like that. Like,
are like the legs of America's youth were

593
00:41:19,519 --> 00:41:22,960
going to atrophy because of cars.
Yeah, he was one of those guys.

594
00:41:23,079 --> 00:41:29,440
Yeah, he ironically and tragically would
become paralyzed after being struck by a

595
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,280
taxi cab in New York City and
died shortly thereafter. Inside job, Inside

596
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:36,599
job? Really? Is that what
you believe? People? That was our

597
00:41:36,599 --> 00:41:40,480
first nine to eleven they took out
Weston. Not my boy? Are you?

598
00:41:40,559 --> 00:41:45,239
Are you? You could tell me
the guy who's anti car got cooled

599
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:47,639
by a car and he was just
bacious dude. If he had his trumpet,

600
00:41:47,679 --> 00:41:50,880
maybe the car would have like hurt
him. Yeah, honk your horn,

601
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:53,599
baby, He didn't trumpet up that. Yeah, But back to happier

602
00:41:53,639 --> 00:41:59,000
times for Weston. In eighteen seventy
nine. In the original MSG for the

603
00:41:59,119 --> 00:42:04,519
six day race, spectacular racers from
all over the globe grace. The track

604
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:09,880
walkers were analyzed and critiqued by writers
and fans alike. Some came in battling

605
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:15,880
foot injuries, like George Hazel.
Others like Charles Rawl, may have over

606
00:42:16,119 --> 00:42:21,639
trained and came in too thin.
People were talking about how thin they were.

607
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:23,400
Well, you want to be gragile, You want to be light,

608
00:42:24,119 --> 00:42:28,880
too thin back in the day when
you couldn't have food. It's true,

609
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:30,760
you want to be light that's thin. That's like talking about we guess are

610
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:35,039
about alcoholics back then, Like how
drunk were you all the time to be

611
00:42:35,079 --> 00:42:37,079
called an alcoholic? How thin were
you back then to be called thin?

612
00:42:37,119 --> 00:42:40,840
Thin? Have you seen? The
funniest picture of that is like the inverse,

613
00:42:42,039 --> 00:42:45,920
so like this is how thin,
how troublingly thin they must have looked.

614
00:42:45,159 --> 00:42:47,920
There's a picture that goes viral every
once a while, and it's like

615
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:53,920
a fat Man's Club from the nineteen
twenties, and like they're fat, but

616
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:59,119
they're not that fat. Yeah,
they're like a normal American nowadays on a

617
00:42:59,159 --> 00:43:01,079
scooter at Walmart. Yeah, and
they were like a circus. Yeah.

618
00:43:01,119 --> 00:43:07,119
Like if that if some fucking rascal
scooter with a basket on the front of

619
00:43:07,119 --> 00:43:10,119
it Walmart person, yeah, rolled
by them, those fat people, they'd

620
00:43:10,159 --> 00:43:15,559
all vomit. Yeah, like it's
it was, it's like, yeah,

621
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:20,800
fat, you're kind of fat.
Boston's Frank Hart was of course doubted for

622
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:28,079
being too black. What does that
mean? Eighteen seventy nine. Yeah,

623
00:43:28,119 --> 00:43:32,760
fair enough, that's what it meant. It's actually like fucked up. How

624
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:37,320
many parallels there are to it?
That sketch I wrote that should be out

625
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on our Patreon soon that is just
like things things were just insane. Thinks

626
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:45,119
were different. Things were in saying
it wasn't much long after the Civil Wars

627
00:43:45,159 --> 00:43:50,320
eighteen seventy nine. Yeah, life
was man. I said it before on

628
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:52,559
the show. I used to like, my only answer for where do you

629
00:43:52,599 --> 00:43:55,559
want to go back in time is
the Gilded Age. It used to be

630
00:43:55,559 --> 00:43:58,960
all kinds of different things. Oh, I woonn't seen Napoli an ancient Rome.

631
00:43:59,119 --> 00:44:00,920
I just want to go far walk
around in the guild, just see

632
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:07,639
the insane shit and orphans sucked into
a textile mill machinery like dumb ass sports

633
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:13,079
like this what an alcoholic looked like? It was this black I did have

634
00:44:13,119 --> 00:44:15,440
like too many bets placed on him
to win that They're like, ah,

635
00:44:15,519 --> 00:44:19,920
he's too black. No, I
don't think that they had the uh stereo,

636
00:44:20,079 --> 00:44:22,239
the positive stereotype of being good at
sports. Yet oh okay, they

637
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:27,000
didn't have the good pot like,
yeah, he's one of the first major

638
00:44:27,039 --> 00:44:30,039
black athletes of the country. Actually, do you know who the first was?

639
00:44:30,079 --> 00:44:32,440
If he's one of the first.
Uh, there was a lot of

640
00:44:32,599 --> 00:44:37,719
like early horse racing jockeys. Jockeys
were so they would race the horses themselves.

641
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:43,880
Yeah fuck yeah. Like if you
really go back into like the Kentucky

642
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:47,760
Derby history, it's one of the
more it's weird to say progressive sports kind

643
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:52,239
of Yeah, it's actually wild.
Which if you remember, like if you

644
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:53,760
know now, like a thing they
get people get called race for all the

645
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:58,920
time. Is their their lawn jockeys, the little jockeys they have on their

646
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,800
yard. It is a whole plot
point and curb Oh really where Larry buys

647
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:07,199
a black jockey. Yeah, whoa
yeah, loon jockeys. I was just

648
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:12,960
represent well I think i's at one
point representational of whom was in the profession.

649
00:45:13,079 --> 00:45:15,280
Or no, I'm sorry. He
buys a white jockey and has to

650
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:19,159
replace a black jockey that he broke, and he paints the white jockey black

651
00:45:19,199 --> 00:45:28,480
faces. God, that's fantastic.
The competitors all removed their coats and shook

652
00:45:28,559 --> 00:45:31,480
hands, of course, other than
the black man. Uh. The starting

653
00:45:31,559 --> 00:45:37,679
signal sounded and the crowd erupted and
shook the very foundation of Madison Square Garden.

654
00:45:38,559 --> 00:45:42,840
Twenty four hours in and the man
that was too thin, Charles Raw,

655
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:47,159
had secured the lead, a day
one bonus and a few silver trinkets

656
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:52,159
for his efforts. He's busting his
load. Thirty six hours in, Ral

657
00:45:52,639 --> 00:45:57,760
had broken a record, and our
guy Weston was being berated by angry fans

658
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:00,920
who backed him for being or for
taking a eight hour break. Everyone knows

659
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:05,599
he breaks late. Not that type
of break where you take a sleepwever,

660
00:46:05,639 --> 00:46:07,519
but this everyone knows he breaks late. He slept for eight hours, and

661
00:46:07,639 --> 00:46:14,159
the guys that bet on Weston were
just like trying to like prod him.

662
00:46:14,639 --> 00:46:16,639
Can you fucking imagine You're like,
all right, he's going to sleep fair

663
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:19,920
enough, They're all going to sleep
at some point. And then it's like

664
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,480
hour five and you're like, what's
going on? And then it's like hour

665
00:46:22,559 --> 00:46:25,599
seven, You're just pulling your fucking
hair out like your mortgage paint. You're

666
00:46:25,639 --> 00:46:30,519
sabotaging, like you're just yeah,
oh, by our seven, you're throwing

667
00:46:30,559 --> 00:46:34,159
fire bombs at his tent. It's
like, you don't need to be well

668
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:37,519
rested, man, you don't need
all eight hours. Just chew your cocaine

669
00:46:37,599 --> 00:46:43,559
leaves. I thought you need a
cocaine. Over the next few days,

670
00:46:43,559 --> 00:46:47,039
several contestants dropped out and was all
but the formality that Ral was going to

671
00:46:47,079 --> 00:46:50,320
secure the wind. Look, man, it's a marathon, not a sprint.

672
00:46:51,039 --> 00:46:53,079
That wasn't until the last day of
the race when Ral's body turned on

673
00:46:53,199 --> 00:46:59,559
him and he started to convulse.
No, there are a few things,

674
00:47:00,159 --> 00:47:06,480
few things funnier than and I highly
recommend everyone searched these on YouTube. Then

675
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:12,920
marathon runners whose bodies just are like
nope, it's like mile twenty four and

676
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:16,760
the body's just like I am done. What about marathon runners that like shit

677
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:21,119
themselves? That was the other thing
I was gonna say, marathon runners who

678
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:27,119
shit their tiny little shorts that are
not able to hold those types. I

679
00:47:27,119 --> 00:47:30,320
mean, you're basically just like dying
without dying, you're almost like physically dying,

680
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:32,440
you know what I mean, Like
when you die, your bowels release,

681
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:37,280
Like your body's just expending so much
energy in a marathon, trying to

682
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:42,239
keep everything else going. That's somewhere
up in your brain, like it's the

683
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:45,400
movie Inside Out, except it's who's
running the physical part, not your emotions.

684
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:49,360
They're just like, we gotta cut
something off. We don't have enough

685
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:54,840
power for everything, and they're just
like bowels off, and then it's fuck

686
00:47:55,239 --> 00:48:01,480
dude. Marathon runners pooping themselves is
chef's kiss. No, I would watch

687
00:48:01,519 --> 00:48:06,199
that all day. I've never seen
that. What I've never, I've never.

688
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:07,960
I don't want to. I don't
think I want to see that.

689
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:12,800
And it's not like a log,
do you know what I mean? It's

690
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:16,280
like a vaca full vacation. You
know what I mean? Jel, they

691
00:48:16,639 --> 00:48:22,559
ingest it's it is they have they
vague power, they vacate it. It's

692
00:48:22,639 --> 00:48:29,480
because you can't control to stop it. Yeah, everything drops out. Yeah,

693
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:34,000
it's not a log. Are boy
though, somehow powered through after a

694
00:48:34,079 --> 00:48:37,119
brief reset in his tent. Of
course, he spend his whole time in

695
00:48:37,159 --> 00:48:43,800
the tent, and he hit the
five hundred and thirty mile mark with plenty

696
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:46,599
of miles of spare against his competition. He spent the last two hours of

697
00:48:46,599 --> 00:48:51,960
the race resting and winning, much
to the chagrin of gamblers who bet on

698
00:48:52,079 --> 00:48:59,199
his daily over Oh yeah, the
over underbetters not gonna be happy betting on

699
00:48:59,199 --> 00:49:01,519
a winner. I'm sure already smoked
the competition. So Charles Raul ended ended

700
00:49:01,559 --> 00:49:06,000
up winning the competition by a lot, but the people that bet on his

701
00:49:06,159 --> 00:49:09,800
daily over under not super thrilled with
him sitting in the last two hours out

702
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:15,280
fair enough. Yeah, I would
kill him. The fact that you would

703
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:20,599
gamble on this like to that capacity
on a day to day it's not smart.

704
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:22,239
No, I'm surprised. I mean
I relay with it a lot.

705
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:25,800
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's
while there's even an over under on days.

706
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:30,760
I didn't know they had that,
Like wherewithal back then they had props

707
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:36,440
at everything. Dude, Gambling's never
changed. It's always been there to take

708
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:39,199
her ever. Yeah. The New
York paper of the Sun even went as

709
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:44,199
far to say that it tarnished his
victory as they believed he had more than

710
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:50,519
the tank. He definitely did,
but also like season out, but also

711
00:49:50,599 --> 00:49:53,800
like why even if he did?
Though, why you got the dub right?

712
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:57,719
You're just kind of spiking the football
at that point? Like how fast

713
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:01,079
does how fast does Michael Phelps need
to swim if everyone else in the pool

714
00:50:01,199 --> 00:50:07,000
drowned? Yeah? Like just you
got it? Uh, real quick?

715
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use a ladder to get on. Not

808
00:56:07,519 --> 00:56:08,920
great, that's real, use a
ladder. I mean, I mean,

809
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:12,599
I've never knew how they got on
those things. And those were invented in

810
00:56:12,599 --> 00:56:15,679
the early eighteen hundreds, I believe, like eighteen twelve. How did that?

811
00:56:15,119 --> 00:56:19,440
Like what you couldn't make one that
was same size wheel? I don't

812
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:22,519
know. The first guy to make
it was John kemp Starly in eighteen eighty

813
00:56:22,519 --> 00:56:30,039
five. So the fast paced bikes
replaced the walking races with bike races,

814
00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:34,519
okay, and we brought them back. We brought back the walking. Well,

815
00:56:34,519 --> 00:56:37,119
it didn't necessarily go away altogether because
like you said, power walking and

816
00:56:37,199 --> 00:56:40,960
it. But this kind of iteration
of what people get excited for with the

817
00:56:42,039 --> 00:56:46,519
marathons kind of in a roundabout way, evolved into Olympic marathon format. So

818
00:56:46,559 --> 00:56:51,880
the first bicycle actually was same size
wheels, but it didn't get popular and

819
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:58,440
for some reason people wanted this fucking
dufus machine instead. Why are the handlebars

820
00:56:58,519 --> 00:57:02,559
like that? I don't know,
I don't like that. God, this

821
00:57:02,639 --> 00:57:06,440
is the this is what I want
to go back to. I want to

822
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:08,039
see this clown. I also want
to see those bikes race. I want

823
00:57:08,039 --> 00:57:12,079
to see normal bikes race. I
know, I want to see an alcoholic

824
00:57:12,159 --> 00:57:16,800
on that. Yes, so yeah, I believe the first like marathon Olympic

825
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:22,519
race was eighteen ninety six, so
this kind of that was the first Olympics.

826
00:57:22,559 --> 00:57:25,719
So yeah, but I mean the
format of like a marathon. Oh

827
00:57:25,719 --> 00:57:30,880
okay, okay, marathon run the
twenty six point two miles or whatever.

828
00:57:30,079 --> 00:57:34,440
Yeah, yeah, and uh Yeah, that is the just a kind of

829
00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:44,559
a brief overview and kind of the
main attraction that the peak of pedestrianism sad,

830
00:57:44,679 --> 00:57:46,719
So it's still going today though.
I mean, it's speed walking now

831
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:51,960
right, well now I'm just going
to call it pedestrianism. It should definitely

832
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:57,639
be called state have stayed pedestrianism.
That sounds better than speed walking, know

833
00:57:57,679 --> 00:58:00,599
what I mean? A little mystery
to it, Yeah, because it's speedwalking

834
00:58:00,679 --> 00:58:10,199
is it's literally an oxymoron, Like
it is literally counterintuitive speed walking. Going

835
00:58:10,239 --> 00:58:16,119
the fastest you can at a slow
thing doesn't make any sense. Yeah,

836
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:22,559
do you guys learn anything today?
I learned everything today. I actually learned,

837
00:58:22,559 --> 00:58:23,679
like change. Wait, did he
get in trouble for the cocaine or

838
00:58:23,719 --> 00:58:27,719
was he just doing it? They
kind of still give him credit for the

839
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:31,480
win, and I don't really think
he faced any consequences. Athletes should be

840
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:35,639
allowed to do cocaine. I mean, that's what got the Mets through the

841
00:58:35,639 --> 00:58:38,400
eighties. They want a goddamn World
Series on cocaine. I mean, most

842
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:45,519
baseball teams got through a good portion
of decades with greenies, which was math.

843
00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:47,480
Yeah, just math. Yeah,
But the Mets were like, we're

844
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:53,159
cooler than that. We're I'm goddamn
Arrel's drop area. And Lenny Dykstra he

845
00:58:53,239 --> 00:58:55,679
was on the team too, and
Keith Hernandez. I don't know if we

846
00:58:55,679 --> 00:59:01,960
should ever point to Lenny dykstras like
a a reason to do anything. Landy

847
00:59:02,039 --> 00:59:07,840
Dykester's problem in most of life is
that he is too cool. He loves

848
00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:13,360
too much. He's too cool,
he's too awesome. He's overly awesome.

849
00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:17,039
You can be too much of anything. He's too awesome. Yes, I

850
00:59:17,079 --> 00:59:22,360
don't know if I agree with that. I learned that white people will do

851
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:30,880
anything when they're bored, watch anything
and disc golf polo. I will say

852
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:35,280
to all the angry betters to your
point, to all the angry betters here,

853
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:39,679
if there are angry betters now who
are betting on pickleball, you deserve

854
00:59:39,719 --> 00:59:45,800
to lose every fucking dime you have. Or I guess golf. What about

855
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:50,760
cornhole? Would you bet on cornhole? If let's say that's more fun to

856
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:53,480
watch, Then let's say it's a
Sunday night and I'm down to my book

857
00:59:53,840 --> 01:00:00,400
action Aaron, and you are,
and it is and I still have little

858
01:00:00,679 --> 01:00:02,519
credit. You know that I could
bet that I could gamble to try to

859
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:07,119
you know, maybe less than the
payment or you know, maybe get out

860
01:00:07,239 --> 01:00:12,639
Scott free. Maybe a little double
or notough in action and that's the only

861
01:00:12,679 --> 01:00:15,239
thing on the board. Maybe.
Yeah. I say this as someone who

862
01:00:15,519 --> 01:00:19,719
once was doing so well on betting
basketball unders that in the middle of the

863
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:22,320
day I was betting. This is
not a joke, Scott, Like,

864
01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:24,519
I know it's gonna sound like,
oh, he took A and B to

865
01:00:24,599 --> 01:00:28,880
make C to make a funny C, you know, like a little joke

866
01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:31,760
equation that I'm just doing. I
was straight up at one point because I

867
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:35,599
was up. I would not do
this down. Because I was up and

868
01:00:35,639 --> 01:00:40,239
I had money to play with.
I was betting unders and winning on unders

869
01:00:40,599 --> 01:00:47,159
for Women's Polish League basketball games in
the middle of the day. Been there,

870
01:00:47,199 --> 01:00:51,800
brother, live betting not during in
the middle of the day, but

871
01:00:52,239 --> 01:00:55,079
late night. So because we meet
every Monday, right, so it's like

872
01:00:55,199 --> 01:01:00,519
before the clock hits midnight, I
need to get me out of this hole.

873
01:01:00,639 --> 01:01:05,320
What's on the board right now?
We got some tennis in Australia,

874
01:01:05,920 --> 01:01:10,440
we got some yeah, we got
some rugby maybe in New Zealand. All

875
01:01:10,559 --> 01:01:15,719
right, how about some baseball in
Japan. Yeah, I can get down

876
01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:19,719
with that. Yep. I was
just like Poland women's basketball. You do

877
01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:23,079
a quick like your old research be
like you talk yourself into it. You

878
01:01:23,119 --> 01:01:27,639
never win those bets, no,
you always lose. Now if you want

879
01:01:27,639 --> 01:01:30,599
to win, you got a bet
on the quadriplegic That is a professional cornhole

880
01:01:30,639 --> 01:01:37,039
player. He fucking kills it.
Oh okay, is he uses both of

881
01:01:37,079 --> 01:01:39,400
his little nubs corn hole to chuck
it as popular as darts. Now.

882
01:01:39,960 --> 01:01:43,719
It's on ESPN, man, it
is that, and you'd actually, you

883
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:45,159
know what else, it might be
on Fox, but either way it's nationally

884
01:01:45,199 --> 01:01:50,800
broadcast. Fucking acts throwing. Oh, I didn't know that was a thing.

885
01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:52,480
I don't like that. I never
want to go to an axe throwing

886
01:01:52,559 --> 01:01:58,519
bar. I went to one on
a hinge date. Had a blast.

887
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:01,199
It is fun. I'm actually like
weirdly good at it. Dude. Same

888
01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:05,599
the guy that's like the safety,
yeah like, hey, you should come

889
01:02:05,639 --> 01:02:07,320
like compete some time, And I
was like, I really don't want to.

890
01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:13,119
I don't. That's kind of weird. Man. Well, like join

891
01:02:13,199 --> 01:02:15,159
it as a hobby. So yeah, that's a bit much. I'm good

892
01:02:15,280 --> 01:02:19,039
after I've done it. I've done
it twice. Courtney took me there once

893
01:02:19,119 --> 01:02:22,840
my birthday. Like when we were
dating early on, I would have probably

894
01:02:22,920 --> 01:02:24,239
broken up with her. And then
I did it on a work I did

895
01:02:24,280 --> 01:02:29,920
it on a work trip. Well
it's fun, but like if you're with

896
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:32,039
a group, they make you do
like a competition at the end, and

897
01:02:32,079 --> 01:02:37,000
I did very very well. I
won one and got second in the other.

898
01:02:37,280 --> 01:02:39,280
And I was like, this is
it can't be difficult if I'm just

899
01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:43,519
like crushing it. Yes, yes, I've never thrown an ax in my

900
01:02:43,559 --> 01:02:45,840
life. And I was like hitting
bulls and there, oh you can hit

901
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:47,480
the little green circle on the top
right, and I'm like cool, I

902
01:02:47,480 --> 01:02:51,119
would nail it. And I'm like, all right, that's yeah. There

903
01:02:51,119 --> 01:02:54,719
are some sports that are just naturally
easy. Lacrosse, yep, like lacrosse.

904
01:02:54,800 --> 01:03:00,159
I want to give my brothers in
the Northeast a little crowd it.

905
01:03:00,199 --> 01:03:04,559
But I picked it up pretty quick, and I don't really Is there an

906
01:03:04,599 --> 01:03:10,039
easier sport on earth to score in? No, Like it's a goalie like

907
01:03:10,119 --> 01:03:15,599
in with no pads. You're whipping
a pool ball at them. Basically they're

908
01:03:15,639 --> 01:03:20,599
psychos. Yeah, and and like
it's going so fast, it's going you're

909
01:03:20,760 --> 01:03:24,639
the ball probably goes faster than a
pitch, right, so it's going almost

910
01:03:24,639 --> 01:03:28,280
like tennis serve speed, like one
hundred and twenty miles an hour. Also

911
01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:30,079
check it out. I played attack, which meant I just cherry picked the

912
01:03:30,119 --> 01:03:32,599
whole game. Yeah, I'm on
offense permanently. Yeah, I don't have

913
01:03:32,639 --> 01:03:35,719
to go back and run. Yeah, you don't have to run that much

914
01:03:36,079 --> 01:03:39,440
compared to the other people can shoot. Yeah. Yeah, it's like if

915
01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:45,400
a go like a good defensive,
like goaltending game I imagine is like they

916
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:52,440
only let in like twelve. Yeah, you go single digits. Okay.

917
01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:55,280
Occas lacrosse scares me because my wrists
hit the wrists a lot and that's an

918
01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:59,559
Now we you can wreck some people. Yeah, I say, like they'll

919
01:03:59,599 --> 01:04:01,719
just stick fight their wrist and I'm
like, I'm good. Yeah, I

920
01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:05,960
don't want to do that. I
told Dan the other day. I was

921
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:10,000
like, I the main reason I
want to raise my children in Texas is

922
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:13,800
so that they never play lacrosse.
Yeah. Anything, good dad, Yeah,

923
01:04:13,840 --> 01:04:16,639
it's a good dad. I went
back to baseball after. Yeah,

924
01:04:16,679 --> 01:04:19,360
I would do the same thing.
I'd be like, I'm good. Played

925
01:04:19,360 --> 01:04:21,519
for like a year or two and
I was just, yeah, I'm good.

926
01:04:21,880 --> 01:04:25,960
I almost got into it when I
had like a friend from Boston's dude,

927
01:04:26,039 --> 01:04:30,320
lacrosse is the coolest thing. I'm
like, yeah, it's not the

928
01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:31,519
same thing with rugby. I'm like, I don't care about this either.

929
01:04:32,320 --> 01:04:34,519
There's some cool hits, but I
have a lot of friends. I have

930
01:04:34,559 --> 01:04:38,039
a lot of friends who played rugby. There are a lot of guys in

931
01:04:38,079 --> 01:04:40,920
my fraternity who played rugby, and
like, I can't get into it.

932
01:04:40,920 --> 01:04:42,639
They were like, do you want
to come to the thing, and I

933
01:04:42,679 --> 01:04:47,760
was like, no, my mom
played rugby in college. Yeah, yeah,

934
01:04:48,880 --> 01:04:56,159
what's her wife do? My dad
played Chucut baseball. That's really good.

935
01:04:56,960 --> 01:05:00,320
I'm a product of a rugby player
and a baseball player. Okay,

936
01:05:00,440 --> 01:05:05,119
now you played disc golf once.
No, No, I'm just really better

937
01:05:05,159 --> 01:05:11,239
golf and I still got a sweet
jumper, though I beat I can beat

938
01:05:11,239 --> 01:05:13,199
a lot of people in basketball.
I think I told you this before,

939
01:05:13,239 --> 01:05:15,119
but if you're if you hadn't destroyed
your leg, you would have been tall

940
01:05:15,199 --> 01:05:17,559
enough to be a picture. I
would have been six for you. Yeah,

941
01:05:17,559 --> 01:05:20,119
I was supposed to be six four. Scott, what the fuck?

942
01:05:20,239 --> 01:05:26,760
I broke my tibia amphibia his tibia
on purpose. Yeah, it's like binding

943
01:05:26,920 --> 01:05:30,000
Chinese ladies binding their feet. Yeah, he bound his legs. I broke

944
01:05:30,039 --> 01:05:33,480
it at the growth plate when I
was sixteen. The growth oh I thought

945
01:05:33,559 --> 01:05:38,800
was actually the growth plate. I
was rounding the growth plate. I was

946
01:05:38,840 --> 01:05:42,599
like, what, my one was
shorter than my other leg, So I

947
01:05:42,639 --> 01:05:45,639
have to like overcompensate when I squat
and do deadlifts and stuff. Have to

948
01:05:45,639 --> 01:05:48,400
like take a shoe off. His
bone shot out of his skin. Oh

949
01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:51,320
yeah something, and I have brand
new shoes on too. Cut off the

950
01:05:51,320 --> 01:05:56,159
shoes. I was pissed about that
my one of my left legs longer than

951
01:05:56,159 --> 01:05:58,559
my right leg, only because my
hips are misplaced. I got hit so

952
01:05:58,599 --> 01:06:01,480
hard and shell to a fat asked
John Jasper for breaking my leg. See

953
01:06:01,480 --> 01:06:04,599
that's that's how I know that you're
bonded to my second child, Finn,

954
01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:09,480
because I just saw his bone the
other day. So it's it's perfect.

955
01:06:09,639 --> 01:06:12,000
I saw his skull bone. I
wonder what he's up to. He like

956
01:06:12,880 --> 01:06:15,960
changed my life, and I have
no idea where he is. Your skull

957
01:06:15,039 --> 01:06:18,440
bone like does nothing beide hold your
head like everything else like has a place.

958
01:06:18,519 --> 01:06:21,400
Yeah, he smoked his head on
our firepluses and pipes where he smoked

959
01:06:21,400 --> 01:06:25,519
his head on our fireplace and had
a huge gash, and we took him

960
01:06:25,519 --> 01:06:27,800
in and I was at one point
when they're putting the stitches on, I

961
01:06:27,960 --> 01:06:30,079
like then they'd wiped away all the
blood. I was like, that's his

962
01:06:30,239 --> 01:06:34,320
skull. What a fun time.
Yeah, I was like, there it

963
01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:41,320
is because I also thought of a
window when I was like two, and

964
01:06:41,360 --> 01:06:44,760
I like my lip kind of like
hung off. Oh sick. Yeah,

965
01:06:44,840 --> 01:06:47,599
So I kind of similar experience with
the fireplace accident. Yeah, yeah,

966
01:06:47,639 --> 01:06:55,079
perfect. Who's Hitler today? The
guy with three names? Winking? She's

967
01:06:55,159 --> 01:06:59,280
thinking, mindard. You know,
part of me wants to say the first

968
01:06:59,280 --> 01:07:02,440
guy that walked, not the guy
that walked from New York to DC,

969
01:07:02,599 --> 01:07:05,880
but the guy before him, the
British guy. Yeah, fuck that dude.

970
01:07:05,960 --> 01:07:11,320
And I mean the three named guy
was Edward Bason Weston. Who's who's

971
01:07:11,360 --> 01:07:14,239
an American hero? And I won't
have you tarnishes? Oh never mind,

972
01:07:14,239 --> 01:07:17,000
Weston's cool. I'll tell you who
who Hitler is. Foster Powell though,

973
01:07:17,039 --> 01:07:19,559
is here? You're thinking of Foster? Yeah? Fuck that dude. Big

974
01:07:19,639 --> 01:07:23,840
car. Yeah, he took out
our boy, big car took out our

975
01:07:23,840 --> 01:07:28,519
guy, make you a bitch,
and then big car said yeah, bitch

976
01:07:29,480 --> 01:07:31,719
and hit him with a car.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but the

977
01:07:32,320 --> 01:07:38,800
questions big Big Automobile killed like Henry
Ford had him killed easily. Yeah,

978
01:07:39,599 --> 01:07:42,639
Henry Ford is hitler. You don't
have to talk me into it. That's

979
01:07:42,679 --> 01:07:47,400
fact that. And since Henry Ford
also wasn't a fan of Jews, perfect

980
01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:54,039
it all adds up anyway, Scott, thanks for joining us. Last second,

981
01:07:55,599 --> 01:07:58,719
Glad, I was just sitting down. You were just here. We're

982
01:07:58,719 --> 01:08:00,400
gonna have you on again. We
figured we spread it up. But you're

983
01:08:00,400 --> 01:08:02,519
like, yeah, foret, why
not? Yeah? Yeah, if I'm

984
01:08:02,519 --> 01:08:06,360
here, Yeah, we'll do a
show. Why not? Where can people

985
01:08:06,400 --> 01:08:10,719
find you? Last ro Lopez on
Instagram? That's all I do. Follow

986
01:08:10,880 --> 01:08:14,840
that bad See my cool hair and
my cool hat. He's beautiful. I'm

987
01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:15,760
trying, man, I'm trying to
grow the flow out. That's why I'm

988
01:08:16,079 --> 01:08:18,960
I'm in hats right now. And
in the are you gonna like mold it

989
01:08:19,039 --> 01:08:21,319
up or just flow it up.
I'm in a weird growth of ase.

990
01:08:21,600 --> 01:08:25,079
I did muld it for a second, but it's going back to the flow.

991
01:08:25,119 --> 01:08:27,239
I'm just gonna flow it. Well, the good thing that had to

992
01:08:27,279 --> 01:08:30,399
do a good job shaping it.
Yeah, because without the hat it kind

993
01:08:30,399 --> 01:08:33,880
of looks like dog shit. Weirdly
enough, when when you wear that hat,

994
01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:36,720
it'll like poof up behind it,
like kind of like curl towards what

995
01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:40,479
you have. It's a really cool
thing, ye know, get like a

996
01:08:40,479 --> 01:08:45,680
baseball cut or something. Anyway,
Rob, You're always here. I'm always

997
01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:49,000
here. Uh you people you find
folks. If you're always here, we

998
01:08:49,159 --> 01:08:53,680
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999
01:08:53,760 --> 01:08:58,479
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1000
01:08:58,520 --> 01:09:01,079
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1001
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1002
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1003
01:09:12,479 --> 01:09:15,880
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1004
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1005
01:09:19,439 --> 01:09:24,119
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1006
01:09:24,319 --> 01:09:28,239
It's not based on listens. No, the episode rankings I think are based

1007
01:09:28,239 --> 01:09:32,560
on listens, but they're like essentially
like podcast, rankings are based on recent

1008
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Yeah yeah, and YouTube software history on

1009
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YouTube. Just search it, search
that you'll find it how it goes,

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and you'll see our beautiful faces.
You'll see Scott's beautiful hair, my you

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know, growing out, weird face, and Rob's just pasty skin. I

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am beautiful, white is right,
and fuck you and buy some merch.

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Buy some merchant dot com. Yeah, I got on the jab that says

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catalog because Jake for man. We
gotta pay the comptroller. Yeah, we

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forgot to do that. Yeah,
we gotta do that. We have to

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do it by tomorrow. We'll do
it tomorrow. Okay. It's a good

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reminder though, Thanks Scott, I
would have forgot that. I always think

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of Topsy the Elephant. Yeah,
we have a Topsy the Elephant shirt.

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We got a couple of good shirts
in there. I'm gonna try to revamp

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the the store and get some new
merch in there within the next month,

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I think. Hell yeah, we'll
put a timeline on it. That'll so

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yeah, looking forward to it.
Thanks for tuning in. We'll see you

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next week. And you just got
saw served