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EBS got a volleyball tournament for his daughter in Philadelphia. It's Bish, cakes and JP. Talking dress code. Behind the scenes, Drab is doing some sort of project or CK and I was asked, do you have any pictures of the early years of the Junkies? And I had this folder from five years ago when I was prepping, still barking. And it had pictures mixed of our childhood and some of the early years of the Junkies. So I brought it in and Mike Mar was looking at him and he's like, I'm having a tough time finding cakes. Yeah. He doesn't know that you grew up with blonde hair. I have a Brent Oliver. It would love you. So I was a blonde silly as a youth and baseball cakes going way back. We're in a Metz jacket like when I was seven. Yes. Okay. Goes way back. But when we grew up, we kind of did have a dress code with our parents. Yeah. We didn't dress as like some of the kids do nowadays. I don't remember ever taking pajamas to school and showing up to a steakhouse with a tank top.

Yeah, but our parents did put us in plaid pants back in the day, which is not a look that his age very well. What are you going to do? All right. Let's go to the phones. Do you think it's okay for restaurants to ban people from using junkies, Lingo dressing up? All right. Let's go to our pal Timmy Seymour. We know he knows a thing or two or a million about running a restaurant. What's up Tim? Good morning. Good morning. I haven't talked to you in a while. How you been, buddy? You haven't been to his new spot. Yeah. I know. I have not. You know what? You have all had my phone number. Yeah, I do. I don't know. I don't know. It was probably most people. Tim Seymour ran the palm in Tyson's for many, many years. Yeah. How many years did you run the palm? No, over 20. I was running a company over 30. Yeah. Wow. How many times did Tiger Woods come in there when you were working? Maybe half a dozen. Yeah. Was it easy to deal with? Nice guy. In the beginning, no.

No, he's like my relationship with dance lighter. He's got the hockey to start. And then once we realized that. I wasn't going to bug on anything that. Right. Kind of dependent on the day. I got you. All right. So what's your take on this? Well, you know, we had that. We had that problem years ago and we. And we decided. Yeah, we're like we opened up in Tyson's. That all the tech guys. that all the tech guys were just coming in casual. You know, it was just a casual place and if you didn't, if you refuse services, so many the way they dress, they just go down the street, spend their money somewhere else. Yeah. So it's, you know, one of the things I'll tell you, the palm years ago had a dress code where you couldn't come in without a jacket and tie. I think the prime rib still does it. But the owners decided that just wasn't going to be able

to happen anymore. I mean, they still wanted people to dress up. But, you know, you just can't, you got to, people have the money. They want, you want to, you want the money? How bad is the decline bin from your point of view? So you were a guy who always wore at least a jacket at the front. And I saw you in the last year at your new spot. You're always dressed nice. How bad is the decline bin by the decades? Yeah. Actually, you know, it's gotten a little better. Well, bounce back. Where people are still, you know, a dressing casual. But they're not coming in with tank tops and t-shirts. They're, they're where it was and maybe the early 2000s, where they were coming in with, you know, wizard shirts and, you know, he shirts and cut off. And, you know, as much as I roll my eyes, you know,

the guy probably had a portfolio much bigger than any of us. So you just can't turn that stuff down. Tim, how would you rate the junk says dressers? The junk's over the years coming into the various restaurants. How would you rate us as dressers? No, cakes are looking for individual rankers. No, no, no. I think it's okay. I'm not fishing for a compliment. How's it going to remember what we wore? It depends. And if you would just see a Sanjay or not. Hold on. A Sanjay. Remember Sanjay, the tailored man. Sanjay. Sanjay. Okay. They shared like a space with them like out. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Same building. Oh, yeah. I do remember that. Our table manners. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right, buddy. All right. Let's go to Bill. He must be listening on the Odyssey app. He's calling from LA. Wow. What's the way in? What's up, Bill? Calling from the West Coast. We appreciate that.

Good morning, gentlemen. How you doing? By the way, the name is Phil. Hey, I love your producer. By the way, you got to give him props. Okay. Now, the reason that I dress up as first of all in Hispanic. True. I live out here in LA. And it's like casual. We got the beach and all that other stuff. Yeah. But then again, I'm 70. And I know that when my wife and I, we went twice to windows of the world. Okay. And minimum, they insisted you wear a sports coat. I just like dressing up and being Hispanic, we never overdress. And gentlemen, big commanders fan. That's all I have to say. I do think certain cultures emphasize it more. Yeah. I know this. My wife and I, we went twice to windows of the world. My mom would occasionally watch our show and occasionally listen to the show. Yeah. And I remember I had a gig with a client where I got a suit. And I think I did one of those post game shows on the Wizards or something like that. And I wore like nice clothes. And I never received compliments for my mom like I did that day.

Because I was dressed up. She was impressed. And I joked in the eulogy that I think my mom didn't care that I didn't ultimately become a lawyer. To, you know, free the innocent or put away the guilty. But damn, she would have loved it if I dressed up in the same tie every day. Yeah. That's just how she was. I mean, you can still do it, JP. You could dress up in a tie every day if you want. No. I chose to be a daily disappointment. All right. Let's go to Tom. Tom, you're all with the jokes. Good morning. Good morning. I'm the one armed pickleball guy. All right. What's going on? It's your paddle back to the far. But the women get away with putting out their cleavage. And the men get thrown out for wearing nice jeans. Yeah, Valdeez. So when we get away with putting out the jeans. I don't think the men are getting thrown out for nice jeans. But if they were wearing tank tops, they might be thrown out of the stuff. I don't think you get thrown out for nice jeans. No. You just have to, you have to raise the woman hate her.

I just think it's feelings. All right. Let's be honest. If the cleavage isn't silly and it's very exposed, maybe they'll tell you to put the sweater on. Yeah, maybe they'll tell you to come up with it. But if Sydney sweeps, she's wearing the same dress. She's getting a table. Yeah. Let's go dinner with a view. Yeah. She's getting a prime table. No. She's not sitting right next to the kitchen. I can guarantee you that. That's a USDA choice. Yeah. All right. But I just want you to understand, though. If you're going to a nice restaurant or nice restaurant, and this is just how I think. But I view it as an experience. Right. And you're not just going there to fuel up. It's not like a slot ball from Chipotle, where you're going to be there for multiple hours probably. Right. It's an ordeal. It's an experience. So, dressing up is kind of part of the cosplay experience of fine dining. Trying to recall if Valdez or I dressed up when we broke bread together at Voltage Hill.

Or a green sweater. Okay. Can't recall what I wore. You probably wore a hoodie. You wore a hoodie. Yeah. But again, you came right off. I had the casino exception. Yeah. There is an exception when you're in a casino. Right. If you went out with your wife, you wouldn't have been dressed like that. That's very correct. Yeah, but I was in the same casino. Yeah. I was there early. I went up and I showered and I changed. I put on this dress nicer. Nice Peter Malar sweater with nice shoes and dark jeans. You put some nice on your hair. Yeah. Yeah. I combed my hair. I combed my hair and everything and cakes looked sloppin' like. I will say this though. I will say this. I've been to Atlantis and the Bahamas a billion times and they've got some really nice restaurants. But if you're at a beach resort, I think it's okay to wear resort or a beach resort type clothing at the restaurant. I'm not saying this. Yeah. I think they have a nobu, right? They've got a nobu. I went to nobu with my wife there. You're not going into nobu and I know exactly what it is. Not with a t-shirt. Not with a t-shirt or flip-flops. I mean, flip-flops, like if you have like the, you know, like the kind of the cacky pants.

I would wear flip-flops. I would wear flip-flops. But you're not wearing like jean shorts in there. Goal, goal, goal shirt, but I wear goal shorts. I think flip-flops in the restaurant is way worse than just wearing like a polo or a hoodie. Flip-flops. I'm sorry. They are trifles. Okay. They are for poolside. But they're at the beach. You're at the beach. You're at the beach. Secret. Secret. Secrets, they're fine. But like a nice restaurant. If you walk in with your fungus toenails out, that's gross. Well, I mean, if you have a little feet, of course. But I see, like- But at a beach resort, I think it's a little bit of a bit of a- I think I see it with like guys will wear like cacky pants and they look pretty nice. At the beach, so sometimes they will have the flip-flops. So a lot of people wear nice shorts, you know, golf shorts to beach restaurants. I think that's fine. All right. Let's go to Skip. He's calling in from Berlin. I'm guessing- Yeah, but Nobu's inside is dark. Is it the casino? I'm guessing this is Berlin, Maryland. Not Berlin, Germany. I'm going to go out in a limiter. You're probably right. What's up, Skip? Okay.

What's up, guys? How are you guys doing? Good. Yeah. I live in Berlin. And we- Airboost Chris actually is in a golf course. It's in Glenrittle. Yep. And you can rock- They- They're a little lenient on the hat inside the restaurant. The bar is fine. Yep. But flip-flops are- You can work flip-flops in there. And like you were talking about secrets, secrets was big on like- You couldn't wear your hat backwards in there. Right. But they have definitely leaned up on their like- You can wear it backwards. You can take which is kind of- I mean, it's a beach bar. You should be able to wear a hat backwards if you want. I mean, there are people- But I do remember that. In the bay water in the back. You tell me you can't wear it backwards. Yeah. They were hard on that. Yeah. Thanks for calling out. Thanks, Skip. Appreciate you listening in Berlin. I don't even think I was allowed- I'm just growing up. I don't think I was allowed to wear a hat at dinner. I mean, I can't remember if I wore a hat at dinner or not. Not sure. Let's go to John. He's calling it from McClain. What's up, John? You're all with the juxtaport. Good morning. Yeah.

Yeah. If your restaurant has a tablecloth and you're wearing a hat, that's hurting. You look like a hillbilly. And what's also annoying is I've been to some clubs recently, country clubs. And you should not wear a hat inside the clubhouse. And what's worse is wearing it backwards while playing golf. Well, I think that's a general rule. A lot of people- Most like country clubs, you can wear a hat, obviously, on the golf course. But they ask you to take it off. Yeah. You take the hat off. Yeah. But you should be wearing the hat with the brim forward. I mean, again, you should be wearing it backwards at a nice country club. I don't see a lot of people wearing hats backwards at country clubs. I don't see that. He's saying while they're playing. Oh, I never see that. I see people with their hat back. I'm going to guess most golfers that take golf semi-seriously, they're not rocking the backwards cap. Yeah, I never see that. Sounds like a marmove. Yeah, definitely a mic marmove. Now, he'll do that during the purple heart open. And I embrace that. But that's a scramble. Although you know, you know that he's so proud of the picture

of the purple heart open. Yeah. That when we were doing the new wall here, the deli wall, he wants that picture because he's so proud of his fit to be blown up in one of the big pictures. Yeah. Not one of the small pictures. Let's feature Mike Mars. Get him in the mix. Let's go to Tim calling it from Ashburn. What's up, Tim? You're all with the Junk's. Yeah, morning, guys. Yeah, I was out with my daughters who are in elementary school here in Love County and took them to the bus stop this morning. And yeah, I would say it over half the kids are. I mean, it's 30 degrees out. And they're standing there in crocs and shorts and sweat pants. And it's a little weird. I don't allow my daughters to do that because my father was a military guy. And something he said stuck with me was, when you leave the house, you represent me. And so I kind of carry that over with my daughters right wrong or indifferent. But yeah, it's definitely a decline. And when I am flying, I have to disagree with kicks. I got to fly to Seattle soon. And I'll be with with jeans and a polo shirt and trying to look a little professional.

It's definitely not enormous. Hey, that is your prerogative. You could fly in jeans if you want my friend. All right, thanks for the call today. We appreciate that. All right, thank you. Who knew jeans to cakes was like wearing a full three-piece suit. I'm not saying I've never worn jeans on a flight. I'm sure that I have. No, but you're saying that they're so uncomfortable. I get it. We don't wear suit and tie, right? So if we had to wear a three-piece suit with a vest and a tie, we'd be uncomfortable. Yeah. But jeans you're uncomfortable. I mean, just if I'm sitting on a flight for five hours, and you usually have a baggy ass jeans. Usually I do. That's true. But what if you're flying to Charleston? Okay. All right, hour and a half. You're fine with it. You're fine with jeans. It wouldn't be my first choice. Have you ever seen cakes wear tight jeans? I don't notice what he wears. Yeah. No. I don't think so. I mean, none of us wear tight jeans. No. Yeah. Been trying to get jeans that are better fitting of late. But sometimes sometimes you go off the rails. Sometimes you just swing and miss.

He's not rising up to the extent of Roger. But cakes because of his derriere being kind of flat. Right. He's always had kind of big jeans. It's my look, JP. But apparently uncomfortable as to where it's sweatpants. That's what I do. I didn't see it. I imagine kind of jealous because those are somewhat expensive. Those sweatpants you get. Yeah. They're pricey. But I try to find the colors that are on clearance. Uh-oh. You got off colors. Like 33. Like these are. These are like. I think the colors wine. Okay. It's like me. It's like a like a Merlot. Like I spilled a bunch of Merlot on this sweatpants. But they're comfy. They're very comfortable. Couldn't be more comfortable. Later in the show we'll talk some washi capos. They got a 2-1 win last night. They are five points back in the wild card. I believe they have. This 15 games left in the season, if my math is right, might be off by a game.

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At linebacker, they brought in the kid from Kansas City. Oda Chanel, yes. Chanel. They added Amique Robertson, the corner from Detroit, and they added Cross. The safety. So that is seven guys, I think are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven new players. Seven guys on defense. And then on offense, they've added two, Chig, who will be their starting tight end, comes over from the Tennessee Titans. And then they add Rashad White, who we don't know if he's going to be the number one back, but his strength has been catching the ball out of the backfield. He did have one season where he went for nearly a thousand yards. It's been a league four. By the way, remarkable value for Rashad White, especially considering the guy that you lost, Chris Rodriguez, signed a two year, up to ten and a half or eleven million dollar deal with the Jags.

And you get Rashad White for one year. It's been reported two million, can be up to four million. That's a great deal for the commanders. It's a great deal. Like Adam Peters, waited out the market. He saw that the market was soft, obviously. And he pounced on the spotlight for nothing. And he can give you more production than what you got from Chris Rodriguez. That would be close. So given everything I said, what do you think is their strongest? This may sound insane. A positional group, 1-800-636-1067. And where do you think they're the weakest? I think they may have turned their weakest unit, which was edge rusher, into one of their strongest, if these guys hit, and ascend the way I'm guessing Adam Peters and the staff think, if O.A. Chase on an Armstrong coming back from an injury, and then if you add, add maybe another piece through the draft. I think you throw wise in there. Wise is part of the game. Wise coming back from an injury to a menuhu, like he's another guy that can provide pass rush. Edge might be the strongest unit on the team. Well, I would say defensive line in general, yeah.

Right. Right. With adding Tim Settles as well, my step with ease. So I'm not on board with that, but go ahead. Do you think that's that's your number one strength? I think overall, now that you had those guys on the edge, and I think Ken Law should, he should have a bigger year this year. I know there's still question marks with Johnny Newton, but I just think, and you've talked about Wise and Armstrong, and they got to come back from injury, but away, pain, Ken Law, chase on, Wise, Newton, Settles, Dorrance, a menuhu, that's a lot better than what they had last year. It's a huge upgrade. I don't know if it's the best unit on the team, but it's, it's amongst the best units on the team. Now, it's an upgrade. I can't say it's the best unit on the team. First of all, I think the weakest unit right now, receiver is wide receiver. Right. And it's just because they don't have a number two right now. So what are you going to say offensively? To tear him a quarter. Is the number one unit? Yeah, I can't give defensively, because none of these guys are proven to be stars. Okay.

I just think we're, we're based on, we're betting on potential. I think based on need and name, they upgraded significantly. We're betting on potential. Did OA have two sack, ten sacks two years ago? Because I was gonna say, none of those guys had like double digit sacks. I think OA had ten. I think maybe OA had ten. Oh, chase on heads, what's seven and a half? Seven and a half, yep. I can't put, honestly, honestly, I can't put anything on the defense as my top unit. They had the worst defense in the league. And now they've, they've filled in holes. And we hope that these guys play to their potential and some of them exceed what they've done. But I can't do it. Yeah. I still think the offensive lines are best unit. Okay. The offensive line in a pretty good year last year. Now, they lose Biotic. When we had Logan Paulson on yesterday, now he just said this was his opinion. He seemed to minimize centers. Yeah, he did. He was like, yeah, yeah. It's a center. He was definitely. He said he would not like to pay a bunch of money to a center. But I mean, that's just personal preference. Yes. Because we had Jay Grudenon. He said you need a great center.

And he's like, the center is like, you're clearly your most important guy in your offensive line. He calls everything like he runs the show for the offensive line. So, but their offensive line currently has two pro bowlers in Cosme and Connerley. I mean, I'm sorry. Cosme and Connerley. Cosme and Connerley. And then you've got Connerley, who came on as a rookie. Now, they've got a couple of holes that they might need to fill. Now, they could fill them with vets that are currently on their roster. Maybe they bring back Chris Paul, or they just decide, hey, we dropped a brand in Coleman. He's going to be the starter this year at Guard. And at center, they're going to go with Allegretti. Maybe they feel like that's good enough. But I actually think it's still overall, last year, the offensive line was good. 1-800-636-1-6-7. And then, why do receivers the weakest really? Because they just got to fill that spot. And at tight end, they did it with Chig. I mean, by the way, I could make the argument that Strongest is quarterback, but the question is health.

Absolutely. If Jaden plays anywhere close to the way he did as a rookie, that's pretty clearly his their weakest. I'm trying to think of a good number. Which unit on defense right now, as it's currently constructed, are you most worried about? They have the worst defense in the league. So they've added a safety. They've added a linebacker. They added all these defensive line guys. And they've added a corner. They've added, yeah. And then if they draft Caleb Downs. Which one still has, but no, right now, as you're looking at the roster, I think you got your R-labs roster up. I'm not really that concerned about any unit right now on the defense, because I think Lou Vu bounces back. Wagner, I assumed gone. Chanel, Lou Vu, good linebackers. The thinnest unit might be a corner. Maybe corner. I know they signed to meet Robertson from Detroit. He's going to plug in as your nickel corner. But the depth that corner concerns me a little bit. I think you're going to still. Let's assume that the Amos, you know, Amos gets better. Sandra's still maybe he's going to play a different role

in that secondary now that you brought in a meek. If you add a stud safety in the draft like Downs, that could be one of your stronger units. You're just breaking his heart over there. He wants to share my love. Don't draft Downs. Oh, I know. Well, if Downs is drafted, then RB is one of their stronger units. Absolutely. All right, let's go to the phones. What do you think is the strongest current unit on the commanders after the free agency ads by Adam Peters and his staff? Let's go to Bob. He's calling in from Ocean City. Hey, Bob. Bob. Good morning, gentlemen. Hey, Bob. After all the trades, I think the defensive line is the strongest. And here's the reason why all the people on the team last year are planning for a job and they want to stay with the winner because you know we're going to be a winner. It's not this year next year. All the guys that added a line can one thing. Young, faster, quicker, experienced on stacking the quarterback.

That is their new strong. Because they're all healthy. We didn't find anybody that's hurt. Hey, Settle's going to be a big deal. I like Settle. The other guys can get to the quarterback. Settle seems pumped. Thank you for the call, Bob. Appreciate you. You're listening in those new strong. Settle was on with the new strength. That's their new strong. Settle was on with the Mitch and Finley yesterday. And he seems definitely excited for his second act here in Washington. Yeah. How long was he gone? About four years, five years? He played four years here. Then I think he did two in Buffalo, two in Houston. So he's gone for four. Yeah. So he's like him as a depth piece. Yeah. Absolutely. He's going to help stop the run and spell both Johnny Newton and pain. He's going to be a rotational guy. But I think he's going to be a big piece to that defensive line. But it's hard for me to say it's the strength of the team. Like if I'm imposing offense, let's just go to Superwinner. Seattle Seahawks play this Washington defense.

Is there really anybody on that defensive scares you? Well, I know that when they went on the defensive scares you played a few months ago. They weren't scared of anybody because they were just marching up and down the feet against this. I mean, on paper, O A could be, but there's there's not a game rucker. There's no Aaron Donald. There's no Miles Garrett. There's no Joey Bosa. But Peter signed O A hoping he can be he can ascend at least close to the premier pass Russia territory. Not there yet, but I feel like if given the opportunity, like he should go from get seven and a half sacks after he got dealt to the chargers, like I don't think 12 to 14 sacks is out of the possibility for him as a commander. So you're getting him in Ryan Kerrigan range. But he's never done Ryan Kerrigan. That's what you should expect. That's why they're giving him 70 million. Yeah, if you give him 68 million dollars guaranteed, you're not giving him that hoping for seven sacks. Like you're hoping for 10 plus maybe

maybe if things really break, right? Guy has 15 sacks. And it's very, which he's never done. He's never done, but that doesn't mean he can't do it. I understand. So hopefully he does that here. And he becomes the guy that they're hoping he is. Nobody on the defense. Nobody, if I'm an offensive coordinator, nobody by name really scares me. Correct. But the unit is a is a is much better. Yes. I agree. I don't think it's the best unit on the team. No, I'm saying the entire defensive unit. I'm talking all those 11 starters. They're going to get after the quarterback much better than they did last week. We're killing. We're killing them as far as like not putting pressure on the quarterback and not getting enough sacks. They weren't even close to being the worst in that category. They had 42 sacks as a team last year. Same amount as the Eagles, the Titans. They had more than the Colts and the don't like. The top team was the Broncos 68. They were an outlier. The next closest was the Falcons who were good at putting pressure on the quarterback. 57.

So they weren't great at getting to the quarterback. But they also weren't terrible. No, but they were terrible as a team defensively. True. They were the worst. So if you're looking straight away, these guys have to get sacks. They got to stop the run. Absolutely. You know, the linebackers have to contribute. Sacks as a team wasn't a huge problem for the commanders. Now, there were a lot of other problems on the defense, but they were actually better than most at getting to the quarterback. Very good point. But they have to upgrade a lot of yards on a lot of points. Certainly. I just have a hard time putting that as the strength of the team. I mean, base a strength of the team. Based on what they've added. I mean, I think it is. Let's go back to the phones. 1-800-636-1067. Let's go to Erwin. He's calling in from suitland. Erwin, you're all with the junkies. Good morning. Hey, good morning, guys. Thanks for taking my call. Sure. Hey, listen. I think that the linebacker group is probably our strongest suit. And that's because of the people that we, the free agents that we got.

They are edge flash linebackers. Also, I think that in the draft, the two people that I did not want. If we pick either one of those two, it would take us over the top. One is Caleb Downs. If we get Caleb Downs, then the secondary would be over the top. The other one is Love. If we get Love, then a running back will be over the top. So that's what I think, guys. All right. Good points. Thanks, Aaron. Appreciate it. Yeah. Yeah. If you had Jeremiah Love and you've got Bill. Yeah. And Richard. And Richard White. That's a problem. You're strong. Yeah. As long as Jeremiah Love's not a bust. Right. I mean, I don't think he will be. I don't think that's going to happen. You're like the offensive line. I mean, you're like the offensive line. The offensive line is going to open up to holes. If that's your threesome. That's a, that's a really good. Now, there's another known in his name is David Blau. Right. So we just, but let's assume he's legit as an OC. Yeah. He's got pieces. He's going to score points. And Jayden's got to stay on the field. He comes from the Detroit coaching tree where they loved handing the ball off to Gibbs

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Yes, even though I hate math, tomorrow is Pi Day. Pi Day 314. Yes. Well, we got to thank our man Eddie from Eddie Bull Pies. He just dropped off a bunch of pies. He dropped off probably at least the dozen for the entire station. For the entire state. Look at this. Look at this. This apple pie weighs about 25 pounds. He said he made 29 pies since Tuesday because he just has a regular oven at home. Yeah. So he's just doing this for fun. So you can max put four pies in a time. This pecan pie is going to get just decimated over the weekend. Yeah. Like this box will be empty by the end of the weekend. It's personally guaranteed that. I just throw. So good. I throw a little vanilla ice scoop of vanilla ice cream on it. Vanilla bean pie. Alamo. That's so good. But their pie. His pie is spectacular. Yeah. And then if you even put a whipped cream too. Oh, yeah. A whipped cream. Of course. Eddie's a good dude. I knew Amy does commercial break film breakdowns. Yeah. Quarterbacks. You can do commercial break film break down of me pumping the pie.

Yeah. During the next commercial break. You've got two pies. He did? Yeah. He's got a cherry. I see ranked two pies. It's not even here. It's not even here. He shouldn't get any. It's in the fridge. Hey, we'll see if it let eight. Yeah. Well, any of those pies. Be whole. I hope not. By Monday when he comes back. I would never leave. I would never leave something here in the fridge. Well, I'm not going to think it wouldn't get taken or eaten by his name. And now his name is on both pies. I don't think that matters. I'll tell you the pie that I was intrigued by. Yeah. I am a pecan pie. It's my number one seed. Right. But I went out there and looked and he's got different pies. Apple pies. I don't know if there's a cherry pie out there. Yeah. He mixes blueberry pie. But there was one that had tin foil on it. Yeah. And I'm looking because he has kind of the ingredients on the outside. Yeah. And then at the top, like mine says, pecan pie, JP flame. Yeah. I'm literally apple pie bishop. Right. And I didn't see that at first. And I'm looking at it. And I saw it said chocolate pie. Well, if you ever had chocolate pie. You never had chocolate pie. You live thinly.

Oh. So you live thinly. You've lived chocolate pie. I've never seen JP's eyes lit up so much in his life. Yeah. You rent drink too. By the way, done. So that's your family, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm thinking about that. Yeah. Newly off streets. Probably going to be a big hit at Mike Mars St. Patties' Dirty, his day party in his house. Probably Saturday tomorrow 3 PM kickoff. I believe we've all been invited. Is that a common term? Dirty? Dirty? It's very common. I'm going amongst the youngins not amongst the routes. So a new term. I would say Dirty. I've only heard it from you. Really? Yeah. You've never heard it. So you have college aged kids. You've never heard term? Dirty. Dirty or Sunday? Where do you believe all of? You've never heard it.

Where do you believe all of? That's how I was exposed to it. Yeah. I mean, how else would I be exposed to it? Do you think I've gone to a dirty show done that? Of course I haven't. I've never heard my kids say dirty. Not every kid would. I appreciate the invite to the dirty. I'm gonna have to pass because I can't just get black out drunk at five o'clock in the afternoon. Well, that invite, there's no expiration date on that invite. I appreciate that. Up until the party starts at three o'clock, you know, you guys can show up whenever. So it's valid. I'm coming, dude. But St. Patrick say that. I told you, I told you I'm coming. Okay, I'm gonna hold you to that. Wow, look at that. It's a good fit. Yeah. I felt for that. I felt for it too. Let me tell you guys what a old man Valdeez is. I'm like, a game is passed and by. He doesn't even realize it. Okay. So Mars has been hyping up this house party all week. Valdeez said, what time should I bring my corn beef and cabbage over? Hey, you know what? And I'm looking at him like, you're so old. What was the bitch you guys did yesterday?

That's a solid. That's a solid item to bring to us. Yeah. If you're going to the party, if you're going to the warheimer's rock and you're a thief. Okay. Now until 25 year old Kager, Valdeez says in the game is the game's gone, Valdeez. Maybe that is a play. That's a valid point. Corn beef. You think these 23 year old girls want to eat corn? Do you think they have? They don't even know what cabbage is. Same. But you, if you went out, Margo's the grocery store a lot. But if you brought some of your boys in and there's a big table filled with nothing but heads of cabbage, would they even know what it is? Absolutely not. I mean, as of right now. I think it's iceberg lettuce. The food we have is pizza. So him showing off. It's a geezer move. It's a geezer move. Yeah. But it will be in it. So true. It'll get eaten. That's a geezer. You may laugh at him, but you will eat it. Here's what they want. Alcohol. That's the only thing that people have. Surf slides. Surf slides and. Fies. What? Are you sure I'm not making it? I thought I was being a nice geezer.

You make it for yourself. You like those drunkards eat a hundred pupe telepies. What was the bitch you guys did yesterday? I saw, I guess you guys put it on our Instagram page. Oh, I smoked bacon for burgers. Who's good to do? And then I did half barbecue, half regular smoked bacon. Yeah. And I had leftover barbecue bacon. I brought it in. Oh, that's awesome. If you haven't seen it, sports junkies radio. Give us a follow on Instagram. I saw you did. Gas or ask? Gas or ask? What was the consensus from? Well, drabs in alien, because none of the consensus from the social media werewolves. Most people thought it looked good. Yeah. But drabs, I'm weird. I don't care. drabs a weirdo. He's basically Jeffrey Dahmer because he doesn't eat anything barbecue. Right. I've never heard of that in my life. Well, he's got the eating part. No, I just say that. I don't like barbecue sauce. I don't like my brisket covered in sweet baby rays. Found me. That bacon was just slaughtered with barbecue sauce.

It was just too much. The only man in America who hates barbecue sauce. I like the taste. I like to taste the meat. Valdez. Hold up. If you've had a mission barbecue. I get brisket. And you get a pulled pork. But let's say you had a pulled pork sandwich. You wouldn't put barbecue. I wouldn't get pulled pork sandwich. I don't like that. He's not a pulled pork sandwich. It's so much. I just didn't grow up eating barbecue. Yeah, I want to see the real thing. Yeah, I didn't see that. He's a Seattle boy. Yeah, we know. It's not your thing. What are you out there? Just fish? What are you? He's constantly throwing fish. Right. There's a lot of fish. I don't like that. I don't like that. I don't like that. I mean, it's seafood and barbecue. I mean, great party. I passed more cabbage. I passed the cabbage, please. Oh, great. It is an old school move, admittedly. But if it's done right, it would be delicious. It would be good. I also asked the president, are you gonna be playing about your Irish tunes? It should be.

Yeah, we're gonna send out his deck. We're actually going to home depot a little bit later. We're gonna get a fresh beer die table. We're gonna clean out the bonfire pit, bring the TVs outside. So hopefully the weather holds up. But right now we're about at 20 people confirmed. Okay, nice. When you guys show up, we'll be at 23 drive-up these. What do we show up? I'm enrichment at home, and I'm not driving to his dirty. Yeah, I know you got it. And get blacked out drunk. He loves saying dirty. Pretty green years. It's a great turn. One of the phrases he's lifted from kids that he throws in all the time. Oh, Lizzie. I love to say Lizzie said a hot dog. Lizzie? I haven't heard that one. I've never heard of it. Maybe I'll throw a hot dog. Now you're the one that was got in with the alien. You've never heard of it. Lizzie? Lizzie. You heard kicks in literally 500 times in the show. I know, I know, but I just, I don't listen to it out. He doesn't listen to his guy over here. Is that a guy thing? I mean, girls. There's a wildly popular turf for younger people than me. For about.

For hot dogs? It's probably not hot anymore. Hold on. And your chance, my girls, ever said glizzy. What they know what it is. A billion percent chance. A billion percent chance. They say glizzy in their life. Tell me what a glizzy is. A hundred percent chance, they know it. One's on an airplane. Ask them what do you call a hot dog? No, no, just ask them what is a glizzy? Have you ever heard of glizzy? And they're going to say, yes, dad, boomer. It's a hot dog. Okay, it's just dying to say you're going to have glizzies at the dirty. I'm not. No, no, he does. He loves saying dirty. But it sounds like pizza is the order of the day. Of course he's got a hook. Sure. Why not? Well, actually, I don't know. As you move, you go to Pupatela tonight, you load up, and then you go again tomorrow. Load up. Oh, my God. He's going to have twins on the ethical. Why? He's going to have 20 heathens at his party. You think you only get $150 a day, right? That's all I'm doing is economical. And all it does is make sense. If we combine our powers behind the glass,

we're at $4.50 for the day. By the way, that's Cakes' move. This is, this is 30 years ago. Yeah. But Cakes lifted so much free material from bridges. That's where we're not a business. Because he, I did too. They're like, you get a hook up. He came out with two trash bags. I did. It was unbelievable. This is all true. So eventually that is all true. But with the Pupatela card, I have been very respectful about not like abusing it. I'm just saying, this is a special occasion where Mar might want to put it into the rent for a day or two and get as much as he can. That's all Cakes treats the card like Badlands Booker would in ordering every single pizza on the menu. This is not true. I just went to the Pupatela a few days ago and I made a very reasonable order. I ordered two pizzas, known as meatballs and a diet coke. That's a reasonable order. No, no, and a side salad for your wife for lunch. I forgot the side salad. Cakes, Cakes' white lying is way through this thing.

Because he uses that card. He's always ordering for tomorrow, too. Not necessarily. Though I did think about that the most recent visit of the Pupatela. What was bizarre, you told me yesterday is that you froze the pizza. You got a pizza to go and then just put it in your freezer to save it for a couple of days. And I didn't want to throw it in a plate. You can just go for the next day. You froze it? Who freezes pizzas? That's so good. You've never heard of frozen pizza? No, we're not after it. I'm sorry, cut. I'm like putting the three in the fridge. I have to do now. Take it out of the freezer. So dull. Let it sit for a little bit. Throw it in the oven and it's good enough. It's strange, dude. It's not so dull for me. By the way, my daughter. You put it in the fridge. My daughter's in the fridge. But I had enough pizza in the freezer. My daughter said, yes, yes. I do. My younger daughter, a hot dog. I said, do you ever say it? No. She says it's stupid. Right, because it's not just like I think.

It's not cool anymore. How many times do you think cakes does he use the term glizzy on the shell? I'm 50. I don't know. I don't know when he says it. He's more under 50. How many times do you think about he's? Way over 50 is when they're doing the hot dog contest. We're in July 4th. Hundreds. Yes, hundreds of times. Here, it's your Pavlovian every time you talk about like 7-Eleven, you don't think I'm gonna get a glizzy. I need to work Frank further into. Frank further into a good name for hot dog. Solid. That fun is a dirty tomorrow, Mike Mar. I remember, enjoy your corn beef. Who could tell it tonight? Who could tell it tomorrow? It's the double, the weekend, double dip. Cakes, what's your Ricky Henderson on the entertainment page? As soon as Valdez gives it to me, I'll tell you. We'll do that next here in the junkies. Have you or a family member been diagnosed with early stage non-small cell lung cancer that can be removed by surgery? Consider talking to an oncologist about your treatment options. Why?

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