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Kalamazoo or Toledo, which city is better?

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Kalamazoo or Toledo, which city is better?

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that's right. So is John challenging him tonight or no? I haven't heard back. Um so well, my guess is no. Okay. Uh, John's going to be at his son's game. So it's not even a guess. The answer is that. Yes. Yeah. Awesome. Yep. So, um yeah, that's that's not going to happen, which is too bad. It is. Um, maybe another time. Fundawage. I did ask him if he does much stuff in Michigan. He says over time. No, he's done. So I'm not going to be a book. I'm sure he's done. He's been. He says over time. No, he's done some Episodes event one time, but he hasn't done much here. So what's from the station? Would we want to put out there in an eating contest against Joey Chessna. Hmm. Who is the dark horse that you know, no one would expect, but they were the sound. Yeah. Uh, I don't know. Yeah, I mean, that's what I mean, too. Yeah. Listen, I get me like, I got to work or something, you know, will you build up an appetite? Will you do the clansel?

No, like he does. No, man, I'm not dedicated to after the chem. I'm just a, I'm just a regular citizen here. Well stated, well stated. Yeah, I'll put you off for days though. Yeah, then it's gotta be something obviously I want to eat, but I think I could put it before I eat. I could do like a, they were dunking munchkins, but they were Timahorton, tidbits, whatever. If I got like stoned before, I just had the munchies and just started just popping them and I'm out, like tons of, like the bucket, I could do a lot of those major damage. Yeah, but you've already straight up admitted performance and dancing drugs. Right? Oh, if I got stoned, guess what? That's true. Is that abandoned professionally? I, you know what, I don't know. The post, the post game P test, stony would fail. Yeah. It would come out glazed. It's, it's, stony would be banned from competitive eating for, for, for a full MLE season. Yeah. Okay. Thank you for that little nugget of information. Of course.

Yeah, anytime. I have a sneaky suspicion that they actually might get a decent crowd at Eastern tonight. Because of this or just in general. I think this helps, but I also think winning that opener and looking like they might have an explosive offense. And this is going to sound so geeky because it is. San Jose State put up a bunch of points on USC. So they did late. Yeah, but foreshadowing the over pick for, uh-huh. If I bet it. Anyway, I think they're the first place Eagles. That's right. So it's back to back Mac games. What's that? San Jose State, are they in the Mac? Now, I don't know, the Sacramento States in the Mac, I forgot. So the only way they would be playing them is if they played them literally back to back. Because they opened with Sacramento State. Oh, that's right. Yeah. So you got them confused that they might be playing them again here. I see. I was just thinking about those donuts. That's quite all right. Okay.

10 tax. We asked the question before the break. Michigan's playing Western Michigan. Michigan State is playing Toledo. Of those two towns, which is better and why? From being out in. Yeah. Yeah. Which is better why to hang out in. From Ben and Roseville, there's only three reasons to go to Toledo. One mudhands game. Two hookers. Three I 75 runs through it. Hookers. Okay. Is there a high quality of Toledo hookers? I don't know. Because Jed York went to Youngstown. Yeah. So maybe he should have checked out Toledo. From Jimmy and Attruck, Toledo is better than Kalamazoo. The downtown bar scene is great, especially during a mudhands game. Also, the casino is right there. It's always a blast. Kalamazoo, I've worked out there. I've worked out there. And it's just not a great area. It's boring around there. Hmm. Oh, let's see. Laura says Toledo, the Toledo Art Museum.

The glass blowing cafe is awesome at the Toledo Art Museum. You have interest in a glass blowing cafe stony? No, I don't. Okay. From Noah and a van, currently driving through Kalamazoo and there's nothing here except the sad excuse of a casino and a bird watching. I'm going in with Toledo because at least they have a zoo to people watch more than animal watch. Yeah, people say that Toledo is great. They have concerts there. I know people that for some reason, the counting crows would go there all the time. Really? And they'd see them there. Grumpy's in Toledo is the best brunch I've had. Plus you've got the mud hands, the walleye, and Tony Poco's hot dogs. It's from Joseph and Punny. I Toledo all day. I've never hung out in either place, but I know if I was in Toledo, I'd have to go to Tony Poco's. JD, the cable guy says Kalamazoo, the best part about it is it's not Ohio.

I would definitely head to Kalamazoo. My uncle used to own a golf course in Kalamazoo called the Old Mill. Wouldn't mind going back there and playing it one last time. And frankly, if I don't have to go to Ohio for anything, I don't. It's from Rick and Warren. I guess you don't like good paved roads. John and Lake Orientalito is more fun because you're halfway to Cedar Point. Kalamazoo is halfway to Hammond. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. That's a good one. I love it. I really start thinking about the state of Indiana, national championship. Yeah. Notre Dame, favorite to win it this year. And now two NFL teams. That's right. Indiana, I remember, I'm old enough to remember when Indiana was a basketball state. That's right. Me too. Clearly a football state. Oh, which is better Toledo or Kalamazoo from an unnamed texture Kalamazoo 100%

Wobbos Tavirner, Bells Brewery, Postgame can't get much better. Chris and Port here on the zoo, Bells Beer and Donuts from Sweetwater Donuts. They have a great tennis tournament in Kalamazoo. I know that. I think it's the Western open air something that's called. They have a great tournament. I don't know what it's called. I don't know. I know like, like, you gotta go, Doug. What's the call? I have no idea. I had a friend at Kalamazoo. Tennis, it's like a, for juniors, like like Aaron Crickstein won when he was a kid. Okay. Oh, it's helpful. That's a little, little detail. Nothing tops getting drunk in Kalamazoo and finishing the night eating two fellows grill. That's from Will. So I went to Toledo for a mudhands game and got down there. It was like a Wednesday. And my wife and I, we rolled up like a, like, 90 minutes before the game. Mm-hmm.

And I'm like, well, we gotta see the little stadium district. We went to a bar like this rooftop bar on a corner and there were four people there. But we were outside. It was a warm day. Was it a small roof? That was a big roof. Okay. It was a sizable roof. There were four people there, including you and your wife. Yeah, including, there were two guys at the bar. My wife and I were, one of them a bartender. My wife and I had our beers over in the corner, like, overlooking the intersection. And it was, it was a cool little area. Then when we were walking to the game, we realized there were like four better places we could have gone. Sounds like it wasn't, the bar wasn't high to beat that place to be honest with you. And then Kalamazoo, rooftop, where I had five people. It was that popular, Kay. All right. The Boys Junior National Tennis Championships, AKA the USTA Boys in 18, 18s and 16s National Championship, and nickname Nationals at the Zoo, takes place at the Kalamazoo College campus in Kalamazoo.

How, when is that tournament? Oh, let me see where this year is. I think it was already this, because it usually takes place in the summer. I would imagine. Yeah. So I don't, hold on. See if I can find that information for you because I know you really care. Well, I just wonder if you're giving the dates on it. It's not that essential for the summer. It's a stadium. Don't worry about it. It was Friday, August 1st, the year it started. Okay. So went to Kalamazoo to go to a concert at the Bell's eccentric cafe. Well, concert hall they have there. And predictably they serve Bell's beer. Oh, yeah. So did you see your boys there? I did. Yeah. They're coming to Detroit. I know. Yeah. I'm just trying to climb the peacemakers. Yeah. The music's a little sketch for me, but really? The old stuff's great. Yeah, I got to give the new album another try. That's how everybody feels about their famous artists. The old stuff so much better. Yeah, because the old stuff, we're much younger and you have no responsibilities

and it seems so much more important back then. I know. All right. So there we go. It looks like this is a, this is a right about a 50, 50 split. No, it's a slight edge to Kalamazoo being better than Toledo, slight edge. We're going to pick some games coming up today at 135 and we got Gators Pixie sentiment in the first edition, first edition of If I Bet It. This is also pretty much your last chance to get your predictions in on the Wolverines or Spartan season. How do you think they will do this year? Give us a record number reason why via text or phone call. And also go to Twitter. I done Gator 9-7-1 and felt the tempo we have there, which includes your season prediction. I love to hear from you on the day that football returns to East Lansing tomorrow. It's back in Ann Arbor. It's Carson Anderson, 97-1.

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