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Super Bowl Mania, and the Future of Streaming: A Look into Sports, City Street Safety, Ditching Daylight Savings Culinary and Podcasting

• George and Steve • Season 2 • Episode 3

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Could this be the year we finally break free from the back-and-forth dance with our clocks? Join us as we grapple with the potential end of daylight saving time, pondering what it means for our future. Zoom into the electrifying world of Super Bowl fever where touchdowns and halftime shows collide, sparking debates over the cultural impact and skyrocketing music sales for superstars like Lady Gaga.

Step into the evolving arena of sports entertainment, where the roar of the crowd meets the click of the remote. We tackle the shift from traditional cable to cutting-edge streaming services, and how VR could transport us from our couches to the sidelines. The conversation gets personal as we share stories of collecting phonographs and confront urban safety concerns, painting a vivid picture of how our past informs our present.

Finally, we take you on the road with us as we gear up for on-site restaurant podcasting, injecting our culinary adventures with the thrill of live recording. From navigating COVID-19 complexities to cheering on the Chiefs, we cover the full gamut of today's life reflections while keeping an eye on what's cooking in the world of sports and entertainment. So come along, and let's savor every moment of this journey together.

Steve:

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George:

Hello guys, welcome back.

Steve:

It's been a little bit, it's been another week, it's come by. The world has changed probably five times over.

George:

Time does fly. It has gone by pretty quick for me as well.

Steve:

I was just realizing, when I looked at the calendar today, that the time the clocks go back to normal, as I consider normal, on like March 3rd or 4th, which is less than a month now already.

George:

Is that right? Yeah, and it is. I can't keep up. Is this the last time they're going to do it, or wasn't that? Didn't they say last year or two years ago that, all right, they're going to change it and that's it.

Steve:

I don't know. That group can't agree on anything, can they?

George:

Let's be honest. I mean they let's go with the flow.

Steve:

I think that fell through. I think they couldn't agree on.

George:

I could care less. Okay, so we have to fall back, jump forward or leap forward, whatever, okay.

Steve:

I like it a little lighter in the afternoon, but I must say in the dead of winter there's something horrible about getting up and getting in the car and it's pitch black and it's freezing and if it's snowing it's even worse. I remember when I was a kid, when they changed it to save energy for whatever I don't know how that works that they saved energy and you're still light the same amount of hours and you're still dark the same amount of hours. But I remember getting up, pitch black, standing at the bus stop. You felt foolish, but that was a long time ago. It's a few days before the Super Bowl.

George:

That's certainly. Let me guess who's playing. I think got a Kansas City Chiefs, that's one. I think it is. I want to go and say, 49ers, san Francisco 49ers, Really I got it, you got it. You act like you knew exactly who I was. No, I actually had to guess the second one. I had a feeling my home was going to clinch the championship, the divisional championship this year, but I had no idea.

Steve:

On the other side, I think there's nothing better than a Super Bowl party. Those are pretty fun, it's.

George:

You can watch football. You have no idea what that is. A Super Bowl party gathering guaranteed a lot of food, everyone's pretty happy, pretty excited and amped up, and it's three hours of gladiator TV, absolutely.

Steve:

The only problem is it doesn't go on to what 6.30. People get together at two o'clock. They're either drunk by the time the game starts or they've eaten so much they no longer care.

George:

Unless you have. You're in a pool or in one of those boxes. You bought a box. Right yeah the food you got wings, pizza, subs, anything that you can share. A lot of potlucks are happening. A lot of beverages will be imbibed, A lot of beer. Yeah, yeah, I wonder how statistically or sales-wise, beer sales for Super Bowl versus World Series versus Stanley Cup? These just interesting facts probably.

Steve:

Bud Light's got a whole campaign. Oh, they got to, they got to get back. They got to get back after what happened to them last year. They're going back to old school with the funny commercials and I think some of the famous quarterbacks are in the commercials.

George:

Sure.

Steve:

Peyton. Peyton Manning is in it, Post Malone is in it because he's been doing Bud Light commercials too, I see. So two of them are in it and it's like old school bringing it back. And they bring it like a young cool guy is like a genie and can grant wishes.

George:

Halftime show. What is it? Who's performing Usher?

Steve:

Usher Huh, they don't get paid, but supposedly record sales go through the roof after you do this and NFL pays the expenses, and those range between $16 and $18 million Expenses. Prepare the lighting, the show, the sound, the stage yeah.

George:

It's their production, absolutely so they're benefiting the most.

Steve:

And I was reading somewhere. Then the record sales surge and I forgot who it was. I don't know if it was. I think it was Lady Gaga. After she performed the week after the Super Bowl, her record sales increased a thousand percent.

George:

And she's no slouch yeah that's right. A thousand percent. A thousand percent, so that's 10X.

Steve:

And an $18 million show. She got on a swing. I don't remember it, to be honest, at all, which is unusual because I usually watch them all.

George:

That's insane.

Steve:

And Usher's been pretty much MIA. You never hear about him.

George:

You would almost say it's a comeback A resurgence, like he needs the money. But okay, it's an honor, I'll take it at that value.

Steve:

I'm not quite sure any of them really needs the money.

George:

All right, okay, super Bowl. So, oh, actually I want to talk about the Netflix series quarterback that me.

Steve:

I watched a little bit of it.

George:

I think I binged, maybe like a week ago, of that series and I think it's like 10 episodes. They follow three quarterbacks Mahomes, cousins and Marriotta and it was quite insightful. I'm not a sport nut, so I don't follow, I don't wake up and turn on ESPN or I don't listen to the fan in the morning while driving, so it's unlike me who watches, get up on ESPN every morning at eight o'clock and I record it just in case I have to do something, work or something.

Steve:

So when I finally go to take a shower or whatever it is that I could play it while I watch it and watch the rest of work in between and whatever.

George:

All right. So you enjoy the updates, you enjoy the stats, you enjoy all the news of injuries and yeah.

Steve:

Listen, I like the news, I like who's going where. I like the football part of it's my favorite. I also like basketball. Baseball has become a little mundane, if you ask me, and they did it to themselves. I don't know what to say, but they did. I do like to watch it. My problem here's my problem with baseball, and same problem with all the other sports, but I think baseball was the last holdout and that was. They built these mega stadiums and now it cost a fortune to go to a game and you know what All sports All sports, but baseball was the last holdout.

Steve:

You could go there and get a ticket for $15, $20, $25. Now you can't get a ticket for $50. You can't get a hot dog for $100.

George:

You can't get a hot dog for $15. You can't get a hot dog for $15. You can't get a hot dog for $15.

Steve:

You can't get a Coca-Cola for $15. All right, so how do you expect to promote the game if only old people with money are watching it? Right, because the kids can't watch it. Kids are watching soccer. Kids are playing soccer. You are seeing kids play sports you never heard of before. Kids are playing lacrosse. When I went to school, I think who was on the lacrosse team? There was no lacrosse team. We picked on the kids that played soccer. What are you getting Lacrosse? Well, I couldn't pay it on them because they had bats in their hand.

George:

But yeah, america known as Apple Pie and baseball right.

Steve:

That's got out the window.

George:

Done.

Steve:

Yeah, the sport still makes millions of dollars.

George:

Yeah, the owners come out victorious in all sports.

Steve:

I was thinking that one of the big complaints was that one of the games this year, one of the playoff games, was on a streaming service Peacock. Now I own Peacock, so I didn't really care. All right, I subscribe. I should say to Peacock.

George:

I don't care what anyone says. There was massive collusion. There's no way that this is coming out mathematically sound right.

Steve:

That's interesting because I think they paid something like $110 million to show the game. So there's 32 teams. That means every owner made over $3 million a piece.

Steve:

Just for that deal Just for that game $3 million. Now, when you were a guy like Jerry Jones who bought his team, I think in 1990 for $150 million and it's now worth $6 billion, tell me where on the open market you get an investment like that. $6 billion. So $150 million. So I realize it's 30 years, but $150 million into $6 billion. Think about it when you bought your house for $190, what is it worth of $2023? The only reason it's worth more is because the dollar is devalued. But anyway, the owners are greedy and they're grabbing with both hands and that's why they tolerate all this crap. They tolerate people telling them what to do.

Steve:

They tolerate literally laughing to the bank and laughing all the way to the bank Exactly, laughing all the way. It's just $3 million. They made it on one broadcast and I heard an interview with the owner CEO of the chiefs. The Hunt family have been a major supporter and player in the NFL and, before that, the AFL, for decades. Lamar Hunt I guess that's his name was one of the founders of football. His team was originally in Texas and they opened up the same and I think his cousin or his brother or his best friend had owned the Dallas Cowboys and they both started teams together in Texas and Hunt ended up in the, the chiefs ended up in the AFL and then when they merged, everybody became rich. The AFL and the NFL merged and it just became the American conference and the national conference and the national football league.

Steve:

And he was saying that in his interview that streaming sports is the way of the future, that soon all sports will be streaming, that cable companies are going the way of the dodo is basically what he said. Why should you have them? No, one, more and more people are switching. Now I don't have cable. As a matter of fact, a guy came to my door today I thought it was you, george, on your way here. I opened a door. It was a guy from Verizon trying to sell me Verizon. I said I have Verizon and he was saying to me that the cable service internet is slow. Now I already know that they've been upgrading the system around here and I've I have a gig, I'm trying to upgrade it to two gig for whatever reason, but that's what I'm trying to do and I should have mentioned that to him but I didn't.

Steve:

But Optimum, who is the cable carrier? They don't have optical network, they still have old school cables and those aren't able though they may be able to do download high speeds, they can't do upload high speeds. At the end of the day, the cable companies are facing themselves out. Everything's going to be over the internet, everything, all sports. And I have to say one of the things that I that perplexes me how is it that now we have all these headsets where you could see virtual reality, everything that there is in some kind of virtual reality camera sitting on the basketball court at the at the court side? That's videotaping, or that's broadcasting the game to everybody with the virtual helmets on, and then they could watch the game as they were watching it on court side? Just imagine that. What do you think the value would be? That those maniacs that follow teams to the end of the earth they would do anything to get a virtual look, to be able to sit court side virtually in their living room. I don't know how that doesn't exist yet, certainly the technology's there.

George:

It can't be that nobody thought about it, because all I do is say it to everyone I meet yeah, there's got to be some bean counter out there giving you the the pros and cons of each scenario and how much they can milk the ticket that's right, oh well. It's really not for us, right? It's not in our best interest.

Steve:

I don't know what's in our best.

George:

Do you know what's in our best interest anymore? Just give me three square meals a day, a warm bed, roof over my head.

Steve:

I'm with you and a few dozen photographs and I'm good.

George:

Speaking of quite a quite an impressive collection. Every time I step in here, I notice there's more and don't deny it there's more.

Steve:

This time there's much more from last week, so there are three or four more, but I have an extra bedroom that had all the stuff my ex-wife threw out on the front lawn when I left and it just sat in there and sat in there. I finally cleaned it all out and cleaned out the room and moved. My photographs that were all over my apartment are now in that back room.

George:

Now they're nicely lined up around the perimeter and I'm still waiting for you to name each one. I go in there.

Steve:

I sit. I take actually the chair I'm sitting on and I put it in there and I just sit in the middle and I just sit there. Today I literally went around the room early this morning and played probably about five different ones and posted it on Facebook and said this is this one, this is that one, you love it, that's all the counts.

Steve:

I try to play everything only because you really it's like an airplane you got to fly it or else you got to maintain it.

Steve:

The real interesting thing is that I was able to get what's called a replica of Edison's tin foil photograph, the very first one built in 1877. So let's helemaal�. This replica has brought much debate from the experts who collect photographs on exactly what it is, but it is pretty sure that it was built by one of Edison's engineers from the original blueprints of the original one, and it is the exact same one that happens to be in the Smithsonian, because the original is in Edison's lab. It is one that had been taking all over the world for demonstrations. It was owned by one of the foremost collectors, who recently passed away of all Edison photographs, as well as the tinfoil photographs, and I was lucky to buy it out of an estate. The person who was the administrator of the state was looking for somebody that was going to love it, that was going to collect it and not sell it and not auction it, and I happened to be in the right place at the right time.

George:

Life is all about being in the right place at the right time.

Steve:

So far I've been offered five times when I paid for it already and I only picked it up on Saturday.

George:

And today is Wednesday Incredible.

Steve:

I know, but anyway two more important things.

George:

That's some good news, it is.

Steve:

It is. It's a beautiful beast. It certainly adds an element to the collection that I never thought would ever be. And the person who originally owned it originally owned by Edison, but the person that the collector that originally owned it.

George:

Think about what you just said. I know Wow.

Steve:

Everything in that room, half those things in that room, were built in Edison's workshop, under Edison's supervision, between the years of 1878 and 1910, I want to say in that room, and then there are a couple, and then the rest are built by in the Victor shop between 1905 to in Camden, new Jersey. Wow, between 1905 and maybe 1920.

George:

So much history.

Steve:

It's really just amazing. It's amazing and the quality and they are. Imagine that you and nothing's electric, everything's crank. I wouldn't buy anything that was electric, even though they made them as time went on. And when you crank it up and you feel it and you put that cylinder or that disc on there and you drop it on the needle and you basically walk back in time. Serial. Yeah, I was playing a song called we're All Americans. Now, it was a song that every Berlin had written when the Americans joined World War One. It's amazing what kind of response a song like that gets, but especially when you're posted on Facebook or something like that. But it's that kind of history that's all lived through. You could tell by the songs. It was just such a different world. Everything was simplistic.

George:

Compare yeah, it's a comparison to what we're going through today.

Steve:

Silver's life and death in a lot of places, but it was simplistic, interesting.

George:

Simplistic. That's the polar opposite of life in the city. I started a new gig last week and I'm in the city a few days a week. I get in to Grand Central and the city is just this wild cement jungle, as they call it. I was body checked twice on the way to the office. It was like are you kidding me? Body checked? Yeah, I twirled like 180 to the left and then I got hit on the other shoulder two blocks down the road.

George:

I spoke to my boss and we had this little chuckle. It's not so funny, but we can laugh in hindsight. But he also experienced. Actually he experienced something even more greater.

George:

During the pandemic this whole Asian hate thing was documented and he experienced it firsthand. He witnessed a gentleman who probably was under the influence of some kind of narcotic, swinging a metal pipe and threatening someone at the corner of an intersection and immediately you have this feeling oh, I got to walk around or try to just avoid. He walked around but unfortunately his eyes connected with the salient and he just got targeted and the man with the pipe came towards him and swung, missed, swung again, missed, and my boss said hey, not looking for any trouble, just I'm going to walk away. And then boom gets hit in the ribs and repeated again. Did not want to escalate the situation with a calm voice, hands up in the air Listen, nothing happened. I'm just going my way, you go your way.

George:

Boom gets hit again, gets hit twice, and then a couple more attempts, with the pipe being swung and whether the salient got tired or maybe lost concentration but turned around and started walking away. And meanwhile my boss is in shock like what just happened. Right, we're in modern day, new York City. He's in a suit and just got victimized and leads to say he's Japanese.

Steve:

Yeah, nothing to do with Chinese, other than they're from the same part of the world. But Asians and those two countries pretty much hate each other, which is even more ironic, right.

George:

I am of Taiwanese descent and I don't really understand anything about this whole Asian hate thing. I didn't really pay too much attention or read too much into it, but I was definitely aware that this was happening. The thing was my boss all of a sudden clicked and said wait a minute, like I just got, you know, attacked. So he decides to call 911, thinking oh, what are the chances anything's going to happen in today's climate, right With law enforcement. But he'd said kudos to NYPD.

George:

I was on the phone, I described the assailant, I described where I was and I said until this guy is cuffed and arrested, I'm going to follow from a safe distance and I need some kind of resolution. And, to the police department's credit, in three minutes there were cops on site, the man was stopped and arrested and put in a squad car for their follow up. Whether it was unofficial or official, but I said, the fact is the assailant looks like he's under the influence. Our protocol is we have to take him to the hospital and from there most likely will be released. So you do, you do one thing, but the follow up or the finish measures are not there, and that's. It's a shame that our legal system has so many loopholes I guess that's what we can call them for these scenarios, and it's, I think, police officers are doing their very best to have order, but these laws, man, what. What a shame that there are these really loopholes that are meant these, these laws that are meant for good, but unfortunately things just don't turn out the right way.

Steve:

Yeah, things have changed. There's no question about it. It's different than it's ever been before. There's nothing really to do about it.

George:

The society is tough. Tough in a way. It's not a calming society. That I think I remember back in the 80s. I think everything was just the fact that as a kid you could bike to your friend's place, leave it on the front lawn, go play in the backyard and then ride your bike back and make it home for dinner. No one had cell phones, no one really called to check in, but you just had this standard protocol right, and society appreciated that you can't do that now.

Steve:

We wanted around. I grew up in a small town in New Jersey. We wanted around aimlessly from the moment we got up in the morning Until we had to come home, maybe dinner, and my mom yelled out the door and hopefully I heard her. Yeah, I don't know, as a 45 year old man.

George:

now I don't need to be body checked on 46th Street in Madison. Come on Of all things too.

Steve:

But it isn't like it's roughy, it's regular people too. I remember after 9-11, I lived in New Jersey and I don't think I told the story before and I was on my way to downtown Manhattan where my office was, and it took you had to change trains three times to be able to get there and it was snowing and it was slippery and you would go from the path train to the subway and it was like a herd of people. You could have lifted your feet up and just be carried along with the crowd because everyone was running and trying to make it. And one day I slept and fell and people literally just climbed over me and a couple of people stepped right on me and went over me and I remember looking up at a woman she was finally dressed and saying to myself are you kidding me? Did you just step on me? So whatever, I finally parted the herd and was able to get back to my feet. I had snow and I was dirty and whatever, but I had to go try a case at the National Labor Relations Board. So I really had a rush because it was on for 9.30 or 9 o'clock. So I get over there. I just get right over there.

Steve:

I was in Federal Plaza and my office was across the street, but I couldn't go there yet because I had to be here. And I get into the courthouse. I get into the hearing room and the administrative lawyer judge was the lady that stepped on me. I need to say I won that my case that day. But I looked at her, she looked at me, she recalled what happened and I didn't say a word. But I wanted to Boy you imagine. Here's a woman just stepped right on me. I don't remember if it was administrative law judge or if it was one of the agents for the National Labor Relations Board, but she stepped right on me.

Steve:

And that just goes to show you it's not ruffians when you're commuting, it's everybody, every Man-woman and child for themselves. Like you get on the subway, sometimes you can get on the four for the express. There's a four and six that goes downtown, some Grant Central, right. So the four at rush hour is just hordes of people pushing in. Where you could go, take the six in the summer the air conditioners work and it's not crowded. It just takes an extra 15 minutes. So if you lie yourself your time, you could travel downtown like a gentleman, but nobody does that those words right, gentlemen and a lady.

George:

It's yesteryear's gone, sad, I Don't know. So true, I Try to. I try to teach my kids a little bit about civility and being a lady and being a gentleman. And it's hard. You, ultimately, you lead by example. So I do my best, but I am lacking in so many aspects that I just see I just have to try my best, lead by example.

Steve:

Yeah, well, kids, you can only do this again. There are things that come up, you just can't help yourself. What to do, what not to do speaking of the city, this.

George:

So there's just so much foot traffic now. So I think everything's back. We're actually office hunting right now and there's just so many. There's so many options and it's shown by so many different types of people. You have the old school. These guys have not, they have not adapted to modern society, technology just they're the dinosaurs of the industry. And you have a representative showing representing the place. You have a broker. You have so many levels of people you need to communicate in order to lease out a single Studio. And then you have these amazing modern Office suites like the we works of the world. The Regis of the world we works is going bankrupt. It's incredible. But you have all these real estate companies that own really beautiful Places that they furnished for small offices and communal spaces and things like that, and it's just the, this full Spectrum that you get to see in New York City, and some of these places are just gorgeous, true? So hopefully, we land in a nice place and, a little by little, this startup company that I'm part of will flourish.

Steve:

I think, I really believe it's the right time. It's the right time for business again.

George:

I know people winding up in and kick starting something. It's great. I think there's a lot of energy and a lot of spirit motivating a lot of people to do the same.

Steve:

I Think people would say that, oh, it's not that time again, or whatever. I think the world's changed. You have to recognize that change and those change produce opportunities.

Steve:

Agreed and I think that's where the world is right now. I think there's always opportunities. I think there's always companies that flourish. I think they have to just realize. Those who realize and me two companies aren't gonna flourish just following the herd kind of thing. But my office is similar. It's inside a group of a whole bunch of other small business people and I'm lucky that I have that. We have a strong support staff that run it and they're basically at my women and Need at any time. I need somebody for a day to do something that they produce, a person for me. They answer my phones, they do all the things necessary.

George:

That's awesome and Ultimately, businesses. You're offering a service or good right. So if you can really just stick to that, you're onto something and just do it the best of your ability.

Steve:

Excellence, I agree, my headphones are bothering me today. I don't know why, out of the clear blue sky, they never bother me. Yeah, and having said that, I think the weather is gonna start for some reason. I always think in February the weather is gonna start warming up. For no reason whatsoever, and I realized we're in the middle of winter and went the other way.

George:

This week was very chilly.

Steve:

And I really believe that the weather is gonna start improving. I really believe it's gonna start getting warm this early Maybe in two weeks. Maybe I see it 2025 degrees?

George:

Yeah, it's cold, but is it the worst that my month ago, we were waking up at 12 degrees? It was cold, that was cold and. I walked to the station in the morning. I have a good 18-20 minute walk, so by the time I get to the station my face is about to crack and I laugh at myself. I guess that's better than parking Pond.

Steve:

On with the parking situation.

George:

Yeah, you can't right any suburb You're. You're waiting for a three-year wait list for a parking spot. What can I do? I get my steps in, and now I know I'm old when I'm looking at my iPhone and I'm calculating hey, how many steps that I get in today. And you know what this it's. It's good, right, it's a lifestyle change. Even even before I get to the office, by the time I get to my office in the morning, I've already cleared what? Maybe five, six thousand steps, which is more than my average I did last year. I just took a look before we had dinner Today and I already cleared sixteen thousand steps, and that's today. By the time I go to bed tonight, I'll probably have 18,000 and that's good Welcome to working in on that.

George:

Yeah, comfortable shoes is is a must, it's a must it gets by the you ever watched here's.

Steve:

They used to do as a whole episode. I don't towards the end on comfortable shoes.

George:

Oh really.

Steve:

Yeah, the great leaders of the wall had had the world all had comfortable shoes.

George:

Yeah, shoes, I enjoy nice pair of shoes. That's. It's become a I don't know somewhat of a thing.

Steve:

I don't mind spending some money on shoes you need them and you gotta wear them and you want to be comfortable. When I started working in the city, I started wearing rubber bottom shoes because the thin leather ones I used to eat them, to Just eat them up. I wear Alan Edmonds mostly okay, because I have a interesting with foot and Alan Edmonds are the best to me and I have some now and I have the and I have the ones on television now, the ones that they look like Uh, the top is a regular shoe and the bottom is like a sneaker, with a white Okay for everything on it and awesome what's. You start wearing them. You never go back to wear it. A regular dress shoe, it's just the way it is. I just threw a whole bunch out. I have one pair, two pairs maybe, but that's the way it is. I know we said we're gonna have a special guest, but I was preoccupied this week.

Steve:

You were running around left and right, yeah my, my girlfriend got COVID and I was trying to get her to the doctor without getting infected and trying to, I didn't really see her. I'd be like outside the house and it was a whole thing. She had no food and who was gonna pick up the drugs. It went on and on and she's still, and she's still not that great. And she just tested positive on Monday. So today's Wednesday, but she was sick on Saturday when I left her, but not like she is now and you have to be careful, and you have to be careful. I can't get it because I'm a 9-11 victim and I have a lot of stuff and I don't want to have asthma.

George:

It'll be complicated.

Steve:

It's complicated, yeah, and you don't want to get sick, so you get the. They have you scared into a to a point and then she is all the vaccinations. Yeah, she's healthy as a horse and she's sick as hell. She has trouble breathing, she is and whatever. I got her a vaporizer and she's on predisone and all those things. Wow, there's so many people that are sick and you want to hear the best. She calls chest at the point with her doctor. For some reason she decides to take a temporary test or a home at home test. So she takes, it comes up positive. She calls the doctors and says just wanna let you know, I just tested positive. They said forget it, we're canceling your appointment, you're not coming in, we don't want you here. I never heard of such a thing.

George:

I have no idea what a protocol, medical protocol is, but that sounds wrong.

Steve:

When I was oh, were they only one healthy people there? I don't understand. When I had COVID last time, I am allergic to the ProVoxid or whatever the name of the drug is, so they gave me the intravenous antibodies. They sent me over to the hospital. Everyone acted like I didn't have COVID. I had a mask on. No one said anything. No one said stand back. No one said Pete. The guy parked my car. Everybody did everything and I'm saying to myself well, what's going on? What is the real protocol? And nobody even knows. They changed it again. It went on the CDC site and it says 10 days. If you're severe, 10 days, maybe 20 days. It was five days, 10 days. They changed everything because I guess to somewhat. It's political how they decide what these days are gonna pay. So they moved it back to what was probably necessary from the beginning. I don't know what to say, but I feel bad for her.

George:

Yeah. It's never a good thing when you're bedridden and you're just sick like really sick and you don't know what to do. But she'll get better, just fighting through it. Yeah.

Steve:

I just I buy her food, I drop it off. What are you gonna do?

George:

Why can't a doctor say oh, if you eat more steaks, you're more prone to withstand, or ward off.

Steve:

You made a great steak tonight, so maybe I will stay Super human for a few hours.

George:

Steak is always a crowd pleaser right. Whenever I make steaks for my kids, they wolf it down.

Steve:

I know you left me, but I went to Outback with Samantha, oh, the other day.

George:

Okay, I said let's go to Outback.

Steve:

That's an amazing value and I had the King Cut Prime Rib. Okay, oh God, it was awesome.

George:

Was it awesome.

Steve:

First of all, the baked potato. The skin's all crispy.

George:

Did you have the blooming onion?

Steve:

I didn't have the blooming onion because I knew we got the blooming shrimp. Okay, and they were a little salty. I didn't really care for them, but the Prime Rib was awesome.

George:

Prime Rib.

Steve:

I got horseradish and then it's the best deal in the world the Prime Rib. I don't forget how much it was, but it wasn't very expensive. The whole bill was less than a hundred bucks and we both had, you know good food.

George:

I mean, their commercials were the best. They had this huge giant steak with a piece of parsley on it. They called it salad, that was. I will never forget that that was a good commercial, oh man. And the way. It was amazingly good. It's good. Where's an alpac near here? Oh, is it in?

Steve:

the closet over there. It was in New Jersey, right across the street from Steve Sizzling's steaks. So I'm trying to tell her maybe we should go to Steve Sizzling's steaks. Whoa, and she's. What is that? I don't know what that is, I don't know. It went on and on and I was like okay, let's just go to Alpac, okay, okay, certainly, alpac was cheaper and the Prime Rib was All right.

George:

I don't know if they yeah, it did its job.

Steve:

They had a special of I think it was 28 ounce rib eye too, but 28 ounce, that's gotta be bone in.

George:

I mean, it was bone in. Okay, so you take six ounces off.

Steve:

Maybe it was 25 ounce, I don't know All right, but it was huge and I didn't get that. I like Prime Rib because you can't get it all the time. Yeah, you know cause you gotta make a whole big thing, right, but Alpac, you can't believe I'm saying this again. We're plugging Alpac. Alpac has it every weekend Friday, saturday, sunday.

George:

Okay, I'm gonna take my Sunday, so maybe not Sunday.

Steve:

Go there, you're gonna be surprised at the Prime Rib. No kidding, the King cut was huge and I had those guys laugh and I won't tell you what I said to them because it's embarrassing. It was good, the waiters were great, it was really good. It didn't cost much. It's a good meal, good place to eat. You see people there with their whole families, that's what you know what I love seeing that. I love seeing.

George:

And you know what Food is so expensive today. But when you can take your kids out and just have a great meal and you're like, you don't have to worry too much about being so posh and like. Manners are important, yes, but you can let loose a little bit. And in a place like Alpac man, did you have any dessert? We?

Steve:

took a. It was a peanut butter and chocolate, with these weird cookies on the top. That were awesome. We took it home.

George:

Yeah, it was probably super sweet, like any American chain restaurant.

Steve:

We split it, but it's okay.

George:

You do it once in a while and you're just living right. I think a cup of coffee, yeah, You're enjoying life. We were watching.

Steve:

We binge watched. We're binge watching right at the end of Mr Robot until she got sick. You know how I feel about Mr Robot. I was happy to do it. I would have done anything just to watch three more episodes.

George:

I binged on Brother's Son on Netflix and my girlfriend's now on Grisela. She says it's awesome.

Steve:

That's what everyone says.

George:

I don't know if it's like a chick flick or something, but she loves it and yeah, that's great.

Steve:

She had never. She's a soccer fan, she's a big messy fan. Okay, and I said did you ever watch Ted Lasso? She said what's that?

George:

Oh my goodness.

Steve:

So we started on Ted Lasso and she laughs a lot.

George:

Messi's in Japan right now. Actually that was funny. My girlfriend just mentioned that earlier today in the text. Messi and his team are playing some Japanese team exhibition match in Tokyo.

Steve:

And I have the Apple TV plus soccer mainly because I wanted to watch Messi. I've become addicted. Just like everybody else, I have a pink shirt Wow Says Messi on the back, oh my God, and I don't even like soccer, but I do watch, like watching him, because he's really an amazing talent. Yeah, it's ridiculous Like he's playing a different game than everybody else and I know there's always been those kind of, and I remember Pelé and I remember some great players.

George:

Messi undoubtedly right, One of the greatest, if not the greatest.

Steve:

I've been all those supposedly the same thing and Beckham and I never saw Beckham play. But Beckham owns the team that Messi one of the owners of the team that Messi's on. So that's even draws in a little bit more.

George:

Yeah, Inter Miami.

Steve:

And let's not forget that New Jersey, the Giant Stadium, just got the 2026.

George:

World Cup final, which is crazy, the Outbid what. Dallas in LA. Yeah, I saw a little thing. Soccer fans were a little bit worried about the grass situation. Yeah, a football pitch and a soccer pitch completely different scenario. You're there to slide and there's give on a soccer pitch. People are a little worried but whatever, these are professional players, they're adults. You got to adapt.

Steve:

They're gonna figure it out and they're gonna change the stadium. Okay, they ripped the grass up. Put it in 50 times.

George:

Who knows how many times do NFL players get injured? That's turf, I get it.

Steve:

But I think, what do you think the prices of those?

George:

tickets are gonna be. So I had this interesting conversation with my friend about FIFA. He went and saw five games in Qatar the last World Cup and Qatar did a great job. Everyone who I know who went can't stop praising the organization, how safe it was FIFA. They bought their tickets through FIFA when they first came out, so it wasn't scalpers. They were $55, $65 tickets and they honored it and executed and they were able to watch five games throughout the week. That's pretty cool. I hope, I really hope there's no shenanigans Over here in the United States when tickets are sold. I don't want to hear about bots buying thousands of tickets a pop or corporations getting preferential pre sale tickets and all that. It's meant for the people.

Steve:

But they, but the games are spread out all over the whole country.

George:

There's quarterfinals gonna be in Dallas, so it's not like.

Steve:

But still a little more complicated to get around.

George:

I know America. You have me at a very side-eye position. I wouldn't say this back in the 80s, growing up here, but today, like you, can't tell me Someone's not Scheming to maximize these tickets football tickets, baseball tickets, hockey tickets, basketball tickets, even tennis tickets, everything is just so. It's disgusting, right, it's disgusting. You have two kids. You want to take your family out, family of four? Right, we had this same story discussion all the time. It's gonna run you over a thousand dollars. The moment you realize you're a thousand dollars short and you're probably sitting next to a belligerent drunk guy Spilling and cursing and it's okay, there's a lesson somewhere, I'm sorry, I don't want to be so pessimistic about it's. I'm with you. It's become this thing.

Steve:

No, it's hope. You know what it's like going to the metal, and so I don't know if you've ever been there. It's miserable.

George:

Yeah, the TV experience. I have to admit, though, tv production, american sports, fantastic. Yeah it's great, it's fantastic. And I always say if I were to take my family to a game, I could just that week buy new TV. It's I say that same thing. All yeah, yeah, it's just opportunity cost you sit in a nice calm environment, you can pause if you need to go make some more popcorn or make a sandwich.

Steve:

We're gonna order in order in food. You have a party.

George:

Yeah, this leads back to a Super Bowl Sunday coming up in four days. Pretty exciting. Who do you think's gonna win? I Money Patrick Mahomes. I don't care if people think he's a little injured or whatnot, but he's gonna make it. I didn't hear that he was oh, maybe I'm reciting last year scenario in my head.

Steve:

Yeah, I don't know I can. I gotta have the game of his life. The big question is whether Taylor Swift is flying back from Japan to watch the game. Who cares? Really but I'm like I'm not of the of the group that says who cares she should go away. I don't really care what she does she wants to watch the game later, come on neutral. To me they're like oh, we're worried about security. What is she? What do you think her security staff is?

George:

It's probably second to none to the president.

Steve:

United States right, they probably. They have advanced teams.

George:

They have everything I have, no yeah, I could care less, but I'm just excited for the guys that are competing and hatching the homes. Man, what uh?

Steve:

what about party from San Francisco Cinderella story? Imagine that last person taking the draft.

George:

Yeah.

Steve:

There's a great story how they drafted him and and the coach wanted to. Shanahan wanted to draft him as last, but Some of the other coaches were like listen, he's not the talent, get somebody else. Whatever, the owner stepped in and asked the coach, who do you think is the best player on the board right at the moment? And he says, without a doubt is pretty. And he was right. And People are said the argument now is this people are saying that, oh, the team's so great. They make him look good, oh, my goodness.

Steve:

Oh, please, what world do you live in?

George:

Give the kid a break this kid is great.

Steve:

Yeah and he's gonna be even better. He's just getting warmed up. Yeah but I think my home still is you gotta say my homes until he doesn't do it. But so far he's done everything. Everything he's been asked of hurt, not hurt, just done amazing jobs. Yeah, and the best defense they've ever had, or he's ever had, you got that and their coach is offensive mind. He's brilliant and they have spags. Who was the? Was the Giants coach? Those great Giants defenses where his concoction You're gonna be local, you're.

George:

You're gonna go to the lounge to watch.

Steve:

I'm going somewhere yeah, I don't know where.

George:

I think I'm gonna go to the lounge this the doc James cigar lounge we're gonna have a Nice spread. I think they're gonna have a sprint. A couple guys are Coordinating and we're gonna have a nice spread.

Steve:

I just took out a whole thing of the pork bellies.

George:

Oh so.

Steve:

So I don't think I'm gonna smoke them, but I think I'm gonna try to cook them in the oven with my, like I did with the ribs. I think that's how it comes out better more control and then easier cuz I could stay in the house and do it. Yeah, I'll put my sauce on them and then I'll just buy a whole bunch of rolls perfect, perfect. All right, the idea is to get in there. Hot, that's the thing.

George:

I think they'll probably have some hot burners and stuff. So all good, all right, man Wow.

Steve:

So what's your prediction I?

George:

Have. I know nothing about football and spreads and stuff, but I feel like If I were a betting man, I put money on my homes and I think they win by Ten write it down.

Steve:

All right, I bet I'm a homes too. I think they're gonna stun San Francisco and just go at it and just blow them out of the water. Yeah, try it anyway. So it's pretty good. Could go the other way too, who knows. But that's where my money is. So everyone, I approve. We appreciate you listening, as always. We do also appreciate that, if you like us, scribe or whatever it is share, send it to a friend.

George:

Send it to a friend. We love seeing you new subscribers, new people and new cities that pop up. I think we hit over what? 800?

Steve:

eight something this week and over 800 downloads is the first time we've gone that high, yeah, and also also we're 175 cities in almost 20 countries around the world. Um, it's pretty amazing. We're still trying to get somebody in Antarctica, but we haven't been able to do that, yeah.

George:

I can't wait to take this on the road. When we go to restaurants and podcast on site, I always try to be as fair and honest, and I think just we're in our second season of podcasting episode three Right, so three. It's been so much fun and I think we're really getting into our stride and finding our voice with all this. I can't wait to do a quick restaurant critique and Just talk about food that we we were gonna have for the first time.

Steve:

We're getting through the winter. Once we're through the winter, george, starting a new position, and once yeah.

George:

We're all of our information about that when, when, we really launch, but I can't wait to share it with everyone.

Steve:

When we we uh weather warms up, it's a little lighter at night. We'll be going out a little more and have more reports for you, but we're gonna be on that. I thank you all for listening. Uh, anything else, george?

George:

Nope, thank you, and we will be back very soon. Thanks so much.

Steve:

Have a good week. Go Kansas City.

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