Team Spirit and Travel Tales

Speaker 2
Scott Parker great coach doing a great job everybody around the ground everybody in the locker room everybody loves him. He's been doing fantastic and We got a bunch of new guys who are all gelling together at the right time.
Speaker 1
How's that bar you guys go to across the way with that lady who's the bartender? Yep. Who does the- The Royal Dice. Is that what it's called? The Royal Dice, yeah. Okay, I was talking about Ted Lasso. Yeah, man. Me personally. But every team has one of those, I guess. I was just kind of yeah,
Speaker 2
okay
Speaker 1
I was projecting it onto your team. So it does happen everywhere. Okay, that's sweet. That's the
Speaker 2
best part. Yeah, I have my pregame routine every single match I go to I stopped the Royal D'Ache for a pint walk down to Burnley Miners and get myself a Benny bomb and I walk into the Stadium with the pants a Benny bomb.
Speaker 1
I was a Benny bomb. That's like you put a whiskey.
Speaker 2
It's like a, yeah, it's like a Jager bomb, but with Benedictine instead of Jager. Yeah. Who?
Speaker 10
What is that?
Speaker 2
Like, Benedictine. Like, what's Benedictine? What's
Speaker 10
Benedictine?
Speaker 2
No, it was from the World War. Yeah. A bunch of regiment from Burnley was in France fighting in the cold wet tunnels. They had to drink something to keep them warm. So it was Benedictine, the core. And they brought it back with them. And now I believe Burnley is the largest importer of Benedictine in the world. They have the most consumption of Benedictine in the world. Hell
Speaker 5
yeah. Thank you, troops. Thank you. Boozed up on the battlefield? Well, warm. They always try and say,
Speaker 2
like, this is my one story that I tell like but I It's just everybody always ask about what a Benny bomb is so then you have to tell the story and that's that's the Benny bomb
Speaker 1
Well, that's a good story. It's great story good for the people of Burnley obviously for more people learn that story So you're having a pint down there at Hach and then you're having a Benny bomb down there at the miners And then you're heading into the stadium and then your house and beers there too. You're pretty fucked up with these games. That's what I'm learning.
Speaker 2
Oh man, you see this have a little, it's so cool over there. The best part is like they don't do tailgating per se. Like their hospitality is that you, uh, you sit down to a full three course meal, which is crazy. So like that, that's something that everybody sits down to a full three. What'd
Speaker 1
you say? I'm sorry. I missed that. I was talking about, I was thinking about the booze and the amount of booze and who's doing a.
Speaker 2
So like in English football and European football, the opposing teams, owners, the home teams, owners, they all come and they sit down in like the executive box and they all have like a three course meal. You know, you have coffee, you have drinks, you have everything. And then you go out and watch the game. It's like a communal thing where it's also obviously guests and VIPs of the ownership as well. So I think ours has, you know, maybe 100, 150 people in it. But then there's... So like if you own a suite at the stadium, if you own a suite, like let's take your suite at the Colts. You would go into the game two hours before the game and sit down to a Silverware and plate three course meal and then you would just walk out and watch the game in your suite Well,
Speaker 1
we do we have a buffet style food, but this is is this the thing in Berlin here? So
Speaker 2
this is like one of our hospitality areas. Yeah, so people come in
Speaker 1
Okay, I thought place might have been a little dumpy. Uh-huh. I thought it was That's right. That's what I thought for sure that I've seen and everything like that in the history and the way you talked And we just went down to the thing product and every yet exactly I do not know you guys had it like this turf Moore's looks
Speaker 9
Yeah,
Speaker 1
we
Speaker 2
are considered like an old traditional English ground and we've been around since 1882. The old third more is a very old I know but like we like comparatively you have to think about Tottenham's new stadium and everybody we are still comparatively a very old-school ground It's just you know, we've we have certainly upgraded the hospitality. It's been a big point of emphasis trying to make sure we have a cool hospitality area That's all street food. So you can get different street foods and things like that. Keep on it's cool. It's really fun This is fun stuff that we could talk about you
Speaker 8
fancy me a key ball or two. Yep
Speaker 1
Hours,
Speaker 10
what if you don't show up two or three hours before the game these
Speaker 1
guys hey
Speaker 2
just don't eat that's all but the game is also only two hours long so it's different well depending
Speaker 10
on extra time and floppers you know the
Speaker 1
refs decide how long the game really is you guys are all in their world
Speaker 10
there's a fun person that knows how long the game is and he doesn't tell anybody either yeah
Speaker 1
well they got those old mics on now yeah the bad I like yeah they do all right JJ we're happy for Burnley we're prodd you. We got
Speaker 2
to get out there. Where are you at this weekend? I miss that. Where are you at this weekend?
Speaker 1
Georgia, Bama's playing. There's a big storm or big like massive storm actually in the area. Purple on radar for tomorrow.
Speaker 2
That's the contingency. Plans.
Speaker 1
Yeah,
Speaker 2
like what if you can't fly in? What happened?
Speaker 1
Well, I mean, that's certainly the question that we are. We're finding ourselves asking. Right. moment in real time.
Speaker 2
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1
You're talking about contingency. That's funny. Okay. We haven't had one and I might have to be a ground ops.
Speaker 2
Yeah. Perhaps. You're going in no matter what. You're telling me that even if you can't fly in you're finding a way like
Speaker 1
The safety of the pro of everything, you know, we will find it out but massive game in the schedule obviously, Georgia playing Bama this early in The season is a huge ordeal. It should be wild but storm is certainly saying hello. Did you see the train thing? They're launching a train to knew the trans American railroad.
Speaker 2
That looks so bad. Down the floor. Oh yeah. Chicago to Miami.
Speaker 1
Yeah. Two and a half weeks. How long does it take? I've looked into the train travel before. It is very slow. If they're almost bought trains. We almost bought a train. We
Speaker 10
almost bought trains.
Speaker 1
There's only 81 privately owned. That's right. We know a couple of the owners. Yes, we do. We called them and asked them. I was, we were
Speaker 2
very- It sounds like Indianapolis. I feel like that would be a place for trains. I feel, I mean, Wisconsin's no different. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1
Yeah, the crossroads of America. I feel like Indianapolis big on trains. Yeah, the backbone logistics of the United States of America. Certainly some, the ports obviously very, very, very, very, very trains though here in Indiana you'll get stopped in everyone every single time yeah but turns out not very convenient to travel very slow can't really pick and choose where you want to go to there's no there's no real direct trips to anything have to go comfy
Speaker 5
though boy
Speaker 1
you can get this glass top ceiling one and then beds and then obviously a living room We're actually gonna do him. We're gonna do a train tour. Yeah, there was gonna be one that had a gym Obviously, there's gonna be a lobby a hangout place people
Speaker 10
have a very awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 1
we really looked into it We were I'm telling you way too long ago Cove it right. Yeah, it was during kovat because obviously you could travel because it's isolated I'm caught and you'd be able to show up at one of these stops and it would be a big field at some of these places That we could stop at so like that's how we're the dumbest operation of all time. That was pretty good idea great Until we learned how would take us five weeks to get from basically here to North Dakota. If you really wanted to go, it was gonna be more cows than people tour. We're gonna go on a train. We're gonna show up. It was a whole thing.
Speaker 5
We're very, very close. The side of one of the carts open and then the stage is just there and then you should go. Yeah. Yeah. It was a cool
Speaker 2
idea. That's what I mean. It is a really good idea. Thank
Speaker 5
you. Thank you. Thank you. Trainwork.
Speaker 1
Yeah, we did it. We did it. We we were, we thought of it. We thought of doing it. It ain't 40 hours to get from Chicago to Miami. It's not bad. What? Not that bad at all. I thought it was like a speed train. Cafe? No, we don't have those here. That's the problem. Not yet. Yeah.
Speaker 2
Oh, that's not bad. Everybody was saying it was like 10 days.
Speaker 1
40 hours?
Speaker 2
It is long, you're right. 40 hours? I didn't think it through. I didn't think it through.
Speaker 1
Zito just said it's a work week, 40 hours. Put it in there, but you get to experience, you get to see things. If there is some of the trains have like really sweet designs, you know, like the window, where the window placement is. Oh yeah. And then sleeping in it. I assume is awesome Legitimately, you would assume you can make that thing pitch black cold and there would be constant white noise. Yeah We should think
Speaker 5
about resurrecting this idea now we're talking who is the guy we called that own Peter something I think I might sell this number
Speaker 1
we had actual conversation with guy He owns like four or five of the 81 trains or whatever
Speaker 2
it is So like you were gonna buy an existing train or you're going to build it?
Speaker 1
Well, we found out that you do have to do that and you have to get in the schedule and it turns out you can't just drop trains onto tracks and just say, I need this to go to this hospital. Yeah.
Speaker 2
But doesn't it feel like there's a lot of trains just sitting around? Like I feel like there's a lot of trans around that
Speaker 1
too. Uh, obviously with the trains, where they are and how they can block roads quickly and immediately. Indianapolis has a lot of trains. But I think they're moving. I think they move. I think there's a lot of movement. Arizona, you probably don't see it. I don't know how many trains.
Speaker 2
Not many tracks around here. I got not many tracks.
Speaker 1
Pittsburgh, not a lot of trains, obviously. Cause the way it is constructed. So I get out of here to Indiana, I move to a place that I didn't know, like, hey, yeah, you're gonna get stuck every single day, anytime you wanna go anywhere. And they have like a rule, I think it's like a three minute rule or a five minute rule, I forget what it is. It's some law, not allowed to be longer than however long it is, every time you sit at a train, it feels like two hours. And then you look left or look right, and that thing's just never ending. I've been hit by a two piece bangs. Thing doesn't, why is the thing like bang? One's coming back this way. It's like, come on bro.
Speaker 5
Terrible. It is,
Speaker 1
but thank you for your service.
Speaker 5
North East, that doesn't happen. Cause like all the train tracks or lines, whatever you want to call it or either underground or they're just like, oh, like they build the roads underneath or over them. So you don't have to get caught.
Speaker 1
So what subway system, I guess would be, is that considered train or no? They have
Speaker 8
like the Amtrak up there that can take, you know, like any, like the big Metro cities, the Northeast, New York to Boston,
Speaker 5
the fast trains or no? Yeah. Boston to DC in eight hours. Yeah.
Speaker 2
I feel like that's our best our best representative.
Speaker 1
So
Speaker 2
Northeast works at the best with the train deck and England's awesome That's like England. I believe the whole country's like the size of Indiana. So you can go anywhere. I'm trained very easily in England Do
Speaker 1
you have the Lothouse anywhere over there? Probably
Speaker 2
not church Morris. We have 22,000 people and it is so much louder Do
Speaker 1
we sell tickets? We sell tickets, sir?
Speaker 2
Sold out, but yeah, yeah. What do you need? Oh,
Speaker 1
I was just wondering if you're doing good business, sounded like you're doing good business. 150 people at the- I know. The all you can eat three course meal with the other ownership. Tyler,
Speaker 2
porn, trick, got- Get a little sticky toffee pudding. Dude, he's got a little Tom Cruise. Yeah,
Speaker 8
exactly, Tom Cruise and cocktail. Flipping
Speaker 5
the bottle. Yep, trick, bottle. Open it up in here. Tyler. Yep. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Call this one the booze maker.
Speaker 1
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go,
Speaker 10
go, go, go,
Speaker 1
go, go, go, Thank you for joining us every single Wednesday. We're going to take on a few policies. Are you working again for CBS? When's that happen?
Speaker 2
No, not this weekend. No, I'm off this weekend. I got a little break. I rescheduled it around because we could get Sebastian in this last weekend. So I want to be able to say hi to Sebastian, have him in there and have my brother, the interview with TJ. So it was a really good show this last Sunday. A lot of fun.
Speaker 1
Yeah, Sebastian's awesome. I love that. Maniscalco. Maniscalco. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2
Have a little culture in our lives. Have a little culture. He's one of the top selling community of the entire world. Sold out mass in square garden five times. He
Speaker 4
stayed at JJ's house.
Speaker 1
I know. I heard convenience in the road. I didn't know Sebastian, I have a cat named Sebastian. There's a lot of sea basses out there.
Speaker 2
Really? Where'd that come from?
Speaker 1
He's proper lagged. You just look at him, you think, yes. Looks very regal. And Sebastian's got a cat and a dog. Got four cats, two dogs. One three-legged cat named Scootzy.
Speaker 5
One 300-pound dog. And one 200-pound cat. Yeah, I mean, there's
Speaker 2
a lot going on.

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