Spring Updates

This week, Andy and Troy go "old-school" (no video) because Troy hit the bunker right after painting a project and even though there are no special guests this week, we had to let you know about the upcoming spring clean-up fund-raiser, the Heels & Huddles pre-Spring game ladies event fundraiser, and the spring game detail which will be happening April 18th. Plus, we cover the deets on the latests GIC meeting with updates on the annual golf tournament in July, try to sell some beef, and go on an unexpected trip down the "what are you reading" rabbit hole followed up by a stupid idea to Mystery Science Theatre 3000 "The Love Boat" for no reason other than pure entertainment. Well, what do you expect from a couple guys who consider tailgating a legitimate profession?

To reserve your spring clean-up crew this Sunday, email Coach Calloway at David.calloway@waldorf.edu (same goes for reserving your spot for the Heels and Huddles event before Spring Game!)

Forever and always - GO WARRIORS!

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:35

I mean so there we go. We can do that. What we could probably do is that we've been starting this thing for years now. Welcome to the Waldorf Gridiron Club podcast. And you know, maybe we need to change it up. Maybe we need to like each week we'll just like we'll throw something at you. I'll be like, I want you to do it, do welcome to the Waldorf Gridiron Club podcast as a Bolshevik. Oh yeah. I have to think about it.

SPEAKER_02 1:03

Welcome to the Waldorf Green Iron Club podcast. You've got it. Well, it's a Bolshevik.

SPEAKER_01 1:07

I mean I like it. Now you could do Johnny Cash. Uh most recently I did Elvis. Well then I want you to do it in Elvis. Welcome. Welcome to the Waldorf uh Green Island Club podcast. Oh come on over here and uh sit next to me. That or like how about uh John F. Kennedy in Berlin? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:30

Eckle ein Waldorf. Something like that. Wubal. Yeah, Vuball. Eckle ein Wu-Ball.

SPEAKER_01 1:39

It's with uh V W's or V's J F K. Oh, Vubal. Yeah, so folks, if you got any ideas, check the show and uh you know we'll maybe throw a voice out there. Yeah. We're because we're doing this old school today. Oh, yeah. No, there's no video. That's soft open. There's no video because I just uh ran scrambled out from painting the project. You remember working on this little sheetrock project in a basement? You built projects? I have a lot of projects going on. Oh, I didn't know if maybe you were doing like affordable housing out here. Oh, the projects. Yeah, out here at Sunnyside Farms. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, so we talked a little bit before we got on air. And folks, pay attention to this, okay? Because uh Troy said he's only got three steers left. Well, by the time this comes out, maybe it will have left. Less. Yeah. You know what? Get in. Get a hold of the show. Text the show. Text Troy. If you got his number, do it. Because uh like Iowa beef beef right here. Yeah. I mean, come on, man. It's a little sad not having the the cows that I took care of every day around, but they're all, you know, they're all they're dead now. They're cute. There's yeah, there's they're uh most actually a lot of them are uh half of them are delivered already, so they're already out and people are enjoying them. And our process is a little bit different than maybe what some people are used to, but because we just take care of everything for them. We take your order, we take uh take them up there, obviously. It'd be weird if a customer had to take the cow up there. You put them in the back of your beard. Yeah, and then you got a cow out here. Yeah, they do it, they take care, do a great job for us, and then um I pick it up, uh pay for the processing, and then you pick up and pay for me. You know, that's uh it's all one bill. So people seem to like that, but um, I should have done a little bit more work, legwork in advance of doing the sales, uh, you know, but uh yeah, it's gonna be it'll be fine, but fine. And we're looking, you know, if people, yeah, if you want some beef, even if you don't want you know, if it doesn't get around this round in the spring, um have them again in the fall. Get after it, folks. Yeah, yeah. So you've heard it here. Not first. Because you know, I did run an ad a couple weeks ago. It's been a couple weeks since we've been on. Yeah, well, this is kind of an ad, you know. Yeah, it is. Yeah, it's like one of those long podcasts spoken ads. So any one of the four of you listening to this, get right in there. You know, get a hold of our guy, Troy Thompson, president of the Waldorf Gridiron Club podcast. There it is. That's the normal voice. Yeah, we've got some stuff going on, don't we? We do. We have people uh uh we do have more than four listeners, but not all at the same time, they're usually just one at a time, but I and one of the things that that we haven't done, because we've had guests for the last couple episodes here on season five, um, you know, obviously we talked about uh um Tyler Choppa uh moving on. Um we we obviously didn't go into that because we had Coach Callaway here first and then you know Coach Gales after that. Um, you know, so that's one of those things we want to make sure we honor that. But we should probably go over kind of where the coaching staff is right now, and and obviously it's gonna change. Um, you know, we're we're fortunate enough to to have Coach Callaway here. I mean, dude is he's amazing, you know. Yeah I was asking him um at our last Gridiron Club meeting, Troy, that uh I said, hey, uh, you know, what do you like walk-up songs? Do you have a favorite walk-up song? And he'd look you dead in the eye and go, practices it Tuesday at 3 30. Yeah. He's business. Man, he doesn't, yeah, that's that's his focus right now, is yeah, like, you know, um, yeah. And it goes back to the uh that acronym of when, what's important now. Yeah, and what's important now to Coach Callaway and and obviously Coach Gales as well and the rest of the staff. Um, you know, we've because he brought in um Gray. And do you want to try to pronounce Gray's last name? No. It's like Go Gochner. Yeah, that's right. Gochner. That sounds right. Yeah, it feels right. He's an Iowa kid, you know. And we're we retained uh, you know, CJ Noak. Uh he's moving from the defensive side to the offensive side, of course. Danny Donadio, everybody knows Coach uh the Don. Um, and uh, you know, he's he's still here on the offensive side of the ball. Uh Josh Mitchell is is hanging around. We've got uh former player, uh, Keegan Handle has gone from uh player to uh now a position coach. So that's pretty exciting. So as we said, Tyler Chapa, um, he went out to San Diego. Um that's where he ended up. Uh Coach Clary. Uh he was our defensive coordinator last year. Tom, uh obviously always be special to uh to us, you know, here um because again, he's a four city dude. Yeah. And uh, but yeah, Tom, and this this stings, Troy. You know where he went, don't you? Yeah. Well, he went to uh Dakota State. Yeah, yeah, the old conference. Yeah, and like how do you still love a guy that coaches at Dakota State? I I mean good for him. I I guess you know, we don't we don't play him anymore. So um I uh I think it was I think um obviously that's what he wanted to do and had an uh good opportunity. And didn't they make the playoffs this year? Um that I don't know. I they I mean they had a great season, they really did in the in the frontier conference out there. You know, I talked to him briefly um after that had happened, and he had just you know um thought it was a good fit. Um and uh enjoyed the the head coach and looks forward to yeah, absolutely. Obviously, any of our former coaches, we wish him nothing but the best, you know. Um, you know, obviously we're gonna miss them maybe because our guys, you know, Coach Brummer is down in Bolivar, Missouri. Yeah, that was uh Brummer left and uh took his whole family with him. Can you believe that? They're four city kids. They were they were born here. I know. Love a Pete. Yeah, I like to keep the I like to keep the families growing if we can. That'd be great. Let's do it. So um, yeah, Ben left and um Riley left as you meant. Did you mention Riley? I didn't mention Coach Bardas yet, but he's up at Wisconsin River Falls. Yeah. Uh that's an interesting gig up there, and good for him. What a great dude. They're uh very strong program. I think they changed did they change out coaching staff or something? They did. Yeah. Their head coach took a different position and took on the offense with him. Yeah, so that's an interesting situation. They've got high expectations up there in River Falls. I'm in. They uh didn't realize they were Division III. I thought they were a D2 program, but they're not real. No, but uh they I mean, were they national champs though? I mean I think so. They're in that well they're they're yeah, challenging for it every year if they're not. I mean, I lived in River Falls for a year. Really? Yeah, as uh when I was working in the Twin Cities. So we can't go visit. I think it's safe now. Okay, so statute of limitations, all done. Who and some memories. Yeah, that's a fun town. Cloudy. Yeah, I mean, that was I was lived there like, what is it, 2026 now? That was a lifetime ago. I mean, it was 25 years ago nearly. For goodness sakes, 24 for sure, yeah. And then Kasen Handel is out at Wayne State College. Um, he uh he joined uh former coach Brody Rohatch uh out there, as well as uh former coach Zach Morell. Yeah, yeah, it's that's gonna turn into Waldorf staff, don't you think? Over there, yeah, yeah. But we don't want to be too much of a feeder organization, but um ideally you want to keep everybody where you can, but that's the nature of just college football, you know. Yes becoming the go. Um and um it yeah, it's good to have those moments got to know all those guys uh and their families in some cases and stuff. So uh now it's uh in out with the old, in with the new. Amen. Super excited about this uh just to see what happens, you know. Um, you know, it's uh I've had the opportunity to go to a couple of practices. Unfortunately, with my work schedule right now, I'm not able to be there as much as I want to be. Yeah. And you know, coach, if you're listening to this, I apologize. I'll get there. I swear to you, you're gonna you're gonna hopefully appreciate me uh this time next year. Um but I'll tell you what, uh it's it's different. I mean obviously it's different, you know, because I'm I'm used to you know, six seasons are kind of the same. I mean, with little changes here and there. Yeah, right. You know, and then so you bring in um a new head coach, new offensive coordinator, um, and just to see well, I'm sorry, new defensive offensive coordinator, head coach that's defensive coordinator, um, and just how they like to run practices, and it's it's very interesting, you know, on how you know the first the first ones I were at, I was at was a week or s week or two ago, and it was just about let we're going slow, we're not going half speed, we're going fast, but yeah, like this isn't about not making mistakes, this is about show me what we do, and we're gonna we're gonna make little corrections here. There's the little little things, and it's it's been pretty cool to watch. Yeah, both uh I mean um our our coaches right now, they've got a lot of weeks. We talked about that in the last previous on the last episode we did was a couple of weeks ago. 50 years plus between the two of them. So it's it's just it's a different deal. I guess you could say that the vine uh to the has been cut from literal. The literal vine is is now been severed. Yep, and that's neither doesn't matter, not neither good nor bad. No. Uh Josh Literal brought in um you know the can every contingent group that has ended up coaching, uh, and now that is the change. So so we've uh a new style, um, a new focus, and uh different uh experience, to be honest, different experiential uh levels is actually probably significantly higher. So um looking forward to the changes. And it and it seems, and of course, with that, there's gonna be, you know, there's been some, you know, um, I don't say growing pains, but there's been you know some changes, not just in coaching staff, but player personnel have changed to some degree already too. Yeah. Um coach mentioned he brought in uh I think he had like 15 guys they brought in at semester. Um and we're seeing how they're working out now with their uh part of the program, and then they've got um some people have left uh and um and some people are still here, but they're done playing football. So yeah, uh just um that's also the way college football goes. Yeah. And I mean, so so we have to we have to look down on that field and see Coach Nico Page out there. Isn't that weird? It is, it's pretty great. Obviously, we still have Jaden Moore is is out there helping, and uh man, it's just uh there's some really great things that are gonna be happening here, and I'm so excited for coach. Um just uh the high expectation, the high standards that he places in front of these young men. Yeah. Um, you know, our our wooball contingent, and I'll tell you what, um, it's gonna be pretty great to see. And it's been fun to watch, you know. And the thing is, you're either gonna buy into it or flush out. There that seems to be that way. And obviously he has to go out and recruit some dudes and and he's brought in some dudes. Yeah. I mean, let's be honest. There's I mean, there's some pretty pretty dandy folk that you brought in to add to our already dandy folk. Yeah. Well, that's good. And I mean, in the past we've t, you know, we've got ch you know, talked you know, who you got coming in, who are your recruits. I think we'll get to that point. But aga coach is just it's not that he's he's he's working hard on on building his roster, uh both you know, completing his coaching roster and and his player roster, yeah. Um and meeting you know his goals that he's supposed to do. So uh he'll tell us when he's when he's ready, as you know, which is good. Uh and I look forward to that because you know, I want to see I'd say in May uh would be a good you know to figure out you know where where we're looking, right? We've got left and all that. Um course the players leave um at the very end of May, right at right at the beginning of May. Not at May, very end of April. Yeah, we just got a few weeks of here in town. You know, and with that, we got some things coming up in April. Do we not? Yeah. Some things that have changed and some things have stayed the same, and excited uh and that's really what this episode is is is about. Um, we just wanted to make sure that we get this. In fact, I'm gonna put this out on a Thursday so there's even a little bit more time in case people are so it's not gonna come look if you're listening if you're if you're subscribed, it's gonna pop up in your listener uh new podcast uh episode available anyway. So, and it'll still be there Friday forever after after that. So uh we have the first thing coming up is this weekend, Andy. We've got um so in uh years past uh we've we've done the spring cleanup uh and it's a great opportunity for the players uh and uh the coaches to some degree, but to be able to go out, interact with the community, yeah, and lend a helping hand, free will donation, raise some money for the program, but also uh just get out there and and clean things up. And many hands make uh light loads for sure. Yeah. So we've got I talked to Coach today and he has about he says about eight to ten requests right now. Oh yeah, we need more. Yeah, so we still and we and I don't know, you usually break them out in groups of you know four, four to six, somewhere in that range. So we still have plenty of room to to send out groups, and they also can you know hit more than one place depending on how much work you've got going on. So uh what's gonna happen is on Sunday, this Sunday, um we're going to um the the team will be uh sending out groups of players to uh addresses that people have requested to come out and they're gonna help clean up your yard, um do some outside work. We're gonna keep them from doing inside work uh just to make sure we're not side. Clean up your yard. Yeah, you've got to come down to your basement be like, let me hold out this black mold. You know, we don't need that. We've got spring ball games. They got 600 pounds of cat litter down there.

SPEAKER_02 15:42

Uh you don't mind taking it off.

SPEAKER_01 15:45

Use a scoop shovel and garbage sack. Save that for the Boy Scouts. Um we're but uh outdoors, lots of sticks. Been very windy this spring and throughout the winter, so maybe you got a lot of sticks to clean up. It's high. Uh maybe there's, you know, whatever, blow the leaves out, rake the leaves out, they're gonna be armed with with uh uh you know rakes and rakes and bags to clean up and all. Hopefully gloves. Yeah, yeah. So they'll be out there and they'll be available. And if you um would like to have uh a group of Waldorf players um in the in the in the I guess say the four city area, we're not sending them out to no, we're not going out to Mankato. No. So if you are interested in that and you haven't done that, all you gotta do is uh contact uh Coach Callaway. Uh how would one contact such an austere man? Well, uh the best way is to email him because he's got a good record of that, and that's what he's keeping track of it. I have no doubt about that, because like I said, he told me he's got um a group out there, and I'm gonna have him come out this year. Ooh. I know you know Courtney Woogie always has it's a fundraiser, you know, so he always has them and he puts them to work. It's gonna be from noon. Do we say noon or one? I think like one to five. One to five. So just in the afternoon on Sunday, yeah. One o'clock to five o'clock on Sunday, this Sunday. That gives them uh time to go to you know church and do what they need to do. Same thing for you if you're listening to this, and um then they'll be out in the afternoon. But actually, Andy, I looked at the weather, and uh that's gonna work out should work out pretty well. It might rain a little in the morning, it's just rain. But it'll be nice in the afternoon, or there'll be a break anyway, and then I think it might start potentially raining again in the early evening, so we should be good to go. Um hopefully it doesn't rain too much so that it's not super muddy or anything like that. But the afternoon should be clear and on Sunday, and what a great way to uh get things cleaned up because now the grass is turning green and things are are looking good. But if you want to get a hold of uh Coach Callaway, the best way to do it is just uh email him at David.callaway. That's C-A-L-L-O-W-A-Y at Waldorf.edu. And he's the one that is uh uh keeping track of this. So right there to the head coach, david.callaway at waldorf.edu. And by the way, that email his email is uh available obviously on the the Waldorf uh football uh homepage for the Waldorf Athletics, and I just tell you, well, that's the best way to do it. Uh 100%. Get it done. I and you know, so it what a great way number two things. Number one, you can give to the uh to the team and you know get some money uh that that can be used for the program, as well as getting your yard cleaned up. You know, we're not taking down trees, so don't have uh four chainsaws sitting there because we're not gonna be doing that. Yeah, yeah. But if uh we're gonna have some if you have taken down a tree and it's already down and you just need people that you know to help clean it up, and maybe you got it cut up. You want somebody to stack that. I'm sure these big things are big strong men. Absolutely. Yeah, maybe that would work. So yeah, get busy. Yeah. I mean, this is it's you're listening to this on Thursday. Uh go out and drop that tree in your front yard, impress your wife. Yeah, yeah. It's right on the house.

SPEAKER_02 18:56

Hope that's not the case. You know, yeah. How do you guys feel about shingling?

SPEAKER_01 19:00

Yeah. We're not doing that. I'm gonna have them uh I'm gonna take uh I'm gonna take uh take them and we're gonna we're gonna pull down my snow fence. Ooh. And have the nice to have helpers do that. Yeah, for sure. It doesn't take very long. It takes a lot longer to put it up than it does take those things down. Of course. Picking up sticks around here. Logistics, man. Yeah, maybe I'll even let somebody use the world's uh strongest uh leaf blower and maybe blow out some of the landscaping rocks. We'll see. We'll see. Is it gas powered or battery powered? Oh, it's gas powered. Ooh, look how it might change the climate. If you do it right, hopefully, you know. I've been working for it for so long. That's why I started raising calves. Is it steel?

SPEAKER_03 19:40

Is it a steel?

SPEAKER_01 19:41

It is an echo. Oh, wow. Yeah, nice, yeah. I have uh I have a DeWalt. You like a little spaceship, you put it on your it's a backpack one. Whoa. And you put it on another, and then you have like a you have like an Iron Man type arm and he just and it blows it'll blow rocks. Let me ask you this. Do you have a skateboard? I don't, but you know what? That would work. That would be great. That would work. Put him on the driveway with the set him down on a skateboard with that leaf blower and see you could have like races. See how they go. Like times it'll move. Like drag racing. I'll tell you, it'll move. Well, unless it's like Colin or somebody like that. He's well, not your Colin, but Waldorf. Oh big Colin, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he might just sit there. Uh we'll see. That's that's a possibility. I don't know what the liability is on that, but um let me come on. Talk to my insurance agent, yeah. Oh, that's true. Yeah. So yeah, folks, uh, get a hold of David.callaway at Waldorf.edu. Spring cleanup. Spring cleanup this Sunday.

SPEAKER_02 20:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:39

So don't delay. Write a check. Cash is fine too. Yeah. Whatever it has to be. But you know, um, and you know, it it's one of those things. If you have 10 guys show up, and this is if you have 10 guys show up and they clean out your entire yard, it's not like a five-dollar job, is it? I mean, I would hope that you would dig a little deeper than that. You know, uh, again, there's not a set price. There's not a set price, but also let's be reasonable. I mean, let's be reasonable, folks. Yeah. Now, if all you can afford is five dollars, or if you can't afford anything, yeah. I'm I mean, it's service. So as much as I'm saying, hey, you gotta dig deep, let's be honest. You know, we're here to we're here to serve the community, yeah, um, do what we can. So yeah, we don't expect somebody if they you know if they're worried about where their next meal is gonna come from, but their yard is dirty, well, we want your yard cleaned up and you to go down and buy some Thompson beef. There you go. I fit that in. You did a good job working at him. You know, it's like that's why we're doing audio. We could have marketing. Yeah. That's what I should have been doing much earlier than this. You know, I should have thrown you uh like you know, do the intro and the godfather. We're always good for the godfather. Yeah, I love that. Yeah, for sure. You know, um the you started. The I did start there. Uh so that's this son. Sunday. Yeah. But then the following Sunday, sorry, the following Saturday, the next weekend, the 18th, Sabadal is the spring game. Spring game, folks. Spring scrimmage. He would like to do purple and white, and it really like he said when he was here, it really depends on how we're doing for offensive linemen. Yeah. You know, because he'd like to have two teams to go out there and you know, he said, but if if we don't have the personnel for it, then it's going to be ones versus ones. And, you know, but then and and so on down and get people reps, because that's that's really the culmination of all the work that he's put in, um, you know, for 15 practices, so that he can he continues to evaluate. Yeah. And that's one of the things hopefully the guys have already figured out is that everything from meeting this man from from just the jump, it's like and he told me, he said, everything's an evaluation. Yeah. Everything. And it might be one of those things, I need you to come to my office. And you show up in your flip-flops with your headphones on and a do-rag, you're gonna be evaluated on that. I mean, so it's it's everything. If he's walking around campus and sees you on campus and sees how you're acting and interacting and stuff like that, he's gonna evaluate you. Yeah. Not just him, his staff as well. Yeah. You know, they're out there. Yeah. You know, which is which is pretty That's how life works. It is, and that's what he's trying to teach him. Yeah. It's not just uh Bob Waldorf football, it's about being good men, uh good uh good citizens and so forth, and good employees down the down the road. Uh yeah, that's how it works. I remember they say, Who are you to judge? You know, or who am I to judge, you know? Oh like I'm me. I mean, I got how do you make any you can't go through life making without making any judgments. That's ridiculous. Well, that's true. And I so when I was on the alumni board, we did like a thing for the for the student body about uh um prepping for a career, and that means interviews and stuff like that. And one of the things that probably wasn't very popular that I told them is that if you walk into an interview and you're you're not appropriately dressed, and it depends on the job. No, it really doesn't. Um if you show up looking serious, you have a better shot. But if you show up wearing sweatpants and a ratty old t-shirt and you got the the spider tattoo on your neck and you got a pierced eyebrow and there's a chain going from that down to your pierced nose, and you know, your eyes are all bloodshot from smoking weed or whatever you've done. Yeah. And if you think that I'm not sitting there judging immediately when you walk in the door, yeah. Because like I said, unless you're a doctor or unless you're an attorney or something like that, I don't care what your degree is in, you know, for the most part, you're hiring a person. You're not hiring a degree. Now, degrees are important. Gentlemen, get out there, get your degrees, don't get me wrong. But at the same time, yeah, I'm telling you that a lot of these jobs are entry-level positions. Yeah. And we want to see if you're gonna fit. So get out there and make put your best foot forward and you're gonna be judged. I've yet to see a liberal arts degree that prepares a person for the workforce in a particular field of any kind. Mine was different, you know. Yeah, right. Recreation and park management. Yeah, you were ready to jump right. They'd still have to train you in their way they do things if in that capacity, you know. 100%. Yeah. Yeah. So, but it's yeah, it's are you a good fit here? How do they determine what a good fit is? Sure. They know what their employees are like. Do you do you do you look like you're gonna blend in with them? Do you fit with our culture? Exactly what Coach Callaway and the rest of the staff are doing. And if you bring too much culture, oh, you're not gonna fit into another culture. And we're not saying, we're not hey, look, I'm never gonna say don't be yourself because it's important too. But sometimes um your your outward identity, how you want people to see you and things like that, that's fine. Be that person, but at some point you kind of you have to be able to expand and contract. Yeah, you know, so we might sound like two old guys, but I'll tell you that you got a spider tattoo on your neck. You mean you're gonna have to really have a heck of an interview for me to just be able to discount that spider tattoo that is on your neck, because what you've shown me is that you've just made some wildly uh uh odd decisions, right? And again, I don't have a problem with those necessarily. And again, if if No, it can be overcome. If you're 6'4, yeah, 340 pounds of twisted blue steel, yeah, and I'm looking for a bodyguard and you happen to have a spider tattoo on your neck, yeah, I mean uh your your stock just went up. Yeah, that's good. That's good for that. Exactly. But then if you if you talk about But you're probably not gonna be that awesome for 30 years. Yeah, was that two or three years at best? Yeah, yeah, exactly. At the best tattoo's permanent. Oh, it is. Doesn't go away. And I yeah, my kids, uh both my daughters have tattoos, and I've just always said, Yeah, look, nothing above the neckline. Yeah. And make sure that sleeves can cover it. Yeah, that's army rules. Yeah. I don't want on your knuckles love and hate. No, no, nothing like that. Yeah, yeah, or anything more or less appropriate. Yeah. Come on. Yeah. So that's a big uh that's a big deal. Yeah, you do judge books by the cover for sure. Yeah. Showing our HR. You judge a book. We're showing time to read every dang book. I'm gonna look at the cover. Hey, and by the way, what are you reading right now? Well, right now, um, I got some uh oh wait, like this is it's such a boring time. I'm trying to think of it. The uh the ethics of uh private property. Oh, so you're thinking about taking over. Yeah. It's a land like a Mises Institute. So there's that. Um and when that gets too boring, then uh that seems cumbersome. It's not as bad as you might think. Um I bet it is. And then and then um I've I've also got I did buy, I tell you, I bought a study Bible.

SPEAKER_02 28:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:13

I got a lot of them. This one I didn't have, and I so it's the Orthodox Study Bible. Interesting. And it is interesting because they include uh some extra books that we don't have in the Protestant Bible. So are you gonna become a Hasidic Methodist? Uh or Shiite Methodist? Maybe is that a thing? I don't think so. Yeah. Maybe maybe in this date and time I shouldn't say things like that. That's fine. They're they're busy. Um they got other problems right now. Yeah. Um I just thought it was interesting because I thought, I mean, they are the ones that kind of determine which books were in the Bible in the first place. Yeah. And uh uh so I thought, I wonder what they're what they've got for their notes in their study Bible. Interesting. It's very different. It is different in in that they do have um there there's not a ton of notes. Like there's notes on every page relative to significant, you know, passages. Yeah. Um, but like uh it but um it's it's different in that it's like in a like in in a lot of the study Bibles, for example, I don't want to go down this rub, but it's like there's just like half of the page. That's my study Bible. Is is some Ding Dong's notes on and a lot of times you can read those and I like those, but there I got to the point where I'd be reading them and I'd read the the notes and particularly like if you're in church and the pastor is quoting scripture and you know where he's going next because you concordance is there as well as the notes on the particular passages, and I'm like, well, I mean, I s did we I mean, is this where you got your sermon from today? I know where you're going with this. Yeah, I know exactly where we're going next, or at least should go. Orthodox, they don't uh really they do they don't really do sermons, they you know they're very liturgical. So they're they're they're like we've been doing this for two thousand years. Yeah. So they're not too wrapped around the axles about what's in the the homily, the 10-minute thing, maybe at the end. So pastors aren't quite priests are very important, but not for the same reason that Protestant pastors are. So it's very different. So the notes are very different. It would be interesting. I've got a book that I that I d jumped into a little bit. I read here and there, it's called The Bible is History. You know, and so uh again, I I love history. You I know you love history, and I don't if I'm being honest, I don't read anything that's really gonna expand my mind. I just want to learn other stuff, you know. So yeah, and I read I read nonfiction almost solely. If I read, if I read a fiction book, it's gotta be a classic. Like the last one I read was um Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. Okay, terrible. Yeah. Now it was probably well done when it was released, but it's like you get done with a book, it's like and and that's it. Yeah. Okay. That was great. Now my my all-time favorite fiction is Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe. Yeah. That was that was such a there were so many beautiful, poignant moments in that book. Everybody should read it. Yeah. And if you understand the history behind it, yeah, it yeah, it's such it's it's well, it's fallen out of that one's fallen out of favor a little bit. Uh and it's weird how times change and people's ignorant viewpoints based on their last 20 minutes of understanding history is that's fallen out of favor. Mark Twain's fallen out of favor, which is a shame. I read uh Huckerberry Fabio. They're great. Yeah. I saw I've been watching The Love Boat um for fun. Wow, that doesn't sound like uh those things are synonymous. They're not, but uh here I'm gonna tie it back, you see. Um uh the the um uh it's not outbreak, but I think it was based on Outbreak, but it was like um and gall darn it, I can't think of I can't think of the name of the book. Yeah, that's but so anyway, this is from like 1978. Okay, and this um um uh one of the characters, guest stars, who I didn't recognize, but she was reading this book all the time at the pool, and I was like, what's this all about? Because you know, they somebody picks what the props are, it's not like they just randomly, you know, pick it. And so um it was uh it was a book about uh well darn it, I can't think of the title, but it's basically an outbreak of some disease in Africa, and they are shutting down this whole village. The Mutaba virus, yeah, something like that. Yeah, and and I can't even think of this, so this is a terrible story. Can't even think of KalMus Kalmus Kalmus wrote it, and I was like, well, I'm familiar with that name, and so like who it came out in the 1930s, anyway. Um it it was like you know, kind of what we went. It's it reminded me, I was like, why is she reading that? And there's no significance to it whatsoever. There's on the love boat, no plot in the storyline, not that there normally is a super plot in the storyline in love boat, so no, but anyway, so yeah, the most confusing thing about love. I just look at what other people are reading, or if I hear them like reading something on a podcast, or I see something, I'm like, I wonder if that's any good. Yeah, and then sometimes I'll then I'll look it up, and then if I think it is, then I'll order it. Absolutely. But the biggest question when it comes to you watching the love boat is how in the world does Isaac Harris get less tail than Doc? Never understood Doc's appeal to anybody. No, at all. No, he he's still alive. He is, yeah, didn't know. Yeah. Um, you know, Pastor Stubing. Was he ever married? Do we do we ever know that? Was he married? Captain Stubing, yes, Meryl. Uh to his friends. He had a wife. There's some backstory there, I forget. Really? But yeah, he did have a wife. I don't think I don't know if we ever meet her. I can't remember. I look, there's nine nine years of episodes. I can then there's Julie. Yeah, Julie too is or that's not her name, but like that her the character that played her. Yeah. Yeah, whatever her first name was, maybe it was Julie. I don't know. But anyway. She was the the cruise director. Yeah. In the first few seasons. Yeah. Yeah, beautifully young. Then she developed a cocaine habit. Well, that happens. Yeah. I mean, 1970s, Hollywood. Oh, the whole thing about it. Come on, man. The whole the whole thing about you watch those from the 70s, and it's like there is so much sexual harassment and inappropriate workplace activities. It is ridiculous. And then, like, captain, you know, or like, you know, personnel on the ship, you know, chasing people on that that are crew that are, you know, passengers, yeah. And vice. Fred Grandy. Fred Grandy's an Iowan. He should know better. He's when we had six districts, he was the sixth district for like eight years, four terms, I think, is what he had.

SPEAKER_02 34:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:59

Fred Grandy was gopher, Harvard educated, plays the dumb guy on that show. And uh, yeah, so I've been watching it's very interesting. What I like about it, and we don't have any shows like this anymore, because we don't have three channels where everybody has to watch the same crap at the same time to see what you're gonna see. Understand. And so uh, so that was like a big deal where you could be like, watch this one show Saturday night, where all of the people that are currently somebody on the TV land world or former movie people or whatever, and they can and Aaron Spelling can just get them to come on the show. And and you get to see them in different capacities. Well, because do you like okay, so Saturday night was Love Boat at like seven o'clock, and then do you remember what show followed? Uh was it I mean, I we watched Disney, so it was that was like that was on ABC. ABC, what followed the Love Boat? Was it Fantasy Island? Yes, yeah. Hervey Villagez?

SPEAKER_04 36:00

Yeah, De Plain.

SPEAKER_01 36:02

Yeah, they hated each other. Did you know that? Oh, really? Ricardo and Ricardo Montelban? Is it wrong? I know the answer to this, but I'm gonna, you know, um, so frequently I will call my dog Ricardo Montelban, and is that is that appropriate? Depends on who you talk to. I'm talking to my dog, and I feel like he doesn't know the answer. He just looks at you and says, I love you. Yes. Uh and the and the what was he saying the the the dwarf's name? I almost said the Estherville name. Uh what was his name? You say Harvey? Hervey, or was it Hervé Village was the was the actor's name. The little guy. And he was what was his tattoo character name. What a what a terrible name. What a great name. Yeah they did not like each other. No, and I don't even remember because he always had to call call Ricardo boss. Yes. Oh, there was resentment because Ricardo got paid way more than but I mean, I mean it's kind of like a half-price deal. Is it by height? I feel like it should have been. I feel like it should have been. This is really not a football podcast, but I like the I like the direction we're getting. You know what we could do though, is we could I would I told Heidi that we should do this. Okay. Uh, but it's only funny between if for people that grew up watching it. Yes. Uh and now you know that what is it like? Um um fan whatever that show is, like something 2000 or whatever, where they sit in front of a movie screen and science fiction 2000. Yeah, 3000 or whatever. Yeah, 3000. Mystery science theater. Mystery science theater, yep. Um, we could do that just with a love boat. Oh my god. Just like a group of people that just like sat there and then we just we could set up our microphones. Wow. And then just comment on on the love. On all the inappropriate. Oh my god. It's so funny when I because I would sit there and I would do that with you know, just Heidi we'd be watching this. And I didn't even want to watch the love boat. But now when you put it that way, yeah. That would be fun. I think that would be a good idea. Set up our cameras, we throw it up, uh, so that they can't get us for just our silhouettes. And just our silhouettes as we're sitting, and but the mic we're still mic'd, and then we're just talking as we're I don't know what we do with money. One line. We just be pouring in. I don't know what the rules are. Uh probably copyright rules. Yeah, I I think we'd get sued. But if our microphone is over theirs and that's in the background. I don't know. That's a good question. It is a question that would soon be answered by YouTube. They're very, very they're fine with breaking the rules for themselves, uh, notoriously with music. But uh anybody else tries it and they're coming down hard on you. It's true, very true. So anyway, that was a great little yeah, divergence from and so do you find yourself this time of year, you know, it's kind of it's it's that between really nice weather where you could spend a lot of time trying to find a series to watch. That's why. And so where we got last night, um, my beautiful wife and I, um, The Madison, another Taylor Sheridan. Uh huh, yeah. And I thought, nah, I don't think I'm gonna do that. But um, yeah, two episodes, and I'm looking forward to watching a couple more. So question for you about that. Okay, good. Um, because I'd I like uh uh Kurt what is Kurt Kurt Russell, Kurt Russell, right? So is it a s is it a spoiler to like I mean is he alive in right away? Yes.

SPEAKER_02 39:24

So yeah, you can't like I said you really you gotta jump in.

SPEAKER_01 39:29

Okay. Because it's um I'm trying to figure it out because when I see Michelle Pfeiffer and she's talking about in the promos, he's in it. Yeah, he's talking to her, yeah. But then like when they're sitting around the table and they're and they're wherever they are, he's not there. Okay. You gotta watch it. Okay, you're gonna leave it. And it's it's worth it. You know. Um, it really it uh Taylor Sheridan, you know, he's he really does not know how to write for women. Is this different now? He's figured it out. Uh he's doing a really good job in the fact that he hired a lady. Well, he's he is highlighting the idea that people that grow up in a a place like New York City um don't necessarily fit in in Montana or Idaho, actually. Yeah, is where this is at. Um and just it it's yeah, that's cool. It's well done. All right. Well, most of his shows are well. I've only watched two episodes so far. Uh I suppose by the next time we do an episode, I'll finished it. Okay. Because that's what you do. That's how his shows are. I do like it. I loved, yeah, he's he's one of my favorites. All right. Speaking of shows, though, we do have so the 18th. Welcome to the Waldorf Gridiron. Welcome to the cold opening. Oh, yeah, this was 40 minutes and I told you we were gonna it started out like the Joel Rogan podcast. This is why we have gas people, because uh with we'll we'll just go down a rabbit hole. This is well, I'll tell you what, that would be direction. Yeah, yeah. But that game, though, on the spring ball game, is that a noon game or a one o'clock? That's a great question, Troy. All right, let me see if I checked my wrote my notes here when we had our last. Oh, we had our meeting. We had our meeting out here. All the coaches showed up. That was a good time. And I want to say one o'clock, but I don't know that for sure. Okay. Yeah. Well, I will uh look at my notes here, and and uh before the spring ball game, yes, coach uh Callaway has uh come up with a new fundraiser and we need to talk about this because This is awesome. Well, it's the Heels and Huddles. Yes. Heels and Huddles that is happening. So that will actually be Friday night the 17th uh at from like 6 30 to 8 30, I think, Friday night, at the D Jack, where they're gonna break down for um it's intended for uh the moms, um ladies in the community, whoever wants to come out and just you know learn a little bit more about football, the game, um, get some expertise that you may not have. And it's funny because at first note you might think, I mean, we've got four boys, so and we've been Vikings fans forever, so I feel like Heidi's pretty well attuned to the game of football.

SPEAKER_02 42:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:21

Um but if you were to ask me about the rules, say for soccer, I would have no idea. None. You know, I mean, I know if you hit it into the my grandson plays. Yeah. Yeah. And other and volleyball too. I mean, watch volleyball games and and and everything, and I don't completely both my daughters play volleyball. I understand that. So and it's one of those things that you know, if um guys, we generally grow up uh watching football, playing football, and we probably have a little bit more of an intimate understanding. And what coach is hoping to do is that um bring in moms, wives, girlfriends, sisters, whatever it is, to really kind of not dig really, really granular down into the the ifs, ands or buts of of the entire game. But the reality is is like let's just explain some things about what's going on um so that you might enjoy it a little bit more. Now we're not talking about like Callie Finley, who I distinctly remember one time at one of our home games. Um I don't know what exactly was happening, but um she did make the excited utterance from the stands 12th personnel, really? Yeah, like I mean, come on.

SPEAKER_02 43:30

Callie Callie was she was a little bit unique in that she understood um everything about football.

SPEAKER_01 43:37

Yeah. And I I mean Yeah, she um we want you to get there though. I mean a lot of the parents now, so that's not to say that that you don't already know all of these things. Uh I although I will tell you this, like I uh I am not a I'm the public announcer to explain who got the tackle and what's happening next. Accessory. You got it. I am not a play-by-play announcer because I cannot look at a formation and automatically just know what they're doing. Right. And I'm that's not my I was a lineman, so like I don't well, like what's my immediately in front of me? Am I blocking left or right today? You know, I mean there was none so and and and uh so this might help with some of that. If you can recognize the different formations, that's uh formations, um uh uh all kind I mean it's it's like the way Coach described it, and I'm I'm I hope I'm doing this justice, Friday night is um the game of football, those kind of cool things, you know, like that type of stuff is talking about maybe, but no more than your husband or even your maybe potentially, you know, the other men that should know about football in your life, but certainly the maybe the other women in your life, get your girlfriends together, make it a night out because um you're gonna have fun. Oh, yeah. Uh and it's gonna be six to eight thirty six thirty to eight thirty Friday night, the uh seventeenth. That'll be at the Darome Denny Jerome Activities and that's where the football uh classrooms are and conference rooms and get to go up in the team room. Get to go up in the team room. 30 bucks to RSVP, same address, by the way. You can just contact David Callaway, the coach, uh David.callaway at Waldorf.edu. And uh if you want to just if you say like a lot of Forest City people, I can't make up my mind, so why would I I'd rather pay more money and show up when I want to go. It's only five more bucks. 35 bucks. So it's a fundraiser, it's an opportunity to hang out with uh friend, have a good night, and it's not just Friday night. No, but wait, there's more because the Friday the Saturday uh spring ball game uh is gonna be at 11 30. He's starting early. Yeah, giddy up. And so he's gonna do uh skills skill uh then on Saturday they're gonna do uh drills on the field. Yeah. So it's uh set skill uh and the skills and drills is what they're doing on the field. So not only we're gonna be fun, learn what's going on the night before, uh, probably know more than Andy and I do about the schemes of of the program. Not a high. And then you come down and then he's gonna have the opportunity to just have some fun uh and do some, you know, you know, maybe hit the I don't know, hit the sleds. I don't know what they're gonna do. Skills and drills. Maybe footwork. I think impact-wise, it's probably gonna be limited or non-existent because I don't think we want to uh get somebody with the potential to be injured. So it may be running routes, uh doing handoffs, throwing the ball, yeah, uh blocking, uh maybe some tackling. As simple as I have no idea, and as involved as you want it to be. Really, like I said, it's a fundraising opportunity to have a good time. You're gonna come out to the game on Saturday anyway, uh, opportunity to start the tailgate, month first tailgate of the season, one might say, uh, and just uh uh uh be a part of that. And then following that, so so by all means, um heels and huddles, uh that is uh Friday night the 17th and Saturday, 30 bucks uh RSVP to Coach Callaway, uh get your friends together, uh support the team, make something fun, um, and be there for the game on Saturday. Anyway, it's not it's not a game game, like I said, it's gonna be what it is. Uh uh I will announce that. Uh he's got drills that he's gonna run, so I'll just kind of not you know we'll play some music and I'll announce what's happening. Uh just very simple scrimmage, not like not like a game day, but just so people know what's going on. You can tailgate, you can have a good time, and afterwards do tailgate. We are yeah, for sure it's a Saturday. Come on now, and I think hopefully the weather should be good. Um so uh after that, we're the Gridiron Club is feeding uh our team and our coaches Iowa chops.

unknown 47:40

Oh, we've been talking about it.

SPEAKER_01 47:42

Grilling Iowa Chops. If you don't know what that is, then you do you're missing a part of your life. You're missing it out, yeah. You're missing a part of your life you need to. An inch uh inch and a half? Is it an inch and a half? At least an inch between an inch and a quarter, an inch and a half, somewhere in that range, thick chop. Two inches is um, two inches, maybe I don't know. That's a little much. I mean that's pretty thick. That would be yeah, I bet it's an inch and a half. Yeah. And um, and yeah, and yeah, yeah, they cook them. They got a little butter, you know, smil little, little, little, little seasoning, not much. Uh grill them up. Um, got some good sides. Tristan Helms taking care of, putting all that together. Of course. Uh big thanks uh to Randy Brewster who uh owns the grill and lets us use it, and uh and uh we're just gonna be uh having a good time. We are at I don't know if it's gonna be in the tailgate area or if it's going to be on the on the D-jack side. Depends on the thing. Depends on the weather, I say. Depending on the weather and whether or not we need uh to have tables out there, which if we're on the um on the north end, we're gonna need tables, and if we're on the south end uh over by the D-Jack, they can go up into the team room and yeah and and and notch on those. So it's all good. Um but uh that is for the players, and that's one of the things that uh that the gridiron club takes care of. Uh and and and the other thing that we're uh still taking care of is uh taking donations for the dub. Uh the W right there in the middle uh at where it should be. Yep. Um at the midfield line. Um we're gonna put that big, beautiful Waldorf W with the helmet uh on the center of the field. Yeah, we've been talking about that for years, folks, and this is your opportunity to get to be part of it. Uh you know, we're taking all sizes of donations, large and small. Um, it's gonna cost us uh around 20 grand, give or take, to get that done. Um people are gonna be like, it seems like everything they want to raise money for is like 20 grand. Yeah, exactly. Correct. Yeah, absolutely. We're gonna do pork chops 20 grand. Um, no, we we need to we need to get this done. We've obligated uh the gridiron club to do that, and so what that means is that we're asking you for your donations. So um, you know, we have uh we I believe we have Venmo. If you want to do it that way, you can donate. You can go right to the Waldorf Gridiron Club.org and there's a donate now button. You can go ahead and super easy. You just get it in there and uh just hit a hit one through nine and start pushing zeros until your banker calls. Yeah, that's simple. That's what's going on here. Absolutely. Um we do have one more thing uh I think we want to bring up and let people know as they plan ahead. Do it early. Do it early. Do it early. Like I should have been selling beef. Um a couple things actually, Troy. Go ahead. But the first one um, okay. Well, the one I'm is the golf tournament.

SPEAKER_02 50:35

The golf tournament is what I was thinking of.

SPEAKER_01 50:37

Yeah, that's the 10th of July. Yes. Set at once again Gruis Recreation Center, the golf course out there where we've had it for the last couple of years. The tournament will be at 5 p.m. shotgun start. It'll be the 10th of July. That's a Friday night. Um yeah, just the following the weekend of uh uh Independence Day, our 250th birthday. How about it? That's fantastic. I don't feel a day over 220. Uh you know? Yep. Well, that's uh I mean, so that's uh that's what's happening. And and uh uh I guess if you are now we had a we had an e so we have I don't wonder uh if the email let's just wait on registration for that, but just put it on your calendars, be and pay attention uh to our uh uh social media, Facebook and Twitter as we uh get this thing lined up. But it will be July 10th, Friday night. Yeah, if you want to if you want a sponsor, you know, you can uh you can get a hold of us here at the show. And uh um, you know, we're always looking for sponsorships uh for that. And also the one thing that you're gonna we're we're not gonna actually officially kick it off today since it's April, um, but we're gonna start selling our cash prize where the ball lies super early this year. Like that's gonna be part of our summer series. Yeah. Uh we want to start getting those in. So, you know, it's a$25 donation to the gridiron club, and uh you're given uh one of the yard lines, and so you don't get to choose which one. We just draw it out of a hat, and uh so we sell all of those so that during our home games is um at the end of each quarter and the at the end of the game, uh, wherever that ball happens to be, and it's your yard line, you're gonna get uh you're gonna double that$25 donation to$50. And yeah, you can win, you can win every one of them if you want. Um Arnie's won in years past. Dave Annan. He or Wanda have won Wanda, particularly, won more than once in a season. So I know. Um I don't know how that works out. It's just where that now the they they are randomly uh Adam Helm just randomly assigns the yard lines. Uh but yeah, you can start doing that right now for the 2026 season. In fact, that'd be way easier. Yeah, uh, we'll keep talking about it here and on this program, but you can do it's just the same thing. Go to the website, use the donate button where in the comments just put grid line or yard line 2026. Um, we already have your contact information for sure when you do that. So uh we want to make sure we get you taken care of and recorded, and then you get your yard line assigned. So that's let's talk about what time of year it is. Some of you oh tax season getting your tax uh your tax refund back. And what do you do with that? Are you gonna go out and buy yourself new tires? That's not exciting. That's not investing it in a way that might double your money, right?

SPEAKER_00 53:30

Correct.

SPEAKER_01 53:31

So buy yourself six or eight of them. Heck, buy ten of them if you really want, you know, and uh yeah, you might uh you might be reaping the rewards. My wife won last year. Yeah. She did. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't see any of that. No, no. Fifty bucks. Not even a gift. Yeah. That's well the gift of her presence is what well that's more than enough for me. I forgot to mention on that um that uh heels and huddles. Oh, yeah, yeah. Nico, Coach Nico is gonna be he's the one that's heading up the organization for that. So don't make Nico seem like his first task from that new head coach is not a success, ladies. This is the least you can do for Nico. Come on, get Nico. Look how successful he is. He's just putting this together. I'm sure it'll be very interesting. Waldorf. Correct. The 2025. Yeah. A David Bullsdorf, man, man of the year. Man of honor. Yeah. Yeah. And I still have that plate for the trophy. Put it on there. I know I gotta get it done. All right. We are uh we're officially caught up. Um with what is uh what is happening. We did have our we did have our monthly meeting uh back in the we always have it at set on that last Wednesday of the month. Um uh and we don't always have one every month because you know, depending on we always take a break. We like December we roll in, or November we roll in, have our like holiday party, and then we don't see each other till like February. I don't like the podcast. Yeah. It's like hey, we're busy, uh whatever. At the holidays, it's cold, we're moving snow. You got it. Yeah, absolutely. But we have uh we did we started something new. Um this this last time. If you remember, we had um a Zoom meeting that was so we had it on Zoom. Oh and and uh how many people joined Troy? Two two besides me. Two. So I we did have somebody join? Yeah, two people, yeah. So thanks. I thought we had nobody because we killed it. I did too. So um I should have logged in as the owner, but I logged in on my phone as just like the dude a dude. Yeah, yeah. And so I started it, and um, and uh it starts, I think. I should have I don't know if I did it right, probably not, but anyway, we had two people then, and then I remember like we get like 35 minutes, 40 minutes into the meeting. It's like an hour meeting, maybe an hour 10. I think we we wrapped it up. We started went quick. Yeah, we try to keep it to an hour. We finished at 7 30 or something like that. I don't know. Doesn't matter, anyway. So who uh who I cut it out. I I was just like, well, nobody's watching anyway, and and I just turned it off. So I apologize to our uh we have names, yeah. But I don't want to say so we uh so I apologize for cutting you guys out. Um we're gonna keep doing that because now I mean that's that what a great way if you're what's going on. Yeah, if you're you know yeah, a parent or you want to be part of the uh the gridiron club, you want to know what's going on, you want to see what we do out here at the bunker. We gotta be gotta be mindful of how we re how we act. You know, we gotta be a little more professional. Those type of folk, huh? You never know them who might be tuning in. Oh yeah, trying to get some intel, just a bunch of people sitting around uh the bar talking about Baldwin football. Yeah, the guys from Morningside trying to see what we have a foot. They're not invited. It's only by email. You have to have the code. Oh.

unknown 56:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 57:00

Well, like that couldn't be shared.

unknown 57:02

Hey.

SPEAKER_01 57:02

Because it they might have an insider. They could have an insider. Wow. Yeah. Gopher. Not Fred Grandy. Fred Grandy's not our guy. No. Yeah, he's an Iowa, though. He is from out that corner. He is. I think is where he's from. Did he go to where did he go to school? I you said Harvard, but was that like right from the jump? Well, I don't know that. I'm gonna have to look him up on the interwebs. Yeah, he did uh he had a Harvard stint there. Well, I mean, who hasn't done that? You can go uh to a store and buy a Harvard t-shirt. That's best that's probably the most physically responsible way to do it. Yeah. And uh got a picture of him when he's very young. Um yeah, he actually he was preceded in his seat by Berkeley Bedell. Now, folks, if you like to fish and you use Berkeley stuff, Berkeley Bedell uh from yes, 100%. For real? Yes, he started Berkeley in his garage. An Iowa guy? Yeah, yeah. Oh, that changes everything. Yeah, Spirit Lake dude. Uh actually, um, within about a five minute walk of of our place over at Okaboji, um, he and his wife Eleanor, um, their earthly remains have been laid to rest in Eleanor Bedell State Park. And it's a it's a beautiful, beautiful. Did not know that. I thought I I kind of avoided buying Berkeley because I thought it was the leftist California place.

unknown 58:32

No.

SPEAKER_01 58:32

But they came up with really good fishing for some reason. No, no. He uh Okay, I've changed my mind. No, he's uh he's an Iowa. Berkeley Bedell. Yeah, and then Tom Latham, uh from our neck of the woods, uh down in uh Alexandra. That's when we lost a seat. We used to have six, and then we be in the six congressional districts, and then when we went to five, then Latham became now we're at four. Now we got four. Oh, it's so sad. Well, it happens. Uh, you know, people leaving the state are young folk. It's not that. We're still the same people, just not pushing out as many babies.

SPEAKER_02 59:12

Yeah, we're we're getting older, Troy.

SPEAKER_01 59:16

Get after it, you young uh whippersnappers.

SPEAKER_02 59:18

You folks need to have seven, eight kids.

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Right, more grandkids. Oh, yeah, that would be awesome. Yeah, I got two and I love them to death. There you are. Yeah. All right. Well, we've uh pushed about a minute. We didn't uh um that that horse has been whipped. Yeah, yeah, it's dead now. Don't forget it's kind of like your cows this Sunday. Yes. And email uh Coach Callaway. Yep, get your yard clean, get that taken care of the following Friday night uh meals and huddles Saturday morning and then Saturday at 11 30. We've got our scrimmage, they're gonna play for they will be done by coach was not messing around. He's like, we'll probably be done by one. Yep. And then we'll eat and uh yeah, and then that's it. Enjoy your Saturday. Yeah, absolutely. You go back home, enjoy your nice clean yard because you oh, you know, got it cleaned up by the Warriors. Might just as well. And then while you're sitting there enjoying your the rest of your log out of the website, yeah, get on and say, like, okay, donate. I want 15 yards. And here's an extra grand for the W. Yeah. And uh yeah, I would like to be a sponsor for the golf tournament on July 10th. Awesome. You can get that all done in the next 14 days. You could give it, it'd be fantastic. You could do all that. It'd be fantastic. And then where would we be? Ready for the spring. Oh, let's get it. Let's do it. All right. Well, I think that's gonna do it for this episode, episode three, season five of the Waldorf Gridiron Club Podcast. Hey, thanks for joining us, kids. Uh, it was a lot of fun. Uh, again, remember to text the show and let us know what voices we need to open the show in. And I'm gonna I'm I'm not just gonna drop it on Troy. That way we can maybe practice a little bit. Yeah, and he can work on his Elvis and his Johnny Cash. And, you know, maybe we'll throw in like uh former president Bush. Oh, something I got a dead. No, the other Bush. Oh, George W. W. A W. Yep. I don't know how to come up with a new strategy and we'll get to figure it out. Got it. Yeah. All right. Hey, thanks so much, folks. Uh that's it for us. Uh thanks for listening. For Troy Thompson, this is Andy Buffington, and forever and always, Go Warriors.

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