Ep. 44 - The U.S. Cities Draft

Shaun is joined by Jeremy Goode, Ryan Amodei, Michael Collins and Shane Douglas to draft U.S. cities. We talk about our favorite spots in the country and what makes them great, we break down the pros and cons to each city while also poking holes in some questionable selections.  

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SPEAKER_01 0:22

Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the Tortured Fans Department podcast. I am your host, Sean Boyle, and we have a five-man crew coming your way today. Another draft is here. This is a big one. There's a palpable buzz in the air. Let me quickly introduce the guests, all of which are recurring in some capacity. I'll start with one of the cousins, maybe the better half, but after some of the pre-draft banter, I'm not so sure. Shane Douglas. Shane, how are you?

SPEAKER_05 0:49

Sean, I am honored to be on the pod in the starting five tonight for this draft. I must say it's an absolute blessing to be on a podcast with more than just Jeremy. I can kind of drown him out with the others on this podcast, and I could not be more thrilled about that.

SPEAKER_01 1:05

Next up, one of the forefathers of the program. It is Mr. Michael Collins, MC. How are you?

SPEAKER_00 1:10

Mr. Boyle, good evening. Thank you so much for having me. It's a packed house tonight. I'm ready to make some picks. Let's go.

SPEAKER_01 1:18

I'll cut right to it then. Ryan Amade, Mr. Music, the man behind the introduction. Ryan, how's it going?

SPEAKER_03 1:24

Going great. Glad to be on here talking something other than music. Love talking music with you, Sean, but uh let's get into something different. Excited to talk cities.

SPEAKER_01 1:31

Yeah, and last but certainly not least, the other cousin, Mr. Jeremy Good. Jeremy, how are you?

SPEAKER_02 1:37

Sean, Shane, Michael, Ryan. Hello, all. Great to be with you guys.

SPEAKER_01 1:43

Oh, God, the worm is back. Our opening question, if you guys you guys could tell by the episode title, it is the U.S. Cities Draft. We will get into the guidelines of the draft in just a minute. But before we do that, the opening question for you guys to start the discussion is Are you a fan of big cities? What are some of the pros and cons? Would you see yourself living in one? Did you enjoy living in one? Talk to me.

SPEAKER_05 2:05

Yeah, Sean. I uh spent a few years in Philadelphia. Uh loved it. I've also spent a few years in actually, I don't want to uh give away many cities, but uh spent a few years in another city that's closer to the 350,000 uh population density. Uh and I love that too. So I uh big cities, small cities sign me up. One of the pros for big cities, I think good public transportation in a lot of them.

SPEAKER_01 2:34

That's a key factor on my draft board, is some cities don't have that. So I think you definitely separate yourself if you do have strong public transportation.

SPEAKER_00 2:42

Yeah, I'm a huge fan of visiting big cities. I love to go for a weekend or a week, what have you, uh, as far as living there. I maybe prefer something smaller, but love a love a big city irregardless. Uh Shane, I similar to you, I was gonna hit on a public transportation aspect because I was gonna say one of the things I pride myself on is being something of a savant when it comes to uh public transit and figuring out schedules and uh and lines and mostly pertaining to trains and subways and things of that nature. Anytime I go to a big city, I'm one quick quick glance at the map and uh ready to go, know exactly where I'm heading. So yeah, uh, I I do love to visit a big city, there's no doubt.

SPEAKER_01 3:34

I will jump in to say I can attest to that notion. He is the master of the tube in London. That's not tipping a pick since we're drafting only U.S. cities, but this guy knows the tube, which is probably the most intricate public transportation in the world, like the back of his hand. He he had it down pat. So it was great to have him alongside me for that trip. Ryan, what are your thoughts on the big cities?

SPEAKER_03 3:56

Yeah, I mean, I will preach to anyone that will ask about my time in Philly, uh, attending Temple and how much I loved it. I think the the ability to wake up on any given day and have a zillion options of things to do, places to eat, all that stuff is incredible. Um, if I was given the opportunity to do it again, I think I would. Uh just happens to be that uh a lot of these uh college athletics uh towns are they're just college towns and they're not big cities, and so that's kind of the the nature of where I've lived. So I've moved, you know, essentially from Philly to Ruston, Louisiana. So I've seen kind of everything in between. Um, even Waco, which isn't big enough to fall on this list as well, um, but have lived kind of all over the map, but look very, very fondly on my time in Philly uh and would certainly uh go back to living in a situation like that if I could.

SPEAKER_01 4:42

And Jeremy, you're often referred to as the mayor of Philadelphia. You're the only one on this panel that actively lives in one of these cities that is draft eligible. What are your thoughts on the city life?

SPEAKER_02 4:53

No city names, of course, but I've grown up my entire life in a big city. It's great. I love it. It's uh there's stuff to do, period. That's that's the pros. You could do a lot of different stuff. Obviously, I also like vacationing to smaller towns. No names, of course. I want to tip for other drafts, but uh, there's something like a big city in terms of things to do. So you're not saying any town or city names? You're just no names. But I but I I'll say I've lived I've lived in a big city my entire life. No names.

SPEAKER_03 5:23

Waiting for the small towns draft, Shane.

SPEAKER_05 5:27

Yeah, we're going 7,000 rounds in the small town draft.

SPEAKER_01 5:31

Yeah. Jeremy, don't let them bully you. You keep your cards close to the fest, you're running the tight war room. Let me give the listeners the guidelines. All of us have been briefed on this topic several days in advance, so I don't think there's going to be any confusion or questions, but I just want to make sure everybody's on the same page. Each city that is going to be drafted must have over 300,000 in population. Based on the 2024 estimate, we have the list. We all know which cities are draft eligible. I will preface the draft by saying that every city we take is basically the list of places where we are able to spend our time. So we're each going to take six cities. We are able to balance our time however we want to amongst those six cities. If you want to visit a city on somebody else's board, you have to have permission from that owner. I'm not so sure that in the context of this draft, that's going to be allowed. So the viewers, the listeners will judge us based on the cities that we draft that make our list. You can have any criteria you want to make those picks. It is up to your discretion. I think that's where some of the interest comes in. Obviously, we're also going to be oper operating under the assumption that we have enough money. City life's expensive. None of in this hypothetical scenario, we have plenty of money. Money is not an issue. We're operating as if money is infinite. So we have the cream of the crop in each of these locations. It is up to the rest of us to banter, poke holes, or agree with the picks. I am so happy to say I don't have the first pick in this one because I feel like there's a lot of different directions Jeremy could go. Jeremy's picking first, I am picking second, Ryan is third, Shane is fourth, and Mr. Michael Collins is fifth. If there are no further questions, the ball is in Jeremy's court.

SPEAKER_02 7:14

All right then. Yeah, first thing I want to say is I'm at a major disadvantage with the first overall pick.

SPEAKER_04 7:22

Just welcome on the record. Um that's a free space on the bingo card.

SPEAKER_02 7:27

Yeah, I'm not gonna complain. Nothing like that, but just one note disadvantage.

SPEAKER_00 7:32

Um, number waste of both.

SPEAKER_02 7:37

Yeah. Well, value, value, value, as you know with drafts in my drafts, too. Um first pick, thought about this deeply. Number ways I could go. Listen, we're gonna we're gonna throw it down right now. First pick, Los Angeles. Let me tell you why. Let me tell you why. It's the best city in this nation. You got the beaches, you have the weather, you have the entertainment, you have the pizzazz, the nightlife, you have the clubs, you have oh my god, you have downtown life, you have Hollywood, you've everything, you've Sunset Boulevard, oh my god, the weather. You heard you guys have heard the expression life slows down in certain places. That started in Los Angeles. I love my pick. It's an obvious number one. Listen, someone had to take the first pick and I did it, I'm taking LA. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 8:36

Wow, based on our just visual reactions, a bit speechless. I did not expect this to go first. I'm just gonna say, I'll be the first one to say it, and I'll let you guys add some color. I think it's a bad pick. I think it's a really bad pick.

SPEAKER_03 8:50

I'm flabbergasted.

SPEAKER_02 8:52

There's better wide game speechless pick. Wow. Well, again, remember, this is the non-cultured podcast, so I'm not surprised with some of these responses, but okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:02

Mr. Culture takes the second biggest city in the in the country and calls it the best. That's what I just said. Thanks. Oh, I thought it's a big oh man.

SPEAKER_01 9:16

Also, Jeremy, what beaches are located in Los Angeles proper?

SPEAKER_02 9:19

Stop with the proper crap. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

Well, you didn't draft it. We have you didn't draft California, you drafted Los Angeles.

SPEAKER_02 9:27

No, it's not a state draft, Sean. It's a city draft, baby. Or at L reference beaches. Yeah, Manhattan Beach, Malibu, uh, uh Venice Beach. Malubu is in Malibu, Jerry. Yeah, it's all in a way. Oh no, it's oh my god, is it oh my god. You again, again, pot again, listeners, non-cultured podcast, but listen, I'm sticking with it.

SPEAKER_01 9:52

Also, I thought this was assumed for the listening audience, but when you draft a city, you get everything inside those city walls. You don't get the surrounding area to just gallivant about. So when you're observing Jeremy's board here, just note he has Los Angeles. And I, my experience in downtown Los Angeles was rather uneventful. I thought everything good really took place outside the city.

SPEAKER_05 10:15

What do you mean outside the city? It's a nice town to just stop and get a hot dog in and then be on your way.

SPEAKER_02 10:22

That means nothing coming from you. You're the least cultured out of this five. So I don't I don't want to hear it, but oh my, I'm shocked.

SPEAKER_00 10:29

Oh, wow. I'm really looking forward to Jar an hour of Jared just calling us uncultured when he makes bad picks. It's gonna be awesome.

SPEAKER_01 10:37

Oh no, I do, I do, I we are burying this pick a bit, Jeremy. I just think it's crazy to pick it first. Obviously, Los Angeles was going to be drafted. The weather you spoke about, obviously, to die for. There's definitely good things about the city. It's just not where I would have gone first overall. But I'm a little nervous now to pick second. I'm worried that the panel might have some similar flabbergasted faces when I make my pick.

SPEAKER_04 11:00

But I'm gonna like it with this.

SPEAKER_01 11:02

I'm gonna take just the concrete jungle where dreams are made of. Give me New York City. That's the city in the United States. And don't get me wrong, Midtown Manhattan blows. We all of our cities are gonna have some warts, some eyesores. We've got to keep it away from those areas. But give me the East Village, give me the West Village, give me Brooklyn. All of that is what makes New York City great. Anything you want to do in the world, you can do in a day's time. World-class cuisine, world-class coffee, world-class entertainment, good public transportation. We didn't even mention the traffic in LA. My goodness.

SPEAKER_04 11:40

Yeah, traffic in New York's awesome. It's it sucks.

SPEAKER_01 11:45

So give me give me New York City. Yeah, you have to deal with some riffraff potentially on the subway, but it gets you where you need to go. I'm just I'm all in on New York. I think it is the clear choice. When you think America, you think New York City.

SPEAKER_03 11:58

Agree. This is the right pick here. I I if you weren't gonna take it, I was gonna take it next. Uh, for me, food is a huge factor in this draft. There's no better food city in America than New York. Any kind of cuisine you want at the snap of your fingers, you can get it. Um the public transportation is probably one-one as far as just accessibility. Uh yeah, it's it's the right pick, Sean. So can't can't disparage it. Yeah, it was my one-one as well.

SPEAKER_05 12:21

Uh, so good pick. Yeah. I mean, if money isn't a factor, which it is not in this draft, I feel like that's that's the one-one.

SPEAKER_00 12:29

Yeah, exactly. Like when I I I said earlier I love to visit cities and I wouldn't necessarily be dying to live in one. However, if you have unlimited money, New York City is a pretty darn great place to be, I'm sure. I wouldn't know much about unlimited money. But uh yeah, no, one easily one of my favorite places to visit. Uh just yeah, like you said, the the southern portion of Manhattan is just incredible.

SPEAKER_02 12:58

I love New York. It's a great pick, it's fine. I don't want to live there though. It's just too, it's too, it's too on top of each uh of everything there. I wouldn't want to live in New York, but it's a great city, obviously. Hey, bad sports, but like I don't have your your board and I have mine, but I think I know. I like my board, and I still get serped. It's my board. Unbelievable.

SPEAKER_01 13:21

No, listen, I wasn't I I was saying, hey, you you I don't like your pick. That doesn't mean you have to like mine, that's fine. I will say, I have to tell the listeners as well, there's three things I'm looking for on all my cities. The three C's, this is what I prepped in the draft board. It is culture, character, and cool shit. We have to have at least two of the three before you make my list. I think New York and a few other cities have all three in spades. So New York's the second pick. Ryan, it's over to you.

SPEAKER_03 13:50

Uh, we didn't touch on this earlier. Uh, I think that unless I'm left with no other option, I will feel like a fraud taking a city that I haven't been to. So I'm gonna put that out there. And uh if other people don't want to play by those rules, that's fine. That's how I'm gonna play. And so there's one major one that I'm going to this week that I cannot pick because I haven't been there. Um that feels like it should be at the top here. Um, so that means I am going to take the one that I lived in for four years. I'm gonna take Philly here. Uh for me, Philly is quintessential America. It is history, it is food, it is public transit, it's easy to get around, it's not overwhelming in a way that New York is. I grew, you know, I grew up right outside New York City, so I kind of grew up not like loving New York. I've grown a great appreciation for it. But everything I loved about Philly was because of that. It's you're not necessarily on top of each other. The public transportation is easy to comprehend. You can get everywhere you need to, you can walk everywhere. There's a little bit of water if you're into that. Um, and so yeah, for me, Philly uh has a special place in my heart, and I think is a genuinely amazing city that I recommend to everybody. So that's where I'm gonna go here.

SPEAKER_02 15:00

Oh my god. Listen, I love Philadelphia. I don't know if I'd take a third.

SPEAKER_06 15:06

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 15:07

I mean, look, listen, I I love look, I love, I love the loyalty. It's a great city, and it should get the more recognition that it does nationwide.

SPEAKER_01 15:16

But Jeremy grew up, has never left the city, and he he's making grunts, grunts when the city is selected in the first round. Tough, tough for all Philly.

SPEAKER_05 15:26

I'm trying to win it's round. Very tough. Ryan, I think it's a good pick.

SPEAKER_00 15:29

Yeah, I too I love the pick, honestly. I I was thinking it might go a lot later, but I I do very much love Philadelphia as a whole. You if you're talking money's not an issue, you get yourself a nice big place in old city, and boy, what a treat that is to walk around in. Uh great food options, a cheesesteak, give me that any day. Great Italian food. And yeah, great Italian food, the Italian market down South Philly, right in Jeremy's backyard. Um, it's a shame he hates it. Uh but if if you like history, if if you like American history in any sense, what better place for you?

SPEAKER_05 16:11

Absolutely, absolutely. Good pick, Ryan. Uh, I'm gonna go jump on here with the fourth overall pick. There's a couple that I'm weighing. Um but I think I'd be foolish not take this one. I visited this city multiple times. I've enjoyed it every time. I've been there, uh talk about food, talk about culture, talk about just an iconic city. Uh I'm gonna go with Chicago. Yeah. What food?

SPEAKER_02 16:35

What food in Chicago? Uh deep dish, ever heard of it? That pizza sucked.

SPEAKER_03 16:42

There's so much food in Chicago. What are you talking about? You said 20.

SPEAKER_05 16:45

That's the only thing you said. That pizza sucked.

SPEAKER_03 16:47

I don't agree with the response, but I also don't agree with the question. No, there's a lot of good Italian. We've been to good Italian places there. That is the city I was referencing uh earlier. That feels like the right pick there. I am going there at the end of this week for a wedding, but I have not been there uh yet, so couldn't take it. But good pick, Shane.

SPEAKER_01 17:03

Yeah, Ryan, I'm with you on the not drafting cities I haven't been to. So I think I think most of us are gonna stay pretty true to that, but we might get to a point where push comes to shove and you just have to take a city you haven't been to. But I I'm gonna follow that moral code as well. And Chicago is a great pick. I knew that's what you were referencing. I think Chicago and Philly 3-4, no complaints on my end. They were both very high on my board. Chicago, especially, Shane, the summer. The summer in Chicago is the key. And I think we also should tell the listeners you get to plan how you're going to spend your year amongst these six cities. So when we get to the end of the draft, we'll we'll kind of go through where we plan to spend certain months. And obviously, we're not going to try to plan spend our winters in Chicago, but the summer there is incredible.

SPEAKER_05 17:50

Yeah, just one more thing I like to add. The the parks in Chicago along the waterfront, uh the lakefront, they're just spectacular. Um so yes, Chicago, proud to have that on my team.

SPEAKER_00 18:00

Okay, brings me up for two. Um this this I've it feels like this is where the the draft kind of starts in my mind. We got the we got the big ones off the table. Um and I think just to round out the first round, uh and just go proper with it, I'm gonna just go no no further than our nation's capital and take Washington, the District of Columbia. Um we talked a lot about history with Philadelphia, pretty great history. Do you like museums? How about the best museums in the world in the Smithsonian or the Smithsonian, excuse me, the whole system they got going on down there? Um, memorials, monuments, you name it. Tremendous city to walk around in. We talked a lot about public transportation, they've got a pretty solid metro system down there themselves. Um, Washington, D.C., I feel I feel like is slightly underrated as in terms of visiting. Um, and I think living there with a boatload of cash in your pocket would be pretty great too.

SPEAKER_01 19:12

This was my final first-round grade. I had a first-round grade on Washington, D.C. So I think you nailed it, Collins. You touched on all the right things. The history alone is a good enough reason to pick it. Add in the fact that there's a lot of important people that live there. You're going to have good restaurants, you're going to have good culture in that respect. Public transportation's excellent. It's a little bit warmer weather than some of the northeast cities, a little bit better on that front as well. So I think that's important. I just think DC, it's clean too. There's a lot of nice parts to it. DC's a good pick.

SPEAKER_05 19:41

Yeah. Collins, I'm surprised you didn't take Kyle Pitts. Um, no, I uh good pick. I live about a stone's throw away from DC, or maybe uh three or four stone throws if you're throwing with an arm like Jeremy's. Um lefty scapaigade. Yes, lefty scaped. Uh took the Metro into DC last night, took in some of the uh sights and scenes. Uh doesn't really get old going around DC, especially the monuments, the Smithsonians. So good pick there.

SPEAKER_00 20:17

Yeah, one of my favorite things, my wife and I were down there not too long ago, a few years back, and we were just riding those little motorized scooters all around. Uh, they don't have those where where we're at or in Philadelphia, I think. So we were just taking those all up through the uh right around the Washington Monument, all down the Lincoln Memorial is amazing. Love riding those things. So yeah, DC.

SPEAKER_05 20:42

Do not get me started. I almost got trucked by one yesterday. Uh around a corner. Would have been bad.

SPEAKER_00 20:50

But anyway. You should have been on one yourself. You could have like jousted in a way.

SPEAKER_05 20:55

No, we use we use our legs over here. We use our legs.

SPEAKER_00 20:59

Okay. Uh I am now going to go to the west coast, uh, right in Jeremy's neighborhood. I'm gonna take the better of the two South Carolina Southern California cities and then go with San Diego. Uh, I have been to San Diego, it has been quite a while, but beautiful. They they do have actual beaches. Uh San Diego does. Uh La Jolla is right around the corner as well. That's one of the premier spots in the country. Um great ballpark. We we took in a game when we were there. So yeah, San Diego. Kicking off the second round.

SPEAKER_01 21:42

Yeah, weather, weather, weather. When you're shaping your board up, Collins, you you have a perfect fallback. Anytime that any of us are experiencing some bad weather, you have the safety blanket of I have the best weather in the United States all year round. So great pick on that front. The gas lamp quarter is really cool. It's a beautiful city. With all the money in the world, there I couldn't imagine how good of a life that must be and how different it would feel to what we experience every winter.

SPEAKER_00 22:10

Great golf, if I have to mention as well. Great golf down in that area. So yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:16

Or he pines. Yes. City was great. Great pick.

unknown 22:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:22

Great weather. Best weather, probably in the country.

SPEAKER_01 22:25

Yeah, Jeremy would have been a really good first overall pick. Would have been really strong. Would have been a great one-one.

SPEAKER_00 22:30

I can trust for that.

SPEAKER_01 22:31

Yeah. I thought it was going to go one-one, honestly. Well, according to Jeremy, he kind of drafted it when he took LA. He just named every city in California.

SPEAKER_02 22:41

I mean, all that all of them are in LA County. You guys are something. You guys are San Diego's in LA County. Well, this is the county. Everything I listed with my Los Angeles pick, everything was in LA County. Get a grew.

SPEAKER_01 22:58

Alright. Shade, it is your second round pick.

SPEAKER_05 23:02

Yes, with my pick, I was hoping the board kind of fell this way. There's a couple. DC was still there, I probably would have taken that. San Diego, I had right here as well. But another city that I have right here, and I'm happy to take very similar to the vibes you get from Philadelphia, and that is Boston. Great history. Great public parts. Jeremy. Jeremy? Go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 23:30

Simmer down now.

SPEAKER_05 23:32

Simmer. Simmer? Simmer. No, great public parks. You have Boston Commons. You have really good food there. A couple of us spent uh long weekend there last year, but I think it's my third or fourth time there. So happy every time I go up there. Uh, and that is the city of Boston. Yeah. Great pick. Shame. Great pick.

SPEAKER_03 23:49

I love that pick. Yeah. It was it was right up there for me, up coming up next. Uh, love walking around Boston. Super clean, super accessible. Always a good time. There's some water stuff going on too in the summertime. The food's excellent. The history, super similar to Philly. I tell people that too. I haven't been up in the northeast. Um, so I I love the pick.

SPEAKER_01 24:08

I'm right there with you. It's a great pick. In terms of history, it doesn't get much better. DC, Boston. You could throw Philly, New York in there as well, but those are the cities in terms of history in the United States. It's clean, it's walkable, there's several different parts. Good food. You get the water aspect with the harbor. Just checks a lot of a lot of boxes in terms of what you're looking for. It it does it does get cold and stay cold for a long while up there. So that is something you just have to be vigilant of as you round out your board. But it's two strong picks with Chicago and Boston so far.

SPEAKER_00 24:43

Yeah, but you know, if you're putting together a portfolio of places to go, you've got two summer places now. Granted, Boston in in the spring and fall is pretty darn great as well. But you know, Sean touched on the uh Chicago summers. I don't know that you're gonna want to split time there.

SPEAKER_05 25:04

Yeah. That's true. Listen, Mike, there's a strategy here, okay? Okay. Just wait. There's four more rounds in this draft, okay? Don't jump the gun just yet.

SPEAKER_03 25:13

With that being said, it is my turn. And um I I'm gonna I'm gonna do something very different here. Um and uh I might get flagged for it, I don't know, but I'm thinking balancing out, right? So I have a so I have a northeast city in Philly, and uh I am going to go with a city that I spent some time in this past fall that was absolutely spectacular, one of my favorite places I've ever been, and that's gonna be Honolulu, Hawaii. I'm gonna take Honolulu, Hawaii here. Untraditional, not you know, not the maybe stereotypical cities that you're gonna look for, but I had a spectacular time in Honolulu. It was November, the weather was picture perfect, the food is unbelievable, the seafood, the Asian food, and talking about you know, the prompt here is we have money, it's a good place to have some money. The beaches, the weather, everything spectacular. So maybe a little bit of a reach here. Not sure if anyone else was thinking this way, but now I got East Coast, I got Hawaii. I'm set at least, you know, from a seasonal standpoint, weather standpoint, so I'm I'm contemplating it.

SPEAKER_05 26:24

Yeah, I've never been, so I couldn't, as a man of honor, put it on my board. Uh well, from what I've heard, which is just you right there.

SPEAKER_01 26:33

Um everything I've heard, it sounds tremendous. What you just said. No, no, I have I've spoken with several people who have been to Honolulu, and it's been nothing but rave reviews. Obviously, having Hawaii on your board is great in terms of weather, just having the flexibility. You can't spend winters in Philly if you're if you're an honest man. So I would I would love that. I will say I'm gonna immediately raise a big you're gonna be spending a lot of time in the air already between these two picks. So Ryan's getting flyer miles with these two.

SPEAKER_02 27:09

Fair enough. I may have to pick some things in between. We'll see. I was gonna say, obviously.

SPEAKER_00 27:15

Yeah, he could do whatever he wants.

SPEAKER_02 27:18

I love the pick. It kind of stinks that you're six hours away from the mainland, but listen, Honolulu's Honolulu.

SPEAKER_01 27:27

Also, another thing, Ryan. You knew that none of us had been there, so I think you might have been able to wait on this one.

SPEAKER_03 27:34

I gotta be honest. I gotta be honest, I didn't know that everyone had not been there. I should have would have waited had I known that. See, in my head, Collins had definitely has definitely been to Hawaii, so I may have messed that one up.

SPEAKER_00 27:45

I unfortunately have not. I am also not a man of honor, so I would have taken that on the wrap, though. He's desperate for a win. I wouldn't have had a thing to say about it. I would have said it's in Hawaii.

SPEAKER_01 28:02

It's just all the main talking points. Palm trees, blue house. Um, all right. It's to me, and now it's I'm trying to play the man and not the draft. And Jeremy has two picks in between me here, and I just have to I don't know where he's been. I don't know what he's thinking.

SPEAKER_05 28:19

Good luck trying to uh get inside his head.

SPEAKER_01 28:23

I'm gonna stay true to myself, and I'm gonna get a place I can go in the winter on the board. And like I said, three C's culture, character, cool shit. New Orleans, Louisiana. Just a really, really cool city, lots of history, great food, different food, too, than all the other parts of the country, unique to that location. You get the Cajun mixed with the French. I'm all in. I think it's a cultural hub in our country, and I think it's one of my favorite places that I've been. Happy to get somewhere on the board that I can at least go to when it gets awfully cold in New York City.

SPEAKER_00 29:03

Sean, I I agree with you that it is one of the one of my favorite places that I've been. However, I think that is to visit. Uh from I've only been there once, but from my one time, I would have said I could not see myself living here. Uh, but I love to visit. So it wouldn't be my top, it wouldn't necessarily be on my list of places to live, but you won't you won't get me to say a bad word about New Orleans. I had a blast there. Bourbon Street alone is just uh a treat.

SPEAKER_03 29:36

As a as a former Louisian and I feel qualified to to jump in here, uh, I would actually agree with what Colin said, but that does not discount from how cool New Orleans is. Would I want to live there full time? No. But there's few places. Right, you don't have to. Uh it's one of the few places where you walk around, you're walking around and you it feels like you're in a movie or something. Like it's as advertised where you're on the street, all of a sudden a five-man jazz band walks by you playing, you know, when the Saints go marching in. And it's like, what like it doesn't feel like real life. The food is unbelievable, the culture is uh second to none. So yeah, great. I I like the picsan.

SPEAKER_01 30:17

Well said, Ryan. I would also just like to add the layer of I'm constructing a roster here where some guys have very specific roles. Some guys are coming in for an offensive out-of-bounds possession, hoping to get a three-pointer up and then going right back to the bench. That's what New Orleans might be doing in February for me. Mardi Gras, Jazz Festival, quick bender, those sort of things. So listen, we're gonna let the board build itself, but I just want to give the listeners a little context as to what I'm thinking as a general manager here.

SPEAKER_00 30:45

One quick bender weekend, that's all we need from it. I love that.

SPEAKER_01 30:49

Just once in a while, I want to get I want to let loose. Put some beads around my neck, sue me.

SPEAKER_02 30:55

Uh I love I love the pick. I would live there too. I think it's a great pick um all around. I'd want to make sure the levees are good, but once we check that off, I'd I I love the pick. Um number ways to go. Draft position, not ideal to start. Just put that on the record. Uh I will take San Francisco. We're gonna stay in the state of California. We're gonna go to Northern Cal, uh, Girardelli Square, Golden Gate Bridge, a Giants game, uh, Harding Park 2, um, Cool City, um Full House 2. Um forget. And uh and uh a lot of a lot of uh a lot of culture there, a lot of tech too, which if that floats your boat, there you go. Uh but I'll go I'll go San Francisco with my second pick. Good pick, Jerry.

SPEAKER_01 31:52

3% upload we're currently experiencing from your Wi-Fi. I don't I don't know if you're Mr. Tech, but I will say it it's a better pick than your first.

SPEAKER_02 32:02

Not true, but your opinion.

SPEAKER_01 32:04

Any concerns with the homeless? He's got them all. He's got them all.

SPEAKER_02 32:12

I'm in the cities you want to be. People would rather go homeless in these cities than have a house in other cities. Unhoused. That's how bad that's how badly those people want to be in those cities.

SPEAKER_00 32:22

I know I know that uh money is not an issue, but let me just say, two homes in California. Have fun with those taxes, pal.

SPEAKER_02 32:31

I mean, we've prefaced this a billion times, Cobb. We've said money isn't an issue. And I'll tell you an issue, and I'm taking making picks.

SPEAKER_01 32:40

That's a good thing. We are we are job bonds. Poke those holes.

SPEAKER_02 32:43

Jar, what's your we are we are we are we are concerned about the taxes of columns. Um my uh my third, my fifth round pick. Um I'm gonna come over a little to the east coast. Not completely, but I'm gonna go with uh I'm gonna go with Nashville. Music, music, music, up and coming city too, one of the hotter ones. Um maybe we wind up at this bar, Morgan Wallensis bar. Maybe we go to J Jason Alden's bar. Um you have Vanderbilt there, so you can feel a little smart. Real cool city, um, a lot of culture, too. Uh great for walking, great for uh, you know, just a few good museums too. So I'll go with Nashville. I love Nashville, Jar. I think that's honestly a very good pick.

SPEAKER_03 33:33

Um music scene is just unbelievable. Great music everywhere you go.

SPEAKER_00 33:37

Yeah, 100%. Yeah, great pick, Jared. It's unfortunate that Jarr made it because he buried the lead that is just the music scene, live music everywhere. Bluebird Cafe, Grand Ole Opry. Um, he talked about Morgan Wallen and Jason Abdean's bar, but not those things. So um, yeah, no, it it truly is a great pick, though. And very much, let me also say very much not East Coast, not even close to the East Coast. Not even a little.

SPEAKER_02 34:06

Not even a little. I meant fair, I meant east I meant East Coast compared to San Francisco and Los Angeles.

SPEAKER_03 34:14

Sure, because Jared, any concerns about the the the um amount of bachelorette parties going on in Nashville?

SPEAKER_01 34:21

That was gonna be my concern.

SPEAKER_03 34:22

Yeah, that's Jared's honey ground.

SPEAKER_01 34:24

I think that can be less of a concern.

SPEAKER_02 34:27

It's like fishing in a barrel. That is a little word we call Ryan, opportunity.

SPEAKER_01 34:38

Oh boy. Good pick, Jar. The music aspect can't be hammered home enough. I don't know if it's no if it's any longer an up-and-coming city. I think it's arrived. I think everybody knows what Nashville's about at this point, but it has certainly grown dramatically over the last 15 years. I'm up, I'm in a tough spot here. I really am torn between a couple. I'm gonna go with one that I'm only really worried about one other person drafting on this board, and it might be a reach, but I have to stick to my guns. And this is my old Kentucky home. I'm taking Lexington, Kentucky. I think it is a perfect blend of everything you look for in a city. It does not have that big city feel, but it does have over 300,000 people, but it has the high-quality restaurants, it has a little bit of nightlife. It also is beautiful, it has rolling hills and horse farms. Keeneland is one of my favorite places in the world. And those two months of the year where you get that, the weather is spectacular in April and October. Would be happy to spend some of my time there. Good golfing scene, good sports in the area. Just really, really, really enjoy Lexington. And I was worried Shane might take it at some point. So I just wanted to get it here because I think I could get my other picks later.

SPEAKER_00 36:01

That's funny. Cincinnati Reds.

SPEAKER_05 36:05

Uh no, I definitely I was thinking like four or five turn. If I if this was still on the board, I was gonna take it then. Uh so you beat me to it. Uh yeah, I love living in Lexington. We were roommates there for three years. Uh, like you said, it's like the perfect mix between a big city and a small town. It's like right in the middle of it. Um yeah, I loved my time at Lexington. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 36:30

I'm gonna be honest, I think the average person, unless I'm stupid, doesn't know how big Lexington is. Like I would never have guessed that Lexington would be a city on this list.

SPEAKER_00 36:39

I I was gonna just say the same exact thing, Ryan. Yeah. Crazy. No, I yeah, I had been to visit you guys, and I was surprised when I saw the the total population of it, but yeah, just incredible. You have the horse racing right there, uh, and it's sort of like a big city college town mix, so it's uh yeah, incredible.

SPEAKER_02 37:01

Love it. I visited Sean and Shane a few times. I love Lexington. It it really reminds me of like a smaller Philadelphia, honestly. Uh, don't wear any other colors besides blue or any other school names besides Kentucky, as I learned. But um, I love the pick. I love Lexington, it's awesome. And Keeland, yeah, that's great. And it has their own uh airport that's like not like like a really little commercial one, like it's it's a legit airport. Um, thank you for making my case.

SPEAKER_01 37:30

That's a huge point that I missed. That airport is my favorite airport in the country, and I think Shane would agree. Almost every time you fly, it's like you're flying private. You can get to the airport about five minutes before you take off and walk right on your plane every time. There's never a line at security, there's very few gates to sort through. It is just in and out, a breeze every time. So, Bluegrass Airport, shout out to you guys. Great airport, great city. Happy to have it on my board. Ryan, we're over to you.

SPEAKER_03 37:58

Okay, I got a couple in the mix here, too. Um prompt being money not being an issue. I think I'm gonna do it and I think I'm gonna pull a trigger on Vegas. I'm gonna go Las Vegas here. Wow. Um, I think it's a good little again, given the prompts, money not an issue, and it's where you can spend time. Doesn't mean you have to be there all the time, right? But to have Vegas in your back pocket whenever you need a fun little trip, or there's you know, all the sports teams move in there. Go. I'm a I'm a roulette man. I love playing a little roulette sitting at the table. Uh amazing food scene, too. I mean, very I mean, I I would argue it's right up there with the best of them as far as food goes. You can find any any kind of food. The buffets in Vegas are unbelievable. Um, so yeah, I think having that in the arsenal, not necessarily being there as the main one, but having it in the arsenal is a nice uh feature. So I'm gonna take Vegas.

SPEAKER_01 38:54

You sold me on it with the having it in your rotation. I think that's a key point that you made. It it does lack culture for me, it doesn't have that culture character that I'm really going for. It's a bit soulless, gutless. But in terms of just needing to get away and having that in your back pocket, I think that's a fabulous pick.

SPEAKER_02 39:12

Thank you. Is a back pocket pick good value for a third round pick, though, is the question. I liked Vegas. I was there for thir I was there for 36 hours. That was actually plenty. Vegas is really fun. It's a it's a it's a cool place um to go to. And yeah, it's it's good to have in the arsenal for sure.

SPEAKER_00 39:30

Yeah, Jared makes a good point. Like a couple days, day and a half is pretty much all you need in Vegas. But like Ryan said, you know, you that's uh sometimes that's that's maybe all he'll use it for. Right? It doesn't get much more touristy than Las Vegas, but uh you know it was on my list. Of course. Boy, do I love Las Vegas.

SPEAKER_01 39:52

I had you sharpied in for that one. I was just I was just surprised to see Ryan jump in a headie and get it.

SPEAKER_05 39:57

Yeah, I was see, I did not have Ryan pegged as a as a Vegas fan. Um but yeah, I think it is good a good diversity pick there. Absolutely. All right, for my next pick, uh, I am gonna take a warm weathered place to uh diversify my board a little bit. There's a couple options here, uh uh, but I think I'm gonna go out west a little. Uh a place where I was a few months ago and the weather was absolutely pristine in uh in February, and that is uh the Phoenix area. So Phoenix, Arizona. Beautiful weather in the winter, so that's where I'll be post up in the winter. Uh just a unique landscape out in the desert. Um I guess Vegas is in the desert too, so maybe not as unique uh as I just said, uh but a place where I can easily see myself spending uh uh the winter months, Phoenix, Arizona.

SPEAKER_01 40:55

I think the problem with this pick for me, Shane, is the surrounding area was the key words you used. Phoenix itself doesn't really move the needle for me. The surrounding area does, but unfortunately you don't get those on your board because they don't meet the population qualifications. So I I think it's a good place to have in terms of a warm weather city. We're running out of those, so I don't think it's a bad pick by any means. It's just I don't think I'd put it in the great pick category just because of downtown Phoenix isn't moving any needles for me.

SPEAKER_05 41:27

Sure, sure. And I can see that for sure. But if Jarr is taking LA because you can go to Malibu, uh, I feel like a caveat for my pick is that all you need to know and a half an hour drive, and you're a lot of different cool places.

SPEAKER_00 41:45

Yeah. Uh to totally contradict what I just said about Las Vegas, I'm not much of a desert guy. So if you're talking about places to spend the winter, I'm much uh I'm much more inclined to head towards the beach uh than like the desert. So for that reason, I've never been to Phoenix proper. I've been to Scottsdale and it was pretty cool, but yeah, uh that it wasn't on my board, to be totally honest with you, Shaney.

SPEAKER_02 42:14

Good pick, good value too, I think. Um very high in the summer, but you can do a lot, you know. Golf out there is awesome too. Uh Phoenix, very big city, too. Phoenix is like fifth or fourth in population in the country. Um, yeah, good city.

SPEAKER_05 42:32

I don't think it, I don't think that's true, but I'm glad to have your stamp of approval over Michael Collins's. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 42:38

Collins, it's up to you for two. Okay, let's do it. Uh, I need some Midwest representation on my board. I'm going to uh Milwaukee, Wisconsin with my pick. I spent a decent bit of time there uh one summer while I was working out that direction. And Milwaukee is just a real nice little city. And I say little because it has like a small city feel to it when you're kind of walking around. Very similar to what I said about Lexington. Uh, it it feels much smaller than the population might lead you to believe. Um, it has a very great river walk. I believe it's just called the Milwaukee River, um, and some incredible uh bars lining that and everything. If you want to talk food and drink, Milwaukee's got everything you could possibly need: cheese and beer, and more cheese and more beer. So that it checks all the boxes for me. And a great little uh casino, if I do say so myself.

SPEAKER_01 43:42

Yeah, the Bayview area of Milwaukee is sweet. I spent a weekend there. I really enjoyed it. This was on my board as a late round sleeper, and I think it's a really good pick here because it does give it checks all the boxes for a good Midwestern city.

SPEAKER_05 43:57

I was in Milwaukee maybe half a year ago. Uh going up to the Eagles game in Green Bay. So the fight was in Milwaukee, spent like half a day there. Maybe it was a bad time of the year to go. I mean, yes, it was because it was blistering cold in late November. Uh I saw all of like five people in Milwaukee. It was a ghost town, but it again, I feel like I would have to go in the fall, spring, or summer to really get the feel.

SPEAKER_00 44:23

Yeah, it's absolutely beautiful in the summer. Uh this is not a place I'll be spending a single day past like September, I suppose. Uh, between the months of September and May, really, I won't even think about my Milwaukee home. Right on the lake, so you do get that snow, I believe, up there too, as well. So, yeah, but Milwaukee, cheese, beer, riverwalk, thank you very much.

SPEAKER_02 44:50

Uh, this is a fact, fact-based show. Just wanted to confirm Phoenix's fifth in population in the country. So thanks so much for uh that's for Shane. Uh two. I'm also with Shane on this. It's nothing against Collins. Milwaukee sucks. Let's be honest. Oh I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 45:11

That's crazy to say.

SPEAKER_01 45:13

That is crazy to say. That's it sounds like somebody who's never been to Milwaukee.

SPEAKER_00 45:17

Yeah, when have you been, Jared? Oh, I haven't. That's the I know it sucks. That's why I thought that makes a lot of sense, huh?

SPEAKER_01 45:24

There it is. That checks out. That's Jar hitting for the cycle, all in one at bat right there.

SPEAKER_00 45:29

It's got it doesn't have all four sports, but the three that it has, and uh obviously uh Green Bay Packers is a decent bit away, but the three that it has are pretty incredible. Uh Miller Park, where the Brewers play, is awesome. So if you're a sports fan, Milwaukee's a great place to be. We're moving past that. We're starting off, this would be the fourth round here, and I am going to Orlando, Florida. So, first things first, the Orlando City proper is very underrated. It's got a great downtown, lots of really neat bars, restaurants, and everything. Now, moving past that, if you if you know if there's one thing about me, it's that I am a theme park guy. And where else to be the theme park capital of the world, Orlando, Florida? Now, technically, none of the theme parks are inside of Orlando, but I've got a nice little quick jaunt over to Universal, over to Disney World, uh, anytime I could possibly please. So, of course, I'm getting annual passes at both of those places. Of course, I will be there eating at all of those nice restaurants and drinking their drinks. Uh, Orlando, Florida. And if listen, I know what Jared's about to say. If I have to stay in the downtown of Orlando, that's totally fine.

SPEAKER_02 46:49

I love the pick. I agree with that. I agree with you, Kyle. It's on downtown downtown Orlando. That's really good pick. You got the mouse, and that's that's big. Naturally.

SPEAKER_01 46:59

Mickey Collins. Some are calling him Mickey Collins. I I had in my notes I would draft Orlando solely for the parks. So I give you the parks because they're also not in a city with 150,000 in population like what we were talking about earlier, where we're just listing California cities. I think that that Orlando itself, I was a bit underwhelmed with the downtown. I didn't love it, but I think the fact that you have Disney more than makes up for any uh gripes I had with the downtown area. So a good pick, and it was something that was definitely gonna get drafted very soon.

SPEAKER_05 47:34

Yeah, I think the biggest lock in the draft. Collins taking Orlando was the biggest lock in the draft. I'm gonna take a city that uh I don't know I'm pretty confident that uh it'd be taken by the time it gets back to me. I think Sean Boyle uh would take it with one of his next two picks. Um this is a city where if we're talking nature, if we're talking hiking, um this is a great place to be. I'm gonna take Colorado Springs. Um so you have uh Garden of the Gods right there, which is a fantastic, fantastic park. Uh you have the Air Force Academy. Are they important at all? Yes. Uh the U.S. Olympic training uh complex is there. Uh, but more so this is a nature pick. Uh any weekend, any week you are feeling tired of uh kind of just living downtown and in a center city in Chicago, in Boston, and you want to get out in nature. I'm taking a flight out to Colorado Springs.

SPEAKER_01 48:38

Phenomenal pick. Just really good, Gene. It was it was high on my list. It was being considered for this very round. I think you nailed it with the nature. Garden of the gods is incredible, just a really cool downtown area, too. It's small, it has a similar feel to sort of a Lexington, Milwaukee vibe where there's a lot of people that live there, but you don't feel like it's heavier on top of you. A lot of good breweries, the open air, the fresh air, just the life in Colorado itself is great, and it's one of my favorite states. So I think Colorado Springs is a fantastic pick.

SPEAKER_00 49:12

Yeah, I was heavily considering taking it just the pick before you, and I was thinking that there was a chance that it would have gotten back to me. Clearly, that's not the case. I love Colorado Springs. It's been quite a while since I've been there as well. But uh, yeah, like you said, Garden of the Gods, Pike's Peak. You just can't beat that.

SPEAKER_02 49:30

That's fine.

SPEAKER_00 49:32

Again, he's never been.

SPEAKER_03 49:34

I think it's up to me. I have not been there either, Shane. That's why I have no comment. Um, I heard great things, though. Um I'm between a few here, but I'm gonna go with my gut. And uh my wife and I visited this city last year as well. Uh enjoyed a long weekend here before we left the state uh for good. And so I'm actually gonna take San Antonio here. Uh, to me, um, obviously there's a lot of cities in Texas, and I'm sure a lot of them are gonna get taken. San Antonio to me, from a cultural talking about the seas, right? Culturally is so cool. Uh, before you even get into the riverwalk and all that, right? Like, I think there's that really cool like Mexican flair to it. It's the quintessential kind of Tex-Mex city. Um, the barbecue's unbelievable, the food scene is great, the riverwalk is, I mean, one of one as far as just like what it is uh and when it comes down to like walking around with the restaurant part, but then also kind of the nature-y, more um just like quiet solitude kind of part. Um, there's a lot of cool nature things in San Antonio as well. We hiked a little bit. So to me, that was my uh logical kind of next step. Now I'm I I'm kind of spread out throughout the country, which I like as well. Um, and so yeah, San Antonio.

SPEAKER_05 50:52

Yeah. Really good pick, I think, Ryan. You talked about the uh culture scene, and I mean, yeah, what place is more kind of culturally influential influential this down, this far down on the list than uh than San Antonio. I enjoyed the weekend I spent there two years ago, maybe. Um Riverwalk, really cool, good food. So I I like the pick. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 51:18

Ryan, really good pick. It was my number one Texas City on the board. I think I've been to San Antonio a few times, and I will say also best Final Four City. I've been to a few of them, I haven't been to all of them, admittedly, but I think the Final Four there is incredible. You're just you you just see people every turn of the corner on the riverwalk. The riverwalk's great. It uh it gets a little flack sometimes for being a bit corny or cheesy. I think it's awesome. I think it's cool, it's a unique feature, and you touched on it the Tex Mex. That's the key. That's the that's the bread and butter there. That's the reason for the pick.

SPEAKER_02 51:51

I'm glad there's an appreciation. Listen, you also got the Alamo with the pick, of course. Never forget. I agree with it. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 52:01

I agree with that. Is this the trust tree? A little bit underwhelming.

SPEAKER_03 52:07

You can definitely say that.

SPEAKER_01 52:08

Yep. It's right next to a wax museum. Uh Ripley's believe it or not, you know. It's a bit uh it's a bit underwhelming, but the rest of San Antonio is really cool.

SPEAKER_05 52:18

Yeah, especially when you're trying to learn about history and read all the signs in the Almo and Sean and crew are yanking you out of there.

SPEAKER_01 52:25

Oh, I already read all those facts, didn't need them again. Uh, it's over to me. I'm gonna do it, Shane. You took one of the two I was really considering. I was kind of waiting until my hand was forced between Denver and Colorado Springs. So I'm happy to have Denver on my board. I needed Colorado in some capacity. I think you could argue there's six in one, half dozen, half dozen another. More hiking, obviously, in Colorado Springs, a bit more culture in downtown Denver and things to do, better restaurants, similar in terms of breweries and things of that nature. Also, the key for me with Denver is the quick jaunt over to my favorite place on earth, which is Red Rocks Amphitheater. So that's in Morrison, Colorado, a small town very nearby, just on the outskirts of Denver. So I love everything about lower downtown Denver. I like how you could fly to the airport and take the train for five bucks right into the heart of downtown. I've tried to go there several times since I went my first time. I love the whole state. Colorado Springs and Denver are two of my favorite cities in the United States, so I'm happy to have one of them on my phone.

SPEAKER_02 53:29

Haunted airport. Go ahead, Jeremy. Sorry. Haunted airport. But I do love the Denver airport because it's essentially a straight line. You just get on those walk away uh uh whatever uh things, and you can bust through that airport quickly. Uh Denver's tough. Do you do a lot of busting in airports? Yeah, in more ways than we lost.

SPEAKER_05 53:57

Yeah, Sean. I was thinking between Denver and Colorado Springs. And um Yeah, I chose Colorado Springs, but it was close between that and Denver. Again, similar in nature. Um one is a little better in some areas while the other is a little better in the other areas, but I think very, very similar.

SPEAKER_01 54:16

Great too. Great place to catch a ball game in the summer. And a quick shot, Lair of the Bear Park. Great hiking trails there. I was I was fearing for a bear the whole time. I had airpods in, was trying to enjoy some music while I walked. I was looking over my shoulder every few feet.

SPEAKER_00 54:32

Great, great bar scene there. Uh incredibly scenic. So yeah, strong, strong Colorado presence there.

SPEAKER_01 54:40

If you like vitamins, it's a good place for vitamins. I think I think that Denver is one of my favorite cities, and I'm thrilled to have it. Jeremy, it's over to you for two, and the anticipation's killing me. I'm I'm interested to see where you go. I think you might be running out of cities.

SPEAKER_02 54:56

Well, listen, you would think wrong. I'll just say I I want to note, I haven't said this yet. Worst situation is drafting first, so keep that in mind, everybody.

SPEAKER_00 55:08

Give me a break.

SPEAKER_02 55:09

Uh I will go. Uh I'm surprised this is still on the board. I will go. I like Denver, but Sean, of course, just took Denver. I'll go Seattle. Uh, you have water around you. Uh, you have that the farmer's market where they're tossing fish. Um sports culture, pretty yes. Sports culture, pretty tough. Uh, space needle too. Um, you get involved with the boats around the water, uh, go to different parts around Seattle. Uh, so I'll take Seattle here. Jared, have you been to Seattle?

SPEAKER_01 55:46

No, this is a definite no. No, you have not. Yes. No, I have. Oh, please. You just did the you said the place where they throw the fish back and forth.

SPEAKER_04 55:55

I think that was that you have not been to Seattle.

SPEAKER_01 56:00

And listeners, I will make sure he shows receipts of his trip because I will I will uh I'll I'll find the pictures.

SPEAKER_02 56:06

I'll get pictures for my mom.

SPEAKER_01 56:08

Okay, thank you.

SPEAKER_02 56:09

We went in high school.

SPEAKER_01 56:10

No, it is a good pick, Jared. I I have not been, so I couldn't draft it in good faith, but I think it's it's something that was just looming atop my board in case I did break bad and take things I haven't been to.

SPEAKER_05 56:21

Yeah, I have not been there either, but I think out of all the continental U.S. cities I haven't been, Seattle's number one on the list that I want to visit. So technically, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 56:33

Starbucks, there you go. Seattle, I think. Jerry, you don't take me to Seattle? I'll take you to Seattle. I'll take you to Europe in December now. Um uh see Ryan Ryan's right with um Starbucks. I think Seattle, like Microsoft too, I guess, right? Oh, who could say? Who could say the crowd goes silent? I digress. Next pick. I will go good value pick here. I'll go Miami. Um beaches, food, uh, a lot of culture with different uh neighborhoods, too. Um great water scenes, of course, with boats. We've had we we have a mutual friend who lived there who uh loved it, raved, raved about it. Um yeah, the sports culture too. Uh yeah, Miami, I guess, with my fifth pick at this point. Um Jesus. A lot of a lot of great picks I have, even with my drafting situation position. So yeah, Miami.

SPEAKER_01 57:39

Yeah, that was the first pick of the fifth round, just so the listeners can keep track. I would push back strongly on the strong sports scene that you claim Miami has.

SPEAKER_02 57:49

I think that's I did not say strong, I said sports scene.

SPEAKER_01 57:52

You said strong, I think. But either way.

SPEAKER_02 57:55

Roller tape.

SPEAKER_01 57:56

Check the transcript. Either way, I would not bring up the sports scene as the first 100 things when talking about Miami. It's I I've been, I don't enjoy it. It's a bit artificial for me. It lacks any sort of character, I would say. It's just not for me. I'm sure some of those neighborhoods that I have not dove into have that culture that I would be looking for. But what I've experienced in Miami, it just seems artificial, overpriced, and very hot for a pale Irishman. So just not my cup of tea. But hey, Jar, if you're happy, I'm happy.

SPEAKER_02 58:29

You're not wrong on the character part.

SPEAKER_03 58:31

I thought it was a good value pick though, Jared.

SPEAKER_02 58:34

Yeah. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 58:35

Man, I'm gonna I'm going to go with I'm gonna go with Tampa, Florida. It is good bang for your buck in terms of Florida cities, in my opinion. You get the beaches, it's clean. There's a bit of culture, there's a little bit of a Cuban flair with the Ibor City there. I enjoy it. There was I was there for the SEC basketball tournament, and it was the middle of March, and just had a phenomenal weather weekend. Couldn't ask for anything better. I think it's a good place to add in the mix in terms of where I divide my time. I needed another warm weather city, and I think Tampa checks a lot of boxes. I would like a beach in my life in some way, and I think this is the best one available.

SPEAKER_03 59:16

That Gulf Beach in Tampa is awesome. So, so nice.

SPEAKER_05 59:19

I love it. Little spring, uh, spring training too. I know you're a seaman and you get the uh the world famous Philadelphia affiliates right around the corner. Spring training complex. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 59:29

Yeah, exactly. So I think Tampa, it might not be heavily used in my rotation, admittedly, but it at least will get a couple weekends a year out of me.

SPEAKER_03 59:39

Somewhere. I'm gonna go with the the the closest big city to where I currently live, and that is gonna be Charlotte, North Carolina. Um, to me, North Carolina has become a really desirable state to live in. Charlotte, I think, is growing at a pretty good pace. I think the sports scene is is growing there quite a bit. I think the downtown is booming. Um yeah, I think to me, just from uh from uh building a roster standpoint, having that kind of southeast region um on my on my team here is gonna be good. So uh and kind of catching it all while it's on the rise. Um, I'll take Charlotte. Good climate.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:21

First pick that you're hoping ages well. It's it's like a stock you're purchasing. Yeah, I don't think it's the worst strategy. I would say about Charlotte, I've been a couple times, it's it just doesn't move the needle either direction for me. I didn't dislike it, I didn't love it. It just was nothing super to write home about. But I don't think it's a bad pick if you want to just get a city in that region of the country on your board. There's a lot worse that you could do than Charlotte.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:46

Yeah, I've never been to Charlotte. I I've been in the Charlotte Airport for way over hundreds of times, it seems, as the uh as the American hub of the uh of the East Coast, yeah, no doubt. Uh-huh. Douglas Airport. I've never stepped foot outside the airport. Yeah, it's it is my airport. That is true. Douglas Airport. Uh so I can't judge the pick one way or the other, honestly.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:06

The airport is a big, big black eye on the city as a whole, I will say that.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:11

They say Charlotte's five years away from being five years away. But I've heard I've heard a lot of good things about Charlotte. And so Ryan's onto something, I think, for sure. And this lane in the draft. I I like the pick.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:26

Fair enough. Alright. Uh, my second to last pick. I think I'm gonna I have a similar thought process as Sean here, in terms of uh I need to get a beach in my life, uh, even if just for a weekend to fly down, maybe spend a month down there. Uh I did want Tampa, but I have this one ranked just behind it, and that's Jacksonville. Uh some good beaches there. That's the worst pick of the trap. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:58

Okay, Jackville. Okay, Jerry. You've been to Jacksonville.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:03

Jacksonville sucks.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:05

You've been there.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:06

No, but it sucks. No.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:08

Okay. Yeah, okay, okay. Yeah, sure. There are no hotels. Why do you think there's no more shooting calls there?

SPEAKER_05 1:02:14

Yeah, can we move can we uh mute Jeremy here? Uh no, I was down in Jacksonville last year um visiting our good friend Mark Monero, who was living there, and it was very nice. Beautiful weather is in February. Uh, we went to a couple beaches, they were nice. Um, again, I wanted Tampa, but I will gladly take Jacksonville as my kind of beach escape in my rotation here.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:40

Yeah, Shane, we're in lockstep in terms of what we did there because I was with you with Colorado Springs in Denver, and I was similar with Tampa and Jacksonville. I do think Tampa just edges it out, but I enjoyed my time in Jacksonville as well, and I think that's it checks the box of the Florida beach city. So I think I think that's a rite of passage in this draft to take one of those. So I'm glad you got Jacksonville on the board.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:00

Yeah, and I'll I'll have the record know that uh or show, I'll have the record show I'm not a huge beach guy, but it's nice to have one uh as a break glass in case of emergency kind of thing.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:11

It's two for me, and I my second one might have to go off the board somewhere I haven't been because I'm running out of uh places or at least places that are desirable to live. Um but that's not to bury the lead of my first uh pick, the final pick of the fifth round, which is Memphis, Tennessee. Beel Street is absolutely lovely. Uh, it's a little mini bourbon. The jazz music, or I'm sorry, yeah. Blues. The blues, excuse me. I'm sorry. Yeah, of course. Who who could forget the blues? Um, I love love the blues, and I want to focus on the music. Uh, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lewis. How about the king, Elvis Presley? I get Graceland, you kidding me? Come on. Uh yeah, so I I will be heading to Beale Street a few weekends a year. I'll be checking out Graceland while I'm that while I'm there. Sun Studios. Uh I Memphis is severely underrated, in my opinion. Silkyo Sullivan's the the bar with the the leaping goats. Come on. I was praying you brought that up.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:25

Silkies was that was your place. I think we were in Memphis, or it was a conference tournament, maybe for uh temple basketball. And Collins took down Silkyo Sullivan's each night. It was it was a performance on anything you've ever seen.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:41

They put a plaque up for me at the end of the weekend.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:45

Uh little shout-out to Memphis, Tennessee. Uh, Central Barbecue, greatest ribs, I think, in the continental United States. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Thank you, Ryan. Yep. And right around the corner from Central Barbecue is a little cookie shop called Makita's Cookies, small business. The best butter cookies I've ever had in my entire life. So that anytime I'm driving through that area, it's a must-stop.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:09

Yes. Thank you for shouting that out. I don't know how I could have forgotten the barbecue. Memphis barbecue is tremendous.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:17

Yeah, Collins, I said on my draft board I want character, culture, and cool shit. Memphis has all three, and it was going to be my last pick. I didn't know if anybody else had it on their list. I think Memphis is very slept on. It's rough around the edges, sure. Sure. There's a bit of a bit of cleaning up we have to do. But I think at its core, Memphis is a really cool city. We would be remiss if we didn't mention the National Civil Rights Museum, the Lorraine Motel. Awesome bit of history there as well. That is just it has everything you need in a city. And I'm glad I'm glad it got its shine on this draft board.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:54

You're getting a lot of history with that pick. Well done, Collins. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:59

Um Um, I guess, yeah, so I am gonna have to go with somewhere that I haven't been yet. Uh, I would love to go, it'd be very easy for me to go, and it's been uh a plan for quite a while. Um, and I'm gonna kind of stay on theme with both the little bit rough around the edges and pretty strong music uh influence here, and that is uh Cleveland, Ohio. Um, and I and I want the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in my back pocket, and of course that's where it resides. You have the Cuyahoga River running straight through the city. That's gotta be pretty cool, right? Um, I have heard pretty solid things about Cleveland um on the web and whatnot. It's right on Lake Erie. So, yeah, in terms of a place that I haven't been quite yet, uh, because I'm kind of running low, and um, place that I'd love to go uh is Cleveland.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:57

Cleveland Rocks is what they say. Uh no, I was there as a as a youth. I don't remember too much. I do remember the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which was very cool. Uh other than that, I don't remember too much of it. I went to a uh what is now a Guardians game. Uh saw Manny Ramirez hit a foul ball that hit a guy in the head in the section next to us. Uh so that sticks out. So there's my two Cleveland uh memories there.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:25

I also went to a now guardians game. That was my experience. I think we stayed one night. I didn't see too much of the city. It was cool, and I I will definitely say the people of Cleveland have character, if nothing else. Yeah. And I think nothing else. It's nice for about two months a year there. It's they get an awful wind off the lake. I think that it's a character city, though.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:52

Exactly. And it yeah, like you said, the the people there are hardworking. It's a lunch pale city. You pet you pack up your lunch in a lunch pale, you go to work, put your hard hat on. And listen, if I'm there for for two weekends a year visiting uh Paul McCartney and Taylor Swift in the uh in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, then so be it.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:16

A nice little niche pick to round out your draft, Collins. Just as we move into the last round here, everybody start concocting how you will be spending your year, so we can run through that at the end for the listener. Shane, your last pick. What's it gonna be?

SPEAKER_05 1:08:30

Yeah, I am gonna go with I think what is considered an up-and-coming city. Uh, but there's three main reasons why I'm taking the city uh in no order, uh live music, weather, and food. And that is Austin, Texas. Uh place where I think me, Sean, and Ryan spent a weekend a couple years ago. Uh it definitely has the food, has a cool live music scene, uh and the weather for the most part is uh really solid there. So I am gonna go with Austin, Texas. I thought it was really cool. Uh, and I think it's a city that's kind of on the rise, too. Uh, and if you're into college football, what a better place! Is there a better place to check out a game than Austin, Texas? Jared's giving the horns down. Um they might be a better program than Alabama now. Ever heard of Dixieland Delay? Uh, does it have 300,000 people?

SPEAKER_01 1:09:30

No, it has eight and seven brains amongst them.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:37

Good pick, Shane. Good pick. Austin's an awesome city. Um, before we left, Waco had the best barbecue of my entire life in Austin. Um, and uh another up-and-coming. I mean, it's it's pretty established at this point. It's getting pretty pricey, but with the prompt of having unlimited money, a great pick. The river running through the city is really cool. Uh, do some cool like kayaking on there and stuff. Some cool, like low-key outdoorsy city, too, like on the outskirts, too. So you kind of get the best of both worlds.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:04

It's a ball knowers Nashville, is what I would say. I I actually almost even prefer it to Nashville in some instances because the food, I think, is a bit better. The Austin barbecue, like you mentioned, Ryan. Definitely elevated in terms of the Nashville hot chicken, in my opinion. So a better claim to fame there.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:21

You get the Mexican too in Austin.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:22

You get the Tex-Mex and also just the live music aspect. It's it's not quite Nashville, but it's good.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:30

So you're saying a much better value pick in the sixth round than let's say Jeremy's Nashville pick in the third round.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:37

No, because I'd rather be in Nashville than Austin. Get a grip.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:42

I was considering I was considering Austin Chain. I just truly don't know too much about the city. Now that's not to say that I know much about Cleveland either. Uh, but I knew that you guys had been. Um, and I know that the the comedy scene down there is pretty strong, too. And uh, Gillis and his boys are hanging around there. So you like a comedy show? That's that's a spot for you as well. So good kudos.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:06

Good point, Collins. All the comedians seem to be moving to Austin.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:09

Yep, we'll take that, we'll take that, and it's the birthplace of our goat, Nick Foles. So throw that in the bag as well.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:15

Shane made me drive to his high school during our trip. I rented a car and he made me drive way out of the way to go see where he played high school football.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:26

Okay. Um, so I'm just gonna say the pick as if it's valid, and then um, I guess we can veto if if we want it. Um this is a city that I have also spent some time in that I absolutely loved, one of my favorite places I've ever been. Um but I don't know. I I don't know how this group is gonna lean, you know. I would hope that we're gonna have some, you know, some grace here. I'm gonna take San Juan, Puerto Rico. Is that allowed? It is a territory of the United States. Wow. Vito. Allow me to hold it.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:04

Call it just quick to veto. Let me let me hold on. I can't believe, Ryan, that you're trying to just derail this draft in the final round. We're having a nice peaceful playoff.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:15

It's a 312th city in the United States.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:18

Is it in the United States? Because it's not it's not a state.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:22

What's the population? It's not it's a territory. Yeah, it's a territory. Is it a state?

SPEAKER_03 1:12:31

Does it matter? It doesn't have to be a state of the city. That's a confession.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:43

We have one veto. Do we have a second? Do we have a second?

SPEAKER_02 1:12:46

Veto. So I I I agree with Ryan's pick.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:50

Shane or I, then, it's up to us. If one of us vetoes, the pick is invalid. That's the rule. Two vetoes, it's out. I haven't said that.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:58

What would you veto if you hate Puerto Ricans? That's fine.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:00

Don't put that in my mouth. I know Collins is a big fan of the V. I think they would be offended that you're trying to claim them as one of ours.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:09

Well, my wife's one and she gave me a permission, so well, she wasn't born there, so it's kind of a little pick and choosy.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:18

Um Shane, are you gonna are you gonna say the word or no?

SPEAKER_05 1:13:21

I'll let Ryan have this one.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:23

It won't play well on the graphic, so that's what I'm kind of thinking about. I don't think it's a great pick.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:31

Who cares? It's his pick.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:33

Better for us. Yeah, I know. That's why I'm tempted to let it on the board. I don't know what the right thing to do is because I'm I'm an honest, I I want the best for the listeners, I want the best for the panel here. I don't know if it's a disingenuous pick.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:46

I it's I think it's a good pick, honestly. I don't see why it has more than 300,000. It's part of the United States.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:55

Right, like if it wasn't part of the United States, it would be a non a non-starter, but it's a inventory of the United States.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:01

It was not on it, it was not on the list and I didn't was not on the list that was sent to us.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:10

There actually was a section for Puerto Rico underneath if you clicked under.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:13

Yeah, but the section that I clicked on was uh 50 US states.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:18

And then there's a section underneath that says Puerto Rico that says San Juan. And this is a US states city. US City, US US Cities draft. Yes, and San Juan is a city in the United States.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:32

Is it in the United States, though?

SPEAKER_01 1:14:33

Because I feel like it's in Puerto Rico.

unknown 1:14:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:39

No, I'm with Ryan. Ryan's for Ryan's right.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:42

I'm gonna let you have it too much. I'm not even trying to bring you like so you you could take it. I hope it tanks your draft because that was scummy to try to take us off the rails in the last round here.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:51

Yeah, very content, content, content.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:55

I would love to hear from the fans. The question with the with a poll with the question, is San Juan a city in the United States?

SPEAKER_01 1:15:05

And we're gonna allow one. We're letting you have it. I just think put it up.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:09

Okay, I'm glad. Um if you know, you know, San Juan's an unbelievable city with fantastic culture, fantastic food, amazing beaches, checks every box that everyone has talked about. Um, and I'm thrilled to have it on my team, even if you guys think it's a bad pick.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:25

I think San Juan would be a fantastic place. I just think in the context of this draft, it's not a good pick.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:32

I was there in eighth grade. The city beaches are a little rocky. You go out, you go to Lukeo Beach, the lowest waters, the lowest waters you'll ever see. Yep. Because I will be striking up. I don't know. I don't want to defend Ryan's pick to this degree, so I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:51

Well, it seems like he did. Um, you were his biggest cheerleader, in fact, uh that I've ever seen.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:56

Yeah, Jair's the most cultured of all of us, so thank you, Jared, for your call. He has a great board for culture.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:02

LA my arm in Nashville. Please.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:04

Um Great Cities. Great Americana cities, my goodness.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:09

My last pick, I'm thrilled to take a place that I formerly have called home. It is my contention that it is a top five city for three months of the year, and that is Minneapolis, Minnesota. I will also argue it is a bottom five city for five months of the year. It is uninhabitable during the winter. Just can't be anywhere near it. I don't want any part of it. But in the summer, everything you need in Minneapolis. I love it. It's clean, fresh air, nature, lakes out the wazoo, over 10,000 in the state of Minnesota. The Mississippi River runs through it. Beautiful to walk around, easy to get to any place, great public transportation system, really good brewery scene. Can we touch the on the music? Ever heard of Prince? Ever heard of Bob Dylan? Really, really packs a punch in terms of culture, character, and cool shit. Thankfully, I'll never have to be there past September. That's the cutoff point. We got three inches of snow on Halloween the year I lived there, and that was a big red flag for me that I had to get out. Thankfully, in this draft, I don't have to worry about that. So thrilled to get Minneapolis with my last pick. And it and I'm so happy that we're keeping it domestic, we're keeping it in the States as well.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:28

Me too. Eagles won their first Super Bowl in Minneapolis. Notice how I said first, we've won more than one. Thank you. Uh great city, great last pick. Good work, Sean.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:40

Yeah. Sean, you had me out there for a weekend in May, I think, and it was it was beautiful. Um, really cool experience out there.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:48

Mr. Irrelevant, Jeremy.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:50

Well, again, Mr. Relevan. I I'll I'll mention not the best draft position. Um, I like this pick that I'm about to take to end the draft. Um it just sneaks in at the limit. Uh, this is a place I think means some somewhat to Sean in some ways. Uh, my last pick, I will take Pittsburgh. Philadelphia's a little brother. If you like bridges, if you like rivers, let me tell you about Pittsburgh. Uh, there's some really cool scenes of the city, baseball, nice sports city. Uh, not for hockey right now. If you know, you know. Uh, PNC Park, Steelers, rich history for football. Um, there's just uh there's I was surprised when I was there how much there is to do um there just in general. So I'll take Pittsburgh.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:42

Yeah, another character pick, I would say. A lot of character in the city. Lacking a bit maybe in terms of culture, and I would say lacking a bit in terms of cool shit. But PNC Park certainly qualifies as that. And you you want rich football tradition and you want a draft championship trophies, Jeremy. Look no further than six in Pittsburgh. Way more than way more than most of your other cities combined. So I think that's a good pick on your behalf.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:09

Thank you. Yeah, we've been stuck on six for decades, but with six nonetheless.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:15

All right, let's quickly we'll go in order of the draft. So, Jerry, you'll be up first. Just quickly run through your picks and tell us where you'll be spending your time.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:23

Well, ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you about some of these cities. We got LA, we got San Francisco, we have Nashville, Seattle, Miami, Pittsburgh. This is just a heavy, heavy hitter of cities. Um, how am I gonna divvy it up? Um, I'll save LA and San Francisco for the winter months because I can afford to do that. And I'll save Miami too for the winter months. We'll go to Pittsburgh, we'll go to Nashville and Seattle in the spring and summer, and we'll sneak in the western cities in the fall and winter. So we'll we'll divvy it up, uh, a little bounce with everything. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:09

Yeah, I I don't as you went through it again, I just continue to not really be a fan of your board, but hey, to each their own. I'm happy you're happy. My cities are New York City, New Orleans, Louisiana, Lexington, Kentucky, Denver, Colorado, Tampa, Florida, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. I will be spending my summers primarily in Denver, Minneapolis, and New York City. Those are the places I'll be for the majority of the months where it is warm. When it gets cold, I have Tampa to fall back on, and then New Orleans. I will definitely be spending February in New Orleans. I think there's a good balance there between the stuff I like doing with hiking and open air and a lot of culture and things to do when there's not a ton going on. So just concerts in New York City, having world-class food at each place. I think all my cities play a role in how I'd like to spend my year. So I'm very happy with my board. I think it it felt perfectly for me. So I couldn't be more thrilled, Ryan.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:14

Okay, so I have Philly, I have Honolulu, I have San Antonio, Vegas, Charlotte, and San Juan. I am thrilled with the geography of scattering it all over the place, weather-wise. So for me, start the year in Honolulu, right after Christmas in the sand, Melekaliki Maka. Uh, and then we'll go, we'll do like a month. I don't know. I'll put up Vegas for a month in uh February, say San Antonio for the springtime, right before it gets really hot, then spend most of the summertime in the Philly area, and then Charlotte towards the fall, get those kind of the leaves down there, and then to San Juan for like the later fall, once it gets a little bit colder in the north, to like October, November, and then back to Hawaii for Christmas. So I feel like I have a really nice um year of having good weather. There we go.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:05

All right, all right. My cities are Chicago, Boston, Phoenix, Jacksonville, Colorado Springs, and Austin, Texas. So my summer months will be spent primarily in Chicago and Boston. First few months of the first couple months of fall, I could easily see myself in Boston in the Northeast. Uh trees changing colors up there. Uh in the winter, I'm gonna spend my time in Phoenix and Jacksonville. Uh, and then again, fall, spring, a lot of time spent in Colorado Springs and Austin. But you know, I kind of picked out my board where any week I can I can really float around between uh Chicago, Boston, Colorado, Springs, and Austin, and then really the winter months in Jacksonville and Phoenix.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:54

All right, I have uh Washington, DC, San Diego, Milwaukee, Orlando, Memphis, and Cleveland. I do wish I could have gotten a little bit more uh West Coast, maybe like a Pacific Northwest uh representation in there, but I haven't really been up that way. Uh, so I don't know much of what's going on up there. I wanted to get a little Colorado, but did not get an opportunity. But regardless, I have some great, great, great options for the winter. Um, find me in San Diego, of course, for the for the majority of the time. Orlando also is going to be a beautiful option for me. Hit a couple parks. I will spend a quite a bit of time in Orlando, Florida. Uh, Universal Parks, Disney Parks. See you there. Um, Memphis is also a nice little option for me in the in the cold weather months. Uh, moving into the spring, um, look into looking to Milwaukee, just beautiful. Um, looking to Washington, D.C., I will be checking out the war memorials, the monuments, what have you. Um, Cleveland will get a little bit of time as well from in the summer. Um, a couple of weekends here and there, some rock and roll hall of fame, some river, you name it. Um, and then yeah, falls in our nation's capital. Come on, please. Uh, and then we're back down to we're back down to the uh to the theme parks when the uh when the sun goes away, weather starts turning back to cold, theme parks, theme parks, theme parks, San Diego.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:38

I really, I really think we all did a pretty good job. I think there's a lot of balance amongst our boards. I hope the listeners enjoyed the strategy we put into it. I will put a poll up after about I'll put a poll up about a week from now. We'll let the listeners take in the episode first and give them a chance to listen before they just get it spoiled for them on a graphic. So that that's the idea behind that. I will say I'm coming off the back of two back-to-back draft wins. I'm hoping for a third consecutive. Listen, there's nothing foul about uh campaigning for votes. So get out there, get people involved, get them to follow the Instagram, and get them to vote when the poll is released. We are going to do an underrated cities draft at some point, which will fall under the 300,000 threshold. So that's kind of why we divvied it up between those two different types of cities. I think that'll be interesting as well. We didn't want to spoil all the content in one episode. But does anybody have any final thoughts before we wrap this up?

SPEAKER_00 1:25:38

I asked um a listener directly uh her opinion on the uh Puerto Rico conundrum, and the response I got was that Puerto Rico should count, in the opinion of uh someone who lives under my own roof. So real one.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:57

Not real one.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:59

Could have been Lucy.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:00

And he knows ball. It could have been Lucy, could have been Lucy.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:06

Uh well, that's good that we clarified. I'm glad we allowed the pick. I don't think it's gonna swing the draft in Ryan's favor anyway. So I'm happy to have it have it stand. We're open-minded here. I will I will say Collins was awfully quick to throw out the veto. It was very hilarious how fast that came out of his mouth. And I think that's good content.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:25

There were there was there were talks that Shane threw around the word on a previous episode about disingenuous. It just felt like this was not uh U a city inside of a US state.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:36

So and I would add to that point, it felt disingenuous because he saved it in his holster for the last round, knowing it wasn't on the list that we sent, knowing he could take it whenever. So that point, it did feel a bit sneaky, a bit mischievous. There was a little smirk on his face, I'm sure the listener can pick up to when he was when he was making the shot. So so I just want that on the record. Well, go ahead, Ryan.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:02

The reason I saved it till last was in case there was a legitimate veto. Like I wanted to be, you know, have that as the last thing. That was honestly why. I I really like was not trying to be sneaky about it, I promise.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:13

Well, and I'll and a lot of people do forget that Canada now is the 51st state. So if we could have had Montreal on our uh on our boards, could have had Toronto, so who's the set? Toronto.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:26

Yeah, where's the line? You know what I mean? If if we allow San Juan, where is the line? So um that'll that'll lead to some interesting discussion. But I'm glad it's I'm glad it's on his board.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:39

Me too. This is fun.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:40

Jeremy.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:41

I mean, honorable comments. Yeah, we should be able to do that. Next time. True, true. Uh no, I I'm just gonna say next time I'm in Miami, I'm really excited to check out the strong sports culture that they have down there.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:55

Never touch strong. Uh key key one back to back. NBA Finals, where the Sixers done. Oh, well, lost by 50.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:03

I wanted to say one of the biggest populated cities that definitely was not going to get drafted in a million years, it's a stinky one. It was Houston. Houston bulls. One of the worst cities going. So and Dallas is bad. Yeah, not a fan's gutless cities, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:21

Atlanta didn't make the cut. What'd you say? Which one? Atlanta along that same city. Atlanta, yeah. Atlanta too.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:30

I don't know much about yeah. One if if I had tried to stay on cities that I have visited, uh, one that I was leaning towards doing was Baltimore. Uh, I don't know how that would really have played on the graphic. Uh, it's not necessarily a desirable city per se. Um, it has some great neighborhoods though, so and it's slightly underrated. Good food scene. So I was thinking about that uh as my last one, but uh yeah. Actually, I had Baltimore and Down too.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:00

I think Baltimore's not a big meat. I would probably have a bad pick.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:03

The harbor, the harbor carries Baltimore. I think that would have been good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:08

Yeah. Well, it has to be a good thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:09

It's not the uh sexiest uh pick. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:12

There's a there's a stigma surrounding Baltimore, and the harbor itself is not that awesome. It's the it there are other like Federal Hill, Fells Point, like there are cool neighborhoods, but uh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:27

Yeah, now that I'm saying cafe nearby, it's probably not my cup of tea. And the harbor does does, or at least did have one of those. I think though, Collins, you didn't you pivoted away from this the non-sexy pick in Baltimore and went with Cleveland, so I'm not so sure that that's much of it.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:45

Well, I needed the rock and roll hall of fame, that's why. That's that's fair. That's Baltimore can't give you that.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:51

Some good things about uh yeah, like Greensboro, North Carolina, and Raleigh, North Carolina. I've never been to either, uh, but I've heard good things about both of them.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:00

Greensboro's cool.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:01

So in a potential future year, maybe I would pick one of those if I have been with my last pick.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:07

Yeah, I have spent time in Greensboro. Greensboro is cool. That would have been not a bad selection, I don't think. I think we could have gone maybe a couple other rounds, but not much longer in terms of draft draft eligible picks here. I think six was the perfect amount.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:22

Yeah. Indy. Indy's another one, maybe.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:24

Oh big city. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:26

Yeah. Yeah. It's not my favorite. Shane and I have spent some time there. It's it's okay. It's uh unspectacular, I would say.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:36

Oklahoma City.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:40

No, thank you. Have any of us ever been to Oklahoma City?

SPEAKER_03 1:30:43

No.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:45

Jared, tell us about your time in Oklahoma City. Never been. I think they just approved they're building the they're gonna build the biggest building in the United States, apparently. Well, yeah. It looks weird.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:01

All right, well, I think that'll do it for this one. Listeners, thank you for tuning in. As I mentioned in the last couple of episodes, it is officially draft season. Sports that we care about are kind of in a wall. So we're going to be cooking up some drafts, some album reviews are going to be heading your way in the weeks to come. If you have any ideas for topics, please let us know. Thank you to all of the boys for hopping on tonight. I had a good time doing this. No offense if your city was not drafted, or Jeremy said some mean things about it. Please don't, please don't be offended. And any any quarries or questions, please direct them at Mr. Jeremy Good.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:39

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SPEAKER_01 1:31:40

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