5 Questions That Have Nothing to Do With Sports

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Felger and Mazz are back with another edition of '5 Questions That Have Nothing to do With Sports'. This week Jim Murray asked questions, but with a beach theme to them.

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00:00Maz must have been in the can, coming in hot.

00:02No, he was just chatting to people.

00:03Oh, all right.

00:04A little chinwag.

00:05That's what he does.

00:06He chats.

00:06Yep.

00:07Hold on.

00:08Dennis, turn him up.

00:09Got an old friend here.

00:10Oh, very good.

00:12And as if you notice, that's the old intro, which means this segment is once again for sale.

00:17So we have some sponsorship availability with the five questions.

00:21It's a big segment.

00:21Whenever we put it at the end of the show and the simulcast cuts out and people don't get it, we get hate mail.

00:27So it's a popular in-demand segment.

00:30It is available for sponsorship just in case you won.

00:33It's huge.

00:33The people love it.

00:34And I was told to keep this somewhat beach theme.

00:36So question number one, where did your family take you on summer vacations when you were a kid?

00:43And what do you think of that place now that you're older?

00:45So this is like one of the things we talk about a lot.

00:48It's like because Nantucket is nice.

00:50I mean, I'm so lucky, blessed to have a little place to be able to come here.

00:55It's just so nice.

00:57And as a kid, we would go to a place called Lake Geneva, which is in Wisconsin, and all my father could afford was the Budgetel.

01:08So we'd sit at the Budgetel on Lake Geneva in Wisconsin and then sneak down to this nicer resort.

01:16It was called the Pioneer.

01:17I can't remember what it was called.

01:17But we'd walk down to this resort, sneak in, and hang out at this nicer resort.

01:23Beautiful.

01:24And Dan and I, my brother and I, when we were little kids, we'd be running around saying,

01:28when are we going back to the Budgetel?

01:30When are we going back to the Budgetel?

01:32And my parents would say, no, they said to us, that's pronounced boujate.

01:38We're called the bouj.

01:39So we were that family that would get in the station wagon and drive from Milwaukee to Florida with grandma in the backseat.

01:45You know, so it's like, how lucky are we that this is now our life?

01:49So that just kind of answers your question.

01:52Would we go back there now?

01:53No, no, no, sir.

01:54So ours was the Cape, mostly.

01:56In fact, not a terribly dissimilar story.

01:59We used to, my parents found a motel in Dennisport right on the beach or across the street from the beach that we used to stay in every summer.

02:06And we would go down there.

02:08And then eventually, as we got older, again, my parents were immigrants.

02:13My father was a factory worker for a long period of time.

02:15But they built their own place on the Cape, which they still have.

02:19And we started to go there after the fact.

02:22So would I go back?

02:24Do you like it?

02:25Would you go back?

02:26I'd go back to the house.

02:27Yeah.

02:28Yeah.

02:28You know, at the time, I didn't think anything of it.

02:33And it was totally fine.

02:35It was totally nice or nice enough for us at that time.

02:38But would I go there with my family now?

02:40I would say probably not.

02:41Again, you know, fortunately, life has evolved.

02:46And we'd spend more time.

02:47I think we would just go to my family house.

02:50It was North Conway, New Hampshire for me in the house my dad eventually retired in.

02:54It was my grandparents' house.

02:55And it was always hot, a million pine needles, people being pissed.

02:59And then all there was to do was to go to the outlets.

03:01Like, I still don't really love North Conway.

03:04I didn't like it as a kid.

03:05They've built it up.

03:05It's now a more vacation spot.

03:07It's great in the wintertime.

03:08But in the summer, not enough water.

03:10Hot.

03:11The air doesn't move because you're in Mount Washington Valley.

03:14Oh, I hate it.

03:15Two, one of the longstanding vacation destinations is Las Vegas.

03:19And according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, visits to Vegas down 11.3% in June of this year compared to last year.

03:28Who's to blame for this in your opinion?

03:30It's fascinating.

03:30Um, inflation, the cost of everything, maybe.

03:35I mean, I've read up on some of this, uh, foreign travel is way down.

03:39So is that the dollar?

03:42Is that inflation?

03:43Is that the cost?

03:44Is that Trump kind of being, you know, uh, Trump, just the Trump effect?

03:51Um, I don't know, but I was there last spring and you notice it.

03:55Like it is, it is less.

03:56I'm going to defer to cost.

03:58I just think everything costs too much.

04:01And so that includes Vegas.

04:03I think, uh, the world's losing its edge a little bit.

04:06If you ask me.

04:06Nice man.

04:07No, like I do.

04:08A lot of people are blaming the youth, but like young people are drinking as much.

04:11They don't party as much.

04:12I did.

04:13They just don't live as dirty a life.

04:15Interesting.

04:16And I say dirty, like, but you know what I mean?

04:18Like the vices.

04:19Yeah.

04:20I don't think they, they're into the vices as much.

04:23And I, you know, I almost was going to say Murray, uh, also gambling has been legalized

04:29in a lot of places.

04:30And so maybe you don't feel the urge to go.

04:33I think that's part of it.

04:33Like that started 25 years ago.

04:36Yeah.

04:36So to me, it's, I think it's private equity.

04:38I don't think it's politics.

04:39I don't think it's the pandemic.

04:40Cause people want to blame that.

04:41I don't think it's young people.

04:42I think it's private equity.

04:43Everything's an upcharge.

04:44Now it's like the cost.

04:45It's an expensive mall where everything's a grift.

04:48Like it drinks are $30.

04:50When we were there for the Superbowl, I was there twice in like a three month span.

04:53I couldn't believe the cost of everything.

04:55The cost.

04:55Everything's an upcharge in Vegas now.

04:57So I think that's the private equity effect.

04:58I do.

04:59Yeah.

04:59Cause they've like gotten rid of comps for the regular guy.

05:01Like regular Joe's don't, don't get the comps anymore.

05:03Buffets are gone.

05:04Like regular people like that.

05:05Like all that crap's gone.

05:07Everything's a cost now.

05:08It's costs.

05:09Yeah.

05:09So three, uh, speaking of costs tax-free weekend in Massachusetts, are you planning on making a big

05:13purchase or have you taken advantage of it in the past?

05:17If you're not doing it this weekend, zero points.

05:19I didn't know it was.

05:20I've never known what it is.

05:22I guess I don't totally get it, but I, if I just thought about it for half a second,

05:26it would make sense.

05:27It's your one weekend to stick it to the man.

05:29I guess I don't do it.

05:30No, never even thought of it.

05:32Yeah.

05:32I don't think I have either.

05:33There might've been one year where it coincided with like we were buying some furniture,

05:37but I, but it was not a deliberate attempt.

05:41And you know, they said to us, Oh, it's tax-free weekend.

05:43You'll get, you know, you'll save on the, cause at the end of the day, unless you're

05:46buying something that is monstrous, you know, you'll gain some.

05:51I mean, you'll, you'll, I'm not telling you it's totally insignificant, but it's not something

05:55that we typically have planned around.

05:57Yeah.

05:58Oh, I've bought all kinds of crap in the past.

05:59Nothing planned this year, but it's the chance to be like, ah, take that government parasites.

06:03Time to buy a TV.

06:04Uh, four rank these summertime foods, hot lobster roll with butter, cold lobster roll with mayo,

06:11fried clams with the bellies, beach pizza, steamers, lobster roll butter, lobster roll

06:19mayo, steamers, clams with belly, beach pizza.

06:25Yeah.

06:26That's kind of a more regional thing.

06:27I didn't know if you'd know it.

06:28It's more Salisbury Hampton Christie's Tripoli.

06:30It's a thin slice.

06:31You buy it by the slice or a couple of slices, sweet sauce.

06:34They'll throw a slab of provolone on it too.

06:36It's a, it's a delicacy.

06:37I love it.

06:38Sounds great.

06:39But I, since I'm not familiar with it, it's, it goes fifth.

06:42Yeah.

06:42That's fifth for me too.

06:44Uh, steamers.

06:44Number one, absolutely love steamers, uh, lobster roll, butter, second lobster roll, mayo, third.

06:51Uh, what was the other one?

06:52Oh, bellies, fried clams with bellies, fourth, the pizza, fifth, uh, cold lobster roll for

06:56me.

06:57Number one, uh, no celery though.

06:58Get celery out of here.

06:59Ruins it.

07:00Fried clams with the bellies, steamers.

07:01I can eat them until I feel shame.

07:03Me too.

07:03Hot lobster roll and beach pizza, even though I love it, but I want, I want the seafood.

07:06Do you order a lobster roll without celery?

07:09Yes.

07:10You high maintenance.

07:11Celery ruins everything.

07:12Busy, natural.

07:13Oh, I hate that crunch.

07:14It's a, it overpowers the taste.

07:16So you're going to ask the guys in back to pick out the celery?

07:18No, if it's already pre-

07:19How high maintenance are you?

07:20If it's, if it's, Gary.

07:22It's so soft.

07:23If it's pre-made.

07:24Just eat the celery and don't think twice about it.

07:25And he shows up wearing his winter coat.

07:27My God.

07:27If it's pre-made, I'll pick it out.

07:29But if I can ask and say, hey, can you make me a fresh one?

07:32Just mayo, please?

07:33I'm going to ask.

07:35Finally, what's your personal feeling?

07:36It's so high maintenance.

07:37What's your personal feeling on when summer ends?

07:39Labor Day, when training camp starts, July 5th, et cetera.

07:42When do you think summer ends?

07:43Keeps moving up.

07:44It's now July 3rd.

07:46You say July 5th.

07:48I start thinking about it on the 3rd, which when, as soon as you start thinking about it,

07:51it's over.

07:52July 3rd.

07:53Labor Day.

07:54Labor Day.

07:55Because once you get past that, I sort of mentally.

07:57Don't stop it.

07:58You don't.

07:59Don't you feel right this second, like, fall's coming, school for your kid is coming?

08:04Yeah.

08:05Yeah.

08:05That means summer's over, bro.

08:06No, it's not over yet.

08:07That means it's over.

08:08No, Labor Day, I like, I actually have, like, this little shift.

08:11Like, all of a sudden, it's okay.

08:12There's a sadness that sets in.

08:13Yeah.

08:14Yeah.

08:15It's, that's in, now it's in full force.

08:18July 4th is when it first, the first inkling of it.

08:20Yeah, we get.

08:21I would say in most years.

08:23This year might be different.

08:24Yeah.

08:25So, I'm with you.

08:26It's, it's.

08:26Summer Mads is extending into October.

08:28It's a specific time.

08:29Oh, is it really?

08:30Oh, yeah.

08:31It's a specific time of Labor Day weekend.

08:33That marquee football, college football game around 4 o'clock on that Saturday.

08:37Oh, it's over.

08:37That's where it feels like.

08:39It's so over.

08:40And there's the crispness in the air, and it's just done.

08:43That's when I think it happens.

08:44All right.

08:44So, it concludes the five questions.

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