Episode 50 - Rocco and Tony - The Extreme Bocce League

Rocco and Tony sit down with Danielle (Jimmy) and Frank founders of the Extreme Bocce Leauge (League).   A journey of discovery.   One the oldest and greatest games in human history of course perfected by Italians.  

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:17

Buddhism over there, you got everything.

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Philosophia. Wow, that's a nice fade. Oh, fuck it. Jeez, we're getting advanced technology over here. Oh, Hollywood. Hello, everybody, and uh welcome to another Bring Your Guard Down podcast. Uh I'm Tony Incomparable. This is very soft spoken today. Yeah, today, yeah. It's a hundred fucking degrees on. They're wearing long sleeve shirts. That's not why it's off spoken. So and they're wearing fucking long sleeve shirts. No, I'm comfortable. I'm fresh. Mikey's wearing a fucking sweat top.

SPEAKER_02 0:50

Mike, but Mike fuck says he's 98 fucking pounds bagnato, Lamadon. I know, right?

SPEAKER_03 0:55

I know.

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Mike, you okay, Mike?

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Hey. Look at this. See the buttila?

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Where does it say?

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Holy fuck.

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Let me read the English.

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It says.

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Alora K Stream Bocha League. But that's not the way you spell fucking league. You saw it. Okay. That's Leug. What the fuck is that? French. It's a French. Yeah, French is it.

SPEAKER_03 1:18

Whoever came up with it. Is this on purpose? On purpose. That's embarrassing. That's embarrassing.

SPEAKER_02 1:25

Listen, if you play fucking boch, you can barely read anyway.

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Fuck it. That's true. By the way, so we have with us today Daniel and Frank. Danielle and Frank, also known as Jimmy. What did he say?

SPEAKER_02 1:36

No, Daniel is a Jimmy.

SPEAKER_03 1:37

Frank is a Chicho. Chicho. We have Jimmy and Chicho. Say hello. Hi Jimmy and Chicho. There you go. What's going on, boys? They compile it. So uh these guys created, you know, maybe they can tell us, you know, a little bit about bocce. It was a is like a very importante game from Italy. I'll let us hit it. Do you know the history of bocce?

SPEAKER_02 1:56

Oh yeah. The history of bocce, the my version? We start in the Monte Aspremonte in Calabria.

SPEAKER_03 2:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:04

Yeah. One guy made some trouble for one guy. He's supposed to make a delivery. He did he didn't show up at the delivery. He took the money and took the fucking mortatelli didn't bring over supposed to. Somebody took three balls and put it in a bag and they crack his fucking head. That's the how it's bocce.

SPEAKER_03 2:21

Is that how bocce started?

SPEAKER_02 2:22

That's how it starts for me.

SPEAKER_03 2:23

No kidding. So anyway, we have the two guys that started. Why don't you tell us about what we got uh that's a Jimmy Danielle? Jimmy Daniel Danielle Jimmy and which one is Jimmy? Which is Daniel Daniel. The guy with the the that's the guy with the porn hub shirt. He looks a sharp. He's doing the porn hub. So now how you can relate uh Daniele with Jimmy with the he's got they match the porn hub. I know they put extreme bocce. Listen to me. So that's that's Jimmy, Danielli, and then uh Frank Chicho's uh the other Frank Chicho's over there. So yeah, tell us about your thing, man. It's I thought it was pretty interesting when I came across you guys on the on the uh internet. You want to go for it? Yeah, so uh you gotta speak a little bit into the mic because I know you guys are new at this shit. Yeah, this is not throwing this is not throwing cement balls down the uh down the down the lane or whatever the fuck they call it. What's the difference between bocce and lawn bowling? Anyway, sorry. Well we'll get into that. Okay, go ahead. Tell us how you got started. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:23

We're talking too much. Uh we're gonna be doing our 12th year this year. Yeah, up in September when we start up. Uh so rewind back to 12 years ago. Uh I shot uh Jimmy a text and uh said, You want to start a bocce league? Because we've always played sports growing up and then thought, okay, let's let's try something bocce really didn't exist for younger people. It was all like that stereotype of the older generation. And uh and then that's it. Within half an hour, we I I sent out a text and we had six teams ready to go, and from there we just hey Mike, show the picture.

SPEAKER_03 4:07

So it says the ninth annual EBL Tournament of Champions. Look, I know you can't see it on the screen, but we can't see it. You can see it? No, no, we can't see it. It's okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:16

Yeah, so that there we host an annual tournament every year, and that was our ninth, and this year was our biggest uh 96 players, and we had 50 players from the United States come over and play. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:30

Wow, that's cool. So so tell us how the game is for the lots of cakers and pushing the uh Italian wannabes out there that watch our show. They love it.

SPEAKER_02 4:39

Okay, they love the crack. They love rocks, they love throwing rocks.

SPEAKER_03 4:41

They love throwing rocks. This guy, Jeff Penn, across the street. You know, my dad had the butcher, he took the butcher, threw him through his his front window. Because you know, he was Delinguen, that guy.

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They don't know the rules.

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And he took one of my my dad used to carry the butcher in a wooden case, like a wooden, like a almost like a toolbox. Yeah. Wood with, you know, and they were like faded red and faded green with one little palini. Hey? And then Penner took it, the big one, the bowling ball, and threw it through his front window. Anyway, he thought that's how they were used for. Anyway, so where was I?

SPEAKER_01 5:12

How does it work? How does it work?

SPEAKER_03 5:14

Yeah, how do you play the game?

SPEAKER_01 5:15

You got two teams, four balls, four bocci balls each team. Somebody throws the little palino, and you gotta try to get as many of your bocci as close to the palino as possible. That's basically it. It's like curling but with no ice. And uh, similar enough. The palino moves though, curling, it's a fixed target. So that's basically how it works. Soon you go to the pointer, you get a point. You gotta pointer and you got a shooter. That's usually how it works. What do you mean?

SPEAKER_02 5:40

If my ball is closer, you get one point.

SPEAKER_01 5:42

Oh, you're talking like that.

SPEAKER_02 5:43

Like how do you measure one point, one point, four point. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:46

You could get you can get four points in one frame. If you get all your balls closer to the little ball than your next your opponent's quadruple, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:54

So quatro pal. I got four balls myself.

SPEAKER_03 5:58

Yeah. You do?

SPEAKER_02 6:01

Yeah, uh well, since I got older, you know.

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Two more came up, short up.

SPEAKER_02 6:05

Yeah, I got a wow. So many people kick me in the nuts.

SPEAKER_03 6:08

Well, a young man. The separation. So you I heard you're uh you're a butcher champion in Calabria, right?

SPEAKER_02 6:14

Fuck, I won every championship in Calabria. I want to join the guys over here.

SPEAKER_03 6:18

You should. They're they're in Porqueriaville. Fuck how you live. You know where you live. Oh, I got my fucking.

SPEAKER_01 6:23

You won't be allowed, you won't be allowed, Roger. Well, that's why I don't ask. I know.

SPEAKER_03 6:27

Because we can call we should get a team.

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We'll call them the Rompamuros.

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There you go.

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But I got I gotta tell a better name. I want to call my team the Rompaculo. Rompaculo, yeah. Then everybody's gonna get scared. Nobody wants to play it, we win the championship.

SPEAKER_03 6:39

Mikey learned what it was for the first time. He didn't know what bocce it was. Mike, you don't know bocce? In China, they don't play boccefuck. No, so they don't. They golf tennis. Tennis, they're good, yeah, golf. They're trying their game at hockey, but they do all of that. So, why would you guys get involved in uh in in bocce? You're young guys, right? Why didn't you get like bocce and not hockey or some other fucking thing?

SPEAKER_02 7:01

See what I mean about the insinuation over there? Already he said, make a connection. Why you guys are young guys? How you get involved with that game? They told you at the beginning we start the league for the younger people. They told you.

SPEAKER_03 7:13

I don't know. Judging by the pictures on their Instagram, they're like, you gotta be over you gotta be over 80 to play this fucking. No, they're okay. They're the young guys on Instagram pages. Well, that's the wrong league. Sure, he's got poured up t-shirt. You know, he's he's with it, man. He's like, he's uh hey, they brought us a couple of bottles of wine right now.

SPEAKER_02 7:32

You know, Italian guys stronger pompation. Can I ask you?

SPEAKER_03 7:35

Because you spelled it spelt league wrong. Yeah. So why did what is it an accident? It was an accident. So who made this wine for you? Fucking the new from Newfoundland? What kind of where do these grapes come from? If the writing is accident, maybe the drink is accident, though.

SPEAKER_01 7:50

I think that was our fault on the writing. We probably spelled that wrong accidentally. Oh, that's it.

SPEAKER_02 7:54

Nobody did spell check. No, nobody did spell check. Listen to me. Look, don't watch. That's a French.

SPEAKER_03 8:05

Isn't Liuge a fucking Winter Olympic sport? Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:09

That's when you lay down when you drink. You get drunk and you fucking lay down on the ice and fuck it. I know. Next, stop a switcher running. Fuck it. That's it.

SPEAKER_03 8:17

Extreme boce luge.

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Holy fuck. Luce.

SPEAKER_03 8:20

It's my friend Luce. Luciano. Luciano. He used to drink and slide. Yeah, yeah. Luch. Holy shit, down to 401. Oh, fuck, he's still going. Anyway, so uh so the first year, how many teams did you guys have?

SPEAKER_00 8:31

Like first year we had six. Six in a team.

SPEAKER_03 8:34

And so how many, sorry, how many people in a team?

SPEAKER_01 8:36

Two, two. Oh, it's a two. Oh, just oh, I see.

SPEAKER_03 8:38

I see, I see. Because show this picture.

SPEAKER_01 8:41

Well, in the tournament we have to do it. Hold on, this picture. Who are these guys? Hold on, look at my laptop. Look at my laptop. Beautiful. Oh, those guys, being Steve. What are they called? La Boce Vita. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 8:52

This is a team? This is a team. This is a recent picture? Show that picture again, Mike.

SPEAKER_00 8:56

That's our last season.

SPEAKER_03 8:58

Okay, you got a belt, everything. You got two belts, you got trophies. Oh, yeah. Nice plastic trophies.

SPEAKER_01 9:06

Was it their first season back? Second. Second season back. Wow. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 9:09

So these guys are regulars. Oh, they're regulars. What's her name again?

SPEAKER_01 9:13

B and Steve. Okay, which one is Steve? Steve is the tall one for sure. Oh wow. I can tell because the other guy.

SPEAKER_03 9:19

The other guy looks like what's I don't know. I can tell. What's the other guy's name?

SPEAKER_01 9:23

Well, B is what they call him, but Mike. Michael is his name.

SPEAKER_03 9:25

Yeah, but Mike. Baila. Yeah, see, Steve, they don't have a nickname. He doesn't need one. B is an inferior, complex little man. He's got to give him a nickname. That's why Danielle's called Jimmy. That's why. And Frank doesn't have a nickname. That's a good handle. That's a very nice one.

SPEAKER_02 9:40

Danielle Jim. DJ, DJ. It's a good work, nice. Okay. Franco G Franco. It's a movie.

SPEAKER_03 9:48

So two guys per team. Yes. And this last tournament you had in Montreal, right? Was it in Montreal? Or what was in Montreal? Like you guys, something happened in Montreal. See, I do Michael.

SPEAKER_01 9:57

So basically, okay, just to give a quick thing. There's there's three different organizations. There's Extreme Bochi League, which me and Chicho, me and Frank started 12 years ago. There's uh Ontario Bochi Association and Canadian Boccey Association. In Montreal, that was the Canadian Bochi Championships. Canadian Club Championships. There's a different, it's related, but not really. We play in all of them, but the league that you see on there, that's Frank and I think.

SPEAKER_03 10:23

Okay, so we we actually have more organization here for the nation. There's different, yeah, there's two organizations. Wow. So they have a Canadian, yes, yeah. And a provincial? Yes. Holy shit. It's connected to the world. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. How many non-Italians are playing?

SPEAKER_00 10:39

There's a lot. Oh yeah, quite a few.

SPEAKER_03 10:41

I mean, in your league, how many, how many how many non-WAPs are there?

SPEAKER_00 10:46

I'd say it's like 60-40. Oh, really? Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 10:50

What are the other nationalities?

SPEAKER_00 10:52

Pondir Singh comes sometimes. No, he doesn't fucking come. No, he doesn't.

SPEAKER_03 10:56

No, no. No, no. They product switch. They roll up, they dry, they use rolled up cow shit. They dry the little balls.

SPEAKER_02 11:02

That's what they fucking roll. That's what they do. That's what they do. They're going to spend fucking money.

SPEAKER_03 11:07

There's so much cow shit on the street that they roll it up and they're going to go.

SPEAKER_02 11:10

Oh yeah. Or they're fucking stupid sometimes. They use a real fucking bowling ball of 10 pin. Well, that's what I heard.

SPEAKER_03 11:16

I heard that this is what I heard. I don't know if it's true. But I was at the bowling alley the other day with my kid, the five pin. Uh oh. And the guy was complaining that these guys came in from, you know, Pandere P Singh guys came in and all the fucking bowling balls are missing. The little five-pin balls. So are those the same size, right?

SPEAKER_01 11:34

Oh, you know, the bowling balls. It's probably close. Yeah, see?

SPEAKER_03 11:39

And the guy said they're all fucking missing. Because they want to start. And apparently he said something about a butcher league or something. I don't know. That's what I heard. I don't know. That's what I heard. You can't trust them. They steal everything. They fucking steal everything. They steal the trucks. They steal fucking Range Rovers out of your driveway twice. Oh yeah. That's what happened to me. Fucking twice they steal every time. I like, you know what?

SPEAKER_02 12:02

I enjoy the bocce, my favorite part. Especially Italian guys. They have everybody has a saying when they when they wanted the ball to touch, right? I get a zamper, I get a zamper. My friend, when I was uh the first time I came into Canada, I was a young man, right? I went out I go to Sinclair. There was a Siciliano guy, his name is Ignazio. He'll fucking play the bocce high early score park, he'd take the ball. He throw the little white ball gas to go first, right? And then he then you you throw your ball, you gotta chase it. He's running after, and then they go, kiss a little bit, kiss a little bit. Kiss a little bit. 19, 19, you expect 19 points are gonna come in one shot. 19, kiss a little bit. There you go. Yeah, it's you. That's fucking is he still alive? Yeah, no, I fucking died a long time ago.

SPEAKER_03 12:48

Oh fuck, probably got hit by a bunch of boys.

SPEAKER_02 12:50

Oh no, yeah, I think he dragged yourself to death. Wow.

SPEAKER_03 12:55

You know, I I you know I remember my it was it got intense, eh, with my dad's brother-in-law's and brother during the fucking Sunday picnics at Merry Lake. At Merry Lake.

SPEAKER_02 13:04

Oh, Merry Lake. I got laid there once. You did? Yeah, yeah. Just once.

SPEAKER_03 13:10

Just not all the time. The priest catch me.

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Oh, that's right.

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That was like uh an outing, a church outing.

SPEAKER_02 13:21

I love it. Nobody goes there for God, eh? No, I mean they forgot the God. As soon as they get on, yeah, in that lake here. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 13:29

Anyway, that's that we could do a show on Merry Lake. Do you guys know where Merry Lake is? Stick up in there. It's like a festa, right?

SPEAKER_02 13:37

Tony of a president over there.

SPEAKER_03 13:39

I know it's north. North is Stowville up there, style up north.

SPEAKER_02 13:44

That's a monastery. They played the granny. Oh, yeah, Merry Lake. Yeah, lake over there. And they go there, you know, they don't look at Kuchina, you know. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:54

There's so many blowdrops per square foot over there, you can't believe in the go there to pray.

SPEAKER_02 13:59

The band is playing somebody behind the tree. That's right. Oh, yeah, that's how it was.

SPEAKER_03 14:07

I'm telling you, man. No joke.

SPEAKER_01 14:12

Road trip over there. Oh, fuck.

SPEAKER_03 14:14

We used to go in the in the bus from the church. You get on the bus, you get on the bus, and you go there and you get off the bus and everybody disappeared. But anyway, they used to have some serious buttons competition. Very intense, very a lot of argumenting. How did they measure the distance back then? How do you measure distance? Now with a measuring tape. With a measuring tape. Back then, what did they have? Remember what they used? The steak. They used the fucking tree branch, and they did that's not the right length. It's curved, it's warped. Yeah. They almost had like how many scraps, any any scraps, any brawls happen on uh Bochi? Uh any like one. Oh yeah, tell us that that's an interesting one. Okay, let's go dictate on that one.

SPEAKER_00 14:51

You go with the original in the middle. Oh yeah. Oh, that was a good one. We were tossed around.

SPEAKER_01 14:55

So there, yeah, they're perfect. So were you there that night? Oh yeah. So uh we run it together. He wasn't there that night. So two guys, uh Nusuchiliano, Nukalabrez, I think, versus a Serbian guy. But the Serbian guy was uh monster, he was a big if you see his face, what does he look like? Bulldog, yeah. Bulldog, yeah. Very big guy. So they started arguing. So I tried to like break it up. I went in between them. The smaller of the guys, he threw me like a like a no bets. Just like get out of the way, poop. So they were about to start going at it. One of the the big guy had a two bochi in his hand, he was about to smash them, and uh luckily nothing happened. So we we calmed them down and uh but what was what happened?

SPEAKER_03 15:35

Did he cross-check him from behind? What happened to the wheel? Why'd the McArgent?

SPEAKER_01 15:40

He pulled out a stick and he said the stick's crooked. No, I said cheating. I told you.

SPEAKER_03 15:44

That's the big fucking fight. Uh back then they were using a branch. Cheating and cheating, etc. Something go fuck yourself the branch. Mama Fanculo. Then then they got fucking smashed. And then like after that, they had the picnic bench. They get smashed.

SPEAKER_01 16:00

It came close, but then luckily nothing happened. I was able somehow to diffuse. I don't know if it was me, but like, yeah, they tossed me aside like that.

SPEAKER_02 16:08

But I don't understand when the English people they play uh croquet, lawn lawn bowling, right?

SPEAKER_03 16:13

That's not fucking lawn bowling. Croquet is not lawn bowling. That's we the lawn bow what's it I wanted to ask you, what's the difference between lawn bowling and what surface do you play?

SPEAKER_01 16:24

No. When we cross the border, every time we go into the states for bocci, yeah, and they say, Why are you going to the states? We say for a bocce tournament, they're like, huh? And then they're like, What's the difference between lawn bowling and boce? We're like, well, in lawn bowling, the balls are oblong. Yeah. You like this word, oblong. They're all oval shaped. So when you roll it, it's like a like picture like a loony. I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_03 16:46

Oh, so it's it's like a football, kind of. Not that streamation. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:53

In bocci, the balls are like spheres. Round, yeah. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:58

I didn't know.

SPEAKER_03 16:59

Oh, fuck. I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_00 17:02

And they play on turf or grass. Right, and you play on dirt. You've seen that clip online. We play on synthetic. Synthetic surface. Like a cement, but it's like a cement, but it's got like a resin on top.

SPEAKER_03 17:12

What? You play you don't play on like sand?

SPEAKER_01 17:15

Oh, we play inside. Depends where you go. In the States, they have certain uh places where it's like a what do you call it? Hard true. Hard true. Hard true. It's a like a tightly packed sand. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:24

And you play on a hard floor.

SPEAKER_01 17:26

Yeah, not like this. Not like what we're standing on or concrete. Concrete bounces. So these were they all made by San Valocci? Is that the guy? Here they're made by the city. Yeah, there's a guy called San Valocci. And he makes most of the courts. He's he does it in volume. Oh. And uh it's like uh it's like a resin, but it's a hard surface, but the ball doesn't bounce as much, and that's what we play on. It's a hard surface, 90 foot court, 10 foot.

SPEAKER_03 17:49

We should do uh we should do a live uh live broadcast at the fucking one of the Balci games.

SPEAKER_01 17:54

I'll do it.

SPEAKER_03 17:55

We should do a live fucking webcast, interview some of the players. Oh beat everybody, he's champion everything, expert of none.

SPEAKER_02 18:06

Hey, if you go to Calabria, you mention Rocco right away, they're gonna give a 1415 title. I went to the hockey championship, I win the Bolshev championship, I win the soccer championship, I swim. One time I swim from fucking Calabria to England, I fucking swim. And my arm was sore, I had a bandage because I break from the five fight one fucking hand I swim to England. Fuck. Hey, oh yeah, okay. Yeah, but uh every time I challenge him, I want to come though.

SPEAKER_03 18:32

Who me? Now you I can't swim, dude.

SPEAKER_02 18:34

See? Anyone compete with it?

SPEAKER_03 18:36

Yeah, but me, I've seen you swim too. It's like a like a fucking dead seal on the fucking picture.

SPEAKER_04 18:42

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 18:43

Anyway, I think. It's fine, whatever. It's you know, is there a butche hall of fame? You guys should create one. Oh, you haven't?

SPEAKER_00 18:54

There is one now. Where is it? It's at our club, at the Chucharo Club in Woodbridge. Oh, Chucharo. I know there's Chuchado. You know?

SPEAKER_03 19:00

Yeah, where hold on, where is that? Do they have do they have a dance every there Sunday nights or something? Shout out to seven. My mom goes there.

SPEAKER_01 19:07

Very good. Yeah, but there's Veneto, there's Veneto in Austin Street.

SPEAKER_02 19:10

I know, down the street. I know. My uh mom goes there every Sunday night. The Chuchato. My wife and friend over there, Fan Barbacuna, I enjoy myself over there. I start to fight over there too. Hold on a second.

SPEAKER_03 19:30

I'm gonna get back to the Chuchado Club.

SPEAKER_02 19:32

Oh, that's just across the street from moments.

SPEAKER_03 19:35

There's an actual is indoor courts there? Yeah, yeah. In the club? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:39

That photo you looked at earlier with the two guys with the belts. That's there. That's that's that's nice. I've been there one time. Nice.

SPEAKER_03 19:45

Yeah, we should do a live podcast there. Beautiful, though. Like when you guys have a when do you guys go? Saturdays? What is it?

SPEAKER_00 19:51

No, we're Wednesday nights. When we're running our when do you run again? In uh September.

SPEAKER_03 19:55

Oh, yeah, we're gonna do it. Beautiful. We're gonna come in September. We're gonna do play by play. Oh, yeah. We're gonna do fucking play by play.

SPEAKER_02 20:02

Yeah. You can't talk loud, man. Yeah, you can't. No, you can't. We have to make the season. No, no, you understand. You have to have the etiquette, my friend. Oh, but I tried to tell you something. You cut me off before. I told you how come when the English people they play, it's nice and civilized. When Italian play with the Le Palle, if a fight is time, it ensue. A fight is gonna ensue. Why? The English people they roll, they make a mistake, you lose. Thank you. Good night, right then. Well, the next week the Fatsuluculakuse. That's a fucking problem. That's in the culture.

SPEAKER_03 20:36

First of all, I think you're mistaken because I don't think English people play bocce.

SPEAKER_02 20:40

They play lawn bowling.

SPEAKER_03 20:41

That's not bocce.

SPEAKER_02 20:43

I just told you they use different things. I'm not talking about the bocce. And even in that game in England, if some people are gonna lose, some people are gonna win. It's how you carry yourself for professionalism. Okay, so what is that gonna do this? I'm saying people the more educated.

SPEAKER_03 21:03

Anyway. Ooh, Italians are nervous no matter what they do, man. They get fucking nervous about everything. That's why they have that place called Cafe Nervosa, doubt. That's right. Everybody gets fucking nervous all day.

SPEAKER_02 21:13

That's right.

SPEAKER_03 21:13

You know what I mean? That's what I mean.

SPEAKER_02 21:15

Do you do they drink? What do they do at three o'clock in England? They drink tea. They drink tea. What do they do all day in Italia? They drink espresso.

SPEAKER_03 21:25

And they're fucking and nervous. Lose. They drink lose. Hey, how many gallons? How many espresso do you drink a day?

SPEAKER_02 21:31

I I cut them back now. I used to drink about 40 a day. I cut them back now 25, 26 tops.

SPEAKER_03 21:38

So does it still smell like uh fresh coffee when you pee?

SPEAKER_02 21:42

No, when I go jogging, yeah. When I go like yesterday, I went jogging. I went from here, I went to Capascasing yesterday. Quick run. Okay, I watch the soccer. As soon as I take off my shoes, they burn. They burn, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:56

Electricity. You can smell the coffee in my shoes. Yeah, oh, that's through the and they'll let me shut.

SPEAKER_02 22:01

Oh fuck, bad, bad.

SPEAKER_03 22:02

Yeah, so that you're down to from forty a day to that's yeah, that's not bad. I do ten a day. You do ten? You think that's why the Italians are so wired? Yeah, we're fucked up, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 22:12

Yeah, yeah, probably. Espresso, yeah. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 22:15

But I don't understand what happened. Soccer. We drink so much coffee, we fucking lost to Bosnia. Fuck. I kill them again. You see these fucking cafonies yesterday, what they did, they got fucking killed. We lost to those fucking people that can't even play soccer. We lost to them. Just think how bad the we fucking are.

SPEAKER_03 22:35

That's embarrassing. I can't, you know, what's that? The Conga? What the fuck is that all about?

SPEAKER_02 22:40

Oh, Congo, those guys. Hey, listen to me if it's Tony.

SPEAKER_03 22:42

They're good, though.

SPEAKER_02 22:43

Those African people, I know those. You know, you know, I I I train in Africa too, you know. Oh, right. I train a couple of guys over there. They go jogging sometimes 40-50 fucking miles. They don't even have a running shoes. Yeah, they that's they go barefoot. I'm not lying. Yeah, I know. I believe you. The Nigerian guys or the Ethiopia, those fucking guys. Holy shit. Imagine those guys, the thieves in Africa. They're even faster than the marathon runners.

SPEAKER_03 23:08

They're stealing their run. They fucking run. They have to, they have no choice. Exactly. You know what I mean? And it's uh gas there is like $40 a gallon. It's fucking crazy, Tony. Anyway, yeah, it's a shame. You know, now we're gonna watch uh we're gonna do the we did the prediction show after the round of 16. We're gonna go and revisit that and see how good you were.

SPEAKER_01 23:28

Well, we're gonna see.

SPEAKER_03 23:29

We're gonna do an analysis.

SPEAKER_01 23:31

What do you think about Canada coming up? You think they'll beat them?

SPEAKER_03 23:36

No, no, no, Morocco? No, no? No, they don't know. They won't even score a goal. No?

SPEAKER_02 23:41

They can't, they can't. Morocco's defense is too good.

SPEAKER_03 23:44

Too good. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:46

No, you can't. Canada can't competition uh Morocco.

SPEAKER_03 23:50

No.

SPEAKER_02 23:50

Those people they have nothing to live for except the soccer. There's no reason to fucking live over there. You see those ladies over there? It's a fucking 95 degrees. They got to Lula Bulu Boosto and Kara in Kappa Kassini. Go to Sudataka. Take your clothes out, relax, pull up.

SPEAKER_03 24:06

It's again, so you can't do it.

SPEAKER_02 24:08

They go to jail if they take their clothes off. That's what I mean. So Canada, they fucked. You're dealing with the fucking people. Think about it.

SPEAKER_03 24:15

I don't know. We're Canada. This is what fucking really I get it. Go ahead. I'm gonna have to make my point, you know. In Canada, Canada's in it, they're in the final 16. I don't I see maybe one or two cars with Canadian flags. But I see fucking hundreds with fucking Portugal and fucking Bosnia and Surasia. How come we're all in Canada? How come we don't fucking put Canadian flags on our car?

SPEAKER_02 24:41

Because we have a problem in this country from the beginning. I know what it is. You know what it is a tutorial. We talked about it before. It's called the multiculturalism. Yeah, multi-culturalism. If you have multiculturalism, you don't have a unified country. That's true. Okay, so everybody doesn't learn to enjoy everybody. Everybody learns how to hate everybody else. I got to my zone, L Italia. I got to my zone, blood clot, Jamaica. I got to my zone Croatia. I got to my everybody got the fucking zone. So if you want a party, you gotta go to Little Jamaica. If you want a villa fucking zone.

SPEAKER_03 25:15

They're like little ghettos all over Toronto. That's what I mean. You have Little Italy, little Greek Transformation.

SPEAKER_01 25:21

What's going on in Vaughn?

SPEAKER_03 25:22

Vaughn, Porcaria. I don't know. Why is it a big thing? It's porcaria now, it's getting even more porcaria. No, it's not good. It's a lot of Italians still there. Oh yeah. They're moving north to Kleinberg.

SPEAKER_01 25:33

Kleinberg, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:34

You know, they went from Jane and Shepard there in the German. Yeah, Jane and Wilson. I know, but they went from Jane and Wilson when they first came like Driftwood, and then they moved north, right up, yeah, Jane and Keel, right to high to up north to the Highway 7. Yeah. Woodbridge. Oh, yeah. Then the Riffraff came in there. Now they're moving fucking north again. So I don't know what the mix is, but how many you have some Pandir Sings playing in your league? Probably not.

SPEAKER_01 26:02

Indian players. We had a couple. No. Two. Ravi and disappear. No, they didn't disappear. No, no, they were yeah, no, they're good. Good people. They were there. We had we're multicultures. Mostly Italians and Canadians, but it's men, women, it's a good mix.

SPEAKER_03 26:21

Oh, you have women playing. Do you have women's league or just it's a mix? It's coed.

SPEAKER_01 26:25

Coed social rec league.

SPEAKER_03 26:27

So listen, guys, you know, I mean, you know, it's something interesting. I I had always enjoyed playing butch, actually. Well, that's my condolences. I know. I thought I always had a lot of fun playing it, you know. You like playing butch? I put fucking backspin on it, fucking side skin. Same way Plus.

SPEAKER_02 26:41

You ever see play golf him with this guy over here?

SPEAKER_03 26:43

No, I suck at golf.

SPEAKER_02 26:44

I went to wear him with golf a couple times, you know. You know what happened? He drives the cart, standing up on the cart with a nine-iron, and he smashed all the fucking trees. Then he steals your ball and he writes fuck off on the ball. He puts it back when you shout. Nice. And then I take your ball and I put a marshmallow there.

SPEAKER_03 27:00

He puts a marshmallow in place of your ball. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:02

He doesn't go that far. I got kicked out of the club because of that. Kick him out, the rich people. Get out. No, I what do you mean, rich people?

SPEAKER_03 27:07

I got 11 warnings and then I quit. Holy shit. Of course. For different pulses.

SPEAKER_01 27:12

Thornhill. Eleven warnings. Yeah. Well, that's a lot of fun. Oh, because I'll tell you a story about that club.

SPEAKER_03 27:17

I'm going to tell you because they're fucked over there. Oh, yeah. They didn't want any Italians in there. So I applied eight times to get in there before you know the demographic change. No, never let us in. It's all you had to be like you have a name like Earl or Sears or McDavid or not Comparelli. Okay. So you couldn't get in. Finally, they I guess the enrollment, you know, the club's been there since 1922. So it's over a hundred years old. I joined, I think, in 2009. And and so finally they let us in because you know they had the a shortage of uh you know people wanting to pay 60 fucking G's to join a uh a private golf course, right? No problem. So we get in there, they let a handful of Italians in there, right? And that's that's what you did. So what no, then you know, I mean, at the end of the day, you know, we're the only ones uh spending money there, right? Because you know what I mean. We would we'd bring our friends, we're drinking beer, we have our parties there at corporate events there. You know what I mean? We fucking contribute, right? But you know, they they fucking you know, one day the guy comes up, he says, Do you uh I'm with my friend Al, the guy used on you know the Versa Bakery, you know, over there. Hey, uh, do you mind if we play if I play with you? Yeah, uh kind of, yeah, I do. I don't want to fucking play with this guy. Go on with my friend. Can you just play with the guys behind us? What do you have to fucking play with us for? Oh, he got so offended, and I'm not a good uh member. That was one incident, you know. So then I'd have a little marker, I'd pick up the ball because he would they would hit it, you know, while we're still hitting, just to piss us off, right? They're not being nice, yeah. So I'd pick up the ball and go, go fuck yourself.

SPEAKER_01 28:58

Put the right in the back. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 29:00

I would pick up their balls if they hit so so that was one, and then there was these four ladies, you know, they're fat fucking pigs that were there, and they would just play so slow because they knew we were see because we never walked. We're the only one always carts, carts. Italians always took carts. Nobody's walking, none of the Italians walk. Oh, these guys, I've got to go get our exercise, dude. Anyway, so we're at a hole, and then I I started talking because there was one hole where you tee off, and then the tee off is on the other side, so you're right beside each other. And then the four fat soles were there. And I said, uh, hey yeah, what do you think this this golf course was in you know, 50 years ago, 100 years ago? I think it was like a cow pasture, like there are a lot of cows roaming around here, right?

SPEAKER_01 29:42

That's what you said.

SPEAKER_03 29:43

Yeah, and they got, oh, what do you mean? Yeah, I think there's a few cows still in the in the roaming around the course. I'm a jail. I got a warning for that one. Yeah. Well, they don't even know it was you, you know. They kind of just they just send a lot, they don't even say it's you, they just say it was the Italian. It's you know you gotta calm down. Then I got hit once. I'm there and I I I'm chipping onto this hole, and all of a sudden, bah, the fucking ball hits me in the ribcage.

SPEAKER_01 30:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:09

I look around. I wonder why. Fuck, that thing could have fucking killed me, dude. It hit the ground, it hit me. I was just chipping onto the green. I took some fucking, I took the driver out of my club, my bag, and I started walking toward this fucking guy with my driver. I said, You didn't yell for you, fucking smash your fucking head with this club, you know. And he goes, Oh yeah, I didn't see you. Doesn't matter if you didn't fucking see me. Like we're we're playing the course. You gotta have respect. Who the fuck are you? Oh, I'm a member guest. Who's your fucking member? And so anyway, that was another warning.

SPEAKER_01 30:41

Was that warning number two?

SPEAKER_03 30:42

Uh and then I got suspended because this guy attacked me. Same thing, another fucking guy, the the the the chairman of the board or whatever, the fucking guy. He was playing and they were again uh shooting the ball, like landing feet from us. So I my son, I said, this is three times pick the fucking ball, throw it back at him. This is a fucking, you know, the guy gets in his car and he's fucking driving, you fucking cocksuckers. He swear to me. So I take my club out of my bag, and he said that I fucking swung it at him and broke his fucking hybrid. That's what he said. I don't know, but I lost his hybrid. Yeah, I sm he said I smashed him with the club and broke his hybrid. You know, I got a little, I don't know if it's true. I didn't see it break, to be honest with you. I didn't swing shit. But at the end of the day, I got testing its durability, I got putting it. I got it suspended for that and then I quit after that. That was the last try.

SPEAKER_01 31:34

When you know they fucking Frank, I don't know if we can have these guys at Bush. No, that was here. I'm calmed down a little bit. Yeah, I got toned it down a little bit. Actually, I could say something. You're talking about how they didn't want you there in the beginning. Yeah. Frank, we could talk about this. When you first started calling around, when we first tried to get into the facilities, what happened?

SPEAKER_00 31:51

Yeah, yeah. Calling um around for permitting. For what? Uh for the city.

SPEAKER_01 31:56

To get in to start our league four years ago. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:58

And uh first thing I said was, uh, you know, I'd like to rent the place, and he laughed at me. He says, You're you're not getting in here. Because we were younger, and they're like, you guys aren't gonna get time. The old the older generation have this from morning to night. They had a monopoly on on all the computers.

SPEAKER_01 32:13

But you're Italian. Don't matter. They looked at us. Don't even bother.

SPEAKER_00 32:17

Who are you guys?

SPEAKER_01 32:17

They laughed us out of town. Because of your age.

SPEAKER_02 32:19

Yeah, yeah. Not because of your culture.

SPEAKER_00 32:22

No, because of the age. And then even when we got our our place or the community center in Vaughn, we showed up the first day. Oh, they gave us your story. They gave us a couple of things. They didn't want to give it, give up the place to us. Smash anybody?

SPEAKER_01 32:35

Yeah, we pulled out a golf club, right? Oh, you didn't smash it. No, we didn't.

SPEAKER_03 32:39

I would have taken a box of ball. I said, listen, I give you two choices.

SPEAKER_01 32:44

You let us lose it, or we're gonna shove this up like it was uh it was surprising because you would think that the older generation would like to see the younger guys play. A lot of them did, but a lot of them were just like, oh, you're taking our court time. So there was a resistance for us until we got to Chucharo Club, which is a private social club, and then we had more like freedom there. There's a bar. That's a different. We got uh Tomaso, the bartender. I don't know if you guys have seen him on our page, Capitano Calabrese guy. He's very good character. Yeah, you can't.

SPEAKER_03 33:09

Say hello uh Tomas' name, Tomaso. Tomaso, Tomaso, yeah. All right, what's his nickname? Does he have a nickname too?

SPEAKER_00 33:15

The captain. Captain. There you go.

SPEAKER_03 33:17

He must be is he is he is he short?

SPEAKER_01 33:19

No, he's a he's a regular Calabrese. Regular short Calabre bartender. But anyway, yeah, so when we went to Chochado Club, we had more freedoms, right? Because a private club, we got four courts, like uh for four hours, you know, and uh there's a bar. There's a bar, yeah. There's a bar. That's the main thing. That's the main thing. So high music.

SPEAKER_03 33:37

How long does a game last usually?

SPEAKER_01 33:39

We do uh two rec in the rec league, okay? You you have in our regular league, it's teams of two. Right. You play uh first team to reach 11 points or highest score after 25 minutes. So you play twice in an hour. So if you're paired up team A versus team B, you play a game. Once it's done, we reset like everybody starts again at the same time, half an hour later, and then you play again. And that's it. And within an hour, you get two games, and that's it for your your week.

SPEAKER_02 34:07

Okay, so you're talking that we're talking regional, not regional, right? Okay, let's talk international. Let's talk international. I'm brought them where I fight all over the world, you know. So international now. Do they have a champion uh boccia and the best?

SPEAKER_01 34:21

Yeah, who's the best?

SPEAKER_03 34:22

Do you have Ronaldo Abocci?

SPEAKER_01 34:24

There is a bocci. Of course. Yeah, they're champion, they're very good, eh?

SPEAKER_02 34:30

They put a lot of juice on the ball, yes, I'd appreciate this.

SPEAKER_01 34:33

So, so uh in 2024, bocci was in the bid to become an Olympic sport. And they lost out to breakdancing. Breakdancing was selected instead of bocci. Because they I think out of uh don't call me, but they were saying that Italy right now is a little bit too dominant. And uh yeah, they're very good. I think they're better at bocce than soccer. That's nowadays, that's for sure. Well, that's for sure. Something like that. But anyway, they were saying once the rest of the world catches up or there's more even, then uh then they'll they'll reconsider. Again, don't call me on that. That's what I think I remember hearing.

SPEAKER_03 35:05

But wow, so bocce an Olympic sport. That's freaking interesting.

SPEAKER_02 35:11

Well, I think it to make a that's a nice idea if you think about it. It would be pretty cool. Because there's a level of stuff. For example, you have a lot of people, they play like a hobby, they're yoking out tennis. Right? And now they have your game, you play pickleball.

SPEAKER_03 35:24

I don't fucking play pickleball. You play pickleball. It's a good game. I know I play once in a just because you know, it's kind of boring to me. It's like a little old person types.

SPEAKER_02 35:34

You have a different level, like uh, you know, like a water. Uh you got a creek, the river, the lake, the ocean. Same thing with sport, different level. If you go to a Rose Court Park, you play tennis at a certain level. Then if you go to Shorewood Garden, you you know, people they rented the court today a little bit better. Are you talking about I'm talking tennis? Tennis. So there's a different level in tennis. If you go to Chapman, look at it, look at Italian tennis player today. They all go through it wimbled on. Okay, but you need skill to play.

SPEAKER_03 36:00

Do you really need skill to play buttons? But but yeah, you don't realize.

SPEAKER_02 36:05

He doesn't realize at that level, you never seen that level. You always see the guys that are playing the park. What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_03 36:10

I did my I did my research.

SPEAKER_02 36:12

Yeah, but you can't play, though. I know.

SPEAKER_03 36:15

I go, like, what why is this so what's so challenging about this? Where's the skill?

SPEAKER_00 36:21

Yeah, there's it's challenging, it's tough. There's a lot of strategy involved in the game, too.

SPEAKER_01 36:25

International rules, I'll just try to keep it quick. You can't just hit whatever you want. You have to call the ball you want to hit. Wow. It has to hit that ball first, or it's a foul.

SPEAKER_03 36:34

What happens with a foul?

SPEAKER_01 36:35

Well, I calling it that's not really called that, but basically the opponents have option to replace the balls where they were. That's why the referee goes to the top. It's like call shot in pool in bowlers. So you have a referee? Yeah, there's referees. No kidding.

SPEAKER_03 36:48

Does he wear a striped shirt?

SPEAKER_01 36:49

No, not at all. No, no, they shouldn't. They don't. Wait, how do you know? They wear this. I know, I just want to jump in. They were do they were the Pornhub fucking extreme bug? Whatever. Depends what time.

SPEAKER_02 37:03

They do it outside.

SPEAKER_03 37:05

Yeah, what are some of the names of the teams? Come on. Let's hear some of these names.

SPEAKER_01 37:08

In our in our league. Yeah, well, just generally. There was only bocce fans. That was a good one. Only bochi fans. Rompa Pale, Pali. Rompa Pale. Shak Papale. Rompa Pale. Uh Palegrossi.

SPEAKER_04 37:17

Palegrossi. That's a nice one. What other teams we've got there? Bochi.

SPEAKER_03 37:22

Let's translate. Yeah. Rompa Pale is Break Ball. Big balls. Big balls.

SPEAKER_01 37:28

What other one? Uh Shakpa Pali. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 37:31

Wash your ball. Wash your balls.

SPEAKER_01 37:33

That's the next one. Kiss my palino. Kiss my palino.

SPEAKER_02 37:35

Kiss my little palino. Little ball. Kiss my little one.

SPEAKER_01 37:38

Come on. Let's go. What else we got? Well, tap that. That's that's one. Tap that. Tap that's not nothing to do with balls. Is that the tape? No, it's there's those are the that's you're going to restart the comic of palerote.

SPEAKER_02 37:50

That's why we call ours pale broken balls.

SPEAKER_03 37:52

Broken balls. There's old. How about the uh palaceleste? Pale yellow balls. How about how do you say blue balls?

SPEAKER_02 38:01

See, that's it.

SPEAKER_03 38:02

That's a we should call it a nice one.

SPEAKER_02 38:04

Orry balls. Harry balls.

SPEAKER_03 38:08

Fuck. I like that one. How do you say that? Pale Pelosi. Pale Pelosi. Was it Pale Pelosi? Holy shit. That's a Harry Ball.

SPEAKER_02 38:16

Well, you play with. I play with Harry Balls.

SPEAKER_03 38:19

I like that one.

SPEAKER_02 38:19

I used to go to school with him, Harry Balls.

SPEAKER_03 38:21

Yeah. There was a guy still.

SPEAKER_02 38:24

Yeah. I used to.

SPEAKER_03 38:25

There's a guy used to work with his name was Harry Organ.

SPEAKER_02 38:28

Harry Organ, yeah. The Chinese got real estate over there, uh, agent court. His name is Harry Wang. Harry Wang. Yeah, that's a real fucking name. That's a real. You heard him and Mikey. Immobiliario.

SPEAKER_03 38:40

Mikey, have you heard of him? Come put in Mike, Mike. Are you awake over there, Mike? Okay, how do you say Harry Balls? That's the name of our team. Palipalosi. Pali Pelosi. So that's great. I should sign up. Palipalosi's got Harry Balls. So Bocega, let's recap the uh let's recap the names. Okay. Okay. There's there's a lot.

SPEAKER_01 39:00

Yeah? Come on. I'm gonna look some up as we talk. But I'll tell you one thing. Yeah. If you guys come into our rec league, you're gonna lose to every single team. That's how good they're gonna be. No fucking chance. No chance. No fucking chance. I won't win. But they're they're gonna be a good one.

SPEAKER_03 39:13

I won't lose one game. Maybe I'll lose one game. I'm gonna have my shirt, Harry Ball's shirt. It's gonna be like two balls and hair. With hair growing out of them. That's it. Oh, you're okay. So you're researching the names? Because we need some more names. This will be uh yeah, boce league team names.

SPEAKER_01 39:34

We have yeah, you guys keep talking in the middle.

SPEAKER_02 39:36

Okay, we have uh blue balls, hairy balls, palerotte, broken balls, yeah, big balls, big grande pale, and we'll see. Oh, kiss me.

SPEAKER_03 39:53

Yeah, funculos. That was fun.

SPEAKER_01 39:56

Anyway, yeah, different names. People make fun names and stuff. Yeah, I like it. We used to play volleyball, same thing. What were we called? Oh suck my block. Suck my block.

SPEAKER_03 40:04

Oh, how do you say suck my balls in Italian? Suck a leball.

SPEAKER_02 40:10

Come on, you can say a lot of different ways of Le Palle. So how do you say sugo le palle? No, lu Alecame Le Palle, la lecata di palle, you can say those kind of things.

SPEAKER_03 40:20

But you have to control what's the difference what's the rump uh uh broken balls or hairy balls. Listen and sucked by balls. What's the difference?

SPEAKER_02 40:28

If you say le palle rote, that's one thing when you get pissed off all Italia. If somebody says Mr. Rote Le Palle, you work all day, right? Right, that means they got right? But if you say, that's a little bit more personal. Somebody lick your balls. You see what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 40:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:48

One one is acceptable. We got some names, yeah. Okay, here we go. Boys.

SPEAKER_01 40:52

There's Lucky Luchani. Nice one. Wow, mission and bocce ball. Hang on, old ballers, old balls. Old balls. Nice one. Rolling Stones, Shakwabali. We already said that one. Good one. What's Shakwapali again?

SPEAKER_03 41:05

Wash your balls. Wash your balls.

SPEAKER_01 41:07

Have that. Untouchables. Yeah, it's just different. Like, there's uh that's good. There's about 32 teams.

SPEAKER_03 41:14

Frank, you keep track of your full your watch. You gotta be in a hurry, you gotta go somewhere. Okay, time of one day. What the fuck's going on? Are we fucking keeping you awake over there? Are we interested? What the fuck's going on?

SPEAKER_02 41:23

We didn't talk about what the prize money is. Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_00 41:25

So what do you win if you're champion? So our our league, we don't do prize money. Cash prize. We don't do cash. It's a rec league. Yeah, you're playing for trophies. You win wine, espresso cub.

SPEAKER_03 41:36

You win you win wine with the fucking espresso cup. You win wine with the misspelled label. That's right. And you don't know what the fuck's in size is sometimes.

SPEAKER_00 41:44

But our tournament there, that our last tournament we have, we did uh $10,000 in prizing. Yeah. And our next one, next tournament, next April, which will be okay.

SPEAKER_03 41:52

Put the image on, Mike. So tell us about your upcoming uh look at that wow. That one there. See, okay, so yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:00

See, we got it uh that one that one there is uh April 2015. When is that being held? Chuchado Club. That's our home, that's our home base. Yeah, yeah. So we're aiming for our biggest one, 32 teams of four. Um, and that will be a ten thousand dollar first prize. That's nice. And how much does it cost to enlist on 32 teams? Uh it's 800 bucks for the team. Mike, put that up again. Yeah. But uh yeah, that will include that 800 bucks is three days, but it includes your food. So we feed you so 800 bucks per team?

SPEAKER_01 42:31

No, yeah, exactly. Four players.

SPEAKER_03 42:34

And where how can how can people join? So our our multicultural fan base can fucking join budget. You don't need to be an expert to play, right? No, no, you don't. Because really, there's no talent required to throw a ball down the fucking. No, there's a talent. So just to let you know, you guys can join. There's really no talent. You get nine games guaranteed, 10G winning prize, and it's April 29th of May 1st, 2027. Right. Okay. And you don't have to be an expert. No, no, but the tech talent. It takes a talent. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 43:03

You can go drive a car. Do you drive a car? Of course I drive a car. How come you don't drive an F1 then if you're so talented yourself? Brother Robert. Because I don't drive F1. You're not a fancy car. Why don't you drive F1? I know why. Sure, I have the fucking talent. That's then I want to see you in extended fucking Hamilton next fucking week.

SPEAKER_03 43:22

I could drive an F1.

SPEAKER_02 43:23

Well, you think so?

SPEAKER_03 43:24

What's so fucking hard about driving? Have you ever been? Exactly the point.

SPEAKER_02 43:28

What's so hard about F1? Most people are scared to go thus speak. Hold on a second. Budget is the same thing. You don't know the game.

SPEAKER_03 43:34

I've taken my cars on the track.

SPEAKER_02 43:36

So how'd you do?

SPEAKER_03 43:37

Very well, actually. Did you win? Well, then I went by myself.

SPEAKER_01 43:39

So what kind of car are you taking on that?

SPEAKER_03 43:43

Well, you know. I have a few. I had a I had a I have a few cars that I took on the track, but I don't drive that fast. I don't have that uh you know, one's you know, 700 horsepower, the other one's you know 400 ninety.

SPEAKER_01 43:57

What transam? 77 trans? What the fuck?

SPEAKER_03 44:01

77 transam's got 283 horsepower. 79. Oh, so you got a big car.

SPEAKER_02 44:06

No, I don't have a clarity got the whatever. I go over my feet as fast as you fucking car.

SPEAKER_03 44:13

Rokorumba murum. You're the fucking you flip your Fred Flintstone in.

SPEAKER_02 44:16

Oh, you put.

SPEAKER_03 44:21

Yeah, yeah. Did you ever bang would you bang Betty if you I'll bang her right now? I hope my weapon all this is a Flintstone man.

SPEAKER_04 44:26

Yeah? Betty or Wilmot?

SPEAKER_03 44:30

I don't know. I've seen on Extreme Butchet Pornhub, I've seen some uh some comics, you know, like they they have the Simpsons doing pornification. No, they're not posting. They have uh the Flintstones doing portification, they have the family guy. You know what I mean? It's all on porn uh extreme butcher porn hub.

SPEAKER_04 44:49

Holy shit.

SPEAKER_01 44:51

That was that was a great segue. Tell us about your tournament, and then we got into fucking Simpsons Pornhub website. Well, what do you expect?

SPEAKER_03 44:58

You fucking lift your logo off a Pornhub website. What do you expect's gonna happen? Now everybody knows. Here's the thing. This is a digression podcast logo. Here's the thing, right? It's probably how a what kind of a degenerate I am that would know that fucking logo.

SPEAKER_02 45:15

Not only that, but we between us, we have an ADHD. Of course. We can't last them more than 30 seconds once object change. Oh fuck.

SPEAKER_03 45:23

Yeah, see a lot of podcasts, they just it there's a lot of dead space. Like, okay. They go, okay. Anybody gonna say anything? We can do that. We change gears all the time. We don't make sense. We don't get it. We go like F1, like this. Downshift, upshift, downshift. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Anyway, uh, wow, that's really interesting.

SPEAKER_02 45:44

You know something? I just realized something, Tony. These guys have a very good idea. I think they should have that day, and uh next year 2027, they have to have two tournaments that day. They gotta call it the before tournament and after tournament. Let me explain.

SPEAKER_01 46:01

Okay, go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 46:02

You start to play, right? Then you drink one bottle of wine each, then you throw the fucking ball.

SPEAKER_03 46:07

You see what happens. That would be great. I think you should have a tournament. Everybody's gotta be bombed. You gotta be smashed. Bumps in the fly in your head, the broken hand, the punch in the face. Okay, Mike, put that picture up the bars. How do people one more thing I meant to ask you? So, how do people enroll in the league or to the tournament?

SPEAKER_00 46:25

The tournament's 32 teams. No, but how do you join? So through Instagram, DM.

SPEAKER_03 46:31

So what's the hashtag extreme boceages? Well, just come to our page.

SPEAKER_00 46:35

At Extreme Boce League on Instagram. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 46:38

So guys at Extreme Bucce League on Instagram. Right. Check it out, fellas and girls and ladies.

SPEAKER_00 46:44

And then register there. Um so 24 teams from last year. Obviously, we'll get the invite first. First, of course. Yeah, that makes sense, yeah. And then we're we're adding eight spaces so that we we know for sure there's eight spots open right off the bat. So yeah, we're going for 32 teams this year. When does registration open? I mean January. January. January.

SPEAKER_03 47:04

Okay, January 2027 registration opens. It's a little bit away, but where when does the league start? September? September. So we're gonna go pull a play-by-play in the league and we'll do it. And the league, how do you register for the league? How many are you full already for the league?

SPEAKER_01 47:17

So the way the league works is uh it's it's we have 32 teams, and usually we give loyalty to the previous whoever played the last season, which ended in April. April. Okay. And then if all those 32 teams sign up, then that's it. We're full. But if two teams drop out, then we open it up to nice. That's nice. So the same thing. DM on Instagram, and just like so.

SPEAKER_03 47:39

We're gonna make a plan. You guys stay in touch, and we're gonna come and do uh a play by play. Yeah, let's do it. Oh yeah, but yeah, sure. We just walk around, we've got some interviews. Yeah, we can do it. We can interview with Harry Balls, the team. Harry Balls, yeah. Yeah, you guys are Harry Balls. There is no Harry Balls. Oh no, there's a talk Shak Laval. I want to interview it. Shakapal, I want to interview that team. Yeah, you say I got a one too.

SPEAKER_02 48:08

You could call it Palemutsicati. What's that? And you bite the balls. Now you're stretching. Now you're now you're stretching, dude. What do you mean, stretching? That balls are stretching when you get older. It's called the scorum sacks, my friend.

SPEAKER_03 48:21

I heard they're touching the ground when he walked.

SPEAKER_02 48:23

The fuck? I started at my knees ten years ago now. I can use them for the game. Oh, yeah. They go that far. Oh, yeah, right?

SPEAKER_03 48:31

Oh, I think they made a mold. You know, you ever seen those guys that hang their balls off their trailer hitches at the back of the city?

SPEAKER_02 48:38

Yeah. You kick them in the balls of Kung Fu. Oh, they take it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 48:41

Yeah, yeah. I think they use it as a model.

SPEAKER_02 48:43

You take a real bunch of balls, you put them inside your underwear, say, go ahead and kick my little ball.

SPEAKER_03 48:47

You know what? I think I think I think my dad uh may still have those. I gotta see if they're at his house. You gotta for sure. Because I don't know if they're they've been because when he passed away, I don't know. The the the the couple of the people that went in the the back shed and everything disappeared. I don't know what happened. My mom let oh his boss missing I don't know. I gotta go see classics? No, no, no. These are fucking 80 years old, these balls. He brought them over on the ship in Halifax.

SPEAKER_01 49:14

On the wood crate. You're 21. You're 21, eh? Yeah, man. I remember I went back.

SPEAKER_03 49:23

Five-star whiskey, red cap beer, and that's it. And a shovel and a fucking wheelbarrow. Go here. Oh yeah. Welcome to Canada. Oh yeah. Now they give you a fucking house, welfare, health care, they give you fucking everything you want. Don't even have to work. Go here. Exactly. What do you need? You want to live free education, free school, free everything. Fucking free free. Oh yeah, it's free. What do they give our fucking parents? Kick in the ass.

SPEAKER_02 49:47

I remember when Gnazio came from Las Sicilia. He came, he brought the Lepal from Sicily. There was old his grandfather bottles. He went to park the first shot they took, fucking ball cracking off. Yeah, oh you know.

SPEAKER_03 50:02

Oh yeah. Now you can buy McCannadian tire for like fucking $19.99.

SPEAKER_02 50:06

So you get the color with a different color nice with the La Busta.

SPEAKER_00 50:09

They got La Busta. Or you buy the nice ones for $250 or four. Yeah, for the for the professional.

SPEAKER_03 50:15

Give me a fucking break. That's what it is. That's the biggest fucking scam ever. Very good. What's the difference between a fucking Canadian tire baller and fucking professional balls? Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:26

Canadian tire balls are all uh what's the word there? They have the lines on them. Oh fuck that. That's it, dude. Twigs are smooth.

SPEAKER_03 50:32

Yeah, they're fucking smooth. Smooth and they have the lines on it.

SPEAKER_02 50:37

Nice and smooth. Sure, that's what it's worth $250. That's it. A bag of two got a fashion. That's how we roll it. He's proud of himself. He walked one door, go get a bottle.

SPEAKER_03 50:53

You know what P.T. Bardum say? There's a sucker board every minute. Oh what the fuck? Jackets, t-shirts, oh they got all the merchandise.

SPEAKER_01 51:02

Oh, yeah. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 51:04

We got a bottle of nice, you know, we didn't get a fucking t-shirt or anything, but we've got a nice fucking bottle of wine with this misspelled label.

SPEAKER_01 51:10

Take the label off. When you come in September, we'll have a shirt.

SPEAKER_03 51:13

Oh, we gotta have it. We're gonna do play by play.

SPEAKER_01 51:15

We gotta do a fucking short for you.

SPEAKER_03 51:16

Yeah, we gotta make sure it's a long sleeve for Rocco and a fucking winter jacket for um and a winter jacket for Mikey over there.

SPEAKER_02 51:24

We're gonna give you a too much attention, you know. Rocco show up, get a peepacus in it. Yeah, yeah. Get all nervous a little bit. No break the concentration.

SPEAKER_03 51:33

Break the concentration, man.

SPEAKER_02 51:34

Yeah, you gotta watch it, even though but sometimes people get jealous. That's a bad fucking time for people to get to nervous. You joke about it. The fucking ball, if you take it, it hits somebody in the head from here, I'll kiss out.

SPEAKER_03 51:46

So I know that about boce because it's important because we were very educational. Butcha's original origins date back to 5200 BC. Because polished stone balls in Egypt.

SPEAKER_01 52:03

Yeah, there it is.

SPEAKER_03 52:04

And later, and then the Greeks in Roman adopted the game about 800 BC. Greek physicians even prescribed the game as healthy exercise. Where the fuck are you going? Take that off the screen, Mikey.

SPEAKER_02 52:15

And in Greece, when they start to play bodge in Greece, they start to bumfuck too when you bend over to get your ball. That's right. That's how it started. That's how it started. I know.

SPEAKER_03 52:25

I understand that. Luckily it's changed.

SPEAKER_02 52:28

Italian formalization.

SPEAKER_03 52:29

And I at time at times, modern bocce style we recognize today, at times even utilizing African coconuts as balls.

SPEAKER_02 52:35

The coconut.

SPEAKER_03 52:36

So how do we call our name? How do we call our name African coconuts? That's amazing. How about Italian coconuts? How do you say that in Italian? Bocce di coco. Bocce di coco africani. Africano, okay. There you go. Now, Italian formalization for the nation. For the nation. Bocce developed into its official present-day form in Italy, where the name derives from the Italian word boccia, meaning bowl. A boccia, yeah. In 1753, the first official. Do you guys even know this shit? A little bit. But go on. And you guys run a fucking league. You don't look at directly, man. Okay, I'm gonna ask you a question. The first official rules, regulations for the game was formalized and published in the book by Lou Franceschetti. Lou Franceschetti.

SPEAKER_02 53:21

His name was Raffaele Bisteghi.

SPEAKER_04 53:24

Rafael Bisteghi.

SPEAKER_01 53:25

There you go. 1753. Not Raffaele Bisteg. Yeah, it's a true true story. Is that what it is? It has to be true if it's Rafaele.

SPEAKER_03 53:35

Rafaele Bisteghi.

SPEAKER_02 53:40

He's the guy who formalized the rule. Right. And then there's his brother, Raffaele Bisteg. That's when he have a steak after you play a guitar hunting upstairs.

SPEAKER_03 53:49

Having developed from games played in the Roman Empire, Bocce developed into the present form in Italy, where it's called bocce, bowl, blah, blah, blah. The first form of regulation we describe in the book, Jioco da Bocci, by Rafaela Bisteg. In South America, it's known as boches. Boches, yeah. That sounds right. In southern Brazil, the accessibility of to boce to people of all ages and abilities has seen a grow in popularity among the Special Olympics program.

SPEAKER_01 54:16

So you can be a retard and play for boche. Don't say that, bro. We actually we participated in it. Don't say that.

SPEAKER_03 54:25

You can be special Olympic programs, and now I know I'm gonna get a lot of hate mail for that one. Yes. But it's okay. And now the most played sport among Special Olympic athletes is boce. God bless them. Boce is traditionally played on natural soil, asphalt court, up to 27.5 meters in length and four meters wide. The size of your wife's ass, about four meters. Oh, my wife was six and a half meters. Six and a half meters. Well, the court walls are traditionally made of wood. That's what I remember. Like a building park that the wood with the fucking stone, crushed stone.

SPEAKER_01 54:57

What did you guys play, by the way? Sorry to interrupt you. Where did you play outside? And you played outdoor courts?

SPEAKER_03 55:01

Yeah, I played at Golding Park.

SPEAKER_01 55:02

Where is that?

SPEAKER_03 55:03

Young and Steel's area.

SPEAKER_01 55:04

Young and Steels. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 55:05

They had because we're a lot of Italians in that area, and they put three courts, and then when they then they took them out. Okay, you uh use inflatable bac a bocce PVC courts to their portability, ease of storage. You hear about this?

SPEAKER_00 55:18

Yeah, so that's like uh so our friend's American bocce company, that's what they use a lot. A lot of them pop up bar leaks.

SPEAKER_01 55:25

Yeah, they have the space there for that kind of thing. Like they can play in a bar, they have so much room. Oh they can set up a bocce card. You try to do that here.

SPEAKER_03 55:32

Boce balls can be made of wood, metal, baked clay, or various kinds of plastic. Unlike lawn bowls, bocce balls are spherical and have no inbuilt bias. That's right. What the fuck's an inbuilt bias? An unbiased crooked, a little bit off.

SPEAKER_02 55:46

Yeah, well, and yeah. Like uh balls from hashish. Oh, yeah? Oh yeah? Yeah. That's pretty good. That's how he sold it, you know. So when you want a hash fire, give me some high just go outside, roll down the fucking street to catch it from the smoke.

SPEAKER_03 56:00

Oh, that no, that's that's true. They used to put the fucking they used to open the balls and put the fucking weed in the balls and then he used to deliver. That's how you delivered the weed back up. Lawn bowling wasn't just for throwing balls at a little polite. It was for smuggling. Smuggling too. Smuggling too, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 56:19

And you know, you know, you know, you know, in Argentina, right? They got uh big bird to get a ucheducalo ostrich, a big one, eh? They chase those, uh they hunt those fucking pieces. They have the bolo. So there's two balls like a like a rope like with a sock in it. They swing like this, it goes around the ostrich's neck, and then at the end, pa, the two bricks hit it in the fucking and they knock them out. This is a good thing. If you have a boche ball at you take a go, Marcus will work on a warehouse, right? You buy a construction sock, look at that. You put one pole in there, somebody try to fight at nighttime. You have a dinner with your wife, you go to a restaurant dinner downtown. Hey, buddy, give me your money. A weapon, martial art, yeah. Steven Sigallock. Because I know can do it. I I I heard about that. I heard about it too. I used to use it. Fuck it. Yeah, anyway.

SPEAKER_01 57:09

That hurts too. The steel polino. Steel Polino, too. Steel one.

SPEAKER_03 57:16

Anyway, so the um the um so there's a little history of boche, because you know, everything here we do a little bit of education, history change knowledge, and so that you don't just get a good laugh, you get some education too, right? But I don't know, I think we were even around 5,200 years ago before Christ. No, that's like 7,200 years. Oh, that's too long ago. Are you kidding? How the fuck wouldn't even know? That's what I like to know. They found some rocks. What do you do, but fucking carbon dating on the balls?

SPEAKER_02 57:48

Minus 15 times and divided by 50. 5200 about you.

SPEAKER_03 57:53

Yeah, I mean, how many Italian immigrants were there in 155200 BC? It says Italian immigrants subsequently spread the modern version worldwide.

SPEAKER_02 58:00

I will tell you something. One time, a little, I went to there last year for training. Yeah. I stopped up in a place called Matera.

SPEAKER_04 58:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 58:07

They got a place called Isassi di Matera. Those caves where those people live in Matera go back first of all to 7,000 BC. And before that, there was people there 150,000 years ago.

SPEAKER_04 58:23

Holy shit.

SPEAKER_02 58:24

Okay? So we don't know the detail, you know, the detail, but you can go back 7,000 years ago. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 58:30

How the fuck do they know? That's all I know. What do you mean, how the fuck do they know? Seriously. They said they found uh tomb paintings depicting the sport in stone, polished stone balls. How do they say the open tomb and they go, oh look at those fucking polished stone balls over there? That must be butch. Maybe they used them to play butce.

SPEAKER_02 58:48

You think that's what happened?

SPEAKER_03 58:50

Well, come on. They're gonna use them for massage. Like, who the fuck knows what they use for? Like, how do they surmise that? Hey, I think those balls were used for butcher 7,000 years ago. I'm not a fucking butcher. I'm no fucking Democrat. Okay, I'm no Republican. I'm independent. Oh, yeah? Like my underwear.

SPEAKER_02 59:14

5200 BC. We can go back a long fucking time. If you look down in the morning, you got a couple of balls. Believe me, human beings, they've been around a long time. They figure out how to use these balls too. And you use it for sport.

SPEAKER_03 59:27

So you believe in evolution?

SPEAKER_02 59:29

I don't believe I'm a level of padrete. That's right.

SPEAKER_03 59:31

So why the fuck are you talking about 7,000 years ago?

SPEAKER_02 59:34

What the fuck are you pulling up for your fucking computer? Why use the computer then? I am a fucking computer. Fuck, I know everything. Just ask me.

SPEAKER_03 59:42

Because everything is true on the internet. Everything you read on the internet is true.

SPEAKER_02 59:45

Look at this guy, Raffaello, come siamo Besteghi. Bisteghi. Hiella Madonna, Raffaela Bistecca. He probably owned a hamburger place. His name is really Bob Bistecca. Hold on a second. Let me see if there's a picture of Rafael Bisteghi here. Find him in the cocksucker, but fucking bullshit Raffaele. Let's see. I'm doing a I'm doing a duck duck go search. With all those wild animals over there, they got time to plug in a palla. You gotta fight for your fucking life if you put it to carnage. Oh, look. Fuck it. Check this out. There it is. Rafaele. Fuck it.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:21

They gotta fucking hey. Show that, Mike. This is Raffaele Bisteghi. Hey, fuck. There you go. Let's see. This is the fucking guy, apparently, that invented butching. Or the guy. It's apparently. He looks more like the Twiggy from England. Bisteggy. I mean, back then men wore dresses, you understand? I guess. Like today, you know. See what happened to him? Plimbochi lost his arm.

unknown 1:00:44

No.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:44

You got no fucking arm off. Hold on. Let's see. There's another monument. Oh the monumental DB Rafaela Bisteghi.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:52

So they made a statue of his head.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:54

Holy shit. That's a that's important.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:57

A lot of information here. Holy shit.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:58

I completely hold on a sec. That cannot be him. They got angels floating around. What the fuck is that? Probably not. I think Rafael. No. Bisteghi Rafael.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:10

Which site are you on, guys? We can't. Which site are you on?

SPEAKER_03 1:01:14

I don't know. I don't know that this is weird. Let me see. All Rafaela Bisteghi. There's an Instagram page for this guy. For Rafaela Bistef. Rafael was born in Porto Algero, Brazil.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:25

Imagine how many people follow him. Nine billion. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:28

No, no, no pictures of this guy other than this, the one I showed you. That's a nice one, yeah. Monumento the unless there was something else. Anyway. Well, it's good.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:39

You got any other any other questions for us? What you got? Well, I don't know. I don't know about the lead. How about you guys got questions for us?

SPEAKER_02 1:01:46

I want to know how many games, how many years you play yourself? How many times you played? Are you guys good? Are you guys at what level? Bottom, middle, or champion? Can you play against an Italian champion right now? No, against the Italian channel. No, they're too much. Well, I can play, but can't no, I'm not playing it. Can you beat these fucking? Can I beat? No. No. You're sure you can beat them. No, maybe like a few. Okay, let me ask you this is a very important thing. The quality of these people, they got the La Qualità. What do they got in their game that you're missing in your quality you gain?

SPEAKER_01 1:02:20

Accuracy.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:21

One, two, three. Accuracy.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:22

They're very, they're very they don't like the top players, they don't miss much. They don't miss much. They hit most of the time. I don't know what percentage, but high percentage.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:30

Can you improve your accuracy by more games? Because you gotta be fair to you. You can if those guys play six, seven, twelve games a fucking day, seven days a week, and you play once a week, yeah. You're not gonna be.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:42

There's a big difference. Yeah. So we we got a guy in our our league, Matt. Matthew Lipa with a long head. Uh he went last year to compete in Turkey for precision shooting. For Canada, he represented Canada. Still part of the bocce game. Still part of bocce. Yeah. He's been in the finals to go to Canada. Somehow I ended up there. Yeah, so he's the better player. So this year, actually, there's the worlds coming up in Brazil. So in August, uh Canada will compete against the United States uh female doubles, male doubles, and mixed doubles, and they'll the winner of each uh delegation will go represent their country at the World Games in Brazil in October.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:24

Okay, so now my next question in this one, I think this is a good question too.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:28

Let's say that.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:29

I think that does it make a difference. Is your game affected by the level of physical fitness you have for yourself? Does it matter in this game the physical fitness? Now hear me out now. You need you need the patience, first of all, I think. Yeah. And boy, you need to keep yourself very calm.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:47

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:48

You can't be doing hyperventilation and throw the ball accurate. It's going to affect your stroke, right? That's true. Yeah. It's very important. So, physical fitness. Do these guys that they do physical fitness, even if they walk all day up and down, that's a physical fitness.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:00

Matt seems to be physical fit. But doesn't matter. You don't have to be.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:03

If it doesn't mean that that's what I'm trying to find out. It helps. It helps.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:07

John Daly, John Daly's a big guy, but he's still a top golfer. Right. Tiger Woods started working out and it helps.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:13

Boris Spofsky and Bobby Fisher, the champion chess player, those fucking guys to go sauna, jog every day before they do a match. When you play the match, you're just sitting there, but you fucking brain.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:24

Yeah, fighting 20 guys.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:26

So you need a condition. Plus, that you got endorphin in the brain. I know because I put in my training video. You know, Rock Rombom will kill everybody. It's calm. If your brain is nice and calm from training and sweat and nice, yeah, then what happens? When you concentrate and more focus. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:41

That's why I don't know. It's true, it's true. If you work out and you're in shape, yes, it'll help. It'll help first.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:48

He's a coach a lot of years of hockey. But he he he knows. Remember the great football coach, his name was Vince Lombardi.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:56

Lombardi, Green Bay Pucker. He said once I remember this was very important. Tony, tell me if you agree. He said the fatigue makes cowards of all men.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:09

Oh, look at this, eh? No, I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:13

Because he used to make his guys extra 50 pushes, extra pull-ups after training, extra you know, jumping. And because that's why the Green Bay Packet won and the championship more than once. That's a difference. Right? How you train this boy? You see the way he coached your guys in hockey? Detail, a little things. You don't notice myself. I'm you know, I know a little bit about sport. But I'm talking, I go, what's the matter? You don't look happy. Well, this is missing. This is here. His is uh his strength here. He doesn't keep his manner, he doesn't know how to protect the puck. See, there's a lot of detail over there. But if you're watching like a parent, oh my son did look up.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:48

It's true, right? You don't need it's true. You don't need that much training for bocce. You don't compare it to hockey or soccer or something.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:54

Don't fucking but don't compare bocce to hockey.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:57

No, I'm gonna make a comparison. I'm trying to find out why we're gonna go to Brazil this year.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:03

Because everybody needs an excuse to party.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:06

Well then I don't drink anymore, so I don't go to Brazil.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:10

Actually, well, we travel to the States sometimes. There's certain problem or wherever we go, there's certain tournaments where it's you know depends how how seriously you want to take it. When we used to go years ago, it was more like we would have we would drink a lot, right? How many cases will we get at the border? Yeah. Five cases. Before. Not anymore. So are you guys uh married? Huh? You married? I'm not. Married two kids.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:30

You got two kids. Are you bringing them up? Like are they uh are they doing three-year-old bocing? Uh are they like hockey guys? You got them fucking rolling the balls. No.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:38

You know what? It would probably been a smart thing because uh we my daughter's eighteen, but eighteen. Holy shit, God bless you. Volleyball player, yeah. Uh and my son's 13 and he baseball and hockey.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:50

Oh yeah. I was the 2012?

SPEAKER_00 1:06:53

13.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:54

Oh. Where does he play hockey?

SPEAKER_00 1:06:55

Plays ball hockey at a Downsville. Uh he's a ball hockey guy.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:59

Okay. I have a 2012, so yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:03

Yeah. Well, that's how we start. I mean, we Frank and I met by we were playing ball hockey together. Oh, yeah. Yeah, men's leagues, then uh indoor soccer, then volleyball for many years, right? So we've known each other about 25 years. I got kicked out. And then we started this, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:07:17

But I got banned for life from the Ontario Ball Hockey Association.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:21

Kick them out to everyone. Who was president at the time? I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:24

I got banned for life for a fight. What team? Oh fuck, I don't remember. It was like it was at Clatworthy Arena in fucking Thornhill. Massive brawl. It was a championship game and it was a disaster. Yeah, yeah. They banned every fucking every kid on the every every one of us was banned for life. Yeah. There was like 11 ambulances to fucking we've been in fights before. Oh no, this was like so I I remember like uh like the whole thing started with one of our guys falls down and the guy shot the ball at him, right? It was you maybe you know this guy, um Lesio was the last name. Yeah, no Lessio, uh Claudio Lesio, uh George George Gortzos, he was the kind of the pri like and then there was so these guys were on the team, there was Nick Lapone, like it was all these fucking guys, right? So when a guy falls in, he throws, shoots the the other team shoots the ball while he was down at him, and I'm on the bench, right? And you know, and I was ready at the end of the game, we're winning three to one, whatever. So that was it. We had like it was it was a mess. It was clear the benches, yeah, yeah. And then um so I'm holding my stick because I don't fucking you're gonna come at me, dude. I'm gonna fucking whack you. I don't give a fuck. I'm not gonna I'm gonna defend myself. So the ref comes to me and he throws my stick down on the ground, right? Not a and I didn't do anything. Not a second later, boom, I get kicked in the stomach, like direct, like oh, I go down. And then I pick my stick up again and just to protect myself. But the other guys, the other guys, there was like there was one guy just remember this, like as they like there was they were wrestling and his leg was kind of stretched out, the other guy's leg, you know, kind of like with his ankle, kind of like almost like one of these maneuvers. Oh, yeah. He's fighting. And I see this one of our TPs. Oh no, he just comes, jumps in the air, fucking just snapped his fucking oh, it was uh it was it was unbelievable. That's how brutal it was. Anyway, it didn't matter whether you fought or not, everybody got banned for life. Yeah, there you go. It was no more.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:31

Sounds about right. So that would have been 19.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:35

You get more than then uh that was 19. What year? So it would have been, let's say, uh I would have been in 19 like 99 or something, 98. Hmm. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:46

So since then, no more was that ball, that's ball hockey, right? That's ball hockey. Yeah. No, we've been banned from everywhere.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:51

We we I've in grade 10, we got banned from fucking hockey as we played the teachers and we beat the shit out of them. Nice. We were hitting them and they said no more fucking things. Yeah, that was great 10. That was 1970.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:02

That was like 1978. Yeah, we play on we play on uh Thursday nights, but you just show up to Chicago, we'll be here at all. I toned it down a bit.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:10

I told him, you know, I told you know what I mean. We had one guy, remember the Claudio came. He's telling us stories about you know, the um the Cakers used to always want to fight the Italians. I mean, that's the way it was. Oh, they always wanted to fight us. So when we were playing ball hockey, we were the Italian team, right? Yeah, and everybody always wanted to fucking fight. I don't know why. They always want to scrap with the Italians, you fucking whops, uh blah blah blah blah blah blah. Those racists, let's go, man. You know, those racists you know what I mean. Well, and so what happened? Who would win? Listen, racist. I mean, I I'm fucking blue-eyed and blonde growing up, dude. Blend in whatever.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:46

You can blend in wherever.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:47

You know what I mean? And they because of my last name and my first name. I I hated going to school the first day of school. They called the room the names. Antonio I said, oh fuck. And then, of course, I'm the only one or two Italians in the school, so I got bullied every fucking day. Whether they would fucking, you know, knock the books out of my hand or beat me up in the fucking on the way home or you know, tackle me or just you had the best lunch. Right? Yeah, I had the best lunch. You know, of course. We had the same fucking thing hollowed up bread with pasta in it. You know what I mean? You got older and you're gonna be able to do it. Or fucking sausage, four or five pieces of sausage. No, my friend, Nick from Bonnie.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:25

Yeah, his mother take the Nick, what do you got for lunch? The whole bread like this, and mother used to take out the middle, and she put the macaroni and a brochole, and then soco, and that was the sandwich I did.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:37

Oil oil and everything wrapped in fucking wax paper. Yeah, yeah, fucking everywhere.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:43

Fuck rupe you to tell the butter, I don't fucking care. Hey, rapina sandwich. Remember the rapini sandwich? The garlic inside.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:50

And then once in a while you got peanut butter and jelly on wonder bread.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:53

And then they try the fuck a girl over there. You go with the garlic on your mouth. Hey, you want to get fuck off.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:59

That's the other thing, you know, because they cook with a lot of spices. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 1:12:09

You know what you do? I have a secret. I figure out. You when you have a rapini who like you, you take your girl, you give her lots of rapini with the garlic, turto, and then you bang her.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:19

Nice.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:20

You both stink.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:21

But the cakers didn't know what the fuck a rapini said. What the fuck are you eating dandelions? What the fuck's wrong with you?

SPEAKER_02 1:12:28

Yeah, but the little sandwichini. I remember the cafeteria one, she was hiding like this. She took a little bologna, she's scared to show the sandwich. The Italian girl like that, have a lupalina. Okay, right.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:39

And you should have seen the look on the face when they saw the fucking pet rabbits hanging in the garage upside down, skinned. They went, what the fuck? These are fucking Italians. Oh, what do you mean? Oh, yeah, skinned hanging. Oh, look, you guys got rabbits, uh, nice pets.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:53

I had a friend in Italy, his father used to call him cultivated the rabbit, yeah, and then he lost a jab, right? And then uh his nickname was Cosimo San Zacunigio. Yeah every day they would eat one rabbit because the father lost a jab and they had no more rabbit left. That's right. So the Cosimo San Zacunigio.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:11

All right, guys. Okay, Mikey.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:14

We got a thanks for this.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:15

We want to thank you guys. We don't like to go too long. Uh I was over an hour, right, Mike?

SPEAKER_00 1:13:19

I know it didn't even feel like it.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:20

Well, we have time. Okay, we really appreciate it. You know, like we we've invited quite a few people to come, and as I was saying to you earlier, a lot of people, they you know, they don't show up. They're scared. They're scared. You guys were entertaining, actually. They're fantastic. It was a good show. I liked it a lot. I mean, we gotta go do the the first of all. First of all, I'm actually gonna listen to this one back. I don't listen to them after. I just we just publish them with the level. You ever listen to them? No, sometimes I do when you say. I know, I don't. I I just send you clips, but I never sit there and listen to them. But this one I think is some good shit in there. September, we gotta go on CVC. No, we're gonna do it for sure. So, Danielle and Frank go, right? Uh, thanks for stopping in, guys. We really appreciate it. You know, it was nice for you guys uh to come by. We thank you very much. And if you like what you hear, or whatever, subscribe, follow us, whatever. Um uh we'll uh we'll see you soon. And don't forget, we love you and nobody else. Nobody else.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:12

Ciao, ciao, gracias, you guys. All right.