High-Stakes Rock Paper Scissors, Racing Revelations, and Florida's Kangaroo Kerfuffle

Ever wondered who would win in a penalty kick showdown decided by rock paper scissors? We've got the scoop on US striker Haji Wright and his Coventry City teammate's unconventional method to settle who'd take a crucial shot. It's not just about the soccer pitch, though; we reminisce over our own childhood games and how those simple pleasures translate into the competitive world of sports. Whether you're someone who revels in the gameplay or gets a bigger kick out of being a spectator, we're tackling it all. And if you've ever thought car racing was just about the shiny exteriors, buckle up as we zoom into a discussion about the power beneath the hoods of exotic racers and the unexpected skills needed to navigate those high-octane tracks.

Switching lanes from the adrenaline of racing to the sheer absurdity of Florida life, imagine finding a kangaroo at your local pool—yes, you heard that right! Join us as we hop into the tale of a marsupial mix-up that's too bizarre to miss. We'll also chew over the oddities of Florida's wildlife and pet ownership laws, and share candid reflections on the unpredictability that comes with recording a live podcast. From the laugh-out-loud mishaps to the promise of more unscripted fun, you're in for a podcast episode that's as unexpected and entertaining as a game of rock paper scissors with high stakes.

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Rock Paper Scissors in Soccer Game

Speaker 1 0:01

Have you ever played rock paper scissors ?

Speaker 2 0:04

Yeah , I've never . I've never played rock paper scissors .

Speaker 1 0:51

Have you ever played rock paper scissors ?

Speaker 2 0:54

Yeah , I've never Often man . Man , I've finished eating and I'm burping already . So have you ever played rock paper scissors ? No , when did you first ?

Speaker 1 1:08

play rock paper scissors as a kid .

Speaker 2 1:10

As a kid . Dude .

Speaker 1 1:13

I don't remember . I don't know if I can remember the first time I ever played . You ever think about that .

Speaker 2 1:19

I can barely remember .

Speaker 1 1:21

You ever think about the first time you ever did something . See how far back you can remember , like if you were like okay , the first time I did this . Sometimes , Like I think the first time I played soccer was when I was like uh , I want to say 10 years old 10 years old . 12 years old I was older because my friend got into it when he was younger . I didn't get into it until later , so I was a little bit older .

Speaker 2 1:49

My brain's got a lot of black , sir , from my head injuries , though it's just a black hole , there's a lot of black .

Speaker 1 1:56

Yeah , I think a lot of us are like that .

Speaker 2 1:58

Black emptiness .

Speaker 1 2:00

Well , I wanted to bring this up because I thought this was funny Rock paper or scissors ? Us Stryker wins pre penalty contest before scoring in an English soccer league game . So something about rock paper scissors . I wanted to find out what this was about because I was like when it said rock paper scissors , I was like . This caught my attention . I don't know if they like played before to see who would get the kick . We're going to find out . Here we go . We're heading over to England before out waiting the goalkeeper . United States striker Haji Wright tricked his own teammate . Wright , who plays for Coventry City in England , second tier championship , took part in an impromptu on field game of rock paper scissors with teammate Colom O'Hare to determine who took a penalty in the team's match against Millwall .

Speaker 2 2:59

Oh , so it was like well , if I win , you take it , If you win , I take it .

Speaker 1 3:05

Yeah , if I win , I'll take it . If you win , you take it . Like they're just like divvying up for who's going to get the kick right . That's what I figured this would be , so I wanted to read it . I thought it was funny . Wright wanted and converted this spot kick by sending the goalkeeper the wrong way , setting Coventry on course for a 2-in-1 victory on Sunday . The 25 year old Wright said he went for rock , adding with a smile I had a little delay on my throw . The pre-penalty showdown didn't go down too well with Coventry manager Mark Robbins . I'm going to kill them . Robbins , said jokingly , before saying he preferred there to be a more scientific way for his players to decide who takes the penalty . What's a more scientific way ? I don't know . I think rock paper scissors are pretty straightforward . It only takes five seconds . You determine it immediately .

Speaker 2 3:58

Have you ever went to play it right but then like forgot to To rock paper scissors , maybe like too early ?

Speaker 1 4:12

or Give away your answer too early . Well then you , I don't know . I think it comes down to a trust thing , because I think even Because he was talking about his teammate , right , I think if they know each other well , they're not going to cheat .

Speaker 2 4:25

Have you ever done that ?

Speaker 1 4:27

Have I ? Yeah , oh , yeah , of course , of course . Or you like your friend gives away their answer too early and then you're like okay we need to start over .

Speaker 2 4:35

I started out using both hands .

Speaker 1 4:37

I was just using the one hand also , so my son would do that , he would delay , so like when he was little yeah , yeah , yeah , wait for me to throw , and then he would like throw it right after me and I'm like hey that's not right .

Speaker 1 4:56

It has to be at the same time . That's the same thing . So we've got soccer players playing rock paper scissors out here , but they still won the game . So he took the penalty kick , won the game . That's interesting . It's also pretty funny . Their coach seemed to just laugh it off . I can picture their coach just rolling his eyes like they did what before a penalty kick . Are you kidding me ?

Speaker 2 5:22

He's like he's probably thinking Joker .

Speaker 1 5:25

He's probably like this isn't the first time I've had to deal with this . So yeah , there you go , Rock paper scissors on the soccer field . Now you've never played sports , right .

Speaker 2 5:38

Who told you that ?

Speaker 1 5:38

I didn't tell you that Did you play sports .

Speaker 2 5:40

I'm just saying .

Speaker 1 5:41

Yeah , okay , well , I didn't know . I was wondering . He just don't like sports .

Speaker 2 5:46

No , I just I'd rather play them than watch them . I said , okay , okay , I don't like watching them on TV , that's boring to me , I'd rather play them myself .

Speaker 1 5:56

NASCAR left turn .

Speaker 2 5:58

Yeah , that's so hard . Turn left , turn left , nascar , turn left . You know what NASCAR stands for , right , no , non-athletic sports center or rednecks .

Speaker 1 6:12

I don't think that's very scientific .

Speaker 2 6:15

No , but I heard that one .

Speaker 1 6:16

That's pretty accurate right there it's really funny and , yeah , there's so many people that still enjoy it . You know what I like if we're talking about racing . I like the , the exotics , you know like when they have a race , let's say , over in Italy it's kind of like Grand Prix , but it's like it's like the cars that are on the track are like Porsche , lamborghini , mustang , camaro .

Speaker 2 6:43

Porsche .

Speaker 1 6:43

Lamborghini , like they're all the . They're all the different muscle and tuner cars and exotics , all pitted against each other and they all race each other .

Speaker 2 6:53

So like usually wins . It just depends .

Speaker 1 6:56

And sometimes they'll switch cars , like

Car Racing and Kangaroo in Florida

Speaker 1 7:00

mostly . What I've learned about most car racing is it doesn't matter what the shell of the car is , but just the engine itself .

Speaker 2 7:09

I would think why . I know Lamborghini's are super fast , got a lot of power , but they must not be as fast as like I was led to believe in video games and what you see that's a lie too , because all of those exotics are the Lamborghini team , ferrari team , like they , okay .

Speaker 1 7:27

So when you look up an exotic race , it has every exotic in there and they all run the same power engines . So , in other words , the only time that we see a discrepancy in the the exotics is when they sell us the cars Like McLaren , lamborghini , all that stuff . When they're racing , though , they've got those engines maxed out and sometimes they'll switch out the engines , so like they'll switch out a Ferrari for a Lambo engine or a Lambo for Ferrari engine , or this from a .

Speaker 2 8:04

McLaren engine .

Speaker 1 8:05

Yeah , so if you watch the races , it just depends on what they're running . The shell of the car does not matter compared to what's inside the car , so it could look like a Lamborghini , but they're running something else . Or . Ferrari or whatever . So , yeah , it's quite fun to watch and they are amazing . Like the drivers are vicious , like they're just weaving in out of each other and we're talking a track . That's not a left turn circle Like NASCAR , we're talking like in and out through hills .

Speaker 2 8:37

Yeah , that's much more of a race to me than .

Speaker 1 8:40

Go left . It gets intense , it gets really intense .

Speaker 2 8:45

Go ahead , all right , the next story .

Speaker 1 8:49

It sounds kind of funny , some more weird news Sheriff's deputies corral wayward .

Speaker 2 8:55

kangaroo near pole at Florida apartment complex . How can a kangaroo get into Florida pole complex ?

Speaker 1 9:02

Don't know From the video . We could play the video , but the video it looks like this kangaroo is lost , so we're gonna have to . Yeah , I don't get past the ad here . Oh , ads , ads , ads . There you go . Look at him , look at him , look at these . What ?

Speaker 2 9:23

It's standing at a gate .

Speaker 1 9:25

Bro , they got like the infrared of the kangaroo . What is this ?

Speaker 2 9:29

the army . That kind of looks like some call of duty stuff right there .

Speaker 1 9:33

Now I will say that it would take more than one person , obviously because kangaroos can kick really hard . I mean , you ever get kangaroo kicked ? We're talking like a bus hit you , like they're pretty powerful kicks .

Speaker 2 9:52

I mean it looks like there's at least 40 .

Speaker 1 9:55

Well , I love how the cops are just hanging out around the pool area just like , hey , buddy , you lost . And the kangaroo is not jumping the fence or anything , he's just wandering around the pool .

Speaker 2 10:08

I bet he debated jumping in that pool .

Speaker 1 10:09

He did . It was a pool of water , so that's what he was attracted to . That's great to see a kangaroo in there , like where it is supposed to be .

Speaker 2 10:17

Oh , it's going to the water .

Speaker 1 10:19

If you wanna see this video , it's apnewscom slash oddities and you'll see this article pop up . But oh my gosh , this is hilarious .

Speaker 2 10:30

Definitely . I don't know how it got there . Hopefully it says it in there .

Speaker 1 10:33

Oh , they said they found the animal's owner and reunited them . Let's see , no injuries were reported . So why don't we dive deeper into this ?

Speaker 2 10:43

Tampa , florida . Wayward kangaroo was curled safely by sheriff's deputies Thursday after it spotted hopping around the pool area of a Florida apartment complex . The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office released video and still photos of the kangaroo , including some footage shot from a helicopter . The agency also released audio of a female resident of the complex calling in to report . It Actually see a kangaroo . It's kind of a large kangaroo . The unidentified woman says we got him closed in the pool gate area . Deputies were able to figure out the animal's owner and reunite them . After checking for its proper registration , the agency sent in a Facebook post . No injuries to the kangaroo or any other people were reported .

Speaker 1 11:25

So two things . This is another only in Florida situation , Like , unless it's like Australia or something , usually this doesn't happen . The other part of this that's really funny is that you can own a kangaroo in Florida .

Speaker 2 11:46

If I had known that , I probably would have stuck around Florida a little longer .

Speaker 1 11:49

I did not know you could own a kangaroo in Florida , but apparently with proper registration you can .

Speaker 2 11:57

That's crazy , Little buddy .

Speaker 1 12:00

There was a kangaroo Now in the past we've seen those uh the wildfire like zoos where people actually bring wild animals around . So I guess it would kind of make sense , but I just never thought about owning a kangaroo .

Speaker 2 12:15

I'm not sure , like I don't . They're not meant to be there . I know that . Yeah , so it might not even survive .

Speaker 1 12:22

I wouldn't , I wouldn't , I don't think I don't own a kangaroo as a pet . I just let them run free . But that I know it's super hot there , there's probably , there's probably rules around that . Wouldn't there be like wild , you know wild animals , like rules around them ?

Speaker 2 12:37

I don't and why didn't it say anything like the inner getting punished or cited , or something Probably didn't . I don't know .

Speaker 1 12:46

I don't . I don't . If the cause the owner of whoever owns that area , the pool and stuff , they probably weren't that mad . It was just a kangaroo . There's no injuries , like you know what I mean . Like I don't think they would press charges or anything over just an animal getting out . And he was just hey , listen , he was just hanging around the pool . Because it's Florida man , I mean you got , you got to just give him credit . He's on vacation , he was trying to he was trying to book his hotel for the night .

Speaker 2 13:12

Like I don't know where I'm at , but this is kind of fun .

Speaker 1 13:17

You can't , like , you can't knock him for just wanting to book a hotel for a night . I mean , that's just .

Speaker 2 13:25

It's not a department complex , not a hotel . Well , it's his hotel .

Speaker 1 13:30

From his point of view , it's his hotel You're reaching , but I guess Listen listen listen to an animal . They don't know the difference between a hotel , apartment or house . This is my area for the night . Well , he structures around here . He also looked kind of trapped , so it didn't look like he could hop over that fence .

Speaker 2 13:53

He's definitely sad just from his face .

Speaker 1 13:55

He's like okay , like this is not where I wanted to be tonight .

Speaker 2 13:59

I'm trying to get out of here when I go . He goes to water , okay .

Speaker 1 14:05

Well , the one picture they have on here . It looks like a mugshot .

Speaker 2 14:08

Yeah , but he definitely looks sad too .

Speaker 1 14:11

Line left line right , face the camera , a mugshot of the kangaroo .

Speaker 2 14:18

Fat mugshot of the camera From a camera of a kangaroo .

Speaker 1 14:25

To be honest , we've talked about this conversation before . What conversation ? Which wild animals would we have as pets ? Oh yeah , We've had this conversation before I forgot about kangaroo , kangaroo . I didn't really .

Speaker 2 14:36

I mean , I didn't think to like . I like them , but not enough to own them as a pet . Uh , because of the kicking factor .

Speaker 1 14:45

If it gets mad . Yeah , they're very . I feel like they're very terrible , like case my chest in or something .

Speaker 2 14:49

Nah , I'm good but .

Speaker 1 14:51

I mean we definitely talked about animals that could just kill us . Yeah .

Speaker 2 14:55

I mean , I mean pretty horrible . Well , I picked some , I picked some , like we talked about some animals that were crazy . Wow , I watched so much Black Panther . That's why I was like I want to write it . I'll write it If you guys haven't listened to that episode .

Speaker 1 15:05

Go back and listen to that episode . We talk about what animals you would own as pets .

Speaker 2 15:10

I don't remember what number it was . I was like um ladder bling for my draft .

Speaker 1 15:19

He wants to write a draft .

Speaker 2 15:20

But his bling would be the ladder , the bling ladder , the bling ladder .

Speaker 1 15:27

Oh man , all right .

Speaker 2 15:28

Imagine me sitting on the top head of a draft .

Speaker 1 15:33

There's dangling your feet up there .

Speaker 2 15:34

It's like hey , this is my walking throne . What's up , can you throw ?

Speaker 1 15:38

me , my , uh , my drink .

Speaker 2 15:41

Hey , hold on , now , I'll just I'll drop a rope . Hey , put my drink in here .

Speaker 1 15:45

You know what I feel , like the giraffes remind me of , like the long neck dinosaurs .

Speaker 2 15:50

The uh Brontosaurus or something like that .

Speaker 1 15:53

They're going you know what I'm talking about Like the big . I'm trying to remember what the name is so like every time I see a giraffe , I just have Jurassic Park music going on in my head .

Speaker 2 16:03

Dude , let's make a hybrid of this , yeah .

Speaker 1 16:08

Well , there you go , folks , if you wanted your dose of weirdness . This morning we have rock paper scissors at a soccer game and we have the kangaroo that found the nearest pool . He just was ready to chill out for the night .

Speaker 2 16:22

It wasn't chill dude . He was trying to get out , he was trying to get out .

Speaker 1 16:25

He was trying to figure out a way , but he couldn't use the tanning chairs .

Speaker 2 16:29

I can totally see like an animal voice over there . Come on man , why is there a run around the edge of the fence ?

Speaker 1 16:38

Can you imagine you go to the pool the next morning and there's just a kangaroo tanning ? And the tanning chair . Just like , just like . I'm almost done . He's just got like one of those sudden those mirror things .

Speaker 2 16:52

I think it'd be lame those mirror things , holding the mirror thing .

Speaker 1 16:55

I'm almost done . I got a tan in a few more minutes .

Goodbye and Mishaps on the Show

Speaker 1 16:59

All right , guys , that's enough weirdness for today . We'll catch you . We'll see you later this week , next time , bye , thank you , we were ready .

Speaker 2 17:09

Oops , really , a little too early . Really , really , really .

Speaker 1 17:13

This is how this is where our show has gotten . This is , this is the . This is the low point of our show right here .

Speaker 2 17:21

No , you'll live .

Speaker 1 17:22

All right , see you next time . What are we ? Having to do I Did .