Day of the Marmot

[00:02] Well gentlemen, we've had a lot of all-star talk, but I think it's time for the under Google bubbles
[00:22] That was the play of super excited told us we had to
[00:29] We signed up for it
[00:33] In the end it's gonna be better and more true than Google can give you
[00:39] Coalson's out this week, so we're gonna have to run this on our own
[00:43] We got a couple questions in over over Twitter like Google how to do this. Yeah, I don't
[00:51] I don't know. We'll figure it out. What is it winging?
[00:54] We got a couple questions in one from Twitter my dad JJ gafrida
[01:00] Set the message in this is why don't basketball teams throw the ball out of bounds when a player gets hurt like in soccer
[01:07] it seems like the sporting thing to do and
[01:10] And Jason, you know you and I were player to Harper you played too, right?
[01:17] Coalson I don't know he played backyard basketball, so probably not applicable in his life
[01:25] But as a soccer player when you one of your
[01:30] Fellow players gets hurt same team or not you play the ball
[01:35] Out of bounds so they can be you know attended to by the medical staff
[01:41] Because you know when someone's hurt
[01:44] Friend or foe you know they didn't get taken care of so somebody got hurt
[01:49] We took care of them, and I you know that was from our levels all the way up to the professional levels
[01:54] You know World Cup. They do the same thing. I think it's the right thing to do and I in a basketball
[01:59] too, you know it always it always
[02:02] Made me cringe when I would see a
[02:05] You know somebody you don't on the court riding in pain and the others playing down the other end
[02:11] Like nothing was going on thought they should like toss the ball out of bounds. You know and in soccer you get you know
[02:16] It's a sporting thing so
[02:18] You kicked it out the other team would just give you back the ball, which is you know it was nice
[02:24] You didn't lose the possession. It's great. So what why don't you then basketball?
[02:28] You guys have ideas cuz this is America
[02:35] America you press your advantage Joey
[02:39] Yes
[02:40] no, I
[02:43] Just speculate a
[02:45] Possession like like there could be no stoppage of playing soccer for like
[02:51] 45 minutes
[02:53] Mm-hmm
[02:55] In basketball, it's likely that if you're playing five on four you're gonna score within the next 24 seconds
[03:04] So
[03:05] It's not that detrimental to let it play out and take the advantage. I
[03:11] Don't know that that makes it the right thing to do
[03:13] But chances are play is gonna stop pretty quickly anyway
[03:15] And at the very least even if the ball comes back the other way you have an option to call timeout
[03:19] Right
[03:22] Yeah, I I don't know. I mean my first instinct was that because there's a
[03:29] Shot clock situation, maybe I don't know something to do with that
[03:36] But the original version of basketball didn't really have shot clocks like I wonder if in the the James Naismith days
[03:44] Of like and apparently then it was a very physical game. It was like
[03:50] You know, he had to invent this game because guys were just basically
[03:55] rough housing too much
[03:57] Because they were trapped inside for the winter, you know, she was like here play this game with this peach basket
[04:03] But then guys would just fight over the ball. I think so I wonder if that that's where it started is
[04:08] They were just like screw you
[04:10] This game is about beating each other up. And if you're down, that's my advantage
[04:15] Like I wonder if that's where it stems from. I don't know
[04:21] I think they should I think you know, somebody gets hurt
[04:25] You should just throw the ball out of bounds
[04:28] And then off that don't get attention
[04:32] Yeah off off the player
[04:35] Preferably in you know a soft spot
[04:38] Preferably in the soft underbelly
[04:45] So I wish they would
[04:49] and I think it's
[04:51] You know as long as both teams are in understanding, you know, even the leagues I still play in you know
[04:57] there's a nice respect between
[04:59] Your team and the other team and there's appreciations. There's still like genuine appreciation for taking care of the other players
[05:05] I mean really the best solution to this would be
[05:10] Official injury timeout, right?
[05:12] so if there's a clear two on one the other way or something you let them go score their basket and then you
[05:17] Shut it down while you tend to the player. If there's no particular advantage then just you know
[05:22] stop play
[05:24] Yeah
[05:25] Because sport sportsmanship may be too much to ask
[05:29] right
[05:31] Well, shout out to JJ
[05:35] We may have hit upon an actual
[05:39] non googleable
[05:43] thing
[05:45] Right. I'm trying to google this but it's
[05:49] My Google skills might not be that good. I've got one more question
[06:00] this week
[06:01] Okay
[06:03] so it's it's late January and
[06:06] I
[06:07] Wouldn't say it's getting much warmer, but that we've had some warm days a spring is around the corner
[06:13] Groundhog day is coming up. I don't know what groundhog day really is. You know, I know that there's the
[06:19] In Zippox Tawney, Pennsylvania. There's a there's a groundhog
[06:24] If it sees a shadow, it's either good or bad. I don't remember. But do you guys know where this this came from?
[06:32] Was this from our pagan ancestors
[06:38] Probably
[06:41] Before we get into this this decide though the rule
[06:45] It's you take the groundhog out and if it sees its shadow
[06:50] Six more weeks of winter. Yeah, cuz I think it gets scared, right?
[06:55] Is the thing I didn't know about that
[06:58] It gets scared of its own shadow and it
[07:02] runs away
[07:03] It it hot it runs back and hides
[07:06] But it's six more weeks of winter the the worst situation or is like that a good thing
[07:12] That's the other thing. I never understand about groundhog day. I
[07:17] Assume for for planting crop purposes a longer growing season is better
[07:22] Okay, but like six weeks from February 2nd is like mid-march, which is
[07:32] Before the official end of winter which is March 21st is the spring solstice
[07:38] So like I never know if like if she if he sees the shadow
[07:42] Six more weeks of winter and that's awesome. That's what we want or we don't want him to see the shadow and
[07:50] That means a longer winter, I don't know I can never remember this
[07:53] Yeah, I don't know either and you would think that the safe thing would to do would be to wait to plant your crops
[07:58] So you don't get a hard freeze afterwards in your entire crop gets destroyed, right? So
[08:03] Sure. Yeah, you have very bad pucks a tonny fill if you lose your entire crop because
[08:08] Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm
[08:10] But we yeah, so where do you think this said back in back in old England?
[08:16] Yes, yield England yield England, right I
[08:22] Don't know I never really thought of it as an international thing
[08:25] I always thought it was a strictly American situation. I mean, I've never I've never heard anyone else talk about it. Maybe I'm wrong
[08:32] I don't know
[08:33] No, I also have never heard anyone talk about I'm assuming that that's a totally
[08:39] Okay, so it's American but it goes back a lot must go back a long time, right like to
[08:47] Colonial ish days as far as I know it goes back to the movie called groundhog day
[08:59] Which I have seen that is the movie I have seen I really enjoy that movie
[09:06] Hmm and it's like a yeah, this is such a weird thing
[09:11] It's only in one city that they do the thing
[09:16] Yeah, I wonder if there was a time when multiple places used to do this
[09:21] Or whether it's just like this is the
[09:25] Did they send their goons over to like the city over say shut that down
[09:30] This is our thing. I
[09:32] Have a sense that for some reason I'm thinking that multiple cities do this
[09:36] But just that punks a tonny is like some hat for some reason
[09:40] and
[09:42] Decided to market it the best or whatever
[09:45] Or like stake their claim to it that really is
[09:49] Like what would hugs a Tony be?
[09:55] And Phil is the name of the groundhog, right? Yeah pucks Tony Phil
[10:02] Okay, they're all named Phil. Yeah, I don't know. I'm with you
[10:07] I feel like this probably goes back a long way to when we were using, you know, the
[10:12] Ben Franklin almanac to decide all things
[10:16] And predict all things. So I'm gonna guess that it started in
[10:22] like
[10:25] 1800 and
[10:27] that punks a Tony was the
[10:30] They've at least led claimed to be in the original people to do this
[10:37] Okay, so in that you are correct so groundhog day was adopted in the US in
[10:44] 1887
[10:47] Climber H free s was the editor of the local punks a Tony spirit at the time
[10:53] And he began promoting the town's groundhog as the official groundhog day meteorologist
[11:00] What was his name again?
[11:02] claim climber
[11:04] CLY me are okay
[11:07] Climber H free s not only climber but climber with a Y
[11:11] right, mm-hmm
[11:13] So he was the official meteorologist of groundhog day
[11:17] Yes
[11:19] So according to Wikipedia started as a Pennsylvania German custom in southeastern and central
[11:26] Pennsylvania in the 18th and 19th centuries
[11:29] It has its origins in ancient European weather lore in which a badger or sacred bear is the
[11:38] prognosticator as opposed to a groundhog
[11:41] It also bears similar to similarities to the pagan festival of boom in in bulk
[11:50] The seasonal turning point of the Celtic calendar. Yeah, we got to get ready for that like real soon
[11:57] And to st. Swithin's day on July 15th interesting
[12:03] This is a bear involved to I like Coalson like bears. I'm excited about that
[12:07] Mm-hmm a badger or a bear sacred bear you said it also has something to do with something called
[12:18] Can't candle must day
[12:25] Which
[12:26] according to the Germans
[12:29] Is when a groundhog peeps out of his winter quarters and if he sees his shadow pops back in for another six weeks nap
[12:37] But if the day be cloudy he remain out as the weather is to be moderate
[12:45] Okay, so that means that if he sees a shadow six more weeks of winter is the bad situation
[12:51] But if he doesn't then the weather is going to be moderate if the day be cloudy if the day be cloudy
[12:59] Also
[13:01] Punxsutawney's full name
[13:04] Punxsutawney Phil seer of seers sage of sages
[13:10] prognasticator of prognasticators
[13:19] His full name I
[13:31] Learned so much
[13:33] Mm-hmm
[13:37] well
[13:39] Wikipedia they have a full list of all the groundhog
[13:44] Predictions from like multiple cities since 2008
[13:48] Apparently they don't get a record either or at least Punxsutawney Phil doesn't
[13:53] Hmm surprising
[13:58] If you can't count on a groundhog
[14:02] Loyal beasts those
[14:07] Hmm I
[14:09] Like in a Canadian French, it's called
[14:12] Geordie le Marmot
[14:17] Day of the Marmot yeah
[14:21] That actually sounds way nicer
[14:24] groundhog day