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The Sports Junkies

Sports Junkies Try Smelling Salts

The Sports Junkies

Audacy

Sports

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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From 08/07 Hour 1: The Sports Junkies try smelling salts for the first time.

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0:00.0

So smelling salts have been in the news over the last few days in the wake of the NFL,

0:06.5

basically saying teams can't provide smelling salts to players on the sidelines.

0:11.8

But players, the news came out yesterday, players are okay to bring their own smelling salts

0:17.1

if they wish to use them during the course of a game.

0:20.9

And we've seen like, you've seen OV do them on the sideline. Sure. We've seen, you know, Peyton Manning. Players in all sports use smelling salts. Yeah. I've never, I've never used them. No, I never have either. Not once, but shocker, our pal Mike Marr, I asked him, have you ever used smelling salts? And he's like, oh, yeah, plenty of times.

0:35.3

Do a lot of high school football guys use smelling salts? Yeah, we had them a little bit in football, but then they kind of transferred over to college and using them a little more recreationally. Stimulets. Now, what's the recreationally, just when you wanted to stay up and get after it? Yeah, well, you're just like fired up. But, you know, you're getting ready to go out to a bar or something.

0:36.5

You're getting ready to go out to a bar or something.

0:55.2

You're getting ready to go to Sharkies.

0:56.4

Like if you were over aggressive, it had maybe eight or nine beers before you went out and

1:01.5

you're feeling a little sluggish, maybe.

1:03.6

Maybe smelling salt gets you that little kick you need.

1:07.4

Hey, what if, what if everyone does it in the show is one of the most amazing

1:12.1

shows that we've done?

1:13.5

Well, then we'll just have to make it a daily thing.

1:16.4

We'll just have to have Odyssey bias smelling salts.

1:20.0

5.59, when Enner Sandman's playing, we're all doing our smelling.

1:23.6

That's why we said we're perfect candidates for it.

1:27.7

I mean, we come in here like frigid six or seven zombies.

1:29.6

I mean, literally. Yeah, we don't have a medicine bottle, but if you do have a medicine bottle and you put it in there, it lasts for about two hours. Oh, really? Take a rip it like 8 o'clock, too, you know, right before the E. Okay. So you pop it, sniff it, and then you put it in a medicine bottle, put the cap on, and it holds the... It holds it for a while. I mean, that sounds like a very advanced smelling salts bit, because usually I think you use break them and the guy sniffes them and then you're on to the next. You're good. Yeah. But you're saving your smelling salts. We can only buy them online.

1:57.0

So, and they come in a pack of 10. What? Is that true? Yeah. So I can't go to CVS and buy smelling salts? No. We've tried, trust me. First-hand experience. You mean you didn't buy a vat of them at Buckees? But they're part of like our first aid kit safe here. Yeah. I don't understand. So like a year ago when Jane Daniels scratched his eye and we were doing that

2:00.1

Band-Aid bit where we all put it up. They're part of like our first aid kit, say, here at work. Yeah. So like a year ago when Jane Daniel, like, scratched his eye and we were doing that

2:20.4

Band-Aid bit where we all put it under our eyelid, I was walking around and I found the first aid kit and I found like a bunch of smelling salts in there. There was like four or five packs. Really? Did you steal a couple for yourself? No. I had no cameras and stuff.

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