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Speaker 8: Dodgers, a M five to seventy LA Sports.

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Speaker 1: Well, welcome back to Dodger Talk. David Vaz say with

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Speaker 4: Tonight here on AM five to seventy LA Sports, and

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Speaker 9: I say, yeah, thank you what an intro. Appreciate it

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Speaker 4: What has motivated you and Mary, even after having your

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Speaker 9: You know, the Friendship Foundation you mentioned, they're a staple

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Speaker 4: The third annual CT three Polar Plunge is on Sunday,

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Speaker 4: How many of your former teammates do you believe are

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think we're going to have a great turnout again.

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Speaker 9: You know, I've reached out to all of my former teammates.

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Speaker 6: There will be some Dodgers there, of course, but.

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Speaker 4: Hey, maybe you can get Cody Bellinger, who just signed

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Speaker 9: Yeah, you need to get out of him about that.

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Speaker 9: Maybe we can seem up on Cody.

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Speaker 4: I'll add you to a group text and we'll really

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Speaker 4: What did you think about the look on Cody Bellinger's

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Speaker 4: Hey, what do you remember the most and what made

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I thought we just had a good core group

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Speaker 3: I've had, no doubt.

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Speaker 4: It was so special being around you guys and just

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Speaker 4: Chris Taylor is our guest on Dodger Talk Don't Forget

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Speaker 4: about the CT three third Annual Polar Plunge on Sunday,

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Speaker 4: February First. You can go to Chris Taylor's Instagram page

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Speaker 4: that's where you can sign up two amazing causes, the

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Speaker 4: fighting for kids battling cancer. All right, Chris, here's the

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Speaker 4: million dollar question. You finished the year with the Angels

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Speaker 9: No, I'm still playing.

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Speaker 9: I'm down here Arizona working out. You know, I I

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Speaker 6: It is, but.

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Speaker 9: I will be playing again this coming season.

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Speaker 4: You feel like maybe you could join the Rangers and

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Speaker 9: I have no idea, Honestly, I like all cards are

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Speaker 9: it up right now and not have some regret.

441
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,920
Speaker 4: That sounds like Clayton Kershaw wanting to go out on

442
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,440
Speaker 4: your own terms. What did you think about the way

443
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,440
Speaker 4: his career ended and what were your feelings watching that

444
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 4: World Series with the Dodgers winning it, since you did

445
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:30,159
Speaker 4: start the year with those guys.

446
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:35,879
Speaker 9: Yeah, that was special, you know, I think you know,

447
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,800
Speaker 9: I was happy for all the guys. But you mentioned Kersh.

448
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 9: I think everybody was probably over the moon for him,

449
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 9: and everybody wanted him to go out on top right

450
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:50,480
Speaker 9: and to see him go out the way he should

451
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 9: have with a ring with the Dodgers. It just was

452
00:26:55,720 --> 00:27:00,360
Speaker 9: too perfect. And I couldn't have been more throw him

453
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 9: and his family. They've they've been through so much, They've

454
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 9: done so much for LA and nobody was more deserving

455
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 9: than him.

456
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 4: Hey, during the summers, he caught on to the CT

457
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 4: three plan of living in Manhattan Beach. Maybe he can

458
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 4: get that carcass out for the third annual Plunge before

459
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 4: he goes to Team USA and the World Baseball Classic.

460
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:27,640
Speaker 9: I know, you know, he he told me, he said

461
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:29,400
Speaker 9: it took me way too hard to get out here.

462
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 9: And I told everyone. I tell all the guys, like

463
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,239
Speaker 9: you know, once he moved to Manhattan Beach. You know

464
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 9: it's a special place. And yeah, I just I love

465
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 9: it there. I've been there for years. It just puts

466
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,359
Speaker 9: me in a great mood. Waking up close to the beach.

467
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 9: The community is awesome, the people are great. It's super

468
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 9: late back and yeah, that would be great if if

469
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,200
Speaker 9: we can get kershops there, no doubt.

470
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:05,360
Speaker 4: Hey, third annual CT three Polar Plunge. Go out and

471
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 4: support Chris Taylor and his wife Mary. They're doing great

472
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 4: things still in the South Bay. It's Sunday, February first,

473
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 4: starts at nine am. You jump in the water with

474
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 4: a bunch of Dodgers professional athletes for a great cause. Chris.

475
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 4: Awesome to hear your voice again. Awesome to share your

476
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 4: voice with everybody because you will always have a big

477
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 4: place in Dodgery history, and for those of us that

478
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 4: got to know you, I'm certainly always pulling for you.

479
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 1: So thank you for the time.

480
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 4: And you never know, maybe I'll bring my skinny fat

481
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 4: carcass out there and jump in the water with you.

482
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 6: Oh, I'd love to see that get out there.

483
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 4: I'm sentimental, so I might do it this year for you.

484
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 3: You to it. I've already put your name on the

485
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:52,240
Speaker 3: VIP list.

486
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: Do I have to register in the bio or can I?

487
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 7: Is this?

488
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 1: It is this official?

489
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 3: I got you.

490
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,120
Speaker 6: This is your invite?

491
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 1: All right?

492
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 4: Sounds good? All right, I'll manscape before Sunday, February first.

493
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, please please do.

494
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 1: Right there, he goes Chris Taylor.

495
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 4: Don't forget about the third annual CT three Polar Plunge

496
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 4: on Sunday, February first.

497
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: Chris, thanks a lot for the time.

498
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely, thanks for having me that say.

499
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 4: There, he goes Chris Taylor. A big part of the Dodgers'

500
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 4: success from twenty sixteen all the way up to last year.

501
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 4: Chris Taylor unfortunately injured. You just heard him say it

502
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 4: right there. He wants to play again. He felt like

503
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 4: he wasn't himself because of injuries. So we'll see where

504
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 4: Chris Taylor ends up. But certainly the Dodgers rewarded him

505
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 4: with a big, four year, sixty million dollar contract before

506
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 4: the lockout going into the twenty two season, So you know,

507
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 4: I would say Andrew Freeman was loyal to Chris Taylor. Unfortunately,

508
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 4: by the end of that contract, he just wasn't the

509
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 4: same player as he was before. But you know, always

510
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 4: a fan favorite. I'll never forget his leadoff home run

511
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 4: in Game one of the seventeen World Series. He came

512
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 4: up with a huge catch in Game seven of the

513
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 4: twenty eighteen NLCS, and obviously his last big signature moment

514
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 4: with the Dodgers in the clutch, a walkoff home run

515
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 4: in the Wildcard game against the Cardinals, basically the last

516
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 4: time the Cardinals were good at any point in time

517
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 4: in the last five or six years. Chris Taylor knocked

518
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 4: him out in that Wildcard game with a walkoff home run,

519
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 4: and the Dodgers went on to beat the Giants, who

520
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 4: won one hundred and seven games that year, in a

521
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 4: five game NLDS series. So Chris Taylor a big part

522
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 4: of the Dodgers' success during Andrew Friedman's tenure. It kind

523
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 4: of feels like this is a new chapter in the

524
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 4: tenure of Andrew Friedman. Guys like Cody Turner, Taylor, that

525
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 4: was one chapter, and now with Shoho Tani and Yamamoto

526
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 4: and the rest of these guys, it's a new chapter.

527
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 4: And Andrew Friedman is still there bringing sustained success to

528
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 4: the Dodgers. But so many people come up to me

529
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 4: even today walking into the station. I was actually on

530
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 4: the phone with Andre Ethier and I told the guy,

531
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 4: the fan that recognized me. I said, Hey, I'm on

532
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 4: the phone with Andre Ethier and he I put Ethier

533
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 4: on the speaker phone with him, and he just kept saying,

534
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 4: I love you.

535
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 1: I love those teams.

536
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 4: And that's that's feedback I get from you about those

537
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 4: teams from twenty fifteen to about twenty twenty, those group

538
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 4: of guys Jock Peterson, Cody Bellinger, Corey Seeger, that was

539
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 4: an incredible time and that was such a close knit group.

540
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 4: And maybe part of it was we watched those guys

541
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 4: grow up. We watched those guys cry after losing in

542
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 4: the sixteen NLCS to the Cubs, and we celebrated when

543
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 4: Keyky Hernandez hit three home runs at Wrigley Field, Kershaw

544
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 4: Domine and the Dodgers went on to their first World

545
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 4: Series since nineteen eighty eight, a World Series they should

546
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 4: have won. But I feel like the fan base went

547
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 4: through all of that with those guys, and that's why

548
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 4: there's still such an emotional attachment with Chris Taylor and

549
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 4: the rest of his teammates from that chapter of this

550
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 4: Dodger incredible time in Dodger history. All right, Mariachi, Joe

551
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 4: Kelly remember him? How could you forget from seventeen to

552
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 4: ninety nine? He certainly is a fan favorite, and his

553
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 4: mural still up there on the reserve level. I'll have

554
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 4: to let him know that we got Joe Kelly right

555
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 4: around the corner on Dodger Talk until eight o'clock tonight

556
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 4: here on five to seventy LA Sports. You never know

557
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 4: what Joe's going to say. Don't go anywhere?

558
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 2: Is Boss season? Dodger Talk on your official home of

559
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:56,239
Speaker 2: the Los Angeles.

560
00:32:55,720 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 8: Dodgers, am five to seventy LA Sports.

561
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:08,719
Speaker 4: Welcome back to Dodger Talk. David Vasse with you until

562
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 4: eight o'clock tonight here on a five to seventy LA Sports.

563
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 4: And I mentioned this earlier in the show. I have

564
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 4: a saying. Well, one of my many sayings, and maybe

565
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 4: the one that is the most true, is that they.

566
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 1: All always come crawling back. That's right, they all always

567
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: come crawling back. You know.

568
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 4: When I'm around them every day, they get tired of me,

569
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 4: and then they start to have vassay withdrawal.

570
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: And that's what started to happen for Joe Kelly.

571
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 4: An incredible picture, incredible career, three times World Series champion,

572
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 4: Mariachi Joe legend, and he's texting me, I miss you

573
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 4: so much.

574
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 1: I miss you so much, and so.

575
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 4: Here he is the one and only Mariachi Joe Kelly

576
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 4: from Parts unknown on Dodger Talk, Did I describe that perfectly?

577
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 1: Or do you do? You have some issues with anything?

578
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 6: I said, no, And the ten thousand dollars for thirty

579
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 6: minutes is nice. Thank you for that too.

580
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: You are having so.

581
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 6: Much all those things. Hey, that was our agreement right

582
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 6: on contract. You pay me ten grand for thirty minutes,

583
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:15,640
Speaker 6: and you're gonna say whatever you'd like.

584
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: It's in the mail. It's in the.

585
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 6: Mail, okay, ten thousand paces jeez?

586
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 4: Wow, yes, Papa, Hey, I will say this. You didn't

587
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 4: forget the little people. When you got your ring last year,

588
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,879
Speaker 4: you did take time out of your family to say

589
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 4: hi to me, So I wasn't sure if it was

590
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 4: going to go that way.

591
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 6: No, of course you're You're one of the little people

592
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 6: compared to the Dodger well oiled machine. Right, But you're

593
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 6: not a little person. You have your own niche, right,

594
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:53,759
Speaker 6: you have your own fan base. People meet you and

595
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 6: they think you are what you think of me, Joe Kelly.

596
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 6: So people come to meet you and like, oh, David Vasse,

597
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 6: you're the best. Listen to your show. You're popular amongst

598
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:07,800
Speaker 6: your crowd. But yes, you are a little compared to

599
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 6: me saying hi to everyone else that was at Doater Stadium.

600
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 3: But you're not little to me.

601
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:11,879
Speaker 6: Man.

602
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 4: I actually was buying my wife a birthday present and

603
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 4: the guy that was helping me listens to the show

604
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,320
Speaker 4: and I said, Hey, I'm going to have Joe Kelly

605
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 4: on the show tonight and he said, oh, I have

606
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 4: I have his number seventeen jersey. I said, oh, you're

607
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 4: the one that still has one, So people still love you, dude.

608
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,399
Speaker 6: There's people still with number seventeen jerseys, and those are

609
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 6: those are going more for Pokemon cards nowadays, that tag

610
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 6: og skin, the Joe Kelly seventeen it's pretty rare. I

611
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 6: love that those are one of one. You know, it's

612
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 6: kind of like going to Disneyland and you're like one

613
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 6: of those pin collectors.

614
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 3: You know.

615
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 6: It's like one of those those own little things. Are

616
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:52,879
Speaker 6: you're going to find the hid and Mickey's. And when

617
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 6: you're waiting in line and someone walks around with a

618
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:57,879
Speaker 6: Joe Kelly seventeen jersey, you're like, he gets it.

619
00:35:58,480 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree.

620
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 4: It's not like a guy that's walking around with a

621
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 4: brand new Dodger hat that says twenty five World champs.

622
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 4: It's a legit Dodger fan if they have a seventeen Kelly.

623
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 6: Jersey, Oh, die hard, bro. You know they watched you

624
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 6: know they're watching all.

625
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 1: Dodger games, no doubt. Hey, since you.

626
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 6: Know you asked, you you go up to those fans,

627
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 6: you say, Hey, who the frick do you think we

628
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 6: should cut?

629
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 3: Or who the hell do you think we should trade?

630
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 3: They'll give you a right they'll give you a straight answer.

631
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:25,799
Speaker 1: Yeah.

632
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 4: If you go up to a guy with a brand

633
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 4: new hat, they'll just talk about otani.

634
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:35,840
Speaker 6: Guy with a brand new Kyle Tucker Jersey have no idea. Yeah,

635
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,240
Speaker 6: what I like the Dodgers.

636
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, we should trade nobody.

637
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:45,360
Speaker 4: Since you're not playing baseball anymore. How many times have

638
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 4: you been to Disneyland in the last couple of years?

639
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 3: Once? Bro?

640
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:51,399
Speaker 1: What right?

641
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 6: Years? Years?

642
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: Yeah? Two years? Last two years, dude.

643
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 6: I don't know if you just heard what I said

644
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 6: like five minutes ago about you know, you being like

645
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 6: the little person. But if I go to Disneyland, it's

646
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 6: not like I could just walk around there pretty easily,

647
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 6: you know what I mean.

648
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:08,839
Speaker 3: So every time I go to.

649
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,720
Speaker 6: Disneyland, I'll waste money which I should put in my kids.

650
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:12,240
Speaker 3: Saving the account.

651
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 6: But I'll buy I'll buy the plaids, you know what

652
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 6: I mean. I'll buy the VIP tour, even if it's

653
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 6: just like four of us, just so we could like

654
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:20,879
Speaker 6: do everything and you know, get in and out. And

655
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 6: I mean I'm only doing that once a year. Maybe

656
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 6: it's worth it passes. Yeah, Me and Ashley used to

657
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 6: live in Anaheim actually probably like three minutes from in

658
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 6: the stadium and then like six minutes from Disneyland, like

659
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 6: on a bicycle.

660
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Speaker 3: Like my first couple of years in.

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Speaker 6: The league, we lived right and sorry ride in Anaheim

662
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 6: and we were we remembers And this is more COVID

663
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 6: because COVID kind of changing everything where they got rid

664
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Speaker 6: of like the annual pass holder type thing, like they're

665
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 6: kind of bringing it back.

666
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 1: But you are a Disney nerd.

667
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 6: Dude, I'm not a Disney nerd. I just like free,

668
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 6: like like entertainment, you know what I mean.

669
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 1: It's not free? Are you?

670
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Speaker 4: Are you a member of a Club thirty three? Are

671
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 4: you a club? Are you a Club thirty three member?

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Speaker 7: No?

673
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 6: But I've been a few times with my dad his

674
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 6: childhood best friends.

675
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 3: The couple of remembers.

676
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:17,399
Speaker 4: Wow, mooching off a Club thirty three member, very Joe Kelly.

677
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,439
Speaker 3: Like, hey, I would, I would.

678
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:21,719
Speaker 6: Uh, I'm not going to bash Club thirty three because

679
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 6: you know I might go there one time.

680
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,839
Speaker 1: Are you on the list before before.

681
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 6: Being a member of Club thirty three? The food is

682
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 6: no better than like, you know, tacos, most trolos, you

683
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:33,840
Speaker 6: know what I mean. But I mean that's firings, but

684
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 6: the food is not great.

685
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:36,839
Speaker 1: All right, So we're not missing out too much?

686
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 6: No, no, no, no no, but it's cool just to

687
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 6: say you're getting in there.

688
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:43,280
Speaker 4: All right. I love it. Joe Kelly is our guest.

689
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 4: If you need any advice on how to navigate Disneyland,

690
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 4: he's your guy. But you're the perfect guy to have

691
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:55,240
Speaker 4: on the show. With all these people overreacting again because

692
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 4: the Dodgers are trying to win, I thought that was

693
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,400
Speaker 4: the point of professional sports. What have you made about

694
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 4: all these people saying there's gonna be a lockout? Now

695
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 4: the Dodgers are are playing unfairly, nobody else has a chance.

696
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:13,320
Speaker 4: Since you're the guy that is a best selling author

697
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,879
Speaker 4: with an incredible book, a damn near perfect game, reclaiming

698
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 4: America's pastime, what do you make of all this?

699
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 3: I love it. I love when people are mad and

700
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 3: said there's nothing.

701
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 6: I'm not a very happy guy.

702
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:31,399
Speaker 3: You could ask my wife. But what makes me happy.

703
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 6: Is other people bitching and complaining. You know what I mean.

704
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 3: God, it makes me feel so good.

705
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 6: I don't even play, but I just like to stir

706
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 6: the pot and see all the animosity. It's wonderful. I

707
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 6: think it's great for the game of baseball. There's no

708
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 6: way it's going.

709
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 3: To be fixed.

710
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:52,400
Speaker 6: I don't care about people saying there's a lockout.

711
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 3: There's a lockout. Last time guys.

712
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:54,840
Speaker 6: You know what I mean, there's gonna be a lockout.

713
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 6: There's always gonna be a lockout eventually to see who

714
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 6: you or how long it goes, that is to be seen, obviously.

715
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:07,800
Speaker 6: But I mean, these guys were all free agents. It's

716
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 6: it's not something that's very hard to do, you know

717
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Speaker 6: what I mean.

718
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 4: I don't understand what Joe Kelly unfiltered on Dodger talk.

719
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 4: Uh so, okay, I'm a big believer that what the

720
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 4: Dodgers have done is just make baseball more relevant, having

721
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 4: the Dodgers and Yankees in the World Series, having that

722
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 4: epic World Series. How can anybody say the Dodgers are

723
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:34,880
Speaker 4: bad for baseball? The Dodgers being this good is great

724
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 4: for baseball.

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00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 6: Of course, it's great for baseball. You know, there's any

726
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 6: given day I could go on, you know, someone giving

727
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 6: an interview or I mean, you got NBA analysts, you know,

728
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 6: talking about Dodgers in baseball. You got NFL reporters talking

729
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:51,760
Speaker 6: Dodgers and talking baseball.

730
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.

731
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 6: You got comedians getting mad with the effect of Dodgers

732
00:40:54,480 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 6: signing baseball like you're doing something right, and as an

733
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 6: owner and as a league if you could get all

734
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 6: these people who didn't really care about baseball now talking

735
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 6: about it as a top of conversation. You know, that's

736
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:14,800
Speaker 6: just good pub. It's it's good pub, and it's gonna

737
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:18,400
Speaker 6: open a lot of eyes to like the new CBA.

738
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 6: That's gonna be fun.

739
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 3: There's gonna be people giving their input and following.

740
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:23,799
Speaker 6: Along, you know, day by day on this kind of

741
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 6: thing that you know, don't really watch sports.

742
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:30,320
Speaker 4: Joe Kelly is our guest who did not announce his retirement,

743
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 4: just that he's not going to play baseball anymore.

744
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,360
Speaker 1: Uh, just to let.

745
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:38,240
Speaker 4: You know, you still have your mural at Dodger Stadium

746
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 4: up on the reserve level. Maybe that'll change after this interview,

747
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 4: but you still got it up there right now. And

748
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 4: I was just wondering the reaction that you got when

749
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 4: you start to say these things that you're not pitching anymore,

750
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 4: you're not retiring.

751
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 1: Uh what what did it? Did it trigger anything inside

752
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 1: of you?

753
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,840
Speaker 4: The reaction you got from fans in Saint Louis, Boston,

754
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:00,880
Speaker 4: in La.

755
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 6: No, I don't think it.

756
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,400
Speaker 1: You were really celebrated. It was like a victory tour

757
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 1: last week.

758
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 3: I know, but I didn't.

759
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:10,239
Speaker 6: I'm not aware of that. That's see, that's what's the

760
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 6: good thing about having no social media or nothing. Maybe

761
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:16,320
Speaker 6: that's why you're celebrating.

762
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why you're sad all the time.

763
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 6: I'm not sad all the time. I'm very content. Brother. Uh.

764
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 6: Maybe if I said I retired though, they'd ripped that

765
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 6: mural down.

766
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 1: No, No, I.

767
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 6: Feel like I say I'm not playing, They'll keep it. Yes,

768
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 6: I I think that there's no way they take it down.

769
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:36,400
Speaker 6: You know what this is why, because ever since that

770
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 6: mural has been up, the Dodgers have one World Series.

771
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 6: You take it down, you're gonna lose World Series.

772
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:40,839
Speaker 3: They're gonna drinx it.

773
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:44,320
Speaker 1: Wow, all right, you're saying that's the lucky charm.

774
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 6: I mean, you take that mural down, Let's see if

775
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 6: they win the World Series.

776
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 4: I love it. I want you man, I love that.

777
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 4: I hope you loan your Mariachi jacket to one of

778
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 4: the guys.

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00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:57,799
Speaker 1: Uh. When they get their rings this year, when they

780
00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:59,840
Speaker 1: go out to the line and they.

781
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:01,319
Speaker 6: Bick one, who do you think should wear it?

782
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 2: Oh?

783
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 6: I think skinny enough, because dude, when I threw that

784
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 6: first picture was so tight on me. I guess I'm

785
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 6: like one ninety five.

786
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 3: Now I played it.

787
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 6: I played at like one eighty one eighty five, and

788
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 6: my arms are so yoke, dude, I couldn't even bounce

789
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:14,080
Speaker 6: the ball. I couldn't move my arm or so tight.

790
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 1: You're saying you're so jackinny enough to wear that thing.

791
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:18,880
Speaker 1: You're saying your swollen patrol.

792
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 6: Now, oh, bro, I'm stronger, you know the you know

793
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:24,439
Speaker 6: the joke, man, Bradford are the best shape of life.

794
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 6: I'm way stronger than when I played. Wow, if there's

795
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 6: a fist fight, there's just like now now I could

796
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 6: do you know what I mean? Like, so Jo Kelly

797
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 6: Cloth walk up on me like I'm way more prepared

798
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 6: than when I was.

799
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 3: But playing men as of.

800
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 4: Baseball, Okay, I think Yama, Moto or Mookie would fit

801
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 4: into that jacket.

802
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:48,880
Speaker 6: Oh, Mookie will obviously, Yama would Obviously. That's it. We

803
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 6: only have two.

804
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 4: I mean, who else, Like Barnes isn't on the t

805
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 4: won't be there? I would say, Barnes, what about.

806
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 3: He wouldn't have been able.

807
00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:03,399
Speaker 1: To Will's Wills Will's myth that's kind of yeah, yeah,

808
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:05,399
Speaker 1: a good call, bro.

809
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:08,920
Speaker 4: He's a legend already. You know him and Walker Bueller

810
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:10,760
Speaker 4: our legends forever.

811
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 1: We should pitch it to him.

812
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:15,680
Speaker 6: I would like to him.

813
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:18,360
Speaker 1: All right, here's another question for you.

814
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:21,720
Speaker 4: Did you see Freddie Freeman at the at the party

815
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:23,840
Speaker 4: after they won the World Series do the worm? What

816
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 4: did you think about his worm skills? I?

817
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:28,839
Speaker 3: I did it.

818
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 6: It went, it went across. Uh, I forgured I was

819
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 6: watching with a spectrum like a Laker game or something. Yeah,

820
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 6: but yeah, I did see. I think it's I think

821
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 6: it's a solid worm.

822
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 4: All right, all right, hey, uh, this is part one

823
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:47,680
Speaker 4: of our five part series. So unlike your unlike yeah, yeah,

824
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:50,439
Speaker 4: so unlike your podcast that can go on and on,

825
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 4: this is a live show, so we got to uh,

826
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 4: we gotta end it here.

827
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 1: But let's let's do this again soon. Maybe you'll come in.

828
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:01,719
Speaker 6: Yeah, take have some people call in, because I know,

829
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:05,480
Speaker 6: I know, I've your producer and they kind of went

830
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:06,880
Speaker 6: behind your back and told me that I could have

831
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:09,759
Speaker 6: your show whenever I said yes, So people call in.

832
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 6: Let me know if you want me to take over

833
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 6: a Vasse show. We can still have them. He could

834
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 6: be like a you know, maybe a regular, have a

835
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 6: couple appearances, but let me know if you want me

836
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 6: to run Dodger talk, get back to me.

837
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:25,760
Speaker 3: Get on the phones, dial in JK or DV.

838
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:29,240
Speaker 1: Wow, JK. We're going to the initials route.

839
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 6: Now, huh yes, sir.

840
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 4: All right, maybe uh do you maybe you could find

841
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:37,400
Speaker 4: your way to Burbank. You just gotta get over the

842
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 4: dirt roads in Riverside and Rancho and find your way

843
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 4: to the one thirty four.

844
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 6: Oh, I know where it's at.

845
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 4: Bro All right, let's make it happen before spring training

846
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 4: or in spring training. We'll take some calls together.

847
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:54,400
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll be out there in spring training. We got

848
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:54,800
Speaker 6: a tournament.

849
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:58,759
Speaker 3: Actually, we're coming to bring the team to maybe the

850
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 3: practice field and see what's going on.

851
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 4: All right, sounds good. Thanks a lot for coming on

852
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 4: and congratulations on you know, just being a guy that

853
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 4: lives at home and mooches off other people and Club

854
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:12,800
Speaker 4: thirty three and wears his Mickey ears all over the

855
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:14,879
Speaker 4: streets of of Riverside.

856
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 6: I feel like a normal American. Now, thank you.

857
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 1: There he goes the one and only Mariaji Joe Kelly.

858
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:24,480
Speaker 1: That's the end of the show. I mean, you walk

859
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:27,399
Speaker 1: it off with Joe Kelly. We will be back next week.

860
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 1: Have a great weekend. See Yu, first time drinking you

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00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:47,759
Speaker 1: up years and the thing is so great it's too