Speaker 1: Is this a great game or what. I'm Jeff Kirchen
Speaker 1: with the Hall of Famer my dad, Tim Kirchin, and
Speaker 1: we are officially into the off season, and Dad, a
Speaker 1: lot of people have been messaging us and reaching out
Speaker 1: to us, saying, Okay, what happens now that the season
Speaker 1: is over? What happens to Is this a great.
Speaker 2: Game or what?
Speaker 1: And we wanted to hop on not only to give
Speaker 1: you updates, but also let you know that we are
Speaker 1: going to go to every other week in the off season,
Speaker 1: starting with this week's episode. So we're not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: We're just giving ourselves a little bit of a break
Speaker 1: during the off season to spend some time with the family.
Speaker 1: Every other week, including two weeks from now, we're going
Speaker 1: to be talking about a movie that my dad is in.
Speaker 1: A movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're good actor, Jeff. Let's be clear.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's a movie called Rally Caps really cool. And
Speaker 3: when you say that I'm in it, I'm playing myself.
Speaker 3: I taped at Camden Yard Oriel Park at Camden Yards,
Speaker 3: and I was on camera for like ten seconds. Okay,
Speaker 3: So let's not get into any sort of acting situation here,
Speaker 3: because we've been over this from Brockmeier. How terrible an
Speaker 3: actor I am, and I have no interest in doing this,
Speaker 3: but the movie is great and we're gonna be talking
Speaker 3: to Jody, who was the brilliant woman behind this movie,
Speaker 3: and it's going to be really fun when we go
Speaker 3: over this in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: So I'm really looking forward to that, Dad. And also
Speaker 1: we have a special another surprise during this offseason with
Speaker 1: our friends at Game Changer that we absolutely love when
Speaker 1: it comes to coaching baseball, not only at the major
Speaker 1: league level, but all the way down to those little
Speaker 1: league level as well. So we're really excited for that
Speaker 1: episode coming this offseason as well.
Speaker 3: And Jeff, I'm most excited for our December tenth episode,
Speaker 3: which happens to be my sixty eighth birthday. And it's
Speaker 3: a Tuesday, and we drop every now every other Tuesday,
Speaker 3: but that Tuesday, we're gonna have a compilation of all.
Speaker 2: The interviews that we did this year.
Speaker 3: And that was the highlight of beyond working with you, Jeff,
Speaker 3: the highlight was all the people that we got to
Speaker 3: talk to and the number of people that made us laugh,
Speaker 3: We made them laugh, the things we learned, and so
Speaker 3: we're gonna have a compilation of every guest that we had,
Speaker 3: and we're gonna take the best of each. It's gonna run,
Speaker 3: it's gonna run at least an hour. But that was
Speaker 3: my favorite part with the people that we had on
Speaker 3: whether it was Cal Ripken or Johnny Bench, or Jim
Speaker 3: Palmer or Tito Francona or Steve Rushian.
Speaker 2: We had so much fun doing the interviews.
Speaker 3: And this is what we want people to hear on
Speaker 3: December tenth, our best of episode from all of our
Speaker 3: interviews from twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really the guest drove this incredible year
Speaker 1: for us, and so we're gonna kind of weave you
Speaker 1: in and out of each interview. It's gonna be quick
Speaker 1: clips like our best highlight web gems, if you will,
Speaker 1: of the best of that interview all the way through
Speaker 1: the entire twenty twenty four podcast season for us. So
Speaker 1: that's on December tenth, Dad, that's gonna be incredible. And
Speaker 1: then before we know it, our first regular season episode
Speaker 1: is going to and I'm quoting you here drop as
Speaker 1: they say, that's the verb that you told me to use.
Speaker 2: I've never used that before in my life, but.
Speaker 1: Every time you say it, it loses a little bit
Speaker 1: of its effect because of your servius. It drops.
Speaker 3: If you will give me another word to use and
Speaker 3: I'll use it.
Speaker 1: Drops is good dad to say it drops?
Speaker 2: All right? Got it?
Speaker 1: And that's coming our way on March the eighteenth, So
Speaker 1: really that's like only four months away from right now.
Speaker 1: That's going to be actually our preview for the season
Speaker 1: and the preview to the Tokyo series, which is set
Speaker 1: for March the eighteenth. How perfect on a Tuesday. So
Speaker 1: that's kind of what the off season is going to
Speaker 1: look like here on. Is this a great game or what?
Speaker 1: We can't thank you all enough for being a part
Speaker 1: of our first season. Share this with somebody, go back
Speaker 1: to your favorite episodes. Listen. You can watch on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Every interview we've ever done has been on YouTube videoed
Speaker 1: with our guests making us laugh every single week. But Dad,
Speaker 1: I have a very special giveaway.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So we're going to do a giveaway on our social
Speaker 1: media right now. Okay, so for the first the next
Speaker 1: twenty five people to follow us on Instagram at great
Speaker 1: game or what the next twenty five people from midnight
Speaker 1: when this drops to the twenty fifth person, they are
Speaker 1: going to get an exclusive signed baseball card from us
Speaker 1: from It's just a great game or what hold on?
Speaker 1: Let me get one hold on. It's one of these
Speaker 1: bad boys, and we're gonna both sign it and send
Speaker 1: it out to the first twenty five that follow us
Speaker 1: on Instagram Great game or what on Instagram? And then
Speaker 1: the next twenty five you're gonna get them too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll do fifty.
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 1: I was gonna say. I was gonna say the next
Speaker 1: twenty five get them, but they're not signed. But that
Speaker 1: just sounds like, oh too bad, you're number twenty six,
Speaker 1: Like we're not in it for We're just in it
Speaker 1: so you can watch our videos on Instagram. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be active all throughout the offseason. So call it the
Speaker 1: first fifty we'll get an exclusive signed baseball card. Is
Speaker 1: this a Great Game or what? Exclusive? Here with the
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Tim Kirkshon and Jeff Kirkshon signed on
Speaker 1: this card for the first fifty that follow us at
Speaker 1: Great Game or what?
Speaker 2: Dad?
Speaker 1: How much of all of that did you understand? Are
Speaker 1: you caught up on Instagram?
Speaker 3: Absolutely not, Jeff, Again, this is why you're here.
Speaker 2: You're not just the co host.
Speaker 3: You're the producer of the show, you're the director of
Speaker 3: the show.
Speaker 2: You're the technical advisor of the show.
Speaker 3: I am in charge of content and content only, and
Speaker 3: even though you're very much involved in the content, don't
Speaker 3: ask me to do anything else, because I'm clear about this.
Speaker 2: I stink of this, all right.
Speaker 1: And so before we go on this episode, this off
Speaker 1: season episode of is this a great game or what?
Speaker 1: We're going to take a listener question messaged us on
Speaker 1: Instagram at great game or what? And it's from Mike,
Speaker 1: and he says, Tim, I know that there's always happenings
Speaker 1: in the off season when it comes to signings and
Speaker 1: so much more. But I want to know what Tim
Speaker 1: Kirkshin does non baseball related in the off season. What
Speaker 1: does your day look like when there's no ball games?
Speaker 1: All right, Well, it's from Mike and Saint Louis.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Mike.
Speaker 3: First off, the day still starts the same way by
Speaker 3: going through all the baseball transactions, because if you get
Speaker 3: behind in the off season, you will get lost. I
Speaker 3: make out a special roster book the minute the World
Speaker 3: Series ends.
Speaker 2: Because of all the players that are.
Speaker 3: Coming and leaving their teams, and if you don't keep
Speaker 3: at least if I don't keep up, I'm going to
Speaker 3: forget where so and so is. What team is he
Speaker 3: on right now? If I don't keep up on this,
Speaker 3: that's how much movement there is. As for what else
Speaker 3: do I do, well, this is really my time to
Speaker 3: catch up on all the errands that I need to
Speaker 3: do that I didn't get done during the regular season
Speaker 3: or the postseason.
Speaker 2: So these are the little.
Speaker 3: Things that I put on my to do list that
Speaker 3: I need to circle. And number one this year was
Speaker 3: I got my ears waxed, which.
Speaker 2: Jeff, you wait, you had it done? I did.
Speaker 3: I didn't even tell you. I thought I would surprise
Speaker 3: you on the podcast.
Speaker 2: As you know, as I.
Speaker 3: Told you, we got our nosehairs waxed.
Speaker 2: In Montana in September.
Speaker 3: I just out of the blue, just went into a
Speaker 3: nail place and said, can you wax my ears? And
Speaker 3: she said sure, it'll take two minutes. It took twenty minutes,
Speaker 3: ten minutes per ear, and I was so embarrassed. It
Speaker 3: was like dumb and dumber.
Speaker 2: There was hair all over the floor at the end.
Speaker 3: It was awful. As I've told you, the older I get,
Speaker 3: the more I look like Eddie Munster. It's terrible, and
Speaker 3: it was. It was a little more painful than I
Speaker 3: expected it to be, too, So I got through it.
Speaker 3: Everything's okay. It's not like you know, the forty year
Speaker 3: old version with Steve Corrall gant things torn.
Speaker 2: Off his chest, but it works. It yes. So that
Speaker 2: was the first thing I did.
Speaker 3: The second thing I got my emissions test done on
Speaker 3: my car.
Speaker 2: You know how annoying that can be. But this is
Speaker 2: the kicker, Jeff. Seven minutes.
Speaker 3: It took seven minutes from the time I turned the
Speaker 3: corner into the emissions test place. I've been in line
Speaker 3: there for an hour and a half. I turned the
Speaker 3: corner and seven minutes later I was driving out. It
Speaker 3: was like God came down and said, Tim, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: give you this one, all right. So I was in
Speaker 3: and out of the emissions test center in seven minutes.
Speaker 2: That has to be a record.
Speaker 1: That really does have to be a record, and I
Speaker 1: mean has to be a record for how many consecutive
Speaker 1: of the same vehicle a man has bought with a
Speaker 1: Honda Accord. This is your third Honda Accord you've purchased.
Speaker 3: That is correct, and we're well over six hundred thousand
Speaker 3: miles on those three cars.
Speaker 2: So that's okay, it works for me.
Speaker 1: Now more important how many miles are on your current car.
Speaker 2: One hundred and seventy five. So yeah, I feel like
Speaker 2: you just bought that one.
Speaker 3: Well twenty seventeen. I've only had it for eight years,
Speaker 3: so it's not important. What is important. We had the
Speaker 3: big church bazaar. Your mother, Kathy Kirchen put the church
Speaker 3: bazaar together. It raised a ton of money. And and
Speaker 3: not as important, but the house is cleaned up since
Speaker 3: we have we have finished the church bazaar. You know,
Speaker 3: there were little figurines and all this stuff on every
Speaker 3: table in our house. Now I could walk through our
Speaker 3: house and it looks great. So that was really important.
Speaker 2: And I make a.
Speaker 3: Bunch of speeches in the offseason, Jeff, I have an
Speaker 3: als speech coming up, and I just finished the speech.
Speaker 2: Really wasn't a speech.
Speaker 3: It was at the It was like a basketball kickoff,
Speaker 3: you know, luncheon, I mean kind of not was to lunch.
Speaker 2: It was kind of a dinner. Not anyone even dinner,
Speaker 2: pizza and beer.
Speaker 1: It's more of a basketball like tip off, not really
Speaker 1: a kickoff.
Speaker 3: Yes, very good basketball. Yes, I did a basketball tip
Speaker 3: off speech. Dan Harwood, the coach at Magruder High School,
Speaker 3: put it together. We had some speakers and I got
Speaker 3: up there and talked about baseball and basketball, the only
Speaker 3: two things in the world I know even remotely.
Speaker 2: So that was a tremendous time.
Speaker 3: So I've had a very productive off season so far
Speaker 3: and all as well.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: Thank you Dad for the recap, and thank you Mike
Speaker 1: from Saint Louis for the question. You can always ask
Speaker 1: us a question on our website great game or what
Speaker 1: dot com, or you can do like Mike did and
Speaker 1: message us on Instagram. Friendly reminder, first fifty followers from
Speaker 1: the minute this episode drops, first fifty are going to
Speaker 1: get autographed. Is this a great game or what? Cards
Speaker 1: very exclusive to our podcast and so make sure to
Speaker 1: get on that great game or what. All right, Dad,
Speaker 1: two weeks from now, we're going to be talking with
Speaker 1: everybody listening about your movie and acting skills with the
Speaker 1: director of Rally Caps movie streaming now on Amazon Prime.
Speaker 1: They can check it out our Amazon Prime Video. You
Speaker 1: can check it out, Dad. Thank you for hopping on.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you Jeff, and UH can't wait for the
Speaker 3: off season. It's a lot of fun this time of
Speaker 3: year because of all the moves, and now that I've
Speaker 3: got my ears done, I'm ready to go.
Speaker 1: Who's won Soto going to sign with? Just getting we'll
Speaker 1: get into that in two weeks. We'll get into that.
Speaker 1: Tim Kirchen's answer on that question in two weeks. Thank
Speaker 1: you for listening. As always, thank you for being a
Speaker 1: part of our family.