WEBVTT - Cole Wright 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.600 This is cut to it with Steve Smith Senior at 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:08.879 production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.680 Steve Smith Senior and I'm a little John And this 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:15.920 is cut to it. Good do it, cud do it. 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:19.520 They're getting down to do it. Good do it. We 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.880 asked the questions you always want to know, but no 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:29.040 one ever asked, let's cut to it. You ain't heard 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:31.040 am about it? Then we're about to let you know. 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:42.959 It's all. What's up guys? Flying solo today? Unfortunately Gerard 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:47.479 is not here. Um he has some uh, some obligations. 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.800 Don't fret. He is not moving on any of that. 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:55.120 He just, um, my man, busy, got some family stuff 0:00:55.160 --> 0:01:00.520 going on. So U flying flying solo today. Um, it's 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:05.399 been interesting. So we're gonna add backstage Joe to the 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:10.840 mix to kind of make sure I'm not completely flying blind. 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:15.039 How are you, Joe? How about you? Not too bad? 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:18.600 So listen, you know, uh, a couple of months here, 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:20.920 you know, I've been really took the summer. We took 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:24.600 the summer off, um, preparing for season two and started 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.759 to get some books. I got this thing called table 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:31.000 topics a friend of mine, so I got all these topics. 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:34.000 And I got this little book. And this book is 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:43.040 called the Complete Life's Life Instruction Book, and it has 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:52.200 up to last page one thousand, five hundred and sixty 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.720 little instructions. That's a lot of life lessons right there. 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:05.000 So I'll go through one fifty four through fight, fight fairly, 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:12.639 give generously, laugh loudly, love deeply, plant more flowers than 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:18.120 you pick. Remember that all important truths. Truths are simple, 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:23.600 and include your parents in your prayers. That's pretty good. 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.600 But let me tell you the quote that really has 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:33.639 quote number sixty six, let's hear it. I've heard this before, 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.639 but I've never really been able to apply it. So 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:42.840 I'm gonna apply it. This quotation tickles me. Pink, I'm ready, 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:47.520 I'm all about it, all right, sure I think no, 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:53.600 I'm good. Okay, buy a used car with the same 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:58.200 caution a neck and man uses to climb a bob 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:05.399 wire fence. Oh boy, h m hmm. A lot of interpretations, there, 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:10.800 a lot of them. So as I break this down, 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:14.160 buying a used car, which is basically, pay attention to 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:21.360 everything but the illustration of the caution, because we all know, 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:27.440 not just in your private areas, but just everywhere to 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:33.400 get over a bobbed wire fence butt naked is a 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:37.480 skill that very few people have. I would I would. 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:40.120 I would say it's a fair statement. Not a lot 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:44.880 of folks doing that, not a lot. I'm not sure 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.480 if I've seen it either, well in reading the quote like, 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.600 I may not know if that used car has something 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:53.800 wrong with it after a couple of months. But I'm 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.120 gonna tell you what you're gonna know right away climbing 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.360 that barb bar fence if you ain't got any clothes on, 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:05.840 that's true. The question is you also, here's the question, 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:15.120 would you find out, like the car, that something's broke 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:23.720 during or after you hit the ground. Mhm. My assumption 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.680 would be, depending upon what part of that car or 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:31.400 your body is broken or impelled, you might know right away. 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:35.400 But but but you might not. So till this day 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.800 you can't see it as much. But I am I 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:42.680 lap left quad. I used to have two lines, two 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:49.359 scars because a friend of mine, his name was ricky Um, 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:53.560 he had they we would play high go seek and 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.440 there was they had I don't know why, but they 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:59.560 had bybed wire to keep people from climbing their trees 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.240 in their yard, because I would imagine a lot of 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:11.119 people climb climbing people's trees inside the fence then yard. Anyway, Um, 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:15.040 I had on shorts, let's clothe and I jumped out 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:18.040 of the tree and did not see the bible wire 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:22.320 and it sliced my leg. Well, first of all, I'm 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:25.360 glad you said upper quad and not thigh. That makes 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:28.080 it two guys talking a little bit easier. So thank 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:31.440 you for saying upper quad. It's very masculine of view, 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:35.080 so I appreciate that. What was I supposed to say 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:40.400 upper quad? I didn't need thy Oh, I didn't even 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.680 think about it. That's that's how what guys do. But 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:47.040 so the question was, did you know you were scratched 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:50.640 or impaled by that barbed wire right immediately? Yes? Immediately? 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.120 Would no, maybe a little bit later some blood. It 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.520 was no, It was no delay. It was no you know, 0:05:56.480 --> 0:06:01.840 baby felt the hot stole three seconds after it was 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:07.800 It was immediate right now, like burning who. When I 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.000 was a kid man, I had a lot of I 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.000 didn't get a lot of Technis shots, but I probably 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.080 should have had a few of them. I stepped on 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:18.840 the nail one time on my big toe, That's that's 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:20.640 why we had been gay. We talked about that before 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:23.599 that fixed everything. Didn't that been gay? Wasn't I wasn't 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:27.120 hitting on it. It was on my big toe too. 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:31.640 I remember, I had to practice. I was oof, didn't 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:36.640 didn't go to the doctor any of that dirt on it. Nah, 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:40.120 that didn't help either. No, I would a rusty nail. 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.560 I would go with that. I think you're right, all right. 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:47.440 Who we got coming up next on the Cut to 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:51.159 A podcast, we have Marquee Sports Networks Cole Right. Cole 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:54.080 has worked all over Major League Baseball in several roles 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.839 and also spent some time with the NFL Network. Cole 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.200 is currently with the Chicago Cubs on their Pretty and 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.600 postgame show, and he's one of the close friends have 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:12.600 Cut to It Cole Right on the cut to It podcast, 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.400 Let you guys have me on and good to see 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.400 you again is always Joe. Nice to meet you, man, 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.960 and my pleasure, no doubt about it. Miss you guys, man, 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.680 doubt Yeah, I miss you too, man. I'm coming out 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.680 there and uh in a couple of weeks, so maybe 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.880 we'll grab dinner cool. Our first section here is called 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.800 get Iced Up Steve makes these questions up. We don't 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:33.240 know what's coming. I have no idea. So as he 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:35.680 always says, buckle up, buttercup, and let's get to it. 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:39.720 You're ready, okay, let's roll guys, all right? What's your 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:45.200 favorite quotation? Oh? You know what I feel like, if 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:48.160 if I have to have one favorite quotation, it's uh, 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.840 you don't have to get ready when you stay ready. 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.400 As as crazy as it sounds that it does sound 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:58.000 somewhat cliche. If you put in that work and you're 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.720 always ready when it comes to preparation, I feel like, 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.040 what when your number is called, there won't be as 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:06.120 much scrambling, you know. You's like it's it's it is 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.040 exactly what it is if you if you stay ready, 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:09.400 you don't have to get ready. That's and that's what 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:16.920 we see. Who's the most optimistic person? You know? Wow, 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.880 I don't know. That's a that's a tough one, man. Um. 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:23.880 I mean, can I say myself Maybe I like to 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.400 say I'm I'm somewhat of a hater, but I feel 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:28.120 like you have to be a little bit of a 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.440 hater when when when when you have you know your 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.680 ideas and you have your thought processes, but I like 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:36.440 to stay optimistic. Like even with my little one, I 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:38.000 was telling him, like, if if you think you can 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.480 get it done, don't let anybody tell you otherwise. And 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.040 that's kind of how I've always operated, because you know, 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.280 when I was younger and I talked fast. You've you've 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:46.920 been around me plenty of times. Man, I like to 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.360 I like to speak at a at a heightened clip, 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:51.520 and you know, every once in a a while I start, 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.959 it will come in and uh, you know back in 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.480 the in the younger days, you know, I like I 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.360 like to fancy the expletives. So everyone would alwas say, man, 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.520 never never gonna be on TV. You know, it's how 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:03.920 are you gonna do that with all the stutter and 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:05.959 and and all the all the all the all the 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:07.200 words that come out, and that you need to put 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:09.800 a dollar in the swear jar. But I just I 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:11.839 just feel like I try to remain optimistic, and I 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.120 always had to try to have a positive mindset. So 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:16.480 maybe if I had to go with someone else, by default, 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:18.640 I go with my daughter. She tries to stay positive, 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.200 and I feel like that's just because of some of 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.560 the seeds that I've planned with her at a young age. 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.200 So everybody in the whole, in the coal Right household 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.360 is optimistic. I like that. We try to be. We 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.480 try to be, not not always, but like I said, 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:33.959 my wife says, I'm the biggest hater in the house, 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:39.800 but I only hate so everyone gets better. I'm I'm 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:45.480 I'm I'm pessimistic, Paul half the time, I'm always no. 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.640 But Steve, I mean you have to be optimistic, dude. 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:52.640 I mean, think about how many people when you were 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.400 coming up, we're saying, well, this is what you think 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:57.120 you're gonna be able to do with your with your 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.520 life and your career, And how many doubters did you have? 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.040 And how many times did you say, I'm gonna go 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:04.319 out there and I'm gonna show this cat or whoever 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.680 it may be, why they're wrong and I'm right. So 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:10.920 you had to maintain an optimistic co right, Meet Steve Smith, 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.640 Steve Smith, meet Cole Right. Well, now you don't now 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.520 that you put it in that fact, I think I've 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:21.320 been doing this a lot lately. It's sometimes, uh, you know, 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:27.679 sometimes I think we don't realize what the true terminology 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:32.640 of of the word is. So I'm gonna see what 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:38.800 what optimistic you know, a feeling or showing hope for 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:46.040 the future. So that's what optimists optimistic. Yeah that that's 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:54.040 according to uh Websters Webster manual Websters. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:57.840 I see how you did that. But since you're in Chicago, 0:10:58.000 --> 0:10:59.720 let me go ahead and uh let me go ahead 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:07.520 and or Papadopolis you huh oh you see that? Huh yeah? 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:13.959 I like, yeah, right, yeah, I got throw the other 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:19.800 show into Punky Brewster. Alright, Okay, what was Punky Brewster's 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:23.120 dog's name? Though this is our podcast cold, we don't 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:28.439 have to answer questions like we make sure we put 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:32.200 the questions out here. That's how this goes. What was 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:37.600 the dogs? I don't know, And normally I would know something. 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:41.400 You used list information. I did not know on that one. 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:43.640 I didn't know that. All right, last one, last one. 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:45.520 This this, this is gonna throw you in a tizzy 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:47.760 because I know you're gonna be tough on this, all right, 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:57.679 deep This Chicago style style pizza or authentic Mexican food 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:05.120 from Cappy. Here's the thing, Steed, when you come to Chicago, 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:07.480 you you'll find out as you drive through the city. 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.640 A lot of people may not know this, but Chicago 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:15.040 is the second most populous Hispanic city in America. More 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:18.679 Mexican Americans live in Chicago than any other city outside 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:23.760 of Los Angeles. The Mexican food in Chicago is next 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.719 level when it comes to deep dish pizza. Oh yeah, 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.000 there's a there's a Mexican spot right across the street. 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.320 I'm here at Brigley right now. Our offices are right 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.120 across the street and right next door two doors down, 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:37.960 there's a place called La Mexicano. Every day, Like, hey, 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.760 what you're doing for dinner night? Tacos? I guess again, 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.000 let me get three out pass doors three carna as 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.360 side is, I probably don't need that, but I probably 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:47.440 should have just went with four instead of six. But 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.719 I'm a sucker for tacos. However, the Chicago native in 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.800 me loves pizza. But being back that I'm here full 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:58.040 time now, you can't just go around eating deep dish pizzas, 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.360 you know, once a week, twice a month, because guess what, 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:03.559 you have to get a readjustment on some of those 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.280 custom suits real quick. So I I like to go 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:10.960 with the thin crust cut tavern style Chicago style, you know, 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.840 in the squares you get the buttercrust, little saucy green 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.280 pepper onion, and you call it a day. You get 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:20.439 the same taste as that Deep dish with with less calories, 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.240 if that makes any sense. Less carbs. Man, You know 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.120 we're you know, we're trying to look spelt in the 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.240 in the slim fins. Are you trying to telling me 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:29.560 you found a pizza with less carbs? It has less 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.839 carbs in the deep I do go extra large, lou 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:36.280 mall Mighty's thin crust well done, so it gets that 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.480 extra little crisp on it. But I feel like I 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:40.760 haven't ordered a whole bunch of thick crust since I've 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:42.200 been back. Like if I go to my mom and 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:44.320 dad's house and they're like, my Mom's like, oh, well, 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:46.079 we're gonna get pizza tonight. What do you want you? 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.960 She'll go with deep dish. But even her over the years, 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:52.079 my mom and dad they've even gravitated towards the thin crusts. 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:56.080 So it is so heavy. So is So what's the 0:13:56.120 --> 0:14:05.920 difference between Deep Dish Chicago style and Detroit Pizza Because 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:12.120 they're kind of for the untrained eye, they look the 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:16.200 same somewhat, but Detroit style pizza. They make it in 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:19.280 those in those square pans. And I heard this just 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.920 not too long ago, that the reason they make them 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.600 in square pans is that there was a surplus of 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.880 those pans at whether it was GM or four one 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:34.600 of the automobile manufacturing companies, the oil pan. It was 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.480 nuts and bolts and all the small and all the 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:41.040 small pieces. So they had a whole bunch of extra. 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:42.800 So he gave it to a place and they started 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.720 making pizzas in those pants, and that was the birth 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.920 of the Detroit style pizza. But there's no sauce on 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.320 Detroit style pizza. They put cheese all the way to 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.600 the edge and then they poured the sauce on top. 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:57.480 That's the biggest difference though, So so it's it fair 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:02.080 to say that Detroit and deep dish Chicago style is 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:07.680 a bootleg version of sicilia. It is the bootleg version. 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.480 I feel like Detroit style pizza is the great value 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:17.440 of pizza. So it's like pizza old lay away, like, 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:19.880 hold on a second, I'm gonna come back next week. 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:23.120 Let me let me get my cheese and dough, but 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:27.440 the the sauce next week. Yeah, it's it's if Chicago 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:31.560 style pizza. If if they're Transformers Detroit style pizza, there 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:36.080 their gobots go. The Tigers just texted me that's it. 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.560 They don't need you up there at any point in time. Soon. Yeah, 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.240 we'll be all right. What Chicago is one of those places, Uh, 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:52.000 if you've ever been in the summer, uh, you used 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:54.960 to it. I've been to Chicago a number of times, 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:59.280 but I'm always shocked when I walk around there because 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:01.040 I never really come in the summer, and I'm like, man, 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:03.240 this is a place that I need to come all summer. 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.920 Still haven't gotten it. Still still haven't gotten there. Tell 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:12.080 me why Chicago is a fantastic place to go in 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:14.760 the summer. I mean, all you have to do is 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.000 just go back and look at Kanye lyrics. He said, 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.880 what did you say? It feels like Atlanta, It feel 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:24.160 like l A, it feel like n Why summertimes shy Uh? 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:26.240 I thought, yeah, I mean that's that's all you really 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.120 need to know. I mean, summertime in Chicago, block parties. 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.960 I mean the weather, it's fantastic. This this this summer 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.320 we had, I mean an unbelievable stretch of weather but 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:39.080 barely any rain. It just felt like every day you'd 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:42.240 wake up and it almost felt like it was l 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:44.600 A type weather. And Steve, I mean, you know l 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.840 A has some some pretty solid weather when you can 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.200 go down and get mail out of the mailbox in 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.800 middle of December and just some gym shorts and that's it. 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.360 Some flip flops. You know you're doing everything right. And 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:56.480 you know the weather so far this year and even 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:58.880 all the way into September. We'relost in October and I'm 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.120 sitting here at Brigley feeling some khakis in a in 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:02.520 a golf shirt and I'm like, man, I wish I 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.640 would have war some shorts out here. It's i mean, 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:09.080 mid mid eighties right now. So here's my present. The 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:12.600 way you you proposed this. You know, my son was 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:16.720 he played briefly at the Paul. Okay, and so you 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:22.359 know the Paul's in downtown absolutely okay. The way you 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:26.320 just summarize Chicago. You summarize Chicago kind of like the 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.840 place I played in Baltimore, where like they in the Harbor. Yeah, 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:33.840 it's nice, but you ask and get robbed too. You 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:37.119 just get you get robbed anywhere. No, not the not 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:41.240 the way they're robbing you in Baltimore and Chicago, there's levels. 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.400 It's it's almost like when the wintertime comes, like Cat Williams, 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:50.320 you get your cold, we're here from here. I feel 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.359 like it's I feel like there's a myth perpetuated some 0:17:53.880 --> 0:18:01.400 you know what I mean? Boy, stop lyon, I've never 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:03.400 been you know what. I take that back. I did 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:06.160 get my car broken when I when I was going 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:10.240 to get some dinner, went to a fantastic Italian prestant, 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:14.760 came back. So let me so, let me so. Let 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:18.760 me so. You went to Italian restaurant and came out 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:22.920 with an Italian job. Yeah, yeah, they did a number. 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:25.359 I felt like that. And Norton and don Che we're 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:27.879 driving off from Mini Cooper's after day after just lifted 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.680 everything out. I like his movie ref knowledge right there. 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.480 That was nice. You know. The funny thing about it, though, 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:37.320 is that I feel like they were amateurs because they 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:39.440 didn't even get all the best stuff. I mean, they 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.080 got my work bag with the computer, they gotta watching 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:44.480 some cash out of the middle console, but they didn't 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:47.159 get my baseball glove and they didn't get my scooter. 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:50.760 Where was that where in the back in the back hast. 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:54.840 Come on, Steve, you don't have an electric schooler to 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:56.879 get wherever you need to go in the back of 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:00.320 the car Lamborghini's I guess, don't have scooter room, Huffler. Well, 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:04.480 first of all, I don't have a Lamborghini, okay, And 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:06.320 second of all, when I was in Baltimore, I had 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:09.840 a scooter, but I didn't put the scooter in the car. Yeah, 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:13.159 I had a electric scooter. See here's the thing, Okay, 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:17.320 So our offices are right across the street. I lived downtown, 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:19.920 so I would just drive my scooter everywhere because I 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:22.760 didn't want to pay for parking as absolutely, and I 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:24.199 mean think about it. By the time you get in 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:26.199 the car, out of the car, senter a few stoplights, 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:29.439 and you're gonna get somewhere quicker with the scooter. But 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:32.240 you got the scooter in the car though. In the 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:35.280 back I got the third row. It's laid down, scooter 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:38.440 always there because we had to park about two blocks away. 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:40.520 I'll tell you what, there's nothing worse than getting done 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:42.760 with the late game that went maybe a rain delay, 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:45.200 extra innings. You walk to the car and you patch 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:48.080 your pockets like I think this about some man I 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:50.080 left my keys on the desk, so then you have 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:52.440 to walk all the way back two blocks go back, 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:54.240 and I'm like, you know what, I'm just gonna take 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:56.280 the scooter that no one uses at my house. That's 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:58.919 my scooter in the first day. I'm gonna take it, 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:01.159 put it in my car, and I'm gonna ride it 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:03.320 into work every single day. So I ride every day 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:06.040 from the parking lot to our offices. And then I 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:11.159 just let me ask you a dad question. Don't lie 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:16.280 when you have forgotten to charge it. Who's the kid 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:20.520 you blame for not charging it? Me? I blame myself. 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:22.960 It's funny because my daughter, she came in the house 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:24.280 to the day I was sleeping. I had a day off, 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:31.159 and she came in and she's she's my first thing 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:33.679 was like that scow it was in my car and 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:35.919 take this thunder out of my car, and she's her 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:38.119 knee and elbow were scraped up. And I'm like, guess what, 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:39.639 I like, you know how many times I scraped up 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:42.280 my knee and elbow. I'm like, get after it and 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:44.680 keep it moving. And my wife is like, well, she's 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:49.400 hurt that that wasn't very optimistic. She's a very optimistic 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:53.200 that you didn't give her hope. Well, I was hoping 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:55.960 that she would be a little bit tougher in that situation. 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:58.040 That's kind of hope that I was trying to provide them. 0:20:58.040 --> 0:20:59.840 Like here a catcher. I'm like saying, if you if 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:01.840 you take one and off off the shelds, I'm like, 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:03.800 you gotta be ready to go. This would happened during 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:07.240 the game. You gotta be ready for that. That That 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:10.040 didn't land very well with the it did. My wife 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:12.160 was like, but my daughter she got just like, yeah, 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:14.760 I'm all right, I'll be good this weekend, and she 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:17.840 was okay. The only bad thing about the story is 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:20.000 she got the blame for for the like, O, you 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:21.720 took the stood out of my car and you almost 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:30.960 messed the steed up. Come on down. I love cut 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:33.560 to It, and I love it even more when you 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:37.760 download us and subscribe and you can follow us on 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:41.000 social media too, Smithie where where at? That's at? Cut 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:45.040 to It on Instagram? What about Twitter? At cut to 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:48.800 It Facebook, cut to It featuring Steve Smith sing your 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:52.359 what about online? And you can follow us at cut 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:55.520 to It podcast dot com where you can buy merch 0:21:55.960 --> 0:21:58.920 and you can subscribe to us wherever you listen to podcasts. 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:03.200 I got my answers questions. Um, yeah, I got all 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:06.399 my questions answered. That's what I'm here for. A brother 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:12.000 cut to a podcast dot com. Where are you from 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:15.320 and the place you call your hometown. I'm from Chicago, man, 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:20.400 I know, being from the suburbs of Native Chicago Winds 0:22:20.440 --> 0:22:23.560 that grew up inside the outline of the city. They're like, well, 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:26.119 you're not from Chicago, You're from the suburbs. But you know, 0:22:26.160 --> 0:22:28.120 when you move all on the country, people ask where 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:30.680 are you from? You know, I tell them Chicago. Where 0:22:30.680 --> 0:22:33.000 I'd say, you know, Aurory, Illinois. You know you've seen 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:36.960 Wayne's World Aurora, Illinois public Access TV channel six. There 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:40.080 really was no Public Access six with Wayne and Garth 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:42.520 on and but I am from Aurora, Illinois. I was 0:22:42.560 --> 0:22:45.080 born in Joliet. I spent all my junior high high 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:48.119 school years out there. And you know, it's be be 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:51.160 able to be back home and work for a team 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:53.080 that you know, I grew up cheering for. You know, 0:22:53.200 --> 0:22:55.040 my dad and my mom and I we came, we 0:22:55.119 --> 0:22:57.000 came to Brigley Field and came to games. And even 0:22:57.040 --> 0:22:59.160 when I graduated college. I lived like ten blocks away 0:22:59.160 --> 0:23:01.080 from Brigley and we would do whatever we could if 0:23:01.080 --> 0:23:04.080 we knew some people that that waited tables with us, 0:23:04.119 --> 0:23:06.480 that worked in another establishment would say, hey, can you 0:23:06.520 --> 0:23:08.000 get us some tickets? What can we do to to 0:23:08.040 --> 0:23:10.000 come to games? And the fact that now I get 0:23:10.040 --> 0:23:12.120 to come, I mean, my badge would get me into 0:23:12.119 --> 0:23:15.520 Brigley Field when on day's where it's closed. My agent 0:23:15.600 --> 0:23:18.399 came to town and you know, my my general editor 0:23:20.320 --> 0:23:22.720 would we brought him and his fiancee brought him across 0:23:22.720 --> 0:23:24.720 and there was nobody in the field. And it was 0:23:24.760 --> 0:23:26.840 crazy for me for a place that you know, I 0:23:27.359 --> 0:23:30.119 used to you know, cling to for the rare opportunities 0:23:30.119 --> 0:23:32.000