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Speaker 1: and clearly four hours each night not enough. Under the
Speaker 1: cover of darkness and The great thing about podcasting is
Speaker 1: it's on whenever you want it. You can listen in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night, or you can listen early
Speaker 1: in the morning on the sun's up. You can sit
Speaker 1: on the beach, you can sit by the lake, in
Speaker 1: the mountains, in the snow, and the sun doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: And that's the beauty of podcasting. And this a mailbag podcast.
Speaker 1: Will mix in a wee bit we bit of pop quiz.
Speaker 1: But David Gascon is still here. He's not checked out
Speaker 1: there West of the four oh five. No, no, not
Speaker 1: at all. In fact, I have a fascinating story that
Speaker 1: was that was directed to me and I passed along
Speaker 1: to you. It makes me, it makes me thank our
Speaker 1: friend from from the Greater Lone Stars State of Texas.
Speaker 1: I'm a pilot um. The Chinese up to some interesting
Speaker 1: stuff with our with our government. Did you hear about that? No?
Speaker 1: You want to you want to fill me in on
Speaker 1: this guest. Yes. Yes. Vice News actually reported this a
Speaker 1: few days ago. They said China. China's government is apologizing
Speaker 1: because it forced Joe Biden's staff to submit to anal
Speaker 1: COVID exams. Fifty members of Biden's staff. We're subject to
Speaker 1: anal uh penetration on one or more occasions from the
Speaker 1: Chinese Communist Party doctors. Well, you gotta really make sure
Speaker 1: the COVID doesn't get up your asshole. What are we doing? Man?
Speaker 1: I remember I'm a pilots nice you know, journal of
Speaker 1: how he went from the United States to to the Orient. Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well is that now? Is that your favorite story? Because
Speaker 1: my favorite story this week was the Mr Potato Head
Speaker 1: story that that is my favorite? What the fuck man?
Speaker 1: You know it's a potato people or potato and Coca
Speaker 1: Cola oreos, Like, what the funk are we doing in
Speaker 1: the United States? Uh? Pretty wild, man, Pretty wild? Pretty
Speaker 1: pretty wild. But let's get into this gascon we've got
Speaker 1: before we get through the mail bag. We've got pop
Speaker 1: quiz time is of the essence, as you know here
Speaker 1: time you're not because of me. I would sit here forever.
Speaker 1: But you, of course you claim you have things to do.
Speaker 1: We have no evidence that that is actually the case.
Speaker 1: But so when I work with you, it's like bobbing
Speaker 1: and weaving, bob and weave when I work with you.
Speaker 1: All right, so pop quiz. These are random things we
Speaker 1: found around the internet that are interesting. I will ask gascon.
Speaker 1: But really I'm asking you. I'm asking you, as a
Speaker 1: consumer of the podcast, to play along in your head.
Speaker 1: You don't have to speak out loud if there's other
Speaker 1: people around. Most people listen by themselves. But if you
Speaker 1: want to give a give an answer. Boom perfect, All right,
Speaker 1: all right, here we go. Uh. Last month in the
Speaker 1: United States, there were about fourteen hundred of these every second,
Speaker 1: four hundred of these every second. Can you give me
Speaker 1: a hand? This is so um. It's involving something that
Speaker 1: baby you have on your possession and I have on
Speaker 1: my position right now. Um, on every session that's loosely
Speaker 1: related to something that you have in your possession right
Speaker 1: now in your pocket. Maybe it's on the table in
Speaker 1: front of you. Drop my car keys. No, it's a
Speaker 1: spam phone calls? Yeah, hundred every second. Who the hell
Speaker 1: is still answering spam calls? I don't know. But we
Speaker 1: got a boatload of those during the elections, did you not? No?
Speaker 1: I didn't not get as many. What Texas? Did you
Speaker 1: get spam Texas? Ohh yeah, Well I got the head
Speaker 1: there's a package we're trying to deliver to your residents,
Speaker 1: and they don't give your name, aim and all that.
Speaker 1: They don't say who you are or your address. It's
Speaker 1: all bullsh of people feel comfortable flirting here. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: the place that most people would say, Oh, that's kind
Speaker 1: of odd, But people apparently enjoy a little flirtation. Library,
Speaker 1: no hospital. Now about to drive through? You ever gone
Speaker 1: to pick up a big mac and fries and been
Speaker 1: like that? That the young ladies pretty attractive. You might
Speaker 1: want to have some French fries with it, especially in
Speaker 1: and out, because you know, at least those workers they're
Speaker 1: getting well paid too. Everything being relative, of course, but yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so if you're hey, if you're a single, Now does
Speaker 1: it work for the guys too, or the ladies picking
Speaker 1: up on the guys in the drive through? Or is
Speaker 1: it is only the creepy dudes picking up on the ladies?
Speaker 1: I don't know, Or is it all gender neutral people
Speaker 1: picking up? Come? Come on, kid, because I care um
Speaker 1: as myers used to say. But yeah, no, I was
Speaker 1: never good at picking up on anybody I did. I
Speaker 1: remember though, back in my big fast food days, there
Speaker 1: were some attractive ladies that worked at the fast food
Speaker 1: place drive through window. Oh yeah, I don't think it
Speaker 1: mattered Jack in the box, Carlos Jr. In and out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's some. My favorite used to call them guess got
Speaker 1: back in the first round draft picks. There's some lottery picks.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I can maybe like second round picks. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I consider D one to be perfect tight, perfect weight.
Speaker 1: And they don't have that, they don't have that fat
Speaker 1: and then and they don't have that fat gene in
Speaker 1: them either, like you could tell the young ones like
Speaker 1: they will or they won't have that fat gene in
Speaker 1: them when they hit thirty and forty. But those are
Speaker 1: the d ones, those are the ones you want to
Speaker 1: keep an eye on. But such as Schmuck, I see,
Speaker 1: I like a little more cushion for the pushing. So
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm good, not always, though I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't want like double wide you know, I don't want
Speaker 1: a double wide trailer. I don't like that. But you know,
Speaker 1: I'll be happy with a full size trailer. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: good for that couple wine trailer. Oh my gosh. All right.
Speaker 1: A new report claims the smell of this makes people
Speaker 1: act more pleasantly towards one another. What is it, Perfumer cologne.
Speaker 1: It's coffee. Actually, wow, coffee. I've never had a cup
Speaker 1: of coffee. I don't mind the smell of coffee, but
Speaker 1: I don't it doesn't make me pleasant. People at coffee
Speaker 1: shops are just nice and mellow. And of families say
Speaker 1: they argue about this more than anything else. Right now,
Speaker 1: what is politics? Internet usage on the WiFi too much,
Speaker 1: You're playing too many video games on the internet, You're
Speaker 1: watching too many movies et center. About of the Americans
Speaker 1: say this is their favorite thing about the winter. The attire. No,
Speaker 1: the snow, not snow related. It's the warm, fuzzy socks
Speaker 1: you wear. Okay, so was the tire. Yeah, Well, my
Speaker 1: my brother lives in New York. He's lived there for many,
Speaker 1: many years, and when I first went back to visit him,
Speaker 1: it was kind of the wintertime. He said, the most
Speaker 1: important thing, he said, listen to me. He said, you
Speaker 1: listen to me. Bad brother Joe, He said, you listen.
Speaker 1: We you gonna have these socks, these wool socks. Al Right,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter how cold is, you got these wool socks.
Speaker 1: You're good. And he was right. I mean, it's the
Speaker 1: socks of the key, keep your feet warm. You're good
Speaker 1: to go, yeah, we don't have to worry about that.
Speaker 1: And I don't know. I you get people in southern California,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about sixty seventy degrees. Females were in ugg boots. Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's like fake California cold and it's I
Speaker 1: don't well, it's all souls beyond me. Stereotype giscount. Then
Speaker 1: I'll stereotype that there's a lot of winter fashion that
Speaker 1: you cannot wear in California because it's not appropriate. So
Speaker 1: you then you try to morph it into fit. You know,
Speaker 1: as well, it's not Minnesota cold, but it's California cold,
Speaker 1: so I can wear this. Yeah, it's like the best
Speaker 1: is when you wear short shorts with ug boots, like
Speaker 1: I've seen females do that a lot. Oh yeah, yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: well it's the stuff I see going to the grocery store. Uh.
Speaker 1: The percentage of people that go to the grocery store
Speaker 1: to get some eggs wearing pajamas fascinated to me. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, you're so lazy, amazy. Alright, Over half of
Speaker 1: all men say they would never want their mothers to
Speaker 1: see this. What is it um their photo gallery or
Speaker 1: their Texas now their Internet browsing, browsing browsing history. It's
Speaker 1: pretty much the same. Yeah, all right, the next one.
Speaker 1: We're doing pop quiz here. The next one. What do
Speaker 1: of people say they do to help them concentrate when
Speaker 1: driving in really bad weather? Put two hands in the
Speaker 1: steering wheel. Uh? No, they pray, They pray, go to
Speaker 1: a higher power. Yeah. Have you ever been in such
Speaker 1: terrible weather that you just pulled over to the side
Speaker 1: of the road and said, that's it, I'm gonna check
Speaker 1: out for a little bit and wait for this to pass. No, never,
Speaker 1: I have no. Well, actually that's not technically true. I
Speaker 1: was driving through from Buffalo down to in the middle
Speaker 1: of New York, from Buffalo down to New York City,
Speaker 1: um and and uh anyways, the weather was terribles, a
Speaker 1: big storm, like a lake driven storm, and I could
Speaker 1: not see. There was so much water on the road.
Speaker 1: I couldn't see in front or behind. I saw. I
Speaker 1: could barely see some some red lights like the cars
Speaker 1: were stopped. I literally stopped on the New York exp
Speaker 1: Us Way because the rain was so horrific. I couldn't
Speaker 1: see anything. And I know you're not supposed to do that,
Speaker 1: but I I'm here to talk about it. So I survived.
Speaker 1: You know. Now, have you ever prayed while you're on
Speaker 1: a fight? Um? Yeah, you know with turbinus. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: had so. Yeah, I don't know. I usually want to
Speaker 1: go on a flight I come to terms with I
Speaker 1: might not make it off the flight going in, I'm like,
Speaker 1: this could be the end, you know, Um hey, goodbye,
Speaker 1: my weird ghoulish way of looking at that. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I would I go on the flat I think, well,
Speaker 1: this could be the end of it, you know, this
Speaker 1: would be the game over. But uh, yeah, when when
Speaker 1: I've only had turbans a few times where it's really nasty,
Speaker 1: I've never been on that, like like flight from Denver
Speaker 1: to Hawaii where the engine blew up. I've never been
Speaker 1: on something for four minutes in. Well, they're lucky it
Speaker 1: was four minutes in and not over the Pacific. What
Speaker 1: are they gonna imagine if they were halfway to Hawaii
Speaker 1: from California and what do they do? Then? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess there are some islands out there we don't know about,
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure there's not runways from now a
Speaker 1: jumbo jet to land on out in the middle of
Speaker 1: the Pacific. Unbelievable. What I'm a pilot with. He probably
Speaker 1: knows what they would do in that situation. Does water landing? Like? Uh,
Speaker 1: that guy's sunny, right, you should You should reach out
Speaker 1: to him panhandled for another hat to while you're at it.
Speaker 1: What's great hat by that's in the top five hats
Speaker 1: I've ever got to get the m on it's beautiful.
Speaker 1: You're jealous of the hat? The hat's wonderful. Yeah, it's great,
Speaker 1: all right. The average man uses two of these at home,
Speaker 1: but the average woman uses four. What is these at home? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Two of these? Average woman uses four at home. Razor blades? Uh? No, yeah, one?
Speaker 1: Why not? Well, some guys no shave. Uh the answer
Speaker 1: is pillows. M hmm yeah, how many pillows to use? Four?
Speaker 1: Your so you're more like the more like the ladies. Well,
Speaker 1: I have two bigger pillows and I have two smaller ones.
Speaker 1: And then during the course of summertime, when it gets
Speaker 1: really hot and I wake up in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night, I have to grab the next closest and
Speaker 1: coldest pillow the other side of the pillow. Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: a I love cooling pillows, but they don't last that long.
Speaker 1: So you do have to rotate them. And I I
Speaker 1: am more of the pillow fiend than the wife. I
Speaker 1: use pillows more. How many have I like to be
Speaker 1: surrounded by pillows? I have I know three four something.
Speaker 1: Back in the day before I was was married, I
Speaker 1: think I had like six pillows. I was like a
Speaker 1: six pillow guy. I surrounded myself with pillows. At any
Speaker 1: any point, I always had a pillow with you know,
Speaker 1: you can just flip it over at any moment. All right,
Speaker 1: A few more of these all right up until the
Speaker 1: pandemic it was illegal to do this at work in France.
Speaker 1: What is it in France? Yes? Do do do do
Speaker 1: do do do dude, do do do do do do
Speaker 1: eat it I don't know, I don't know. All right
Speaker 1: here it is eat lunch at your desk. Dare not
Speaker 1: going to say that I said to eat, but that
Speaker 1: was too obvious, especially in France. You should do it.
Speaker 1: I mean there's food in our keyboards at work. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I I understand, And a lot of it's from when
Speaker 1: me and Jason back in the day eating and it's
Speaker 1: still there. Those are the original keyboards and original computers
Speaker 1: are the entire stock of one million of these were
Speaker 1: amazingly sold in nine. Normally you have an item for sale,
Speaker 1: you don't sell all of them. But the entire stock
Speaker 1: of one million of these were sold in nine. What
Speaker 1: the fuck? It's a it's a toy. Do do Do
Speaker 1: Do Do Do Do Do. It's a toy. Do do Do
Speaker 1: Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do do silly
Speaker 1: putty tickle me Elmo, Tickle me Elmo. Not gonna guess that,
Speaker 1: all right, last one, then we'll get to the last one.
Speaker 1: Email bag. There are only twenty five of these in
Speaker 1: the world. Though they are often synonymous with major sporting events,
Speaker 1: there's only twenty five of them in the entire world.
Speaker 1: Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do
Speaker 1: Do Do Do do Um championship trophies. Uh No blimps.
Speaker 1: The famous good blimp over the Rose Bowls looking live
Speaker 1: stationed here in Carson, California. That is right, but that
Speaker 1: is technically the air station is east of the four
Speaker 1: oh fim not west of the furrow from now east. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone representing Carson's gonna say west of
Speaker 1: the four or five. Get what I'm saying? Are you
Speaker 1: implying something. Guess, guy, would you like to spend on that? Well,
Speaker 1: we'll do in the next We'll do in the next podcast,
Speaker 1: next next week. Okay, alright, mail bag. These are actual
Speaker 1: questions sent in by actual listeners, submitted via Facebook Ben
Speaker 1: Maller's show or The Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Alright,
Speaker 1: Pierre and Springfield mass right, since it's been what are
Speaker 1: the odds that Bo the show fills in on a
Speaker 1: more permanent basis on the podcast? The two of you
Speaker 1: had a great rapport and he provided that he actually
Speaker 1: he proved rather he actually listens to the show, and
Speaker 1: that he relates to the callers. He also provided great
Speaker 1: feedback to your questions and had witty comebacks. Please let
Speaker 1: me know that's Pierre, It's Bringfield. Well, Pierre, listen. Bo
Speaker 1: was wonderful, as you point out there, just really relatable
Speaker 1: to the common man and tremendous. There a colossal, grandiose
Speaker 1: appearance by Bye both the show there and uh. I
Speaker 1: think we'll be hearing more from both the show, Thank God,
Speaker 1: I think we'll be hearing more. I want to let
Speaker 1: Pierre know that, first of all, Bow is actually engaged.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get married soon. He is not available for you,
Speaker 1: So you can filatio somebody else if you'd like. But yeah,
Speaker 1: bow was taken. Sorry about that, move along, Ben Miller. Okay,
Speaker 1: interesting reaction there. Uh, this one's from Valls fan, Jimmy
Speaker 1: Valls fan Jimmy and Fayetteville, Tennessee has been Have you
Speaker 1: ever stayed at the Cecil Hotel and do you have
Speaker 1: any plans? When they reopened in October, I didn't know
Speaker 1: they were reopening. I thought they were permanently closed. The
Speaker 1: see show now. For those who don't know, the Cecil
Speaker 1: Hotel is a legendary hotel on skid Row in l
Speaker 1: A where many people have met their demise. This goes
Speaker 1: back to like the twenties, like this old Hollywood, early
Speaker 1: l A history, Uh, where you know, people would commit
Speaker 1: suicide and they would be murder and it was horrible.
Speaker 1: And they've done documentaries about this and they've been stories
Speaker 1: written about it, and uh, like a bunch of people
Speaker 1: have committed suicide there. There's like a curse on that hotel.
Speaker 1: I generally try to avoid that area. There is a
Speaker 1: pretty good French dip place not far away from the
Speaker 1: hotel Cecil that I will go to from time to time.
Speaker 1: And um, but that's that's about it. I mean it really,
Speaker 1: I'm guessing it's different now. Last time I was there,
Speaker 1: actually I went to the World's coolest or oldest or
Speaker 1: whatever bookstore, biggest bookstore, and uh, it's right near skid Row,
Speaker 1: and skid Row had moved. Like there was a point
Speaker 1: of demarcation where like it was like you're in l A.
Speaker 1: It was downtown l A. It was kind of nice,
Speaker 1: and then you crossed the street and it's the hard
Speaker 1: scrabble streets and but yeah, the hotel's right right in
Speaker 1: that area. You you go down that area, guess you've
Speaker 1: been to the hotel Cecil. You want me to book
Speaker 1: your room there. I have driven by their a handful
Speaker 1: of occasions, but I did because the chief used to
Speaker 1: work down there at Parker Center downtown l A. So yes,
Speaker 1: it is. It is fascinating the streets that you drive
Speaker 1: down and you don't want to drive down in l A.
Speaker 1: It is Uh, yeah, I did something pretty delicate. Especially, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the place that is Coals by the way, that's the
Speaker 1: the French dip place. If you're in l A. It's
Speaker 1: right there on Sixth Street and just like a couple
Speaker 1: of steps away from there is the start of what
Speaker 1: what used to be the start of skid Row. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a speak easy attached to that too. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a speech is speakeasy. And that's a famous building.
Speaker 1: That building. Uh well, I'm I'm having a blank here,
Speaker 1: but that's that's a building where in the early days
Speaker 1: of l A. Um there's something something famous happened in
Speaker 1: that build. I forget what, but I'm having a mental
Speaker 1: block here. You know, the Edison, the Edison Factory was
Speaker 1: a couple of blocks down to right. Uh yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that was the that was the meat of downtown
Speaker 1: l A. That was the main point there. So isn't
Speaker 1: I think it's a main street? Is that the point
Speaker 1: of demarcation for skid Row? Is that? I think it is? Right? Yeah.
Speaker 1: If you go eastbound on on the ten Freeway, you
Speaker 1: get off on San Pedro Street and then you get
Speaker 1: to Maine and it's uh yeah, So it causes on
Speaker 1: the coals. Is not that it really matters if you're
Speaker 1: not in California, l A. But Coles is on the
Speaker 1: corner of sixth Street and in Maine, which is right there.
Speaker 1: That's like the point, it all goes sideways. But I've
Speaker 1: never been to the c SO hoteling like I'm good
Speaker 1: on that. Chris and Iowa writes, and he says, if
Speaker 1: you could interview anyone in the world for your podcast,
Speaker 1: who would it be President Trump? For you? For sure?
Speaker 1: I'd put Trump on. Sure, Yeah, I put Trump on
Speaker 1: because half the people would be freaked out. Elon Musk
Speaker 1: would be a lot of fun. Elon Musk would be good. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I just think Joe Rogan would be interesting.
Speaker 1: He does a bunch of podcast to Howard Stern. You know,
Speaker 1: so you can't have Russia on now, unfortunately, but you
Speaker 1: know some people I listened to back in the day
Speaker 1: on radio would be would be neat to have on.
Speaker 1: Do we need to up our game here? Chris and Iowa?
Speaker 1: Are you want to recommend some some bigger names here?
Speaker 1: And you're not satisfied with the quality of the conversations
Speaker 1: we have on our Friday podcast? Can't in Colorado writes
Speaker 1: in on the mail Bag. He says, what kind of
Speaker 1: crazy world are we living in where a twenty two
Speaker 1: year old wannabe gets a fourteen year Mega deal and
Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer Johnny Bench has to not has
Speaker 1: to hawk his memorable here to pay bills. It's not
Speaker 1: happy with the Fernando Dutis Jr. Contract with the projects. Well,
Speaker 1: I can't listen. This is the way life works, right.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, if if Johnny bench had been born
Speaker 1: and lived the same life, you know, years later, then
Speaker 1: he would be the one getting the three million dollar contract.
Speaker 1: But he wasn't, and he lived in a different ages.
Speaker 1: His salad days when a different age, and that's just
Speaker 1: how it works. So yeah, I mean it's it's actually
Speaker 1: fortunate that Johnny benchkin hawk his memorabilia and be able
Speaker 1: to pay his bills and all that. And Pete Rose
Speaker 1: still can sign a million autographs and the value of
Speaker 1: Pete rose autograph isn't worth much because he signed everything. Uhmas.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, there was a picture Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame picture Bob Feller, and Bob Feller was in Cleveland,
Speaker 1: Indians guy, and he would sign everything too, but only
Speaker 1: autograph shows. And so his autograph by the time he
Speaker 1: passed away was it was not worth much anything because
Speaker 1: he signed everything. Alright, Adrian in the Mile High City
Speaker 1: Rights and he says he's got a bunch of questions
Speaker 1: he says, betting gascon. He says the Bow show was disgusting.
Speaker 1: He says, well, this is one of your guy's guest
Speaker 1: He says, listening to the Saturday Pop Quiz portion of
Speaker 1: the podcast, he was surprised that people wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: to share a sandwich. Yeah, if you cut said sandwich
Speaker 1: in half, Adrian says, I could understand sharing it, but
Speaker 1: he was talking about strategically biting around the already bitten
Speaker 1: part to share. That's gross. Yeah, I agree with you,
Speaker 1: Adrian's pretty pretty disgusting. Uh. And then he says, my
Speaker 1: family and I had lunch at Ihop recently and we
Speaker 1: are now at fifty percent capacity in the Denver area.
Speaker 1: Inside the restaurant, there were signs at all the tables
Speaker 1: saying masks are required at all times unless you were
Speaker 1: actively eating or drinking. My wife and I thought that
Speaker 1: was ridiculous and kept our masks off during the entire meal.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts, I'm right there with you, Adrian. Yes, I
Speaker 1: think it's the dumbest thing. Uh. There's a restaurant I've
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time in Orange County in Uh,
Speaker 1: there's a one of my favorite Mexican restaurants. My family
Speaker 1: used to go there as a kid, and I've been
Speaker 1: going there and uh, you know, they have the deal
Speaker 1: with you have to have your mask on. But it's
Speaker 1: like when you stand up, you're supposed to have your
Speaker 1: mask so you can sit down and I guess the
Speaker 1: the corona is no big deal and all, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: the rules are so so wonky on this. Not a
Speaker 1: fan guest. Gun people are absolutely crushing Florida and it's
Speaker 1: it's phenomenal. It's laughable now because we had we had
Speaker 1: the big pandemonium about Alabama with their national title and
Speaker 1: people partying in Tuscaloosa, and the same thing with Florida,
Speaker 1: particular Tampa Bay with the Super Bowl and the Bucks
Speaker 1: winning it, and people are on the streets or people
Speaker 1: are on their boat parades and doing that stuff on
Speaker 1: the water. And you look at cases of the coronavirus
Speaker 1: in Florida have decrease and they're even less than the
Speaker 1: state of California, in the state of New York, and
Speaker 1: they've actually had lockdowns. It is fucking laughable. And you know,
Speaker 1: obviously a lot of this is just driven by politics,
Speaker 1: but you crush the guys that you want you want,
Speaker 1: and you you celebrate the ones that are are drastically different,
Speaker 1: like a guy like Governor Cuomo. It's it's fucking a joke.
Speaker 1: But you know, mean, other countries are doing things drastically
Speaker 1: different too, and they're still living life and the same breath.
Speaker 1: You look at politicians and celebrities, they don't do the
Speaker 1: same ship that are are are required of what the
Speaker 1: common folks are. So it's it's a big fucking joke.
Speaker 1: It's unfortunate, but that's the way it is. Yeah, no, listen,
Speaker 1: I agree. And the thing that I don't know if
Speaker 1: I worry about it, but I just like, how does
Speaker 1: he how do we get out of it? Like so
Speaker 1: many political hacks are so invested in the mask and
Speaker 1: the restrictions, and it's like it's it's feeding their egos.
Speaker 1: So it's it. We do need places like Florida and
Speaker 1: in other places that are not run by the Mama
Speaker 1: Lukes who want to have all these restrictions. It's just insane.
Speaker 1: So I'm absolutely mean, how can you not pull for Florida?
Speaker 1: And it's so funny to go back and do a
Speaker 1: search on the Internet of all those stories the the
Speaker 1: hack media. We're reporting, Oh my god, everyone's gonna on FLOORA.
Speaker 1: The governor should be put up on murder chargers in
Speaker 1: the world. Yeah, pearl clutching is what we call it,
Speaker 1: A lot of pearl clutching, A lot of faux outrage,
Speaker 1: faux outrage. S guys falling chicken, little chicken, little chicken,
Speaker 1: little this skuy is falling. Uh. Adrian also says, what
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on the Nolan Erinado trade? He says,
Speaker 1: I am so angry. Adrian in the Mile High City
Speaker 1: says so angry with the Rockies front office and Dick
Speaker 1: and Charlie Montfort the owners, that I will not be
Speaker 1: a Rocky fan this season. Well, good job by you, Adrian,
Speaker 1: because this is the way I look at this. A
Speaker 1: real fan. You want to be a fan who is loyal,
Speaker 1: but you don't want to be loyal to a fault.
Speaker 1: You should be a discerning customer. And if the team's
Speaker 1: not trying to win, if the team's not putting an
Speaker 1: effort to put a good baseball team on the field,
Speaker 1: what the hell are you gonna pay attention to it?
Speaker 1: He says he's gonna be a fan of Doc Mike's team.
Speaker 1: The North Side team in Chicago. He says, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be my my second favorite team there. He's gonna follow.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't be bad if he was a Chicago White
Speaker 1: Sox fan either. They should have a pretty good run
Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, one of the darlings of the baseball world.
Speaker 1: In one uh, he says, Gascot, what are the Broncos
Speaker 1: chances of landing DeShawn Watson? Fuck? Danver would have to
Speaker 1: trade the farm, but I think they should do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think they should too. I mean, the last time
Speaker 1: they've actually hit on a quarterback was Manning, and he
Speaker 1: was a free agent obviously at that time. But they've
Speaker 1: they've swung and miss since Manning, and they swung and
Speaker 1: missed for a while since Elway retired. I mean, the
Speaker 1: last good quarterback they had prior to Manning, I think
Speaker 1: was Jake Plummer, and even him, he didn't get that
Speaker 1: good of a run and Shannon benched him for for
Speaker 1: Jake Cutler. I'd I'd mortgage the farm for a guy
Speaker 1: like Deshaun Watson. I know you're not a big Watson fan,
Speaker 1: but I take Wats off. He's can't even handle Twitter.
Speaker 1: I'd take Watson. I'd take Watson. The overdrew Lock ten
Speaker 1: times with a ten times, so, you know, and they
Speaker 1: got problems everywhere. But the quarterbacks that you ation kinda
Speaker 1: fixes a lot of those things. So necessarily the Texans
Speaker 1: won four games and they had to Shaun Watson. So
Speaker 1: I don't know how it fixes a lot of things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't the offense that was the problem. Where
Speaker 1: defense was got off a lot of empty stats there,
Speaker 1: my man, I called for the zombie stats. I know,
Speaker 1: I completely agree, but at least you could pole those up.
Speaker 1: Drew Lock can't even do that, right. He's good for
Speaker 1: one or two really good games a year. It was
Speaker 1: against Carolina. He looked like John Elway did. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: looked amazing, look like a world beater. Yeah. Then he
Speaker 1: went back to being It looks more like Mark Wilson.
Speaker 1: After at the old Raider quarter. There's an outdated reference,
Speaker 1: last one from Madre and he says, Ben, please tell
Speaker 1: me the story of you almost trampling Casey Cayson in
Speaker 1: the hallway at Fox Sports Radio. Yeah, Adrian, I can
Speaker 1: tell you the truncated version of that. So this is
Speaker 1: many many years ago. Obviously, Casey Cayson passed away a
Speaker 1: number of years ago, Casey Kyson was the one of
Speaker 1: the voice actors on Scooby Dooby Doo. He was was Shaggy, right,
Speaker 1: he was Shaggy on Scooby Doo. Think he did Transformers too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did a bunch of stuff and he he hosted.
Speaker 1: He was a big part of American pop culture. He
Speaker 1: hosted Casey Cason Countdown Show, which was syndicated on thousands
Speaker 1: of radio stations across the country. He's a legend in
Speaker 1: my business, in our business, and uh and so anyway, Casey,
Speaker 1: we work out of the premier networks in l A
Speaker 1: and Fox Sports Radio's main studio right across the hall
Speaker 1: was the Casey case In Voice Studio, where Casey Cason
Speaker 1: would go in a little booth and you know, not
Speaker 1: much of anything, and he would sit in there and
Speaker 1: he would voice scripts for the countdown and and do
Speaker 1: his thing. And so in the early days of Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio, I did a lot of ships. I was
Speaker 1: a utility guy. I worked weekends, but then I'd fill
Speaker 1: in during the week and I had one stretch where
Speaker 1: for like six months I was doing the show during
Speaker 1: the mid days with Chris Myers, the big TV guy
Speaker 1: from Fox. I kid because I care, uh Chris Meyers.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I was doing the show with him, and
Speaker 1: you know, I was a pretty big guy at the time.
Speaker 1: I'm still a big guy, but I was much bigger
Speaker 1: than And there's a lunchtime show and I we were
Speaker 1: eating whatever, and I had to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 1: So I went down the bathroom and and as I
Speaker 1: remember the story, and the stories evolved over the years,
Speaker 1: but this is I remember it today, Adrian. So I
Speaker 1: was in the bathroom. It's getting close to the show
Speaker 1: coming back. I get out of the bathroom. I'd washed
Speaker 1: my hands. I get out of the bathroom, and then
Speaker 1: I hear the music like we're coming back, you know,
Speaker 1: because it was on the speakers in the hallway. And
Speaker 1: so then I start freaking out. I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be there. They're back on the year
Speaker 1: Myers is gonna be on there. I need to be
Speaker 1: there with Myers. I'm out of the show. I gotta
Speaker 1: be in there. So I start running down this hallway, right,
Speaker 1: I run down the hall to try to get into
Speaker 1: the to the studio so I don't miss any of
Speaker 1: the show. So I it takes me a while to
Speaker 1: build up some some you know speed. So I'm running
Speaker 1: down the hallway. Then I have to make a quick left,
Speaker 1: and then there's a weird quarter. There's like an intersection
Speaker 1: corner um with another hallway. So I make a left,
Speaker 1: and then I've got to make a quick right. All right,
Speaker 1: somebody left and the right. And then as as I'm
Speaker 1: making the left and turning right, and I'm I'm right
Speaker 1: near the studio door, a very petite, very small, very fragile,
Speaker 1: very um. You know, I don't want to right right.
Speaker 1: Fragile is the right word. Casey Casum has come out
Speaker 1: of his little radio booth where he's doing voiceovers. He
Speaker 1: then it's time slowed down, because I'm going at a
Speaker 1: fit at pretty fair rate of speed. I've almost at
Speaker 1: my destination. Casey comes out of the door. He's standing
Speaker 1: in the hallway, and he freezes and gives me this
Speaker 1: look like, oh my god, I'm about to meet my maker.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I am going to die by being
Speaker 1: trampled by this wildebeest. Uh and uh, it was. It
Speaker 1: was that kind of thing. And but fortunately I used
Speaker 1: a swim technique that I learned in high school football.
Speaker 1: I used the swim technique, and I was able to
Speaker 1: move around Casey Casum to avoid not only his premature demise,
Speaker 1: but my demise is I would have never worked in
Speaker 1: radio again if I had taken out the Great Casey Caseum.
Speaker 1: So I saved my career, and I saved at least
Speaker 1: for a few years, because I know he passed away
Speaker 1: several years after that, the Great Casey Caseum, And it
Speaker 1: was cool. He used to show up to the premiere parties,
Speaker 1: the big premiere radio networks parties that we had back
Speaker 1: in the day, and I got to meet him a
Speaker 1: few times, and he was he was a cool guy,
Speaker 1: legend in the business. Casey case Um. I know he's
Speaker 1: alleged and my parents listened to him when they were,
Speaker 1: you know, kids and stuff. So you know, you've been
Speaker 1: around the block a few times when your parents would
Speaker 1: listen to somebody on the radio that was that was
Speaker 1: pretty cool. John in Shoreline, Washington rights and he says
Speaker 1: the furthest you've driven in one day. He says he
Speaker 1: made it from Sea Adult to Bakersfield seventeen hours last Friday. Well,
Speaker 1: that is impressive. Impressive. John's all downhill right from the
Speaker 1: north of something the furthest I've driven in one day.
Speaker 1: I've done the San Francisco l A thing a bit.
Speaker 1: I've done Sacramento, l A. I've done Phoenix, l A.
Speaker 1: I think that's about it. I'm not and my brother
Speaker 1: went to Salt Lake in a day. I've not done that.
Speaker 1: What about you, guess? Yeah, I've gone San Diego to Sacramento,
Speaker 1: San Francisco. Uh, gone to Arizona from l A. And
Speaker 1: that's not too long. Probably the fucking longest I've ever
Speaker 1: had though, not distance wise but time wise, was l
Speaker 1: A to Las Vegas coming back from that on a
Speaker 1: Memorial Day weekend on a Monday. And that's a rookie
Speaker 1: mistake by you, guess. No, I did kie mistake. I
Speaker 1: did it in the evening time, and it took me
Speaker 1: ten fucking hours. It's normally a four and a half
Speaker 1: hour drive from Vegas to l A or back, and
Speaker 1: it took me ten hours. You're better off just going
Speaker 1: to like Prim. I was going to Prim and sitting
Speaker 1: there at Buffalo Bills and having a McDonald's and a beer.
Speaker 1: That's it. Go to the little mall there and Prim
Speaker 1: which as all the outlet shops. Yeah, that's it John
Speaker 1: the jailer from Alan Town. P A right, so, and
Speaker 1: he says, been on the Mallard scale one to ten.
Speaker 1: How excited are you that, Bobby Schmoodra Schmurdra. Is that
Speaker 1: how you're saying is out of prison? Funk? Is that?
Speaker 1: Apparently this guy is a Brooklyn rapper? I guess he
Speaker 1: was in jail for six years. I don't know who
Speaker 1: you've never have you heard of that? Never heard of him?
Speaker 1: I have no idea who that is. Rita writes in
Speaker 1: she says, I heard you say you listen to to
Speaker 1: Art Bell back in the day. What story do you
Speaker 1: remember most about Art? Oh? I love dark the great thing.
Speaker 1: And it's really the gift that separates people on radio
Speaker 1: that are the top people. I'm trying to get to
Speaker 1: that point storytelling and and and the other thing is
Speaker 1: Art could make the most boring, benign topic fascinating. And
Speaker 1: he would put people on his show that most other people,
Speaker 1: most reasonable people would say, this person is a space cadet,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? And and Art would listen. And
Speaker 1: this was the gift. He would listen to these people, right,
Speaker 1: who are a cuckoo for cocoa puffs? And you know
Speaker 1: he wouldn't mock and ridicule them, and he would listen.
Speaker 1: And I remember when he would have the Hollow Earth
Speaker 1: people on, which is ironic because I've had interactions with
Speaker 1: the Hollow Earth people from doing the Overnight show at Fox,
Speaker 1: and when we were talking about Kyrie and the flat Earth,
Speaker 1: I had some Hollow Earth people call up who still
Speaker 1: send me propaganda. Um so that. I also remember meeting Art,
Speaker 1: I got I had a good fortune. Art lived in Nevada,
Speaker 1: did the show from Peumpt, Nevada, famously the Kingdom of
Speaker 1: nai You know, I called it the Kingdom of Nine
Speaker 1: because it was in nig County. I guess was the
Speaker 1: county he broadcast from. So he says, the Kingdom of Naie.
Speaker 1: But but Art was were you a listener, by the way,
Speaker 1: did you listen to it? To Art bell to do?
Speaker 1: I did not know. Yeah, that was his catch, the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of Nine, and uh yeah, I loved Coast to
Speaker 1: Coast and it was yeah, he was from Ni County.
Speaker 1: Then shows from Ni County, Nevada. But but Art, they
Speaker 1: dragged him out to Los Angeles for the premier Christmas
Speaker 1: parties and it was he was at one at the
Speaker 1: the Beverly Hills. Which hotel was it the Hilton? Is
Speaker 1: that the one with the Beverly Hills Hotel? It might
Speaker 1: have been the Yeah, we had one there. There were two,
Speaker 1: two different hotels in Beverly Hills. We had Christmas parties
Speaker 1: that but anyway, they brought in all the big premiere
Speaker 1: stars and and Art was there and I briefly met him,
Speaker 1: which was pretty cool. As a radio nerd, that was
Speaker 1: pretty neat. But I just remember listening to Art and
Speaker 1: I uh and the big Art thing was before two thousand,
Speaker 1: the y two K, which everyone thought all the computers
Speaker 1: in the world, we're gonna shut down because we're flipping
Speaker 1: from the ear two thousand and Art did so many
Speaker 1: shows about that and then like nothing happened, nothing, nothing happened. Um.
Speaker 1: So it was just some of the things that I
Speaker 1: remember about Art. But the just a legend, just a
Speaker 1: gift to the overnights, to the nocturnal crowd. Man. I
Speaker 1: fell in love with Art. My parents listen to R Belt.
Speaker 1: My parents are night people and they would listen to Art,
Speaker 1: and then I listen. I know, George does a great
Speaker 1: job to on coast to coast and It's pretty cool
Speaker 1: because George does the show. He doesn't show from St.
Speaker 1: Louis some of the year, but he's out of our building.
Speaker 1: And I would park next to George nor from time
Speaker 1: to time and and I meet meet him. And I
Speaker 1: remember one time, the original the original Fox Sports Radio
Speaker 1: studios were right across the hall from Coast to Coast
Speaker 1: from there from their studio, and then we moved downstairs
Speaker 1: to our showcase studios, which were showcased twenty years ago,
Speaker 1: and but we they were renovating those a couple of
Speaker 1: years back, so we had to go back to the
Speaker 1: original Fox Sports Radio studios, and we were invading coast
Speaker 1: to coast is space. So we were getting like the
Speaker 1: aside I from the coast to coast guys like, what's
Speaker 1: going on here? What are you? What are you doing?
Speaker 1: They're still renomending air by the way, never ending the
Speaker 1: renovation and never end the renovation. Now IOWA made Day
Speaker 1: from West the more rights. And he says, are you
Speaker 1: a user of Mr Doc Mike's You're in mouthwash? I
Speaker 1: am not. But guestcon is guestcon you want to give
Speaker 1: a review of that? Didn't he say that he was
Speaker 1: gonna mail you some or mail you a book. Right now,
Speaker 1: he's mailed me. I have a whole stack of books.
Speaker 1: I have right next to me. Here is Healing Water
Speaker 1: from Within. Brothers say, we have that, uh, fascinating book.
Speaker 1: And my favorite part of the book is they're going
Speaker 1: to detail how you can use you're in as an
Speaker 1: eye wash. You can use it as eye wash. I
Speaker 1: think that's a form of pornography. People and enjoy that.
Speaker 1: But it's a whole book about this. It's it's amazing, mouthwash,
Speaker 1: eye wash, you name it. Fascinating. Big Mike from Courtland,
Speaker 1: New York, the Crown City says, Ben, do you have
Speaker 1: any hot mic stories? Did you do it or have
Speaker 1: you witnessed one? Of course, we have tons of stories.
Speaker 1: The one I will I will share with you right
Speaker 1: now because it's in my head. When I was doing
Speaker 1: the Blitz with Looney and we were doing the show,
Speaker 1: doing our thing, you know whatever on Sundays for it
Speaker 1: was like a seven hour situation, just went on and
Speaker 1: on and on and on, breaking down football games and
Speaker 1: it was the never ending thing. And um, but me
Speaker 1: and Looney we like to talk shop, you know. They
Speaker 1: talked about the gossip of the radio station or the
Speaker 1: radio business in general, and we do that during the
Speaker 1: commercial breaks, and not that we ever break, so we
Speaker 1: would just be talking and uh so we are in
Speaker 1: mid conversation and we are just just char boiling someone
Speaker 1: in radio that we were talking about. There was a
Speaker 1: big story this person was involved in and uh in
Speaker 1: our our engineer, uh, the great Steve Stillwell, i'll say
Speaker 1: his name. I don't think you'll mind. So he walks
Speaker 1: down to get a beverage and then he proceeds to
Speaker 1: to walk back, right, proceeds to walk back in a panic,
Speaker 1: and he's waving his hands frantically outside the glass window
Speaker 1: because apparently he had forgotten to turn the mics down,
Speaker 1: and the mics were on the entire time, and everything
Speaker 1: we were saying was being broadcast, but there were commercials playing,
Speaker 1: so you you couldn't really hear everything, but you know,
Speaker 1: if you were listening intently, you could hear it. Right. Fuck, yeah,
Speaker 1: isn't that wild man? It was unfortunate, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was the person you were talking about. Move that
Speaker 1: to another podcast down the line, Will in Springfield, right
Speaker 1: City says, what's everyone's death? Row Meal? I need specific
Speaker 1: plays for the chicken fingers Bend by the way. Well,
Speaker 1: there's two places. It's obviously raising canes, which is the
Speaker 1: Gold Standards, and also the Landing in Liberty, Missouri, the
Speaker 1: home of the Ben Mall chicken fingers. All our listeners
Speaker 1: in Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas, all over that area within
Speaker 1: driving distance. Uh. The the only place in the United
Speaker 1: States you can get the Ben Mather chicken fingers is
Speaker 1: at the Landing. I want to point Outcast Gun. They
Speaker 1: are actually a sponsor of my weekly radio segment in
Speaker 1: Canah City. Yeah, every Thursday morning I go on with
Speaker 1: Bob Fesco and Josh and the guys there and we
Speaker 1: we uh schmooze what we do? What would be your
Speaker 1: final meal? I don't know, but I think, no matter what,
Speaker 1: you have to have French fries with your last meal. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Well it wasn't the joke. Uh you know, the guy
Speaker 1: from the warden comes in and says, all right, it's
Speaker 1: your final meal. What do you want? He said? And
Speaker 1: then and then you say, well, what are you out
Speaker 1: of good? Uh? Yes, yes, uh yeah you would obviously.
Speaker 1: The joke is you want a multi course meal to
Speaker 1: seven course meal? Yeah? Like yeah, I like to stretch
Speaker 1: that out over a couple of days. You know, meal today,
Speaker 1: meal tomorrow, meal the next day. You know, kind of
Speaker 1: milk that a little bit? Yeah? Uh, Fats from Philadelphia
Speaker 1: got time for a few more. Fats from Philadelphia says,
Speaker 1: when the this pandemic is over, would you be willing
Speaker 1: to travel east to the Suskakwanna River as how you
Speaker 1: say it? I think I said it right now. I
Speaker 1: did not uh to participate in a mallard Man marsh
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, he says, Then also have a mini one
Speaker 1: in Amish country. Fats says, we can have you on
Speaker 1: an Amish buggy. Can make this happen guyrol Tate, Oh yeah, Fats,
Speaker 1: I would love that. I would. Now do you think
Speaker 1: we have a big enough reach in the greater Philadelphia?
Speaker 1: We've only been on there for a relatively short amount
Speaker 1: of time on the Gambler Philadelphia. I think if you make,
Speaker 1: if you make an appearance, I think if you want
Speaker 1: to bump that number up, you should have a special
Speaker 1: guest on Tony Bruno. Oh, Tony is the king of Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: There go. I think that would definitely. But I'm saying
Speaker 1: if I just made an appearance, it wasn't on the radio.
Speaker 1: Like I know, we have a lot of listeners in
Speaker 1: New Jersey. Um, which is you know, could be northern
Speaker 1: New Jersey not southern New jery Zy. But yeah, if
Speaker 1: we had enough, I would love to do it. Um.
Speaker 1: I'd be great to hang out with Fats, that guy.
Speaker 1: Fats as a character, like to hang out with that guy.
Speaker 1: He's a party. Hey the guy lights himself on fire,
Speaker 1: screaming my name? Who does that? He does that? That's
Speaker 1: who does that? My god, unbelievable. Mike in Vegas, right,
Speaker 1: since says, besides the Dodgers, who do you think so
Speaker 1: legitimate contended to win the World Series? The Commissioners Trophy
Speaker 1: a k a. The hunk of Metal? Mike, Uh, Well,
Speaker 1: I this to me is pretty simple. On my big board,
Speaker 1: I have the three teams in the National League. If
Speaker 1: you it's like that old thing we used to do
Speaker 1: with Tiger, uh where either you know Tiger or the field.
Speaker 1: If you give me six teams and you take everyone else,
Speaker 1: I'll take those six teams and I will I will
Speaker 1: have the World Series winner. My six teams are the Dodgers, Padres,
Speaker 1: and Braves in the National League, Yankees, White Sox and
Speaker 1: Blue Jays. In the American League, you can have everyone else.
Speaker 1: I'll take those six teams. One of those six teams
Speaker 1: is gonna win the World Series. What say you? I'm
Speaker 1: right there with you. I think you agree with I
Speaker 1: think in the National Leage, especially the Dodgers and the Padres,
Speaker 1: maybe pushed back a little bit on the Braves. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know Kuna is a monster, but outside of that,
Speaker 1: on the American link side, I think it's the Yankees.
Speaker 1: I'll be curious to see what happens with the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Rays. I know losing Blakes now is gonna hurt
Speaker 1: them a little bit, but I still think they have Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Rays are always like they're always pretty good because
Speaker 1: they do things an odd way. But the Marlins or
Speaker 1: not the mine that the the the Atlanta Braves. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, the Braves are gonna be right there again.
Speaker 1: I am all about that action. Yeah, it sounds like
Speaker 1: you are. I hate to say that, but my friend,
Speaker 1: the great Jerome Drettovitch, we should get Jerome drenov sean
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. He does unless I heard he was doing
Speaker 1: Braves games they did. Add not that I like him
Speaker 1: because he's a cheating astro. But they added Charlie Morton,
Speaker 1: he's their number two starter. They got Max Freed, right,
Speaker 1: I think that's the number one and uh and and
Speaker 1: you know they've got a decent rotation, A decent rotation,
Speaker 1: not a great rotation. A little top heavy there with
Speaker 1: Morton and Freed the top two guys. But the lineup
Speaker 1: with Acuna and Freddie Freeman and Marcelo Zuna is back,
Speaker 1: and Ozzy Albie is a pretty good ball player. That's
Speaker 1: not That's not I hate to give the the Bravos credit.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good team. I don't think they I don't
Speaker 1: think they changed anybody in the line I think the
Speaker 1: line up is the same lineup they had last year.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah. I mean they've been on the com
Speaker 1: for the last couple of years anyway, so you expect
Speaker 1: them to go a little bit deeper into the Fall
Speaker 1: Classic anyway. Yeah. And they're bullpens okay, and it's I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's the greatest bullpen in the world,
Speaker 1: but yeah, So I get the Braves on that list
Speaker 1: and other other than that, I don't think there's anyone
Speaker 1: else other than those six teams you can go Oakland A's.
Speaker 1: Oakland A's will be good for like some amazing stretch
Speaker 1: run and people start talking about them, and then they'll
Speaker 1: just flame out the tail end or in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I'm not putting the cheating Astros on that list. Did
Speaker 1: a bad record last season, and they'll be much better
Speaker 1: this year. Angels on their last last run with one
Speaker 1: fat Albert Albert Pools win one for fat Albert. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go no on that. Yeah, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: know on that. Yeah, I think we're good on that.
Speaker 1: I think that's that's it. We'll put the the baby
Speaker 1: to bed. So we didn't get to your question. I
Speaker 1: apologize also, I apologize for not getting that out. I
Speaker 1: usually put this up on Wednesday morning, but I had
Speaker 1: a brain fart and I didn't put this up on
Speaker 1: Facebook until very late Wednesday night. So thank you guys
Speaker 1: for answering the bugle call to fill the mail bag.
Speaker 1: Otherwise we would have had no mail bag and we
Speaker 1: would have just tap danced. Here, we would tap dance.
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